August is certainly going by way to fast. I appreciate the cooler weather that we are experiencing. It is 4:33 p.m. and 84 degrees. So much nicer they 94, and there isn’t that much humidity which helps a great deal. It is sunny with a few fair weather clouds passing by. There is a slight breeze, just enough to have the flags waving a bit.
This afternoon are new hot water heater was installed. The installers just left about ten minutes ago. I am very pleased with having a new one that isn’t rusted out and slowly leaking. It took them over an hour to get enough water out of it to be able to move it outside. I thought that when they attached the hose to it and turned the valve the water would be gushing out. It just barely trickled. They worked with it until they got enough water out of it to haul it outside. There the valve was taken off and it drained faster. It still took time though. Meanwhile they cleaned up where the old one had been, plus all the water pipes and such so that when they hooked the new one up it would work perfectly. . He said to drain it once a year and it would work better and last longer. It is on my calendar.
The weekend was good. Saturday, Tina and I went to Joann’s where she bought three or four more tie blanket kits for the tie blanket project. Next it was to Lowe’s for smoke detectors and finally to Best Buy to get a cell phone cord that she could use in her car. Her car is smarter then her cell phone so she will have to continue charging it is the house. Our last stop was Walmart for cat food as Sierra was totally out. She is now in the door waiting for Tina to get home as that is her dinner time.
Sunday Jerry and Tammy came over as both Tina and I had “honey do’s” for Jerry. Tina needed his to get her car to do something. He ended up having to update it. It is like the cell phone and the computer, it has to be updated once a week or month or something. It was a bit behind. That took a couple of hours. We had a pot of chili cooking in the crockpot and I made some cornmeal muffins to go with it, so we had food to serve them. Jerry put new batteries in the back door blink, replace one of the smoke detectors, checked my bathroom light, and I am not sure what all else. He did a lot. Tammy helped me with a computer question, helped me with dinner and just visited. It is always fun to have then here, and to get together with them.
Friday night’s dinner at 201 was fun, good food, and fantastic ice cream at the Razzle Dazzle’s afterwards. I am sure that Jerry made a new friend and will probably visit that place every so often. They make their own ice cream. Dottie isn’t a sweets eater so she didn’t partake in the ice cream, but Tammy, Jerry and I enjoyed every calorie. Tina missed out on that one as she had gone to the baseball game with Monica and Jim. She enjoyed that and missed out on gaining an extra pound while getting exercise by having to walk a mile from the parking to the stadium, then climb up to get to their seats. There, I do believe, she had a hot dog.
Quote of the day: “You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don’t win, at least you can be satisfied that you’ve tried. If you don’t accept failure as a possibility you don’t set high goals, you don’t branch out, you don’t try—you don’t take the risk.” Rosalynn Carter..January 1927 -November, 2023 American First Lady.
Have a wonderful rest of your Monday. Enjoy these last days of summer…fill them with adventure, beauty, excitement, family, friends and fun.
Blessings