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I had a wonderful slothful day yesterday.
My talented, caring massage therapist, Lynn Moody 479-629-7501, found all my sore and stiff parts and healed me, at least for the rest of the day. Ahhhhhh! After Lynn made me feel loose as a goose and happy, I went to visit my dear friend, Linda, who lives at the retirement place where Lynn’s business is now.
Linda has been a long-time friend here in Arkansas. I really believe she is one of the sweetest people I’ve ever known. Her memory is mainly in the moment now. She recognized me, but didn’t remember that SHE was due for a massage at 1pm. Thankfully, Lynn comes and gets her so that she doesn’t miss out. She said she hasn’t seen or heard from Kay and Bud, our other Lunch Bunch core people, either. I saw our Lunch Bunch waitress at Walmart recently, and she said that she didn’t think Kay recognized her the last time they were in the restaurant. It’s sad when times change, but I’m thankful to have so many wonderful memories.
I dragged the trash can up to its spot and got the mail when I came home, then fixed lunch. When my belly was full and I was comfortable in my chair, I stretched out and enjoyed a long nap. I cooked dinner, but that was really the only other thing I did. I’m a GOOD sloth.
Today my husband and I will try to get the fluorescent bulbs in my closet changed out. The ones I have have been dim for quite awhile, so it will be good if we can do this.
Otherwise, I’ll do my exercises like a good girl today – the ‘fit sticks’ videos (warm up plus at least two more) today plus my yoga. My eating plan and exercise are finally yielding good results. I’m less than a pound away from an interim goal now. Maybe I’ll reach it tomorrow.
I plan to spend time in my art room today. I have some things almost finished and a couple of things ready to start. :0)
We may get gusty winds and some rain this afternoon and evening. So far, my friend in Florida is safe, and my SIL outside of Charlotte in North Carolina, are safe from Hurricane Helene. I’ll be keeping up with news from this today.
Stay safe.
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Yesterday I was happily reading posts and responding on X.
One showed an image of two men trying to fix an air conditioner, I think, and doing it in a very unsafe manner, just asking for trouble. The post asked readers to respond to it in three words. I wrote, “Accident Happening Soon.”
As soon as I posted it, I received a message from X that my account had been blocked for ‘violent content.’ I could appeal, so I did. They acknowledged that I answered and said they would review it. My account was blocked for 12 hours. I am now in good standing again now, since I can post, but I think I go on a terror watch list or something and my account could be suspended.
So much for free speech. So much for humans making decisions.
Oh, well. Be advised that I MIGHT be a terrorist and that I should have either skipped the post, not responding at all, or should have ignored the fact that the method the guys were using for the repair was dangerous. I will be more careful in the future.
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I have a massage this morning. I’m really looking forward to Lynn Moody’s healing hands, finding and easing all of my sore or stiff parts. I’ll also try to visit with my friend, Linda, while I’m at the retirement place. My husband forgot to get the trash can when he drove down to get the mail yesterday, so I’ll do that when I get home.
Yesterday I did the ‘Fit Sticks’ warm-up video plus two more in the series. Each series of exercises features a small group of women using drum sticks on elevated exercise balls, moving to the beat of a nice song. Since I don’t have an exercise ball, I just moved with them, doing basically the same moves, holding 3-pound weights. By the end of the third video, I was tired and didn’t want to overdo, so stopped. I plan to do them again today. It was fun. I followed that up with my yoga, so the weights and the stretching seems like a good combination.
I’m seeing good results (for me) on the scales lately, getting closer to my interim goal. I’m hopeful I’m on the right track for this to continue.
I finished this set of 4 wooden painted Christmas ornaments yesterday.
This is the back, waiting for personalization before I spray them for protection.
I’m having a lot of fun in my art room, working on various things. It’s good to have some time to myself, doing something fun and challenging.
We bombed out on putting a new innards kit in the toilet tank yesterday. My husband isn’t strong enough to get the new part ‘stuffed’ into the inner front of the tank. I’ve called our plumber, asking him to put us on his list for whenever he can work us in.
Our project for this afternoon is changing out some fluorescents over the entertainment center in the living room today.
People in the path of Hurricane Helene are in my thoughts today. I hope everyone comes through this safely.
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Good morning! It rained overnight here. It’s still wet, cool (63 degrees F.), and quite foggy right now. I’m really enjoying the change.
I’m happy to be enjoying lots of time in my art room. The ornaments I’m working on require lots of steps with drying time in-between, so I dash up there, do the next step, then come down again to do something else until things are ready for me again. I’m going up and down several times a day – a good thing for my ‘moving more’ goal. :0)
I should have ornaments to show you soon, and the ideas for more wood-burned and/or painted earrings are flying around in my head, as well as some ideas for another wood-burned sign. It’s so much fun!
My SIL told me about a class she attends at the retirement community where she lives now. She suggested I look up, “Cardio Drumming – TC Seniors” to give me an idea of what her class was doing. I was intrigued, and decided that I would try to follow along with the first video, but using my weights instead of the drumsticks the ladies are using. It’s all a part of looking for fun ways to move more and should be fun – at least once – as long as they don’t get too rambunctious…
We’ll go down and get our mail and see if our trash can is full of water from the rain. We need to drag it back up to its spot beside the driveway. No other errands I know of. We may get the Kohler toilet innards delivered today. If so, we’ll tackle putting the new kit in today.
Enjoy your day!
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I’ve been having a blast wood-burning and painting wood slices for Christmas ornaments.
They’re 3.25″ in diameter and .5″ thick. They have a red and white attached string for hanging on the tree.
On the back, they have places for personalization – one line for the year and a second for a first name to create a keepsake.
The wood-burning is done first. Then the several steps in painting. After one is ordered, I’ll personalize it and then protect it with several layers of polyurethane spray.
Each is a one-of-a-kind design. My parents gave my brother and me a Christmas ornament that was personalized each year, letting us add it to our tree. When we were grown, they presented us with a box of ‘OUR’ ornaments as a housewarming present, to decorate our tree and start a new tradition.
We are saving our son’s box, since he lives halfway across the world and travels light. When he joins us for the holiday, though, we decorate the tree together, reminiscing about Christmases past as we take out each of his decorations.
I hope that you are surrounded by those you love at Christmas this year. HandmadeHavenByLinda on Etsy
The glorious color in this lifts my spirits. :0)
It turned out yesterday that we did NOT have a new innards kit for the cat’s bathroom toilet that was running intermittently. We spent a long time getting it out, then made a trip to ACE Hardware. They only had the standard innards kit, so we came home empty-handed.
My husband was able to order the Kohler kits we needed on the net. I had him order TWO of them, since the other first floor toilet is the same brand, so we will have a kit on hand if the other toilet goes on strike. We already have the standard kits for upstairs, if needed.
I had a good time in my art room yesterday. I’m wood-burning and painting wood slices for Christmas ornaments, plus making layered wood ornaments, 4-ornament sets, etc. I have an idea for a custom Christmas card design and more wood-burned earrings. Needless to say, my dreams are full of rambling ideas!
It’s cloudy and 67 right now, a beautiful change we are embracing with front and back doors open, enjoying a quiet breeze through the house.
I lost pound #37! I’m beginning to believe that my interim goal of 40 is within reach.
I’m planning to cook a new low-carb chicken recipe this evening. If it turns out well, I’ll tell you about it and give you a URL to the recipe.
Have a wonderful day.
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Indian Hills Sign Humor – Vince, The Sign Guy
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It’s dark and rainy-looking outside with a high of 79 forecast. We’ll be dodging rain as we try to put the trash out at the bottom of our driveway later and get our mail. I’m greeting this with joy. I’ve had more than my fill of summer. Our doors are open and we’re enjoying a cool breeze running through the house. :0)
Our character-building activity for the day is changing out the innards of the cat’s bathroom toilet, which is running intermittently. My husband says we already have the kit for that, so I’m hoping it will be an easy change-out.
I had a great time yesterday working in my art room on wooden Christmas ornaments. Some are two layers glued together. Others are wood slices. I should be able to finish up the painting on most of them today.
I’m trying to space out my weights video, stomach exercises video, and yoga practice so that I can get them all in before I’m pooped for the day. It’s an ongoing challenge, but one that is worth doing. So far I’ve been able to do one of the videos and the yoga, but I really would like to get all three in. Maybe today.
May this be the beginning of a great week for all of us.
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We’re due for another ‘intense heat advisory’ today before we finally have a cold front overnight and tomorrow hopefully breaking the back of the summer. I’ve BEEN ready for fall, so I’m delighted to welcome it with open arms. Happy Fall!!!
I have several wood-burned Christmas ornaments ready to paint. I started on it a bit last night and look forward to playing in my art room today.
I had HOPED that any delivery people would interrupt my exercise efforts, but no luck. We received the dog bed covers I ordered from SlimDogBed on Etsy! I was able to strip off and get ready to throw away the completely worn out covers and replace them with nice, new, colorful, sturdy denim ones.
Amber is all fixed up now, if Monster Cat will allow her to use them. :0)
We’re also looking forward to this evening, watching the Kansas City Chiefs vs the Atlanta Falcons game. We’ll enjoy hot dogs while we watch. (My husband will have regular hot dog buns. I’ll have Mission Net Zero Carb tortillas instead of the buns – and he’ll have potato chips while I have cut up ripe tomatoes from our garden.)
I wish you a joyous first day of fall.
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