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Sunday 7-16-2023

Look What I Did

Journal“Doorway” 5-1/2″ x 7″ Spiral Bound Hand-Painted with 10 Manila “Pockets” to hold lots of goodies. Features a wooden cut-out on the front, making the front of the journal look like a doorway to something wonderful. – $17.99 with FREE SHIPPING to the contiguous U.S. Contact me at lindawlewis1@gmail.com if you have questions or use this link to go directly to the journal on HandmadeHavenByLinda

Weather

This week is just going to get hotter and hotter with dangerous heat indices each day. We’re trying to do our outside stuff at the beginning or end of the day or in really short sessions with lots of rest and water in-between sessions.

Continuing Project

Since the fluorescent tubes we’ve been using for the past 35 years or so will no longer be produced starting next month, we’ve been forced to upgrade (?) to LED tubes. This means doing away with the ballast transformers in each of our fixtures, rewiring the fixture, then adding the new LED tubes. Since I think there are only two rooms in the house where we don’t have fluorescents, this is quite a project – both in terms of expense and labor. We can’t afford to have someone else do it, so we’re doing it a bit at a time.

Yesterday we converted the two ceiling fixtures in our bedroom. Today we plan to do two in the main part of our master bath. We’ll just keep plodding until we’ve done them all, hoping we won’t have to do this again.

Have a great Sunday.

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Thoughts on Sunday 6-25-2023

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While I was sitting at the computer, trying to wake up, even before I had gotten a cup of coffee, an order showed up in my email from my Etsy site, HandmadeHavenByLinda.

I sold one of my hand-painted memory boxes. This one is called, “Woodland.”

What a nice way to start the day! I’ll box it up carefully today and put it in the mail to its new home tomorrow. :0)

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We’re under an ‘intense heat warning’ already, and it lasts until 9pm tonight. I need to weed whack, so I’ll do really short sessions, with lots of rest and water in-between, and see if I can get it done.

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We really enjoyed our first cook out of the season last night. We had our LED colorful rope of lights on, making the deck festive. We didn’t start the fire until about 7:30 because of the heat. My husband enjoyed a beer while he cooked. We ate around 9pm. We shared one of the steaks and each had a small baked potato. It has been about a year since we splurged like this and we savored each bite. We’ll share the leftover 2nd steak this evening with steamed veggies. YUM. :0)

I wish you a calm, NICE Sunday.

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Ahhhhh!

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You can see how relaxed and comfortable I am since my wonderful massage with Lynn Moody 479-629-7601 this morning. She is a true miracle worker as a massage therapist PLUS allowed me to fully relax – somethings I am able to do less and less these days. I also consider her a friend.

I came home, fixed lunch, and then fell asleep in my recliner. My husband put my throw over me at some point and I awoke feeling really good. Ahhhh!

While I was gone, he took our bed apart enough to be able to find the model # on the air pump for our bed and looked it up on the net. He found one! We looked at it together and ordered it. It’ll be here July 1st. When it comes, we’ll take the bed completely apart, replace the air pump, find and repair any leaks in the mattress, then put things back together. HOORAY!

We don’t have anything else on the schedule today, so we can relax and do what we want.

I just realized that yesterday was the first official day of summer. We’re due for high 90’s or 100 degrees this weekend with a heat index of around 110. That’s what I call ‘making an entrance!’

I hope you’re having a wonderful Thursday.

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Hot Friday

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A heat index today of around 115 is TOO hot for this old lady. I just took some water out to pour into the elephant ear planter. Our plumber hasn’t been able to make time to put in our 2nd watering line for the planters in the front yard, so things are just drying up. The thing I care about the most in the front is the elephant ears, so I’ll concentrate on those. – UPDATE – Our plumber just drove up, ready to work on the 2nd line we need! HOORAY!!!!

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We will go to Lunch Bunch soon to catch up with our friends. I don’t know if one of them will be back from her visit in Tennessee, but I’ll be happy to see whoever is there.

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I’m making steady progress on the Christmas gifts. I’m spending some wonderful time up in my art room each day, taking my time, listening to music while I’m painting, enjoying time to myself and the joy of trying to make something my friends will like. :0)

I got some new things added to my Etsy shop yesterday. I’ll add some more today. It’s fun to give my shop a bit of a new look.

Yesterday I wrote to Dr. Singer at our veterinarian’s office via email to tell him how impressed I was with Emma and the rest of his staff on handling the possibility of a fire and handling customers in the middle of it. I’m hoping they will get something special, including raises. :0)

Have a wonderful Friday!

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