August...

The last day of August, so we can most likely say good bye to hot steamy weather, which is fine by me, the humidity and me are not good friends.  It's time to turn off the A/C and let in some fresh air.

Not much going on here today, I did find my pedometer, however, it requires a new battery, Hubby is picking one up for me while he is out and about.   Then I can set all of the info ready for Sept 1st.

My tomato plants are a big disappointment this year, we have lots of fruit but, they will not ripen.  They were planted earlier enough, watered and fertilized on a regular basis, they are able to get the benefit of the rain and the sunshine.   When one looks as if it is changing colour little critters help themselves.  Not even going to bother next year, will rely on family and the store to get our tomatoes.

Going to pop a cake in the oven this afternoon.

Dinner tonight, Hubby will be cooking burgers on the BBQ, (he will know soon enough) with a nice big hearty salad, dessert will be a piece of the lemon cake.

Cheers

Calm, cool and collected

Calm yes, after the episode with the Fitbit.

Cool yes,  we had rain and a thunderstorm last evening, no damage to us, however, there were trees down in the city.   If we had another storm overnight I did not hear it.   Looking at the rain gauge this morning, surprised to see we only had  1/2 inch of rain.

Collected yes, ready to start a new day, found a pedometer I bought several, no it must be a lot of years ago.  Just needs a new battery, so once I have that, will re-program it and use it during my walks.

Groceries this morning, prices up again, I wanted some romaine lettuce for a Caesar salad, however, at the price of $5.99 for three small romaine hearts, it stayed in the store and I got an iceberg one instead which will be used in a garden salad and on sandwiches.

Too wet to do anything outside, (I seem to have countless excuses not to do weeding),  tomorrow will be cooler and sunny, so will get at those pesky things then.   Today, I will complete the top of the quilt, another finish.  It will go with me to our guilds next meeting in September.

Dinner tonight, chicken from the grocery store,  cauliflower, baked potato, there is two more helpings of peach crisp for dessert.  

Frustrated, P@#%ed off, Angry

 Yesterday I purchased a brand new Fitbit to enable me to get off my butt and to give me an incentive to start walking as of the first of September.   I need to see numbers so that I can increase my activity on a weekly basis. that's just how I am.

After dinner I started to charge it and get it started.   You must remember I am a woman of a certain age and some of this computer stuff is a bit beyond my knowledge of this new world of technology.   Decided to look at the on line manual.  Found it with no trouble and started to read......  down a couple of paragraphs..... "The Charge 5 will not sync with a computer after October 13, 2022, you will need a certain phone or a tablet".   what the .........    I bought a Charge 5.

I do not have the phone nor a tablet and do not want either, so not going out to buy one, the phone I have is for emergencies, I can live without looking at it constantly.  My trusty lap top does all I need it to do, (obviously not, until yesterday).

   Today I took the Fitbit back and was in not so many words, told I did not know what I was talking about, with regards to the not syncing time frame.  The customer rep called another person over who had never heard of what I just said.  So they called another person who said the same thing, so now I have three people suggesting I am mistaken lying.   A forth person came to customer  service, gets on his trusty phone and finds out I am right.  Who would have known an 81 year Granny knew more than 4 thirty something sales reps.!!!   I got my money back.   

I also learned something too,  the older generation, such as myself, are being left behind, no! shut out of things we would like to do, due to technology we never grew up with and now find everything too much to get our heads around.  I am sure some of you are saying "get with it Granny, learn to use these things".   I get along just fine without it, thanks.

I feel so much better after that rant, thanks to you all for listening.

So now what do I do, have a few days to think about that, and you will hear from me in due course.

Time to start thinking about dinner, have some left over potato salad, so will need to find something to go with that.  Dessert, I have just finished baking a peach crisp, so we will have that with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Cheers.

What to do today

 Sunday again, a day of rest,  seems as if all my days are Sundays these days.   

I have made a resolution... starting September 1st. I am going to walk every day, now matter what the weather, if may not be for long some days but it will be a walk.  I have been very lazy about doing this for the past little while.   There are several walking/biking paths around the area, so some days will need to take a short drive to access them, as I can't do it from home.   Doing different walks will not make it so boring.   I will take a small back pack containing my phone, in case of emergencies,  tissues  for my nose, especially when it is cool, a couple of ASA 81 mg. just in case, (don't forget I am in my 81st year, it could happen),  and when paths are not the best under foot, my hiking poles.   My Fitbit quite working several years ago, I found using it gave me an incentive to make sure I got the allotted steps in.  So plan on getting another before the 1st.  Wish me luck, I intend to post my steps on here so that I have something to look back on at the end of the months.

Cheers

Then

It must be almost September as we had a heavy dew this morning, so Hubby needed to wait until the sun burned it off before he cut the grass.  It was a beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky so it really didn't take too long.

Laundry taken care of this morning, so we are all spic and span for another week.  Washed the kitchen floor and did a good clean on all the appliances, kitchen also nice and clean.

We had an early lunch and went to the cinema to see a live streamed show from Maastricht where Andre Rieu puts on his show with his Levi Strauss Orchestra in the square which looks as if it is in the center of the city.   The show was three hours long with a 15 minute intermission.  Loved every minute of it.  Of course, no shows were conducted during the past two years, so he did a better than ever show.  If you ever get a chance to see his performances you must do so.  Today, his orchestra, singers, guest tenors, sopranos along with a 150 man choir and marching band certainly provided a moving and emotional show.  

Pizza and salad for dinner along with the remaining two vanilla mousse was on the table tonight.

Had a lovely day.

Cheers.

Late Post today

 Yesterday, I visited my sister "B" her arm is so much better now, but she still needs to do some exercies.

We wanted to take the convertible, but as soon as we got it out of the garage, grey clouds let loose with drops of rain, we hummed and hahhed  about going.  So I looked at trusty computer weather site and there was only a small patch of green over our city, green mean light rain, which nine times out of ten evaporate before it hits the ground.   We decided we were not made of sugar and would not melt, so off we set,  a lovely sunny day and hot all the way to B's house.   

Had a call from DD1 and she invited us to a family BBQ,  recently I was simmering about my family not calling or visiting, some for months and some for almost a year.  I boiled over  the other day and it looks as if I got some results.  Feeling so much better.

My son texted me today, he had the opportunity to get tickets for a golf tournament in the UK next year and asked us if we would like to be travelling companions.    Hope it happens, its a long way off, so fingers crossed.

Not much else happened today, did a couple of errands and sewed in the afternoon.  The dreaded quilt top is almost finished.   All most contemplated suicide with pins and my seam ripper, as it was so frustrating.  Everything about this top is out of my comfort zone, so struggled with it from the get go.

My friend, who was in hospital for 5 weeks with Covid messaged me today, she is home, but still very weak so it will take baby steps to get back on her feet.  She is very lucky to still be here, she said, as she felt she was not going to survive.  Apparently a kidney is still working, definitely a plus for her. 

Dinner today was salmon, rice, broccoli and a small salad.  Dessert vanilla mousse.

Just looked at this post  ...Not 51 weeks........only 5 weeks.  still a long time.

Rain all gone.....for now.

 After another soggy day yesterday, we have some lovely sunshine and white fluffy clouds floating across the sky, much of the same for the next couple of days, so hope to be able to get out in the garden and do some work there.  All of the flowers are looking revived from the drink of rain they have had, and so have the dandelions.  Going to keep Hubby busy getting ride of the second crop.

Weekly groceries got this morning, last week I mentioned some of the prices were down, a different story this morning as big increases for the fresh veg.   I am afraid it will continue to go up due to several things, some of which is the end of season coming up now for local stuff and new crops just starting in the southern hemisphere.

Going to do a few errands this afternoon, such as, pay my Visa, take library books back and just wander around for a hour or so.   Nothing in particular needed to buy today, however, I do like looking at things.

How about you, do you window shop  thinking you might see something that  you might like or go into a store for a particular purpose?

Dinner today will be chicken, no asparagus in the store, so will have another veg. not sure what yet, however, we do have corn on the cob, so that should be eaten today.    Dessert, not sure about that either but, there will surely be something.

Have a great day.