Wednesday, August 20, 2025

We are in Saratoga Springs! It was nice weather yesterday so pleasant for walking to dinner and to a couple of bars before and after.

This morning it is raining and quite cool (58 right now with a high of 60 for the day). Hopefully there will be some breaks in the rain today because the plan is to go to the horse track for a few hours. I don't think we need to hurry to get there as early as usual and maybe we will only stay for a little while, but it is the main reason we came so DD could experience it. We were hoping that the forecasters would be wrong about the rain but unfortunately not. I brought a warm jacket and we have umbrellas but stupid me only brought sandals, not sneakers so my feet are going to be wet.

Probably more bars this afternoon, then dinner out at a different bistro. It looked really cute last night but it was all open to the outside with tables in and out. It will likely have a very different atmosphere tonight.

Paula has her house showing today I believe? Best of luck to her. At minimum hopefully they get helpful feedback to assist in future showings, but who knows they may get an offer right away! I assume the house will be officially on the market after this? It is still a buyers market in Florida so it would be a good time to buy something there. It will probably get a bit more competitive as the year goes on and there are more winter people.

Have a winning Wednesday!

It seems like it's been unseasonably cool on the east coast this last week or so. Hope your feet can stay dry.

Warm here for a few more days, then the temp is dropping to fall weather. Peps should enjoy it. It will be mid 70s and low humidity.

Yesterday I worked in my office/closet organizing, purging and tossing. It felt so good to bring order to my desk and thin out my closet. I started getting out sweaters for my trip. I have a lot of fun summer weight sweaters that should pack well, but I think I should bring at least one thick sweater. Current plan, I have some I was on the fence about keeping during the last purge. There's nothing wrong with them, I just never wear them. I might bring one or two along, and then leave them behind. That will make room in my suitcase for souvenirs.

This morning I'll make a quick trip to the grocery store to get ingredients for a hot dish to bring to my parents house, and assemble it before we leave. Then off we go. My Mom did not get admitted to the hospital, so she will be home to update me about her appointment.

Tomorrow we are going to the State Fair, tagline: The Great Minnesota Get Together. As a kid from a farm family, and a 4-H member, the State Fair is in my DNA. When I was a kid, my Grandparents would come and stay from Duluth, and we would all go to the fair, cousins, uncles, aunts. Great memories.

Well that hot dish needs to get into the crockpot, so off I go!

Great idea about the extra sweaters! I actually did that with a skirt that took a lot of room in Spain.

We have scratched the racetrack. 100% chance of rain today including heavy downpours. The first race at 1 was already cancelled (it is almost 11 now). We are going to head home mid-day because spending the entire afternoon at the bars is not an attractive option.

What a great idea of bringing clothes you don't mind getting rid of to make room for new stuff night in the trip! I'll have to remember that one.

Sorry about the stress surrounding your parents and BFF. At least travel is very near in your future!

Lol at a Minnesotan (or Wisconsinite) making a "hot dish" to bring to someone's house! Classic!

Update: Too rainy for the races so we are heading home a day early. Just not fun to be wet and miserable. Plus DD seems to have developed a cold in the last day and she has surgery a week from Friday so needs to be well for that. Instead we are doing our Thursday plan: stopping for mini hot dogs in Pittsfield MA on the way home. Apparently it is a big thing for people who live in that area (DH lived there right out if college). Home with Justice by early evening hopefully.

Sorry the weather is treating you so badly, but good on changing plans. Sometimes people get too committed to the script and just end up miserable.

Sorry you got rained out! At least DD can rest up now before her surgery and hopefully nip and forming cold in the bud!

Safe travels home and enjoy the mini hotdogs

Chore day and a beautiful day at that. Windy and clear, cool and not humid. My perfect day. Warm enough for shorts, cool enough for a sweatshirt.

I bagged up the mountain of packing materials from the tables, took my recycling to the bins (no home pick up here), then my cans to the aluminum can return at Meijer. It's 10 cents a can here and well over 90% of cans get recycled. Then grocery shopped. We are having people over tomorrow night.

I also did 3 loads of laundry, changed the bed, emptied the dishwasher...

I have all the windows open and fans on. The new tables have a chemical smell that's giving me a headache, so I'm trying to air them out. Ah, off-gassing. Blech.

Anyway, that's it for now. Take care!

You got a lot accomplished!

You were quite the busy beaver today! Loved the photo bong pic of Kirby and the new bedside tables! Enjoy the cool weather. I'm missing the 80's!