Sunday, October 19, 2025

We woke up to the sound of coyotes howling and yipping this morning. Healthy sounding unlike the one that DSD ran over yesterday - yikes! It ran right in front of her car so she couldn't stop. Dead coyote and damage to the fender of the rental car. A rather traumatic event for her. She said she should have come hiking with us. We hiked for 2 hours, going up and down for 4 miles. A really nice way to spend the middle of the day (for us, not DSD).

The wedding was beautiful and fun. I'll put at least a picture of DH and I on FB, but below is one of the new couple and a couple of the venue. Late night as we weren't bac****il around 11. Not as late as the one in Spain where we were there until 2 am. My niece recovering from implant removal surgery looked beautiful. She kept joking about her knitty ***** (she had a pink knitted soft filler in her bra because the silicone ones are too uncomfortable right now).

Today we drive up to CC's world in Sedona. We will arrive there about mid-day so may do a hike before we can get into our room.

Have a surprising Sunday!

Gorgeous photos. You sure have a good looking family Liz! Sorry your DSD had to get up close with a coyote in such a traumatic way.

Sunny and cool here, but we will be on a plane to Galveston soon, where it is sunny and warm (and probably humid too). We are taking Southwest Airlines, which means not direct most times even when flying to Texas. We fly to Dallas, then to Houston, where DBIL and DSIL will be waiting to pick us up and take us to the hotel. This is our third trip with them to Galveston. I'm hoping we will slow down a little since we have done just about every tour there is at this point. Except for a couple of ghost tours : ) We do love our ghost stories. Whether they are true or not, I think they are the folklore of a community, and helps you understand the area better.

Hope everyone is having a delightful Sunday.

That would traumatize me too, Liz! Those coyotes do dart out in front of you at times of day you wouldn't expect them. I hope the damage to the car isn't too expensive. Gorgeous pictures!

7 balloons I could see today and the wind was right to have them drift over me. I enjoyed my coffee watching them in the backyard while Kirby ripped a branch off a pine tree (grr) and chewed the needles off of it next to me. Piney fresh breath!

There are two companies that do balloon tours here and you can tell which is which by their balloons which match each other and their launching point. (Red Rock Balloons which are yellow, red, and blue has the better launch point than Northern Lights Balloon Expeditions which are yellow and green). So it's always interesting when an unidentified balloon enters the mix. I haven't seen this one before, but it was kind of pretty:

I've made a list of chores! Yesterday I bagged up all the balls that floated out of my rain chain pot (did I tell you about that? I had used kiddie ball pool balls as filler in the giant pot topped with a layer of rocks to hide them. We got so much rain that after being there two years, they floated out and covered my yard. They'd been cleaned up and put into the outdoor kitchen sink and a storage box, but needed to go in the trash). I also cleaned the filthy glass doors on the six very high kitchen cupboards requiring the big ladder and a squeegee. Not a lot off the list, but two things that were bugging me. 18 more things on the list and probably many more I haven't remembered to put on there yet.

That's it from here. Looking forward to seeing Liz tomorrow! The weather is great for her visit.

world's largest bottle of Teriyaki sause:

Who is seattledeb and why is she on my post?

diane

I am petrified of heights. Just the thought of going up in a hot air balloon gives me anxiety.

122.4, I think.

Packed stuff all day! I'm wiped out! Also sold a bunch more stuff on FB Marketplace! Very little stuff left and our house looks like a poor college kid's first apartment. Very bare and mismatched.

I think I will kill myself (or someone else) if this house sale falls through again (I highly doubt it will). We are definitely too far down the rabbit hole now!

Too tired for individual shout outs tonight (sorry)! But know I treasure each one of you!

I haven't done a balloon ride! I think I prefer to watch from the ground. Every time I think about it, there is a horrific accident somewhere in the world and it reminds why I should enjoy them from afar...

PS - replies to you (aka Seattledeb) are being applied to other people's posts. Weird!

That is weird!!!! OH glitch!