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DiamondD
on 8/20/25 10:01 am
VSG on 06/13/12
Topic: RE: Wednesday, August 20, 2025

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.

Liz WantsHealthForAll
on 8/20/25 9:58 am - Cape Cod, MA
VSG on 03/28/16
Topic: RE: Wednesday, August 20, 2025

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.

Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish

Liz WantsHealthForAll
on 8/20/25 7:51 am - Cape Cod, MA
VSG on 03/28/16
Topic: RE: Wednesday, August 20, 2025

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.

Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish

DiamondD
on 8/20/25 7:13 am
VSG on 06/13/12
Topic: RE: Wednesday, August 20, 2025

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!

Liz WantsHealthForAll
on 8/20/25 5:48 am, edited 8/20/25 5:49 am - Cape Cod, MA
VSG on 03/28/16
Topic: 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!

Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish

Liz WantsHealthForAll
on 8/20/25 5:35 am, edited 8/19/25 10:35 pm - Cape Cod, MA
VSG on 03/28/16
Topic: RE: Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Yes, Universal (and Disney) are for children in a certain age range and not for most adults (except to chaperone said children). Very tiring! But some adults still love that stuff for some reason. DD has a close friend who tries to go to Disney every year - she had her honeymoon there and took their son the first time just before he turned 1.

Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish

Liz WantsHealthForAll
on 8/20/25 5:32 am - Cape Cod, MA
VSG on 03/28/16
Topic: RE: Tuesday, August 19, 2025

So sad that your Mom is so unhappy and sick but won't accept help. I wonder if the doctor may also want to hospitalize her to try to find a medication to reduce her CHF? My mother suffered from it in her last years and when the doctor wanted to change her meds he had to do it in the hospital so she was on a constant heart monitor. She lived more than 10 years after her first bout of CHF with fairly good quality of life - she did do what the doctor asked.

Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish

Liz WantsHealthForAll
on 8/20/25 5:26 am - Cape Cod, MA
VSG on 03/28/16
Topic: RE: Tuesday, August 19, 2025

I love the nightstands and they are perfect with the bed and comforter.

Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish

DiamondD
on 8/19/25 8:11 pm, edited 8/19/25 1:11 pm
VSG on 06/13/12
Topic: RE: Tuesday, August 19, 2025

A timely and wise decision and the tables are lovely. And Kirby of course needs to photo bomb. If he's not in the picture why ae you even taking it?

CC C.
on 8/19/25 4:56 pm
Topic: RE: Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Such a difficult time of life when one has a parent *****fuses absolutely necessary help/intervention and you an do nothing because they do not consent. My mother did the same. It puts you in such a terrible position with your hands tied while you watch them make the choice to deteriorate.

I have firmly entered my "what am I saving it for?" years and am replacing stuff I don't like. In that vein, I ordered new nightstands for my second bedroom here. The previous ones were mismatched, one spray painted, and had no drawers, so not functional or terribly attractive. These are navy blue and so cute!

A little hard to see with the lighting, but here's a pic with a Kirby photobomb.


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Not much else to report. The outside's of both houses and the barn are going to be painted so they've been powerwashing with something bleachy the last few days. P-ew. But they look sparkling clean!

Can't wait to hear about your Scotland trip, DD! Take care all... (ps to Wordle players - got it in 2 today!)

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