Tuesday, June 24, 2025

116.8 - a new low since achieving goal almost a year ago. What's up with that? No rhyme or reason why it dropped that I can figure out. We had great lobster and stuffed quahogs (aka clams) last night. Picture below.

Yesterday i got a lot of miscellaneous packing done and we went to the beach for all of an hour. Way too HOT!

Today I have my Medicare wellness visit with the NP, then we might try a beach on the other side (ocean vs bay) to see if there is more of a breeze. Not for a long time though as we are meeting friends for dinner about an hour or so from here.

Tomorrow Peps is flying home and I leave for Madrid on a 10:30 pm flight. Funny that it is on the same day. I hate flying overnight but there is really no choice when flying to Europe. I just do not sleep well on planes.

No Justice walk for me, though DH will take him. He needs one badly. He was such a nudge last night. Up, down, up, down. And eating grass outside. Something tells me that he got into something he shouldn't have on his ventures yesterday. Have a total Tuesday!

125 on the dot again! Calories were even a bit low yesterday (and I felt hungry before bed but didn't eat).

Spotty rain today. We did go to the botanical gardens and the roses were in bloom. Lilies will be up next. Our lilies at home are just starting to open up. So pretty! Rain in the forecast for the next week. Yuck! Thankfully it doesn't rain all day most of the days.

Asian lettuce pork wraps for dinner tonight. Easy, healthy dinner.

Safe travels Peps and Liz! Those lobsters looked incredible Liz!

I love your meal planning - always sounds so tasty!

Hectic day in Budapest! Last day tours... PACKING! We have to leave at Oh dark thirty... Actually not too bad... 6:30 am is when we leave the boat to drive to the airport. Departure time is 9:30 am. Arrive in San Francisco at 4:45 pm. Isn't it nice? Just shy of 7 hours to get home.... LOL! But, I do feel like I get the day back that I lost flying to Europe.

See y'all on the other side.

Safe travels Liz.

BTW - no big hullabaloo about the US/Iran/Israel "conflict" over in this part of the world. As best I can tell, most of Europe views us as uncouth, self important, and historically illiterate. They don't care too much either way about the tourists as long as we're spending our dollars here.

I was wondering what the political climate was for international travelers. Glad you have not experienced negative side effects from our boob in chief!

I hope all goes smoothly for your trip home. And thanks for the political update - more or less the same view of us Americans as in the past I guess. I hope Barcelona isn't too nasty.

Greetings all

A mixed day of sun and fog. Started the day with Scrabble and won two of three but lost to the Shark. Oh well. Next was meeting up with the new gallery treasurer to get her on the account at the bank. I brought her all this stuff to enable her to take over the deposits but she then decided she wanted me to still do them. Oh well. I will. I think she is a person who is focused on tiny details as she said she could not understand the cash deposits unless she did them herself. So I will add some additional info on each ticket. I am kind of glad to keep doing it as I think it would wear her out because she lives much further away from the place and has other chores. Plus if I was out of the finance job it means I would get assigned some other task I might hate; ie kitchen duty for our events.

Liz those lobsters are giant! Looks like a great dinner. By all means get J a little walk in.

Paula hope you got some good garden photos. The rhododendrons and azaleas are about finished here but everything else is coming on strong.

Peps I was wondering if you encountered any anti American sentiment on your trip. Looks like the Louvre closed and people in Spain were protesting tourists. Glad it has been a good trip for you all and that you will be home soon to begin the serious business of being retired.

Not much else. I stopped in the studio for a bit but did not get much done. I must begin serious prepping for my house guest soon.

Diane S

I would take bank deposits over kitchen duty anytime!