Saturday, September 27, 2025

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Yesterday was spent going to several furniture stores looking for a round accent table to use in place of the old table I have in the living room. It just doesn't work with the furniture as I had hoped it would. But I can't seem to find anything that seems right to me. Frustrating.

Today we walk, then water aerobics, then hopefully the reglazing of the bathtub gets done. I have no idea how long that will take so no plans for the rest of the day. Nor have we thought about dinner too much. I do have stuff to make a new recipe if I feel like cooking.

Hoping we hear positive stuff from Paula about the offer today!

Have a succulent Saturday!

We are having the most marvelous stretch of fall weather and it looks like it will continue into next week. How wonderful to have the time to enjoy it. There is not a lot on todays' schedule. There's a bit of gardening I can do. Some hanging pots are truly done for the year, so I can work them into the compost bin. Yesterday I pulled almost a bag of leaves off my front flower bed. The impatients are still blooming, so I thought I'd give them a chance to keep going. I think by the 2nd week of October, they'll be done, but I can still enjoy them next week. And I have some houseplants on the porch that need to be repotted before they can come back inside. The repotting will probably wait until Monday, because I need to get a few more supplies.

The ratatouille is cooked, and is sitting in the fridge "blending". I think it tastes better the longer it sits. This year I saved some glass jars for freezing the leftovers. It just makes sense to me if I went to the trouble of buying so many fresh ingredients, it shouldn't be stored longterm in plastic.

Tomorrow the Vikings play at 8:30am in Dublin against the Steelers. DH's sister and her husband are in Ireland right now for the game. Sadly, she is cheering for the wrong team, as her husband is a diehard Steelers fan. DH will definitely be watching at 8:30am. After that, we will probably go downtown to the Guthrie to renew our season tickets in person. Monday is Irish coffee day, and we will drop some things off at St. Vincent's de PauL thrift shop.

One of the tasks for today is for the two of us to sit down together and shop for flights to Brazil. We need to discuss the pros and cons and what would be the biggest bang for our frequent flyer points etc. A very exciting task. And this evening we are having a bonfire with BFF and her family.

No downward tic today on the scale, but the recent losses are holding.

Sounds like you have a lot of good stuff on the agenda. I need to make some ratatouille too! I agree that it tastes even better if it sits for a while.

121.7 today.

We have a house in FL! Yay! At least as long as the sale of our house here doesn't fall through. I'll post a link on TT so you can see it.

Busy day packing up stuff and making decisions. DSD and hubby are here. They are moving the crap they have stored here to a storage unit.

Coscto chicken Alfredo with pasta and garlic bread and Caesar salad for dinner. Easy Peasy!

Need to get back at it! Posting more stuff on FB Marketplace to sell!

Congratulations! Fingers and toes crossed that all goes smoothly!

What is your potential closing date?

It was originally set for Nov. 14 for our house here but we have been asked if it could be Oct. 30, though that offer (for the 3rd house down the line had not come through yet). We will probably close in FL early November then.

Greetings all

Another big sunny fall day. It started with an emergency call from the gallery because the worker could not get the safe to open and there was no cash to open with. I scurried around the house and came up with a bunch of small bills to take. Then got a call that they found the emergency key and were all set. Problem solved. After that I went to the Fieldbrook winery for the festival. It is such a nice place and it was cool and sunny. It is 5 miles inland and is sometimes warm. Imagine 500 old hippies drinking wine and listening to 70s music with various feral children roaming about. There is quite a bit of art though most is not all that great. Beads, candles, yard art. My friend did buy a cool bomber jacket made of recycled silk. I was tempted but didn't. Anyway fun.

So this afternoon is football. Oregon ducks vs pen state. We are almost oregon here and our other team is off. I will cook my yum yum sandwiches. I see no progress whatsoever in DH cleaning the garage. Ho hum.

Congrats Paula you have a FLa house!! Looks great. I am sure it will all fall into place. That is where realtors earn their money. Moving long distance is a good motivator to get rid of lots of stuff. We did it. Moving is expensive but you know that. Cannot wait to hear about you exploring your new surrounds.

What's with these football games in Ireland DD? College teams do it too and I have no clue why - other than it must make someone some money. DD your comments about puttering with the plants and yard are pure joy. So delightful to get to do these simple things.

Liz good luck on the table search. Something will turn up. I need a coffee table and might do the second hand store as dogs will beat it up. I kind of want the kind that lifts up.

Not much else. I sit here looking at the piles of papers I need to ditch. I finally got the pin number needed from the state tax dept to look at a discrepancy on gallery taxes. I had it so bolloxed up that I had to just start over and get a new pin which they mail to you and takes forever to get here to this remote place. Took t weeks to get here and expires in 3. well duh.

Not much else. Noticing that the sweet peas have pretty much gone to seed now.

Diane S

The band at the winery. Think: Neil Young and Grateful Dead.

I wrote something to post yesterday, but forgot to push submit! Sigh....

California to Utah, Utah to Nebraska, Nebraska to Illinois. Over 2,000 miles in three days. Tomorrow Youngstown, OH and then New Jersey on Monday. Then I'll be done traveling for a week. Then it'll be the trek home.

Food was pretty spot on today. Road trips are hard for me to stay on point with my eating. Boredom hits... Eating is something to do... Not a good combo. I'm also retaining a lot of fluid right now. Probably all the sitting.

Time to walk the dogs one last time and then head off to bed.

Sleep well.