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Wow Liz, that lanai photo is to die for. If I'm doing Postings from the Porch, I think you could be Letters from the Lanai. Or Postulating from Paradise. Wishing your DH a safe trip. As your DD and friends arrive, the energy is about to change.

A little finch just landed at the bird bath. I have 3 bird baths in the front of different depths. Oh the pleasure I get seeing them flit back and forth.

I LOVE my Hokas!!! I'm wearing them around the house mostly, to break them in, but today I wore them to the farmers market. The rolling action is forcing my gait to improve. I can tell because my hip and ankle don't hurt, but there is some fatigue in the muscles in my lower ham string. My guess is my wonky gait was putting more stress on my hip flexors and not using my quads and hamstrings enough. Perhaps my only regret is I bought white ones (they had orange and hot pink accents, I couldn't resist the tropical colors). The white will get dirty easily. I'll get some spray tha****erproofs them a bit. Also, DH was teasing me that I looked very senior in my bright white shoes. Add this too the do not care club. I do not care how ugly my walking shoes are if my ankle/hip doesn't hurt. I can wear pretty shoes to restaurants :)

We had a nice time at the food truck festival. The music was better than I anticipated. A good cover band, with brass, not something you always see. A sassy saxophone riff is always nice. When we left, our friends said see you in a month. I was puzzled at first, why would I wait a whole month to see them again? Then DH reminded me I was leaving for Scotland in 2 weeks, and we were meeting them in New York September 13. My brain is not computing that August is flying by.

A friend/co worker stopped by this afternoon. Yesterday she called me about something admin wanted her to do that was absolutely cray cray, IEP stuff, and she wanted some advice how to handle it. She stopped after the meeting to let me know how it went. Workshop week doesn't start until August 24, but admins are always trying to get teachers to donate their time. Per some of my advice, she told them she would need to be reimbursed for her time, and after today, she was leaving on vacation until the end of break. I also told her to really push back on the cray cray ideas and insist she was not qualified to implement them, she was not comfortable doing so, and she could attend the meeting to take notes, but admin would ha e to facilitate and implement. So it all worked out. I guess the gist of this lo g story is, I am the squirrel, so happy to not be on the receiving end of this nonsense.

Tonight we're going to dinner with high school friends. Sunday my Aussie sister is coming for a visit. Shell stay with us a few days and with a friend who lives by my parents. She will visit my parents during the day, and clean the kitchen and help as they will allow, but she said she can't spend the nights there anymore, that she needs a break in the evening. . I completely understand.

Safe travels!

Just saw this posted on FB from another former teacher friend and had to share it for DD and Peps:

Ditto on what DD said! Getting a house ready to show is a lot of work but very satisfying (and potentially lucrative) when done.

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Busy day today. Bible study prep, house cleaning, pool sitting with my local BFF and then to dinner with her and both of our husbands. Fun!

Well, a FL move sooner rather than later is back on the table. Our Realtor texted again saying she had an interested couple that didn't need to be moved in before late November (our earliest timeline). We will meet with her on Friday to discuss pricing and then will probably show the house the end of next week. Lots of prep to do for all of that!

I'm leading Bible study tomorrow and then I guess cleaning house, organizing stuff etc.