Sunday morning

This morning  the weather showed on my app as unhealthy air quality for sensitive people- maybe because of the cold? It was 39 this morning! We caved in and turned on the heat yesterday.

Sisters! My Aunt Pat, Aunt Bet, and my mom! I put it up on Facebook, and my Aunt Lena identified it as being taken at a bridal shower for her sister, my late Aunt Mary. 

Snakes! Up to date as of October 11! We finally went down to Heather's on Thursday to give Eddie his birthday gifts, and took Covid and Quarantina with us, since the kids hadn't seen them for almost 2 months. We gave Eddie a heated seat pad for his truck, a bag of Goldfish crackers, and money. He had just had his first day of in person school, first in person day as a senior, and as a driver to school! He said it was awesome to drive to school and show off his truck. 

Another page of the cross stitch done! I have enough done on the right side that I put it back up onto the frame. I'm quite impressed with it! There's a lot of confetti on some pages, which makes it slower going. I'm averaging 2 weeks on a page.

This week I see my primary, my NP, and the following week I see the cardiologist to hopefully set a date for the ablation for the atrial flutter. And Ralph was discharged by ortho, which is fabulous. He has his last PT tomorrow.

A beautiful month

 I love October, and fall. The awful heat and humidity is gone, and the leaves are starting to turn. I hate that it's getting dark earlier and earlier. 

I bought an Apple Watch! I got the 6, the newest one. I can do an EKG, check my pulse, and it even has a pulse ox! I love the red! And good thing I listened to Julianna and got a new phone, because my old phone wouldn't have been able to synch to the watch!

I found out from Tervis' Facebook page that if the cups develop a film inside, you can send them back and they move the image to a new cup as part of their warranty! You can send back 6 per day!

We got our ballots, filled them out, and returned them to the board of elections office, which is close to us. 

Then we went to Christmas Tree Shop, and to lunch at Outback. It's only the second time we've eaten out since March! Fondue on a boomarang for dessert! Strawberries, pineapple, butter cake and brownie bites, with melted chocolate and whipped cream to dip them in! Of course we shared, and brought home some of the brownies bites.

I had the echo done last Friday, and I assume it was fine, since I haven't gotten any calls from the cardiologist.

We went food shopping yesterday. Today I'm back to my usual routine of reading and working on my counted cross stitch while watching TV. We just got a new big TV for the family room. Ralph wanted a smart TV for in there. We ordered it Monday night, and it came yesterday! We love amazon!

October is here!

 The leaves are starting to turn, it's getting dark earlier, and the nights are definitely cooler! Cold enough to close windows most nights.

It was national daughter's day, so I put this pic on Facebook. It's my favorite pic of the three of them together. They were laughing at Ed, who was playing photographer and joking with them.

Taco Tuesday! We don't care for the shredded lettuce, and we use salsa instead of chopping tomatoes. I've been buying several pounds of ground beef at the Amish market, browning it, and freezing it in bags of one pound. So to make tacos I only have to dump a pound from a bag into a ceramic bowl and microwave it for 3 minutes, then transfer it to a pan, add the taco seasoning and water, and the taco mix is ready in a few minutes. Easy and so good. We get two full meals from a pound of meat

My project is moving right along! It's going to be so beautiful when it's done!

It's actually going to overfill the Aida cloth, so I'm going to make a triptych out of it. It's the biggest project I've ever done and I'm planning on it taking a year or so. I'm doing it on 18 count, using 3 strands, and half cross stitch. 

Snakes are done thru September 30! Of course Ralph had to pose them, he has fun with them. They are probably 7-8 feet long already, and we have 3 full months to go! Ralph bought me a package of rattles, so I can make them into rattlesnakes if the kids want.

Today I have an echocardiogram, and I have a consult with the ablation doc the end of this month. I want to get this show on the road, before flu season and covid season intersect. I'm actually going to get a flu shot this year, after 20 or so years of not. The last 3 flu shots I got, I had increasingly bad local reactions. After I had the last one, I showed the school doc, and he advised me to go sit in the ER if I had another one! So I've avoided them. 

Ralph had a stress test, and it was normal, which is a relief. And his PT and meds are handling his back/leg issue well. 

And that's the way it is!