Yes, Marilyn, getting up after being knocked down shows strength!

Sandi, nice to hear you had a good day yesterday. Fireworks are banned for private use here. We only hear them from a distance when we have Show days or New Year's celebrations. I know you are all having summer there but I am snuggling under my blankets especially at night as we're in winter here.

Judith, Colin IS slightly better but I am sneezing now. Will stay home from church today so we don't spread germs. I hope you feel cool enough. Take care and rest.

Linda, thinking of you.

Susan, I wish the really loud fireworks were banned here but no such luck! It’s hard to believe you are having cold weather when we are so hot! Stay warm!
We use to have a cabin in the north Georgia mountains and loved being able to escape there in the hot weather but we had to sell it several years ago. Now we just have to stay in the a/c!

Sunday blessings everyone!

Having a good day - thought the veritgo was gone but it came back this morning so am back on meds for it for a few days - the meds take the veritog away but give me an upset stomach

Heat wave - I am inland from where Judith lives. Today (5:15) it is 38 C outside which in F. is 100.4 and that is a cool day for this week. The next few days we are to get up to 104 F which is far to hot - my daughter was to go daily (Monday through Friday) on workbee with a number of special needs = they would be brushing down the horses and donkeys, painting the fences and walking 4 large dogs. But due to the weather I am not letting her go as I think to be outside even in the share for 8 hours each day is to much - she only has one working kidney and also deals with seizures so the extra heat is not so good - so we are all staying at home where we can control the comfort in the house.

Even with the air conditioning going it is 'sticky' and truthfully I don't like it. Prefer the summer over the winter but when it gets this hot for any lenfth of time (they say it will be this way for at least 3 weeks) well to much is just to much

Church was great - we are on a couple of weeks of studying The Apostles Creed and it is very enlightening. If interested you can go to KAC.ca and look for sermons and listen to them- todays was especially good. We have 2 services - 9 am and 11 am = the 11 am is recorded live and from what I have been told there are people around the world listening to our preacher. He is a young man (40) but from listening to him preach you would think he was well aged due to all his knowlege. He is working on getting his Master degree and really knows what he is talking - explains things very well.

Anyway have a great evening and try to stay cool

Good morning. I am going to groom dogs, prepare card kits and go out to dinner tonight. We're going to have a belated birthday celebration for Greg.

Sandi, I thought Florida would be hot and humid. Glad you have air conditioning.

Marilyn, that's so true. Goals are good.

Judith, thank you for praying for us. Dinner last night was nice. The dogs feel so much better once they are brushed and combed, but they are about ready for a bath and clip. Archie always wants to avoid getting cleaned up but Jasper is pretty good about it! Archie does cooperate once I get him on the table. I got one lot of card kits almost assembled yesterday. I'll do the second one today.

Linda, hope you are having a great day.

Judith, so sorry about the flooding! Praying!

Re heat wave - yes where I live we are under a heat wave. The coming week we will be somewhere between 92 - 100 F = far to hot. The other day it was 104. Thankful that we have air conditioning.

Other then dealing with the heat things seem to be ok. I have had a bad case of vertigo and nausea but think I might be pulling through it. My hernia is causing some discomfort so that means very bland food (eggs, oatmeal) for about 7 days should help it a lot.

Praying for everyone - stay as cool as possible with all this heat

Well, I will join the "heat wave" group. We got back from the cabin this afternoon to 105F. I m so grateful for our swamp cooler. We are in a desert so swamp coolers work great because it puts humidity in the air to cool it down. They are also less expensive. At this point, I am sitting next to a fan writing this and remembering the cool temperatures we had at 8,000 feet at the cabin for the past week.

I am sorry that I did not post much this week. I tried multiple times to post on my phone but MFP seemed to not like what I wrote and it would disappear and I would try again only to disappear again. It was frustrating so I gave up. The week was quieter than the first week mainly because we had different family members with us. Our 17 year old granddaughter usually has lots of fun things to do but she was not feeling well because she had injured her ankle and she had to limit her walking. The younger ones said several times that they were bored because we did not do exciting things like the first week when my grandson was there and was the life of the party. Our spring stopped working that provides water to the cattle tanks and to our trailer where we slept at night and then joined the group during the day at the cabin. There was a trek up to the spring and they discovered that the pipe was clogged by some animals breaking into the enclosure around the spring. (It comes out of a crack in the rock for Sandi and Barb that have not heard details on our mountain property.) As they looked at the rest of the pipe that comes down from the spring, they discovered multiple sharp teeth bites in the pipe. The water was coming out of the holes as well as being blocked at the source so that explained why we did not get water at our trailer. They tried to unclog the pipe but someone else will need to go up the replace the bitten pipe before the cattle come back from the higher pasture and need the water. We think it may have been a bear or mountain lion.

One night as we came back to the trailer from the cabin for the night we saw a huge herd of elk really close to our trailer eating grass. We estimated at least 60 of different ages. When we stopped on the road to take a picture, they ran away. We had been hearing elk "bulging" earlier. We also heard coyotes yapping and a stray bat came to visit us. A hummingbird pecked my granddaughter's hat because it was covered with flowered material. She did not appreciate that!

Yesterday we went to the beach so the kids could swim. It is not very far from our cabin and is a man made reservoir that has sandy beaches on the edges. I thought it was a good idea to sit out in the sun reading to get a "little color" on my very white legs. I got involved in the book I was reading and I got more that a little pink. I look like a cooked lobster today. Fortunately it does not hurt very bad but it is sore enough I can not wear my support hoes or my knee brace. Hopefully it will calm down in a day or two. I do not tan well so it will probably just be a dark white instead of a beautiful bronze color. Just as we were getting ready to leave, our 10 year old granddaughter said that something sharp had hit her leg in the water. She investigated it and it was a strong plant stem and attached to it was some fishing line with a 18 inch brown trout that someone had caught and evidently lost. It was very lively and took a while to bring it to the beach. This is the first time we caught a fish without a fishing pole. My husband cooked it this morning for breakfast and there was plenty for 4 people to eat. The rest of us 3 declined to eat it because we are not necessarily fond of fish. The ones who did eat said it was delicious. The meat was a light pink when it was cooked.

Judith I hope that you are getting your apartment dried out and there was not too much damage. Did they decide what caused the flood in the first place?

Marilyn - I am sorry that you are having hernia problems. Bland foods may not be delicious but that is a good way to help your hernia not hurt. I pray that your vertigo and nausea also calm down.

Barb and Sandi it has been good to hear what is going on in your lives.