😀 Yesterday Annie got to play with her friend, Danny, a three year old herding dog. They chase and frolic in my fenced yard. Annie is willing to share her watering can of drinking water with him. They are a good match in size, strength, and energy. Unfortunately they have their house on the market with plans to move to an assisted living place that will miraculously allow Danny to live there.

😀 Now that the fence is washed I'm focused on more weed removal and watering the pumpkins, sunflowers, and tomatoes.

🎵 Dancing today. I bought Annie another new toy that might keep her occupied so she doesn't bother us too much while we dance.

💓 Barbie

Hello Sneakers. Our heatwave continues so I am taking George for his walk even earlier when there is a breeze. If we are on the moors by 6:30am we can get round in time before the heat of the sun suddenly hits. Yesterday I stayed in and watched the tennis tournament I’m following then around 9pm dragged the lawnmower from my garden shed and cut the grass. Also picked a bowl of strawberries ready for today’s breakfast. A few clouds were forming so I hoped we might get rain so I didn’t have to water pots and vegetables but this morning it was still dry, in fact it was our hottest day so far. George loved our walk and did lots of zoomies then spent the rest of today snoozing. Even Brady found a cool spot upstairs. I watched tennis then late afternoon went into my garden to do some tidying but quickly realised it was just too hot. We may get thunderstorms tonight or tomorrow which should clear the air and also top up my garden water containers.

Sandy, My funeral plan was bought years ago but I’ve since changed my mind about some aspects. I want it to be as simple as possible but like you with your family, don’t want to leave any sort of burden on others to have to deal with. Sounds like you are thinking of everything.

Barbie, it seems Annie is doing well and being totally spoiled and so she should be!

Lin, you are over the last page so I won’t risk losing my post. I do remember the news wasn’t very positive about moving your container of beans which is sad as everything looks so healthy.

Midnight so I must get to bed but won’t rush out for a walk with George tomorrow if it’s raining!

Stay safe

Jackie 🥰

A hot Saturday for me and no storm last night so I showered and left with George before 6:30. We walked for nearly an hour but took our time as it was muggy. With it being the Summer Solstice there were dozens of people around the prehistoric stone circles who would have watched the sun rising and shining a light on to a specific stone that marks the Leigh lines. The local post office also has a small cafe and had opened early to offer coffee and teas so a nice atmosphere.

Thunder rumbled in the distance mid morning but we’ve seen very little rain so I will eat my salmon salad evening meal then water everything.

Sorry you lost your post Lin. I do think this site is more sensitive since changes were made.

Happy Saturday one and all.

Jackie 🥰

😀 Sandy, one of the smartest things Jake and I did was to prepay for our end of life arrangements. We wanted cremation and no service or any event so it wasn't expensive. I think your having everything preplanned and prepaid will be a great kindness for your family. It will help them to have things paid for and even more so to know that the arrangements are what you wanted. My father died in 1988 and I still remember my mother's anguish at the funeral home trying to decide what my father would have wanted. Money wasn't a problem but the decisions tore her up. She probably spent way more than she needed to because she didn't want to feel like she was trying to get a bargain for him.

😀 Lin, I've lost so many posts that now I automatically click on the button that says "Save Draft" at the end of every sentence.

😀 Jackie, I love walking early with the dogs.

😀 Bessie doesn't play although lately she has learned to bark excitedly when she sees someone walking down the street. She tolerates Annie's attempts to play with her but doesn't like to spend much time outdoors.

😀 I was planning a big day of using my leaf blower to clear the driveway, walks, patio and rocky area in front of the house as well as blowing grass from underneath the lawn mower. Instead it rained all night and most of the morning so instead I did work inside.

😀 Today I took down two of Jake's baseball framed posters from the wall in the dance room (formally known as the hobby room) and put up cat paintings that were in the bedroom. I spend a lot of time in the dance room but only sleep and read in the dark in the bedroom. I don't need decoration in there.

😀 Jake loved to buy new cleaning products and I am currently working at using them up so I can go back to my own simplicity. Today when I was cleaning window sills, I opened the curtains and pulled up the blind in the guest room and Annie was delighted. She was thrilled to be able to lie on the bed and look out the window. I decided to keep the room that way so she could have another happy spot.

😀 I'm treating myself to Cherry Garcia in my grocery order for tomorrow.

🎵 Barbie

Hi, the usual hot day—-watering the new grass and the containers, Zoom exercise classes, cut more samples of the dies I am experimenting with, watched online church, and found out it got so hot today that one container of my lettuce was killed. It looked Iike I baked it in the oven.

Well, the heat wave is supposed to crack early in the week and then we will have a chance of rain each day.

I wish I had gone to the gas station last week. I didn’t go due to the heat, but I am guessing the prices will take a huge jump tomorrow. Or maybe they already have I just don’t know it.

Be safe everyone.

Lin 🙋🏼‍♀️

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Hi, my Internet connection was very unreliable yesterday. I lost connection so many times! Well, we have had rain and the temperature has dropped. Looks like the Internet is having a much more reliable day as well.

The roofing contractor was here yesterday and I looked over quite a few gray shingle samples but he said he thought I would be happier with black and truth be told, a small snippet really doesn’t give much of an idea of how it will look all over a roof. Black it is.

Jackie, I am glad your heat wave has broken and that George is eating again. Happy coffee with your friend. It always sounds so good!

Sandy, so all sparkly now? I was talking to a friend yesterday and she and her husband were going to get their teeth cleaned and their appointments were at 4pm. Kind of late in the day!

Barbie, one of the Zoom instructors has a dog fostering program. We never know how many dogs she will have in her little home studio. Most of them are quiet but every once in a while she has a barker. She has to be extra cautious. Usually, the dogs all pick a spot and just sleep. Another instructor has a fairly young golden and the dog can tend to get antsy with the duration of a class, particularly around her supper time. Last week, the instructor tripped over a dog toy mid-class. 👀

Well, I best move along. Be safe!

Lin 🙋🏼‍♀️

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😁 When we replaced our roof, the house was brown so we got a brown roof. A few years later when we decided to paint the house, we had to choose a paint color that went with the brown. All my paint choices needed a black roof so we ended up with Jake's choice which I like but wasn't the blue that I wanted.

😀 I loved all the stories about dogs joining the exercise. Annie gets a little better each day but she loves attention.

😀 Daughter texted that she'll be headed up here this weekend arriving some time on Sunday. It will be good to see her.

😀 My internet was goofy today. I made several calls to the company and two of them got dropped while someone was trying to help me. Finally I made an appointment for a technician to come on Thursday and five minutes later the internet came back on and has been fine ever since so I cancelled the appointment. I have a DVD player and lots of movies so while the internet was down, I watched "The Great Escape", one of my all time favourites. I can access the internet and email on my phone so TV was the only casualty of this episode.

💓 Barbie