HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

 No blogger still doesn't  work!

But wanted to say HAPPY NEW YEAR, just in case someone still pop in to see what's  going on around here.

Hope everyone had a great holiday!

May the new year bring good health and prosperity 

Miss you all!!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

Wishing everyone a very Happy Holiday!

Seems like some very crazy weather conditions so please stay  safe and warm!!

Well Looky Here!

 Just thought I would take a look at my blog from  my Notebook. So it is my laptop that's  messed up! Not crazy about this but at least I know I can post.

It has been pretty cold here for about 2 weeks.

Just getting over being sick with a horrible head cold that required antibiotics to clear up. So it's back to wearing a mask when in stores. Hopefully I'm  done shopping until after  Christmas.

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING

 First, previous comments showed up. But then I couldn't find New Post. Come on Google what's your problem!???

Well I just wanted to wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving!!

Mine is going to be very quiet  and I'm fine with that.

I received my newest Covid booster shot and it should do everything. Of course that's what they said when I went for my second booster LOL

Wanted to get my truck washed but the place was packed yet all the workers from the end had nothing to do and were just standing around, while the beginning lines had no workers. Well supposed to get windy again tomorrow and Friday so why waste the money. But I sure hate a filthy truck! Maybe I will at least try to hose it off.

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OH MY What Now!!

 I see there has been changes to Blogger. I guess we can no longer manage comments? This may be the end of blogging for me if the spammers come back.

Trying to get my Christmas shopping done. Have I ever mentioned how much I HATE SHOPPING!! Well at least the rest of the gifts will be gift cards. Spent 4 1/2 hrs. yesterday going from 1 store to the next. I was looking for a certain gift so went to Bed, Bath and Beyond, what have we here? Nothing, store is closing and just odds and ends left. On to the next 3 stores. Kind of found what I was looking for in store #4 within  about 15min. then spent 45min. waiting on line to check out, hate that store, I figured I got there early enough but NO!. Then hit Dollar Tree for  birthday wrapping paper, Christmas bags and tissue paper and crawled back to the truck and called it a day. I'm sure I'll find I missed someone at the last min.

The weather has been below average for this time of year but I am not complaining I love it!

Good Night All!

Fall!!!

 Fall has arrived and it has been pretty chilly. I'm loving it have waited for it since April. Thur. night we are going to drop down into the 30's and the days high will be in the low 60's, that will last only a couple of days then warm up a wee bit. Tomorrow the flannel sheets will go on the bed.

I have made a couple pots of chicken soup already and one beef stew. Been collecting some new soup recipes. Yes I love my soups. Today to warm up the place I made a meat loaf. Tomorrow I'm going to bake up some Cheesy Chicken. Also will cook up lots of veggies.

Also made some outdoor preparations. Drained the cooler and covered the outdoor faucets. Still need to disconnect the hose. 

I really need to get some Christmas shopping done! I only have 1 child done. And I thought I had 1 daughter done and then received an email the order was canceled due to lack of stock, then remove the item from your online list. I have my other daughters birthday gift coming which is Dec. 21, now to figure out what to get her for Christmas. No you never combine the gifts and never wrap her birthday gift in Christmas paper or bag LOL 

Other than that not to much else going on did some sewing and lots of crocheting. Doubt I will finish the blanket I am working on in time to gift it.

I don't see camping happening as Fred is just to old and he hates it. He is having issues now with arthritis and of course he is deaf which I have already mentioned, plus his sight isn't all that great either. Sometimes I think he forgets why he wanted to go outside or maybe he just wants to see me jump up and down to let him out, I don't leave him out there alone as it was reported that javelina have been sighted in the Village, I have not seen them but won't take any chances. I have a small fenced area for Fred but it can easily be knocked over by those things.  I'm not in that great of shape to be lifting him in and out of the truck when he has to go pottie or just wants back in the truck and then out again. He thinks he owns me!

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Donation Time!

As I, mentioned before I, started my, fall cleaning. I wound up with 3 huge bags of clothing, comforter and and assortment of other items to go. I, called Big Brothers, Big Sisters, for the scheduled pick up date here in the Village. So tomorrow will be pick up day. I, brought everything outside today and loaded up in the driveway, I, figured as long as I, still had room and energy why not grab stuff out of the shed. So now I'm so happy that all this STUFF  is leaving my house and shed. Just keep asking myself why and how do I accumulate so much STUFF!!!

There is still so much more in the shed to go but I, will wait until after Christmas, to do another load. I, still need to put an ad in Market Place to get rid of some camping gear I, haven't used in years and probably never will.

Have a Dr. appt. with a new real Dr. tomorrow as the other thing just wasn't working out at all. I, was able to get an appt. with a Dr. I, went to years ago and I really like her. 

Good Night All!

Cooler Temps!!

 While monsoon season is officially over we have been getting lots of rain this week with thunder and lightening. But nice lower temps in the 80's for daytime highs and 60's for night. Sleeping is fantastic and even added a light blanket. 

Using the cooler  it's nice not to run the A/C so far. The new bill was under $100. YIPPEE!!!

I stopped to fill my water jogs yesterday and buy some fresh veggies, when all was said and done I spent over $100.. But as I walked around to see about bargains there weren't any and I thought I better pic up some things to stock up before the prices went even higher! I have a feeling I will be eating lots of home made soups soon. And yes MsBelinda the shelves are looking a little empty, but mostly the store brands, and TP shelves weren't  very full and the prices really sky rocketed and paper plates too, guess I'll be washing dishes because I'm not spending that kind of money for paper plates. Gas has already gone up to $3.69. Which may make my camping trips very local.

Started getting some cleaning going on and took a few days just in my bedroom, Taking down the drapes was tough, putting them back up especially tough since they were kind of wet was a real challenge but I did it, since one one side the dresser is in front of one window and the bed is in front of the other. I remember when moving furniture wasn't a problem but well I'm old now! 

I now have 3 large bags for donations and a bag went out to the trash. I still have the top shelf in the closet to go but I will do that Tues when I put the other items out for the donation pick up.

It has been so nice in the mornings now that I use the over to make some extra meals for the freezer. I had missed cooking oven foods, like stuffed peppers, meat loaf and baked chicken.

Guess that's it for now.

Good Night All

Watching Ian

 Ian, is a huge storm and can be very dangerous. I have very good friends in  Port St. Lucy, they say they should get some high winds and lots of rain. They live further inland but this storm has made lots of turns and is all over the place. Blessing to anyone in the path of this huge hurricane. 

Yesterday I, had to fill my water jugs, thought I would just pick up a few things but thought as long as I was there to just get it done. I did get some good buys on chicken thighs so bought a nice bulk pack. I buy bone in and skin on, I'm not paying someone to take off the skin and I like having the bone in. There was 10 pieces I pulled off all the skin then double  bagged them  and put then in the freezer, I have plenty of thighs now as I have been stocking up as I eat lots of chicken and will also be using them for soup. Also picked up 2pks of ground beef that were on sale for $ 4.45. Bought a few canned items for storage. The items that are still not on the shelves are mostly Great Value stuff. I like their liquid eggs but they haven't had them in a while and I will not buy egg beater as they are almost $8.00. I lucked out last week at Safeway, when once again a dz. eggs were only $1.97 so picked up 2dz. Also found good deals on stew meat and picked up a couple pkgs. today I made beef stew. So I have plenty of stew and chicken soup in the freezer. Because you KNOW ITS GOING TO GET COLD SOON RIGHT!! 

It just feels good to get some cooking done know that it has cooled down a bit.

I have been filling  1gl. jugs for drinking water and what a difference in taste. I had been using a Pur filtering system and it was still leaving that nasty white crust on the coffee machine and even the filter itself. So I threw it all away and bought a couple jugs of water and so now I have 6 gl. jugs the water costs .29 at the Neighborhood Grocery Store. I may pick up another 2gl. I really drink a lot of water. I bought a 3gl. container that fits perfectly on the fridge shelf so I fill that up and slide it onto the shelf. and just fill up the drinking bottles with the spout.

Supposed to get a storm tomorrow but they said that last week so who knows. 

Good Night All

No More Triple Digits?

 We seem to be doing the 90's right now and nights are high 60's to mid 70's loving it. I have been using the cooler now instead of the A/C for about 3 days and it is cooling down the house perfectly since the humidity has also dropped. But monsoon season isn't quite over yet.

Yesterday it was weed spraying day so I got out there and got it all done or so I thought. Usually with in a few hours you can see the weeds dying. But when I went out they still looked green and healthy. Even today they looked healthy. When I went out to do something I notice the empty plastic container, Bug Spray doesn't not kill weeds. So off to the store tomorrow for more weed killer.

Fred goes to the groomer tomorrow his nails are so long and he smells bad.

Then off to Safeway to pick up more meds that they didn't have enough to fill my order last week. Trying something different for the COPD and so far so good. It also gave me a chance to check out my little power station, I have done 6 treatments and there is still lots of battery power left. I pay less for 3mths of meds compared to 1 mth. of Trelegy at $165. and when I called them to see about a coupon or some sort of help they said, We DON'T HELP ANYONE OVER 65!!! EXCUSE ME BUT ISN'T THAT DISCRIMINATION!!!???

I have been working on a new afghan for a while but had to put it aside when is was to hot to deal with. This is continued color on a skein. It may be a Christmas gift for one of the little ones.

Not much else going on just working on the getting the house done for fall clean up. There is a corner of a fall pillow sticking out from behind the afghan LOL

Good Night All!

Got Rain?

 We hadn't had rain for a few days and was wondering if monsoon was over. Nope of course most of what we were hit with was from Tropical Storm  Kay. It started yesterday 9/11 late afternoon, lots of thunder, lightening and high winds, rain came down in buckets. It would stop but the thunder came rumbling back and brought more rain. It rained most of the night with rumbling thunder. 

This morning 9/12 the day started out nice and bright and cool with a slight breeze. It was wonderful, tried to just use the cooler but of course the humidity was to high. But the A/C didn't come on until around 10 am. The weather called for more rain for late afternoon again. But Kay had other ideas the rumbling started around noon and the winds started picking up again. About 1:30 pm the rains came and went. Then the down pours started on and off. With constant rumbling of thunder. Around 3:30 it started to pour down rain and the winds were crazy. Around 4pm I turned on the news and WOW!! Tornado Warning,  took up most of the news. The warnings were for open lands between Eloy and upper Marana. Things got pretty crazy around 4:30 with super high winds, down pouring rain and hale mixed with sun shine! Since the awards, were going on I couldn't find any news. But just before I got on here tonight I did see some videos on a news channel and indeed there was a funnel but very small. People on I10 were asked if they can find a safe place to leave the freeway to do so. From the videos not to many took that seriously. 

My daughter sent me a text to ask if we were getting rain  and yes it is pouring, Debbie said on the northeast side they barely had sprinkles.

My back yard was pretty flooded and a run off went  down the right side of my front yard. It has been years since that happened. But within 1/2 hr after it stopped all the water had either soaked into the ground or had run off the into the street and down the road to the wash. And you know Fred was not going to go out to do his business while the yard was flooded or in the rain silly dog. 

Looks like tomorrow will be mostly sunny with clouds.

Good Night All!

Baby !!!

 Baby Viviana Sofia (talk about  Spanish - Sicilian names)  made her grand entrance  late this afternoon after much ado and turning into a C section. But she is healthy and adorable at 7.9lbs. Guess nobody thought about how long she is. LOL My daughter was only allowed to sit in the waiting room and she sure did from early this morning. She was also there most of last evening until they made them all leave and they were just told to leave and could some back tomorrow morning and visit the baby. The only one allowed to stay was the dad. I think that is a good thing. Let the new parents enjoy and bond with their baby.

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Getting Ready

 The humidity has dropped for a couple days, but the triple digits are back! I did use the cooler for most of the day but once late afternoon came around and the sun to the west the house heated up and A/C came back on. Just turned it off and turned the cooler back on hope it works for  tonight.

But I am so ready for Fall! I shampooed the rug yesterday and again today. The dog makes a mess with rolling around and he sheds like crazy so he made quite a big dark spot where he does his rolling. And the area at the porch entry gets pretty bad to. But it sure looks much better. Maybe in the spring I will have it taken out and put in some type of flooring but no more carpet for me. Tomorrow morning I will do the office and be done. I will work my way around the house cleaning blinds. 

I want to be ready for take off as soon as the weather gets cooler. Of course I will have to strip down the camper and get it cleaned up again. It really gets filthy in there just from the stinking wind that blows all that sand and dirt around. Get out my Green machine and shampoo the rug back there it needs is.

Been checking out places I want to go and having the power unit is going to help a lot, and I bought a Ever Start Jump Starter which also will charge a few things if need be. 

This Friday, I will have a new great granddaughter, Viviana!

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Busy Morning!

 Headed out about 8:15am to get this crazy hair cut, it's been awhile and it was totally out of control. Then headed out to get my poor truck washed it was so dirty I was embarrassed to drive it. Looks so pretty and shinny again.

Then the dreaded trip to Walmart to pick up a order that should have come to my house. If they screw up 1 more order I will shop somewhere else. And of course they couldn't find so it took almost and hour for them to find it. And said I did it wrong, I have been using Walmart online ordering for years. They finally saw that it was plainly their mistake both orders. And I better see a refund for shipping on both orders.

But still made it home by 10:30. Made breakfast relaxed for a bit then got back to cleaning and laundry.

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Tires, Windshield Wipers!

After a miss guided employee making a mistake with my appt. at least I picked up Fred's stuff and got out of Walmart fast it was really getting crowded and the lines were long. The day did go down hill from there. But that also got fixed today it's something that I had been fighting since May. Today that also was resolved.

I finally had my tires mounted today. The first appt. was supposed to be Monday at 10am, but the guy put down Sunday. So went in and made the appt. for this morning at 8am. also wanted an oil change but they were short staffed so I'll go back next week. But did get new windshield wipers, needed those really bad. The drivers side was fine but the passenger side was bad.

The monsoons are doing quite well finally. Some days we  get 2 storms one late afternoon then late in wee hours and it rains nice a steady.

Gas is still at $3.99 but beats the $4.89 of a couple of weeks ago. But I still have a full tank since I haven't been anywhere.

Tomorrow I have to go grocery shopping for real. I haven't gone in almost 2 weeks, outside of going to Safeway for veggies last week. Veggies are getting hard to find these days and may have to start buying more frozen ones. I really like fresh produce but we shall see what tomorrow has to offer. I might just have to plug in the little freezer again to hold the frozen foods. It really doesn't pull much electric since it is only 1.1 cu. and if it is full then it doesn't run much at all.

It's thundering again and when I took Fred out saw some great lightening.

Good Night All!

The Monsoon Has Arrived

 We have been getting some nice rains finally. Not to many gully washers here but other parts of town have and just outside of PHX. they have gotten hit hard. The temps are low but of course the humidity is horrible. But the a/c doesn't come on until almost noon as I run fans to keep the air circulating and I keep it at 81 and it does the job until bed time then I turn it down for better sleeping.

Today  I made myself leave the house to mail something important and then stopped at Family Dollar looking for one of those hoses that shrivels up when you turn the water off making them really nice and light weight, but they didn't have any but did find the soap refill I needed, and had table runners so I picked up 3 but may need 1 more to make curtains for the camper,  and 2 gallons of drinking water that used to be .99 and now are a $1.25.

 Since I was right next to Safeway I ran in there to buy my veggies instead of going to Walmart. It looked like they didn't have any zucchini but something made me look behind the bin where they should have been and found 3 stuck back there! I knew I would have to use them quick so tonight I  baked 2 in the toaster oven and saved one for making veggie omelets. Onions are pretty high along with everything else. Eggs of course are still really high so passed on them again. Did pick up a small pack of chicken thighs, there wasn't much in the ground meat only 2 really large packages and boy the price was not friendly and so I did not buy that, did pick up some bacon on sale.

Yesterday I ordered the 2 tires I need for the rear of the truck, yes they were more expensive of course but no point in waiting any longer because we all know they will not come down but possibly go up. They will be delivered to the store and then I can make an apt. to have them installed. Happy to have this done. One more step to getting ready for camping. Next will be solar panels.

I forgot to check the price of gas.

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Just A Quick One

 Not doing much these days just trying to stay cool. I did get out early this morning and cleaned up the yard and carport since it was trash day. But it was 84 F at 6:30am.

 The baby shower is coming up so I figured I better make the matching hat, made it a little bigger than a new born because by time it cools down enough for her to wear she will grow into it. .

Once it is on the head it will shorten up.

That's about it folks, since I never did go shopping I really have to since I need things for Fred, can't have him go without!

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Shopping And Gas

Figured I, better gas up the truck before it goes past 3/4 tank mark and the price goes any higher. Well I, was so happy to see it came down .12 cents, but still cost me $37. 

Groceries seem to be leveling off and a few items have gone down. I thought I had done well but still spent a little over hundred dollars. Veggies have kept the price the same but so many have not been on the shelves. Tomorrow I, have to pick up a prescription at Safeway so I, hope they have zucchini and a few other veggies I couldn't find today.

We are back in the triple digits again. The past 2 early morning were so beautiful. I took off for gas and shopping around 6:45 am and by time I left the store at 8:00 am it was already 89 degrees. and it just kept climbing to 103. Used the cooler until around 1 then had to change over to the A/C. The humidity is way down which means no rain. Guess we aren't going to have a very good monsoon again.

Good Night All!

HAPPY 4TH!!

 PLEASE HAVE A FABULOUS AND WONDERFUL 4TH !!

And remember please don't drink and drive!! And to all the fools who thing shooting up in the air those damn bullets do come back down!!

RAIN, LOTS OF RAIN!!!

 Finally we had a good hard rain!!

Took the pictures with my phone and it won't let me copy the video!

Oh look how the water is not draining properly, glad I paid a fortune to have the gutters cleaned 2 weeks ago.😡👎 And I won't mention the mess I was left to clean up.

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