The middle of July

It's about 10:30 a.m. Sunday morning and I've been up for four hours.  Did 20 minutes outside on the bike at 7 and I probably could have done more except my left upper arm was aching too much. I can't believe this tendonitis (or whatever it is) is still hanging on.  It's been weeks. I woke up at 4:30 and 6:30 with horrendous foot and toe cramps.  Guess I'd better pull out my literature and read up again on what I need to be taking.  I've been real lax on drinking vinegar, taking Vit E, potassium, magnesium, and even my calcium tablet. That'll teach me!

One website I visited this morning suggested wearing shoes to bed so your toes can't curl during sleep. Yeah, like I'm gonna do that!  From what I've read, the problem is brought on by age a lot of the time.  Seems like age contributes to a hell of a lot of discomfort in my life these days!

I busied myself here and there around the house this morning...unloaded the dishwasher, washed a sink of dishes, put Drano down the sink, monkeyed around with my solar lights as they haven't all been working, watered all my flowers, folded laundry, and TOOK MY VITAMINS! 

Nothing else on my agenda although I may go outside to pull weeds and plant the fox glove seeds Linda Pedersen gave me yesterday.  Stopped by Ruth Kvinsland's and looked over her flowers. They're all lookin' mighty fine.

On the way home from PT, I stopped in Sequim to visit an old neighbor and took a picture of the crocosmia plant in my old yard next door to her. She gave me those cuttings and more for my house here and they're taking off like wildflowers.

I also took a picture of the eucalyptus tree I planted a few years ago in my yard.  It was just a little thing then but it grew  -- and then the sucker died!  Still kinda' cool looking, though.  She uses it to hang her decorations on.  The lady who bought my house doesn't keep up the yard so Vivian goes out there to make it pretty.

The old neighborhood continues to change everytime I stop by.  More and more people dying or moving on.  Several of the mobiles have been bought by this P.A. guy who is making a mobile home park.  Been a life saver for several of the people who wanted to get out of that park.

I stopped by Sunny Farms to buy some cherries and plums and green onions. Planned to make fried rice when I got home but I was too tired to cook.  I had made a quick stop at the casino to spend $20 (I do that every now and again) and for once....I walked out with more money.  Not a lot but enough to make me happy. I played $30 and won $80. Then I stopped to fill up my tank at Safeway. So much for the extra money in my pocket.

For those who don't do Facebook, here's the pictures I took at Les Walden's birthday party at the Legion yesterday.

 

                                                      Les and Patti Walden

 Posters that Patti had made up showing Les through the years.  Really cool!

 Some of Les' cartoons. He's quite talented. A lot of his friends that are into Models were there too. (the kind you put together; not the kind you drool at)  ha ha

 One of two cakes. This was a clever idea. They were trying to raise money for a pool table for the legion.

 Les and Ginger Jacobsen dancing. Charlie Ferris was the entertainment and he was quite good. You can google him to find out more.

 Bruce Chesterfield and Bert Bennett catching up. They barely recognized each other.

 Clara Ford and Denny North. I didn't recognize Denny at his 50th reunion last month and I didn't recognize him again!  Love my memory.  It continues to remind me I'm losing it.

 Herb Evanson showed up as I was leaving so I didn't get to visit with him.

 Bert & Joanne Bennett. So good to see them. Today is Joanne's birthday.

 Ruth Kvinsland, Tom Moss, and Linda Pedersen, all classmates of Les'.

Me and Linda Silvas meeting for the first time. She's an author (Mama Bear, Baby Bear: A Native American Lore) and she does lectures all over the country. She lives in Sequim and we had a great visit sharing writing tips and how to get published.  My book is almost ready to be sent to the printer.

 my sister, Janie Lammers, Charlie Ferris (out of PA) and Ginger Jacobsen.

My sister showed me this cloth book she made for her great grandson.  It's really clever. Even has a squeaky toy in it.

She gave me this little Donald Duck toy while I was there. I do like Donald. Set him up by my favorite knickknacks.

And of course I can't let a blog post go by without showing my latest bird picture. Here are three goldfinch lunching outside my office window.

The last time I was at the library, I was looking for some stuff for Mary Gaboury. Couldn't find what I wanted but I did find this 1946 Leader story on the Rhody candidates. I thought it was kind of interesting.

I watched a really good movie last night. Picked it up at the library.  2009 with Christopher Plummer called My Dog Tulip.  I groaned when I put it in as I saw it was a cartoon.  I don't usually like cartoons movies but this one was OVER THE MOON GOOD!  Got this from Wikipedia......

My Dog Tulip is an American independent animated feature film based on the 1956 memoir of the same name by J. R. Ackerley, BBC editor, novelist and memoirist. The film tells the story of Ackerley's fifteen-year relationship with his Alsatian dog (German Shepherd) Queenie, who had been renamed Tulip for the book. The film – geared toward an adult audience– was adapted, directed and animated by Paul Fierlinger with backgrounds and characters painted by his wife, Sandra Fierlinger.

Christopher Plummer narrated Ackerley's voice, Isabella Rossellini provided the voice of the veterinarian, and Lynn Redgrave provided the voice (in her last film performance) of Ackerley's sister Nancy.

As with the original book, the film gives detailed descriptions of the dog's bowel movements and sex life – received as "positively juvenile and helping the film achieve realism and avoid anthropomorphism

 

My sister told me about this movie with Tom Sizemore called "Red" that was especially good. She tried to get it on Netflix but there was a long wait.  I have Netflix "streaming" and was able to get it so I'm watching it tonight.
She gave me a loaf of bread that this local bakery donates to her apartment house now and again.  OMG!  It is soooooo good. Especially toasted with jam. Pane d'Amore's organic sourdough wheat.
Great stuff!

I had an accident in my car this morning. I should say "on my car".

It doesn't actually look that bad but it is a nasty scratch. Dammit!  I was getting on my bike and heading out the garage door when I swerved and the bike mirror hit the car fender near the gas tank opening.  Just call me Grace.  It is pretty pathetic to see me starting and stopping on my bike, but oh well....it's not as bad as seeing me getting up off my knees.  That is really sad! And it doesn't happen often. I have to be darn desperate to get down on the floor on all fours.

I  finished the third season of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and I laughed and laughed and laughed until my sides hurt.  The final episode (The Grand Opening) was hilarious.  Well, I suppose some people would be offended; in fact I know they would be but not me!  I thought the writing was top notch A+.
Definitely colorful language but probably one of the funniest episodes I've ever seen.  That Larry David is FUNNY FUNNY!

Okay.  That's it for now.  Some days I have lots to yak about and today was one of those.