36 large pieces of chicken and a loaf of bread…

…are the order for the day. I buy in bulk, cook once, freeze most, use it diced; and while I tried oven roasting, I decided the best-tasting and fastest way was the good old George Foreman grill. I have the little one: I just set the timer for 15 minutes, to be...

I got a clean bill from the doc…

Feeling pretty good. This was a checkup with the endocrinologist. I’ve got a bruise the size of a baseball at my elbow, but I’ll live. Just a little short on vitamin D—despite my hours in the sun. Hey, age does that to you: that’s why I’m...

Fall is on the horizon…

They tell us the weather is going to shift. Those of you who have struggled weather-wise and from the floods, I hope this foretells a change and a better season. Once the cold comes down, we may shovel, but it’s not friendly to hurricanes, at least. And we...

Routine blood test…mine…

…or should I say, ‘excavation.’ I’ve had a lot of blood tests in my life. I’m cool. I’ve had IV’s. Cool. No problem. Went in for my routine test-check (I take thyroid meds, so they’re mandatory, to check...

We are beginning the great Decoration Season…with Halloween.

Jane being a Halloween baby, sort of, (a week before) she always gets black cats…all sorts of black cats,. And we have lots of Halloween decorations. We decorate for every season—but this is the beginning of the cycle. First comes Halloween. That will give...

Continuing the walking program…

I was going great guns until the Ysabel Yncident. 🙂 A little harder to go for the daily walk when you’re on killer antibiotic…just not quite the energy to spare. But it’s a lot easier than going for the walk when you’ve got a raging systemic...

We are the walking wounded: zombie alert.

Sigh. We have battled that security door to a near standstill but cannot get the locking mechanism to go on square, and I am thinking it’s because we disassembled the door and grid to paint it, and the 30-odd-year-old door is now in a disrupted configuration,...

Had a great birthday—

Jane and OSG and I booked the Lake Coeur d’Alene dinner cruise…we ended up getting the Mish-a-nock, which is the largest of the several boats, not our favorite, because it is sooooo stable: we prefer the little ones that rock about a bit—but we had...