There's no particular reason as to why I haven't been on the ol' blog - just the usual stress of the homefront and now a whole new episode at work. Oh yay!
I have any annual cardiologist appt tomorrow and just know he's going to say "reduce stress" and he won't say it but it will be in my chart..."lose weight". I've been having episodes of Afib lately even tho I've been taking my meds regularly.
The grandkids started school on August 31. Here they are at "Meet the Teacher" night.
I went along with them, since sometimes I have to pick them up from school and it would be nice to know where their classrooms are.
Kindergarten & First grade!
The weekend before - August 29 was mine & Sis1's birthdays. It happened to be the same weekend as the Spouse had BikeMS in Frankenmuth. He's volunteered for these MS events longer than I've known him. This was the first time I went along with him! They basically patrol the route that the bike riders go to make sure nobody needs help getting to a rest area or back to the start/finish line. I didn't ride with him, I rode along with a couple ladies and we had a good time!
Even Chuck the skeleton made some new friends - Cookie the Goat and Stormy the Bear.
Then after a while, Sis1 met us at the start/finish line and I got in with her and we did some shopping in Frankenmuth. We went on a horse & carriage ride and then on a riverboat cruise! She's the one I share a birthday with.
We had a lot of fun.
Speaking of rain, we (like a lot of people) had some storms the week before Labor Day and the restaurant Mom wanted to take me to for my birthday dinner had no power! So we went to a fancier steakhouse and OMG - prime rib.
On the plus side, the Spouse has been taking meds for his diabetes (that most people take for weight loss) and it's been cutting his appetite - he's lost 20 or so pounds so far! An I think it's affecting me subconsciously and I haven't been eating as much lately either. Normally I would have polished off that hunk o meat AND the potato, but I didn't even touch the potato this time. My Weight Watcher workshop has been closed the last 2 weeks and I worked late the week before that so I haven't been on a scale in over 3 weeks. I'll see if I can make it for the entire workshop tomorrow or if I just run in to get on the scale. I sort of don't want to waste a non-rainy day when it's H'ween set up time!
So the plan is to start putting the Halloween cemetery up this week. However our lawn guy ghosted us and it hasn't been mowed in over 3 weeks - and we had some nice rains recently so it looks like a jungle! I normally cut the front yard real short before setting up and letting it grow all October. It's been raining most of yesterday and today so hopefully it'll dry out sometime this week and I can go mow it myself.
Last Sunday, we were out in the yard and the grandson noticed this huge green caterpillar with spikey orange stalks all along its back. I looked it up and it was cecropia moth caterpillar (thankfully harmless) and we let it go about it's business.
Monday, I sort of wondered where it had gone to, and I started moving my headstones so I could clean the dirt & spiderwebs off of them and I found it!
On one of my headstones, of course. And I looked it up again and read that they overwintered in the cocoon! That's not going to work in my world. I contacted the local nature center and they said I could slide an index card under it and move it to a woody debris area, which we happened to have in our yard, too! But before I could get from from work Tuesday, something had eaten it. I was so sad! Probably those darn groundhogs in my shed. This bugger would have been a moth as large as an adult's hand!
The sisters and I went to have breakfast last weekend and went to a craft fair type place and one of the vendors told us about the pumpkins her husband just harvested. So we went there and these were the prettiest pumpkins I've seen! I bought 2 even tho I'm sure the squirrels will get hold of them before we could even dream of carving them.
I had jury duty last week - I thankfully wasn't chosen but what I did see was entertaining. Guy was being charged with 1 count DUI causing loss of life and 3 counts DUI causing serious injury - and he was pleading not guilty!! I would have liked to hear the argument for that. And even better - as soon as my group walked into the courtroom for the jury selection process, the prosecutor and the guy being charged freaked out and they and the other lawyers ran up to talk to the judge - the guy's MOM was in the jury pool!! Needless to say, she was dismissed very quickly. Can you imagine???
Speaking of last weekend - the Spawn had sort of a little gender reveal gathering for us and her best friend. She ordered a pair of baseballs in the appropriate color and tossed them to the grandson (one was for backup). I made a video so the sound was hilarious but here are some stills...
It's a boy!
Grandson was celebrating and rolling around in the blue powder.
The granddaughter however - I heard her excitedly say "it's a boy!"
and then she apparently realized what she said.
I stopped recording when she got up and came at me crying.
She went to both me & the Spouse and we reassured her that she was always going to be our special little princess. Poor little middle child to be!
The Spawn claims she applied for assistance from the state but I don't think she really did. I don't know what she plans to do with her life.
Send prayers and good thoughts! Just typing those sentences made my stomach hurt - which has been a common thing with me lately.
