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Happy Birthday Lorita🍰🍨🎂🎵!!!! This afternoon on the porch we'll have ice cream and cake! I have a nice pound cake and the ice cream maker is already sitting on the patio…. I'll bring some sweet feed and shelled corn for GL and doggie treats for the GPs. We'll have a party! I hope you have a wonderful day.

Yesterday was a doozy. We went up to above Petersburg and bought (5) 10-foot gates for the pasture. That should finish up what we need for the pastures and they were a bargain. Came back home to unload those and then went to Huntland to pull out the boat for the weekend. Which means we had to move not 1 but 7 riding lawn mowers (DH buys/repairs/sells), the sea-doos and 3 ATVs. Then we went to the grocery store in Winchester. And stopped to buy a baby swimming pool to fill with blocks and ice for my chickens to stand in to cool off in this heat. Then we got home and DH went back to bush-hogging the north pasture and got into a hornet's nest. He got stung 4 times on his head and neck! Then he had to put the dogs up because Lilly will not let you walk alone in the pasture. She must accompany you. He went back down to get rid of the hornet nest. He said it was huge and hanging from a tree down there. Luckily he didn't get stung again.

I have 2 Granddaughters and 3 Greatgrands coming tomorrow for a swimming day/lunch. I'm making a huge salad, a fruit salad, got some nice braided cheese bread from the bakery and will make a peach cobbler today. DH also has a follow up Cat Scan tomorrow to make sure the nodules on his lung haven't changed. Saturday is a birthday party for another GreatGrand. I think we are going to the lake Sunday or Monday. So today is clean the house, get the food ready, set the island up for serving and straighten up the patio/pool areas.

I've set a new schedule for myself in dealing with this Estate business. I pick the top 3 things I need to get done. 1 hard thing and 2 easier things. I get those done as soon as the rest of the world is up and functioning. (Not everyone gets up and started at the butt-crack of dawn, unfortunately) Then when I finish those tasks, I'm done with it for the day. Otherwise, I'd be at this computer ALL day, every day. It was making me crazy(er).

Well time to go find breakfast for the chickens. Yesterday I gave them leftover mashed potatoes and other veggies. EVERYONE had mashed potato beaks! It was so funny.

Have a good day. Back later.

Happy Birthday Lorita! Wishing you a beautiful day and healthy and happy new year! xo

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LORITA and many more

Happy, Happy Birthday, Lorita!

Iris

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

welcome to the porch, Regina

David I think it’s very nice how you stay so active but seem to try to do it in safe ways.

virus I’m terrible for second-guessing myself and have been all my life. Thank you for the encouragement to try and do better.

well, I finished the first path through the weeds in the garden. It’s a fairly wide path but it’s took me an hour and a half total. I’m going to take a break though unless my shoulder feels way better tomorrow morning. My sister has her Saturday and I only do it on my days and I don’t do it on Sundays. So I’m hoping at least tomorrow to get some time in but we’ll see cause other things are going on too so we’ll see.

love the story and bravo to both of you for getting them on…

Dates are on almost everything, but sometimes I struggle to find them.

Eagle I really enjoyed your little story also. We all need to remember that might be helpful to us or to others. It was very nice that it was able to do something to help you, and that really pleased him.

I try to stay active but safely

Had a lovely lunch with my fellow retired Letter Carriers. It was nice to catch up and find out what everyone has been doing. We will do it again in September.

Morning.

Today is swim/lunch day with several grands/greatgrands. I've already mopped the kitchen this morning. About to put a peach cobbler in the oven. And brownies. DH cut the backyard yesterday, so it looks nice. (the kids don't care) I'm using paper plates and bowls today.

I got in the pool yesterday and managed to get a nice little sunburn. So, I'll be in the shade today.

It's supposed to be hot again today with no rain. Even after all the rain we had in May, it's only taken 2 weeks with 98 degree heat/no rain for the grass to become brown in places. Watering the flower beds and garden every day. Little to no rain expected for the next 10 days. I ordered and planted some of the Supertunia seeds that @BethL showed us and they up about an inch in pots! I'm so excited.

I put the baby swimming pool out for the chickens yesterday. They were not impressed. But, we put 2 flat concrete pads in for them to stand on and today I will put them some ice in there to see if they will get in. I worry about them getting too hot. DH finished mowing the pasture yesterday and Lilly the GP is on the prowl. She started patrolling immediately. Jake is more laid back and lolls around in the shade unless Lilly alerts or another dog comes near the fence.

Remember the GP puppy we found on the side of a busy road? He is doing well in his forever home, guarding goats and chickens and getting bigger. His new owners (both widowed and in their 60's) just got married!!! So happy news all around.

Hope you had a great Birthday. Try to stay cool with this weather getting so hot. I have now moved back to my home in SC. My youngest son and his 4 kids live with me.

Good morning porch people.

I hope you have a nice birthday Lorita. I admit I do love a beautifully made pound cake myself and wouldn't say no to homemade ice cream.

Jerilynn I hope you have a nice pool day. It sounds really fun.

I haven't been in the pool yet this year but I did manage to drive mom to hers for a couple hours. I was hoping she'd socialize a bit, but she had her nose in her book when I picked her up.

David It's great you got to meet up with the folks from work. You sure do keep busy.

Mint I do hope you have an easier time with your mom. You do so much for her. If she won't do Depends, might she be more open to Poise?

Congratulations on the house sale. It must be nice to be done with the showings.

It's hot here. Not OK hot, but still pretty unpleasant. I met my bestie for a birthday lunch Wednesday at a roadside dive that has fabulous fried chicken. Damn it was hot. My friend has immunodeficiency and can't be unmasked indoors. I did snag a high top under a canopy with a fan, but it was still really warm. I wanted to get her birthday gift to her as well as the "hospital bathrobe" I picked up for her ahead of her surgery a week from today. Her immunologist was able to prescribe her Pemgarda monoclonal antibodies ahead of her hospitalization, but the only place she could actually get it is in State College a good 3-hour drive away which is just crazy given that there are 5 medical schools in the city.

I'm playing phone tag with the paving guy which is kind of annoying. It's not an emergency; I can wait until the weather isn't so ghastly to have the work done.

Be safe out there in this heat.
HB