Just need to talk to my friends (219)

Carl, several members of my family have or had glaucoma; I hope your laser treatment takes care of your glaucoma.

Ron, I usually cook my sweet potatoes in my microwave, but I do remember how they smelled when baked in the oven.

Zetta, my phone's auto correct changes words all the time, it can be quite amusing, but also annoying.

I took my ballot to the vote center today. I'm glad that's over with for a few months. We had 62 candidates for governor, I voted for one candidate.

Iris

Good morning

Ron

Good morning. It's lovely here this morning. Still cool with a cloudless sky and light breeze.

Iris— Costco had a grinder until a couple years ago. They took it out because people were putting random stuff in it like hot dogs from the snack bar. Other people— it's why we can't have nice things. FWIW, the coffee drinkers in my life are either perfectionists, grinding and even roasting their beans, or fine with instant. I rarely drink coffee hot, but have enjoyed iced coffee since I was little. It's a Boston thing.

I'm with you on finding autocorrect amusing. For some reason the texts between my niece and I tend to be full of them much to my amusement.

Zetta— I hope your laptop is behaving. I find a cleaning/restart can sometimes exorcize the demons in a keyboard. Yesterday mine was doing something new on this site; as I typed the words they were going in reverse order— like spelled backwards. So weird.

Lorita— I remember Yuban. It was available in PA and also in New England. In the old days it was considered a premium brand because of its 100% Columbian sourcing.

I hope you're able to find a sweet natured and well mannered adult female to be a companion for you and Stormy.

Gothic G— It's great that MIL is settling in. That's always such a relief.

I tend to get my menu suggestions via the NYT Cooking section/site. Beautifully styled photography gets me every time. Most of the recipes have been good and a few have entered the rotation.

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I spent the afternoon with mom again yesterday. She got a haircut, then we did pedis (I got OPI Bubblebunny— I don't care for it) Then she wanted ice cream (pistachio) from the guy who makes it on site. We rounded out the day at the endo's appointment where he POC's battery died/or overheated (she blocks the vents by accident at times it was fine in the car and they had tank O2) and her BP was enough to alarm the nurses. Turns out she had only toast and a cup of tea aside from her ice cream. I got her home and had her drink a quart of water which got her BP back into normal range.

It's pizza night here, so I need to get my dough started.

I hope all have a pleasant day.
HB

good morning…going to do what I didn't even start yesterday

Good afternoon.

National Chicken Salad Day. I could do that, but DH would be a hard no. I might be like HB and make pizza. I'm feeling a veggie pizza might hit the spot for me and of course DH will have to have meat on his.

I need to get busy here. We had appointments this morning until after lunch and I've not accomplished much.

Let's be safe everyone.

Iris - Nope, my mom-in-law refuses to do any activities. But this is not new behavior. She didn't do any activities when she was in independent living either.

I do remember the grinders at grocery stores! I loved walking by the coffee aisle just so I could smell the coffee beans.

That's a lot of candidates for governor! One thing I don't miss about California elections is all the propositions. Pages of them. In WA state our ballots are 1 to 2 pages long, not 6 pages long. When I first started voting in WA, I wondered if I'd gotten the whole ballot, it was so thin. 😄

How long have you lived in CA?

Lorita - I remember Yuban coffee. My parents didn't drink it …. I don't remember what they drank, but I remember seeing Yuban in the stores. Apparently you can get it at Target.

I'm glad you have working TVs now!

HB - homemade pizza, including the dough. Sounds quite yummy.

I was looking at nail polishes yesterday online. I found three that I could be happy wearing, but I bet no one else here would wear. This one, this one, and this one. That said, I really like OPI as a brand.

The weather has been just fantastic in Charleston. It's been so nice spending time outside.

We got a lot of stuff done before we picked up my mom-in-law for lunch. We have a storage area for her, and there were some easy things we could drop off at Goodwill - we just ran out of time last time we were here.

Then out to Folly Beach for lunch at The Lost Dog. Definitely a favorite place.

Think I'll pass on National Chicken Salad Day. 🙂