Out of pocket

Just so you know, we're leaving for Indiana tomorrow morning and may not be back for a couple of days.  I probably won't take my computer, so I'll be out of pocket for a while.

We've had a couple of good days.  Unfortunately we didn't get to ride our bikes today, but did a mile yesterday.  Today I went to see a chiropractor and got a badly needed adjustment.  Dave washed both vehicles today and even cleaned out the Cadi!  We'll be driving out East in a clean vehicle!  It'll be good to see the family!

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It was an inside day!

Boy was it ever an inside day today!  Rain, rain, and more rain.  We didn't have the heavy rain up here...just rained practically all day.  I didn't sleep last night again.  I think my muscles were all too tight from our bike ride.  I try really hard to keep up with Dave on his 21 speed, so my muscles get a workout.  Needless to say, they wouldn't relax last night so I just laid there tossing and turning until 2:00 when I finally got up.  I put together a puzzle on Jigsaw World which took me about 2 hours.  Then I was finally able to sleep until 8:00.

We ended up going out to Aldi's, TJ Maxx, and to Bed Bath & Beyond.  Came home and had lunch.  I read for a while and took about a 45 minute nap while Dave puttered.  Tonight we've been watching some show about the animals in Russia.  It's very interesting!

I'm reading another classic now.  I'm reading James Michener's "Hawaii".  On the Kindle it is extremely long.  It says there are over 20,000 pages!  I'm about 20% done with it.  It's very interesting.  I'm surprised I haven't read it before now.

Here are some pictures from our bike rides at Big Woods Lake:

Love the "no hunting" sign where she's crossing!

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Hot again

This morning after breakfast, we went for another bike ride.  This time we did 2 miles!  Since I don't have any gears on my trike, my legs felt like rubber when we got through.  The last 100 yards or so is all uphill, so it was all I could do to make it back to the truck.  I had Dave turn the A/C on full blast so I could cool down after our ride.  Then when we got home, I took a cool shower and then I felt pretty good!

The rest of the day was just spent doing laundry and dishes and then fixing sweet corn and BLTs for supper!  Yum!  Since we can't get the Cubs' game, we're watching the Sox play!

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Back home!

We made it to Ottumwa and back this weekend.  It was a fun time, but it'll be nice to sleep in our own bed tonight.  We got to spend some time with Craig & Sue and even my brother.  Ann was at church, so we didn't get to see her.  Then we even spent some time with some of our church friends.  Today, of course, was church at FPC in O-town.  It was great being back.  David's sermon was about Nehemiah and as usual, it was wonderful and thought provoking.  Then it's always great getting all of the hugs from our church family, most of whom didn't know that we were coming down.

I wish I hadn't been driving today.  Had I been in the passenger seat, I would have been taking pictures of the countryside!  I believe that the crops and the world is as beautiful as it can possibly be today!  The corn fields are so tall and fully tasseled and uniform all the way through most of the fields.  The bean fields are a deep, deep green and the majority of them are weedless.  The farmers had mowed their waterways so that the contrast of all of the greens was spectacular and easy to see.  Plus, the fields on the way up here are so hilly that the terraced crops are spectacular to see!  I guess you can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the girl!

I wanted to show you the new paint in the master bathroom...and the last of the yellow walls.  I have to get a picture now of the finished product, but I haven't done that yet!

 I just love it!

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Rain, rain

It really rained here this morning - thunder, lightning, wind - the whole nine yards!  Now that we're in a condo, we don't have a rain gauge so we don't know how much it rained!  Suffice it to say, though, it poured!  The RAGBRAI riders had to be soaked unless they waited until afternoon to leave.  Actually the storm followed the path they were going by the way it looked on radar.  Trees down in O-town even!

Dave got the bathroom done today - boy is it ever clean and pretty!  It changed the looks of that room completely!  We love it.  Next week he'll work on the guest bathroom and then he's done painting for a while!

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Beautiful day!

This was about as perfect as a day could get!  Low 80s and low humidity and nice breeze.  We ate out on the balcony for lunch and after that we just left the door open and turned off the air!  I understand it's supposed to be really hot again tomorrow, so I'll close the place up tonight and turn the a/c back on.  But for today, we got to enjoy God's air!

Dave got up very ambitious this morning - he decided to paint the big bathroom!  He got it taped and one coat on before noon.  Tomorrow he'll do the 2nd coat and pull the tape!  It is so pretty and NO LONGER YELLOW!  Hurray!!  Can't wait to see it clear done...what a change!

We're going to O-town this weekend for church so he'll wait and paint the little bathroom and laundry area next week.  Then we've got to head for Indiana probably the next weekend.  Then Allison plays ball most of the Saturdays in August, so it looks like we're in for some "On the Road Again" time!

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Fun day!

Company always comes in 3s at our house!  Today Ann and her sister, Ellen, stopped by on their way home from Mayo's.  We had a light lunch all ready - chicken salad, potato salad, cold slaw, and ice cream for dessert.  Dave ate lunch with them while I waited for our 3rd guest to arrive.  About 90 minutes after Ann & Ellen left, Karen came by.  She hadn't eaten lunch, so she and I had the same light lunch!  It was a fun day!  Tonight we just had popcorn for supper.

Tomorrow is another day - I wonder what it will bring?  I've been working on changing our address various places.  Some of them are sure easy, but others are as bad as Fort Knox to try to get your address updated.  Grrrr!

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