Sunday, June 12, 2016 -
Sunday, June 26, 2016
My computer has been giving me fits. I finally got the problem fixed, and now, it just freezes up every now and then - I never know when (of course) and I have to futz and futz with the mouse until it finally moves again. What A Pain!!
So, I'm not getting on the pute every day again -- and I sure miss writing my blog!
I have not been good these two weeks, especially this past week while Ron was on vacation. We quite enjoyed ourselves - in the food department!! - and didn't deny ourselves what we wanted or where we wanted.
My weigh-in at TOPS on the 14th was good - I lost 2.4 pounds that week - but my weigh-in this past week showed the result of my slovenness - I gained 1.4 pounds - and I'm sure next week will show a gain, also. You gotta pay the piper after you dance, you know. Blah!
Ron's vacation week was a very good week, though.
We started with having our Father's Day cookout on Saturday night. Ron and Corgan got the yard all ready while I did stuff in the house, making the Corn Salad that was the only dish I was making. When they all showed up with all the rest of everything, Ron started the grill and cooked the burgers and cheese weenies. Then he brought out the surprise of the evening - he had made ribs!
We spent an enjoyable evening together after the meal, playing some cards and then lighting a fire when it got dark enough.
On Sunday, Josh surprised Ron by wanting to come up and go fishing. So - they came up for the second day in a row. Jean didn't come with them this time, and they went fishing while I stayed here. They brought back all the leftovers they had taken home the night before and when the time came, that was supper.
On Monday and Tuesday, Ron got to go fishing more, with friends this time, and he also worked out in his garage, too, doing all the little things he never has time to do.
Our plan for Wednesday and Thursday was: On Wednesday, we will drive up to Eaton, OH to visit his half-sister and her husband for the day, then drive on over to "Amishville" (Holmes County, etc.) for the day on Thursday, driving home that night. Wednesday went according to plan, and we spent the day up there, having lunch at a Golden Corral (in Richmond, IN!), driving around looking at interesting things and visiting Hueston Woods, ending up back at their house to look at each other's pictures of vacations over the last few years. We finally left there around 10pm, and found a motel for the night. When we got up, we decided not to drive for over seven hours (three plus across Ohio, then four plus home) to spend four hours in Amishville, so we hit I75 South and eventually stopped at the casino (Miami Valley Gaming) at exit 29. As we usually do, we only got to stay in the casino a little over an hour - it doesn't take long for us to lose the little bit of money we take in with us!
Then we drove on toward home, stopping wherever we wanted to whenever we wanted to. We really had the whole day since we hadn't planned on being home until 9 or 10pm anyway. We looked into going to a movie, too, but nothing was showing that we wanted to see at the time we were there, so that was out. On to the next endeavor!
There had been terrible storms that morning across the area, and there were supposed to be more moving through this evening, so we decided to go ahead and head for home before any such storm started. And that was the end of the big getaway.
On Friday, we met our friends for lunch before Ron went up to get his check (and where he found out just how bad they had messed things up this week) and then Friday evening, we had Jean's birthday celebration. She turned 50 this year, but didn't want a big fuss made. We went down to Hibachi, then decided to come back here for hanging out around a fire. I got the big idea to stop at Save-A-Lot for ice cream on the way home, and when we did that, Ron's truck wouldn't start!! What? After all the vacation driving and driving down to Hibachi? We were so blessed that it happened right here in Bethel, if it had to happen at all! I called Josh and he stopped and tried to give it a jump, but that didn't work. Jean had driven on out here, and when we got here, Ron decided to take the battery out of Jean's truck since it was a side post battery and take it back up and see if that would start his truck. If it wouldn't, that meant it was the starter and not the battery.
Luckily, not too long later, both Josh's car and Ron's truck came pulling in the driveway! Whew!
So, now, on Saturday, one more errand to run was to stop and buy a new battery for Ron's truck. We just added it to the list of things to do on the way home from the 50th anniversary party we were going to down at Carrabba's.
The battery cost more than Ron thought it would - but, then again, he thinks things cost what they did back in the '70s - but it was okay, this was the best week for this to happen. I can do without AC in my car for a little while longer....sigh.
After all the errands on the way home, we just holed up here in the cool house for the rest of the day.
Today, Sunday, it was church and lunch, as usual. We didn't even go very far for lunch, either - we went to Gold Star! Then it was home to stay in the house all day again - it is so very hot outside already this year. And I am a wussy now.
Tomorrow I am starting my little job of going down the road and getting donations for baskets for a fundraiser for church. While I am glad to be helpful - and useful - I wonder sometimes why I am the only one who does this job. It doesn't take much to go into these places and ask a question. Oh, well - I'm glad to be known as being good at something!
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