HAPPY NEW WEEK!
I hope everyone has a relaxing, safe, joyful week!
The sky was intensely blue and cloudless this afternoon. I saw both red-tailed hawks soaring when I walked to my small town to get some groceries.
Our annual Covered Bridge Festival ends tomorrow. We usually have over a million tourists visit our rural area during the two-week festival. They tour the 32 covered bridges, visit other historic sites, buy quilts and other hand-made items from the hundreds of venders, and eat the traditional foods on offer. So, our country roads have been busy. It's a real economic boon for our people, so I'm glad for it, but I think the wildlife and I are happy it's almost over.
It was quite a long day at Bodnant Gardens and I am tired now but it was really lovely. I will have a quiet day tomorrow to recover.
Lindybird: Oh I know how you feel. I hate to be hot. My whole U.S. contingent here and in AZ are all happiest in cool, cloudy and rainy weather. But think! You'll soon be back with the UK winter looming. (Maybe move your vacations to Jan/Feb?)
RUSTY – Beautiful autumn colours.
LINDA – 31 C is warm. . . unless it is humid as well, then it is horrible.
My OH & Dau went out to lunch. I wasted my free time, doing nothing much.
Heather B said:I have a fridge magnet that says ' Dull women have immaculate houses '.
That must make me one of the most interesting women on earth!!
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Hi all, lovely to read all your news. C;lare - glad you and Limpy are Covid free and have been able to get out and about again. Rusty - love the pics of Portugal and the beautiful autumn colours of Bodnant gardens. Lindybird - sorry you are feeling the heat. Love the heat if I can just sit and sunbathe and then plunge into a swimming pool to cool off. Don't like it otherwise and tend to stay in the shade at home. Still. enjoy the rest of the break. Annette - at least now its proved that your dau is better off at the lower altitude. Hope all things resolve. AQ - class sounded refreshing. Hope you got something out of it. Just been for a trim to my local hairdressers - dau was able to take me and have her's done at the same time. Have an appointment at the hospital on Friday for a lung capacity test so will see how that goes. Saw my doctor yesterday re knee so she has got the ball rolling by asking me to go for an x-ray and then when results are through will, hopefully, refer me. At least I'll get one rung on the ladder. Also wants bloods and a doppler test done as she couldn't feel my pulses in my feet - she is wondering whether I have a vitamin deficiency as I have a degree of numbness in my feet. If all comes back clear then it looks like it will be attributed to borderline diabetes which, I now,have managed to get back to normal. Let us keep smiling through and always be thankful for what we have.
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