Friday June 28, 2019

I am reading Flash of Brilliance by Donna Ball.

74 degrees, sunny, and calm this morning when I left for the gym then home and back to work. When I checked the weather for today it was to be in the low to mid 80’s and sunny with a 10% chance of a shower. Around midday the skies turned dark and the rains came off and on the rest of the afternoon. We had about half an inch here at the house.

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Thursday June 27, 2019

74 degrees, sunny, and calm when I left for the gym this morning. A quick stop the grocery store on the way home, showered, and back to work.

Warm, sunny, and dry today with temperatures in the mid 80’s and low humidity.

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Wednesday June 26, 2019

72 degrees, sunny, and mostly calm when I left for the gym. Warmer today with temperatures in the low 80’s. I left at 2:30 to head down to Winston to run an errand before meeting Nancy and Betsy for dinner at Szechuan Palace at 5 and then head back up the mountain. It was hot and steamy in Winston.

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Tuesday June 25, 2019

72 degrees, partly cloudy, and calm this morning. No rain today but it’s cloudy and cool with a breeze. I volunteered a shift at the bookstore this morning. We really need a spell of hot, dry weather.

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Monday June 24, 2019

72 degrees, sunny, and calm. I had a 9 am doctor’s appointment for my yearly checkup. After I finished up there I stopped by the bookstore to haul a load of books to Cares.

One of my Impatient plants is not doing well in the front flower bed so I moved it to a pot and put it by the garage door where the other one is.

The Lamb’s Ear I planted down in the back corner is loosing it’s fight with the weeds. I don’t think it is getting enough sun and drainage so I moved some of it to the new bed in the other corner where James took out the stump.

We are supposed to  have thunderstorms this afternoon.

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Sunday June 23, 2019

62 degrees and foggy. Mostly cloudy today with temperatures in the mid 70’s. The thunderstorms predicted for yesterday never materialized. We had a brief shower around midday. Thought I was off the hook with Colin until about 9 last night when fireworks started somewhere toward town. Between now and the 4th that will be a constant issue.

I cleaned both up and downstairs today; vacuuming, dusting, and bathrooms.

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Saturday June 22, 2019

I am reading The Darling Dahlias And The Poinsettia Puzzle by Susan Wittig Albert.

68 degrees and mostly sunny and calm this morning. Thunderstorms rolled through about 2:30 this morning making Colin very unhappy. We only had about half an inch of rain. It’s summer weather somewhere but not here in Sparta. Low 70’s again today but humid with a chance of storms this afternoon and back down into the upper 50’s for tonight.

It’s mostly indoor chores today including laundry and some tidying up. I may mix up a batch of granola bars this afternoon.

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Friday June 21, 2019

64 degrees and windy this morning when I left for the gym. Another cool day with temperatures in the low 70’s and 20 mph wind gusts. I worked my midday shift at the gym.

The sun came out late this afternoon and the winds have calmed down to the 10 to 15 mph range.

 

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Thursday June 20, 2019

I am reading Shelved Under Murder by Victoria Gilbert.

62 degrees, partly cloudy, and windy when I left for the gym. Grocery store stop on the way home then back to work at the gym.

The storms predicted for today went south of us. It’s been cloudy and windy with gusts 17 to 20 mph and temperatures in the low 70’s. We are to get back down into the low 60’s again tonight. It has been mostly a  very cool, wet, and windy June so far.

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Wednesday June 19, 2019

68 degrees and cloudy this morning when I left for Winston. We had another inch and half of rain last night.

I had to meet Al Verizon to get a new flip phone since I am their family plan. Verizon is discontinuing my current one. Thankfully they still sell flip phones since I have no interest in owning a “smart phone”. I did not like the new model of their LG phone, which I have had for years, so I went with their Kyocera model.

That only took about half an hour. Al headed home and I ran errands at Bed, Bath, & Beyond and Lowe’s before driving uptown to meet the girls for lunch.

Monday, the low tire pressure tire warning light came on. I stopped at B & T here in Sparta to get it checked. The left rear was low. Bob filled it with air and said to come back if it came back on. Of course it did, this morning on the way to Winston. I called B & T from Winston to let them know. Page said to come back when I got back in town. I stopped here to let Colin out and unload the car then headed into town. Fortunately it was just a nail.

It was cloudy and humid in Winston with much the same weather up here. Temperatures are only in the upper 70’s but 88% humidity. May get some more storms this evening.

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