FEW MORE DAYS OF SUMMER

 Well, we hope.  Then we will have a new subject  to complain about.  I really  don't think it will be me.  I love Fall and then a mild Winter.  I have put in that order.  I am ready for a change in my old clothes how about you?  I know some (personally) who prefers the cool weather.  She gets so hot. According to Martha Stewart, bulky sweaters will be the thing to have.  When did she get to be an expert on the Fashion world?  Turns out I have one old bulky sweater.  What goes around, comes around.  Hold on to it all?  

This talk of fashions is making me tired.  See you later, I must dig deeper in the Cedar Chest.

BETTY (just kidding) BOOP  

"CHILLER"

   CHILLER--An important part of this giant Air system we have here.  Part was ordered a while ago.  Part came and an all day without air was upon us.  I still had Amy's fan and I was thankful.  Time passed and they had trouble installing it.  I could have predicted that.  Still out at bedtime.  I went to bed, scantly clothed under the fan.  Sometime during the early hours it came back on.  I reached for cover and slept well.  The had brought in a extra generator and are working still. Ohhhhh!!! guess what. I have just realized it is working Still more to do. They say.  I do feel sorry for all the night workers and their dedication to help us all. I hope to get fixed  soon.  I am used to set backs and things not going well,  but today I will stay calm and hope for the best.  Don't you like to hear other peoples troubles?  Takes you mind off yourself?      

BETTY BOOP

GOOD REPORT

Felt good about Dr. visit yesterday.  He said I am doing very good.  Report to various problems are good.  He was very pleased with the results.  So I guess it is just the old doubtful person that I am.  I will try to do better.  Numbers don't lie I guess.    The day was a joy, as I got to go to the farm and veg, stand my girls have been talking about. It was beautiful there.  So homey and welcoming.  They dragged a big rocking chair for me and the breeze was wonderful.   They even had a friendly Dog to welcome people.  While Jan shopped, I could JUST sit and rock,  I had to get up and hold on to the stands and get up close to pick okra, tomatoes, corn, and much more.  Oh squash too.  The country side was nice. Too bad it is filling up fast with new "stuff",  Progress????

So, my day went  well and I slept 10 hours and am having a slow time getting started, but the laundry is stacking up so I will hurry on.

We had breakfast  between lab work and visit to talk to Dr,  PRIMOS is close and good.  The grits was "were" the best I ever had. What a fine treat!!!!

The farm is called FAGAN FARMS  The owners live in their home near the stand.  Happy couple, still young (sort of). 

BETTY (so went my good day")  BOOP

MR. FLOWER POT HAT

 So nice to see that strange sun hat again.  I do not know the fellow who wears it, and haven't seen him up close, so it has added to the mystery and therefore my interest.  He is a good walker.  Nice day to walk, but most here are not early risers I think.  Younger people have to get on with there day and so they walk early.  MY folks do that.  

Must go to the foot Dr. today to have my regular toe clipping.  Can you imagine having to pay for that??  There are reasons and I will not go into them now.  

I had grapefruit at breakfast.  Nice surprise.  So good.  And another (though not a first) peanut butter in my oatmeal.  Also good. Try it sometime when you are feeling SILLY.

BETTY(looking for something new) BOOP

L[IKE A BEAUTIFUL PAINTING

 Yes like a beautiful painting.  The view from the Balcony was peaceful, until the sort of heavy guy sauntered by in his white shorts and blue t shirt.  Flip flops too.  Looked out of place compared to the rest of the scene.  Well, that is what the walk is for and he was really enjoying it, good !! The air seemed fresh and cool.  I wanted to stay a while.  I call it "getting getting a subject to write about". Sometime I just "feel" what I want to say.  Change of seasons do that to me.  I feel a little afraid or unsettled, although it is just a change.  

I do like October.  The month my second was born.  I  had a few miles under my belt and felt ready for another little girl to add to the first.  She was and has always been a Joy and a challenge.  Smart and thoughtful and always a help to me.

Yes, I do know what month it still is.  Just always looking ahead,

BETTY BOOP

LITTLE BRIDS TO WATCH

 O. K. I will watch most anything.  This one little one little bird came to check it out.  He grabbed a piece of toast crumbs and ate fast, watching all the while.  Finished with no one bothering him and took another crumb and flew away, I think to his mate, who was a lazy girl still in bed. (nest). Now that was a sweet mate to remember her.  Everyone needs a mate like that. Right??  Well excuse me, for my imagination.  Makes life interesting instead everything around me is about politics. 

I will be glad to get it over and done with, so we can get on with the outcome.  Whatever it will be.

BETTY (so be it) BOOP

BRIGHT, BRIGHT, MORNING

 And a Good Morning to you.  I thought  of the song I have on a CD.  I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW.  By  Anne Murray.   I must crank up my CD player and enjoy it again.  We really should see clearly now that everything should be clean from all the rain.  What a blessing.  I sat on the Balcony with my second cup of coffee.  It was pleasant for sure.  I have been dropping toast crumbs in the corner of balcony.  They (a few) check each morning.  Hummers are still claiming their spot and I can't open the doors to the Bird Cafe yet.

Friday and what will happen today.  Let's go  and see.  The only thing on my agenda is to get out the electric pencil sharpener and get sharp.  I have pencils everywhere. Truman brought this one home one day.  He loved "supplies". Today would have been his birthday.  Sept 13.  Tomorrow is Ivey's.  Happy Birthday pretty girl.

BETTY BOOP 

p.s.

STILL HERE

Well. we all prayed for rain. and it came and still coming.  But we did not anticipate the sides like flash flooding and in some cases electricity outages.  We still have electricity here at SCV. I do not brag, that could change. I am well prepared for light.  Jan and I had fun with the flashlight kit she found for me.  Walmart has it all.  

Stay safe.  BETTY BOOP

WHAT DID YOU WATCH??y

 I felt it was my duty to watch both.  I did switch now and then. I could not help but watch the debate the most.  I concluded that I don't know why anyone can want to try to do the job they  both want so bad.  What a thing to want. Who did you think won the debate?  Really don't know.  I will have to wait and see and so will you.!!

Now the weather is on my mind.  Me without batteries for the flashlight.  And I don't  know what else.  I think the Lord is angry with the world.  Such sin and violence. Yet so much forgiveness too.  Forgive us Lord and bring us back to a more better time.

BETTY (hang on) BOOP 

as I close, the sun came out.  good sign,  thank you.

 

OUT OF PRATICE I GUESS?

 I have to think that is true.  My Choir yesterday was a disaster for me.  Still can't take it.  My chair was close to the piano and Shirly plays with great force.  I could hardly stand the noise my hearing aid was picking up. An hour of hard work took a toll on my nerves. Oh, how beautiful the music was that she picked.  Some hard and took for me to strain and try to think.  I was a wreck when the hour was done.  I don't plan to give up, but I am tempted.  We will see.  Maybe this is the year to just listen and enjoy.

So, I slept fitfully and dreamed a lot. And good old friend "oatmeal" with blueberries and strawberries (the last of them) made it go down very good.  I put my toast crumbs out for this one bird who comes looking each morning.  Ready to start up his breakfast.  I will look forward to some seed and the bird feeder being my next project.  Can you imagine anything more fun?

I mixed up one last hummer food, I think.) Can't let them fly away hungry for the big flight ahead.

BETTY (must feed something) 

61 and sun shinning

 Sun is shinning, 61 degrees from the Balcony.  Nice to be a little chilly.  Perfect for walking,  But no walkers.  Where are the lazy souls?  Wish I could still walk for exercise outside.  Big day for me, I hope.  I am expecting to start Choir practice this afternoon.  Hope the crowd is big.  Christmas music will start and I am sure a little oldies for fun. I hope this old MESSED-UP voice will blend in.  I had hopes it would be better with meds, but I don't understand why it is still not up to par yet.  Guess I will join the Men's section and sing like a man.  

Ham and eggs this morning, but not in Carolina.  Just on my little gateleg table overlooking the Pool and golf Tee.  Not a bad view at all.  

BETTY (Truman loved his Golf) BOOP

SAUSAGE BISCUIT

 

I guess the Claritin is sort of working.  It makes me sleep a lot, I went to sleep at 9 last ight and woke at 8 that is a long sleep.  Of course little quick trips to bathroom during the night don't count since I hardly open my eyes and go back to sleep instantly. Oh well, I guess I need the sleep.  I was happy to find a sausage biscuit in freezer. No cooking.  With soft boiled egg and O. J. ,and a couple of strawberries, you have a quick meal. 

I seem to mess the set up of the color and the whole thing, during the second paragraph.  Oh, well, please don't grade me, I just don't know what happens.  This is better anyway,

BETTY BOOP (could be the Claritin) 

GOOD FEELINGS

 Do you know the feeling when those close to you have been away a while and then they are home?  Mothers live with that feeling. My "travelers are home and I can breath a little easy again.  Don't get me wrong, I don't regret them going, I am glad they do, because  I used to go also. 

I have been thinking a little about Fall clothes. The colors are interesting.  One is an oldie.  Sort of wine, but not a strong stand out.  I can't describe it.  I remember a suit I had when I worked that was close to that' color. Just thinking. We sure have changed a lot in a short time. Change can be good.

BETTY  (meandering) BOOP

i love this space where I can make gramma mistakes, tell little "white" lies, dream a lot, express myself, tell secrets, confess a little, keep secrets too. BP    

 

WELL HELLO MR.RAIN

Long time no see.  I was so happy that I wanted to feel it--so  I put on the long robe and flip-flops and just adjusted the balcony chairs till I was not really siting in the rain.  Felt like Gene Kelly in SINGING IN THE RAIN. No kidding,  I came close to singing.  It has slowed  to a drizzle, but more to come, so they say.  Those pretty little weather girls will not have wavey locks today.  More of a "bun" will have to do.

I know what I can do today.  Tackle the washing.  It is a joy to wash when it rains.  Because I remember the days when I did not have a dryer and wet diapers to dry. I wished in those days we could afford Diaper Service.  Yes there was such a thing. then.  Now--just throw aways.  My we have made a lot of progress for young Mothers.  Also. I think of making "soup" when it rains.  But not today.  I get to "sashay" on down the hall to the Cyber or Dinning room and say "soup." please. and "one of each kind." 

BETTY (lucky me" BOOP

 

77 degrees agaiBETTn

 Gone are the green fields?  Another song popped into this old head. Well not so fast.  The green will be here a while. But the breeze is cool and t shat is "cool."  Play on words.  Being funny so early is not easy.  I do get ahead of myself.  Scrambled egg with grated Pepper Jack cheese perked me up.  A little while on the Balcony helps too.  No people yet.  Like the world is my own and not messed up yet by me.  Coffee is good. I have adjusted back to Kroger's mild breakfast blend.  I am not picky about my coffee. I appreciate Trader Joes but Kroger will do. run out 

I have been putting off and avoiding  my basket of dirty clothes. My laundry basket is Old.  I bought it years ago at the Canyon Flea Market from an old black man who made baskets.  So it has a history.  Like me.  I never thought I would reach 97 years on this earth.  Now I am reaching for 98 and beyond.  

 

A TOUCH OF FALL

 Not like a real Fall, just a touch.  Gives you hope for cooler days.  Makes me go way back to my early school days.  New supplies.  The smell of crayons, paste, and what we call a satchel bag to carry things in.  I would play with them till they did not look new anymore.  Oh, yes, do you remember a big fat pencil in the 1st grade.  Suppose to help little short small hands to hold it steady?  Oh, my the things I remember.  But best. I remember new dresses.  Girls did not wear pants in those days. Thankfully now, pants is all we wear.  Old "biddies" and everyone in between.  
But J. C. Penny. then on Capitol Street, had big promotions of School clothes.  So some of us showed up with dresses just alike,  But my favorite one is the two bricks that my thoughtful teacher brought in to put on the floor beneath my little feet. so they could rest on them and not swing in the air all day. Little Dot was grateful.  I have learned over the years to accept  being small and most of the time not noticed at all.

BETTY (memories, how they linger) BOOP

77 degrees i will tag mke that.

  I loved the pictures from Dolphin Island.  As many times I have been to the Gulf coast, I have never been there. Bet it is beautiful and different.  Bring me a shell from the beach.  Eat good food, sleep a lot, laugh a lot and enjoy each other's stories and come back refreshed and safe!!  What more can I say.  I love you all.

Betty Boop

SLEPT LATE

 I guess it is the CLAIRTIN. I slept 10 hours last night.  I guess I needed it, as we say.  Too much sleep is making me slow,  rather than quick and lively.  So here I sit trying to write.  By the way I just noticed I have my gown on wrong side out.  Glad I don't worry about you seeing me.  Ups, I told you, so now you have a picture in your mind. Of this tattered little old lady, who loves to write, sitting in her turned in side out night gown, struggling to see straight, just pecking away as if there is no one looking.  Now who is Cyber World, if no one is looking? I guess it is the meds talking?

BETTY BOOP

p. s.  I am fine, just trying to be funny, and can't be this morning.

NICE DAY

Yes, a nice day in the Neighborhood. (Mr. ROGERS). Sun is shinning. Don't need my sweater as he does.  I enjoyed company yesterday. The group was not as many as expected but the ones here were a delightful change from my day to day friends.  I do have a-plenty.  I try to be a friend to everyone.  Yesterday we looked at new pictures of new baby.  Time marches on. We dredged up old memories and we will make more.  Keep your memories in the Memory Bank and check them out from time to time and don't forget to deposit them back for future.  They will grow to be more valuable as time goes on.  I have one and I even drew a picture of it.  It is real to me.

Enough now.

BETTY (thinks she is a "writer" BOOP