Taste Like Chicken Monday 6/10

Just checking in really quick. I haven’t read the weekend posts yet. We stayed the whole weekend in Kokomo and I am playing catch up today. Have a great Monday.

Thanks for the start Karen.

Linda Enjoy your new art class term.

Chele I'm glad you were able to stay the whole w/e.I hope you get caught up soon.

Kathy OMG on the rider being struck by lightning.Last night we got 1" rain with wind,thunder,lightning and a bit of hail but thankfully no damage.Only a lawn chair turned upside down.On our way to town we did see people had parts of trees down and it looks like they got more wind than we did.It's only 83 here at 3:30 and we are expecting a few days in the 80's and maybe a few morning lows in the 60's.It felt so good out there this morning.

Since we were going to HEB this morning I rode the recumbent bike before we went.I did get in a walk this afternoon after lunch.I'm done for the day.I do need to get some more steps this hour as the Garmin is beeping at me.

Waving to Karen and Liz.

Linda, that was a good plan to get the Toshiba when you could. We are scouring estate sales to try to find a replacement for ours that will no longer copy off to a disk. I know what you mean about being a pain with the titles. I think the one we have is a Toshiba and may be the same model you have. Talk about a PiTA!! You did have a bad tech day! Congrats on the cheaper Zyrtec. How was art class today? Painting the boxers is a great idea. I would think it would be more challenging than the Vancouver landscape because you'll want to get their little faces just right. Is it usually the same group of people in the class every term? We had that with a pottery class we offered at the college and we referred to the group as "the pottery cult". Thanks for the info on the new Prego. That's going to be a good thing for a lot of people. I am trying to find one without added oil and can't find one in the grocery stores, so I may just have to make my own.

When we didn't hear from you yesterday, Chele, I wondered if you stayed the weekend. Did you have good weather? Did you do anything unique?

Kathy, your weather pattern seems like ours--can't buy a drop of rain and then the deluge hits. The motorcyclist on I-95 was from outside of Charlotte, NC. Talk about wrong place/wrong time. I think I saw they were getting some weather in the panhandle, so is that also heading for you? They really got slammed in NC. Some of the FB photos from drones are just unreal and there are a lot of roads I know well that are closed or, in some cases, washed out. They also have another landslide on I-40 between the TN line and Asheville in the same place they spent millions on repairs a couple of summers ago.

You seem to have gotten your fair share of rain lately as well, Becky. I saw something about winds in Austin and planes at ABIA being grounded for a while. I hadn't heard about the kayaker and didn't realize there was a lake in Pfleugerville. Is that something kind of recent? So your Garmin nags at you for steps? Did you hear that Hut's Hamburgers in Austin is going to close? That's sad. It was around since the late 1930s. I had some in my carnivore days and they were unique with a lot of different options and creatively named burgers..

I heard from Liz and the copter crash in Manhattan wasn't anywhere near the hospital. Arya got me up at the usual time this morning (thank you very much!) and I was busy most of the morning and sat most of the afternoon. She did give me enough time to use the Vibe and take a shower. Otherwise, she was pretty much plastered to me all day. I got some good news from the State Health Plan and Dale will be able to go back on it when his current coverage lapses. If we go with the most expensive policy, it will only be $650 a month and he can stay on it until he goes on Medicare. He just needs to get a letter verifying his last date of coverage. I'm glad I called. That's going to save us several thousand a year. If he hadn't previously been on my coverage, I don't think it would have worked out.