booklovers! whatcha reading? weekend~ 6/20-6/21

Good morning.
It has rained during the night, cloudy now, with more rain expected today. Humid, and warm, some would call it close.

Pinky, hi! I am wondering too, as Robin asked, do you have someone helping you with your office work? I can't imagine you being able to do it all right now. I wish we could come help you. If you were in our state, we could work something out. How are you feeling today/

Marsha, I bought some more masks that we like, (the ones with the elastic, for the ears, not the ones that tie, we have those and they are in a drawer, as we hate those), at Unity resale shop yesterday, so from now on, one will stay in my purse.
Oh, your poor DD! She wanted to be back down there, and then she gets that! Are the rest of the roommate's coming back soon? 

Robin, yes, about the people that passed during the pandemic, from other issues. It looks better now, for our dear elderly friend to be able to have a good service for her DH, who was like a father to my DH, in August. 
A bagel sounds good right now, but can not eat anything, as DD1 and her family are taking us out to lunch today, for Father's Day. 

Carol, I am sure there are people like that in GB, but I have not run into that at all. Back when I worked for a meat testing lab, in 2010-2011, I worked closely with a black lady, about 6 years younger than I, and it was a bit of a culture shock for me, which I soon got over, and the two of us got into a nice work pattern. She could be really funny, and then there were times that her anger came out, which I would just back off, and let her have her anger, but it was nothing to be worried about, it was just like me, just ticked at something at work. We have a black family (he is black, she is white, and they have a beautiful little girl, who is black), he works in the maintenance for the company that owns these apartments, he has been here to fix something, so I have had the chance to chit chat with him, and when talking to him, I do not see his color.

Pinky, DD and I mostly stayed inside yesterday, just because at that time of day, they get the hot afternoon sun, and if it was raining, it would not have affected us. She did take me around to show me all of their hard work getting their different gardens around the different areas of their yard. Amazing what that girl can do with her green thumb! She missed her calling. 
I have the never ending laundry issue today. I could have the washer going already, but just not ready to get it going.

Anngie, so is your party tomorrow? How fun!!!
Oh that 3 layer brownie is way to rich/sweet, so I am glad I cut them very small. One of those dishes that a little goes a long way. I was surprised that the parents let the grands have a small piece, oh well, they are the parents.
Yay on eating at a place! But yeah, just as Robin said, they should have offered to pay for the DD pizza, that was not something to be split. Oh well, and yes, my DH would have done the same.

We had such a marvelous time at DD!!!! I did have 1 small brandy old fashioned, then did not have anything the rest of the time, it just felt so good to be there, and get hugs from my grands, that I did not want any drinks or wine. I brought a bottle of good wine, capped just in case, but never bothered with it. We are trying to figure out when we can pick up the kids and go boating. DH brought with us to go over there, the life vest he bought DGD; to see if it fit on her, as she is such a skinny minny, and it did fit just fine. I was so tickled to see our special bond, between me and my grandson has not been broken. July 6th he will be 13. I asked his parents if they are going to get him the HPV shot now. They do not know anything about it. I will have to mention it to my DD1 also, as her DD is turning 13 in August. I want them protected!

Going out to lunch, as I mentioned, meeting DD1 and her family at a local family restaurant. The food is good, but more comfort food than anything, so I will be hunting the menu to find something WW friendly.

DH visit to his Urologist went well, yesterday, well I guess I should say ok, as the doctor put a camera up into the bladder, and did see a red mass. So he took a biopsy and was going to send it to Mayo. If it comes back cancerous, DH will go back and have that procedure at the hospital to remove whatever cancer is in there. Funny thing is, he is getting so in tuned with his body, that a day before the appointment, he felt he had a kidney stone. 

I am very tired this morning, as I was having a lot of leg pain last night, while laying in bed reading, so DH gave me 1 of his tramadol, with helped a bit, then I took some ibuprofen, so was finally able to go to sleep, but of course it was very late. 

Well, time for another cup of coffee.
Have a marvelous day everyone!

I wanted to say re:black families is that I have lived in the South all my life. The people here did everything possible to keep segregation alive. In the 70s and early 80s I worked at three different jobs and not one had any black employees. There was one secretary who wipe the telephone if a black delivery man used it. I went to a small private college who resisted integration. The school presid actually said allowing black students would raise the crime rate and girls wouldn't be safe. It finally allowed black students in the mid-60s not because it was the right thing to do, but because the school would not give any government funds if it didn't allow them. I grew up hearing the n-word though my mom would not allow us to use it. I am not saying this is right, not at all. What bothers me about this is that many of these people considered themselves Christians and didn't see anything wrong about their words and actions.

Yes it is a quieter time for me. We are pretty much done with seed for the year and ds has pretty much taken over all crop insurance duties. I print the emails we get and he looks over each days to see that i printer each one. That way I can keep my brain working but I can not do anything to make mistakes. Therapy has me working on games on the ipad on the days i don;t go to therapy to keep my mind active. Neuroplacticy creates a new pathway for learning what i struggle with.

Karen I hope your DH is going to be okay.

Waving to all of you.

Good morning. HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to your DH's!!!
Cloudy here, but trying to clear out for the day, then up to 80.

Robin, about that woman on your other board, who has health issues, so looks at things a different way; DH and I are also in that boat, but we are not extreme anymore, with people. When it first struck, with the scientists saying this, and that, we were all getting whip lash from all of their warnings, so it seemed the only way we were safe was everyone staying home, not going anywhere, and doing just curb side pick up for groceries. I remember bringing the groceries up to the apartment, and had what I called a staging area, where all groceries were taken out of their bags, then I would, with toweling and alcohol, wipe everything down, before putting it all away. The only things that did not get wiped down was produce, and fruit; they all got washed. Then I would back track with the toweling and alcohol to everything we had touched as we came in the apartment. Then I could wash my hands. In those early days, we still had DB house, so we would take a ride over there, to check on it, and just take a ride, and the part of the city we were in was so quiet! It was weird. Then when we would see a car, we would say: where are they going??? So I can understand her attitude. She just needs to tone it down now, and get on with living.
When are you expecting your DS, and his family?

Gareth, yesterday here too we had rain, off and on, but wasn't too bad. Most of the time it was a light rain, so we went to lunch with DD1 and her family, for Father's day. We did get a thunderstorm around 7 last night, but it wasn't bad. I see I still have to water the plants today. Today the rain is supposed to go away, but then all week we have a chance for rain, so we are paying for our nice weather last week.
About those brownies, yes, I could add milk, but we did not have it in the house, as we do not drink it, it just ends up going bad, no matter how small of a jug of milk I buy.
Any plans today, for you and your DH?

Carol, here too, places give separate checks, but some places won't do it if the group is large. But for just 2 couples, there should be no reason not to get separate checks. I would have just said, how much do we owe?
When over at DD's the other night, we had this big discussion as to during the lockdown, we think my DH, DD, and she thought my DGS all had the virus, but that was early on, and they were not doing the testing then. So, with that being said, we all hope that our households are done with it, and want to have a somewhat normal life style back. Of course our new normal for now anyway, is masks in public, and social distancing. If that is all we have to do, till they get a vaccine, that is no issue. I get a kick out of the commercials on TV now, with a lot of businesses showing old commercials, with absolutely no social distancing. Oh my, to be able to go back to those times!!!! 
I have not heard anything about the rally, except, I did see last night on Yahoo, that the place was not filled. I wondered if that was done on purpose for social distancing, or people were just too afraid to go.....

Anngie, yes, it was so good to do something with our family that we normally would do, before Covid. Or I should say, the lingo now, with the younger people is: before Rona. We even got hugs from the grands. Something that we took for granted is so special now!
We too, lived in a bubble back in the 60's, in our small town here in WI. We would see things on the news, if my father was around to turn it on, such as the Vietnam war, and then there was that scandalous Woodstock!!! Lol! Otherwise, I am ashamed to say, we never saw a black person in GB, other than Packer players, so if someone would see one, they would automatically think: Oh! A Packer player. But that was our world, growing up, and there is nothing we could have done to change it, even if we knew how to, as we were just kids.
Have a good time today!!!

Pinky, I was wondering how they would work around getting all your duties done, with of course you not being able to do everything you did before. Now they can all see how much you did!!!! Are you able to work in the kitchen, like cooking and baking? 
Any plans for today, for your DH? Are they having fireworks by you, on the 4th?

Well, we came real close, late yesterday, to making plans to go up to Minocqua this Tuesday, to buy a 5th wheeler, at a campground, all set up. After a long, long discussion, we decided it was just too far away for what we want. We know family would not want to come up for a weekend, if they have to drive around 3 hours each way to come. We will keep looking for something closer to town, as that is our dream, to be on a seasonal camp site. There are a ton of travel trailers on FB Marketplace, and they are going like hot cakes. I would prefer to buy one that is all set up, but will buy and then move it to a site if need be. 

It will be a quiet day here, as both daughters did their Father's day celebration with DH already, so we are on our own. I would like to take a drive to one of the campgrounds we used to go to, to see if there are any trailers for sale. Don't know if DH will feel like doing that, as he is still sleeping. 

Thank you all for the concern for DH. I am optimistic that whatever is found, can be taken care of. I just hate that I can not go with him to the clinic. That rule really has to be gone!

Have a nice day, tell all your DH I said HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!