What were we thinking????

It has been raining for two days. The Festival is held in Girard Park. I should have realized that there would be water and mud every where. This is not my idea of a good time; the slipping and sliding in mud and the being rain soaked.

We promised Carrie Shrimp on a Stick and after wading through water and mud, we found a place that sold her a stick of shrimp. It was spicy hot but she ate it anyway. The last time she had food was breakfast this morning.

We didn't stay long and it was nice to get home and get those wet shoes off!

A Rainy Day

Heaven is 67 degrees

I opened the door this morning to a cooler friendlier great outdoors. AH, finally we have something we can live with. I don't think it will last long but any relief is better then continual oven temperatures and I'm going to enjoy every minute of it. I went outside this morning to the smoke area and sat with hubby while he brought his nicotine levels up to a joyful feel good region. It was pleasant sitting there watching the smoke from his cigarette curl upward to the draft caused by the ceiling fan. One thing I don't miss is the odor. I have become sensitive to the odor now and I prefer to be around it in the great outdoors.

I'm a new non-smoker and contrary to what you may be thinking, being around smokers' doesn't entice me to be one. I still have cravings occasionally but it is not at the same time that someone else lights up and for this I'm grateful.

I made my morning trip to the store and I went early to beat the crowds that will inevitably crowd in later. I walked the store without pain and without a limp. The exercises I have started again are stretching the muscle around the knee and the limp is getting less noticeable.

Today LSU plays Florida. Need I say more? The natives here are all the way LSU fans and they are loud and proud of their college team. I saw purple t-shirts, caps and shorts on most of the walking shoppers in the store. The game won't start until tonight. The grills are ready to be fired up and here the chicken wings are marinating, cheese, crackers and other snack foods will be plated and munched on throughout the game.

College football all day long is the typical Saturday for this time of year. I'm watching the games but not with my undivided attention. I surf between the games and tv movies.

I'm off to have a do nothing Saturday. I'm beginning to enjoy doing nothing. I should have discovered this years ago!

Waving at Three

Carrie waved farewell to her number 3. She is officially four years old and she enjoyed her celebration yesterday.

A pink jeep and her own swing set caused her to dance in circles and clap her hands. She spent Wednesday night with me; Thursday was her big day. Multiple birthday cakes littered her day. Her grandmother in Lydia, La. had a cake for her when she stayed overnight on Tuesday and then here a cake awaited her and one more when she got back home to discover her swing set in her yard.

After a long nap, she was taken to Chuckie Cheese along with friends and family where she played for the next 4 hours; a good birthday for the birthday girl.

She won't be visiting her father on the weekend for the next month or so. He will be working so Carrie will spend that time here with us. She will have plenty of time to learn to steer that little pink jeep. Right now she has some fear of it but I'm sure that will disappear as soon as she learns to control it. After this weekend we should have some normal October temperatures and get out of the unseasonably warm 90 plus temps. I'm really tired of sweating as soon as I step out of my house. It's time for some fall weather. I'm not asking for cold temps. I know it's too early for that but we should have cooled off here in the deep south by this time of year. I won't expect a snow in December although I would like to be wearing sweaters by that time. I own one sweater and one coat which are difficult to find since they aren't worn much.

Late Afternoon:

The skys have darkened, the wind is howling and the television show I'm trying to watch keeps getting interrupted with severe weather warnings. I called daughter to tell her that a storm would be here in a few minutes. She, of course, hadn't noticed anything on the tv. She made light of my news and within 10 minutes the clear skys had changed into what I can see out my window right now and it isn't pretty.
This is the rain that was predicted for this weekend right before the temperatures will start to drop and our weather will get to a normal for this time of year. I'm ready. I'm ready to not hear the air conditioner unit kick on and run day and night. I'm ready for a few nice days to sit outside and not have sweat saturate my hair and clothing.