I was happy to spend the morning at Fort Ligonier Days with Kathy! It was a little bit of sunshine, a little bit of ‘sisters’, and a lot of stepping away from everyday! Neither one of us spent much or bought anything major, but we saw a lot of very cool items and did each get something that was the perfect purchase. I bought a pair of Snoopy earrings – Snoopy is holding a carved pumpkin. Kathy got a pair of purple heart earrings. Just small purchases but perfect for us! We had French fries for lunch but couldn’t even finish them.

I think she mis-calculated!

Taking a break on the ‘butterfly’.

Pirates took over the house…

When the kids were little and we lived on Mohawk, we used to chase Hot Air Balloons in the neighborhood!

Very unique pumpkins.

We were home by before 1pm. Autmn called me and asked if I could watch Cameron for a bit – she wasn’t feeling well and needed a doctor’s appointment. We spent the afternoon together – and through process of elimination I decided that Bluey was a much better choice than Sesame Street or Miss Rachel! Cameron LOVED Miss Rachel and sat for almost half an hour mesmerized! We played and snacked and he had supper and created a new way to use the treadmill. He starts at the front, ducks under the handles, runs down the tread (it’s unplugged and off!), goes around the whole thing, and ducks under the handles again and runs in circles. He wore himself out and never turned it on. Why can’t I do that!

Cameron loves playing at Mimi’s!

Treadmill tent

Playing with Duckies in his tent

I asked him to ‘be happy’ and this is what I got!!!

Autmn had a few tests and everything checked out – but she’s still not feeling her best. She was getting short of breath – and I said I’ve been getting tests for 16 months for that and they still haven’t solved it so don’t panic! They were going to Nate’s for pizza afterwards.

They wanted Gianelli’s…

SCRIPTURE of the DAY:

PEANUTS?

TOMORROW October 11th is:

I Love Yarn Day; National Motorcycle Ride Day; National Chess day; National Costume Swap Day; National Sausage Pizza Day; It’s My Party Day; National Spread Joy Day; Southern Food Heritage Day; Universal Music Day.

Kelly loves yarn! My motorcycle riding days are long gone. I’m not planning a party – Sunday was enough to last a while! Music, I can get into. God bless…

Work this morning but there wasn’t too much. Ken helped me with my flower crown that Gen gave me – batteries died and I wasn’t sure how to change them. I stopped on the way home and got new ones – so now all is well! Rege was giving me some help other things, which I appreciated.

Success – new batteries in the crown.

Kelly had to make a very quick trip up to drop off some shirts for camp on Saturday. I will drop them off to a friend tomorrow who will take them up – I’ll be on my way to Ligonier. I sort of felt cheated since we didn’t have time to visit but she had a full schedule and so did I! I gave her a few flax energy balls and a bottle of water and she was off towards home. I buzzed over to pick up Kath and we went to her appointment in Norwin. I had a nice place to sit and wait and read, and she was done faster than I anticipated. She said it was a LOT but she was fine and glad to be done with it! She felt good and was happy to have a fun weekend ahead of her.

A cozy couch in a quiet spot and sunny skylights over head.

We stopped and got her an iced coffee and me a frozen Coke on the way home. I did up a few chores and did some research online, made a few phone calls, and sent a few txt reminders. Then I made a batch of chocolate chip muffins (Nancy Miller’s recipe!) that I haven’t made in ages. I had a cup of soup and a muffin for supper. Yum.

No, I didn’t eat two — I only made eleven!

I then checked on the flowers. There is a frost warning tonight so I wanted a few photos in case this is the end of the blooms.

Morning Glories under the angel bench.

Wonder why the white is the only side blooming? Purple is dormant.

That’s about it for the day. Thank you to all who are praying for our medical adventures – large and small. As the post said yesterday, we aren’t in the same boat, just in the same storm… Thank you!

SCRIPTURE of the DAY:

PEANUTS?

TOMORROW October 10th is:

National Angel Food Cake Day; National Cake Decoration Day; National Handbag Day; National Walk to a Park Day; National Metric Day; World Egg Day; World Homeless Day; World Mental Health Day; World Plant Based Burger Day.

I can’t decorate anything to save my sanity! Tomorrow we probably will be walking in the Ligonier park. I am almost out of eggs. Not sure how I feel about plant based burgers. God bless!!

Believe it or not, I was able to go back into the administrative site for my Hostgator website, find the Word Press link, and reset my password. So far, so good and I can get into the site easily and quickly. I’ll take it!

Word Press

I finished the book I was reading and started a few one – this is a new author and a new subject. It actually takes place at Biltmore in the early 1900’s so I’m hoping I can get into it.

I cleaned and did laundry, and also took all the party trash up to the road for tomorrow’s pick up. I also made plans with Kathy to help her with an errand tomorrow at noon. I expect to be done working long before that, and if not I’ll just catch up later. But I never work that late.

It’s been chilly all day – and I think it’s to stay sunny and cool for a few days. Still trying to decide about going to Ft. Ligonier Days on Friday. It will be a last minute decision. And that was my totally uninteresting day!

SCRIPTURE of the DAY: (Not a scripture but very inspirational!)

PEANUTS?

TOMORROW October 9th is:

National Pro Life Cupcakes Day; National Moldy Cheese Day; Curious Events Day; International Beer & Pizza Day; World Post Day.

Pizza is good. Not moldy cheese. I’d be curious about the events…. God bless!

Wild! I was trying to log into my website and it disappeared. So I naturally panicked! Then I went into my online files to get my login and password and it was erased except for the last 10 months. That’s where my info was. So after I (again) panicked, I called the website administrator and she spent half an hour with me helping me log in and make note of my information. Hopefully it will be fine. It’s a different way to get into the account. But at least I know there is help out there!

Hostgator

So, here we go! I took a few photos last night of the beautiful Harvest Moon! My skills lend little to the actual beauty.

Harvest moon

And I woke to a beautiful Sunrise!

So I had a few things to do at work this morning – then popped down to Irwin to get honey. Had to go back to work to help a customer with outside title work, then came home and had a sandwich for lunch. I was able to get a few small things done before I went to my Chiropractor appointment. I came back from that and switched out my summer clothes to fall/winter. I don’t think we are going to have consistent warm weather any more so I am glad to have that done!

I talked to Kathy, Autmn, and Kelly and got things resolved with each call, so that was good. Autmn said Cameron is enjoying all his new toys and is happy and busy.

Cooking veggies!!

So here is a quick review of the Skunk Hollow Bonfire at Beth’s on Friday night. Kathy and I got there about 4:45pm and half the girls were there already. The fire was already going, and we set chairs around and set the food out. By the time all 9 girls (Gwen is in Florida) were there we were ready to eat. But before that we honored our ‘retiree’ with a crown and sash and cards. It’s so much fun to celebrate good things!

Don’t blink!!

Me, Kath, Holly

Gifts and cards

Cake!

Kathy and Holly

Enjoying the fire

We ate and chatted and caught up and I read the little retirement tribute I wrote for the occasion. We had hot dogs and pasta salad and chips and fruit and snacks and desserts. Of course there were goodies to make s’mores. It was about 8:15pm when several gathered up their stuff to leave. Gail said, ‘Why are you leaving? It’s EARLY! I don’t go to bed until after 11!’ It really did seem like we had just got started and could have stayed for hours. Seems like maybe we need another Dillweed weekend where we spend the night!

Holly and Karen V

Karen O, Beth, Gail

Gail and Colleen

Kath, Holly, Gail, Beth, Karen V, Colleen, Karen O, Connie

Holly and Gail

Karen V and Colleen

Colleen and Karen O – and a great picture of the flames!

Connie

Having an audience!

Reading…

The fire was beautiful, as was Beth’s house all lit and glowing under the Harvest moon!

A nice fire

Fun around the fire.

Beth’s house under the Harvest moon

Sisters! Karen, Beth, Holly

It’s so wonderful to have these ladies in my life – and we all agree. I found this quote on facebook and it sure fits!

Kathy, Karen O, Connie, Karen V, Gail, Colleen, Me, Beth, Holly

Some people are just human medicine. You spend an hour with them and everything feels better.🤗❤️ 

SCRIPTURE of the DAY:

PEANUTS?

TOMORROW October 7th is:

Emergency Nurses Day; World Octopus Day; American Touch Tag Day; National Fluffernutter Day; National Pierogi Day; National Hero Day; National Curves Day; National Take your Parents to Lunch Day; National Bring your Teddy Bear to Work/School Day; National Stop Bullying Day; Dyslexia Day.

Nurses are SO important – thank you! They are heroes! I’d love to be able to take my parents to lunch. I don’t have a teddy bear – just Snoopys and cows. I don’t work tomorrow anyway. God bless…

It’s 4pm so I have a little time to post. I’ll start with Cameron’s party, and then go back to the weekend on Tuesday. Today has been my catch-up day, and even though I had an amazing amount of help cleaning up last night, there were still a lot of loose ends left for today — plus I had to stop for a quick meeting at Hanna’s Town. That went fine! I came home and had a quick lunch and now I’m having some of ‘Bert’s sweet tea’ from the party yesterday. Ernie’s rubber duckie punch was all finished.

Yesterday morning there were several of us tag-teaming, taking turns chasing – ah, er, watching – Cameron, while the rest of the crew prepped. It took a village for sure!

Is he really playing with these? Or just dumping them everywhere?

In his Ghost PJ’s — we read ‘Monster at the End of this Book!’

Snuggling with Mimi

Aunt Josie’s (Jojo) turn.

He loves Rubber Duckies – the smaller the better!

Before the party.

But it was a wonderful day yesterday – for all of us. Autmn, with Summer’s help, spent HOURS drawing and painting and planning and baking and cooking and decorating. She was amazing! I spent a lot of time Friday and Saturday getting things set up so there would be a bunch of chairs for everyone – and they all sat in the driveway! It didn’t seem to bother anyone. Everyone was gathered around when Cameron walked out and saw them all! What a precious little smile on his face! He loves everyone so much!

Are these people for ME?

I love these peopole!

Yep – that’s me!

Their shirts say ‘Dad’ and ‘Mom’ and Cameron’s hand prints are on the back!

Autmn, with Summer’s help, drew and painted Sesame Street scenes and lined the driveway. Penny and Josie drew on the driveway with chalk to make it into Cammy’s World.

Autmn and Summer did these.

Cameron looked into the can and said: OOOOh, stinky!

Time for party fun!

Too bad no one got him any fun gifts….

(Car not included!)

One of his favorite things was his new bike – complete with helmet, arm and leg pads, and biker’s gloves! Once he figures it out I think there will be no stopping him!

It even has a cool sounding bell! His favorite part…

Daddy and Gigi helping out.

He also LOVED his toddler Crayola Crayons! Aunt Bella is helping him find paper!

There was tons of food – chips and dip, Abby’s magic pretzel wands, ‘Dirt’, veggies, fruit, Cookie Monster’s cookies, and a candy bar for people to take home goodies.

Take home!

Grover is very generous

Cookies, dirt and wands

Lots of fresh fruit…

And veggies!

And chips and goldfish

Charcuterie Board

Always have to have cake for ‘Happy Birthday to You’!

Aunt Cece holding the cupcakes, and Grama Lori holding Cameron.

A delicious blue birthday cupcake.

Sharing icing with Puppers.

In the end, Cammy’s World is the best place to be!

Everyone’s welcome on Sesame Street…

Where everyone’s your friend!

What a great day!

Thanks to everyone who came, helped to celebrate, and helped clean up. Even the work was fun – because we were all together and celebrating Cameron James being TWO!!!

SCRIPTURE of the DAY:

PEANUTS?

TOMORROW October 7th is:

National Propane Day; National Chocolate Covered Pretzel Day; National Inner Beauty Day; National LED Light Day; National Frappe Day; National Taco Day; National Fruit at Work Day; World Happiness Day; World Cotton Day; You Matter to Me Day.

I have never really celebrated propane. I could do the pretzel thing. A taco would be fun. We SHOULD be happy! And yes, you do matter to me. God bless….

White chocolate covered pretzels — I mean, WANDS!

Well Gee Whiz! Two days in a row. I’m going to have a lot to catch up on tomorrow. We were on the go two solid days, and that’s nothing compared to Cameron! He was really ‘Zoom Zoom’!!! But I’ll catch up tomorrow- it should be a quieter day!

Thanks for being patient! God bless….

We are well into party mode today, and it’s chaos, although fun! We still have to get Cameron to sleep which may not be easy. But hopefully tomorrow evening I will have time to recap yesterday’s adventures and today’s chaos! So that’s all for now! God bless….

Happpppyyy Birthday to our Beanie! Cameron is Two! Wow that’s hard to believe! Where is the time going? We are having his party on Sunday here at the house, and I’m thankful the weather is to be nice. Mostly everyone can be outside. My house is small! He’s such a happy, busy little guy – I’m sure he’ll have a great time, both today and Sunday. God bless our little one!

Two!

Newborn!

He looks like his Daddy!

Always smiling

with Puppers and Ranger

He loves Puppers and his Gigi!

I swear I’m innocent! It was the PIG!!!

Black tie affair

Cutie!

I have over 1100 pictures of Cameron in my computer. So this was a very small photo dump. Happy two, with many more to come!

So I spent the entire morning getting a few things ready for Sunday. Scrubbed the deck, the lawn chairs/furniture, the park bench, the white fence and cleaned the garage. I also put the Snoopy HAPPY BIRTHDAY garden flags up. So now it’s time to take a break and get ready to head to the bonfire at Beth’s!

SCRIPTURE of the DAY:

PEANUTS?

TOMORROW October 4th is:

Bookshop Day; Improve your Office Day; Kindness to Animals Day; National Cinnamon Roll Day; National Golf Lovers Day; National Taco Day; National Truckers Day; National Play Outside Day.

I love bookshops, and books. I could always improve my office. Jim Smail’s office was ALWAYS a clutter! I love cinnamon rolls, so I’m all for that. Sir Rege and Barry are both golfers. And I’m always ready to play outside. God bless…

Even though the moon wasn’t full, it was bright and pretty last night.

Snoopy nodding at the moon.

My life seems to have suddenly fell off the side of the earth. Although I am content with my every day events and chores I feel like it’s lost luster to post about them. There is just so much illness and so many medical issues floating around me in my friends and family that it seems to take the main focus. And I don’t want to emphasize the negative. But if you have a mind, please just pray for those who are facing unknown paths.

Keep going – God’s got this!

I had a few things to do at work this morning. Barry took the Mazda around the block as I detected a small noise. Nothing to worry about. So I feel confident. And it’s a really nice car to drive. I like it!

A few quick stops on the way home, then had strawberries with a small scoop of ice cream and a piece of cheese with crackers at lunch. And a Flax Energy ball. Did a few things to straighten up the garage – but tomorrow and Saturday will be my big push for that.

But just one?

I finished an essay I was working on – I had thought it was finished but then decided to do some editing. One more read-through.

TODAY, October 2, is the 75th anniversary of the first PEANUTS strip. See – PEANUTS and I are the same age! I just love PEANUTS!

Great guy! Very talented.

The book I am currently reading is set in the Cotswolds and written by a British author. I’m enjoying the terminology and the writing style and the English references. Ended up I had to watch THE HOLIDAY today because it was referenced several times in the book. I’m almost done with the book.

Book

Movie

SCRIPTURE of the DAY:

PEANUTS?

DANCE!!!

TOMORROW October 3rd is:

CAMERON’s 2nd birthday! Buy British Day (That feels ironic!); Kids Music Day; National Boyfriend Day; World Smile Day; National Techies Day.

Happy birthday sweet boy! We will celebrate you on Sunday. Keep smiling! I’ll never be a techie. God bless!

It’s 8:30pm and I’m done for the evening – except for folding a load of towels and grabbing a bite of food. I’m making a short post tonight, mainly because I don’t have much to report. The doctor’s office called and my antibodies from the first bout of Lyme Disease is actively fighting the bacteria, so no treatment at this time. I still have a few symptoms that are popping up but I will manage them the best way available.

I went with Kath to her doctor’s appointment as Paul was at his! Afterwards we had lunch at Chick Fil-A. It was nice spending that time together even if it was interrupted by medical information! When I got home, I cleaned the upstairs, had an energy ball (I needed energy!) and then cleaned downstairs. Washed a load of towels, took the trash up, and made my to-do list for tomorrow. That’s all Folks! More tomorrow.

Yep!

SCRIPTURE of the DAY:

At this point – as always – it’s very important to remember and live by this!

PEANUTS:

TOMORROW October 2nd is:

Bring your Bible to School Day; Guardian Angel Day; National Custodian Day; National Name your Car Day; World Farm Animals Day; Yom Kippur; National Smarties Day; National Produce Misting Day.

Have you ever been accidentally misted in the produce department? I have. I don’t remember ever naming my car. They change so often – since 1996 – that I would forget! I’d take my Bible to school but I don’t do school! And I DO believe in guardian angels.. . God bless…