Yikes, the monkey has returned to my back

And I need to blog.

Back in Texas and eating more of the foods that are supposed to help. Reordered my raw cow's milk and will pick it up in south Austin at 5:30pm today. Just in time for miserable rush hour, yay! Chris offered to get it since he is already halfway there, so nice of him, but I want to sign up me, not Chris for the cowshare. Part of the law enabling me to buy and have delivered the raw milk, I have to "own" part of the cows. Whatever, I'm sure it does keep the cow people making sure their cows are healthy and don't have diseases that get passed on to the raw milk, which was the purpose of pasteurization in the first place.

Back to the original statement - it's harder to eat how I want to when I'm traveling.

Oh, and the Sleep Number people are coming today to set up (finally) the Sleep IQ.

We have been getting soooo much rain that the powers that be shut down Lake Travis, Lake Austin, and one other for recreational use. Not sure why, probably dangerous?? I hope they open back up so we can go kayaking and jet skiing this weekend. We haven't used either yet this year. It's beautiful out right now, but supposed to start raining this weekend again.

Can I just say again how much fun it is to have Chris and Alyona here, for as long as we both stay? They came over and spent Sunday afternoon with us, we had luncher/linner, drove down to the lake to look at the water all over the place, got in the pool, chatted and just generally enjoyed their company. Including doggit. Which reminds me that Squirt said Claire has stopped eating as much and lays around and sleeps even more, if that is possible. Tho she has lived with Squirt for 4-5 years, even I will feel sad when she passes.

Indy and Utah

Rick and I left for Indy last Wed at 6:30 flight. I had an appointment with a cardiologist to check out the murmur and hole, but no probs, made it completely back in time. And then our flight was delayed 20 min or so. We got into Indy and to Jason's at 1am or something.

Got up the next day, went to see Pat at the hospital. She didn't look well and was quite disoriented. The more and more I see life and death - the more and more I don't totally disagree with the thesis of the people of The Giver. Life is precious and a gift, but it sure can be miserable at times.

I can't remember if we saw Fred and Barbara on Thurs and Fri, so nice to get to see them and spend time with them.

Jason had bought the roasted chicken as I asked, so I made some chicken bone broth. We also went to Georgetown Health Food Store; I really liked it, it had a some of stuff that I can't get at Sprouts or Whole Foods. Wish I could.

We quite enjoyed our time with Jason, Fred and Pat, and also got to see Brian and the 2 younger girls.

On Sunday morning off to Utah, it was the morning of the Indy 500, so traffic was a mess; luckily we got out ok.

Arrived at Scott's, I sure do love that townhouse, then we all went to see Paige and Family. She hadn't told the ggrrls we were coming so they were super surprised and excited. Rick and I enjoy seeing our kids and ggrrls. That is what brings us happiness.

Mon morning Rick, Scott and I got up for a walk, then Paige and fam met us at the townhouse for a BBQ, swimming at the pool, and trying to kayak, but it being a Holiday weekend, was busy and we didn't want to wait the 30-45 min for them to become available. We had already had a busy, hot, and tiring, but fun day.

Tues the ggrrls came over and we finally got to go canoeing, played at one of the parks. It had a zip line, long slide, and a fun creek with rocks and small dams. The ggrrls really splashed and played. We are paying over $700 a quarter for the HOA at Daybreak and I always wondered what we were getting for the money - a lot as it turns out.