Monday 7th: The weeks are flying by. Today began okay, AA said she did not sleep well, I certainly did not, ended up on the couch at 3:00 a.m. Ford is doing better, just having so many movements in bed and getting up a few times for potty break, just breaks up my sleep. We have a Northeaster with some wind and rain, and with Hurricane Milton coming in next few days, the ground must be saturated!
Caught up on weekend news: Joan with Amy at Libby's wedding (10/05/24) and Stephanie on USA Team won in Oregon - 2024 Women’s PGA Cup at Sunriver Resort!
We had our usual morning with Alyzabeth, she now walks Ginger first thing in the morning for her first potty break and we fix AA's light breakfast, usually fruit, maybe piece of bacon, spoonful of peanut butter and/or whatever we have for baked goods. She is not a big breakfast eater at 6 AM in the morning. She had to dress like Adam Sadler today, so she went as kind of a shabby, as that is how he looks in public. He has a ball cap on backwards, T-shirt, baggy shorts, usually basketball shorts which she did not have any. It is homecoming week so each day is a different theme, (later notified of it all being rescheduled) tomorrow on Tuesday is duo or dress in twins, then Wednesday is triples so three friends are to dress alike (supposed to be three of something that makes sense like red white blue or three identical but something that makes sense that three things that are normally together and dress like that). The football game is Thursday night and parade and then Friday night is a homecoming dance (changed to 14th and 19th). Of course starting Wednesday, hurricane Milton is a category five out in the Gulf between Mexico and Florida. Ford and I got ready, did dishes and a load of wash, drove to his Parkinson exercises. It is still breezy and sprinkling due to the northeaster off the coast. I did walk for about 20 minutes in the rain with an umbrella and then went to the truck and dried off. Did not get a chance to talk to Terri or mom they were both busy. We went to Walmart and picked up a prescription, then to Publix to pick up just a few items; we don’t really need anything for this hurricane. We have plenty of food. We filled up the truck with gas and one gas can that was empty in our garage that will use on the generator if needed. Hopefully we don’t lose power, we usually don’t. Back home, walked Ginger, put away the groceries. For lunch, we went to Sonny’s BBQ on Kingsley (OP) for lunch. Once home I made a few calls about Ford's colonoscopy referral but never got an answer. He also had a call from his PCP, which was confirming that he needed an iron pill now that he is anemic. Ford got the generator running and let it warm up quite a bit outside the garage; we are ready if we lose power. Our new little portable air conditioner worked great and kept the house cool. I walked Ginger again just to give her a little bit more exercise, while Ford was running the generator. I mailed Melissa‘s birthday card today and put the Clay Today Newspaper in Joe’s front doorstep as we do every week. We are having leftover taco soup for dinner and Alyzabeth has Ms. Laurie, her calculus tutor, tonight as she has several tests this week, it is the end of the first grading period. Tomorrow we will pick up our outside plants and decorations in preparation for some winds on Wednesday. Hopefully it stays quite a bit south of us.
Tuesday: Today we are watching the progress of hurricane Milton. AA did her routine taking Ginger out to potty and had her light breakfast of fruit and bacon and orange juice. After Alyzabeth went to school, we picked up the house particularly our bathrooms, the kitchen, getting counters, clean, etc. as Donna comes today and I like to have the floors picked up and area so she can clean them all. we left for Ford physical therapy session right after Justin and Jonathan Hart arrive to change out our air-conditioning system. We missed Donna but she arrived a little before 9:30. During Ford‘s physical therapy it was a beautiful day in the high 70's so I walked about 3000 steps while talking to Terri. Terri told me about Sunday’s family gathering for Brandon and Grayson‘s birthday and Christopher having lawyer appointments for his upcoming divorce from Heather.
We drove back home and talked to Justin and Jon-boy about the HVAC change out. Donna is fine and cleaning our house while Ginger snooped around all the extra people, begging for attention.
Ford and I went to lunch at Sweet Sensations as we always take home a half sandwich, which will do well for us over the next couple days waiting on this hurricane. Donna finished up the house and Justin texted to ask about us buying a 20 x 20 by 1 filter which we did buy at Home Depot. Justin also cleaned our inside hallway return air grill as he was looking to see if they happen to be a filter there, too, which there is not. We paid the $6800 and we are happy. We have a new system with a 10-year warranty which we validated by going online and registering our new system.
Alyzabeth had Spanish Honor Society after school and did her volunteer tutoring. We texted with Mia and found out that Madison and her cat, Spencer are here so we invited them to the River House happy hour today. Our happy hour was only us as Kathy had her son, Thom and Granddaughter Lydia up as they evacuated from Tampa due to hurricane Milton. Then at the last minute Hugh texted that Maureen was not feeling well so they did not come either. It was windy at the river, but it was from a northeaster storm that was leaving our area. I made homemade spinach dip which Mia and Madison seem to love so they took some home with them.
We came home and had leftover taco soup and watched another actually the last episode of the Pride and Prejudice, BBC 1995 version. We decided to go to our bedroom to watch the Voice and Alyzabeth went to her bedroom to watch a movie. We plan to go to the First Watch for breakfast with Mia and Madison in the morning around 8 AM.
Wednesday: Woke up a little after 5:00 a.m. - wish I could have slept in. Ford and AA stayed in bed until 7:00 a.m. We drove to First Watch (San Jose/Mandarin) to meet Mia and Madison for breakfast. It was delicious food, and not crowded at all. Raining from the Northeaster that is hanging around and actually helping us keep the hurricane to our south.
I went to my Dentist appointment at 2:30 p.m. and had my cavity filled, definitely a tired jaw after that, but Staff and Dr. Curt are kind and professional. We grilled hotdogs for dinner with Publix salad after having "happy hour" spinach dip and champagne. Great way to start the hurricane.
AA worked on more college applications, submitting to Bowdoin!
We listened to weather reports and headed to bed. We heard gusts throughout the night, Ford got up a few times and I could not go back to sleep so went to the den couch.
Ford spoke with Stephanie about the planned family "reunion" on their property; not sure if and when will happen, between Joan's surgery and Ford's battle with hallucinations (he's better now), I think they stopped planning. Nothing for dinner as we ate our lunch late. Still so tired, looking forward to sleeping through the night soon!
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