It is Monday and it is still hot. It has been an uneventful day for us which I am thankful for — I crave uneventful days.
Prayers are requested for about 20 families in a close by community whose houses caught fire due to yet another wildfire. It is very sad and sort of amazing to watch.
It is so hot here still, 107 today, and I am a bit worried about our wildlife so Hubs put out water for the birds and the foxes last night. We have a stray pot saucer sitting on the deck and the foxes love it— they play on it, stand on it, run around it so Hubs turned it upright and filled it full of water. He also filled another dish on the other side of the deck with water. We enjoyed watching the foxes, via doorbell camera, drink the water last night.
So, today when we went to the grocery store, we went to Target and bought a large, stainless steel dog dish and filled it as well. I hope they like it and the birds are loving it.
I haven’t taken to feeding the foxes because it is my understanding it isn’t good to do because they become too tame and then lose their natural instincts. My neighbors, however, do feed them and I can understand that it will help keep them healthy and we definitely want to keep them healthy since we all have pets. So, I might put out some dog treats but still thinking about that — definitely will continue with the water though.
I did some looking around youtube and found a really cool channel called Saveafox. It is about a fox sanctuary run by a young woman and several others. These foxes are domesticated and saved from fur farmers. It is a lot of fun to watch and you sort of forget they are foxes!!
I have been doing some research on how to better deal with the immobility of osteoarthritis. I have read about all sorts of things from lifestyle modification to implements and tools to make thinks like kitchen chores better. I have also started clearing out my clothes and things — I have discovered that buttons aren’t really my friend and I have been enjoying some t-shirt type nighties lately that are just a pull over situation and I think I am about to pass on all the pj’s with button down tops to somebody else. I need to pare down anyway because you can only wear so many pj’s at a time, right? I am have two sets of Pyrex bowls —about 5 different sizes in each set — and they are so heavy I can hardly lift them so I am downsizing those as well. I think we will be making a trip to the charity shop soon.
I was disappointed to learn that my favorite brand of jeans at Dillards has been discontinued. I have worn them for years so now I have to move on to something else. I don’t really like change — it is so inconvenient.
So, I think this evening I am going to stitch a bit. I stitch for a bit and then I have to stop for two-three days because it makes my wrist hurt. I haven’t stitched for several days I am going to give it a go this evening. There are a lot of stitches in this pattern so it is going to be awhile!
That is it for this nice quiet Monday. I hope yours has been good as well.
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Some of my mixing bowls are also too heavy for me now, in fact recently one slipped out of my hands and landed on another one. Only the first one broke luckily and neither hit the wood or there would have been quite a dent.
Yeah, I have sort of been a kitchen hoarder for a while now but we are running out of room and I don’t like juggling stuff around. I used to have a set of stainless steel mixing bowls that was gifted to me and came from the saving stamp store (remember those?) and they were great and I might have to go back and find another set of those but for now I am just going to pare down and then reassess. I am glad your floor didn’t get messed up.
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