I have a Question!!

 I have a question... just one right now but I always have them floating around everywhere. 

My comment section on my blog has a place that I can reply back to the commenters but I have not gotten into that frame of mind until recently.

My question is:

Do people who leave comments go back to see if the person has replied to it? I just wonder how many do check to see  in a past post if the poster actually responded to their comment. 

Help me out here. I'd like to respond but didn't want to if it's never even seen. 

A Lovely Get-away!

 All day yesterday I told myself I was going to put up a new post ..... and here it is today!!

                                                         Gonna do it today!!

Thursday Shirley and I headed down to Nags Head to enjoy some time at the beach. We girls gotta have our ocean time or we wilt. 

We checked in to our fav hotel, the Hilton, and immediately found our chairs out on the balcony.We sat there for hours just listening to the waves of the ocean coming in, going out... so peaceful, so relaxing. We could have stayed there forever but our tummies said NOPE... time to eat supper. 

The menu Shirley pulled up on her phone gave me a very good idea of what I wanted. My favorite kind of pasta is angel hair.... I think.... I do love it but I have others I love as well. Anyway, this dish of pasta was smothered in creamy tomato/brandy/shrimp sauce. I set my sight on that one and did not waver. 

We polished our meal off with dessert... Mine was lemoncello cake which was very good. Shirley had raspberry cheesecake. 

Back in the room we again enjoyed some time on the balcony but it was getting cooler and darker so we crawled up in our beds and played Word on our phones. Word is so much more fun to play when the person you are playing is right beside you and you can cut up and have fun with each play. 

Shirley's a night owl.

I am not.

So, I went to sleep. Goodness knows when she did. 

After a good night's rest we ate breakfast downstairs. Mine was so yummy. 

And then we headed home. 

But first a stop at Hobby Lobby!

Shirley put me in a wheelchair and scooted me all over that huge store and we had a blast. I did buy a couple things. I swore I did not intend to spend a dime and what I did get didn't cost much. 

I got a wintery mug filled with a gingerbread/spicy candle and right now my apartment smells heavenly. 

I found a container for toothpicks. Sometimes we need toothpicks for food when we have our get-togethers in the community room and this will work well.

And, I saw this adorable buck all decked out for Christmas that I intend to place on the table outside my front door when we get over Thanksgiving. (you'll see him later on nearer the Xmas holidays)

So, yes, it was a fun time but lordy I was wiped out.... and we didn't do all that much. My age is showing it's ugly head, I guess. 

A Tome!

                           I am proud that all my children are readers.... 

And, it's very interesting to kind out what genre they like to read. Not a one of them likes the same kind of book. Me, I jump all over the place... fiction, self-help, historical novels, bios, mysteries. You name it, I've tried it ... Well, I couldn't include sci-fi but just about everything else. 

Susan listens to audio books and she was telling me about one she thought she'd purchase for me because she was loving it. Her mama was sure to, too.  I had to remind her that Mama doesn't see quite as well as she used to. That's why Mama uses a Kindle so she can control the size of the font. 

Bless her little pea-picking heart. She went ahead and sent me that book she was telling me about.... 

                                 She'd ordered it in big print!

Now this book is a good sized book to begin with but Lordy mercy in big print, I can hardly pick this thing up! 

I've started it. Don't look for a review of it anyway soon. Maybe in 2028! haha. 

Was It Worth It?

 A follow check-up with my surgeon this morning. I'm in my 3rd year into recovery after breast cancer and they check me every six months. His office is adjacent to the hospital and parking there has gotten ridiculously difficult. I drove around about 20 minutes before I happened upon an empty spot and grabbed it. Made me late getting into the dr. office.

So, at these check-ups all they do is weigh me which I could do without thank you! My blood pressure come next. it was 112/70. Great! then the P.A. comes in and makes the exam which takes about 5 minutes tops. I won't go into that. Then, I leave. It just doesn't seem worth it, all that hassle parking and then walking and walking and walking to get into the building. 

I entered the building one way and so I tried to exit it the same way. The alarm I set off was still going on when I finally walked out of hearing. They need better signage. And, I was told that the company won't build a parking deck "because we aren't busy enough". BS. excuse my language. 

Okay, so now I've vented. I'm good now. 

Meatloaf and taters!!!

 My, my it's Tuesday already. Where does time fly? Maybe I need to ask Chatgpt that question.. haha  I wonder what it would say.

Recently my youngest, Susan, sent me these cute little magnets.

They are folded paper bouquets and are cute as a bug's ear. I love how they look on my fridge.

 I'm not much into fridge magnets but these don't fit into the category of 'I don't want that.' These I do!

My bifocals had been bothering me big time. Just this glare right where I want to read so I took a prescription the eye dr. gave me and ordered me some new lens, the progressive kind where there's no dividing mark on the lens part. Anyway, I wanted my old frames so I had to leave them so they could put my new lens in and I am having to wear an old pair of glasses that I'd expired years ago until my new ones are done. Talk about adjustment!! 

After I got finished with the new glasses order, I decided to drive downtown to a restaurant that does country cooking. I don't go by myself usually 'cause the sidewalk is in terrible shape in that area and also there's a pretty steep slant going up to the front door. But, I got a parking space right in the front door and that was perfect. Here's what I ordered. 

I do love meatloaf and mashed potatoes!! 

Cooking for one is the pits!

Yes, I know I can freeze the leftovers. Maybe I resist cooking because if I go out to eat I don't have to cook. 

   Yes, that is it!! 

Anyone else out there tired of cooking? 

Stocks of Tobacco Drying

 Today's another Friday Favorite Fotos: 

This one is from October 2018. Shirley and I were traveling along I-8I I believe it was, going from Virginia to Alabama to visit my son. I've seen a few tobacco fields but smoking was losing it's hold on people to a great extent in more recent years and I wouldn't see as many. On first sight we didn't know what we were seeing but soon discovered that it was tobacco drying out in the field stacked like a bunch of teepees. Of course, we had to have a picture of it. 

Years and years back, when my kids (who by the way are grandparents now so it was awhile) were young and their Dad, Elbert, was a sailor and we moved around alot, we'd stop in Tennessee on many of our trips to visit my husband's sister and her family. We often stopped by to see her husband's dad and mom,too. His Dad grew tobacco and I remember one time we stopped and found him out in the tobacco field planting his tobacco plants. Elbert just grabbed a bunch of seedlings and helped Mr. Hinkle get them all in the ground. Here is a picture I got from my niece of her Dad plowing their horse/mule.  

Have you ever worked in a tobacco field? Maybe picking tobacco worms off the plants, or planting plants or even maybe seen a field of tobacco growing? 

It was a thrill for me to see those shocks of golden leaves spread out all over the ground back in 2018 for it brought back lots of memories for me.