Hello everyone.  What a morning.   I got up at 4 am and the plan was to power through the cartoons / memes / news post for tomorrow and then dive into the comments.   I understand from what I have been told some are pretty contentious.   However … the best laid plans of mice and men I think is the phrase.   It is now 1:14 pm and I am just getting back to my computers since 8:30 am.

Ron got up late around 8:20 am and he was struggling.   I offered to make breakfast which he really wanted me to do.   But at 9 am my news programs via over the air waves broadcasts of Sunday news programs came on.  But the TV in the kitchen is a very simple plain TV with no features.  The apple box attached to that TV has bluetooth so I can use earbuds.  However again I can’t for broadcast stuff so if Ron doesn’t want to hear it I can’t use the TV.  

Nevertheless Ron said go ahead and watch the news and while I cooked a breakfast of thick sliced bacon, sausage links, and a large bratwurst sausage Ron wanted.  Normally I would do potatoes, but I was not up for that today.  Along with the meat I made 8 hard boiled eggs.  And toast.   

While I was doing this Ron tore apart the bedroom window A/C unit.   It was a dirty mess even though he cleaned the filters regularly.  But as he took it apart it was good he had asked me to order a special A/C cleaning liquid.   Decon 30 I got from Amazon and what a mess he got into as he deep cleaned the unit and then cleaned everything up.  

After I made breakfast and we ate he went back to working on the A/C.   I started cleaning up and doing dishes along with setting up the coffee stuff for tomorrow.   We finished at the same time.  1:20 pm about.   Ron and I then discussed what to do for supper.  It was decided I would make tacos with extra beans and other seasonings while Ron started doing the laundry, both to finish the stuff we had not gotten to and to clean the towels / wash clothes he used to clean the unit.  Ron wanted me to get time to finish the post for tomorrow and I will.   However the comments are a wait and see.   However I pushed sharpening the knives until tomorrow but other than that I have no appointments so should be able to get to comments if I don’t today.   

Last thing I want to mention.  The week after the 4th I had many doctors visits.  As I am a person who engages with the people behind the counters the question kept coming up “What did you do for the 4th”.  Many people complained about the heat and how they tried to either go out or find other activities.  However when they asked me what we did they were surprisingly supportive of what Ron and I did to celebrate the holiday with many saying they wished they had done so as well.  

Ron and I stayed home and we did one of the things we enjoy.  Something we have enjoyed all our time together but much more as we aged.   Cooking and making things in the kitchen together.   When we knocked the walls out and made the extra large kitchen, we did it with just this in mind. We used to make christmas gifts of baked goods we would work together on for days.   

We made a meatloaf.   I have never liked meat loaf before but Ron and James loved it.   They would have it and I would have something else.   But as I have aged my tastes have changed and in truth so has the way we make the meatloaf.   So we made a meatloaf together with Ron doing the making work and me doing the seasoning work.  I then made the potatoes and side dishes.   I will admit at 63 years old it is one of the best 4th of July’s I have ever had.    Hugs