finally!!!

 We arrived here on Wednesday around noon.  Our luggage arrived last night at 11:11.  So Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday without our stuff.  We had stopped at Target on the way home from the airport, so at least we had a few things to wear, and we had toothpaste, toiletries, ect., but jeepers.  

I am super thankful I found this tennis dress for $7.49...it's hard to find my kind of bathing suit...I had ordered one from Amazon on the way home from the airport, but it took a bit to get here.  So at least I could go in the pool!  

It did the trick.

It really is lovely here.

We have enjoyed the sunshine.

Lilly loves me.  

Sometimes she can't get close enough.  

Camille and I did venture out a little bit yesterday.  We went to the new Fry's, a big grocery store not too far from here.  We got salads for our lunch, and some chicken, then strip steaks for dinner.  The store has $5 donut dozens on Fridays, we were tempted...but two people in a house with a dozen donuts?  Ideally, we would take a bite out of each one, taste them all, then throw them away, but that seems almost sinful.  Why torture yourself?  So we resisted.  

We spent hours outside, just enjoying the sunshine and swimming.  Dinner time, poor us, steak.  I set it out to reach room temp, seasoned it up, then tried to get the grill fired up...but the gas dial was turned so tightly, neither of us could loosen it.  So, we had to cook those steaks inside.

I know how to panfry a steak, get that pan hot and get a nice sear, mmmm.  Well, by the time I was done perfecting those steaks, the smoke alarms started shrilling.  We opened the slider doors and turned up the exhaust fan to high.  Riley got a notice on his phone (they are away on vacay for the weekend, seeing Adele), and asked if we were okay...well, yes, but how do we turn these things off?  I thought the firetrucks were going to arrive any minute.  

After a bit, the house aired out, and the alarms stopped, and phew.  We had leftover mashed potatoes from the little Thanksgiving feast Riley had made for us on Wednesday, (I also had some of the cornbread/sage/chorizo stuffing), and fresh green beans.  It was SO good.  We watched Hillbilly Elegy.  We waited for our lugagge to arrive.  I tell you, that was a saga.  I called and messaged and requests were sent to the airport, but you cannot just phone JetBlue and speak to a person.  Well, if you call the central baggage center, you can, but the most they can do for you is submit a claim.  We finally got a message yesterday morning that our suitcases were set up for delivery and a courier would pick them up.  That took another 12 hours.  

The worst part was that the bags arrived at the Phoenix airport just a few hours after we did, and it took that long for them to get them here.  If we knew it would take that long, we could have just gone there and gotten them, but we had already selected the "deliver our bags" option, and didn't know for sure if they were already enroute.

Oh, talk about a tempest in a teacup.  

We have very few plans for today.  We'll bring the dogs outside a million times and throw the ball for them, keep their water dish filled, give them their supplements, get lots of sunshine, maybe go shopping, eat the leftover steak with cilantro in corn tortillas, have a Coke Zero out by the pool.  Poor us, right?  The dogs are all sleeping right now, and Camille is taking a shower, so it's quiet in here.  I don't mind some quiet.  :). Have a good day!