on the go!!!

 This fine morning, physical therapy started at 9:30 for Miss Cam.  I got up at 6:20, to be with Miss Char when her bus came.  Coffee, some comfy chair, then some cleaning up and vacuuming, then a coffee to go, and out the door...PT is about an hour and a half, some with the therapist in the room chatting, and measuring/stretching/having Cam do exercises, and  some with Miss Cam out in the gym working hard, while I relax and look at my phone.  

After PT, off we went to Target...oh dear!  We walked in, and the cute little Starbucks was all closed, with a big gaping hole in the ceiling.  The cashier told us there was a gusher of a leaking pipe, and that all the cake pops ended up in the break room.  Isn't that nice, better than throwing them away?  

We walked around in Target, bought a few things:  chicken breast (I know I've said it before, but shh, their chicken breast is so well trimmed, and a good price, at least at our Target), gum, coffee, a 400 thread count sheet set for Camille for $10.50, razors for me (Target Circle $3 off, so they were $1.99 for a package of I think three), shorts for me that were clearance for $4.80, a present for Elise's birthday coming up next month, a bin for Cam to put her school folders in, and a clearanced soap dish.  Such excitement, ha.

We then went over to the Price Chopper, because...sirloin steak is on sale this week for $4.99 a pound...I know, that's a lot, but we don't need very much of it anymore, and it's SO good.  I also got pork chops for $1.99 a pound, and a small package of burger, that was marked down.  I bought paper towels (ouch!), and a bottle detergent, and two pounds of butter.  Food is so expensive now, we're trying very hard to be better planners and not waste anything.  

We no sooner got home to put away the groceries, and Emily called...this weekend is a junior soccer tournament at church, there is also a senior brunch for the over 60 year olds, and there's kiosk food available for sale for everyone.  Here's the thing:  we usually order most of our stuff from Sysco, and they deliver it.  The odds and ends, I get, or Emily does.  Well, Sysco is on strike.  The truck drivers were on strike a few weeks ago, prompting Emily to rent a u-Haul truck to pick up the giant Sysco order, which was quite funny.  Now, the other workers have joined.  They said they worked hard all through the pandemic, promises were made to them, and weren't fulfilled.  I don't know much about it, but we had to go buy all of that stuff we usually order, so:  Costco today.  

Miss Emily, who is busy enough, she my nurse practitioner by day, shopper/meal planner for church by night ha.  This was a big order, three carts full...our friend Cathy met us here with her truck, so I was able to go home after shopping, ahh...I found a few things for me there, too, like the chocolate covered almonds, they are too good, some seltzers, chicken breast strips, 6 cans of pumpkin, and some heavy cream.  

The drive home was quiet, me all by myself (I had met Emily there, she came from work)

I did slow down while taking these pics while driving...the vast beauty of farm country wasn't quite captured, but the evening lighting is not too shabby.   I do like the crisp days.

Home, ahh home....the girls had made a barbecue chicken pizza, and were enjoying it while watching a show...so I put some of the chicken breast strips in the air fryer, and had a bowl of shredded cabbage with olive oil, salt and pepper.  Paul made a few burgers for himself, and had some of the chicken...we don't always sit down at the table together as a family anymore, life happens.  

The girls all left to go clean at church, to get ready for this coming weekend.  I was way too tired to go, after the shopping and lifting...I had gone out and about yesterday, too.  Kathryn had to sign some papers, so I went to watch the kids, then  we went to Walmart, as I needed doggie chow and kitty food.  

Rhys Harper, you are way too cute.  There was a Mickey Mouse shirt, and she liked it.

She liked this hat...no, actually she didn't.

But Achilles thought it was hilarious...

Achilles and Kathryn...

Achilles and Rhys got to see Charlotte Claire get off the school bus!

Oh dear life is busy sometimes.  The whole situation in Florida isn't far from my mind, as we were just there...what a mess.  My mother-in-law is fine, there was no damage in Zephyrhills, that she knows of.  But the poor people of Fort Myers, and Orlando, and and and!