In the good old summertime.....

We do a LOT of indoor stuff! Today I washed clothes and dried most of them outside. Did you know I can dry clothes faster hanging them outside than I can drying them in the clothes dryer (and cheaper, too!)? Here's a picture of the load I just hung out - at 10:30 p.m. Doesn't matter...they will still dry fast. It's probably 105 degrees out there. (I am truly grateful for air conditioning!)

My friend Ethel loves to iron. I don't. Well, I didn't but I am readjusting my attitude so that I can find joy in everything and I think I just might be starting to like ironing!!! I wear a lot of white these days - I remember that 20-year phase when I didn't wear any white because of the kids. Now that they are all taller than my kneecaps I can safely wear white again. You can see that everything I ironed today was white. That's mainly because I didn't wash the colored clothes until this evening.The reason I washed clothes so late was because we are on a new electric meter system. It is less expensive to use electricity after 9 pm and before 9 am on this new system. I put in a load of whites before we went garage saleing (still looking for dining room furniture) and hung them out to dry when we got home shortly after 9 am. So the other two loads had to wait until after 9 pm. I am still not used to this new schedule so I set my timer to remind me to run the dishwasher, etc.

Also on today's agenda was my Wii Fit routine. Here's my latest result. I wasn't quick enough with the camera to get the larger version mainly because I wasn't expecting that I would ever get below 31 years. Here's proof that I did. I don't know how but Larry said I should probably stop now before I end up too much younger. I think he's afraid he'll be accused of robbing the cradle! :)Did I mention that Lady is completely deaf? I'm sure she reads lips (well, at least when her eyes focus properly and when she wants to!). And I think she's having trouble seeing as well as she used to. She thinks anything in our hands is a treat. She is really obsessed with them. She's never stolen food before but she was sure tempted by these treats. Can you just see the brainwaves working? She managed to focus her eyes on her most favorite treats!!! She is such a sweet dog. Being deaf has its benefits....she didn't know it was the 4th of July this year. Oh, thunder doesn't bother her either!

One last picture for the day. Here is the new cookware Larry bought for us!! He found it on EBay of course! We decided on just a small set for now. They arrived just in time for me to cook dinner for our wonderful friends Carol & Eddie who came down from Glendale to visit us way out here in the boonies. I even made a cake in a pan on the stove so I didn't have to use the oven. (Guess I could have set the cake outside and I know it would have baked in no time.) Anyway, I took a picture tonight of dinner on the stove. Yep, all four burners going!!! See the little flames? I love gas stoves/ovens!