WHAT I'VE BEEN UP TO

 Hello, friends!  I know I've been missing for a while now.  Let me tell you why.  In the beginning of June my computer crashed.  I lost everything.  Pictures, posts, and access to this and my YouTube channel.  It's been quite a time getting everything set up again.  I had close to 550 subscribers on YouTube and now I am down to 15.  But I am so glad to have those 15!  I still haven't recovered all my pictures.  If you were a subscriber (or know someone who was), please tell them the name of my new YouTube channel is Kathy's Happy Home 2.

In any case, I am glad to be back here.  So much is going on.  I am busy all the time.

We finally emptied out our storage unit from when we moved and got rid of that bill.  We expected to have it for two months tops and ended up with 18 months!  Unfortunately, now the house is full again with all the cartons and bags we had to bring in.  I'm working through them one at a time.

Yay we got rid of a bill.  But...

I had to get the car inspected.  We found out we needed an oil change, new rotors, and four new tires.  It never ends, does it?  But now that is all taken care of and we are broke again.  2026 is going to be better.

I saw a new to me cardiologist.  I like him better than the one I had been seeing.  But he wants me to have all kinds of tests and perhaps a surgery or two (or three).  And see some specialists.  *sigh*

One good thing is since my sister retired this year, I've been able to see more of her, and we talk almost every day.  This is good!

I have to show you a cute picture I took tonight.  I had salmon for dinner with broccoli and macaroni salad.  George must have smelled the fish, because he jumped right up in Joe's chair and it looked as if he was waiting for his dinner too.  So cute!

I know this is kind of short, but it's late and I still have things to do before I get ready for bed.  I'll be back soon to continue with telling you about June, July, August, etc.

Kathy

MAY

Hello, friends!  I'm back with the catch-up from May.  May was a busy month but full of good food.

We got these wonderful strawberries from Lidl.  I ate mine with some Cool Whip and they were so good!

Another day we got hoagies from Wawa.  I love ham hoagies.  Joe likes Italian.

Joe outgrew his tie-dyed shirt so I took it.  It's so nice even though it's very old.

We decorated our front porch for Memorial Day.  Well, Joe did.  I think he did a good job.

I got a tomato plant and since we don't have a yard anymore, I put it in the big pot on the front porch.  It did really well for awhile, but then something ate it.  *sigh*

One of our neighbors had his porch decorated so beautifully.  I just had to take a picture of it.

The end of the month was Joe's birthday.  We went back and forth on what to do to celebrate.  Finally we decided to go to our favorite Japanese restaurant, Yamato.

We both got a bento box -- Joe a beef and me a chicken.  They were so good.  And Joe got mango mochi (like ice cream) for dessert.

I made Joe a chocolate cake for his birthday.  It turned out good.

Finally, at the end of the month we had another luncheon at church.  This time the theme was salads.  I made potato salad.  There were other potato salads, a green salad, two chicken salads, a tuna salad and a seven layer salad.  Everything was so good.

And that's another month in the books.  I'll be back soon to tell you about June.

 

APRIL

 

Hello, friends!  I'm back with the month of April.  I'm catching up!

April was a month full of activity.  The main thing was that Joe had to go to physical therapy.  I took him and one time I went inside with him.  But the place for people to sit is small and crowded.  It wasn't very comfortable.  So the rest of the time I sat in the car in the parking lot.  The rehab center was in a shopping center so there was always lots of people around.  I felt totally safe and ended up reading lots of books.  An hour twice a week gives you time for reading!

Easter was in April too.  We invited our friends Rosemary and Carol to come over for dinner.  We had ham (free one from spending enough money at Shoprite to get their reward), mashed potatoes, rolls, salad, veggies and apple pie.  Lots of good food.   And it was fun seeing them too.  We try to invite people who would be alone on a holiday to come over.

I had some appetizers on the coffee table when they came in and took a picture of it.

I also decorated some.  I have tons of bunnies but couldn't find them.  Probably still in a box somewhere.  But I did find a few and put them around the house.  This is what I put on the bookcase I have on the front porch.  Our Dollar General was going out of business and everything was 90% off.  Of course everything was well picked over by the time I got there.  The little blue, white and yellow flowers were the only ones left in the store.  Just three little beat up stems.  I put them in the vase with the red rose Joe gave me for Valentine's Day and fluffed them out.  They looked great.  Not bad for 5 cents each.

Joe was on a baking kick this month.  He just kept baking cake after cake.  Some we ate and some he gave away.  Here's two of them.

Since Joe was a baker in a former life, they were really good.  Yellow with chocolate icing and devil's food with white icing.

That's about it for this month.  I'll be back soon with the month of May and Joe's birthday.