ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST!

 Just look at this beautiful moon from last night!!  Not really ... this is so weird.  The moon came up WAY after dark, past my bed time .... and set this morning an hour earlier than they said it would.  I saw nothing ... nothing but streets lights.

This is what it looked like in REAL life on the other side of the earth.  Yup ... that's the moon alright.  Another one bites the dust ... it's a NEW month yet again.  How this goes so fast, I don't know.  

I left Mr. Cooper early in the morning to head out for a run.  You can see the booty I try to keep on his foot now.  It's a pain.  Just big enough to come off quite often, but so tight it's really hard to get ON his foot.  The inside looks like a rats nest and it's hard to get over his claws.  The good news is it works for the most part.  AND he seems to be getting around a tad bit better each day, that is for being almost seventeen.

Apparently summer is here.  This usually green and gorgeous field is now brown and drab.  Hopefully they disc it soon to keep the fire hazard low.  They have been trying to sell this for 15 years to become another subdivision.  Just what we need.  More traffic and noise.

On the other hand, the flowers are in full bloom.  These are the infamous oleander bushes that California planted as barriers in between the freeways.  They worked great and were very pretty, until they upped the speed limit and folks crashed through them.  For the past fifteen years or so they have been taking them out and replacing them with concrete for a more scenic view!  

It was a slow run ... more walking in fact.  If I don't go often enough, I run out of air pretty fast.  When I got back, I was confronted with this guy!  Mr. Cooper wanted his breakfast ASAP.  That's a VERY heavy rug he just threw back underneath himself.  

I'm still trying to get used to the new routine ... do all my outside running around in the early morning while he sleeps, then spend the evenings in the sewing room to lesson the random walking.

This girl ... Miss Kitters ... was waiting on the patio when I returned.  She is spending more time outside these days, lying in the sun.  You would think she would want to be in the cool shade.

HOWEVER ... we all know WHY she's outside, yes??  Big sigh ... I've lost count.  I think this is the one from her morning bedroom run.  Poor things .... I wish she would leave them alone.  They eat lots of nasty critters outside.  

I parked him out front under the bush, and he ran off, though slowly.  I doubt they will survive after being mauled by the great tortie hunter!!

After all that, it was time for breakfast.  So just what do you do with those three cans of crescent rolls you bought to make a loaf of bread?  They have been hanging out in the fridge since I got the sourdough to work.  So I followed an online recipe.  Spread it out, smother it in sugar and cinnamon, roll and cut into ... you got it, cinnamon rolls.  I even made a not-so-delicious frosting from powdered sugar and milk.  

Don't bother my friends ... just throw that can right in the trash.  They were TERRIBLE with a capital T.  I probably should have used BROWN sugar rather than white.  Either that, or something is wrong with my taste buds.  Surely it cannot be that it was TOO SWEET!!  Yes ... yes it was.  It's history in the making.  This is the first time EVER something was too sweet for me to eat.  Another recipe bites the dust!

On the other hand, shake and bake chicken for lunch was MUCH better.  I think air frying would have been even tastier, but I can only fit three pieces at a time in the basket.  Oh yay ... chicken for the next four meals!!

Of course there was dessert!  It's mostly required in this house.  Here's the spice poke cake with caramel sauce.  You're not going to believe this.  It too was just too sweet.  How could this be??  I'm hoping that's just a fluke and tomorrow I will LOVE it!  Mostly because I have an entire pan to eat over the next month!!

That's when I got hooked on this interesting program on TV.  It's all about CIA operations that went both good and bad.  Let me just say we have some BRAVE folks in our midst.  Both men and women have put their lives on the line for this country.  If you get a chance, check it out.  

On the other hand, this is my television ... the cheap $250 one from Walmart that I got for the Arizona house.  This is why I loved my old one so much.  Every night I get this distortion when the sun goes down.  Maybe a nice decorative piece of reflectix in the window will help.

When Mr. Cooper gets to wandering, I head for the sewing room.  Maybe I will actually get some of MY quilts done.  I cut the binding for this one and stitched it on.  The rest will be hand sewing.  I think I started this one over a year ago, so it will be nice to have it finished.

And so ended another wonderful day.  They are all wonderful at my age!!  On the schedule this week ... smog the van, find navy blue material at the quilt store for the embroidered quilts, scan the horizon for lizards and love on my Cooper puppy.  What could be better!!