T Stands for Tuesday

   Happy T Stands for Tuesday,

      Looks like this is our last Tuesday for July too, I am actually glad to see July coming to an end as it has been non stop high 90's and 100's f with humidity all month.  

   Checking out this week's weather forecast, a big change since I last looked-rain chances every day and much cooler days-I'll take it smiles 😀  I would not mind a total wash out but Wednesday our new lift for the boat is to be installed, and our neighbors to the right of us are having their huge family gathering-members come from all over the country beginning this weekend. I even share a parking spot behind my car for the week if they need it. This will be their first since covid hit so I am excited for them. We have been blessed with kind and friendly neighbors on both sides of us. He came over yesterday, saw our boat was not on the lift last weekend and this weekend and wanted to make sure we were alright. That is a good neighbor. They come out to their lake home mostly after labor day, when the lake is not so crowded with craziness. We always enjoy sitting on our deck watching the very young grandkids fish. They are really good at it too

  Sorry, again not much to share for Tuesday, as I haven't done much really except to "survive" this weather. I have been working on books that have been on my kindle for awhile. Do you ever get angry at an author? It's just a story right? Well, I won't share the author but the second book in a three book series-just ended with a cliff hanger ending that was a tragedy for the two main characters. It was so abrupt I doubt that any reader saw it coming. She ends it by saying God told her to do it, and the third book is more expensive than the first two. I was very upset over this, shocked really. I found her on Facebook and messaged her privately and had let her know I have read most all of her books and was very very unhappy with this book.  For me this was a money grab. I deleted all of her books off my kindle and canceled my order for the third book. 

  Took me awhile to feel better about the whole thing, It's only a story right? Many of us that read allot really get invested in the characters and they become real in some cases especially if part of a series of books.  I looked in my kindle and found an author I have not read yet-she writes cozy mysteries. It's good so far. I don't usually read contemporary  or mysteries I mostly read historical fiction, and some time travel stories from a couple favorite authors of mine.

  Okay enough about books. This past week I made two batches of keto churned ice cream. I hadn't made any ice cream all summer for us. I made a vanilla ice cream that I added in fresh strawberries and blueberries.

    I bought two of these vintage ice cream dishes several years ago for one of our anniversaries Really love using them, and they remind me of a childhood ice cream shop Bonnie Doone Ice Cream in Mishawaka Indiana. They made all their ice cream on site. Inside they served ice cream sundaes in dishes like these. Well I had to look them up-they are still there  Haven't been back there since 1967 when I graduated high school.

On Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date I will share my second batch of churned ice cream-dark chocolate-expresso. A new flavor for me.  The base tastes really good.

  I do have a lovely slow mail hand stamped card to share. One of my slow mail friends and I love wolves, She sent me this hand stamped wolf card-I Love it! I have this card sitting on my mantel near two handmade bells Larry brought back to me years ago from a hunting trip to South Dakota. Made by Native Americans in that area. They are both hand signed inside the bells.  The pottery behind the card is handmade, and to the right are vintage pottery pieces.

  Here in Missouri our primary elections will be on August 2nd. There is a very important election coming up in November   There are so many candidates for both the US House and the US Senate this year for my state of Missouri; that I needed to look them all up online and learn more about them. I am down to three choices for both the house and the senate-I will be doing more research before I vote in the primary.  There are also elections for Missouri state's house and senate as well.  Too important not to do the research and vote wisely this year. 

   For my drink share, I bought this bottle of wine during my last big food shopping trip. Same brand as I had bought before but a different flavor. That week the price was back to around $4.00-not bad though You can also see my margarita fixings to the left (haven't made any of those in a long time) and sorry the photo came out a bit blurry  blame it on our heat wave haha

Happy T and new week ahead