Good Morning Friday-Ramblings

  Hello everyone,

  Were you able to see the August full moon? I didn't get a photo but it was just glorious to see over the lake. Huge and very bright-but not orange here like I have seen in some photos. The moon with it's very bright reflection over the lake was really amazing.

  These past several days we are enjoying much cooler weather 50's-low 60's F early mornings and low 80's during the day-loving it!  We are heating back up though to the 90's F

    I did get out with the weed eater to tackle the very very tall grass in areas-of course I over did it and my back is not happy. It was screaming in pain yesterday. I laid on the floor last night with a few blankets so I would be laying really flat. I know better than to do this two days in a row too. I wanted to get it knocked down before the heat returns and before labor day weekend.

  This weekend is the lake's big Shootout event -the big speed boat races-many are already here running fast boats up and down the lake (Lake in the Ozarks)  They are fun to view as they fly by-the docks not so much. This is a huge charity event to help those in need in our area. It gets bigger every year and is televised in more areas now too. I think last year they raised around $500 thousand dollars

  My dairy attack on my body is getting better-slowly. Really watching what I eat.  I have lost 5 pounds too which I have been wanting to do.

     I am someone that has always preferred  snacking opposed to sitting down to a meal. I have had to finally give up potato chips etc as well-too much fat in those for my digestive track. That was a big one for me this year-no more potato chips, fritos, popcorn. ugh.  Larry is really enjoying ice cream and Klondike bars this month still. I shopped the local small grocery stores yesterday and found all natural popsicles with half the sugar.  I bought a box of mango ones for me. Yum I used to make my own-and still have the popsicle forms to make them-I may just do that.

   I started shopping at Sav a lot more. These stores are in Missouri and I am not sure if they are outside of the state. Our friend tells me they buy their meat there. I discovered if I am there Monday through Friday when they first open-they have a section with really marked down meat. We pretty much only eat pork and poultry these days. I found a small boneless pork loin roast for $1.50 Wow I grabbed that one for sure. If we were eating beef still-they had two packages of huge porterhouse steaks-really marked down as well. I do buy organic grass fed hamburger but no longer steaks etc. I asked where their meat comes from, I thought they sold usa meats-she said from the local farmers-love that.

 I have been working on the next embroidery block. This time I outlined all the motifs first, and now working on all the X's in the background. I want to see if I like this better than filling in the wolf, trees etc with the X's

Wow preseason football games have started already. I don't watch preseason games though. I am still watching the KC Royals baseball games. They are getting closer to getting into a playoff wildcard spot.

Another month is flying by this year-soon we will be in September-Wow how did that happen?

Enjoy your Friday and Weekend