it’s a rainy and thundery morning here. It’s also my first day back to work after my weeklong vacation. Today is the 8th of July, on the 11th of July my contract expires. We shall see what a new contract looks like.

it should be an interesting day at work, interesting as opposed to boring, which is preferable.

Have a great Day!

Today is Constitution Day, holiday here in Cayman.

Below is a picture I just took from where I’m sitting right now. Drinking coffee on my back porch.

Ive been mostly trying to wrap up my 30 hours of live zoom classes for my yoga teacher training, then all that will be left is the class sequencing assignment.

I wanted to be done by July 11th, cutting it close, if I make it at all.

Thats today’s post, no post at all really. Have a great day!

Headed home to Cayman today. Nonstop from Dulles to Owen Roberts. Uni-Ted Airlines Nonstop on Saturdays.

I had a good trip, maybe I’ll be back this fall.

Have a great day!

Finally saw some deer yesterday. They’re supposedly “everywhere” but yesterday was the first I’ve seen on this trip. A whole flock of ’em’!

Happy 4th Of July!

Avove: view from mom’s back porch, where I sit now, drinking coffee.

It’s been a good trip so far. Went out to dinner with an online yoga friend Zoom is one good thing that came from COVID. I love meeting old friends for the first time..

Tomorrow this the 4th. Mom and I are going to a parade in the morning., I don’t know if there are fireworks in the plan..my bedtime usually falls before the fireworks go up!

Have a great day!

Went to visit my sister yesterday , overnighted at a hotel near her house.

This morning mom and I had breakfast at the hotel, then went back to our rooms.

Then my sister arrived and knocked at my mom’s door. No answer. Sister came to my room, I went and knocked on mom’s door, no answer. I knew she was up and wondered why there was no answer..

Fearimg the worst, I went and got the . manager of the hotel and we were getting ng ready to open mom’s door when she came out of the gym.

She was lifting weights. 90 years old, pumping iron…

Yesterday I spent time with Julia, and we went to her pool, where there was a “brunch club and a three piece band playing. Julia’s daughter is the head lifeguard there. I was always a lifeguard back in the day

After the first pool party, we went to the second pool party, at a private residence. (that’s the picture all the way at the top).

After that I visited my Brothers grave at the cemetery. And Travlin’ Tim.

I was a little upset that I couldn’t find my father’s grave.

On the way back to my mom’s, I stopped by the house I lived in when I was a senior in high school and where I departed for the Navy from. My Navy recruiter was probably parked about where I took the picture from when I came out and he took me to boot camp. It’s a day I won’t forget! I’d do it again in a heartbeat

It looks quite the same except the garage is added, we just had a carport.

Last evening , ai met with Julia again and said goodbye for now. She’s on her way to a 4th of July “camping” trip on Asateague Island. I think she had most of the contents of her house in her car, and she’s “camping” in a friend’s house down there… Where I used to go camping, we took a backpack and boots.

AND today my mother and I are headed down to see my sister in North Carolina. Road Trip!

Have a great day!

Got here last night after dark. My first tike (I think) at Dulles Airport. Got my car and am at my mom’s

It’s a pretty nice car, for a Chevrolet.

Headed to DC today and NC tomorrow.

Have a great day !

At one point, I had over 23,000 gems. Now I believe Duolingo is kicking me out. They are giving me questions that I have not received any input for. Literally every question I answer is wrong or a lucky guess. I don’t even know what the subject is I think it’s past tense but I’m not sure it’s costing me about over 900 gyms a day because after five mistakes it cost 450 gems to continue.

I earned my 23,000 gems maybe 15 or 30 gems a day by studying daily for years.

They used to provide the information on the upcoming lesson. Not this time.

Some businesses seem to think that they reduce the quality of their product to non-usable, people will give them money. To me, logically if the product is no good, I’m certainly not going to give them money. Do you think it was supposed to be free. I watch their advertisements I play the game as I’m supposed to play it.

when I run out of gems, I’m gone. After years of practice I still can’t hold a conversation anyway.

Hey! It’s almost the weekend!

The other day it occurred to me as I was breathing that my lung capacity seemed lower than I remembered it. And last night as I was breathing, it seemed to be much larger more expansive than ever before. It seemed almost limitless. I could inhale forever without stopping. I’m going to have to examine the differences between perceived lung capacity and stress and what’s going on in the mind. It’s quite interesting to notice. I’m now looking forward to the next time at my lung capacity seems lower than usual.

I picked this pineapple from my yard. It has been in my fridge and I cut it up yesterday and I’ve been eating it. It is an absolutely perfect pineapple. I already have the top growing the next pineapple!

Maybe fresh pineapple increases ling capacity?

Happy Tuesday !