With the most recent Mudcat weekend of radio silence the post I was saving to share as become obsolete. I see Dorothy is busy posting on FB so I assume she has survived the hot-tea-in-the-lap incident.

Rain arrived overnight last night. Four inches in the informal rain gauge (two galvanized buckets sitting on the back porch) and it looks like 4" so far. Knowing this was coming I sprinkled the garden with some granular organic fertilizer and spritzed the tomatoes with hydrogen peroxide. Their leaves are curled up and it could be a fungus and not just heat, hence the hydrogen peroxide. It's great for treating fungus on plants. Now I watch.

With rain came the thought that after three months I might want to put on a pair of jeans, and there was a discovery: most of my long pants in the closet are now too large. I pulled out a dozen pair at least (trying on to be sure) and then got down the size 12 bin from the closet shelf and now a dozen or so pair are in the dryer with a wet towel added for moisture to reduce some of the folds and wrinkles. Some are misses 12s and are a bit too snug still but the women's 12s fit fine. We'll see how the surgery scar does with long pants. I think I'll be wearing shorts for a while longer once this storm passes.

Yesterday was a fasting day and I made a trip to the gym after a trip to the thrift store looking for smaller shorts. I found one pair that I liked and two t-shirts. With the shirts it's a goal to find regular rather than cap sleeves because losing weight means my upper arms are rather saggy looking. Bummer. With two things to do it was easier to justify a drive that far over to the gym for an hour on the recumbent bike and my murder mystery. I'm to the point now where I'm going to start using some of the rest of the equipment, if I can get there at fairly quiet times. The place is full of beefy fit young men on the weekend, and while as a 60-something gray-haired woman I am totally invisible, I'd still like to see a few more users like myself. Other older women also go during the quiet times. (The pool area is opening next Tuesday after being closed for repairs so I need to try on my swimsuit.)

Otherwise, around here I did some mending and got out eBay stuff to test before listing. I'm switching to obsolete electronics for a while.