heat advisory

 We have a heat advisory till Thursday evening.. yuck.  The Blue Springs senior building has  posted it will be a place to stay cool starting at 8 am. Our branches of the Mid-Continent Library are also available. There are probably more posted that I haven't seen.

I am joining my younger daughter and her daughter ( my grand daughter) to go back to school shopping Lili has a new job at the DMV and needs more business casual things than at her job in the kitchen at Houlihan's... So off we go.

Our "trip" started with a mess... my daughter's car oil pressure light started flashing on her way to my house. When she and my husband checked the oil there was practically none. Her car is a KIA Soul and it had three thousand miles to go before the next oil change...but Kia Soul's have a problem with disappearing oil and that means an engine replacement. Still under warranty..

Bob put in a quart of oil ..but still not a lot showed up on the dipstick.

So.. my daughter put her husband to work on calling the dealer and we left in my car with instructions to buy 4 qts of oil on our way back from shopping.

So the four of us ( grandson came too) shopped for work slacks.. and back to college stuff... and oil.

Bob put the oil in when we returned. The KIA dealer wants to see the car on Friday where the dealer will top up the oil and seal it. My daughter it to drive it 1,000 miles and return... who knows whether it will make it 1,000 miles.

So the day had its good things and bad

Still hot and muggy

 Sitting at my computer with thunder sounding off in the distance. It is supposed to rain today and tomorrow... with thunder and lightening.

We are not doing much of anything... same ole same ole. Reading... Bob gaming... some making of bears etc.

I found a nice cantaloupe at the grocery store ... left it out for a bit and the whole kitchen smelled of the melon. Popped it into the fridge and we will be having it for dinner. YUM ! Fingers crossed it will be as good as it smelled.  ...It was!!!

Retail Bins

 My daughter, grandson and I went to the new "Retail Bins" store here in Blue Springs... it sells overstocked and returned items on a sliding price. The price starts out at $12/ item and by the end of the week the price is $2/item. We went on the cheapest day ! Still loads of stuff and people filled grocery store carts !! We found a few things and my daughter said that if we had small children there was loads to keep them busy in the summertime!! We will go again on  a more pricey day! BTW.. think this may be a franchise. There seem to be others.

We are still hot and the a/c runs most of the time so other than trips to the grocery store, doctor appointments etc we are sticking close to our recliners... me reading, Bob on Xbox or reading. I have also worked on bears, animals and accessories for the upcoming fall and winter online bear shows.

Older daughter and her non-profit are working hard getting donations for the annual backpack event - back packs and school supplies for school kids in the Phoenix Family  housing sites.I saw on Facebook that there were over 1300 kids signed up!! I see there are many programs doing similar things... don't remember there being any when my kids were in school.

 

Not much

 Not much going on here... went to the grocery store and found Price Chopper had filled its front windows with notices of it's sales items. Posting like that has not happened in LOADS of years. Is PC feeling the pinch of lower sales due to higher prices??

Bob the "bananaholic" had some bananas turning brown and decided to take advantage of that and baked banana bread!! It was/is good!!

We both did very little the rest of the day... though I did make a quiche for dinner. PC had diced ham on sale and  I already had the rest of the ingredients ... It turned out well.. cold quiche leftovers in the future.

What's going on... oops...

 The day started with a drop in of daughter and grandson. My daughter had forgotten her sunglasses here the other day.  My grandson wanted to show off his new prescription sunglasses and take home the first sheets I had ordered for his dorm. PURPLE.. he loved the color. Next ones coming will be eggplant!

They headed out with my grandson driving... he needs lots of practice before he can take the driving test. We all agree with Missouri's requirements!!

Bob is still organizing stuff to take to the hamfest tomorrow... make a little money and  Bob can declutter !

I have a bag with projects I can work on while sitting at the sales table!!

It won't be a long day... the hamfest starts at 8 am and ends at 1 pm. It is being held about an hour away ( Warrensburg).

We've never been to a hamfest where he didn't come home with something... we'll see what happens tomorrow. ( didn't buy anything)

LATER.. the second set of sheets have arrived ! BTW his dorm has a whole room of washers and dryers...free to use!  I remember lugging laundry bags to an off campus laundromat and having to pay!!

Forget to post this last night...

We did got to the hamfest getting up at 6.15 in order to get there and set up at 8! Bob sold enough for us to leave at noon and did get to chat with other hams and some others from where he retired from ( way back when!)

We took a different way home... through back roads with hills and curves! By the time we arrived home it had begun to sprinkle so we left the boxes etc. in the car. Bob will unload later.

He was given a flyer for another hamfest this October. Closer to home this time - Raytown. He has time to sort through things and decide what to sell then!!

 

HOT HOT HOT...

This week has been hot as I am sure everyone knows. We decided to invite our elder daughter to go to her local Chinese restaurant for the buffet last night.

Nice chance to get caught up with her... in air conditioning and no cooking for either of us! Bob inadvertently ate a frog leg.... yuck as far as I am concerned. But he said it was ok but very little meat!

Afterwards we went to #1 daughter's house and visited with the grand dogs out on the deck. Even the dogs don't want to spend much time outside!!

Our daughter has been decluttering so we loaded our car with her "donations" which we will drop off at one of the thrift places.  Easier for us then for her to figure out hours etc.

Decluttering must be catching... daughter #2 and her family have arranged for one of those large metal dumpsters... Now they just have to get things into it!!

 next day.. it was too hot to get our "tasks" done yesterday... but managed today. Picked up the special cat food at the vet's... then off to the Disabled Vet drop off place ... then to the newly open veggie stand and then the gas station! 

The man running the veggie stand has been here for years! Picked up gorgeous tomatoes and a HUGE cantaloupe Bob helped me cut up the melon into meal sized portions and into zip lock bag!

Summertime dinner ..BLTs with Videlia onions on toast, cantaloupe and iced tea...all wonderful!

BTW Tigger (orange one) loves bacon.... he "attacked" a piece I crumbled up onto a plate next to me!

Out to the Bingham Waggoner show

 I talked Bob into going to the Bingham Waggoner show this morning. This craft and antique show has been going on for 35 years and is a fundraiser  for this wonderful, open to the public, house in Independence. The show is held on the house's grounds with lots of trees... music playing and lots and lots of vendors!! More this year than others. 

Way back when I had a booth too!

I enjoyed the ramble around but wasn't really tempted by anything... guess we are still in de-clutter mode.It was hot and humid ...I was glad to get back into our car and its air conditioning.

Our grandson and his family are spending the day at freshman orientation... Our daughter said she would send pictures of the dorm rooms. Dominic loves purple so last night I ordered sheets for him.. XLong twin sets in purple and eggplant! Wayfair was having sales!

No pictures... it wasn't allowed. Dominic had a good chance to see the dorm.. a double room, and the rec room, cafeteria and so on. He was delighted to find the dorm has practice rooms even ones with pianos. He won't have to walk over to the music building ! UMKC is really hilly so Dom will be climbing lots of stairs.

 

shopping..new store??

 I caught an article in both the on-line and paper version of the KC Star newspaper. Evidently a bin store has opened in Blue Springs... full of returned Amazon and other store items! Prices start at $12.00 for all items and decrease over the week. The store is closed Thursday and Friday so they can restock... I may have to grab my daughter and grand daughter and give it a look see when the prices are LOW.

It's called Retail Bins

It was back to work on bear accessories...

I don't really feel like cooking today so made a batch of tuna fish... so the menu is tuna sandwiches, fruited jello, cantaloupe and tomato soup.

Oddly enough neither cat came running when I opened the can of tuna fish...usually they do as soon as the can opener opens the lid. They adore "tuna juice" - the water the tuna is packed in- and first one done with his share of the juice gets to lick out the can.

Tigger finally showed up... got his share... Jack showed up later and got his share!!

Keeping busy

We've been keeping busy... Bob has been doing yard work and I have been making all sorts of Christmas themes accessories for the fall/winter bear shows... stockings, Santa hats and so on! May dig out my polymer resin supplies and make some candy canes and Christmas cookies too.

Our daughter dropped by to borrow the weed whacker  and brought our grandson along to unload "stuff" to go into our our green trash bin. We have to pay extra for it's pickup . Our daughters don't have this service so we put their stuff into ours!!

Tonight we went to a political candidate forum... The two candidates were interesting and will be in the primary election next month. They are not running in my district... but after listening to them I wish they were!! 

The "event" was held in Grain Valley's new Mid-Continent Library... gorgeous!!

"Dinner" was thrown together after we got home... sliced turkey, cheese, Vidalia onions and home grown tomatoes on bakery bread and Hellman's mayo... pretty darn good!!

not much going on

Hot weather... or raining stormy weather hasn't encouraged much blogging! 

We didn't go out to watch the fireworks around this area and the subdivision didn't do much on it's own until the fourth. Unusual... usually people start doing their own fireworks days ahead of time.

But the fourth got really noisy and I could see fireworks through our windows. Nicely.. people stopped around midnight!

Tigger.. the orange cat.. really did not like the booms and went an hid. Not happy the next day either!

Both daughters had to medicate their dogs... all three get really anxious over the noise.

The 3rd was our younger daughter's birthday.. everyone came over for cake and ice cream! She was my 20 minute baby and hand her off to a very surprised Father. The doctor had been telling me not to push while he madly scrubbed his hands...!  Not easy to forget all that even if it was 49 years ago!!  Later it seemed like all of Rochester, NY was celebrating I could hear fireworks all night!!

BTW... the thunderstorms left lots of flooding... roads covered with water and up to 6 inches of rain. We didn't get that much and we are in a high area.  I read that the Missouri River is also flooding from northern Missouri into Minn. I'm sure some of that will make it down here!!

Different day

 When I headed out to pick up the newspaper I opened the door to a much cooler temperature and rain. Just a little ... but later this morning it started pouring! Swimming pools and rain gullies in the back yard.

Then flooding alerts started showing up on the phone! Our grand daughter is at work down in Lee's Summit ( about 15? miles south of Blue Springs) and started hearing about roads under water on her route home. She'll have to find an alternative route.

Later... looking out the windows it looks like the water has soaked into the ground... must have been dry to have soaked in this quickly. Here's hoping the water over the road on Lili's homeward route has receded as well. 

Bob said I was wrong.. one of the swimming pools" still has water!!  BTW.. the Kansas City area received 7 inches of rain in parts today!!

Looks like the KC area will have rain almost all week... no wonder I have been hearing fireworks all day. People don't want to wait till the 4th just in case it's too wet to set them off.

Happy Canada Day!!