Every thing was washed clean last night in a wonderful rain.
We had enough thunder and lightning to make Rex a constant
presence. Poor big baby is so afraid of storms.

I went out and swept the back yard and dumped the water out of the nearly drowned plants early this morning. It is so
not typical for us to have rain in July. The lawns and flowers are still pretty and I love driving through the neighborhood and seeing all the beautiful yards.

My friend, Avis has developed diabetes and is determined to
be needlessly Spartan with her diet. Now that Splenda is available a low carb diet is not that bad. She has to beware of salt and refuses to get a salt substute. She also hasn't gotten a blood sugar moniter which would help
ease her mind about blood sugar. It wouldn't irk me so much
if she didn't want to talk about it all the time. I am being snotty about this because my view point is biased since I am blessed with good health. I still think if I
had diabetes I would make it as easy on myself as possible.
I would also not bore other people with organ recitals.
Avis is 84 and does not wish to live with any of her children so I am mailing her information on life alert and
similar products. She will probably disregard my advice.

Ted appears to be getting stronger every day. He has an
appointment with his Indian Dr. today and I am going with
him and we will have lunch with Red and Celeste at the
Indian Elders lunch room. They go every day. It will be
fun since we haven't seen them since we moved, although we
keep in touch by phone.

Have a good Monday.