Wednesday has arrived. Sunshine is again in store. Highs are also predicted to be in the upper 60s (F). I will have no problem handling today. They're predicting full-on sunshine for tomorrow. Temps will be lower, but that's okay. This is Autumn, after all. In the coming week temps are supposed to climb back up into the 70s (F). Days are supposed to be sunny, and all the rain will be staying to the south of us.
I had lunch with my cousin and her husband yesterday. I was surprised to see they had 2 Trump signs in their yard when I arrived at their house. I shouldn't have been. They're both religious; they had planned to go to Israel but the Hamas attack of October 7 put an end to those plans. Politics stayed out of the conversation. She and her husband are both older than me, so any earthly attempt at discussion would have been doomed to failure.
We went to see my aunt Lois, who will be turning 90 on October 19. She has an apartment in a senior living facility and it's very nice: 4 rooms, including a bathroom with a walk-in shower. She has a full kitchen with a large serving counter opening into the living room. We paid $2700 a month for a studio apartment for my mom, so she must be paying at least $6000. She has some mobility issues, but her mind is still strong. It's so much fun talking to her, hearing about the past. We called my great grandmother on my grandmother's side of the family Grandma Lee. Lois told us that when she and my dad were young, they called her Grandma New York, not only because she lived in New York City, but because her last name kept changing; she seemed to have a habit of marrying and divorcing men. Whatever wild streak we have running in our family must have come from her.
And yes, my dahlias are still blooming.
