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No such luck. My second “stay at home day” developed into yet another trip into town. Mr. FixIt had a prescription ready. We each take several prescriptions…each filled with a ninety day supply. One would think we could somehow get all of our meds at the same time and go to the pharmacy once every…what is that? Oh, yeah…ninety days! But nooooooo…seldom do both of us get a refill at the same time. So, there’s always another trip to town and I get pretty tired of it. But, it is what it is, right? Let it go, Ginny. Just let it go.

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We did get a lot done in a really short amount of time this trip. We each got our flu shot and I got a tetanus booster. I cut my finger Sunday night and my PCP said if I ever got a cut or scrap to go get my tetanus booster so Medicare will pay for it. I would have loved to go walk in the park, but it was 92° in the shade and I was getting hangry. We got home right around dark. I fixed us a couple of pulled pork sandwiches and dished out the last of the Cucumber, Onion, and Tomato Salad. We each had a little of my Homemade Roasted Red Pepper Hummus and some oven toasted crisps. With watermelon for dessert! 

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I packaged up the last of the pulled pork, divided into four meals, and put it in the freezer. We can only eat so much before we burn out on it and I hate to throw food away. We can pop the frozen packets in the camper freezer when we travel the next couple weeks and have ready made suppers.

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We shopped for a garage door yesterday to replace the one the Lincoln went through. Hopefully one of Mr. FixIt’s buddy’s will come help him put it in. He’s thinking he’ll stay home next week and let me go camping on my own with the girls. That way he doesn’t have to rush to get it done by Monday. Besides, Gail and I will just be sitting at the campground knitting and talking and he can only take so much of that. We’ll be camping together the following week, so he won’t miss out on much.

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When I came out to the camper to write last night, I noticed the sky was much darker than it was the other night. The moon is waning so each night gets progressively darker till the New Moon. I put my things in the camper and took the easel out to get some shots. It never fails. I shoot anywhere from ten to twenty pictures and may get one or two good ones. I really liked this one. The stars were so bright and the Milky Way was over toward the SW horizon.

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I cherish every moment I can spend outside at this time of the year. Because…it won’t be long at all till we can’t come out and sit at night. We’ll be stuck in the house for months. I read that the mountains east of Salt Lake City got snow on Monday night! Yikes!

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“Look up into the heavens. Who created all the stars? He brings them out like an army, one after another, calling each by its name. Because of his great power and incomparable strength, not a single one is missing.”

\nIsaiah 40:26 NLT\n
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Autumn Leaves Teach Us The Art of Letting Go

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Yesterday was a pretty easy at-home day. I had every intention of doing some cleaning, but honestly…it just felt great to be home in my Big Red Chair with Mr. FixIt by my side. We haven’t had a lot of that this summer and we really enjoyed it. I did some organizing on my new laptop. I’m trying to keep it from getting clogged up with too many graphics and I need to be able to get to my designs quickly.

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One of my friends posted a picture on FB of the Starlink Train coming across the sky. I looked up online to see when it might be visible here at Marshmallow Ranch. It turns out, there is an app that will tell you when you have the chance to see it clearly in your exact location so I downloaded it. It’s called Find StarLink and you can get it in the App Store.

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I went out to the camper last night to write my post and texted Mr. FixIt to come out a little after 9:00. We just about gave up on it when there it was…booking across the sky! It was amazing. I had my camera set up to do a long exposure, not thinking all I would get is a blur of light. I’ll know better next time. By shooting long exposures I got some great shots of the Milky Way.

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I marveled at this amazing sight. I can’t help but think of my grandma when I see things like this. What on earth would she have thought of seeing a train of lights clipping along in the night sky…silently providing access to an internet that she was confused by. I remember when I got my first laptop and I used AOL dialup. I hooked up to the phone line out at The Farm and pulled up Compuserve! I’m sure she couldn’t wrap her mind around what it actually was. It probably looked like some kind of television with still photos. BORING. lol

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The changes in technology have always fascinated me. But now that I am getting a little older, and things are changing so fast, I have trouble keeping up with it all. So much of it is over my head and I feel like my shelf date is inching more rapidly toward expiration. I hate leaving all the fun to the younger generation. So, I keep up with as much as I can with the declining RAM in my noggin’.

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We don’t have any appointments this week but we probably will make at least one trip to town…whether I like it or not! I hope you had an enjoyable weekend, dear ones. We have another little heat wave coming then we have another taste of fall.

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“Those who are wise will shine as bright as the sky, and those who lead many to righteousness will shine like the stars forever.”

\nDaniel 12:3 NLT\n
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