Sunday

John and I went to the Farmer's Market in Madison last weekend. Probably my favorite overnight trip. The pool at the hotel was delightfully cold, and the hot tub delightfully warm, lol, and popping from one to the other felt great. I commented to John that the breakfast at the hotel was unusual in that there was no plate of pastries or mini muffins like we usually see at the hotel breakfasts. Not that I eat much of that stuff! lol There was scrambled eggs, local sausage (wow was that good), and taters. Tasty stuff. And the city is filled with active, outdoorsy people. They are everywhere!

Rockford, on the way home, was in stark contrast to Madison! We went to an estate sale.

I would have to say the person who lived in that house was a hoarder. But it was like she was a hoarder up til like 20 years ago, then stopped. But she never got rid of anything. I've never seen so much stuff. And we were there on the fourth day of  the sale! The house was very clean and nice though, I don't want to badmouth anybody. All those dolls staring at me was rather disconcerting though, but to each his/her own! It makes me think about what I have and how much I need though, and the thought of one of these estate sales where people just go through your home and drawers and closets, well it kind of freaks me out!  I scored some 70's towels, and some lovely pillowcases, all brand new. I'm pretty sure we had some of these patterns on the farm when I was a kid. Remember that one laundry detergent that came with a towel all rolled up on it! LOL Memories! I can almost smell that detergent and feel that powdery feeling of that rolled up towel!

So pretty!

Bernie is all the time asking what day it is. You can kind of tell when Mom is tired and when Dad has been asking that question all day. So I decided to look on line and see if I could find something to help. I found lots of clocks that had the day but they abbreviated the day, and that could confuse the Bern. Then I found a dementia calendar . . .

Bernie by his new dementia calendar.

Bernie likes his new calendar!

Bernie: "Who got that for me? I love that! It's nice! Is is right?"

LOL  He does love it and it has helped a lot. Now it is kind of fun to ask Bernie what day it is! Maybe I just have a weird sense of humor!

We took a ride over to John's today for a delicious cod dinner, homemade bread, fried green tomatoes, zucchini, and shitakes. It was spectacular! Goodbye fried green tomatoes! See you next year . . . boo hoooooo.

I leave you with photos of Farmer's Market goodness . . .

I can't believe it is nearly October already! Where did the summer go?

Kay