12th on the 12th

It's our 12th wedding anniversary today.

Neither of us even thought about it until a couple of days ago.  The new way of living has us experiencing the passage of time in a different way.

Even though we KNOW we had the 4th of July last weekend,  it is still surreal to already be in July, and suddenly, here we are, on the 12th.

SO, we aren't doing anything to celebrate.

Just being happy that we have been together 24/7 since mid-March and are perfectly comfortable with it.  Some couples can't take all of that togetherness.

For us, it's been fine.  We still like each other, and the only thing that has made us snap at each other is this stupid refinancing process on the house.

We're 3 months into it, and it's just now looking like it will either be canceled, or completed.  It was supposed to be a no cost re-fi, and we are now seeing almost $3,000 in "closing costs" show up in the paperwork.

We need to get that question answered before we proceed.

I did a re-finance on my condo a couple of years ago, and said I'd never do that again, and here I am. I have no idea why re-financing is SO much more complicated that getting an initial mortgage.  It's ridiculous.

The new gas range came on Tuesday, and is wonderful!   We had a frozen pizza that we baked on Friday for dinner.... HAHA! 

Of course, now it's too hot to use the oven much, but I am SO GLAD that little ordeal is over, and that I have the best range of my life in the house now.

The brutal Oklahoma summer has come back, but there have been some pop up storms that have saved us for a couple of days.

It was supposed to be 107 yesterday, but it only got up to 98 (though the HEAT INDEX was 117---if it had been hotter, though, the heat index would have been worse).

More storms last night, and today's 100s are now canceled as well!

I got my new walking shoes on Friday, but have not been able to try them out yet.  Maybe today.

This week, we are going to start getting up 15 minutes earlier in the mornings, and taking our walk before coffee and showers, at the coolest part of the day.  It's the only exercise Dave gets (other than his weekly forays into the yard to mow, etc), and we need to do it.

My little container garden is finally starting to show signs of producing something.

The yellow cherry tomatoes are finally starting to ripen, and there are more of them.  The tiny watermelons are starting to get a little bigger (there are several of them, but they haven't grown at all for a while), and I have one tiny cucumber on each vine!  The squash plants failed again, just like last year.  I will not do that one again.

I think I'll get them out of the containers, so the cucumbers can have more space for their roots.

I'm thinking that next year, I need bigger containers, with more soil, which equals more nutrients for the plants.
I added some fertilizer last weekend, and that seems to be what's made the difference.  The "three months worth of fertilizer" built into the container gardening soil that I used seems to have run out just getting the plants to grow.

With all of the rain the past few days, I will add a bit more fertilizer today or tomorrow, but just a little.

There's nothing else to report on, really.

I have my blood draw tomorrow, and my monthly trip to the clinic on Tuesday.

The only thing I have to report to the doc is that my seemingly random hip and thigh pain is still a problem, but there's obviously nothing that can be done for it, so why even mention it....

Off to make breakfast.  Have a good week, and stay cool!