Yesterday we surprised the kids and brought home a puppy!! They have been begging for one for years and we felt like the time was right to bring one home.

Meet Angus 🐕 He's a Golden Retriever/King Charles Cavalier Spaniel mix. He's 11 weeks old and currently weighs about 8 pounds, he should be around 35 pounds fully grown. I know it will be an adjustment for a while as he gets potty trained etc but we are so excited. 😂 Wish us luck! 🤪

Cheese is good! I ate a block of chipotle oven baked cheese with lunch yesterday and it was divine. I love it, but know that it halts any progress I'm making, and will even trigger eating in excess to where I'll gain weight. It's sad but I have accepted it. If I eat it in small quantities with a meal, it's ok, but I really have to work to keep it in check.

What's your favorite cheese? How do you incorporate it? Do you see negative results when eating it?

Happy Sunday! Sharing a video today from our week, one of the highlights. This was Wednesday evening church, normally they have a more casual prayer meeting where someone plays the guitar, but they were doing some construction in the fellowship hall so they had their prayer meeting in the sanctuary. No one was there to play the piano so my my Grandma did it, she's been playing the piano in church for probably 80 years.

For context, she's 88, she had a really bad fall 5 years ago now and hit her head and ended up with a lot setbacks, similar to having a stroke. She has a lot of dementia like symptoms also (I am sure related to her Type 2 diabetes), she really can't read music anymore, and she has trouble seeing well, and she needs to wear hearing aids to hear but hates wearing them, so on this night she didn't want to wear them. My 93 (almost 94) year old grandpa takes care of both of them on their farm. Anyway, on this night she sat down on the piano and led worship as people called ...

Wow I can't believe it's the last day of the month already, I have totally slacked on our normal end of month recap!! Let's focus on both things today:

1. What's been the best thing to happen in July?
2 Where did you get stuck this month?

Thankfully I am checking out of the hotel today and going back home (I've been home daily but working and sleeping at the hotel). They think the floors and walls are dried out enough, we just need them to put the walls and toilet back in etc. Should take a few days because of drywall drying etc. But we leave for WV Wednesday of next week so it might all happen after we get back.

Answer those reflection questions in the comments, and I hope you have a wonderful day!

There has been several different scams going around lately, the guy using my pictures recently, Dr.Berry has had some fake accounts set up using his likeness, and some others. I am going to recap those situations tonight and hopefully help people know what to look out for.

I'll answer questions on the steam as well. Hope you can make it!

It’s been a while since I’ve been to Gordon’s to look at meat but I was wanting steak and knew I could get a box of frozen individual cut steaks there cheaper than Sam’s. On a whim I decided to check the bulk fresh meat section to see if they had chicken on sale. Well they didn’t BUT I hit a huge sale of large frozen cuts for 50% off! I got a brisket, 2 huge outside skirt steak packages and 10 lb ground beef for $253.
If I’d had more room in my freezer and more $$$ I’d certainly have bought more. They had SO many briskets and ground beef logs as well as many other cuts.