[judy]

That sounds bad, Diana! Do you carry a sucking candy or a juice with you? I remember people with diabetes doing that.

Hope your trip is good, Gayle.

Janet, I am not surprised you are not sleeping. Maybe a long walk before bedtime would help. All of the adrenalin you have had in your body lately has to work its way out, and be replaced by calming chemicals your body makes. Exercise does create some calming hormones.

Linds, I haven't read your job posts yet. I'm sorry to see that you aren't happy.

Sandy, how is the house coming along?

I haven't been on for about a week! I've been busy and also making the transition from summer to fall. My friends are gone, the pool closed on Tuesday, and it is not summer anymore!

I went for my last swim on Tuesday, and said goodbye to the pool. All of my bathing suits are washed, and so are my pool towels. I took my plants inside, and the hummingbird feeder has to be washed out and put away. I bought winter bird feeders, but I have to wait until bear hunting season is over before I put out any feeders.

It is, as usual, so beautiful here. The leaves are changing, and there is no other place I would want to be in the fall.

I went to Cobbleskil, a town about an hour from here, yesterday. The flood has ravaged some towns. You can see houses leaning on their sides because the water eroded the foundations. Whole towns have been wiped out. The road crews are out, repairing, all over the place. Coming from NYC, where road work takes years, if it is done at all, I am so impressed with how quickly repairs are
done here. On my trip, yesterday, I saw a field of corn completely wiped out. I remember seeing them planting that field in the spring or early summer. All of that work! There are wooded areas where the trees have all been knocked down by the flood. Nature is amazing! Trees that were there for years and years, all down, with their roots pulled out. The trees and land will take care of themselves, but there are many people whose homes have been wiped out. They have no money, and these families are who I worry about. Where do you go up here when your home or your trailer has been washed away?

I'm in two writing groups. One overloaps the other because of the flooding. I don't like this schedule, but I love the writing groups. I have to call my pottery teacher, and go get some of my work done over there. I had put away all of the things I had wanted to do in the house for the summer. It's a good thing I did that, because I really am not sure now what I want to get done. That summer break put things into perspective, and now I am looking at things with a new eye.

The kids are good; back in school, and doing their usual. Steve is as grumpy as always. Jessie has been having really bad headaches, and I am worried that they might be new symptoms of her MS. She will go to the doctor before long if they don't go away. They could be migraines, or stress headaches, she says. I worry about her all the time.

I'm going into town today to read something I wrote at an art gallery opening, along with other writers. It should be fun. I hope they have good food there!

I have been keeping my weight down, but it's up to 130, from 128.5 or 129, so I will have to cut back a bit. I have added fruit, more veggies, and this week, I am adding dairy. Next, I get to add grains, and that's about it, I think.