September 2, 3, 4

 Nice sunny start for September and meteorological fall. I lazed around yesterday reading and doing needlework. I am not much more energetic today. But got a couple of rows in the Bavarian stitch baby blanket and some of a cross stitch dresser scarf. But the most important chore was getting the Instacart order. I thought at first to put it off but we were out of too many items. Normally, when I did the shopping myself, I wouldn't have gone out on the day after a three-day holiday and was prepared for a longer time before the delivery since a lot of people do shop to get goods they used over the weekend and the lines would be long. But they filled my order and delivered it as quickly as always.

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Yesterday was one of "those" days--what ever get-up-and-go I had early got up and left me behind. So today we had to go to a medical center and get Mom's blood drawn for tests for next week's visit with her doctor. We should have gone in yesterday because we had an appointment but I followed my usual pattern and labeled this week for it without noting day and time. But new doctor and new medical group with a different system. Thankfully they rearranged things quickly and we got slotted in quickly.

We had a strange thing happen this morning. Normally we watch a couple of hours of MSNBC before shifting over to BBC and then the Weather Channel. But this morning MSNBC kept freezing. I wondered if it was a general problem but going through several of our favorite channels we found that the only sites having a problem were MSNBC and CNBC. I checked "IS IT DOWN?" which tracks whether a particular site is functioning and it said MSNBC was up. But on our screen it was still frozen. I checked some of the comments which many of which said they weren't getting the channel and a couple that said it was down on their cable but they could get it working on their on line systems. I checked my iPad and MacBook where I found it working well. So we watched the programing that way until things were fixed about an hour and a half later. I have no idea of what screwed up or with whom.

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Very chilly this morning and we probably won't get out of the 60s. The trees should change more quickly now. I have already started bringing out our usual colder weather foods: soups, stews, casseroles, and chili. I have also been able to open our windows a bit again. Summer is usually too hot and winter is too cold.