I am still suffering with pains that I now think may be sciatica. It has slowed down my normal activities considerably. I don't often take pain pills, but about 2 this morning I finally got up and took a couple acetaminophen pills. It took about an hour to take effect, but I finally was able to get some sleep and walk more or less normally when I got up about 7 a.m.

The office is closed today for the Fourth of July. We went to Wendy's for breakfast and I sat out in the yard and pruned a couple bushes after we got home. Not fun, having to sit to do things that I am used to doing while standing, but hopefully this won't last.

If Sis will take a picture of my car after while, I'll post it and show how nice it looks with its new paint job.

Saturday was a long hard day. I've been having trouble with my back and hips for a couple of days. Walking is quite difficult. I hope this is a temporary thing, not something caused by the osteoporosis.

We did go out for breakfast yesterday morning, but I stayed home the rest of the day, alternately working on my ancestry.com pages, resting, playing with the kittens on the back porch and scooping their litter boxes, resting, you get the idea - resting in between a lot of things.

I washed my hair and went to bed early, but now it is 3:00 and I can't sleep, so here I am.

I always pick up a lady on my way to church and today is my day to be the greeter at church.

Pictures of the kittens (now 10 weeks old), taken just a few minutes ago. Hard to get them all to look at the camera at the same time.

It was 101 degrees so we packed them all in the crate and brought them in from the porch to cool off in the air conditioned living room. I think they appreciated it. They are back out on the porch now.

Monday, June 25
The kittens are 10 weeks old. Sis took them back to the vet this morning for their booster shots. They are all 2 pounds or more now and healthy. Even the runt has snapped out of it and is just as big and active as the others. Guess we must be pretty good foster mamas.

It got up to over 100 degrees this afternoon and we set them indoors in their crate for awhile to cool off. It is expected to be even hotter - perhaps 105 degrees on Tuesday.

I called Wal-Mart for a refill on my blood pressure medicine - must remember to pick it up after work Tuesday.

We went to Eagle Pass this morning to church. The pastor is moving to another church and this was her last Sunday there. About a dozen of the mission group members from San Antonio went. She gave a good sermon. We had taken along food and we all had a potluck dinner there after church.

We got home a little after 4 p.m. It was a hot drive - 2 1/2 hours each way. We do have air conditioning in the pickup, but it wasn't as cool as I would have liked.

Sis finished this shawl earlier this week. I've started another one but I haven't got a picture of it yet.

The birds are really singing this morning. One sounds like it is saying, "pretty, pretty, pretty". Other different birds are singing and I can hear a train in the distance. I'm always amazed that I can hear the trains, as the nearest tracks are two or three miles from here. But at night and in the early morning, I can often hear them.

Sis woke up with a bad headache this morning. If it eases off in a little while, we may go out to breakfast.
Noon
We did go out to breakfast, then to Wal-Mart for our weekly shopping.

After we got home, we did laundry, cleaned litter boxes and mopped the back porch.

I'm having a company come out next week and give me an estimate on cutting down this tree (before a storm knocks it down on our cars or home). It is a tall one, but rotted out a lot all around the bottom.