We ate breakfast at the usual little restaurant this morning, then went to Wal-Mart and did some shopping. We were able to get through before it got too crowded.

This afternoon I caught up on my laundry and did some cleaning.

Sis fixed macaroni and cheese for supper and we had Harvard beets, green beans and corn with it.

Now with the dishes done and the kitchen cleaned up, I feel like it has been a pretty productive day.

I took these pictures of the three kittens who stay outside on the screened porch with my cell phone camera. The other little black one stays inside with Calvin. I haven't taken a picture of him yet.

Callie

Buffy

Buffy looks like a smaller version of Calvin. They have the same coloring.

Louisa

We used to call Louisa "Runty", but she got over that so we renamed her. She is long-haired and fluffy.

The wood was picked up out of the yard this morning. Yaay!

After I got off work at noon, Sis and I went to Pizza Hut for their lunch buffet.

A friend came over this afternoon to measure our screened porch. The kittens have climbed up and down the screen and torn parts of it, so we need to get much heavier screen put on it. He will check prices at a couple of building supply stores for us.

I just cleaned the ceiling fan blades in my bedroom...a job that should have been done long before now. What a mess of dust I got down! Then I had to run the vacuum cleaner to get it all cleaned up. Then I had to lie down and rest a few minutes. I'm all in, but it looks much better.

One of our brothers called this morning and said they got home about 1:30 a.m. I'm sure they were very tired.

We are still using up leftovers from when they were here. Haven't had to cook a meal yet as trying to get the leftovers used up before they get too old.

I called the tree service company again today and they said they will come first thing in the morning and take away those chunks of wood they left in the yard. We will see.

Our brothers left Tuesday morning to go back home. They should have gotten home late tonight and will probably call in the morning to let us know they are there.

It hasn't been quite as hot this week. I didn't stay up until the news was over, so I didn't hear the weather forecast. But now my arthritis is bothering me and I am up again. When it gets like that, I just can't lie still. It seems to bother me most at night, so I spend a lot of time up and down, reading or on the computer.

Pictures taken during our brothers' visit

Pictures of us and our brothers taken in our front yard and in the parlor of the church where I work.

Pictures of our kittens

Looking back it looks like these were taken in June, so the kittens are much bigger now.

This next picture was just taken this week.

Two of our kittens looking through the window from the porch into our dining room. One of my brothers looking at them and taking a picture of them.

Fred fixed pork chops in mushroom gravy for dinner today; I fixed a rice cooker of brown rice; Sis prepared corn and biscuits and made a mincemeat pie (the kind with real meat in it. It was a delicious meal. Later this evening we had the rest of the pie with ice cream.

The rain cleared off this morning and we didn't get any more today. There was a lot of flooding and a few high water rescues from the rain last night.

I would like to go to bed, but my leg is cramping so much that I know I wouldn't be able to lay still or sleep, so I'm waiting it out.

I didn’t sleep much at all last night. I had taken a pain pill before going to bed, but it didn’t help. My right leg ached all night and I was awake every hour until finally around 6 a.m. I slept for perhaps an hour.

All four of us went to Bud Jones restaurant for breakfast. Then we came back home and relaxed most of the day.

We had leftovers for lunch. I fixed myself a cold meat loaf sandwich.

My leg didn’t bother me during the day. I did two loads of laundry.

Sis went to the store this afternoon and got a big bag of cat food and a box of dryer sheets.

The utility & phone bills came in the mail today – although the mail was late and didn’t come until after 3 p.m.

Sis fixed spaghetti and salad for supper. We still had some bread left that I had made in the bread machine, so we had that too. Later we each had a dish of vanilla ice cream.

It is actually thundering and raining right now – so I guess I’d better post this and get off the computer.

4:00 A.M. It has rained all night. Still thundering. I am using the computer on just the battery at the moment. We have needed the rain so desperately that I am really thankful for it. I suppose the underpasses are flooded as usual, so I hope people won't try to drive through barricaded areas and put their lives in danger, as has sometimes happened in the past.

I did sleep a lot better last night.