{"id":66559,"date":"2023-01-08T05:08:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T12:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=66559"},"modified":"2023-01-09T14:07:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T21:07:21","slug":"what-a-day-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=66559","title":{"rendered":"What A Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We sat in the Swim Spa, watching the world go by and carefully planning the day!\u00a0 The temperature outside was not too bad, and we went through three 15-minute bubble cycles before deciding to return to the house.\u00a0 We enjoyed our coffee and commented on how everything was so clean after the rain.<\/p>\n<p>Mary and I got ready to attack the hall closer because it looked like Fibber McGee&#8217;s closet.\u00a0 (I remember listening to the show on the radio in the early 1950s; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/FibberMcGeeandMolly1940\/400102_Fibber_Builds_A_Doghouse.mp3\">listen here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fibber McGee &amp; Molly The Hall Closet\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h9FGC68YcwM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"didYouKnow\">Did You Know?\u00a0 Fibber McGee and Molly was the finest husband-and-wife comedy team.\u00a0 It ran on the radio from 1935 to 1959, then switched to television in 1959.<\/div>\n<p>So I got a text from Vicky at 9:00 AM asking if she could go to Old Ranch for breakfast and the message also said we were welcome to join her.\u00a0 I called and made reservations.\u00a0 I showed the message to Mary, and she said, &#8220;My, what a wonderful idea, breakfast at the club!&#8221; We dropped everything, got ready in twenty minutes, and headed to Old Ranch in Precious.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_66564\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66564\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66564\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-002-650x366.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-002-650x366.webp 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-002-150x84.webp 150w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-002-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-002-1536x864.webp 1536w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-002.webp 1952w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-66564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yes, we name our cars!\u00a0 Meet Precious!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mary wore her cowboy costume and wanted a picture with Lampson, the trusty Old Ranch mascot.<\/p>\n<p>Remember: &#8220;You know horses are more intelligent than human beings.\u00a0 You have never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.&#8221; \u2013 Will Rogers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_66565\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66565\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66565\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-002-650x725.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-002-650x725.jpg 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-002-134x150.jpg 134w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-002-768x857.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-002.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-66565\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary with Lampson.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_66569\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66569\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66569\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-006-650x335.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-006-650x335.jpg 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-006-150x77.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-006-768x396.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-006.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-66569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Explained!\u00a0 I bet he does not like and lamp on his head!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When we arrived, Vicky was already there.\u00a0 After twenty minutes, Jim joined us.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_66566\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66566\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66566\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-003-650x488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-003-650x488.jpg 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-003-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-003-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-003.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-66566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim and Vicky made for a delightful morning.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We had a\u00a0 most delightful meal and time to visit.\u00a0 Jim loves country music and the Statler Brothers; therefore, he can&#8217;t be bad!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_66574\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66574\" class=\"wp-image-66574 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-010-650x975.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-010-650x975.jpg 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-010-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-010-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-010.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-66574\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We love Dolly and listen to her all the time.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We talked for two hours, enjoying peeling back the onion!\u00a0 Finally, around 12:30, it was time to go home and continue our closet plans.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_66568\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66568\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66568\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-005-650x579.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-005-650x579.jpg 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-005-150x134.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-005-768x684.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-005.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-66568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There is a gang of rustlers if there ever were one.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We arrived home at 1:00 PM and went to work on the closet.\u00a0 Fibber would have been proud of us; we can not open the door without an avalanche of plastic bags raining down on our heads.\u00a0 Now Scout&#8217;s canned food can be reached on the bottom of the closet instead be being precariously balanced on the top shelf requiring a warning call to 911 every morning when we feed Scout.<\/p>\n<p>Feeling empowered, Mary and I attacked our washroom closet, extracting Scout&#8217;s costumes and other gear from the broom closet and organizing the brooms, mops, and other cleaning gear.<\/p>\n<p>We are on a roll.\u00a0 Two closets completed!\u00a0 Time to declare victory and stop to watch a movie.\u00a0 While Mary went outside and picked some veggies for our dinner, I unwrapped the fantastic Oklahoma steak that had been thawing for two days and marinated it in a top-secret concoction of seasonings\/sauces known only to me.<\/p>\n<p>The broccoli and snow peas were perfect, and the snow peas melted in our mouths.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_66570\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66570\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66570\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-007-650x488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-007-650x488.jpg 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-007-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-007-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-007.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-66570\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FRESH from our garden.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is why we have a garden!\u00a0 From ground to the table in less than 30 minutes, veggies do not get any fresher than this; if there were, we would have to slap them silly.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_66571\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66571\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66571\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-008-650x488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-008-650x488.jpg 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-008-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-008-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-008.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-66571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The broccoli was terrific.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I pan-fried the steak searing it first on each side and then lowering the temperature to medium and going six minutes a side; medium rare it was!!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_66572\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66572\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66572\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-009-650x488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-009-650x488.jpg 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-009-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-009-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-08-009.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-66572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We shared this excellent steak from David and Diane.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I forgot to take a picture of the final product because it was good; we just dived right into the meal.<\/p>\n<p>We watched the last two episodes of Fire Country.\u00a0 The series has been renewed, so we will have to wait for the next episodes.\u00a0 Filming of the series began in July 2022 in Vancouver, Canada, and is scheduled to continue until December 2022.\u00a0 The series uses the nearby village of Fort Langley to portray the fictional Northern California town of Edgewater.<\/p>\n<p>After dinner, Mary scrounged up some ice yogurt on a stick, and it was terrific; we then decided we needed an adventure movie, so we found &#8220;Rambo; Last Blood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rambo: Last Blood (2019) Teaser Trailer\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kr5HcAi6GmY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last Blood was theatrically released on September 20, 2019, to negative reviews, with criticisms aimed at the script, graphic violence, and accusations of racist and xenophobic attitudes toward Mexico.\u00a0 However, Stallone received some praise for his return to the lead role.\u00a0 The film grossed $91.5 million worldwide against a production budget of $50 million and print and advertisement costs of $30 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We sat in the Swim Spa, watching the world go by and carefully planning the day!\u00a0 The temperature outside was not too bad, and we went through three 15-minute bubble cycles before deciding to return to the house.\u00a0 We enjoyed &hellip; 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