So one of those things that happens occasionally, when you're out and about with a service dog, you, um,
encounter a dog that starts barking at your service dog.
(Intro)
Mary: Good morning! Stretch!
Peter: Stretch!
Good morning Bonesy! You are so cute!
Good morning!
Peter: Happy Monday everybody. Mary: Yay, it's Monday!
We've said it before we'll say it again:
we love Mondays!
Peter: Yep, and we just got a bunch of orders packed up for you guys. I'm going to run to the post office.
Welcome to our day!
🎵  Sweet Guitar Music 🎵
Mary: I was going to cut some wildflowers,
but I got a call from my sister while I was out there, so I
booked it out of those wildflowers and came back in the house.
Maybe I will cut some wildflowers tomorrow, but as you can see quite a few were growing, so
that's fun. I am drying out.. Wait, did I already show you guys? I'm drying out my zinnias that died, um,
so I can have the seeds to plant next year, but there are more out there
so I want to get some of those and bring them in. They're so pretty.
We are getting ready to run...
Ollie, are we going to get dressed and go get in the car?
We're getting ready to run to Walmart and
run some errands. I just took headache
medicine because
It's the late afternoon and time for a headache.
Peter: Cue the headache!
Mary: Cue the headache! Enter for left stage! So it's not it's not bad right now,
so hopefully my medicine will kick in and we can run our errands. I
realized when I got my purse ready, I have not left the house in
quite a while, so I'm excited to get out. I am excited. I'm thinking... Hey, babe,
Peter: Yeah
I didn't tell you this, but I'm thinking maybe tomorrow could we go to the
Habitat for Humanity ReStore?
Peter: Sure, they open tomorrow? Mary: Yeah, it's not open today. I was a little bummed out, but tomorrow. Peter: yeah, cool.
Let's go tomorrow. Mary: Wouldn't that be cool? Peter: Yeah, it would be cool.
Before we leave you guys have to see this!
Remember how we washed this side porch yesterday?
Here is the aftermath. Now the cement is obviously still stained, but it's clean! And
this welcome mat that I bought last year,
it was so like spider-webby and nasty and I sprayed this thing and washed it all down.
It's like sparkling brand-new!
Well, maybe not brand new. Maybe I missed a little bit right there, but at least it's a lot better! There was paint on the
cement from previous people who lived here and
almost all of the paint came off. There was white paint. There was kid's paint.
Anyway, so and then here's the railings. You know we got most of the paint off. We're ready to repaint it,
paint it white and...
Yeah, so I'm really excited
Hi bonesy! Our hope is that the set I ordered from Walmart will be a couch and two chairs and
then a coffee table, and then hopefully we can find an outdoor rug to go here, but again
we will see what I actually get from my Walmart order
because there was some
ambiguity in the listing! The online listing didn't make a whole lot of sense,
but I thought it's worth a try! If it's not something that works, it can be returned, so. We'll see what happens.
But I'm really excited about our side porch, again. I mean we didn't do anything to it. We just put
Um. The
couch and the chairs out here last year, the outdoor couch, and it was so pleasant!
So we're hoping to get some lights back up around and yeah,
just make it a nice little .... (car noises) make it a nice little hangout spot!
You know that thing, when you have cystic fibrosis
youuuuu
are salty and you need salt, so there's a little salt break before we go into Walmart.
I've been keeping this bag of chips in the glove box for quite a while, so
just now I was like I need to eat something, some salt. Oh yeah, I'll have a bag of chips!
Perfect!
Alright,
let's see what we find. We have a few things we need.
Peter: Okay, so tell us tell us what's going on here?
Mary: Look!
I remember growing up... Oh, I bet you they were only ten cents when I was growing up.
Peter: No way! Mary: I bet..
Peter: I remember thirty five cents. Mary: Oh yeah, that sounds familiar.
Peter: Ten cents, that would be a cheap soda!  Mary: I don't know,  they're 50 cents now!
50 cents for a can of grape soda, ugh, I'm so excited!
Okay.. Peter: so you always did this when you came to Walmart?  Not always?
Mary: I don't know always, but.. Peter: It's a memory. Mary: I have
not gotten a vending machine thing for a long time! Oh, no! Peter: Oh, remember that?
When it rejects your quarter. Yeah, I'll do that for you. Mary: I'm not sure about all this!
Peter: Lovely, germs...
Oh, no, it's not a real quarter. Mary: It's a reject.
Peter: You know the key, you do it like.. Mary: (excited gasp) Oh no, it went under!
Peter: No way.. Mary: It went under!
Mary: Oh, it's right there!  Oh, this is so magical.
Peter: Do you want this Lemonhead?
Mary: Free Lemonhead? (laughs) Ew!
That's so disgusting!
Worth it!
Oh!
Peter: Come on..
Peter: Got it. Mary: You did it! Peter: Had to use the left hand palm. Mary: Okay, ready?
Peter: Oh, you gotta press that..
Vend. Mary: (gasp) Vend!
Ta-da! Peter: Oh, remember that sound?
Mary: Oh, it's so magical!
I've never had this kind of grape soda.
Peter: Well, it's made here in town. Mary: Do you think that this is um..
real soda, or is this like seltzer? Peter: No, that's soda. Mary: Okay. Peter: Yeah.
Mary: Cleaning it off a little bit..
Peter: Cleaning it off a little? Alright, (sound of can opening) that sound!
mmm..
Peter: Is it good? Mary: Yeah, it is.
We are just taking a walk down memory lane as we have walked through all the school supplies!
When we walked in Walmart it's like
school supplies everywhere, and I like it. It started...
Apparently, we're in the way. It started bringing back those memories of like
the summer is ending
and you have to get your binders and your notebook paper, and
your folders for school, and then I remembered that feeling of like first day of school
and you've got your new stuff, and you're kind of excited about being there, but then you realize it's like...
traumatizing. Mary: Really?
No, well, you just know it's just that depressing reality that you're going to be there all year long
until next summer. I guess until Christmas. No, school for those of you going back to school, you're probably excited.
You're going to see your friends or whatever.
I'm just glad I don't do that anymore Mary: Oh, pretty scissors!
You need pretty scissors for school?
Mary: Um, for those who don't know I was home-schooled
for multiple different reasons, but one reason was the germ factor. Just being exposed.. (passerby chatter loudly)
We're going to be moving now.
I think I might need a pair of those scissors.
Um, just being exposed to the inevitable germs at school
just was kind of a risk that my parents chose not to expose my sister and I to.
We took... we took classes and stuff, but it was kind of in a more...
It was like once a week instead of every single day, and that sort of thing, so. Anyway,
I don't have all of those back to school kind of memories. Peter: Did you ever use book covers? Mary: Yes..
Peter: Oh my goodness. I remember that.
I like I remember picking out school supplies and stuff, but it wasn't that same like feeling of like
I'm leaving, I'm going to school like.. Peter: Yes. Mary: It was a different feeling.
Peter: Like you're starting the school year? Mary: Yeah.
I also used to work in a school supply store, so all of this brings back other sorts of memories.
Is it on?
We're new with this. Peter: (laughs)
I just found
clearance, so I found my birthday
decorations. Peter: We're going.. Mary: So Peter doesn't even have to think about it.
Peter: Look at that.
Watermelon themed birthday.
Mary: Got it on clearance.
Peter: Perfect.
Yes, win, win... Mary: So excited.
Peter: ....birthday week!
Peter: Can say that again?
What happens when the camera goes off?
Well, number one: "Oh, nice, scissors, where are those?"
And number two: "This soda is giving me life!"
(Peter laughs)
Quote of the day!
So one of those things that happens occasionally when you're out and about with a service dog, you um..
encounter a dog that starts barking at your service dog.
Ollie, um...
is great, like he's just like uh,
what's going on? Why's this dog barking at me?
So...
That happened. Mary: I guess that's just a reminder that like
there's a reason that there's like a rule that pets don't come into
stores, only working dogs.
Um..  (loud intelligible announcement)
Sometimes shopping, there's a barking dog I guess.
Real life. Peter: Real life.
Mary: Do you see the sunshine coming through?
That's because the sun came out! (Both sing) The sun will come out...
Mary: Today! Peter: Tomorrow!
Okay, we just got back from Walmart and Peter has a meeting.
So I'm eating a Peanut butter and Jelly beforehand.
Mary: Do what you gotta do. Peter: I'll see you guys later.
And my headache
never got too bad. I think the meds helped. I think the grape soda helped and I just had fun being out.
Like I said, I haven't been out in a while. So very fun. I'm feeling tired
so now I'm going to rest when I call my mom back and
normal evening for us.
(laid-back music)
Random Point: I
am forcing myself to eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich because my blood sugar has just dropped.
It's been dropping like once or twice a day recently and I'm not really sure why.
Um...
It doesn't have to do with when I transition to my feeds, to the night-time feeds.
It doesn't have to do with that because I transitioned quite a while ago, and my blood sugar has only been dropping about the last
week
or two weeks and um
I don't know. It doesn't have to do with what I eat in the mornings
because I've been switching it up, and it doesn't have to do with when I ate last.
Um, so there's no rhyme or reason. I've gone through seasons in the last couple years for months
where I'll have my blood sugar dropping every single day, no matter what.
And then I'll go months...  the last couple of months I've been
having less lows
so it doesn't... it doesn't
correlate to anything. I think it's just a matter of
what's going on in my body that day. Um..
so anyway, I'm going to eat this and...
Um..
It'll bring up my blood sugar.
No. I heard a crash and so I ran outside!
I was so afraid that you were... (Ollie barks) you were like coming home.
Peter just got home, but right before he got home I heard this big loud crash outside
like that time we heard an accident right outside our house so I ran outside, and I didn't see anything.
Anything! Peter: Oh..
So I was like okay. I guess....
What was that? I didn't know if somebody slammed their door, so that got in and I texted Peter "Are you okay?"
And he was like "Yeah, I'm home."
So he had just pulled in! Peter: Yeah. Mary: So then you came in and you said you heard it.
Peter: Yeah, well, so I didn't hear it.
I was on my home and
right down the Street and like this
kind of like a little park median area that has like a park and stuff. And right down the street
someone went like just a single car
I don't know what the, but there are already several people there. Mary: Crashed into what?
Peter: I think like a stone....
something.
Mary: But people were okay. Peter: Yeah. Mary: Oh my gosh. I heard that from here!
I figured it was a kind of young kid, maybe, but I don't know. Mary: It happens. Peter: Yeah.
That's sad, okay. Welcome home. Peter: Thank you! Mary: He literally just walked in the door.
Peter: Yeah, hi guys. Mary: Do you want some tater tots?
Peter: I think I'll pass, but thank you. Mary: Really? I thought you'd want some.
Peter: Okay, I think I'll eat some tater tots. Mary: No, you don't have to!
I just thought you might be in the mood for like a hot thing since you only ate a Peanut butter and Jelly.
Mary: I ate Peanut butter and Jelly too. Peter: I actually - I think it'll probably
sound good once we sit down. Mary: Okay, let's go sit down.
(hard coughing)
Peter: The cost of coming upstairs.
(hard coughing)
But we are going to get ready for bed so
Both: as always
We will see you tomorrow. Good night!
Ollie boy, say goodbye to the people.
Say good night!
