AChat with me on my front porch, catching up and talking about blind tricks, tips and frustrations. 

Glad to see you! I agree. Guide dogs are completely different than pets. They are cream of the crop within service dogs. They are an enormous commitment, but needed. Love your videos! Missed them.

So so happy to see you and Gretchen!! Your home is so beautiful. Let’s check in with each other this coming week. Hope you’re having a wonderful fall time! Happy to see to post again my friend!

Hi Beverly. I love old historic homes. They have so much character. I also love porch swings, but a nice Rockingchair will suffice.

Hi Beverly, it’s good to have you back and to know you and Gretchen are doing well. I’ve missed your videos. Fall is also my favorite time of year I love the little bite in the morning air, and my dog and I really enjoy going out for walks. Your home sounds beautiful.

Hi Beverly, glad you’re doing well! I love your fall decorations on your porch! It looks really peaceful. I like all seasons for many different reasons. Specifically for fall, I like the colored leaves on the trees. (Hey, I just rhymed there, lol!) I also like that you get to wear sweaters, pants, etc. All comfy warm clothes. I agree with your point with Gretchen. Where you mentioned that to just focus on the positives that your dog does for you already. Or don’t get so upset to the point where you just yell. Since something has already occurred in the moment and it’s over with. I can see what life lesson Gretchen has taught you. I know when my new guide walks into my life, I’ll learn something I’m not even thinking about right now. I think all of us learn a lesson about something in our everyday lives. We also work to be better too. It’s something that shouldn’t be taken for granted. This part is random but exciting! I got a call from Guiding Eyes For The Blind last Friday, November 5. They found a matched dog! Now my family, them, and I are figuring out a good time for training.

Beverly❣️ This was a wonderful time on your porch and swing again❣️ It's a favorite for me as well! I'm still kind of doing the split sleep thing. I've been restocking in case there's another freeze and camping out situation in the apartment with ERCOT, similar to last February. I've filled a lot of drinking water jugs and pushed them back from the reverse osmosis water machine. Our tap water has been tough to take off and on, when they switch lakes back and forth to the algae bloomed one. I'll need it to cook with if all our water towers go down again. Organizing, trying to prepare in case I need to cook and let people in. I love the description of your autumn mats and wind spinner. :) I have been trying more varieties of apples that I hadn't tried yet. I tried some of the Autumn Glory's and they were really good. The Smitten apples were also good. I have two Courtland's to try next. I recently got a ride to HEB marketplace again, and went a little wild, in their produce section. They had some blends of greens I don't usually find at my nearby United grocery store. The hay-fever and ragweed season seems extra long and extreme somehow. Glad I still have some antihistamine left, just wish I didn't have to keep taking it. It knocks me out, when I want to be tending to lots of other stuff. Meanwhile I keep squeezing in a short fiction book or two every weekend if I possibly can because it seems like it reduces stress down to like it was before we all had internet. It provides an escape like going to the movies used to, or even similar to a short road trip. I changed my phone batteries and it is so amazing to get to do so much more with it while I'm out and still be able to use it to help me figure out what groceries I'm getting at the store, and still have enough charge left on it to not even have to immediately charge it when I get home. My next project is changing the ear pads on my good old Motorola headsets again. So happy I got a multi pack of those the summer before all this lock down. Oh! Plus on my ride the other day, my friend circled around an area of shops hoping she could run in Pet Smart real quick but they had closed earlier than she thought because she had changed all her clocks a week a ahead of time, and was already believing it! 😂 Anyway she drove around the rest of the shopping center telling what was new and what was not there anymore, and suddenly we were at the Academy Sports store, which would've ordinarily taken a more involved longer way to get to, but now, there is finally a bridge over the big deep creek, where we always wished there would be one! There is also a sidewalk on one side of it, which makes me really happy, and behind the Academy store is also a sidewalk all the way along the rest of a road where for years my other friend who is also blind and myself have wished for a sidewalk. This will make those long treks from our Southside Walmart all the way through the newer shops to Target, and then on to the mall, so much easier, with no hard sections of landscaping, sticker fields, or river rocks to try and push extra mobility gear through. I found a news story a few months ago that they changed one of our mall parking lot entrances on the trickier street to cross where it will line up with an actual side street across that way and have a new traffic light crossing where there hasn't been a traffic light or even a four way stop before. So there's also that to look forward to if we ever get to make a whole day of it again, canes, and dog, and chair. It makes it be where we don't have to go along the side of the frontage road on the outer part of freeway loop where it has become crazy with all the exit ramps of cars on triple lanes. All that is near where we went to brunch that day of September 11, 2001. Several used car lots are no longer there and a bunch of new shopping buildings and restaurants have been built. I have probably talked way too long catching up. So good to hear you again Beverly!

I've been loosing vision and i keep having dreams about getting a guide dog. Hmm. How are you? :)