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Had a ripe old time today! My daughter tells me the little chest freezer downstairs is not running. Before I even get down the stairs, I could smell the results! :sick: Carted the whole thing outside, dug a big hole and then buried all the spoiled food. Mostly old stuff but sadly, all the bluegill filets I had from ice fishing perished. Covered it all and covered with lots of scrap concrete to give any digging animals a challenge. My 20 yr old daughter gladly helped me. The freezer was 31 years old so I guess it was time. The large chest freezer next to it that came with the house still runs - that one could easily be 40 or more years old! Going to upgrade the outlet to a dedicated grounded outlet.
 
Well I've done very little today, certainly compared to yesterday.. I should have spaced those jobs out a bit.. but in reality this morning I was really not well, won't go into details but I had to go back to bed until noon, I was so sick..

Anyway I got the clean laundry all hung back up... took delivery of a few more things including a funny and sometimes tongue in cheek book called Very British Problems .. read a little bit and it made me chuckle... I'll enjoy that later..

Filled the drink bowls in the garden with water for the hedgehogs.. every night I do this, and very morning they've drunk the water and then covered the bowls completely with bark chips... no idea why

Made a light grated cheese and baked ham salad for dinner..... and basically did nothing much else today...
 

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Trila said:
I just made a doctor's appointment for my husband 🐐....he might have COVID. Not only is he really, really sick, but he may have cracked several ribs last Saturday. Coughing hurts like hell!

I have another sinus infection, but no fever. So, it looks like another day of laying around.

Sometimes the Golden Years seem a bit rusty! 😂
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Take care of eachother, Trila........sorry he came down with covid.
Hope you both become well soon.
 
Aneeda72 said:
I am fine, but not ready to come back yet. I have not “kept up” with the forum. I finished all my picture sorting and gave them all away, except for the really old family ones. I rejoined ancestry and am going to post all the pictures there and then give the originals to my nephew. I will be sending a lot of my time on my ancestry Project.

This project should take a few months.

My daughter is much better. Her husbands mother lives in LV, NV and we met there a couple of weeks ago for the baby’s fourth birthday. Seems just yesterday the baby was, well, a baby.

Joey refused to come along saying he just gets too tired now to walk much 😢. I worry constantly about him. We take him out to lunch every Saturday but he wants to go home right after. My oldest son is fine and my middle son got through Covid just fine.

I miss everyone here. Thanks for the PMs. But I am less sad off the forum, I notice. I hope everyone is well, happy, and staying safe. Life is back to as normal as it can get in Utah. Gas is 4.50 to 4.85 a gallon and was up to 5 in LV. Now that we can travel, it’s too expensive to do so.
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It was good to hear from you...glad you popped in. Miss you, too!
 
I'm just being happy to be alive, between the news about Ukraine, North Korea's missiles and the massacre in Uvalde. I'm in Dallas and I'm seriously thinking about going to Uvalde to help comfort those families. I don't even have kids, but my heart hurts for them.

@PamfromTx, do you need comfort from outsiders?
 
dseag2 said:
I'm just being happy to be alive, between the news about Ukraine, North Korea's missiles and the massacre in Uvalde. I'm in Dallas and I'm seriously thinking about going to Uvalde to help comfort those families. I don't even have kids, but my heart hurts for them.

@PamfromTx, do you need comfort from outsiders?
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Hi, I think that Uvalde is being overrun with the press, lawyers and people that think this is something to go see. They don't need additional stress with people coming into their town. We need to help by making donations to the appropriate parties that have been set up to be able to help with arrangements, for taking care of the bills that come for their families when they can't work for a length of time. To pay for upkeep to their homes because they will not be able to function for a great deal of time. To pay for counseling for the families. Lastly, if we can, to donate blood to make sure that it is available for that all who need it in times of crisis.
 
Blessed said:
Hi, I think that Uvalde is being overrun with the press, lawyers and people that think this is something to go see. They don't need additional stress with people coming into their town. We need to help by making donations to the appropriate parties that have been set up to be able to help with arrangements, for taking care of the bills that come for their families when they can't work for a length of time. To pay for upkeep to their homes because they will not be able to function for a great deal of time. To pay for counseling for the families. Lastly, if we can, to donate blood to make sure that it is available for that all who need it in times of crisis.
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Great point, thanks! And this is also a place where we can all make a difference.

https://www.everytown.org/
 
hollydolly said:
beautiful day here, but high winds... I had to find a 'fine saw' in the barn to help me saw the plastic border edging.. which I'll do another day when there's no wind.. won't be my finest hour I suspect, cuz sawing isn't my forte but it's a job that needs to be done..if I can do it...
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Holly - I cut mine with branch clippers. I found it much easier!
 
dseag2 said:
I'm just being happy to be alive, between the news about Ukraine, North Korea's missiles and the massacre in Uvalde. I'm in Dallas and I'm seriously thinking about going to Uvalde to help comfort those families. I don't even have kids, but my heart hurts for them.

@PamfromTx, do you need comfort from outsiders?
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First of all, thank you so much for thinking of comforting my fellow Uvaldeans and myself. I cannot keep up with texts, messages, emails and phone calls. My neighbor just realized that I originate from Uvalde and called; had me on phone for about 30 minutes. I'm tired, my eyes are weary and I need to relax for now. Uvalde is getting alot of comforting support from all over. A teacher started a gofundme account for one of the teachers killed whose husband passed away today. It is amazing to see how people are helping out. Thank you again, @dseag2 Much love from my husband and I. ❤️💔❣️

The strange thing is that I'm the one who lives out of town and friends and relatives are calling me for the latest details. I keep telling them that it's all over the news. But, mostly they want to know if I had family members that were victims of this.

Uvalde is a lucky town because they are getting all kinds of support and help to cope with this.
 
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Today my plan is to do laundry, make hard boiled eggs in the IP, then a pot roast in it and after that keep my feet up and watch The Waltons while I color. It depends on how hot it is outside or how my knees are doing on whether I can take a walk or not. It has been good for me to do the walking and I want to do it daily but sometimes I can't. If it is really hot out I don't even go out of my apartment.

Hope you all all have a nice day!
 
hollydolly said:
Well I've done very little today, certainly compared to yesterday.. I should have spaced those jobs out a bit.. but in reality this morning I was really not well, won't go into details but I had to go back to bed until noon, I was so sick..

Anyway I got the clean laundry all hung back up... took delivery of a few more things including a funny and sometimes tongue in cheek book called Very British Problems .. read a little bit and it made me chuckle... I'll enjoy that later..

Filled the drink bowls in the garden with water for the hedgehogs.. every night I do this, and very morning they've drunk the water and then covered the bowls completely with bark chips... no idea why

Made a light grated cheese and baked ham salad for dinner..... and basically did nothing much else today...
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Better today?
 
I've got to finish up some things. Went shopping the other day and didn't finish putting things away. I did laundry too...still have some things to put away. I've been tired because I was also busy doing other things those days. I'm planning to substitute the fall-winter mini space bags in my emergency suitcase with the one containing my spring-summer clothes. I'll also update the medications in there.

I definitely have to catch up on my T.V. shows and social networking, particularly Facebook today. I thought about walking over to the supermarket again today but I'm still feeling tired and it's supposed to start raining momentarily. Maybe later. I'd like to work on some music today as well as make my broccoli-seafood blend stir fry.
 
Terrible weather here.. as the Bard put it, "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May". It looks as if it's been snowing in the garden as the wind blows the blossom off the crab apple trees. Random rain showers too.
I really do need to cut the grass, but that will have to wait. At least the plants in the polytunnel are growing well and the first small tomatoes are appearing.
 
Taking a print to the frame shop to get a new, updated frame … the old one reeked 1980’s… get a new battery for my watch and have lunch with my Prince Among Men 🥰🥰🥰

then it’s off the the financial planner to discuss the monetary nuts and bolts of Retirement in October.

I may need something strong to drink after that, haha.
 
katlupe said:
Today my plan is to do laundry, make hard boiled eggs in the IP, then a pot roast in it and after that keep my feet up and watch The Waltons while I color. It depends on how hot it is outside or how my knees are doing on whether I can take a walk or not. It has been good for me to do the walking and I want to do it daily but sometimes I can't. If it is really hot out I don't even go out of my apartment.

Hope you all all have a nice day!
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is makeing boiled eggs in the IP easier than boiling in a pot?
 
I impatiently waited for the grass in the front yard to dry, so i could mow.......was going to do it later this afternoon.....but....rain forecasted for then.
Got it mowed.....good thing.....light showers started.
Great news......
Rain forecasted for the next 4 to 5 days. :cautious::(:confused::cautious::cautious::cautious::cautious:
 

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