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Well, I raked all the leaves up in the garden, just managed it ..if there had been one more bucketful I couldn't have done it, my back was screeching for it's life...

The trimmers are still not fully charged, so that put an end to anything more today anyway...

I came in washed up.. made dinner of Wild Boar Sausages, Colcannon, and Chestnut mushrooms... sat down, my aching back and watched an old episode of Cheers, where Coach meets a woman, gets engaged, and then she dumps him after winning the lottery..

It's hard to believe that was almost 40 years ago.....it really truly could still be any bar anywhere to this day....
 
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hawkdon said:
Well I had a visual shock upon opening the back door, no not
the bear...but a "pair of tents"!! Quite surprising in this
neighbor hood....the lady who lives there is an R.N., and works
odd hours, unmarried, but have seen a guy there a few times,
now two tents 2person I think, dunno when they went up, overnite I guess....and am seeing two different vehicles
coming/going into her driveway...these tents are about 15 foot
from my back door.....so will see what comes about, hope fully
nothing!!! ;)🎪
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Welp, that was a short camping trip, the tents were gone by noon!!!
 

Had an optician appointment this morning, fortunate to get it at short notice - I think someone must have cancelled. So this week I've done dentist, chiropractor and optician. Today I was prescribed eyedrops and a heated facemask as there are some eye issues but I think it's more preventative.
Also I've put photographs into an album, and put up a new blog post - this one on Dorich House in SW London. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to link websites here but my blog is solirev.com.
 
Second day of my garage sale. There were a lot of people out and about yesterday, some even stopped before the "official" starting time. They are usually guys looking for vinyl records, CD disks, music systems or precious metals. I thought Saturday would be the better day, but it was slow starting. I opened up at 9 am and the first car didn't stop until well after 9:30. The first few didn't buy anything. Between yesterday and today I sold some small items - nothing that would make any difference in volume and certainly not worth the effort (and PLEASE, no lectures on why I keep doing it - I always HOPE).

It's uncanny, but I sold mostly things I acquired the last several months - either BINGO prizes or from the freebie tables at the senior centers, but I still have the same things I've had from day one.

It started raining and there was a severe storm warning issued. I started to pack it up and big ploppy drops of rain fell. Five minutes later the sun was out and it didn't rain again, but I was too tired to set it up again.

I think I'm stuck with those chairs I've been trying to sell for the past 10 years. No one even looks at them; it's like they are invisible - people walk by and don't even glance. When I point them out, the shoppers just look bored. Maybe the reasons are: they are out of fashion, they are upholstered (people seem to be very leery of anything upholstered or fabric), or they don't have room in their vehicle for big stuff. That platform rocking chair weighs about 50 pounds.

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@debodun Am I not looking in the right places? I don't see the chairs you referred to. And yanno what? I'm not gonna nag you about why you do what you do! Nope. People do what they do for their own reasons. I think yours is just because you like to and want to. That and "hope," of course...

Would y'all believe that I had to mow the lawn again? Lots of rain, lots of heat = long grass. There's some trimming to do with Mr. SunJoe, but it's gonna wait until tomorrow because it's too hot to stay outside.

Time to brush Maggiecat. She comes to me and begs every afternoon after she has her supper and gives me the "look."
 
Pepper said:
Yes, @hollydolly, I definitely preferred the London Tube system to NYC, which is grimy and inconvenient
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yes I've heard about ..and seen videos of the condition of the NY tube stations..pretty grim... and from what I understand a hotbed of crime... we're fortunate that ours are very clean and well maintained despite being 160 years old....
 
Doste said:
Had an optician appointment this morning, fortunate to get it at short notice - I think someone must have cancelled. So this week I've done dentist, chiropractor and optician. Today I was prescribed eyedrops and a heated facemask as there are some eye issues but I think it's more preventative.
Also I've put photographs into an album, and put up a new blog post - this one on Dorich House in SW London. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to link websites here but my blog is solirev.com.
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yes you can link the website... (y)

Sounds like you've had a medical week....I've got that this week coming, starting with an Ultrasound scan at the hospital on Monday
 
debodun said:
Second day of my garage sale. There were a lot of people out and about yesterday, some even stopped before the "official" starting time. They are usually guys looking for vinyl records, CD disks, music systems or precious metals. I thought Saturday would be the better day, but it was slow starting. I opened up at 9 am and the first car didn't stop until well after 9:30. The first few didn't buy anything. Between yesterday and today I sold some small items - nothing that would make any difference in volume and certainly not worth the effort (and PLEASE, no lectures on why I keep doing it - I always HOPE).

It's uncanny, but I sold mostly things I acquired the last several months - either BINGO prizes or from the freebie tables at the senior centers, but I still have the same things I've had from day one.

It started raining and there was a severe storm warning issued. I started to pack it up and big ploppy drops of rain fell. Five minutes later the sun was out and it didn't rain again, but I was too tired to set it up again.

I think I'm stuck with those chairs I've been trying to sell for the past 10 years. No one even looks at them; it's like they are invisible - people walk by and don't even glance. When I point them out, the shoppers just look bored. Maybe the reasons are: they are out of fashion, they are upholstered (people seem to be very leery of anything upholstered or fabric), or they don't have room in their vehicle for big stuff. That platform rocking chair weighs about 50 pounds.

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Goodness, that IS a lot of work for just one person..... I can't see the chairs :unsure:
 
Rae said:
hollydollly, you are so ambitious. I wouldn't be able to do that much work. You take care of yourself and get lots of rest tonight.
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Bless you Rae..thank you for thinking of me..:giggle:. I really do a lot of work around this property, it has to be done to keep it well maintained.


My neighbour across the road says he's never known any female to work as hard as me... .. he does a lot around his property as well, but he's now in his 80's and so things have to be done much more slowly.. but his wife, doesn't do anything.

She never drove.. so he's always had to drive her everywhere.. she was on lots of ''committees'', but she didn't help him with anything around the property.. and he said, when he learned my husband had an affair and was gone.. that he was stupid , and didn't know what he'd lost... so that was very kind of him to say that... I think he realises now that maybe his wife should have been more helpful to him ..all too late now they're older, and she had a stroke ..

It's now past 10pm, I have a heatpad on my back because it just got too painful in the end...
 
palides2021 said:
The anxiety you are speaking about, I have witnessed in my mom. They have given her lorazepam, and that seems to help calm her down.
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The clinic I use is cutting out, gradually, my alprazolam (Xanax), and will leave this place when my supply dwindles. I don't take it often enough, I should think of it. I will. I am hyper today, as I walked and sat in sun for 2 hours, which I desperately needed.
 
Visiting family in hot, sunny Florida! Today, we had planned an outing with my mom, sis, and me to do our nails and hair. But it didn't work out as planned; we still had a good time even with all that went wrong.

My sister's young granddaughter, who was staying there, was sick with a high fever, so my sister didn't come along—strike 1.

So I took my 90-year-old mom out instead. First, I took her to have her nails done. I decided I would wait to have mine done with my sister in a few days. As Mom was having them done, I took a walk around the block and, upon returning, stopped at the salon nearby to reserve our hair appointments.

Unbeknownst to me, Mom had asked the lady to cut more of her nails, and she ended up snipping too hard, so there was blood on one toe. The nail person placed a band-aid on it, and my mom did not tell me anything when I returned. I paid for her nails and tipped the lady well. But by the time we walked next door to the salon, when Mom sat down, she showed me the band-aid, which had become bloody. I was pretty upset.

I had never in all my life seen this happen before. So I went to the nail place carrying the band-aid and held it up, showing them how much blood it had. All the staff and women in the nail salon could see it. I know, it sounds gross, but I wanted to make a point because I had tipped the woman well and didn't like what had happened. My mother is elderly, and the last thing I want is for her toe to become infected. The lady in charge came running toward me, and I asked for another band-aid, so she got a bottle and band-aids, followed me to the salon, and took care of my mother's toe—strike 2.

At the beauty salon, I talked to the woman I remembered from my last trip there, and she wrote Mom's name down, but did not take my mom. Instead, she gave her to someone else to cut her hair. I also had my hair cut. Mom asked her hairdresser to shorten it. The hairdresser just kept chopping it without aesthetics, and by the time she finished, Mom's haircut was short and boxlike, like a man's cut, with no soft edges. She was not pleased. I also was not happy with my hair—strike 3.

I will not come back to these places. Yet, we moved on because we knew plenty of other nail and beauty salons in the area for future visits. Nails and hair do grow back. We then went to a nice restaurant, which softened what had happened earlier. We enjoyed it very much. Then I drove her around the sponge docks and picked up a few candles and toys for the sick granddaughter from the dollar store. Mom was happy at the end, and that is all that counted.
 
Pepper said:
The clinic I use is cutting out, gradually, my alprazolam (Xanax), and will leave this place when my supply dwindles. I don't take it often enough, I should think of it. I will. I am hyper today, as I walked and sat in sun for 2 hours, which I desperately needed.
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Lack of sunshine vitamin D is a well known cause and/or aggravation of depression. Ask your Doctor for an Rx for a therapy light. :)
 
Working between the rain sprinkles I got the lawn mowed. It grows quickly right now so I needed to get to it.

One less worry. I hate it when my lawn is high and I hear mowers going outside. A black cloud of guilt. :ROFLMAO:

I see people out there on riding tractors mowing a lot barely larger than mine. Weird. I'd hate to see how much gasoline they burn through. But I can use the exercise, so my mower isn't even self-propelled. It isn't like I have 3 acres or something.
 
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