How is your day Today? Chat about your plans and achievements 2025....

Good morning to everyone. It is sunny and warmer today at 71 degrees. I had a mixed up delivery from Walmart as they didn't deliver one item, so now it is scheduled for later today. Amazon sent my Cascade dishwasher pods by UPS and they are not being delivered today or yesterday as scheduled. I wonder now about those deliveries not happening when ordered.

I hope all of you have a great day. :)
 

Trila said:
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Today will be another busy one for me. After the gym this morning, we're heading over to Wal-Mart for a bigger shopping trip. I don't actually "need" anything, but we like to keep over stocked at this time of year. Even though our weather is mostly mild, if/when winter does hit, we don't go out on the roads. So we try to be prepared, in case we are home for a week or two.
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I do the same, @Trila. Plus, living alone, I like to be well stocked on everything at all times, just in case.

It's warm here today, too. Well, 24 F, which is warm for here for this time of year.

I'm going to take a break from work and run out to pick up a few things and fill up on gas. I also hope to get a walk in later on the indoor track at a local fitness facility. Last October I bought a set of 12 day passes because I knew my outdoor walks were coming to an end for several months.

Hope everyone's day is going well.
 

DD rang and said that she'd got an alert that all 4 tyres of her Rav4 had lost pressure since Sunday due to the cold and snow.. and telling me to check my tyres before I go anywhere..

Her Rav4 does everything but cook the dinner.. my new car is a very basic car I have no fancy warnings on mine.....so I will check them before I go anywhere ...

i want to load all the recycle and donations into the car in a little while..It's dark now at 4.15pm... but there's a glorious sunset North east.. so I'm hoping that will bring sunshine tomorrow... so I can get those things taken tomorrow ...because the rest of the week heavy snow is predicted.

All that said, they start on my utility room in 2 days, I'm dreading that.. the electric will be off, and the back door will be wide open all day every day ..in SNOW..it's gonna be freeezing ! 🥶 🥶
 
HoneyNut said:
I'm feeling so 'on hold' today. My old cat died this past weekend (felt surprisingly unexpected considering I've been expecting it for months, but he'd been getting Solensia arthritis injections the past three months and doing so much better I was lulled into thinking he could last several more months) and I've applied to adopt a cat, but I'm waiting to hear back, the cat adoption process seems way too long and complicated, I feel like I'm applying for a job.
Here is the YouTube ad for the cat I've applied for (application thru the local county SPCA, so not just a YouTube scammer):
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Good luck with Patches.
 
KSav said:
I do the same, @Trila. Plus, living alone, I like to be well stocked on everything at all times, just in case.

It's warm here today, too. Well, 24 F, which is warm for here for this time of year.

I'm going to take a break from work and run out to pick up a few things and fill up on gas. I also hope to get a walk in later on the indoor track at a local fitness facility. Last October I bought a set of 12 day passes because I knew my outdoor walks were coming to an end for several months.

Hope everyone's day is going well.
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We have mild winters here (71°F today), but when we do get cold snaps, it's not unusual to get ice storms, and that's when things can get bad...including power outages. Even if we don't lose power (only happens once every 5-10 years), I just don't want to go out in bad weather!! I used to go out when I was younger, but now I'm retired and don't have to. I'll stock up on the nice days, and hibernate on the bad days! LOL
 
I'm on Day Three of petlessness. It is depressing to not have a pet greeting me at the door, getting up when I get up (even for each pee time), settling in on the bed at bedtime, etc. This is the first I've been petless since my mid-twenties. When my first cat got old and died it was pre-computer era and I called a rescue place and asked if there was any cat available immediately and there was, so I didn't need to go even one night alone. Then for each of the subsequent pets that have passed away there were other pets living in the house (or in the barn available to be surprised into becoming a housecat).

Tomorrow the cat I applied for is coming to visit me (and then assuming they follow the process they outlined, I'll have to give her back until the weekend while they check my references etc). I cannot believe how complex the organization makes a pet adoption, I'm really regretting not having gone to a shelter to pick one out of a line of cages and getting an instant cat-baby. But I hadn't realized this cat rescue wasn't part of the official local one, their name sure sounded like they were, but they turn out to be an independent cat rescue (with highest rating on charity navigator but obviously that site doesn't care about the rescue torturing the potential adopters! ha). I have literally had a human foster child with less red-tape.

It seems like not having a pet makes me grumpy.
 
Imogene said:
@[B]OneEyedDiva big high five to you for balancing your checkbook.[/B] Husband was a stickler on balancing his checkbook right to the penny. I, on the other hand, used to call the bank in the old days and say how am I doing lol lol

I pretty much know how much should be in there and if I’m even close, that’s good enough for me🫣🥸🫣🥸.

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Monday, I got my chiropractic treatment and restarted, spinal decompression. Whether I can afford it or not, insurance won’t pay for any of this, I have to keep having the spinal decompression if I want to get any work done that amounts to anything.

I got the new battery for what was husband’s four wheeler. Tuesday is supposed to be a really nice day, so hopefully when I put the new battery in the four wheeler, it will actually start.

I still have to jack up the other four wheeler so I can take its flat tire to town and find out what’s wrong with it. if it just lost its bead, I’ll have them fix it. If it’s punctured, I’m not messing with it. I’m buying a new one.🤯🤯

I bought some dog and horse feed in my county‘s Tractor supply. They are starting to annoy me. While they had more bags of “my” horse feed on the shelf, it was way outdated. I had to buy something else from the same feed company. I mentioned it to the girl at the checkout, but I know that store’s manager well enough to know she probably won’t say anything to him, because the manager won’t listen to her anyway.

I needed a gate snap. After several moments of hunting, I found what I needed on the highest hook on the wall. Thankfully, I was able to hook it with my cane. I thought it was $7.99. I mentioned to the girl that’s pretty expensive for gate snap so she scanned it and said it’s $23 and my mouth dropped to the floor. I said put that thing back. I’ll order one through a farm Catalogue. So I looked online and I think she misread. $23 was for a pack of snaps. Still, I found them online through my Farm catalogs for $4.99 apiece.

I remembered that, somewhere in the barn, I have a good size container of metal fasteners so I went digging for it. Once I found it, I went digging for gate snaps and what do you know I found an open pack of gate snaps that I had bought so many years ago, I don’t remember when I bought it. Five of the six snaps were still in the pack. I’m pretty sure I didn’t pay more than a couple dollars apiece for those snaps. I saved myself quite a bit of money, and the broken snap has been replaced on the gate essentially for free lol lol.
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Thank you Imogene. I've actually got four checkbooks to balance. One I don't do often because I rarely use that account. I've micro-managed my finances for 53 years. It's the only way I was able to manage when I was "Poor Girl". It's a habit that became so ingrained that I can't stop, even though I've been in great financial shape since I was in my 40s.

I also like to keep up with things for my son's sake. Wouldn't want him to have a reconciliation "nightmare" to deal with if I were to become ill or pass away. And good for you for not paying a ridiculous price for the gate snap and finding what you needed.
 
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hollydolly said:
All that said, they start on my utility room in 2 days, I'm dreading that.. the electric will be off, and the back door will be wide open all day every day ..in SNOW..it's gonna be freeezing ! 🥶 🥶
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Fun times for you coming up. NOT! I save those kind of projects for summer for those very reasons. Surely they won't have to cut off power to the entire house? Just for the area where they're working, I hope??? If it's a utility room, is plumbing involved? Risk of water lines freezing?
 
Good morning everyone. It is a warmer day today at 77 degrees. I went on Amazon to check my delivery which was to be delivered Monday and now they say I have to wait until Friday to get a refund if it isn't delivered. UPS has no record of it being shipped from Amazon. I will probably order it from Walmart, instead of waiting.

I hope all of you are feeling well and have a good day. :)
 
Cloudy day here,,snow is melting,, grass is showing.
As is a muddy ATV track across the lawn,, ground didn't freeze with snow on it.

Hubby has someone to help him fix the snow plow & what ever else that needs fixed.

Time to take down the greeting cards.

And dream up a yummy meal.

Hope everyone has a good day.
 

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