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Georgiagranny said:
I made the dessert stuff. I think it's gonna be waaay to sweet, but what do I know?

Yesterday DS called asking for a copy a photo of my dad on a boat in the middle of Lake Superior holding up a huge rainbow trout that he'd just caught. That picture is famous in our family. The fish was even taken to the taxidermist and mounted.

Lemme tell ya! I've turned this place upside down looking for the photo. I have a big box where all the pictures are kept. All the pictures except that one. It's driving me right around the bend...and I've even gone so far as to take the backs off framed pictures to see if maybe I'd put it behind something. Nope.

I did find some of my favorite snapshots of the kids when they were little, though, and probably after I become a crispy critter, DD will come across the picture of my dad and the fish.

@hollydolly I agree with Debra Mae. Don't go. If you've already declined with polite thanks once, don't respond to the other texts. That's altogether creepy.
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that's what I've been doing, just ignoring him, not replying since I told him I was no longer interested in going, and he's bombarding me with messages ... I've now blocked him
 

Left: I am wrapping medication for my loyal and beloved senior pup Ross (9 years, 95 pounds) in cheap Hamburger meat (25% fat.) All my Boxer pups are adopted from private Boxer rescues and public shelters. Also Heidi (4 years, 65 lbs,) and Otto (6years, 85 lbs.)
As a senior, I am too old to tolerate little puppies. My grandson got a hyperactive Beagle puppy, and it gets on my nerves when visiting us.
Right: To strengthen my bones when falling while hiking with my pups, my PCP insists that I am taking this medication for two years.

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Luckily, I did not forget Valentine's Day this time. Red roses are always a hit. I can never buy enough of them. This time I added a pecan pie.
In return, my wife cooked for me (below left) a delicious oxtail stew in a crock pot. I love it.

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Right: We desperately need more rain, but it's a mixed blessing. Yesterday's rain found a new way below the pipes to flow out under the fence, and now I have to fix this "leak." I probably will reroute the small creek through a pipe to where the water should go, and then cementing everything to make this area leak-prove. In heavy rain, the bottom of the fence will open up. If you have a piece of land, then you never run out of work.

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Today I had a text from the engineers from my internet provider, who are coming to install all the new wiring on the 24th of this month, telling me they had completed the work necessary their end of the network and can now do mine a week earlier.. so I've agreed to that...


I've been binge watching some shows on TV today that I've missed since I couldn't get into the channel for the last couple of weeks, and now all the channels are running great since I had the new box fitted yesterday.. and a shiny new remote cotrol..and I even have all the film channels as well. They're free for the first month, but I will cancel at the end of the month because i'm not a film person, and any that I might want to watch I can see on my Mac..or on netflix...
 

@hollydolly So he knows y'all are in the same area but doesn't know exactly where you live, right? Lordy, I hope not!

I was right about dessert. OMG, it is so so so sweet. I warmed a little up in the nuke box and smothered it with French vanilla ice cream and still too sweet . This stuff could produce a diabetic coma, no kidding. In future, I'm gonna stick with the old standbys, never mind trying the new recipes.

I didn't make my bed today. It's gotten to be such hard work...not kidding...that when I'm only about half done, I have to take a break for a few minutes before finishing. So. I've decided that I'm only going to straighten it as much as possible and give up getting it all neat and tidy.

I remember my mother telling me years ago that the hardest work she did all day was making her bed, and vacuuming was a close second. So far, vacuuming is okay.

There used to be a time when I couldn't stand to see dust on anything or a dirty dish in the sink. The way I handle it now is to just not look;)

This old 💩 is really getting old🤬.
 
hollydolly said:
Before I married my husband 90 % of my friends were male... I lost that during the time I was married.. and since of course those guys have all got involved with women one way or another and their lives have moved on..so I'm not a stranger in any way to platonic realtionships with males...

I dunno this guy he's just giving me the wrong signals.. I think if he lived further away, I might not feel so concerned about going for the one drink, I could disapear if I wanted to....but he lives very close.. and I've never even met him yet, never even had a conversation with him, and he's already pestering me...
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I believe it trusting your instincts! I take back my encouragement to go out. If you are getting a bad vibe, then I agree that it's best to stay clear!
 
Not to worry! If the tornado touched down here, I wasn't aware and obviously, it didn't hurt me. According to my phone, it happened around 430 this morning. It's still as dark as the inside of a pocket so I'm not able to see if there's any damage nearby.

Wait! Omigosh! What woke me up around that time was what I thought was a weird sounding and long, long roll of thunder. Eeek. That was a tornado!
 
I have dug deep and am now sure I know the worst thing I ever did in my life. It was important for me to get there. I'm going to dig deeper to make sure, but I think I hit upon it. Don't want to go into detail, sorry. It's for me to mull over and find peace & forgiveness from it.

Do you know the worst thing you ever did in your life? Do you want to know?

Coming toward the end here..........could be today, could be the 12 years + that I asked for, but it's coming.

The worst thing I ever did is just a blip. If it is the worst thing, I wonder how bad can I be? Admittedly, it could have had a very bad outcome for someone, but I don't think that happened.

Not being morose, just thoughtful..........
 
That weather is coming our way. It's very breezy out, windy overnight as one band came through.
No sourdough making this week. DH and I are lowering carbs to shed some holiday baggage.
My daughter's family is flying out this morning to a ski vacation in Colorado. Ugh! The wind! I hate them flying right now but I'm sure they'll be fine. 🤔
I'm cooking the frozen turkey I got for .29 a lb at Thanksgiving with a promo. I'll portion it out to freeze for meals.
 
Thanks for breakfast, @hawkdon. I had chocolate pudding for dessert. It was left over from last night's Dessert for Dinner. Since I use Jiffy cake mix instead of a regular size cake mix, the rest of the recipe has to be halved so that's where the chocolate pudding came from.

Even DD, whose sweet tooth is bigger than mine, agreed that last night's dessert was over the top and needed lots of ice cream to make it edible.

There's nothing on today's agenda. It's too cold and windy to even go out to clean up the fallen branches from last night's storm.

Thirty-two days until spring. DST starts three weeks from today.
 
The Mercedes van that I had hoped to convert into a camper van but never found the time, has now found a new home and the bank balance looks much healthier.

The tailor who makes the rest of my wardrobe, rest meaning that which my wife doesn't, asked for a photo of me wearing the grey blazer. As it's Sunday I wore it to church, where, after the service, it elicited favourable comments.
There's a rather good pub/restaurant that I had hoped to book a table for lunch today. Not a chance, it was booked up solid.

After church I dropped my wife off at home, she had kindly volunteered to cook today's lunch, I then went off to get a couple of ID photos for a replacement driver's licence, after which I had the car washed, then, on an impulse, I called into that pub. The place was absolutely packed. At the desk I explained how disappointed we were, and I was told that today's popularity is probably an over-spill from St. Valentines Day.

Whilst there, I booked a table for next Sunday, the fellow taking the booking quipped: "If I had known that you were going to turn up dressed like that I would have set you up a table in the kitchen, that being the only space left. We laughed and shook hands. On the way out a couple of ladies, from a group of friends, admired the blazer, one saying, "that's how real gentlemen once dressed." Oh wow, what a compliment.

Later on this evening we are off to see a local band The Boogie Bumpers, they are actually playing at the same place that we missed out on, for lunch that is. They are a great band and play songs from the era. We are not able to dance yet, the lady's heart is still in recovery, but we can watch others and enjoy the music.

This is the blazer that all the fuss was about.
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Well, as I feared and half-predicted yesterday, all went swimmingly with TGS until 9:30 PM. He'd happily gone to sleep around 8, but woke up crying. I soothed him for a while, but when he said he wanted his mommy, I asked if he wanted to go home. Yes.

Ok, no prob. DH called DS and said we'd be on our way shortly. They only live 7 miles away, so no biggie.

We otherwise had a great day with him yesterday. He helped make 12 pizza doughs, and was remarkably good at at. I told him his big cousins were coming for pizza tomorrow and he could help me make the doughs into pizzas. He was very excited at the prospect.

DS texted me at 7:30 this morning and said when TGS woke up, the first thing he asked was whether he could go to Tootsie & Papa's to make pizza today. ❤️ (We'd already arranged with DS for TGS to come back again today.)

Since this was the third in a row of sleepovers that didn't stick, I'm done with trying until at least summertime - maybe longer. Might give it a whirl sometime soon with his baby brother though...
 
Like a lot of folks, storms rolled through this morning. (No tornados). What was funny was there was no gentle rain increasing to heavier rain. One minute it wasn’t raining, the next second it was coming down like someone had turned the spigot wide open. Our cat, Sylvester, got caught outside when it started… he just a black-and-white streak across two yards.. came in wet, disheveled and cranky.

Church was lovely this AM; practicing Lenten music. Our director is really stretching us (in a good way). He’s able to keep it fun while still getting us to do new things. There is lots of laughter along with harmonizing 🎶😄🎶

Had beef/ barley/ veg soup for lunch and Now going to chill… y’all have a lovely day!
 
I forgot to mention that we has a power outage yesterday (downed transformer). Outages are rarer than hen's teeth around here, so I don't think TGS has dealt with one before.

He didn't understand why the lights, TV, garage opener, etc., wouldn't work. My son happened to call and I told him what was up. He said, "Just tell him the batteries ran out."

Tried it, and TGS didn't question why things wouldn't work anymore. :ROFLMAO:
 
I got really weirdly tired on my walk today, and had to sit down on a bench for a while, then came back early (a few thousand steps short of my usual goal).
Now I'm suspecting I had cyanide poisoning, apparently Lima beans have to be boiled for at least 10 minutes and the water drained off, and I'd prepared mine last night in the microwave. According to chatgpt I ate one ounce beyond the safe quantity if prepared in a microwave.
Seems that it takes 24 hours to the body to get rid of the cyanide, and it can cause a low heart rate. My heart rate wasn't low on my walk when I got tired, but maybe it needed to go higher and couldn't get up there easily. But other symptoms would be dizziness and stuff, which I didn't have. So, maybe I can't blame the Lima beans.
 
When I woke up this morning around 6:30 opened my livingroom blinds saw that there was ice on tree limbs
I decided not a good day to go outside. Then around 9:30 it started to snow,temps have been falling during the day. My exercise today was walking my long hallway a couple of times this morning& afternoon
Tonight I'll be watching season finale of 'Miss Scarlet' at 8pm,then 'All Creatures Great&Small on PBS at 9pm
 

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