How is your day Today? Chat about your plans and achievements 2026....

[hawkdon]

Good Friday morning!
my butt in gear, that means I need to dig out the other back brace if I want to keep pushing along.

@hawkdon I hope your landlord did not make a mistake with the increase in your rent.

By caregiver, do you mean for yourself or for your home? I am OK for myself. I cannot find anyone for this house.

I hope everyone has a great day. Can you believe we are going into March already?

Hi Imogene !! Good morning!! WELL I use the term
caregiver loosely, they are basically house cleaners,
but thats basicallly what I need for now...she cleans
up my cluttered mess, 2 hrs alternate week, then just
recently I was approved a 2nd lady to come in the
other week and clean for 2 hrs.But, they also take
me to doctor app'ts, and any errands I need...so it
is working out well for me at this stage....thanks
for asking...have a great day Imogene!!!

 

[IrishEyes]

Whooopie!!! I have to go pay my rent!

 

[Rae]

Good morning everyone. I had a delivery from Walmart and the man took the delivery far up the highway and finally stopped to come back to where I live. I gave him a less than perfect delivery as I spent 40 minutes trying to track him. I think Walmart should hire a better delivery person.

Other than that, it is cloudy but warm at 62 degrees.

I hope you all have a great day.

 

[Trila]

Yesterday, I took my Mom and Holly (her 18 year old cat) for an emergency visit to the Vet. It's a long story, but the end is that Holly is OK....for now. She is in a lot of pain, and she screamed the whole time that they were working on her, but they found 3(!!!!) problems, and now they know how to help her. She went home with 2 steroid shots and an antibiotic shot. It was very traumatic for all of us.

Today we are having warm temps and beautiful sunbeams. For the first time in quite a while, I'm hoping to go for my morning walk. My knee feels OK, but tomorrow is a skating day so I'll be sure to take it easy.

 

[Trila]

He showed up last night and started with the profile messages. Then he posted at least two very articulate replies to a couple of threads. It didn’t even seem like AI had written them. If he’d kept these up for a few days, he likely could have fooled us - for a little while.

I mentioned in another post, I (briefly) belonged to a forum where inappropriate comments happened routinely. It always starts with newbies receiving PM's that seem innocent at first......

Well, let's just say that the format of the message I received here was suspiciously similar to that other place. Ohhhhh, the stories I could tell!!!!

 

[KSav]

....had an email that I'd
been expecting, from landlord, odd tho, my rent is
going up from 939.95 to $945.00 a month, very
surprising that it wasn't much more....

That's not too bad, @hawkdon; I'm glad for you!

I got a postcard saying I'd be getting my lease-renewal letter soon, and I expect another hefty increase, so I've been looking online to compare prices and perhaps move, even though I loathe the thought of moving.

I was surprised to find that the rents everywhere here are extremely high, so I had to Google that, because it's North Dakota!! Who would ever want to live here except the farmers and ranchers who have been here for generations?

But apparently rentals are very scarce, which is driving up local prices. Either way, looks like I can't do much better right now, so I'll just have to pay.

 

[Imogene]

All‘y’all continue to remind me why I stay on this small farm and pay my house payment, that is way smaller than what you folks are forced into paying for rent.

I just went on Zillow and checked the average rent cost in my nearest town. It says $1500 monthly. anything cheaper than that would be somewhere that I would not want to live.

I am still better off with my high rates of homeowner insurance, RE taxes, and paying the neighbor to Bushhog my pastures twice a season.

 

[Paco Dennis]

Oops.

All‘y’all continue to remind me why I stay on this small farm and pay my house payment, that is way smaller than what you folks are forced into paying for rent.

I just went on Zillow and checked the average rent cost in my nearest town. It says $1500 monthly. anything cheaper than that would be somewhere that I would not want to live.

I am still better off with my high rates of homeowner insurance, RE taxes, and paying the neighbor to Bushhog my pastures twice a season.

We have a neighbor friend who deer hunts ( bow and rifle ) our farm, who brush hogs much of our 20 acre farm/forest. Great trade off! we had a Ford 8n tractor and brush hog for many years. They got old and slowly dysfunctional so they were retired, like us.

 

[horseless carriage]

What a day! The hernia had me awake around five am. My wife was such a help, we both got showered and dressed. By now it was six o'clock, the lady made a phone call and left a message along with her number. Your's truly, whilst nursing the bulge and feeling generally sorry for himself, got the car out of the garage.
"Give me the keys," my lady said, hand outstretched. I did as I was told. We went to the local ATM to withdraw some cash and then we were off to the hospital, but just then her phone rang, it was my surgeon's secretary. Pulling over my wife regaled the secretary with my difficulty. "Bring him in," was the no nonsense instruction.
Hospitals are not my favourite destination, but after being pulled about getting the hernia back in and having an appointment for next Monday to assess me for surgery, I would say that so far the day has been a result. All I have to do now is make sure that I, make that we, can balance surgery with our house sale. Here's hoping that we can keep all the balls in the air!

 

[hollydolly]

Good Friday morning!







@hollydolly , I watched the video of the second link you posted. I need to go back and hear it again, when I really have more time; that will be for the third time, lol lol. What you could not have known when you posted that link for me is that fella is from the Appalachian Mountain area. He is not that far from me so taking his thoughts to heart makes a big impact. I live in the foothills of the Cumberland Plateau, which is part of the Appalachian run on the very southern end. Plus he looks like a generally overall “good guy “

that's brilliant...I hope that whatever he suggests is going to work for you... btw I follow a guy on YT who is from the Appalachia region... nothing to do with pest control, but just his general views on the world etc... but his accent is so funny and weird.. and cute at the same time... I get a kick out of listening to him

 

[KSav]

All‘y’all continue to remind me why I stay on this small farm and pay my house payment, that is way smaller than what you folks are forced into paying for rent.

I just went on Zillow and checked the average rent cost in my nearest town. It says $1500 monthly. anything cheaper than that would be somewhere that I would not want to live.

I am still better off with my high rates of homeowner insurance, RE taxes, and paying the neighbor to Bushhog my pastures twice a season.

I totally agree, @Imogene. I posted on a different thread how a small house here would result in much lower monthly payments, although of course I'd be responsible for all maintenance, repairs, lawn care, etc. My problem is that although I have a very good credit score, and I make fairly good money, my debt-to-income ratio is too high to qualify for a mortgage.

I co-signed my older daughter's graduate school loans a few years back, which didn't help because it dinged my credit score. But I'd do that again.

The sad thing is, I am now paying more per month for a studio apartment than we were paying (before the divorce, of course) on the mortgage for a 5-bedroom, 3-bathroom house.

Sorry for straying off topic, everyone.

 

[hollydolly]

I totally agree, @Imogene. I posted on a different thread how a small house here would result in much lower monthly payments, although of course I'd be responsible for all maintenance, repairs, lawn care, etc. My problem is that although I have a very good credit score, and I make fairly good money, my debt-to-income ratio is too high to qualify for a mortgage.

I co-signed my older daughter's graduate school loans a few years back, which didn't help because it dinged my credit score. But I'd do that again.

The sad thing is, I am now paying more per month for a studio apartment than we were paying (before the divorce, of course) on the mortgage for a 5-bedroom, 3-bathroom house.

Sorry for straying off topic, everyone.

you're not OFF topic Ksav... this thread is for us to chat about our days and what's going on in them... whatever that might be