Reflections of My Life

katlupe said:
Thank you, Radish! I will do my best for them.

A dog wash is a big room in the back of Tractor Supply. They have everything you need to shower your dog. The tubs are stainless steel and have a ramp and a door built into the side of the tub. Once your dog is inside you shut the door. The showers have handheld sprayers that you control and many different types of shampoo and conditioners. Then there is table to dry them on with built in hair dryers.

I am not sure what it cost. I will find out. But what is nice is that you can stand up while you bathe your dog which is good for Sonny. So it is worth it. Cinnamon likes it.


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This is a great idea! I wish we had something like this in my area for between visits to the groomer. My grandson comes over to wash my dog in the tub because I just can't get down there to do it. Rather, get back up.

This would be a good business venture for someone I think.

Thanks for the info.
 
RadishRose said:
This is a great idea! I wish we had something like this in my area for between visits to the groomer. My grandson comes over to wash my dog in the tub because I just can't get down there to do it. Rather, get back up.

This would be a good business venture for someone I think.

Thanks for the info.
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Do you have a Petco nearby? Many of them have dog washes. Tractor Supply too.
 

katlupe said:
I was getting ready for Sonny to get here and go to the coffee hour meeting downstairs today when my neighbors across the hall came to me when I got off the elevator after getting my mail. They said they wanted to talk to me in private???? We went into my apartment and then they told me that neither one of them can do the meetings and plan the activities anymore. They both have health issues among other things. They discussed it and I was the only person they thought could do the job.

I was SO surprised and truly honored! It means handling the funds that are collected for dues ($2.00 a month and not everyone gives or has to). I went to the meeting and they spoke up and told everyone there I would be taking over. I will try to do a good job.

I will get the book and the rest of the stuff for this tomorrow. They will help me learn how to do it.

After the meeting, Sonny and I went upstairs to talk to another friend about her mobility scooter. She has two and wants to get rid of this one that is sitting outside her door. She said she will sell it real cheap. She is a real sweet lady so I would like to help her. The thing is that this scooter has not been started in a long time, even though she used to use it. The batteries have to be replaced so there was no way to try it out.

I think she thought Sonny would be able to sell it to someone since he sells all kinds of things. It is purple (my favorite color) and would be really sharp if she was able to clean it up. I think maybe she should get someone to clean it for her. The seat is beautiful. It is called a Rascal 300 and when I looked them up, seems like they went out of business but Walgreens seems to have a supply of them still (probably bought a large amount when they went out of business). If someone was able to buy the batteries for it (not cheap about $300 for the two it needs) and buy it from her for less than a hundred dollars it would probably be a good buy.
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i been reading your blog too. enjoying it immensely. have fun with the activity director thing in your building.
 
I think the medicine is working on Rabbit's eye infection. I have put it in his eye three days in a row and today it looked so much better. I was just looking at him and trying to look closely at his eye and he ran and hid from me! When I put it in his eye, I just grab him and do it real fast. He hardly has time to react.
 
Last night I watched one of my favorite video channels, Little Poet, and she really hit home for me and how I feel about living alone. Her video is
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Though I do have a man in my life I am preparing for sometime in the future, for not having him. His health appears to be getting worse little by little. I value every minute with him for now. Every morning he calls me to say Good Morning and if he sleeps late, I worry. If he calls I say "Thank you, Lord!" I always pray for him among others who are important to me every night.

One thing I know about living alone is that your life now can focus on you. Self-care is a good thing. As a wife, mother and as a daughter too, I was always taking care of others first. I came last. Now is my time and I love it. I think the reason working at a job has been good for you in the past is that it causes you to have a routine. Without a routine in your life, it is like driving across the country without a map and not knowing where you will end up.

As a daughter, I assisted in caring for my mother who was crippled for 24 years before she died in 2002. I do not have a daughter. My son is disabled himself and he has a phobia of anything medical. If I was in a hospital, he would never be able to come to visit me let alone assist with my care or conversations with doctors about my care. I am on my own.

When I moved here, I did not know what would come of the relationship I had with Sonny. He was my fakebook friend and he helped me to get out of my house and marriage. I had prayed and prayed to do that and thought God didn't see me. Then I figured he sent Sonny (of all people!) to help me. Even though we had gone to school from K-4 in the same class, I didn't remember him. So when he first came to my house to take me to doctor appointment, I felt like I was meeting him for the first time.
 
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This morning I had every intention of going to the store on Jazzy. Except that it was making a funny clicking sound and I was afraid to drive it. If I got stranded with it broken down on the street it would be hard to get it home. Sonny came here and took the wheel off and said it was okay for me to drive. He sees that the tires should be easy to change and said he can do it right in my apartment. So he will be doing that soon.

We have been watching a movie, he is now asleep in my recliner. I went to clean the bunny cage and when I came back he was sleeping. So I will let him sleep. I think his medication makes him sleepy.
 
For the three years I have lived here I have been attending the coffee hour, Bingo games and potluck suppers downstairs. As I have said before, only a handful of people go. They are always enjoyable social times with others who live here. A few months ago we had a new woman move in downstairs and ever since she has been whining about everything during these events. Now she has paired up with another woman who has lived here about five years who is not easy to get along with.

So yesterday, I was called to the manager's office and there were 4 others in the office, those two and my two neighbors from across the hall. Were there chairs for all of us? No, the troublemakers had their chairs, I had my walker to sit on and one had a mobility chair and one had to stand. Very rude if you ask me! Anyway, the manager wanted to discuss our "meeting" from last Friday.

It seems that the new woman is having a problem with the fact that I was taking over the money collected from our $2. dues and nobody else was asked or considered. And that the money is not in a bank account. She kept saying her church does not do it that way. Well, this group is like I said, a handful of people. We are lucky if we have 10 people at the suppers. And the money is used for buying coffee, paper towels, creamer, dish soap, etc. Plus if someone comes home from the hospital they are sent something like a flower arrangement, fruit basket, a plant, gift basket, etc. If someone, someone's spouse, child or grandchild dies a donation is made to a charity in their name.

It was a horrible meeting with our manager. She did listen and I thought handled it best she could. But no matter what, the other two women have told her lies about our meetings and about one of the women (the one who with her husband has been doing this since she came here). My two neighbors both left angry, one crying after trying to defend herself. She has health problems and lately has trouble coming up with the word she wants to say. The others, I felt were cruel to her.

I stayed. I talked a lot for me. I never lost my cool, so the manager listened to me. In the end, I can keep doing this and we can have our coffee hour and other activities. One of the things the manager thought (from those two) was that our coffee hour is a meeting about the building and management. It is not. It is about setting up the dates of our activities. It is about who will host the potluck supper then next month. It is about finding out if anyone has been in the hospital and when they are coming home and what to send them (some people can't have fruit baskets, some can't have plants or flowers, etc.). I explained that to her.
 
kat,

It sounds like you handled the situation very well.

Much better than I would have!

I wonder if you could increase participation by sending an invitation to each resident of the building.

Nothing fancy, a half sheet of paper printed on your computer and slipped under each person’s door.

Good Luck, stay strong! 🌷🌼🌸🌻
 
I am not so sure I am going to do it after all. I will offer to help do the paper work or writing out the receipts. But I do not want the money or to be handling it. Maybe we will stop the dues and just everyone take a turn of buying coffee and other things needed for coffee hour. No more gift baskets or arrangements. Just enjoy a social hour together talking to each other. We can still have Bingo and the Potluck Suppers.

I think I will start out the next coffee hour by saying that. Plus those two had a problem with Sonny coming to our activities. Just because they don't have a man to share their lives with doesn't mean I should have to go without mine! LOL

The next coffee hour I will ask everyone there if they have a problem with Sonny being there. And if they do, then Sonny, nor I, will ever come to the activities again. I don't think anyone but these two have that problem. Neither one of them have been regulars to any of our activities the whole time I have been here. Well, the new one just moved in a few months ago and she does not come every time we have something.

In fact, I just came up from the Bingo game and Sonny was there and everyone was happy to see him. He is a jokster and makes everyone laugh. He has gone to Walmart for me right now.
 
kat,

I can understand declining to head the group but don’t let these people keep you from attending the group activities in your building.

One thought as the head of the group, you could appoint one of these two ladies treasurer and turn the responsibility of the money over to one of them. At each meeting they could report the balance collect the dues etc...

Good luck with your decision.
 
Yesterday my aide was here and is coming back again today. I think she will work out fine. She will probably lose weight ( she doesn't need to lose weight though) since she will not take the elevator by herself. So to do my laundry she carries the basket of laundry down the stairs, up and down several times. She comes back breathing a bit hard. She is thin so it shouldn't be a problem for her.

I love having the help! She vacuumed, did laundry and helped me clip Rabbit's back claws. She held him while I did it. I don't think she ever held a bunny before and I told her to hold him tight but she was afraid of hurting him. He seems delicate but you have to have a tight grip on a rabbit or they can jump out of your arms and break a leg in a split second. We got it done and now I can keep them clipped.

Right now I am getting a pork shoulder roast ready to put in the Instant Pot for supper. I will use the IP as a slow cooker but not using the "slow cook" function, but the "manual" one. I am planning on freezing half of the cooked roast for future meals. Maybe more than half because these things look small but make a lot. I don't like to eat it for more than 2 days really.
 
Aunt Bea said:
kat,

I can understand declining to head the group but don’t let these people keep you from attending the group activities in your building.

One thought as the head of the group, you could appoint one of these two ladies treasurer and turn the responsibility of the money over to one of them. At each meeting they could report the balance collect the dues etc...

Good luck with your decision.
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I think we will keep it as a group of friends and neighbors not an official organization. Then it stops being fun. After all this trouble it makes me not want to be involved in the organizing of it. If those others want to organize something, they can do it on their own. I have more important things to worry about than worrying about ruffling someone's feathers.
 
Sonny and I went upstairs to my friend's apartment last week and I took pictures of her scooter she wants to sell. I finally edited the photos and sent them to Sonny. He listed it on Fakebook Marketplace. Now he is on his way here to meet a potential buyer at 7. My friend wanted $75. for it but he listed it for $150. and this buyer did not mention the price. Probably thought it was cheap enough.

Sonny said as soon as he listed it, he had people begging to buy it. If this person does not buy it he has 4 back up people right now. It is being sold as is because we can't test it. My friend said she used it but it needs batteries now because I think she let it sit without using it and that ruins the batteries. So we will see what happens.

I am fixing supper now for Sonny and me since he will be here. I hope he likes the pork roast! It smells and tastes so good!
 
Well, Sonny had supper with me last night then the buyer came to see my friend's scooter. A mother and daughter, in fact. They bought the scooter for $150. no trying to get the price down. My friend was happy! She tried to give Sonny something for doing that for her but he would not take a dime. He was flooded with people wanting to buy that scooter! All through supper his phone kept dinging with messages.

It is unseasonably warm. For October for sure. Many years we have already had a bit of snow. In August, I am ready for fall so I am more than ready for cold weather.

Not sure what I am doing today.
 
Nobody will be doing the money for our community events now. We are taking all the money that has accumulated, mostly due to covid and not being able to do things, and we are donating it to the guy upstairs who has had very serious health issues this year. He probably can use it due to medical bills and things. As of now, there will no longer be any dues and each of us will try to provide coffee and essentials for our events. I think this will be better. No fighting from the people who don't come to these things anyway.
 

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