Share Your Day (January 2013)

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Elena

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Do you have something you want to celebrate? Did a special event happen in your household? Do you want to vent? I thought it would be nice to have a designated place to do it. What has happened in your 24 hrs?

I will start by saying today I am battling sinus problems, didn't get to sleep until after 5:AM so now I am bummed out, sitting here drinking some tea, at least the tea is delicious :) I'm hoping that I can feel better before work tonight, when I am feeling better I will answer some replies on this forum. Have a great day y'all:)
 

Celebrate another beautiful day today, I have a Vision appointment, grocery shopping and who knows what else will come along. Whatever comes my way I will appreciate it and do my best to make it great.
 
Hope you're feeling better Elena! :girl_hug: It's been a bit windy around here, and I've been a little sneezy myself. Yesterday I enjoyed a nice walk in the park with my doggie, windy but otherwise beautiful. Stopped on the way home and picked up a pizza from a really good pizzaria by me. The day was uneventful otherwise, nothing special, got a little bit of housework done and just enjoyed some relaxation after that. Today will likely be a carbon-copy, minus the pizza, lol.
 

Pchinvegas Love that attitude, appreciating your life is one of the keys to happiness, life is truly what we make it to a great extent:)

SeaBreeze Thanks, appreciate your kind words, I hope I feel better too, I actually had to leave work early last night because I got worse in feeling sick to the stomach and dizzy, dizziness is gone but my stomach is still upset, I took off today so I will be home for 2 days, that will be a blessing to me. I just got through trying to eat a little something so while I'm still sitting up I thought I would visit the board and see what's happening. I am really enjoying the interaction here at Senior Forums, enjoy your day and I will chat with you later:)
 
Hi Elena, hope you're feeling better ,is it the flu'? the papers here ( Adelaide S.A.) say there's a new type of flu'
going around in the US right now and that it will make it's way here too, I have a vacc. ev'ry April
so have avoided being ill for years now, take care :)
 
Elena, hope you're feeling better by now. Mr. TWHRider is battling a sinus infection -- he's never had one in his life, nor the headaches that seem to accompany same.

We're blaming all this "change" on his heart attack last year - it couldn't possibly have anything to do with getting old - lol lol

Yesterday I went after a pallet of shavings for the stalls and paid the homeowners premium. That was a HUGE ouchee in the checkbook.

This morning I have to file on my foundered horse's hooves; it's too complex for non-horse folks but the bottom line is I have to keep his heels filed down so the Trimmer isn't back to square one, on his next visit. The goal is to push along the de-rotation process inside the hoof, since it isn't doing much to help itself.

Speaking of horse folks, "Ozarkgal" hasn't been on since the storms -- I sure hope all is well in her direction:confused:
 
Thanks to Maggis and Rider for asking about me, that's very sweet :)

Maggis I have no idea what this is, a Doc once told me that when they don't know what it is, they say virus :) I just know that my stomach is still upset but I don't feel like I want to heave like I did the other evening so I do seem to be getting a little better.

Rider Sinus problems runs in our family, I started getting troubled with it as a teenager and actually it has gotten a lot better with age, I don't have as many flare-ups as I did when I was younger. I don't know much about horses but I do admire the beautiful animals and once rode piggy-back on one when I was a young girl, I remember being surprised at how high in the air I was on that horse, somehow I didn't expect that but what fun it was! I was curious as to how long it takes you to do that filing?
 
Can you say "SPRING FEVER" it's 66 degrees, sunny and I've been on the porch all morning. Wait ! It's January ! But, damn I love this. Gotta get the porch ready for the Superbowl Party, we are planning a big Pot Luck with friends. I will keep my fingers crossed for weather this nice.
Hope everyone is enjoying the day !

 
pchinvegas Oh that sounds wonderful...the porch, Superbowl Party and all, I'm afraid it's catch-up housework for me today but I will enjoy the sunshine beaming in through my windows, it's a 60 degree sunny day here in California, not bad :) I'm still feeling a bit under the weather so not sure how far I'll get but I'm gonna try and do a little something here because it desperately needs it.
 
TWHRider said:
Speaking of horse folks, "Ozarkgal" hasn't been on since the storms -- I sure hope all is well in her direction:confused:
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Hoping the Mr. feels better soon TWH! :positive: I've been missing Ozarkgal too, hope she's just busy with other things, and everything's okay her way. :concern:
 
Elena, until my back and the arthritis in my hands got the better of me, I was doing my own trimming of the entire hoof; that took anywhere from 30 - 40 minutes per horse.

I have two brothers that do the major work now but I have one horse that has some hoof issues. His heels grow faster than they should so I file them down twice a week with the horse-sized version of a finger nail file. After cleaning the hoof out, the actual filing takes me about 45 seconds because I'm only doing the heels. Pretty painless effort - I only file a couple millimeters (literally) at a time and have to make sure I keep the hoof perfectly level from side-to-side.

Seabreeze, Mr. TWHRider seems better but we say "I'm ok" to each other so much, I have to watch "His Crankiness" to see if he really is better - lol lol Either the headaches are starting to go away or he's getting used to dealing with them - lol lol lol
 
Good Morning Everyone, another day with great potential is upon us. I have no great plans but I'm sure I will find thing to keep me busy. I am so looking forward to getting back to my part time gig at Kohls. Been out of work since December but on the mend and ready to face those precious greedy "Coupon Vultures" who strive to make out work day as challenging as possible, and I so love a challenge ! Hope everyone has a great day !
 
Rider That's good you have some help Rider, we non-horse people don't think of all the things it takes to care for them, never thought of the hoofs needing filing, I couldn't imagine what else you must do for them now that I think of it. I was wondering if this is arthritis in my fingers that I was feeling today, we will see...take care, chat with ya later:)
 
pchinvegas said:
I am so looking forward to getting back to my part time gig at Kohls. Been out of work since December but on the mend and ready to face those precious greedy "Coupon Vultures" who strive to make out work day as challenging as possible, and I so love a challenge !
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I use coupons to save money when convenient, and I have made use of the $10 gift cards that Kohl's sends to my home in the mail. Certainly hope I'm not being seen by any of the workers there as greedy or a vulture.
 
Not at all SeaBreeze, there's nothing wrong with saving a buck here and there. But, like everything there are those who abuse the privileges and coupon offers. They steal coupons, come in with 8 or 10 and come through the line purchasing one thing at a time, and are r is you point rude and disrespectful if you dare point out the rules that are plainly stated. "ONE PER CUSTOMER". If your not one of them, no need to feel offended
 
Hey everyone! Love this thread, it makes us real...Haven't been around much lately, because it's been a month of days that have kept me running, and they all seem to fade into one another. We had a couple of doozy storms, then the stomach flu attacked first my husband, then me and finally my brother. We had our flu shots, but did you know the shots are only effective for the upper respirtory type virus? Who knew! Hubby had cataract surgery, and I am going in this morning for my second medial branch block in my back before they do the nerve burns...oh blessed relief.

We did manage to have a great campfire cookout one afternoon when the weather hit 55°. Nothing like a good t-bone cooked over a campfire with a few brews. The "gangstas" love it too because they get to run part of the property they don't usually have access to, and get a few sneaky bites under the table.

Seabreeze....I noticed some of your pictures at the top...you really have a talent. They are beautiful!!

TWH...Sounds like you are busy with your horseface friends. I wince when I think of you bending over rasping hooves. I never had the nerve to do it myself, but spent plenty of time telling some of those cowboy farriers how to do it. You have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a good farrier prince!


It's nice to see some new names on board to help keep things lively.
 
Thanks Ozarkgal, welcome back, we were missing you! :girl_hug: Hope hubby has good results with the cataract surgery, and you with your medial branch block. That's some serious stuff, and the nerve burns, ouch...hoping you do have blessed relief after all that. :love_heart:
 
pchinvegas said:
Not at all SeaBreeze, there's nothing wrong with saving a buck here and there. But, like everything there are those who abuse the privileges and coupon offers. They steal coupons, come in with 8 or 10 and come through the line purchasing one thing at a time, and are r is you point rude and disrespectful if you dare point out the rules that are plainly stated. "ONE PER CUSTOMER". If your not one of them, no need to feel offended
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I'm not offended at all, lol. I have seen folks at the supermarket with a fistfull of coupons and a very frustrated cashier. I think most items aren't even in their carts. :rolleyes:
 
I joke a lot and refer to my job at "Retail Heaven" and the "Coupon Vultures" who drive us mad, but I really do love my job and cannot wait to get back after this extended sick leave. Is is a great place to shop and get really great bargains. So glad you all good.
 
Ozarkgal! It is so good to hear from you! :applause2: I remembered you and hubby were struck with the flu, then I was beginning to worry the "creek rose" up to the house, you were sick, maybe you lost electric and communication-------------------

I am also hoping for great results for your husband's cataract surgery.

Nothing you're getting done sounds at all attractive; especially when the words "nerve burns" are included. I hope the procedures bring you immediate and long-lasting relief.

You said: "You have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a good farrier prince!"

I LOVE that! May I please "borrow" that?

For the record, Joker's doing amazingly well. He's motorin' perfectly level as long as I keep the shorter hoof in a boot and 1/2" Lily pad. As long as the ground stays soft, I whittle the heel on the high hoof off 3- 4 times weekly.

I very much respect my vet BUT he told me Joker would always have a limp because one torn ligament was healing shorter than the other one. He's a leg specialist so I tearfully believed that; as in a few weeks tearful.

I sent the pics to a lady rehab farrier in Southern California who did some measurements off those pictures and said there's nothing "off" about Joker's legs - he has healed even, so that gives me a lot more hope than I had a month ago. If I can keep at the heels of the hoof with the 9 degrees rotation, I'm hoping we can get the coffin bone de-rotated down to only a few degrees by Spring - just in time to worry about grass founder again:bi_polo: The RF rotated 5 degrees; it is starting to look normal, so I am hopeful the coffin bone might de-rotate to a normal position. There won't be any new X-rays until April or May. Joker's already glowing orange from X-rays and my checkbook is crying for help from all those X-rays.

So much time has been wasted thanks to the two Professionals I hired to help with Joker and screwed him up to the point I thought I might have to put him down. That horse has been to H**l and back thanks to those two. I have been to H**l and back with all the ancillary expenses and grueling/bend over labor that's involved in re-habbing Joker's legs and hooves.

It really tisses me off that, now I know what to do for him, but my back won't let me stay under him long enough to get the job done correctly; thus The Backyard Brothers are doing most of the work on Joker plus trimming my other three. What they lack in formal education, they more than make up for in street smarts, common sense, and instinct. Hopefully they are "the farrier princes" and they're young enough to be my grandsons, so I can twist the hair on their necks if they don't listen lollol
 
Back in the UK we used to get coupons galore but here they're always for McDonalds or Dominos' Pizza or some other huge chain of takeaways, wish we could get one from our local fish'n'chip shop which we use each Friday as a treat but they often give us a discount anyway as we've been regular customers so mustn't complain.
 
TWH...Been there done that with farriers. Back in the dark ages I had a huge Appaloosa that was a hunter over fences. He was also a master lock picker, gate opener, doorman and neighborhood Lothario. If he could manage to figure out the lastest gate latches he was not beyond going to the neighbors and letting their horse out as well. He was finally his own undoing after he opened the feed room door and ate a new 50# bag of Omolene. He foundered on all fours and at that time there was not the good vet work there is now. I had an old short, fat, cigar smoking country vet come to attend him. He gave him a couple of shots, of what I don't recall, and told me the best I could do was to keep the swelling down with ice and hope he wouldn't be lame. I went out and bought a plastic kid's swimming pool and filled it with ice and water and kept him standing in it off and on for 3 days, crying the whole time. Believe it or not he pulled out of it and never took a lame step and was ridden hard in the Oregon hills and mountains, and schooled over jumps several times a week for a number of years after that. A stroke of luck, an angel on my shoulder and an old country vet..who'd have thunk it!:threadjack:Sorry!
 
Agenda for the day: Let the dog(s) in, let the dog(s) out

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In our "before retirement" home we had a doggie door, so the dogs went in and out at will. It can't happen here because they have to be supervised and protected from their own mischief making selves and the coyotes who would have them for dinner.

I never realized how many times they went in and out until I didn't have that blasted doggie door. Good thing I'm retired, as it's practically a full time job keeping three schnauzers happy:rolleyes:
 
I love the sign!

I wish my dogs went out the same door. The Diva Dobe/Rott goes out the garage door into the real world as she is excellent about staying on the property.

The Cur/Fox Terrier has to go into the fenced back yard because he wanders after the cats or anything else that rustles the bushes. He reminds me why my dogs of choice have never been sporting dogs but he's a rescue and here for the duration:panda:

The Dobe/Rott refuses to lower herself to going in the back yard so it's walk from one end of the house to the other if she wants out<---if she goes out then the Leopard Cur wants out:rolleyes:
 
Porch-Rain-Lake-Conroe-1009.jpg Rainy morning here in Las Vegas, We Celebrate that ! Don't get to enjoy many rainy days here. It's Saturday and I have no agenda, just whatever comes along. Looking forward to next weekend and out Super Bowl gathering with great friends. Have a great day everyone !
 


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