Share your day May 2013

Was having an interesting dream just before awaking. People were gathering on a hillside for music and I was trying to get to the sound equipment for adjustments. Making my way down the hill, suddenly got a calf cramp and was concerned about being embarrassed with hopping, limping and swearing in pain around a crowd. Hillside and crowd were imaginary, music was coming from my radio and the damned cramp was as real as they get. OW!

Watching Indy 500 but usually just enjoy the start and finish. Did a very brief check on gophers and no obvious activity. Will get brave later and inspect further...
 
That Guy said:
Once, years ago, I noticed our cat and her kittens really whooping it up and acting crazy. Sure enough an earthquake hit that day.
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Yes, animals have a sixth sense about impending weather events. I lived in Oregon when the Mt. St. Helens volcano erupted. They had predicted the eruption for a couple of weeks before it blew. I was in Reno the day it happened, and I called home to my room mate. She said there was a lot of ash falling from the eruption, and that just prior to the blow, her cat went bonkers, running around and clawing at the door, wanting out. She was worried because the cat had not came back yet.

When I got home a couple of days later, the cat still had not appeared. So, we went looking and found her dead not far from home, apparently struck by a car. I had a Siamese cat at the time and he seemed to be disoriented as well, and wanted no part of going outside.

Also, That Guy...your moon photo is beautiful. What a great capture!
 

Ozarkgal said:
Also, That Guy...your moon photo is beautiful. What a great capture!
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Old carpet is removed and the walls are painted. Finally got the lawn mower working and did the front lawn for the first time. We've had so much rain, this was the first time the grass was dry enough. Took the car in for a tune up and safety inspection this morning and bought a new patio umbrella and solar light. I really shouldn't hang around waiting for the car, it always means more money spent. Off to look at new flooring tomorrow. Going to try and lay it myself (laminate), but have a backup plan should I make a mess of it.
 
TICA, always have a backup plan...! Sounds like you were pretty busy and I understand completely about hanging around waiting and spending more money in the process.

Headed to one of the few remaining bookstores around to gather some new reads and was disappointed to find sparse shelves. Won't be long before they'll go out of business, too. Guess Amazon will be getting more of my business. But, I miss browsing the shelves... AND I am NOT a Kindle kinda guy.

Checked waves and nothing to speak of which is good as a great white has been cruising the surfline. Generally, they come in around August and September . . . they key word here being "generally". Drove through the old neighborhood which made me sad as it's undergoing redevelopment ruination. Why the clueless have such a need to find something beautiful and "make it better" will always be a mystery to me. Guess clueless explains it pretty well.

Gonna have some lunch and get outside to continue digging out big ol' overgrown monster bush so I can replace it with something else and watch it become an overgrown monstrosity. Also, want to get to work on clearing rest of little hillside of weeds so wildflowers can go down this Fall.
 
Cooling vest? Never heard of it..I WANT one!! The humidity is the thing that stops me in my tracks..can't take it. It's especially hard when you have animals to attend to and have no choice. I don't miss the days of trying to condition horses and having to wait until evening to work them, even then the humidity wasn't much better.
 
TICA..be careful of your knees, trying to lay that floor. Getting down on my knees just briefly caused a torn meniscus, which ultimately led to a knee replacement. Now I cringe when I see anyone down on their knees. Good luck with your projects, the fun has now officially begun.

That Guy..I am a bookaholic and used to love browsing in bookstores for hours. In Texas they have some bookstores called Half Price Books. They deal in new and used books, as well as old vinyl, and used cassettes a cd's. Every thing is half of it's original price and the inventory is constantly changing as they would buy your old books and music. A great concept that I always wished was my idea. I really miss going there.

I'm with you on the Kindle thing. It's just not the same as having a book in your hand, for many reasons. I have several books downloaded, but can't get into reading them.

No big doings today. Yesterday, I swapped out the winter clothes for the summer clothes and organized the closet. I have little closet space, so that's become a spring ritual that takes all day.
 
Cooling vests are cool!

Back in the day I was working as a safety manager for a secondary lead refinery (they reclaimed old lead from batteries, etc.) in City of Industry, CA. The summer-time temps were insane, as you can imagine, and we had to walk around in RACAL suits ...

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... so yeah, the cooling vests were a Godsend.

Knees are very fragile structures considering the work they're called upon to perform - that's why we target them in fights. :cool:

Two Old Goats seems to be a nice natural remedy for some of those arthritis symptoms. Thanks for mentioning it - I'll have to order some and try it out.
 
Wow - Cooling vests!!!!!!! Didn't know they existed but I'm impressed!! Knees are holding out OK so far, I have an old pillow that I generally use and also those foam knee pads. I'm just about ready for the flooring but haven't been able to find just the right laminate so the hunt continues. Finally got the lawn mower started and was able to get the front yard done. Rode my horse last night, just a light walk through the fields. He's just back on grass, gradually a little at a time, so he was being lazy and so was I. Was a lovely ride until the black flies discovered us, so back to the barn we went.

Today, picked up some more paint to touch up the bedroom in preparation of the flooring I don't have yet! Also stopped at the office to hand in the last of my equipment so that part of my life is over. Enjoying the freedom of not having a schedule except for the one I make myself. Retirement is good!!!
 
Knees, Knees, Knees! Worked on weeding the bank in preparations for wildflowers and dug a bit around the monster bush that's got go . . . until the bad knee began to hurt too much. What's that saying about the mind being willing but the body . . . Look at the weeding job and just know I could finish it in an afternoon were I a younger man. Alas, it will take awhile...
 
TWH...thanks for the info on the cooling vest. They are reasonably priced, and such fashionable colors. :playful: I am definitely getting the Two Old Goat arthritis lotion. For some reason, this rings a bell. I may have seen it at the co-op at some time.

I agree on the Armstrong flooring. I had it my Texas house, and it wore well. I really like the good linoleum that looks like real wood. I wanted to put that in my kitchen, but got out voted. In fact, I would like it in my whole house...easy to take care of. I have tile in the kitchen and it's hard on the old legs, and anything glass that hits the floor has no chance. I have most of the floor covered in thick rubber mats, since I love to cook and spend a lot of time there. The mats are a PITA because they are heavy and hard to move to clean the floor.
 
I have put Armstrong lino tiles in the upstairs bedrooms and my kitchen. Really easy to do and doesn't show the dirt and very easy on the legs. Still prepping the floors for the laminate and hope to go shopping for it later today!
 
Sounds like things are going smoothly, TICA.

Ran errands this morning. Off to the bank, the post office and grocery store. Lucked out and got one of the pretty checkout ladies. Yea! While loading the truck with purchases, a guy asked for a ride up the hill as he has bad knees. Drove him home and resisted patting myself on the back for the good deed. Then, after putting things away and watering plants, logged on here and found that great video of paying it forward. Cosmic, indeed... Much thanks to our Knightofalbion.
 
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Had to go with hubby to a doc visit in Mountain Home. The highlight of the trip was lunch at Sonic and a trip to Orshelins, is a large farm store, similar to Tractor Supply. I don't know how my heart can take the excitement!

Hubby bought another pair of denim coveralls, his fashion statement now that he is a wannabe hillbilly. Looked for the Two Old Goats arthritis lotion, but no luck there.

My nature moment came today when we were on our little gravel road (minus the gravel, the county is too stingy to put any down)...as we came around the corner a tiny new fawn was running down the middle of the road. It continued on for quite a way finally running off into the bushes. I sure hope he hadn't lost mama, as he was practically newborn.

For the last three days a new fawn has wandered to the edge of the creek bank and stands watching us for several minutes before running back into the brush. I'm sure his mama is close by watching junior. So cute to see the curiosity, though.

BuckBuckBuck got tricked into the chicken coop this morning, and I locked him up while we were gone. Not a happy Rooster. When we got home and let him out he crowed for 10 minutes letting me know he didn't appreciate the incarceration. He's quite a character now, follows us every where and if we all go in the house and leave him, he sits on the deck railing and looks in the window.
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