Share your day November 2013

Diwundrin said:
Aaaahhhh, the memories! Weren't they just BEST of days?

I'm orf to the Vet with Miss Belle for her shots, could get interesting if she does the technicolour yawning trick in the car in which case I may leave her there! Wish me luck.
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Oh good luck with Belle.

Yeah I am most definitely in the winding down of my working my arse off days.
 
All done! No chuckpuddles so Belle wasn't abandoned. Was a time she could barely hold on to it until we got around the corner of the street but she seems over it now. Phew.

Good trip out today.. Belle didn't chuck or play up. I scored a parking space right at the Vet's door. Same at the little market, then...yes folks, miracles do occur... a 3rd lucky one at the Chemist. The baker still had a loaf of my fave bread left and had just put out fresh custard tarts. The roadworks trucks were clear of the highway on the way home so no holdups... then to cap it off there was a cheque in the mail!
Oh, and the weather is just purrrrfick.

Around here days don't get much better than this.
 
Just thought I'd share someone else's great day while I'm at it. We were chatting in the Vets while waiting turns and the girl who works there announced she's picking up the keys to their first home at lunchtime. She was just over the moon. She looks very young and they've bought a place on a few acres up in the hills.

She said they were so lucky that the people selling were downsizing and moving to a unit on the Gold Coast so invited them over to choose any furniture they'd like them to leave in the house as they wouldn't be taking much and would just have to dump a lot of it.
They're a young couple just starting out and have very little so that was a really nice thought. They even left the Plasma TV as a moving in gift, but sold them the big double fridge, for a bargain price though.

They've even left them the chooks!

It's so nice to hear a warm and fuzzy house sale story, a rel is in nightmare territory with her deal. (I won't mention this one to her)
 
Where are you Tim? :mad:
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Speaking of him, heard a climate guru a while back explaining how Labor had gone about it the wrong way by employing people like Flannery who flapped about with 'the sky is falling' predicitions and warnings, later proved wrong and stupid, as it simply undermined their whole campaign. Nice to know we're not the only ones who noticed he's most overpaid moron in OZ eh?
 
Diwundrin said:
Just thought I'd share someone else's great day while I'm at it. We were chatting in the Vets while waiting turns and the girl who works there announced she's picking up the keys to their first home at lunchtime. She was just over the moon. She looks very young and they've bought a place on a few acres up in the hills.

She said they were so lucky that the people selling were downsizing and moving to a unit on the Gold Coast so invited them over to choose any furniture they'd like them to leave in the house as they wouldn't be taking much and would just have to dump a lot of it.
They're a young couple just starting out and have very little so that was a really nice thought. They even left the Plasma TV as a moving in gift, but sold them the big double fridge, for a bargain price though.

They've even left them the chooks!

It's so nice to hear a warm and fuzzy house sale story, a rel is in nightmare territory with her deal. (I won't mention this one to her)
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There aren't enough warm & fuzzies to hear. Good for them in getting the Plasma TV thrown in and getting the big fridge at a good cost. The price of those things these days is ridiculous! I would love to have either.
 
We had a couple of freezing mornings but should be better for a few days. I spent several hours yesterday splitting firewood. Git a lot more to do. Also have to move the couch around so we can start using the fireplace.
I really like having my morning cup of coffee in front of a cozy fire.
 
Nice good news story about the young couple Di, and also about your day out and about!

Woke up this morning and had to look to see what day it was. That, my friends is just one of the benefits of retirement.
 
Nothing out of the ordinary around here today. Just the regular housework kinda things. Keeps me from having them to do on the weekend! But, I did spend most of yesterday caning up some chicken broth that I had made the day before. I ended up with 13 pints and 3 quarts of really nice broth for soups, rice, and other things. I'm hoping next week I can work on making and canning beef broth. I still have almost a bushel of sweet potatoes from the garden to get canned up too. It just never ends!! LOL :eek:nthego::woohoo:
 
Things are quiet here today. Went out this morning and checked on the property to see if the excavator had been there. Nope, not yet. Stopped at a local shop and picked up a homemade steak and mushroom pie for dinner tonight as I am not in any mood for cooking. I've been spending way too much time in front of the TV this week. Between football, the mayor of Toronto and the Senate news, I'm just about TV glued. Time to do something else and I have a list of things to do, just can't seem to get motivated!
 
Just another beautiful day in paradise here. ( until we get a hurricane that is. )
Had a chemical stress test this am. Got at hospital at 8:30 and never got out until almost 2:00. Wait, wait and more waiting. I had no problem with the junk they gave me but a lady after me had a bad time with it and went into convulsions. Poor thing, she was scared to death.
God only knows what they are pumping through your body. No more of these for me.
 
TICA...Welcome to retirement...sometimes it's hard to get motivated when you know you can do it the next day or the day after...or the day after. I've been doing a lot of that lately, need to snap out of it!
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Pappy..Glad to hear your stress test went well, did they do an echocardiogram also? Yeah, I feel the same way, no more for me either..that was scary!


Seabreezy...get yourself some of these to help with the house work. I'm eyeballing the Gangstas. With four of them, cleaning should be a snap..:rolleyes:

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TWH..poor Joker and Ohno, our muzzle babies. Ohno has been wearing a muzzle outside since his last gastro bank breaker episode. This morning when he came in we forgot to take it off and about 30 minutes later, Mr. O glanced over where Ohno was laying on the couch with a thoroughly disgusted look.

Yup..a non-motivational day here as well..must be the weather. It's 55 degrees, and overcast, just an all around blah day. Did manage to half heartedly clean out the fridge and dispose of some science projects. Mr. O smoked some country ribs over the campfire , and I put them in the crock pot to finish for dinner. We always seem to eat no matter how unmotivated we are.

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TWHRider said:
THAT is the absolute Retirement Gospel!

Except for watching Christmas movies on Hallmark, I haven't done a flippin' thing since I turned the horses out. Now it's time to go clean stalls and get the muzzle off Joker. I'm pretty sure the sun is behind the clouds for the rest of the day and it's only 48 F, so I'm taking his grazing muzzle off before his nose hairs freeze to it.

I really really hate having to deal with such a seriously insulin resistant horse. Duke is also IR but I can manage him (so far) with a strict diet. I actually just put his 26 yr old self back on his condensed vitamin/minerals for the winter. They are liquid and molasses-based. He thrives on those "race horse" vitamins during the cold months but the molasses is too much sugar during grass growing season.

Ozarkgal is spot on when she essentially says retirement means "Never Do Today What You can Put Off Until Tomorrow". If I didn't have these horses to force me to stay physically busy, I would probably be an over-sized Weebles People by now. Granted I'm a long way from a Size 8 when it really was a Size 8 (I hang onto those 1970's Jordache's just in case -lollollol) but I lie to myself and say I am covered in muscle, to which the doctor just rolls his eyes when I go in to get my BP meds refilled. He does at least tell me I'm in the top ten of his physically busiest retired women. I notice he never uses the word "senior" with me :lofl:
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No one could convince me my lil guy doesn't keep it going for me. Anything will do, just stay busy as best you can, and do whatever it takes to keep the aging process stalled.
 
Well i have just finished repainting my concrete statue of a Lace Monitor on a large rock, the lace monitor is about 2 1/2 feet long and the rock is a bit larger it's higher on one end, not an easy task with a very bad back and all my other injuries, not as good as the first time i repainted it but at least it looks better than what it did an hour ago, now i am sitting down till the back is ok and i will start on the dreaded decluttering

 
I tried to pain him similar to a real one, not sure if i succeeded and the rock well i didn't have enough brown paint so mixed red oxide and red earth with some black and grey, i must say the last time i painted it was better but oh well i tried that's the main thing Di. Might just veg out myself now.

 
Jillaroo said:
Well i have just finished repainting my concrete statue of a Lace Monitor on a large rock, the lace monitor is about 2 1/2 feet long and the rock is a bit larger it's higher on one end, not an easy task with a very bad back and all my other injuries, not as good as the first time i repainted it but at least it looks better than what it did an hour ago, now i am sitting down till the back is ok and i will start on the dreaded decluttering

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I painted the big one but the little one wouldn't stay still .....


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