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SIGH,,just when canning tomato season hits the hot water heater quit!
Hubby did call the manufacturer phone number that was on the tank.

It under a 5 year warranty,, yaa.
Not so yaa is they won't be able to get parts & install them till mid week.

Another pain in the butt is dealing with an abandoned mobile home that was vandalized 2 weeks ago.
Its on our land but we don't have legal title to it.

Next on phone list was to make an appointment with ortho doctor for hubby.
He sees him 8 /31 @ 9:30.

Trying to get him in to have x-rays before appointment is another hurdle clear.

Anyone want to come over & make lunch for us?🙃o_O

Just realized we need a Good restaurant in our small town.
Yeah ,,we have couple that have been here awhile ,, but we need something different .:unsure::sneaky:
 

It's the Bank Holiday Monday... last one of the year, so everywhere is on Sunday opening hours today.. 10-4pm.. I wasn't going to go out until tomorrow, then I realised that this will be the quietest day on the roads until next year.. so I went over to the next town to buy some Emerald Green towels and bath mat.. and then into North London to collect some grocery staples.. and go to M&S and buy another Top like the one I bought last time, before they sell out...

The roads were just as empty as I've ever seen them since Covid lockdown so it was almost a pleasure to drive.:D. everyone is clearly still away . The Children return to school on Thursday so the great homecoming will be tomorrow and Wednesday.. and from now until Christmas everywhere will be very busy..
 
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WheatenLover said:
He doesn't need one. He will be fine. He has soft blankets, a pillow, a bully stick, and a few hidden treats in his crate. He can see out all the windows, and my son will pay attention to him. I stop at rest stops every couple hours so we can walk around. He is really good on long trips.
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Best of luck with your travel. I hope all goes well.
 

We're getting ready for hurricane season. Lay in some candles...check.....dust off the 12-year-old cans of Spam.....check.....buy some beer....check.....

We do have a generator this year, thank goodness. My sister put in a whole-house generator in her home and gave us her portable genny. It's big enough to run the fridge and a couple of fans so bring it on!
 
When I went on my early walk at 6:20 it was 73 with a slight breeze,humid. When I came back watered the plants/flowers in garden
I've mentioned in other posts I've always call my list of Canopy of Neighbors members on Mon mornings been doing it from home for almost 2 1/2 yrs,lately I'm getting tired of doing it this way. When I talked to the members this morning, mentioned I'll be calling every other Mon, fine with them.I left messages with the 4 I couldn't talk to.
Afterwards, I did my long walk 6 blocks to local grocery store, Price Right, for a few items, went next door to UPS store bought 2 books of Stamps, took the bus home. It was really humid when I got back 45 min later,breezy had no energy for afternoon walk,been sitting in my livingrm with fan
Tonight I'll watch on ESPN opening day of U.S. Open Tennis Championship,Serena Williams will be the featured match,her last time probably playing in a Grand Slam tournament. I feel sorry for her opponent,Danka Kovinic who knows the crowd will not be rooting her side in this match
 
MickaC said:
Yes !!!!! I saw it on the corner of 64th and Tupper Street……think it was hitch hicking a ride.
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Trying to run away from home. Again!

This is serious, yanno? I get home from work with good intentions. Then I sit down with some iced coffee and the next thing I know, my good intentions are in the wind, and the afternoon is spent sitting on my como ce llama.

Tomorrow is a day off, and I need it badly. Maybe my motivation will return after nobody is willing to pick up a hitchhiker so some tidying up can be done in the garden.
 
Aside from the usual housework and gardening, I gave the dog a bath today. On a scale of 1 to 10, she is about a 2 in terms of tolerability. She's double-coated so just getting her fur wet enough to apply shampoo takes a while, then I wash her coat three times because she fidgets so much then the final rinse off followed by towel drying then blow drying. It's a process but she's clean and fluffy now until next week when we'll go through the process again.
 
Leann said:
Aside from the usual housework and gardening, I gave the dog a bath today. On a scale of 1 to 10, she is about a 2 in terms of tolerability. She's double-coated so just getting her fur wet enough to apply shampoo takes a while, then I wash her coat three times because she fidgets so much then the final rinse off followed by towel drying then blow drying. It's a process but she's clean and fluffy now until next week when we'll go through the process again.
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Our fur kids always look so nice after their bath……what breed of dog is she……may I ask why you bath her so often…..weekly?
 
I think I must be leaving my motivation behind when I clock out at work. If we ever get another pair of hands in the bakery, I'm gonna ask to work just four days a week or shorten my work days from six hours to five. Maybe both? As much as I want to be out in the world with lights and people, I'm so tired when I get home that there's nothing much left of me to get anything done around The Hovel and precious little done in the garden.

I hate to admit it, but yanno? I'm kinda old to be working so many hours at a job that's so physically demanding. I do get tired and often don't even feel like reading on the forum, much less posting. There's a nap almost every afternoon.

DS and his husband are coming to visit on Thursday and bringing their drone to video my garden. Garden isn't in its prime, but it will be handy to have the video in the spring to remind me what I planted where, and I'll be able to see what I did and didn't like about the placement of annuals and exactly where the perennials are before they break ground.

And now I'm gonna hit the hay🛏️:sleep: because tomorrow's a day off, and I wanna get out in the garden before it's too hot to play in the dirt.
 
WheatenLover said:
How does a can of tomato paste leak? Were the sides bulging? Be sure to wear gloves and wash your hands thoroughly in case botulism has paid you a visit.
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Thanks for the advice! I have some very old canned food on the shelf. I think that the can just rusted through. The problem is that I used to buy certain foods to keep as stock items. Then Dio and I got older, and we just don't eat like we used to. So the canned food was bought, then forgotten about.

Since I can only use one hand it takes me forever to get anything done. So it took me all day to empty the cabinet, wash everything down, go through the cans of food, and reload the cabinet with the cans that I'm keeping. Now that it's done, I'm happy that I got it cleaned out...obviously, it needed it! I don't buy stock items anymore, so I don't expect this problem to happen again.
 
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My son decided a good use of our time was to spend a couple hours picking out a playlist for me for the trip. He knows I can't remember song titles and artists, but I know I like a song when I hear the beginning of it. We started out with him going to a 70s playlist, which is too confining. I ended up with a good mix of jazz, country, rock, and other stuff (genre unknown). Now the playlist is 2 hours long. I think he intended to make a 4 hour playlist, but I was tired of listening to snippets of music. I want happy music when I'm driving.

The one song he dislikes and I love is Smoke on the Water. That's didn't make it either. He thinks the music is over done, whatever that means. He also refused to put What Does the Fox Say on there. He sighed over that one. My kids seem to have inherited the music gene from my mother and my husband.

I wonder if recognizing music and not being able to put it together with the artist and title is a learning disability. I well remember how hard Music Appreciation was in college. The prof would play songs, and we'd have to write down the composer and the song title. I spent many hours listening to music at home so I could pass the tests. I ended up with a B, but ended up spending enough time to make several A's, not just one!
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Music is a MUST in my world....it makes everything better! I hope it helps you on your drive!
 
We have spent the last 3 days getting to know our new baby, a darling 6 week old kitten. S/he is absolutely adorable, and amazingly she is already litter trained. We figured s/he should stay with mom a couple of weeks, but the guy wanted rid of her. He had 9 kittens so I suppose I would feel the same way. We fell in love with her the minute we saw her picture. S/he's black with white whiskers, white on her chest and each paw tip is white. Her name is Ebony.
 
Trila said:
I never heard of Stitches, so I had to look it up. It sounds interesting. If I can stream it for free I will give it a try, too.

I just finished watching White Collar....loved it!
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It's Stitchers not Stitches. Hope you can find it. It's kinda cool. This chick is like going to college I think? And she has some kind of thing with her brain. Anyway, they decide to see if she can get into the minds of the deceased before their brains vaporize to get into their memories to find out who killed them.
 
I'm up and all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Gonna reheat some biscuits and gravy that we brought home from a visit to Cracker Barrel the other day, make the bed, dress, clean Maggiecat's litter box. By then it'll be daylight and I can head to the garden.

On today's agenda is spraying the cannas to try to defeat the leaf rollers and spraying the roses to make the aphids go away. Then I'm gonna cut the iris back, plant those three $5 iris bulbs, move a couple of day lilies, and if I haven't run out of steam yet, transplant some sunpatiens that are blocking my view of other flowers.

If I can get it all done before it's too hot, there are nasty tall weeds in the side yard that I want to get rid of forever so will attempt to kill them with a healthy dose of 30% vinegar so that nothing will ever grow there again. Here's hoping I don't meet up with any copperheads🐍 while I'm poking around!

@Trila Now that your cupboards are all cleaned out, how about zipping on over here and doing mine?

What's everybody else up to?
 
Clean, pack things going in car, refill spice jars & pack, Goodwill, trash/recycle bins filled & out, fill car w/gas, buy paper towels and an XL cup of coffee, groom dog, and maybe mail a box or two to my cousin, return the cable company's internet stuff.

My son thinks we have tons of space in the car - the cargo area is big and empty Mom. No son, it is tiny and has a big dog crate in it now.
 
Leann said:
She's a mixed breed, part American Eskimo, part terrier. Her coat is white and thick. She LOVES to roll in anything that smells to high heavens or is muddy. This is only an issue in the summer, thus the reason for the frequent baths.
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I don’t blame you for her weekly baths. Sounds like she’s a beautiful girl.
It’s a good thing my corgi, Micki, doesn’t live and run loose on a cattle farm…..I think she would spend a lot of time rolling in cow pies…..there’s a certain weed in the back yard, which Is hard to control, it doesn’t smell nice, she loves it to roll in. 🙄🙄🙄.
 

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