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Driver's license renewal is every 4 years in PA and this is my year so that's what I did today. I took the interstate that I used to take for work and it was like old times flying down the road at 70 MPH at times. It took about 20 minutes to get processed and it gave me time for people watching. There were quit a few of what appeared to be Spanish speaking immigrants so the times they are a changin'.

What is issued anymore for the first time, is an interim license that is good for 15 days so they can check your image to see if your identity has been stolen. Who the heck wants to be a near 80 year old male???

Coming back I got on the north entrance to the interstate but it was the south I wanted, so I improvised around a barrier to go south.
 

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@hawkdon Yay. Glad you're home safe and sound and hope you get a good night's sleep tonight.

What's gonna happen to the hummingbirds next week? It's supposed to be in the 70s one day, 50s the next? Should I start knitting them little sweaters?

Hey...am I the only one who watches the murder shows? What I wannano is how come the murders only seem to happen in small (always "tight-knit") communities where everybody knows everybody else, and they're always "a good place to raise a family"?

Geez. If they're such great places, how come people keep getting murdered there? And why would anyone want to raise a family there?
 

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@hawkdon Yay. Glad you're home safe and sound and hope you get a good night's sleep tonight.

What's gonna happen to the hummingbirds next week? It's supposed to be in the 70s one day, 50s the next? Should I start knitting them little sweaters?

Hey...am I the only one who watches the murder shows? What I wannano is how come the murders only seem to happen in small (always "tight-knit") communities where everybody knows everybody else, and they're always "a good place to raise a family"?

Geez. If they're such great places, how come people keep getting murdered there? And why would anyone want to raise a family there?
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:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO: finally, someone who asks the same questions as me... !! Funny that every murder takes place in a little community where families walk their dogs in safety, and Jim bob helps all his neighbours shovel snow.. and Mary Jane bakes cakes.. for the community, ... and the registered nutter moves in next door..
 
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Georgiagranny said:
@hawkdon Yay. Glad you're home safe and sound and hope you get a good night's sleep tonight.

What's gonna happen to the hummingbirds next week? It's supposed to be in the 70s one day, 50s the next? Should I start knitting them little sweaters?

Hey...am I the only one who watches the murder shows? What I wannano is how come the murders only seem to happen in small (always "tight-knit") communities where everybody knows everybody else, and they're always "a good place to raise a family"?

Geez. If they're such great places, how come people keep getting murdered there? And why would anyone want to raise a family there?
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I was just being my silly self, but I do comprehend that you don't want to see your flowers suddenly frozen, 😩
Even living up North, I do not enjoy that yearly event; And living where you do, one would hope for it to come much later or not at all, each year.

Hummingbirds, however, are amazingly fine in below freezing weather. I am amazed by their yearly arrival, out my windows, in such early so-called Springtime, that we are still having nightly temps below freezing, at that time. They do fine. Their metabolism is something to be envied by we mere helpess humans. :rolleyes::geek:
 
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:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO: finally, someone who asks the same questions as me... !! Funny that every murder takes place in a little community where families walk their dogs in safety, and Jim bob help all his neighbours shovel snow.. and Mary Jane bakes cakes.. for the community, ... and the registered nutter moves in next door..
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we forgot to mention the part where nobody locks their doors...

Kaila said:
But to where? o_O:unsure::rolleyes:
If your house isn't far enough, then How far would we have to go, to avoid all danger of frost?
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a South Sea island, @Kaila.

Are you absolutely sure that there's no need to knit little sweaters for the hummers? Mittens? Will they need mittens? Little bootees for their tiny little hummer feet?

When we still lived in the north, just a half mile from the end of the earth, we didn't see hummers before mid-June, earliest (about the same time the ice was gone from Lake Superior), and they skedaddled outta there by mid-August.

Yeah. Summer didn't last long up there. We called it the Land of Short Trees because the growing season was so limited that the trees never had a chance to get very tall.
 
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When we still lived in the north, just a half mile from the end of the earth, we didn't see hummers before mid-June, earliest (about the same time the ice was gone from Lake Superior), and they skedaddled outta there by mid-August.

Yeah. Summer didn't last long up there.
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That is very interesting! I live not too awfully far from the Canadian border, and our summer growing season is short;
however, our hummingbirds are heartier than the ones you'd witnessed. They come in April, and they only left, quite recently.
I think I overheard them saying they were heading to their winter abodes in Georgia :giggle::LOL: where they would not encounter frosts, and that they were leaving here, last couple of weeks, in order to avoid having to shop for socks, mittens, etc. :giggle::LOL::ROFLMAO::love:

P.S. Perhaps the hummers remain in my area longer, because it is closer to the mitigating effects of the Atlantic Ocean, than where you used to live. ?:unsure::geek:
 
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Went to the doctor for my first post-op check up. He says I can keep the knees.

To be honest it is hurting more, he said that was normal and a sign my nerve endings are recovering. I think he's right, less numbness now, I preferred the numbness. I have started to drive and the doctor said that was ok, just so I don't do it when taking the oxycodone.
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Looking really good……your pics of your new parts look the same as my not so new parts……they’re beautiful, aren’t there.
One of mine are 8 years, and the other is 6 years……if I am taking good care of them ( like don’t do anything stupid )……I supposed to get 30 years with them……mine are porcelain…….what are yours, stainless steel, titanium, or porcelain.
I don’t have any screws….just cement……..I don’t see any screws on yours.
Keep up the good work.
 
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see our flowers suddenly black and shriveled. :oops::cry::confused:
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Oh, no! I'm gonna cover the mums at least. Only just got them this week!

Believe me, no mitigating effects of the Atlanta where we lived on the south shore of Lake Superior on the Wisconsin/Michigan state line.

Oh, and BTW, it started sNOwing up there last night and is expected to keep on sNOwing until at least next Thursday. Well...actually until spring, of course, but this go-round will just be a week...
 
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Oh, no! I'm gonna cover the mums at least. Only just got them this week!

Believe me, no mitigating effects of the Atlanta where we lived on the south shore of Lake Superior on the Wisconsin/Michigan state line.

Oh, and BTW, it started sNOwing up there last night and is expected to keep on sNOwing until at least next Thursday. Well...actually until spring, of course, but this go-round will just be a week...
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You are right, of course. There's No mitigating, of that freezing cold in the Midwest. I lived there, decades ago and I can still remember that chill anyplace West of Buffalo really, and the extreme long winters, of Ohio, etc.... and I didn't even go as far West as Michigan or Wisconsin. 🥶😱😨
That's even worse for humans than here, where I am now. :rolleyes:

OH YES, I had forgotten, old bedsheets covering the plants, keeps them well, here too! Yes, do that for your mums!:D
 
Kaila said:
@Blessed
Did you say you were going to have your haircut soon, and did you?
Or did you mean soon, as in sometime in the next weeks or months?
If you did, I wondered if it came out well and if you like it.
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I have not had it yet. I have sleep issues, up all night and sleep during the day. Makes it hard to get things done. I would like to have already had it done, so asap. I am sure I will like it, tired of taking care of the long hair!!
 
This morning I made two batches of cornbread flavored keto chaffles (no cheese). Put them in the freezer. They came out perfect! Then did four batches of Keto Chow replacement meal shakes that I use for ice cream. After that I vacuumed chairs and floor and set up a flea trap where Rabbit likes to sleep. It has a light on it and I know that is going to annoy him but that is what works. So he has to live with it for now.

The rest of my day was just doing normal daily chores. As soon as it got dark fireworks started going off. Not sure what that is about. Didn't bother Rabbit one bit this time. I have to be mindful about taking a break and getting off my feet in the afternoon. I did that today and watched a movie. It does help my lymphedema quite a bit.

Everything is all done now so going to turn my computer off and go put my feet up and watch some videos.
 
Today was a busy day. This morning I mopped the floors. My son and I headed out around 10:30, stopped at Wawa where I got a soft pretzel, then we went to Walmart. I got items to last a couple of months but they were out of stock on a couple of things I wanted. I also found the perfect folding chair pads which I wanted to get in time for our studio guests tomorrow. After I put the refrigerated foods away, I ate lunch then walked to the post office. Luckily, both of my packages fit in the box so I didn't have to wait on a line. I've found that the P.O. is usually dead on Fridays around 2 o'clock anyway.

I loaded and ran the dishwasher. I had to patch (actually camouflage) peeling plaster in my living room until it can be fixed properly. I mended a rip in my skirt and rearranged some items in our storage closet to make room for a (12) bundle of paper towels. I watched T.V. in between chores and will hopefully be able to watch more before I get sleepy.
 
Georgiagranny said:
we forgot to mention the part where nobody locks their doors...
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No need to lock doors in this Halcyon community..no-one has had to in the 100 years this community has been helping their neighbours, eating at each others' tables.. and all the children play together, and even on the days when he's worked 27 hours out of 24.. Mike and his friend Greg will go and Help their neighbours build sleighs for their kids to ride in the snow... and when they go on vacation for 6 months.. all the neighbours pretty up their home as a surprise for when they return... ... so when geoff the new neighbour moves in next door, with 6 rottweilers and starts to carve swastikas in the porch with a chainsaw, ... the community think he's just practising on how to help with the community Barn raisin'.. and thought nothing more of it...
 
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MickaC said:
Looking really good……your pics of your new parts look the same as my not so new parts……they’re beautiful, aren’t there.
One of mine are 8 years, and the other is 6 years……if I am taking good care of them ( like don’t do anything stupid )……I supposed to get 30 years with them……mine are porcelain…….what are yours, stainless steel, titanium, or porcelain.
I don’t have any screws….just cement……..I don’t see any screws on yours.
Keep up the good work.
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Thanks, good to hear from someone who had done it. How long did it take you to get back to "normal"? I hear a wide range of answers to that.

Mine are some kind of metal and plastic, don't think I got any screws, just glue. They did have to drill down into the tibia and add a rod to the lower part, said my legs looked pretty bad. The metal parts are the only thing you can see in the x-ray, the plastic doesn't show up.
 
Got a couple loads of laundry almost done and put away. Did the dog fur round up. Best to sweep first so the vacuum does not get clogged. Still need to unload the dishwasher.

Plan to throw little boy dog into the bath. He has stickers in his fur I need to cut out and I need to trim up around his backside LOL.

Made mac and cheese yesterday so will warm some up to go with smoked sausage, and maybe peas or beans of some kind.
 
Cut 12 pork chops in half and began marinating. In a couple of days I'll cook them and freeze them, to be (thawed and) eaten cold as snacks or side dishes.

Cut up 2 of the 6 hams I bought on sale. Froze 12 packages of 500-600 grams each. Roasted the meaty bones for immediate use.

I'm glad to say I made very little mess. Whew!

Continued to find or devise questions for the trivia game.
 
I finished cutting/splitting what I hope will be an adequate supply of firewood for the outdoor wood furnace this Winter. All the forecasts are saying this will be a long and cold Winter, so I've got almost 10 cords stacked, instead of the normal 7 or 8. I've still got a half dozen dead trees standing, if the weather gets real bad.

Our electricity rates are fairly low, but I prefer to avoid paying $300+/Mo. for heat if I can feed the wood furnace.

Those heating with Nat. gas, propane, or heating oil will likely see larger bills this Winter....will probably eat up the SS COLA.
 

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