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Keesha said:
I’m so sorry for your loss Pinky. What a sweet son in law to take Abbi . Having pets visiting elders really brightens their day. We used to take our dogs in to see my husbands grandmother when she was in a home out east and we also took our dogs into some of the hospitals my mom was at. The nurses were so very nice to us and made special amendments which we were most grateful for. Sorry for rambling on.
What a cute picture of Abbi. All those other residents are going to miss Abbi too.
94 is a pretty good age to live to.
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Thank you, @Keesha and @MickaC .. Babcia was always thrilled to see Abbi, as were the other residents. Only now, do I know her entire life history. What an exceptional woman she was, immigrating to Canada alone, and bringing the rest of the family over, one by one.
 

I too am watching the peaceful transition of power in the USofA as I have done every 4 years for my entire life, as puppy sleeps in her crate. I have never been prouder of my country than at this in our history! (Not a political statement, a statement of what I am doing and how I feel.)

God bless the world!
 
My semi-annual dentist appointment. I didn’t realize that I’d made it and would have waited for another couple of months when the reminder call came yesterday. They’ve been great, so I kept it.
 
hiraeth2018 said:
It's 10 am on a Friday... just like yesterday or the day before or the day before that... but wait!
TODAY some excitement! I am having a gas insert placed into my wood burning fireplace. I'm sure "we" have many opinions here about what is better to burn but I am soooooo looking forward to not having to storing wood, chopping my own kindling, tracking wood chips, dirt and critters into my living room! With the cost of $150-250 per cord of wood here I am bowing down to the convenience of clicking a button and presto... clean fire and warmth for the damp winter here on the NW Pacific coast!
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You are going to love it.
 
Believe it or not......
I took in the US inauguration.......I was very impressed.......Pleased that it went on with peace.
I so much enjoyed Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez......presenting the National Anthems.

Shovelled some stupid snow, again, looks like it may be a daily thing for a while.......yep.....your complaining Canadian has returned.
Breakfast sausages were a good sale this week.....got a good amount......cooked them up in the oven and froze them......so handy to take out what i want, and heat and serve.

Did my usual time on jigsaw puzzles.
Came across some documents that needed sorted through and refiled.

Waiting for spring.......i look out the window often, to make sure i don't miss it.......that would be disastrous.
 
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Got my first vaccine shot this morning.

For awhile thought we would have to cancel .
None of Hubby's trucks wanted to start!

Finally got the dump truck that was loaded with firewood,,, started.

One nice thing when I was done the young man watching over parking lot recognized me from the truck.
But there was No truck in sight to take me home.
I was about ready to start walking home (2 mile hike),, when I finally saw our truck .

Poor hubby had been working on truck,, went to get the back up truck & it had a flat tire!
At last I'm home & hubby will be busy trying to get his diesel trucks operating.
 
I went to my urologist and got my last Lupron shot this morning. This one will start to wear off in about three months and sometime after that my body should slowly start to produce testosterone again. By late Summer, I may stop having hot flashes, and by this fall I should start to get my mojo back.

After I got home, I kept my standing weekly date with Sally Miele the vacuum and finished the downstairs.

I have gotten enough financial information that I can start feeding it into Turbo Tax this evening. That process is always a frustrating major sinkhole of time.
 
Yesterday I was at an NHS hospital all day.. my goodness in this current pandemic climate the last place most of us want to be is at a hospital all day if we can help it, you can sense how every patient was on edge in the waiting room... however in every possibly corner, in front and behind every door all throughout the hospital were dozens of containers of face masks, and hand sanitisers...

I had to have an ECG... get some bloods done and then be taken in a wheelchair by a porter down to radiology to have a cat scan.. then more bloods, then discussion with the doctor, took 7 hours in total...

Hubs wasn't permitted to stay in the waiting room with me, they weren't allowing any patient to have any support person with them.. so he had to disappear and do his own thing for a while, trouble was he had no idea how long I was going to be so he couldn't go home ( the hospital is about an hour away)... so he had to go and walk around the nearest supermarket to the hospital and pick up some groceries, then spend the rest of the time sitting in the car , waiting for a call from me to say I was being allowed to go home.. no-one thought it would have been as long as 7 hours tho'....

Anyway I'm happy to have had my procedures done.. and diagnosed (we hope) and necessary meds dispensed ..all in one day.. (y)
 
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Aunt Bea said:
Not much!

Snowing with an inch on the ground and more to come tonight into tomorrow.

Last night I put a pound of navy beans out to soak overnight and cooked them this morning. The beans were from Aldi and they must have been fresh this year because they cooked up nice firm but tender in a little over 30 minutes. The pound yielded two pints for the freezer with enough broth and beans leftover to make a small pot of soup for today and tomorrow.

I always wonder if it makes more sense to cook beans from scratch or buy them pre-cooked in cans.:unsure:
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I used to buy dry beans because they were cheaper and can them. Quick meals.
 
hollydolly said:
Yesterday I was at an NHS hospital all day.. my goodness in this current pandemic climate the last place most of us want to be is at a hospital all day if we can help it, you can sense how every patient was on edge in the waiting room... however in every possibly corner, in front and behind every door all throughout the hospital were dozens of containers of face masks, and hand sanitisers...

I had to have an ECG... get some bloods done and then be taken in a wheelchair by a porter down to radiology to have a cat scan.. then more bloods, then discussion with the doctor, took 7 hours in total...

Hubs wasn't permitted to stay in the waiting room with me, they weren't allowing any patient to have any support person with them.. so he had to disappear and do his own thing for a while, trouble was he had no idea how long I was going to be so he couldn't go home ( the hospital is about an hour away)... so he had to go and walk around the nearest supermarket to the hospital and pick up some groceries, then spend the rest of the time sitting in the car , waiting for a call from me to say I was being allowed to go home.. no-one thought it would have been as long as 7 hours tho'....

Anyway I'm happy to have had my procedures done.. and diagnosed (we hope) and necessary meds dispensed ..all in one day.. (y)
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Did you get any results? What were they? Are you ok? Concerned 😍
 
I took my early morning walk around 7:15,wearing long underwear for my knees
It was nippy 21 but a refreshing walk
This morning doing my laundry,reading local paper.I'll probably go on a afternoon walk,as long as the sidewalks are shoveled or clear,it won't stop me for being outside getting exercise
 
Just finished breakfast and savouring my coffee. Sunny skies (so far) .. going out to do a bit of shopping, and picking up 3 books from the library. I can't wait to start reading 📖
 
celebrating my wife's birthday
Cleared driveway with snow blower earlier this morning. 18 * f.
Grocery store
Come home
Order take-out with desert
Youngest daughter will join us for lunch
Relax watch a movie
 
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Thanks mi amigas @Aneeda72 . @Pinky @StarSong for your concern re my hospital tests... it's unfortunate that in the uK in an NHS hospital it's not unusual , in fact it's very usual to be waiting around for 7 hours.. once it was 12 hours for me, and at midnight they decided to admit me as a patient..

First I had blood tests.. then an ECG ( in between you have to wait a period of time till the next procedure .. then because of the pandemic no-one is permitted to just walk to the next Unit.. for example the Radiology suite, so the porter had to be sent for to take me.. then I had to wait until 2 patients on beds were taken in to have their CT scans.. then me, then a wait in the wheelchair until someone calls the porter to return me to the original department, where I get blood pressure taken.. then have to wait for the doctor to see me after first waiting 3 hours for the results to be sent to him of the ECG, bloods and CT scan... before he could discuss my malady, which in this case.. is the damage done by my fall back in November...

It caused some real concern because I've been suffering horrendous dizzy spells for weeks, literally unable to stand without holding onto something literally like I've had a couple of whiskeys too many .. bad headaches etc.. so finally I had to seek help.. and they thought perhaps I might have a bleed on the brain, or in fact there might be a problem with my heart being unable to pump blood to the brain .. hence all the tests..

Anyway they've come to the conclusion it's post concussion... something that can cause this trauma up to 3 or 4 months after the initial injury so they've given me anti -vertigo/dizzinessmeds and they seem to be helping already after just 2 days... fingers crossed they continue to help....
 
Today, ( sat).. it was a beautiful sunny if cold day here... my dd called me out of the blue and said would I like to go north and view a house with her in a village about 60 miles from here...

Off we go , we get about 30 miles up the road.. and we drive straight into driving snow...

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we stopped at a service station to use the loo, and got a hot snack and coffee to drive on in the snow to the viewing.. the agent was at the house when we arrived, and the car was completely covered in snow by then but the heating was on in the new house .. house was lovely , and in a really pretty area.. so my DD is interested in that...

On the return journey the snow had eased a bit... so we stopped at a retail park to pick up a couple of bits.. and of course as most of you know, I'm a poor orphan Annie who goes barefoot for lack of shoes, so how could I resist a new pair of ankle boots.. ?:p

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then who could ignore a little silky long sleeve blouse in bottle green ... ? .. a girl has to do what a girl has to do...:LOL:

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