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My early walk at 6:30am,walked 4 blocks around the neighborhood, went by childhood home which is 2 blocks from my apt buildng,still looks the same from the outside. It was a refreshing walk temp was 58,no wind I heard the birds chirping, not many cars on the road. When I came back watered the plants/flowers in community garden
The Sun edition of local paper,Bflo News just arrived,never know when it will be delivered. The rest of my morning read the paper{don't bother reading the national section,the articles are from the NYT which I've already read couple days ago} after lunch talk with my brother,then go sit out in the garden reading
 

I've just spent the last hour and a half cutting through the Ivy roots and branches which have become so thick in places ( the branches not the leaves).. that I was not going to be able to open the shed door because the branches that run along the top of the brick shed have multiplied and joined together to make a branch thicker than my arm.. .. of course it was something that always concerned me in the past, but as O/H grew the IVY in the first place , he always made sure that it wasn't getting too thick.. now I have no option but to actually cut those thick branches so as only very thin one can grow along there or even none at all. I've never been a fan of Ivy , it looks nice, but it can destroy the brickwork, and it really hard work to keep it under control..

It's so HOT out there.. 😓..I had my mad lady gardening hat on..
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.and even with Sun factor lotion on...in just an hour and a half my arms are very red...so I've come in to the cool of my office room , with a cold coke ..to cool down before I go back out and attack the Laurel hedge with the hedge trimmer
 
I had an incredible day yesterday. I wasn't in any body pain. I was able to climb and bounce & slide with my grandson. I'll take it, but I don't understand it. When he said "play with me grandma" I was able to. Still can't run, however, but walking was not a problem. No pain. Can't believe it. I'll see how today goes. What miracle could it have been? Love? Love conquers all?
 

Em in Ohio said:
My thinking was like yours - Today was a breezy 74 degrees and I finally got all the things I ordered online to make mini-puffed pastries. When I opened the package that came today, the mini-muffin tin was warped and three of the cups were malformed in the manufacturing process. (Thanks for nothing, Walmart.) By the time I get a newly ordered tin from Amazon, I'll be back in the nineties and won't want to turn the oven on. /-; I hope your baking day went better!
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It did, thanks for asking. My gosh, that was last Monday - seems like it's been a year rather than a week! So glad I baked that day because it's been hot ever since. Also we've had the unexpected pleasure of caring for our infant grandson since Weds. Watching him has been so all-consuming that we haven't gotten to any planned big chores (like putting the new slings on the outdoor furniture).

GS will go home Monday if the PCR test our son is getting today at urgent care is again negative for Covid. (Results tomorrow.) If it comes up positive we'll probably have the baby until they get the all-clear, likely a few more days.
 
Pepper said:
I had an incredible day yesterday. I wasn't in any body pain. I was able to climb and bounce & slide with my grandson. I'll take it, but I don't understand it. When he said "play with me grandma" I was able to. Still can't run, however, but walking was not a problem. No pain. Can't believe it. I'll see how today goes. What miracle could it have been? Love? Love conquers all?
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could be because you're not alone and have nothing else to think about but the pain..or it could be joy which numbs the pain receptors, whatever it is, you need more of it...:love:
 
StarSong said:
It did, thanks for asking. My gosh, that was last Monday - seems like it's been a year rather than a week! So glad I baked that day because it's been hot ever since. Also we've had the unexpected pleasure of caring for our infant grandson since Weds. Watching him has been so all-consuming that we haven't gotten to any planned big chores (like putting the new slings on the outdoor furniture).

GS will go home Monday if the PCR test our son is getting today at urgent care is again negative for Covid. (Results tomorrow.) If it comes up positive we'll probably have the baby until they get the all-clear, likely a few more days.
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Oh my - That's exactly why I got extra time with my twin great-grandsons! Their dad was on tour and their mom (my granddaughter), came for a weeks visit. He came back home while they were here and tested positive, so my granddaughter and greats stayed another two weeks. Unfortunately, my granddaughter's "allergies to Ohio" turned out to be Covid - which she shared with the rest of the family. /-; I sure hope you have better luck and better timing!
 
WheatenLover said:
At this point, I don't see how we are going to move to Mass by August 1st. And I don't know how we are going to move stuff. I've never pulled a U-Haul trailer and I hope I don't have to. Also, I have to do all the driving. My infrequent driving trips are, at most, 15 miles roundtrip. I'm not looking forward to driving to Mass.
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oh my gosh, that is only two weeks away, you have all my sympathy for the pain and effort of moving! I forget who you are moving in with (an uncle?) but I hope there are beds and dressers already at the destination, if so - could you just box up your clothes and most-important-knick-knacks and ship them UPS to your relative's house?

When I moved out of my house in May it was kind of expensive, but very convenient, to pay a junk hauling person to take everything to Goodwill/junkyard. They made multiple trips the last two weeks, and the morning I was leaving they came and removed the last of the furniture (e.g., the bed I slept in) and then everything else was bagged up and they took it to the dump.

Don't forget to look for a secure disposal company if you have old computers to get rid of.
 
Well after I got the Ivy branches chopped and everything swept up..I started on the Laurel Hedge, trimming it back. I can only reach a 1/3rd of the way up.. it's so high, but I got enough cut that my Garden waste bin which was empty when I started is almost full.....

Then I came in and cleaned everything..window sills, window frames, and windows (upstairs).. all the counter tops downstairs and bathroom ..and polished everything in the livingroom.. No Vacci'ing today..

After that.. I noticed that there was some scratches on the mantle which is painted white, which wouldn't polish out ... so I got the pot of paint which I was using to paint the doors last week, and gave the mantle a whole new lick of paint. ..it's just drying now... All this in close to 90 deg temps and no AC....I must be insane ..but I really hate to be idle

I didn't make any lunch..too hot to eat... but my back is killing me now I have to get a heat pad on it... it's 6.20pm... so I don't think I'll do anything more..
 
With all this heat, I've had to "reschedule" my days. I'm now getting up around 6AM, eating a quick breakfast, then going outdoors for a couple of hours of chores. By 10 or 11, the heat is quite oppressive, so I go back indoors, take a shower, and relax. I plop down in the recliner, and wind up taking a nice afternoon nap, to make up for the early "rise". I'm ready for Fall to arrive....can't come too soon.
 
My best-laid plans are thwarted again. I bought rubber spacers and adhesive to put 'feet' under each section of dog fence to keep the bottoms from rusting. Ho hum, dumb-dumb. The method that I thought of won't work easily because my concrete patio is slanted, but the gate sections remain level. It seems like it will take forever, doing one section at a time and waiting for 48 hours with the spacers propped tight before doing the next panel. I thought, erroneously, that the panels would just drop down flush to the concrete and brace themselves until dry. So, I am here, in the air-conditioned space, bemoaning the fact that nowadays, everything seems more challenging than it used to feel in my younger days. /-;
 
Puttered in the balcony garden until the humidity drove me indoors. Sassafras, the pale orange cat, was a great help. Eagerly anticipating when my garden turns into a tiny Hanging Garden of Babylon! I have far more plants than the stringent condo rules permit, but they are prevented by chains or brackets from tumbling off onto the heads of unwary bystanders. Lol Also, I flatter our insecure and officious condo president outrageously. No shame when it comes to my garden. Perhaps I am becoming hortisexual. 😯
 
HoneyNut said:
oh my gosh, that is only two weeks away, you have all my sympathy for the pain and effort of moving! I forget who you are moving in with (an uncle?) but I hope there are beds and dressers already at the destination, if so - could you just box up your clothes and most-important-knick-knacks and ship them UPS to your relative's house?
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We are likely going to UPS our stuff there. I don't have any computers to get rid of. We have some leeway - I'm pretty sure I can pay rent for a week, a take a little bit more time. This house hasn't been rented to another tenant yet.

We may rent a U-Haul trailer. I've never driven a car with anything attached to it, and it makes me kind of leery. There are some small pieces of furniture I want to take. My cousin has a fully furnished house.
 
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