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No blank thoughts of what I’m doing today. 🙁❄️🙁❄️🙁❄️🙁❄️🙁❄️🙁❄️🙁❄️🙁🥵🥵🥵.
A good dump of sNOw with wind last nite……all the dog paths are filled and blown in, about 6 inches on the deck and cement patio.
The driveway isn’t too bad except for the big bank in front of the big garage door……caused by the neighbours house…..I’ve asked him to move his house to the east, several times, but hasn’t done it yet.
In between shovelling, will continue going through the hallway closets.
 
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@MickaC How well I remember those days...up before the butt crack of dawn to clear out our long, long double driveway so that we could go to work. By the time we were done, along came the plow and filled in the street end of it. At the end of the day? Park in the street while we cleared it out again so we could park in the garage. Oy!

Right now up there in my hometown, they're experiencing a blizzard and expecting at least 18" of sNOw by the time it's over.
 

Congratulate me! Fruitcake in the oven as we speak. Two hours.

The only candied fruit I could find was in a 2 lb container, but the recipe calls for only 1 lb. So...what to do with the other pound? Eureka, she exclaimed! DD's all-time favorite Christmas cookie is called stained glass; the "stained glass" is candied fruit. It's a refrigerator cookie so the dough can be mixed up any only time and stored in the fridge or the freezer until I'm ready to bake them. Maybe I'll do that next week.

When the fruitcake and stained glass cookies are done, next up will be spritz. Can't have Christmas without spritz.

At the rate I get around to doing things...
 
It's been raining hard and blowing a gale.. and has been all week, but as it's forecast to be sunny tomorrow and Saturday, I decided I'd go and get some shopping today , thinking the crowds will hit the shops tomorrow... *yikes*.. I was wrong, it was like Christmas week in the supermarket.. Packed solid. Half the shelves were empty.. there was more Home shopping Assistants than there was customers I think.. and there was a LOT of customers... I think they've all been taken on for the Christmas period.. and really need some training. I walked past 2 of them loudly discussing their toilet habits ( female)... and 2 were having such a long conversation about cars that I passed them 3 times on my way around, and they hadn't moved an inch ( Guys)..

Anyway.. I got everything I went for ( except the item at the pharmacy whose shelves were all but empty)...

Managed to stock up on lots of larder staples like Lentils and Porridge oats, Dried fruit, flour and yeast etc..

Good thing because today..as if we're not suffering enough, it's been announced taxes are to rise for middle earners.. and all energy prices which are sky high currently are to rise yet again by £500 per year.. .. I just don't know how we're all going to cope except for those with a good comfortable income.. :oops:
 
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I've got Georgiagranny's temps here in SE GA but it's overcast and raw outside... It's just too easy on a day like this to burrow down in an afghan with a good book and hibernate all day. Not saying that's not a good thing occasionally but doesn't need to become my main way of spending my days. So I got myself in the shower, cleaned, made spiced chai, put in an application to audition for next production by the community theater in town, checked on a book I thought I'd like to read (will give it a miss), and am getting ready to head out for some errands.

Later today I will start my knitted watch cap and tonight is choir practice for the first time in like 5 years. I'll probably sound like rusty nails being pulled from a 2x4 but oh well, gotta get back in the swing of it. I have noticed my voice has deepened over the years.... Mid C on the treble clef is the new D or E, haha. If I live to be 90 I'll be singing in the bass section :rolleyes: 🎶
 
@Georgiagranny: Glad your schedule has been sorted out, at least for the next couple of weeks. There's an old saying: People don't quit companies or the work, they quit bosses. With very few exceptions, that was true in my working life.

I hope your store's management gets its act together. Blaming a computer for scheduling errors is nonsense. Garbage in, garbage out.
 
10am PST now this Thursday 11/17/2022 morning. Just outside on my street as I do computer work on a long MS Word document, a horrendously noisy 4-plex shaking wood chipper is being fed piles of tree limbs, tree trimming crews are pruning off from large 70 year old liquid amber trees along our street. The resident eastern red squirrels in the trees are likely thinking Armageddon has arrived. Will be glad when they move down the street, YIKES!
 
Just came in from taking Li'l Bit for a long walk down the old irrigation ditch. She covers about 3-4 times the distance I do with all her little side trips, but that's ok, she's a lot younger than me, even in dog years. Made ham, egg, and sharp cedar sandwich's with hot red peppers for the wife and I this morning. She's napping with the cat now. She just got back from six weeks of field work on a beaches study in three different states, and visiting friends, and family. She's come down with something on her way home. Took a covid quick test this morning and it's negative. Was getting ready to go out to the shop, and decided I was going finish my Tom Robins book (Tibetan Peach Pie) instead. Imagine that.
 
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In the future @NorthernLight, a key to not coming down with head colds is keeping one's head and neck warm at night by wearing something in close contact warm on one's head like a balaclava or a nightcap plus neck wrap. That is because head cold viruses replicate at highest rates at those lower temperatures. A key fact not well known the pharmaceutical industry would prefer to remain so. From an old medical link:

The optimal temperature for RV (rhinovirus) replication is 33-35C. ( 91F > 95F degrees peaking at 92F) RV does not efficiently replicate at body temperature. This may explain why RV replicates well in the nasal passages and upper tracheobronchial tree but less well in the lower respiratory tract. The incubation period is approximately 2-3 days..."
 
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It’s early afternoon and here I sit in my flannel robe wasting time looking at You Tube videos. It’s amazing what one can find on You Tube. Anyway, I am really considering topics that need to be well thought over such as Thanksgiving dinner menu (it will just be me and I’m thinking a nice t-bone steak would be good), best time to get my car inspected (not at the end of the month when all the procrastinators will be out in force), should I lease a new car when the current lease ends in a couple of months or just buy the one I have, and, most importantly, Christmas shopping (geeze, where did this year go)?
 
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In the future @NorthernLight, a key to not coming down with head colds is keeping one's head and neck warm at night by wearing something in close contact warm on one's head like a balaclava or a nightcap plus neck wrap. That is because head cold viruses replicate at highest rates at those lower temperatures. A key fact not well known the pharmaceutical industry would prefer to remain so. From an old medical link:

The optimal temperature for RV (rhinovirus) replication is 33-35C. ( 91F > 95F degrees peaking at 92F) RV does not efficiently replicate at body temperature. This may explain why RV replicates well in the nasal passages and upper tracheobronchial tree but less well in the lower respiratory tract. The incubation period is approximately 2-3 days..."
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Thank you, David. Don't worry, I'm always cozy at night. I seldom get colds.

I got the cold symptoms (and UTI symptoms) the day after I went to the pool. For the cold, it could have been the unfamiliar and uneven temperatures (e.g., underwater body parts warmer than above-water parts).

I was going to continue going to the pool, just up to my knees. But I won't if it means I'll catch a cold every time.
 
Watching "Deadly Women" and the description of the man in the story is that he's a scoundrel. Oh, no! Not a scoundrel! Yanno what's gonna happen, right? The girl is gonna murderize him. Yup. I can see it coming. The scoundrel is a married man with kids. In Silver City, New Mexico, in the late 1800s. I've been to Silver City. It's where my mom went to college at WNMU. It wasn't the 1800s, though, and I didn't meet any scoundrels there.

This just FYI. I know you'll be interested...jussayin'

The lawn got mowed. It's colder than a banker's heart out there, even in the sun.
 
She did! She murderized the scoundrel because he dumped her and hit on her roommate (a hooker, no less). So she shot him dead. Claimed insanity, charmed the all-male jury (of course, in those days), got sentenced to however long in prison and was let out after only two years, went back to Silver City and carried on as though nothing ever happened.

I told you so. I'm old and know stuff.
 

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