What's on your agenda for today?

Linda, I love breakfast for dinner, but hubby doesn't. And he's the cook in this house - at least 99% of the time.

Went to the gym this morning. Ugandan daughter and her friend will return this afternoon or evening.
 

Morning all.....we've had rain the last two days, much needed. I need to start getting my patio plants protected for the winter very soon, then it will be 'raking leaves' time...ugh.

I also like breakfast for dinner occasionally.
 
We have breakfast for dinner about once a month. It's usually blueberry pancakes and bacon. Yes, bacon, and the more the better!

I think it's laundry day for me. I won't be doing much of anything else, though, and certainly not working in the garden because it's raining again. It's also 70 here and might get as warm as 80 today before a cold front moves through and drops our temps to the 50s. We still haven't had the first frost here. Looks like El Nino is already at work.
 

I've made an asparagus omelette a few times when on my own. Or I might make polenta, eggs and veggie sausage. We normally only have bacon in the house when we have guests, but I could easily eat it every day!
 
Well, I Might have to say Hooroo ( Bye) for a while to all my senior forum buddies ,:wave:I jus received a phone call from a very aggressive lady informing me the police on on their way to arrest me for tax fraud dating back to 1997 ..:laugh::laugh: (They are at work early)
But don't worry about me !!! My dear hubby said he will go in place of me ,now that's what I call LOVE but he has a motive in mind he wants to get out of painting walls to finish off the family/ dinning room area that's on the agenda for latter today
 
It sounds like tax scams aren't limited to the US. Tell your hubby that you see right through his ploy to get out of painting and hand him a brush:)
 
Kadee46.
Have you ever used a comparison website?
I unfortunately did, (Choosi), and I was inundated with phone calls from not only loan companies, but the people selling anything from solar panels to new improved choices in IP companies.

Most of the calls came from overseas, but some of them were showing up as "anonymous". Got four of them yesterday.

You can't put anonymous into the block calls on my phone, so I just ignore them now.
 
grannyjo said:
Kadee46.
Have you ever used a comparison website?
I unfortunately did, (Choosi), and I was inundated with phone calls from not only loan companies, but the people selling anything from solar panels to new improved choices in IP companies.

Most of the calls came from overseas, but some of them were showing up as "anonymous". Got four of them yesterday.

You can't put anonymous into the block calls on my phone, so I just ignore them now.
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I get online to look up phone numbers I don't know. Often someone has posted not to call them back as it's one of those premium numbers where you get charged by the minute. We kept getting a phone number that sounded like US, but it was one number short which we found really confusing. It started with 001 which is the country code but the actual phone number after the area code was only 6 instead of 7. We discovered it was someone in India who claimed to be from microsoft and that our computer was infected blah blah blah. When my husband answers he gives them hell, but I simply hang up.

And I'm starting to get these kinds of calls on my mobile as well.
 
Ameriscot said:
I get online to look up phone numbers I don't know. Often someone has posted not to call them back as it's one of those premium numbers where you get charged by the minute. We kept getting a phone number that sounded like US, but it was one number short which we found really confusing. It started with 001 which is the country code but the actual phone number after the area code was only 6 instead of 7. We discovered it was someone in India who claimed to be from microsoft and that our computer was infected blah blah blah. When my husband answers he gives them hell, but I simply hang up.

And I'm starting to get these kinds of calls on my mobile as well.
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They obviously catch some people ,my hubby gives the Microsoft mob a run arround as well but it seems you cant offend them they keep coming back for more ,we're had threats to disconnect our internet ( pre paid wi fi ) , Microsoft,.. tax fraud, ...holiday scams ,People claiming to be from my bank... We get these calls weekly .. might have to look into the do not call register not sure if it's still available in Aus ..
 
Kadee46 said:
They obviously catch some people ,my hubby gives the Microsoft mob a run arround as well but it seems you cant offend them they keep coming back for more ,we're had threats to disconnect our internet ( pre paid wi fi ) , Microsoft,.. tax fraud, ...holiday scams ,People claiming to be from my bank... We get these calls weekly .. might have to look into the do not call register not sure if it's still available in Aus ..
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Some naive people will fall for it unfortunately. I registered for do not call a few years ago, maybe I should check into again. Maybe there is one for mobiles as well.
 
Ha! I googled 'do not call registry UK' and one of the choices said scam after it. It is called Telephone Preference Service and one of them is a fake. In fact, it will have the opposite effect!

Off to find the real site.
 
Ameriscot said:
Ha! I googled 'do not call registry UK' and one of the choices said scam after it. It is called Telephone Preference Service and one of them is a fake. In fact, it will have the opposite effect!

Off to find the real site.
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I just did mine it used to be only valid for 12 months it's now permanent unless you the phone account holder decide to cancel the ban.. The one I registered with looks genuine it's Australian Goverment and they send you an email to complete the registration.
 
Kadee46 said:
I just did mine it used to be only valid for 12 months it's now permanent unless you the phone account holder decide to cancel the ban.. The one I registered with looks genuine it's Australian Goverment and they send you an email to complete the registration.
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I'll have to keep looking to be sure I have the real site. When I got one on my mobile I put the number on Auto Reject List.
 
I went out this morning to buy a "nice" new sports watch. I came home without a nice new sports watch. Why? Because I can't find a nice sports watch that isn't the size of a salad plate, isn't hot pink or electric aqua, doesn't time my activities to the 100th of a second and simultaneously tell me the time in New York, Karachi and Gstaad. I just want a plain black sports watch of a feminine size, that closes with Velcro, tells me the time and won't stop running because I have to run through the rain. I really don't care if it's waterproof to 90 meters because #1 if it's at 90 meters, it won't be on MY wrist and #2 if it IS on my wrist and it's at 90 meters, I have worse problems to worry about than whether it's waterproof or not. Sigh. This afternoon, I guess it's off to Walmart to buy another $12 sports watch like the one I have.....just a plain old not-particularly-nice sports watch.
 
It's probably morning, right. As has been promised for days, our warm rain has turned to cold rain. Lovely. Methinks El Nino is getting a head start on the Southeast.

jujube, I haven't been out looking for a sports watch, but I understand...it's probably a similar experience to buying clothes that don't make me look like a hat-check girl or a Lady of the Night.
 
I'm back. Seems like I was gone more than 2 days and 1 night so much went on. I rode up to our grandson's wedding with my youngest son and his wife. I always feel like I'm only half there when my husband isn't with me in a social situation since he's so much more outgoing than I am. I think I did OK though and met some new people and reconnected with some from the past. Took a photo of our grandson with both his parents, even though they split up when he was about 2 years old. They both gave me permission to put it on Facebook so I thought that was a good step forward. They were more proud of their son than they were adverse to being seen in the same photo. :) She (our x-daughter-in-law) usually spends Thanksgiving with my husband and I so we get along fine with her.

My husband was nice enough to stay behind and get my brother out of the rehab hospital after his hip replacement surgery and then has been keeping an eye on him. He's doing ok but it's sad to see my big brother using a walker to get around, he's always been so active. He's only 73. He thinks he'll be able to toss the walker before long. Tomorrow we are taking him to the doctor for a check up.
 
Linda, nice that your son and dil get along even though divorced. Sounds like you had a good time.

Went to the gym this morning. Took Ugandan daughter and her friend/coworker to the bus. He is going back to the island to work, and daughter is meeting a lady who is donating to the charity she set up for disabled toilets in Uganda. Everybody wants to donate to her! She noticed disabled toilets in the UK and thought it would be good to have some for the schools in Uganda that have many disabled kids. They will still be pit toilets but will have wider doors and bars to hold onto, etc. I'm so proud of her! It was her own idea.

Daughter will be back tonight and leaves for Uganda on Thursday. Hoping she gets another visa and is back in April as she's been offered another contract.
 
Ameriscot, that is so wonderful about your Ugandan daughter and the disabled toilets. She sounds like she has a big heart! I love people like that.

I've never used a pit toilet (although I used outhouses when I was young) but you probably have with all your travels. My daughter-in-law travels for work all over the world and she said once in Japan she was about to be late for a plane or a meeting or something and she got in line for the "regular" toilet but the line was moving too slow so she went over to the line for the pit toilet and she was wearing slacks. She said it was an experience she hopes she never has to repeat. :)

Today I'll just be doing stuff around the house and when my husband gets back from taking my brother to the Dr (I should have went too but I decided to stay home and "clean house", which I haven't started yet.) we'll go to the grocery store and get a few things.
 
Linda said:
Ameriscot, that is so wonderful about your Ugandan daughter and the disabled toilets. She sounds like she has a big heart! I love people like that.

I've never used a pit toilet (although I used outhouses when I was young) but you probably have with all your travels. My daughter-in-law travels for work all over the world and she said once in Japan she was about to be late for a plane or a meeting or something and she got in line for the "regular" toilet but the line was moving too slow so she went over to the line for the pit toilet and she was wearing slacks. She said it was an experience she hopes she never has to repeat. :)

Today I'll just be doing stuff around the house and when my husband gets back from taking my brother to the Dr (I should have went too but I decided to stay home and "clean house", which I haven't started yet.) we'll go to the grocery store and get a few things.
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I used many pit toilets in Uganda. My biggest fear before we went to live there was that the house we were given had a pit toilet. But we had indoor plumbing and a regular flushing toilet!
 
Flying to Buffalo this morning. Hope it's not snowing there yet. Really though, it looks like an OK day. Got to run. Flying at 10:a.m.
 
Have a safe and enjoyable flight Oldman.

Went to the gym this morning, picked up meds for our trip. Ugandan daughter goes back home tomorrow. Her birthday is next week and I bought her a card and stuck in some Ugandan shillings so she wouldn't arrive home with only British cash.

Downloaded a few new songs for my workout playlist.

Hubby and daughter are at the swimming pool. I'm going to do my muscle workouts when I pull myself away from this computer.
 
Looks like I forgot to post yesterday. Maybe the incessant rain was fogging my brain.

The sun actually came out late yesterday afternoon, thank heaven, and today's been another sunny day. We may get our first frost this weekend, and that will be the end of the few flowers left in the garden:(

Drove down to see my son yesterday, did nothing today, and there's nothing on the agenda for tomorrow. Yawn.
 
Finished the second day of my heart tests....I'm still alive. Hopefully, the results will come back good. Spent two hours on the phone last night with my granddaughter; she's having a difficult pregnancy and needed some grandma time. She's in a lot of pain and is "carrying" oddly, but they think everything is "ok". I just hate to see her so upset and down. She has four more months to go and I can't stand the idea of her being in pain or possibly being on bed rest all that time.
 
This is a good thread. Had a killer workout over in the Home Gym around noon and then moseyed out to the barn Shop to start cleaning and prepping one of my road bikes for a trip I am making next week over to Toledo Bend. Have to ride through 3 national forests to get there and have heard many reports that the Sabine Reservoir-Toledo Bend area is mighty pretty. It will be a day to get there, a day to tour the area, and a day to get back to the ranch.
 
Jujube, hope you get good results. Hope everything is fine with your granddaughter.

Agman, sounds like a nice ride. Hubby and I are serious cyclists but we cheat a bit and got electric pedal assisted bikes earlier this year. But it's very hilly here so we can do very long trips now.

Taking our Ugandan daughter to the airport. When she gets back to Uganda she will apply for another visa and hope she will be back in April as she's been offered another 18 month work contract. As always there will be many tears at the airport as she's not good with goodbyes.
 

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