What's on your agenda for today?

Holly, we all wanted to know how you're doing, pain or not. :)

Sunny with intermittent showers here. About 10-12C. We aren't getting that gorgeous weather you all are getting down south. :tongue:Not fair, not fair!

Been to the gym, picked up a few groceries. 15 years ago today I arrived in Scotland to my new home! I felt like I'd won the lottery - awesome soon-to-be hubby, the most gorgeous scenery I'd ever seen and a house on a loch!
 
Hi Georgia, Don't get me wrong, I love my little dog and we both look forward to our walks. Before we moved north we lived in a Townhouse with walking trails and two little parks and I took Diamond for 3 walks a day. Now that we pick up the Grand kids I only have time for 1 walk a day but we do have a large yard now (instead of a wood patio) so she has full control of that. Did I mention that my next door neighbors have 4 dogs? 2 Jack Russells, 1 black Lab. and a Rottweiler/Blood hound mix. Diamond likes to go to our dividing fence and get the Rottie/hound to bark at her because once he starts barking it turns into the Hound howling and she really seems to enjoy hearing that. Lucky they are all getting use to each other, finally, and the Rottie doesn't bark or howl at her any more. She is a little disappointed but she always has the 2 Chihuahuas directly behind us that will still bark so she gets her entertainment for the day when they are out.
We live in the furthest northern valley, in Red Bluff, and are also affected by the drought, we are lucky so far as the city of Red Bluff uses water from 7 spring wells and so far they haven't told anyone to cut back on use but I think we are all cutting back anyway just in case. The last time we had a drought like this I remember taking showers together (not too bad an idea) and the saying for flushing the toilet was "if its yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down". I am planting drought resistant plants in the back yard (I'm planting a butterfly garden to help the Monarch butterflies during their migration). We have views of Mt. Shasta, Mt. Lassen, and the Trinities, all with snow right now but by summer it will all be melted except on the highest peaks of Shasta, she always has a little left no matter how bad it gets.
 
A visit later today to the podiatrist with the spousal-equivalent. He's having a terrible bout of gout (hey, I'm a poet!) and may need surgery in the near future to free-up his big toe joint, which apparently is immobilized with some sort of crystals in the joint. Anybody here have gout? Any home remedies that have helped?
 
this is a work day for Hardware-man but before that I have been redoing our laundry room for insolating and getting ready for new wall coverings... old house that room is cold in the winter
 
Holly - So glad to hear from you but I was afraid you might be in the hurt locker after all that work and, unfortunately, that's what happened! I hope the ice worked and if all goes OK your London Eye trip will be super fun.

Cosmo - it's nice to meet you and I really appreciated hearing about how your day goes. My day used to go almost the same as yours for a long time due to hubby's Parkinson's and Congestive Heart Failure. He's now in hospice care and it's very quiet here and I feel Alone with a capital A. It was much work to care for a very sick guy but it's a different kind of work without him here. I sense that you already know this and that you are very caring wife, mom, grandmother, and friend. My dog Suki and I send you a giant hug and hope you feel much warmth and happiness today.
 
My main goal today is to work on hooking up a new electronic device that will stream sound from the TV directly into my hearing aids via bluetooth technology. I use the same thing to hear and speak on my IPhone which is really the only way I can use a phone. So far I am having difficulty pairing the TV device. I may need to get some help from my IT grandson.
 
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