What's on your agenda for today?

Thank you Ameriscot, I forgot that she was going to be away camping.
Hope they had nice warm weather.
 

Josiah said:
Had to drive into Cincinnati last night and stay at a motel in order to get some online business done and charge up my gadgets. Heading home to clean out my frig and freezer.
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Glad to see your update, Josiah. Hopefully, power will be restored tomorrow. Have missed your posts and anxiously waiting to hear of your sale's outcome.
 
ndynt said:
Glad to see your update, Josiah. Hopefully, power will be restored tomorrow. Have missed your posts and anxiously waiting to hear of your sale's outcome.
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Thank you for your concern Nona, the power came on late this afternoon, too late to save the food in the refrigerator, but my problems were minor compared with Walmart and Kroger. They had to throw out tons of frozen & refrigerated foods. I would have assumed they would have backup generators. Plenty of book orders but they're all processed now and ready to mail tomorrow.
 

Josiah - I'm sorry to hear about the power loss and all the stuff that thawed in your fridge. Not long ago, my fridge lost power (bad wire somewhere) and the repair guy came and fixed it pretty fast. Still had to toss out some food but it could have been worse. I hope you won't ever have to go through this anymore!

We had mild weather today so I did a lot of weeding to prepare the flower beds for mulching. Got finished just in time as the sky suddenly clouded over so rain is on the way. Also put down some weed preventer so maybe the weeds I pulled won't come back. Now I'm rushing to finish the book that's the current selection of the community book club - this time it's "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet." Very interesting description of how the Chinese and Japanese fared in Seattle during World War II.
 
Back in St.Petersburg early this morning after a lovely weekend in the country. We were coming back last night, but a tree on the tracks closed the line.

Though Lisa and I are not religious in any way we have taken to drinking church wine lately, which is readily available here at $2 a bottle, its 14% proof and a lovely slightly spicy wine, similar to a good merlot. I am almost tempted to convert, if this a sample of their drinking supplies. :)

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Speaking of alcohol, which I often do, this a lovely rich dark porter which seems to be new here, its 8% alc high for a beer, but full of dark malt flavours, one I am sure you would love Glinda :cheers1:

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Shalimar said:
Merlin, is food expensive and variety limited in Russia?
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Alcohol is very cheap, the basics are also cheapish, but because of sanctions there are shortages of a lot of such foods as cheese and vegetables which primarily came from Europe. There is also a 12% inflation rate so everything is going up in price.

A ciabatta from the local bakery is about 75cents ( Canadian) for example, tomatoes 2.5 CAD a kilo

I fill my suitcase with UK cheese when I come here as we are both cheese addicts. :)
 
Mmm...I'm ready for wine or beer and some cheese! Merlin, I've had some 8% craft beer before. Hiccup....

Went to the gym this morning and since we finally got a sunny day took my new bike out for a spin with the hubby. Tried out the really steep hills that are a few miles down the road - easy, mostly. DH took some videos of me going up the hill and I'll try to post one.
 
Dreary rainy and misty Monday, enough to make me want to go back to bed. Think I'll just lay low and relax for a while, have another cup of coffee.
 
Consulted with Maggie's doctor this morning about what I diagnose as osteoporotic fractures to her neck vertebrae. He's going to schedule an xray. I'm very concerned that this condition will start causing my wife a great deal of pain and I'm anxious that palliative drugs may be skimped on. My wife is so vulnerable because she has no way of communicating her situation.
 
Josiah said:
Consulted with Maggie's doctor this morning about what I diagnose as osteoporotic fractures to her neck vertebrae. He's going to schedule an xray. I'm very concerned that this condition will start causing my wife a great deal of pain and I'm anxious that palliative drugs may be skimped on. My wife is so vulnerable because she has no way of communicating her situation.
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Hope you get a good result.
 
Josiah said:
Consulted with Maggie's doctor this morning about what I diagnose as osteoporotic fractures to her neck vertebrae. He's going to schedule an xray. I'm very concerned that this condition will start causing my wife a great deal of pain and I'm anxious that palliative drugs may be skimped on. My wife is so vulnerable because she has no way of communicating her situation.
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Josiah - Is your wife taking any of the anti-osteoporosis meds? I just started taking one since I found out I shrank an inch over the last year. I also take Vitamin D3 in a big dose each day. I hope very much that your wife has experienced no fractures.

This a.m. I've been trying to put new ink cartridges in my printer - I always forget how I did it the last time which means I have to go to You Tube and watch someone do it on video. I sure miss the days when my memory was sharp - I've found out lately that I forgot stuff usually when I'm under stress. I'd like to sell my stress on E-Bay.
 
Josiah said:
Consulted with Maggie's doctor this morning about what I diagnose as osteoporotic fractures to her neck vertebrae. He's going to schedule an xray. I'm very concerned that this condition will start causing my wife a great deal of pain and I'm anxious that palliative drugs may be skimped on. My wife is so vulnerable because she has no way of communicating her situation.
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the Hospice my husband was one of the BEST. For pain management. They delivered to the house whatever he needed. He was on morphine, hydocodone , methadone and may even have had a fentanyl patch sometimes.

they also gave him Provigil so he didn't sleep the day away....it was a good combination.

I feel for you Josiah...it's so difficult.
 
Ameriscot said:
Mmm...I'm ready for wine or beer and some cheese! Merlin, I've had some 8% craft beer before. Hiccup....

Went to the gym this morning and since we finally got a sunny day took my new bike out for a spin with the hubby. Tried out the really steep hills that are a few miles down the road - easy, mostly. DH took some videos of me going up the hill and I'll try to post one.
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I am imbibing a couple of Bloody Marys (sequentially) at the moment, and having some blue cheese with fresh ciabatta, and feeling mellow after a walk in the sun around the city's parks.

Looking forward to seeing the videos Annie!!
 
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