What's on your agenda for today?

Good morning, kids.

I just read online about a 70-year-old man described as elderly. Um. Guess it's true that the older we get, the further away old age gets. (I'll be a mere 75 soon.)

I just got a message from next week's dog sitting people. They are going to Hilton Head, a very pricey resort area in South Carolina, and this 7-day vacation has been planned since last spring. My dog sitting rate is about $15/day lower than the rate at a boarding kennel. They want me to cut $75 from my fee. That's a lotta lettuce, and while I realize that some money is better than none, I don't want to do it. I'm not going to do it. It's just not worth it to me to spend a week away from the comfort of my own place, but I sure wish that they had said something sooner. It's Wednesday today! They are leaving Saturday morning. Oh, well. I feel like a real witch, but no, I'm not going to do it.
 

Good for you, Georgia... If they can afford Hilton Head they can afford to pay you less than they will for a kennel. Or, even if they budgeted for their vacation, they should have budgeted it in.
 
Am trying to go through bins and bins of sewing and art supplies. Trying to allocate to different grand daughters. Look at things and think..."Oh I want to do this" knowing there are not enough years left. Thousands dollars of supplies...from when I sold my creations. Until illnesses got it the way. Is anyone else trying to downsize? To get rid of all the treasures they have accumulated?
In between, trying to paint things for my family...for all the holidays...so I will always be with them. Already my grandchildren are arguing over what I have painted for my daughter..over the years.
May everyone have a great day....
 

I agree with Nona, Georgia! Stick to your guns, you're worth it! My guess is they will call back today!
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Afternoon folks...it's absolutely tipping it from the heavens here, as if the Good Lord is trying to put a fire out, and @4.45pm the sky is almost black as night ...what a shame this rain isn't falling in California where there is some real need for it.

Nona..oooh what a wonderful talent you have, to be able paint for your family as a reminder of you always, must be one of life's greatest gifts.


Georgia...you'd better have stuck to your guns young lady ...seriously..it's those who can afford the most who are always expecting to pay less for goods and services. You're not their Slave, you make sure they pay your worth. I doubt very much they'll want to stump up a whole lot more at the eleventh hour for boarding kennel fees.
 
Good morning everyone. It's sunny here today but we had a nice rain on Monday and Tuesday morning. Our wildfire is 67% contained so we are happy about that. Still we are all feeling sad about the other fires in California, they have done so much devastation. Mrs. Robinson has posted a lot about that so I know you already know what is going on and I'm sure its on the news too. One of my son's posted something on Facebook I thought was quite fitting to this summer's fires. It was a long shot photo of one of the fires and then it said "Hell is empty all the devils are here - W.S. California Summer 2015" I hope that doesn't offend anyone's religious beliefs regarding hell etc. I don't mean for it to. A lady at work once got mad at me for coming in from outside and saying "It's hotter than hell out there".

Georgia, I'm glad you refused the pay cut. I also think the people will call you at the last minute and have you watch their dogs. My husband has run into that with jobs he was doing on the side. I remember some friends of ours talked him into lowering his hourly wage for a bathroom remodel and then they started ordering top of the line, VERY expensive fixtures for the job. So he just told them he was too busy to do it and backed out of it. I love the lettuce puppy Meanderer posted for you. :) I copied that off to put on my grand-daughter's FB wall. :)

Nona, I think it's wonderful your grand-daughters want your paintings and things you have made. I too am trying to downsize and organize my place. But every time we come back from LA we have another pick up load of stuff to get rid of. Our kids (and others) know we have a yard sale twice a year so they give us all sorts of things to get rid of but a lot of it is just stored in my storage shed behind my house now. I don't think my husband and I are up to having a yard sale this fall and I have some things in my living room right now I have to deal with. Since we thought it would still be real smokey here at our house, my daughter gave me an air filtering machine that she doesn't use in her new house. But I don't need it now so I'll try to squeeze it in somewhere out back. There are bags and boxes of cloths and general household items. I guess we'll do like we have done before and take a lot of them down to the thrift stores so someone can get some use out of them.

Today we are running a few errands but first we have to call in an order for some car parts my husband wants from back east. When we get home from the errands I'll start to deal with the things in my living room. I hope everyone is having a good day.


 
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Thanks, guys. I was feeling like I'm being mean, but to tell the truth...these people have two cars, one is his company car. The other is a car that her mother gave them for Christmas year before last. They live in a very upscale house in a very upscale neighborhood. Her mother made a massive down payment for them so that the mortgage payments would be "affordable". Their kids go to the priciest private school in the city.

If they thought my price was too high and had negotiated when they asked, I would have considered it, but to wait until three days before leaving really grated my cheese. To further grate my cheese (she said...LOL), another client asked me last summer if I would sit with their dogs for the same time period...next week is fall break for the area schools so people with kids often take a few days to go to the beach...and I told her I was already spoken for.

I just texted her back and said "No. Just cancel me."
 
Linda said:
Good morning everyone. It's sunny here today but we had a nice rain on Monday and Tuesday morning. Our wildfire is almost 50% contained so we are happy about that. Still we are all feeling sad about the other fires in California, they have done so much devastation. Mrs. Robinson has posted a lot about that so I know you already know what is going on and I'm sure its on the news too. One of my son's posted something on Facebook I thought was quite fitting to this summer's fires. It was a long shot photo of one of the fires and then it said "Hell is empty all the devils are here - W.S. California Summer 2015" I hope that doesn't offend anyone's religious beliefs regarding hell etc. I don't mean for it to. A lady at work once got mad at me for coming in from outside and saying "It's hotter than hell out there".

Georgia, I'm glad you refused the pay cut. I also think the people will call you at the last minute and have you watch their dogs. My husband has run into that with small side jobs he was doing on the side. I remember some friends of ours talked him into lowering his hourly wage for a bathroom remodel and then they started ordering top of the line, VERY expensive fixtures for the job. So he just told them he was too busy to do it and backed out of it. I love the lettuce puppy Meanderer posted for you. :) I copied that off to put on my grand-daughter's FB wall. :)

Nona, I think it's wonderful your grand-daughters want your paintings and things you have made. I too am trying to downsize and organize my place. But every time we come back from LA we have another pick up load of stuff to get rid of. Our kids (and others) know we have a yard sale twice a year so they give us all sorts of things to get rid of but a lot of it is just stored in my storage shed behind my house now. I don't think my husband and I are up to having a yard sale this fall and I have some things in my living room right now I have to deal with. Since we thought it would still be real smokey here at our house, my daughter gave me an air filtering machine that she doesn't use in her new house. But I don't need it now so I'll try to squeeze it in somewhere out back. There are bags and boxes of cloths and general household items. I guess we'll do like we have done before and take a lot of them down to the thrift stores so someone can get some use out of them.

Today we are running a few errands but first we have to call in an order for some car parts my husband wants from back east. When we get home from the errands I'll start to deal with the things in my living room. I hope everyone is having a good day.
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Thank you for sharing, Linda. So good to know there are kindred souls. Will think of you as I enter the sewing room again. Then I only have my studio in the garage and a shed LOL. I so want to live in only one room...near the ocean.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Thanks, guys. I was feeling like I'm being mean, but to tell the truth...these people have two cars, one is his company car. The other is a car that her mother gave them for Christmas year before last. They live in a very upscale house in a very upscale neighborhood. Her mother made a massive down payment for them so that the mortgage payments would be "affordable". Their kids go to the priciest private school in the city.

If they thought my price was too high and had negotiated when they asked, I would have considered it, but to wait until three days before leaving really grated my cheese. To further grate my cheese (she said...LOL), another client asked me last summer if I would sit with their dogs for the same time period...next week is fall break for the area schools so people with kids often take a few days to go to the beach...and I told her I was already spoken for.

I just texted her back and said "No. Just cancel me."
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Good for you.. you shoulda sent this along with it..LOL ..:kissmy:
 
Dang, Holly, I love that little guy!

She sent me an email "Gee. Thanks. Now I'm screwed." What? People sure do think they're entitled...I doubt they gave a second's thought to "screwing" me.

The other client that I turned down last summer for the same week would have been more money, but I'd already made a commitment.

ETA: I just tried to edit this and it didn't take. Huh?

Anyway, Meanderer, it was to thank you for the Lotta Lettuce Puppy. Too cute!
 
Starting the day off by getting a basal cell cancer removed from my back. This is the fourth one this year so far and seems to be a on going process. Another one comes off my nose in three weeks. I will lie down the rest of the day and then get ready for new lady friend to join me for dinner tonight at 6:30 PM. We will dine and watch the debates & hope we don't lose our dinner.
 
Hope everything went well at both ends of the day for you Lon..


6.30am here, wet outside just getting ready to go to the Pitface. Lots of traffic spray on the motorway..gotta leave a little earlier to fill the car up.

Woke up this morning at 5am with a corker of a headache.. quite unusual for me but I have been getting more headaches recently, dunno why...stress probably..:rolleyes:

Have a good day folks whatever you're up to.. :D
 
Hollydolly, about the headaches...sometimes there's a real simple cause and solution. I was getting them late in the evening and first thing in the morning, especially on weekends and Monday mornings and couldn't figure out why. I mentioned it to my doctor during a visit for something else. He said there was nothing that he could see right off but that I should drink more water during the day. Yup. Exactly! I was one of those people who just rarely drank water. At work, I was often sipping water or iced tea but not at home. Maybe it's worth a try if you don't already drink a lot of liquids.

Big day today. Carry the trash to the curb. After that, there's a whole day to sit around and think about what to do next.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
She sent me an email "Gee. Thanks. Now I'm screwed." What? People sure do think they're entitled...I doubt they gave a second's thought to "screwing" me.!
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Totally amazing....where is her mind set? You should have just accepted her pay proposal, because it is what she wanted? Unreal.....
 
Yup. Exactly. I should have said I'd do it because she wanted me to. Not to worry, though, I'm sure her mother is either dog sitting for her or paying for the kennel cough vaccine and paying for the kennel. Or maybe they cut down their very spendy vacation "budget" and will pay for it themselves. Either way, after this little fiasco, I'm out of the dog sitting business altogether. I'd rather sleep in my own bed and skip the extra money...when's it ever "extra" anyway? LOL
 
Mornin; folks...long weekend off now thank God, it was such a hard long day yesterday.

Georgia thanks for the suggestion but I already drink a minimum of 2 litres a day...woke up this monring again with the headache not quite as painful as yesterday but still there. It's just odd for me because I don't suffer headaches as a rule!!
 
Hmmm...Hollydolly...I was going to suggest maybe not enough humidity in your house? Naaa. Not where you live. Developed an allergy to something like your laundry detergent or fabric softener? Who knows? I hate headaches.

Another nice day here and going back to summertime heat through the weekend. Yanno how late in the winter there will usually be a couple of really pleasant and warmish days? I've always said those were reminders that nice weather would be coming soon if we'd just hang on. When we get some cool days in late summer and then return to southern heat, it's a teaser that we're in for cold weather and sooner than we think!

I'll be doing some gardening today, cleaning up after some flowers that are already done for the season, deadheading geraniums, stuff like that.

Have we heard from Ameriscot in the past few days? I bet she'll post pictures when she gets back showing that she had more fun than the law allows! LOL
 
Yep Georgia...she's been posting on her Diary thread..complete with lovely pictures..

Oooh I do agree with you about your theory with the weather...we've been told we're going to get the coldest winter in decades this year...I hope they're wrong!!
 
Just a day of relaxing and nursing my latest sutures for basal cell removal, but tonight, a big FUND RAISING CRAB FEED in support of CASA ( Abused & Neglected Children). I love Dungenees Crab & looking forward this event.
 
Just recovering from a very stressful day yesterday. I got an early morning call from a friend that my ex was in hospital in serious condition in Montreal. Finally his brother was able to tell us after speaking with the doctor -- its hepatitis C he must have got living in India, not a very happy diagnosis for a 65 year old. Mixed feelings on the part of everyone since he has not been in contact with anyone here for years and years.
 

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