Picked up a pizza on the way home this evening. Made cole slaw and baked beans for tomorrow's cook out. Two less things to do tomorrow!
What's everybody doing today?
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Snappy sounds like fun. So guess your not in the rainy areas.
Probably will rain tomorrow. It's like being in FL. If you let the rain stop you from doing what you want, you'll never leave the house, right?!
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Watching the smoke from forest fires 100 miles away hazing up the valley. Watching the river rise to near record levels as the snow pack continues to melt quickly due To unseasonably warm weather. Running like mad to get gardens all in and shuffling guests checking in and out. No breaks now other than the occasional supply run to the big city until mid September. Oh the mixed blessing that is tourist season.
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Don't work too hard InnK. Hope fire does't get too close. I seldom complain about the rain because of fires.
Night all.
I'm hot, tired.
So off to another shower.
Installing AC in my room Sunday.
We are under No Burn order.
Usually doesn't help.
I'm hot, tired.
So off to another shower.
Installing AC in my room Sunday.
We are under No Burn order.
Usually doesn't help.
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Good night,sweet dreams.
I guess I am really blessed to live less than 2 miles from a really great hospital!
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And maybe you are one of the reasons WHY it is a really great hospital!
If only we were all that lucky. Kids endocrinologist is in the closest children's hospital 2hrs away. That's ok though, when she was a baby her gastroenterologist was 6hrs away. Double those for the round trip.I guess I am really blessed to live less than 2 miles from a really great hospital!
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Heads-up to any Bob Well RV'ers in the Nashville area including KY and Indiana...
NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) - Metro Public Health Department officials announced on Friday, May 25, 2018 details of a hepatitis A outbreak occurring in Nashville. Health department officials said there have been 14 confirmed cases of acute hepatitis A.
http://www.wsmv.com/story/38281017/hepatitis-a-outbreak-confirmed-in-nashville
NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) - Metro Public Health Department officials announced on Friday, May 25, 2018 details of a hepatitis A outbreak occurring in Nashville. Health department officials said there have been 14 confirmed cases of acute hepatitis A.
http://www.wsmv.com/story/38281017/hepatitis-a-outbreak-confirmed-in-nashville
Not much today,it's Sunday.
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I guess I am really blessed to live less than 2 miles from a really great hospital!
Plus you have enough medical knowledge to know what the best procedure is. Most of us just have to take the dr.s word for it.
Which is not always in the patient's best interest. Buy I have known some wonderful doctors, just not many coming out of todays medical school's.For everything there is a pill, in some cases with side effects worse than the disease itself.
Take statin's for high colesterol for example, very dangerous.
Drug toxicity is what killed my MIL at age 86, she turned yellow from her liver. Oddly her doctors and hospital admitted her meds over loaded her liver and caused her death.She may have lived to be 100 if they didn't put her on so many drugs.
Last night and today it's been quite. I watched a lot of old war movies. Went plant hunting for a while this afternoon, medicinal plants growing and blooming everywhere right now. I noticed more than 100 species.
I also went on line and signed up with the NRA today. I was a member in the 80's when I was in the military. When I got out in 89 I moved to alabama, got a job in Buffalo NY, was transfered to Riverside CA then to Santa Clarita CA in less than 8 months. I guess I forgot to notify the NRA of my change of addresses.
I also went on line and signed up with the NRA today. I was a member in the 80's when I was in the military. When I got out in 89 I moved to alabama, got a job in Buffalo NY, was transfered to Riverside CA then to Santa Clarita CA in less than 8 months. I guess I forgot to notify the NRA of my change of addresses.
I'm sitting here in my recliner watching Strawberry carry her favorite toy(George the Hedgehog) from room to room.
Spent the morning at graveyards. Took mom home halfway the morning was afraid she would run out of oxygen.
Went to Wal*Mart for them again. This is the third time this week I went to Wal*Mart for them, since Friday.
Spent the afternoon with parents and youngest sister, dad cooked fish.
Went and took baby gift to next youngest newest nephew.
Visited with nephew who is expecting a girl in September.
His second child, first was a boy.
Not planning on leaving the house tomorrow, unless it's to do laundry.
Spent the morning at graveyards. Took mom home halfway the morning was afraid she would run out of oxygen.
Went to Wal*Mart for them again. This is the third time this week I went to Wal*Mart for them, since Friday.
Spent the afternoon with parents and youngest sister, dad cooked fish.
Went and took baby gift to next youngest newest nephew.
Visited with nephew who is expecting a girl in September.
His second child, first was a boy.
Not planning on leaving the house tomorrow, unless it's to do laundry.
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MO you might want to check into a portable oxygen generator for you mom. It should save or eliminate those trips for oxygen bottles.
Thank you for the information.
I will check into that among other things I'm suppose to check on tomorrow.
I find it funny that people call these machines something like "oxygen generators". They do NOTHING with oxygen! They are nitrogen absorbers. By absorbing some of the nitrogen from the air it increases the percentage of oxygen in the air.
I've wondered how they work. I know how to generate oxygen from water... that pesky hydrogen can light up you day though...
Today I started the day off with putting on a load of washing in the washing machine, hanging it on the clothes line and watering part of one side of the house with saved grey water from our showers and washing machine. I came inside and then after washing my hands put on a loaf of bread in the bread machine.
DH and I moved into the food storage room and then moved all the full food storage buckets into another room off the shelves and onto the floor so I don't put my back out again. We then moved items into like with like so when we get our large food order on Thursday we can put them up on the shelves in boxes.
Out into the gardens where we harvested the rest of our sweet potatoes and finished up with a slightly over level 90lt wheelbarrow full which we have under the house. Tomorrow we will put them up on the veranda on newspaper and plant the small ones back into the garden for another crop for next year around this time. I just listed 10 homemade items and some saved seeds from the garden on eBay using a free listing promotion and also sold another bread bag I made.
Think I might be coming down with the flu again and feel pretty chronic so I took some cold and flu tablets to see if that helps. Hopefully it is just the usual high temperature and my body will fight it off.
DH and I moved into the food storage room and then moved all the full food storage buckets into another room off the shelves and onto the floor so I don't put my back out again. We then moved items into like with like so when we get our large food order on Thursday we can put them up on the shelves in boxes.
Out into the gardens where we harvested the rest of our sweet potatoes and finished up with a slightly over level 90lt wheelbarrow full which we have under the house. Tomorrow we will put them up on the veranda on newspaper and plant the small ones back into the garden for another crop for next year around this time. I just listed 10 homemade items and some saved seeds from the garden on eBay using a free listing promotion and also sold another bread bag I made.
Think I might be coming down with the flu again and feel pretty chronic so I took some cold and flu tablets to see if that helps. Hopefully it is just the usual high temperature and my body will fight it off.
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Today, I'm going to be looking into my pantry to check for recalled Spam.
Attention... Spam Classic has been recalled...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) - A major food recall is hitting grocery store shelves across the country.
Hormel Foods is recalling more than 228,000 pounds of canned pork and chicken products.
According to a release from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the products may be contaminated with pieces of metal.
The USDA said the products in question were produced from Feb. 8 through Feb. 10 of this year.
The recall includes the 12-ounce metal cans of Hormel "Spam Classic" with a best-by date of Feb. 20-21 and the 12-ounce metal can of "Hormel Foods Black Label Luncheon Loaf" with the same best-by date.
The cans of classic Spam were shipped across the U.S. while the black label cans were only shipped to the U.S. territory of Guam.
The USDA is encouraging anyone who bought these products to throw them away or return them to where they were bought.
http://www.wkrn.com/news/consumer-a...-228-000-pounds-of-canned-products/1201610126
Attention... Spam Classic has been recalled...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) - A major food recall is hitting grocery store shelves across the country.
Hormel Foods is recalling more than 228,000 pounds of canned pork and chicken products.
According to a release from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the products may be contaminated with pieces of metal.
The USDA said the products in question were produced from Feb. 8 through Feb. 10 of this year.
The recall includes the 12-ounce metal cans of Hormel "Spam Classic" with a best-by date of Feb. 20-21 and the 12-ounce metal can of "Hormel Foods Black Label Luncheon Loaf" with the same best-by date.
The cans of classic Spam were shipped across the U.S. while the black label cans were only shipped to the U.S. territory of Guam.
The USDA is encouraging anyone who bought these products to throw them away or return them to where they were bought.
http://www.wkrn.com/news/consumer-a...-228-000-pounds-of-canned-products/1201610126
Son and I went hiking yesterday. Saw nine antelope and a dozen elk and a roadrunner, which are rather uncommon here. He also picked up many "interesting" rocks. Other than gold, I am not very interested in rocks.
We walked to a reservoir that was almost completely dry due to the severe drought here. Normally it covers about fifteen acres. The antelope were feeding around the edge where there was some green vegetation.
We walked to a reservoir that was almost completely dry due to the severe drought here. Normally it covers about fifteen acres. The antelope were feeding around the edge where there was some green vegetation.
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Feel better, Sewing Creations! Saw you mentioned to Annabel about dehydrating, but no room. A friend of mine made a dehydrator that stays outside (solar) and works well. there's lots of plans on line. Dehydrated food stores a lot smaller than wet canned.
I need to get a shopping list together this morning and head to the store after I get husband some breakfast. I've steered clear of errands this weekend to try to get things done around the house. But this afternoon we'll have a housefull of kids and grandkids and some extras for a barbeque. I plan to put up a canopy outback and set up another picnic table aside from what we have to keep some of the younger grandkids from screaming through the house like banshees. I put up a sign yesterday out front and have been selling chicken and duck eggs. Had some interesting people by yesterday for eggs. One older lady asked why I practiced segregation. She was looking at the collection of young chickens I had on the porch. The leghorns were in their own cage, and they are white. Ha. Ha. She said she was a biologist and thought it was funny.
I need to get a shopping list together this morning and head to the store after I get husband some breakfast. I've steered clear of errands this weekend to try to get things done around the house. But this afternoon we'll have a housefull of kids and grandkids and some extras for a barbeque. I plan to put up a canopy outback and set up another picnic table aside from what we have to keep some of the younger grandkids from screaming through the house like banshees. I put up a sign yesterday out front and have been selling chicken and duck eggs. Had some interesting people by yesterday for eggs. One older lady asked why I practiced segregation. She was looking at the collection of young chickens I had on the porch. The leghorns were in their own cage, and they are white. Ha. Ha. She said she was a biologist and thought it was funny.
I'll probably go over to mom and dad's grave,being he's a Vet. Also have an uncle there that's a Vet.
I've had a busy couple of days. Still have company. Worked with my friend Saturday out in the country so I picked up a pizza on the way home for dinner. Got home and made baked beans and cole slaw so I had less to do yesterday. Sunday morning went to Sunday school and then headed for Lowe's to get my gallon of paint re-mixed for the bedroom. (I bought it last July). Came home and cooked out. This morning our company helped and we got the bedroom painted and everything moved back into room. Then had to clean up painting equipment. Only thing left to do today is to plant some flowers in hanging baskets that I bought Saturday and I'm done.
Thanks for the idea for making our own dehydrator @Amish Heart seen a couple of plans online and then promptly forgot about them some time ago . We shall look again and see what we can come up with to make one. Love the screaming banshees and relate to grandchildren making lots of noise and running rampant.
Think it is a definite I have the flu as I am not feeling any better this morning and woke up in the middle of the night coughing and with a really sore throat, so am sitting and relaxing at the moment. Still have a bit to do outside like putting up trellises for the peas and planting some of the smaller sweet potatoes back into the gardens for next years crop as well as getting the sweet potatoes on the veranda on paper to cure. Shall see how I go and won't overdo it.
. We shall look again and see what we can come up with to make one. Love the screaming banshees and relate to grandchildren making lots of noise and running rampant.Think it is a definite I have the flu as I am not feeling any better this morning and woke up in the middle of the night coughing and with a really sore throat, so am sitting and relaxing at the moment. Still have a bit to do outside like putting up trellises for the peas and planting some of the smaller sweet potatoes back into the gardens for next years crop as well as getting the sweet potatoes on the veranda on paper to cure. Shall see how I go and won't overdo it.
@hiwall I am sorry to hear you are in drought . We have also just been drought declared in our region in Australia and the grass is so dry and we have never had so much trouble trying to keep our vegetables alive this year. Fortunately we had preserved a lot from our last season which hopefully should get us through.
The local apiarists are having their bee hives die as the blossoms on the trees got burnt off with the heat and there is little for them to collect pollen off. Flowers are forming on some plants but there is no pollen in them due to the dry conditions.
. We have also just been drought declared in our region in Australia and the grass is so dry and we have never had so much trouble trying to keep our vegetables alive this year. Fortunately we had preserved a lot from our last season which hopefully should get us through.The local apiarists are having their bee hives die as the blossoms on the trees got burnt off with the heat and there is little for them to collect pollen off. Flowers are forming on some plants but there is no pollen in them due to the dry conditions.
We wound up going fishing in the pond too. Mrs. Squirrelhunter only caught 1 not bad bluegill and I caught 2 little ones. I used 1 for bait trying to catch a bass or catfish but somehow he got it all twisted up and after 15 minutes of trying to get it straightened out I just cut the line and started over. After I was done and recast it I realized I put the slip bobber on with the white up instead of the red so I'll have to redo it . Anna got hers all tangled once too plus broke her line. So needless to say I didn't get much fishing done. I really need to get a bow fishing rig though,I'm wanting to put some plants in there so the fish will have cover but I'm afraid the grass carp will eat them up,so I need to get them outta there,at least most of them. They've been up at the top the last few days close to the bank and I keep thinking,man I wish I had a bow fishing rig,maybe next year with my tax check I'll get 1 .
. Anna got hers all tangled once too plus broke her line. So needless to say I didn't get much fishing done. I really need to get a bow fishing rig though,I'm wanting to put some plants in there so the fish will have cover but I'm afraid the grass carp will eat them up,so I need to get them outta there,at least most of them. They've been up at the top the last few days close to the bank and I keep thinking,man I wish I had a bow fishing rig,maybe next year with my tax check I'll get 1 .
