What's everybody doing today?

[sonya123]

After my Dr visit, we Drove thru Cades Cove up in the mountains. Very little traffic which is a rare thing. Counted 24 deer and 17 turkey. Parked beside a nice creek and just relaxed for an hour or so.
GREAT DAY all the way round

In the Smoky Mountain Park? We've been there several times. The old Indian lady with the flip flops I made a comment about in a few posts back, that is where she was. We hiked to the water fall from there, started at the halfway point of the loop road. Beautiful place but way too much traffic when we went. The line of cars was all around the loop road . February is probably good time to visit. Do you even go to Gatlinburg?

 

[sonya123]

Congratulations!! Glad mom and baby are fine!!

Something funny: husband was still half asleep when I told him and his first question: how many did she have? Hahahaha!

 

[Pearl]

Something funny: husband was still half asleep when I told him and his first question: how many did she have? Hahahaha!

Sheep on his mind

 

[Amish Heart]

Husband's talking about wanting a haircut today, and I know we need to go to town for his allergy shots anyway. So probably that, after morning chores. Didn't see the twins come home last night, and almost thought they didn't, but that familiar smell is upstairs again, so they did come home. I did get chicken feed yesterday, just 200 lbs, and they were out of scratch, but I can mix my own. Picked up another Z pack to just have. Heard that the vet antibiotic meds won't be over the counter anymore after June, but I don't know if that'll be true everywhere. I hope not, but I'll stock up on antibiotics each time I go in there.

 

[Pearl]

Everybody is fed except Buddy, he's honking, so I'm going out right now! Heading to work, will be home early. Will be pushing 90° today so I am heading for the pool float!! I put Bear's pool out for him yesterday, he was so excited. My water temp wouldn't get out of the 50's so I waited. But back to the 70's tomorrow!

 

[Amish Heart]

Wow, 90 degrees, Pearl. I can only imagine. Ha. We just broke above freezing, and it should be a nice day today. Not so in a couple of days, where we'll be in a low of 9 degrees again.
Just went upstairs to open windows and try to air out the yuck. Peeked in granddaughter's room and she must of started packing yesterday while we were having our meeting. Almost half packed. Maybe that means she's just leaving. Possibly more than half packed, because I'm sure she'll be leaving all the trash and stuff she doesn't want in the room when she does leave. Praying to be lucky

 

[montanabill]

Woke up to the wind howling and things banging around outside. The temp is rapidly dropping to below zeroF and it is snowing......rocky mountain weather.
Days like today it is great to be working from hme. The wifes buisness is starting to roll so more books to stuff in envelops and get mailed. Having money show up in your account from a simple web site order form is something I never thought we would see. Of course she spends multiple hours posting content and exploring sites in the woods to get people to buy her book.

 

[Wingnut]

Rain in the forecast, but I haven't seen any yet... I was thinking of going to town, but I don't wanna make a special trip just to post ads for the bike, so I reckon I'll wait till I'm due for a store run. I still have plenty of food & beer in the fridge, so maybe I'll just hang out... do regular household chores and read a good book.

 

[zannej]

I worked on scrubbing the adhesive off my bathtub last night and then put a vibrating heat pad on my back for a couple hours. Went to sleep and woke up to cats stomping on my head and demanding food. Fed them and then worked on the tub some more. Finally got the rest of the adhesive off-- well, as much as I could. Went over inch by inch. It's as good as its going to get. I then vacuumed the flange and inside of the tub out. Next step is scrubbing the rest of the tub but I'm letting my back rest a little first.

 

[jishinsjourney]

Not much. Home sick and my allergist wants me to get a Covid test. Bleh. Did a bit of cooking so I had some chicken soup, might do some mending later if I feel better.

 

[LadyLocust]

Everybody is fed except Buddy, he's honking, so I'm going out right now! Heading to work, will be home early. Will be pushing 90° today so I am heading for the pool float!! I put Bear's pool out for him yesterday, he was so excited. My water temp wouldn't get out of the 50's so I waited. But back to the 70's tomorrow!

We are supposed to have snow by morning!

I worked on scrubbing the adhesive off my bathtub last night and then put a vibrating heat pad on my back for a couple hours. Went to sleep and woke up to cats stomping on my head and demanding food. Fed them and then worked on the tub some more. Finally got the rest of the adhesive off-- well, as much as I could. Went over inch by inch. It's as good as its going to get. I then vacuumed the flange and inside of the tub out. Next step is scrubbing the rest of the tub but I'm letting my back rest a little first.

If you know anyone who does avon, skin so soft is an anti adhesive. Baby oil might work too???

Not much. Home sick and my allergist wants me to get a Covid test. Bleh. Did a bit of cooking so I had some chicken soup, might do some mending later if I feel better.

Mend is a 4-letter word Good to see you

 

[LadyLocust]

Well today (yesterday) our neighbors arrived with our cut and packaged 1/2 of beef and it is neatly sorted and stacked in the freezer. The steaks look yummy, plenty or marbling in the meat. Work was annoying, as usual, and I really didn't want to be there. I don't know if that was due to be annoyed with management not fixing any problems or with my sever lack of sleep the past week or so, or probably a combination of both.
Starting in about 12 hours we will be getting at least 3 to 5 days of snow and cold weather, and depending on which weather moron you listen to this could last a full week. This storm is pushing straight down the west coast and hanging out a while before turning east northeast across the middle of the country. There are even guesses at possible snow in Las Angeles and cold wet weather reaching well down the Baja Peninsula in Mexico. The weather app on our ROKU internet TV box claims I may get between 19 inches and 37 inches over the next 3 or 4 days Now, I take these reports with a grain of salt but this prediction has held steady the past few days when usually their guesses change day to day if not hour to hour. I told my boss I will be at work tomorrow (tonight) since that is day one of the storm but depending on how much we get and if the county clears the highway or not I may not be in Wednesday or Thursday. He was OK with that but warned me that I already have 2 "occurrences" for coming in late last fall when I went to Nevada to watch my son play football a couple times. A third occurrence is a write up and warning about possible termination. I am good with that, because it means if the weather is bad Wednesday and I miss work I will take off Thursday and possibly Friday because they will only write you up for the first missed day. Consecutive days are considered one event and only one write up. But, I do have enough personal time to cover one call out day but if I make it in Thursday and the weather keeps me home Friday that would be 2 different incidents.
Before work (at Home Depot) I went to ACE Hardware to buy a couple new shovels in case I need to shovel a bunch of snow. Why ACE? They have actual cashiers at their cash registers who are polite and friendly, unlike the self check out confusing computer things at Home Depot in the evenings. During the day have one, or maybe two, staffed registers but nothing staffed after 6pm. If I am a customer I deserve customer service, plain and simple. I have told the managers that several times but they don't care enough to pay an extra cashier for the evening shift.

Think I've mentioned it in the weather thread, but there is an author I like who said she and her friends didn't call it the weather bureau, they called it the possibility bureau

Well...my machine started up good! The sorter took about 2 hours to get the computers to communicate ..kinda..with eachother.
I had to drop n manage the sorting bins manually..but I got that far at least.
By 5 pm the forklift driver was toast j I will finish out the bins tomorrow...
Still lots of wss work to do with it its something..
I brought my rice crispies treats I made for church .folks were smiling!

Yay! We didn't want you getting bored. (I refrained - board/bored, oops - couldn't help it. It just happens)

 

[LadyLocust]

New moon: many folks I know had a rough night last night. I was awakened about ten till one by a knocking. I had a birdhouse hanging from a chain out back. The wind was blowing so hard the birdhouse was hitting the house. I almost just let it but something told me to go take it down. I got up and put shoes on and discovered the back door had blown open. Went out in the night to lift down a bird house then went back in and made sure the door was shut tightly, then went back to bed but didn't get back to sleep for a while. Evidently this morning I shut the alarm and fell back to sleep. Hubby let me sleep. I woke up at 5:23 as he was pouring his coffee to leave. I still made it to work and all in plenty of time but kinda out of kilter. Not a bad day, but didn't get things done at home as I'd hoped.

 

[zannej]

jishinsjourney, I hope you get feeling better soon.

Ladylocust, I haven't seen anyone selling Avon in over a decade. However, I did manage to get the adhesive off. It took different size chisels and a lot of elbow grease, but I finally did it. The oil from peanutbutter can get it off, but I didn't want to put anything in there that can attract roaches or mice.

I finished cleaning the rest of the tub. It's as clean as its going to get and I'm exhausted.

Heated up a tv dinner for mom and am resting. I need to eat something but I want to cool off and relax first.

 

[Pearl]

Not much. Home sick and my allergist wants me to get a Covid test. Bleh. Did a bit of cooking so I had some chicken soup, might do some mending later if I feel better.

Good to see you, thought you left us for good! Stick around! Hope you feel better soon.

 

[Pearl]

Wow, 90 degrees, Pearl. I can only imagine. Ha. We just broke above freezing, and it should be a nice day today. Not so in a couple of days, where we'll be in a low of 9 degrees again.
Just went upstairs to open windows and try to air out the yuck. Peeked in granddaughter's room and she must of started packing yesterday while we were having our meeting. Almost half packed. Maybe that means she's just leaving. Possibly more than half packed, because I'm sure she'll be leaving all the trash and stuff she doesn't want in the room when she does leave. Praying to be lucky

Do you have to alert Child Services if they leave?

 

[Amish Heart]

Of course! Then they're not our problem, they're child services problem. So I saw them drive in after school today, run upstairs, then take off again. Husband texted them and said where are you and what time will you be home. Grandson said that they were going to the Arkansas River and meeting friends, then out to dinner. So he asked what are you doing at the river and what time will you be home? No response. There's never a response. We laughed.
Took husband into town for an allergy shot, filled the freeze dryer with eggs. Got a call from the assisted living nurse, mom fell, knee hurt. They put her in a wheelchair and took her for an xray. Right below her knee is fractured. Ortho appt tomorrow. I will go to see what the doc says, but I have to rely on the Mennonite Manor transport because I can't pick her up and put her in a wheel chair. So if she's in a wheelchair, she'll have to move to the medical facility and out of her assisted living apartment. Because she's 90 and has dementia, I doubt that she'll be able to go back to her apartment if it takes 3 or 4 months to heal. I'll find out more tomorrow, and gave my Florida sis a heads up. I hate to think of packing up that apartment. She won't like the medical side after the novelty wears off. Uncle Melvin is there, though. He's in a wheel chair and he's 99.

 

[INresponse]

Well, I slept fairly good from about 6am to about 3pm and almost feel human. I had two large bowls of Dirty Rice (something with rice and ground beef and diced veggies of some sort), took all my various supplements for sleep this time, and 2 shots of Fireball. Took a warm shower, sat in the chair for about an hour watching YouTube. At 6am I went to bed and fell asleep within about 15 minutes. I don't know if that is a good sign or a sign that I wont sleep much the next few nights.
No sun today, the wind is picking up and about 40 degrees. and they claim light rain will be starting soon off and on for a while until the real weather gets here. The Weather4Us app on the Roku TV now adjusted down a bit to anywhere from 17" to 31" possible for the next 5 days, most days the guesstimate was less but a couple days the guestimate went up and they stretched the time frame from 3 days to 5 days. But, we all know they don't know si I will wait and see.
I am enjoying a hot cup of tea and warming up left over chicken for dinner before work. I need to hit the liquor store before work to stock up on some medicinal.
Nothing good going on here, hope the rest of you have a good night.

 

[Spikedriver]

Managed to get through the day's work. It actually went better than I expected. I took a Naproxen before work started and it took the edge off. Things were still a little shaky for the first hour. I couldn't get comfortable - I just felt like something wasn't right. But as the day went on I felt better and better. By the end I was ready for it to be done. It seems I'm more easily fatigued. But I didn't have much trouble handling the way my rig shakes and bounces. I have a little headache now but nothing a good nap won't cure...

 

[The Lazy L]

…. Almost half packed. Maybe that means she's just leaving. Possibly more than half packed, because I'm sure she'll be leaving all the trash and stuff she doesn't want in the room when she does leave. Praying to be lucky

What she does leave behind you might want to video. If (when?) she accuses you of disposing her valuables you have proof

 

[jishinsjourney]

@LadyLocust I mean … “mend” is a four-letter word, but so is “cute”, right?

@Pearl , @zannej , thank you! It’s nice to be back.

 

[UrbanHunter]

Today was a work day, after work I decided do some indoor gardening, they are forecasting 80 by the the end of the week... It is February isn't it?

 

[jishinsjourney]

@UrbanHunter I will happily take 20-30 of your degrees if you like, we’re supposed to be in the negatives tomorrow and Thursday, with -25 wind chill!

 

[UrbanHunter]

Hey, @jishinsjourney, I'll pack them up and send them by USPS, should arrive to you by June . Glad to see you back on, hope all is well with you.

 

[UrbanHunter]

So I have been trying to get my debts paid off, and then I will start to focus on saving some money. The wife keeps listening to Glenn Beck and she is worried about the banking system, we still have recurring bills and having a bank account with sufficient funds to cover our monthly bills is just the cost of doing business from my perspective. But once I have a little extra I can see where having a little extra cash on hand could be a good thing, but I don't feel comfortable about just keeping it in a drawer, under the bed doesn't seem like a good idea either. So we are thinking about a fire-proof safe for special documents, cash, and Sam.... I'm torn some of those things are expensive, and to be honest I don't expect to have more than a couple of grand worth of anything in it, so how much is reasonable to spend? Does anyone have any recommendations on an inexpensive solution?

 

[Bacpacker]

In the Smoky Mountain Park? We've been there several times. The old Indian lady with the flip flops I made a comment about in a few posts back, that is where she was. We hiked to the water fall from there, started at the halfway point of the loop road. Beautiful place but way too much traffic when we went. The line of cars was all around the loop road . February is probably good time to visit. Do you even go to Gatlinburg?

Yep, we live somewhat close to the Smokies. Cades Cove is one of our favorite spots, but is almost always way too crowded. Winter is always thinner, but yesterday people was as space as I have saw it in several years. It was GREAT.
Sounds like you went to Abrams Falls. It's one of the better ones in the park, but normally pretty crowded too.
We rarely go to Gatlinburg, normally just after Valentines day, they usually leave the Christmas lights up till the end of Feb.. Crowds drop off after then for a month or so. Well sometimes. Normally we stay far away.
Here is a pic of Abrams Falls.

Abrams Falls Trail | gsmnp

 

[zannej]

Amish, yikes, I'm sorry your mom is injured. It's bad enough at any age, but at that age it takes so much longer to heal. I hope things will work out for her and she'll recover.

Inresponse, dirty rice is very common in this area. I haven't had it in awhile. Glad you were able to work but hope your headache goes away. If you start to feel like something is very wrong, please seek medical help again just in case.

Jish, that is a cute and clever way to patch the damage. For some reason it reminded me that in Vietnam my dad had a buddy who liked to sew & embroider. He sewed some patches over holes in the uniform after he got chewed out by command for embroidering butterflies and flowers over holes. LOL.

Urbanhunter, I hope your indoor garden plants are doing well. Are you handy with carpentry at all? Do you have any cabinets where you could add hidden toekick storage? Or something you could make for cheap that looks decorative instead of like storage? Might be able to hide $ in there.

I've been checking forums, updating my houzz pics, and waiting until its time to go get my curbside pickup order from Walmart. I will not subject people to whatever odor my sweat has created from all the cleaning today. Plus I'm too tired to go around looking for stuff. Hoping to get a shower at my friend's house tomorrow.

 

[Weedygarden]

Well, I am now a grandma She was born at 4 am this morning, after my poor daughter had a long and difficult labor. But everyone is ok. 7.5 lb girl
I didn't sleep well, of course, but didn't want to bother them every hour

Husband just checked the sheep, no new lambs. 3 ewes still left to go

Have to go grocery shopping today. I decided on the crappy but closest walmart and just get the most necessary things like milk and bananas and leave the rest for after all the lambs are here

Congratulations! Hopefully you will sleep better tonight!

 

[txcatlady]

Hey you all!
Sorry I haven't been here much.
Trying to get my life sorted out before I make next decision about what I want to do or where I want to live.
I work 3 days a week.
Go to school 2-3 days a week.
I am beginning to think French Cuisine Class isn't for me.
Neither is French Pastry, that produced hockey pucks today.

Been thinking about you!

 

[Weedygarden]

Not much. Home sick and my allergist wants me to get a Covid test. Bleh. Did a bit of cooking so I had some chicken soup, might do some mending later if I feel better.

It is good to see you posting. I hope you feel better soon. In the last couple months, many people I know have had Covid.

@MoBookworm1957 , good to see you, too! A week or so ago I looked and you hadn't been on since around Christmas.