What's everybody doing today?

[Terri9630]

If there is a court order for her to stay away, report her. She is endangering everyone.

 

[Weedygarden]

If there is a court order for her to stay away, report her. She is endangering everyone.

I agree. I think it is for the best of all dogs.

 

[Tank-Girl]

Got notice of my appointment for the High Risk Perioperative Clinic on the 7th of this month.

I'm nervous as heck.

It also means that I may well be getting my op when the SHTF.
I'll be in brace for over 9 weeks.
That's a long time to be out of action during a critical time when even a sound person
would struggle.

I've got a ton still left to do and get sorted and there's very little time left.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Yesterday we stayed home and got 2 quotes for from furniture removalists and in the afternoon weeded the sweet potato bed, beetroot and garlic bed and half of another 9 metre garden bed. Our neighbour was kind enough to let us use the remaining room in his bin to put all of our weeds in as well so they will be gone today. We also trench composted the broad bean plants we cut up and the shells from blanching and freezing them in a fallow garden bed to save on bin room.

 

[Terri9630]

Got notice of my appointment for the High Risk Perioperative Clinic on the 7th of this month.

I'm nervous as heck.

It also means that I may well be getting my op when the SHTF.
I'll be in brace for over 9 weeks.
That's a long time to be out of action during a critical time when even a sound person
would struggle.

I've got a ton still left to do and get sorted and there's very little time left.

If it helps with the pain it will better long term. Think of what you'll be able to do after and keep that in mind when the nerves get bad.

 

[Amish Heart]

I hope you find that it helps you, Tank Girl. Being in a brace that long is a long time, but maybe you can plan ahead on things to make it easier.
I'm with Terri with reporting that dog owner, Weedy. It's not just for dog safety, but for human safety as well. I've learned never to break up a dog fight again. I'm still scarred on my left hand in three places from the fight I broke up between my own dogs. If our two dogs spat, I just walk away. I yell at them to go for it. And they stop when they see me walk away. I've never gone to a dog park, because I would be worried about other dogs. I don't understand people that while walking our dogs, decide to let theirs off of the leash. Freaks me out.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

As you all know I am trying to stay busy and get things cleaned out before next knee replacement.
Among other things.
So how many more times will I attempt to put together Estelle's toddler bed at Granny's house?
At least one more time tomorrow.
Finally had to call lady I got bed from to tell me how to put the dang thing together.
Seems you put slats and bottom together first, the footboard, headboard. DUH!
Tried every way but that way today.
So in the morning will try again. Dang.
I now see light at the end of sewing room tunnel.
The whole room vacuumed, furniture dusted.
Got rid of 2 shelving units (pretty wobbly),nightstand that was broken beyond what I could fix.
Ugly brown polyster curtains are gone ,making and putting up cafe style curtains white and bright polka dots.
Short term use typewriter table for sewing desk.
Everything is looking so fresh and clean in there.
Now I have to finish going through the stuff I stuck in shower while I was moving furniture slowly.
But my bed is cleaned off for sleeping tonight.
Strawberry is snoring in her part of the room(kennel).
Estelle has fascination with door of Strawberry's room.
She opens and closes it dozen of times, sticks her foot in and out of the kennel dozen of times each time she is at Granny's.
Pretty tired tonight, hopefully I will finally sleep.
Been a couple of days without restful sleep.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

@Tank-Girl I am sure you will do wonderfully and recover well after your operation. I know how daunting surgery can be and it is only normal to be nervous.

Cheering you on from afar that all goes well for you and recovery is quick, let me know when you are going in for the surgery and I and DH will keep you in our prayers.

 

[Peanut]

As you all know I am trying to stay busy and get things cleaned out before next knee replacement.
Among other things.

Tried every way but that way today.
So in the morning will try again. Dang.
I now see light at the end of sewing room tunnel.
The whole room vacuumed, furniture dusted.
Pretty tired tonight, hopefully I will finally sleep.
Been a couple of days without restful sleep.

Folks like us don't sleep sometimes... It's tough when you are alone... Wishing you some good sleep.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Round 1 of the ridiculous schedule leading up to us moving into our home. My jeans are now getting looser surprise surprise and there goes some of the much needed 5 kg I needed to put on and my eyes have black rings around them that Alice Cooper would even admire .

Started off the morning with speaking to the real estate agent handling our home all seems in the pipeline for the repairs/ spraying on the house we are purchasing in a week by the current owners and then had to send an email to our solicitor because they wanted a copy of our letter confirming that we got the bank finance which our solicitor has now sent.

Then off to town where we dropped off my car to have it serviced, picked up some surge protectors for the new house as we heard they have power surges out there in the new home, bought some padlocks for the sheds out there, a USB to mini USB cord for charging things on my computer (goodness knows where the last one went to) but this one is bright screaming pink and I shouldn't loose/ throw this one out and 10 20 cm pots for transplanting our herbs and lilies into for our move. Dropped into our dry cleaners where I picked up my 3 jackets and no even at the price I paid to have them cleaned there was no silver ingot in each pocket, sigh. Finished there and picked up our grocery order and then thought blow it we will have a hamburger from the local shop and it was so nice and cheap too at $5 ea.

Home again where we put the cold stuff away in the fridge and then a friend arrived so we chatted for a while. Then into the vacuum sealing of clothing bags and stacking them in the room where we have all the other boxes etc from the dressing room so now we don't have to risk life and limb trying to do the splits over DH's clothing in the doorway and dodge other boxes while trying to answer the phone. We also stacked the food storage buckets in one corner. We then picked up my car from it's service and our car is officially known as the one with low km's on it .

Still have the groceries to put away and working up the energy to do that too.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Round 2 of today is that we have dated, packed away the groceries and filled up the 10lt storage tubs with flour, rolled oats and raw sugar and put them in the moving room stacked with the other 10lt storage containers. We also got the two loads of washing off the clothes line and have that in the bedroom ready to be folded up.

The cat has now investigated the movements of our moving by checking out the room with all the boxes in it yet again and continues to do so each time we make a change. She has calmed down a bit and is not so edgy as we think being a stray that her previous owner may have died or moved without her. We keep reassuring her and showing her things as we do it. Just fed her for the afternoon so she is happy now.

Just ordered another RACQ e-gift card which gives us 5% off everything as we annhilated the last one with purchasing things for our new home.

Tonight's dinner is oysters, sour cream and or cheese and DH will no doubt throw some BBQ sauce on is oysters.

 

[Amish Heart]

Need to get ready for week and greet all of the preschoolers who stayed up way too late and ate way too much Halloween candy. Today will be loads of fun.

 

[The Lazy L]

SewingC

I need to take a nap just from reading your "Done" lists!!!!

 

[Sewingcreations15]

@The Lazy L we are just about at nap time now and we didn't want to fold up the washing and will start again tomorrow . House cleaning day tomorrow.

 

[The Lazy L]

Tracking a package.

10/26 I place three separate online orders with three separate companies.

IWI shipped from Pennsylvania by UPS on 10/29. The order arrived 10/31.

MidwayUSA shipped from Missouri by UPS on 10/26. The order arrived 10/31.

Amazon shipped free from North Carolina by FEDEX on 10/26. The order was handed off to USPS on 10/30 at 10:11 PM for delivery and disappeared. In the past USPS notifies me that the the package has been delivered 2 days after I already have found it on my front porch. It amazes me how more efficient private is compared to government (USPS).

 

[Amish Heart]

I had a very early morning door pounding around 6am, when it was still dark. I was making breakfast for husband, and he was in the shower. I thought they were going to pound our front door down. I wasn't going to open the door, but did kinda look out a window and saw a bunch of people there. I turned on the porch light and yelled, "who is it?" Someone yelled back in a low voice, "Me!". So, I thought, ok, it's a home invasion. I've practiced this scenario. Remind myself where everyone is...husband in shower, grandkids still in their bedrooms. Get my gun, call 911, tell husband to get out of the shower. Worried about my son who is in the trailer in the driveway, that he would hear the commotion and come running out. I glanced out another window and saw no cars in the driveway. Just lots of people on my porch. Then they pounded again really, really hard and I yelled, "You're going to have to tell me who you are, right now!" Then one guy yelled, "We're the State Police, Mamm". So I really looked out the window closest to the door and saw six state police there. Now why on earth would one of them yell, "Me", the first time? I opened the door a little bit and found out that they were looking for our wayward son who is in California, and has been for the last 8 years, and was only here 8 years ago because he was extradited from California, and then let go, and then went back to California. He's wanted for non payment of child support. Retards. We have the kids. So, these state police come around a couple of times a year, usually middle of the night, and then attempt to bang my door down. I told them to look our son up on NICS and they will see that he is probably in jail in California right now. It is beyond me why officers don't look up the person they're after, inside on banging doors in, in the early morning hours, DO NOT identify themselves and still expect me to open the door, and waste 6 men's time to do this, when they've been coming around twice a year for at least 6 years now. One time they pushed their way in our house and searched it. I know to put my foot behind the door and only open it a little bit now. Moving out of this state can't happen soon enough. Rant done.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

It's a wonder these officers don't get shot more often @Amish Heart if they don't identify themselves, silly people.

 

[Amish Heart]

Exactly. We hear a lot about "officer safety" in the big city near us (Albuquerque). They obviously are not following that. It is very obvious by looking at where we live that we are not a "druggy" house that would open a door to some pounding and identifying as, ME". Lucky for them I would never shoot through a door. I would sit in a chair 10 feet from the door with a shotgun, and would use it if the door was busted in.

 

[Patchouli]

Relief. Glad that ended safely. You tell a story with suspenseful details.
Nobody likes having the police on the other side of the door at odd hours. One of their "talents."

 

[hiwall]

Had to finally go to the city today (we haven't been there for 3+ months). My wife said after we got home that I had done very well today and I never even talked about shooting anyone.

 

[snappy1]

The festival at Church went well last night. Well controlled chaos. We served close to 200 meals, more than half to kids, of course. Out and home by 8:30 pm. Today, I took some leftovers to some shut in friends of mine. I believe other ladies took some to others, also. Wrote a character letter for a friend trying to get a record expunged and then used my meat grinder for the first time. It works well! Watched tv this afternoon. Tomorrow big day in town!

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Round 1 of today is DH started off the day with vacuuming the whole house and I mopped all the floors. A computer challenged friend dropped in and wanted us to order bee gear for his business which we did and he is bringing us the cash to cover it this afternoon. DH has done the clothes ironing and while he did that I deep cleaned the bathroom and toilet and then DH put on a loaf of bread.

We are currently relaxing for a bit and will continue to do a bit more packing for our move.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Toddler bed is on the way to trash bin.
It will not go together safely. Nor does it stay together safely.
Strawberry tested.
Will take apart the last of it tomorrow.
Good riddiance, will get Estelle big girl bed for Christmas.
Dang bed is particle board, side rails,foot and headboard all particle board.
Only wood on bed is slats to hold mattress. So keeping them will use in garden.
Big girl bed will be twin size.
So glad Strawberry wasn't hurt when she leaped on the bed.
Had Estelle today, cranky from Halloween, by time she left daddy was cranky too.
Granny wasn't far behind them.
My water heater quit working today.
Called landlord and the maintence man.
Been heating water on stove.
Really dislike cold showers.
Got the bathroom cleaned everything but the shower.
Mirrors are sparkling clean, toilet was deep cleaned with white vinegar and lemon juice.
Floor steam cleaned.
Rest of the house vacuumed, some of the furniture dusted.
Still got a few dishes to do waiting on water bath canner water to get hot.

 

[Terri9630]

Round 2 of today is that we have dated, packed away the groceries and filled up the 10lt storage tubs with flour, rolled oats and raw sugar and put them in the moving room stacked with the other 10lt storage containers. We also got the two loads of washing off the clothes line and have that in the bedroom ready to be folded up.

The cat has now investigated the movements of our moving by checking out the room with all the boxes in it yet again and continues to do so each time we make a change. She has calmed down a bit and is not so edgy as we think being a stray that her previous owner may have died or moved without her. We keep reassuring her and showing her things as we do it. Just fed her for the afternoon so she is happy now.

Just ordered another RACQ e-gift card which gives us 5% off everything as we annhilated the last one with purchasing things for our new home.

Tonight's dinner is oysters, sour cream and or cheese and DH will no doubt throw some BBQ sauce on is oysters.

Watch for the cat while your packing boxes. My cat got taped into a box on one of our moves. Best I could tell is that she climbed in and fell asleep on the towels and hubby taped up the box without looking in. Took a bit to find the yowling box and get her out when she woke up.

 

[Terri9630]

I had a very early morning door pounding around 6am, when it was still dark. I was making breakfast for husband, and he was in the shower. I thought they were going to pound our front door down. I wasn't going to open the door, but did kinda look out a window and saw a bunch of people there. I turned on the porch light and yelled, "who is it?" Someone yelled back in a low voice, "Me!". So, I thought, ok, it's a home invasion. I've practiced this scenario. Remind myself where everyone is...husband in shower, grandkids still in their bedrooms. Get my gun, call 911, tell husband to get out of the shower. Worried about my son who is in the trailer in the driveway, that he would hear the commotion and come running out. I glanced out another window and saw no cars in the driveway. Just lots of people on my porch. Then they pounded again really, really hard and I yelled, "You're going to have to tell me who you are, right now!" Then one guy yelled, "We're the State Police, Mamm". So I really looked out the window closest to the door and saw six state police there. Now why on earth would one of them yell, "Me", the first time? I opened the door a little bit and found out that they were looking for our wayward son who is in California, and has been for the last 8 years, and was only here 8 years ago because he was extradited from California, and then let go, and then went back to California. He's wanted for non payment of child support. Retards. We have the kids. So, these state police come around a couple of times a year, usually middle of the night, and then attempt to bang my door down. I told them to look our son up on NICS and they will see that he is probably in jail in California right now. It is beyond me why officers don't look up the person they're after, inside on banging doors in, in the early morning hours, DO NOT identify themselves and still expect me to open the door, and waste 6 men's time to do this, when they've been coming around twice a year for at least 6 years now. One time they pushed their way in our house and searched it. I know to put my foot behind the door and only open it a little bit now. Moving out of this state can't happen soon enough. Rant done.

I have no love for our State Police. I know a Trooper and tried and tried to talk him into moving to Santa Fe to take over but noooooo. Its to hot and not snowy enough!!

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Round 2 of today is that the lawns have grown like wildfire yet again since we had 6" of rain recently so DH whipper snipped and mowed the lawns again. It took 2 goes over it cutting it twice once high and once lower and he put the clippings in the garden beds ready for us to mulch with tomorrow. While DH was doing that I started separating the dried thyme picked from the gardens on the veranda to fill a customer order.

This afternoon I found a strange transaction on our bank account so got DH to ring an insurance company about it. Our bank loans manager had taken out a supposed free cover to cover our home between now and settlement day but stuffed it up so they took out $90 odd dollars from our account. After ringing them it turns out he had pressed one wrong button which resulted in them charging us which they have now reversed the charge on.

Tonight's dinner was bacon and egg sandwiches.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

@Terri9630 we are fortunate the cat doesn't like climbing into boxes unless we are in there but we will keep an eye out for her though. She has before been locked in the garage and numerous rooms in the home as she follows us everywhere but fortunately we found her pretty quickly and let her out.

 

[The Lazy L]

...It is beyond me why officers don't look up the person they're after...

I would suspect Law Enforcement (like any other profession) has a few lazy employees too?

"It's me" might cause a friend/family to open the door without thinking. Once they are in try to get them out...if they don't have a search warrant order them out and any hesitation to leave on their part start writing down badge numbers and names as you call the next "higher" up agency (local call County, County call State, State call for the Shift Officer).

 

[hiwall]

Never willingly let Law Enforcement into your house.

 

[SheepDog]

Once you open the door you have given them the power to search the area they are in. NEVER let the officer in your home without a warrant.
I don't even let the local deputies in my house when they are on duty. Some are friends and I know a few of them.
Have you ever wondered why cops don't trust people? It's because they lie all the time to get people to incriminate themselves. It's part of the job. If you spend you life lying then you find it hard to trust.