Going to help the oldest kid move.
What's everybody doing today?
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Just been doing the regular every day things. Clean something. Cook meals. Read or listen to the radio
Saw online the Dollar Tree's weekly ad and they have their gardening stuff in. I'll be going there tomorrow morning. Not only do they have nice large pots but they have heirloom seeds that I buy every year. Dollar General stores have heirloom seeds also. I know because years back I made a list of lots of names of heirlooms for the different veggies and took it with me and most of the names were in those two stores. And at 4/ $1 ( dollar tree)you can't beat the price.
Saw online the Dollar Tree's weekly ad and they have their gardening stuff in. I'll be going there tomorrow morning. Not only do they have nice large pots but they have heirloom seeds that I buy every year. Dollar General stores have heirloom seeds also. I know because years back I made a list of lots of names of heirlooms for the different veggies and took it with me and most of the names were in those two stores. And at 4/ $1 ( dollar tree)you can't beat the price.
Took a vacation day from work. Spent most of the day getting a start on our taxes. Got around halfway thru them. YUCK
Taking taxes to library next week.
They're done free compliments of AARP.
That's okay Snappy1 I'm good with tanks coming off my bucket list.
Might see if my primary care doctor will okay horse back riding instead.
I used to ride Appaloosas when I was a kid.
Rode Quarter horses until September 2009.
Dishes-done
Laundry washed, dried, and put away-done
Bathroom toilet tank bleached- done
Vanity cleared off-done
Floor swept and steam mopped-done
Kitchen floor swept and steam mopped-done
Countertops cleaned off, scrubbed down-done
Cleared off another countertop-done
Table cleared off, wiped down-done
Same with highchair-done
Ran to Wal*Mart picked up produce-done
got produce put away-done
Will have to cook tomorrow?
Terri360 where is oldest kid moving too?
Still plugging away with Uncle's afghan- work in progress
Knitting baby blankets-WIP(work in progress)
Resting in the recliner, tired tonight.
Walked about 3500 steps today which felt wonderful to be outside for awhile.
Another snow storm is to start tonight.
This last one hasn't melted yet.
Took a drive today, just to get away for a bit.
Stay safe, warm, dry, or keep cool if you can Sewing15.
They're done free compliments of AARP.
That's okay Snappy1 I'm good with tanks coming off my bucket list.
Might see if my primary care doctor will okay horse back riding instead.
I used to ride Appaloosas when I was a kid.
Rode Quarter horses until September 2009.
Dishes-done
Laundry washed, dried, and put away-done
Bathroom toilet tank bleached- done
Vanity cleared off-done
Floor swept and steam mopped-done
Kitchen floor swept and steam mopped-done
Countertops cleaned off, scrubbed down-done
Cleared off another countertop-done
Table cleared off, wiped down-done
Same with highchair-done
Ran to Wal*Mart picked up produce-done
got produce put away-done
Will have to cook tomorrow?
Terri360 where is oldest kid moving too?
Still plugging away with Uncle's afghan- work in progress
Knitting baby blankets-WIP(work in progress)
Resting in the recliner, tired tonight.
Walked about 3500 steps today which felt wonderful to be outside for awhile.
Another snow storm is to start tonight.
This last one hasn't melted yet.
Took a drive today, just to get away for a bit.
Stay safe, warm, dry, or keep cool if you can Sewing15.
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We're waiting for snow in the middle of the night. Not looking forward to it, though, and hope it's no big deal. I have to work till 6:30 tomorrow night, and I don't want to also go in at 7 am if no one else can make it. We'll see. The base my husband works at is already posting a two hr delay.
a little bit of shopping done this morning. Our usual coffee shop is closed temporarily on Tuesday mornings so we tried a new one in town. Lovely coffee, friendly staff, probably be our coffee stop each Tuesday for now. Home for lunch, and shopping put away. Then DH dropped me off in town, I donated some no longer needed plates to the op/thrift shop, had a good look around and bought nothing. Checked out a couple more op shops on the way to the library, this is my normal Tuesday afternoon. Then DD#2 called to arrange where to meet. She lives over an hours drive away to the west, but today was doing site inspections about an hours drive away to the east of me. Had a chat, she drove me home and now she is using my internet to do some work as she recently moved and the internet isn't connected yet.
I have also given DD her birthday present as I probably won't see her before her birthday on St. Patrick's day. She is very happy with her roasting tins, aprons, tea towels and a couple of cleaning items, all placed in a recycled gift bag(from her in the first place).
@Tank-Girl and @Sewingcreations15, I hope you are both surviving this weird weather we are having. We have had the heater on a couple of days in the last week.
I have also given DD her birthday present as I probably won't see her before her birthday on St. Patrick's day. She is very happy with her roasting tins, aprons, tea towels and a couple of cleaning items, all placed in a recycled gift bag(from her in the first place).
@Tank-Girl and @Sewingcreations15, I hope you are both surviving this weird weather we are having. We have had the heater on a couple of days in the last week.
Decided to just take a drive to another town about 30 mins drive from here that we haven't been to before as we needed something anyway that we had run out of as our delivery was late. We bought a sausage roll each for a bit of a treat from a local bakery up there out of our splurge money. Before we left I checked out what supermarkets were there and checked out their specials and planned accordingly and wrote a list and purchased on a good sale our favourite shampoo, conditioner, potato chips, a watermelon so we can have something cold to eat and found mince on a nearly half price special on clearance so we grabbed the 4 largest trays marked down to $5 each for near on a kg of mince in each pack (working out to $5.24 per kg), bargain as it is around $9 kg elsewhere.
@megh been 38 oc here today and stiffling but we had a swim in the rain water tank pool and just had some lovely cool watermelon to eat as the second half of lunch. What temperature are you at up there @Tank-Girl ?, got to probably be hotter than us. Megh we did have a few cooler nights where we were able to put our cotton coverlet on us but not cool enough for a heater and think you will have to send some of that cool our way
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About to put away some of the groceries we got today but will leave packing the meat away to later tonight so we can organise the freezer.
Tonight's dinner will be toasted ham and cheese sandwiches.
@megh been 38 oc here today and stiffling but we had a swim in the rain water tank pool and just had some lovely cool watermelon to eat as the second half of lunch. What temperature are you at up there @Tank-Girl ?, got to probably be hotter than us. Megh we did have a few cooler nights where we were able to put our cotton coverlet on us but not cool enough for a heater and think you will have to send some of that cool our way
.About to put away some of the groceries we got today but will leave packing the meat away to later tonight so we can organise the freezer.
Tonight's dinner will be toasted ham and cheese sandwiches.
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Cold this morning but no ice...breakfast is done, hot sausage, biscuits, butt nuggets, and coffee....MMmmmm....I may survive hubby's funny stories...seems his Grandma Martin would stick a goat berry up her nose and blow them at the boys years ago..Oh dear me...he said she would call them smart pills and try to get the boys to put one in their mouth...if they did, they would say it tasted like crap and she would say....."See....They are working all ready, how smart you are !" His stories always end up with me spewing coffee all over myself, he is just so funny.....Love walked in one day, and Laughter lived forever at my house.....
Florescent light above the wife's kitchen desk only stays on for a few seconds when you first turn it on. I'm guessing the starter or the ballast is bad. Good time to swap out the fixture to LED. Stopped at the big box hardware, $40 or $20? I picked the $20. Faulty fixture is 30" and I picked (going by memory) 18" LED which will not fit under the overhead cabinet. Perhaps I can make a few custom adjustments...pop the cover off the florescent and the ends of the tube are almost black, bad bulb? And now I remember they haven't used starters for a coon's age. Back to the big box to return the LED and get a new florescent tube.
I replaced my florescent tubes with LED tubes, using the same fixture, and got more light out of 2 tubes (37W total) than the 160W (4X40W).
Hmmm....another trip to the big box to return the florescent tube for LED?
Took Peanut for her beauty appt at the groomers. Went to Bealles Outlet and bought nothing. Went to Walmart for produce as I'm making a broccoli apple salad for a Church gathering on Thursday. Picked up Peanut and went to Tractor Supply for goat feed and a mineral block. Came home and did a short exercise video in addition to my walk this morning. Going to make teriyaki chicken legs in the instant pot and call it a day.
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Decided to just take a drive to another town about 30 mins drive from here that we haven't been to before as we needed something anyway that we had run out of as our delivery was late. We bought a sausage roll each for a bit of a treat from a local bakery up there out of our splurge money. Before we left I checked out what supermarkets were there and checked out their specials and planned accordingly and wrote a list and purchased on a good sale our favourite shampoo, conditioner, potato chips, a watermelon so we can have something cold to eat and found mince on a nearly half price special on clearance so we grabbed the 4 largest trays marked down to $5 each for near on a kg of mince in each pack (working out to $5.24 per kg), bargain as it is around $9 kg elsewhere.
@megh been 38 oc here today and stiffling but we had a swim in the rain water tank pool and just had some lovely cool watermelon to eat as the second half of lunch. What temperature are you at up there @Tank-Girl ?, got to probably be hotter than us. Megh we did have a few cooler nights where we were able to put our cotton coverlet on us but not cool enough for a heater and think you will have to send some of that cool our way
About to put away some of the groceries we got today but will leave packing the meat away to later tonight so we can organise the freezer.
Tonight's dinner will be toasted ham and cheese sandwiches.
Preety darn hot and that's from someone who's fairly hardened to hot temps and doesn't have air-con.
Cold ( or what passes as cold here) shower in the morning, cold shower at lunch time and another just before bed.
Staying hydrated is a chore and the chooks are off the lay. I'm going to have to get ducks for eggs.
Chooks go off the lay for their winter moult and they go off the lay when it gets too hot.
I'm still pouring food down their necks even though I'm not getting anything to show for it.
I can't get ducklings shipped at the moment because temps. will kill them in transport..
Still waiting on seed orders to arrive.
Feed store tells me grain prices are going through the roof. I believe it.
Between the drought and now floods it'll be a long time before things get back to normal.
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We are pretty darn cold. Snow did melt. But will be 20 degrees tonight. Dinner is reheating, just got off work, have to open tomorrow at 6:15 a.m. Two people out today, two more tomorrow.
But hey, less than 3 weeks and I'm on vacation for a week.
But hey, less than 3 weeks and I'm on vacation for a week.
Not far. She is at an extended stay motel for a week or so until her new place is ready. Her roommates weren't paying their share of the rent so they got kicked out.
Snowed before dawn, just a bit that melted fast. Then it snowed for just a few minutes this afternoon.
Mom called this morning.
Was I busy?
Not really, what's up?
Ended up taking her to beauty shop.
While she was in beauty shop, went DG across the road.
Picked up a few things for me.
Picked mom up from beauty shop took her to the other side of street to library.
Helped her and two bags of books into library.
Picked out my 5or 6 books, put them in car.
Worked on the puzzle while she picked out dad's ten books.
Then she went to pick out her books.
In mean time Librarian already checked dads out off to the car they went.
Time to check her books out, she can't find dad's.
Librarian tells her I have them. Mom asks why?
Finally get her calmed down, tell her librarian checked them out in her name.
I already put them in car.
Oh.
Get mom and her books into car.
We go to only restaurant in town open order lunch to go.
I asked before I went inside to pick up sandwiches did she call dad.
Why of course she did.
Nope, so they have double sandwiches, double fries, double pies, double chocolate milkshakes.
Besides my meal. I ate my meal, brought one of their home including milkshake.
Yesterday took mom to Wal*Mart, it was about like today.
Got back to parents house, got mom, books into house, and food.
Go clean off front porch, don't want anybody falling.
Mom comes outside to help, no coat, no hat, no gloves.
Send her back inside finish up, put everything away.
It's a wonderful day in the neighborhood.
Was I busy?
Not really, what's up?
Ended up taking her to beauty shop.
While she was in beauty shop, went DG across the road.
Picked up a few things for me.
Picked mom up from beauty shop took her to the other side of street to library.
Helped her and two bags of books into library.
Picked out my 5or 6 books, put them in car.
Worked on the puzzle while she picked out dad's ten books.
Then she went to pick out her books.
In mean time Librarian already checked dads out off to the car they went.
Time to check her books out, she can't find dad's.
Librarian tells her I have them. Mom asks why?
Finally get her calmed down, tell her librarian checked them out in her name.
I already put them in car.
Oh.
Get mom and her books into car.
We go to only restaurant in town open order lunch to go.
I asked before I went inside to pick up sandwiches did she call dad.
Why of course she did.
Nope, so they have double sandwiches, double fries, double pies, double chocolate milkshakes.
Besides my meal. I ate my meal, brought one of their home including milkshake.
Yesterday took mom to Wal*Mart, it was about like today.
Got back to parents house, got mom, books into house, and food.
Go clean off front porch, don't want anybody falling.
Mom comes outside to help, no coat, no hat, no gloves.
Send her back inside finish up, put everything away.
It's a wonderful day in the neighborhood.
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Sounds like visits with my mom when we're at the farm. Except we have to change our clocks around her, so to speak. Ask her when we should pick her up, she'll name the time and she won't be near ready. So we set a time, come 1/2 hr later, and call when we're on our way. If she has to be somewhere at a certain time, we tell her an hour earlier. Husband needs help getting around, mom needs help getting around, and mom gets jealous if I help husband. Lately she won't eat anything that needs chewing (except pie and honeybuns), so taking her to eat is interesting.
We get to enjoy them while we have them.
We get to enjoy them while we have them.
Today I did nothing but sit and watch it rain... pretty much what I've done for the past 5 days. From what the weatherman said this evening it's what I'll be doing for the rest of the week.
My neighbor said his ducks were complaining about all the rain!
My neighbor said his ducks were complaining about all the rain!
@Tank-Girl similar weather here and trying to keep hydrated. We just have a 400 lt refrigerator with the door and part of a shelf filled with 600 ml & 1.25 lt bottles of cold water and we just guzzle, refill from our water pot and put back in the fridge. Another 38 oc day here today but not the devastating floods you have had around your area but we do have 70 % chance of rain later in the week and into early next week. Here is hoping it comes down in bucket loads.
Started off the day with DH taking some another row of wire off the garden bed we are removing due to termite damage in the upright timbers. While DH was doing that I stain removed some clothing and put on a load of washing and hung it on the clothes line. DH once finished stain removed another load of clothing and put on his load of washing and hung it on the clothes line.
Fairly much too hot after 9 am to do anything here outside so we relaxed for the day and went for a swim in the rainwater tank pool this afternoon and took in the load of washing off the clothes line. I marked the dates on the shampoo, conditioner and other items we purchased yesterday and put them in the food storage room. Then we cut up some chives and spring onions we were given by a lovely local and put them in meal sized portions in bags in the freezer to use for further meals.
Tonight's dinner is stir fry mince with homegrown sweet potato, silverbeet and broad beans and dessert will be homemade chocolate magic mix pudding made from food storage.
Fairly much too hot after 9 am to do anything here outside so we relaxed for the day and went for a swim in the rainwater tank pool this afternoon and took in the load of washing off the clothes line. I marked the dates on the shampoo, conditioner and other items we purchased yesterday and put them in the food storage room. Then we cut up some chives and spring onions we were given by a lovely local and put them in meal sized portions in bags in the freezer to use for further meals.
Tonight's dinner is stir fry mince with homegrown sweet potato, silverbeet and broad beans and dessert will be homemade chocolate magic mix pudding made from food storage.
Changed from work clothes to home clothes.
Water and feed the chickens. Collected eggs.
Ate supper. Pork chops, mash potatoes, broccoli and a glass of well water.
Watch a western, during advertisements, Youtube on how to long term preserve hand held mechanical items.
Woke up. Turn off TV.
Wife is scheduling a MRI and asked if I would take her. She's claustrophobic so she will be anesthetized and will not be able to drive home. "Of course."
Shower and head to bed.
Water and feed the chickens. Collected eggs.
Ate supper. Pork chops, mash potatoes, broccoli and a glass of well water.
Watch a western, during advertisements, Youtube on how to long term preserve hand held mechanical items.
Woke up. Turn off TV.
Wife is scheduling a MRI and asked if I would take her. She's claustrophobic so she will be anesthetized and will not be able to drive home. "Of course."
Shower and head to bed.
Done all animal chores and made green smoothie like every morning. Checked all local grocery store flyers that come out today and made list. Getting ready to make sugar free elderberry syrup for medicine. Supposed to rain all day. Not sure what I'll do next.
Just watching it snow and hearing thunder snow lol
Hubby is actually taking a nap. this is something he does not do so something is up. hope he isn't getting sick
Listening to the am radio station and reading
Have to unload the dishwasher
I have chicken breasts thawing for supper
Hubby is actually taking a nap. this is something he does not do so something is up. hope he isn't getting sick
Listening to the am radio station and reading
Have to unload the dishwasher
I have chicken breasts thawing for supper
Stewing! Just found out (don't know how I missed it) that our wonderful state gov is voting today to make it illegal for minors to handle guns. At all. Completely killing the 4-H gun safety programs and youth hunting.
Sounds like an unlawful act not a law.
What you do with your kids under your control is no business of the state.
It is far more important to teach them how to safely use guns than it is to make them a source of curiosity.
My kids started learning how to clear a gun before they could cock the hammer or pull the trigger. When they started showing interest in the gun in my holster or on the table next to me I started teaching them.
There was always guns in plain view and we never had any accidents. It's amazing how quickly the mystique goes away when they learn about them. They both started shooting at 6 years old.
What you do with your kids under your control is no business of the state.
It is far more important to teach them how to safely use guns than it is to make them a source of curiosity.
My kids started learning how to clear a gun before they could cock the hammer or pull the trigger. When they started showing interest in the gun in my holster or on the table next to me I started teaching them.
There was always guns in plain view and we never had any accidents. It's amazing how quickly the mystique goes away when they learn about them. They both started shooting at 6 years old.
Want me to check on places for sale near me? You should get out of that state.
Just come pick up my place and move it for me. We were actually looking in your area when we found our place up in the mountains.
