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What's everybody doing today?
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Made $20 for babysitting Grand daughter today.
3/4 of Tuesday date night is paid for now.
$20 for 3.5 hours work and she slept 3 hours of it.
Brushed her teeth for the last half hour.
Tried to brush Strawberry's teeth too.
Will have to sterilize that toothbrush.
This is fine.
It was supposed to have been my day off.
3/4 of Tuesday date night is paid for now.
$20 for 3.5 hours work and she slept 3 hours of it.
Brushed her teeth for the last half hour.
Tried to brush Strawberry's teeth too.
Will have to sterilize that toothbrush.
This is fine.
It was supposed to have been my day off.
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Dang, back on topic.
Set around most all day resting my knee.
Walked around outside a bit.
Walking good , no pain, but still got some pain when idle. Been off pain meds for over a week.
Go to see surgeon on Tuesday, sure hope there is no problem.
Hey Mobook, how long did you have pain ?
Not bad just nagging.
Jim
Set around most all day resting my knee.
Walked around outside a bit.
Walking good , no pain, but still got some pain when idle. Been off pain meds for over a week.
Go to see surgeon on Tuesday, sure hope there is no problem.
Hey Mobook, how long did you have pain ?
Not bad just nagging.
Jim
Off and on about 3 months.
Wasn't stabbing pain, just annoying bursts of pain.
Wasn't like when first came home.
Usually had pain if I didn't move it enough.
But by that time I was already training for military style 5 K's. too.
So my pain could have been due to that too.
Thank you...I'm impatient I suppose.
I do all the therapy, got great motion.
Like you said lightning bolts ..I call it. Not constant.
Jim
I do all the therapy, got great motion.
Like you said lightning bolts ..I call it. Not constant.
Jim
I so understand impatient.
I was used to being super busy.
Military full time, single parent of two sons full time, working full time, going to school full time.
I didn't take getting forced into retirement well.
It's been ten years since I was forced into retirement through no fault of my own.
And I am just now getting used to it.
But of course my grand daughter has a lot to do with that now.
I had great motion several weeks after the surgery.
Had already started doing more motion therapy exercises than the civilian physical therapist thought I should have been doing.
But in all fairness to her I was her first full time Military person she had the pleasure of dealing with.
While up at VA the physical therapist said I wasn't doing enough.
So I was caught between the two.
So the surgeon said go for it. If it hurts trust me that knee will tell you up close and personal.
And it did several times.
@Bacpacker and @Haertig happy anniversary to you both and happy near to anniversary for @phideaux. Must have been a good time for marriage indeed as DH and I celebrated 14th wedding anniversary on the 27th of August.
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A quiet day... a quick trip for a few groceries this morning. Back home in time for kick-off on the first round of college football games at 11am. My nephew came up and fine tuned the scope settings on my .243 and the 10/22, ah, to have young eyes again. He'll re-sight the .243 again tomorrow for 210yds. It's 210yds from the backporch to the persimmon tree on the sand hill. In early evening coyotes come and eat the persimmons off the ground every Sept. It'll give my dad something to do after supper. 85yrsold and he can still shoot. His eyes are better than mine.
The nephew also brought up one of those electronic animal call gizmos with a remote control. It had about a dozen animal calls installed. He managed to call up a few crows.
Now its back to college football!
The nephew also brought up one of those electronic animal call gizmos with a remote control. It had about a dozen animal calls installed. He managed to call up a few crows.
Now its back to college football!
Happy Belated Anniversary SewingCreations15!
Thank you @MoBookworm1957.
Just painting bathroom cabinets today. Well part of today. Spent the morning looking for the brushes and rollers.
Congratulations to you and your spouse! Sorry you have to eat seafood. No one said marriage was easy.
Well you gotta do what you gotta do. Wife had a Filet Minon. I had a seafood platter, piece of cod, scallops, shrimp, crabcake. Man that stuff was good. I love good seafood.
Thanks for the congrats Everyone. Went up in the mountains after we ate and watched a beautiful sunset.
Worked all day again on my kid's house (he is going to sell it). Replaced some deck boards, did some cleaning, tomorrow I will be painting one of the decks (house has three decks, the one I will be painting is 18'x 52' ).
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Took granddaughter on her Heritage Girls outing first thing this morning. They were picking produce for food pantries. Went to urgent care and got some antibiotic for a scratch that went nuts on my arm. Scratched it on some chain link about 3 weeks ago, kept it clean, and it still became a mess. Went to Tractor Supply and loaded up on feed. Bought 100 lbs of chick starter and it was all buggy. 20 minute drive if I were to take it back...decided to leave it on the porch and mix it in with our grown chickens feed. All the chicks are in the house under lamps right now, and I don't want bugs in the house. Picked up 6 Transylvanian Naked Neck Chicks. Otherwise known as Turkens. Did a lot of cooking, some cleaning, and tons of laundry. Gunsmoke time now. Need to get going early tomorrow, have a rooster and a Tom turkey to butcher first thing. I recruited the twins to do the first part of it...catching, hanging, killing, and plucking. I'll do the rest. I think the neighbor girls are coming to help. Also need to put some hard red winter wheat through the grain mill. Want to try cooking something with it. Milled some rice flour yesterday, and that looks interesting.
Dishes are finally done.
Floors have been dusted again.
Furniture has been dusted.
Plants are watered.
Have drank a pot of coffee just about.
Strawberry has been outside numerous times.
Strawberry got flicked with flyswatter for her barking this morning.
Now she's sitting with her back to me again on my lap no less.
Had lunch leftover soup, bologna sandwich.
Will sit around this afternoon crocheting.
Floors have been dusted again.
Furniture has been dusted.
Plants are watered.
Have drank a pot of coffee just about.
Strawberry has been outside numerous times.
Strawberry got flicked with flyswatter for her barking this morning.
Now she's sitting with her back to me again on my lap no less.
Had lunch leftover soup, bologna sandwich.
Will sit around this afternoon crocheting.
Yummy......all good eating, but I gotta say there isn't anything like a fresh bay scallop fresh off the boat to twang the taste buds.
I grew up on the coast of Maine and scallops were a regular for me, they're so good you can't sit still and eat em..
They were best part of the meal. So tender and tasty.
I got a scallop story:
I have loved them since day 1.
I grew up on a beef-cattle farm.
When I turned 18, I moved out.
I came back for a visit one day and waltzed into the empty kitchen.
They was a big plate completely covered with scallops, freshly fried to a beautiful golden brown.
We rarely ever had seafood, let alone scallops!
I wolfed down 3 or 4 of them and noticed they didn't have much of a 'seafood taste'.
My mom came in and said:
"Get out of your dad's mountain oysters!".
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Bleech, Supervisor. That story left a bad taste in my mouth.
Putting my feet up for awhile. Made breakfast, did dishes, fed all the animals, milled some hard red wheat, butchered a roo (3 lbs), and a Tom (18 1/2 lbs dressed), cooked 30 ears of corn cuz my fridge is too full. Some for supper tonight, some for the chickens. Neihbor girls were over for awhile. One helped with butchering. Descaling the coffee pot, two loads of laundry hanging. Made lunch for husband, picked green beans and grapes. AND making sure grandson is doing his extra chores all day today since he was caught playing video games last week ALL night for a couple of weeks with a phone someone gave him at school. He has a week of work detail now.
Putting my feet up for awhile. Made breakfast, did dishes, fed all the animals, milled some hard red wheat, butchered a roo (3 lbs), and a Tom (18 1/2 lbs dressed), cooked 30 ears of corn cuz my fridge is too full. Some for supper tonight, some for the chickens. Neihbor girls were over for awhile. One helped with butchering. Descaling the coffee pot, two loads of laundry hanging. Made lunch for husband, picked green beans and grapes. AND making sure grandson is doing his extra chores all day today since he was caught playing video games last week ALL night for a couple of weeks with a phone someone gave him at school. He has a week of work detail now.
Church this morning. Came home and did exercise video (to oldies music), did calisthenics (day 2), made 3-potato salad for dh and tuna salad for me. Set up vitamins for the next month and came here to relax!
Standard Sunday with one exception, went to a sporting goods store and bought a 4 gun rifle safe with my oldest boy. Now his small arsenal is better protected in his temporary home. Also gave him a small range bag from home with eye pro, ear pro, gun cleaning kit, gun mat, CLP Break-Free, trauma first aid kit, and some chamber flags. His tech-school has an LEO program with a nice indoor shooting range. A range which is open to all students a few times a week.
We went up the mountain yesterday, hubby towing camp trailer and me towing utility trailer. We now have everything out of the house! Horray! Got the huge, giant, monstrous armoire out. I went around and used old English on all the wood work. It's hubby's hunting season so he was up and gone at O dark thirty to go look for a critter. He saw nothing. Our evening entertainment last night was we went and sat down by the river. The craw dads were "migrating" upstream. It was crazy. There were sooo many. They would crawl underwater until they came to rocks then would crawl over rather than going out into the current. There were some big 'uns and itty bitty ones. Better than any show on tv .
Now home, all the junk unloaded and bellies full. Tomorrow is a holiday but we have so much work at the moment, we will be working. I also need to get everything ready for the yard sale next weekend. Dreading it as far as more on my to-do list, but looking forward to having less stuff.
Congrats to the anniversary folks! Hubby and I celebrate our 8th in a couple weeks.
. Now home, all the junk unloaded and bellies full. Tomorrow is a holiday but we have so much work at the moment, we will be working. I also need to get everything ready for the yard sale next weekend. Dreading it as far as more on my to-do list, but looking forward to having less stuff.
Congrats to the anniversary folks! Hubby and I celebrate our 8th in a couple weeks.
Today started off the day with going for DH's physio appointment and then did a little shopping. Picked up 3.35 kg of half price chicken cutlets on special at Woolworths along with a discounted 2lts of chocolate milk which was just what we felt like to drink for the way home.
Stopped off at the pharmacy as I was desperate to find something to stop my face itching and being sore. The pharmacist was surprised the doctor had not prescribed cortisone cream and gave me some of that, I purchased some more pure aloe vera gel as that is a cooling light moisturiser I found from having some here and purchased some lanolin to put on my face at night for a deep nourishing treatment. We then went to the discount variety shop and purchased some notepads as we were getting low on them in the home.
Got home and DH washed the dishes and cleaned the benches and I wiped them and put them away. Shortly we will pack the chicken cutlets into meal sized portions for the freezer.
Put the cortisone cream on my face and boy does that settle the pain and itchiness down along with aloe vera over the top. I didn't sleep all last night for the itching and pain so hopefully tonight I will.
Tonight's dinner was fish fingers and chips.
Stopped off at the pharmacy as I was desperate to find something to stop my face itching and being sore. The pharmacist was surprised the doctor had not prescribed cortisone cream and gave me some of that, I purchased some more pure aloe vera gel as that is a cooling light moisturiser I found from having some here and purchased some lanolin to put on my face at night for a deep nourishing treatment. We then went to the discount variety shop and purchased some notepads as we were getting low on them in the home.
Got home and DH washed the dishes and cleaned the benches and I wiped them and put them away. Shortly we will pack the chicken cutlets into meal sized portions for the freezer.
Put the cortisone cream on my face and boy does that settle the pain and itchiness down along with aloe vera over the top. I didn't sleep all last night for the itching and pain so hopefully tonight I will.
Tonight's dinner was fish fingers and chips.
Today may be Labor Day, but for me it is Play-Date Day. I have one kid going to a buddy's house for the day, two kids with friends over, one at the neighbors house playing with their daughter, and another who walked out the door as she was shouting "Going to Kenzie's!" then drove off. My wife is busy planning a Christian women's retreat so I have been assigned to making sure children are where they are supposed to be, get to where they're going, are safe while they are here, and get picked up on time. I am sure I will be on lunch duty too.
I cannot even imagine what life will be like when the day comes we are empty nesters.
I cannot even imagine what life will be like when the day comes we are empty nesters.
@Sewingcreations15 , night time is the worst for me also, seems the pain gets worse.
Sure hope your problem gets well real soon.
I been having night pain now for over a week , keeping me awake, until...don't laugh, 3 days ago...I started eating 6 boiled eggs ,and 3 sausages, every morning , 1 Mega B-150 B complex, and drinking 1 container of Muscle Milk ( 40 g protein) , 1 glass of whole milk every day.
Last night was great .
Muscles need 100g of protein every day for healing.
Only my best friend Doctor advised this and it is working for me. I've improved more in the last 3 days than the past 3 weeks.
Knowing body physiology is critical.
Jim
Sure hope your problem gets well real soon.
I been having night pain now for over a week , keeping me awake, until...don't laugh, 3 days ago...I started eating 6 boiled eggs ,and 3 sausages, every morning , 1 Mega B-150 B complex, and drinking 1 container of Muscle Milk ( 40 g protein) , 1 glass of whole milk every day.
Last night was great .
Muscles need 100g of protein every day for healing.
Only my best friend Doctor advised this and it is working for me. I've improved more in the last 3 days than the past 3 weeks.
Knowing body physiology is critical.
Jim
Yesterday I did more painting and cleaning and also fixed the kid's two-wheel trailer (bad wheel bearing).
Today I have been doing more cleaning (including brushing out their two dogs). Not sure what is on tap for later today. Tomorrow morning we will be going home so wife can go to an eye doctor appointment on Wednesday.
Today I have been doing more cleaning (including brushing out their two dogs). Not sure what is on tap for later today. Tomorrow morning we will be going home so wife can go to an eye doctor appointment on Wednesday.
Did a lot of walking this morning, already over 8,000 steps. Have laundry going and will start going through clothes in my closet shortly. Trying to keep it sort up to date with changing sizes. Will probably cut some okra today. It is supposed to get up to 100 degrees by Saturday and then gradually come back down.
