What's everybody doing today?

[MoBookworm1957]

I hope you do win at Bingo tonight, Mo.
Looking at granddaughter's sitter hours...when does she see mom and dad? Does mom work 7 days a week?
We had many children at our school for 50 hrs a week. It was hard on them.

Grand daughter's mom got in over her head with debt so she is working 2 jobs.
But she now has grand daughter after 7 30 pm during the week.
Her daddy will have her every night and every weekend.
He only works 1 weekend a month.
Her mom works every weekend and every other Monday.
I won enough at Bingo to go back for 3 weeks.
This is a much better schedule for her.
Before her mom only had her 2 hours a day.
Either her Aunty or I had her.
Her dad had her his days off, and he had her every morning for several hours.
Then I would have her for the rest of the day.
Mom would pick her up for dinner, bath then drop her off at Aunty's house.
Where she would stay all night.

 

[SheepDog]

Poor kid, I've seen baseballs with a less chaotic life.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

@Dani firstly I am not sure the full extent of your grannies condition. The best I can tell you with limited information is on days where you are having heavy caring responsibilities is to pare back to basics being getting the washing done, floors clean, washing up done and a brief swish and clean of toilets bathrooms if they are dirty on different days. You are fortunate (blessed) there are two carers in the home.

From what I understand you stay at home and husband works ? and baths granny in the evenings. Tag team with your husband more often especially if you are tired and frazzled and find something that granny likes to do to keep her occupied for example crosswords, knitting etc, throwing beanbags/ ping pong balls into a basket (good for co-ordination), inside lawn/ten pin bowls (yes even in a wheelchair with a seat belt so she doesn't fall out) with supervision and light plastic large balls. When you are tired tag your husband so you can do something like go for a walk, have a bubble bath or anything that will let you wind down.

I remember when before DH got diagnosed with Q Fever and he sat under a blanket or slept for literally months and was not capable of anything other than showering and eating that I was exhausted. I lifted him, showered and dressed him, prepared meals, split firewood manually, did rental inspection cleanings on my own etc. I pared back to basics and adopted the opinion if it didn't get done today it would be done sometime in the future and that attitude helped me by not stressing. Then we have had a few depressive incidences with PTSD where DH hasn't uttered a word, sat in the lounge permanently playing playstation and just grunted at me for 4 - 6 week periods. I'd check on him tell him to eat and went out and planted lots of seeds in the gardens and just said when you feel like it pop water on the back deck for me. I found getting away from him but still checking on him helped and the garden is a place I find peaceful or I would go and sew for the while.

Now that DH is getting therapy for his PTSD and depression is getting physiotherapy for his injuries he is a bit more balanced but we still have periods where he is grumpy, demanding and as I am his wife I can say hard to live with. He is in pain most of the time and depending on the day my caring duties will be full peak or very light so I try and keep up with work inside and outside the house with DH's help so that when I have limited time or DH's pain levels are high most things are in some sort of order.

I hope this makes sense and helps you. Bless you for all you do for granny and you will be in our prayers. Talk together with your husband and come up with ideas that will help you both with granny care. Would pureeing the meat help or cutting it into way smaller pieces to cut down the time on meal supervision ?.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Round 2 of today is that we threw all the chopped firewood up the hill and loaded two wheelbarrows full and organised the firewood stack into sizes being small kindling down one end, medium logs and larger logs. Still have another couple of wheelbarrow full loads to bring up on Monday. After a bit of a break I bought the clean laundry back in and shortly we shall fold up a few loads of washing and put it away.

Tonight's dinner was curried sausages and dessert was homemade chocolate pudding.

 

[Amish Heart]

Duaghter came home from Boston area yesterday, and visited with her. Waited for roofer for estimate on cracked skylights, but he didn't show. So maybe today. Dehydrators are filled with zucchini and bell peppers. Plan to borrow son's mouser dog today and flood out chicken runs, and get some of the young pullets moved out to adjust to weather. Have some bananas ready to make bread, laundry, and cleaning to do.

 

[The Lazy L]

Wife has the day off so we are transplanting some of her flowers.

 

[The Lazy L]

Give us a range report when you get that done.

Please remind me to do so.

Lower will be a 80% and the jig is at the other location. I'm might just use a completed lower from a different AR.
Upper is here.
Optic is on the way.

 

[phideaux]

Well , well ..thank the Lord..

Weather people predicted rain overnight.
Didn't happen , I was gonna bush hog if it did.

But , here I sit at 10am and it is raining , a good rain.

First rain since Aug 24th.

Jim

 

[phideaux]

If the sun comes out ,

I will be a bush hogging later today and tomorrow.

Jim

 

[The Innkeeper]

Spent the morning searching for a replacement carb or carb kit for my lawn tractor. After an hour of fruitless searching everywhere I could find online and calling every small engine repair shop within a four hour radius nothing. Talked with the manufacturer, the carb model was superseded by another. Armed with that information repeat process. No joy. Back to manufacturer, they sent me the service manual so I could get the part numbers for a rebuild. It lists 3 different carb manufacturers all with differing rebuild kits. No manufacturer details on carb, so back to Briggs and Stratton, how do I know which is which? All those have been superseded by a different model. Okay, can I order that? It’s on back order price when they get it $268 plus shipping (plus customs fees as it comes from US to Canada). Armed with the latest number I found a non OEM part for $40including shipping .i should have it Monday. Total time invested ... about 4 hours. It should take about 1/2 hour when it actually arrives to do the job ... I’m going to stop for coffee now.

 

[Amish Heart]

Spent a lot of the day flushing out mice holes with our son's dog. That dog is an amazing mouser. Probably about 40 mice down. I can't say anything for our two dogs. They are more interested in the hose than the mice. So, the old turkey run was cleaned out (since they're all butchered) and the grandkids are moving 20 juveniles in there. We have 5 baby brooders in the house, and all but one are ready to go outside. Some mixed breeds and a half dozen Transylvanian Naked Neck Turkens. It'll just leave two silkie babies inside. So they're all going in another run that safer for small chicken types. Lots of work. Got the dehydrator filled up with sliced tomatoes, and a tray of sliced green onions. Planted the green onion bulbs so they'll grow more. Picked more green beans and blanched them for the freezer. Two loads of laundry done and hung.

 

[Spikedriver]

Spent a lot of the day flushing out mice holes with our son's dog. That dog is an amazing mouser. Probably about 40 mice down. I can't say anything for our two dogs. They are more interested in the hose than the mice. So, the old turkey run was cleaned out (since they're all butchered) and the grandkids are moving 20 juveniles in there. We have 5 baby brooders in the house, and all but one are ready to go outside. Some mixed breeds and a half dozen Transylvanian Naked Neck Turkens. It'll just leave two silkie babies inside. So they're all going in another run that safer for small chicken types. Lots of work. Got the dehydrator filled up with sliced tomatoes, and a tray of sliced green onions. Planted the green onion bulbs so they'll grow more. Picked more green beans and blanched them for the freezer. Two loads of laundry done and hung.

I grew up on a farm, I know how good it is to raise your own food, but...when it comes to birds, I'd just as soon buy from the store. Too much work just to see a weasel come in and wreck it all, or sickness, or gnats, or...you get the picture. Thumbs up to all of you who do keep your own birds though. I admire your perseverance!

 

[squirrelhunter]

I'm going to watch the Packers clip the Eagles' wings

 

[phideaux]

Well we got 3/4 " of rain this morning so the wife and I went to lunch and let things dry out a bit.

Perfect day in the 70s, going back to high 90s starting tomorrow.

So as my grandkids call it, I got some Mow Hogging done this evening .
Mowed till almost dark.
Probably got 12 acres or so cut. Hopefully can get more done tomorrow.

Cleaned a log out of the 4' culvert , afraid it was gonna plug up and cause flooding.

Yep, that bionic knee is the cat's meow...be glad to get the other one.
Guess which knee I use a to mount and dismount the tractor..:lil guy:

Jim

 

[Terri9630]

Good to hear @Terri9630 I was wondering when the doctors would get around to prescribing them for her as they help a lot. They will monitor her for a month and then adjust medication dosage to see if she needs a larger or smaller dose as it takes that long in the body to get an accurate reading of what is going on.

They didn't want to go that route because it lowers blood pressure and hers already goes too low.

 

[Terri9630]

Spent this week replacing the struts on the washer so it didn't bounce all over the house when it went into the spin cycle and doing the tile in the shower. We are taking a break from grouting right now. Its not hard work but takes forever!!

 

[hiwall]

The walk behind brush mower I ordered was delivered today. I tried it out and it works fine but gives the operator quite a workout. I think it will take me a week of use at least before I have everything mowed that I want done. Maybe an hour or so at a time is about all I can handle running it.

 

[Peanut]

I did absolutely nothing today but a few dishes... I had a busy 3 days, most of it unplanned. Monday morning my phone wasn't working (land line). Had to use someone else's phone to report it, then a full day of chores... Tuesday afternoon dad started a project around the shop that would have killed him, brutally hot that day. So, I had to help him load about 300lbs of scrap steel into my old truck (AC doesn't work) then take to the recycle place in town when all I wanted to do was rest. Yesterday my normal routines went out the window because of waiting for the phone guy to show up...

Then to find out it was my phone base that had died.... &*#$%, so off to town for a new phone... It is a lot nicer than my old one... it'll hold 1000 numbers in the block call list... I get 5 to 6 fake marketing calls everyday.

I hope friday is better...

 

[Sentry18]

I am at work but it should be a pretty slow day. I am cutting out a bit early as everyone us going to be home tonight for dinner, including the non-residential kids. So I have to put a couple extensions back in the dining room table, retrieve a couple chairs, and cook up a feast. We try and have at least one complete family meal a month, but as they grow up and move out it gets hard to make that work. Can't imagine what it will be like when the next 5 are all out living their lives. At the same time, there will be a whole lot less dishes to do and my food budget will be a lot smaller.

 

[phideaux]

We are heading for record high temps over the next 5 days.
I still got a lot of mow hogging to do.

So I'm gonna try for a couple hours today before it gets to 90 deg.


Then shower all the weed stuff and dust off and get some rest.

Then go for my Friday evening fish dinner.


Jim

 

[snappy1]

Went to DH's COPD doc yesterday. Don't think he's doing much for DH and he seems to be overworked. Will be checking earthclinic.com this afternoon for new insights. Going to make brownies this afternoon (bean based, I think) and no sugar. Tomorrow is a Church clean up day in the morning and I hope to make a few phone calls and rest some this weekend!

 

[phideaux]

Oh yeah, got all the mow hogging done today.
Didn't plan on getting it done, but the 93 deg ,with a little wind wasn't so bad.

Had my weekly fish dinner.

I'm tired and full.

Jim

 

[Spikedriver]

Worked my usual 10 hours, plus a little OT, and then went to the Pine Cone restaurant in Johnson Creek, Wisconsin for supper. Fish Friday was good!

Oh, did I mention it's my birthday? Lol

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Yesterday I deep cleaned the bathrooms and toilets for the week and damp dusted in there too while DH stain removed some clothing and got a load of washing on, hung it on the clothesline and brought it back in. We folded up 4 loads of clean laundry and put it away and made the bed with fresh sheets and I put fresh towels in both bathrooms. DH cleaned up RSL book work that was now spread in the lounge room and kitchen table into the sewing room so it looks much neater.

Later in the afternoon we went down to the RSL for our weekly date afternoon and had a few soft drinks each. Got home and cat decided to bring in a live mouse and deposit it and it ran under the fridge and we couldn't find it. So left the cat out of the bedroom last night and this morning she was doing the pointer in the bathroom where it had crawled beside the vanity to hide. It is now set free into the wilderness once more.

Happy birthday @Spikedriver and have a wonderful day and try not to get into too much mischief .

 

[phideaux]

Worked my usual 10 hours, plus a little OT, and then went to the Pine Cone restaurant in Johnson Creek, Wisconsin for supper. Fish Friday was good!

Oh, did I mention it's my birthday? Lol

Happy birthday Spike,
Love the Wisconsin fish fry.
Used to be perch a or Walleye.
Sometimes Cod.
Fried in beer batter.
Walleye is my favorite.

Jim

 

[timmie]

happy birthday spikedriver

 

[Spikedriver]

Happy birthday Spike,
Love the Wisconsin fish fry.
Used to be perch a or Walleye.
Sometimes Cod.
Fried in beer batter.
Walleye is my favorite.

Jim

Thanks Jim.

It was cod. But I agree, Walleye is the very best fish there is...

 

[Amish Heart]

Happy Happy Bday, Spike Driver!

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Poor kid, I've seen baseballs with a less chaotic life.

This is all the grand daughter knows.
But now she is beginning to blossom, now she has stability in her young life.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Happy Birthday Spikedriver!