What's everybody doing today?

[Sentry18]

Christmas tree arrived yesterday thanks to someone at UPS finding a way to unseat their cranium from their backside. It was put on the wrong truck, then on another wrong truck, and then it sat in a warehouse, then someone decided to check on it. Whoever that person was should be employee of the year. Anyway the wife and kids put it up while I was at work but then had to go to a gymnastics meet, so today we are going to decorate it. Then we are going to watch a Christmas movie.

Otherwise a typical Sunday.

 

[Meerkat]

I was up most of the night with dad. He'd decided he wanted to sleep in a bed instead of his recliner. At midnight he decided he's better get up and go back to his recliner... Took me an hour and a half to get him up. In the end had to give him a very strong pain reliever from an old prescription in his medicine cabinet. Like most 85yrolds his medicine cabinet is a small drug store. He had an old prescription doctors don't write anymore. The kind that had a red label on the bottle that said "Don't drive or operate equipment". At least it took enough of the edge off the pain for me to sit him up and get him into his wheel chair but I had to wait 40minutes for it to take effect.

While he was in the hospital I went through all his old meds and wrote them down in a note book. I'm just glad he had something really strong or I'd never have got him off that bed. It also helped him go back to sleep. He did rest through the night.

All this gave me time to pack for my trip to the big city for doctor appointments. I got everything packed last night, just have to get a shower then hit the road. Someone needs to stay all night with dad tonight. I have a few hours to arrange that. I don't need to leave here until after lunch.

Peanut your a good man to take care of your dad like this.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Sorry everyone is sick or injured.
Prayers going up for everyone.
Apartment work looks wonderful Hashbrown.
Update on grand daughter.
She has no mono.
She does have RSV.
Granny has nasty head cold and can't seem to get warm.
Grand daughter is on antibotics.
We have been sleeping in recliner.
Grand daughter, Granny and Strawberry all sleeping in my little recliner.
Son made comment maybe I should consider a bigger recliner.
Told him not yet, not till after surgery.
Granny is alone so far today except for Strawberry being here.
Strawberry has been sticking close to grand daughter and Granny.
Like she knows we're ill.
Need to my stuff together to make homemade bread, and chicken noodle soup.
If I want to eat today anyway.
Reading forums, drinking coffee.

 

[Meerkat]

Sorry everyone is sick or injured.
Prayers going up for everyone.
Apartment work looks wonderful Hashbrown.
Update on grand daughter.
She has no mono.
She does have RSV.
Granny has nasty head cold and can't seem to get warm.
Grand daughter is on antibotics.
We have been sleeping in recliner.
Grand daughter, Granny and Strawberry all sleeping in my little recliner.
Son made comment maybe I should consider a bigger recliner.
Told him not yet, not till after surgery.
Granny is alone so far today except for Strawberry being here.
Strawberry has been sticking close to grand daughter and Granny.
Like she knows we're ill.
Need to my stuff together to make homemade bread, and chicken noodle soup.
If I want to eat today anyway.
Reading forums, drinking coffee.

IMO just don't takr Bactrine it did a number on me INSTANTLY.

 

[Spikedriver]

Took my daughter and her neighbor girl friend to the skating rink for the Sunday afternoon skate. It's a lot less crowded with obnoxious teenagers on Sundays. I can actually enjoy watching them skate. I don't skate - I don't need to be any more busted up than I already am...

 

[Meerkat]

Took my daughter and her neighbor girl friend to the skating rink for the Sunday afternoon skate. It's a lot less crowded with obnoxious teenagers on Sundays. I can actually enjoy watching them skate. I don't skate - I don't need to be any more busted up than I already am...

Use to like roller skating taught kids and grandkids, but now rinks are not safe anywhere near major cities in the south. First generation in our family who doesn't roller skating.

Good for you to take your kid to one.I'm sure its safe with you there.

 

[Terri9630]

Christmas tree arrived yesterday thanks to someone at UPS finding a way to unseat their cranium from their backside. It was put on the wrong truck, then on another wrong truck, and then it sat in a warehouse, then someone decided to check on it. Whoever that person was should be employee of the year. Anyway the wife and kids put it up while I was at work but then had to go to a gymnastics meet, so today we are going to decorate it. Then we are going to watch a Christmas movie.

Otherwise a typical Sunday.

Glad you got your tree. Still no wood splitter....

 

[Terri9630]

Strawberry has been sticking close to grand daughter and Granny.
Like she knows we're ill.

She knows. I can always tell when the kid isn't feeling well because the dogs always know and tell on her.

 

[Bacpacker]

It's amazing how dogs can pick up on sickness. Our's will stay at the wife's feet all day when shes not feeling good. She's done the same to me when I've been sick.

 

[Meerkat]

Glad you got your tree. Still no wood splitter....

Terri hope it comes soon. Those wood splitter''s don't come cheap either.

 

[Weedygarden]

I was up most of the night with dad. He'd decided he wanted to sleep in a bed instead of his recliner. At midnight he decided he's better get up and go back to his recliner... Took me an hour and a half to get him up. In the end had to give him a very strong pain reliever from an old prescription in his medicine cabinet. Like most 85yrolds his medicine cabinet is a small drug store. He had an old prescription doctors don't write anymore. The kind that had a red label on the bottle that said "Don't drive or operate equipment". At least it took enough of the edge off the pain for me to sit him up and get him into his wheel chair but I had to wait 40minutes for it to take effect.

While he was in the hospital I went through all his old meds and wrote them down in a note book. I'm just glad he had something really strong or I'd never have got him off that bed. It also helped him go back to sleep. He did rest through the night.

All this gave me time to pack for my trip to the big city for doctor appointments. I got everything packed last night, just have to get a shower then hit the road. Someone needs to stay all night with dad tonight. I have a few hours to arrange that. I don't need to leave here until after lunch.

I have no idea about your family and the life of those that come around. Storing medication in a medicine cabinet can be a setup for visitors to help themselves to it. I thought it was all good in my life, until I realized a cousin was carrying around prescriptions with other people's names on them. She used to go to older people's houses and do their nails, and probably help herself to the medications in the medicine cabinet. Just a thought.

 

[Amish Heart]

Running errands, getting the cooking done...big breakfast this morning, dinner, and husband's lunch for tomorrow. Taking stupid CPS tests online.

 

[Spikedriver]

@Meerkat in my little town, there isn't really an unsafe place. The worst thing that happens at our skating rink is when the Jr. High boys get into fights trying to impress the Jr. High girls...

 

[Meerkat]

@Meerkat in my little town, there isn't really an unsafe place. The worst thing that happens at our skating rink is when the Jr. High boys get into fights trying to impress the Jr. High girls...

That is great that you chose to live there. I know parts of the Ozarks are still safe if you don't come to change things.

 

[dademoss]

Yesterday saw the flag was tired when I dropped it to 1/2 staff for Pearl Harbor Remembrance day. Today was new truck, line and flags on the flagpole. Folded the old flag up for disposal when the Legion does the next retirements.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Hope you Dad feels better soon @Peanut and try and get some rest.

Glad your granddaughter is out of hospital and doing a little better @MoBookworm1957 likely you also have RSV since granddaughter has it so look after yourself and get antibiotics if you don't improve.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Good news is DH has been bumped up to category 1 (high priority) to have his brain aneurysm looked at in the next 30 days and when we see them they will organise a surgery date for him.

Started off the morning this morning with loading up a trailer load of sticks and branches that were no good for firewood for our friend and took it to the tip. Came back and loaded the last bit of firewood from the property into the trailer and then heard the RSL club was having a working bee down there so headed there and cleaned for 2 hours.

Got home and just left the car and trailer with all the firewood under the tree until tomorrow morning when it is cooler. DH washed up the dishes and cleaned the benches and I dried all the dishes and put them away and DH trench composted the vegetable scraps into some soil we are going to use when we plant our next fruit tree in the paddock. We then went outside and DH fixed a leaking garden tap pipe and that is now fixed but we will have to go and get another drip irrigation timer tomorrow as the thread is gone on it.

I have just finished watering the gardens before the drip irrigation timer went completely and hand watered the potted fruit and herb plants and topped up the kangaroo and wallaby water. Emptied out our hand washing bucket of water on some more canna lily plants in the gardens and refilled it with fresh water for another day.

Tonight's dinner is going to be cold chicken drumsticks and homemade pasta salad and dessert another 1/3 rd of our homemade cheesecake.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Doing well @LadyLocust here just being hit from all angles on helping others at the moment and trying to catch up with work we need to do around here also. We are trying to get everything up to date before DH has his surgery as no doubt he will have some down time with that and my caring duties will increase as well until he recovers.

 

[snappy1]

Took my walk, paid water bill, did laundry and then watched "White Christmas". Shows were so much classier years back. Sigh

Going out for pizza with my Sunday School Class this eve. Thin crust veggie mini pizza with a side salad (bringing my light dressing). Gotta tighten up! And socialize.

 

[LadyLocust]

I like that movie @snappy1

@Terri9630 How ya doin'? Hope you are healing.
Also, @MoBookworm1957 Hoping you and grandgirl are feeling better too.

 

[LadyLocust]

Sorry @Terri9630 I hope you are well too, but I meant @timmie w/ the leg. Please forgive my airheadedness lil loserMe

 

[Amish Heart]

That, and "Holiday Inn" are my favorite Christmas movies, Snappy. They were much classier then.
Have to take granddaughter to American Heritage Girls Meeting in a bit. Dinner ready. Decided to make some cottage cheese to go with it. It's straining now. Found a huge stinking bag in grandsons closet today. Full of lunches he packs each day and doesn't eat. Searched his backpack today to see today's lunch. Gave him a lecture about food waste and cleanliness. He's been subsisting on twinkies and whatever at lunch and throwing his away. Told him no more junk food till Christmas. Told him don't bother making a lunch if he's not going to eat it. It was a shame to throw that much food away.

 

[Peanut]

It’s me it’s me, it’s Earnest T! I got great news from the specialist in the big city, better than great, fantastic even. My body seems to be healing itself. No surgery needed or long drawn out therapy. For the foreseeable future I’ll have to keep an eye on my diet. He wants me to load up on protein. I might need a pill from time to time as needed, between you me and the fence post… I know of a couple of plants that work better.

The trip was uneventful but for one incident. I had dinner at a great Chinese restaurant 5 blocks from my cheap hotel. The rooms are $54 a night, not exactly 3 star in anyone’s book but the rooms are clean and there’s plenty of fresh towels. There is a housing boom going on so all the trades (roofing, sheet rock, brick layers etc) are represented at the hotel and those guys are in bed by 10pm so it’s nice and quiet.

I had to be at the hospital by 0620. I was done by 0930 and on my way back home.

My niece and I had talked about getting dad an electric recliner, insurance wouldn’t pay but we felt he needed one. I stopped at the store where I got mine in August. They had a return of the same recliner I bought. Someone took it home for 2 days and decided they wanted the other chair they had looked at… The chair was marked down half price, only $600, not bad for a recliner with all the bells and whistle.

A cousin came over and helped me unload then get it in the house. Dad likes it already, a lot less painful to get into and out of.


The strangest thing… Through the years I’ve spent far too many nights in hotels… I’ve a long list of strange occurrences. Last night about 9pm I stepped out of my ground floor rm to stretch my legs and get something from my truck. The parking lot is just the other side of small hedges. A lady (about 35-40) came out of a room a couple of doors down and walked to a waiting car and opened the passenger side door. I got a good look at the guy driving the cheap rental car, maybe 26-28 and dressed in expensive business clothes with an expensive haircut and manicured nails.

The woman was dressed in jeans and a pull over sweater, too nice for a working man’s hotel. Her hair was neat but she was extremely skinny. At first I thought meth but her eyes were clear, then I though hooker until she spoke.

She said the strangest thing to me. I had to ask her to repeat it. She asked “Do you need some bolt cutters?” Me – “No”. She asked “Are you sure?” “We have a set we don’t need” She pointed and I saw the bolt cutters in the passenger side seat.

I said “No” again... She moved the bolt cutters to the back seat, got in the car and they left.

I’m standing there watching them drive away thinking “What the heck just happened?” Neither looked like they belonged together or with the car or at that hotel.

My next thought was “Did they bludgeon someone to death with the bolt cutters?" or "commit some crime?” What a better way to get rid of the evidence than give it to a stranger at a hotel with a truck and a tool box in the bed. Why would these to people have bolt cutters in that car and why would they be trying to give them away at a cheap hotel, or why would that women have a room there?

Maybe I’m too cynical or suspicious when traveling… Nothing about this made sense at all. Just call me Earnest, that entire encounter went over my head.

 

[Meerkat]

Good news is DH has been bumped up to category 1 (high priority) to have his brain aneurysm looked at in the next 30 days and when we see them they will organise a surgery date for him.

Started off the morning this morning with loading up a trailer load of sticks and branches that were no good for firewood for our friend and took it to the tip. Came back and loaded the last bit of firewood from the property into the trailer and then heard the RSL club was having a working bee down there so headed there and cleaned for 2 hours.

Got home and just left the car and trailer with all the firewood under the tree until tomorrow morning when it is cooler. DH washed up the dishes and cleaned the benches and I dried all the dishes and put them away and DH trench composted the vegetable scraps into some soil we are going to use when we plant our next fruit tree in the paddock. We then went outside and DH fixed a leaking garden tap pipe and that is now fixed but we will have to go and get another drip irrigation timer tomorrow as the thread is gone on it.

I have just finished watering the gardens before the drip irrigation timer went completely and hand watered the potted fruit and herb plants and topped up the kangaroo and wallaby water. Emptied out our hand washing bucket of water on some more canna lily plants in the gardens and refilled it with fresh water for another day.

Tonight's dinner is going to be cold chicken drumsticks and homemade pasta salad and dessert another 1/3 rd of our homemade cheesecake.

FOR you and your hubby quick recovery .

 

[Bacpacker]

Good news Sewing and Peanut. Glad to hear of both.

 

[Meerkat]

Sorry everyone is sick or injured.
Prayers going up for everyone.
Apartment work looks wonderful Hashbrown.
Update on grand daughter.
She has no mono.
She does have RSV.
Granny has nasty head cold and can't seem to get warm.
Grand daughter is on antibotics.
We have been sleeping in recliner.
Grand daughter, Granny and Strawberry all sleeping in my little recliner.
Son made comment maybe I should consider a bigger recliner.
Told him not yet, not till after surgery.
Granny is alone so far today except for Strawberry being here.
Strawberry has been sticking close to grand daughter and Granny.
Like she knows we're ill.
Need to my stuff together to make homemade bread, and chicken noodle soup.
If I want to eat today anyway.
Reading forums, drinking coffee.

Hope its not serious MoBok. I missed this post, don't go back much now a days so saw it on Sewing post. Get well soon.

 

[DrPrepper]

Hope you Dad feels better soon @Peanut and try and get some rest.

Glad your granddaughter is out of hospital and doing a little better @MoBookworm1957 likely you also have RSV since granddaughter has it so look after yourself and get antibiotics if you don't improve.

RSV is a virus (respiratory syncytial virus) and so antibiotics are not effective. Usually, if you have a diagnosis of RSV and you're given antibiotics, it's because the doc suspects a superimposed bacterial infection. Last year, we saw quite a few older folks with RSV and bacterial pneumonia.

 

[LadyLocust]

@Sewingcreations15 Wishing you and hubby as good of news as @Peanut had. Great news Peanut!

 

[Terri9630]

That's great news Peanut. Maybe they had broken into one of the trucks tool boxes and were trying to sell the tools.

 

[Amish Heart]

Good news, Sewing. I hope this works out for him.
Don't what to say, Peanut. Sure you weren't dreaming that? If not, I'm with Terri.
Unless they were robbing a Coke machine or something.