What's everybody doing today?

[Meerkat]

Good Night All, hoping tomorrow beings us better news or at least the peace without understanding to deal with whatever comes our way.

 

[Peanut]

@Haertig I can relate to what you are going through. I've experience some of the same recently. Hope it all goes the best for you and yours.

@Terri9630 Yea! How many total? Layers? Start us a thread under chickens so we can keep up with their progress.

I worked on my chicken coop this morning. I tightened up the hardware cloth on the door and trimmed some of it, tired of cutting my hand when I close the latch. I also tightened up all the wire in the gable ends. Basically the coop needed overall maintenance to get it secure for the new batch of little hens I have now.

This afternoon I had a doctors appointment for no other reason to get a prescription renewed... &#$%^ or so I thought. Then I had to wait an hour and a half for it to be filled. The doc pulled a fast one, rewrote all my prescriptions. At least I have a 6 months supply on all meds now.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Haertig,
Sorry to hear about your mom falling.
You got this.
Terri630,
Congratulations on the chicks.
Peanut,
I got that coming up in June.
Hopefully at that doctor's appointment we can get eye appointment, hearing appointment done too.
It will be wonderful.

 

[Peanut]

Hopefully at that doctor's appointment we can eye appointment, hearing appointment done too.
It will be wonderful.

I've needed to contact the VA in Birmingham since November, cataracts growing faster than they said. I've been so wrapped up with family since then I never seem to have time to make the call. Need to do that!!! asap.

Take care of those eyes MO...

 

[zannej]

Haertig, sorry to hear you're in quarantine. I hope your mom is doing ok. My uncle & his wife live in an assisted living place where they have their own apartment but have communal areas and help on hand in case of emergencies. My aunt had botched knee surgery from the VA a few years back & it led to her being disabled. They chipped a bone & damaged a nerve-- left one leg shorter than the other. She gained so much weight that putting her on anesthetic was risky & she didn't want to go through a repair surgery after what happened the first time. She later had to have some other kinds of surgery but her heart stopped more than once during the procedure & she had to be resuscitated. My uncle says she's on so many pain killers she can barely function, so he's taking care of her now.

@zannej I busted out laughing when I read about your cat. I've never heard anybody call their cat a D-bag before...

It suits him. LOL. His name is Mewlatto. He's a fluffy black & white kitty. We rescued him as a kitten & he never quite got along with the other cats. He was sort of a troll-- always swatting other cats when they walked by. We took to calling him "********* mew" and "douche douche". He actually answers to both. Even mom now calls him douche douche to call him over. It's hilarious hearing her saying that in a very sweet tone & he just lets out this high pitched sweet meow in response, flicks his fluffy tail, and reaches toward people with his paw. He's started to tolerate other cats, but he still tries to avoid them if he can. Every once in awhile he'll let another cat snuggle up with him, but he prefers people. He loves to be held and petted.

Wednesday around 3am the power went out. I called the automated line for the power company to report the outage. Sometime after 7am the power came back on for a few minutes & then went out again. We didn't get a callback to ask us if we had power so I assumed they were still working on it. Thunderstorms make me sleepy so I slept until around 10am. Storms lightened enough for me to go outside with my cellphone (as the landline phone ran out of power). I had one bar of signal but was able to call the automated line to report the outage. The system indicated it was a new ticket so apparently they thought they'd restored the power. I asked for a callback to confirm. We couldn't cook & didn't want to open the fridge so my brother & I went to the post office & to a local business to get some food. They have really good beef stew with rice there. We brought that home. I ate about 1/3 of it before feeling full & set the container in the microwave. Around noon I called the power company again-- message this time said open ticket. Sat around the house with the cats waiting until after 5pm. Finished my stew, called the power company again. Called my friend & asked if he knew anyone I could call directly to light a fire under someone's behind to get my power back on, but he didn't know anyone. He said we could come over to his place so we could have running water and air conditioning. Mom was in a bad mood & didn't want to go & didn't want us to leave. Another hour or so & she wanted food. I got her something out of the pantry & she told my brother and I that we could go visit our friend while she napped in her room (her room is the coolest in the house & our rooms were too warm so we were overheating). We went over to our friend's house & hung out with him. One of the people staying there just got out of the hospital for kidney infection. She was tested for Covid while there & was negative. We discussed home repairs. She & her boyfriend are fixing up our mutual friend's house that burned in 2016 so they can live in it & are staying with that friend because their home burned to the ground in December. They are helping our friend with renovating his house while they are staying there.

My friend asked me what size cabinets he needed (bc I did the calculations & research to find the cabinets that would fit). I sent him links to the ones he would need & told him prices. I had him put a level on the ceiling to see where the lowest spot was so we could determine where the bottom of the wall cabinets would be. I had previously sent him a drawing I did in Sketchup of what the cabinets would look like when finished. I got some pictures of his bathroom now that it is fixed up more. He got vinyl plank flooring in, took out a wall, and moved his washer & dryer over. It looks good. I got some pics of it to put in my archive of the progress.

We visited with the kittens that were born recently. They are being kept in a doll's bassinet. There are two solid black ones that we like. My brother picked one that is very mellow and held him. He was petting him & the kitten was so happy he rolled on his back for belly rubs. He was peddling his little feet in the air and curling his paws up while being petted with a finger. It was adorable. Around 8pm my brother went to McDonalds and grabbed food for me because I was too tired to drive. Waited until around 10pm & called Mom to check on her. I'd set up a phone that didn't need to be plugged in to power to operate so she could call if she needed something. Called the power company again & they said it was still an open ticket. My friend was getting irritated with the power company, but was glad we were over with him.

Mom called sometime just before 2am to say the power was back on & we could come home. Just in time because the kitten got hungry so my brother put the kitten with his mother and siblings in the bassinet. Got home after 2 & racked out for 12 hours. Mom woke me sometime after 2:30pm & wanted food. I zombie crawled out of the room & made her a quesadilla with chicken, then back to sleep until after 8pm when she was hungry again. Got her some chicken cordon bleu and waited for her to finish eating to see if she wanted something else, then went back to bed. Woke up around 4am but am still trying to wake myself up enough.

If my friend's unemployment check lands today, we're going to the store to get unfinished wall cabinets for his kitchen. We've discussed it and the plan is to get them to his house, lay out a drop cloth & set them up so I can stain them thoroughly, wait long enough to do 2nd coat and do that, then put them up. Then I'll clean up & do touch-ups on the rest of the cabinets & when they are dry I'll do a coat of poly over all of them. I'll stain & poly the the toekick trim (which should be cut & dryfitted first) before installation. I've also offered to do some painting at the other house when they are ready for it.

Once the bathroom is fixed up enough I'll be painting the ceiling & walls in there too.

My friend is going to grab me a repair flange for my toilet & help me pull the toilet to fix the flange in my mother's bathroom sometime this week/weekend as well. I think I'll have him help me put the new toilet in. I've got a toilet lift to make things easier. He's used it several times moving his own toilet & he loves it. Hopefully it will work well on our toilets. It lifts them at an angle so water doesn't spill out of the trap and dump on the floor and it makes it easy to line the toilet up over the flange properly before setting it- even has two sticks that go over the bolts to help guide the toilet in to place correctly.

I'm babbling again. LOL. Right now I'm curled up with the cats and Princess.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

I'm up been up since 0430.
Dressed.
Strawberry went outside to take care of her business about 0930.
She's been outside several times.
Since I was up and dressed so early, I made hot rolls.
They're raising now.
Cleaned off all the counter tops, washed dishes, cleaned off the top of freezer, cleaned off the table.
Cleaned off the top of washer and dryer, wipe them down too.
Even cleaned up the little metal jelly cabinet the coffee pot sits on.
Floors have been dusted, furniture has been dusted.
Just waiting on the call to say meat bundle is ready.
Got to run to Wal*Mart pick up booster chair for grand daughter.
She's moving to big girl chair at Granny's house this weekend.
She's been sitting toy doll metal high chair, but her little butter bean butt is getting too big for it.
Toy doll high chair is now hidden in my closet for the time being.
Need to run by Dollar Tree and pick up batteries for several of her toys.
Sitting here crocheting on Christmas blanket resting.

 

[Sparky_D]

Well, today marks yet another day "Working" from home day.
Pretty much tied to my PC waiting for tasks to come in.
It's discouraging to see just how little work I seem to do outside the office some days.
Still, I'm blessed to have a job I can do at home considering my current health and risk factors.

Dialysis for 4 hours tonight and nothing good on TV, so I'll probably watch a couple movies on my tablet.

Mrs. Sparky and I are planning to replace a couple interior doors downstairs tomorrow. We got a bunch of new 6 panel white doors for free a couple years ago and are finally getting around to them (I got tired of them being in the way).

 

[jimLE]

Today is tàxi service day.1st i took one person to er.on account she. Fell ànd ended with 2 cut's on her face.now I'm in another city where a different woman has a appointment.in which i'll stop and fill the car up with gas on the way home.ive also put new wiper blades on for the front windshield.the one wiperblade for the rear will be next.but no hurry for it.seeing how I don't drive in reverse while going down the road.

 

[Meerkat]

Took out last 3 chuckroast to thaw yesterdat, will roast one with potatoes ans onions later put in carrots we canned last year.
Then cut up and put other two roast in pints in canner along with some pint jars of lima beans to store.
Maybe trim my roses too. And floor needs mopping so me and big janitors mop will get a workout. I bet those janitors were strong men pushing that thing down all those long jalls and large rooms.

 

[Terri9630]

Hang in there, Haertig. You can do it. Glad the food is good.
Congrats, Terri! How many eggs in your incubator? Last time I had 22 in ours, and only 13 hatch. Have 23 in there now and they are due this weekend. We will see. The last batch of 13 aren't even 3 weeks old, and starting bin jumping. They now have grates over the top.

We started out with 27, tossed 3 that weren't developing and 14 have hatched so far. 3 more have pipped and one is rolling itself around.

 

[Terri9630]

Does that make you a grandma @Terri9630? Or just someone who is going to eating a lot of chicken down the road?

Neither! Well, well probably eat the roosters. These are egg laying breeds.

 

[Sentry18]

Motorpool grounded me today so they could put new decals on the spare marked Tahoe. So instead I worked a little then went and hung out in communications for a while, entertaining the 3 dispatchers and the intern with stories of blue glory. After that I did a little more work and then hung out in the armory for a while playing with a Class III Steyr Aug that we are holding for an LEO until he gets his safe installed. Then I strolled around the department for a while eventually ending up in the break room with a few officers chatting about grills and smoking meat. Then I came home early. I don't think the taxpayers got their money worth today.

Tonight I am not going to do a darn thing either. Got a case of the lazies. Ordering in dinner because I refuse to cook.

 

[Peanut]

I had a quiet day of badly needed rest... tough week for me. Late this afternoon I took tie wraps I bought yesterday and finished the chicken coop. Nothing bigger than a mouse can enter except by the door, finished the door yesterday.

I'm not exactly happy with the door, may make some changes. It has two latches, thinking of replacing one of them for a smaller version. Theory being... a raccoon can climb up the door to either latch. The latches are 3ft apart. Raccoons are smart but they can't simultaneously open 2 separate latches 3ft apart.

Nothing planned but a night of watching tv... might vaccuum seal up a package of burger I bought yesterday.

 

[Terri9630]

@Terri9630 Yea! How many total? Layers? Start us a thread under chickens so we can keep up with their progress.

I'll try to do that tonight when my internet isn't lagging as much.

 

[Meerkat]

Ok so I lost part of my vision and some times its worse than others but that stroke is no excuse for this horrible posting.I just had to correct 4 typos in that one sentence above.
So If I keep messing up without asking hubby to help or not posting till its corrected I will not post it anymore. I get blank spaces and shadows sometimes.
I think I lost part of my mind along with my sight.I just read one of my post and it made me sick.What the hell is wrong with me? I read over this several times and got closer to the keys which helps. I will change or stop. When I read over I don't see errors guess because I wrote it and mostly know what I said.
Some kind of mental block, but I apologize for being so lazy, I may still mispell words though.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Ok so I lost part of my vision and some times its worse than others but that stroke is no excuse for this horrible posting.I just had to correct 4 typos in that one sentence above.
So If I keep messing up without asking hubby to help or not posting till its corrected I will not post it anymore. I get blank spaces and shadows sometimes.
I think I lost part of my mind along with my sight.I just read one of my post and it made me sick.What the hell is wrong with me? I read over this several times and got closer to the keys which helps. I will change or stop. When I read over I don't see errors guess because I wrote it and mostly know what I said.
Some kind of mental block, but I apologize for being so lazy, I may still mispell words though.

Sometimes I have to read your posts a couple of times before it clicks for me.
That being said, I suffer from head injuries but if I have a question about something, I just ask.
I know people get tired answering the same questions over and over, but sometimes I just plain and simple don't remember the answer. Don't quit posting because you're frustrated take a deep breath and exhale just breathe and try again.
People will understand. I understand. I forget to put words in, or add too many words when I'm tired.

 

[Peanut]

No worries @Meerkat I've a bad cataract in one eye and have a touch of dyslexia. spell check can correct spelling but it can't correct phrases and words out of place. I have to write my posts out as a word document and rewrite them several times... boo boo's still get through. We just have to do the best we can.

A side note... you folks should see your posts through my eyes sometimes

... Like the thread titled "What am I quilting now". That one has me on the floor in stitches sometimes, change the spelling and word arrangement and it can be absolutely hysterical.

 

[Meerkat]

Thank you MoBook and Peanut.,and I am going to try really hard.No sense in letting this become more of a habit.

 

[Peanut]

@Meerkat There are several other little things I have to do... Like a new thread. I'm almost never the first one to respond to it. That way I can read several posts to make sure I understand the topic. I've found this keeps my number of goofy post to a minimum.

If I respond first it's usually a news article I've read elsewhere and have a feel for it.

Sometimes I copy someone's post into a word document and change the font to something I can see better... Like Arial instead of new times roman... I have a lot of trouble reading when the font is new times roman. I can read new times roman but have to slow waaaaaay down.

 

[phideaux]

@Meerkat , you worry too much ..we don't think anything bad about your postings, so neither should you...

Y'all know I live on top of a hill and have mole problems. Couple weeks ago I fixed a couple big gullies ...remember.
Well that was nothing .
Look at my front yard.

Here's the real story.

These new knees are working me to death...I love it.
Walked out today with no plans..
Projects just abound.
They jump out at me ..in no order ..just whatever pops up.
So today was a hard , busy day.
The yard along my driveway coming up the hill to the back of house and garage , has always been higher than the driveway and sloped too steep toward driveway, so today it's soft and I decided to change that.
Using front loader and box blade took that ridge down over 12". Tapered it for easier mowing.

All seeded, fertilized, watered ,raked and strawed today.
Now you know where all that good topsoil went...into all the gulley's in the yard. At least 10 gulley's in yard , now with dirt in them.
Guess what I gotta do tomorrow.

I'm tired.

Showered and ready for a long overnite nap.

Jim

 

[snappy1]

Good evening! This morning, I was at Walmart at 6:50 am and was 4th in line. They were keeping a good count of folks going in and out. They had everything I needed and looked for. I saw toilet paper, but wasn't there for that. Then to Dollar General for a few things I get there and then Tractor Supply for dry dog food and chicken wire.

Got home and wiped everything down and put away, then went for my walk. Didn't do much of anything the rest of the day. That Walmart run exhausts me!

 

[Bacpacker]

Worked 6 hours, then took a couple hours vacation. Wife had got home from her job and we took a road trip. Stopped by a CoOp in a small town. She got a bunch of flowers and I got some high quality potting soil to top off my raised beds with. Then we drove over to a lake I grew up fishing on. Hadn't been there in a few years. We went down to the tailwater below the dam and set on a park bench for a couple hours. WONDERFUL DAY.
I found out yesterday I have to go back to working at the lab starting Monday. Figured might as well enjoy today. Came back home and grilled up some steaks.

 

[Meerkat]

@Meerkat , you worry too much ..we don't think anything bad about your postings, so neither should you...

Y'all know I live on top of a hill and have mole problems. Couple weeks ago I fixed a couple big gullies ...remember.
Well that was nothing .
Look at my front yard.
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Here's the real story.

These new knees are working me to death...I love it.
Walked out today with no plans..
Projects just abound.
They jump out at me ..in no order ..just whatever pops up.
So today was a hard , busy day.
The yard along my driveway coming up the hill to the back of house and garage , has always been higher than the driveway and sloped too steep toward driveway, so today it's soft and I decided to change that.
Using front loader and box blade took that ridge down over 12". Tapered it for easier mowing.
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All seeded, fertilized, watered ,raked and strawed today.
Now you know where all that good topsoil went...into all the gulley's in the yard. At least 10 gulley's in yard , now with dirt in them.
Guess what I gotta do tomorrow.

I'm tired.

Showered and ready for a long overnite nap.

Jim

Good job Jim.

 

[Patchouli]

Sounds like a great ending to your day, @Bacpacker
@Meerkat here kitty. Look, I think most of us understand your posts. I don't think unkindly of you for your keyboard errors. I am actually surprised you don't have your keyboard memorized but I digress.
No worries, I miss you when you're not here so I ask of you to please stay.
@snappy1 It is tiring to go out. That's why I stayed home.
For all the rain and flooding that has been going on, here's to a sunny May with light showers and no more floods!

 

[Meerkat]

Worked 6 hours, then took a couple hours vacation. Wife had got home from her job and we took a road trip. Stopped by a CoOp in a small town. She got a bunch of flowers and I got some high quality potting soil to top off my raised beds with. Then we drove over to a lake I grew up fishing on. Hadn't been there in a few years. We went down to the tailwater below the dam and set on a park bench for a couple hours. WONDERFUL DAY.
I found out yesterday I have to go back to working at the lab starting Monday. Figured might as well enjoy today. Came back home and grilled up some steaks.

What a wonderful day, we all need those kind of days BacP. I had an ok day too so did hubby he was working on the truck 'again'.

 

[Meerkat]

Sounds like a great ending to your day, @Bacpacker
@Meerkat here kitty. Look, I think most of us understand your posts. I don't think unkindly of you for your keyboard errors. I am actually surprised you don't have your keyboard memorized but I digress.
No worries, I miss you when you're not here so I ask of you to please stay.
@snappy1 It is tiring to go out. That's why I stayed home.
For all the rain and flooding that has been going on, here's to a sunny May with light showers and no more floods!

Patch I never did learn to type ' cut off my index finger at 2 yr old and it is straight can't bend it ' so I hunt and peck but do kinda know where the keys are.but I still have to look,to use them. Glad yall are all so forgiving of sloppy work but I will try a lot harder. I saw that post in rent thread and I couldn't beleive I let it slide.Or didn't check it out. Plus puter likes to play erase game sometimes.

 

[Patchouli]

@Meerkat have I mentioned this to you? There are typing websites to use. That might help. Or finding a keyboard with the letters raised or recessed on the keys so you can feel them, or the larger keyboards, same thing.

 

[Meerkat]

Jim forgot to give you a cyber hug,phone rang,

 

[Meerkat]

@Meerkat have I mentioned this to you? There are typing websites to use. That might help. Or finding a keyboard with the letters raised or recessed on the keys so you can feel them, or the larger keyboards, same thing.

Patch I'm just gonna have to work with what I got now, no way do I feel like learning at this time,I'd probably come out of that worse than I went in.

 

[Amish Heart]

We had a chick hatch this afternoon, wasn't due till Sunday, but I wasn't expecting Friday. Maybe the hen had been setting and got it started? The neighbors had wanted to buy some of our chickens. They were over the other day and bought 4. They asked to buy silkies, and told them no...they are our sons birds. Also asked to buy a chain linked run, but we're bringing them with us. Told them to get one from Tractor. So today the husband called our son and offered him $100 a piece for 2 silkies. I guess their daughters were throwing a fit. So the girls came by and chose 2. A rooster that they promptly named David Bowie, and a 5 yr old hen. Told them David Bowie was a roo, and the other was the oldest silkie in the run, but that's what they wanted. Packing long term food storage. I think I have a Sams pickup tomorrow that husband ordered.