What's everybody doing today?

[phideaux]

Waiting for doctors to come.

And breakfast.

Jim

 

[Meerkat]

Waiting for doctors to come.

And breakfast.

Jim

Hope your out of there and bak home with the wife and Doogan soon.

 

[The Lazy L]

My truck is 15 years old and today I declared as Truck Day.

The spring that holds the door closed over the gasoline cap broke (or so I thought). An hour later and several trips to the shop for tools I managed to remove the door assembly. Spring is fine. It is the thin piece of metal that one end of the spring hooked to that was worn through and broken. A trip to the local weld shop. I asked if it was possible to weld a 1/8" steel rod across...yes he said, he could do that. If I wanted to wait he could do it now. I wait and 5 minutes later he was done. I asked how much and he said $5. I gave him $10. To replace the door assembly would cost $150, a trip to an auto paint shop and $50? to paint. Lithium grease where the spring pivots on the new metal, opposite end got 3-in-one oil as did the bolts. 5 minutes later the gas filler door was back on the truck good as new.

Rattle. There has been a rattle in the truck cab behind the seat that comes and goes. When it comes it drives me nuts. Thirty minutes of concentrated effort and I believe I found it. The top of the spare tire jack was rattling against a metal bracket. Put a little hydraulic pressure in the jack stopped the rattle. Time will tell.

 

[Meerkat]

Checke on few plants ,pitiful, the drought is terrible and soil soaks up water fast.
Talked to dauhter this morning, things settled down or she has become confortably numb,one or the other.
Doing little straightening up after last few days of arranging things.
My sight is not improving and seeing blank spots in ceetain light as day moves along. Did a number o nmy knee on bed today, can't see sides,over or under now.
But at least I feel better and BP is ok.
Dogs are getting a bath now. TIC'S are terrrible, something about a draught they thrive in. Walking to mailbox always gurantees a tick as does going in tall grass in yard.
Hens are going further into wood s for free ranging now,good thing Pretty Bird 'crow' keeps and eye on them. He chased off another hawk this morning.
Jim keep improving and get back home to soul sister aka wife, and Doogan

 

[phideaux]

Happy day .
I got out of ICU, into a room.
Got all the cables and plugs removed, even got rid of one IV .
Feeling pretty good, all test results are coming back good.

Looks like the new meds are working.

I'll be on Eliquist forever, and a drug called Amidarone to keep my hesrt in rythm and stop it from speeding up.

One more night here, monitoring everything....shooting for tomorrow as an escape date.

They said the blood clots will absorb in a couple weeks.

Should be good as new soon.

Looking forward to tomorrow..

Jim

 

[LadyLocust]

Checke on few plants ,pitiful, the drought is terrible and soil soaks up water fast.
Talked to dauhter this morning, things settled down or she has become confortably numb,one or the other.
Doing little straightening up after last few days of arranging things.
My sight is not improving and seeing blank spots in ceetain light as day moves along. Did a number o nmy knee on bed today, can't see sides,over or under now.
But at least I feel better and BP is ok.
Dogs are getting a bath now. TIC'S are terrrible, something about a draught they thrive in. Walking to mailbox always gurantees a tick as does going in tall grass in yard.
Hens are going further into wood s for free ranging now,good thing Pretty Bird 'crow' keeps and eye on them. He chased off another hawk this morning.
Jim keep improving and get back home to soul sister aka wife, and Doogan

We are having a torrential downpour!!! Supposed to get 3/4" by evening with flood warnings all over and phone calls from robots telling us to use caution when driving etc.

 

[LadyLocust]

Happy day .
I got out of ICU, into a room.
Got all the cables and plugs removed, even got rid of one IV .
Feeling pretty good, all test results are coming back good.

Looks like the new meds are working.

I'll be on Eliquist forever, and a drug callArmidone to keep my hesrt in rythm and stop it from speeding up.

One more night here, monitoring everything....shooting for tomorrow as an escape date.

They said the blood clots will absorb in a couple weeks.

Should be good as new soon.

Looking forward to tomorrow..

Jim

Do does the Eliquist make you more eloquent? And the Armidone sounds like something you'd use to polish the vette. Hope they work well for you and you're home and happy quickly!!!

 

[Meerkat]

Happy day .
I got out of ICU, into a room.
Got all the cables and plugs removed, even got rid of one IV .
Feeling pretty good, all test results are coming back good.

Looks like the new meds are working.

I'll be on Eliquist forever, and a drug callArmidone to keep my hesrt in rythm and stop it from speeding up.

One more night here, monitoring everything....shooting for tomorrow as an escape date.

They said the blood clots will absorb in a couple weeks.

Should be good as new soon.

Looking forward to tomorrow..

Jim

I knew it ! Prayer works even for heathens like me,dancing chickenI bet thats going to be one happy dog to see you.

 

[Meerkat]

We are having a torrential downpour!!! Supposed to get 3/4" by evening with flood warnings all over and phone calls from robots telling us to use caution when driving etc.

Basically it has been 2 years since we have had any rain to speak of. Some parts of florida do get rain now and then but not us. Funny thing is we have had several thunder storms with lots of lighening & thundr but not a drop of rain.Don't temember seeing that in my lifeime,who knows?

 

[phideaux]

I knew it ! Prayer works even for heathens like me,dancing chickenI bet thats going to be one happy dog to see you.

I resemble that remark.

Heathens need prayer too.

Thanks

Jim

 

[Meerkat]

I resemble that remark.

Heathens need prayer too.

Thanks

Jim

It is weird sometimes whe nI pray I feel like I get a good answerand this morning I was peating for you and I just knew you were going to br alright.Hubby said he was praying for you at same time when I came back inside. Maybe its just coincidenl?
Or I should say I beleived God for it.

 

[Patchouli]

Mr. @phideaux if that's what we get, we'll take it. Hate to hear of anyone having to be on medications indefinitely, that is me too. Don't harass the nurses too bad now, ya hear?
Thanking Him above for divine intervention and resolution. We don't always get what we want but you are an inspiration to many.

 

[snappy1]

After walking and video, I had to go to town to open an account for eBay since their rules are changing. Don't want them in my normal account. Stopped at Kroger for local sales and a thrift shop, then home.

That's all for today. My hip has been hurting so I started taking glucosamine again. Time to back off the mega walking and exercise for a day or two.

 

[Meerkat]

After walking and video, I had to go to town to open an account for eBay since their rules are changing. Don't want them in my normal account. Stopped at Kroger for local sales and a thrift shop, then home.

That's all for today. My hip has been hurting so I started taking glucosamine again. Time to back off the mega walking and exercise for a day or two.

Snap hope your hip heals up soon. I'll know tonight or tomorrow qhat I did to myself exeecising today I guess,I hope nothing. I do yard things and even ride m bike at times,but I like music to exercise by and it can get carried away.Reminds me of a song,lol,imagine that.

 

[snappy1]

Snap hope your hip heals up soon.

I always forget I can take something. I expect things to just heal up and they do, just hurts more and takes longer. LOL

 

[phideaux]

Basically it has been 2 years since we have had any rain to speak of. Some parts of florida do get rain now and then but not us. Funny thing is we have had several thunder storms with lots of lighening & thundr but not a drop of rain.Don't temember seeing that in my lifeime,who knows?

I have been in bad droughts before, so I just prayed a simple prayer that if God is willing , that he would supply you with just the right amount of rain as he determins how much and the best timing.

Jim

 

[phideaux]

Mr. @phideaux if that's what we get, we'll take it. Hate to hear of anyone having to be on medications indefinitely, that is me too. Don't harass the nurses too bad now, ya hear?
Thanking Him above for divine intervention and resolution. We don't always get what we want but you are an inspiration to many.

I am already on a few meds for life...a couple more ain't gonna be a big deal..I'll take if I get to spend a few more years with my wife and kids.

The nurses.
I got to be the luckiest guy in the world ...or maybe not...my heart was running at 170 bpm when I came here...
Why does every nurse have to be 24-26 years old, long silky brunette or blonde, shaped like a Coke bottle, and talk like an angel.
Geeze.

And all single.

Gotta get home

Jim

 

[Meerkat]

I am already on a few meds for life...a couple more ain't gonna be a big deal..I'll take if I get to spend a few more years with my wife and kids.

The nurses.
I got to be the luckiest guy in the world ...or maybe not...my heart was running at 170 bpm when I came here...
Why does every nurse have to be 24-26 years old, long silky brunette or blonde, shaped like a Coke bottle, and talk like an angel.
Geeze.

And all single.

Gotta get home

Jim

OK Blues Man you know that YoungBlood ain't good for you.

 

[Mr.Meer]

I am already on a few meds for life...a couple more ain't gonna be a big deal..I'll take if I get to spend a few more years with my wife and kids.

The nurses.
I got to be the luckiest guy in the world ...or maybe not...my heart was running at 170 bpm when I came here...
Why does every nurse have to be 24-26 years old, long silky brunette or blonde, shaped like a Coke bottle, and talk like an angel.
Geeze.

And all single.

Gotta get home

Jim

I think they do that to get your heart pumping. lol "Glad you doing better".

 

[Meerkat]

I think they do that to get your heart pumping. lol "Glad you doing better".

He better hope Mrs. Blues don't see him or she may put him in a temporary resting state and slow it back down real quick,haha.

 

[Amish Heart]

Glad that things are looking up, Jim
Hope your house is not floating, LL. Sounds like a soup and old movie night. We're in the 80's again. Husband is out in the sun topless. He is getting his Vitamin D. His Covid test came back negative, and he went to pulmonary rehab. The kids finished what was considered on line school, and I'm having them pack up the computer. I'm tired of it being on all the time. The workguys came for the rainspouts and other projects, but just came to look again. Didn't do any work. Mom called and asked if I called her, and I managed to get more work done in the garage. Called an old friend and found a home for boxes and boxes of brass, and tons of beer jugs. We don't have room to take all of this. He'll be by Saturday.

 

[Meerkat]

Glad that things are looking up, Jim
Hope your house is not floating, LL. Sounds like a soup and old movie night. We're in the 80's again. Husband is out in the sun topless. He is getting his Vitamin D. His Covid test came back negative, and he went to pulmonary rehab. The kids finished what was considered on line school, and I'm having them pack up the computer. I'm tired of it being on all the time. The workguys came for the rainspouts and other projects, but just came to look again. Didn't do any work. Mom called and asked if I called her, and I managed to get more work done in the garage. Called an old friend and found a home for boxes and boxes of brass, and tons of beer jugs. We don't have room to take all of this. He'll be by Saturday.

Its amazing what we accumalate over the years .Sun is good for us and I try to get sun too .

 

[Meerkat]

MoBook are you back?

 

[MoBookworm1957]

What in tarnation is going on around here?
I just gone for short flip flop.
Jim's in the hospital.
Meerkat hurt her knee.
Snappy's hip is hurt.
Just reading forums trying to get caught up before the weekend.
I'm home tonight but will be home tomorrow too.
Will be gone most of Friday, be back Saturday, Sunday.
Be gone again on Monday.
Eating homemade chicken vegetable soup.
Still reading reports.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

MoBook are you back?

Home tonight.

 

[Bacpacker]

Jim, Glad to hear things are going good for you. Prayers were answered for sure.

A little eye candy will keep that heart beatin good for ya. LOL

 

[Sentry18]

Fortunately God's grace is made perfect in our weakness. Especially since we all fall short of the glory of God. Glad you are on the mend @phideaux. Praise Jesus.

 

[Meerkat]

What in tarnation is going on around here?
I just gone for short flip flop.
Jim's in the hospital.
Meerkat hurt her knee.
Snappy's hip is hurt.
Just reading forums trying to get caught up before the weekend.
I'm home tonight but will be home tomorrow too.
Will be gone most of Friday, be back Saturday, Sunday.
Be gone again on Monday.
Eating homemade chicken vegetable soup.
Still reading reports.

Well we didn't have you here to look after us.

 

[zannej]

Trying to catch up. Got hit with my chronic fatigue & forgot to take my meds but am feeling a bit better now. I know I need to lose some weight to not feel so run down but I feel so run down it's hard to get up & move. At least it's not as bad as when I was having symptoms similar to Klein Levins Syndrome.

Thank you Zanne and yes it was nice of hubby to dance it hurts him to back up aka walk or step backwards. The 3 cages and 2 rods they put in are defective and crooked,you can see it on xrays plain as day 'barbaric,imo but he had no feeling at all from waste down but pain, or control of bowels or kidneys,so what do you do?.
He also doesn't like to drive where his arms are always up and out,but he is basially fit considering.
I think that Amish Desk is beautiful! I bet ot really cost a lot though.

Sorry to hear your husband has defective repair parts. It's bad enough that he had to go through getting that all put in, but to have it be defective is a big kick in the teeth.
I'm sure that desk is extremely expensive & the only showroom seems to be in Pennsylvania. Wish they had stuff like that around here. I was very sad when the Furniture Traditions company went belly up. They had online order options, although they were expensive. They had really cool features like hidden drawers, secret gun compartments, secret jewelry compartments, & were made of solid wood.

Surface has to be free of contaminates. A good base is necessary.
It's really made for clearcoat finishes.
I have used it on my glass and synthetics.
...
There are many brands on the market...but I been using Meguiars products for many years I think they are the best product and price.

Sounds like it would work great for my BIL's Corvette then. My truck can be cleaned up & the paint on it is pretty good BUT it's very hard to get & keep clean because we have no indoor garage areas. It's exposed to pollen, dust, leaves, & bugs constantly. Plus cats like to climb on it. I'm sure if I put that stuff on my cats would jump on the truck.

Your post made me chuckle and I thank you for that. It reminds me of my on going war with fed ex around here. my UPS driver is a distant kinfolk. Like a 7th cousin removed or something. We call it dog kin. anyway. Bubba is cool I never have any problems. My USPS mail person is my wifes Brothers,wifes Brothers wife and next door neighbor. No problems there. THEN we have the fed ex dude that is a total fug up. He stopped out in the street and dumped off my smoker. then left. I was like WTH? He literally kicked it out the back of the truck in front of my house in the street.
I called fed ex and yelled for about 5 minutes.
I have figured out that fed ex will HOLD your package a day or 2 and wait till they have more packages to deliver in your area if you are rural. I have caught them doing that.

They do the holding the package thing where I live. If it rains they won't even deliver at all but they have legitimate reason. Roads aren't safe when they flood, are full of pot holes, and up until recently most of them were unpaved. My personal road is still unpaved so they don't like doing down it. The drivers have admitted to me they deliver to my area last so they don't jostle their packages as much. That's fine with me, but it sucks when they wait a few days & I need something asap. Usually if there is a delay I talk to them about letting me meet them in town to pick it up, but they don't always inform me. It's against their policy to not deliver some stuff on time but they don't care. My BIL used to work for FedEx in Albuquerque area & he told me about the rules there & said there was one place they weren't allowed to deliver to after dark- Meadow Lake neighborhood of Los Lunas. One of their drivers got carjacked there. I believe it may have been the incident my father told me about where a Chinese assassin (I know, sounds like a fiction but was no joke) attacked/killed the driver, stole the uniform & the truck, and used the guise to infiltrate the local prison to find a political prisoner inside to murder him. His location wasn't supposed to be known, but some ******** in the press leaked that the inmate was being held there. By political prisoner, I mean it was someone who filed for asylum from China bc he was a political rival of the powers in China & they wanted him dead. Might have been 2 separate incidents though. My memory is fuzzy on a lot of stuff now.

I do know that BIL needed a 5 gallon bucket. I told him to go to home depot and buy one. BUT BIL said he had to fill out a requisition then turn it in. He said 3 months later some dude went to home depot and bought a bucket

Ah, the bureaucracy of the bean counters. Back when my father was a relatively new OIC (officer in charge) of an INS unit, he was informed that his office area didn't meet OSHA standards for minimum space requirements. He consulted engineers & found the blueprints to identify a non-loadbearing wall. He then contacted higher ups to have the wall removed. They told him they would get to it in 6 months. OSHA told him they would fine him for every single day that the space was too small & he couldn't just up & move. He told the higher ups that, but they didn't care (they would have penalized him/taken disciplinary action for his office getting fined but still wouldn't do anything to prevent it). So he got a sledgehammer, took the wall down himself, then called the higher ups to say there was a huge pile of debris & they needed to have their maintenance people come clean it up asap. They weren't happy about it, but it saved them $ on hiring contractors & the office wasn't getting fined.
Been somewhat productive. I did putty & touch-ups with the stain on my friend's cabinets & got the poly coat on. It's a single coat deal so I only had to do it once. We had a good laugh over how much the stuff looked like ejaculate. It coated well & is water resistant. Cabinets wipe down a lot easier. I had to scrub the older ones clean bc my friends didn't clean them first (I was a teeny bit miffed about that). Almost got nailed by the ceiling fan while doing the pantry but asked my friend to turn it off. Discovered that it just barely clears the top of the upper pantry door. Got most of them in one shot but had to wait to do the side of the pantry (needed to have touch-ups dry) and the corner cabinet (again, needed some touch-ups to dry) so I came back the next day & finished it off, then played with the kittens. I got them some toys-- only thing small enough for them were little poop emojis with ribbons. They seem to enjoy playing with them.
Ate waaaay too many chocolate chip cookies & fudge rounds so my stomach hates me. LOL.
Mom got some calls from Social Security to set up her benefits now that she's 70. She had put it off until that age because she'd been told she'd make more $ by waiting but apparently that changed. They said they found reference to my father's Army Reserve service but couldn't locate his records for active duty service in 'nam. Here's where the family curse kicks in (of weird unlucky things happening). So, he was told by the Army that his records were burned in a fire at the records facility BUT the online references all claim the fire didn't affect records from that date range. So either they just lost his records & lied, or more records burned than they were admitting. I think it may be the latter because that is just the sort of luck we have. They told Mom she needs his DD214s or something like that. I thought he had them (since he needed them to get his retirement benefits) but we have no idea where they are. I looked on his old hard drive (which I backed up on to mine) but only found the blank dd214 form. I know his MOS & the date he went in. I can find the date he was discharged too, but not sure quite how to find it without having to send all sorts of formal stuff in the mail.

To end on a happy note, here is a comparison between my vision for the cabinets in Sketchup & the actual cabinets after they were finished (well, almost-- toekick trim still needs to go in). Pretty damn close.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Before I got home today.
Picked up Wal*Mart grocery order.
Picked up CSA box.
Checked mail.
Run several errands.
Got home this morning before 1030 am which is when dog walker was supposed to show up.
Got home met the maintenance guy at my parking space.
While I unloaded my Fiat, he fixed the fart fan in the bathroom.
Replaced the washer in the hand held shower head.
It leaked.
Replaced the washer in handle of facet of shower head.
This also leaked.
He fixed the thingabob's that hold the shelves up in kitchen cabinet.
Looked like little dowel rods plugs to me, but they broke off.
Got the groceries put away.
Got the contents of CSA box pretty much put away.
Cut up 10 pounds of chicken leg quarters into portion size meals for me.
Food Saver is trying to have a fit.
Either won't suck the air out.
Or not seal.
Fixed a pot of chicken vegetable soup for supper on low and slow in enamelware stockpot.
Got precooked rice dehydrating in the oven for homemade rice a roni.
Took 3 trips to unload my Fiat, but got it done.
Dog walker showed up 4 hours late again.
Fired him, because I had to reschedule lab work from this afternoon.
To Friday morning. And it's a fasting lab too.
Strawberry is happy to see me.
And my dang left foot still hurts, so foot is on ice pack.
I'm tired, slightly cranky, throbbing headache.
Just listening to silence
Thinking about hot shower, bed.
Strawberry is sticking to me like white on rice.
Prayers for all that need them
Everybody better get healthy.
Even too tired to cross stitch on the lion quilt block.