What's everybody doing today?

[Meerkat]

That'd be a sz womens 8. Our granddaughter is hard to fit. She's a women's size 11. Hard to find.
My cousin Dan the builder came by to talk about our addition and replacing the windows in the garage. Said he could start in November. I'm excited.
Granddaughter has a fever 100.6. Husband is freaking out. I sprayed the main bathroom with 70% alcohol, and she is using the upstairs one. Gave her some tylenol. We'll see how she feels in the morning. Hopefully it's just a nine year old thing. Not every fever in little kids is covid. He has a dr appt tomorrow I need to help him go to, and we had a lunch date and an Aldi's and Tractor Supply stop planned. We'll see how it goes.

My 15 yr old grandson is was just taken out of military academy last week is also sick in bed now.I thought it was just to get out of work but he even wouldn't get up to go get his learners license so we know he is really sick.
Daughter will keep him home till he is worse so the ydon't stick him in hospital.They have great insurence so they will be plucked liek a fat chicken and may make him sicker like they did me.
Times are nad and who knows what to do now a days with the mystery virus going around?
I do know the toons really liked my supplemental insurence, I had more damn test and X RAYS than an astonault.
Said they are safe ,I ask then why the hell do you keep running back into the metal room to COID THE RAYS if its so safe!!` I get mad at myself for allowing it.

 

[Meerkat]

I am seeing some much needed maturity and growth from Roo this morning. I ran outside to grab yesterday's mail and left the girls in the house for what I expected to be no more than 5 minutes before we started school. One of our neighbors stopped me and started chatting. I chatted with him for 15 minutes keeping my ears open for the sounds of the girls running around screaming. Nothing. I came inside to find Roo and Juju in the school room doing their work quietly. I was shocked and surprised!

I got our kitchen pantry cleaned up a bit more and cleared off my dining room table. The dishes were washed and put away. I am running the drain board through the dishwasher to clean it up a bit. I noticed K isn't doing a good job when he chooses to handwash dishes and I rewashed them. Peanut butter has no place on 'clean' dishes!

Now I am with the girls in the school room to supervise.

Next week I am taking the girls to the zoo up in the mountains. They have winter and colder climate animals there. Make sense. The desert zoo has desert animals. I figure it would be a nice morning out and it is open unlike the Los Angeles zoo!

Grimm I seen some grouth this morning in me and my 52 ye old daughter we were both holding off then she sent email I didn't like so I called her and things got much better. I ddid tell her to go back and read her email,lol. I couldn't slep after reading it so this morn I called. I was mad,but got glad.Hope

 

[Meerkat]

Brother called me last night, said the well on the family farm went dry and left mom with no water, while pops is still in the rehab facility from his brain surgery. (Doing very, very well, BTW.) So now we have to figure out how to restore water. It appears that the well casing has collapsed. (It's well over 100 years old). The old casing is too small to put a new casing inside. So we're looking at drilling a new well. Probably at least $10,000, and no guarantee of hitting good water at any depth. Or, pay 3-5 thousand and hook up to rural water and then pay 80 a month just for the privilege of using their water. For now we've hooked up our 1000 gallon ag water tender to their system, for non potable water. Drinking water will be purchased. We can do this until cold weather comes. Just one more hassle the family didn't need right now...

Glad to hear your pop is doing well after surgery, and hope the water problem is fixed soon Spike.

 

[Amish Heart]

Little granddaughter's temp came down to almost normal. She is having a quiet day, drinking lots of tea, reading, and watching cartoons. Husband had a doc visit with his primary today. I'm getting odds and ends done. Getting ready for the wake and funeral for Edith. My favorite cousin called to let me know how it's done. Unfortunately, don't think husband can go, but he can go to the wake Friday. The funeral, burial, and luncheon probably will be about 6 hrs long from start to finish. He wouldn't be able to sit that long, even though he is excused from sitting on a hard bench and would be given a folding chair. Will be doing cooking Friday morning.

 

[Mr.Meer]

Strawberry is not happy this morning.
She got a shower of warm water, suds up with dawn dish soap with duck on label.
She was suds twice, before she got rinsed throughly.
Borax powder is that in laundry aisle?
And thank you for the very helpful information.

Yes it's in laundry aisle , with other powders. Your very welcome too.

 

[The Lazy L]

Brother called me last night, said the well on the family farm went dry and left mom with no water, while pops is still in the rehab facility from his brain surgery. (Doing very, very well, BTW.) So now we have to figure out how to restore water. It appears that the well casing has collapsed. (It's well over 100 years old). The old casing is too small to put a new casing inside. So we're looking at drilling a new well. Probably at least $10,000, and no guarantee of hitting good water at any depth. Or, pay 3-5 thousand and hook up to rural water and then pay 80 a month just for the privilege of using their water. For now we've hooked up our 1000 gallon ag water tender to their system, for non potable water. Drinking water will be purchased. We can do this until cold weather comes. Just one more hassle the family didn't need right now...

Bummer! Drill or Rural? Depends on how long before selling the house?

 

[Spikedriver]

Bummer! Drill or Rural? Depends on how long before selling the house?

It's the family farm. Hopefully it stays in the family forever. I prefer drilling, to maintain water independence, but it's Pop's call to make...

 

[Bacpacker]

Prayers for all you folks, Amish, Mo, Spike, Jim. I probably missed some as well.

 

[Mr.Meer]

Prayers for all you folks, Amish, Mo, Spike, Jim. I probably missed some as well.

2nd that. 's

 

[Weedygarden]

It's the family farm. Hopefully it stays in the family forever. I prefer drilling, to maintain water independence, but it's Pop's call to make...

Who will live there when your parents are gone or no longer able to live there?

 

[MoBookworm1957]

It's been a crappy day all way around.
First the call from Tenn.
Second, Strawberry's double whammy shower this morning.
Cleaning the bathroom up after that.
Then the stink pot goes back outside rolls around in that dang burn red ant hill again.
After she was all nice and clean, rubbed down with sage leaves.
Which I might add smells much better than ode de dog scent.
So back to the shower we go for round 2.
Finish cleaning her up the second time.
Bathroom is cleaned too.
Took the cushion off her chair, it got scrubbed in the shower too.
It's outside drying now.
Vacuumed the heck out of her chair.
Third, get call from new apartment complex, it's bad news too.
My application denied.
They changed something in their policy.
So what ever they changed red flagged me, denied.
Up today, my application was good to go.
But not this evening when I got the call.
Something about income restrictions,credit score, Strawberry.
Damn, feel like crap.
What a crappy day.
I hope tomorrow is a better day.
Been crying buckets today.
I don't want to stay here.

 

[Weedygarden]

Gave Strawberry a much needed shower for fleas, red ants.
Resting from that for a bit.
Then will get floor scrubber out to scrub floor tiles in bathroom.
Will be exhausted after that.
Don't know what after that.
Do some more crying I guess.
Just super sad right now.
Received some sad news from Tenn.
So sometime in the future will be making trip there.

I'm sorry, Mo. I remember when a friend of mine died. I was working as a meat wrapper in a grocery store. My station was isolated and I could work and cry as much as I needed to. We had a radio playing in the room, and that also provided some privacy. This happened at a time when there were some not nice people on my job and in my apartment complex, and it made me particularly sad to be losing such a good person.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

I'm sorry, Mo. I remember when a friend of mine died. I was working as a meat wrapper in a grocery store. My station was isolated and I could work and cry as much as I needed to. We had a radio playing in the room, and that also provided some privacy. This happened at a time when there were some not nice people on my job and in my apartment complex, and it made me particularly sad to be losing such a good person.

Thank you for your kind words and thoughts.

 

[Spikedriver]

Who will live there when your parents are gone or no longer able to live there?

Quite possibly, me. But probably not for a few years. I need to stay close to my daughter until she graduates high school. She's a freshman now. After that, I would look at moving there unless another relative, such as one of my nieces or nephews would move there. But that's probably an unlikely scenario, as they all have jobs elsewhere...

 

[Patchouli]

@MoBookworm1957 sorry to hear all that stuff. It seems like so many people I know are struggling and suffering in so many ways. More than one thing at a time.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

@MoBookworm1957 sorry to hear all that stuff. It seems like so many people I know are struggling and suffering in so many ways. More than one thing at a time.

Thank you Patchouli.
Just so frustrated right now.
I passed on nice small 2 bedroom house with fenced yard for that apartment.
Now I'm stuck in the neighborhood from hell still.

 

[Patchouli]

@MoBookworm1957 I've heard of many people getting a pass on the dog or cat when claiming it as an emotional support animal. (I beg to differ on many accounts, but I digress).
What about the part where it is a disability for you, the reason you have the dog? That seems like discrimination.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

@MoBookworm1957 I've heard of many people getting a pass on the dog or cat when claiming it as an emotional support animal. (I beg to differ on many accounts, but I digress).
What about the part where it is a disability for you, the reason you have the dog? That seems like discrimination.

Strawberry is my service dog.
Because she is trained to recognize my signs of seizures,anxiety,panic,depression,emotional support dog.
My credit score is good. Approx.765.
Income can't do much about that.
Still working on VA pension.
Something about they felt it would be too much of a burden even with HUD helping.
So will continue paying stuff down until I'm debt free.
Hopefully I can find something before my paperwork expires in 4 October 2020.
If not Strawberry and I will stay here another year.
Just about got another big bill paid off.
So that money will go into saving and emergency accounts.
Today, has been rough day, frustrating day.

 

[LadyLocust]

Mo so sorry you’ve had such a rough day. Like Snappy said so well of her own account, God will put you in the perfect place .
Spike- I would prefer the well drilling option as well, but most definitely not my call. Glad your dad is doing well.
Snap - you said that beautifully.
Mo and Mr Meer I use Borax for quite a few things- laundry, scrubbing porcelains etc. and pretty inexpensive.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Strawberry is my service dog.
Because she is trained to recognize my signs of seizures,anxiety,panic,depression,emotional support dog.
My credit score is good. Approx.765.
Income can't do much about that.
Still working on VA pension.
Something about they felt it would be too much of a burden even with HUD helping.
So will continue paying stuff down until I'm debt free.
Hopefully I can find something before my paperwork expires in 4 October 2020.
If not Strawberry and I will stay here another year.
Just about got another big bill paid off.
So that money will go into saving and emergency accounts.
Today, has been rough day, frustrating day.

Anyhow I think 765 is a good credit score maybe?
I don't know what a perfect credit score would be.
Then have 18 more months of car payments.
Then will be debt free.
Just frustrated .

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Mo so sorry you’ve had such a rough day. Like Snappy said so well of her own account, God will put you in the perfect place .
Spike- I would prefer the well drilling option as well, but most definitely not my call. Glad your dad is doing well.
Snap - you said that beautifully.
Mo and Mr Meer I use Borax for quite a few things- laundry, scrubbing porcelains etc. and pretty inexpensive.

Thank you Lady Locust for the kind words.
Will have to get some borax and some sugar beings I don't keep it in the house.

 

[Meerkat]

Mo so sorry you’ve had such a rough day. Like Snappy said so well of her own account, God will put you in the perfect place .
Spike- I would prefer the well drilling option as well, but most definitely not my call. Glad your dad is doing well.
Snap - you said that beautifully.
Mo and Mr Meer I use Borax for quite a few things- laundry, scrubbing porcelains etc. and pretty inexpensive.

LadyL how do you get the stuff to desolve? It doesn't want to break down into liquid like it use to. My water must be really hard or something. Its well water.

 

[Meerkat]

Anyhow I think 765 is a good credit score maybe?
I don't know what a perfect credit score would be.
Then have 18 more months of car payments.
Then will be debt free.
Just frustrated .

MoBook I sure hope things start looking up for you ,you have done so well and deseve a break.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

MoBook I sure hope things start looking up for you ,you have done so well and deseve a break.

MoBook I sure hope things start looking up for you ,you have done so well and deseve a break.

Thank you Meerkat.
Hopefully it will.

 

[Meerkat]

GOOD NIGHT ALL,pray tomorrow gives us all peace

 

[Mr.Meer]

Yea, LadyL Borax is great for many things for sure.

Real sorry Mo, about bad news, Maybe it's a blessing, that has not revealed itself yet. I know over the years some of the things that happen to me stressed me out bad ,and then later on turned out better for me in the long run, but at the time it's happening we are unaware.

's for everyone and may things get better for all.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

I'm up, coffee's making.
Strawberry is scratching already.
So off to the laundry mat I go today with bedding, her seat cushion for her chair.
Sure is cute picture with Strawberry standing on hind legs in her chair, Estelle standing beside her looking out the bay window. Estelle with her arm around Strawberry talking to her about what they see.
Strawberry is standing here looking at me, wondering why I'm crying again.
Never mind, Itchy(Strawberry) just jumped back into my lap,nudge the laptop away,she's sitting with her back to me again.
All before I have coffee.

 

[UrbanHunter]

I hope that today is a better day for everybody.... With everyone dealing with sickness, equipment/housing issues, and personal loss it is hard to not feel for everyone. I know that everyone is working as hard as they can to make things better, but sometimes it just gets one down...

I usually go to sleep for about 3 hours, wake up in the middle of the night, do a little work and catch up on what the folks on the West Coast have to throw at me work wise, then go back to sleep for another 3 hours.

Last night, I went to put the last coat of finish on the butcher block, the oil in the can had "skinned" and I ended up having to clean up a mess on the last coat Then checked my e-mail, had a last minute fire drill from the CA office, They Need it DONE ASAP, and they sent it a 17:30 PST
Well I'm up Now, it's trash day, raining and a branch came down out of the tree last night, don't know if I can get it cut up so they haul it away today, but I'll try.

Hey we're just 48 hours away from a long weekend, Goose, Dove, and Squirrel season opening up.... The Son may get to come home for the weekend, we can all wear masks and he can paint and grout!!!! There always has to be something to look forward to.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

I'm up, coffee's making.
Strawberry is scratching already.
So off to the laundry mat I go today with bedding, her seat cushion for her chair.
Sure is cute picture with Strawberry standing on hind legs in her chair, Estelle standing beside her looking out the bay window. Estelle with her arm around Strawberry talking to her about what they see.
Strawberry is standing here looking at me, wondering why I'm crying again.
Never mind, Itchy(Strawberry) just jumped back into my lap,nudge the laptop away,she's sitting with her back to me again.
All before I have coffee.

So will be doing what I almost always do when I'm upset.
Will be placing toys,little stuff up off the floor.
Moving furniture getting the floor scrubber out and give these floors a good going over.
Cooking something with pork chops, cause I reached into freezer that's what I pulled out.
Still will go to laundry mat to do bedding up.
If not to tired might reupholster Strawberry's chair in new fabric(forgot I had),.
I found in the closet when I was cleaning stuff out.
Got enough of that fabric to make curtains, pillows for the couch too.
Will wait a few days to unpack.
Will start getting house ready to bring all the plants back inside.
Crochet on Christmas projects.
Just busy work mainly.

 

[Amish Heart]

Little granddaughter perfectly normal temp this morning, so off to school she went. Going Aldi shopping, been meaning to all week, but hadn't worked out. Then lunch with husband, then appt for him with a different pulmonologist. His new primary care doc has been so good that we may not need an expert pulmonologist, just one that isn't rude, and one that works well with the primary care, who works with the specialists in Denver.