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I started off the morning with putting on a load of washing in the washing machine, hanging it on the clothes line and then hand watered the other half of the lawn with saved grey water from our showers and washing machine and on the way back up watered the potted fruit trees on the back veranda.
We then headed out to town to pick up DH's other pain medication script he forgot to fill yesterday along with a few boxes of paracetamol to add to the stockpile and picked up 12 months worth of potato chips that were on half price special from the supermarket. When we got home and dated them and put them away and I brought in the washing off the clothes line.
As our real estate property manager told us we must have our firewood off the veranda and elevated so we created a firewood rack free from an old fence post that had fallen over and rotted at the bottom and cut that into 3 for support beams and some wooden garden stakes for the base for the wood to sit on. Pretty happy with the results without spending any money whatsoever and using what we had here. We have had a lot of expenses with a new mattress and a new car battery of late and simply did not have the funds to spend yet some more on a firewood rack at the moment.
.I started off the morning with putting on a load of washing in the washing machine, hanging it on the clothes line and then hand watered the other half of the lawn with saved grey water from our showers and washing machine and on the way back up watered the potted fruit trees on the back veranda.
We then headed out to town to pick up DH's other pain medication script he forgot to fill yesterday along with a few boxes of paracetamol to add to the stockpile and picked up 12 months worth of potato chips that were on half price special from the supermarket. When we got home and dated them and put them away and I brought in the washing off the clothes line.
As our real estate property manager told us we must have our firewood off the veranda and elevated so we created a firewood rack free from an old fence post that had fallen over and rotted at the bottom and cut that into 3 for support beams and some wooden garden stakes for the base for the wood to sit on. Pretty happy with the results without spending any money whatsoever and using what we had here. We have had a lot of expenses with a new mattress and a new car battery of late and simply did not have the funds to spend yet some more on a firewood rack at the moment.
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Getting going a little earlier this morning; going to the grocery store to pick up the weekly specials before work. Hoping the baby ducks are shipping today! Maybe get them by Friday.
@Amish Heart you must have the same day that the new weekly specials come out over there too, hope you are able to pick up some good specials on needed items.
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Grocery ads for the three stores nearest us come out on Tuesday, and the sales start on Wednesday. We are very well stocked, but I buy the specials. Post brand cereals are on sale at one store for $1.29 a box. For every 4 boxes of cereal bought, you get a free gallon of milk. So I'll buy 12 boxes. Also, Maruchen Instant noodle bowls are 2 for $1.00, and I have 3 coupons for $1.00 off every three. Pork chops are 89 cents a lb. Another store has blackberries for 77 cents a carton and vine ripe tomatoes for 77 cents a pound. That's pretty much it this week. Don't really need anything. Husband is doing a "plant based diet" for the most part, after his last hospital time. I guess the difference between that and vegetarian is the limitation of carbs, too. Last night's dinner was a mega salad, and Dr Ornish's recipe for Red Bean Chili. We did have some fresh baguette with it. Tonight is stir fry veg with home raised chicken. Teriyaki sauce on the side for him. And a fruit plate and baguette. Looking forward to our garden growing...did buy some herbs, but they're indoors for another month.
@Amish Heart same as us here our brochures get delivered on a Tuesday and sales start on a Wednesday. They sound like really good deals and you may as well stock up at those great prices. That is what we do is stock when we see good prices as well and we are getting to the point of being near 12 months stock on everything. It is great not having to purchase most things at discounted prices because we have stocks.
I don't know either. They fused all my L vertebrae together in one operation. Sounds like you have a cautious surgeon!
I have been using chiropractic since 1986 when I finished my nursing school. I wouldn't have been able to practice nearly this long if it hadn't been for them. My favorite retired and took me several to find another that I liked as well. We've always had good insurance that paid for most of the visits. Medicare care pays for a set amount of visits now, so we just space them out a bit longer.
SQ, there's no way I'd let a surgeon do separate surgeries esp if the vertebrae are together ( example L 3 4 5 ) . I'd be looking for someone else who wasn't so money hungry. My hubs surgeon is amazing. I wish you could use him or one of his partners !
SQ, there's no way I'd let a surgeon do separate surgeries esp if the vertebrae are together ( example L 3 4 5 ) . I'd be looking for someone else who wasn't so money hungry. My hubs surgeon is amazing. I wish you could use him or one of his partners !
That's what I'm thinking too.
I'm not sure if he's money hungry or cautious,he's still pretty young like 30s so it might just be new techniques not sure.
I wouldn't be using a young Dr for that extensive of proceedure. Can you get a 2nd opinion from some one more experienced in your area?
Off to the nearby city for a packed day of shopping. Will be exhausting.
I'm doing mending and sewing today. NOT my favorite thing! Sometimes DH brings home eBay items that need a seam sewed or a button, etc. About once every 6 months, I will get the machine and sewing box out and take care of things. Also making goulash today and checking grocery flyers. Flyers come out Wednesday and sale day is Friday here!
My wife, son and myself just sat and watched the old movie, Song of the South.
They dont make movies like that anymore.
They dont make movies like that anymore.
Ok, today, I will be resting..
Don't know about yall,
But when I put in 2 hard days , of running round, doing chores, and projects....
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I have to take a day (maybe 2) to re-cover.
Jim
Don't know about yall,
But when I put in 2 hard days , of running round, doing chores, and projects....
I have to take a day (maybe 2) to re-cover.
Jim
I probably could,there's several doctors up there.
Same here.:thumbs up:Ok, today, I will be resting..
Don't know about yall,
But when I put in 2 hard days , of running round, doing chores, and projects.....................
I have to take a day (maybe 2) to re-cover.
Jim
I've just seen too many backs messed up, maybe not intentionally, but none the less messed up and most are completely disabling. Do your research!
I know,that's what scares me. I've never known anybody come out of it better than they went in. Surgery will be a last resort.
@squirrelhunter I would get a referral to a good orthopaedic surgeon and get their advice before going anywhere and get multiple opinions before you go ahead with spinal surgery but sometimes there is no other alternative because of injuries. DH had fusions to the L5 and S1 vertebrae and was done through the military but unfortunately he totally stuffed the procedure and he had to get multiple surgeries to correct what the first surgeon did. DH had no choice of surgeons as he was almost DOA and that was the only surgeon they had and yes incidentally the guy was disbarred from practicing due to negligent practice on his surgeries on patients a few years later.
Also get a referral to a physiotherapist as well as there may well be some exercise regimes that will strengthen up the area and delay surgery.
Also get a referral to a physiotherapist as well as there may well be some exercise regimes that will strengthen up the area and delay surgery.
Today I declared war of fruit flies! I noticed last night my house had been invaded. Every drain got a big drink of bleach. Every room got a fruit fly trap, the kitchen got 3. I use 1/2 pint mason jars with a big splash of apple cider vinegar, a drop of dish detergent, saran wrap over the top with a few holes poked in it. They work good.
I've never been invaded so early in the year though.
I've never been invaded so early in the year though.
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I noticed a few flies on our back patio. Flies make me crazy..time to get some fly strips around the hen houses
@snappy1 mending is not my favourite thing to do either but it has to be done unfortunately
Me too! I have a cheap Brother machine with an automatic threader that never works but for some reason I am compelled to try to use it every time! I always end up wearing 2 pairs of glasses and threading it by hand.
. A ziplock with a few pinholes in it and a piece of ripe fruit works wellToday I declared war of fruit flies! I noticed last night my house had been invaded. Every drain got a big drink of bleach. Every room got a fruit fly trap, the kitchen got 3. I use 1/2 pint mason jars with a big splash of apple cider vinegar, a drop of dish detergent, saran wrap over the top with a few holes poked in it. They work good.
I've never been invaded so early in the year though.
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Hiwall, I am not a jealous person but that green guy of envy did make a small appearance while looking at your shop. Super job there.
Hello everyone and I hope you have had a great day so far .
So far this morning I have visited a old friend in an aged care facility and unfortunately her husband is just holding on after having seizures for almost a week and has Alzheimer's Disease. We spoke for quite some time and she is exhausted and was doing a bedside vidual for 3 nights before she realised that no sleep was doing her no good we spoke on that and she is visiting him on a different floor for an hour a day or when the nurses call her to come. Her husband is 90 so has had a fair innings but it is so sad to see a couple that have been married for years to have to go through that and yes she does know he isn't long for this world. I am working on supporting and uplifting her.
While I was away DH stain removed some curtains and white/light coloured clothing and put the washing on and hung out the load on the clothes line and did some banking.
Got home and then had to take DH to get his minor op today and he appears to be doing well after a nap but no doubt will be sore once the general anaesthetic wears off. He goes back in in the morning to have the dressings changed and hopefully this will rectify his skin condition without an operation.
Might try and make some more bread bags tonight as I have only one and need another so I can wash the one I made last week. If DH is up to it we may do a little more on the cleaning in the kitchen.
@hiwall love the job you have done with your workshop, fantastic .
.So far this morning I have visited a old friend in an aged care facility and unfortunately her husband is just holding on after having seizures for almost a week and has Alzheimer's Disease. We spoke for quite some time and she is exhausted and was doing a bedside vidual for 3 nights before she realised that no sleep was doing her no good we spoke on that and she is visiting him on a different floor for an hour a day or when the nurses call her to come. Her husband is 90 so has had a fair innings but it is so sad to see a couple that have been married for years to have to go through that and yes she does know he isn't long for this world. I am working on supporting and uplifting her.
While I was away DH stain removed some curtains and white/light coloured clothing and put the washing on and hung out the load on the clothes line and did some banking.
Got home and then had to take DH to get his minor op today and he appears to be doing well after a nap but no doubt will be sore once the general anaesthetic wears off. He goes back in in the morning to have the dressings changed and hopefully this will rectify his skin condition without an operation.
Might try and make some more bread bags tonight as I have only one and need another so I can wash the one I made last week. If DH is up to it we may do a little more on the cleaning in the kitchen.
@hiwall love the job you have done with your workshop, fantastic
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That was the first gun I ever made from scratch.
I worked in the shop today again. I made holders for my files so I could find the one I want easier. I, um, have a thing about files. Today I found a home for 123 different files. But I use all of them too! Tapered files, knife edge files, half-round files, pillar files, smooth files, web files, screw head files, I am always looking for one I don't already own.
