What's everybody doing today?

[Meerkat]

Getting lots of things done around here for spring, plants arecoming up nicely,hubby is waiting for grass to get big enough to cut and has been busy with garden ,etc,etc,etc.
Hope all are well .

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Sipping coffee.
Strawberry and I have walked for out first 15 minute time of the day.
We walk for 15 minutes every 1 to 2 hours for exercise.
Working on new to me crochet blanket pattern, will post when I get further along.
Still working on both little girls sweaters- free hand -no pattern on knitting machine.
Grimm, Lady Locust, I also have several sewing machines, sergers, but only one knitting machine so far.
Will have to cook today, made soup yesterday.
It was okay, but not great. New recipe.
Cabbage soup.
I try to learn new crochet stitch and pattern every month or two to help keep my brain sharp.
Last week Estelle and I planted a few carrot,spinach,pepper seeds(they were about 4 years old)in flower pots.
She comes by and checks on her garden at least once a week now.
I'm on the chilly side today, must mean my Iron count is dropping again.
Looks like chicken livers are for dinner, but don't know what else.
Have to go to Wal*Mart for a few things in a bit, just fill in stuff.
Hope to keep it under $20.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Its a sad situation all theway around. Bad owners raise bad dogs and usually the dumb animal has to pay.Hope Strawberry full recovers.

Thank you Meerkat.

 

[Grimm]

Winter chewed our internet cable going from the street to the house. Our internet is out and the repair guy will be here on Friday. I am using my phone as a hot spot for now. She has bad separation anxiety. Not sure how to fix that since we only leave to run errands and take her with us for long trips like to my folks.

Roo is learning History between the World Wars. Her text book explains about Communism and Socialism. She is making the connection between our current government and what happened in the past. I am proud. In case any other homeschoolers want to know we are using the Abeka 4th grade history curriculum. I already got 5th grade and 6th! I am going to get 7th-12th as I can get them on sale. I also recommend the Tuttle Twins books for government and economics for 5th grade and up.

Bailey is doing better. She is still eating sparingly but she is being a tad more friendly. Her abscess is not filling back up but the area is sore. Still giving her the Amoxicillin twice a day. She spends her day in the sun by the back door. She has no interest in treats but she is eating food. My cat bites are very sore but not infected. The swelling is gone as is the redness.

 

[Neb]

My brother got the manifold for the gas service installed.

My task was to install boxes for the electrical outlets.

The Dr gave me another perscription to help get my blood pressure down. It seemed to when I checked this morning

Today was the day I was supposed to have oral surgery but was delayed due to the blood pressure. Well the dentist just lost about $300. The worst tooth just fell out on it own. No Blood no pain. Thank God!

Ben

 

[rusty]

Set up a 58" TV my wife bought me for my birthday.

 

[zannej]

Poor Strawberry! I'm glad it was only a small puncture. I also feel sorry for the other dog that was mistreated & will now be killed. I understand why they do that, but it's still sad.

Went to the post office and store. Got bleach for condensate line. Mom called as we were leaving the parking lot to say she had prescriptions to pick up. I was on my way to get my friend to replace the light in the hallway.

Picked up my friend while my brother watched the baby. Friend was able to change the light without touching any of the bare wires- just used the wire nuts. Turns out there was still some power going to it even with the switch off, but he was very careful. Old light had flammable insulation in it. Sheesh. Also had no ground wire. New light is super bright. The cats think it's the sun. It illuminated a lot of stuff that needs cleaning in that hallway.

Took friend to grab food & dropped him off then went back to pick up mom's RX. While in line I was behind my friend's grandfather. I asked him if he'd had his vaccine yet & he didn't know how. I told him he could get it at the pharmacy where we were & that I'd already received mine. So he asked the clerk & she scheduled him. Apparently he just got his driver's license back.

Cooked for Mom when I got home and am now resting.

 

[Peanut]

A good day when I finally woke up. The power went off at about 1am. It was raining with predicted tornadoes around dawn. So I fired up the generator to get the sump pump available and baby sat it until about 6am. Tired of these all-nighters. I think it’s the 3rd one in 2 weeks. There were no tornadoes, managed to sleep until 10am.

Anyway, I’ve been getting a bill since January from the eye hospital for $500. My other eye surgery cost nothing. I took the bill with me to the eye doctors appoint on 10Feb. My doc knew what the billing code meant and said it was a mistake. She made a call in front of me, then said ignore the bill. I got another end of Feb, figured the mistake hadn’t been processed. Got another bill last week for $500. Called the patient advocate yesterday. She said it was a mistake. Got a call from the billing people this morning… again, it was a mistake. Believe it or not… this afternoon I got a call from a lady that said she personally made the billing mistake and apologized for it, personally assured me that she had just corrected the mistake in the system herself. I didn’t know what to say! This has never happened before.

This afternoon ups truck stopped, got a little shoe bench to put by my door (assembly required). 17 inches tall, about an inch taller that I would like but still great for sitting to put my shoes on/off. It looks fragile but is rated for 275lbs, almost 100lbs more than I weigh. It feels very sturdy and there enough room at the bottom of the legs to cut off an inch or so with a jigsaw. It’s bamboo and matches my book case. Even holds a few pairs of shoes.

So, a good day…

 

[LadyLocust]

Glad you're well @Peanut even if a little sleep-deprived. Haven't heard much from you lately. How's the pup?

 

[Peanut]

Big, about 70lbs... obeys well, smart, learns quick. Thats one advantage of getting a dog from working dog bloodlines, they are bred to be smart.

He still has plenty of puppy though, occasionally finds something new to chew up, but never does it again if scolded, until he finds a different new item. Post some pics of your new shoe sewing machine.

 

[LadyLocust]

Big, about 70lbs... obeys well, smart, learns quick. Thats one advantage of getting a dog from working dog bloodlines, they are bred to be smart.

He still has plenty of puppy though, occasionally finds something new to chew up, but never does it again if scolded, until he finds a different new item. Post some pics of your new shoe sewing machine.

I will put them over in the leather thread, but probably won't happen tonight. I have to get them off my phone I'm antsy to work on my slipper pattern again but keep having that B word happen (busy.) Got it all cleaned though which was gross.

 

[snappy1]

Already paid bills this morning.
Will feed dogs, then walk.
Must fill out wills today--before other chores!
Will cook bell peppers, onions and jalapenos for eggs for the week.
Also, turkey sausage.
Make rice and cut up cheese for the pups.
There is a yard sale I may go to and then stop at bank on the way home to pick up death certificate they faxed for me yesterday.
That should be enough!

 

[Spikedriver]

Good morning, HCL! Hope all is well for everybody out there.

Today is April 1st, and God played a little April Fool's day joke on us here in Iowa. It was 18° when I got up. But the sun is out and the wind is pretty calm, so it will be a nice day...I'm going to go to the coffee shop and have a nice big cup, and then I'll probably go to the gym. After that I'll most likely have to argue with Pops about why he shouldn't drive home from surgery. He's getting some fancy Wi-Fi heart monitor put in tomorrow. It will hook itself up to the internet and upload his heart rhythms straight to his cardiology office. It's a 20 minute outpatient procedure, and they won't even knock him out to do it. I'm still not letting him drive 65 miles to the surgeon though...

 

[SheepDog]

Today I will be recuperating. Yesterday I welded a broken cross member on my brothers truck. It wasn't done right the first time so I had to make and install doubler plates and weld them in. I managed to catch my hair on fire but got the job done. I also noticed a loose rivet but I told him to live with it. Welding rivets is never a good idea.

 

[UrbanHunter]

This morning I checked our canning lid stock, seems I have been stocking the wrong lids.... I have a full flat+ of wide mouth lids but only a couple of boxes of the regular mouth (good thing I checked) which I will need to bring up to at least a dozen. Found some online at Walmart (in store only for $3.50 a box)

 

[The Lazy L]

Programed a hand held radio. Boxed it up along with a external mike and laminated frequency cheat sheet for the youngest son.

Wife's cell phone was so old copying her APPs and history over to her new phone was a royal pain. Took about 4 hours to accomplish. Now she's mildly complaining the Health APP history is gone, can I...my male/husband selective hearing has been activated.

Setup a green screen and figure out the Zoom software on how to. Have a Zoom meeting this weekend, don't want the other Zoomers to set my room items in the background.

Waiting for the snow to melt and the sun to shine before venturing out for the outside fun projects.

 

[UrbanHunter]

Programed a hand held radio. Boxed it up along with a external mike and laminated frequency cheat sheet for the youngest son.

Wife's cell phone was so old copying her APPs and history over to her new phone was a royal pain. Took about 4 hours to accomplish. Now she's mildly complaining the Health APP history is gone, can I...my male/husband selective hearing has been activated.

Setup a green screen and figure out the Zoom software on how to. Have a Zoom meeting this weekend, don't want the other Zoomers to set my room items in the background.

Waiting for the snow to melt and the sun to shine before venturing out for the outside fun projects.

I don't allow a camera on any of my web meetings, I may have a static profile picture, but no pictures of the inside of my house..... Some things are just not for non-family.

 

[The Lazy L]

I don't allow a camera on any of my web meetings, I may have a static profile picture, but no pictures of the inside of my house..... Some things are just not for non-family.

The purpose of the Zoom meeting is to greet and meet, to put faces with the voices. Hence the green screen.

 

[sonya123]

Will feed dogs, then walk.
Will cook bell peppers, onions and jalapenos for eggs for the week.
Also, turkey sausage.
Make rice and cut up cheese for the pups.

You feeding all that to dogs???? Or am I not understanding that right?

My GSD is very allergic to rice, so I have to be very careful what I feed her ( grain free, raw meat, wheat or corn is ok, just not rice, which is most dog food that isn't grain free). But today they had slightly freezer burnt leftover lamb, goat and pork from over a year that we found at bottom of freezer .

 

[sonya123]

Taking a break at the moment . Cleaned barn, fed bottle boys ( mom has mastitis) , happy to see the remaining milk goat is now able to feed her kids ( her nipples are so big it takes them a few days to get the hang of it and I have to milk her and bottle feed them....)

It is ( insert bad word of choice) snowing outside!!! Well flurries, but still. It's APRIL. We do not live in Maine

We now have 24 goat kids and still no lambs. Husband is starting to wonder if the ram we had this year was a dud and our sheep are just fat and not pregnant!! That would be bad
He is going to pick up a freezer lamb and goat from the meat processor, while I keep checking for new lambs and the remaining goat that hasn't had hers yet.

Put a pork roast from the pigs we had last year in the oven. No diet for a week.

I have decided we are no longer going to try to be self sufficient to the point where it just stresses me out and we get nothing done. In the 5 years we have lived here, we have tried many things and I have come to the conclusion that some of it just isn't worth the effort. Plus , nobody is 100% self sufficient anyway.

So these things I am going to stop doing:
having milk goats! It's just not worth the effort. It takes way too much time to make cheese, and wash all those dishes milking creates. And I am finding out milk replacer works just find for the bottle babies. Plus we don't even drink much milk. I mostly use it for cooking ( like smashed potatoes or oat meal, or baking).
So , the remaining milk goat is going to be sold at some point this year.

Having a hay field but no equipment to make hay bales. It 's just too much of a hassle finding someone reliable to do it for you and get good hay. So we are going to sell it, and just buy hay.

Fruit trees: no effort is going to be made on the ones we have, and no new ones are going to be purchased. The apricot trees are full of flowers, but with 2 days of really cold weather and wind, next week they will be empty and we will not get a single apricot again this year. This sort of thing happens most of the time, so no point fertilizing or spraying them or anything else.

Here is a big one: canning !
It's a ton of work, and it is very cheap to buy canned stuff at the walmart
I will most likely just can tomato sauce because mine is just better and I actually used it all up
everything else is going to be frozen ( extra stuff we don't sell or use ) which we just prefer

 

[Neb]

I don't allow a camera on any of my web meetings, I may have a static profile picture, but no pictures of the inside of my house..... Some things are just not for non-family.

The Princess has a wall hanging that looks like a book shelf behind her. I teased that I would replace it with a Trump on a tank flag. She didn't find it funny. Librarians as a group are very liberal.

Ben

 

[Neb]

Taking a break at the moment . Cleaned barn, fed bottle boys ( mom has mastitis) , happy to see the remaining milk goat is now able to feed her kids ( her nipples are so big it takes them a few days to get the hang of it and I have to milk her and bottle feed them....)

It is ( insert bad word of choice) snowing outside!!! Well flurries, but still. It's APRIL. We do not live in Maine

We now have 24 goat kids and still no lambs. Husband is starting to wonder if the ram we had this year was a dud and our sheep are just fat and not pregnant!! That would be bad
He is going to pick up a freezer lamb and goat from the meat processor, while I keep checking for new lambs and the remaining goat that hasn't had hers yet.

Put a pork roast from the pigs we had last year in the oven. No diet for a week.

I have decided we are no longer going to try to be self sufficient to the point where it just stresses me out and we get nothing done. In the 5 years we have lived here, we have tried many things and I have come to the conclusion that some of it just isn't worth the effort. Plus , nobody is 100% self sufficient anyway.

So these things I am going to stop doing:
having milk goats! It's just not worth the effort. It takes way too much time to make cheese, and wash all those dishes milking creates. And I am finding out milk replacer works just find for the bottle babies. Plus we don't even drink much milk. I mostly use it for cooking ( like smashed potatoes or oat meal, or baking).
So , the remaining milk goat is going to be sold at some point this year.

Having a hay field but no equipment to make hay bales. It 's just too much of a hassle finding someone reliable to do it for you and get good hay. So we are going to sell it, and just buy hay.

Fruit trees: no effort is going to be made on the ones we have, and no new ones are going to be purchased. The apricot trees are full of flowers, but with 2 days of really cold weather and wind, next week they will be empty and we will not get a single apricot again this year. This sort of thing happens most of the time, so no point fertilizing or spraying them or anything else.

Here is a big one: canning !
It's a ton of work, and it is very cheap to buy canned stuff at the walmart
I will most likely just can tomato sauce because mine is just better and I actually used it all up
everything else is going to be frozen ( extra stuff we don't sell or use ) which we just prefer

That sounds practical.

The Princess made a similar directive a few years ago and we switched from growing food in our raised beds to using them as a nursery. We are still sticking with fruit trees grapes and others since they are long term investment in our retirement hobbies.

Confession

I do miss growing our own corn.

Ben

 

[Meerkat]

Winter chewed our internet cable going from the street to the house. Our internet is out and the repair guy will be here on Friday. I am using my phone as a hot spot for now. She has bad separation anxiety. Not sure how to fix that since we only leave to run errands and take her with us for long trips like to my folks.

Roo is learning History between the World Wars. Her text book explains about Communism and Socialism. She is making the connection between our current government and what happened in the past. I am proud. In case any other homeschoolers want to know we are using the Abeka 4th grade history curriculum. I already got 5th grade and 6th! I am going to get 7th-12th as I can get them on sale. I also recommend the Tuttle Twins books for government and economics for 5th grade and up.

Bailey is doing better. She is still eating sparingly but she is being a tad more friendly. Her abscess is not filling back up but the area is sore. Still giving her the Amoxicillin twice a day. She spends her day in the sun by the back door. She has no interest in treats but she is eating food. My cat bites are very sore but not infected. The swelling is gone as is the redness.

Good for you for homeschooling.Just watch the text.

 

[Meerkat]

Already paid bills this morning.
Will feed dogs, then walk.
Must fill out wills today--before other chores!
Will cook bell peppers, onions and jalapenos for eggs for the week.
Also, turkey sausage.
Make rice and cut up cheese for the pups.
There is a yard sale I may go to and then stop at bank on the way home to pick up death certificate they faxed for me yesterday.
That should be enough!

We give our dog homemeade too.She was very sick so we changed.I think most of her illness was depression from losing her sister and companion,now she is alone.

 

[Meerkat]

You feeding all that to dogs???? Or am I not understanding that right?

My GSD is very allergic to rice, so I have to be very careful what I feed her ( grain free, raw meat, wheat or corn is ok, just not rice, which is most dog food that isn't grain free). But today they had slightly freezer burnt leftover lamb, goat and pork from over a year that we found at bottom of freezer .

We use rice,can mixed veggies,hamburger or chicken.We have to cook for the dog a couple times a week if not enough to freeze ,not fun.But better than sick dog. We buy the cheaper bag thighd,legs.cheapest ground beef we can.

 

[phideaux]

Baby it's cold outside ..and..gonna get even colder tonight.

Uuuggghhh.
So , wife wants to hit Walmart for a few items today , then lunch.

The lbs are still going away. Down 8 in 10 days.

I promise I'll never take Sudafed again. Don't ask why. I'll just say ....I take too many other meds.

These allergies are not fun. Doctors are saying this is the worst year in many for our area.

Home health nurse just left. Wife is doing darn good. They are ready to discharge her.

Y'all be safe and don't open your windows

Jim

 

[joel]

Nose bleed first thing this morning, checked Blood Preesurer, it is good low mid range. DW says it is pollen in the air, but I do not know that is it. It stopped & I feel fine, need to cut the grass today & plant some Phlox plants I got in the mail, that I do not remember ordering (old age?).

 

[snappy1]

You feeding all that to dogs???? Or am I not understanding that right?

My GSD is very allergic to rice, so I have to be very careful what I feed her ( grain free, raw meat, wheat or corn is ok, just not rice, which is most dog food that isn't grain free). But today they had slightly freezer burnt leftover lamb, goat and pork from over a year that we found at bottom of freezer .

One dog gets rice and they all get bits of cheese for treats. The rest is for me. I wasn't real clear. Lol

 

[Meerkat]

Nose bleed first thing this morning, checked Blood Preesurer, it is good low mid range. DW says it is pollen in the air, but I do not know that is it. It stopped & I feel fine, need to cut the grass today & plant some Phlox plants I got in the mail, that I do not remember ordering (old age?).

Joel the wife is probably right.I sometimes have same thing, but only when head is stopped up and I blow my nose. If you can lean over sideways a snort some salt water up your nose it will clean it out just don't strangle.So far I've been lucky,over the years.Also Phidue aka Jim told me about a inhaler might work too.

 

[dademoss]

Watching snow squalls blow through. A delightful 4 hours in the dealer waiting room for an upgrade to the "starlink" carrier. 3G is going away, so they changed to another carrier. First one bombed at 90% . Second try was fine. Got caught up on my magazines

My Zoom background is Monticello, you can bet TJ had enough sense not to let me sit at his desk