What's everybody doing today?

[tiffanysgallery]

At work waiting on an employee so i can finish a project.
So, since i'm waiting, i walked next door to the secondhand bookstore and bought a cookbook for 2 bucks.
I'm looking at it right now... yummy!

 

[snappy1]

Plan B for today! Get hose to work for garden, put up tomato cages, already cooked sausage and eggs for breakfast burritos, list eBay and later cook liver with bacon and onions. Putting goat shed off until weed eating is done by roses. Not like I couldn't find other things to do LOL

 

[jimLE]

I took my dog for a walk.got moved into my new place a lil bit more.and then started next months shopping list.i plan on canning chicken soup next month.

 

[Amish Heart]

Survived work, picked up husbands rx's. He's not breathing well, and should be home from work any time. Did not put his portable oxygen in his truck. Just finished with all of the animals. Son, his girlfriend, and I are having a yard sale Saturday. We are piling stuff we don't want in the family room. Grandkids are really excited about this. I think I'll just hire the grandkids to sell my old stuff so I can get some cleaning done this weekend. Time to grate some zucchini (88 cents a lb!) for the dehydrator and then get some dinner started.

 

[Tank-Girl]

Finally saved enough for the HUGE car registration bill a whole month ahead of time.
It's the best feeling in the world not to have this hanging over my head.

I won't even let the fact the electric company's meter reader came yesterday steal my joy.

To celebrate life and God's goodness and provision I'm planting the first round of veggie seeds for the new season.
Each and every seed holds the promise of God's abundant, loving nature and each and every new sprouting seed
is a testimony.

How can you see new life sprouting out of the dirt and not see a miracle?

 

[Sewingcreations15]

@Tank-Girl on getting the registration money saved a good month early, it is such a relief when you can do this. I do agree that seeds sprouting are another one of God's miracles.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Hello everyone and I hope you are all having a wonderful day .

Started off the morning with putting on 2 loads of washing and both DH and I hanging one load each and then DH and I doing 1 load each of hand watering of grey water onto the lawns to water them. We have had rain on and off for the last couple of hours so the washing will have to stay out until tomorrow.

DH then swept all the floors and I deep cleaned the bathroom and toilet. We then went into town to pick up some more apples on special to make some more apple pie filling with for the freezer. At the incredibly low prices they are at at the moment we would be silly not to take advantage of making our apple pie filling far cheaper than buying the tinned apples at the moment.

About to start making some more apple pie filling for the freezer and we had guests last night for dinner and used one bag already to make dessert with. With what we are making tonight that will give us 9 bags or enough to make 9 pies with for the cold winter coming up and some left for eating too.

Tonight's dinner will be pancakes and or cream and butter for something a little easier after more meal preps in the kitchen.

 

[Tank-Girl]

Hello everyone and I hope you are all having a wonderful day .

Started off the morning with putting on 2 loads of washing and both DH and I hanging one load each and then DH and I doing 1 load each of hand watering of grey water onto the lawns to water them. We have had rain on and off for the last couple of hours so the washing will have to stay out until tomorrow.

DH then swept all the floors and I deep cleaned the bathroom and toilet. We then went into town to pick up some more apples on special to make some more apple pie filling with for the freezer. At the incredibly low prices they are at at the moment we would be silly not to take advantage of making our apple pie filling far cheaper than buying the tinned apples at the moment.

About to start making some more apple pie filling for the freezer and we had guests last night for dinner and used one bag already to make dessert with. With what we are making tonight that will give us 9 bags or enough to make 9 pies with for the cold winter coming up and some left for eating too.

Tonight's dinner will be pancakes and or cream and butter for something a little easier after more meal preps in the kitchen.

I hope you are saving up for snow chains for your car, SC. *Yeah, I worry!*

I know you are further south of me where it gets a lot colder.
My gut is telling me that we are in for a bitter, BITTER cold winter and my gut is also telling me we're in for snow and ice which will make driving
conditions treacherous.
In the Northern Hem. they got snow in 20's latitudes that don't get snow. Taiwan got snow right down to sea level and not just in the mountains. Hawaii has had snow storms 8 times this season so far and are expecting another snow storm in the next few days.

I've looked up Amazon Australia and they have snow chains on special atm.

I'm looking into buying them for my car and then I'll practice putting them on while conditions are nice so I get the knack before the weather turns to bad.
I couldn't think of a worse thing than sitting in snow and mud trying to fit chains with freezing cold and wet hands while trying to read instructions....
Well, maybe sliding off the road into a ditch because the tyres can't find traction in icy conditions....that would be def. worse than getting a wet bum

 

[Sewingcreations15]

@Tank-Girl yes think we will get a really cold winter this winter as well but am prepared with lots of firewood but not with snow chains yet. We have here got snow back in the 1980's on record and every few years snow around 45 mins south of us. Something to think about and a good prep thanks for reminding me of something I hadn't thought of @Tank-Girl .

 

[Tank-Girl]

@Tank-Girl yes think we will get a really cold winter this winter as well but am prepared with lots of firewood but not with snow chains yet. We have here got snow back in the 1980's on record and every few years snow around 45 mins south of us. Something to think about and a good prep thanks for reminding me of something I hadn't thought of @Tank-Girl .

You're welcome, SC. (((HUGs)))

 

[snappy1]

I think that today I will go to courthouse and change DL's voter ID which just came and has him at our old address, stop at the local Dollar General and grocery store, come home and take eBay photos and list 5 items. Then cook liver, bacon and onions (for me, dh won't touch it). Already made mashed potatoes. That should be enough but may do some house cleaning also if I get to it.

 

[Patchouli]

My day off and it got chilly. I was going to get seeds started, work on the little -.25 acre, plant my new plants, see about finding the right wire mesh for garden enclosure, clean my room, resupply of food. Go see family. And probably spend too much time on teh internets.

 

[The Lazy L]

Shooting Sport season starts tomorrow!!!! Weatherman even suggests tomorrow will be a tolerable day! Load the truck when I get off work tonight (secured attached garage, tailgate and topper locks). Dream of possible shooting scenarios that will expose my rusty skills acquired during the loooooooooooong winter. Breakfast ...jump in the truck...back in the house to pee...jump in the truck....back in the house to get dress...jump in the truck...back in the house to brush teeth...jump in the truck...back in the house to kiss the wife good bye...jump in the truck and head to the range!

 

[squirrelhunter]

Other than turning the duck eggs in the incubator and periodically checking to see if all our ducks and goose are still here,not much

 

[Amish Heart]

Barely survived work. I've had a difficult student this past month, I've been trying to deal with his aggression issues. His parents have been kind of helpful until this week. When he first started, one parent or grandma would come in and stay with him because he was mean to other kids. He had this problem at his last preschool and was booted. So, last week he bit two students on two different days, and also attacked one of our staff. Grabbed her shirt to yank it down and tried to scratch her eyes out. He was sent to my office and sent home. This week he bit a student Monday, Tuesday, and clawed one in the face on Wednesday. He's almost 4. I spoke with mom and said that we need to go back to someone being with him at all times. Meanwhile, she is (supposedly) interviewing behaviorists. This child has been running their household like a banshee for his whole almost 4 years of life. He is not happy being stopped. So dad comes to drop him off Thursday morning, and is told he has to stay with him. Says he doesn't know anything about it. Calls his wife. She lies. He decides to disenroll the child and his sister (who is not a problem). This morning I come in to a Children Youth and Family Investigation (our regulators). It was reported that two children were running around unaccompanied in the front yard of the school (not possible), that volunteers were not fingerprinted and were left alone with children (we do not have volunteers) and that we ignore our students and let them run hog wild (yeah, right). After the 30 minutes investigation, it was dismissed. Then the crazy woman writes a google rant.
Did I mention I've had it with whackos??? Maybe this should of gone under rants. Sorry.
So, time to feed the animals and go through more stuff for tomorrows garage sale. Phew.

 

[Peanut]

Finally, I just finished! In December I started a long over due project. I had plant photos going back over 6 years. When I got this computer, I loaded on backups and partial backups of these badly organized photos. I ended up with duplicates. I estimated about 30K in total. Not counting 2018 pics I now have 8113 photos. Duplicates and worthless photos are deleted and the good ones are far better organized. There is still work to do like my “Mint” folder, a dozen species and 176 photos that need organized by species in their on sub-folders. Maybe by the end of summer…

Oh! I found a neat program yesterday that’s free. Its name is BatchPurifier. It removes all the personal information that smart phones and cameras embed in photos like GPS position. I select a group or a folder of photo’s and the program processes all the photos in a second. I processed all my 2018 photos with it today, all 895 of them..

 

[Weedygarden]

I was out yesterday and realized that one part of my fence was on the verge of falling over. The wind storm a couple days ago probably helped it to start leaning. I went to Home Depot and bought 4 new cedar posts and 4 bags of quickcrete. I let the neighbor know I was going to be working on it in case anything happened that might damage his property.

This morning I took out one old post and cleaned out the hard concrete in the hole so that I could set a new post. It took me almost two hours to break up the old stuff and get it out of the hole. This is not the first time I have done this. I got that post set in with one bag of concrete.

Now my arm is hurting. I have to be careful when I do projects like this because I get thorasic outlet syndrome. It comes from repeated motions, such as when I tuckpoint or scrape wallpaper. It almost always involves concrete or cement in one form or another. It is supposed to rain and snow tomorrow, which is good, because I am not going to run out tomorrow and work on another post. I am going to probably give it a week, so that I am not in pain.

This afternoon I went to a class on making a rain barrel. I have watched videos about doing it, but this class had kits put together of all the stuff needed to complete one barrel, including a food grade barrel. The class was supposed to be from 5 to 7, but didn't start until almost 6. I was just ready to be home after working on the fence post. I got my barrel and kit and came home. I have to analyze where I want to set up rain barrels and then I can adjust where I want to drill holes. I appreciate getting everything I need in one bag. I have a few more barrels that I want to get set up and I will order and buy what I need for getting them set up.

Colorado has a limit of two rain barrels and a total of 110 gallons collection, but the instructor said he had 6 barrels. Currently, there is no one checking out water barrels and how much people are collecting. That could change, but I doubt it.

 

[hiwall]

It is snowing here as I type this but I expect no accumulation and very little moisture. I hope I'm wrong because we Really need the moisture.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Tuesday the 17 th of April 2018, saw the Orthopedic Surgeon.
The first surgeon I saw was only going to do partial knee replacement.
He was replaced quickly.
New surgeon is doing full knee replacement on 2 July 2018 @0730 hours.
Surgery is 2.5 hours long, an hour to hour and half after surgery I will be up walking around.
Second day will start PT.
By the third day I will have learn how manuever on crutches(again),walker(again) and the scooter thingy.
Go home on the third day.

 

[TMT Tactical]

Tuesday the 17 th of April 2018, saw the Orthopedic Surgeon.
The first surgeon I saw was only going to do partial knee replacement.
He was replaced quickly.
New surgeon is doing full knee replacement on 2 July 2018 @0730 hours.
Surgery is 2.5 hours long, an hour to hour and half after surgery I will be up walking around.
Second day will start PT.
By the third day I will have learn how manuever on crutches(again),walker(again) and the scooter thingy.
Go home on the third day.

Offering best wishes for a successful operation and a quick recovery. Keep us all posted as to your progress.

 

[Peanut]

New surgeon is doing full knee replacement on 2 July 2018 @0730 hours.

Wishing you the best! Hopefully by the end of summer you will be able to walk and I will be able to see! (cataracts) Let us know how you are progressing...

 

[tiffanysgallery]

@MoBookworm1957
Good for you to replace that first surgeon.
Glad you have a good plan in place.
I'll be thinking about you!

 

[Tank-Girl]

Planted another lemon tree and watered Dus's tree.

Sat there for a while remembering him and his ways with tears streaming down my face.

It still hurts.

 

[timmie]

going to yard sales today and a discount store and a plant nursery.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

@Tank-Girl I am the same and it does after a while turn from sadness into fond memories but you still do miss them , thinking of you.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Started off the day with us both washing the dishes, cleaning the benches and drying and putting the dishes away. Then we had to go into town where we picked up another toilet brush set as the last one snapped in my hand using it and some lighter gas to refill our torch lighters with for preps.

When we got home and DH zested the bag of lemons we were given and I juiced them. We now have 11 more tablespoons of lemon zest for the freezer and 3 and a half ice cube trays of lemon juice for future use. Out into the gardens where we trench composted both the apple and lemon peels and peelings into one garden bed we are not using at the moment to amend the soil further. DH turned on the drip irrigation systems to water the gardens and I watered the newly transplanted lilies and sprouting capsicums with the saved washing water from the lemons.

We folded up 2 loads of clean laundry and put them away and DH made a pizza for tonight's dinner which we just had.

 

[Amish Heart]

Having a yard sale today.
Wanna come, Timmie?

 

[hiwall]

Yesterday after several months I finally got around to re-keying the door lock on my new garage/shop so it was the same as the house. We never lock it anyway.

 

[NannyPatty]

Painting in my hall bath, behind the toilet before it gets set back into it's place. Cleaning the house a bit and laundry.

 

[Weedygarden]

Having a yard sale today.
Wanna come, Timmie?

LOL!