General Discussion & Chat: Coffee and .... for Saturday, September 16th, 1 by kooger

kooger wrote:
I love goldenrods! We used to look all over and try to find one with a boll. We'd take it to 'show and tell'. Does anyone remember seeing them? It's a roundish ball in the stem of the goldenrod, usually not too far from the top, and it's made by some sort of bug. I guess I should google it and find out what it really is. Now I am curious! Thanks for the beautiful pic Maria and the reminder. :)

Oh my, DH has the news on and there's abt 4-5 tornado warnings just west of us. DS is at a tractor pull N of Sioux Falls and is not in a good place right now. The storms are heading NE. DD is going to call him and let him know to be watching the sky very closely.

We got home abt 10:30 pm from visitation last night. What a sad, sad time. The mom,Joyce, looked totally, totally exhausted - on the verge of collapse. The two kids at home and dad looked tough, but better than mom. The three oldest girls are married with kids and are coping much better. I drove home through storms and high wind, had to keep both hands on the wheel to keep the van going straight. I woke up around 4:20 am and was thinking and thinking, ended up reading most of the Book of Job. I just had Joyce on my mind and trying to think of how would I cope and how can she cope, etc., on and on, my mind just couldn't stop thinking abt her. Heartbreaking, that's all I can say. Finally slept from 6 am to 7:45 am.

Went to Canton, SD to help DD move. The carpet in both bedrooms and living/diningroom is completely infested with fleas!! I walked across the room in sandals and had 4-5 on each foot. They love me but I don't love them! DD called landlord, went and rented a carpet cleaner and got pyrethrin shampoo from the vet. Real pyrethrin, not the synthetic stuff because the vet said the real stuff does a much better job. Put a couple of squirts in the water tank and DD did both bedrooms, I did the rest. I had to change the water 4 times. It was filthy and full of dead critters. (the other kind of ankle-biters, not toddlers, lol, they always bite me around my ankles) Fans are running in each room now. DD will set off a bug bomb tonight and hopefully we can move the big stuff over tmr.

The kitchen is almost all moved and unpacked. She's not too happy with the landlord. He insisted that she pay and move in halfway thru the month because he didn't want to lose a whole month of rent, but no stove yet, no frig -he has to put an outlet in the basement it and now we had to do the carpet cleaning so she's going to tell him that she should not have to pay two weeks extra since she can't even move in. She doesn't dare bring her ferret, Max, over for a week at least. She's going to use carpet fleapowder yet too, to make sure none survived the other treatments... especially on the edges of the rooms.

Love the kitties! Had to laugh at our's last night - he came in drenched, did not appreciate the rain.

Hi to everyone... here's the radar from a few mins ago...