Coffee and...Part 39...! :-D

McCool, it is raining like crazy, will it ever stop. today was the eights day of constant rain, never heard of such a thing since i have lived here, imagine getting snow like that?

I am going to bed while listening to a Mozart piano concerto so I won't have to hear that rain.

Good night dear friends, so very glad to know you.
Maria

Wouldn't it be a wonderful world if whatever we said was obeyed by sons, daughters, husbands?

Sarv, your DH going off to move the stand, is comparable to DH fishing all day, and coming home, not noticing the partly closed attic stairway, until he walks under it and the cord hits him in the face. He says "whats this" just like a blind man could have told him that. Well, it is still dangling And I heard him on the phone planning another fishing trip for Monday. Where's my valium?

Julie, DH grilling steak, my DH just knows that it sits on the deck and that I use it occasionally. But he did make your bulb planting easier. And yes, I understood all the explitives. Use them on a daily basis.

tgif, the strike sounds good, but the coroner would find his bones sitting at the table, waiting for a meal!!

Darius, thanks for the Bernaise Sauce Recipe. Love it but have never made it myself. So will try that out. So is the black hole shrinking some? Hugs for you.

Viola Ann, sorry that the dinner is undersold, and that the audience is not well educated. Or maybe not sorry, you can almost make up your statistics, and they won't know. Glad you got all your jobs done, procrastination sometimes is good. I have thought and thought,, but haven't come up with an ice breaker for you in your speech.

Morningayle, my son was what they called "hyper" 40 years ago, and I have done things like you did with your son. Sometimes it takes drastic action to even get their attention. DS hasn't been diagnosed but would say he is all of that and more. Maybe even manic/depressive to boot.

Meezer, my one wish, before I die is to visit Paris and the art musuems. I would have to do it alone, as DH doesn't even appreciate pics in the daily paper.

McCool, I always miss folks who are absent for awhile. If your DH discovers that you may have shared your sniffles with him, you are probably in for a long week. I seem to be having early symptoms of a "summer cold", as I have been sneezing and blowing all day. Hope it is just the seasonal allergies, as goldenrod is in full bloom here.

Aria, do you want me to send DH fishing boat to you. I would of course put the battery back on so that you could motivate. So sorry about all the rain. I am almost afraid to say it, but we need some precip here.

Robert, good trip to you. Hope everything goes well, and you get your new fur kid home safe and sound.

Mr. B is wanting to play, as it is only 12:00, so will toss a few balls for him, and hopefully on to a restful night.

and on that note, Goodnight, Gracie...

Oh Darius that was not what I was expecting at all! And just as I was starting to revise that mental image of you I get to the bottom. ROFLMFBO

I have got to pass that along to friends, if I may?

mg

Okay, now I am really good at lurking, and I seldom laugh out loud at a joke I read on the net, but Darius, I burst out laughing so hard I woke up GH and DD. Now my side hurts, DD is cooking bacon and eggs cause she can't sleep and DH is cause I woke him from a good dream.

Thank you. Good thing they both are still young enough to adjust to my will.

LOL

good Morning, everyone!

Now I am really getting upset at this rain, yes, it is still raining like mad and the drains on my driveway cannot take care of all this water any more now I probably have water in the cellar and to think the house is on a hill!y spot. The weather guy just said we have not had tis in over a 100 years, I belief it!
Hope most of you have better weather, this is supposed to last till monday
Maria

This is something I have been meaning to tell you it is how some of our fellow humans treat others.
It is raining like mad,but I have to go get the mail. I have a very long driveway so I took an umbrella and hiked down to the mailbox . There were a dozen catalogs plus regular mail I put that in the folded catologs and then under my arm as I started to walk away the letters slid away from me all over the wet street. As I started to pick it up, a car came and do you think he stopped, oh no, he kept on going I got out of his way but he drove all over my mail, what a jerk!
Maria

Oh Darius - when I started reading I thought "man that Darius must have SOME life!!" Then I got to the bottom - that was a belly shaker for sure!! Wish I could figure out how to pass it on - computer stupid here..

mg- loved what you did to your son - if we had more parents like you, I think the schools wouldn't have such a problem. DIL teacher was just telling me that she had a chair thrown at her and for some reason she had her camera out and captured it all on film - the little girl cleaned off her desk and many of the others before they could settle her down. The little one is only 5 - can you imagine her as a teen???

Maria - alas more rain - I cannot believe it. Lucky that you are up on a hill. I planted some stuff yesterday and it is dry a foot down here

Hey welcome Carat - join us more often - tell us all about yourself....we're a friendly bunch and would love to have you pull up a chair to the table and bring some treats!!

Speaking of treats - we went with DS and DIL to the local tavern for a fish fry - oh man, was it good. And all you could eat!! I got a plate SOO big, heaped with fried fish and fries.....I couldn't even finish it. It's a little tiny place, so loud you can't talk, and so smokey you can't see. I left stinkin royally, but it was worth it. I expected to be rolling around with a gut ache, but slept like a log until 2:30AM - Then just tossed and turned. Wish I had a piece of it right now - (I love left over fish!)

Mc- hope the crud doesn't stay long at your house. I am a firm believer in hand washing - haven't got the junk yet this year - but I'm sure it will sneak in - ususally just before the holidays for me.

Cat scratching at the door - gotta run!! (sun is out here!!)

Good Morning One and ALL! (That's because I'll never get anything done if I stop to greet you all individually. ~grin~)

LOL @ Darius' love story'! (I'd read it before but didn't remember until I got to the end.)

WELCOME CARAT!!! Always nice to hear from our 'lurker' participants.

I finally got a chance to post some pics of the 'back yard' I've worked on for two years now. If you'd like to take a peek at how I got 'here' from where I was...here's the link:
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/550658/

M5...I meant to tell you 'Thanks' for the peanut butter tip. Told DH about it (No, I didn't tell him how p.o.'d I was...just that I was really shaky from the constant mental interruption). He siad I'd probably get myself arrested for trespassing if I tried it. LOL (yep!)

Sarv...I have not-so-DGD has is very much like that little girl you talked about. And I agree with you about more parents following MG's example. You *gotta* get their attention somehow! (MG...I could just *see* the look on your son's face when you clipped those wires. LOL GOOD for YOU!!)

Oh Darius! I forgot to say thanks for that recipe, too! I told DH about it and he says *he* is going to try it out. (I just let HIM cook...then *I* complain about having to clean up after him. hehehe)

Guess I'd better get myself moving so I can get out in the yard to plant more bulbs *before* those bugs come out for the sunshine.

See y'all later!

~julie~

Trying to catch up. I'm looking at messages from several days ago.

daisyruffles - the dahlias are lovely. And good advice your mother gave you.

Maria, I think the Mannikin Piss statue is on every tour of Brussels. My fist visit there was in 1965 when I took a music study tour to Europe. But DH's cousin moved to Brussels in 1968, married a Belgian and stayed. We've visited him several times there. Oh my, I did an Internet search to check the spelling on Mannikin Piss. You don't want to see the pages that showed up. [And this has also triggered Dave's profanity warning.]

You're right about travelling. DH went to a lot of conferences and we dragged the whole family along. Also spent a year in Germany (Hamburg area) arriving when the kids were 4 and 1 1/2. We've taken them to Germany, Finland, Norway, St. Petersburg when it was still Leningrad, Japan, and lots of places in Canada where we tied in travel to conferences. We also drove the Alaska Highway when they were 6 and 8. They feel deprived because we never took them to Disneyworld. lol [They are now 33 and 31.]

Hope the yellow jacket sting didn't give you too much difficulty. I find keeping hydrocortisone cream around is helpful. Had some in my travel bag when we were out west in September and when my daughter got stung by some sort of wasp that got in the car, I was able to dig it out of my travel bag. It helped her a lot.

darius - that blender Bernaise looks like a keeper. Thanks.

defoecat wrote

LOL ain't likely to happen.

I too am sorry that the dinner is undersold because this little soup kitchen is struggling. As a new program, they are not yet under the wing of the Ottawa Food Bank to help with provisions. And the area in which they are located is not wealthy; so they don't have a huge community support network. I plan to make a donation to cover what they would have charged for my meal ticket and that of my husband.

The food program I run is in a relatively well-off suburb. We have large pockets of subsidized housing and several large apartment buildings which attract a lot of poor people but we also have a community which can support us and more. Mind you, we work hard at reminding them that we are here. Our major letter campaigns went out this week. 13,000 letters to be delivered door-to-door in one part of the region we serve. (we get volunteers to deliver them and the envelopes say "This letter was hand-delivered by a volunteer".) And we sent out another 900 in a directed appeal to previous donors. The latter gives us a much better response because it is going to the converted, but we feel that the former is necessary in finding new people and generally reminding people that we exist. We will never know what the long-term effect is, of course, but people who don't donate now may in the future. Of course, we have an underlying concern this year that world events - the Pakistani earthquake - will have an effect on our donors.

In general we try to let them know we are here, but don't make urgent appeals unless we really run short. We are confident that if we really run short, the community will respond if we make urgent appeals.

darius, you also had me laughing with your flu shot reminder. Just hope I keep healthy until the first clinic in my part of town which is on Oct. 27. In Ontario, the cost of flu shots is covered by our provincial health insurance for every resident; so there is no excuse for not having them. A few years ago they weren't covered and I used to pay to have them because I reckoned that people who use food programs are not necesarily the healthiest people in the world.

sarv - you should be able to copy and paste darius' quote. Are you on a PC or MAC? I can help you on a PC, but don't know much about MACs.

We also have rain. I guess with all the indoor work I've needed to do it was good. I hate to pass up a decent day in the garden because we're not gonna get too many more of them. I've been gradually removing plants that are past their prime, but we've not yet had a frost which is a bit unusual. They say the low temps have been higher than usual and the high temps have been lower than usual. I still have some cherry tomatoes Roma tomatoes producing though they don't taste as good as they did when the days were longer and hotter.

The new garden still has the extra soil piled too high to do anything with it. I will top dress the other gardens once most of the annuals are out, but I also have a large bag of tulip, daffodil and crocus bulbs to plant in it. Hopefully we'll get some good gardening weather next week.

The long hot and dry summer has had an effect on our fall colors. The maple tree in my back yard is usually a glorious red. This year it has only a few leaves with some red and many which are a yellow color. Also many which have not yet turned.

Take care,

Ann

Happy to have done all that traveling and so are my children.
Can't imagenie what was said about that statue that would offend people?
I think the yellow jacket was dorment, it was a weak one sting, did not bother me very long
Still raining buckets, just does not want to stop.
Maria

Just checking in....made breakfast for DH because he brought me a bouquet of mums from the garden....

Maria, time for an ark? I can't believe the east coast is getting such a long downpour. That must include some of the rain we didn't get here all summer! I'm not looking forward to long gray days in November, what a shame to have such cloudy dark skies this early.

Bulbs. Thanks for the reminder, this would be a good day to get those bargain bags I bought last month in the ground. Since we had to dig to clear access to one of the septic tanks, I can put lot of them in there, no weeds to pull....all freshly turned soil. This is sounding too easy..........must be a fly in the ointment somewhere.

mg, loved the wire clipping story!!! Really gets their attention when you take drastic measures! I have one grand that is adhd, and believe me when I say I don't want to even be around him when he's not taking his meds. He is destruction on wheels, and drags his little brother along on his misadventures.

Thanks for the bearnaise recipe Darius. Would be good when I'm feeding more than just the two of us, otherwise we'd gobble it all up in one sitting. Did I mention I got my new 14 c. cuisinart? Woohoo! Already shredded a pound of cheddar just for fun. That stuff in the supermarket that's already shredded has some kind of additive in it to keep it from clumping. Ugh. I'll take the clumps!!

Hey, just make PB balls and pitch them into the dog's area from a safe distance! And if you get arrested, we'll come bail you out...

My DH has already told me he wouldn't bail me out...lol. When we sold our old house, while we were building this one I brought quite a few plants along, but the builder managed to bury or run over all of them. I've told this story before, so if you already have seen it, skip on ahead.

We moved in December, so there was no hope of digging up anything at that point. The following spring, I drove by the old place and was shocked to see that the new owner had mown down all the perennials in the front garden bed. I couldn't believe anyone would take out perennials that require little or no care. The more I thought about it the more irritated I got. By the following week, I had made up my mind I was going to go back and try to rescue what ever was left in the back yard, where I had masses of hosta, lilies, beautiful antique white iris, carpet of roses, etc. Soooooooo,

very early,one morning, before dawn even thought about cracking, I donned my black sweats, black baseball hat, black tennies, grabbed a shovel and a couple of big buckets and drove over to the old house. Parked on a side street, skulked through a couple of back yards, prepared to digup whatever I could and vamoose before the sun came up. A crushing disappointment awaited me....everything was GONE! Mowed down or Roundupped into oblivion. Even more surprising was a neighbor outside raking doggie poo off his patio at 4:30 in the morning. He didn't see me. When I got home DH said if I had gotten caught, he would have left me sitting in the slammer. Hummph. Like they would have missed plants they wanted to kill ....I know it was their property, I know I sold the plants with the house, but isn't there some kind of guardianship for plants you've nurtured?? This is what it looked like before the blitz.

Hi, all and thanks for the warm welcome.

Hmm, about me. Not much to tell. I live in hell. Sometimes known as Las Vegas, NV. I loved to dig in the dirt and garden but it is extremely difficult between the heat, drought and and lack of space. My best friend moved to South Carolina a while back and after a couple of visits, hubby and I have decide to move there also. We are currently in the process of trying to purchase a 14 acre parcel in Clover. If so, we still wont be able to move until January of 2007. Hubby works for the county here and needs to remain until November of 2006 to be vested in for retirement. Since SS is going down hill can't afford to give up that one. I wont move over the holidays so it places us into Jan of 2007.
We have three beautiful children. A daughter, 18, a senior in high school. She is a great person and I am sure that I will like her again after she gets the heck out of my house. She has claimed she isn't moving with us. And all I can say is Thank you. But we shall see.
A son, 17, computer geek. We tease him that he lives in a cave. He comes out for school, food and restroom breaks. He is a junior in high school and has every intention of moving with us. He is the smart one and knows exactly how expensive life is and is willing to bend to my rules to keep his money in his pocket. One out of two aint bad.
My youngest son is 11, in sixth grade and is still in the will. Gosh, I look at him and can't help but smile. He is so sweet and kind. I pray that he stays this way forever.
I have been married for 18 years and I can say he is the most wonderful man on the planet. I have been on EFML for 18 months and been at home while he has continued to work. He works all day comes home and makes me dinner. He figured out a while back that I cooked for the first 17 years so he is going to take the second shift. He has been with me through some hard times in my life and is the rock that I lean on. Bless him. Now that I built him up I do have to admit that I love the Saturdays that he is golfing the best.
Well that is me in a nut shell. Or nut house anyway you look at it.
To all of you that live where it is raining right now, I know it is a big pain but be thankful. My water bill for just last month was 265.00. I have a total of maybe 30 square feet of gardens outside with a front yard that is about 15X25. I use my bathwater to water as much of my garden as possible. When it does rain, haven't seen it in months, I set out buckets to collect and save as much as possible to help. So dang it send some of those clouds over here please.

Casey

Casey, welcome! I saw the "meadow" photo you posted elsewhere. SC has got to be better than Vegas, esp. the Upstate, for gardening. What's EFML?

Welcome, Casey and yes I am glad I am not the only one that does not know wjhat EFML is?
Casey, you can have all our rain. please take it!!! KNow what you mean about his golfing game, I was always glad when my husband played golf in the evening league. did not have to make dinner, :-)))
Maria

Casey!!! Your water bill!! :-O
Like I should talk. When we had a weekend place on the Mississippi, which we only *used* on the weekends, our water bill came in ever three months and was just about the same amount as yours. I was thankful that I didn't have to pay for washing clothes, taking lots of showers *and* watering my garden, tho, let me tell ya.

Sounds like you have quite the family there. (Love the middle one...smart enough to know where his bread is buttered best. ~grin~)

Hi Ann!

Maria, I'd *almost* wish for a little of that rain but I'm afraid once it starts it won't stop until it turns to the white stuff. I just hope it slows down out there or you guys ARE going to need an 'ark'!

Sheila...I had to LOL at you sculking around in your ninja attire trying to rescue some of your hard earned plants. After we left the river I felt the same way you did...don't I have residual 'guardianship' or something? And it makes you sick to see that other owners really don't usually appreciate the things you've done for *their* yard.

Well...back out to plant more bulbs and move a couple of mums. I figure if I dig a large enough ball of earth to move with them, they should be 'ok'. (And if it's not going work...DON'T tell me!! :-D)

~julie~

Welcome, Casey.

Good luck with the move and those teenagers. In my experience with daughters (don't have nay with sons), they get much better once they've moved out. In fact my second, after living with a rommate in Vancouver while at BCIT said (in terms of the rommate leaving a mess around), "It's really scary. I'm beginning to sound like Mom." That self-centred brat of a teenager has become a caring 31 yr old. Still single, but there's been a great guy around for a couple of years now. so ....

I'm another who doesn't know what EFML is. Sometimes I think it's because I'm in Canada - for instance, I didn't know what FEMA was when you all started talking about it. A few days of watching CNN solved that.

Ann

Welcome Casey - glad to hear that your family is as crazy as the rest of ours!! Enjoy that 11 yr old - they turn into monsters in 8th grade! I too don't know what the initials stand for =- you'll have to be sure and let us know! Yikes that water bill is horrid! We have a well - thank goodness. Many days I water all day long.

M5- how stinkin of that new owner to round up your beloved. At least he could have given you a call to see if you'd like some back. Cant understand some people...

Maria - you got in trouble for your ' pissouir' thing? Can't believe it!! We were just getting some ed-u-ka=shun from you. LOL

Went to DGS last soccer = he made the last goal of the game - He was thrilled = but in the process injured the other goalie. They stopped the game (kid ended up fine). DGS was bragging that he'd injured a kid- his mom gave him a stern talking to!! I think it went in one ear and out the other.

DH just went and bought a new chain saw (one of many he has) and said "I got this for you for sweetest day" (another Hallmark day...) I just glared at him. He was all in a tizzy because they ran out of the 'free' hat that went along with the saw. Can you imagine... I told him I was looking at a tv cabinet for him - he shut up quickly...

Well, time for a little nap - it is sunny and cool here, but sooo windy. Leaves will be coming down quickly today!

EFML=Extended Family Medical Leave. It's a federal law that allows one to take leave and not lose their job for a specific period of time. I've always heard it called FMLA which is Family Medical Leave Act. It allows a worker to take leave to either undergo recuperation from a medical/surgical procedure, undergo the actual procedure or take care of an immediate family member who may be doing the same.

I've invoked the FMLA twice, once for 4 months when I had my back broken by a patient and was in a body cast for 14 weeks + rehab time and the second time when I had surgery and required extended illness recuperation time. I was able to take this leave and not have to worry that my job would be given away or that I would not have a job to come back to afterwards.

The FMLA will allow a person to take care of an immediate family member as well. It includes spouses, children, step-children, parents, aunt or uncle and adopted or foster children and grandparents.

Hope that helps.

Babs

Huh??? When? By Who? Why????? and HOW did I miss that?

Babs...thanks for the explanation of the family med leave. I *knew* that! Geez...I took care of it for the shop employees (and even take advantage of it for myself when the heart problems cropped up!) How could have forgotten?

Hi everyone...I'm taking a break from the sun and sweat in my eyes for a few minutes and just thought I'd better see what was going on before it gets away from me again. :-D

~julie~

LET ME TELL YOU AT ONCE I DID NOT GET INTO TROUBLE ABOUT THAT, THE WORD IS IN MY VERY OLD DICTIONARY!!!!!!!!!!

Talk to you later
Maria

I think I was the one who got into trouble. When I previewed my long post which mentioned that statue by its name, I had a warning about proper language. ;-)

Ann

Whew! I thought we had some kind of censorship going on here that I didn't know about. LOL (Oh...you can find that word in the Bible as well. Let's see if I can remember how it goes. Something like "He who pisseth against the wall". It's in the Old Testament...but then there's a LOT of things in there that would be frowned upon by the 'socially acceptable'. ~BIG grin here~

~julie~

Ann...are you serious?

~julie~

There is a list that contains words frowned upon by Admins. A program scans all posts and automatically notifies the poster that they "may" be saying something offensive. It's NOT a real person, just a program Dave wrote.

If you feel confident you are not using profanity or being offensive, go ahead and post.

Yup. First time I've seen that warning, though I've heard others talking about it. Funny thing, I didn't see it when I actually posted the message - just when I previewed it. Have any of the rest of you previewed your messages where you mention it? (If it's a short message, I don't usually bother, but that was a long one and had a quote in it .... )

Ann

I am shocked, Ann, that is the most stupid thing I have ever heard of, censorsip sometimes can go a bit too far, especially when one says something that is correct in a foeign language that is being used at that very point to explain somthing. I am truly teed of for you, Ann, things like that remind me of...my youth
Maria

Ann....thanks for letting me know how and where that warning came from. I was a little concerned that you'd gotten a 'personal' warning for the 'language'. I wouldn't have like that at all. I hope that no one here has been offended because I'm certainly not.

Thanks for the clarification, Darius. I can understand why it would be on a checking program like that. Just in case it was being used in a 'flame' or something.

OMG...I think I'm addicted to ICE CREAM!! LOL DH just came home from the store with a box of BLACK RASPBERRY ice cream bars! It's insanely delicious. (And I'm *not* an ice cream freak!) If you have Blue Bunny brand in your area...and you like black raspberries, you *gotta* try it!

Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

~julie~

One more thing, I do not swear ever, I do not use any foul language ever, if some one wants to iterpret it as such and I know it is not, they can go and wash their mouth out with soap for thinking as such unaccepted language, my mouth is clean!!
Maria

Well, pissouir on censorship, anyhoo. I didn't know what EFML was either but I wrung out my brain and guessed E was for extended but then it fizzled and died.

Casey, I raised two girls and often tell them they are lucky to be alive after going through puberty or whatever it is that makes them wretched little beasts in their teens. My son is the oldest and he is a gem, my oldest daughter is an absolute phenomenon, and my youngest, well, like you said two out of three.....LOL

Sarv, it's time to go check on that armoire you were looking at.

What is it with guys and branded hats? DH has to put on his free John Deere cap when he mows the lawn. I just roll my eyes and am forever thankful they weren't giving away Speedos.
I'm going to preview this to see if the censorship robot picks up on....errrr.....anything. Sheesh, when I think of some of the things we've said in this kitchen LOL LOL

Edited to say, no warning, no scolding, censorship robot has learned a new word. Beep Beep.
(Maria, shouldn't they wash out their ears????)

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ROTFLOL @ 'branded' caps...that speedo remark got me! :-D
OH! M5...I thought about the sundial you mentioned in the other thread, too! (Great minds think alike, or what? ;-))

~julie~

M5, That speedo remark got me cackling way loud here.
The horribly laughable vision crossed my mind.......Hollywood Beach (Fla), POT BELLIED aging men with brown, sun leathered skin, strutting up and down the boardwalk wearing a RED speedo and nothing else, not even a John Deer hat. No vanity and they haven't a clue as to how redicules they look........I NEVER want to see that much or that little bit of anyone.

So let your DH have his blue jeans, Wisconsin flannel shirts and his John Deere hat.

:^))))

Julie, what did I miss??????? I am sort of shook up about that whole stupid mess
Maria

Molly...I agree with you 100% LOL (I can't see my DH in a speedo either! hehehe)

Maria...I don't think you missed anything at all. I just took what Sarv said about you getting in trouble over the statue's name as though you, personally, had been "warned." Even if that had happened, it would have up to Dave and his policies. But since it was ViolaAnn who got the warning...and it was one of those automatic word scans, at that...there is absolutely nothing you should be upset over. You did *nothing* wrong. And I enjoyed the information and the chance to travel with y'all even though I've never had that chance.
(Please don't let any of this get under your skin...ok?)

I'vwe just finished making my homemade pizza dough for tomorrow night's dinner. You are ALL invited! (I might even get to the kitchen before DH has it cut to take a picture! ...now *that's* progress for me, don't ya think? LOL)

~julie~

wow lots going on glad to see everyone keeping up--- I caught up and it took a long time so I better be more in touch so as to be able to comment at all LOL
Good to see you all and the pizza sounds wonderful!
Anne

Thanks, Julie, but I am very sensitive about being censured and feel badly if anyone else is
Maria

Anne, HI...I think I'd better quite posting or I'll be starting a new thread before the night is over. hehehe (I'll save you a piece of that pizza, for sure!)

~julie~

Yummy thanks and looking forward to the pictures of it
Did you get any shots before it was cut LOL
Anne

ROTFLMAO - at the speedo thing...Molly - I got a similar vision! Oh - have to wipe away the tears!

I'm pooped. Let's see - I grouted the shower floor (finally!) - I pruned the tulip poplar, washed down the porch and help DH with washing the last bit of siding to be painted - says he's gonna do it tomorrow! Dug up a dead bush and planted a live one. Put up a new mailbox, just the mailbox - not the post. Washed and filled bird feeders. Moved swing from patio to under the tulip poplar now that it has room to go under there. Washed down the ac units outside. And - that's about it. So - I'm sitting on my rump now in front of the 'puter.

And I did all that without my medication for the day! Not my stomach stuff - my happy pill. I got up at 4 this morning - couldn't sleep and didn't go back in the bathroom to take my meds as usual. Around 3 this afternoon I started feeling those "brain shivers" I get when I haven't had my meds......crazy feeling. So went and took it - think it's kicking in now.

BTW - My stomach is feeling better - maybe the meds are going to work. And I'm sure the little bit of activity I did today will help as well.

Later!

M.

Have you ever been busy, BB, just stay put sitting, relax and have some of that pizza
Maria