what are you doing right now?

[giramomma]

We just hiked like 2.5 miles. I have to cook dinner now.

Blech.

[Pink Cashmere]

Mister has stomped his way inside the house now. Earlier today, I was thinking about cooking a meatloaf for him either tomorrow or Tuesday, since that’s one of his favorites and I haven’t cooked one in a long time. 

At this moment I am no longer interested in cooking a meatloaf for him!  That’s not to say that I won’t change my mind tomorrow or Tuesday. I didn’t tell him I was probably going to cook it, so me being petty and changing my mind is not even really effective since he didn’t know my intentions in the first place lol.

[Cheesy FL-Vol]

Aug 11, 2024 17:20:55 GMT -5 giramomma said:

We just hiked like 2.5 miles. I have to cook dinner now.

Blech.

That would be a no-cook sandwich night for me.

Or even fruit, nuts, cheese and whatever else is good with that needing no cooking. 

[Cheesy FL-Vol]

Aug 11, 2024 17:24:03 GMT -5 Pink Cashmere said:

Mister has stomped his way inside the house now. Earlier today, I was thinking about cooking a meatloaf for him either tomorrow or Tuesday, since that’s one of his favorites and I haven’t cooked one in a long time. 

At this moment I am no longer interested in cooking a meatloaf for him!  That’s not to say that I won’t change my mind tomorrow or Tuesday. I didn’t tell him I was probably going to cook it, so me being petty and changing my mind is not even really effective since he didn’t know my intentions in the first place lol.

You make me laugh! 

[Pink Cashmere]

Aug 11, 2024 16:14:51 GMT -5 raeoflyte said:

Aug 11, 2024 16:06:18 GMT -5 NastyWoman said:

I'm watching the closing ceremonies of the Olympics and because of that I saw the medal ceremony for the women's marathon. I am baffled, baffle I tell you. Who knew there was a Dutch woman out there who thinks that if you go 26 miles you would run instead of just hopping on your bike? LOL

For the record, when I was much younger (like that running lady) riding our bikes >40 miles was quite common. We did not have a car until we moved to the US the first time when I was 28. I also walked a lot but running that far? NEVER

I really wish we had better bike trails/access to make bike commuting more possible. But it would take me quite a while for me to get anywhere close to 40 miles.

Idk, within 2 months of buying my mountain bike, I was able to ride 20 miles. I was riding it as often as I could though, at least 3 times/week, even though I had to drive to trails since where I lived was not bicycle friendly.  I was in my mid 40’s at the time.

Last week, when Mister and I were cruising, we drove past the entrance to the park that I’d rode my bike to, from another park, and the ride there and back to my car was just over 20 miles according to the little computer I had on my bike. I told Mister I can barely believe I actually rode my bike that far and back. That was not the only time I rode 20 miles that summer.

I’m just saying that you might be surprised, it might not take as long as you think for you to be able to ride 40 miles.

[Pink Cashmere]

Aug 11, 2024 17:26:25 GMT -5 Cheesy FL-Vol said:

Aug 11, 2024 17:24:03 GMT -5 Pink Cashmere said:

Mister has stomped his way inside the house now. Earlier today, I was thinking about cooking a meatloaf for him either tomorrow or Tuesday, since that’s one of his favorites and I haven’t cooked one in a long time. 

At this moment I am no longer interested in cooking a meatloaf for him!  That’s not to say that I won’t change my mind tomorrow or Tuesday. I didn’t tell him I was probably going to cook it, so me being petty and changing my mind is not even really effective since he didn’t know my intentions in the first place lol.

You make me laugh! 

I am glad to be able to add a little humor to your days sometimes.

[Pink Cashmere]

WTH are these “no seeums” that apparently bite and make you scratch? I only learned the term “no seeums” here, and when I first saw it I knew exactly what it was referring to.

Mosquitoes don’t normally bite me. I can feel them flitting around my exposed skin, but I guess I don’t smell right to them to make them bite me, and I’m not mad bout it, even though I hope I smell decent or better to humans lol. They don’t tend to bite my Aunt either. But they LOVE my DD and when they bite her, it often turns into an ordeal that leaves her with a scar.

When they do bite me, it is usually around my ankles, which is still rare. Maybe my ankles and feet smell better to them? Idk. But the “no seeums” drive me crazy. That’s usually around my ankles too, or my lower legs, but I can never see the pest that is bothering me. 

[flamingo]

Aug 11, 2024 16:06:18 GMT -5 NastyWoman said:

I'm watching the closing ceremonies of the Olympics and because of that I saw the medal ceremony for the women's marathon. I am baffled, baffle I tell you. Who knew there was a Dutch woman out there who thinks that if you go 26 miles you would run instead of just hopping on your bike? LOL

For the record, when I was much younger (like that running lady) riding our bikes >40 miles was quite common. We did not have a car until we moved to the US the first time when I was 28. I also walked a lot but running that far? NEVER

We’ve been cheering Hassan on through all her many Olympic running events. We were so excited that she won, and got an Olympic record today AFTER all the other running she did. So impressive! 

[CCL]

Aug 11, 2024 18:02:56 GMT -5 Pink Cashmere said:

WTH are these “no seeums” that apparently bite and make you scratch? I only learned the term “no seeums” here, and when I first saw it I knew exactly what it was referring to.

Mosquitoes don’t normally bite me. I can feel them flitting around my exposed skin, but I guess I don’t smell right to them to make them bite me, and I’m not mad bout it, even though I hope I smell decent or better to humans lol. They don’t tend to bite my Aunt either. But they LOVE my DD and when they bite her, it often turns into an ordeal that leaves her with a scar.

When they do bite me, it is usually around my ankles, which is still rare. Maybe my ankles and feet smell better to them? Idk. But the “no seeums” drive me crazy. That’s usually around my ankles too, or my lower legs, but I can never see the pest that is bothering me. 

Or could it be chiggers biting you?

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

Aug 11, 2024 17:02:37 GMT -5 Pink Cashmere said:

Mister is irritated with me that I let all of the plants that were on the deck die. My tomatoes, and even my lemon trees. 

We had to move it all onto the ground when we were having the deck repaired. Because it was all jumbled up together on the ground, Mister couldn’t cut the grass around all that stuff with the riding mower. The only way to cut that grass was with a weedeater. I can’t use the weedeater, because it is too heavy and makes my hands and shoulder hurt.

So the grass kept growing taller and taller, until I was afraid to even go out there and water stuff because one of those things could’ve been hiding in the tall grass. When I would ask Mister to go out there with me so I could tend to the plants, he would do it, but would huff and puff about it. 

Then I started having issues and not feeling well, so I just stopped tending to it, because that was just one more thing for me to deal with trying to get my nerves right about, and because the grass was so tall. So it all died. And I pretty much don’t even care. 

But he seems to care that I let everything die. Well sir, you knew what the issue was, that I was nervous about the grass being so high (almost to my knees right now) and if the plants were so important to you, maybe you could’ve cut the grass around them so I would’ve been more comfortable, watered them yourself, or at least not huff and puff when I asked you to go with me to tend to them. 

Yes, it’s a lot of time and money wasted because I stopped watering them, but it was MY time and money spent on them, so I really don’t get why he is so irritated with me about it. If he’d just cut the grass down with the weedeater like I kept asking him to, I would’ve kept tending to the plants. 

And as I was typing this NOW he’s out there with the weedeater, after it’s too late. I can’t make it make sense.

[Pink Cashmere]

Aug 11, 2024 18:10:25 GMT -5 CCL said:

Aug 11, 2024 18:02:56 GMT -5 Pink Cashmere said:

WTH are these “no seeums” that apparently bite and make you scratch? I only learned the term “no seeums” here, and when I first saw it I knew exactly what it was referring to.

Mosquitoes don’t normally bite me. I can feel them flitting around my exposed skin, but I guess I don’t smell right to them to make them bite me, and I’m not mad bout it, even though I hope I smell decent or better to humans lol. They don’t tend to bite my Aunt either. But they LOVE my DD and when they bite her, it often turns into an ordeal that leaves her with a scar.

When they do bite me, it is usually around my ankles, which is still rare. Maybe my ankles and feet smell better to them? Idk. But the “no seeums” drive me crazy. That’s usually around my ankles too, or my lower legs, but I can never see the pest that is bothering me. 

Or could it be chiggers biting you?

Chiggers are tiny red dots right? I’ve seen them on my IPad screen occasionally and flicked them off. 

If I am right about what chiggers look like, it’s possible that they are what is biting my ankles. But when I start itching and scratching, I don’t see any kind of insect. Maybe they have moved on by the time I feel like something bit me.

[Pink Cashmere]

So OD’s car just did a thing again. It’s daylight now, vs almost dark last night when the lights came on. It looked to me like the taillights were on and I walked across the driveway to get a closer look to be sure the taillights really were lit. When I got a few steps from the car, the lights went out, which was a very noticeable difference from the seconds prior when I thought they were on. 

I went and told Mister that something is clearly going on with OD’s car and described what I’d just seen. He called OD again, and she said again that she’s never seen it do that. But like Mister said to her, you wouldn’t notice it if you aren’t sitting outside.

If it happens again before I go inside tonight, I am going to call Mister to come outside so he can see it for himself. I might be crazy, but I’m not that kind of crazy, to be seeing things that aren’t actually happening. 

[azucena]

Pink - must be something in the air. DH got after me today that I haven't picked tomatoes or cleaned up the garden lately. Um, 95+ degrees is not gardening time bro. Garden work made me happy and lightened my mood in good weather so money well spent. Come July and Aug in stl, forget that shit.

[Cheesy FL-Vol]

The hummingbirds have been amusing the last few weeks. I think we are up to about a dozen now. I keep waiting for them to skewer each other with their pointy beaks. They do a lot of aerial fencing. 

My mom is still in the hospital. They still can’t figure out what started the chain of events.

Apparently, along with the immediate CT, they did indeed check for UTI, which was negative. CT came back normal as did the MRI. They did vein/artery ultrasounds to double check for clots.

BP and heart rate have normalized. Her blood sugar had been really low, and still not quite at a level they want to see. They did PT after I left, and that was also going to be an evaluation on possible short term rehab to regain strength she has lost over the last few days. We are working on ways for her to be able to stay here for a few weeks to regain strength and do follow up appointments with her before I bring her back to Florida.

[Opti]

Aug 11, 2024 17:02:37 GMT -5 Pink Cashmere said:

Mister is irritated with me that I let all of the plants that were on the deck die. My tomatoes, and even my lemon trees. 

We had to move it all onto the ground when we were having the deck repaired. Because it was all jumbled up together on the ground, Mister couldn’t cut the grass around all that stuff with the riding mower. The only way to cut that grass was with a weedeater. I can’t use the weedeater, because it is too heavy and makes my hands and shoulder hurt.

So the grass kept growing taller and taller, until I was afraid to even go out there and water stuff because one of those things could’ve been hiding in the tall grass. When I would ask Mister to go out there with me so I could tend to the plants, he would do it, but would huff and puff about it. 

Then I started having issues and not feeling well, so I just stopped tending to it, because that was just one more thing for me to deal with trying to get my nerves right about, and because the grass was so tall. So it all died. And I pretty much don’t even care. 

But he seems to care that I let everything die. Well sir, you knew what the issue was, that I was nervous about the grass being so high (almost to my knees right now) and if the plants were so important to you, maybe you could’ve cut the grass around them so I would’ve been more comfortable, watered them yourself, or at least not huff and puff when I asked you to go with me to tend to them. 

Yes, it’s a lot of time and money wasted because I stopped watering them, but it was MY time and money spent on them, so I really don’t get why he is so irritated with me about it. If he’d just cut the grass down with the weedeater like I kept asking him to, I would’ve kept tending to the plants. 

And as I was typing this NOW he’s out there with the weedeater, after it’s too late. I can’t make it make sense.

Maybe he can help with things he likes that you do? In my first marriage we had a bunch of beds around the house. XH wouldn't always water things, but I think he did pay attention. I know he loved the year we had Lupines on the back side of the sunporch.
And sure, he did most of the initial prep work, but I think when we briefly had a small indoor "greenhouse" for seed starting he watched those too. 

I hope you guys learn to talk more, meaning he really needs to talk to you instead of waiting until it goes pear shaped. XH wasn't the biggest talker but we both grew up with gardens in our backyard, so this was just a NJ version complicated by shade and soil. 

Much of the soil in NJ is clay and neither of us were used to that, so he rototilled in stuff for where I grew veggies by the garage and also the one time I did the bed by the sun porch. Now that I think on it I had stuff on all sides of the house but one. Might have been because of that neighbor. 

Pic of the kind of lupines we had.

[Pink Cashmere]

Aug 11, 2024 18:39:10 GMT -5 azucena said:

Pink - must be something in the air. DH got after me today that I haven't picked tomatoes or cleaned up the garden lately. Um, 95+ degrees is not gardening time bro. Garden work made me happy and lightened my mood in good weather so money well spent. Come July and Aug in stl, forget that shit.

The dead tomato plants have dozens of ripe tomatoes on them, and dozens of green ones. 

I am in such a bad place right now, that I can’t make myself care about any of it. 

Miater acknowledged that I am kind of crazy right now, a couple weeks ago when he asked if Mrs. T knew  I was feeling crazy. I asked him why he said that and what made him think I was having a crazy moment, and he waved his hand like “look at you”, and I couldn’t argue because I already knew I looked a mess, and that’s not my norm.

I have an appointment this week with a medical professional that can hopefully help me put myself back together again. 

But no matter how well that goes, the plants will still be dead lol. Idk what to do bout that other than to just try again next spring.

[Opti]

Crap, I think its bath time before I finish dinner. I wanted to pull the leggy blue aster off the sidewalk and prop it up a little. I had cheap stuff in the basement I wanted to try, but kept forgetting things so I used something that the maintenance people left for my garden closest to me.

Short version I put this piece of brick edging in, and it does the job of getting much of the aster off the sidewalk. But I get bitten. Not good. Go inside looking for my washcloth which apparently has fallen from the shower rod into the tub. I just grab the pile of it, put some bodywash on it to scrub my arm ... but the resident bathroom wasp was inside it! I think it may have stung me in the place I was trying to clean up and the other back side near my elbow. Looks like giant mosquitos attacked both places, but initially it was two itchy bumps on the inside of my elbow. Time to wash it all off and start again.

After making sure the bathroom is wasp free. That will teach me to garden near dark and not fully unfold my washcloth!

[resolution]

Aug 11, 2024 19:00:06 GMT -5 Pink Cashmere said:

Aug 11, 2024 18:39:10 GMT -5 azucena said:

Pink - must be something in the air. DH got after me today that I haven't picked tomatoes or cleaned up the garden lately. Um, 95+ degrees is not gardening time bro. Garden work made me happy and lightened my mood in good weather so money well spent. Come July and Aug in stl, forget that shit.

The dead tomato plants have dozens of ripe tomatoes on them, and dozens of green ones. 

I am in such a bad place right now, that I can’t make myself care about any of it. 

Miater acknowledged that I am kind of crazy right now, a couple weeks ago when he asked if Mrs. T knew  I was feeling crazy. I asked him why he said that and what made him think I was having a crazy moment, and he waved his hand like “look at you”, and I couldn’t argue because I already knew I looked a mess, and that’s not my norm.

I have an appointment this week with a medical professional that can hopefully help me put myself back together again. 

But no matter how well that goes, the plants will still be dead lol. Idk what to do bout that other than to just try again next spring.

At least you planted yours and got some good tomatoes out of them before they died. I didn't plant a garden this year, and I have lost count of how many people asked me what I planted and then were horribly disappointed with me for not planting anything at all. In fact, I disappointed some friends that were asking me about it at brunch this morning.

[minnesotapaintlady]

I had kind of a lazy day. We did do some housework, got Carrots shoes picked out (had to order them though because they didn't have his size) and walked the little lake, but then we called it quits and went to see Deadpool and Wolverine. Between the funnel cakes and cheese curds on Saturday and the mega-sized movie popcorn today I haven't been eating too healthy this weekend. Grilling salmon tonight to try and make up for it a little. 😉

[Cheesy FL-Vol]

Aug 11, 2024 19:00:06 GMT -5 Pink Cashmere said:

Aug 11, 2024 18:39:10 GMT -5 azucena said:

Pink - must be something in the air. DH got after me today that I haven't picked tomatoes or cleaned up the garden lately. Um, 95+ degrees is not gardening time bro. Garden work made me happy and lightened my mood in good weather so money well spent. Come July and Aug in stl, forget that shit.

The dead tomato plants have dozens of ripe tomatoes on them, and dozens of green ones. 

I am in such a bad place right now, that I can’t make myself care about any of it. 

Miater acknowledged that I am kind of crazy right now, a couple weeks ago when he asked if Mrs. T knew  I was feeling crazy. I asked him why he said that and what made him think I was having a crazy moment, and he waved his hand like “look at you”, and I couldn’t argue because I already knew I looked a mess, and that’s not my norm.

I have an appointment this week with a medical professional that can hopefully help me put myself back together again. 

But no matter how well that goes, the plants will still be dead lol. Idk what to do bout that other than to just try again next spring.

[Opti]

Aug 11, 2024 19:00:06 GMT -5 Pink Cashmere said:

Aug 11, 2024 18:39:10 GMT -5 azucena said:

Pink - must be something in the air. DH got after me today that I haven't picked tomatoes or cleaned up the garden lately. Um, 95+ degrees is not gardening time bro. Garden work made me happy and lightened my mood in good weather so money well spent. Come July and Aug in stl, forget that shit.

The dead tomato plants have dozens of ripe tomatoes on them, and dozens of green ones. 

I am in such a bad place right now, that I can’t make myself care about any of it. 

Miater acknowledged that I am kind of crazy right now, a couple weeks ago when he asked if Mrs. T knew  I was feeling crazy. I asked him why he said that and what made him think I was having a crazy moment, and he waved his hand like “look at you”, and I couldn’t argue because I already knew I looked a mess, and that’s not my norm.

I have an appointment this week with a medical professional that can hopefully help me put myself back together again. 

But no matter how well that goes, the plants will still be dead lol. Idk what to do bout that other than to just try again next spring.

Can't he just pick the ripe tomatoes and bring them in? Put the better green ones on the window sill. My XH would have asked out couple friends for advice and I admit one of them really steered him wrong once ...  But man as a father and a man who wanted to marry you, I am disappointed he isn't helping cleaning things up AND supporting you as well.

[Opti]

Aug 11, 2024 19:20:48 GMT -5 minnesotapaintlady said:

I had kind of a lazy day. We did do some housework, got Carrots shoes picked out (had to order them though because they didn't have his size) and walked the little lake, but then we called it quits and went to see Deadpool and Wolverine. Between the funnel cakes and cheese curds on Saturday and the mega-sized movie popcorn today I haven't been eating too healthy this weekend. Grilling salmon tonight to try and make up for it a little. 😉

How did you like the movie? Its on my list.

[Pink Cashmere]

Aug 11, 2024 18:47:37 GMT -5 Opti said:

Aug 11, 2024 17:02:37 GMT -5 Pink Cashmere said:

Mister is irritated with me that I let all of the plants that were on the deck die. My tomatoes, and even my lemon trees. 

We had to move it all onto the ground when we were having the deck repaired. Because it was all jumbled up together on the ground, Mister couldn’t cut the grass around all that stuff with the riding mower. The only way to cut that grass was with a weedeater. I can’t use the weedeater, because it is too heavy and makes my hands and shoulder hurt.

So the grass kept growing taller and taller, until I was afraid to even go out there and water stuff because one of those things could’ve been hiding in the tall grass. When I would ask Mister to go out there with me so I could tend to the plants, he would do it, but would huff and puff about it. 

Then I started having issues and not feeling well, so I just stopped tending to it, because that was just one more thing for me to deal with trying to get my nerves right about, and because the grass was so tall. So it all died. And I pretty much don’t even care. 

But he seems to care that I let everything die. Well sir, you knew what the issue was, that I was nervous about the grass being so high (almost to my knees right now) and if the plants were so important to you, maybe you could’ve cut the grass around them so I would’ve been more comfortable, watered them yourself, or at least not huff and puff when I asked you to go with me to tend to them. 

Yes, it’s a lot of time and money wasted because I stopped watering them, but it was MY time and money spent on them, so I really don’t get why he is so irritated with me about it. If he’d just cut the grass down with the weedeater like I kept asking him to, I would’ve kept tending to the plants. 

And as I was typing this NOW he’s out there with the weedeater, after it’s too late. I can’t make it make sense.

Maybe he can help with things he likes that you do? In my first marriage we had a bunch of beds around the house. XH wouldn't always water things, but I think he did pay attention. I know he loved the year we had Lupines on the back side of the sunporch.
And sure, he did most of the initial prep work, but I think when we briefly had a small indoor "greenhouse" for seed starting he watched those too. 

I hope you guys learn to talk more, meaning he really needs to talk to you instead of waiting until it goes pear shaped. XH wasn't the biggest talker but we both grew up with gardens in our backyard, so this was just a NJ version complicated by shade and soil. 

Much of the soil in NJ is clay and neither of us were used to that, so he rototilled in stuff for where I grew veggies by the garage and also the one time I did the bed by the sun porch. Now that I think on it I had stuff on all sides of the house but one. Might have been because of that neighbor. 

Pic of the kind of lupines we had.

We have several flowerbeds around our house. Mister is okay with me planting stuff in the flowerbeds and trying to grow whatever I want to try to grow, but his “okay” stops short of helping me tend to any of it. Even if that just means helping to keep up with watering. 

That is why I started trying to figure out low maintenance stuff to plant in the flowerbeds. I am lazy myself, so I looked for things that could survive where we live, without a lot of attention after they got established. But it still caused a lot of tension trying to get those plants to where they didn’t need as much attention. 

Then a couple years ago, he used some kind of herbicide that killed everything I’d planted, PLUS the irises that were already planted before we moved here, that had such pretty flowers to me. I was BIG MAD when I learned what he’d done, and I think I was more upset about him killing the irises than the stuff I’d planted myself. I didn’t even know what kind of flower it was the first couple of years we lived her, I just knew I loved what the flowers looked like, and I looked forward to seeing them in spring. I was SO mad when I learned that he had killed them, even more mad than I was about him killing all the stuff I’d planted.

So that is why I stopped planting landscaping type plants, and went in another direction with trying to grow vegetables. 

I can see in my mind how the flowerbeds on the front of the house can be beautiful, but I’m not willing to spend my time and money on making it all that it could be. Especially not since Mister has proven that he’d rather not be bothered with helping things get established and so much has happened that I’m not even sure of how much longer I will live here.

[giramomma]

Aug 11, 2024 17:25:46 GMT -5 Cheesy FL-Vol said:

Aug 11, 2024 17:20:55 GMT -5 giramomma said:

We just hiked like 2.5 miles. I have to cook dinner now.

Blech.

That would be a no-cook sandwich night for me.

Or even fruit, nuts, cheese and whatever else is good with that needing no cooking. 

I promised DD1 I'd make something she asked for. It didn't take long. And we had salad and carrots. It was also a planned leftover for lunch tomorrow.

I have to pack lunch now, 3 days a week.

And, I'll probably need to cook more. We need to cut down eating out to twice a month. And the bar is pretty low. Me cooking anything is cooking more.

[Opti]

I hear you, Pink. I started with low maintenance in the front yard, spring bulbs. I ended with trying my one and only perennial bed. I don't think he realized or got I was leaving for good until I did.

Covid upended my world, and I am still clawing my way back. I am on my way as long as I remember its possible and not to get sad from all the setbacks. I believe in you. I wish he could be the adult man you deserve and more importantly the man I would think he should be trying to be. He's selling himself and his daughters short. Maybe he should start watching Gov Walz speak.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

My garden got shot to hell this year. First it was insanely wet. Then it's been record heat

The weeds went nuts. My herbs got sick and died from drowning in rain. 🥺

I'll try again next year. I'm waiting for it to get cool enough I can spend an entire day yanking out weeds.

The ones in front of the house are perennials so they'll come back.

I only lost what I put in my boxes which wasn't a lot.

Didn't get to doing vegetables.

I had great success with lettuce in my hydroponic indoor garden. I'm going to get supplies for herbs and see if I can get it going so I can have them year round.

[toomuchreality]

Aug 11, 2024 18:39:41 GMT -5 Cheesy FL-Vol said:

The hummingbirds have been amusing the last few weeks. I think we are up to about a dozen now. I keep waiting for them to skewer each other with their pointy beaks. They do a lot of aerial fencing. 

My mom is still in the hospital. They still can’t figure out what started the chain of events.

Apparently, along with the immediate CT, they did indeed check for UTI, which was negative. CT came back normal as did the MRI. They did vein/artery ultrasounds to double check for clots.

BP and heart rate have normalized. Her blood sugar had been really low, and still not quite at a level they want to see. They did PT after I left, and that was also going to be an evaluation on possible short term rehab to regain strength she has lost over the last few days. We are working on ways for her to be able to stay here for a few weeks to regain strength and do follow up appointments with her before I bring her back to Florida.

I'm sorry, they haven't found the reason.
Was she feeling stressed, when it happened?

Years ago (I was in my 40s, I think), I felt fine. Took my new ferret to get a check up, so I could have her at my apt. Things got stressful for me and by the time I got back to my car, I couldn't drive, or even figure out how to use my phone!
Scared me to death!
The manager of my Apts, brought the assistant manager and they came, got me, my ferret and my car. She told me to go home and go to bed. I did.
By the next day, I was okay. Not great, but okay.
It was so drastic and happened so fast!
The only thing I could figure out, was I got really stressed, at the vet. It has never happened again.

I really hope your mom will be okay.

[countrygirl2]

Dinner was so good. I tried to bring all my cooking supplies over here but wouldn't you know, I left oil. I went through the cabinet and found sesame seed oil I bought for some recipe I never tried. So I cooked a few slices of bacon first, than added the sesame oil and fried the pork chops in it. I made gravy from the oil too and it was so good. We ate every bite of what I had cooked. I need to be more adventurous in cooking. Our was mashed yellow yukons with irish butter and some milk, milk gravy seasoned with pork chop leavings and chops.

I went to the other house and loaded my car down and brought the stuff home and put it away. Some went in the trash can. I unloaded a few more boxes here too. Hubs made me stop as my feet were killing me, he said tomorrow is another day. So tonight I'm done. It's supposed to get in the 50's tonight, I'm thinking of turning the furnace on to 60 tonight.

Like I knew a lot of these boxes don't contain a lot, but I need to get all this put away or set aside for the yard sale here. There's a lot we are getting rid of in the other house here we just don't need 2 and 3 of everything.

By the way the lady that lived here was an artist. She had paintings hung all over the hobby room. They said she exhibited a lot and also had some in galleries. I saw some and they were beautiful, so I'm sure all the color came from her. I would have never had the nerve, but we have it now and it is really cheerful.

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My whole yard and garden looks like crap this year too, except for one bed that has recovered stunningly well. Between the roof guys, the siding removal guys, the stucco guys, a tree that died (unrelated to all that chaos), record heat and drought, I'm surprised anything is still alive. I can't finish replanting until DH finishes painting all the trim, but since it's been over 100 regularly, I'm not pushing on that. He's also doing something to the windows as he goes.

And that's another thing. About half of our window screens got tears. I didn't notice until after I was paid up, but we've got to fix that too.

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Aug 11, 2024 20:07:42 GMT -5 toomuchreality said:

Aug 11, 2024 18:39:41 GMT -5 Cheesy FL-Vol said:

The hummingbirds have been amusing the last few weeks. I think we are up to about a dozen now. I keep waiting for them to skewer each other with their pointy beaks. They do a lot of aerial fencing. 

My mom is still in the hospital. They still can’t figure out what started the chain of events.

Apparently, along with the immediate CT, they did indeed check for UTI, which was negative. CT came back normal as did the MRI. They did vein/artery ultrasounds to double check for clots.

BP and heart rate have normalized. Her blood sugar had been really low, and still not quite at a level they want to see. They did PT after I left, and that was also going to be an evaluation on possible short term rehab to regain strength she has lost over the last few days. We are working on ways for her to be able to stay here for a few weeks to regain strength and do follow up appointments with her before I bring her back to Florida.

I'm sorry, they haven't found the reason.
Was she feeling stressed, when it happened?

Years ago (I was in my 40s, I think), I felt fine. Took my new ferret to get a check up, so I could have her at my apt. Things got stressful for me and by the time I got back to my car, I couldn't drive, or even figure out how to use my phone!
Scared me to death!
The manager of my Apts, brought the assistant manager and they came, got me, my ferret and my car. She told me to go home and go to bed. I did.
By the next day, I was okay. Not great, but okay.
It was so drastic and happened so fast!
The only thing I could figure out, was I got really stressed, at the vet. It has never happened again.

I really hope your mom will be okay.

Scary. Could it have been heatstroke?