I'm up & ready to get attum, and that'll last a very short while!  Got a couple roast to put in the oven, just part of one. Chuck roast same price as eye of round roast so Tiger will enjoy fresh meat today. She let me know last night what I cut for her supper was getting old smelling so the rest of that was cut up & out for the little kitties that check the dish every so often. They need to be caught & "fixed" but not by me.

For right now I am going to get that old cast iron dutch oven out & get the house warm & smelling good. Going to get tags & pay tax for the vehicles when that office opens and see what the rest of the day brings, I'm sure a nap. Tiger wasn't ready to get up but she came on into the kitchen/family room with me, zonked out on the couch in here as I type. Totally dark but the pool lights are on & so happy to have the cover on & pool winterized for a few months. Better get moving. Wishing all a Happy Day!

Good morning...

Dark out there!! We are off this morning to get our flu shot this morning.
 The bring Kyle home and back in I go to get my hair cut. I can see this is going to be a day where little gets done. Have tri tips to put in the crockpot with onion soup mix,potatoes,turnip,carrots and I will pull some parsnips to go in also. Made a trifle yesterday and that is dessert..

Shirley ,I cooked up lean hamburg for these furkids and will put some plus carrots that I cooked in their bowl along with their kibble and they clean that up fast!

Patricia, we are to get 3 more days of rain here but some of that could come in the form of snow they say.

Enjoy your day and stay safe..

Good Morning Everyfriend!  I've been up and attem for a while.  Cooper has arrived and had his breakfast and is now begging mine.  When we're finished, we'll go for a walk if it's light out there.  It's staying dark longer and longer these days...cold, too!

I'm not sure what's on the schedule for today.  I'm just going to take the day as it comes.  And I'm going to try to finish my library book.  It's in the "what's on the next page" time!  There's not much left and the the mystery has to to solve soon!

I wish you all good day...better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow!

Amy, I usually put carrots & potatoes in my roast but since I was going back to sleep I didn't get up mid-way to add. Darn smoke alarm battery woke me up too early & as I listened to it, knew my short ladder was in the basement yet. Tried the little Coleman folding camp stool I keep in the kitchen for the high shelves & it worked! Battery kept on reminding so eventually I hauled the stinker off to the back door & it was still kept yelping until I explained it was getting on my nerves & it shut up! Honest, it did!

Gotta get dressed & head to the tax office. Hope it's not a super busy day, I've sat for hours to get this job done other years. It used to be a savings to do this in person and now they charge extra. Trouble is I hate having a credit card on the loose but not comfy with mailing a check & producing the insurance cards, etc. So I do it in person, dumb me. I will be back for those needed hours of sleep! Enjoy your day.

Good morning, 28 and clear so far, and it won't get that much further today.

Yesterday, I worked on clearing out my files, 2013 through 2017, and I hope to become current today. I've gotten headaches, so I started running the humidifier during the day, as it makes a big difference, and Farrah appreciates not being shocked at a touch.

I've also got a chicken I want to use in a Moroccan dish. Last week, I tried an Indian butter chicken dish but wasn't impressed as it was very oily. I also made quite a dent in the Medjool dates I tried; not something I usually keep on hand, but they were so good!

During our morning round of calls and texts, I was sorry to hear that two more couples had their house and lands for sale. They plan on buying in town as they worry about being unable to get medical or other help quickly in the ridges and foothills. And with the past years' historic landsides and heavy snowfalls, they fear being stranded.

Good morning everyone. weel me and my all thumbe, I hit something wrong and lost my ready to post, and can not fiend it. well I was saying Nacy went to get her hearing aids tuned up. I went to bed Late Last night and I slept in late again.we Have bright sun and 34º now. the high weinds day before yesterday broke two big limbs off of it,so now it looks flat sided. so me or sil will have to get  tractor out and pull them out back and saw them up and piel them on the compost pile. we had some peaches go bad before we got them processed, so we threw them on the compost pile.that is how deaughter got there apple trees started she threw the scraps out on a srrap pile and they sproughted and grew some appel treas. Have a good day see you all later.

Lloyd

well I am a bit earley. I fell asleep watching the butub. have had a good meal. awhile ago. the onley one today. has been a mixed up day , I am still tired, those TV naps dosent rest one good. I have had my evening Meds, all left to do is take my 16 milagrame's of insalin shot. so i think I will go take it and go to bed. see you all tomorow. good night and sweet dreams.the eleargey's has me snezzing my head off.

Lloyd

I'm ready for the haystack!  It was a good day today.  I'm out of canned Chicken
Corn Soup so I found some already cooked chicken in the freezer and took a couple jars of canned chicken broth and some onions and carrots  and corn from the freezer and made up a pot of chicken corn soup.  I had a nice bowl of it for supper and I'll can the rest tomorrow afternoon.  I have a dr. appt in the morning.

 I think I overdid on the reading yesterday because my eyes have been a bit cloudy all day today!  I guess I'll have to remember that in the future!

PATRICIA, it's supposed to go down to freezing one night this week and the we're supposed to have a couple of days in the 50s.  That's a typical Fall for around here.

I rooted out my gloves for taking doggie walks today.  My hads nearly dropped of in the freezing weather this morning!

Now I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow and may God bless us, every one!

Here I am again, another almost 3 hour night. Had pancakes & coffee & ready to go back to bed. Been thinking about this routine and remember my mother had a saying, "Once a man and twice a child".... could it be that the body is back to that baby schedule of getting fed every 3 or 4 hours? Sure fits the time-line!  At least no smoke alarm batteries going bad, think I have about every monitor unplugged now! Can't figure how to get the batteries out of the carbon monoxide detector, says to check manual and no clue where that might be, guessing it's probably just over a year old. It's below freezing out, I gave up & turned on the furnace, bones were shivering! Supposed to be back in the 80s this week so #1 son thinks it's not time to cover the AC. Summer ain't over till it's over!  Have an appointment for the echocardiogram mid morning but not exactly sure which end of the hospital complex to find it. I asked but the lady on the phone wasn't sure herself! I'm not up to walking back & forth, that's the problem we're trying to solve!   And so it goes!

Good morning...

We are on the road to the city this morning. Kyle has a bone density appointment. While in the city we will pick up his planer blades as they are now sharpened and ready to come home.

Another rainy day so that makes it easier on the eyes to travel. Arm was a bit sore yesterday but is fine today..all shots done  for now.

Better scurry and get ready .

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

Good Morning Everyfriend!  Cooper has arrived and had his breakfast and now he's ready for his morning walk.  When we come back, I need to get myself ready for a dr. appt this morning at 10:30.  It's the eye dr.

When I get back, I'll be canning the chicken corn soup!  I wish you all a good day...better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow!

Good Morning everyone. well we are down to 22º this morning not a cloud in sight. My VA device is all wet this morning. I had my cuff on same way as as i always do. and it said device, needs to re check your readings.I always hold my hand on it to keep it from moveing while getting the readings. it tells me to put it on my upper arm over bare skin, and have it at least 1 above the bend of my elbow. that is not possiable, my arm is not long enough to do that. I hold my hand on it to makke sure i do not moove with it while takeing the readings, and it said device needs to re check your vitials. It always,tells me at least 8 out of ten times to re do. Nancye is haveing one bad days all choked up. we have one of those veiperizers but have not been useing it. I told her to get the vix stuff for it ,she said she dose have it, so I told her we need to start useing it, it would help us both with our breathing. Have a good day and I will check back leater on today.

Lloyd

As I look out my window at dense white fog, I turn back to the weather report that tells me it's 29 and partly cloudy at 10:22 AM. It also tells me we have 100% humidity; hmmm... what is wrong with those statements?

Yesterday I organized up to early 2022 from my file storage boxes. After completing that, I expect to add new folders to my new file cabinet. I live such an exciting life.

Amy, I was fine for the first two Covid vaccinations, the third temporarily made my arm sore, and the fourth was about the same and a feeling of tiredness. I didn't get the flu shot, and I haven't since that horrible reaction in 1985 when I had a three-week case of the flu, my first and only flu and flu shot.

Good aftrrnoon. well we Had a very good day, our deaughter is here and we worked up appels for the freezer and pies.the appels are all gon for this season. see ypo all later.

Lloyd

Good evening.well I have a good store to tell you all( true) I peeled and sliced the apples,with a appel hand machine, we have, now for the stoire, Oure 12 year old grand deaughter, Made from scratch the crust from scratch and put the pie togather,the top crust she cut strips and cris crosed them. her mother has tought her how to do this. she had it all in her head no rsepie book or notes. the pie was as good as my wife or her mother could have done. if I soun like bragging I am, how more luckie can a old man be to have grand children like this. our deaughter and oldest gret grand deaughter are teaher quelified. our grand deaughter is a coulencer and teacher at  sherwood  public school. our deaughter Is home schooling our grands at home. she holdes classes and gives them a recass just like the would have at publick school, but the + is no drugs or cruption there. too bad more of us cant do the same. children are not born bad they just get it by what is all around us. and we have plenty to go around and some

Lloyd

Lloyd, --- Good for your grand daughter. Smart girl.

Good Evening Everyfriend!  And Good Night, too!

LLOYD, you have a very talented family!  You can be very proud of them!

I went to the eye dr. and when I got there to check in they said that someone had called and cancelled my appointment.  It could only have been me or daughter Cathy and both of us were standing there wondering how it got cancelled.  Now I have to go back in November for this appt.  I still can't figure it out!

When I got home I started canning the Chicken Corn Soup and I have 8 pints ready to be wiped, labeled and put on the shelf!  Tomorrow I'll do the rest of it.  I'm thinking maybe 6 more jars.  We always used say our Mother was canning things that we could eat "when the snow flies".  Soup is a good thing to have handy "when the snow flies"!

I'm finishing up for the day and then heading for the haystack!  So I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow.  And may God bless us, every one!

Quote from: JaneS on October 19, 2022, 08:59:32 PMI went to the eye dr. and when I got there to check in they said that someone had called and cancelled my appointment.  It could only have been me or daughter Cathy and both of us were standing there wondering how it got cancelled.  Now I have to go back in November for this appt.  I still can't figure it out!

Bet someone cancelled the wrong appointment.

I am sheepishly coming in tonight to say HELLO and let you know I am still alive and kicking.  No need to try to tell you what all has been going on, other than to say we have been very busy. 

We are currently doggie sitting for Dr. Dave.  He and the kiddos are in So. Cali visiting friends for a few days.  This is the first time that Mönch, the Bernedoodle  has ever been to our house.  Our Smokey Cat is not thrilled to have them here, but they are all doing well together.

Good to see that EVERYFRIEND seems to be doing well.

Sleep well.

Jenny

It's now 9 pm, and that fog outside is as dense as it was late last night and all through the day. People were asked to drive cautiously, pay attention and keep their headlights on. We were told it would dissipate at various times during the day, and now they're shooting for midnight or early tomorrow.

What is odd about the fog, besides unusual behavior and totally (no accompanying rain or snow and 100% humidity in a very arid arctic zone), unheard of at this time of year, is that everyone is seemingly accepting it as simply one more thing nature is giving us.

Good morning..
Weather gal said an S word...and we may get it NOW... We are ready with the snlowblower gased and snow tires on .
Yesterday was hectic picking up itmes for us and friends. Jane I picked up Bernardin lids got 30 boxes........some for us some for others.  The other lids they are selling are garbage, I had 3 buckle up on me.

Lots to do today,just hope my get up and go stays with me. Need to make another pot of soup ,maybe meatball bean soup.

Lloyd,you are blessed with smart children and grands!!

Patricia, I don't like driving in fog....

Jenny good to see you..

Better get a shimmy on..

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

Good Morning Everyfriend!  The weather is "brrrr" cold out there.  It down to 33º overnight...not quite freezing but COLD!

RICK, I was thinking the same thing about the cancellation.  The have 2 new girls on the desk and they asked a lot of questions while we stood there waiting.

JENNY, so nice to see you!  Watching the doggies is a nice thing to do.  I keep my great-granddoggie, Cooper every day that Frankie works and he fills a gap.  Right now he's sitting there begging for his morning walk.  I guess I better get my shoes on and take him. 

When we get back, I'll finish up the chicken corn soup!

AMY, please keep that s**w up there!

I wish you all a good day...better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow!

Good morning everyone, thanks for all the good coments, and yes i am blessed with good or great Kin folks. we have clear skyes and temp of37º this morning. we have a room vapeorizer. but it has gon bonkers.so to walley wourld this morning to get a new one, hope theystill have them in stock. Nancy and I both are haveing hard tim breathing on our owen. Have a great day, see you all later on again today.

Lloyd

Good afternoon, It is almost2;45 PM. 73ºand sunney. AMY if you can figuer out how to plese send some of that rain our way we are in drought mode. we shure could use some of that liquiad sun shine. I got my humidifyer out and took it all apart and spent at leate two Hours cleaning it up. with Nancy's help we got it all cleaned up and put back togather. and it is working fine warm vaper comming out of it.we just filled it with tap watter. but we are going to dump whet ever is left tonight at bed time. and fill it with distilled watter Nancy is a pinne piencer. she was haleiring about that. But i told here she can't take it with her when god calles her #. I think we both will feal better sleeping with the humidifyer running at our bed side. the high weinds the other day took two big up right sections off of our beautfual tree out front the other day. the tree is sure not pretty like it was befor, with that flat side on it. I wish I knw how to take pictuers of it and post them where I could show them to you all. I would take one from this side and one 90 degrees form the other side and show you. makes me half sick.

Lloyd

Another day is over and I'm ready for the haystack!  It was beautiful sunshine here but brrrrr, cold!  Cooper and I did our three walks and he did a bit extra on one of them.  He decided to go around another circle so I indulged him.

The chicken corn soup is all done!  The first batch is labeled and put away and the second one is waity for tomorrow to be cleaned up, labeled and stored!  It's a bit different this time because I used what I had in the fridge and freezer but it sure hits the spot!  I've had two bowls and Frankie took one home for her supper last night!.

Tonight I made a tater tot casserole for supper and that really hit the spot!  And it'll be there tomorrow, too.  Wonder if Frankie might like to take some of that for her supper tomorrow night?  Guess I'll ask her!

I hope you all had a good day today.  I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow.  And may God bless us, every one!

What Gender is the Computer?

A language teacher was explaining to her class that in French, nouns unlike their English counterparts, are grammatically designated as masculine or feminine.

'"House" in French, is feminine - "la maison", while "pencil" in French is masculine - "le crayon."'

One puzzled student asked, "What gender is a computer?"

The teacher thought it would be a good exercise to have the students decide what they thought the gender should be. So she split the class into two groups appropriately enough, by gender and asked them to decide whether "computer" should be a masculine or a feminine noun.

The men's group decided that computer should definitely be of the feminine gender ("la computer"), because:

1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic.

2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else.

3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for possible later review.

4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you constantly find yourself spending more money on accessories for it.

The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be masculine "le computer") because:

1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on.

2. They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves.

3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem.

4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer you could have gotten a better model!

Good Morning  patricia19 and anyone else that show up. well after all the head knocks I had in o14 I do not reamber verry well, And Nancy dose much better job Of reambering than I do, I dont forget I just cant reamber when I need to. well Iam up ate the last pice of apple Pie that grand deaughter Made the other day. taken my vitials and sent them on to VA via sadilite. we are at 50º and clear here this Morning. ready to get the day started. Hope you all have a good one just like you like.

Lloyd

Good Morning Everyfriend!  It's cold here!  My information says that the temp. got down in the "freezing" zone overnight!  I'm not ready for this!

PATRICIA, thanks for my wake-up laugh of the day!  I loved the information about the computers and I think I agree with all of it.  Therefore, my computer now has dual Gender!  It's a "male-female" computer!

I'm waiting for Cooper's arrival and it's imminent so I might have to leave and go meet him and he always needs his breakfast when he gets here!  She doesn't take the time to feed him and that seems to be alright with him!  So we have our breakfast together.

I'm not sure what's on the agenda for today but I know one thing I have to do is move out the sofa and clean under it.  I dropped my fork last night and when I got down to get it, I found some missing items under the sofa.  I also found some dirt.  So it will get cleaned under there.  Unfortnately, it doesn't get moved often enough and now it yelling for attention.  Don't tell daughter Cathy that I moved the sofa.  She'll have a fit!

I wish you all a good day...better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow!

P.S.  Good Morning, LLOYD!

Good morning...

Well ,no snow here but to the north of us they did get snow!! My friend called to say her vehicle had a blanket of snow on it. Yet we are to get high temps come this weekend ,up into the 60's!!

I don't know who (must be a gremlin as Lloyd would say) is filling the laundry basket but it needs to be emptied today.

Jane,I don't know who enjoys the visit more, you or Cooper!

Patricia,I am going to share that one!!

Enjoy your day and stay safe..