VIP Saturday August 5th

[tasty]

Good morning all.

The rain and storms predicted for yesterday came to nothing and this morning the sun Is trying to shine.  Temperature is about  60 and will head to high 70s.  An OK  summer day.  It's also a long weekend in Ontario altho as we live in a tourist area it doesn't make much difference here.  Most stores will be open but banks, govt, offices etc will be closed on Monday.  And of course for those of us not in the work force any more, it really doesn't affect us - if we even remember it 🤔.

My only plan for today is to bake some blueberry loaves for tomorrow's market.

Have a super Saturday.

[plantdoctor]

[plantdoctor]

Good morning everyone.  It is 62º and going to 85º later.  Yesterday they predicted a chance of pop up showers here and there.  Well, about 5:30 we got one of those 'showers'.  It poured for 45 minutes and we ended up getting 3 inches of rain!  OMG...what a blessing that was for us!  Coming that quickly, I know some ran off, but I know some soaked in because my flowers are standing tall this morning and the grass is visibly greener than it's been.

Yesterday I took Lair to his appointments and wrapped the neighbor lady's legs when we got home.  I managed to get the kitchen cleaned up and 2 loads of laundry done.

Today I am going with a friend to Rochester, MN.  What fun it will be sitting in the passenger's seat of a car....lol.

Tasty...Thanks for opening....once again we had the same thought at the same time.  What is the holiday in Canada this weekend?  

Happy Saturday to all.  Charlene

[tasty]

There really is no reason for the holiday in August.  It was introduced many years ago, the reason given at the time was just to add an extra holiday during the summer months.  There already was a long weekend or holiday in May, July and September.

[Marlene]

Charlene, glad you got rain.  Ours is supposed to come today/tomorrow.  We shall see. Right now we are about 5" below normal and in a severe drought situation.
An enjoyable lunch with my 2 sisters yesterday.  We meet at a restaurant about midpoint for all of us.  For me that means driving 90 minutes.  I don't mind.
The grandson of a very good friend did the donor honor walk yesterday.  This young man had flown black-hawk Apache helicopters 2 tours of duty in Afghanistan only to be killed while flying a crop-dusting airplane. So so sad. If you wish to know more the donor walk of honor, type "2023 donor walk of honor" in your search bar.  It is quite moving.  Even though he was technically dead, the hospital kept him alive until recipient's could be found for all that he was donating.
Today daughter Beth and I will be freezing sweet corn for the upcoming year. Once you've tasted frozen homegrown sweet corn, you will never buy the frozen in stores.
Marlene

[flowerpowerz5]

Good morning. Feels like the humidity went down from yesterday. Got my storm door replaced and in. Jason and I had some laughs doing the job. I'm glad to have him as a friend. Now to clean the glass on the door and other marks. Not a big deal. 

I have a few things to do around here today. Mowing the yard is on my list. There is a park in town that is having bands all day and at some point I'd like to go. 

Ydd will either call me today or tomorrow she started a new job this past Monday so wondering how that went. 

Have a good day.

[mnwildflowers]

Good morning. 59 and quite breezy. I should open up the house. The humidity is 79% which is low for this early so maybe will continue to go down. High says 81 and a chance of rain tonight in to tomorrow. Yesterday it was looking like 1/2”-1”, but now it says 1/10” so not very beneficial. We are still in the 6-9” needed to recover category. We are going to have below normal temps after today. Our camping trip will be cool. Temp around 70/50L, and a high of 60 the day we leave.

The ac guy thinks our thermostat shorted out when the furnace blew the fuse. So we need a new thermostat. Another $100. Home depot might be out of the one we have now but really no rush since the weather will cool down and won’t need it for a while. If we do we can just flip the switch on the furnace.

Not sure what we are doing today. We need to defrost the fridge before they come Monday to fix it. Will be good to have that taken care of. Really just taking the day as it comes.

Hope everyone has a good day.

[tasty]

Some down time would be nice Melissa.

[SunshineFL10a]

Good morning all! 88° and sunny. I weeded in my garden this morning. After the sun began its decent yesterday I went back to finish the area I started working in that morning.

Off to the pool next. After lunch I have no definite plans. I won't be doing much outside work until Monday mornin. If it cools off later and there's a little breeze, I may weed more in my zinnia patch.

Have a great Saturday no matter your plans.

[sonny2u2]

Good afternoon, unexpected going out to breakfast and some shopping this morning. When someone wants you to go to breakfast with them who can say no. I need to get the rest of the stuff into the freezer and quit putting it off by going to breakfast. Have a good day.

[luvmyb_b]

 I am whipped and it isn't even noon. One would think that taking 10, yes, I said 10, Prednisone pills this morning would give me energy. That really hasn't been the case. Maybe, though, circumstances prevailed. Probably ought to back up, huh?

I saw the CNP at the dermatologist's office yesterday. I stressed for nothing getting to her office because it was pretty easy to find. She is a sweetheart! I can't say she really had a diagnosis for me. We talked about my histamines being out of whack for some reason. It is possible that we may not know why. She does call what I have hives, not a rash. My treatment plan is for me to take Claritin every day. I am also doing the Prednisone again. She said I wasn't on it long enough or a high enough dosage before. I started out taking 10 pills today, and then I decrease the pills by 1 day until the pills are gone. I read the pill bottle and the instruction sheet I got from the office, but was still wigged out by taking that many pills all at once. Nowhere did it say to take them sporadically and before when I took them I was specifically told to take them all at once, SO I did that again this morning. And did I ever pray after doing it! 😇 So far, so good. 

Shortly after I took the pills, DH tried to test his blood sugar and couldn't get the meter to work. I changed the batteries and we wasted tons of test strips to no avail. So, off I went to Kroger to get a new meter and test strips. Ugh! I wasn't crazy about driving after taking the pills not knowing how my body would react, but DH needed to have his glucose reading done. Came home and tried the new meter (that was supposed to come with batteries but didn't). Good thing I had spare batteries on hand! The first couple of times DH tried, he got the same problem with that meter. Weird stuff. It appeared he had enough blood on the strip, but it didn't look particularly dark. I don't know if that mattered or not. I had him try a different finger where he got darker blood and finally a reading. It was decent, but I had no way of knowing that until we got the meter working. 

Because that wasn't enough stress (I am going to check with the CNP about the hives maybe being stress related. I forgot about that yesterday), I was watching TV in the family room when I heard DH yell from the backyard. He decided he was going to take care of a hole in the yard David told him about when he mowed last. We bought a bag of top soil that I figured would be plenty. Apparently, DH stepped into, tripped, and fell after he found a secondary hole near the first one. I had jokingly told him when he said he was going outside to not fall, never dreaming he actually would. He is 6'3" and weighs 265lbs. How was I ever going to get him up?!? His answer was to call or text our nephew who is a paramedic. I did reach him, but he is in Michigan with his DM. His recommendation was to call 911. I didn't want to do that unless we absolutely had to. Through the grace of God, sweat, and determination we got him off the ground. I hauled a wrought iron chair to him that he has used in the past to help him up when he has fallen. He wanted my garden kneeler also because that was a little lower to the ground. Our biggest problem was he didn't feel like he could roll over onto his stomach and push himself up to hold onto anything to get himself up. He had all kinds of excuses why he couldn't. His left side wouldn't work because of his past stroke (in his mind), which has left him with diminished use of that side, not no use. I kept trying to get him to roll over onto his stomach so he could help himself up. He kept thinking he couldn't. That made no sense to me. If his arm wasn't strong enough or his leg wouldn't move the way he wanted it to was one thing, but not being able to roll over was odd. When he finally did roll over onto his stomach and pushed himself up, he was able to grasp the chair and pull himself up. He had gone out into the yard without his cane, so I had to go fetch that for him. From now on, he cannot go out into the grass anymore. Our ground is too dippy and holey for someone as unbalanced as he is on flat ground. I went out after he came in the house to see what I could do. I saw that we are going to need a load of dirt brought in to level that area out. We took out a huge maple tree years ago and the ground is settling in quite a bit in that spot. Life is rarely one thing at a time it seems. That would be too easy. 

Perhaps a good thing that may happen today is that Nicky texted me last night and said he would try to get here today. He's in the process of moving so he has been really busy and missed my text the other night until it was too late to reply. I really do want him to get his daylilies so I can stop being responsible for them. Now that he is moving, perhaps he will be able to take a break from the moving duties to do the enjoyable task of planting his daylilies. I also think he will be happy to see how the pool looks. I may have missed a couple of spots when I was cleaning yesterday, but it generally looks pretty darn inviting. The Dollar Tree mop worked beautifully by the way. 

I'm thinking that I may go out later on and clear off the "granny steps" and make a path so that when we find someone to help us with them that will make life easier. 

Your blueberry loaves sound yummy, Tasty. 

Charlene, I hope you have a lovely time today and relish your time in the passenger seat. 

Glad to hear, Marlene, that you had a nice time with your sisters. 

Yay for the storm door and laughs, Sandy!

Melissa, I really love it when I can open up the house and get a breeze blowing through. Hopefully Home Depot gets in your thermostat soon. Another $100 stinks, but if it works it'll be worth it. 

Weeding, Wendy, always seems so satisfying even when we know we are just going to have to turn around and do it all again. For a brief moment in time, that accomplished feeling is awesome. 

Wishing everyone a sensational Saturday! I guess I need to head to Meijer for my new skin cream the CNP ordered for me. It would have been too easy for it to have been ready yesterday when I picked up the Prednisone. LOL! 

Hi Carol! Looks like we were posting at the same time. 

[tasty]

Oh what a day Karen.  I'm guessing that as you didn't mention anything, hubby didn't hurt himself when he fell?

[luvmyb_b]

Aug 5, 2023 14:23:06 GMT -5 tasty said:

Oh what a day Karen.  I'm guessing that as you didn't mention anything, hubby didn't hurt himself when he fell?

He hurts, Tasty, but it is more sore than anything else. Nothing broke - thank goodness!!! Sometimes, however, sprains and strains can hurt as bad as, or maybe in some cases, worse than a break. I think we are in the clear on anything serious, but do expect him to ache for several days if not a week. He's taking ibuprofen for the soreness. I will probably have to watch him now that I think of it to be sure he doesn't take too much of that. He doesn't remember when he took something, and has said in the past that he is "big" so he can handle more than doses call for sometimes. I'm going to try to get him to hold off on more until bedtime. My hope is that maybe an ice pack will suffice until then. 🤞

I guess because I am a glutton for punishment, I pushed myself today to clean off the granny steps so they are ready to go in the pool. I also was horrified to see the front garage door blocked off by a huge dead branch DH had drug into the garage. His cousin that mowed put it in he driveway, I guess. It needed to be broken down and bagged up. I was really glad I had an extra yard waste bag. I got all of the branch in the bag with a little room to spare. We've got a couple of old blue recycling tubs that are full of yard waste that have to get bagged, but they are out of the way right now and can wait until I get more bags. The last thing I wanted/needed was for that dead branch to be blocking the garage door. Nicky will be coming over at some point and would have had to figure a way through that mess. Plus, it had to be done anyway. With my family coming in 10 days, that couldn't stay like that. 

I believe that once I make breakfast pizza for supper tonight and clean up some fruit to go with it, I am going to be done for the day. It has been another day that has felt like a week. Perhaps "life" is why I am losing weight and not realizing why? Ugh ... 😉 

[grandmazn8]

Good late afternoon. It has been hot and sunny but except for trip to take the trash I haven't left the house. I did get 3 more large bags of junk trash together out of the spare bedroom and started on bags of clothes for a recycling bin and maybe some for Goodwill. I went through the toy box and 2 tubs that are in the bedroom but haven't gotten to the tubs in the closet. I'll work on the closet some more tomorrow so I can take everything when I go to get groceries Monday. I had forgotten that there was also the old highchair in the closet so it will go to the dump as well. For such a small room it sure had a lot of junk that collected over the past 29 years. I'm sure I'm going to need to take some ibuprofen tonight after sitting on the floor so much. My sciatica has been causing a lot of pain without doing things that irritate it.

Karen, sorry hubby had a tumble. I remember having to pick my mom up when she fell a number of times inside. I can't imagine doing it outside but she was completely paralyzed on her left side so couldn't really help.

Have a good evening.

[luvmyb_b]

Thanks, Leslie. Caregiving is HARD, isn't it? I hope the ibuprofen helps your sciatica pain.