Anyone want to CHIT CHAT? Friday, Aug. 26th

[luvmyb_b]

Good evening.  I don't see one of these yet, so I am going to start this hope no one else has the same idea at the same time.  LOL!  BRB ...
 
It has been a long day so I don't expect to be awake a lot longer.  I was at the doctor's office for a full 2 hours today.  He apologized, but it wasn't necessary.  I no longer expect to go there and get out in less than an hour.  I leafed through my Kindle and got some good ideas for recipes of things to make in Mason jars.  The doc was pleased with all of my vitals.  It was actually one of my better medical appointments.  He congratulated me on losing another 3 lbs., but I was ticked off because I weighed even less three days ago than he saw today.  Not sure how that happened. It's not like I've eaten anything differently in a couple of days.  Anyway ... he gave me credit for the 3 lbs.  Suppose I ought to take that and be glad, eh?

We were able to have the windows open to enjoy the fresh air for most of the day, but it is starting to get humid again tonight.  DH decided to close things up and turn on the A/C again.  It's fine by me.  I don't sleep well when I'm hot and sticky. 

Today was a pretty decent birding day in the backyard today.  The hummingbirds were losing their minds all day long.  A beautiful male cardinal stopped by for a while.  The gold finches continued their dining on the coneflowers, and two chipping sparrows hung out near the rose bed under the office window so I could enjoy their sounds.  It all kind of made my day!

Guess that is about it for me.  I have a couple of garden surprises to share, but I want to post in my thread dedicated to that so it will bump up for others to see. 

Oh, I meant to respond to your questions, Charlene, but forgot.  The antibiotic is definitely helping with the UTI.  It wasn't really bad to begin with; I've had much worse.  I guess the doctor didn't want to take any chances so he called in the script for me.  Also, I have not renewed my Ancestry membership yet.  There are a few things I can do without it.  I figure that I want to work on those while I'm not paying, and then I'll do the things I can only do with a paid membership later in the year.   
Have a nice night!

[mnwildflowers]

Evening Karen and all who follow. Two hours is a really long time to wait for an appt. Dang! Guess I'd always request to be his first appt of the day. Good thing you had your entertainment.

Nothing too exciting here. Worked til noon. Dh and I went and got compost (well dh shoveled, I supervised). He got my big chunk of cement hauled out as well as the huge rock. He even shoveled all the compost out of the trailer and hauled it down the hill to my project. I really hate feeling this useless, but even what I did do (spread the compost plus 240lbs of bagged manure, and transplanted many plants) I am in lots of pain tonight in my shoulder and arm. I really don't want to spend the next 50 years feeling this way (God willing I will live that long...grandma is 51 years older than me). Guess I better get my arse back to the dr and see what I can do. I took some before/after pics I will try to post this weekend on Charlenes pic thread. It looks good anyway and the plants really needed to be moved.

Not sure what we will do the rest of the night. We watched a funny movie on netflix last night. Maybe we can find something to watch tonight. Hope whatever you do its a good night.

[plantdoctor]

Hello Karen...I am ready to chat...that is why I just came upstairs....to see what is happening with everyone.

The sun never got the memo that it was supposed to appear today, so it was chilly most of the day. (I wore a long sleeve shirt all day)  The rain hasn't arrived yet, but only a matter of time since we have 100% chance tonight and tomorrow.    We certainly do't need it and wish I could share with those of you that do.

I made 3 trips to my shop today to meet up with customers that have little jobs.  DGS's girlfriend never did call to meet me there.  I am guessing she never got the message fro DGS since she worked her normal 10 hrs as dental assistant and then worked 6 hrs as her part time job as hostess at a local restaurant.  Maybe sometime this weekend we can connect.

Karen...I would be doing cartwheels if I had lost 3 lbs.  Since I am retired the pounds seem to be packing on to my back side.  I can't see them, but I sure can feel them and my pants don't seem to fit comfortably around them...lol.  I've got to start doing something soon since I hate shopping for clothes!

I just heard the doorbell....see you all in the morning.  Charlene

[luvmyb_b]

Aug 26, 2016 19:55:15 GMT -5 mnwildflowers said:

Evening Karen and all who follow. Two hours is a really long time to wait for an appt. Dang! Guess I'd always request to be his first appt of the day. Good thing you had your entertainment.

The funny part about this doctor thing, Melissa, is that I did request as early in the day as possible, which turned out to be 10 am.  I'm thinking he does his rounds at the hospital before he sees patients in the office because when I scheduled my next appointment, I also asked for the earliest appointment I could get.  That turned out to be 10 am also.  Oh well ... the wait will not be a surprise.  ;)

[tasty]

Evening all,  I'll swap you some of our heat for some of your rain, Charlene.  We are on our own well where we live but the water table is so low locally that the local council included well users when they brought in water restrictions last week. We are down about 60% on rainfall this year.

 Congrats on succeeding on losing weight Luv.  It seems every 5 years or so I suddenly gain another 5 lbs!  It seems our birds are getting ready to fly south.  Haven't seen the hummingbird for a day or 2 but the goldfinch seem to be on a feeding frenzy - they stay all winter so I don't know why.

Mnwildflowers- the amount of work you did, I'm not surprised you ache.  200+ lbs of manure takes a lot of  moving.  Good thing hubby was there helping

 My day started with breakfast with friends - a nice relaxing start to the weekend.  Picked another 1/2lb if raspberries this afternoon. A little bit of pottering around indoors and some banking and my day was done.

[Kathy_SD]

As usual nothing new to report.

It was high 70s but no humidity and our 80% chance of rain turned to 40%, then 30%, then 20% and then 0%. So disappointing.

I did start weeding the alley strip and found a couple of surprises which I posted on Karen's thread. Will get up early tomorrow morning and have my coffee and then start in out there again.

[Gayle]

Good evening everybody.

A 2 hr wait to see the Dr. was not unusual when we were living in TN.  & we always took the 1st appt of the afternoon.  I think they scheduled several people all for the same time or no more than 15min apart which never works. His afternoon hrs started at 1 PM & that's the appt we always asked for.

I went for myself one time.  1PM appt.  Called back to see the Dr. about 30-45 minutes later.  At 3:15 I was still in the examining room waiting on the Dr.  I walked out into the hall to see if they had forgotten I was there.  They assured me they hadn't; he would be there shortly.  At 4 PM  walked out & left.    I should have done that much sooner.  But I did let them know that I was not happy & I had better things to do . And I considered my time just as important as his.

So, moving on.  I watered today with the sprinkler & worked in the d'way bed till it got too hot.

After I had some lunch I ran the vacuum & steam cleaned the vinyl floors.  I'm catching up on stuff a lttle at a time  these past few days.

Kathy, how did you make out with the new glasses.  Did you have to take them back?

[Angela]

Speaking about doctors who run late & we always expect it though there are the odd exceptions when heis quicker. However, I don't begrudge the patients ahead who need the extra time because I have had a few occasions where I was the one making him run  late. I do try to keep that in mind & when i finally see him he still has time for my issues. Personally, I try to be very ready with my questions all penned out,etc so that things move along. Such as my coming Monday afternoon will be!!