Deb2of9

It has been ages since I have checked on here. Schedules have been crazy and I even spent half of 2020 laid up with a badly broken arm. At a convention with my brother and finally not having to run everywhere so I checked in here. A lot has happened in the past few years and tmes are getting crazy. Since 2020 I broke my arm in several places ending up with three surgeries on my arm in February ( this was after breaking the same arm at the wrist in August of 2019), I have added 2 great grandbabies with two more on the way and moved. When I moved , it was in the other half of a duplex that my daughter and grandkids lived in. So we now are making a much bigger garden than before, have quiet a few chickens, and several fruit trees and berry bushes. It is a rental property, but we have free range to do anything that improves the property. it is crazy at times. Because of the terms of the custody agreement, the kids can ride the bus to school when with their dad ( half the week) but we have to drive the kids to and from school. My daughter got a promotion to store manager so she is constantly at work. That means I end up doing most of the transportation which is horrible with the cost of gas now. My other daughter switched jobs so has a much longer commute to work (from 10 minutes to a 30-40 minute drive) and she doesn't drive. I spend a good part of the day in a car between school, kids sports and driving my daughter to work or taking my brothers shopping. I am semi-retired but plan on fully retiring at the end of the year. Unfortunately with everyone's work schedules I am responsible for most of the gardening and am sure I will never keep up with it as the summer progresses. I have yet to have a really successful garden. I am worried that too much will fall on me and I will fail my family. However, living next door to my daughter is making a lot of things easier. She is pushing even more to prepare than I am. I feel i am way too far behind and can't seem to get settled in after the move. This place is small and has no storage. I know i will work it out, but frustrating anyway. So that is what I am up to. Hopefully i will find time to get on here more often.

I know short isn’t my style. I tend to get wordy but right now I am injured and have to hunt and peck to type while holding the phone with the same hand. The situation we find ourselves in made me think of all of you and wonder how everyone is doing in all this. I was already “social distancing “ because I am not allowed to drive and as I am out of time I make it to doctors appointments. Maybe they will let me drive after my surgery on the 30th. I fell and shattered my elbow and now wear an external fixative. It is not fun. It also limits a lot of what I can do as I can not use my left arm at all. My family has as much chaos with those grandkids as it ever had. In fact one of the grandkids caused my broken arm. He was arguing with someone and I tried to stop it and got shoved and down I went. But I and my family are doing okay. About a year ago I even added a great grandson to my family. Enough for now. Just checking in. Will probably read more than respond right now because typing just isn’t. Easy and won’t be for a while. I developed wrist palsy so really can’t use my left hand at all right now. I am looking at a lot of therapy in my future. Take care and everyone stay healthy.

I heard that they would probably do direct deposit since “they know all our contact info to get it to us” I also heard that they haven’t determined who would get it or exactly how much. They are debating the stimulus bill now. I admit right now an influx of money might be nice for me as I have been out of work due to an injury since mid-February. However one has to ask what would be the cost and I don’t meat financial but to our personal freedom. What will be the results to going down that road. Nothing in life is without cost, it is just a matter of what the cost is and is it worth the cost we will have to pay

I like that. I remind my daughter that "This is the day the Lord has made." I tell her that he made today for today's worries, not yesterday. Remember, Thank him for making it to this day and make the best of it. I know that God is always there whether I notice Him or not. I just have to take time to notice Him and lean on Him. He will help us through. It is hard to remember that in the midst of something going wrong, but I try to.

I swear so much seems to go on everyday, that i just haven't been here in a while. Of course it doesn't help that I am sharing a computer with my daughter again. I can't even remember what was going on in my life the last time I got on here. I know a lot of it has changed. For instance, I semi-retired last April. You would think that would mean I had a lot more time. Not a chance. It seems that as soon as you aren't working, everyone needs you to help with something. My younger daughter has a part time job. She has had it for a year now, but still has no license, so I have to get her back and forth to work. Part time does not mean less days. She works retail so she is working 4-6 hour shifts. My brother also got a job and is working full time now. He and my other brother moved out a little over a year. I was very happy that they got their own place. It is in town, so that means they can get to most of what they need done without me taking them. That helps a lot. Another bit of big news that I have mixed feelings about is I am going to be a great-grandma. It is mixed feelings because my granddaughter is not only unmarried, but she has mental health issues that make this very complicated. She left home as soon as she turned 18 and has been back and forth and on the street and with friends since she left home and off her medications. Her being a single mother worries me. I don't know if she will gain maturity being a mother or if she will only endanger herself and the baby. Part of this is reinforced by her actions Sunday night. She stole her mothers medications and tried to kill her self. Luckily she and the baby are fine. Can you believe the hospital first pink slipped her as a danger, then released her because they have no beds. So along with coming back on here again, I am going to ask for prayers for her and the baby. I am looking forward to my first great-grandchild, a boy if the ultrasound is right. I have had it with my car. It is now giving me trouble again. I have had this car for almost 2 years now. It has needed breaks, a transmission, new engine, and a bunch of little things. Now it is something with my front tire. The car makes noise there when ever I try to drive it. It had me so tense when I got home from work Sunday night that my back tensed up so much it completely seized up on me. I couldn't move. So back to taking it slow again so it can heal. I will try to get on here more. I am so far behind in my preps. we had mice destroy a lot of the dried goods, my freezer broke and I lost everything in it, so at least as far as food preps go I am starting from scratch. Between that and my car and finances being as tight as they are adjusting to less income, I am slowly trying to work to build it up again. Glad to be back again and as I said I hope to find myself getting back on here and getting to know all of you again

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hard to tell where I fit, since what I shop for varies a lot. I think I am below the thrifty as well. It is hard to see when money is so tight that you are eating your stores to feed the family. Unfortunately I see it getting worse. They are cutting days at work, at least one a week and I was already permanently cut by one day. That cut was supposed to be temporary, but happened 3 years ago. Now with me going to be off work for surgery, I don't know how we will stretch the budget. This week my food budget was $48 for the next two weeks. That was for animal food, gas and groceries. Our actual food we bought was pasta and a can of tomato paste. There wasn't money left for anything else no matter what the shopping list showed. I am glad I have the little put up that I do, but it isn't going to last long at this rate. And with the cost of everything going up, it will be way worse. We are not preparing for hard times, hard times are here.

Probably won't be able to go. May be off work recuoerating from carpal tunnel surgery but will probably be too broke to go because of being out if work. I will have to olay it by ear. If I feel up to travel and have the money I could decide to go at the last minute. Having survery on August 8th for first hand and other hand not scheduled yet. Good chance will still be off work then but almost ready to go back to work. So if money is still available, who knows. Can't taje vacation because using vacation time for time off work so it will depend on money and when the doctor says I can go back to work.

All that has been said is what I would recomend. I wi add calmoseptine ointment. It stings a little. When first applied but has always helped me when powder and keeping clean and dry àlone doesn't work

All that has been said is what I would recomend. I wi add calmoseptine ointment. It stings a little. When first applied but has always helped me when powder and keeping clean and dry àlone doesn't work

Will have to try it. Thanks for sharing.

I use most of those except for the spicey food. I also use spray bottles with water and spray a mist from time to time to help me cool down.

I like this one. Thanks for sharing. I want to thank all out vets and prayers for all those and the families who have given the ultimate sacrifice.

Love this Idea. Right now my hand tools and gloves along with a sun hat are kept in a plastic crate that I then flip over to sit on for garden work. I like the mail box idea though. might have to use that. I have a shed on my property that is filled with so much junk that I either can't fit my garden tools or get to them once I have thanks to how everyone else has arranged things in the shed. I also have an old A-Frame from a swing. I am planning on enclosing that for a garden shed just for my use. They don't put up the tools either, so they will have to come to me or my daughter who does put things up for a key once it is done. I am tired of ruined tools because they won't take care of them. The mail box could be attached to the outside to access those small items without having to get a key to get the bigger tools. I really like the idea

We were 3:89 today. Prices for everything seem to be going up, and gas is one area that it Definitely is going it. My daughter buys gift cards for Speedway and then buys her gas with it. She gets 5 cents off a gallon if she does it that way.