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@Mt_Rider I hope you feel better soon! Light headed and a tad nauseous is how I feel when my B.P. drops too. I told the doctor today that I say I get dizzy but that isn't really the case. The room doesn't spin etc. My first symptom is I start getting hot. Really really hot. Then sweaty around my hair line. Then I know I had better hit the floor before I pass out. @Becca_Anne A taxi would cost way too much from my town to downtown Cleveland. I did consider Uber but the hospital doesn't recommend one because of the procedure. It's over an hour long with an IV involved. I'm not sure but there could be some sedation. I'm not sure about that. But if I become compromised in any way, they wouldn't approve an Uber. Their reasoning is I could pass out and be taken advantage of by an Uber driver. Like being assaulted or robbed. Actually, I really don't think they would do the test if I didn't have a ride with me. The doctor mentioned something about a bus the clinic provides but she was sure it didn't come out as far as my town. However, I suppose I could drive as far as the clinic I go to and catch a ride from the there? Maybe. I'll see when social services contacts me. BTW, I'm not sure why it's called a 'clinic'. It's really a very big medical building with lots of professional doctors and all kinds of testing procedures. I get my labs, mammogram and they have a pharmacy and walk in clinic too.

I'll find something. But all I have is this tiny phone.

Brat. Jeepers doing her fishy exercises =>followed by =>

I had my cardiologist appointment today. I flat lined the heart monitor. LOL. After wearing it for a month it showed absolutely nothing. Not even a pulse. She asked me if I'd consider wearing it for another week. I told her I'd give it two weeks. I'd like to get some kind of a reading. She is sure I have POTS. Everyone is sure of that. She thinks it is imperative that I have the tilt table test. I told her I was willing but I have no transportation to and from downtown Cleveland. She said she'd try to hook me up with a senior citizens advocate. Whatever. I was going to try to do it in Indiana where DIL could take me. I'll try here if I can though. Hospitals are a lot better over here. If they can...they can. Plan B is Indiana. She also said to really push the liquids and that I should try compression socks. I just bought a bunch of loose diabetic socks so my legs wouldn't be restricted. But I'll try the compression socks when I'm going to be upright for an extended period of time like canning and shopping. Also exercises. Nothing upright but to do them sitting down or on the floor. Figures now that I don't have a TV or DVD player. Suppose I'll just get down there and flop around some. I really used to like my Sweatin' To The Oldies and I miss doing those. Nice music and not too strenuous. I have to check back in with them in two weeks. She also changed my meds. I went over today to pick them up and they didn't have one available. They said hopefully they will have it tomorrow. It's back ordered. Anyway, she discontinued one and added two more. Pharmacy had a notice that because of the new law in Ohio, the pharmacy will be closed from 1:30 til 2:00. I think it has to do with always having two pharmacists out front and on duty at all times during lunch time. They always did any way. I'm glad I'm going to try to get this straightened out but I fear by the time I can see the doctors and follow ups, I'll be out of the area and scrambling to find someone new in Indy. Aside from the monitor showing nothing, the echocardiogram was pretty good. Mostly a little thickening of the heart muscle but not dangerously so. I need another one in two years. I can do that. BTW Mt. Rider, you asked about the sun raising vitamin D levels. It didn't have any bearing on it. Mine was the same as before I was in a hotel doing yard work, while in the hotel and now out of the hotel. In other words, being in the sun verses not being in the sun (hotel) didn't change anything. And I was in the sun some here at the house and a lot in Indiana.

It's a date! I'll be the one with the beagles and wearing a Rolling Stones tee shirt. Can't miss me.

Adorableness overload!

I'm a tad jealous of you guys travel agenda. I'd love to go to Europe and Iceland. I spend a lot of time Google driving but it isn't the same. I want to go to Scotland and Wales and Ireland. Probably never going to happen now. I always tell myself that when I'm in heaven I'll get to go see all the concerts I want and do all the traveling around all over the world I want to see. And learn about all of the murder mysteries down here. Like JonBenet Ramsay and Nicole Brown Simpson. Watch Lizzie Borden and Jack the Ripper. And bunches of others. Breakfast with Rod Stewart, tea with the Beatles and midnight snack with Mick and Keith. Dance with John Travolta and Tina Turner. Sit up in the clouds and look down at how the life in Victorian England really was. And in Egypt during the Pharaoh times. Weekends with my family on the other side. I miss my grand pa and granny and mother. And all of those aunts, uncles and cousins I love and miss. I haven't heard my mother's voice in over 54 years. But I still remember it. There will be a few beagles up there too. Misty Ann and Muffin Marie AKA Maxine will be waiting for me to pick them up at the Rainbow Bridge. By then there will probably be a Trixie and Baylee waiting too. Dipping down to kiss G-son and whispering wisdom into his little ears a few times a year. Smacking son up side the head just to freak him out LOL. I don't plan on hanging around my coffin for very long. I have things I want to do. A wandering spirit. I'm going to have to make a list and give it to God. At his convenience of course.

It's true that I don't drink a lot of milk. When I buy milk it is either skim milk or 2%. For some reason rrgular whole milk hurts my stomach. And it has to be ice cold. I would consider a goat for my family though if need be. DIL buys their milk at a local dairy. I assume she pays dearly for it too. They have an area there where the kids can pet the calfs and other animals so GS likes to go there. To me, all goat or feta cheeses are just too strong. I always try to eat it when it's sprinkled on food but always end up picking it out. I'm more of a swiss, provolone or mozzarella kinda girl. That I can get behind. 🐄 I didn't mean to imply DIL bought raw milk at the local. dairy. It's whole pasteurized milk. I wasn't very clear about that.

I don't like goat milk/cheese at all. Wish I did, but I don't. I could have a goat in Indy. They are going after Amish dairy farmers hot and heavy now. There is one farmer in particular, in PA that they have been harassing for a couple of years now. He is a private farmer who only sells to certain customers who sign a letter of agreement about knowing what they are purchasing and the risk involved. Not good enough for the g'ment. Look up Amos Miller in Lancaster Pennsylvania. It's shameful.

Sorry about your osteo related issues Littlesister. Ouch! My DIL has rheumatoid arthritis and has to take meds for it daily. Not fun at all. The last two months my Vit. D was back ordered too. I take 5,000 units of Vitamin D-3 capsules.

I have a few prepper books too. Both real and Kindle. I want real physical books where I can study the pages of my reference books. Other less important books I have on a Kindle. I swear by the crates like I can get at Joann's or Hobby Lobby. Not to big and not to small. You can tip the crate up on its side and the books automatically pack themselves for moving. I just have to carry it out to the car to move them. They stack on top of each other nicely too. I think I need to paint mine. I noticed a new bookstore over here about a month ago called Books On The Wall. Anyone ever heard of it? I might have to go check it out soon. I still think my favorite prepper book is the LDS Manual. Stan Dayo and his wife Holly put out a good one too that I can't remember the name of. It has a lot of lists in it.

Yeah, I'm special that way. I'm not as worried over there because I don't have a woods behind the house over there. I have all kind of critters at my back door over here. No wild cats or bears so I'm good.

My posts were made of four pieces of treated wood nailed together making a square. It wasn't even a solid piece. They made about 5-6 holes in the wood each about the size of a half dollar. There weren't any bugs in them. I had sprayed the posts with Raid hoping to deter the woodpeckers with the smell. They didn't care. The holes were mostly in the top. So a nest would have to be about 8 feet down to the cement porch slab. There were about 8 of them on my fence panel. They destroyed it. All the trees in my back yard and they go for the fence and my house. I suppose I'm lucky they didn't start destroying my upper level. I couldn't fight back up there. If I don't see another woodpecker it will be too soon. I'm just hoping they stay away until I get moved. Trust me, you don't want to chance woodpeckers around your house. They are probably hatching baby destroyers right now. They didn't go for my windows. The little finches would do that. They didn't cause any damage and I liked to watch them. Hummingbirds didn't cause any problems either. Nothing coming out of my woods has caused any issues except those d@mn woodpeckers. Oh, and the deer come right up to our door here. They love to eat our shrubs. Or pull them out of the ground and leave them. But they aren't trying to take my house down. Sigh.

@Necie at first I thought maybe storm damage. I love to smell lilacs. Be careful attracting woodpeckers. They are the bane of my existence. They are very destructive. I have some in the woods behind my house. They tore up one panel of my wooden fence a couple of years ago. I finally had the fence removed. For the past 2 years they have torn up the wooden posts on my front porch. I repaired them with wood putty and painted them but they keep coming back. They did so much damage to one of the posts that I was afraid the post was going to break and bring the porch roof down. This year I had to have both posts replaced. $$$. I'm hoping and praying they don't come back until after I sell the house. One neighbor said they peck on his metal chimney driving them crazy. When they peck on your house it is VERY loud inside. They will tear up anything on your house if they become attracted to it. If you scare them away, they come right back. I had to sit on my front porch with a hose just to spray them off of the posts. They always come back. Pretty birds...until they fall in love with your house. Destructive creatures.

@Mt_Rider. I always check Amazon first before I order something I find somewhere else. It's not that I like Amazon better. I don't. But with Prime I get free shipping which can save a couple of bucks and stuff arrives so much faster. Sometimes the same day. I ordered two of them and they arrived the next morning. I'm going to give one to sons. So, thank you for mentioning them.

I spent most of the day canning yesterday. It isn't easy around here. I've found that I need to sit down often to keep from passing out. I think it isn't so much as a blood pressure situation as a it is a posture thing. Which affects my blood pressure causing it to bottom out. Sitting helps. However, I only have one chair in entire the house. A hard wooden dinningroom chair that doesn't reach the sink. And I have to keep an eye on the canner as it's building up steam and then pressure. Wouldn't it be nice if I had a recliner in front of the kitchen stove? Such problems. I really am thankful to be putting food in jars. I've been canning for a month now with no problems at all. Every single lid sealed. I did 3 canner loads yesterday and had about 6-8 jars didn't seal. What the heck! That has never happened before. And so many. All of the lids are the ones that came with the jars. Jars were new. So back to the drawing board today because you know I'm nuts (OCD) and I'm trying to get at least 40 jars of each veggie. I'm in the 30's on the corn and peas. I have 50 of the carrots and green beans. Lets hope i don't extend that number out to the corn and peas. I have number issues. But they are all going to look nice on a shelf. That matters in my world too. I'm going to need some short shelves for all of these blasted half pint jars. I don't like to stack if I don't have to. I drive myself nuts. I wonder... uh- oh...if you stack a jar half on one jar and half on the jar beside it, sort of like straddling the two jars, if that would be a safe way to store them? I suppose a layer of cardboard between the layers would work too. But that's still weight on the bottom jar. Oh, and I bought another small canner. 16 quarts. I'm loving it for smaller batches. It exhausts and builds up pressure so much faster. It doesn't stack so I'll still use the 23 quart one most of the time but it will be nice for smaller loads or to accompany the 23 qt. when I'm doing marathon canning. I'm stalling...

@themartianchick Hope your hubby feels better soon! I always said I'd rather be sick myself than my DH or son. Note, both are males. I'm loving all of the pictures too. @Becca_Anne That's awesome that you are planting so many trees. I want to map out my yard to figure out where to plant some too. I'm always afraid I'll make a mistake so I want to buy a program to help visualize. I had one but it is old and no longer compatible with my computer. But it was a help. Thanks for the reminder about free wood chips. I think my sons town offers them at the yard recycle place. He can take his pickup truck there for me and get some. I'm not sure if it's just for the city or entire county. Today I'm catching up on some canning. I did some corn and peas in Indy but I want some more. After today I'll have 40 half pints of peas and 40 half pints of corn. Then 40 half pints of green beans. I already have 50 half pints of carrots. I think I have 36 half pints of asparagus. I'd throw a couple more jars in the canner but it's out of season now. Last week I saw some for $3.00 a pound. Yikes. I only paid $1.00 a pound. Unless I see some again in Amish country, I'll pass. I started early today so I'm sitting down a lot so I don't pass out. I'm half tempted to go buy a smaller canner. That way I can do a few smaller loads at a time. I can also use it when I do major soup canning along with my bigger canner. Would be nice for those little squatty halh pint jars too. It seems like everything I can takes different times. I have one in Indiana but I could really use one over here right now. Sigh. I think I'm gonna do it.

Mt. Rider, glad you got a ride in but not with the cold weather. I usually feel a little bit warmer if my ears are covered up too. And my hands and especially feet always suffer in the cold. I get pins and needle sensations in my toes when they get cold. Hurts. I have that syndrome that affects the hands and feet when they get cold. Of course I can't think of the name of it right now. Littlesister, you sure have had a time of it with that wood. But it's good you have it and at such a good price! Will be worth it. Miki, I hope your DH can get a clear culture soon and get off if his antibiotics. That can't be fun for him. I have no plans this weekend except to send back some canning jars to Amazon. I bought 2 cases of regular mouth Kerr jars for soafhetti sayce (that's spaghetti sauce. I hate yiu autocrap.) making. Pints. They sent me 2 cases of Ball Smooth Sided jars. I don't like those jars and that's not what I paid for. Luckily I don't need them right away. The nerve! I'm going to order them from Wal-Mart next time. I'm a Kerr jar snob. Raynaud. That's the word I couldn't think of. It usually comes to me eventually.

@Becca_Anne, glad everything is fine in your neck of the woods. its nice that you have a basement to go to. Poor Ben, its hard to leave a pet behind, even for adults. But hopefully the dry runs will help him understand better. Oh Dear, I didn't hear about the new bombing. Thanks Mt. Rider and Mother.

Littlesister there is a place, RadAir, a couple of miles from me and I'll see if they offer a ride. I don't mind staying there for a hour or two to wait. I can take a drink a the Kindle. They did give me a loaner once but it was a fluke that they had one. I might have to wait until I go back to Indy so DIL can give me a ride. I noticed today it was getting warm in the Jeep. That's a great idea Mother. I've heard that most people put wood and branches and leaves etc. in the bottom of their raised beds. Helps to fill them up so you don't have to add as much soil too.

My heart monitor is off today and I sent it in It wasn't bad during the day but I alway kept waking up and checking it through the might to make sure it was still attached. It always was. Men wouldn't have that problem. Women...boobage. There was a sign in the post office that said we can't send any electronics to Europe, Sweden and Norway. But we could send computers, cell phones and something else. Can't remember the other thing. I thought computers and cell phones were electronics. I went to the local food bank and made a deposit. They were thankful to get it. It was frozen veggies that i over bought. They went to a good cause so I don't care. Then off to get a pizza. I haven't had a good one since before I left the hotel. It will last me for supper and tomorrow's lunch. I'm taking tomorrow off but Monday I'm calling to see about getting some of my yard landscaped and about getting my chimney cap fixed. Oh and I forgot my car AC broke last fall. I need to see about getting that fixed. Not sure how without a ride.

Thanks for asking OOTO. We did have some pretty bad storms roll through with some hail and high winds. We were in a tornado warning for most of the day. It has finally been lifted. No damage here so far. Supposed to be rainy tomorrow. I think its heading north east of me so I hope it isn't heading your way!

Miki, I'm glad Bo is working out so well for you. Getting him socialized and used to the neighborhood is a good thing. Bet he loves his walks. Littlesister, I get it about canning meat. I don't have any canned right now so I have to get on to that. I'm sort of just the opposit. My kidneys are getting worse so I have to limit my protein. It's just a good thing I'm not a big meat eater. I want to can a lot of soups too. But they are the hardest thing for me to can. It takes longer to make it and I can in pints so I can't fit as many in the canner. So I put it off.

Congrats to your GD on her track meet! I love it. That brings back so many good memories. My son was undefeated in the 400 dash in his conference and ran in the all state finals. He held his high schools high jump record for over 10 years. I think he jumped 6 foot 2 and a half. I can't member his fastest 400. He also ran the final leg of the 400 relay. He was a sprinter not a miler. He was long legged but wasn't a fan of the hurdles. I was able to get most of it on video. Back then video cameras were fairly new and huge. Really huge. LOL. Later I transfered all the tapes on to a DVD. Yeah, I was that mom. About a month ago he ran across it and showed his son and wife. I asked GS what he thought about it and he said, "Well grandma, you sure filmed a lot of sky and ground." I was new at it. Sheeesh. Thanks for noticing kid. Two years of Jr. High and four years of high school I was on a bleacher on the ground or in the car. Cross Country, Volleyball, Basketball and then Track and Field. Every. Year. In-between he sang bass in the school choir. At the time I didn't realize just how good those memories would be. Thanks for the flash backs.

You have a lot canned up! I'm not much of a meat eater but I'm going to be canning some up anyway. I want to do chicken chunks and pork chunks to use with dipping sauce. Mostly Bar-B-Q sauce. Glad you got your mulch. I just had my son call my lawn people too. It was so high and it's supposed to rain the next couple of days. They are here now. At least they came right away. What is it with these lawn care people. My last guy quit because I located two shrubs that he couldn't find. Big baby. Good riddance, he was too expensive anyway. My town doesn't play with over grown lawns. They post big neon green warning signs on your door.