Littlesister

Sounds like the signs are coming back again for shortages. Hope they won't be as bad this time around. 

Miki, tomorrows dinner looks good. 

GS was back home just after 12. He hasn't gotten the results of the test yet. Hopefully he will know soon.  I pray he passed it this time. 

GD bought the baby over just before 1pm.  She now has her first tooth but still teething really bad. She cries herself to sleep because of her gums hurting her. I used the Orejel on her today, plus she had popsicles to suck on. That seemed to work. She had watermelon for the first time (frozen of course) and loved it. They picked her up around 5.  Though for some reason I was really tired after they left, and I laid on the couch and fell asleep. Still tired but at least I am standing on 2 feet. Hope I sleep tonight. I don't take naps like that. And it was late. I am free tomorrow so will work in yard. Still not doing distance driving. My DD and SIL will be here in the morning but will be at GD's house to babysit so they can start packing. That is a good drive from here. So, I am not going over there. I don't trust my knee enough to start drive any distance yet. I'm doing good to just make it to Harris Teeter and back. 

Need to pick up my Rx for the vit. D also. Will do that on Monday. Don't think they are open on Sunday. 

Necie, I found one of those back packs when I was going through all this mess around here. Don't know where it came from unless DH had bought it for something. Now I know what I can use it for. Fishing equipment. That would be much easier to carry than a tackle box. And DH's tackle box is huge.  I haven't opened it, so don't know if it has any trays or not. It's in the box marked maybe keep or maybe ditch. Now I will be pulling that out of that box and moving it to box to keep. I am using boxes that are marked for maybe, keep, or off to Goodwill and then sorting the to keep box to where I am organizing things. Then starting on the next section to work on. 

GS was up at 7am this morning and got ready to head to Mepps. I really hope he passes that test this time.  Prayed for him early this morning as I will be doing throughout the day. He took my transponder with him so must be going through the tunnel. 

The baby will be here between 12 and 1 today. So will be busy with her. Will do some things around the house when she is napping. I found 2 more plastic containers that are cracked, and I will use those for planting potatoes also. I want to do both regular potatoes and sweet potatoes. These tubs are bigger, so might work really well. 

Tomorrow is supposed to be warmer, and I am going to get the front flower bed finished and get the mulch down. We are still having a bit of frost here as well. But not sure when the safe time is to plant. I need to check that.  Need to make another Lowe's trip as well as to the Feed and Seed to pick out the herbs I want. My 10 pots came in yesterday. So, I now have everything ready to get that flower bed set up. 

My Vit. D levels were not affected by the sun either. And I also was in yard in the sun a lot. 

Jeepers, I hope they get you straightened out soon. Doctor is more than likely right about POTS. But that one test that is so far away to do will tell the tell. That might be your answer to all this mess. Hope the new medicine works for you. 

Got the popsicles made for the baby and is in freezer now. Half watermelon and half strawberry. The blender worked great for puree them to an almost total liquid form. 

Shoulder hurting a bit right now so must have been using it too much.  Will take Aleve before going to bed tonight. That sometimes helps. I did good going out to stores and such today. No knee pain and very little shoulder pain. Only the knee I still had to be careful with moving it a certain way. Sometimes it will feel like it is going to give out and then straightens up again. So just have to watch that certain move. Hopefully when I start that series of injections that will take care of it. 

Wow!  they are a huge, adorable mess.  Goats are fun. My niece had some goats and horses. We always took the grandkids over to her house to pet them. They loved them. 

Jeepers, you will be easy to spot. 

Ran up to store to buy strawberries. Going to puree them and some watermelon for the popsicles for the baby. Also bought some frozen veggies for tots for her. Need to have things here she can eat now.  The Boston butts were on sale for $1.29 so I got the last 2 they had. I want 2 more but this is a start. Will go back either tomorrow after the baby goes home or Sunday in hopes of getting 2 more, so I can get them canned up. That will up my pork for a long while. Then I am done with canning meat for a long while and will just work on veggies, soups and stews. Will be talking with GD about canning up some foods for the baby, I have a way to puree all of it. I just want to make sure of what she is giving her right now and what the baby will eat. I will go from there. I already know no sugar added to anything. So, the popsicles will not have anything added to them. Little chubby legs, arms and cheeks. But she will slim up when she starts crawling and walking. 

Stuffed peppers sound good. Haven't made those in a long while. I haven't thought about dinner for tonight yet. GS is at work, so just me for dinner. I think I still have some leftovers in the fridge so will just heat something up. 

Just got back from our shopping trip, but really wasn't shopping for anything. Just walking around the stores and getting surprised by how much just clothes and such has gone up. Then went to lunch and then to Ross and looked around there. We only got things we really needed. I got the baby a summer outfit and me a pair of much needed tennis shoes and the baby outfit and a new can opener as mine was on its last leg.  When we got back to her house, she gave me the canning jars that she found for me when she went out with her other neighbor. 10 jars for $5.00.  No chips or anything. And yes, jeepers two of those were Kerr jars and one was an Atlas. The rest were ball jars. All quarts.

We are planning a trip next week to Newport News, the secondhand stores and Ollies. Maybe a couple of other places and then lunch. It will be my turn to pay for lunch. We are taken turns on lunch each week.  She just lost her DH a couple of months ago and is struggling. I know where she is coming from. So, she just needs to get motivated and get her mind off of things right now. So, this hopefully is helping her, and she is enjoying it. I know it is helping me to get out of the house and get moving again. 

Jeepers, I feel the same way. Seeing all my cousins, aunts, uncles, parents, grandparents, DH and lots of friends that have gone on before me. 

You put so much in such a whimsical way. It made my day today. 

Waiting for my neighbor to call me to go out. Her son needs her car again and she is supposed to take it to him, and he bring her back. But she hasn't left yet to take it to him. His car broke down again. So now I don't know when we are leaving. Just waiting on her call. But might just go ahead and start working on office while waiting. I have done a small amount of work, going through things that are going to Goodwill, or have put in the proper place. Yes, trying to organize sucks. It's not always easy when you are having to go from room to room to get things in the proper room and then in the proper place. I have a box that I am putting everything in that I am not sure about. Do I keep it or pitch it situation. I have old papers that I am gathering up for wood stove next winter. I will be working on a spot in garage to keep all that type of stuff just for the stove. Beats trying to shred it and it does make good fire starter. Though I will shred a lot of it as that also can be put in a huge plastic bag for fire starter as well. 

Just saw neighbor outside. Guess it will be a while before we leave. Her son is at the house. He's weed eating the yard and her daughter is cutting the grass. Don't think she saw that coming.  

She just called. She's leaving them there to their own defenses and we are now getting ready to leave.  Later 

euphrasyne, can you teach my grandson that dumping food in trash because you really didn't want that so dump it and get something else like door dash. I have all but given up on his wasteful habits. His grandfather used to tell him if you fix it or order it you eat it. Times like that I really miss him. GS remembers those days and when DH spoke, he did as he was told. He ate it all. But now that he is grown. he doesn't care what I say. I'm only the grandmother, when I say that it doesn't count.

When I was watching U-Tube on putting in the raised beds. I saw a couple that was putting down chicken wire under the beds. They also put the black plastic down to help with weed control which was a good idea. But they put the chicken wire on top of the plastic, and I didn't understand why as they just showed that but never said why they did that. Seems the moles and voles can't get through the chicken wire. So, I decided to do mine that way. We do have moles but haven't seen any signs of voles. Moles eat the grubs and voles will eat the roots and bulbs of flowers and veggies. They use the same tunnels. I guess it's better safe than sorry. So, I have already bought the chicken wire. Only it's a garden type with smaller holes than the chicken wire.  And if that's not enough, I saw the first rabbit for this year. Babies to follow. 

Becca Anne and jeepers, I was taking 5000 +3 over the counter for a couple of years and the levels never went back to normal. So, I called and made him call in the prescription one. This happened many years ago and another doctor I had put me on 50,000 by prescription and that worked. So will see what happens. I don't know what mil. he called in but will find out soon enough.

Shoulder has calmed down a bit from the injection, just a bit sore if I move it a certain way. My knee is better in some ways but at times I still feel it a bit. But not as bad. So, hoping this will work. Just hope I won't need another injection in the shoulder and that these 12 weeks of injections will keep me off the operating table. I don't have time for knee replacements. This is supposed to help keep the bones from rubbing on each other which has not happened yet. But if this doesn't work then it will happen somewhere down the line. 

Seems a few of us are trying to declutter and get things in order. We will all get there at some point. 

We used to have a used bookstore here and it closed down as well as a Christian bookstore. Haven't found another one. But when my neighbor and I went to the Carrollton furniture store they have a lot of used books for cheap. I want to go back as soon as I am able and go through them. The Goodwill near me also has books now that they are selling. Might go look through those as well. I want to find some old history books as well as DIY type books.

I have already canned over 20lbs of hamburger and made about 5lbs of meatballs and canned them. So far, no issues with it. 

Why do I feel like there is a pattern on all the recalls. It just goes from one thing to another. And now the possibility of milk having the issues. Wondering how to get around that one. 

Went to Orthopedic this morning. Just as I thought also was osteo arthritis in both knee and shoulder.  He injected both so a bit sore today but mostly in the shoulder right now. I will be doing therapy at home and then after he gets the authorization from insurance I will be doing 12 weeks of injections. It's called Euflexxa. It lubricates and cushions the knee and reduces inflammation and pain. It's not bone on bone but close. I have osteopenia which I already knew about.  And I called my primary care when I got home and demanded that he call in RX for my low Vit. D levels that over the counter was not working and it has been very low for almost 2 years.  So, I guess he decided to do it this time. And of course, like a lot of meds, It's on back order. So, waiting till they can get it in. 

GD and GGB came over to visit after I got back home. The baby was like forget you mommy; I want my GM. Nope not spoiled at all. She is determined to walk but can't figure out what to do with those feet. But the legs are locked in. 

Going to try to get a few things done in a bit. Still going through things and trying to get them organized where I want them to go.

Mt. Rider sounds like you are also going though things and getting them organized. I need to get my things together for in case I have to make that run. Grab and go bags to be updated. I have some books I want to get together to grab also just in case. 

I hope so also Jeepers.  I canned a lot of ground beef a few weeks ago but don't think that was in the recall. plus, I had eating some and never got sick. So must have been a different company.

Things are about to slow down for a bit. Doctor tomorrow morning, then GD coming over after to visit. Then on Thursday I am going shopping with my next-door neighbor and have lunch.  Will start back on the organizing on Friday and then DD and SIL will be here for the weekend. GS goes to Mepps on Friday. Praying he will past that test this time. It's hard to get the things I need to do and clean up behind him also. He has stuff in the fridge that I might be throwing out as he will take a bite of something and then back in the fridge. I dumped a lot of his food out last week and now will be dumping more food tomorrow as Thursday is trash day. At least it's food he bought. He's so wasteful. My recycle bin is overflowing with old boxes I tore down. They pick that up every other week. 

Jeepers, I think the woodpeckers love your house. Hope you don't have that issue in Indy. 

Congratulations on your DS2 for pulling your GD out of public school and deciding to homeschool.  Wish I could be of help, but I never homeschooled my DD. But she did fine as it was before this mess going on in schools now. 

I do remember both of my GD's were in soccer that was not with the public schools. Don't know if they have things like that now. 

My neighbor's DD pulled her GS out of public schools a few weeks ago because of issues going on in the school. It changed his whole altitude as he had a lot of things happening that should not have. He is doing so much better now.  Just wish my DD would have pulled my GS out of the public schools and homeschooled him but she wouldn't do it. He is still dealing with things that happened to him in that school system but is working through it.  At least he stuck with it and graduated. But he had those days. Since he has been with me, I am starting to see a lot of changes for the good in him. If he had been pulled out in Jr. high, he might not have been going through the mess he has been dealing with. But he is trying. 

I feel the public schools are doing more harm to children than learning. 

I agree about the woodpeckers. They are very destructive. 

Pups and their baths. They either like them or they don't but will get used to it. 

Becca Anne, you are doing really good getting everything together for the garden. Lots of fruit trees and such.  Wish I had the room for a couple of fruit trees.  Not so sure I would want to plant them in the front yard but is the only place I have to do it. 

I have emptied several more boxes from my bedroom closet. Those boxes have been in my closet for 2 years. I forgot what was in them. Found my old kindle. I have that charging up now.  As I go through them, I am making piles of what goes where. Figured out a way to sort my first aid and have a much better place for it all now. It will all be together in one place in some cubbies I put in hallway. Just need to find the curtains I made for them. 

Mt. Rider, glad you found the charger. Those things are life savers. 

Jeepers, you are doing great with the canning.  What I do to stack the food is to put them back in the boxes the jars came in and then I stack the boxes one on top of the other one. But never more than one box on top of another one. If I don't do it that way, I won't have any shelf space. Never had an issue doing that. I have stacked some jars one on top of another with nothing or just using a piece of cardboard but still never had an issue. 

I didn't get anything done today. Was having muscle spasms in my upper arm all day. Wasn't pretty. I think I over did it yesterday. So, resting the arm and shoulder today. Tomorrow is another day. So will see how it goes on what I get done. Will be seeing the orthopedic doctor on Wednesday.

Didn't do a lot of what I wanted today.  My arm started having muscle spasms and would not let up. So decided not to move the couch and love seat to the living room. I may have pushed it to the limit yesterday.  Will be seeing orthopedic on Wednesday. Then my neighbor and I are going to go to lunch and then walk around through some of the stores and such. She went with another neighbor to an estate sale and got me some canning jars.  She does that for me every year. 

I was walking around the house, and I have those old wood raised beds that one fell apart and the other one is halfway down. They wouldn't hold up to the weight of the soil. I was thinking about putting them on the street for trash, but then I realized I could use the wood boards for the plan for my front yard flower bed. Those long boards will be great to use to lay across the cinder blocks to hold the pots for my herbs and such. So that will save me money having to buy a board for that. 

It was really cold outside this morning. But the house is staying warm.  Haven't had the heat on in over a month. As long as it doesn't go below freezing which then I would have to turn it on. I could use the wood stove to take off the chill, but I thought it was warming up and I already cleaned it out and have it ready for next winter. 

I think GS is off work today. If so, we will move the living room suit back to the living room. I have it ready now.  I want to buy a couple of the braided rugs for both those rooms but haven't found what I want yet. So that for now is on hold. Need new curtains for living room and dining room first. Might get the material and make them. 

All the flowers are pretty. I need to get some for my flower beds if I can finish getting them cleaned out. 

Got the towels done and kitchen floor mopped, then worked on the bedroom. Got a few more things organized and ready to put away.  Then worked in the living room. Got what furniture is in there placed where I wanted it and moved all of GS's boxes and his clothes out as well. He has stuff everywhere.  Just need to get GS and GSIL over here to move the couch and love seat to the living room and the couch table and dining room table to the den.  Once that is done by using the old furniture for a while will tell me if disposing of having a dining room, living room and a den will work out. I think it will. And I will actually use the Living room and dining room.  The den and kitchen are all one long room and the dining room and living room are all one long room. 

Themartinchick, hope your DH starts feeling better soon.  

Jeepers, I hope you were able to find a way to get your Jeep into shop for the air conditioner. 

Becca Anne, I planted the Basil about 4 years ago.  I really need to cut back the rosemary also. It is taken over part of the flower bed and over into the yard.  The basil really needs to be cut back also. There is another herb on the other side of the basil that I don't know what it is but it is spreading all over the place. I had a marker for what it was, and I guess it is buried underneath everything. It's not mint but smells a little like it. I am thinking it might be oregano. That one might get pulled up and put in a pot as it is spreading everywhere. Need to get it under control. 

Woke up early to rain this morning and took me a while to get up. My knee wasn't having it this morning. 

I see the orthopedic on Wednesday, so will find out what is going on. As for my shoulder, I already know what it is. Just need to get rid of the bursitis. 

With the rain today, not sure when I can get back outside to work, so working on my bedroom again. Trying to figure out how to organize a lot of stuff. Meds, batteries, solar chargers and everything else you can think of was in that closet. I really did just shove things in there before the remodel and construction started. Even found a huge pack of TP in the very back of closet. 

So today, will mop kitchen floor since I didn't get that part done yesterday, wash a load of towels, and work on the bedroom.  What I really wanted to do is get back to church, but I am limited with knee. That is a long drive, and the doctor said no driving and stay off that leg. I don't drive far as it hurts that knee being the right one. And I still have work around here to do. I'm very slow at getting it done but it's going to get done. 

Mother, your DH has some good ideas on making things for gardening.  I might have to give that a try. I already have one of those baskets, maybe two. But definitely one. 

Mt. Rider, you have way too many steps to have to climb. I wonder if you could put one of those seats that you sit on to take you up the steps. Can't think of what you call them. But they are mounted on the steps and ride up and down on a rail that is installed for that. Wonder if they have them for outside steps like yours. Might need to keep it covered so it wouldn't get wet but sounds like a good idea. 

It's been cool here also but not as cold as you are getting Mt. Rider. Got rain last night and the night before. Been cloudy here all day but no rain today. 

My daughter has Raynaud disease. Not good. 

Washed clothes, deep cleaned the kitchen and then stacked some wood. It's getting closer to being finished. waiting for GS to finish digging the holes to drop the cinder blocks down to level the wood racks. I might end up finishing that up myself as it could be about 2 weeks before he can finish it up. He just does a better job and really doesn't want me to be working on it. But it has to get done. I'm tired of looking at that tarp that is covering the huge pile of wood laying all over the ground behind the shed. 

GS is at work so won't see him till around midnight.  He will warm up his supper and then head to bed. Doesn't always stay up to late after he gets home these days. He's doesn't look as tired as he was the past few days. I think he has had a bit more help stocking the past couple of days. 

I want to see that 70* weather we had for a few days.