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Euphrasyne, That is so sweet of your DH to take care of the kids so you can rest and just enjoy doing nothing but relaxing. I cleaned my bedroom and bath and the kitchen today. Now I am to tired to go outside and work in garden. Maybe after church tomorrow If weather permits I can start planting. Someone told me it is to early yet, but I don't think so. I have plants I need to get in ground by end of next week. GS got up at 5 pm this afternoon and I told him we needed to talk. He got his feathers up and wanted to know why. Just said that we needed to talk some things over and get something to eat and then we'll talk. So after he ate. I asked him when he gets paid and it is next Friday. So no money for a week. I then told him that he was moving out by end of May and he said no it is July. Told him not anymore. And then I took him into bedroom and showed him what he did to my closet door. He said he didn't do that and I told him yes he did because I was cleaning out flower bed right under his bedroom window and heard him throw something though I thought he hit the wall. He threw his phone at the closet door. Plus I told him why he did it. That he made a big mistake going in my bedroom and going through my dressers and nightstand looking for money before coming outside to ask me if I had any money. Let him know my bedroom was off limits no matter what. So will see what happens. Hope he can save money because he isn't getting any money from me. It is ashame I ended up with a GS that is so destructive and just won't grow up. But it seems I'm not the only one. My neighbors across the street from me, let their daughter move back in with them but not her 18 year old son. Seems he got very nasty with them and used some pretty bad language on them. So he is not allowed to live there. So he had to go live with his father. Their daughter is mad about it and said she can't see him and misses him. She got told to go pick him up and take him out to dinner or something but he's not coming back to their house. I guess a lot of grandparents and parents are going through things like this. It's sad that there are parents that just don't raise their children like they should and that the schools don't teach them enough to learn anything. And the schools are getting much worse.

Was going to start planting this morning but with the all day rain yesterday, everything is way to muddy. Just walking across the grass this morning was slushy. So will see how this afternoon turns out after it has had some sun on it. Cleaned up and mopped kitchen floor behind GS. And I went in his room to see how dirty he has gotten it and it is bad. He has also punched a small hole in the closet door. So When he gets up, I will give him time to wake up good and then I am going to tell him to move out by end of May since his mother told him he would be able to move. He's not paying any of his bills other than the cell phone. And buying heavy on cig. and vape juice. He some money but not using it wisely. I think he said he got paid yesterday but that will be one of the first questions I ask him. I am going to tighten up on his misery. He didn't like finding me on couch at 1 am watching TV. But I didn't budge till he went to bed at 5:30 this morning. So I didn't get a lot of sleep. TV is on and going full blast. Not going to turn it down either. And since I can't do anything outside, I need to vacuum floors and clean bathrooms. So I will be very loud. It's not like he has to go to work this evening and he isn't helping me do anything again and hasn't turned his hands to do anything since he was fired a month ago.

Virginia, Thank you for letting us know he's healing and doing well.

Jeepers, it sounds like something is going bad in your computer. I have lost things on my phone before but had all my numbers and important things written down in a notebook I keep. I started doing that when I first started prepping. Paper copies of everything. I want to get most of my pictures copied also. I could do that from my printer or just put on a photo stick and go to either Walmart or Walgreens to make copies of them. I know I can make copies at Walgreens but not sure if I can do it with a photo stick at Walmart. If I do it from my computer, I have plenty of photo paper for that.

Mt. Rider, many years ago my step daughter bought DH's ex to our house to steal anything she wanted. They had been divorced for 10 or 12 years and had no right into our house. But Step daughter was doing it because her mother wanting to keep trying to hurt DH and didn't like that he remarried after 10 or 12 years of being divorced. I came home and caught her going through our stuff. She even took my silverware. It was mine before I even knew DH but she took it anyway. So DH put an outside type lock on door. You have to have a key to open it from outside the room but can be opened from inside room by turning the latch. I now have my room under lock and key. Though he never found his rent money nor my money. Very well hidden. He won't be able to get into my room now. Neighbor came over a while ago to get some herbs for their dinner tonight. glad to share as I am overflowing with some herbs. Mt. Rider I was thinking a snow plow but didn't know you were talking about moving snow off the steps. Or that is what I was thinking you meant. Maybe what Ambergris was saying depending on how the steps are configured. And the last thing you or your HD needs is to fall down icy steps. Be careful.

Snow blower might work much better. Termite man should be here between 9 and 12 am. So stuck home till then. They called this morning. Usually they call and make an apt. but not this time. It is raining and they had a house that they needed to treat but can't do that in the rain. So coming out sometime this morning since they cancelled that other apt. That's fine as it will get that out of the way. Will just work on catching up house work. Washing clothes today since it is raining. Only have maybe 2 loads. Usually I do that on Monday's. But with working on garden and flower beds, I decided to do it today. Don't know if it will be to wet tomorrow to work outside yet. But might be since it is suppose to rain all day today. GS was 6 minutes late for work yesterday. He told them a lie and said he had to help me lift something heavy. Said he didn't want to tell them he overslept since he's on a 90 day training and just got the job last Thursday. Told him to get off the computer and go to bed at night and he wouldn't oversleep. He goes to bed at 6 am and gets up at 2:30 to get ready for work at 4 pm. He doesn't have any money till payday so he went through my room looking for money. Then found me in front yard and said he needed $20 for cigarettes. Told him I didn't have any cash on me and I just gave him $20 for gas. So he wanted it out of his rent money. I got it out for him and saw he had already been through my bedroom looking for that money. He never found it and is why he came out the front door looking for me. Told him he already borrowed $40 from his rent money and that would make $60 he owes back in rent and $20 for me. Came home last night and gave me the $60 for the rent from a check he just cashed from his last job. Asked him where my $20 was he owed me and he tried to deny he owed me money. Reminded him about needing gas money to get to work and he says oh yea. So I took it out of his rent money and told him he owes $20 more to his rent. We will be having a heart to heart talk this weekend. Not even looking for an apartment.

Yep, See you later alligator. After while crocodile. And don't bite me.

Becca Anne, I really hope your work situation gets better soon. Picked up Rx this morning and then went to Dollar Tree for some shelf stable milk. The Mcdonalds nursery is right next to the Dollar Tree so I went there and looked around. They are only there from spring to mid summer. Bought a flat of marigolds, an aloe plant, watermelon plants, strawberry plants and 2 different types of potato plants. with what I bought yesterday and today, plus my seeds I should be set for planting. Though tomorrow is suppose to rain all day. Worked on front flower bed all day after getting back home. When the ground started moving up and down, I was like ok I have an active mole. Don't know if I killed it or not because I was using the hoe to dig out old roots from some bushes we took out a few years ago. I waited to see if the ground was going to move again but nothing happened and I didn't see the mole either. GS woke up late for work. Hope he made it in time. I'm not his keeper so he best start getting up when his alarm goes off instead of going back to sleep. Now I am tired and sore. Arm starting to hurt again. So going to take shower after a while and use the blue emu on my shoulder and arm. Took a couple of advil for now.

Mt. Rider that was ha huge haul. But I haven't use the big garden area since 2019. The grass and stuff had grown back in it. So had to do some serious tilling and cleaning up to get it ready. It was a lot of work but well worth it. I have loads of canning jars. So I am set. And I bought the 1/2 gal. jars went I went to Taylors hardware. They are cheaper than the grocery store there. Miki, I am so glad that Peanut Butter's legs have stopped shaking. Praying that that is the start of healing.

Thanks Mt. Rider that looks really good. Will have to try that.

Remember the 5 second rule?

After coming home from the feed and seed store and empting the car, I went to Taylors hardware and they had 2 bags of bone meal left. Don't know what is going on with that so I bought both bags. I only use one when planting so that puts me ahead for next year. It looked like it was going to start raining, so I vacuumed out the car and cleaned all the pollen off where you can't get to it just washing the car. So a bit of detailing. Bought some straw to put between rows of the big garden. He said I will have wheat this winter as it will come up in places. Now I don't know if I want to put it between rows. I might have to rethink that one.

I agree with with Jeepers, Pick it up put it in colander, rinse it off good and heat back up and start again.

Mt. Rider, I am so glad this doctor is working out for you. she will get you straight. Went to Feed and Seed today. Bought a lot of stuff. 2- 40lb bags of cow manure, fertilizer, plant food, veggie. plants, a blueberry bush to replace the one I had to dig up because I couldn't get the 3 wild trees that grew into it. Lemon drop plants, seeds and a few more items. I am all set now to start planting. Will be working in garden in a little bit. Need to head up street to Taylors hardware and garden to see if they have any bone meal. Feed & seed said they had not been able to get any. Just hope they have some. If so I will get 2 or 3 bags as I don't know what is going on with that. I also got some rabbit deterrent. Hope it works. Still need to make a trip to Lowe's. No rain so far. I think the weather report has changed. But it is coming and I want to get my seeds planted before the rain starts.

Jeepers, I am the same way about air conditioning. I can set mine on what I want and then just keep it shut off and open windows. My GS loves the cold and if he touches my air conditioner again he's in big trouble. I woke up in middle of night last summer freezing as he turned it down to 64 one night after I had gone to bed. If he does it again I am going to turn it off and shut it down at the breaker box. That should do it. When I do need the air conditioner, It is usually kept at 75. That for me is comfortable in 90 plus degree weather. I am sore and my right arm is killing me. Yes, I over did it again. Advil tonight and a hot shower. Going to Feed and seed tomorrow. Making a list of what I need. It is suppose to rain tomorrow. So will do some garden shopping.

OK, I goofed. It was 2 feet one each side of garden and one foot on end. MM, I plan to use some of those branches for the big pots I have. I cut off a lot of low branches on 5 trees. One trees. 2 on side yard and one in front yard. The other 2 trees are on each end away from the garden but some branches were hanging over 2 ends of the garden. Now I will have more sun there. I just quit for the day. I am tired. My git up and go got up and went. I need a nap but to late now for that.

OK, I must be nuts. I just made work in garden harder. I extended the garden by 8 inches. 4 inches on each side and 4 inches on one end. Then I cut down a lot of tree branches to get more sun on the garden. More seeds to plant and a bit longer rows. Now I have to clean all that out. But it will be worth it.

for both DH's for VA and Mt. Rider. All the food sounds good. I made lemon turnovers to share. We went back to being cold again. Low high 40's to low 50's at night and in mid 50's to mid 60's during the day. Getting warm enough to get back outside again to work the garden. Hoping now we won't have another freeze but thinking we had the last one already. So still hot tea to go with our goodies. To cold yet for lemonade. I can cook up a nice batch of fried chicken to go with that BBQ

Miki, I hope peanut butter gets better with your new treatment. Do you have Dominion Energy? I have had a few friends that now has the smart meter and they said their bill went up by around $200 a month. Seems strange that some people's didn't go up and others did. I can't say how mine will be till it is all said and done. But my bill right now even with air condition is still low. I need to go to T-Mobile To check on their internet. I am now paying $80 for Spectrum internet and T-Mobile is $50. I have the T-Mobile phone and it is $50 a month. They don't go up on their prices. I have been checking into the internet and everyone that has it said they love it. No issues with it. So need to head down there. Going to be raining starting tomorrow so will go on a rainy day as I am saving the good days to work in garden.

Wow Jeepers, Those kids parents better have a really good savings. That is going to cost them. Your mess looks like my mess from my construction. They really fixed it so you can't get to your stuff and pack it all up. I agree time to go after insurance company. I need to get on the stick and get that garage cleaned out. Then get GS moved out so I can get the rest of house finished. I got the notice that they are going to put a smart meter in my house. We have Dominion Energy. I have been doing alot of research on the smart meters and found one from a doctor. I can't get it to come over to here. The site is amymyersmd.com/articile/dangerous-smart-meter#Dangers of Smart Meters Know the Truth. In between the spaces is the line that goes under the blank spaces. The key won't work. She is an MD and has studied up one this meter. I have already heard about how this is working here from others that already have it. We have no choice but can call to opt out but it takes 30 days to do it. I was on phone with Dominion for a good while Talking with them. She lied about the increase in price and I told here about the issues with the radiation. The RF radiation can cause cancer Also the other type of radiation is EMF electromagnetic radiation and they haven't studied up on the health issues. I was able to opt out. But a smart meter will be installed till the paperwork is done. She is sending me the papers to fill out and then I have to send them back. But from what This MD said it causes Fatigue, cognitive problems, Brain fog, irritability, anxiety, memory loss and can cause cancer. This radiation will be all over your house in the air and you are breathing it in. Once they get the paperwork, They will come out and take the smart meter out but I will still have a smart meter. All they do is take out the chip and it becomes a non communication smart meter. They will come out to read meter every other month and I would be billed every other month instead of monthly. This is the funny part. They said my meter was old and non functional. You don't want to know where that story went. But anyway, I asked questions about the meter based on what some friends of mine said that has the smart meter. Will my bill go up and of course Dominion said no. Wrong. My friends bill went up about $200 a month. For me I will be paying $15 a month for them to get out of truck and come up to meter to read it. With my old meter I have now, they just drive by and read it. No getting out of truck. Told her that didn't make sense. Also one of my friends opted out and now they are hounding her. She is not budging. She said they will cut current off if you don't use the smart meter that sends info to them every 15 minute. You will lose your privacy also with this. I am opting out anyway. Hanging in till they force me to put it in. I do question the non communicating Meter. As they said all they do is take out the chip so it won't communicate with the Dominion computers. They said the cost of this for VA is 3.6 billion dollars at least I think that was the quoted price. I think that money could be better spent EMP proofing the grid. So my morning was spent paying bills. Getting things together for when my Financial adviser comes to see what I need to do with my retirement. Need to make some changes and talking with Dominion energy. I really needed to work in yard. I have been cutting branches from my back fence off. Though they are my neighbor's bushes. They are growing through the fence and it's hard to cut grass there. DH would cut them off every year and now my guy that cuts my grass gets hit in the face when he tries to cut the grass near there. So now I am taking care of that. Leveling up the ground at fence also for the 2 racks for the wood to be stacked on. Will work on the garden areas tomorrow and then get back to working on the wood pile.

Jeepers, that is what we are here for. Keeping each other up in times of stress. I am now getting serious about selling my house and moving to NC but not in the same area as DD. Reason I am thinking about it is that in VA the taxes here are outrages. Suffolk is getting to be one of the worst cities for high taxes. And it is much cheaper in NC. Don't care for Florida as I can't handle that humidity and mosquitoes are much worse than here. And yesterday I get a notice that the electric company is going to change out my meter for a smart meter. Not going to happen. Just in case I miss them I am putting a notice on my meter that they are not allowed to put a smart meter in. They can control what you use and cut you off anytime they want. That is happening in CA from what my GD there said. So they will have to talk to me before they can do anything. Got the neighbor's bushes cut off my fence but still have a ways to go. But got enough that I can move my wood pile there instead of having it near the shed. This way I can at least get 4- eight foot wood holders there along the fence. Would work much better and since I can't plant anything near my fence which is only between me and my neighbors, The wood stackers will work much better there. I think I can get up to 8 or 9- eight foot wood stackers along the fence line but right now 4 will do. But if I sell the house maybe in a couple of years when things settle down and I can finish the painting and other things I need to do, I want to take my wood stackers with me. And I need now to replace a window and the hot water tank. So first off is to find a cheap plumber that won't cost me an arm and 6 legs. it is a gas water heater. Right now the tank is not leaking bad and GS took a picture of the bottom of the tank. But I am going out after dinner and put a bucket under it. Just in case. But for now I can hold off. Just too tired to mess with it and I need to get the new one out of garden shed. it is light so I can move it easy and get it to garage. Jeepers, I haven't been on a vacation in 5 or 6 years. One is coming in the near future. Just don't know yet where I would want to go. I don't have anything around here like some of you have. Leman's Vermont country store, Amish stores and such. And a bit too far to travel. But will be looking around for some nice places like those stores but closer to me. I think God is trying to whip my body back into shape. My muscles are feeling it. This is a huge yard with lots of upkeep on both yard and house. But better a house than an apartment any day.

Jeepers that is really bad. And yes those parents will have to pay for the damages. Glad you were able to get another room but at 3 am. That's rough. I pray that you get that house in Ohio finished up and it sells fast. I know you are ready to move permanently to Indy. Try to relax and treat yourself to something fun to get things off your mind for a while. Like mountain rider said we are all praying for you for strength and protection. Also for the Ohio house to be finished as soon as possible and it be sold fast. I was talking with my DD and just like I figured no help from them. SIL is controlled by DD and he won't be coming down to replace the hot water tank. She keeps him so busy at home he has no time to himself. So I will have to fork out more money for a plumber an then when the window replacements come I will have to fork out more money to have someone put them in. Right now they will both have to be on hold because all I have done is fork out money for high taxes. Real estate taxes will be due June 5th. Till I know for sure if that will be 46% higher than in December. The hot water tank will be on hold. I have the tank replacement but need to find a plumber. Seems all I do around here is clean up behind GS and pay taxes. And now repairs are starting. Why do I feel so broke. June can't get here fast enough so I can redo my retirement plan. When DH passed away my financial planner decided without my knowledge dropped one of our retirement income. That is one of the things I am going after him about and looking for a new financial company. This one is Equitable and the financial advisor whom used to be really good is not looking out for my interest any longer. I think his 4th or 5th divorce is playing on him and he has 10 kids with the last marriage having twins. Most of his kids are grown now but I am sure he is having to pay out to all the ex's that are not remarried as well as child support to the younger kids. So time to change things. I am thinking he has a lot on his plate and not looking out for anyone's interest any longer. We got a hard rain last night and everything is to wet to work outside today. I was planning on finishing up the garden so I can start planting on Tuesday. Will see how tomorrow goes. Hopefully dry enough to finish up outside. So just going through a few boxes and getting things where they belong. Going out to garage in a bit to work on the mess out there. Still a lot to get rid of still. Going to fill up more boxes to put in car and take to Goodwill. But on the bright side the construction took care of all the corroded pipes and now I won't have pipes bursting and flooding everything. All this is just another bump in the road that I can hopefully look back on and laugh at. But the taxes are going to kill me financially. Thinking I might sell out and move to a lower tax state. VA has gone off the deep end for taxes, not to mention the IRS.

Well, we got a storm. Looks like it might be over now. But to wet to work outside now. This is really getting to be a bad day. Hot water tank is rusting out and leaking. It will hold till Monday. At least I already have a spare hot water tank in shed. The rusted out one is 12 years old, so guess it is time. Then I looked out the living room window and it is cracked all the way across. But at least it is lifetime warranty so that will be free windows. One in bedroom lost it's aragon gas and I need to replace that one as well. And even worse it comes in 3's.

It does seem that street drugs do tend to control a person.

Ambergris, His mother said he wanted to move now but he just started a new job Thursday. I have some pictures of his damage to my things now. His mother told him to wait till end of May so that he would be working at least a month. After the end of May there will be no trying to keep me from kicking him out. This is not the same Grandson that I knew. He has become very inconsiderate, refuses to apologize for the damage he has done to my house. he choses jobs where he can smoke weed. My constantly cleaning up behind him. I tried a couple of times to out wait him to see if he would clean up his messes but no luck. That is why I clean up behind him. I don't need ants and roaches in the house. Sticky messes on floor and counters as well as the stove would cause that if I leave his mess. It would sit there for days one end. If he's not out by the end of May, I don't care what his parents say is going to be living on the streets. He can go back to living in his car. He did stop trying the scare tactic on me. First I had ghost in my house and it was haunted. Told him this isn't halloween and there is no such thing as ghost. He kept it up to the point I told him his grandfather is about to kill him. Of course his GF has passed away and that did stop him from the ghost trick. Then it was a truck driving by house several times really slow during the night. So I stayed up and sat outside a few nights waiting to see this truck. It never happened. Stopped that one also. He said the house was being cased. told him I had what I needed to take care of intruders. Then it was someone is walking around my yard. I would not pull out my protection. But told him here is the bat. Go have fun as your tricks will not scare me. So move out if you have any issues with ghost, break-ins or anything else. Because if I decide to sell the house for the reasons he keeps telling me thinking he will scare me so he can permanently live with me, it would not work because If I do sell the house he would be on the street a lot sooner than he thinks. That worked like a charm. He stopped trying to use the scare tactic on me. His mother is finally helping him to find an apartment as she is finding out I have had enough. None of my family will be living with me as I am selling or giving him the bedroom suit that he is using. I will no longer have a guest bedroom as the grandchildren think I am a permanent hotel. This is the second G. child that has moved in on me and I am waiting for the 3ed if she and her husband don't make it in Washington State. As her DH got out of the Navy and not working now. They will be moving in with her mother. After GS she will not talk me into letting another child live with me. Told her I am selling the house and buying a one bedroom house. No room for boarders.