Littlesister

Thank you Euphrosyne. I'm calling the doctor again in morning. That cough will keep you awake nights and makes it hard to eat without coughing. Not to mention just plain tires you out. Miki, I tried the pineapple juice and it did help for a little while but then started back up again. But it did give me some relieve for a little while. But I need to go buy more juice tomorrow. Got the garden tilled and now just need to clean it up and then tomorrow I will till it again and even it out. I have gone through all the garden things in shed and I have plenty of bone meal, and such but still need top soil, garden soil and some other things that I am making a list of for next week's shopping trip. Was going to get GS to help me but he was on line taking test for two job opportunities. I just hope something pans out for him soon. He can help me tomorrow.

Miki, no I have not tried that but I do have some and will do that. I hope that works. The sun ran me back in house before I could start plowing. But I did get the garden area ready to till up. So will do that when the sun goes down off the garden later today. Guess I will work in house a bit till I can get back outside later. That sun is brutal. It's only 78* which isn't bad but that sun bearing down on you will get to you. I think I am also still a bit dehydrated from being sick. So need to keep the water going and be a bit more careful for awhile.

Prayers for a safe trip for Jeepers. I know you will spoil that GS rotten. Annarchy, glad that your DH is getting straightened out now. Hoping and praying the new meds will work well for him. Mt. Rider, glad to know you are doing better also. Becca Anne, everyone is right. That bay window will look great come Christmas with a tree there. Just the right size. I love old houses like that. Worked on garage some this morning and going out soon to work on garden area. Still have that cough and it just won't go away. I am over it now as it wakes me up during the night and I can't find a cough syrup that works. Not even the home made ones. Couldn't get hold of doctor this morning so will try tomorrow. I think today is his half day and he's off on Friday. So left message and hoping to hear back soon. GS is still in bed. He didn't go to bed till 6am. He is still on the night shift I guess even though he is not working now. At least he helped me yesterday and when he gets up later I will put him to work after he eats.

Jeepers, have a safe trip and have lots of fun with GS. Hopefully you will get a lot done while you are there.

Working in garage this morning. GS helped get the crab pot to the garden shed. That pot is very heavy. DH's uncle made it and it is very thick stainless steel. Guess we will have to find a place to go crabbing somewhere. Getting more boxes together for Good Will. Put a lot of junk on the street for bulk pickup. It's slow going but getting there. Being sick set me back about 3 weeks and I still have the cough but at least I am feeling better and starting to get some energy back. Hoping tomorrow I can finish spraying the yard for weeds and then get back to working on the flower beds and tilling the larger garden to get ready to plant. I am now hoping the frost is over. Need to make a trip to Tidewater feed and seed soon as well as to Lowes for garden things. Top soil, garden soil and other things. Was looking at the post hole digger and I need to replace it or find a new handle for it. It is so old, I'm not sure if I can find new handles and might be cheaper to just buy a new one. Need to check on some other tools as well. New ax maybe. I did find the log splitters. Once the garden is in, I am going to plot out my Newport News trip. Was hoping to find someone to go with me but no luck. GS is no shopper. Going to be starting in the other shed hopefully within a month. Garden has to get done first. That is where all the baby material is packed up at. I know I am going to have a new great grandchild but that is still way to much material and I am not making baby blankets like I used to any longer. I do have a few I have already made and some will be for the new baby.

We were in the low 50*'s today. Frost advisory tonight. So still can't plant garden yet. This weather is crazy this year. Mt. Rider, I hope they can get you straight and this doctor works out for you. You have really had a lot of health issues going on. Time to get things figured out. And if there is a pill for being so tired, I could use that right now. I can see you now chasing a wheelchair through the parking lot.

Annarchy, praying all goes well for your DH. He must be on blood thinners for his skin to bruise that easy. That stuff is bad. My DH was black and blue after working in the yard from that medicine. Sounds like you have a good start on your garden. Still to cold here yet to plant some things but hoping Thursday the weather will stay warm like they are saying. We will see. I'm ready to start planting. Becca Anne I really like that room. And radiator heat is good heat. I grew up with those. I remember my mother had a key that she would use to open a valve to let air out at the beginning of winter when the heat was turned on. Don't know if yours has that or not. It was a natural gas furnace.

Did some light cleaning this morning. Mostly kitchen from GS's middle of night eating and messing up kitchen like always. He does not clean up behind himself often. Friday morning I go for the MRI for the pituitary tumor. Be glad when that is over. Found a new dentist that takes my insurance so going to make apt. for that also very soon. I ordered some plastic cases to put matches and things in so I can keep them all together. I have to many things scattered all over the place and I really need to get that all organized and in one area of house. As soon as GS moves out I can really get this house organized again. His bedroom was my office and sewing room and I will be turning that back into my office and sewing room again. I am either going to give him the bedroom suite or give it to my daughter. He has a bedroom suit at his mother's house but I don't think it has much of a dresser to it. But he just throws his clothes on floor, clean or dirty it doesn't matter and the dresser drawers just hang open all the time. Boys! go figure. Once out I need to get that bedroom painted. But don't know what color I want to paint it. It is the brightest of the bedrooms as that is the side the sun comes up on in the mornings. But I have a few months to think about it. I decided I don't need a guest bedroom any longer. These kids come to visit and don't leave. They can stay in a hotel down the road. GD in Washington state said her DH is now out of the Navy. He is not looking for a job right now as he is getting things finished up at the veterans office. He is 30 years old and got out on disability. Don't ask, I haven't figured out what his issues are yet Other than he didn't like what he went in for. Naval Hospital. He's not doctor material and he didn't like it. But she is working but they have 2 car payments, a house payment, utilities and insurances. So hope they make it there as they will be moving to NC if they don't. Not moving here. GD in SC is now getting ready to move back in with DD again. Her DH is leaving for boot camp next month. So she is going to live with her mom. I have a feeling mom is about to get her paybacks for kicking them all out so soon. I am out of it. No one moves in with me again. Twice was enough and all I do is clean up behind them. No time for me anymore. So DD and SIL will have no choice but to deal with them. I am the Grandmother and should not be having to go through this because DD wants her time for her. Shoe is about to hit the other foot. DD isn't going to like it.

Dee I am so stealing your recipe. Looks like they are easy to make. I have zucchine in the freezer. Now I will have to pull that out to make these.

I do the same thing for BJ's and Sam's club. I just take it out to the car and bag it there but a lot of it is bulk items and doesn't need a bag. So just the smaller items are bagged. Saves me time just doing it at the car than in the store. I also keep a box in the trunk to put groceries and other things in. Just makes it easier for me. It will soon be time to put my small cooler back in the trunk for the summer. Coming home from some places I go to buy meat, I like to keep a cooler with ice packs in it to keep the meat cold till I get home. mainly for Greens market in Newport News. That's a good haul when I go there.

They are so cute. You guys are making me want another dog really bad. But I really need to fence in yard first.

Been slowly trying to finish getting my freezers emptied. It's getting there but getting sick slowed that down. Still some meat that I and going to use to make soups and then some veggies, okra, corn and some other veggies I want to use up soon. It will get there if I can stay well and get my energy back.

I also use the plastic bags from stores in my small bathroom trash cans. They work great for that and saves money having to buy them for the cans.

Jeepers a lot of places here are charging for bags now. I keep bags on the front seat of my car and put my purse with them so I will remember to take them in with me. I know Aldis and Lidl's both charge for bags. I have been watching Bible prophecy on TV most of the day. Very interesting Bible teaching.

He has Risen! Have a wonderful and blessed Easter. Love the flower cartoon. That is a beautiful way to put life after a burial.

Happy Birthday Becca Anne. Mt. Rider, get better soon and hope your ride is a great one. I know it helps you a lot. And I hope the electrical issue is a simple fix. Ambergris, I didn't see where you were having issues with a tooth but glad it is now all fixed and you are doing better. My energy is drained today. Don't know why other than I have congestion coming back again. Haven't gotten over the coughing from the first time yet. This isn't like me to just keep getting sick. Been a few years and I don't need to be sick now. I have to much to get done. Grandson is still in bed. Guess he can't break being up working all night and sleeping all day. I really hope he finds a day job and very soon. He has put in applications everywhere.

Happy Birthday Becca Anne. Hope your day was great.

They want to put them all up and down the East Coast. We are fighting it. For one it will kill off the fish and birds that fly into them. I don't know how the Navy and Coast Guard feels about that but I do know at one time the Navy in both VA and NC was fighting it. There was something I was watching on TV about a magnetic something or other that would also be a danger. There is nothing green about these.

Mt. Rider, GS does do the tilling for me. He did it last year and I will have him do it again. It's been raining off and on here so no yard work today. So working around in house today. I have most of the windows open and it feels good to have the fresh air blowing into the house. As soon as I have garden fully planted, I will be washing all the windows and curtains in house. By then all the pollen should have stopped. I hate that stuff. Turns everything green. My car was really bad a couple of weeks ago. From a grey car to a green car overnight. I still have the other shed to clean out but won't be as bad as the garden shed. But I don't even remember what all is in that one. But will soon find out, weather permitting. I know there are clothes, old drapes, books, still some canning supplies, christmas decorations and from there I forget what is in there. But will get it all sorted out. Then I move to the attic. That will be fun. I need to inventory my paper supplies up there. Still a lot of stuff both in shed, attic, and house to sort through and down size it all.

MidnightMom, GS will be moving on on or before July 1st. That is his last day here. Job or no job. I am glad you found out about Peanut. Hopefully the liver counts will come down. Jeepers, I hope you can find a better place to take that test. That map looks bad. I wouldn't even want to drive in that. Went out to garden shed and emptied it out for the most part. I have a lot of mess on street and now have all garden stuff in one huge box all together now. A friend and his brother was suppose to come by this afternoon to take all the electrical stuff and gas pipe fittings and things since that is what they do for a living. I can't use it and no need to keep it if I don't know what half of it is. DH worked for the gas co. and he had a zillion things dealing with gas and electric. Though mostly gas pipe fittings and things. So right now all of that is sitting in middle of shed waiting for them to come get it. GS did come out and help me go through a lot of stuff and then we got all the tools and things put away in its proper place. One the pipe fittings and stuff are out of shed, I will go back and do a little reorganizing that I can't do with that stuff in the middle of floor. Worked on that shed all day long. I am tired, sore and over did it. But it's done for the most part. Now we are suppose to have rain and colder weather again. But at least I got a lot of it done before the rain hits later. Guess tomorrow I will be working in the house again. But needed to be outside on these nice days. Still need to deal with the rest of the flower beds but that won't be to bad. Will just have to play by the weather. I wanted to get the big garden area tilled today but didn't make it that far. But the area is ready to till up now. May be hitting the bed a bit early tonight. Good hot shower and bed. I am really beat.

Ambergris, You reminded me I need to make my dental apt. I am changing dentist and need to go through the list of eye doctors in my eye care facility. The one I have retired. So getting close to time to get that set up with a new doctor in the practice. Going outside shortly to work on cleaning out the shed. Just hope I don't get tired to fast. The garden shed is a hot mess right now. Everything has been thrown in it. Then later hoping to at least start working on another flower bed. GS said he will help me today but he is still in bed. He's not a morning person.

Happy Birthday Spider.

Worked in flower beds some today. Still get tired easy but got one flower bed totally cleaned out now.

Mt. Rider, I hope you are feeling better soon. And you can keep the snow. It's pretty bad when you can't even trust the mail to get your package to it's destination without someone stealing it. Annarchy, I hope you got that furnace taken care of. I know that has been a big hassle for you. It is a very warm day today. Seems summer is coming in now. I am trying not to turn on the air condition yet, but may have to soon. Nights are starting to warm up a bit now and it is 78* now. I am feeling better though I still have a lingering cough. Still very tired and low energy. But at least I am starting to move around more and trying to get a few things done. Maybe the more I move around and do things the quicker my energy will come back.

Hoping Peanut will get good test results back and doing ok. Annarchy. The price of meds is getting out of hand. My DH had a couple of high priced meds like that. Yep it will drain you fast. Prayers for Mr. Annarchy to have good health. I am starting to feel a little better though still very tired. But the coughing is slowing down now. I might try to get back out and work on flower beds again tomorrow. I put it off for almost 3 weeks because of being sick and now I need to play catch up. GS has some good prospects on jobs. I just hope a good one will pan out for him.