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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.

I couldn't believe how much more house you can get in NC for much cheaper than here in VA. My GD in CA said that my house as is in CA would sell for a million. It is hard to believe how much of a difference a house sells in one state compared to another state. And then there is the taxes. But then everything on the West Coast is crazy expensive.

Working on the house today but still very weak. GS is job hunting and putting in more applications. I started working on the garage a little this morning and getting rid of more junk. I am just to a point I don't know what to do with it. So it is going out of here. Ether by putting on the street for pick up and what is still worth it will go to goodwill. Then if I do decide to sell out and move, I will already be ahead of the game. I am looking at houses more toward the country now. But VA taxes are so bad, I may have to rethink this and maybe look around at areas of NC or SC maybe. Taxes are much cheaper and you don't have to pay taxes on your cars every year.

Euphrasyne, I understand what you are saying. Unforchanty it isn't all stupid things people do to get themselves killed. I look at my GS and his actions and it scares me to death that he won't see 50 years of age at the rate he is going. You can't make those types of choices and expect nothing to happen. On top of smoking pot, menthol cigarettes, and vaping, and now we can add cigars to the mix. Yes, he rolled a cigar earlier today and smoked it. You know where that will lead health-wise. That like you said is stupidity and will kill you just in a slower and more painful way. I could see you love your grandma. I can't imagine 100 roses. You know she will never forget that. I just wish my grandmother lived longer than she did. She was 76 when she passed from heart failure. I was in my late 20's. If not for her and my grandfather, I don't know where I would be today. I still miss both of them to this day. They are the reason I love country living. They taught me a lot of things about living off the grid. As they had no indoor plumbing till their much later years. They had well water and granddaddy had that hooked up to the kitchen sink for running water. But was the only place that had running water. And yes the chamber pots, the outhouse, washing clothes in 2 galvanized wash pans and so much more. It was all fun but a lot of work.

I will have to give that a try. Never made it before.

I know all too well about dying young. I had a close friend in 8th grade that died from a hole in his heart. He was playing basketball and just dropped and was gone that fast. My father was 50 when he passed from a heart attack. My aunt's twin sister died at the age of 3 from pneumonia. A cousin of mine was 42 when he died of a heart attack. One of my good friends from high school was 15 when she was shot and killed. It goes on and on. I will be 73 this year and some of those years have been long hard years but they made me who I am today. My DH was 83 when he passed. We had 37 really good years together and I wouldn't trade that for anything in this world. We celebrated our 37th anniversary 2 weeks before his passing on Valentine's day. But it is fun to turn your age around now and again. But we are still old.

Jeepers, I see a big difference in how your grandchild is very much involved with activities and both parents taking a role with that and doing things with him. That can very well make a big difference in how he grows up. With my grandchildren, the girls both played soccer but DH and I took them to most of the games. But the oldest girl really wasn't interested in soccer and would rather pick wildflowers on the soccer field. The middle girl which is my DD's favorite got to do cheerleading which was a private group for the little league. She won the title and they had to go to other states a couple of times to compete. Then there is my Grandson. Daddy did nothing with him and mom just pushed him out of the way. It was always your best not to mess up my kitchen or something with these kids till the girls were afraid to eat in the kitchen for a while. Grandson was in Boy Scouts for only a few short months because mom was the one that had to take him because at that time dad worked. She didn't want to take him so she pulled him out. Not sports, no nothing. DH took him fishing every chance he got and taught him a lot about gardening as well as the girls. GS's babysitter was video games and I am not talking children's games but call of duty and worse. From a very young age, he played killer games or watched TV. This was an all-day event during the summer when he wasn't in school and also after school because his parents didn't want to deal with taking care of him or doing anything constructive with him. I think this is what switched him to the way he is now and not in a very constructive way. He no longer wants to go fishing even though I told him I would pull out the rods and we would head out to the river to fish. He's lost interest and you can't get him off the video games. Those games are part of the reason he got fired from his job that he wasn't so sick he couldn't go to work but because he wanted to stay home and play video games instead. I hope he learned that lesson. I have washed sheets and blankets from both beds, clothes, and some work outside and I am tired. My coughing is starting to calm down a lot now. But losing 10 lbs in a week's time took it out of me muscle-wise. I don't want the weight back but I need to gain back the muscle and strength again. My whole body is sore and aking tonight.

Jeepers, you can turn those numbers around and be 07 years old again. At 75 you spring up to age 57. I'm 72 and need to turn those tables around to 27 years. But right now I don't feel it. Happy Birthday Orchid's DH.

I am beginning to think we old folks are getting tired of too many changes. I do have to pay taxes on Social Security. Welcome to VA born paying taxes, then taxed to death. Got the real estate assessor report. Looks like I may be paying 600 to maybe $800 more in real estate taxes this year. Then again in December. Seems for every dime I get my hands on taxes take it away. I told GS that since he is no longer working that he is going to get his tail out of bed and help me with yard work and I am not playing. So he pulled the stack of wood from the garage and restacked it behind the shed for next year's firestarters. Then I had him take those old yard chairs and table that had been sitting in the yard for a few years and never used for several years and put it on the street. Someone has already picked it all up. So at least someone might get a few more years out of it. It is only about 35 years old and has served its purpose well. Been washing sheets, blankets, clothes, and everything on site and I am feeling the pain. If I bend down too long I get dizzy. I am sure that is coming from the illness. But that too will pass. I am going to keep GS so busy he will wish he got his butt out of bed and gone to work instead of laying around playing sick and getting fired. Jeepers I know you can't wait to have your house put back together, get it sold, and move on to Indy to spend time with your GS. Mine were a lot of fun at those young ages but I really don't know what happened to GS. Someone needs to knock some sense in that thick scull of his. He is ADHD but has gotten lazy since school. And really doesn't want to work but it is the only way he will get any money. Now he is going to learn what having his own apt. is like.

I have started opening up the house now. Still cool out but warm enough to open windows now. I walked around the yard and it has gotten away from me. Flowerbeds are a mess. And I still don't have the energy to get them cleaned out. Walked around the yard and I am feeling it in every muscle in my body. I don't know what got hold of me with this illness but it is not good. I pray no one gets this mess. I think starting tomorrow I am going to force myself to start walking around the small block and work on getting my strength back. I did not realize how much strength I have been losing. Sleeping off and on all day, not sleeping well at night because of a deep cough, and basically not doing anything other than reading when I felt like it, has zapped everything out of me. Don't know why I am getting a headache other than the breeze flowing through the windows across the house is causing that smell of the vape and stuff this kid smokes. I don't know how he even has a set of lungs. Going to put in another load of clothes and go sit out on the swings for awhile. I have to get out of the house and get some fresh air.

Maymayms, this is great info for anyone that does not know about healthy grains. You explained the differences very well.

I just hope to be well by Easter. I want to go to the Sunrise service and then have breakfast with the church family and then the regular service as well. DH and I always did that every Easter since DD never wanted to do anything for Easter after the last child was too old for an Easter basket. To her, it was just another day. Though I may pull out a small ham from the freezer. Got to have a good ham sandwich. I would like GS to go to church with me but it won't happen as you can't get him out of bed in the mornings. I used to do cross stitch many many years ago. I have been looking around at new hobbies to do after I get GS out of the house and finish getting the house back together. I might take that backup. It would be a good exercise for my hands. Keep my fingers moving hopefully. They do get stiff and sore. Glad you were able to get all your patterns Jeepers. It will keep you busy while you are waiting for your house to get finished and sold and keep your mind off of all the work that is taking place. My grandson vapes, smokes cigarettes, and smokes pot. None of it is allowed in my house. But the smell of the 3 is in his clothes and anywhere he sits it is in that as well. I should take stock of Lysol and odor-remover items like Febreze and such. I have to use it every day. Lysol since he first got sick and then when I got sick. I am washing everything in the house now and spraying. Will be opening up the house as soon as it warms up a bit more. supposed to get into the high 70s today. It is 54* now. I am starting to wonder if that vape that has a very sticky residue could be what is making me sick. It may be from the odor gotten into my lungs and is what could be causing the very deep cough. I do know this boy as much as I love him and tried to do for him has got to go. He still says he is moving to CO to share an apt. with a friend, he encountered on the internet and they play games together on the internet. He supposedly is an EMT. I don't think he would make it there but I guess he will need to find that out on his own. But once he leaves my house it will be up to his parents and not shoved on me to get him back here to live with me again. I am fully out of it even if I need to sell this house and not say a word as to where I am moving to. Yes my DD does not like to be inconvenienced. That's too bad she had these kids, they are her and her DH's responsibility not mine. I am just the grandmother and that is how it will be. No more dumping on me. I learned this the hard way and it all happened shortly after DH passed and I have had to deal with this on my own. But it is all about to backfire on my DD and I am just going to walk away. I am really sorry for the rant but I think constant house cleaning behind GS's big messes, being sick for almost 3 weeks and everything coming down on me as it has is getting to me. But thanks everyone for listening to my scatterbrained mess as it is.

Jeepers I have picked up patterns of all sorts at yard sales at times that have never been opened. I have a lot of old ones for clothes and different things. I haven't seen many patterns at the second-hand stores in a long while but would like to go to Newport news as they have a lot of those second-hand stores to see what I can find. They also have Ollie's there and I would like to go there as well. Once I can get GS out of the house for good, I am going to map out a day trip to Newport News for some shopping at these stores plus JoAnn's fabric store. I haven't been to any of those stores since covid hit and I hope most of them are still open. Didn't get much done in the housework department today but tried to do a little. I just lose my energy and have to lie down for a while. Since when did strep ever take someone out like this before? I am starting to think this is more than strep. But at least there is no more fever. Just need to find something that will work on this cough before it kills me.

I have a Fresnel lens somewhere around here but don't know where it is at. I'm sure it is packed up in a box that I haven't gotten to yet. Once I start feeling better and can get a better handle on things around here, I want to start practicing using a lot of different methods of solar cooking.

Trying to get some dusting done and catching up on housework. The coughing has died down somewhat but not much sleep last night. GS of course is in bed instead of looking for a job. His days are numbered and he knows it. Next time he gets kicked out it will be for good. As for his mother, I don't know what to think when she just covers for his bad behavior. She was not bought up like that but I am starting to understand what my 2 granddaughters have been talking about. She won't take him back to live with her but she also won't condone his bad behavior. She covers for him. Might run out and pick up a pizza for dinner tonight. I have lost 10 lbs from this illness. I needed to lose some weight but this is not the way to do it.

Jeepers, glad you are doing ok and it is only a cold. GS will be staying here for a while longer. Don't even ask about what the problem with his mother is. But she again took up for his not paying off his car and other things he was doing. So he just thinks it's all a joke. And laughs when I try to talk with him. But I could not give him the rent money I save up for him to drive to Colorado in that car to live on the street for one month with a guy he has never met and then going supposedly get apt. together. His car would not make it and no the police were really no help. But I can go to the magistrate's office and get something called CO something and then they can pick him up take him to the ER and then to a mental hospital. I think I need one of those for his mother.

WE2 I am glad your eye surgery went really well. And glad the fall wasn't bad. I can just see your hubby running in to get you up to take care of you. Euphrasyne, That is a horrible way to treat your children. But so many of them are abused. My mother told me she didn't care if I was 50 years old, I was never getting married or moving out of the house. I was 21 when I moved out and got married to my first husband. She would never accept my daughter as her grandchild and so never got to spend time with her because of how evil she became. Whenever we would visit her and my father she tried to make my daughter jealous of my younger cousins and raised he--with my father if he had anything to do with her. So never went back till my father passed away. Went to my father's funeral and never went to visit my mother till my divorce. Has no choice at the time. With no job, he took the money and moved in with his girlfriend. That was the biggest mistake of my life. But it all worked out in God's plan. My second DH was a wonderful man and loved my daughter as his own as well as the grandchildren. I don't know what has transpired with my DD as she has pushed all 3 children out of the house as each of them got older. Now, my DD is going to be a grandmother to a baby girl in Oct. They have already named the baby Josephine Rose. I like that name. They are going to call her Josie. I just hope DD does well with this child though they are in 2 different states now. So my daughter won't see a lot of this child. Might be a good thing. But my prayer is she will do better than she has with her own kids. The grandchild having the baby is the favorite and the other 2 kids will tell you about it. I don't believe in favorites. Each child is different and all should be loved just the same no matter what. Just some need a little more working on like my GS. I really don't know what to do with him at this point other than he can't stay here any longer.