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Cleaned house this morning, washed sheets, and cleaned bathrooms. Gave up on GS cleaning his bathroom. It's not going to happen. So, I cleaned his as well. As for his bedroom, He can sleep in a dirty bed. He wouldn't wash his sheets and it is now over 2 months since I last washed them. I'm not washing them anymore. Will just keep the bedroom door closed. He sometimes acts like a 2-year-old. Never off the cell phone unless he is sleeping. Becca Anne hope you get that leak fixed soon. Mt. Rider, hope your eye is doing better and the skin tag doesn't come back. And glad your Bible study classes are starting up again. I am hoping ours starts back up soon. They are talking about it but then we haven't really started back fully for our Sunday school classes yet. Everyone is in one room for Sunday School. No real classes back yet like it was pre corvid. I know what you mean about friends at church and for me also neighbors. So many of our church members has passed on and many were friends of mine. Some are homebound and have had several neighbors that were friend of mine that have passed on. Sad times indeed. Miki, glad your DH is doing better. Hopefully he will be home soon but not before the lung infection is clearing up well. Jeepers, I hope your house is coming along. It is stressful to say the least but will look really nice when finished and will increase the value of the house. That is a good thing.

Miki, I pray your DH gets better soon. Got all the food put away that I canned. And the veggies I dehydrated all put away as well. Got the last of the boxes emptied and everything put where it needed to go. Finally glad to see the last of those boxes out of bedroom. Need to make a trip to Good Will in the morning. Watched Newsmax for a bit as I wanted to catch up on what is going on in the world. Not looking good. Said there is a Russian nuclear ship just off the Atlantic coast. Not a good sign as they also said that after the world meeting in Switzerland that they have moved the doomsday clock to one and a half minutes to midnight. Closest we have ever been toward a nuclear war.

Still have a lot to get canned. But so far, I canned up veg. beef soup, veg. soup (no meat) tomato soup, chicken, and beef and canned water. Dehydrated more frozen veggies. Using all pint jars for canning now and quarts for the water. Ambergris, hope you can find a canner soon. I have 2 of them and keep them going mostly in summer when garden comes in and then partway through the winter. Though with all the construction it put me behind and is why the freezers are overflowing.

Got the tomato soup canned. While digging in chest freezer, I found a lot of different veggies I had bought on sale a few months ago. So will be dehydrating them hopefully tomorrow. Just kept busy today. Will some beef tomorrow but want to do something different than just canning the meat as is. Checking the canning books on that for recipes. Made up a new contract for GS. Made him read and sign it. Told him he best get his car paid off, get his new car and have an apartment by July 1st and that this will be his final warning. I will not say anything else to him. He is on his own to get this done. the contract also states that if he does not have an apartment by July 1st, it's too bad because he is getting out of my house July 1st no if's, An's or butts, you are moving out. As for the smell in his room it is also in contract the smell is on him and he best make it disappear. There is a lot more in it and it is posted on the fridge, and I have another copy. Both were signed by him. I just hope he gets his act together by then as it will be hard to kick him out on street, but I know that come July 1st that is what will happen. I have been going through a lot of things over the past few weeks. Getting things more organized. I am making a list of all the things that I need. These are things I am very low on or do not have but need. All are nonfood items. If I buy any more food, it will only be hard red and white wheat berries. I would like to try to build everything up to last at least a year and try to maintain that.

Miki, praying your DH is doing much better and will be back home soon. Jeepers, glad the itching is getting better. Just hope your house is going to get repaired soon. Seems you had a bit of a setback. Hope it didn't mess up the furnace. Annarchy, Glad you now have a great washing machine. I need to get one that doesn't have that agitator in the middle. Can't wash the bedspreads or mattress pads in it. Have to use my neighbor's washer for that. Midnightmom, I hope and pray that you and your son can reconcile and get things patched up again. Tonight is my GS's early night. He was home at 10;30. Gave him the contract and told him to read it. Don't think he read all of it but did sign it. Told him he had to pay off his car, get the new one and then save up again for his apartment. Told him this is his last chance. And I am moving the date to move out to July 1st as it was March 1st, and I should just kick him out on that date. But I am giving him his last chance to get it together. So, he now knows I don't care if he has a car or the money for an apartment he will be out of here on July 1st. No more chances as he used up his last chance. Also, in that contract the pot stops. Though I know it won't. So told him the smell in his room best disappear and all of this is on him. So will see what happens. He will not follow through on anything. I told him the other day I was putting the house up for sale. So tonight, he wanted to know where I was moving to. Just told him out of VA and left it at that. Got tomato soup made and ready to be canned tomorrow morning. Warmer today, so cleaned out the wood stove and cleaned the glass. Filled up the log holder in den and then went out and refilled the log holder to bring into garage. I have almost gone through half of the wood. So at least this is giving me an idea of how much I use during the winter months. Want to get at least 3 to 4 cords of wood before next winter. Guess I will need it when they cut off our natural gas. Still don't see how they can do that. But I won't go there. They are now trying to take Newsmax off the air. This is really getting out of hand.

I already decided not to use the camera. Though it is very tiny and can't be noticed if placed right. I know he is smoking pot in that bedroom if not cigarettes. He as much as said he is smoking pot and it helps him. No, it is a crutch he uses to be back on it. The smell is strong, and I think that is what is causing this cough I've had for a few months now. Decided to write up a contract for him. And he will sign it. July 1st is his last day here and I will kick him out. His mother does not smoke but his father does. DD has asthma and SIL has to smoke outside. Though GS does go outside to smoke, he is smoking in bedroom during the night. It smells really strong when he first gets up and leaves for work. I have heard every lie about how he was doubling up on his car payments when I saw the bill and he never even paid December's bill. He is past due and never doubled up on his payments. Said he was looking for a new car which I agreed on him getting that first as he does need a new car. So that is the reason for changing the deadline for moving out from March 1st to July 1st. But now in the contract car or no car July 1st will be his deadline for moving out. And no, there will no longer be a place for any of the kids to move back in here with me. They can visit but not staying. That includes my DD and all Grandchildren. I don't need the stress. It is also one of the reasons I have been thinking about selling the house. Maybe just get a one-bedroom house but with a room I can fix up for my sewing room and office. Or move so far away that it would be harder for them to come try to move in. I had turned that bedroom from my office and sewing room into a guest room for the kids to visit and then GS got kicked out on street in Washington in dead of winter. He has done some improvements since he has been here and despite the fact, I have gotten into it over his not following up on things and not making any move to get a car, save money, nor find an apartment, he has now controlled his temper well. He acts like he's not even mad now. Only a slamming of a door when I get on him. Yep, that is going to stop also. Told him I fixed the hinge on door after he slammed it. He did say he didn't mean to break the hinge. I didn't say anything just let him think he broke it. What happened is it knocked the pin out where the contractor didn't put it in all the way, and I had not pushed it back in fully. Got stuff out of chest freezer to start canning tomorrow. Need to keep busy. Tomorrow would have been mine and DH's 38th anniversary. So, a bit down this week. Reason to keep busy. And no, I don't need GS's mess on top of it. Tomorrow I will be canning all morning and into the afternoon more than likely.

Now that I have my kitchen back together. I am going to go through the chest freezer tomorrow. Will pull out things to make spaghetti sauce and some more soups. Might can some more beef as well as chicken this week. Just have to keep GS from messing kitchen up to a point that i get a late start on canning. I like to start early around 5 or 6am. So tomorrow morning I will pull out what I need and let thaw in fridge and then Wed. I can get things canned. Checked my pint jars to make sure I have enough, and I am loaded on them. So good there. I won't be using my qt. jars much as it is only me now. Pints are better for me. So, I am going to take a day and can water in the qt. jars. Cheaper than buying bottled water. I will need to find a new place for everything I can now as my pantry is full.

Got dining room table cleaned off. It was piled up with GS's food that needed to go in his cabinet. So that is all put away. Then had some things to put back in shed. Table is now all cleaned off and I can sit there and go through my tax stuff. Things are just starting to come in now. Need to pick up my RX list for all the meds I bought last year. Lots of papers to go through to see what I need to keep and what goes. Jeepers, I hope the meds help you. I know you are having a rough time of it with that itching. GS did have that talk with me late last night after he got home from work. No apology for slamming the door but he knows what will happen if he does it again. Told him all he wants from me is a cook and maid service and there will be an extra charge for that above and beyond his rent. I also asked him point blank if he is smoking in bedroom as his room stinks bad and smells of cigarettes. He still says he's not and he also knows that is not allowed in this house. Never has been. When his mother was here, I told her to go smell his room and she said she couldn't smell anything and walked out. That room was bad. So, she just takes up for him instead of telling him it better stop. When I told him last night about the smell, he just said mom doesn't smell anything so neither do you. So, I said Well you washed your clothes, but they are all over the floor. He said I might be smelling his pot on his clothes as it has a sweeter smell to it. Told him I will catch him if he is smoking it in bedroom. One of the stipulations moving back here is the pot smoking will come to a halt. I am putting in a very tiny camera in his room. If he is smoking it, I will have proof of his lying and him smoking it. he always gets dressed in bathroom so that shouldn't be any issues there. Good thing is he halfway cleaned his room last night. But it still stinks. I guess throwing the trash in trash can off the floor and throwing his clothes clean or dirty into both the hampers in there means he cleaned his room. Yep, mom said he was a boy and boys don't clean up behind themselves. Upbringing is an understatement as his sisters both had to not only clean up behind themselves and she had them scared to cook in kitchen and also had to learn to change a tire and do an oil change on their cars. GS never had to learn any of that stuff. Not easy to teach a grown man how to do all this stuff he should have learned as a child. And he doesn't seem to want to learn anything either. But then that could be the pot talking. I've known for a while he was back on it again. Thanks to one of his coworkers. He heads to his house almost every Friday night. Now they sit around and drink. Yes, he told me that also. I asked if he was drinking and driving and he said no, he waited 6 hours before coming home. He will get in trouble yet. So now he said he is paying off his car at end of either this month or next month and then it will take him 4 months to safe up for the apartment. Gee, where have I heard that story before. Going to sit down this evening and write up rules and stipulation for him to stay here till July 1st. At which time if he does not have an apartment by then I will be kicking him out of house to live on street. No more chances no nothing just get out.

Woke up freezing last night. I do that sometimes and don't know why I do. But I turned on electric blanket and got warm again but couldn't go back to sleep. I was so tired I missed church again. Can't keep doing that. I have the sneezing under control now, but the cough is still there. That just doesn't want to go away. Ears still ackey but better. Seems we all are having issues these days, and this is not the time to be having illness and such. I pray we all get back on track and well again. GS still acting like a jerk. Told him I am putting the house up for sale, so he best be looking for that apartment. He asked why and I told him he won't look for an apartment and he won't clean up behind him. Said I am tired of getting up every morning to clean up his mess before I can start doing things I need to do. He got mad and slammed the garage door hard. So, door is locked, and he can't get in tonight unless he agrees to have that talk with me about his car and the apartment and the fact, he said he would clean bathroom and his bedroom. Think he needs a reminder of what it was like living in his car in Washington. He did wash most of his clothes. But took off to friend's house before cleaning bathroom and bedroom. Came home in middle of night and still never cleaned it. I did clean bathroom today and will be deducting $200 from his rent money for maid service. Gave the kitchen a deep clean also. Can't sleep so might is well clean behind him. Talked with his mother and all I get from her is he's a boy and they don't clean up. I said I see why. You didn't teach him growing up and is that the reason you kicked him out of your house. Yep, no answer. Told her she and her DH best be having a talk with him about not following up on what he needs to do. That car payment he missed; I saw the bill. He has a 7.8% interest rate and has already paid out $333 in interest. That is added onto his bill. Friday, I asked him if he had enough in his savings account to help pay the car off using the rent also, he gives me every month. No answer. He just walked out the door and stayed in his car on his phone till middle of night. I give up. So, letting him think I am selling the house for now to see what he does. Sorry for the rant but I am tired. Seems I am doing twice the cooking, cleaning and washing of towels and stuff. It's been almost 2 months since I washed his bed sheets last. His room stinks bad. Before I had my neck surgery, I had frozen shoulder. Not fun. I have been trying to empty boxes and go through stuff and now my shoulder feels like it did when I had frozen shoulder. It hurts but I can still move it around but now it will go down my arm. I think I better learn to drag boxes where I need them instead of trying to pick them up before I do damage. Getting too old for this mess but it has to be done. Checked out the fence for the garden but need to figure out a gate for it of some sort. Not sure about how I will do that. Might have to call a friend to help me with this project. Not going to be as easy as I thought.

Kappydale, glad you are now getting eggs. That is great. I need to get back to canning some more stuff from my chest freezer. Put it on back burner again for a bit while getting the rest of the boxes emptied and stuff put away. Going through things in garage now. Need to get that finished so I can start fixing that up with the grow lights and bucket garden containers and such. GS decided he was nauseas. Been hearing that for a week. So, pulled out Liquid Emetrol. It tastes nasty. Told him to take that. Nipped that lie in the bud as it didn't stop him from eating. He was all set to take off to his friend's house and I grabbed him by the nap of the neck and told him to hold it right there. No going anywhere till clothes are washed, bedroom cleaned, and bathroom scrubbed down. I win. But with an altitude. One thing for sure he won't use the I feel Nausea trick on me again. haven't heard him coughing anymore either. Hypochondriac for sure. Making great progress with getting the house back together again. Almost there except for some things I can't do in living room till GS moves out and that furniture goes with him. Then that will be the last room to fix up like I want. Jeepers, my DD is highly allergic to amoxicillin, and you don't outgrow it. For her it was in early teens, and it was a bad reaction. When she started having children and one would get sick, doctor would give amoxicillin for them. If it so much as touched her skin, she would break out and itch in that area. So nope you will not outgrow that. I hate those clinics as they will do what they want and do not listen to you. They don't seem to care.

MidnightMom, that sounds a little like the Atkins diet. Starts off though with no carbs for a couple of weeks and then gradually add just enough to keep you on track. If I remember it is only about 20 grams of carbs that you can have after the first couple of weeks. Might start that back up again. But it was a lot of meat and I have been scaling back on meat about 4 times a week to stretch it more.

Miki, I will be on his butt this weekend. He says he's sick and going to the doctor. Nope he's still in bed and his doctor closes at 12pm. So lied about going to doctor. Never even called for appointment. Says he has a lung infection because he was coughing a bit. Stop that vaping and he wouldn't have the issues. I have had a cough for months having to put up with his stinking bedroom and nasty bathroom. I am holding out cleaning it up this time. He will cleanup his room and bathroom or he will be living on the streets. He doesn't follow up on anything. Said he was doubling up on his car payments and never paid December payment. Don't know if he paid it this month or not. His bills are piling up again. So, March 1st was the deadline to get an apartment. It will be coming up fast and he will be told to move out apartment or not. I am so over this. Cleaned kitchen this morning. He only used 3 glasses for tea this time. Go figure. Can't even keep clean dishes. Dishwasher sometimes gets used twice a day. I am no longer cooking for him, buying any of his favorite foods or anything else. He will be made miserable while he is here till March 1st comes. I hate to put him on the street, but I can't live like this with his filth. Guess I'm tired. His parents won't do anything. I tried that already. He can go live with them, but he would have to give up his job. He can easily get a job with the company his father works for. Might go out to a park or something today if it's not too cold. haven't been outside yet but garage says 34*. Maybe I will go off somewhere for a while when it warms up more. I really need to get out of house for a while. Might go to tractor supply to look at fencing to see what I need to keep the rabbits out of garden. Time to start thinking about that.

We have to keep the pharmaceutical companies rich. That is why the American diabetes association wants you on high carbs. I stay away from the high carbs and eat mostly veggies and some meat. No bread much other than maybe a piece of toast with breakfast or some rice or potatoes about 3 times a week. Though I am fixing more carbs for GS. Been trying to get back on track again.

He is paying rent and it is put up for when he gets his apartment. He definitely will not be moving back in. All I do is clean up behind him and have been telling him for a month or more to clean his room and his bathroom. Guess I will be doing it again myself. He won't do it. And you don't want to see his car. It is trashed and stinks. I am starting to make it very uncomfortable for him. Enough is enough. I have to finish getting this house put back together and make curtains for bathrooms and seems most of what I do is clean up every morning behind him. Kitchen is a reck every morning. Dirty dishes left in sink instead of dishwasher. crumbs all over the floor, counters left nasty, and my cabinets are getting sticky where he won't wash his hands. I am fixing to push him out the door now. He has had ample time to get back on his feet.

My parents had a phone just like the one in the picture. And it also was black. My grandparents had one that just set on the desk in dining room just outside the kitchen door. I still remember my parent's number 399-0338. They started out with a party line and then a private line. Yep, that was a good 70 years ago. I also remember the princess phone. I also had one of those.

That is a great story and I remember those phones very well. That bought back memories of those old phones. I remember the party lines also.

Jeepers, hopefully they will take care of the water in basement also. But that could come under flood insurance and if you don't have that then it might be on you. But hoping if it was from the pipes bursting that they will take care of it. insurance takes care of all of it. GS not feeling well as he has an infection. At least it's not covid. But will need antibiotics. So, needs to see doctor. He went to work this evening but just before leaving he found out his best friend in Florida tried to commit suicide by way of high-speed driving and totaling his car. He is in hospital so did survive the crash. As far as I know no one else was involved in the crash. Thank goodness for that. So, GS is very much down tonight. His friend called him and told him, so hopefully he wasn't hurt too bad. Been in my bedroom going through the last of the boxes that I really don't know what to do with the stuff in them. Seems you get down to the end of things and it's like ok, now what do I do with it. Got all of DH's meds together to take to pharm. for disposal. Can't flush them down toilet nor just trash them. Will try to take care of all that tomorrow. Found some meds I no longer take any longer so will get rid of those also. I also need to sit down with GS and find out his plans for moving out of my house into his own apartment. I think his buying a car is his excuse to stay and he is lying about that also. He did make the statement last week he likes it here. So, I am not buying anymore of his special foods, cooking for him and going to stomp on him if he doesn't clean his bathroom and bedroom. I am tired of being his house maid. So am making it so he won't be so comfortable here any longer. Not sure what else I can do to get him out. I need my life back. It would be different if he would clean up behind himself and help around here, but he stopped doing that. So far in all my organization, I have the food situated, all my vitamins sorted and put away except for just a few things I found that I need to get into the correct boxes. I have my RX's situated where I can just grab a new bottle when needed. I am 3 months ahead on all of that. So, I think I will be good if it hits the fan. I will be going through my clothes once I get all the boxes out of bedroom. I have clothes that are too big for me and no need to keep them. GS and DH wore the same size shoes so will go through those and let GS take what he wants of those. I think he already has a pair of dress shoes of DH's but are still at his mother's house.

Euphrasyne, So glad that everything went well. Now for a quick healing to get you back on your feet.

thank you OOTO, I had not heard of that. And it seems they just went up just a few months ago. And the service here just keeps getting worse.

Happy Birthday Mother, I know it will be a fun day.

Jeepers, Mt. Rider, Miki, Euphrosyne, and all others on here. Praying that family and you are all doing much better. Euphrosyne, for a fast healing from surgery and Mt. Rider's mother for a fast recovery and back home soon and memory will be much better. I must be tired already. This morning I bought in more firewood. Some of it was a bit wet from the other bin but will dry out in garage. Got more wood stacked by wood stove also. I emptied that when I used it for 3 days straight. Have been working on how long one and a half cords of wood will last a full winter. And I don't think I will even use up a full cord as we have days where the weather is too warm to use the stove. So that is a good thing. Though we are having a much milder winter that normal so far. Some really cold days that dipped into the 20's and low 30's but less than a week wasn't bad. Washing towels and things today. Will be mopping kitchen floor after GS goes to work today. He will be leaving at 4pm, so will have plenty of time to get that done. Having left over chili for dinner tonight so easy night. Will also be working on the rest of the things in bedroom that I have been going through. A lot of it is going out of here, I think. Still need to sort my vitamins that I take. Putting each in their own container so I can just grab what I need when I finish a bottle of something. Vit. D, zinc, and C are the main ones I take daily. So, each one will have its own container to make it easy to grab and use. I hate having to dig for what I need so this will be a good setup and more organized.

jeepers glad this guy is doing a good job of finding the leaks and even more the water still sitting over the sheetrock that hasn't shown to have water there yet. I think you might just be in good hands with this guy. Praying that everything goes well on the house, and they will soon be done. And also, for you to continue to recover from your illness. Euphrosyne, praying also for your surgery to go well and for a fast recovery. You have really had your share of issues with falling and such and then for this to happen. Hope and pray this is the last thing you have to go through. Today I just took it easy, it has been cold and rainy today. Damp chill in the air. I was going to bring in more wood today, but it rained this morning early and I wasn't expecting rain till later in the week. But I still have plenty in garage to use. Did some reading and took a short nap. I don't usually take naps but lately I have been. I am thinking my thyroid is off kilter again. I see the doctor next month for labs and then an appointment a week later so will find out what is going on. Just been more tired than usual. Hopefully tomorrow my energy will return, and I can get a lot done.

Wow! Jeepers, that's a lot of breaks. I just hope he can find them all and get them fixed. Did some mending of some clothes for GS and myself. I found a new pair of jeans I had bought just before DH took sick and forgot about them. So, hemming those so I can wear them. There was a pair I had bought for DH that needed hemming but also never was able to get around to hemming them so gave those to SIL. DH and he wore the same size, but length was ok for SIL. Cleaned kitchen and then cleaned out the wood stove. Have it ready for next cold day which may be tomorrow. Will need to bring more wood into house and then go out and reload the cart for garage. About half of that cart is enough for 3 to 4 days. I try to keep the stove on slow burn to make it last longer and still it heats the whole house. Going through paperwork for taxes as things are starting to come in now for that and I want to be able to get them ready, done and out of my way.

Mt. Rider, I am sure that will mean hip replacement. for a fast recovery and that she does get through rehab without too many issues. Hopefully if this break is not as bad that all will go much better for her. Miki that tear is not a good sign. I just hope you don't have a rotator cuff tear. have been going out for you to get that shoulder better soon. Seems we are all in need of prayers again for one reason or another. It sucks to get old, have falls or accidents and such.

Those are really good ones. Never heard the IRS one before. That is so true. Maxine does come to mind on those.