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  1. I don't remember her on here but then I came to this post much later than most of you. Just glad we have all that info on here to keep her knowledge with us will also keep her with us through that knowledge.

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  2. Jeepers, I think we were posting at the same time. Sounds like your DS got the house sold at a great price.  Hope all works out for him.

    Glad you are getting the payment for the house settled. I know that is a big relieve off of your mind.  I keep looking around at this house and wondering how in the world I have accumulated so much stuff. As much as I got rid of, I would have thought my house would be empty by now. But more still going out. Might go back to working on the garage again. I really need to get that mess out of there. I am tired of just a pathway to get to what I need. Yeah. I moved a lot of crap from one place to the other and it all ended up in the garage. Not to mention GS's mess. Skateboards, exercise bars. His dirty clothes scattered about. Old paint cans and such. What I need is to just disappear for a while and see if I come back and find it all just magically cleaned up. B)

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  3. There is always a reason to have emergency money on hand.  The boiler went out sometime during the night. No pilot light and it will not relight. Nothing I do will get it going. So called the furnace guy. He will be out this afternoon.  I have been noticing that the boiler was making a lot of noise so may be that something on it has gone bad. So, they will be out this afternoon.  Also, I am getting an estimate on new gutters. So, they will be out this afternoon also. My day is not going as planned. But it is what it is. And I can forget tomorrow and Sunday as my DD and SIL will be in town. So maybe Monday will work out better for me. Like I said there is always something that keeps me from getting things done around here. It is cold in the house right now but not bad. 61* I can handle that. But I do have the small electric heater going in kitchen and den just to take a bit of chill off the bigger rooms. 

    Just glad this happened last night and not while the baby was here. 

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  4. My GGD, isn't away from mom that often. But today she bought the baby to me and had to go home and work. She's a scribe for all the ER's around here and works from home. She usually just brings her computer to the house and stays and works in dining room. But today she had to catch up on several things as she has had a few meetings this week. So, she pumps and freezes the milk. Breast milk is what she gets in a bottle, but she will not have much to do with it. I told her early on that she needs to pump in order to keep milk in freezer just in case she got sick and couldn't breast feed. That was the intention of her pumping. But then she went back to work thinking she could stop for breaks to feed the baby, but as the baby is getting a bit older, she couldn't work and feed her at the same time. She is hoping to be a stay-at-home mom and quit her job after her DH is out of school for Coast Guard and they are stationed in a more permanent area. She plans to home school and needs to not have a job so she can devote her time to the baby.  They are planning another one around June of this year, I think. But that will remain to be seen. My GD also pumps for her friend that is unable to breast feed. She freezes the milk and then takes it to her on a weekly basis. But she is not sure she can keep it up as her child gets older. But nice she can do it for now. 

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  5. GD texted me a while ago. Seems the baby started screaming for mom as soon as dad walked in the house with her. So, she sat down and fed her. Yep, she wanted mommy's boob. She drank so much milk that she started spitting up. We need to find a bottle she will except for those days when mommy is working, and I have her. I bought those Dr. Brown's bottles. They are supposed to be the closest thing to mommy. So will see how that goes next week. When I am keeping her again. They are anti colic also. So, keeping my fingers crossed. 

    Mom freezes the breast milk and all I have to do is warm it up and put in bottle. Her DH said she will not take that bottle once she has made up her mind it is not mommy. What can I say, she is spoiled rotten already. 

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  6. I will need to get cabbage also. It should be on a good sale, I hope. 

     

    Went to Harris Teeter this afternoon to pick up an RX and walked around the store. The had the old ball canning jars only in the pint size. It was only 2 cases, so I jumped on them.  All the other sizes were those round plain glass jars. These must have been in back stock or something because last time I checked they had those round smooth glass ones in the pints. 

     

    They had potatoes also buy one get one free. So tomorrow I will be canning potatoes and cleaning house. Will be a busy Friday. 

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  7. Babysat my GGD from 10am till 3pm when her daddy picked her up after work. She did good this morning playing and such and then when she got sleepy it was fight on. She will fight sleep like no tomorrow. So, we went for a stroll around the neighborhood. People probably thought I was killing her or something. Every time that child closed her eyes, she realized she was falling asleep and started screaming. But she lost the battle and fell asleep. And a baby bottle is not mom's boob. She wouldn't have anything to do with a bottle and again started crying and then fell asleep for all of 10 minutes and still refused the bottle. Felt sorry for mom when the baby got home as I know she was hungry. We swung in the outdoor swing till daddy came to get her. At least she was quiet and being good then. But then daddy put her in her car seat and that was all she wrote. Started crying again but quieted down soon. She hates the car seat. 

     

    So, for past 3 days I have not gotten anything done around this house. Floors need mopping, towels need washing and I need to finish up the last of the pantry. So tomorrow I hide from everyone and going to clean house. Not sure yet if GS is off work tomorrow or not. But if so, I will have him work on the wood pile again. He has almost finished one wood holder, so then we can move the wood off the other one to that one and work on the last holder. Then I can finish stacking all the wood. It is still a huge pile and over my head. And I am 5ft tall, if that gives you any indication of how much wood I still have to stack.  One thing for sure, between walking the neighborhood with the baby and stacking wood, I should have built up some muscles. 

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  8. We had a high of 75* today with high winds.  It knocked over my swing i have on side of house. Just went out and raised it back up a bit ago. Still warm but starting to cool down a bit. Just hanging around house doing absolutely nothing this evening.  Nice to just sit and relax a while. Babysitting tomorrow. Then back to work till the weekend. DD and SIL coming into town. DD wants baby time. So might be at GD's house for a while on Sat. 

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  9. Miki, thank you for that info. I will keep that in mind when I find a good insurance company that won't put me through what Jeepers has had to deal with. She shouldn't have to go through all that. Insurance should have just paid up and not send checks for her to sign and then ship it off for someone else to also sign. Knew up front what had to be done. It seems they were putting the work on Jeepers instead of taken care of it all themselves. That has been a lot to deal with. 

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  10. I don't see Kerr jars around here anymore. 

     

    But on this post, I wasn't thinking about Tantalization I picked up on the different jars available. So turned this I think toward different jars in general and not Tantalization preserving. 

    But you are right about the ball canning jars that are out now. I don't like them either. Round and they don't feel as thick as the old ball canning jars. 

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  11. Jeepers, that is so crazy what they are doing. Hope they are not trying to swindle themselves out of making the final payment. Now I am wondering if all insurance companies are like this. I am looking into some other insurance companies as I have State Farm. I hope and pray they get it straight soon. 

     

    Mt. Rider, glad you got everything done safely. We have had rain, and it is now warming up. 75* today. I went to the CHKD thrift store and walked out with nothing. There just wasn't much other than clothes. And I didn't need any clothes. But then that one never did have much of anything. 

     

    Went to doctor this morning for labs for the family doctor this time. Then left there and got something to eat and went around to stores I haven't been to in a long, long while. Didn't find anything I needed.  So came home and starting on another room. A couple of stores weren't open yet so I just figure I will go at a later date. Maybe next week when I see the doctor. I will be in that area again and at a later time. So those stores should be open by the time I get out from Dr. office. 

     

     

     

     

     

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  12. I am working on a new way to keep track of my spending. The first of each month I go to bank and take out the amount of money I need for the month. Plus, a bit extra to put back for emergencies. 

    I have special envelopes that I put the money in. One for groceries and nonfood items, one for gas, one for church ties for the month and one for paying the yard man.  I keep a running tab on the amount I spend on each when I use that cash. I have just started doing that so not sure yet how I am going to like it. I try not to do any online shopping but if I need to do any, I will use my Amazon card as that is the only card I will use online. Then when that bill comes in, I just pay it off. I started doing this as there have been a lot of issues at the gas pumps. Seems they are using scanners in Suffolk, Smithfield and other places as well. So now I pay with cash instead of using a card. They are saying that if you don't have those cards in a protective wallet or something, there are people hanging around gas stations with a card reader. They don't need to be near you to use it. Just walk by and they have that info off of your card. I saw where a lady's bank account got wiped out. So don't ever use your debit card to get gas. Now I just go inside to pay. It's a bit of a pain but saves a lot of frustration later down the line. 

    I don't use the excel sheets or anything online because then I forget to post in them. And I just don't like doing any type of banking or anything online either. I either mail my bills or I will call on my house phone and make a payment over the phone for the ones that don't charge a fee to do that. Yep, I found out there are some places that charge you to make a payment by phone. My GS tried to do that with his car payment, and they wanted $15.00 fee to do it. He gave me the money and I wrote a check for him to mail it. It was at the time that something happened to his bank account, and he switched banks because of it. He hasn't had any more issues since then. He does online banking. But whatever happened at that time he was unable to get his car payment through. He did call the loan company where his payment was and explained everything to them so now it is fixed.

  13. I have noticed this as well. I will take a picture of the tag on shelf with what is above it and if the price doesn't match, I let the cashier know in hopes she will notify the manager of the issue. I don't always see the manager to tell him. 

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  14. Mommato3boys  :pray: for the safety of all the firefighters and also that your home will not be affected by the fires as also any other homes. 

    Glad you survived the grocery store. I also have noticed that the prices on shelves do not reflect the real price of items. I try to watch out for that. 

     

    Babysat today. Baby got fussy as she fights sleep and didn't want to take a nap. She will fight it tooth and nail. But I put her in stroller and we went for a walk with her bawling and just rubbing her little eyes. She did finally fall asleep for about 20 minutes. Then mom fed her, and I played with her while GD worked. Then she got sleepy again so went outside and swung in the swing. She fell asleep and we just sat there in swing till she woke from her nap. Then it was feeding time again. And then ready to go home. I will be babysitting again on Thursday. 

     

    GS left for work so hopefully he will work the full day. Sometimes they end up on overtime and then have to cut back a bit and he will come home an hour or two early. That place does not like overtime if they can help it. 

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  15. Something strange is going on with the site.  Everything from the 15th to now cannot come up. It says sorry we could not find that post. This is from my E-mail. Then on the site there is nothing past Feb. 15th. No post at all. After that date. It's like all post have been wiped out from the 15th to now.

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  16. When I went through all my recipes last night, I went through what I had bought.  I also separated what little bit of nonfood items from the food items.  So, counting in the weeks I didn't buy food. I added up all the food items and it averaged up to just over $11 a week. I don't buy groceries on a weekly basis anymore. So, I did well. It is just me as GS doesn't eat here other than dinner on his 2 days off. He uses his food stamps at work and lives on junk food.  His doctor told him he needs to gain weight. So, junk food will do it. He has gone from 118lbs. to 130lbs. He best slow the junk food down.  So, I am trying to use down the pantry. Only things like eggs, milk and coffee creamer have been the bulk of my groceries this past month. Plus, the 2 Boston butts I bought to can. I did buy some butter on sale also. 

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