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I was composing a response, but this Houss page burped and I lost it all.
Thanks for catching that, typo, Lucille 🤣 Although we might be more ”radio” saw people.
I try to type, but between the autocorrect, sore body, lousy reading glasses and discomfort, it takes forever and there are still lots of goofs.
Elmer, we have a lot of tools, many bought for cheap, or inherited. Non talent. I am a tad 3-D challenged, and puny with a small frame, aches and pains. I am motivated.
DH not particularly motivated. Wish he were.
Chain saws, Hand saws, bow saws, pruning saws, pole saw. Jacknives.
Circular saw, oldish saber saw/“jig saw” vertical saw.
Random orbital sander, Electric drill, battery operated drill.
A huge monster robust older table saw that our builder used and we bough from him for some reason. It scares the becheeses out of me and is loud. DH had used it a bit, but is not versed in table saw use. I wanted to get my late father,s little Craftsman table saw, and deserved it for taking care of him and my mom during their final days and hours, but an older sibling pulled a greedy stunt and grabbed it for her kid. I was thinking the smaller Table saw wouldn’t hurt as much if it took my arm off.
We nave a good sized radial arm saw that (for some reason, dreaming) we bought from my dad Over 20 years ago. Dad cautioned to be very careful as that sort of saw was expert at removing arms.
It is in a corner of the cellar and I never used it and don’t know that DH ever has.
A plane or two. Some chisel/s
An electric grinder
A level, one of those right angle carpenter’s ruler things
Maybe a speed square?
I grew up around certain wood working tools, but my father was usually in a rush to fix something and there were no real teachable moments other than warnings to not attempt to use or tinker with his tools.
DH grew up more with mechanical tools, but his father was not the patient teaching type. DH gravitated towards mathematics and engineering and computer science.
He used to do things for us like tune up cars. Once, after asking, begging, nagging him to make a simple hanging rack (in cellar, from floor joists) so that we could get various lumber and sailboats spars off the floor or out of the corner —— I think it took three to five years of asking, begging. I explained how he could do it, that if I had his height and arm strength, I would have done it. Geez! Two sets of pine sticks hanging perpendicular to the joists, about 5 or 6 ft. apart, screwed in, two places so no pivoting. Fasten a couple of pieces to each set of hangers in order ro support wood lumber, planks or spars. CHEESES! Grrrr. He wouldn’t even try and I remember just calling it quits and driving off to do something else and thinking how I could do it but I’d have to get up on a ladder or some staging and then have enough energy and arm strength to hold the drill as I was holding the timber pieces I wanted to fasten.
When I returned after about three hours, he came up to me apologizing and told me he didn’t know why he was so anxious about doing such a simple thing and then he had looked online or YouTube and thought about it and had made a nice little rack very solid very nice very quick very easy. So who knows what all the catastrophe was about but I think he wasn’t confident and was somehow afraid he would screw it up.
He can write a couple of USB drivers in short order and various other software projects and other things. untangled software create new software and run projects, but this simple thing with a couple of toothpicks and a nail and hammer flummoxed him.
At a later date, he made another hanging lumber rack. But that was years ago and for the last 18 years, I can’t say that he’s particularly motivated or ambitious about anything. I need to find some way to put a couple of probes in his head and see if he’s cooked enough because he doesn’t even wanna help clean anything or organize anything and he drives me bonkers.
He’s usually a good natured person and will cook and grocery shop and pay bills and fiddle around with software and electronic devices.
I’ve been asking him to help me, put the cupboard doors on for years now. I took them off to refinish them, but had some injuries and was in
/still am in a lot of pain and when I would grasp anything like a block of sandpaper, grasping, and with my hand would a get a certain type of tendinitis that was very, very painful. I could do a little bit, but quickly developed very, very painful to De Quervain tendinitis that feels as though my tendons are being held next to a blowtorch. The pain lasts for days and even blowing my nose into a hanky hurts.
These days, I cannot get DH to do much of anything and feel like I need to sort of keep minding him. That is another huge ongoing situation. Stressful.
I grew up with a lots of hands-on resourceful people. I am that way and somewhat enterprising. Injuries and pain have greatly impacted what I can do.
We buy cut and split firewood, ~ $300/ cord these days. So it irks me to see good firewood logs rotting across the road from us and DH being so disinclined. Unmotivated? He says he’s not depressed. I’m not sure that he would know.
mtnrdredux_gw, I've not been to Africa, but I used to go to the African Expo in Los Angeles, held every year around Labor Day.
There are some spoons in this photo, and I have some that are similar to those.
he doesn't eat an uncooked tomato. No, I don't know why.
It's a thing. My DH also won't eat raw tomatoes but loves them cooked (pasta sauce, etc).
I had no idea until I met him, but there is actually a large number of people that absolutely hate raw tomatoes but love cooked ones.
DH claims they are part of the deadly nitrate family and cooking kills the poison. Whatever, just give me all the raw tomotoes. Love them.
Kitschykitch & Kswl,
thank you for thinking of me . things are getting a bit better every day. there are times i can go a few days and manage quite well and then for no reason I go to pieces.
but that said i do see more light at the end of the tunnel.
i realize now that i still have a daughter and grand daughter that need me so I am working hard on trying to stay strong for them and i guess myself.
i am lucky to have them and am trying to be positive and count my blessings.
i know my DH would have wanted that.
Oh, Morz8, that's sad to hear. I wonder if that's why her story showed up on my FB page? She was a gem.
That's really very clever. An eclipse based meal had not even crossed my mind 😁
The last time we had eggs was Feb 9. I know the date because we'd met my sister and her husband on their way through town on their way for their wedding anniversary weekend. DH had three eggs over easy, buttered cheese toast and hashbrowns - and that night was spent in ER with what is now known to be a gall bladder flare up. He has been minus his gall bladder for the last 10 days and everything coming out of my kitchen is supposed to be low fat for another 6 weeks according to the surgeon's instructions. Our refrigerator has his and her sides.
Again...your photos are BEAUTIFUL! Love seeing what your making! Your a food magician. Yum! 🍒
Thanks everyone for your wonderful comments. We all agree that food can be fun.
If you think this 2024 Eggclipse dish is creative, my next one for the next eclipse will be unbelievable. Come back here in 2079 I will show you. LOL!
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I occasionally use dryer balls (mine are wool) but on things like pillows, sometimes a quilt.
My towels aren't babied and I do none of the above. The all white towels from DH's bathroom get hot water, Tide original powder, dryer with no dryer sheets or fabric softeners (I have no clothes line for air drying outdoors), once in a while oxy added to the wash. I've never used too much detergent in my life. As a newly married young woman I worked in an appliance store that had its own very own Maytag man and he taught all of us younger how to do laundry. He adamantly scoffed at the dosing directions on the containers reminding all of us that the soap companies were in the business of selling soap and the more we used, the happier they were with no thought to the condition of our clothing 😊 I needed the pointers, my mother was not particularly adept at laundry😊i.e. I learned her sorting efforts left much to be desired.
The towels from my own bathroom are pastels and are not treated very differently than the whites. All towels are folded and stored stacked on a shelf behind closed cabinet doors.
We have the luxury of good water quality here and I'm sure that makes a difference.
I don't remember discussing dryer balls with the Maytag man - if they were even available that decade. I do remember him saying very sternly that nothing should go into a dryer other than wet laundry, he greatly disliked dryer sheets. I might use half sheet twice a year when washing DH's polar fleece outerwear to combat static electricity, takes place very infrequently.
All of my towels are 100% cotton and I don't skimp on quality. I've tried some that are modal or bamboo and always return to cotton only.
Carole, please explain...I don't get it. I looked up "Ode to Haggis" but didn't think it applied here, lol.
Sadly we had rain from start to finish yesterday and saw none of it. I put on the glasses and went outside a few times anyway but no sun, no viewing at all this time. Disappointing.
Are your eyes better today FOAS?
Food, I hope your eyes are okay and feel better. And also hope that the rest of your family is good.
We considered driving a few hours to Burlington, but decides to stay here in 95% area. We had a variety of special glasses and warched some of the partial eclipse — nothing like the real total deal, but no traffic or hours in a car.
Thanks to those of you sending you descriptions, photos and experiences. The quality of the light was different than ”dusk” —- bluer light. We give our local cottontails and cardinals a snack at dusk (sunflower seeds). DH was in back yard an a rabbit came up to him asking for his evening snack at 3 PM.
My last minute order of 5 pair arrived Friday. I gave three to my BIL for his grandsons. None of us are in the path of totality for this one - if the skies clear we may see just a bit. It's cloudy, a little drizzly but we have about 4 hours in which some clearing could take place. Although its not likely from the forecast. I'm not going to complain too loudly though, we had all but front row seats for the eclipse in 2017 with only walking out to the patio 😊
Holy carp! The stories you will tell.
If you didn't drop dead from a heart attack right there in the field! ;-)
Next up, swarming cicadas. REPENT!!!!!
Ha - they said the quiet part out loud, I guess 😏
My youngest sister is always giving me apparel that I later discover to have 'issues' - like holes or stains, or sharp bits that rub. I never say anything, tho, because I love her dearly.
'Here, this is for you. I hate it so I'm giving it to you.'
Doesn't that make you feel special? 😄
Morz , the shoes came a couple of years before the injury.
Funky, how bendable are the soles on slip ons? I looked up my Reeboc classic and saw they have gum soles which makes the feel good while walking. All gum from now on. :)
DH's hearing aids are Costco's. He's enjoyed them but they've been life changing for me 😊 I was so finished with repeating myself all day every day and still being misunderstood some of the time. I think the best example of that was when our older former neighbor called me and said she'd lost her sister. I repeated that call to DH knowing he'd want to see her, comfort her, and his response was 'I'll get that for you the first time I go out to the garage'. What!?
They are the same or better technology than what my mother had paid more than $30,000 for over about 15 years time.(3 pair, two brands) Approx $1,300 if I remember right, he's had them about 4 years now. He has them cleaned and checked faithfully every couple of months, no appointment. He drops them at the audiology desk as we begin to shop and picks them up as we finish. He did need a different charger cord for his charger after about one year, his pooped out for some reason. No questions asked or expense involved. DH is a busy outdoors type and does not baby them.
I remember researching brands as he was getting ready to buy and Costco's were the same as are carried in several private clinics.
It took him about 1 1/2 days to get used to them. When he went back into Costco to make that first check in with their audiologist, they knew how many hours a day he'd been wearing them (all day, every day) and had high praise.
I've since been seeing many articles written concerning how uncorrected hearing loss can be tied to dementia, some thought processes are lost with uncorrected hearing and someone can begin to retreat into their own corner of the world, missing out on normal stimulation and understanding. Certainly something to think about....
He did not want to fool with the tiny batteries and bought the charging type. It seems to take less than two hours for a full charge. A friend of ours has opted for the batteries even though tiny and a little hard to handle. That friend often sleeps in his - his wife has Parkinson's and he needs to be able to hear her if she gets up during the night and goes into another room. But we've had no reason to regret Costco's brand or service.
I just went to the hearing aid center UHC assigned me to. They said they pay 80% after deductible. $3K was the quote after a brief hearing test. Tomorrow I will make an appt with Costco. I just read they give you a 6 month trial period!
Chisue, i love your posts. 😊
Thatsa lotta ham 😊 I wish you could send some this way. We have a friend who has recently lost his wife and we are jointly as a group trying to keep him fed. None of us realized he cooks only a little and basics like breakfast things. I've been buying Costco half hams for him - those seem to get used. Baked one night then grilled or cold sandwiches from the leftovers.
We like ham, and use it for all mentioned above. I will sometimes grill ham steaks, marinating with your favorite flavors. Finely chopped for ham salad sandwiches. I like it with butter beans or flageolet (my fav), also split peas. Dishes more simple than 15 bean soup. I've used it in chili. With grilling season coming up, also baked beans that I tend to make more savory and not so heavy with maple syrup or brown sugar is a popular side dish here, always with a little ham or bacon added in. My baked beans have pureed tomatoes, tomato paste, onion, garlic and whatever else is handy in my kitchen that day. They are always eaten and leftovers requested to-go. You're doing low carb but we like ham with scalloped potatoes. I wonder how that could be shifted to a baked brown rice, ham and cheese dish - you could get away with only a little cheese if using one with a bold enough flavor. My freezer is my friend, I almost always have ham scraps for one quick additive or another in my freezer. DH likes sauteed cabbage, I'm sure I could come up with an acceptable skillet of cabbage with ham.
That's all without googling 'uses for leftover ham' that I'm sure you know to do.....😊
Best of luck! And I've found I need to be very specific when handing DH a shopping list. I've even printed photos of the product I want that go to the store with him so he comes home with fewer surprises. He's improving.
Well, I understand about giving him a shopping list, but he said how bout one of those spiralized hams for Easter? I thought Hey what the heck! One less thing to worry about cooking! He's learned his lesson!
Cold gray rainy spring day here in Maine. Thinking about split pea soup. Especially if you have a bone for flavoring. I have to be in the mood for split pea soup which either I love or not so much.
Ladypat I am weeping with laughter, thank you for that!
I might just keep them both. Having two will certainly diminish the wear on one alone. I looked last spring for the same jackets and never found anything at any price that I liked as much as these two.
Thank you for asking about DH, Bumble. Right now he is on a train trip across Canada with DS2. … a bucket list item for him. We have a few more of those coming up. He is no longer in remission and we are both feeling and processing all that entails, but still very hopeful and trying to live fully every day. I’m starting golf lessons and continuing with art classes and my singing. Dh is connecting with friends and family in every way he can.
Because he’s been gone I can sit in bed at night and pore through websites and create montages of outfits on morpholio, call for sizing info, order, and try on to my heart’s content. It’s been fun! I also made an updated list of everything I need in a purse, ordered stuff in multiples , collated it all into zippered pouches and outfitted all my purses in the current rotation with the necessary items, so ALL I have to do to change purses is move my wallet. I change purses a LOT; I love them and it’s silly to have something and not use it. I have seven bags in the current rotation, so 7 packs of small tissues, 7 travel sized lotion, 7 Burts Bees or cherry chapstick, 7 tiny folding reading glasses, 7 small bottle or eye drops, 7 packets I made up with ibuprofen and zofran ….etc.
Distracted, I hadn't realized we could have a partial showing here. We had the full event, in the path of totality, with the last one and I'd ordered the glasses early. They didn't come, there was some kind of Amazon uproar where not all listed were approved types and I think they cancelled all orders when I'd carefully selected mine from lists of those recommended.
A friend took apart a welding helmet and brought the eye protection to our house that morning. We had coffee and cake on the patio and shared that lens.
Not wanting to impose on him again, I did get an order off and the glasses for a few of us should be here tomorrow. I am paying a rare for me expedited shipping, something I normally avoid at all costs but if we do have clear skies and that's not guaranteed, I'd like to see what's possible even if just a partial viewing opportunity.
I would swear I posted on this last night, but don’t see it. I don’t think I used a trigger word, I was just saying ours came last night.
It’s supposed to start at 12:20 here. I‘m getting excited! We do have some cloud cover, but the eclipse is still going to be fun to watch. :)
ETA: It might be my imagination, but the light outside seems a bit different right now.
Heading to the beach for a late lunch: picnic … 65 and not a cloud in the sky… should have 95pct cover
It is just so funny that you posted this....DH is having the SAME problem with the cut of MEN'S "Classic Cowboy Cut" Wrangler jeans!! These are the dark, unwashed, non-stretch, old-fashioned denim jeans. How many men are pear-shaped???
I found a old bag of Trader Joes Pecans still in the original bag in the freezer, but they were fine .
I'm sorry you had a bad night, Jas. I was up for a few minutes at 3 AM, that middle of the night nature call that seems to take place any more and I'd made myself a note after reading your reminder. Said my rabbit, rabbit. Then up again at 6, DH has an appt this morning so I didn't have the luxury of sleeping later. You wouldn't think retired I'd still be getting up in the dark 😊
Annie, happy belated birthday!
So...Annie's birthday is 1) March 31, or 2) April 1? (Hope it is/was grand, regardless!)
My Scots-Irish immigrant grandmother claimed the 31st to escape being the target of jokes on the real day.
chisue, I was almost an April Fool's baby, but made it to this world the day before, though I'm sure my brother would've told you it would've been more appropriate had I waited another day!
One of my best friends lives in an Eichler in Willow Glen (San Jose, CA). Most of the neighborhood homes are Eichlers, built as modest homes back in the 50s. Her home is more boxy, and they enclosed the original atrium to make a family room. MCM is not my favorite style by a long shot but I could be very happy living in hers.
I don't always enjoy the feel or look of the MCM furniture - at least those pieces to be sat upon, I do like the wooden cabinets, bedroom tables, dressers, some of the dining pieces. I am more attracted to the houses than I once was and appreciate the modern lines for ease of cleaning. Our own now is a long drawn out single story ranch with definite MCM leanings. Built by a retiring doctor and his wife for their retirement home in 1955. I'd been in the home where they had raised their family - a three story colonial with no full baths, no bedrooms on the first floor and understand completely why they took a different direction with this one. This house was DH's idea, he absolutely loves it. Where I quietly find it a little large and expensive to maintain for two 😊 (heating, furnishing etc)
But I'd gone though the Z ad for the above house and wondered why I wasn't seeing any bathrooms in the photos.
Gigi having been there may have answered my questions 😊
haha I @ilikefriday. Of course I searched…
https://www.boredpanda.com/people-look-like-surroundings-camouflage-clothing/
Here’s one of many.
hot cross bunnies ... pour hot water down a rabbit hole
We have stopped ordering meals to be delivered or picked up. The orders are not only often wrong but half the ingredients will be missing or it's absolutely cold. Pizza places and Chinese food restaurants can deliver hot and correct orders so that's our go-to now. Why can't everyone else do as they do.
I drink a fair amount of lemon water. It was always plain tap (our water quality is good) and somehow DH became enamored with lemon water and was always handing it to me. Now its my habit too and we're both dependent enough we take it with us most places we are going.
I will drink a ginger ale. It used to be Pepsi and somehow that became too sweet and I quit enjoying it.
DH keeps sugar free and artificially sweetened drinks in his garage refrigerator for his friends. I won't allow it in my kitchen. He tells me he doesnt drink it himself but I don't really know...I've never been a fan of fake sweeteners or anything heavy with artificial ingredients.
I can take or leave plain coffee and tea, do not dislike or crave them either one. There are times I want a hot drink. And will splurge on something Starbucks but not as often as I used to. Usually something creamy and not overly sweet.
We're milk drinkers 😊 I drink whole milk, DH 1% with our dinner most nights.
Maybe this was the least awful new-new-new flavor they could come up with. It doesn't sound appealing, although I love raspberries. I'll take ginger ale over any other soda, and that rarely.
I'm seeing "Mexican Coca-Cola" in the grocery lately. Something special about that?
I think Me ica Coke uses sugar and not corn syrup.
It never hurts to start my day with laughter. 99 cent store was ringing bells, I'm sure I've been in one but its been decades. Looking at their facebook page indicates they are now 99 cents Plus so not quite the bargain it once was. It also took me back to when television programming was predictable and reliable, we knew what was going to be on - and when. I did like Leno's humor 😊which was very different from Cavett's dry wit (so now, have I really dated myself).
Around here they are scarce so they’d fetch a good price, certainly higher than Baptists, which are abundant!
😂
Nordstrom has a Vaneli Serene in your colors. They are quilted but nappa leather and while not quite your Chanel flat, have a similar vibe. No bow however.
When I first had a little money of my own, Vaneli shoes from Nordstrom were a big deal. And comfortable! Or, at least they were quite comfortable even in their heels at the age I was then 😊 Fall Preview Sales? We always looked first to see which Vanelis for that season might be previewed - marked down.
Vaneli 'Serene'
@morz8 - Washington Coast back in the day, I had the best looking pair of Vaneli shoes! IIRC, they were comfortable, too. But at that age, all shoes were comfortable!
@Kswl, not what I’m looking for, as you noted, but those are the cutest cap-toed MJs!