What Have You Been Doing Lately?

11 years ago

We have been having a lot of rain, and it is very difficult to do any kind of garden work at all. We have picked green beans from our garden and a couple of tomatoes. The girls have picked some black raspberries and we have them frozen. I am still busy cooking meals and carrying them upstairs to my husband who suffered a very bad stroke in Dec. I recently bought five acres that adjoin our property and the girls and I have been going there a lot to clean out the pole barn and pick berries and clean on the big yard. Have not even started cleaning out the house, which is unlivable in my estimation.

Today have to take my husband to a doctor again. Took him to the emergency room last week as he had suffered a fall some days before. He has a hairline fracture in a vertebra and it just has to heal on its own.

We had a nice Fourth of July at Amber and Alyssa's and I did a lot of the baking and cooking.

What have the rest of you been doing to keep busy? I hope you have been having a good time at whatever you are doing.

Sue in Central Indiana

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OklaMoni

11 years ago

this is what I sent to my daughter:

Oh my gosh.... just fell asleep at the computer.

so, I better send the pix and hit the sack.

Rode bike with tag along to the park, the other kids did not show. Walgreens next.
Takes about two hours. Ok, I will be back.

Tried
to fill out the papers for quitting. YIKES. Should have tried to get
Doug (son in law) to help me. Called that office. Went to the office. Poor Allison. Took her
tablet.
But it was really fast. It was by the capitol. Thus,
we hiked all over that place, and then went in, from the bottom floor we
took the elevator all the way up, then down the stairs one floor at the time, and
walked all around. Tunnel was closed. :(

Next over to get my mammogram pictures for the new place, it's scheduled there for august 3.

Then to the Y and bought Allison a membership. She could only be a guest one time in 6 month.

Chocolate
chip cookie; then to the farmers market... no fresh milk except Thursdays, and then only a gallon at the time. BUMMER.

Back to Walgreens to pick up the chewables for Allison.

by papa murphy's for pizza.

Walgreens gave us the wrong pills, not chewables, but didn't realize till home. Back there...

evening walk with performance at the gazebo.

Kid in bed, she even read a book to me.

I am bushed. ;)
all is well

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ravencajun Zone 8b TX
11 years ago
I am on a mission to re organize, de clutter, and general do over in some of my rooms in the house. I have my daughter in law and the grandkids coming in August and I want all this done by then. I was just telling my cleaning lady she needs to schedule extra days to come help me. My husband spent all day the 4th cleaning all of the big sunroom windows which needed it so badly. With all the rain the windows and everything else had a haze of greenish on them. I don't know if it is some kind of mold or what but I have not seen it before we started having so much rain. The windows look fantastic. Now he has to do all the big windows in the office and the atrium. We have so many huge floor to ceiling windows here it is a big job. But now looking out the sunroom windows is so nice. Now he needs to drag out the power washer! Lots of stuff to clean outside.
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chisue
11 years ago
I overslept this morning, then hurried breakfast and a shower to make my appointment with a sinus/ear MD at 9 a.m. I've been anxious to see someone. My left ear became 'muffled' ten days ago. I've had some kind of blockage in my left sinus it for months. (Improves while I'm on antibiotics, then is back again.) My pulmonary MD recommended this doctor, who must be popular given how long I had to wait for an appointment. I need some help to keep sinus troubles from turning into coughs, then into pneumonia.

I got to the office and was handed a form to fill out. At the top it listed the various doctors in the group with their specialties. Oh, no! My referral had been to a *throat* specialist, not sinus/ears. The clerk got my appointment cancelled and I'm to see a more appropriate MD tomorrow afternoon.

I hope I'll be able to HEAR her!

Other than that, we're still *wet* here, and only in the upper 60's yesterday and today. Some Summer!
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I go tomorrow to order the new furniture!

I've also been de-cluttering my side of the garage, getting rid of some things and projects I'll never live long enough to finish, and arranging the remaining birding/gardening/seasonal items in an easy-to-access way.
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gazania_gw
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Sue, your life is so full. I can't imagine how you do all you do.

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susanjf_gw
11 years ago
not much..since i have been regulated to the sofa and lap top, I seem to get less done, lol....dh has the office so cluttered you can't see the desk top, but I do have one tiny space regulated for doing bills, ect, lol...

we're in the middle of another child's divorce...why us?? 15 years and 2 dd's...this time...and while they are still sharing the same house, different floors, they're not communicating...and in the middle of all this dil is planning her mother and partner's wedding in sept...looking forward to this with open heart...some joy in the chaos...

this crazy weather...it's been so cool that I noticed some leaves on an older tree yellowing...dh got so frustrated with one bed of "weeds", he pulled out real plants too, lol...

gazinia...don't blame you for the up-graded fabric...those chairs get so much use and fil's "cheap' fabric showed it..but he ended up living in his, till falls ect, so at 93, he's now in nursing home...believe it or not dh's cousin was able to find homes for all 3 he had!

so funny you mentioned your elevator..dh is a consultant for actual building sized machines....

it never fails to amaze me how our lives intertwine...
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gazania_gw
11 years ago
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Susan, my elevator only rises about 32 inches. My DH who never ceases to amaze me made the 'elevator' out of a mechanics lift table. Seems we couldn't buy an elevator that wasn't way beyond my needs, so as he usually does, husband solved another problem for me with his ingenuity.
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samkaren1692
11 years ago
I've been reading a lot lately. I don't go online as much as I used to. My Kindle is actually a god send for me....keeps me from thinking about how lonely my life is. But I do have a lot of "book boyfriends"....lol
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