My fingernails are trimmed quite well, thank you. This was a pimple-like thingy on my back. Weird.
Back to the OP - **Red **- the photo of my baby sis as an angel is on my FB page. In fact, my two youngest sisters are in the angel nightgowns. The other girl is a neighbor. Sadly, it’s an old B&W pic and not particularly sharp.
OK, time to hop into the shower.
Back from breakfast. I’ve done a few chores, and I need to haul the laundry downstairs. Methinks all our clothes will be going in the dryer till the spring - there’s just not enough daylight hours and sun to dry everything properly this time of year. Alas…
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Tailgate tonight before hockey.
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:eek: leaffan! Hope everything is healing and cleaned up.
Mooooooom, she was a cutie. I’m thinking that the mothers may have been thinking (or recycling) pageant costumes from midnight mass. 
Up, breakfasting, caffeinating, towels and sheets in the wash, puppy crate cleaned and as soon as KP is done, I will purtify to go to the post office to mail packages to a couple of cousins. I do a couple of family cookbooks (I inherited Mom’s recipe box when she passed) a year between wedding and greeting card seasons and they were the recipients this year. They are the cousins who have put the family reunion together for the past few years and I appreciate that.
I’ve parcelled out the five pounds of bacon, by portioning the rashers and wrapping them in cling wrap. Nine parcels of 12 rashers each, plus four more strips, plus five I’m cooking for our breakfast. One hundred and seventeen piggy strips in total.
One 12-strip parcel and the four-strip one are in the fridge. The rest, I’ve put into the freezer.
Last load in the dryer. When it’s done, Roxy and I will go to Food Lion. Tomorrow is FCD’s b-day and he asked for punkin’ pie. Plus I want to make some sketty sauce, so I need 'shrooms and some 'mater sauce. And probably other stuff. I’ll figure it out when I get there.
Used a sharpened hockey skate to scratch with again? 
Spent the morning at DMV getting a REAL-ID ------ something I probably should have done some time ago. Once it arrives I can fly again without my passport. Or pixy-dust. Or something; I forget which.
I dug out my Avirex Patrouille de France jacket. I got it around 1988 or so. It was a little stiff and had some mould on it after living in a footlocker for the past decade or so. I’ve cleaned it, and now I need to apply some Pecard’s Leather Dressing. There’s a small tear at the corner of a pocket, which happened back when I wore it every day. I should see about getting that stitched up.
Sounds like some sort of blood blister.
Or ----- you could be a lost member of the Romanov family?
I now have all of the surviving food back in my freezer. Some popsicles were my canary in the coal mine - they softened and changed shape, but didn’t melt and flatten out entirely.
Fridge is another story. So far, I’ve bought a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs, and it’s otherwise empty. I’ll hold off on replacing mayo, relish, etc. until I actually need them.
We’ll be having a ham tomorrow - I couldn’t wrangle up enough emergency freezer space to keep a full size ham frozen, so it went to a friend’s fridge to slowly thaw. I’ll be having ham for a week…
Well, got Wifey’s laptop back from the 'puter fixer. He installed Win 10 on it. It used to have Win 7.
Have I mentioned that I don’t like win 10? A lot of the useful little programs and apps I’m used to using are now buried 2 or 3 layers deep in other places. Spent a lot of yesterday re-installing stuff. Took me ~3 hrs to re-install Office 2007.
My copy of 2007 is an upgrade. Can’t just put that on straight away. Have to have a previous version installed.
Dug around in my stack O’ CDs and found a disk for Office 2000.
Tried to install it.
Nope. It’s also an upgrade version, though it doesn’t say so on the disk sleeve. (Says so on the disk itself, tho.) :mad:
Dug around in my stack O’ CDs again and came up with a copy of office 97.
Was able to install that. An app at a time.
Looked on my box for off. 2007 to see if I could upgrade from 97. Nope. Damn microsquash. That’s why I kept the off. 2000 disk, I guess.
Did the install for 2000.
Then, did the install for 2007. :mad:
Then I started to reinstall Print Master.
That was at about 5pm.
When we went to bed at 11pm it was halfway done. :eek:
It was finished when we got up this morning though.
I hate microsquash.
I’ve restored the OS on an IBM AS/400 quicker than this.
I’ve read but not retained much, except for: Sunny, I hope they get you fixed up soonest.
What I do is keep a small clear bottle in my freezer. (I use an old pill bottle.) I fill it halfway with water, lay it on its side, and then let it freeze. After it’s completely frozen I stand it up. The ice will hold its shape up the side of the bottle. From that point on, I can check the bottle to see if the temperature in my freezer ever rose above freezing.
Sleepy day today.
Ripple was super energetic at the park. I don’t know if it was the nip in the air or that he didn’t get to go yesterday.
Every dog there ignored the temporary fence to keep them out of the grass seed area. They either jumped over it, went under it, or found a hole to get through it.
I have a bunch of stuff that needs doing today. My son will turn off the water to the outside, unhook the hose, and drain the faucet. He also carried my new rug up to the bedroom, to be unrolled and put down sometime this weekend. I hope by putting my bed on a rug, it will stop sliding across the floor. The little under the leg pads I got didn’t work. I got one load of laundry washed, washed twice actually. I used bleach and my washer doesn’t have a second rinse option, so I put everything through a second time with no soap. As much as I love the smell of bleach, I don’t love it that much. I need to wash some clothes, I’m down to my last pair of clean pants. Sah-son also has to pull out the step ladder and check the kitchen light. I think the bulb may be loose? The light flickers at times. I told him it is probably a loose bulb, or a ghost, and it’d better not be a ghost because I don’t have time for that nonsense.
Echo needs a new harness, the one that came with her is getting a bit tight. I don’t like the kind it is either, she has to step into it, which means I have to pick her up and stick her legs through it. I got Ripple one that slides over his head, the buckle runs under his belly and hooks on the side. Very easy to put on. There is a handle on top, easy to grab when needed. Also, there is a separate ring for the tags. I suppose I should start putting all the outdoor stuff in the shed, and fold up the clothesline.
Then there is vacuuming, mopping, and general all round house stuff.
I put the Pickard’s on the Patrouille de France jacket. The copyright on the embroidered lining says 1989, so I must have bought it after that.
I found a gas receipt in a pocket from Garden Grove from January, 1999. Given the date, the octane, and the quantity, I must have been filling the Porsche 911SC near work. Ninety-two octane was $1.25 per gallon. Outrageous! :mad:
Howdy Y’all! I’ve been a bzzy bear. Got all the stuff done at the church house, includin’ survivin’ a budget meetin’. ICK! Necessary, however. I have made the corn casserole and cooked the green beans. I stopped by the sto’ on the way back to da cave and bought two gallons of tea (don’t judge!) and two pee-kahn pies (again, don’t judge!) to take tomorrow. Also, we accomplished mowage. YAY! Please, please, please, let that be the last one until Spring! Now all showered and cleanded up and chill time ensues.
Leaf :eek: Glad it’s all better now.
gotti glad y’all are safe. Ham is good. Like bacon, one can never have enough ham. One of my go to things for leftover ham is ham pot pie. Love me a good ham pot pie!
Groceries have been procured. I plan to make a pot roast for tomorrow’s dinner. I’ve also got to make 2 punkin pies, and I’m going to do up a batch of sketty sauce. Lots of kitchen time ahead.
Last month I said I,was quitting smoking but I didn’t. Yesterday I came down with bronchitis and decided it would be a good idea to really quit. Today I have on the patch and am seeing the doctor Monday.
Cleaning the attic I came across the old mile&gallons log from my Sprite - forget trusting the gas gauge. Thirty-four cents a gallon and I got a coffee mug after two fill-ups. And then a year later ---- pumps selling by the half gallon because no-one had ever dreamed of a price over a dollar. :smack:
Here’s hopes you make it for real this time. Strong vibes and some carrot sticks your way!
ERRATA: It’s Pecard’s, not Pickard’s.