I took Yoshi-pup yesterday to get his foot checked out. He’s healing up, but starting to cause extra damage other places on his foot trying to get to the bandage. He figured out some bizarre way to shove his cone back just right to reach the very top of the bandage. So he’s wrapped up even more and he’s to be sedated until Thursday, when hopefully this comes off.
I have spent the time since I was at the vet convincing myself that I have COVID-19. Obviously, I didn’t get that at the vet, but my nose has been drippy. I couldn’t sleep last night, convinced that I was going to get sick, and therefore get my family sick. I hate this whole situation.
I slept the day away. I awoke this morning with a dreadful headache probably caused by lack of caffeine so I took some ibuprofen and slept it away. I have been working on the budget for irk. I am almost done with it.
I am going to irk in the morning to finish up FOM stuff.
I have nothing much to report. I couldn’t walk yesterday because it was cold, wet, and windy out there, kind of like a dog’s nose. I’m considering it today. The sun comes out, and I start to get ready, and then it starts raining. I’ve known teen-ages less temperamental than Mother Nature is today.
flyboy, the testamentary thing sounds like hell. I hope BOA offers a reasonable alternative. And I hope your gas leak gets fixed pronto
nut, you’re restricting yourself to houseplants?? I talk to my toaster (“Oh, come on! I could toast bread faster than that by just breathing on it.”), my chair (“Whoops, sorry. Meant to push you in.”), and my keys (“I know you’re in there somewhere.”), and, of course, myself (“Nellie, you are losing your dang marbles.”)
nettie, yay for Instacart.
sunny, sorry you lost sleep over virus worries. I have a feeling you’re in good company.
Just popped the lasagna in the oven. Daughter is emptying the dishwasher and as soon as she’s done, I’ll reload it. Never ends…
It got really dark outside for a bit - I thought for sure it would rain, but not so far. According to weather radar, we should be seeing precip within a couple of hours and well into the night. Glad I finally finished feeding the azaleas!
Apart from the raking, it’s been a mostly lazy day. Then there’s the dishes… and more after supper… it’s so hard being me!!! <pose of woe and despair>
Ordering online was a total bust. They were out of almost everything I ordered.
Normally, the person filling the order will call me to tell what is out of stock, but this time the store gave her a list that had only what was in stock, so she had no idea that I wasn’t getting everything I ordered.
I went in the store to get some stuff, and didn’t check the bags first. So we have duplicates of some things and none of others.
I’m not happy, but there isn’t much to do about it. We’ll have to go back in less than a week.
Today is junk mail day and Ripple is bringing me the ads one page at a time. He is getting way too many treats for this.
We got up early this morning and drove to the Fred Meyers (Kroger) in The Dalles to shop. We are now set for groceries and TP for about another month. They only had one kind of TP, MD 2ply, but we got 2 12-packs, one each. Otherwise the shelves were pretty well stocked. Wifey needs to go back to the valley next week for work though. I may go with her and we can raid the freezer there for even more foodstuffs. She could manage it herself to be sure, but she wants me to make some more soap, so there’s that. Not much else going on here.
I just took my temp and it was 96.1. No virus here.
I did that, and there were no bubbles. I left a message with the propane company to see if they could tell me who to call. Minutes later, the truck pulled up out front. I talked to the guy, and he said that you might smell gas if the tank was really empty. He was just down the street when he got the call, so that’s why he was over so fast. He said the gauge showed no pressure, so I was literally ‘running on fumes’. When I came back into the house, there was a message from the propane company telling me the same thing he did.
Just tried to order some stuff from prime pantry.
As fast as I was placing the order stuff was going out of stock, and it was a three week delivery date. I cancelled the order, I’ll go back to the store tomorrow.
No sense in having milk if there is no cereal to put it on.
If I had known there was no cereal I wouldn’t have bought milk.
Cool.
My trailer out in the woods heats and cooks with propane. That stuff is expensive. It used to be burned as a waste product of producing gasoline. It follows the price rises of gas, but in my experience, when the price of gas goes down, propane price does not.
FWIW, we have a 124 gallon tank. The propane company fills it to 85%. By my calculations, 85% of 124 is 105.4 gallons. They put in 102.8 gallons. So the tank only had 2.6 gallons in it. We had more in the BBQ grill.
I lived on propane for years. Filling the tank was a painful expense, but it lasted quite a while and was definitely cheaper than PG&E charges.
Just got a huge run of groceries delivered. I tipped the guy a bottle of hand sanitizer. I have many bottles for reasons that have to do with my husband’s desire to start fires at all costs while camping. I figured the delivery guy needed one more than we do right now.
I really, really wish the Federal Government had just guaranteed payrolls, instead of throwing money at big business. Everyone would keep earning, businesses would hopefully be in better shape, unemployment wouldn’t be sky-rocketing. Maybe when I’m in charge I’ll re-organize.
The dresser and closet are cleaned out, with a bag to go to Goodwill or AmVets, a couple of items to the mend pile and some broken silver and gold that will go to the pawn shop for salvage value once things get back to normal. I’m trying to remember when I stopped wearing wrist watches and gold jewelry. I’m thinking the watches were when I began working at my current irkplace (15 years ago! :eek: ) where they were a PITA to take off / put back on going through security. The gold jewelry was likely when I lost something of value and began wearing less expensive silver.
I also put the craft tote on wheels that I ordered together. The bag that I’ve used for the heathen children’s craft stuff and books was getting outgrown and heavier than I wanted to carry, so wheels it is! This tote is bigger too.
Now to finish supper and do some more in the studio.
We have ordered delivery from the real good place. It should be here soon. We are debating again on whether we should let the maid come tomorrow. I won’t be here for part of the day and hubby is doing continuing education so he can do that in his downstairs office. I say let her come but I am leaving it up to hubs and her. I hope she does come though.
I am surprised y’all are finding TP Bumba. Our local store has been out over a month. Since I will be out tomorrow I shall venture to the store to stock up on a few needed items. We are good on TP but could do with more PT. And chicken. I see already I need to make a list.
Work is done. I successfully got a grocery delivery (I reserved my slot right after midnight) and actually got pretty much everything I asked for. They had some stuff listed as being out of stock or not listed at all, but the only thing that got switched after I ordered it was the ice cream. I thought for sure it was all going to be like… soy orange sherbet in place of my ice cream, a random turnip instead of spinach, and a CD of wind chimes and zen music instead of my suet cake for the birds.
I guess I’ve settled on my April Fools, although… it will be okay, not excellent, I guess. It’ll be down to how well I write it.
Anyway, my plan for the rest of the evening is mostly The Sims so I can play in an absurd fantasy world where I can go to work and cook meals and work out at the gym and go outside and hang out with friends.
It has started raining. I did some laundry, but am still avoiding [del]the Unclean[/del]social contact today. Making chipolte chicken tonight, and baked firied chicken tomorrow.
I got a migraine aura which delayed my leaving the house. I get optical migraines, so no pain today. I did get a long walk in, with the added exercise of opening and closing the umbrella every two minutes. Rain, sun, rain, sun.
I can order groceries again, and it’ll only be three days until delivery! Woot!
My daughter said they got an earthquake in eastern Washington today. A plague and an earthquake. She’s wondering when it starts raining frogs.
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flyboy**, SO glad the problem was just being very low on propane!
Red, I want to clean out my closet, but none of the thrift shops are open, including Goodwill, and I have no place to store the bags of clothes. Where are you storing your stuff for the interim?
Well this is disgusting. I had just finished washing the dinner dishes and pulled the plug on the kitchen sink to let the water out when Wifey came over and started talking to me. Instead of grabbing the sponge out of the receding water I turned to answer her and I heared a foop. The sponge got sucked down the drain.
I reached under the sink to loosen up the ‘P’ trap to see if it was in there and the (PVC) connection crumbled in my hand. :eek::mad: To make matters worse the end of the piece I will need to replace won’t come out of the pipe going through the floor. So now I need a snake, which I don’t have, to get the sponge out, and a gorilla to get the broken piece of pipe out so I can replace it.
I called a plumber. Hopefully he’ll call me back tomorrow. le sigh
Usually PVC drain pieces come apart easily. Hopefully some unknown screw-it-up-yourselfer in the past didn’t glue it in because they had the wrong fitting or washer. That’ll turn a quick $2.79 fix into a $75 day-killer.
But how did the sponge go down the drain? Don’t think I’ve ever seen a kitchen sink drain that didn’t have an internal grating so nothing bigger than a smushed pea can go through.
I think now is a good time to consume some of the Makers Mark I got at Costco yesterday.
I’m considering it today. The sun comes out, and I start to get ready, and then it starts raining. I’ve known teen-ages less temperamental than Mother Nature is today.
Making chipolte chicken tonight, and baked firied chicken tomorrow.
