Howdy Y’all! I got my wellness checked and it is relatively OK for an ol’ fart. I also got a DPT booster. Turns out once one turns 67 (apparently the official age of geezerdom) one should get a diphtheria and pertussis booster, hence the DPT with a tetanus booster thrown in for good measure, booster today. We pigged out at the hog trough GC and then accomplished quality cee-mint pond time, nappage and general sloth.
And here I am wanderin’ why doggio is cuttin’ back this weekend.
Bumba glad the kids were able to get the $$$ together to seal the deal on the house. We were pullin’ for the kids in the MMP. Tell them a whole bunch of internet complete strangers are happy for 'em. It won’t be creepy at all!
I’d be surprised if you got DPT-they’re not using that in the US anymore. I’m betting you got a Td-tetanus and diphtheria. The pertussis vaccine being dropped out of the T~D~P concoction. I got one a few weeks before grandbabby #2 arrived. When grandbabby #1 was imminent I got the Tdap cause I wasn’t as over the hill as I am now. Now you should be good against tetanus for 10 years unless you get enormous, gaping, dirt-filled wounds, in which case they might pop you some more Td a year or two early.
And I agree. The Medicare “wellness check” appts are boring and pretty useless but Medicare will bug yah to death til you get one. Eat less, exercise more, yada, yada.
And I now have a 60-day supply parked in the medicine cabinet (the front bathroom is not subject to heat and humidity from showers). I’d requested 30 days, figuring that should be sufficient, but the person reviewing my info apparently felt that it would be better for me to have two months’ worth. That’s one less worry, since for all I know, if I’d had to go off the lisinopril for any length of time, blood pressure might decide to go rather high in short order. I do NOT need another ER visit any time soon, TYVM.
Wednesday, as soon as Kaiser will let me, I’ll get on making that appointment with whatever doctor got me.
So, doggio, you’re rationing yourself to two cases a day?
When I left to get groceries today, I found that I couldn’t get to the main drag from my street, due to a dump truck / tractor trailer collision that closed it for 2-4 hours. To give you a picture, the end of my street that intersects with the main drag has commercial businesses facing the main drag with an industrial park next, then no through cross streets for another six miles and it’s two lane.
I also know (from experience) the mileage to go around the obstacle if it is between my apartment and the last cross street after MD (17 miles). Unfortunately, everything is residential on my end, so I’m completely cut off from both my town and the next one over without the detour. My solution was to drive northwest to Mount Juliet 10 miles to the Publix there. Since I knew that getting takeout for supper from home would be problematic, I got some of their beef stew and a hunk-o-cornbread from their hot bar. It’s delicious and will be enough for another meal along with another salad that I put together. Also unfortunately, the accident shut the dog park off to Nelson and me. I let him off leash here at home to play with the neighbor doggos to compensate.
Tomorrow, SIL will be down and we’ll go to the Lao Buddhist temple for the Lao new year festival, then an international market tour of my town.
Evening all. Swimmin’ has been swum, 1,600 yards in just under an hour, with whirlpool and sauna time to boot. AT&T was here to bury the cable for my fancy new internet, they had some contraption that manged to do it without leaving a trench in the yard (the tread tracks, however…). Let the dishwasher do it’s thing while I was backstroking, so need to put those away…sometime. Big bowl O’Sallit is on the menu sometime tonight.
Red, I’m on a cul-de-sac with only two outlets to the main road, so an accident could mess me up too. Glad you were able to improvise. Enjoy the Festival.
Seanette, glad you were able to get your prescription. I get a 90-days supply from my Doc, usually with 1 refill, will have to see them after this one runs out (in about 50 days or so).
Bumba, you are right when things will re-appear. I couldn’t find my padlock for the gym’s lockers on Tuesday so I went to Walmart and bought two of them (one for spare), so of course today I moved my old pair of glasses and…there was the old lock. So now I have three of them. Hope the closing goes smoothly.
Oopsie, hope your dizzy spells abate…be careful!
99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer…
OK, need to be thinking about fixing that salad bowl. All y’all take care.
The salmon was good. The asparagus was over-cooked, because SWMBO likes it that way. Goo got all of my salmon skin, and some from ‘mom’ too. She’s vulching 'mom’s plate right now.
Mrs. L.A. had some dark chocolate with pistachios. She gave me the residue. She mussed my hair and said, ‘I"ill clean my fingers in your hair.’ I replied, I’ll clean my heir eventually…’ (I washed my hair today.)
So I bought some new percale cotton sheets. They were crinkly out of the package so I washed them and then put them on the bed. They were so NOISY that hubs actually noticed. OK, so they need more washing.
I pulled the sheets off the bed today and tossed them in the washer with hot water and on the “beat them into submission” cycle twice. While I was doing that, hubs said he wanted to drain some water out of his side of the bed.
Our bed has two bladders in a soft frame that is zipped together with a quilted cover. The stupid instructions had us put the zipper start at the head of the bed with the plugs at the foot of the bed, so getting to the plugs is a bit of a pain, but whatever.
My plan was to hook a hose to the bed, run it to the tub and have hubs bounce on the bed to start the siphon just like we have done so many times in the past.
Nooooooooo, we couldn’t do it that way now, he bought a pump for that. So, the pump had to be primed and pouring water into the pump and then hooking the hose up didn’t seem to be working cause not enough water. Next he got a funnel and a big pitcher and started pouring water into the hose. Which was hooked into the bed. After a while he started wondering how much water that short hose could hold and I pointed out the possible flaw in his plan. (The water was going into the bed which was lower than the hose end he was filling.)
I was getting a little bored by now so suggested that we put the hose low into the tub and while he was doing that I bounced on the bed and started the siphon. Of course he had to screw the hose into the pump to get the other 5 gallons out of the bed, but boyz and toyz, right.
During the process he also managed to get water on the top of the quilted bed cover so I couldn’t put things together until that had been washed and dried.
We are in Merry Olde England. The 2 strangers in front of us on our flight over talked for 8 hours non stop, getting into topics such as her father’s affair. I almost beat him over the head when he started showing her cat pictures. Then we had $150 cab ride to the train station (one end of London to the other in morning rush hour) to get a train to York. A 2 hour train ride and our train coach had the luck of having 14 guys bound for a stag party. Needless to say I was RATHER CRISPY when we got to our flat which is half a block from York Minster. I feel better after food, vodka, and 13 hours of sleep.
Use coasters! I will be checking up on youse people.
It’s too early here - I read this as 14 GAYS bound for a stag party, and I was mightily confused! Especially when you said “I was RATHER CRISPY” - I thought that was to suggest that they were flaming… Hope you have a wonderful time!!
T-boomers and tornado warnings and much rain last night. Needless to say, no mowage will occur today. The plan is to pull new hoses for the a/c on the boat. So I have that to look forward to. Plus we may actually have sun this afternoon - woohoo!!
Had a weird dream last night - I was living in the house where I grew up, and next door was a guy I’d worked with the first time in 1997. He’s retired now, too, but in the dream, he had a baby boy. He’s never been married but he had a baby - how weird is that?!? < snerk > OK, the weird is that I’d put him in a house where I haven’t lived since 1973 - I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the sleeping brain is a strange and mysterious place!
Morning all. Woke up what I thought was about 8am and it was only 6am, so nappage is a definite possibility. Only 58F now but heading for near 80 without a chance of rain, so nice day to get out and…nah, staying in and do-little.
Wet one, quite an adventure. Couldn’t you have taken the Express train (I presume you were at Gatwick or Heathrow) and then caught a cab? (the Tube with luggage at rush hour would be a bother). Anyway, glad your in York and hopefully the rest of the vacation will be less stressful.
Jane the Cane, loved your story, I have never owned a waterbed and given you and hubs saga, probably never will.
You going to bathe a child to get cleaned up??
OK, probably should put the dishes away and if I’m going to be about the house, there are large piles of laundry to be done. All y’all take care.
Afternoon, mumpers! It’s allegedly 14c/58f here today, mostly cloudy. Weather app considers it to be “Cloud with a chance of bullshit” so obviously has seen the latest pontifications of our esteemed leader, Boris the Binbag of Custard.
Wet One glad you arrived safely and managed to get out of the clutches of the capital. I would have thought there were cheaper ways of getting across town but sometimes if you’re tired and fed up with travelling, a cab is the best answer. Sharing your train carriage with a stag party is always a delight…however, if you made it to York station, check out the pub there (York Tap), open from noon until 10pm most days. It’s a beautiful little building, even if you don’t fancy a beer!
Busy morning here, been to the gym for bootcamp and spin, came home for a shower and general tidy up. We are going to Swansea today (south Wales) to see a couple of bands tonight so need to go and avail myself of 3hrs free parking in the nearby supermarket car park, walk into town for lunch at the Good Chinese Place, go into said supermarket for provisions (not sure what, but 'im indoors says so), top up the petrol tank and then drive to Swansea. Our return journey tomorrow will be via Tewkesbury as that’s where 'im indoors was working pre-pandemic. He’s still working for the same company but doesn’t go to the office, he has a folding bike in the car park that he wants to bring home, so this is a good enough opportunity to do that.
Got a cup of tea to finish, then we can be on our way, boyo!
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 63 Amurrkin out and N.O.S. with a predicted high of 87 and N.O.S. for the day, We have been invited to attend an open house at the home of a church member and good friend. The invite states from 10 a.m. - Noon, and from 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. We shall go around eleven to schmooze and ooh and ahh over her home. Afterwards we shall grab a McN.O,L. and return to da cave for some quality cee-mint pond time and day drinkin’. Sounds like a good plan for what should be a pleasant and not too hawt (for here) day.
Boo I did misspeak sorta about the booster shot I got. It’s called Tdap (Tetanus, Diphtheria, Pertussis). The info sheet states that one should receive a Td booster at least every ten years after. Of course, we should all get a tetanus booster every ten years, but I am a slacker on this as I suspect most of the population is as well.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then I suppose, bother of bothers, I must needs purtify and be presentable to attend the open house. The lengths I go through to appease my public!
I don’t even remember when my last was. Yes, I’ll address this with nice new doctor once I meet him/her. If I have a choice, I’ll probably choose a her, since I’m less uncomfortable with a female doctor if I’m going to be less than fully clothed.
I’m sorry if I seemed prissy about the tetanus vaccines. It’s the old nurse in me. I find obscure things in medicine interesting that don’t matter much~forgive me. We could just label them all ‘tetanus’ and call it good.
And you are so right, the important thing is for grownups to get one every 10 years~glad you did that. I’d still pass on mud wrestling with barbed wire in the barnyard though.
Getting ready to welcome a new grand baby is the best reason ever to keep up with those, I’ve been lucky lately. I guess when this last grand baby gets close to his 10th birthday that’ll be my reminder to get poked again.
I got back Thursday evening but was completely wiped out and spent yesterday essentially catching up on some rest.
The trip was awesome and an entirely positive experience. I learned so much about truly remote rural living and its challenges. I met people and officials who are truly invested in their communities and the hard work they are doing to keep them going. I learned how ridiculous the cost of housing is in this county because of various factors, but two of the largest are the Microsoft millionaires and the outdoor recreation (vacation homes). It’s also expensive to build out there because of the cost of trying to get infrastructure, water, sewage/septic, and power to any sites. The developers want a return on investment and building affordable housing doesn’t produce that. We need to find a way to frontload the communities with loans or grants from our program, so they can work with developers. Our programs can’t assist developers, so this is one of our barriers. We toured a food bank and community action center. We met with people on tribal lands. In all these discussions, we heard about the barriers to accessing some of my organization’s programs, but we also heard the success stories and gratitude for the work my organization has done out there. I saw some country I hadn’t seen since I was a kid and some new country. I saw a moose calf! That was exciting. We traveled many miles because this particular county covers 5500 square miles and at one point I was less than 50 miles from the Canadian border. I have a renewed passion for my organization’s mission and hope to be able to participate in more of these outreach travels. I posted some pics on the book of faces. They were all taken from the vehicle while in a moving vehicle, but we couldn’t really stop because we had schedules and places to be.
I have read all, but retained little. I’m glad the kids got your place, Bumba!
I am sorry about the cc woes, FCM.
I hope you find the perfect dog, PaintCharge.
The kids are coming here today, so I need to get off my duff and get my house Adam-proofed.
I let him off leash here at home to play with the neighbor doggos to compensate. 
Hope you have a wonderful time!!