It’s scaring me~she’s off to school in a few weeks. They are less yours after they master the outer world.
Her brother is already a year and that zoomed by. Soon I’ll be crying in my beer about him heading off to school. Far more likely to be into my gin and tonic or rum and Diet Coke, but you get the idea. I still haven’t recovered from their mother sashaying confidently off to kindergarten without a backward glance.
boo I’ve got a picture on my fridge of me holding my niece at 2 months old, and another announcing her high school graduation. Crazy how the years fly by.
They don’t want mine either, because of the diabetes thing. Which I don’t really understand. It’s not like it contagious. Maybe Boo can enlighten me.
Volunteer blood banks vary about accepting donations from people with diabetes. Sone do, if your diabetes is well controlled. If you haven’t tried to donate recently, it’s worth contacting the blood bank again for the most recent decisions. Several regulations have changed for the better in the last few year, so call and check again.
Years ago insulin sometimes came from cattle, a potential source of devastating Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, so users of bovine insulin were deferred for their lifetime. It’s been more than twenty years since that was used in the US.
So try again, your blood bank may have new and more welcoming qualifications now.
Lots of fireworks booms in my hood but they did stop before too late. My poor dog would not even go out at all.
Supper was beef roast with carrots, taters, onions and celery and rice and homemade bread. Dessert was a homemade from scratch blueberry lemon cake. My son’s GF loves to cook.
I planted more bulbs today. One of gladiolus is sprouting and one of the elephant ears has sprouted. Gonna have a nice colorful flower garden one of these days. I still have about 70 bulbs to plant. I have found it much easier to just do some each day as it’s too hot to stay out for any length of time.
I love me some boiled peanuts. Now I want some. Maybe I’ll go see if there are any at the Publix and boil my own tomorrow.
Everyone be safe and healthy
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave.
I was starting to hear bangs about 7:15pm, WELL before sunset. Got home to discover that occupants of the Wretched Hive (complex south of mine, other side of my complex’s property boundary wall) apparently find the concept that the employed need to get some sleep so they can go to work in the morning totally alien. They’re setting off stuff that’s triggering car alarms (hope that won’t lead to dead car batteries in the morning). Buddy’s under the bathroom sink, Allie’s keeping me company in the living room but plainly not a happy kitty.
It is now after midnight, and I’m not optimistic that the racket will subside before DH’s alarm goes off at 1:30. Driving home (with a few grocery-seeking stops), I was seeing stuff that was blatantly illegal all over the place. Yeah, Sacramento, I didn’t think there’d be any fireworks enforcement even in a drought, no matter how tough authorities were talking in the media.
MUCH less obnoxious than the explosions I’m hearing.
Spent my two-hour stint at the shelter one-on-one with a sweet youngster who was VERY committed to lap snuggles and face washing. I was lucky to be able to keep my glasses out of her range.
Awwwwww
It’s not salt water hereabouts. We’re near the middle of the bay and at worst, it’s brackish. But with all the rain we’ve been having, lots of fresh water is draining into the rivers feeding the bay. Plus Mercedes Guy doesn’t live here - he drives in from Virginia, just to wash his SUV and sit on his boat. 
Even when it’s not killer hot, I’ve found this to be true. The days of 8 hours playing in dirt are long behind me. I’m thrilled to get two consecutive hours before I want to quit… which is why my yard looks like crap this year. Well, that, and all the overly-mentioned boat work.
The booming around here was limited and far enough from my doorstep that it was mostly muffled. Our critters took no notice, and by the time I went to bed around 9:30, I wasn’t hearing any more. Then again, lots of folks around here work on the base and their work day starts early, so that could explain it.
Another early day for me - I woke just a bit after 5. I tread the mill and showered before bed, so when I woke, I just had to brush my teeth and get dressed to start the day. Critters have been tended, water fountain refilled, two baskets of dirty clothes have been sorted, and there’s a load of shorts in the washer now with a load of t-shirt on deck. I’ll have both loads on the line before SIL delivers the babby.
Much as I hate hanging at Daughter’s house, I’ve decided I’ll just stay there after picking up Roxy. That way, FCD can nap if he wants to and my house won’t become a disaster area every afternoon she’s here. She seems less frenetic at her house, and since I’m there anyway (her school is 1/4 mile away) I’ll just stay the 2 hours. Plus I can run to Aldi or Food Lion on the way home if I need to.
I think some day this week, Roxy is being evaluated by the county school people to see if she qualifies for their speech therapy program. I wouldn’t have thought much of how she talks, but since my daughter was a teacher and, yanno, had all that training, she’s noticed things that set off her spidey-senses. If in fact there’s an issue, she’ll be admitted to the county pre-K this fall, saving all of us a buttload of $$ (the Montessori tuition is going up to just over $1K/mo starting in August.) She’ll be in public school eventually anyway, and while it’s not the same quality as the private school, it’s still got lots to offer. So we shall see…
And so the day begins. Happy Tuesday!!
Poor Buddy! Glad you had a good holiday otherwise butters.
What a sweet looking doggo seanette. Good on you for volunteering.
Up, caffeinating, breakfasting and fixing to wrap up this segment of the project today. The only other thing on the agenda is to get gas and pick up prescriptions.
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN 'Tis 74 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 93 with rain showers predicted for later this afternoon. Or not. TWPTB are once again all willy-nilly. Today is laundry day. Oh. The. Thrill. Also, I intend to accomplish mowage as 'tis needed. We have varied leftovers to graze upon so that takes care of the need to feed. Somehow we must also work in the requisite sloth and general uselessness.
The fireworks were not too bad last night. They cranked up around sevenish and were all over by ten. I guess folks realized that today is an irk day so they should call it a night.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day! Rah.
Happy Tuesday Y’all!
Morning everyone, happy Tuesday. Very little fireworks noise last night, as we’re in a private park that forbids them. Cool rain this morning and most of the week forecast as high 70s/low 80s. Huge relief from Texas.
After a week or so here we’re planning to head home again. Exxon (literally) contacted me about setting up a fleet account for truckers. I figure that’s a sign to go home and stay put fo awhile.
Morning all. Up at 5:30am for reasons unknown, will hang around until after 9am and then head over to the Water Department with my grumps and paperwork and I will get past the front window this time. Then gym and a bit of shopping are on the agenda and we’ll see about anything more. Heading for 95F…oh joy.
Take care all.
Good morning.
It’s currently 50 degrees with an expected high of 75 and cloudly to mostly cloudy skies.
It was a war zone here all day yesterday, non-stop and definitely illegal stuff. They didn’t stop blowing stuff up until 2:30 this morning and my alarm goes off around 3:15. So yeah, no sleep. Some a-hole is currently blowing stuff up every five or 10 minutes now. It’s 5:06 in the morning for crissakes.
Loved the pic of you and the doggo, seanette. I’m glad she was a sweetheart.
Wishing you the best of luck with the water department, metal mouse.
Last night’s fireworks orgy was distant enough and muffled enough to where it didn’t bother me at all, but the cat spent a couple of hours under the bed, poor thing.
It was astonishingly quiet last night. Lots of people at the beach, but it didn’t sound like a war zone as it usually does.
The Tobester is napping. We went to Food Lion and he fell asleep both ways on the drive, even tho it’s only about 15 minutes. When we got home, I gave him a bottle, and he fell asleep drinking it. Here’s hoping I get 2 hours of peace…
I’ve got a small hunk of chuck roast in the slow cooker with celery and onions and broth. I’ll add the carrots and spuds in a few hours, and it should be ready to eat when I get back from Daughter’s house. And I’m monitoring the skies - it’s not supposed to rain till later, but it keeps clouding over and I’ve got 2 loads of clothes on the lines. I don’t want to toss them in the dryer, but I don’t want them rained on, so we shall see how it goes.
It’s so hard being me… < pose of woe>
After the neighborhood booms there was a thunder storm so my sleep was disjointed. The heat advisory that was on last night has been cancelled, thank you very much. More storms predicted this afternoon. I’m just hanging around today. I honestly didn’t expect this much retirement sloth.
What a sweetie. I hope they find a good home soon. I’d be sorely tempted if we hadn’t just gotten Zorro.
Neighborhood fireworks for hours last night, followed by lots of municipal fireworks, and then it was back to neighborhood fireworks. The animals were fairly chill about it, but they wouldn’t go outside. The big dogs led me to the door several times to show me that outside was broken, but they would not go out.
I had a bad migraine yesterday (of course), so today I’m lagging with the post-migraine “hangover” I get sometimes. Just tired and out of it, which is to say I’ll be going back to bed soon.
Take care everyone. Happy Tuesday!
Well, the water department claims it isn’t them and I must have another leak that went undetected, so I’ve got the plumbers coming back out tomorrow to run a test on the system; I have my doubts, the leak got worse right after the repairs were done, so either they did a lousy job on the repair work or there is something wrong with the Water Department’s system. Hopefully I will know more tomorrow. At least I know how to read my meter, something I haven’t done in quite awhile.
Lunch has been deposited in the appropriate place and I’m about to go shopping for a couple things, then off to the gym. All y’all take care.