Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis <snerk> 69! <snerk> Amurrkin out and cloudy with a predicted high of 79 with rain/tstorms/apocalypse predicted for the day. Today we shall sanitize da cave and who knows beyond that. Well, if’n it is stormy/rainy all day, nuttin’ will involve leavin’ da cave at least on my part. Tonight we shall sup upon steak, baked N.O.T., sallit, and cheesey garlic bread. Tonight would be men’s night over to the church house if such things were happenin’ at the moment. Thus we shall pretend we are tonight. I think we shall start easin’ back in to some church stuff durin’ June but no solid plan in place as of yet.
Still think it’s too soon for most stuff to be openin’ up again. Then again, what do I know. I just hope we don’t get an even nastier round of this virus. I know a lot of states seem to be beginnin’ to open stuff up. Just be safe everybody. OK, enough for a “topic.” Y’all take it from here.
I have to agree- stuff here’s starting to open up, with terrible communication, mixed messages and against opposition from the people being told to open up, despite still having well over 100 deaths per day. We’re officially being told to ‘stay alert’ to save lives… It’s a sodding virus, we can’t see it, stay alert for what?
Anyway… I shouldn’t get into the politics in the MMP.
In other news it’s sunny again, and the washing is on. I need to go and do shopping later, and I think I’ll just drop by on the bees to make sure the new box is OK. Not to go in the hive, just to make sure they’re OK flying in and out, as I left 'em with a restricted entrance for the first day to stop Her Majesty deciding to leave (worker bees should be able to get out, queeny and the drones can’t, but if there’s a lot of drones hanging around the entrance they might stop the workers getting out).
I got some sleep last night, so huzzah! And **FCD **is starting to feel a little better. He showered this morning, and I know that helped. He’ll be calling the doc for a follow-up appointment and to get more pain meds, and he’ll call the PT folks.
The pain med thing is striking - in the hospital, they were giving him 20mg every 4 hours, but the doc sent him home with 10mg every 6 hours. After 4 anna half hours, he really starts to feel it. I hope he’ll up the dosage, at least for a couple of days.
Today’s plans include laundry, and I think my bathroom needs a good scrubbing - my second most hated chore… It’s overcast and dreary, tho no precip is forecast now till Weds or so. I may try to ride the mower around. Maybe. Even tho I slept pretty well, I’m still tired. Duh!
Thank y’all for the bd wishes, and Swampy, your singing is beautiful!
Three hours at the park again this morning. I wore a sweat shirt today and still got a bit chilly.
The park irkers came and turned the water on, finally.
Now I have to hop into the shower and get ready to head down to the armpit, where we will be having Chinese food and a cake.
I am doing something I haven’t done in years, taking a day off irk.
I thought about scheduling myself for a few hours tonight, and then I thought no, I don’t want to have to rush home.
My boss (mostly) cleaned out her office on Saturday. In her email, she called it ‘your office’. Shit’s gettin’ real! :eek: (Man, I wish I could just win the lottery.)
Nuts, also without wishing to politicise the MMP, I am at a loss to understand current government strategy. It’s safe for children to go to school where they mix with other kids and adults, but once they leave the school grounds all social distancing is back on again? How does that work? And the whole public transport thing…I had to laugh when the mayor of Lunnon said they were bringing back the congestion charge to discourage people from coming to the city en masse by car, and in the same breath telling us all to stay off public transport. I’m staying at home, I’m still alert though, if I stop being alert, I’ll probably trip over a cat.
It’s a bit of a grey dreary afternoon although it’s warm. Daft weather can’t make a decision on whether to be hot or start raining. I remain unconcerned, I am not going anywhere. However, would be nice if Mother Nature would be kind enough to wash the car for me.
Boofae, please do stay alert. England needs all the lerts they can muster…
FCM, at least it’s enough medication that FCD and you are getting some sleep. How is Roxy doing with the limits?
71F heading for 76F, but the afternoon is supposed to be filled with Tunder-Boomers, so I need to get out (pickup new mattress pad and lunch) this morning. Running the hoover over the floor is indicated, so that will be my major constructive act this day.
I’ve been lurking on and off for about 8 weeks and just now screwing up the courage to say Hi.
Stayed up late reading a Trail Journal about hiking the Long Trail in Vermont so I slept in quite late which is pretty unusual for me. Might also have been the effect of the rainstorms through the night. I always sleep better when it’s raining.
No etched in stone plans today. Will just watch the dvr’d mass and laze around. Would like to go to the store, buy some pansies and/or marigolds and/or petunias and go out to the cemetery and plant them for my parents, grandparents, godmother and uncle and my great uncle. But I’ve been saying I’m going to do that since last Friday and 4 days later and I’ve yet to leave the house. This pandemic is messing with my motivation. Heck.
All y’all have a Great Day, especially Sari to whom I wish a most H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y !
Welcome, CatGlove! Glad you took the plunge, but if you’ve been lurking that long, you know we’re a kindly group, if somewhat, um, eccentric.
I want to get some annuals - I love petunias - but I hate going to Lowe’s. I did have a few volunteer petunias that I transplanted, leaving the front porch planters without flowers. I should stop at the Amish greenhouse and see what they have.
Just got a call from FCD… from the bedroom… I need to give him a bell when he needs to summon me.
Isn’t there something about goats and cheese for newbies??? Welcome, catglove!
I have no idea what is opening up around me, seeing as I only go to irk (sporadically if I feel like it), the barn, and the sto. I just hope my favorite restaurant opens for my birfday, end of this month. The restaurant is doing take away, but I want to sit in a real restaurant and eat my Beef Wellington as opposed to a pik-a-nik on the grass. Plus I can get one of those fancy vodka cocktails in the restaurant. You know, the ones *they * call martinis.
Welcome, catglove; don’t be shy about posting stuff that is common or ordinary; this is the place for it. (Oh, and swampy’s gay, but we don’t talk about it…;) )
Picked up a new king-sized mattress pad at a king-sized price (about $139), but that should be all I need for the house for the forseeable future (maybe Thursday). Also picked up sammiches at Jersey Mikes, the crew and I were wearing masks but none of the other customers were; I think they figure with things slowly opening up that the crisis is over and they don’t have to do the mask thing anymore in public. I hope they’re right, but I’ll keep wearing mine for a bit.
A year or so ago, I sent money to an old friend who was in dire financial straits. I sent $40 so she could feed their kitties. I’d completely forgotten about it. Last night I received a notification from PayPal saying that she’d sent money.
Met up with my barber friend yesterday and got shorn. Barbers are not 'sposed to be open here yet , but we’ve known each other for 30 years. So now I’m more or less presentable again.
It’s 54F and raining here right now. Sposed to rain 'til friday. It’s tiring.
Y’all, there’s a snake in my kitchen. Not very big, just a corn snake or something. We got our semi-annual invasion of meeces when the neighbors started planting, so I guess Mr. No-shoulders followed them in.
Let me just say that I no longer need that cup of coffee to stave off the afternoon nap…
I’ve been sulking and worrying and muttering about the state of everything. My hoarding genes are awakening, and I know I am on the verge of buying crap and squirreling it away. I poked around on the Sam’s Club website, and it looked like ALL FRESH MEAT was out of stock. Then I went to the home page and clicked around and located beef.
I wish I hadn’t done that. Chuck roast, $7.27 a pound, an example showing $65 cost.
[sacrilegious rant]Holy Jesus Christ![[/sacrilegious rant]
Hence my hoarding gene.
FCM so glad yer man is home and healing! If he’s got hurting problems now, PT will send him through the roof. Talk to the doctor’s office about increasing pain meds, or maybe adding an anti-inflammatory? And then talk to the PT about heat packs/ice packs. Which one first? How long to apply? The BIG thing is to give him a pain pill immediately after PT leaves.
Then you and Roxy go for a walk.
I think I’m going to create my hoarder spreadsheet now. I am really unsettled!
~VOW
I had to be different. Seriously, I hope you have the kind of birthday that makes you feel beloved and special because, of course, you are!
My county probably won’t move on to Phase 2 for awhile yet, and when it does, I’ll continue to operate in Phase 1 because the docs have warned me. I do feel a little like I’m in solitary confinement for a crime I didn’t commit, but that’s only when I read about people throwing caution to the winds, thereby extending my sentence.
I struggle with issues over not being able to drive or work but usually bob up smiling. Lately I’m finding that harder to do and am also struggling with the notion that so many people brush off people like me (and some of you), with the “Sure, people will die, but…” when they push for society going wide open. It’s hard not to feel like I’m seen as having no value, even though it’s nothing personal.
However, onward and upward!
Welcome, Cat Glove! Pansies are my favorite flowers. I hope you save one or two for yourself.
FCM, I hope the doc will increase the dosage. Docs have told me to take pain meds 20 minutes or so before the next dose is due, as it takes awhile to take effect. It’s easier to stay on top of the pain than to try to stop it once it starts. I apologize if this is stuff you already know, since you and FCD have been down this road so many times.
Flyboy, when do you officially move into your new office?
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