The physical therapist was here almost 2 hours, mostly just getting information and sharing information. She did give **FCD **3 very simple stretch/flex exercises to do, and she said they can be helpful if he wakes in the middle of the night and has trouble falling back to sleep. She’ll be back later this week, and maybe a couple more times, but she said he seems to be getting around really well and his progress is good for being less than a week from surgery.
I’ve got supper started - chicken florentine casserole and rice. I’s stahvink!! **FCD **probably won’t eat - in fact, once Suzanne left, he went back to bed for a nap. We’re waiting for a call back from his Dr.
The rain has continued gently, and my garden seems happy. Overall, a pretty chill day.
happy bday sari …hope the drives good
cleaned a bathroom yesterday… have no plans on being overly useful today … tired of packing crap for the god knows when move …
aunts grouchy since she finally started to be social and then this happened and no one comes around except relatives and since daughter in law broke her ankle grandkid doesn’t come over every day so shes grouchy about that… then she goes and has me order some pants and things from dodgy companies that advertise aka spam on Facebook and then gets mad when they don’t show up and blames me …
and then on top of all this day to day bs she finds out that pita cousin raided her room and took a bunch of pictures and stuff that wasn’t hers …
504ed earlier. It’s dull and cloudy, and I’m out of chores. Perhaps I’ll dust the cat.
Went to Aldi, no chicken, and they covered over 2/3 of the poultry case.:eek:
Luddite.
You mean Lenny the Squidgoat?:eek:
Welcome CatGlove! Just remember, Lenny cues in on movement. And fear.;)
Peaches, at least Mr. No-shoulders doesn’t charge for meces removal. (and better than my crew, they can’t hunt anything below medium rare,)
Hell, I don’t even know when we’ll all be going back to the office! TBH, I hadn’t thought about getting her office. I work from home three days a week (every day for the last couple of months), so I don’t really care. I suppose I’ll have to move out of my cubicle. (Or I could just be a weirdo.)
We are having our driveway ripped out tomorrow and replaced the day after. I’m SOOOOOO excited to have our driveway almost out of the way. We’re slowly, slowly, slowly ticking through home improvement projects that we’ve been sitting on for years. Years meaning over a decade.
Anyway, I dropped a note in each of my immediate neighbors’ mailboxes to let them know what was going on and for about how long in the event they noticed a large dumptruck parked in front of our house and/or in the event the banging was annoying (it will be). Hopefully we won’t be the neighborhood assholes, but I guess if we are, we’ll be the assholes with the new driveway. So that’ll be nice. It might actually be nicer if we’re the neighborhood pariahs because then we won’t have to talk to anyone and I can get behind that.
After the report of a 77 year old woman being killed in her van, there was an advertisement in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, “SUVs that will take your breath away”.
Uhhhh…doesn’t the phone have a bell option as a ring tone?
Happy birthday sari!
Welcome aboard catglove!
'Twas a rainy afternoon in middle Tennessee. My Monday was so Mondayish that it was comical. Before I even got to my desk, the project manager for the remodel of our area gave me a heads up that I would be moving desks around eight, so call IT. They had to move me twice, as the IT guy set me up on a previously empty one, but I needed a desk with actual drawers, so both groups had to be called back. Thank goodness for noise canceling headphones (they didn’t cancel all of the noise, but it was bearable), as drills and other equipment was running six feet behind me all day. The benefit though, is now, I’m at the very opposite end of the department as the old bat, so she has to get out of her seat and walk 40 feet to pester me.
I did get my stimulus check in the mail today. That was a good thing. I’ll swing through the CU on the way home from irk tomorrow to deposit it. Supper is the West African vegetable stew that I made yesterday (it’s even better the second day). It was a trial run for a vegan dish to take to the heathen potlucks, whenever we get back to those. It was good enough to go into the regular rotation at home too. Given that chickpeas and peanut butter are the protein elements in it, it’s also a good dish with the meat thing going on.
The rain predicted for today must have gone north (up to Red’s neck of the woods), we barely got a drizzle. Got three bills in the mail which have been checked and are ready for mailing…tomorrow. Outside of that a pretty quite afternoon.
talkative, You’ve done the required thing, made formal notification that stuff would be going on…I did the same when I replaced the backyard fence. And I imagine they have been noisy at times over the years, so they can manage this (and I’ll have to think about a new driveway one of these years…)
shady, sounds like life is pretty normal in your place… <grin>
nellie, I won’t tell you life is tough for most of us, because it’s not true compared to your situation. Hang in there, remember your friends (here and elsewhere) and keep on keepin’ on.
Peaches, yikes!! I like snakes, but not in my kitchen. Any plan for getting it to slither out the back (OTOH, it may help with the meeces problem…)
FCM, we’ll see how FCD does tonight, without all the adrenaline from coming home and getting situated. Hopefully the exercises will help.
Everybody have a good night, I’m off to La Plata to watch the Southwest Chief Arrive (train on Virtual Railfan).
We got our stimulus check today too. Wifey deposited it electronically. It’s actually pretty slick that way.
I took Vinnie to the vet this afternoon to get his shots. They have a system set up where you call them when you get parked and they send someone out to your car to get you pet and take them in, then when they’re done they call you to get your credit card info for the payment and then send someone back out with your pet. It works, but tends to cause a packed parking lot.
Went to Freddy’s (Kroger) today too and got ~12lbs of pork ribs for $1.49/lb, 2 lbs of Johnsonville sweet Italian sausage, 2 lbs of Johnsonville Brats, and 2 lbs of Kielbasa, all for #3.50/lb. . I am now a happy, and hungry, carnivore.
1 medium onion, quartered 2 large red skinned potatoes (I’m going to replace these with sweet potatoes next time) 2 zucchini 2 bell peppers 1 tsp. kosher salt
1 tsp. black pepper 1/4 tsp. cayenne 2 Tbsp. olive oil
1 small jalapeño 8 oz. sliced mushrooms (I used cremini)
1 15 oz. chickpeas 1/2 c. smooth peanut butter 1 Tbsp. harissa
1 15 oz. can diced tomatoes 1 tsp. grated ginger root 1 15 oz. can coconut milk
4 cloves garlic
Start the onion, potatoes, zucchini, bell peppers, salt, black pepper, garlic and cayenne in a stew pan in the olive oil. After 4-5 minutes, add the jalapeño and mushrooms and cook for ~3 more minutes.
Stir in the chickpeas, peanut butter, harissa, chopped tomatoes, ginger and coconut milk. Bring to a simmer and cook for 25-30 minutes.
On another note, I called for Nelson’s annual checkup today too. They’re doing about the same setup. He won’t be a happy camper.
Our stimulus was in the mail, but we couldn’t do mobile deposit, so I had to head for an ATM. I did try a couple of convenience-store ATMs on my network (credit unions have great ATM networks IME), but neither could accept deposits. Did use an outdoor ATM at a CU branch (with some qualms about personal safety, being on my own in the evening and not at my most alert), then stopped at another convenience store for snackage.
Very strange how walking into even places my mother would dub “Stop & Rob”, wearing a mask is considered a normal and polite thing to do. Even three months ago, that would have created major freakout and probably a cashier diving for the phone to call 911.
As soon as said stimulus check clears, a large percentage is going to pay off a couple of credit lines, plus some household stuff. I really want some shelves for under sinks to help keep things semi-manageable under there, and feel some squirrel urges regarding Princess supplies. I can probably stock her up for the next six months for less than $75, and I think I’ll feel better making sure she’s well provided for. The humans have good supply reserves, but we’ll be out of her canned food about the start of July, and I don’t know that her current supply of dry food will hold much past that. Litter’s never a bad thing to have more of, either.
Had to actually go into the big bad city to day to see my doc. Been having increasingly horrible shoulder pain, so he needed to touch me to determine what’s wrong. (It’s frozen!) Everything else we discussed could have been an email. I can email an EKG to the heart doc, but it’s kinda hard to email a shoulder. Now to get ahold of the shoulder-thawing doc. At least my heart continues to do well after being repaired, and my cholesterol numbers are about as good as can be hoped for at my age without any statins. The thyroid continues to be a freeloader and not doing anything.
missred, that stew sounds fantastic. I will definitely cook for my vegetarian daughter the next time we can get together. (Hubby would probably like it with a ham bone. I might experiment with that, too.)
metal mouse, I guess I’ll just sweep Mr Snek out the door when I see him again, but maybe after he feasts on the indoor rodents. (No offense.) I’d really rather have a snake than a mouse, but I’d really rather not have a snake - even a smallish one - suddenly fall from the top of the cabinet onto the microwave door when I’m just trying to nuke some water for coffee. I strenuously don’t recommend that method of snake discovery, and it would probably be even more stressful if you’re a rodent. (And this is literally the first snake I’ve ever seen at the house we moved into 6+ years ago.)
Meanwhile, we’ve had thunderstorms all day. I haven’t paid much attention to the radar, but I think it’s feeder bands from TS Arthur.
Pet snek! Have you named him yet?
Up, showered, taken the rubbish and recycling out, currently sitting in waiting for my exam to get emailed, it’s due any minute now… Not excessively worried about it, but it’ll be nice to get it done.
**gotti **- I had a frozen shoulder some years back, and like Mr. VOW, PT did the trick. Lots of stretches, ending with a TENS session. So when my other shoulder started acting up, I repeated the stretches and saved myself a visit to the doc. May your recovery be as easy!
I had a pretty good night till about 4, when FCD’s stirrings woke me - he was in pain, but since his meds were due at 4:30, I wasn’t overly concerned. I got him settled, then he decided he wanted to sit in the recliner, so I’m up. Critters have been tended to and I’ve breakfasted. Thus beginneth my day…
**FCD **is watching Dragnet - OMG, what wooden dialog!!
No clue what today holds, other than dreary weather. I shouldn’t have eaten - I need to have fasting bloodwork done. So tomorrow - gotta remember.
The thyroid continues to be a freeloader and not doing anything.