Friday September 13 2024

G'day!

I'm thinking the email was some sort of spam as I can't verify it.  Still the Department of Health here via the state surgeon general has come out as not recommending the booster in the past.  

Anyway, I have the dryer vent cleaner and the blind install person coming soon.  Got a haircut.  Stayed up late and slept well.  One day off and working the weekend.

Well crud.  Both the guys were an hour late which I guess is no biggie, but inconvenient.  The guy did a great job installing my blind and it's sturdy and works perfectly.  I couldn't have done it so well or at all.  Bad thing is a window broke in the process.  Patched it up with cardboard.  Ugh........

Tweety said:

Well crud.  Both the guys were an hour late which I guess is no biggie, but inconvenient.  The guy did a great job installing my blind and it's sturdy and works perfectly.  I couldn't have done it so well or at all.  Bad thing is a window broke in the process.  Patched it up with cardboard.  Ugh........

 

At least it's not -30° with a howling wind. You'll have lizards and snakes in your house.  

toomuchbaloney said:

At least it's not -30° with a howling wind. You'll have lizards and snakes in your house.  

Well there is that.  I already have lizards.  One must have given birth because I rescued a couple of babies this week and took them outside.  No snakes though.  Perish that thought.

Good morning. Didn't do much yesterday, not much scheduled for today, other than the Food Bank Volunteer Appreciation Bbq. I am going to help dh serve food. 

Dh brought home pumpkin spice scones yesterday, and they seem to be producing some heartburn. They were good, but worth the discomfort. 

I pulled some carrots from the garden yesterday, and we some with dinner. They sometimes get wormy, but these weren't too bad. I cooked up the wormy ones for the dogs and they didn't seem to mind, at all. 

I need to look for a different book. The last one was a little dry. I like the audio books, but I tend to fall asleep. 

When we were living in Idaho dh had to drive to Salt Lake City for a meeting, in the Winter. He left his overnight bag in the car and some genius broke out the window to steal his dirty clothes. Because this was a Friday afternoon, he couldn't find anywhere to get a repair. Patched it with duct tape and a garbage bag to keep the snow out. Had to drive home 4 hrs in sub zero temps. 

That sounds like our Grand Canyon trip last year (March?). It was snowing in the higher elevations and we had broken the rear windshield in the convertible so drove with cardboard and a trash bag taped in place. 

Today may actually be Friday the 13th but yesterday is when one thing after another happened at the hospital. Nothing overly dramatic, just sort of non-stop. I had finally made an appointment with my dentist to fix my night guard (won't fit over the crown I got a while back) but had to cancel. 

Maybe I will get the Covid booster next week during our working/non-working "vacation." We are also seeing a slowdown of the little surge we had in Covid cases.

Our nurse manager was telling me how good Call The Midwife is and I've been a little interested anyway so I started streaming it when I get a chance. Although I have always hated birthing scenes in TV shows and movies, at least one expects them in a series called "Call the Midwife". It is a good series and I'm enjoying it.

I fell through the ice on the Chena River outside of Fairbanks while marking trail for a mushing event, in January, a few years back.  It was already more than -20° when I stepped off of my snow machine and went through the ice and was momentarily fully submerged in the flowing river.  I had my ax in my hand at the time and that ax kept my hands in contact with the ice.  It saved me from getting pushed under the ice in the current.  When I came up, I broke the ice closer to shore with my ax until my hand was too cold to hold on and I dropped the ax. 

I managed to get in shadow water so that I could push hard to roll on top of the ice.  I road my machine as fast as it would go to a business on the river at the edge of town that I knew was open.  When I got there I couldn't stand up straight.  My gear and clothing was all frozen into a "rider's position". I managed to wobble myself to their door like some kind of a life sized toy with immovable extremities where I fell over and couldn't get up to open their door.  

The good folks inside poured their fresh and hot coffee on my coat zipper so they could get it unzipped and proceeded to undress me and warm me up.  It was a miracle that when EMS arrived I was asymptomatic.  Normal temperature, normal VS. 

I don't ride my machine on frozen water anymore.  NEB threatened to take the machine away from me if I misbehave again.  

Memories are fun.  

That's quite a story, TMB! Brrrr!

Memories are one thing but a near death experience is another.  Sheesh

tmb~ Hey...I actually remembered when that happened and you posted about it. It was the 'permanent sitting position' you had from your clothes being frozen that clicked in my brain. BRRRRRR! I guess it was just not your 'time', thank goodness! But what an awful experience!

I also remember a cold experience I had when I was 4 years old.....my sibs and I were snow sledding down a little hill that ended in a trickling brook with three inches of water in it, and I landed in it feet first, and was afraid I was going to drown! I cried and cried when the sibs tried to get me to climb out, I could not move! One of the sibs had to run up to our house to get one of my parents to come lift me out. Guess I was 'frozen' with fear!

So, I actually slept harder than a rock until 1:20 this afternoon! And it was hard to wake up! I must've needed the sleep, being so exhausted by Nannie's questions and comments these past 2-3 days.. She has been sleeping this afternoon, for the past 3 hours. I am going to turn on the local news and will have to wake her up to eat something for supper....but I don't know what supper might be. I had to do all the dishes I have been ignoring. I kept looking in the fridge and freezer for what I might prepare for her, but so far....crickets in my brain on that subject. All she wanted for breakfast was 2 small containers of that Activia, some cranberry juice and some chocolate BOOST. 

Can't remember if I told y'all that yesterday I took Nannie out in the car so I could do my errands. She was so excited to go out. Between when I got her out of the car (when we returned) and she walked (w/ assistance) through the back door and sat in her recliner....she said "Someone's car is out there"....and I told her it's MY car and we just came back from a ride....she said she hadn't been out in the car, she'd been sitting in her recliner all afternoon! THEN she said,  "He's been sitting out there in that car for quite a while." I mean WHOA! She didn't remember anything that occurred barely 1 + 1/2 minutes prior! That's got to be a record, even for her! And after we ate supper, and I took the trays upstairs, a few minutes later she said something about not having had supper. I played a long and ask her what she felt like eating, and she told me she was not the least bit hungry. I just told her to tell me when she feels hungry. ? I'm thinking tonight she will get some RaisinBran flakes with blueberries added, with a side-dish of watermelon chunks. Not sure yet what her dessert will be.

I gotta tell you also that she sometimes eats her cookie after dipping it in veg/beef soup, and she once dipped her fried chicken-nuggets into her ice cream. I know I did already tell you about her eating Ranch dsg with a spoon, as if it was pudding. I have concluded she doesn't have a sense of taste as well as not knowing what she is doing with her food. To me, the funniest thing is that after she is through eating her yogurt, she has to hold her spoon in her right hand while drinking her juice and BOOST from her left hand. I tell her to put her spoon down on the tray and she looks at the tray and says "there is no spoon."

We don't live on "Memory Lane", we live on "HUH?" Road!

BiL and SiL are taking her out for late lunch or early supper on Sunday. Her 95th birthday is tomorrow, but she doesn't realize it, and when it is mentioned, she even tells us she is NOT going to be 95! I may or may not go with them; I just told SiL I would decide on Sunday if I want to go or not. She understands about me needing time away from Nannie, and always says "Bless you!", like when I told her about the Campbell's soup can I pulled from her 'Netherlands'. We haven't had the "I-will-need-for-someone-to-cover-Nannie-on-such-and-such-a-day-because-I-won't-be-available-that-day" talk yet. But it will be presented to them both, one of these days coming up.

No Stars In My Eyes said:

tmb~ Hey...I actually remembered when that happened and you posted about it. It was the 'permanent sitting position' you had from your clothes being frozen that clicked in my brain. BRRRRRR! I guess it was just not your 'time', thank goodness! But what an awful experience!

I also remember a cold experience I had when I was 4 years old.....my sibs and I were snow sledding down a little hill that ended in a trickling brook with three inches of water in it, and I landed in it feet first, and was afraid I was going to drown! I cried and cried when the sibs tried to get me to climb out, I could not move! One of the sibs had to run up to our house to get one of my parents to come lift me out. Guess I was 'frozen' with fear!

So, I actually slept harder than a rock until 1:20 this afternoon! And it was hard to wake up! I must've needed the sleep, being so exhausted by Nannie's questions and comments these past 2-3 days.. She has been sleeping this afternoon, for the past 3 hours. I am going to turn on the local news and will have to wake her up to eat something for supper....but I don't know what supper might be. I had to do all the dishes I have been ignoring. I kept looking in the fridge and freezer for what I might prepare for her, but so far....crickets in my brain on that subject. All she wanted for breakfast was 2 small containers of that Activia, some cranberry juice and some chocolate BOOST. 

Can't remember if I told y'all that yesterday I took Nannie out in the car so I could do my errands. She was so excited to go out. Between when I got her out of the car (when we returned) and she walked (w/ assistance) through the back door and sat in her recliner....she said "Someone's car is out there"....and I told her it's MY car and we just came back from a ride....she said she hadn't been out in the car, she'd been sitting in her recliner all afternoon! THEN she said,  "He's been sitting out there in that car for quite a while." I mean WHOA! She didn't remember anything that occurred barely 1 + 1/2 minutes prior! That's got to be a record, even for her! And after we ate supper, and I took the trays upstairs, a few minutes later she said something about not having had supper. I played a long and ask her what she felt like eating, and she told me she was not the least bit hungry. I just told her to tell me when she feels hungry. ? I'm thinking tonight she will get some RaisinBran flakes with blueberries added, with a side-dish of watermelon chunks. Not sure yet what her dessert will be.

I gotta tell you also that she sometimes eats her cookie after dipping it in veg/beef soup, and she once dipped her fried chicken-nuggets into her ice cream. I know I did already tell you about her eating Ranch dsg with a spoon, as if it was pudding. I have concluded she doesn't have a sense of taste as well as not knowing what she is doing with her food. To me, the funniest thing is that after she is through eating her yogurt, she has to hold her spoon in her right hand while drinking her juice and BOOST from her left hand. I tell her to put her spoon down on the tray and she looks at the tray and says "there is no spoon."

We don't live on "Memory Lane", we live on "HUH?" Road!

BiL and SiL are taking her out for late lunch or early supper on Sunday. Her 95th birthday is tomorrow, but she doesn't realize it, and when it is mentioned, she even tells us she is NOT going to be 95! I may or may not go with them; I just told SiL I would decide on Sunday if I want to go or not. She understands about me needing time away from Nannie, and always says "Bless you!", like when I told her about the Campbell's soup can I pulled from her 'Netherlands'. We haven't had the "I-will-need-for-someone-to-cover-Nannie-on-such-and-such-a-day-because-I-won't-be-available-that-day" talk yet. But it will be presented to them both, one of these days coming up.

Dang, I'm old and repeating myself.