~More ice coffee clinks!~
Tatoulia, i was sooo clear with the neighbors that i know their cat is being totally normal & restated that many times when i went over there. I dont think they are cat people like we all are...i think part of why he comes over is to lay in the wet shade under the vehicles every day, cuz i dont think they let him inside....and its likely way cooler than in my house...i thought about laying under my truck...ha ha
Tillie, i cant figure out how the spiders make those webs so fast. Sometimes itll just be a minute for me, too & theres a web already in the hallway?!
My arm doesnt hurt, but i cant really get in a public pool, which is what i really wanted to do.
The living room was what i was working on when this heat wave hit & its the hottest room cuz theres no A/C in there.
~♡~♡~♡~I hope everyone is having a wonderful day!~♡~♡~♡~

ROTFLMAO 😀

Yes, autocorrect has been fun! 😀

OH! Anonymoniker ((((HUGS))))
So sorry to hear you injured yourself. 🙁
Keep it clean and dry and let's all hope it heals fast.
Yeah, those spiders are fast.
I can walk through an area, turn around to walk back through and there is a new web strung across my path.
I bought some of those sticky rollers to use on embedded cat fur.
They work O.K. but I have found that slightly damp rubber gloves work better.
You just put on the gloves and rub them over the offending fuzz and end up with a collection of fuzz all in a neat little roll you can pick up.
Good luck with those *&%$@ skunks!

Hi Tatoulia 🙂
OK! time to formulate a plan for getting that floor all Murphied.
Yes I agree. Getting stuff out of the house that is ready to get out of the house is a great feeling.
Frees & opens up the space and gives a feeling of "well done". ;D

Got the watering done this morning & will water the grass well this evening.
Couldn't do any watering last evening due to all the lightning.
But it may return again today...
Just finished lunch and will wash dishes soon as I post this.
The cat stuff has been done.
The fans are creating a refreshing breeze in here. 😀

Yikes I am sorry to hear about the gash, Anony. I hope it heals up soon. Sounds like the lady neighbor is being defensive about her cat (I know I tend to shout, "my cat is an angel," whenever anyone questions me about her) and thinks the food is bringing him over. He may snack while he's there, but that's not the reason for his visit!!

Oh I don't read my posts. Whole man!! Anyone remember my awesome discussion of shit-ins? Meant to say shut ins, then it became an expression, where Diane's dishes would have a sh&t-in in her sink.

My designer friend is excited for the pillows and bolsters. I am getting this done.

~iced coffee clinks!~
Tatoulia, i was kinda confused about the 'whole man' ha ha but, i thought of your awesome bf, cuz he seems so secure in himself, compared to the bfs ive had, that was what went through my mind! 😀
How fun to have the nice finishing touches being done! That is so exciting! You have done so much! Way to go! 😀
Tillie, the lint in my laundry has never fallen off, it is completely immeshed(sp?)into the fabric. Ive never talked to anyone that has had this happen? I don't understand it?
I dont feel responsible for the neighbor cat coming over here & spoiling his appetite, or enthusiasm for mice at home, but she asked me not to feed him & i told her i dont, that the cat food is on the porch. She seemed a little annoyed, whereas he was seeming more helpful. He is the only good cop in my area & im so grateful hes my closest neighbor & its ironic his cat beats up my cats.
This heat is aweful. My A/C is limping along. I cant go swimming cuz i slipped in the mud watering & gashed my arm falling on the water spigot.
The spider webs are all through the house & i walk into them all day long. Im trying to stay grateful for this structure not collapsing & i am!
The skunk-rats showed up again & one under the bathroom sink, so im gonna set the rat traps under there....im not looking forward to it at all....

Ok, my vinyl floor cloth for the living room has been shipped! Now the floor cannot wait for sweeping, vacuuming and mopping with Murphy oil soap!!

I took the bags up to the car. BF had a friend who'd stopped by and he eating lunch. I am grateful to have the bags out of the house. I have to consistently move forward with reducing things.

I'm glad my big bag of fabric is now with the seamstress. She is also going to hang my Roman shade for me.

It's oppressive outside (not as bad as at Tillie's but honestly, the concrete really holds onto the heat here). The clouds were spitting while I was out. I'm not sure what time our giant rains are expected.

I'm running a load of dark things. I will hang them to dry in the bathroom.

Oh I'm so sorry about the shooting death. I am sure that has rattled the community.

I need to pledge to move forward here. I'm heading up to the car. I'll stop by BFs work for a visit.

Good Morning Everybody 😀
Iced tea "Clink!"

hi Tatoulia 🙂
LOL I can usually figure out what you meant before autocorrect "fixed it" but that one was confusing.
LOL ;D
Yea! that the person came by and soon you will have your bolsters and pillows.
Best of all is that Miss Kitty will have a special quilt! (((hug)))
WAY TO GO! for a successful 1st. committee meeting!
Hope the terrible storms predicted don't impact you. (((HUGS)))
Funny isn't it, that it takes time to adjust to the reality of your bedroom being at zero %, done, clean and no clutter. ;D

My ceiling fan and small fan have really helped when the humidity makes the evaporative cooler almost useless.
Watering the trees right now with the hose flowing slowly since the little rain didn't water deep rooted things.
Think the thin smoke in the air is from the Yosemite fire.
In the small town I live by there was a shooting/death that has the whole community/county very saddened.
Today my plans are to try and do the usual daily tasks.
Yesterday it just seemed so hard to think straight being so miserable and exhausted from the high humidity.
1st. water trees, 2nd. wash dishes.
Maybe a load of laundry?
As always, cat related chores.
Need to wash my hair but think I'll do that this evening after it starts to cool down. 😉

Iced tea clinks!

Oh so much to do here. I need to remind myself that bedroom is clean, clear with no clutter. None. Very sticky here too, Tillie. My portable ACs and ceiling fans are doing their jobs! Be sure to do the usuals and drink lots of water and be good to yourself.

I have haircut tonight. I just need to sweep my house. I also should take my consignment and donation bags to the car today. I'm a bit jumbled around. The seamstress arrived at 7:30 and I had just woken up. She was early, but that's fine. I poured her an iced tea as she measured, etc. she's also making a cat quilt for the kitty.

I had my first meetings my last night where I was co-chair of a committee I'm on. It went really well.

I feel a bit jumbled but I'll pull it together.

SNORT! Whole man=Seamstress. (Probably woman in the original) Thanks, autocorrect! She came this AM to measure for my bolsters and pillows.
Snort.

Hello Everybody 🙂

Been HOT and muggy humid and icky today.
All day felt like I was trying to run under water.
But, just had a little rain along with the lightning and thunder this evening.
One lightning bolt was directly over us and scared Scooter when the thunder arrived. ;P

Hi Subclinical 🙂
Hope you got the weather today that you wanted.

Hi Anonymoniker 🙂
So very happy your Kitty showed up (((HUG)))
A well fed cat will catch more mice than a cat who relies on mice as their only food source.
Once they have caught enough to satisfy their hunger they stop hunting.
My big kitty "Baby" loved Friskies and only Friskies.
He was the best mouser around, 17 mice in one night because he hunted only for the sport of it.
Yes, I get fuzz on my laundry but when it dries it falls of rather easily.
I just give it a shake when I take it off the clothes line.
Except on some cat stuff, that's when I wish I could tumble it just to get the fuzz off.

Hi Tatoulia 🙂
Yes, the salad would be very good with the peppers in it.
It would give the same refreshing crunch as celery.
Peas would be nice too. I love mixing peas into my rice dishes.
You need to start cooking so we can figure out how to organize the kitchen according to your needs.
If you don't mind me asking...
what do you mean
" I have a whole man coming here at 8AM"
LOL ;D

Supposed to be even hotter here the next several days.
Evaporative coolers don't work worth a darn when there is high humidity in the air.

Glad kitty is back, Anony. I wouldn't worry whether they keep the cat for mice. The cat will catch mice irrespective of food. Thrill of the hunt.

I am just back from a meetings by. I have a whole man coming here at 8AM to do so me measuring for pillows. I won't have time to clean the floor unless I do it tonight. And that seems remote.

My goal for tomorrow is not to apologize about my house. I'm allowed to say once, it is a work in progress.

I need bolsters and a few throw pillows made.

Tillie my mother loves macaroni salad with shrimp. I should make her some this weekend. She can't have celery but I think I I could mix in a fresh red or yellow pepper. Or I could do peas. I need to make this a goal this weekend. I miss cooking.

~Ice water clinks!~
Im very pleased that my missing kitty just showed up! I am soooo so relieved! Ive been so upset all day & i am so grateful she is ok! 😀
~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡~

~Ice coffee clinks!~
Tillie & Tatoulia, i think youre right about the dryer wearing out clothes faster. I hang most stuff, but i noticed when i didnt have a dryer for many years, that the lint accumulated on clothes & only the dryer would take it out, so often now ill put things in with no heat to remove the lint...at least i did. I will again after i make sure theres no nests inside of it.
We are having a heat wave. I always worry about animals in extreme temperatures. This morning one of my cats didnt show up for breakfast & im really worried.
The lady next door made a comment about me saying it was understandable their cat would come over since i have gourmet cat food, catnip, other cats, etc. She said, 'i know you have gourmet cat food!' That has been bugging me & i think him saying the cat was for mice is why. My good cat food maybe makes him not hunt their mice?!
I am literally the only person i k ow ghat does not have problems with neighbors. Thats one reason i dont want this to be a problem with them.
As far as cleaning or trash runs, its too hot to do anything. Even with both A/Cs on high, it was 90 in here yesterday. I might go to the pool. My stomach is in knots over my missing kitty....♡
Hi, SubC! 😀
Hi, CM! 😀
Hi, Porter! 😀
Hi, Joan! 😀

Lots of rescue veggies! Made one of dh favorite soups last night.

Frank from the foodbank died on Friday. I found out yesterday - I hadn't been back for two weeks, and I hadn't seen him for a couple of weeks before that. He was a good man.

Tatoulia i'm Glad you have a nice, clean bedroom to enjoy.

And Anony, I am glad the cat conversation went well. Here's hoping it works.

It did rain yesterday - a lot of the afternoon. I didn't do much because it was raining and I was sad.

The weather is supposed to be really good today, so maybe I will be too.

P.S.
Macaroni salad is very good if you add some of those tiny little canned shrimp too.

Hi Tatoulia 🙂

Two whole weeks of keeping up with the bedroom maintenance is fantastic! 😀

I do that too with fabric softener.
Never on my clothes & linens but always on the cat's things.
Even the liquid in the rinse really helps with the fur and helps prevent static because cats really hate those little sparkly shocks.

Just yesterday I completely emptied, scrubbed & sanitized all the litter boxes.
WOOHOO! that you did that today! 😀

Went ahead and made my potato salad because I REALLY wanted to have some today.
My Back was/is aching but I pushed through.
Have not washed up the dishes yet, maybe I will do that tomorrow.
They are all rinsed thoroughly and stacked neatly by the sink.

Potato salad and macaroni salad are almost the same except one has potatoes and one has macaroni.

Cooked potatoes or macaroni.
Celery & scallions sliced up sort of thinly.
Sweet or dill pickles or olives black or green cut up to a good size to fit on the fork with the rest of the ingredients.
Mayonnaise or "Miracle Whip" dressing.
Today I used a little bit of yellow mustard in my salad too.
Some people also like to add pimentos or capers to the salads.
Salt & pepper to taste...

As many people in the world who make the stuff there are just as many salads with different twists. ;D

It's basically what you like and what you have on hand.
That's what makes it fun. 🙂

The clouds have rolled in again, it's cooling down nicely.
Been lovely weather for sleeping at night. 🙂

YEA!!! WAY TO GO!!!
for cleaning the bathroom! 😀
How wonderful having over night company.
Hope it happens. (((hug)))

I cleaned the sink, vanity and toilet.

We might be having a visitor Thursday night! BF's 19 year old Mackeral Tabby might stay with us! We are pretty excited. I love that cat. He's never stayed with us before. My cat will be good about it.

Wow, Tillie! That's a lot of work!! Oh for some homemade potato salad! You once gave me your grandmother's recipe and I'm not sure where I put it. Any chance you'd tell me again?

I have to agree that the dryer is so hard on clothes. I only use low setting and I take out before completely dry. I tend to hang (in my bathroom) my pillow cases. I never use fabric softener, with the sole exception being for kitty's things. I need the dryer sheets to help with the fur.

I've cleaned her box and taken the trash out. I've showered and washed my hair and I'm making dinner. AC is blasting and I'm listening to some tunes. I'll hopefully do some more maintenance once I've eaten. It's goid to have bedroom dusted and vacuumed. Once a week and it looks great. Of course this is week two so let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Good Afternoon Everyone 🙂

Hi Subclinical 🙂
YEA!!! a whole shelf free now!
Wishing your dd everything wonderful in this new phase of her life. (((hug)))
Hope you get your dry days.

Hi Anonymoniker 🙂
No snake. It was hiding under the doll crib cat bed in the dining room last Summer and Scooter told me about it so I made Steven put the snake back outside.
When the cats are outside with me I leave the screen door propped open so they can come & go on their own & that's how the snake came in.
I have found that things dried in a clothes dryer wear out faster than line drying even in the Winter.
Hot & tumbling around, like how river stones get all smooth in the ever running stream.
Good luck with that dump run, should you decide to do that.
Just don't get over heated and drink lots of water. (((hugs)))

Hi Tatoulia 🙂
WAY TO GO! for peaceful easy weekends (((HUGS)))

Was going to make potato salad today since I bought fixins yesterday.
But with all that beautiful blessing of rain last night I knew today I could light the burn barrel.
Had a lot of stuff to burn since it had been so long with wildfire danger.
Then I got a "bee in my bonnet" about the back porch.
The porch was covered in dust, debris, cobwebs, etc.
Steven has his hoard all surrounding it and even some stuff heaped on it.
Been asking him since last Spring to move all that crap so I can wash the porch.
Well, I moved all his junk off there except the two mini fridges.
I washed/hosed the door mats, swept the porch floor/walls/ceiling and then fixed a bucket of hot soapy water.
Using a brush I washed the walls & screen door and then used the broom to scrub the floor.
Then I used the hose to hose it ALL down.
It is so very nice now. 😀
Yes, Steven's stuff did get sorta/kinda wet but it gets wet anyways out there. ;P
Temps didn't even get up to 80 until 1:00pm so it was real nice outside.
Maybe when I rest up I will feel up to making my potato salad. Decided this time I will use sweet pickles. 😉
I asked Scooter to sniff the porch and he said there was nothing to sniff about it.

Thanks Anony for the reinforcement on the sibling situation! I've reached a new level with it. Last week I had breakfast with a friend and he was horrified to learn what I've been living under. And it's prompted me to examine it a bit and I see that it's been decades of abuse that I've happily ignored and compartmentalized in the name of his mental illness. So I'm viewing it a little differently now. I see that my desperate wish that he weren't sick has given him free reign over my life, my time and my money. So I'm staying strong and thank goodness it's been easy so far.

I just dusted and vacuumed bedroom. All laundry in house is done and put away. I got some done on Saturday and finished the rest today including kitty stuff. She's shedding up a storm and the brush is no match.

Good for you Anony for speaking to the cat family.

I need to clean cat box and get trash ready for tonight.

~♡~Good morning & coffee clinks!~♡~
SubC, i laughed so hard at 'rescue produce' ha ha. 😀
Tillie, you have a snake in the livingroom?!? Im glad you got some of that enzyme spray! I dont hang laundry out in the winter freezes any more cuz its so hard on the fabric & seems to wear the clothes out faster?
Tatoulia, i am so proud of you staying on track with the sibling! That is a wonderful accomplishment & im so glad you are appreciating an abuse-free life now!
I went yesterday to talk to my neighbors with the bully cat & it went well! He seemed more cooperative than she did, but thats ok. They have like 10 kids, who all listened intently to the crazy cat lady from the woods next door talk about 'fixing' their cat....i can imagine the questions when i left...ha ha
Today i may take my trash to the dump. Id rather collect yard junk, but the trash needs to go & im on my own to load it this time & it will be super gross in this heat! Itll be nice to do it myself, tho....kinda...ha ha

Forgive my absence! Everyone is doing so well. I e been doing maintenance only which is a shame because I want to continue with the drawer/shelf challenge and I still haven't fully prepared my floors for my new floor cloth. Ugh.

We are going to have very humid and soupy weather this week. Glad you got rain, Tillie. SubC congratulations on your ribbons! It makes perfect sense to give the ribbons back! I hope daughter's move goes well and that's fantastic that she took her brother's stuff out of the house!

Glad you got rain, Tillie! Scooter is doing a good job of monitoring the household.

Anony and CM good morning!

Let's see if I can't get myself back on track here. I've had a good, peaceful weekend. It having sibling in my life has made a profound difference.

Tillie, I am glad you hit rain!

We are supposed to NOT get rain today, for the first time since Tuesday (drying things outside is often challenging for me - but my cantaloupe is looking good!)

Scooter is a good help.

Today is my dd's last day at her old job. Tomorrow she is moving some belongings up to her new temporary home (she is renting a room from a friend of a family friend until she finds a roommate close to her age) then Thursday she is heading off to visit her brother. AND she is taking him a carload of his childhood belongings! I will get to reclaim a whole shelf in my studio.

She will go straight from her brother's house to her new digs and I don't know when she will be back. (I will still be storing a lot of her stuff, because for now she is only taking personal items, not household items.)

Hello 🙂

Hi Subclinical 🙂
Good luck getting some rescue produce so you won't need to go to the store! ;D

Hi Anonymoniker 🙂
True, female cats AND female dogs are pig headed and bossy and obstinate and will pee just to tick you off. ;P
You can dry clothes outside year round, just not when it is actively raining or snowing.
Wintertime here the stuff will freeze but eventually will get dry, "freeze dried".

Was going to take a very needed shower this evening but a huge lightning/thunder storm blew in so I had to wait until it moved on before I could shower.
WE GOT RAIN!!! ;D
So lovely, refreshing and welcome.

Asked Scooter if he smelled any cat pee around the door.
He said that the door & floor were alright but the insulation strip on the side of the doorway was "sniffy".
So I sprayed some enzyme spray on it, let it dry and then asked Scooter again and he said that nothing was "sniffy" any more.

Scooter is a tattle tail, tells me about the snake in the diningroom and about big spiders and when something is scratching around in Steven's dresser and if something is "sniffy" and when there is an animal in the yard and when one of the other cats is doing something.

Yes, I explained why, AND I told them that I had come in and taken pictures of all the items with the ribbons on them. I wanted to sure they knew that I appreciated winning and the time they took to adorn my items with ribbons.

Tillie, I am glad you have produce!

I think I can make dinner tomorrow, and maybe Tuesday, but I will have to go to the store Wednesday unless I bring home a lot of "rescue produce" (leftover stuff that won't make it until Thursday) from the food bank.

~Beer clinks!~
SubC, while you might seem 'weird' or going overboard to some about waste & recycling ideas, you are introducing many good ideas about reducing waste, even if some may not realize that now. When you gave the ribbons back(i love that!), did you explain why?
I finally can do a load of laundry, now that its dry enough for my outside washing machine. Ive been really needing to for a while & it makes me feel so grateful for water & a machine! I still havent taken the dryer apart to check for rat nests(grrr!), but i can hang stuff up till wintertime, so im very happy!
Tillie, i too try to stretch my food to avoid going out to restock. This new food bank has made me get more creative, too!
A vet told me she has noticed fixed female cats are the biggest sprayers...well, i laughed under my breath until i saw that myself!
....right now im procrastinating going over to my neighbors to discuss their bully cat....at least im not procrastinating stuff with my place, right? ha ha ha
~♡~I love you all & so very grateful for this forum & each of you!~♡~

Good Afternoon
About 2:30pm now 😉

Hi Subclinical 🙂
YEA! WTG! for winning fair ribbons! 😀
Great! you got 45 cents picking up fair leftovers.
I too used to go down to the beach when I lived on an island after all the people had gone back home.
It was like I was reclaiming it for myself.
You have been doing fantastic listing non-consumables here and your reasoning for them has been sound. (((hug)))

Well, I did it.
Put on my big girl panties and going to town dress and went to the grocery store.
I knew I would never feel up to going so I just did it.
Have lots of lovely produce now! ;D
Also wanted to get some of that enzyme spray Anonymoniker talked about.
Pooh kitty was mad last night about something and sprayed the back door again.
I knew I should not have talked about her doing that. Knock on wood ;P
That was one of the morning chores I had to do today. >:(
She is the only girl cat here and she is so bossy and pig headed and obstinate and #@*&%$.
When I inform her that I plan to wring her neck she just innocently looks up at me with her big blue eyes and says "no you won't".
Anyways...
Happy I have food and won't need to leave home for at least a week.

Hi all!

This support group is really important to me.

I come here every day, even if I only read, and I try to post every single thing I bring home that is not consumable (like, I don't Piet "carrots" or even "ginger plant"

It helps keep me honest and focused.

I picked up my fair entries. I have not unloaded the car yet. I think I missed pulling off some of the tiny ribbons, but I turned in all of the full sized ones. I had things in lots of sections and some of the fair people appreciated having the ribbons back and I think some of them thought I was weird.

After I got my stuff. I went for a walk around the empty fairgrounds. I like to do that every year. There is just something about it. I think it's because I grew up with grandparents in a resort community and I used to go visit after the tourist season and wander the beaches and boardwalk when everything was quiet and mostly closed.

I ended up picking up an empty cardboard box and filling it with recyclable plastic bottles that had been left lying around. Also a couple of plastic spoons, three pens, a Mardi Gras style necklace, a plastic comb, a leather bracelet (nowhere to turn it in), one costume earring, and 45 cents.

Tatoulia, you have been busy! How did the shopping go?

CM, I hope the kitty situation resolved quickly and you can get back to progress.

Anony, yay dump! (I can like the idea of you cleaning out and taking things to the dump as long as I don't try to visualize what is going in the truck. 🙂 )Yay paint!

Tillie, glad you can avoid the going out. I have gone out every day this week, and it has been so much! Going again tomorrow - food bank and probably pottery class studio.

Today I have been mostly quiet with laundry and dishes.