Good Morning

Just having some tea before I get ready to go into town.
No need to grocery shop this week, still have my fresh veggies & fruits.
Need some water refills and have a bill payment to drop off.

Thanks for the new pics CriticalMass 🙂
Those knitted Bunnies are so cute!
Scooter would love to put one in his water bowl.
;D

They updated the county virus website today.
Active cases are way up.
37, nobody hospitalized, yet.
Unfortunately they don't give any info as to where or how all these people came into contact with it.
Hoping it's because they are allowing all the bars to be open in the county.
I don't go to bars.
Maybe the grocery store is still safe?

I always am grateful for Cattails and Pussy Willows.

Yep, gotta get those Cattails before they turn to fluff. 😀
I read that you can make pancakes out of Cattails but I never tried it.
You grind them up into a flour.

Glad you got your ice tea and are all ready to make the berry jam.

Way To Go! for cleaning stalls and working on dishes!

Would so love to have your icecream after all the days work is finished and I am all cleaned up and in my nightgown.

The clouds have mostly all blown over to the mountain range on the East.
No rain for me. 🙁
I even got Twinkles and Scooter to sing and dance a little for good rain luck.

Iced tea (and berry moosh) in the fridge.

Did some stall cleaning. Showered. Started another load of wash. Unloaded the dishwasher. Dh made dinner and there are more than enough dirty dishes to fill it again. (we had ice cream for dessert.)

Not in the mood right now though. After my dinner settles I might walk out to the pond and cut some cattails to dry for fall decorations.

If god is going to give me cattails I want to take time to say grace over them.

Hope you made your ice tea 🙂

Happy you got the last of the Summer berries.
The birds don't seem to mind too much when the berries go "off".

How sweet the aerial photos show the Goats in the pasture. 😀

Clouds have been building up making it darker here.
11% chance of rain today.
Still very hot and now very muggy. :p

Extended forecast is for 100+ next two weeks and next Sunday it might get to 108F.
Feels like I am living in some nightmare horror movie.

Hi Tillie,

No map.

My county has aerial photos and you can see the goats in the pasture.

Keep drinking! You need to beat the heat!

I picked the blackberries - last time this year. There are still tons of berries, even red ones, but the canes are dying back, so most of them are bitter now (I only picked from the green canes, not the ones putting on red and yellow for fall already). Only got about 4 cups, but I'll add them to the jam. The rest are for the birds.

Maybe I'll make some iced tea while I cook them down...

Good Morning Everyone
Still morning here.

Hi Subclinical
Looks like things conspired to keep waking you up last night.
Enjoy sleeping tonight in your fresh clean bed. 🙂

WTG! for all the things you did this morning!
YEA! for the yoga!
Good stretching exercise.

Did you have a "map" on the genealogy site?
The aerial view of my place shows all the hoard on the property.
Yuck.........

Hope you decided on something to do today that isn't hot or muddy or annoying. 🙂

Already hot here this morning.
Didn't really even cool off last night and I slept badly.
Was up at 3:30am and had a hard time falling back to sleep.
Planning to go into town tomorrow and fill water bottles.
Been drinking LOTS of water lately, plain and made into teas.
Want to try at least hosing off the car this evening, it's so filthy all covered in dust.
Having to wait until sundown to do anything outside keeps me up later at night than I want to be.
Been making sure to keep the outside cat water and bird baths filled with fresh water daily.

Good afternoon

Dh did get up with me to do yoga after about half an hour. My body sent my brain a memo that we have not done yoga since bean was born. More yoga!

Breakfast, vitamins, chores. Couldn't pick berries because it was too wet and drizzly.

Unloaded, loaded and ran the dishwasher. Stripped my bed, washed the sheets with a load of whites, dried everything and remade it. Not a professional job, but it will be nice to crawl into tonight.

Ordered some materials for school. Made chocolate sauce and froze the ice cream.

Now I am hitting my afternoon low energy lull. I should probably go do something outside because it has cleared off, but it's also hot now. I could make jam (original plan) or cheese, but Dh is working from home in the dining area off the kitchen.

Coffee clink.

I slept badly.

Dh came to bed after me singing and woke me up. He opened the windows, and we had a terrible thunderstorm. When it started raining, he got up to close the windows. When the power went out his work phone set off an alarm.

Tatoulia, way to go on the bags!

I am glad things are better with your brother, and that you got thanked. I'm also glad you found a way to get settled. I just cannot get my head around Beirut. Is your friend ok?

Bean is doing great!

Tillie, that website must have gotten all it's information on me from my mil's genealogy searching. It has my kids and many of my relatives by marriage but none of my birth family. Also It has every address since I married Dh.

My possible associates are my kid in laws and two people I have never heard of.

Apparently there was another person with my exact name who lived in my city - 5 years older than I, but she died ten years ago.

Dh alarm just went off, but it is still dark upstairs. I am guessing he also slept badly and will not be getting up to do yoga with me. So I will just keep drinking coffee. The routine is on his phone.

I am going to try to push through on my plans today and get to bed early. I get to go back to DD's house tomorrow.

I am centering on my kitchen. Processing the abundance from my farm, and trying to take the time to clean up and say grace as I go.

The county website now sends virus test results somewhere else to be tallied.
The way they were doing it before was better because they had all the results sooner.
Now it takes a whole week at least before they update the website.
It is useless now for determining if it's safe this week to venture out.
Anyways, the positive numbers were down last week.
Think the mask mandate for ALL businesses and gatherings in Nevada is working.

Thought some of you might find this website interesting.
I searched my name and there are a lot of inaccurate things, like when I lived where and when, plus my possible associates.
They did get my possible relatives right, I have none listed. ;p

genealogy website

Good Evening Everybody

Hi Subclinical
Great idea/plan to weed and till the already established areas like you did with the garden!.
Trying to do the whole thing all at once is just too overwhelming.

What your Mom said is so true.
When things are good we just keep plowing along getting on with life.

WAY TO GO!
You sure did a LOT!
Get a good night's sleep and you did so much to set up tomorrow that it should all go smoothly. 😀

Hi Tatoulia
Thank you. I accept Shirley (((HUG))) 😀

That's really wonderful that you were able to work with your brother and had none of the past ugliness to deal with.
Best thing you could have done was to make this distance between you.

So, you can now be classified as a genuine "Bag Lady".
WAY TO GO! dealing with all those bags!

That art forgery lecture sounds very interesting.
What I learned was in oils it is the brush strokes that are very telling.

So glad you are feeling better.
That's what you needed, time out and some really good food.

Wonderful you got to be with Mom and Kitty Sister again ((((HUG))))

I watched a very few videos by people not even that close to the epicenter in Beirut and they are all just devastating.
I am not emotionally strong enough to see any more. 🙁

Looked at the thermometer this afternoon.
107F in the shade.
Still 90s at 7pm
Soon as I post this I will get outside and water my poor pathetic garden.

SubC I am mulling over your mother's statement and it reminds me of something that I read on Instagram today: you shouldn't be working this hard just to be broke, It's attributed to Dave Ramsey. Somehow I needed to hear both of these today.

It is miserably hot here. Really bad. The humidity is thick and I swear I can see it.

I stayed in all day, I had yoga at 12 and then I had an interesting lecture to attend on art fakes and forgeries. I enjoyed it quite a bit, it was put on by Skinner Auction House. I used to go to their gallery talks and previews down the street.

I am working on my bags. I have consignment bag, donation bag and bag for the lady I met at goodwill. I will see her on Saturday.

I got two big bags of trash out tonight. That was a good feeling. I'm rearranging some things as I edit out things. I am finding myself feeling much happier and less overwhelmed.

And I'm in charge off this happiness. Everything that goes out feels so good, it feels incredible.

Well I had to pick up a few things for my mom today and the woman waved me in so I snuck upstairs and saw her and the kitty. It did a lot to restore my mother's spirits and mine, too,

Saturday I was a wreck. Just lost and a wreck. Come nighttime my BF called me and asked if I was still up and dressed (I was). He needed to get something to eat and he wanted to get Chinese food. I assumed he was getting takeout as I don't actually eat Chinese. I didn't care one way or the other but as I went to meet hum at the corner, I saw that the restaurant in my block was open, serving dinner on the patio. it was a beautiful night, with a bit of a breeze. And the patio is a fixed patio meaning that they always have it and it's not some awkward thing they've put up to stay in business, I had a wedge salad and a skillet of corn bread and he ate a lot: burger and an appetizer. It restore me. It felt safe, it was dark out and not a lot of pedestrians, the tables were spaced out nicely. It was so comfortable. Then on Sunday I went to visit my same friend from a few weeks back and she'd gotten chicken salad with walnuts and cranberries for me. I used to eat that over a salad every single day at work, so that was pretty nice. So I ended up better at the end of the weekend than I went in.

The devastation of Beirut really hit home when one of BFs friends sent us her video of the initial fire. We could see how far away her apartment is and all of a sudden, she's thrown across the room and her windows were all blown out. Really hard to watch. I've met her as her son was going to school first in NYC and then in Canada.

SubC you are doing great! And I'm glad for the new truck. It is a workhouse and I'm sure it will serve you and your family well, hows the little bean???

Cm that is such a frustrating feeling to know what you need, only to have someone give you wrong information, Best Buy is a hard place to shop. I know they've decreased some of the loud booming noise in there but it's still loud and it's really hard to see in there. The colors are weird. We used to have a pact about staying together in Best Buy because it's just so overwhelming. Such a hard place to shop.

So I'm showered now and feeling good that I got to see mom and her cat. I didn't see BF today. Too hot and humid.

I'm continuing to fill my bags. I am grateful to be making these decisions, they feel good,

Since I do not anticipate going back to work anytime soon, I'm going to have to rethink where to put the printer. I don't like the aesthetics of it, I will consult with my artist friend.

Tillie I am sorry about your sister. I wouldn't begin to know how to feel. I feel sorry that she was mean and. Nash and. That she hurt you and that you didn't deserve that and I'm sorry you had to finally muster up the courage to protect yourself. And I'm glad that you did and also I'd love to be your sister, Shirley.

I talked to my brother last night for the first time in I don't know how long. Was it 2017? He was having trouble with his internet and trying to email back and forth was taking time so I asked for his number and called him, we stuck to basics about getting the internet back up. A few times I had to hang up to work on it. And I got it to work! So then before we hung up the final time he said, thank you for all you do for mom, that's really nice of you, sweetie. And that was it. We did not joke, we didn't chat, we were just a couple of adults trying to figure out his internet. I felt very lucky for that.

So, since I got home, I
Ate dinner
Started a load of wash
Picked squash and tomatoes
Unloaded and loaded the dishwasher and started it - made sure all the berry smooshing things were in it in case I want to pick and do more smooshing before jam tomorrow.
Decided to make ice cream even though the kitchen was not all the way cleaned up (more to go in dishwasher tomorrow)
- the ice cream is cooling so I can add vanilla -
Put laundry in the dryer, set aside hang things.

So, before I go to sleep, I need to:
add vanilla and put ice cream in jars to freeze tomorrow
Hang hanging things
Do chores
Set up coffee maker

I will get to bed a little later than I would like, but I think it is worth it.

Good afternoon.

Cats just don't think things through.

Had a goid couple of days with bean. I'm coming home earlier, so I'm getting done stuff done in the evening.

Yesterday I cooked and seeded the blackberries so I can make jam tomorrow, and then I hung out in the studio/shop and puttered while Dh fixed his brakes.

Tonight I plan to cook ice cream if I get the kitchen tidied up again first.

I have been thinking about centering, and about how even though my garden has had it's successes and failures and gotten away from me a bit this year, it is so much better than last year. And part of that I think came from making sure I had done a really good job on weeding, watering, and mulching all the things I had already planted before clearing and planting a new bed, rather than trying to clear the whole space and then not getting it planted, and weeds taking back over.....

So, I am going to maybe try that approach with my house and my commitments and see how that goes.

Hopefully, like the garden, I will be able to gradually claim more space (literal and Mental/Emotional/chronological) but at least it should help me learn what I can reasonably keep up with.

Sometimes my mom used to say "I have too much to say grace over." Meaning that while everything was good, it was taking so much time and energy she couldn't stop and be thankful for it.

Good Morning
Iced chai masala "Clink!"

Washed and hung out linens on the clothesline overnight.
Brought them all in this morning.
All folded and put away first thing when I woke up.

Going to be another hot hot hot day.
Still getting over the heat exhaustion from the cooler malfunctioning in July.

Plan to play with some beads and watch movies until sundown when I will go outside and water the garden.
My Honeysuckle looks terrible. No matter how much water I give it.
Just hoping now I can keep it alive enough and maybe it will recover some day.

Good Morning Everyone
"Clink!"

Hi Subclinical
YEA!!!!
Fantastic new truck you've got there!
May you have many great years together.

WAY TO GO! cleaning the kitchen.
Just think what an awful mess it would be if you hadn't cleaned it up before you messed it up again. 😀

That's the problem with kitchens.
They are always getting used and always needing attention.

Have a most wonderful day today (((HUG)))

Supposed to get over 100F today.
Found a teeny tiny bright orange grasshopper yesterday and gave it to Scooter.
He was thrilled to see it hopping around.
Then he ate it and was sad he didn't have it any more.
Can't wait until the cats and I can get more active outdoors.
Sitting inside, hiding from the heat is making us all flabby and fat and bored.

Coffee clinks!

Tillie, I'm sorry that the story of your sister is sad. I remember when my dad's father died, and he said "the funeral is () if you want to come, but don't come home for me, I'm fine." I think his wife was sad that none of his grandchildren were at his funeral. She was a nice lady. I think my dad only went for her.

CM, I hope the bunny turns around on his own quickly!

I cleaned the kitchen yesterday, but then I made food for us and to take to the kids, so it is messy again. Not as bad I think.

I also helped Dh pick up the new truck! It is a beast. Very pretty with no rust or dents. I told Dh I'm afraid to use it. He says that's silly, I should have been afraid to use the old one.

Bean day!

Hi Ya'll
Hot hot hot today and will be even hotter tomorrow. 🙁

Hi Subclinical
WOW! a new farm truck!
How nice to have something newer and more reliable. 😀

I think icecream counts.
None of us others here do that. 😉

Good luck conquering the kitchen today.

Today I am just frittering around, wanting to find some direction and order to my days.
Too hot till sunset do get outside, nothing needing done inside, nobody just going to drop in to visit, no place I will be going.
Day after day after day.............

Hi CriticalMass
so very sorry Bunny has another tummy ache. 🙁
Wish you all could find something preventative to do for him to keep him happy hoppy.

My sister's horse always got colicky because he was eating things he wasn't supposed to eat.
He was stabled at a place where others were littering around the stalls. >:(

Speaking of my sisters...
my sister died. She was 2 1/2 years younger than me.
She was always very cruel to me and very hateful so I will not cry.

Sluggish...

Want more sleep than I'm getting, and wish the weather had remained cool.

Roommate's little bunny boy having another tummy episode. 🙁 Why they pick nights and weekends I'll never know. Most likely he will manage without the vet; most of the time he does. But it's always an anxious and sad time until he shows signs of recovering.

Will update later. Roommate will get a bundle of cilantro which might tempt the little fellow to eat. I think I hear her car now.

Hi all,

Everybody has been very busy!

CM, gutters are another thing i don't have to do. You guys remind me how lucky I am!

I am finding that in my stay home days I am getting more and more tired and directionless. I asked Dh to give me a goal for today and he asked my to clean up the kitchen.

He has gone to look into buying a new truck. Our farm truck is getting unreliable and he found a really good deal on one. He called to confirm that everyone will be wearing mask and he can drive the truck alone.

The first week of August I finished two food preservations - cheese and beans (ice cream doesn't really count) but no lesson plans.

Today I am just going to try to keep my life small and domestic - step one, kitchen.

Hello Everyone

Hi Subclinical

Hi Tatoulia

Hi CriticalMass
YEA! sounds like that all worked out very well! 😀

WAY TO GO! sorting out even more receipts!

That BBQ beef sandwich sounds so good.
Wish I could get the courage to go get some kind of take out.
Has nothing to do with rona virus, I'm just weird.

Yes, Autumn will get here some day in the near future.
Cooler days when we can get things done outdoors.

I think things will just continue along as they are right now.
Masks, distancing, people getting sick.
Maybe temporary closures but no more total shut downs of businesses because of the financial ramifications.
A lot of things will happen with in class schools though.

Got the item returned and a refund no problem.

My tablet was acting glitchy then I plugged it into a power bank which helped straighten it out. Then my old flash drive adapter I'd thought was dead even worked!

Been thinking soon I will buy a 10" tablet - the local computer store where I got my laptop has some that look good for a good price. Because this 7" Samsung one I got in 2014 and it may be getting long in the tooth.

So much computer/writing catching up to do. Days are never long enough and I frequently get sleepy in the afternoons. Wondering if I need a little iron in my diet. Think tomorrow I may go get a BBQ beef brisket sandwich from my favorite place.

Found a stash of a few more receipts and tossed those. Next week the big push to ready for the company then after they've come and gone really dig in on my terms and see about some serious purging.

Someday not so far off it'll be fall. Cool weather and a chance to get serious and deal at the storage unit, I hope. Will be checking what places accept donations. If the 'Rona doesn't worsen and shut things down again.

Good Morning Everybody

Hi CriticalMass
What a bummer the computer thingie wasn't right.
Hope getting the right thingie goes smoothly.

All the changing technology sucks.
At first if someone didn't have a computer they were screwed.
Now it's becoming almost impossible to function without a stupid phone.
Especially with the stupid covid19 restrictions.
You have to call from your car to get anything done.
I do not have a phone. I do not want a phone. I will never get a stupid phone.
I hate phones, always have, always will.

I have no plans for today. The cats all have lots of plans that involve me.

The details coming out about the Beirut explosion are sickening.
It was so irresponsible to store all that highly explosive "fertilizer" that way and in that location.

Welp. Have to make another trip to Best Buy to return the flash drive that a young chicky sold me not understanding what I really wanted.

The store was closing early at 6:00, having only recently begun letting customers in again, so I trusted her that it was an adapter for interchangeable different flash drives like I came for, not just a single additional flash drive. I have several of those. Good thing I checked it in the parking lot, though either way I couldn't go back inside. 😛

Technology keeps changing faster than I can keep up with, and many of the ways it changes are not user friendly to my way of working. Sometimes I wonder whether if I live much longer I'll have to go back to pen and paper! I wouldn't even mind that if my handwriting could keep up with my thoughts. Plus revisions are easier with cut and paste on a computer, and not always needing to print out physical copies cuts down on clutter.

Well, if I get going now and come back, I might have time to rest a bit. Woke up tired and grouchy, could use a nap but if I take one I don't want to start too late.

Love to Tigger =^..^=

Good Evening Everyone

Hi Subclinical

Hi CriticalMass
Cleaning gutters and pulling vines is hard dirty work.
WAY TO GO! taking care of all that!

YEA! for tossing the old receipts!
Most receipts can be tossed soon as the account has been balanced.

Happy you are feeling more sociable and want to make some phone calls.
It's good to connect with your people (((HUG)))

Hi Tatoulia
YIPPEEEE!
You are doing great with your August challenge. 😀

As long as Tigger is happy and not in pain I wish him many more days of taking naps and getting lovins.

I always wait until there are no more good days in their future.

Did diddly squat today.
Watered the garden.
Cleaned the kitchen sink faucet aerator. It gets clogged with hard water deposit gunk and the water doesn't flow very well.
Now it's working fine, soaked it in vinegar.

Great work getting rid of the old debit receipts, CM! It is so hard to get rid of papers. I'm proud of you!

I'm busily working on my bags. One of things to consign and one of things to donate. I cannot believe how my thoughts are changing on my possessions. They are changing. For the better. I have a lovely enamel tray I bought at the consignment shop years ago and it's on display in my kitchen. I'm ready to bid it farewell. Time to sell it back.

So tired. I've showered and I'm ready to feed the kitty. She's so sweet and so dear. Poor tigger tonight looked like he's on his last legs. I'm going to have to try to bathe him this weekend. The poor thing. I'm not sure how much longer he has. He's still happy. I would probably make the choice to put him to sleep but BF can't make the call while the cat is still happy.

Sort of a condensed post as it's been hard getting computer time again, and I am going to have to run out and get a doohickey for connecting my USB flash drives to the tablet; the old one seems to have given up the ghost. They're under $10, thankfully.

I haven't caught up on posts in a few days but you know me, I will. Always enjoy reading them.

Trying to prep for roommate's company - it's sort of slow going but hopefully doable.

We cleaned the gutters of the house because they were clogged with leaves. I started pulling up the remainder of some vines I'd started last year that she didn't want because they were too invasive and gave her hives.

Brainstorming more ways to deal with my quilting project bags' contents, which are crowded around the sewing area in the back room. I may have come up with an idea that'll work, and soon I hope to also be resuming quilt piecing, getting tops made and to the church and in the process destashing my fabric. Maybe masks, too.

Today I threw away a bunch of old debit card receipts! They had been such a terrible mess in my bedroom. Maybe some of you can relate to how it has been to grow up "old school" in dealing with papers and bank records, balancing a check register, etc. But now with online banking, it can be done so much more cleanly, simply, and paper free.

I had been doing more and more online banking for years, but there was some sort of lingering reluctance to let go of the paper trail stuff. I have convinced myself it's okay. 🙂 If I make a big purchase, maybe I'd save the receipt for that one thing until the warranty expires, etc. But not the receipts for everytime I get a sandwich!

The weather is on a warming trend for the next few days. It'll feel like August instead of September as it has been.

I'm feeling a little more sociable after feeling very withdrawing over most of the summer. Not going to parties or anything unsafe, just feeling like actually calling people. Yesterday I called my uncle on his 92nd birthday. My mom's younger and only surviving brother. We had a great chat. I will be calling other family and friends soon.

Everybody take care, I'll be back when I can.

YEA! Tatoulia!!!
GO GO GO!!!

😀

So happy you are feeling good and strong!

Maybe the lamps are newer but with a retro look.
Anyways they look very nice.

He went to get himself some groceries and returned very happy and excited that he met someone else who is being obnoxious about wearing a mask.
He did have to return once because he forgot his credit card and noticed while standing in line to check out.
He is back in his garage now.

The lamp is used but there are no markings on it. It's actually glazed pottery. I like it too. I like the texture. I don't know if it actually goes back to the 60s. It def has some age but could be, say, 1980s crate and barrel. I can see where the label was in one of them. But alas the paper label is gone. They are on great shape.

I'm doing this. I've started to look at which clothes were great once but now scratchy. I'm feeling stronger than usual and I'm going to get things up and out of here.

Tillie, lay low. Try to relax.

Good Morning

Hi CriticalMass 😀

Hi Subclinical
Good luck on reaching that deadline today.

I love the sound of a tiny baby singing! 😀
How precious.

Good idea to just snack a bit on the menu and hopefully rest up a bit.

WTG! Tatoulia!
Wonderful start you have made.

I was distracted by the kitty pictures. 😀
The lamp is very pretty.
Looks like frosted teal "pillow" glass.
The plain simple shade is just right too.
Reminds me of the old styles I saw in the 50s and 60s.

Right now your deadline is August 31st.
By then you should have a very clear vision as to where you are going with this.
Keep up this GREAT momentum! 😀

My plan for today is to maintain a low and quiet profile.
He has been keeping to himself out in the squalorous and hoarded garage but I can hear him screaming and swearing and ranting and violently throwing/banging things out there.
I have no idea what's up with him.