This Year is Our Year for Success!
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I'm behind on a lot of my favorite authors because I so often couldn't concentrate during the pandemic and turned to "fluffier" stuff. But I love J. D. Robb and I'm already part way through the new one. If this wasn't a cat show weekend I'd be done!
Pam - I can't imagine questioning someone who was making me lunch. I can't believe she'd question it and yes she's being totally ungrateful but husband's family? What can you do? Just don't go out of your way ever again, probably. Unless your husband's willing to set her straight. I have had zero contact with DH's sibs in decades (for varying reasons) and it suits me fine.0 -
Yes, it’s her. You are not being overly sensitive. Your lunch sounded lovely. At this point, she’s worth about a couple of PB & J’s. Be glad she’s moving to CO so you’ll have plenty of distance between you. And next time she asks to vacation with you, find a reason to decline.0
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After a long day of heavy lifting at the cat show I finally sank into the couch last evening and was a little perturbed to find so much coverage of a deceased queen and so little coverage of 9/11. As a Washington Post op ed cartoon says, didn't we fight a revolution?
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We had more 9/11 coverage than you did. Probably because 2 of the planes left from Boston. We watched an interesting program on Smithsonian about the FDNY on 9/11.0
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We just got home from purchasing a new washer and dryer. The 17 year old washer started having issues about 3 weeks ago. We could make it work by manually filling the tub with water from pitchers, while DH figured out what was wrong with it and whether he could fix it. He identified the problem and ordered a part, which arrived today, but after he installed it the washer still didn’t work. I was totally shocked when he came out of the laundry room and said he was giving up on it. The new washer will be delivered on Friday, but the matching dryer won’t be here until the 30th. Luckily, the old dryer is working fine, so that won’t be a problem. I just hadn’t planned on buying any new appliances at this time.0
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We’re heading up to the MA North Shore for a few days. Tomorrow is our 50th wedding anniversary. We honeymooned in that area and this will be our first trip back. It’s a lovely area so I don’t know why it took so long to go back. I’ve booked a lovely Inn in Rockport. It’s about a 3 hour drive.0
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Happy Anniversary, Helene and DH! Fifty years is quite an achievement. I hope you enjoy this second honeymoon!0
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We’re heading up to the MA North Shore for a few days. Tomorrow is our 50th wedding anniversary. We honeymooned in that area and this will be our first trip back. It’s a lovely area so I don’t know why it took so long to go back. I’ve booked a lovely Inn in Rockport. It’s about a 3 hour drive.
Happy Anniversary! Sounds like a lovely place to go back to!0 -
We just got home from purchasing a new washer and dryer. The 17 year old washer started having issues about 3 weeks ago. We could make it work by manually filling the tub with water from pitchers, while DH figured out what was wrong with it and whether he could fix it. He identified the problem and ordered a part, which arrived today, but after he installed it the washer still didn’t work. I was totally shocked when he came out of the laundry room and said he was giving up on it. The new washer will be delivered on Friday, but the matching dryer won’t be here until the 30th. Luckily, the old dryer is working fine, so that won’t be a problem. I just hadn’t planned on buying any new appliances at this time.
I know I'm shocked if DH gives up. Apparently dryers are easier to fix because they have a lot less parts!
We got our pair right before I broke my arm. DH took over the laundry while I had my cast on and for some unknown reason never gave it back. As a result, I really haven't used the new pair much. But that's fine with me!0 -
I have my COVID and flu shots yesterday. No sore arm. All of a sudden my stomach is upset. If that's as bad as it gets, that's good!0
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We got our flu shots a couple weeks ago before the Covid boosters were available. I need to schedule those soon. The trip was great. We stayed in a lovely little inn. The innkeeper made fresh scones every day. He made lemon ginger and cranberry orange scones. Yum. We had our anniversary dinner on the deck of a waterfront seafood restaurant. I don’t know why we waited 50 years to go back to that area. It’s only a 3 hour drive and the scenery is gorgeous.
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We got our flu shots a couple weeks ago before the Covid boosters were available. I need to schedule those soon. The trip was great. We stayed in a lovely little inn. The innkeeper made fresh scones every day. He made lemon ginger and cranberry orange scones. Yum. We had our anniversary dinner on the deck of a waterfront seafood restaurant. I don’t know why we waited 50 years to go back to that area. It’s only a 3 hour drive and the scenery is gorgeous.
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Just made an appointment for our Covid boosters. We want to be sure to have them before we travel to FL in November.0
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Had a great time on our trip to the MA North Shore. The 15th was our 50th anniversary. We honeymooned in that area and hadn’t been back. We stayed in a lovely boutique inn. The scenery was as beautiful as I remembered. We’re heading to upstate NY this weekend. A friend invited to visit his home on a lake for a few days. My BIL moved to Rochester NY early September. He moved in with his sister. He was lonely and depressed since my sister and their dog passed away in December. He sold his FL home to a neighbor. The house needed a lot of work which he wasn’t up to doing. He’s about 4 hours west of our friend so we’re combining the two destinations in one trip.0
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I just got off the phone with my PCP’s office. I have been trying to get the results from my Cologuard screening that I did before Labor Day. I got a letter from the lab about a week after I sent in my sample stating that the results had been sent to my doctor, but giving me no information about the results. After a week went by I messaged my doctor through the patient portal asking to be advised of the results, but got no response. On Monday I called and left a message with his medical assistant asking for a callback with the results. After no response, I called the office manager yesterday and left the same message. Again, no response. Today I called and finally spoke with someone (she didn’t say what her role is), who looked up my records and read to me what the results were. Luckily, everything was fine and I had a completely negative report. She was very sympathetic to my frustration at not being able to get my results in a more timely manner. I didn’t give her a hard time, but I did explain what efforts I had made to get the information and that I felt it was unacceptable on their part that no response occurred. I will definitely discuss this with the doctor when I see him next month for my pre-surgery physical.
I’ve been enjoying my week with DH out of town. I haven’t done much, but it’s been nice to be on my own for a few days. I may try to get out and do some shopping/browsing for a change of pace.0 -
Update on the PCP saga: I got a call from the office manager a few minutes ago. He apologized for the delay in getting my results and explained that in May, 9 of their 13 employees left. As a result they have a lot of new staff that they are training and a backlog of reports waiting to be entered into patients’ records. Apparently my report sat on the doctor’s desk for almost 2 weeks before it was entered into my record because since the findings were all negative it was considered low priority. I thanked him for the information but also informed him that I considered this an unacceptably slow response. He agreed and said that in part due to my situation they are changing up some of their practices for communicating test results. Hopefully things will improve as they get their new staff trained better.0
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Pam - negative results are a low priority? Well, maybe to the doctor. I'm glad they were negative though.
Helene - I hope your trip this weekend is going well!
It was 47 degrees here this morning. I actually had to bundle up a little to feed colonies. Since then I've been working down through a list of chores. Sort of satisfying actually crossing them off.0 -
We.’ve had a very good weekend. We spent two days in upstate NY, visiting a friend at his lakeside home. We enjoyed the view but nobody did any swimming. I’m sure the lake is pretty cool by late September. We sat on the dock and enjoyed wine, crackers and a veggie platter. On Friday, we drove up to the Saratoga National Battlefield Park. I don’t know that much about Revolutionary War battles so it was interesting learning more about the background. We went to an Italian restaurant for a delicious dinner. We stopped at one of his neighbors’ home for homemade apple pie and coffee. Tom made a wonderful breakfast of bacon, scrambled eggs and English muffins. We relied on our new GPS to get us to Rochester to visit BIL. It was a four hour drive and would have been twice that distance if we were coming from home instead of from the lake house. It was a little awkward when we arrived. BIL moved in with his sister 3 weeks ago. He didn’t tell her we’d be staying with them until that morning. Fortunately, we all got along well and when we were leaving, she was talking about looking forward to our next visit. We didn’t need her to wait on us and she appreciated that we all felt like family. We were only there 2 days. We went out to dinner yesterday and spent time going through a box of photos BIL brought from FL. Most photos were my family but there were a lot of his family too. His sister enjoyed seeing our family photos and we gave her theirs to share with her kids. We left at noon and drove to a hotel in the Berkshires (western MA). We’ll have about a four hour drive home tomorrow.0
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Pam, that’s terrible that it took so long to get results. I’m glad you were persistent and told them how poor their follow through was. Hopefully they get their act together.0
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Helene, your trip sounds wonderful. I’ve been to NYC and a little bit of the Hudson River valley, but haven’t seen much of the rest of the state. I’d love to see more of upstate New York and the thousand islands area.
I’m a little curious why 9 of 13 staff members quit at the same time at my doctor’s office. I’m sure I’ll never find out, but it does make you wonder what was going on behind the scenes. Hopefully they’ll get a handle on things soon. Until now, I’ve been very pleased with this doctor and everything about the practice. I really don’t want to change PCP’s again.0 -
Helene, your trip sounds wonderful. I’ve been to NYC and a little bit of the Hudson River valley, but haven’t seen much of the rest of the state. I’d love to see more of upstate New York and the thousand islands area.
I’m a little curious why 9 of 13 staff members quit at the same time at my doctor’s office. I’m sure I’ll never find out, but it does make you wonder what was going on behind the scenes. Hopefully they’ll get a handle on things soon. Until now, I’ve been very pleased with this doctor and everything about the practice. I really don’t want to change PCP’s again.
9 out of 13 is wild and not a great indicator of how the doc is as a boss. Doesn't mean he's a bad doc though. I know what you mean about not wanting to change PCP's. I avoid it like the plague.0 -
Helene - I always enjoy visiting water, probably because I've spent my entire life in landlocked locations. I'm sure you were right it was too cool to swim! That's great that your BIL's oversight didn't ruin the visit! I suspect I'll never see my sister's husband again, and maybe not even hear from him now that he's moved on, and that's sort of sad.0
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We’re watching the Weather Channel. Hurricane Ian is going right over Sanibel Island. Hopefully our house is still standing after the storm.0
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Helene, fingers crossed for your winter home!0
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Helene, the pictures out of Florida are horrific! I hope your home survived, and I’m so glad y’all hadn’t headed south yet for this year. I saw that the causeway that connects to Sanibel was heavily damaged and that access to the island is only by air or by boat right now. Do you have anyone you can call to find out how your home fared?
DH is finally ready to buy new kitchen appliances for our house. All of ours are between 30 and 25 years old, so we are afraid they could go out at any time. In fact, the dishwasher is currently giving us problems. It’s usable, but requires some finessing to do so. We are running into lots of issues in trying to replace everything. First, appliance sizes are not uniform, so trying to find new ones that will fit in the existing cabinetry is challenging. Second, most of them are back ordered, so delivery is anywhere from 1 week to 3 months or longer, depending on which brand and model. Then when you try to satisfy personal preferences with what works with the above conditions, it really gets confusing. Most of the models we’ve narrowed our selections to aren’t even available for us to see in person, so we can only rely on the pictures on the websites or find similar models that may be a different size but same brand, etc. And the cost will likely be around $15K by the time it’s all delivered and installed. We have a great salesperson who is assisting us, but it is still taking a lot of time and research.0 -
Helene -here's hoping your house is still standing!
Pam - I can't imagine replacing all the kitchen appliances at once - I don't envy you that one! At least we finally have everything back to white. For awhile we had quite a mixture! I know at the beginning of the pandemic when we decided we wanted a second freezer we didn't have much in the way of choices! It was sort of like 'here it is; take it or leave it'.
It's gray here right now. We're supposed to get rain from the hurricane through Monday sometime. I'm sitting here working on the Christmas newsletter.0 -
Nobody is allowed on the island. The low bridges collapsed and that was the only way on and off the island. About 200 people refused to evacuate.2 are dead, 12 injured requiring medical assistance and about 40 rescued unharmed. First responders are searching for others who stayed. Early rescues were by helicopter. Now they are running Coast Guard boats from the boat ramp to ferry people to the mainland. From there, they’re bussed to shelters. There’s no power, water or sewers on the island yet. I think it will be a while before homeowners can come back. We saw an aerial view of the neighborhood and everyone’s house was standing and we have roofs. We can tell yet if we have food damage. The storm surge went over the island so if window broke, we could have interior damage. We’ll have to wait and see.0
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Helene, I suppose it’s good news that your house is still standing and has a roof, but I’m sure it’s agonizing to not know about interior damage or how long it will be before you can get in to assess the condition. Fingers crossed for minimal damage.
Got my flu shot and Covid booster today. I expect to feel the side effects about bed time, which should work out ok. The last Covid booster side effects consisted mostly of chills and body aches, so I plan to take some pain reliever and go to bed when or if that starts up. Thankfully, it usually only lasts about 8 hours, so I should be ok tomorrow.0 -
Helene -thank goodness you weren't there but how terrible that you have no more information than that! Here's hoping for the best!0
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We had our Omicrom booster yesterday’s. The only effect is my arm was a little tender when I turned over in bed. We have a group text of neighbors in FL. The city is still keeping homeowners from coming to the island. It it was allowed, it would have to be by boat. Everyone is concerned about black mold if access isn’t allowed soon. People want access to pull out anything that got wet and to open windows so things can dry out. There’s still no power, water or sewage yet although things are being checked for damage. The power company is supposed to be on island today to access and start work. The city has inspectors coming to check homes for structural damage. So it’s a waiting game right now.0
