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Terri - Yes, Florida slider turtles. The garden is a refuge for people who would otherwise dump them in rivers and lakes when they grow too big for their tank!
I think there were a thousand.
Good day. Lovely weather, but due to change tomorrow. We have got to grips with the metro, which is great for me, as I can't walk for ever. Crawled back to the hotel this pm from the metro station, while DH climbed the hill to the basilica. We both went up there by funicular this morning.
In the cathedral we caught an organ recital.
There is an astrological clock.
I put a wish about my book in the prayer pot in the basilica.
Came back down the funicular and celebrated with a drink.
Bought a picnic lunch and ate it under jacaranda trees in a square. It was heaven. Onion puff pastry tart, carrot salad, (fab), and custard flan.
Then we watched a Palestinian demo. Loads of riot police. In France they call it a 'Manifestation'.
Wandered about looking in shops until my legs surrendered. Left DH to carry on
All good.
Off out to eat in half an hour. We booked one we saw near the cathedral. Having trouble finding a traditional restaurant open tomorrow. They are either full, or shut for the weekend!
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx7 -
Hello, all, from a cool and rainy Arkansas River Valley morning,
Washer is whooshing, dryer is gently bumping with the wool dryer balls, which I did buy and am very happy with. For the same cost as a box of Bounce that lasts about a hundred loads, or 20 weeks, I bought dryer balls that should last for about a thousand loads, or about four years. Economical and better for the environment at the same time...
Last night, while we're just quietly sitting in the living room reading, a raccoon peered into the living room window through the screen--had it decided to, it could have ripped through it with one claw... Corey scrambled and got the pellet gun, walked around the house, and popped it in the butt from around 20 feet away - it fell off its perch with a grunt and a lot of growling. Didn't kill it - we try not to, we just want to teach them it's not a good place to visit. He popped it again from further away (in the dark!) as it was headed for the fence. He's a really good shot. That will hopefully keep the raccoon away from the house, but closed that window anyway!
Also moved Egg's dish in the living room this morning to try to discourage the stray that keeps coming in to eat her food. Unlike Debbie, we're just not up to dealing with strays at all and try to discourage them. One cat is plenty for us.
After the rain stops gently dripping outside, I'll probably go outside and do some weeding, but for now, I'll enjoy the remainder of the morning inside. Woke up with an idea of what I want to make with some polymer clay. Going to play with that for a while this morning. I've already gotten four more file boxes filled in the storage room, and more than a dozen plastic bins and boxes out in the car for the next trip into town. For whatever weird little reason, every one of them that I empty makes me happy. I'm terribly tired of plastic.
Later, y'all,
Love,
Lisa in cool, rainy, but still green for a few more weeks, Arkansas
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What's fun for other people may not be fun for me and vice versa. I am aware of this all the time as I read about your adventures. There was a time in my life when I traveled a lot and took classes and learned new skills. Now I am content to stay home, watch TV, knit the same blanket pattern over and over, walk 15,000 steps a day in my neighborhood, ride my exercise bike, read, and attend spiritual meetings on Zoom. I need nothing more and I don't worry about the fact that other people are doing other things and recommending that I do the same. My life is exciting not boring.Vicki, I hope your trip is wonderful. You have been working so hard, you need time to make your own choices for awhile.Allie, Stand up for yourself. You are an obliger and a people pleaser and that usually serves you well but sometimes you have to say "This is garbage, and I won't put up with it.". Dancing this morning. Yippee
Barbie in NW WA
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Lisa - LOVE your bowl. It can be your little friend....
Joy - your alarm story had me laughing out loud !!!! I actually read it to DH, which is a rare thing.
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Terri: Great that you are so active and doing interesting things!
Kylia: I hope your anxiety lessens
Lisa: I hope the racoon learned its lesson.
Barbie: Good going on the 15,000 steps! That is pretty active! When COVID hit I realized I was mostly happy at home except that I get ancy for an outing out of town every few months. I am always trying to make new friends in GA and when Covid hit it was a break from trying to do this. I also had to care for my
husband. I don't watch a lot of tv but really appreciate the streaming over the cable package we had. Now I can watch interesting documentaries and movies right from my family room.
Rebecca: Glad your son only had a small amount of damage.
Heather: Sorry about the flight delay. I am enjoying the pictures you are posting.
Lanette: The mother is about 20 pounds. I don't know the breed. I have had PBS Masterpiece but have not watched Forgotten....maybe I will do this. I did watch quite a bit of SeaSide Hotel but not all of the seasons. I hope your back is improving.
RV Rita: I hope the plans for cataract surgery go smoothly!
Vicki: So nice DH's sister will be buried with her MOM.
Annie: Living with your Dad doesn't sound easy. You are doing a great job providing care. Maybe sorting the mail is becoming too difficult. Will your mother be safe on the stairs? We had a chair lift for my husband for a couple of years and then eventually moved him into the family room.
I stayed up until 11 last night and then got up at 2 and cleaned the kitchen and went back to bed. Today I feel like I stayed up all night. I will have to nap. The MD says my fatigue is probably from the CoVID that I had on Labor Day. My vitamin D is 24 and she says 40 to 60 is what she wants to see. However she has seen levels as low as 8 so is not overly concerned about 24.
Best,
Rosemarie from Georgia
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Anniesquats100 wrote: »Lisa Kylia KJ and Machka, thanks for your support. I am so thankful for all the ladies here!
My mom is slowly getting stronger, and better able to move herself around the bed and transfer to wheelchair and such. People keep asking me when she can come home, and I say when she can climb the stairs without help. It's true that I could bathe her and help her to the bathroom, but I can't replace a whole staff 24/7. My dirty little secret is that I'm not eager for her to come home because it would be hard for me to leave the house at all.
Yes I have to push the issue of replacing the smoke detectors. The challenge is finding someone who can climb the ladder and do it.
Annie in Delaware
We have a FB group for our area, where events are posted, things people need doing, or businesses promoting something. You asking for a handyman to replace the smoke detectors falls in that catagory. You just buy the new smoke detectors, batteries and the handyman and you agree on a price. Pay in cash not anything with a card. You say you are living with your parents correct? But in actuality, they are living with you, just in their own home. You are their daughter/caregiver and you make decisions. Gone are the days you could ask your father to do some task, or your mother to take her pills, and you weren't concerned if they'd done them. Its a sad reality but for their own safety, and your sanity, you need to adjust to life as it is, not as it was. So its a quality of life question. Do you want to eventually have them at a facility that can monitor everything and you know they'll be safe, but reasonably not happy not being in their own home? Or do you keep things as they are, more and more tasks falling to you, and you're not reasonably happy? These are things I know you must wrestle with, but only you will know the best decision. My father was at a dementia facility in Oregon for about 8 years. I empathize with you, as its a disease that removed bits of his memory, and was hard for family to see. Every so often his personality would come racing thru, calling me Bec, or mentioning my boys, then it would be gone.
Hugs my dear friend!💖🙏💪
Rebecca
Whidbey
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In my rush to get out the door for my Eye doc appointment (which turns out I was a day late for) I forgot to update my daily appreciation. So today I appreciate calendars! I have re-schedule the appointment but went for the 20 minute ride to town alone, so no rushing. On the way back, got stuck in construction traffic where they are paving the highway. Added an extra 10 minutes to the drive. No rush and no anxiety as I was by myself. I actually chocked it up to a long morning drive.
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Today is my husband's 65th birthday. This morning, we took a short ride to see the changing leaves and stopped at a local dairy to buy ice-cream for his birthday dinner. He just wants a pizza for dinner so there's not much for me to do for his birthday. It's the last day of nice weather for a while so he is heading outside now to work on the house. The longest side of our house is done!! Yay!! I'll try and mow the yard before the rain heads in and then it will be an inside kind of weekend.
Beth near Buffalo9 -
In honor of Heather and husband in France! My husband bought me macarons made by bakers in St. Valery-en-Caux, in Normandy France.💖
Rebecca
Whidbey
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Lisa - we'll see how I feel tomorrow re going to the MG training. Early morning I wasn't worth a hill of beans and climbing into the car would have been dicey. I was feeling much better yesterday so overdid it of course - we finally had a sunny window before 5 days of rain. I first was going to rake leaves and that kind of hurt so I climbed on the riding mower, lol. After I took an ibuprofen this morning, (which I rarely take) and went for a walk with my neighbor, plus have the TENS unit plastered to my lower back, I'm feeling pretty good.
Glad you got that raccoon to hit the road. Our chickens are doing fine, they are such good girls. I let them out three or four times a day to do a little free ranging while I top up their feed, clean the coop or just tidy up in the run. When I'm ready for them to come back in, all I have to do is say "chick chick" and they come running for the handful of scratch I throw in.
Here's the maple tree with abundant leaves that will need to be cleaned up in the next few weeks. I'll be able to mow a lot in, but want to grab some for the compost heap.
Vicki - I was so happy to read you'll be gone for 9 days. A well deserved break for you. Sorry they messed up the lens on your new glasses. Crossing fingers your new employee will work out well.
Annie - so glad you'll be able to get the electrician out to get after those smoke detectors. The way you talked, I figured they were the wired-in ones. They are still on my list for replacement too, and as far as I know, this is licensed electrician stuff and he'll have to wire in a whole new thing-a-ma-jig in each of the 4 receptacles plus install the doo-dads that cover them. I have other things that need tending like a circuit breaker replaced for the microwave too. I've been so busy getting the outside tasks done this summer I haven't had time to think about the inside ones.
Joy - oh yes, the smoke detectors that refuse to die! I think I ended up throwing one in the freezer to stifle the noise, then later running it over with the car and smashing it to smithereens. I threw another one out the window on my drive to town, lol.
Lanette
SW WA State
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Levi sighting... they wear aloha or football attire on Fridays for the daycares and schools... Can you believe he will be four in just a couple months?
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LisaInArkansas wrote: »Hello, all, from a cool and rainy Arkansas River Valley morning,
Last night, while we're just quietly sitting in the living room reading, a raccoon peered into the living room window through the screen--had it decided to, it could have ripped through it with one claw... Corey scrambled and got the pellet gun, walked around the house, and popped it in the butt from around 20 feet away - it fell off its perch with a grunt and a lot of growling. Didn't kill it - we try not to, we just want to teach them it's not a good place to visit. He popped it again from further away (in the dark!) as it was headed for the fence. He's a really good shot. That will hopefully keep the raccoon away from the house, but closed that window anyway!
Later, y'all,
Love,
Lisa in cool, rainy, but still green for a few more weeks, Arkansas
I need to start using dh's airsoft gun on these raccoons.
I am trying to find the vent covers for the ones around the house(outside, venting under the house)
The ones I am looking for have springs so what ever is under the house can get out but cant get back under. I saw them once, years ago and didn't order them, now can't find them.
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Had a very substantial dinner, which was a bit tourist level, but quite good. I got them to turn the music down. But I feel absolutely stuffed. For the cheese course I had the local speciality, Cervelles des Canutes. It isn't 'brains', but a kind of lumpy cottage cheese, mixed with chives and scallions. Very nice.
They are open on a Saturday, but most restaurants are shut for the weekend!!!!! I have never been in a place where that happens! I know Sunday evening and Monday are difficult in France, but Saturday night! The few that are open are fully booked. I rang 6 or 7. Very strange. We might go back to this one, or get a pizza, or buy something from the supermarket. The hotel does heated tins!
Tomorrow is supposed to be rainy, but mild. I think we will go to a famous gourmet market near here, and then to the city art gallery.
Love to all, Heather UK xxxxxxxx4 -
Anniesquats100 wrote: »Yes I have to push the issue of replacing the smoke detectors. The challenge is finding someone who can climb the ladder and do it.
Annie in Delaware
There are companies who do that sort of thing.
But first, call the fire department.
Ah, I see that you've got someone coming in.
But remember, don't wait for your parents to "allow" you to do something. You're the carer ... just do it!
Also, check those carer resources I've posted earlier. See what kind of help you can get for yourself first, and your parents.
M in Oz
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cityjaneLondon wrote: »Off out to eat in half an hour. We booked one we saw near the cathedral. Having trouble finding a traditional restaurant open tomorrow. They are either full, or shut for the weekend!
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
We found that during the months we've spent cycling in France.
We'd be able to find places to eat all right for a while, then all of a sudden they'd all shut down for a day or two!!
One place we ended up getting packaged camping meals from a sporting goods store because that was the only food around.
M in Oz
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Lisa- Levi OMG he is adorbs
Tracy dropped off Miles at daycare and stayed home and rested today .. I hope Kyle steps up ,but all Miles wants is mommy..
My hips are screaming today.maybe all the walking yesterday at the store..
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Annie, nice you ordered an electrician. Even better than a handyman.👍🏼 I hope it goes smoothly!
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Rebecca
Whidbey
Wa2
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