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patricia19 · February 27, 2022, 05:16:57 PM

I took five cell phone photos to show that even though they've plowed and only a small amount of snow is due tomorrow, the skies say tomorrow might become today,

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Marilyn · February 28, 2022, 02:04:17 PM

[Did y'all miss me? I sure had a lot of reading to do to catch up with all y'a;;/

Yes. am still alive. All is as well as can be expected. Just really concerned about Ukraine as I have cousins there according to my 23 abd Me and My Heritage results. I always knew I was half Ukrainian,My paternal family migrated from there.

jane · February 28, 2022, 03:47:32 PM

Patricia....I know the "side-eye" from the medical people when you talk about barometric pressure. HOWEVER, the best doctor I ever had told me when he first saw my inflamed shoulder ...way back in 1974... that I'd get "very good at weather forecasting." I asked if that was true and he "OH, YES." So, I shrug off these "medical newbees" who don't know yet. They'll learn. Love your photos. Most of our snow is gone now except for big piles.

Marilyn...I sure admire the Ukrainian people. The men taking their wives and children to the border and then returning to fight...and the Ukrainian truck drivers in Europe coming back to fight.

Sharon...hope you get your newsletter finished up today. Yes, I resprained the ankle I'd hurt a year of so ago. It's slowly getting better. I did go out and walk a little further today since it got to near 50. Still some sidewalks with ice and covered with water...so I walk in the grass.

I got my haircut this morning and then came home to read more on Twitter and other news sources about Ukraine. It does make the truck convoy about wearing a mask look pretty silly next to the people literally fighting for their lives and their country, to me.

jane

MaryPage · February 28, 2022, 08:14:40 PM

Jane, I could not agree with you more.

Marilyn, I have rented this apartment from a priest who came over here from Ukrainia as a child for nineteen (19!) years now. I know one of his two brothers and one of his two sisters, and her husband. They are absolutely the finest people you could possibly know.

My rheumatologist tells me that it is absolutely true that the barometric pressure affects the pain in my joints where my osteo arthritis is active. My hands are the worst.

maryz · February 28, 2022, 08:21:22 PM

Marilyn, I think most of the US is strong behind Ukraine. The mother and daughter who do my hair and nails here are from Ukraine. I see them next week, and am interested in hearing what they've heard.

Nothing exciting going on around here.

Happy Mardi Gras (tomorrow), Buddies!

SharonE · March 01, 2022, 02:53:36 AM

I'm having a no sleep night. It's 2:30. When I finish this post, I'll try again. I sent the last articles to the gal that is going to do the layout. Haven't heard if she has them finished yet or not. They can poo poo the barometric pressure effect on our arthritis all the want but it is a fact! The changeable weather we have had this winter has really been hard on me. The Dr came by today to check my throat that was slightly sore, but not down where a sore throat usually is. It turns out that it is from reflux. I knew I had been having some lately, but didn't connect it. So now, I'm going to have to give up V-8 juice and some other acidic things. Grumble grumble.

Patricia, your pictures really look like what I think AK should look like in the winter, but I'm glad I'm not there. It is beautiful in the summer, but I couldn't handle the winter.

Marilyn, that's interesting that you are half Ukrainian. We have a resident here who was born there but left as a child for Germany and then got caught up in the holocaust and was in a labor camp for 3 yrs. Somehow, she and her family survived though and came to the US where she married an American paratrooper.

Bridge tomorrow. Highs in the mid 60's! Yea! 70+ by the weekend.

Bunny's kidney blood tests came back almost normal. The kidney food is apparently really helping her.
Take care everyone. Sharon

jane · March 01, 2022, 11:08:45 AM

This morning I'm living proof of the barometric pressure on our joints. I can barely move...so it's SLUG DAY in this house.

Stay safe and keep Ukraine in your thoughts and prayers.

jane

Cottoncandy · March 01, 2022, 11:24:49 AM

Good morning..just got back from walking..beautiful morning...after that I went and voted....Jane I think I have too many slug days...the old saying my get up and go has got up and went..lol..SHARON sorry you had restless not much sleep night...Mabel tonight be better..Marilyn..we miss reading your post..hi Patricia...Mary and others reading...hello to. march

patricia19 · March 01, 2022, 12:14:43 PM

Good morning from the Interior! Yesterday's lite snow turned into a full day of flakes, three inches total. According to the weather report, 21/22 snowfall is 66% higher than the historical average this far into the winter. They also reported no snow expected through the seventh, but they also said that about yesterday!

Not much planned for today other than laundry. I used to deep clean a one-bedroom apartment in an hour back when my then-husband and I lived in Anchorage and managed a complex for out-of-state owners. Today, I manage a room per day, and live alone, so there's not that much to tidy!

Marilyn · March 01, 2022, 02:47:12 PM

Good day to y'all from cloudy Calidornia.It is 59°and overcast for now. That can change in a minute.

Freckles and I went shopping this morning, we first went to Safeway to get a few things on my list, I couldn't beieve when the small jar of Peanut Butter (Skippy) was $6.99/ Then we wnet to the pet sotore where I bought dog food Greenies pill pockets and Freck;les got to pick her onw treat.I do still cook for them but they get a small amount of kibble with each meal.

I'm looking forward to tomorrow when I have the Zoom meeting with the caregiver support group.It is difficult to share when Keith is listening and adding his two cents worth when he hears me say something he doesn't or telling me to shut it off. like

jane · March 02, 2022, 11:22:47 AM

Good Morning, Marilyn.

Nothing exciting here...again.

I'm mostly reading and catching up with a new month's bookkeeping. I can't watch the war so try to just catch the evening news.

Stay safe, Buddies!

jane

patricia19 · March 02, 2022, 11:47:17 AM

Good morning. I can't watch the news either. It's unimaginable and painful to see the world as it is today and watch our own elected officials acting like Asses and being rewarded for their behavior.

It says a lot about our country today that not only were they elected but why they were elected. Politics and health have become a game to earn points with one side or the other with people, not a particular concern.

MaryPage · March 04, 2022, 11:52:05 AM

We live fairly short lives, and no doubt that is a Good Thing; given our overall History.

I can remember standing in front of a glassed-in candy display and spending perhaps half an hour or more to spend two cents. Yep, two little bright coppers would buy a child a wonderful day.

I married young, and just after World War II. My husband was a veteran of that war (navy), and we got the G.I. Bill perks. Our first car, brand new, cost $1,650.00. We drove it for 11 years!

Our first house cost $12,500.00. Fifty cents worth of hamburger would suffice to feed our little family one meal, and we often asked for fifty cents worth of gasoline at the gas station. There was no such thing as self-serve. You got a uniformed attendant who took your order, issued your gas, checked your oil, and washed your front windshield.

When I consider today's prices, I shudder at the thought of all the inflation I have managed to live through.

And I can remember the years during which, bit by bit and piece by piece, things that had been made of metal seemingly forever, began to be made of plastic. This was welcomed at the time, as it was seen as saving the price of things and being an improvement insofar as weight was concerned. I never heard ANYone ask where this stuff was eventually going to go, as it was impossible for it to break down into soil. We were spreading death at our jolly Tupperware parties, and we hadn't a clue. Yes, it is true: The identity of mankind's worst enemy: look in the mirror!

I hear we have, not one, but FIVE humongous conglomerations of plastics offering deadly smorgasbords swirling in our oceans and seas to the sea creatures we need to sustain our own species.

And once again, for maybe a now incalculable number of times, I send a salute to the shade of Rachel Carson and her amazing breakthrough "Silent Spring."

maryz · March 04, 2022, 12:10:42 PM

MaryPage, glad to see someone chiming in. It's been very quiet in here. The world has changed a lot on our lifetimes. Almost like those of our grandparents who went cross-country in covered wagons and saw a man land on the moon. As Pogo (Walt Kelly) said, "We have met the enemy, and he is US!"

Darlene, did you ever try the OTC eye drops? Did they help?

Sharon, I'm sorry you had a sleepless night. Hope you're making some of it up. Our sleep gets screwed up again next week, when we go on daylight savings time.

We're enjoying a wonderful week of sunshine, and temps in the upper 70s. After last week's every-day rain, it's welcome. Even though it cools off again next week. I never count winter over until after 13 March. That was the date of "The Blizzard of 1993", when the eastern half of the country got hammered. We got over 20" of snow in Chattanooga!

Happy weekend, Buddies!

patricia19 · March 04, 2022, 12:24:31 PM

Good morning from the Interior. We're expecting a snow and ice storm Saturday as we're supposed to cool slightly. Yesterday, I spent hunting and gathering in our local malls. Today will be spent that way again, getting the items I forgot because I didn't look at my list. I was bedazzled and annoyed at ingredient lists and purchased too much of one and not enough of the other.

Today is going, as usual, Farrah and I are both fed, she got water and I guzzled caffeine. My morning round of texts and calls is over and both good and bad news. One is recovering from Omicron and another tests positive. I don't know what the summer will bring.

The city allocated a more significant amount for snow and ice in their budget and are planning a concerted effort to dispose of the excess snow we had this year, historically 66% over the average, meteorologists say. Mother Nature then announces another round tomorrow. I thought this was the Arctic, where snow and humidity are low?

I got home tired yesterday, and while I was online, I just wanted to disengage. I went to bed early.

MaryPage, I agree. You said it so much better and more coherently than I could. I love how you can get the point across!

jane · March 04, 2022, 04:41:19 PM

Good Afternoon. It's a windy 30s kind of day and tomorrow to bring severe thunderstorms or "mixed wintry precipitation"...and I'll be in my chair in front of the fire reading from my kindle.

I had a lovely lunch with a female financial advisor at a new taproom between here and Dubuque where that bank is. She brought copies of the tax forms I needed that still hadn't arrived...and they were, of course, in today's mail! Anyway, I'm now ready to see my tax lady on the 17th.
She said they're expecting rate hikes, but that's of course, for people borrowing money, not for those of us who'd like to be paid more for our savings, etc.

Take care and stay safe!

jane

Marilyn · March 05, 2022, 01:40:12 PM

Hello Buddies. I am going to lunch in Eureka with my friend Jeannie. We are going to Porter BBQ restaurant then some grocery shopping.

I really like the new caregiver. She sure cleaned my house yesterday. I mean deep cleaned it wasn't dirty just a lot of touch up and vacuuming up the dog fur, dusting and the bathrooms.

I increased Keith's Seroquel for tonight as he was up walking around and turning on lights, coming in my bedroom etc. I was supposed to increase it after one week and I didn't He goes back to the Dr. Thursday.

I didn't get a good report from my eye exam on Friday I am being sent to another Dr. t in Eureka for more tests. He thinks I may be getting Glaucoma.

jane · March 05, 2022, 04:41:09 PM

Marilyn...sorry to hear about the glaucoma. I hope they can get that under control for you.

Storms here...and to get worse tonight with winds and maybe hail. It's just 3:30 and very dark out.

Stay safe,

jane

MaryPage · March 05, 2022, 08:39:34 PM

Oh, I do hope it turns out to be just some little fixable nuisance, Marilyn.

I'm planning on finding the plastic storage box in my walk-in closet that holds my bright yellow summer slacks and wearing them tomorrow with a bright blue mock-neck tee shirt. They are asking us to wear the flag colors of Ukraine as a morale booster. Albeit, it will suffice as a sign of solidarity any old day.

I don't go anywhere except to medical appointments these days, so I may wait until I go to cardiac rehab on Monday. What do you think, should I have a sunflower between my teeth? A bit over the top, do you say?

maryz · March 06, 2022, 06:48:51 AM

I think the sunflower would be a nice punctuation mark, MaryPage!

Marilyn, hope all goes well with the eye check. And that the medicine increase works with Keith.

jane and Patricia, our weather doesn'tl change until tomorrow - but nothing like yours in any case.

patricia19 · March 06, 2022, 08:45:02 AM

There was no sign of the expected ice and snow yesterday, nor wind. However, it cooled down from the thirties back into the twenties, where it's expected to stay for the remainder of March. Spring is always a slow, sometimes volatile awakening here, and sometimes winter holds on with a grip.

There is nothing new here; my mornings seem to be a rush to get ready, only to clean and rearrange items from one place to another. Grocery shopping is beginning to be something to look forward to and be among others.

Jane, I hope you weren't in the path of tornadoes. I couldn't remember if you were in the Des Moines area or not? In any case, stay safe!

Marilyn, my mother, had early onset Alzheimers in the late eighties and nineties. At that time, there were no drugs or management, only babysitting. No one knew quite what to do.

SharonE · March 06, 2022, 04:25:27 PM

Hi Gals. I've been busy doing this and that. Had Bunny back at the vet twice in past week. Poor appetite, not eliminating regularly, vomiting, lethargic. She is on 4 pills l a liver supplement, l prednisone, 1 an antibiotic,1 an appetite stimulant. The last 2 I have 2 give her twice a day. We've spent $400 on her so far. The vet said that if all of this doesn't work, it may be time for a quality of life discussion. She has started eating the new food but didn't eliminate today so far, so am at my wits end.

Newsletter should be out this week.

Had a brief video chat with Harrison on his birthday and a longer one with Joc. We decided she shouldn't come to the family gathering and risk any problem. She had decided the same, so we will fly up to MN in the fall after the baby is born. Her OB said one of his patients delivered a stillborn with covid even after all vax at 37 wks, so that pretty much sealed it for them.

A lot of serious illness among residents. I guess that's to be expected due to the age group, but sad.

Marilyn, hope the increase in med helps Keith and that you can do your zoom meeting without his input. Glad you got to shop and eat out and find a good caregiver/cleaner.

Mary Page, I remember 29 cent gas and all those low prices too. If Biden hadn't shut down the Keystone Oil lines, we'd be in better shape and be able to put more pressure on Russia.

Hi Darlene. Wish I had more down time to just chill, but I had to volunteer for this newsletter and it's going to keep me busy.

Weather's 80 today and to be in 70's all week with major rain on Wed.

Jane, I hope the weather will start to be kinder to your bones (& mine)
Mary, glad to see your post, Patricia's too. Hope I didn't miss anyone. Stay well all. Sharon

jane · March 06, 2022, 05:40:23 PM

I'm in the NE quadrant of Iowa, but yes, 3 tornadoes yesterday and at least 7 dead. I stayed up until the warnings for my county had passed and the radar showed clear here.

So...25 degree drop in temps and snow supposed to come this afternoon and overnight. We'll see.

I, too, remember 29 cent gasoline, but also remember the wages that were paid then...my yearly salary for my first teaching job in 1963 was less than many, many people make in a month now. It's all relative, I guess.

I have a massage tomorrow morning at the hospital...only place I could find an opening...so I'll give it a try. Anything to relieve some of this aching in the muscles in my neck and shoulders...and hips and knees, etc.

A couple days ago I bought some live sunflowers at WalMart...and think MP should have a sunflower on her person for the appt!

Stay safe and healthy.

jane

Cottoncandy · March 07, 2022, 11:00:22 AM

Good Morning everyone....weather changed again...colder and windy...course it's the March winds....It is upsetting of the war news..I try to not watch it..but that doesn't change anything..Mary P..wearing a sunflower would be awesome...Marlyin good luck with your next eye appt...may it be better news..I am dealing with a stopped up ear...may have Togo to ENT...Jane hope the bad weather missed you..a massage sounds wonderful..Sharon hope Bunny is doing better..hi to Patrica and Mary Z...need to get busy with Monday chores...have a great week

jane · March 07, 2022, 07:35:11 PM

Darlene...good to see you! Tornadoes one night and snow last night. Ours was all gone, so we got another delivery of 3+ inches! And more to come on Thursday. So the temps went from 50s to mid 20s.

The massage was good...boy, did I have some very sore spots in my back muscles. Ouch. She got one of them to relax finally. I'm going to go back in 3 weeks and see if it helps to loosen them up some.

I stopped in and had lunch at one of the local "pubs" and brought enough home for supper tonight and lunch tomorrow...grilled chicken on a lettuce salad. I also got out to WalMart for some groceries I can only get there and then home. I'll have to make another trip out...maybe tomorrow or Wed..for a couple of items I couldn't get at WM and to pick up another 'script at the drug store.

I, too, have a hard time watching the news...so very, very sad.

jane

patricia19 · March 07, 2022, 08:31:09 PM

Besides here and locally, I'm in a group composed of women from different countries around the world, primarily the Southern Hemisphere, France, and Germany but a few other places and islands too.

We've imposed a moratorium on Putin and the news for precisely those reasons. As the seemingly only American among the group, I want to say that our reputation had suffered due to the past events in 2016, etc. We are slowly getting better in that regard, but I doubt we will ever be fully trusted again.

Cottoncandy · March 07, 2022, 08:41:35 PM

Yes Mary Z...I did get the eye drops...I think they are helping...thank you so much for the information..

maryz · March 08, 2022, 07:25:54 AM

Patricia, it's always interesting to hear what folks in other countries think of us. My husband used to read newspapers online from Canada and Manchester (England) for that reason.

MaryPage · March 08, 2022, 12:21:32 PM

I thought the Keystone pipeline was just to take Canadian contaminated tar-sand oil from Canada down to Galveston or Houston to sell in countries who have use for it. It was my understanding the United States wanted no part of it for our own use. Given that, I had assumed it was of no nevermind to us, except for the groups that feared it would do injury to our wildlife.

patricia19 · March 08, 2022, 01:37:53 PM

MaryPage, the Keystone Pipeline, "The Keystone Pipeline System is an oil pipeline system in Canada and the United States, commissioned in 2010 and owned by TC Energy and as of 31 March 2020 the Government of Alberta. It runs from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin in Alberta to refineries in Illinois and Texas, and also to oil tank farms and an oil pipeline distribution center in Cushing, Oklahoma."

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