June, I knew that.  I normally just cook them for about seven minutes and wrap in foil and leave them to finish cooking on their own.

Janie I couldn't find any noodles, so just put in a handful of spaghetti and letting it cool. 

girls we have a little step stool 2 step's tall it is 14" wide, front to back 16" 11"tall 4" from first step to top. with it Nancy can easily step up into our 4 wheel drive truck. I now have the truck setting in the shop tho to build running boards on it so we won't have to pack the stool around.I am getting old and lazy. if you have some one close to build one. I recommend oak.  material cost
should be around $10. or so. a good friend should do it reasonable for labor or just as a friend. some of you girls could do it your self if you have the tools. some Sheetrock screws wood glue .home deepow or Loews will most likely saw your boards for you cheep or no charge.

Lloyd

As the morning wore on I seemed to grow more and more tired. felt some shortness of breath and dizziness. So I rested. ate a light lunch, went down for my one o'clock appt. with Dr. Still felt really lousy. I have gained some weight...up to 114, but have shrunk in height..from 5'7'' to 5'5". No wonder my waistline has grown.

My blood pressure was wild..they took it four times, with rest periods between. Finally it went down to an acceptable measure. Dr. listened to chest,all was well. then she went to work on my feet...shortened my toenails and pared down a callous, and told me to get arch supports to put in my shoes...to avoid the callous. finally dragged myself home. read and napped. I'll stay home for supper.

My Gary has ordered me a new cell phone. A jitterbug. Less monthly payments by half, and very simple to use. He will help me  learn it and he will enter my phone numbers from the other phone. I am so blessed with my good kids. God is SO GOOD !

I'm home from work, fed the doggies, had a snack, got my jammies on and now I'm resting.  A nice young fella asked me if I could work for him on Saturday but since he works a full shift, I told him if he could find someone else to work half his shift, I'd work the other half.  They let us do that.  He said he'd see what he could work out.  He came back later and said he had someone who would take his whole shift but she had a 4:30 to 9.  Would I be willing to take that for her.  I said yes.  So I'll be working on Saturday. 

I think I'll try to go to bed early tonight.  I'm really tired and I wan't to be ready for the "dynamo" when she comes tomorrow.

I hope you all had a lovely day.  Sleep peacefully and wake happy tomorrow.  Good night Everyfriend!

I'm just in to say Goodnight to all you dear people. I am tired...so off I go...

Lloyd, after my experience in my niece's truck, it would have to be a dire emergency for me to ride in that truck.  But we do have the child's chair to use as a stepstool if necessary.  It isn't worth anyone's efforts to build a step for me that might never be used. 

Mary Ann

Checking in & figured this other "shortie" better admit I got caught on camera with feet dangling as I turn around to slide out of my husband's pick up.  It was 4x4, off road/sport so extra tall.  It had the fancy chrome pipe looking running board that my feet missed (happened often) so I would just slide down till my feet touched the ground.  He got rid of it with 9,000 miles on it because he found it was hard for him to get in & out as well.  Sadly, he'd always wanted a pickup but waited too late to get it.  We had an old clunker when we built a house back in the '60s, but I got stuck with it since I did a lot of "picking up" building supplies.  Wild stories about that pick up~   

A day full of phone calls, old friends.  I have so many projects needing to get done I decided to take a nap & forget the words "NEED TO DO".  Busy day tomorrow, yard guys come so I need to weed whip around some little trees & flowers so they don't mow 'em down.  When I do that I weed whip around the sprinkler heads, mowers don't cut low enough to let the heads come up & spray over the grass.  We had a nice rain today but so hot & humid it was hard to breathe.  Those cool temps y'all talk about sound like Heaven!

Sweet dreams to all & God Bless.  I'll turn out the lights.  Shirley

 Good morning everyone..

Going to be a hot one today and the temp goes up all week!

Had a great day yesterday, highlight was watching a fox bounce along the side of the highway looking for mice.

Weeds in the garden are calling me today..grass also needs cutting too.

Better get a move on here....

Enjoy your day everyone.

Shirley by the time of your post looks like you stretched yesterday out a bit.
that is ok good to see you anytime , just wish you would stop by this poor farm on some of your trips to Mo, we have several good beds, we would try hard to make you happy and feed you good for several days without charge. when you wake up and read this Have a great day. don't know how much rain we got but the deck is still wet and the lighting and thunder flashed and rumbled most of the night, thank god for that. still can barley here it in the distance as it moves on east. I wish everyone a great day. see you all Later.

Lloyd

Amy Good to see you also.  I mostly enjoy the wildlife also, except the coons are too thick and too much distraction. they tore the plastic screens out of a camper shell and got all my baby chickens this past year. and recently got up in my raised beds and tore the plants up. i know was coons they left there tell tail foot prints in the moist soil. I may set a live trap out there and catch them and put them in the boiling kettle. they are good after boiling off the bone strip the lean meat out and put in the oven with KC Masterpiece barbecue sauce on it. we also have cottontail rabbets, bob cats, cougars skunks ( even they are OK UN less some one hits one close to you with a car and your window is down. square's and all sorts of water foul's , even on rare occasion seen a black bare. that is enough history for today, Have a great one.

Lloyd

Good morning Everyfriend!  My dynamo will be here this morning (switched from Monday this week)  So I'll be nice and clean for the weekend. 

LLOYD, I thought I told you to send you thunderstorms WEST.  We don't need any more rain right now and the dogs are terrified of thunder.  Oh Well!  I guess you forgot.

I'm off to get dressed and move the stuff off my office floor again.  I want as much of it cleaned as she can get too.  With eating and dogs in here it really takes a beating.

I hope you all have a lovely, peaceful day.  Fill it with whatever you wish.

Good Morning Everyone!

Well bible study this morning.  Guess I will just take some coffee and maybe some Yogurt.  Tempted to get a nice soft doughnut but might be pushing things a bit.

I am so tired this morning.  I sure wanted to lay in and not get up, i need to get in and brush teeth and clean myself up, will make me feel better.

Everyone have a great day.

JaneS please accept my apology. you need to realize that since 014 all those head injuries i do not remember well. but I still love you dear friend. Nancy went out and checked the rain gauge (4" and one tenth) god was good as usual.
Have a great day.

Lloyd

JaneS oh too late now wish I had thought Shirley and Hall could have used the extra better do not hit me again I will try to do better. well still over cast here so I may have a chance to send it west and south I will try harder, if i don't get too busy in the shop . I am laze so far but plan on going to shop.

Lloyd

JeanneP, did you make it to the movies and out for pizza yesterday as you hoped to do?  Good for you in telling your daughter you just weren't up to a visit.  I think my great aunt Iva must have had OCD as her house was perfect and looked like it came right out of a magazine.  I was never comfortable in her house the few times we visited.  She was a loving kind lady and a very hard worker but it was what it was.

June, glad you got to see the beautiful pictures of where your grandson and family now reside.  Nice of Dori to stop by even for a very short visit.  I wouldn't spend a moment worrying about being proud of your family and I am sure they are proud of you and your determination. Glad you were able to see your doctor yesterday and that your blood pressure finally settled down. I bet you well enjoy the new Jitterbug phone as it has nice big buttons and they are easy to see. 

JaneS, nice of you to help out the young man by your work flexibility.  I hope you can enjoy "dynamo" today.

Sandy, was that the voice of experience with your remark to Hal about the baked potato? 

Hal, like you I want my baked potato to be nice and soft.  I will occasionally order one with a steak and salad when we are eating out.  Did you every have potatoes baked in salt? 

Shirley, too bad your husband didn't have the truck he wanted when he was younger and could enjoy it.  Glad you took a nap rather than push yourself to do the projects.  They will still be waiting when you are up to doing them. 

Amy, I hope you got the weeds in your garden tended too and also got your grass cut. 

Lloyd, I hope you all got a nice rain last night and see you have a sufficient pleanty (as a friend of mine used to say).  Since I live East of you perhaps it is headed our way.  We have had severe storm warning every afternoon for the last several days.  Raccoons can sure be destructive creatures.

Good morning everyone, overcast this morning with rain in the forecast for the afternoon. Figures, I have an appointment so will have to dress for rain. Nice? NOT!

LARRY  I think Barnes and Noble is the only bookstore left in this area. There used to be several but with the advent of the tablets so many do not buy books any more. I still like the feel of a book in my hands when I read. I am glad my grandson could afford the pacemaker for his dog but I would have had to think about doing that thousands of dollars procedure. The Tens my daughter sent me cost $75 and really did not last. Soe I looked at were a few hundred dollars.

MARY ANN  I cannot even use the foot high step stool I have. 

JUNE  wonderful Dori surprised you and then showed you great pictures. This is one of those gray mornings I would love to sleep the morning away.

JANE  great that you can help each other at work filling in a shift for others. My DIL could do that at the hospital where she worked.

SHIRLEY  cheer up, cold weather will be here in ? months.

AMY  stop working so hard.

LLOYD  we have had too much rain this summer.

Quotes About "Work"

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. - Robert Frost

The easiest job in the world has to be coroner. Surgery on dead people. What’s the worst thing that could happen? If everything went wrong, maybe you’d get a pulse. - Dennis Miller

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? - Edgar Bergen

Doing nothing is very hard to do…you never know when you’re finished. - Leslie Nielsen

The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you’re on the job. - Slappy White

I only go to work on days that don’t end in a ‘y’. - Robert Paul

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. - Muhammad Ali

A good rule of thumb is if you’ve made it to thirty-five and your job still requires you to wear a name tag, you’ve made a serious vocational error. - Dennis Miller

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. - Jerome K Jerome

Love the Work sayings, Gloria, copied, will save & pass on.  Was 80 degrees when I woke up but cloudy so was hugging that thought when the sun popped out & felt like 100 that fast.  I was grunching to myself when I realized I was hearing a strange noise on the roof & from the oven vent (that is like a megaphone), checked the window & sure enough, bright sun & raining!!!  News man said there was a crazy little cloud moving over Wichita & pouring buckets... if you happened to be right under it! 

Lloyd, I came up with a fix for those raccoons.... at the Dollar Tree they have little boxes of moth balls... and I threw some into the berm & around the yard where they were digging.  No more raccoons or skunks, they don't like the smell of my yard!  Have not seen any this year or last, but I bought some more mothballs just in case.  I heard Kansas City is flooding with at least 4" of rain. 

Larry, when Cas went to buy a pick up he had pin-pointed on the computer the one he was going to get.  All the years we were married he had a habit of buying anything that was less expensive than what he really wanted but ended up not being happy & would trade or keep buying until he got the right thing.  The pick up was a "plain Jane".... but they had one on the show room floor that was a beauty, every option to impress a man.  When I learned it was only $4,000 more than the one he was about to buy, I told him I'd pay half that extra if he'd get the dolled up one.  That was when I was doing art shows & mad money saved up.  We drove that new baby home & he really loved it for a while, until............  2 vehicles in the driveway & 2 in the garage.... too many for 2 people.

Jane, I'd love to find someone like your dynamo.... have not heard of ANY reasonable prices for help here & they don't do any of the hard cleaning.  Besides, have to put away everything or they don't work at all.  If I could get ready for cleaners I wouldn't need them.  Just like these yard guys keep me hopping to make sure everything is ready for them to breeze through & I sit & wait all day because they don't keep a schedule. I can't leave gates unlocked without watching that no kids or dogs get into the pool. I can't take the sun so even the riding John Deere sitting in the shed doesn't tempt me to do my own.  I will keep on moaning about cleaning house and letting the yard guys bully me so I can pay them to do what they do.  I'd better get out & trim before it gets any hotter. 

Amy, you are a much better person that I am.... I do hate yard work even when it isn't hot.  Love to plant trees & watch them grow, but weeds take over my flowers & have ruined the beautiful grass Cas had.  A ground ivy gave him fits, had it sprayed but didn't do a bit of good... and I just let it get mowed & don't fight.  It is green & thick.   

Hope every day for good news about Joan.  That old saying, "no news is good news" doesn't work for me.... I still think that if there is any GOOD news someone will be in the cheer us up.  Prayers, Joan, and just a few words to let us know you are getting better, no need to come back to work.  We are hanging in, missing you but holding us together.   Shirley

 Shirley Thanks for the tip I will give it a try. we had 4.1" of rain and is still cloudy.and i have a case of the Laze's today. have a great day.

Lloyd

This has been a weird day. Dr. thinks my salt level is down again, so I gave up two tubes of blood early this morning. I did get some stuff cleaned out and rearranged in some drawers and cupboards. When I first moved in (one year and five months ago) I just shoved stuff in where ever I could find an empty spot, so it felt good to get that rearranged properly. Still more to do though. And I managed to pound a nail in the wall and hang a thermometer that Gary gave me yesterday. I get the temps for our city on my computer, but I wanted the reading for inside my apt.

Ended up tired out so did a lot of book reading and napping. Went down for lunch and visiting, later went for a couple walks, and exercise program at mid afternoon. Now home for the rest of the day.

I had two dynamos today.  My gal took on a lot of extra so she's taking her daughter with her to help and she's just as dynamic as Mom.  They finished in a little over half the time but I paid them for the two hours.  I think that's only fair.  Her daughter is somewhere in her 20s.  She a good friend om my granddaughter's cousin on her father's side.  That's how I came to get her in the first place.

My eye appt.  went well. The pressures are down even lower than they've been and she was pleased with the testing results.  So I'm good for another 4 months.

And now, I'm off to Dreamland.  Good night Everyfriend and may God bless us, every one!

(Sure wish we'd hear some news of Joan)

Good Night everyone, I just took a laze day. wish you all sweet dreams.hope to see you all tomorrow.

Lloyd

I have not been in to post.  Just so much going on. 

Patti's surgery went well and she was sent home this afternoon.  She had a 3 1/2 hour drive home after they let her out.  I felt so badly for her.  She has arrived and managed to get herself to bed.  I sure wish I were close enough to help her out. 

Thank you all for the thoughts and prayer. 

Pleasant dreams to all.

Jenny

Denver you seam to be the only on , according to your post time suspect you have gone to bed. I was up earlier and temp fix on the dry mouth. it already 71º at 4:30 AM and saying it is going to 82º was cloudy most all day after the rain yesterday. Shirley is that your picture saying heck with dye? you have a true heart so no matter the cooler of the hair.  I will try back later when folks wake up. hope it is cool today so I can work in the shop ( catch up ).

Lloyd

Good morning Everyfriend!  I'm always up sometime between 5:30 and 6 a.m. but sometimes circumstances demand attention and I don't get to come here until later.  Annie has had her pill that she needs to take on an empty stomach and now we are waiting our hour until they can have breakfast.  When the kitchen timer goes off, they both know what it means.

JENNY, I'm glad your friend's surgery was successful and I know what you mean about wishing you were near enough to help her through the recovery period.  I feel that way about my sister and brother every day.  Their daughter lives nearby but she's a school teacher and often not available when they need her.

I'll be off to Wally World later this morning.  Wish me smiles.  They sure make the day go better! 

I wish all of you smiles in your day.  Fill it as you wish it to be.  Do what pleases you most. 

Good morning everyone.

We are going to pick up our winter supply of kindling this morning. He makes cedar shakes/shingles and any duds go for kindling. On our way up we will stop off at our friends and drop off two big bags of chicken breasts that I pick up for her in the city.

Shirley, I don't mind cutting grass and I am spoiled at that, I use a riding lawnmower for the most part.

Jenny, glad to hear Patties surgery went well......now to go on the road to recovery.

Gloria, loved the "Work" passing it on to others to have a chuckle .

Joan, have a wonderful day at work and I hope everyone that comes through your till is smiling...

Take care everyone

Enjoy your day.

 Amy I am with you I do not Mind cutting grass also, good thing counting the shop and house yard I have on the top side three acres to mow. I have a hustler zero turn 66 inch cut mower. If the yard were smoother could mow it at fifteen miles per hour. as is at around 6-7 mph. Nancy will not even try to mow with it. she said if i would get her a ridding mower with a steering wheel she would mow. I see no point in that I do not mined mowing.  with her patched up leg she has no business out in the yard or garden. she got plate in her left leg from her ankle to her knee. here bones are very brittle. she was dancing the line dance turned left and the left leg broke right under the knee , she fell on the broken leg right at the brake and crushed it in six other fraudsters. the plate is held in place with 84 screws some clamps and glue. so keep her in the kitchen keeping my fat tummy in tune. ( HA HA HA) see you Later.

Lloyd

Good morning everyone. Sun is shining and TV says 70°.
I might get PT here at home. I told the doctor about what the pain doctor did with that needle hitting a nerve at my spine and how my left leg is now bothering me. Will see what happens.

SHIRLEY glad you liked those quotes. your one spot rain is odd, sort of like the day it was raining and I drove into sunshine and out of it in a space of 100 feet. Those mothballs are what I used to keep raccoons away from the trash barrel. I put some in a net bag and tied to the handle and they never came back. Good way to keep critters out of a garden too. Just not on the ground near a vegetable garden.

JANE  with 2 working together the work does get done faster and easier for both working together.

AMY  those cedar shakes make great kindling and also shims. Wish I has seen those work quotes when I was still working.

Have a good day, think  will go lay on the couch for awhile. Every time I have to go anywhere I feel very tired for a couple of days after.

I'm Up, but not ready to bounce around. Feeling very tired, so will go with the flow. There are several things I would like to participate in today, but will have to do what the body dictates. So off I go to the recliner and book.

Hi everyone. It is a hot and humid day here in South Carolina and will get into the mid 90's this afternoon.  Fortunately it is predicted to be cloudy later today.  I made a quick trip to Walmart to get a prescription for Pat and to pick up a couple of hardware items before it got too hot this morning.  Fortunately there was a riding cart available.  Still not feeling at all peppy.  Fortunately I have nothing else to do today.  The housekeeper is here so soon we will have a spic and span house again.

We had a very nice time at our Sunday School party last evening.  Almost all of the regular attendees on Sunday made it to the party.  The food was delicious and I was able to fix a plate full of food to bring home so our supper tonight is all set.  Pat was feeling better yesterday and seems to be OK today.   

Gloria, we are going to return the Tens Unit as defective.  The company has never bothered to return my call about the problem so why would we want to do business with them.  I liked the Edgar Bergen quote about work.  It has been a long time since I thought about him and his puppets.  The other quotes are good also.

Shirley, it sounds like you were one of the lucky one right under the little cloud.  I have done the same thing that Cas did most of my life in trying to save money.  It does sound like you had an abundance of vehicles with four for two people.    Sorry you can't find a housekeeper. 

June, I think I mentioned that when I saw the PA the other day one of the things she said I needed to do was eat more salt.  I have never been one to use the salt shaker at every meal and old habits are hard to break. 

Jane, it sounds like you have a keeper in your housekeeper.  Before we moved we had two cousins who worked as a team housecleaning and they were also a dynamite due.  Glad you got a good report from the eye doctor. 

Jenny, is your friend Patti by herself?  Glad her surgery went well.  I guess you haven't seen anymore postings from Joe about his mother Joan.

Lloyd, three acres to mow is way too much.  Do you do all of that on your riding lawnmower or can you do some of it with a mower pulled by your tractor?  Sorry to hear that Nancy has such brittle bones.  It sounds like she needs to be very careful.