Wow yes, Patricia got it - sent back to you a reply - my first message how much fun...

Little by little today getting caught up with projects started and not finished -

Next I need to cull my knitting books - no way will I be knitting as I once did - have wool for several sweaters but no way - hate giving this good wool to Goodwill but don't know who else - so few knit this far south - the many years ago when I lived in Kentucky everyone always had a project going 

Bed in a bit - sweat dreams everyone...

A very good, wet morning to you all.

Oscar report: Oscar has some new cat food which is mostly chicken that includes things he has never had before, like duck, quail's eggs, lamb, and beef (which he hasn't had since he was a youngster). He ate them all and demanded more. I read an article by a vet that the way lymphoma works in cats is that it feeds on carbs, so low-carb or no carb food with high protein and fat. Starve the cancer to at least slow it down, assuming it is in fact cancer. I am happy that he is eating and not barfing it up every few days.

If I haven't mentioned it already, I have finally settled on a bedroom set. Now all I have to do is get rid of stuff, including the old bed, to make room for it. My current plan is to keep the old dresser, which was my Moms', and put in this room. That involves getting rid of a heavy metal shelving unit and my huge porch rocking chair. The chair needs to be put into the back of my vehicle so I can take it over to Goodwill. It is in very good shape, spending most of its life so far, inside. Unfortunately, I can't use it outside because the way the apartment building is oriented it seems to act like a wind tunnel between the building and the yew bushes causing the rocker to get blown over and knocked about. That surprised me because the rocker is not particularly light. The maintenance man, who I haven't seen hide nor hair of in the last two days, is willing to remove the mattress and furniture.

Time to get my day started. 

Barb, when I moved I got rid of "tons" of crafting books, but kept most of my knitting, crochet and needlework books. What remains still takes up a shelf and a half. My knitting and needlework supplies are packed in one big box and several smaller boxes. Last winter I was going to finish a knitting project, but never got around to it. Those round-to-its are incredibly elusive.

Rain today and tomorrow with temps staying in the 50s. 

ah MarsGal you also with the textiles - ah so - we had such dreams that evidently young women do not share today...

Well I'm bushed and the day has barely started - got a dozen empty Banker Boxes to the curb using my walker and the way I had them stacked on the seat it only took 3 trips to the curb but that is quite a walk since I have a circular drive and a good size front yard - let's hope someone needs boxes and they are gone but in case not the garbage men come tomorrow - not sure if they will take them or not since I had not alerted the company to an extra load - we shall see what we shall see...

Then last night I tried a new spider spray and sprayed down the keyboard and area around my computer - If I'm on the computer for any length of time (which is where I read my kindle books) my hands are full of itchy welts all bitten by I'm assuming spiders - don't see anything flying and so can only assume it is those itsy spiders - Lordy what a mess this morning - spray is called STEM and it leaves a wet oil almost puddle behind - trying to clean up and used more paper towels then if I had a spill in the kitchen - this may be effective and it may not used the chemicals of 'Raid' but oh oh oh what a mess...

Well today my get up and go came back and so I need to keep going - have laundry to do and books to cull and some garage organizing to do - hope y'all have a great day

Good Morning Everyfriend!  I'm up, had my breakfast and I'm checking you all out before I head back upstairs to get dressed!  I wish you all a great day.  I read all your entries and I hope the good stays with you and the bad leaves!  I'll be going out for a walk after I'm dressed and ready!  The bad weather seems to have left us!  I wish you all a great day!  Make it your own in every way.  I'll be back later!

Good morning..

Temp is 50° overcast and drizzly. Good day to stay in and...I am sure I will find something that I don't want to do...   Maybe go sew..

OLM my friend had solar with backup generator.The highlight for her was when they bought a generator that was hooked up to the house and could be started by a fob from inside her home.

Jane, we are in for 3 days of rain here..aka makes grass grow and bugs mulitply .

MG, that is good news!! So happy to read that Oscar is eating..

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

MarsGal, good to hear Oscar is doing better. Cats are obligate carnivores. They were never designed to eat carbs. Here's to him being much healther!

Its is a sunny, warmer day today. I've been hardat getting all the things done that I've been holding off due to raining, freezing, windy weather.i've done the dump and fill, started laundry and started moving last yea'rs green wood into the dry pile. Yesterday I spent hours trying to get the signal booster working. Everywhere I could put the outside antennae was either looking into heavy forest, directly at a tree, or into the side of the tree fort. I have an app thatbtells you where the strongest signal is. You lineup te antenae with its arrow. Thats how I know it always was aligned with the aforementioned obstacles. There was some benefit. I'm getting lots of practice rectifying oscillations.

Good morning Amy, my LP generator has a fob for remote stop and start. I do love that feature. When the solar batteries are down and I'm on the generator I can get in bed and stop it. In the morning I can start it from bed and let the room warm up before getting up and putting on my clothes. Much nicer than the old generator where I had to get up in the frigid RV, get dressed, then go out and start it. 😀

Good late morning, I had my coffee, fed everyone, finished my morning routine and participated in meet and greets. I was up early on this cloudy 53 degree morning, finished several elusive tasks, and wrote up a list of those I've been attempting to ignore.

Everyone has been so busy that I feel a bit ashamed that I'm not. However, with all the disruptions due next month, I'll need to begin getting an early start, so I don't end up doing my annual cleaning blitzkrieg.

Good evening Patricia, Putting my feet up; I'm done for the day. It was sunny and 60°😀 Loved it. Another day of rain expected tomorrow. I got a good share of my list done plus clipped 1/2 a poodle.😄

What do you mean by "meet and greets?"

Good morning..

Weather dog came in and said it is light drizzle outside. Rain now through to Sat. Everyone is itching to get their garden in butweather and soil is not co-operating.

Work around home after having our morning coffee/tea with friends.

OLM,  to me the remote start generators are the only way to go . We now have a new one but not remote start, electic start which works  better than pull start.

Jane, how is the canning going?

Better get the day started.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

Good morning Amy and weather dog,
Grey here, light rain in the night. Projected to rain most of the day. Currently 45°F. Tomorrow through Sunday expected mostly clear - sunny, 60-70°. Finally!

I never could pull start one since I got sick. My husband got me an electric start one right off. Then, even better, an LP one, less toxic. And that's when I found out about the remote start feature and insisted on it. To use the electric start one I had to have a long (like 7' or better) stick and stand as far away as I could and poke it. Fumes

I'm hoping the rain will not be as bad in my neck of the woods. Our weather forecast covers a large region. Not Canadain Province size but the eastern half of Oregon and Washington, a sliver of Canada and Idaho ajacently. Sometimes I get lucky and the bad stuff misses me entirely (like T-storms during fire season). Maybe I'll be able to get out.

Good morning! Haven't been here for awhile but occasionally I have popped in to read about what is going on with all of you.  I am still with you but I don't do much these days.
I am sleeping a lot but did manage to make a meatloaf for dinner last night, with David's help.  He fetches ingredients and mixing bowls, etc for me and I manage to put things together and then he puts it into the oven.  Not perfect but we manage and it makes me feel like I am still doing something and it is a break from catered food though what I order from the  catering company is always very good.  Once  in  a while  we  miss the home cooking that I used to do. 

Our weather in this part of NC is beautiful this  morning but a little cool so I have a sweater on.  It's supposed to go to the mid-80s this afternoon.

Thanks for thinking about me, Amy. I'm hanging in there.  As I have said before, some good days, some not so good.  Hope you and Kyle are doing OK.

Good morning Barb, I looked up your spider spray this morning. How's it working for you?

[/b]Good Morning Everyfriend!  Today is going to be another busy one.  Yesterday we had Granddaughter Ali and her whole family for the afternoon and for supper.  That was fun!  I got lots of hugs from the kids and the little guy (barely 2) has started to talk to me and hug me again.  I love it!  Emma, just finished first grade and she a real little smart cookie!  Mikey is just downfirgh friendly at 4.  I love them all and I glad I'm able to enjoy them!  They wear me out but I'll take that, too!

Not sure what we're up to today but I know i'll like it.  Just being here with my daughter and her family is special for me!

Now I'm going to go see if I can help Cindy get some laundry done!  I wish you all a great day!  Make it your own in every way!

Good morning, partly cloudy with a rain shower here or there, again today.

Morning routine, meet and greets and getting everyone and everything done for the morning, so, with coffee in hand, here I am.

OLM, Meet and Greets is what a group of us started during Covid, to keep in touch, stopped for a short time and then the group started up again after realizing we missed and needed that morning round of check-ins by text, cell phone, or email. Originally, there were twenty of us, evolving from years of friends from work, getting together and bringing in new friends from work or school or marriages, beginning in the sixties.

By Covid, we were down to perhaps twelve, and then more and more were lost or moved away. Now, unfortunately, we're down to eight, as age whittles us away.

Amy, we had a heavy snow up in the mountains and on the Dalton Highway and are only now in the sixties regularly. We are about twenty degrees cooler than normal this year, but without the spring floods from breakup, so there is that.
You and I and my Idahoan sister seem to be sharing the same weather, although she's on a warmer track.

Good morning Jane, You sound in heaven with all the littles about, enjoy!

Phyllis, it is always nice when you pop in. I know what you mean about no longer doing everything as much and in the way you liked to.

And good morning to Rick and to any others stopping by or looking in.

Patricia, sorry to hear you lost so many of your friends. Its a lovely thing that you have that close group. Thanks for enlightening me.

My weather is better than forecasted. Partly sunny. Were at 60°, with a stiff cold wind. I've been outside moving firewood, doing laundry and I finished the other half of Rosie's poodle trim. She's much happier, though its a little chilly out with that wind and the dramatic change in her coat length. We have enough sun to keep the solar batteries charged while running heat. She and I are inside warming up. Kato prefers being outside and doesn't feel the cold: double coat.