Rabies Around?

Hey Anon, why would ol Ben apologize?  Don't u know he's always right?  He blocks me off his blog, lololol, cause i made a negative comment. hahahahaha.  Made my day!  Whatcha wanna bet, he's reading these, hope he loves my comments. 
There have been Kothmans around here always.  Lots between here and Mason, and West toward Brady.  Didn't recognize the other name.

I might get out later and pick up my car tags.  Not one to get out early, like, it's after 11 now, and i'm just having breakfast.  But, i have had my coffee and read the paper.  Daily ritual since the 60s, but now i don't have to get up earlier than others, to do it. 

Jude wouldn't come in this morning, cause something dragging on the bottom of my door was scaring him, and i couldn't hold that hot door any longer.  When i looked later, there's been something up on the table that turned over a couple of cans, one with bird seed in it.  Lid off too. lol,,,No doubt a coon.  One time when i was up during the nite, (i open my bathroom window when i go to bed) there had been a skunk around, that sprayed.  Keep hearing on my scanner about people calling in about suspicious animals.  It's been too much rabies around this year, so anything gets called in now.  A neighbor called in about a cat that was foaming at the mouth, in his yard.  OMG i called Jude and he didn't show up, (he got his update for rabies a few months ago) and i knew cats do that if they are sick.  Had one of mine do that one time, because he had a fish bone stuck on a tooth and couldn't swallow.  I watched him a minute, then opened his mouth, saw what it was, got some pliers, and pulled it off.  Hubby had taken off running, wouldn't get near him.  Poor thing couldn't swallow at all. Anyway, back to this report.  Since i couldn't find Jude, i got in the car and went over there, had heard the official say he just had a big gun.  I was horrified he would shoot the cat.  Well, he didn't.  He was smart enough to look at the cat and decide it needed a vet, not disposing of.  It was the neighbor's cat.  And that's the same thing i told him, that the cat was sick.  He said it had had rabies shot about a year ago, and they last 2-3 years.  The vets re-do them in years like this, after 1 year.  I don't panic when i see an animal doing something unusual now, like a skunk of fox being out in the daytime.  You can tell if there's something really wrong.  Like the skunk called in this morning.  It was staggering around.  Everything is looking for food and water.  When the sun gets over to the West, i'll get out and clean up the bird seed.  Don't wanna be feeding mice.  On that table anyway.  lololol  That 5 gal bucket out in the storeroom is fine.

Hey DD, thx for the pics.  Sure would like to be a snow bird.  Winter here, summer there. lol.  It's hard to believe the coast is as dry as we are.  Paper today said all of  the Texas counties are disaster areas now.  Only crops making are the irrigated ones, and the wells are drying up for those too.   River report:  J=39 M=22 L=6  Wow we're up 1.  Those little showers musta done that. 

Yall all HAGD

How do I Do These Things?

DD's got a blog today!  About time, lol.  So,,, it was hot up there in Texarcana? huh?  We got this little pop up shower late yesterday, but don't know how much.  Rained real hard for about 10 mins or so, then all was gone.  Had a little pea size hail, wind, too.  So,,i didn't get out and turn the hoses on.  My lot is on a slope, so the part that was so dry, is on the downhill side, will seep to it.  Always does.

Got to fooling around with things on here, not knowing what, and wow, if u hit compose up there, u get all ur tool bar filled in!,,,Most of the time when i'm doing something like that, it ends up costing me.  So after my last episode, costing so much, i really don't like to try it.  Even the dell repairman couldn't get this back to where it had been,, not this part, my email part.  So when i save an email on here, i have to put it into a new file, in email, can't put it in favs or docs any more.  Or, i can send it to myself, and on desktop, put it where i want.  So, u see why i don't just go around clicking this, clicking that?  You also saw where i had 2 of the same blogs yesterday.  I have NO idea how that happened either.  Took one off today.  I did go back later and added onto what i thot was that one, but i guess it wasn't.

Couldn't get to sleep last nite, AGAIN!  Got some unisom but not sure if i should take it or not.  Need to check on that today.  Used to use a web site to check on all the drugs i had to take.  You would be surprised to see how many times ur prescribed some that won't mix with others.  Now i really check.

Know this is short, but not much going  on around here. HAGD

How Did a Can of Soup Bring All This Back?

Thot that DD was gonna blog on his trip. Haven't seen any yet. Isn't there always happenings along the way? That's why i like Gypsy's so much.

I couldn't find the soup i wanted here, the other day, so i came home and made my own potato soup. WOOOO,,good!!! Hope i can replicate it again. One time, i made some deer chili, kinda started with some directions, got to throwing in things, not knowing what i was doing. yummmm,,,best i EVER tasted!!, I sat down rite then and wrote down what i had done. Reminds me, lol, of an huge chili cook off way back, and bro B and my youngest, decided they would DECIDE which was best. So after all these cups went down the table for the judges, guess who was at the end to put thier own 2 cents in. There were 100 cookers, so lots to taste. Some they spit out, others made them grab water, and then some they put in the 'like' area. Later, i looked in my fridge and guess what i found??? All those cups of left over chili!!! Had to agree with them, tho. The one they decided on was the best, til i cooked the above one. Yeah, i had to taste too.

Still don't have all those things up there on my tool bar, means no spell check either. Just changed all on it's own yesterday. Has anyone tried the Google Chrome blogger? Sure wondering about it. This one has too many things that don't get fixed.

Haven't checked my tv list for today. Need to do that, i'm almost out of movies. Have to use them lots of nites when nothing is on. Whew, got 2 done, starting at 12, was 5 til.

Told on yesterday's blog, that i would post river flow. So, here is how i'm gonna do it.
J=Junction, M=Mason, L=Llano,,, so today's are:
J=39, M=25, L=6. No change since yesterday. The numbers are cfs.
Don't know how we are still in stage 3, and today is my watering day. Need to put what i can on trees in front. And shrubs. The hours are so bad for me, i don't even get my morning done. It ends at 10, so when i wake up at 9 or so, not enough time. Then, it doesn't start again til 8 tonite. Hard to get out later and cut it off.

Keep getting that error, not saving drafts, so i'm putting this out while i can.

Boring Weekend

Gosh this puter is slooowww today.  Don't know what's going on.  Got a big kick outa BBs post today.  If i didn't have the calendar gadget on this, i'd never know the date.  And sometimes i have to take all the open windows off, to look and see what it is.  Then, the screen is covered by more gadgets, my yellow sticky notes, clock.  Every morning before i get into anything, i read my sticky notes.  Like,,car tags due this month.  Books due on different dates.  At least i can do renew online.  All my appointments.  Gosh,what would i do without em?  I stack em in dated order, as much as i can.

No plans all weekend.  Is that unusual? lololo,,,Didn't sleep til after 3 am. Took some of my good pain med, no pain, just wanted to sleep, and did after that. So today, gonna see if i can find something like unisom, to help me sleep.

See that "whatever" up there?,,,All that just popped up on here and this went back to somewhere else. No spell check, not much up there on tool bar left after it did this. hmmmm. wth is going on? Even my font is different. lol looked at preview and it doesn't show up.

Ok, back to no sleep. I have a prescription med that i won't take, after finding out about side effects. Like,, u can get up and do things and not even remember!!! Now, who in the world would take something like that when u live alone?

I had never seen the movie, DaVinci Code, so last nite i watched it. Was so so, not great. I hate movies filmed in the dark, and most of it was. Besides that, it was 3 hours long. That movie that won so many awards, about the kids in India, i never saw anything at all to do that.

Gotta get out sometime today and go by friend's house and get some eggs. Ns chickens not laying much. S has good fresh ones too.

Ok, gonna get dressed and get out now, maybe not so hot. lol, showing 100. but that's on East side, not correct in the mornings, even tho in the shade.
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4 PM,,just read anonymous from yesterday's blog. I have the web site and will post the river flow, cfs, each day. I put it in comment to answer anonymous for today.

Living in Denison, huh. hahahaha, small world. Have LOTs of kin there, in Sherman. Mom's side. One of my fav cousins, Shelby Gann, know him?, loves to come down here and harrass me,,,lol. Used to show up in wee hours, call, say get yo azz outa bed, let's gooo! There's a good club out at Buchanan Dam. He brought 2 friends down to hunt one time, got back and they hung thier deer out in Dad's garage. When Dad went out to see em, he said, don't u laugh now. Dad didn't, til he turned n headed back, telling him he'd bring him a sandwich bag for Bambi. hahahahaha You had to look hard, in the pics, to see it, hanging up there between all those other big ones. He still swears it had nubs. Another time, he got up at 5, to go out, and told bro B, felt like he just got to bed. B said, u did. That might have been the day he stayed in the truck, while the others went to thier stands, raised his head up one time, saw a big buck, shot it, went right back down. When the others showed up later, he asked them to go over yonder and get it. They didn't really believe him, but sure nuff, there it was.

Whole other area there, folks. Just wanted anonymous to know how much i appreciate his comment, and how small a world it is.

Dum,,,,de DumDum

Read on another blog that DD is leaving, driving for 4 or 5 days,, and on HIS,,just had 'no blog'!!! And that's what i was gonna put on MINE! lmaoooo

So, here's just a little today.  We are back to stage 4 on water.  And i didn't even get any watering done.  Our forecast is BAD, thru the rest of the year, even into spring.  Only hope is maybe rain from a hurricane, tropical depression, or something on that order.  Our 2 car washes have big signs in front, well water, so they're still operating, but,,,conditions aren't good for wells either.  People pumping out of the river above us, are being limited now too.

There's an huge tennis tourny this weekend, in Austin.  The world Davis Cup.  And it's not on any channel i can get.  Who gets the tennis channel?  Besides softball, i was really good in tennis.  We had a club here at one time, and hubby and i were in it.  I could serve an ace that didn't even bounce, just kinda slid by.  Not hardly anyone could return one.  About the only sport i didn't play, was golf.  Just never was interested in it.  Told ya, i was a tomboy, lol.

I just don't know how the firefighters get out in those suits, and battle fires.  In this heat?  Around here, there's grass fires, well, brush, trees, etc. just called grass fires.  And everything is so burned up by no rain, very easy for one to get going.  Just something lying on the ground, can set one off.  When i'm out on the highways now, i'm noticing bare ground in the pastures, so maybe there won't be any bad ones.

I bought 2 huge cantalopes at the store a couple of days ago.  And i can't eat but a few bites at a time.  Told N to plzzzz come by and get one.  Her hens aren't laying enough now, so i'm gonna have to get eggs somewhere else.  She said she had a good talk with them about that, yesterday.  She's caught one of them eating her own eggs.  I told her Dad always put the egg shells, ground up, back in their pens.  She's gonna get some ground up oyster shell stuff today.  She's NOT gonna eat chicken!! lol  After all, we named them all, and Ms Clean is the one doing this.  She's white, and sooo clean.  The other white one is One Eye, lost her eye to the other rooster and hen.  Nearly killed her.  Now, those 2 didn't last the nite.

Nothing to write about today, taking a day off, hahahahaha.  byeeeee

LMAOOOO,,,Everybody Talking About Scraps of Soap

DD, my parents grew up and lived thru the great depression too.  We were raised the same, use everything  up.  I remember my Grandmother making lye soap, out in the yard in an huge iron pot.  After slaughtering the hogs.  I put my little pieces into a mitt u can get at Walmart, in the bath section.  Scrubs off the ol flaky skin, feels good, too.

Mom used a Magtag wringer washer til the 60s.  And my bro B has it now, still works great.  And we all, at some time or other, got our arms caught in it.  She became an hoarder for the last years of her life,  left it all for us to clean up, sort thru, get rid of,,OMG.  Took all 5 of us months!  She would go to garage sales, buy old broken stuff, take home because it "could be" fixed.  She never got rid of anything, ever.  When all the outside buildings were filled, then she did the house.  Room by room.  I know it's a disease, and we just left it alone.  After she died, we filled 2 huge containers we rented, $700 a whack,  and 2 huge trailers, with just trash.  Gave away tons of clothes, material.  THEN, we had the estate sale, probably the biggest one ever, here..  What didn't sell, we donated to a children's home for them to sell.  My bro B and i were cleaning out one of the big storage buildings one day, and i was handing him out stacks of old magazines, and he picked up one to look at, and under it, was a lot of my old high school news things we put out every month.  I had been on the production crew.  Priceless, to me.  Took them to our class reunion in 2009.  How did they survive all those years?  Out in that old building?  There was an huge freezer out there too, been buried for years and years.  Had quit working long ago.  WELL, when we finally could get to it, no one wanted to open the door, but B just had to look!! YUKKKKK, black stuff!!!  They had to take a wall out there by it, to get it out,  Then pull it out to the trash container with Gs truck, then all of us helped roll it into the bin.  In this same building, were boxes and boxes of canned goods.  We had to throw them away!  No telling how old they were.  We just knew you couldn't open the door to it any more because millions of things would fall out.  Has anyone ever had an hoarder in their family?  The tv show was our reality too.  And maybe we should have forced the issue, but we just left her alone and happy.  I told everybody she was up there, laughing at us, having to clean up!  I kept a few things, no room, like everybody else.  An old trunk, put all the books and pictures in, at the foot of my bed.  An old churn, belonging to one of my grandmothers.  A few other small things. Everybody pitched in, and we finally could get the house on the market.  Put it with one realtor, no sale in the 6 month contract, so we changed to another one.  I bought that little statue of St. ?,,,Joseph, i think, and it sold within 3 weeks!!  Since i was the bookkeeper in the family, i got to do all the paperwork, from the getgo.  Taking care of all the insurance claims, getting everything done, and i would make a report to the rest every family meeting we had.  Kept all the finances on paper, to the penny.  The 2 older of us, were in charge, but we didn't ever inforce that, everything was always put to a vote.  No resentments that way. 

Ok yall, i've actually gotten some eggs boiled, gonna have 1 for lunch.  (Maybe 2)  My friend called early today, woke me up.  Was 9, so np.  She was worried because she had too much put in, not able to get liquids down.  She doesn't drink coffee, and she needed something hot to help open it, and she finally thot about broth.  When i talked to her a little later, she had kept some of it down.  It's really tight in the mornings.  My coffee takes care of that.  She knows it's too tight, but wants it that way if at all possible.  I also told her to sip on room temp. water.  Cold shuts if off more.  She wasn't so much worried about food, as hydration. 

Gosh, don't know where all THIS came from, today.  Gotta get, egg time, ya know.

Heyy, I'm Back

Did i actually say i would tell yall how much weight i had lost?,,,  Did i really?,,,hmmmmm, ok.  7 lbs, in the 6 weeks since port replaced.  Did those in the first 3 weeks, actually 9,  then i was needing a fill.  When the surgery was done, he just put 4cc in, and yesterday he put 1 more.  GOSH, it's working now!  When i got up during the nite and took just one sip of water, then went back to bed, didn't work.  I could not lay there without that water wanting to come back up, so finally i sat up and that made me burp and burp, but when i laid back down, still the same. I finally just got up and read my book for a while.  lol, Won't do that any more.  The next time i swished it around then spit it out. 

We went to Red Lobster for lunch before our appointments and i just got an appetizer.  OMG,,,it had 6 huge shrimp, which i could only get 3 down.  Had 1/2 a biscuit with them.  So, i had leftovers for supper, and our driver gave me 3 more she couldn't eat, so i still have shrimp.  For supper, all i could eat were 2!  Very slowly.  YEAAAA lol.  The friend that had hers done a few months before i did, is the one i go with.  We work it so that we can go at the same time, and another one has been driving us.  It was about 4:30 when we got back, and i was soooo tired of sitting by then, i didn't get anything else done.  Well, got my trash out cause it had to go.  The driver did a couple of things after we left the Doc's office, and that made us so late getting home.  Ok with me, i was just along for the ride. lol.  I donate for gas, pay for my supper.  And soo glad i can do that.

I realized i had missed 2 refills last week when i called them in, prescriptions, so i called them in yesterday before i left.  When they delivered this morning, they didn't have them, so i called, and they had no record of me calling before either.  They are the only drug store we have now, and he has also bought out 3 more, so i'm hoping this kind of thing doesn't become regular. 

DD, i've  read ur blogs from the getgo, every one of them.  Don't u dare quit doing them!! :)))  I catch myself feeling the same.  Nothing to write about, just rambling, and wanting to quit doing them every day.  I didn't post the last 2 days,  and that was fine.  I have gotten new followers or i might have quit totally by now.  THANK YOU, ALL U NEW FOLLOWERS.  Anyway, i get discouraged too, just wanted to let u know.

HAGD