Saturday, September 3, 2011

Got Those Doors,,,

Got my doors!!  N and i went over there this morning.  We were barely able to get them out of her truck, so i called my nephew and asked him to come by with a friend and bring them in for me.  They both have glass, wouldn't want them to get broken outside.  Don't know when i will get them installed,  lololol,,,but no problem there.  Got the doors, and the rest of my life to do that, right?  I almost backed out on the entry one, but after i talked to N and she told me you could fasten rods to a steel door, got back on the band wagon.  Now,,just for some cooler weather to install them.  When i'm not having to run the AC.

Didn't go to sleep til about 4 last nite.  Would lay there, toss, get up and read, go back and toss, u know the routine.  We were back in time for a nap for me.  And she also said she was going home to do the same.  She's been feeling crappy for a couple of days, said even had chills  2 days ago, and now has bad cough.  It's going around.  I think that might be what i had several weeks ago.  Know i had hard chills, which i haven't had in about 40 years!!

Had just a short nap already.  Made quite a bit of progress on the huge book.  Just about 500 more pages to go.

Gonna cut this short today, way late getting here. so,,,

HAGD









Friday, September 2, 2011

Missing ALL That Rain!!!

Eating oatmeal here at 11;30 am.  Never was a breakfast eater.   Back in high school, i slept til 10 mins before i had to leave, jumped up, got ready that quick, and was gone.  Didn't see any sense wasting sleep time.  Now i never set an alarm, well almost never.  Best part of being old. hahahaha.  Should i say, retired?

Told BB he needed a wagon, for all those fish he doesn't catch.  But,,reason i did that, is i have used a big red wagon  always,,since my kids had one way back.  Had to buy a new one a few years ago.  Great to haul stuff around the yard, haul groceries to back door, just about anything.  Course, Sadie Mae would have to ride in it.  Or, maybe she could pull BB. hahahaha.  One time i tied one to our german sheppard, and put my young son in it.  She loved it, but the further she went the faster she got.  By the time she went around the corner, she was running, and that wagon turned right over throwing my son out.  He got up, wanted right back in it. lololol  I led her after that.  Everybody needs a wagon.

I just can't believe all that rain turned to the North!!!  Had such high hopes.  All of Texas getting a drenching.  Pipe dreams.  But did i see a front coming this way?,,,Cooler by Monday?  Probably what ran off the rain.

N told me she would take me to pick the doors up tomorrow.  Nearly changed my mind, thinking i couldn't cover up the top half of glass, in a steel door.  Never had steel doors til i got the back one, and it doesn't have any windows.  All i want to do is put curtains over them, on a rod at the top.  Anybody done this?  Quick,,tell me before tomorrow.  lol.  Need ur help and input here. My bro B would use roofing screws,,hahahaha.

It IS gonna cool down Monday, just saw the weather.  OOO Boy.  My utility bill was up about 40.00, which i expected.  It covers 3 extra days too.  Mid July 14-Mid Aug 16.  not bad.  That's everything, water, electric, sewer, trash. 

Wish i had something to write about.  Wish i had lots of money.  Wish i was younger.  Wish i was thin again.  Let's see, what else.  hahahahaha,,,That's all BS,,except the first one.  Glad i have what i have, i count my blessings every day.  Home Health Care taught me that.  Worked with one, in his 30s, had dived off a cliff, hit his head, became paralyed from the neck down.  Had 2 young kids, a wife he hadn't been married to very long.  Other young ones had bad health problems.  Even the older ones were sad too.  But it made ME feel good to help THEM.  Think i might have told you also, about Big Boy. lol,,Weighed 600 pounds, had to give him a bed bath every day, when i was sent there.  He had a specialy made bed, with bars above, could turn himself.  His legs had broken open from the weight, and the company i worked for was looking for a nursing home for him.  A nurse was by every day to change the dressings.  He was 42.  By the time they found one, he had gained up to 700.  BUT, on the other side of the coin, WE were paying his disability and health bills, because he was fat. 

Any of yall like to play games? Online.  With real ppl.  I play mostly at www.onlinebandit.com.  Just thot i'd throw that in.  I do ludo and painted yahtz.  Have to be good, got kicked off one time. hahahaha.  Not saying what i said, but they are strick.  So when i leave here, i usually play for a while.  Loved games all my life.  Also play rummikub on another.  Got a BIG book to read right now, tho.  About 160 pages in.  Out of 760.

Yall TC, HAGD











Thursday, September 1, 2011

Privacy

Well hells bells, im still having to redo my whole google account to post comments.  Why doesn't it keep it?,, Who knows?   AND,, before u say it, i do check the box to remember me. 

OOO Mercy!  Just had to bend for a while to trim my toe nails.  OOOOWWW.  That pain pill i took last nite worked so good, might do another one tonite.  Hush, BB.  lololol.  Cut too much on 2, now i'll have sore toes for a while, but,,,they are short. 

There are a couple of blogs i would sure like to respond to, but,,,NOT gonna put my private info on there, just to do it.  One is rvsue, the other is oljules.  They want tooo much private, for me anyway, just to post a comment.  Don't know what you'd have to fill out to become a follower.  Ur life story i guess.  Anyway, i'm too much a private person, just won't do it.  Closed out that facebook too, too much info.  Don't do chat stuff with people around here, can use my phone, not a public place.  I explained to BB why i don't put my name out.  I don't even use my name on my email.  One time, i was pitching a fit to the cable company cause they wanted my personal phone number, and i didn't want to give it to em.  hahahaha,,,I was listed in the phone book!!!  AND worse, it was even on my checks i paid them with. hahahahaha  (Realized that after i had talked to them),,,Well, duh,,even smart people like me can be,,,uh,,,u know,,sometimes. lolololol  Nuff said about THAT subject.

Gotta get on the phone and call the Lowe's in Marble Falls, see if they have 2 doors i saw in their ad today.  One is a storm door and the other is an entry door.  Need them both on the front.  Has been too hot to do the work, but getting about to the point where it can be.  For me,,lol, having to have the doors open til replaced.  Gonna call the man that put on my back ones, he has told me he would when i got ready.  Will ask my bro B first, but he hates to work on old houses.  Gets too impatient.  That store is a pretty new one, and is huge.  I'm gonna ask about delivery too.    Just called, forget delivery!! $79.00.  But the doors are there, both of them.

Need to make a store run.  BBL maybe.

If not, HAGD





















Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Bring It ON!!!! (a Norther)

Had to sign back in to google today, to post!!!  Is this a recurring problem, or what?  I'm talking about going thru the whole process of getting the google account.   That was to post on OFM,,not the other 2. 

O well, whatever.  Lol BB, have those beetles around here too, and sure do NOT want em in the house.  There's another black beetle that comes in somehow, all summer.  I use my little trapper thingy and pick them up, throw them out.

Know what yall gonna say, but this was a first.  My right wrist, hip, left knee, hurt allllll nite.  Even an aleve didn't seem to help.  Never have had arthritis that i know of.  Never had rain warnings.  Sooo,,,wth did i do to me?  Racked my brain, and only thing i could think of, was cleaning out that water container outside.  Took a long time, leaning way over, washing, scrubbing, rinsing.  hahahaha, Next time, i'll put it up on the table, like i was telling BB to do with his tube.  Has to be the reason.  Hope it gets lotssss better by tonite.  Still have that pain med, gosh, didn't think about that last nite.

Just cooked some oatmeal for lunch.  Ate one of my breakfast bars earlier, gonna have to quit em. Gives me indigestion every time now,  Another thing i don't have.  Til now.  That's the lap band.  Got an appointment on the 13th, so i'll ask about that.  Need a little more fill.  It works real good for like, 3 weeks, then it starts to stretch or something.  Lets u eat more.  Need to get to the place where my friend is, she can't eat. lololol,,,I called her yesterday, cause i was worried about her not getting enough nutrition, but she said she was.  Might have to quit meats, they're the hardest to do.  Well, breads, salads are too.  Really dry toast works ok. 

I was so glad! to see the end of August, i changed my calendar today. hahahaha,  Now i'm waiting on that Norther BB was talking about.  Anything's possible here in TX. 

Have yall noticed there is NOTHING on tv now???  I'm having to record movies all the time to keep for nites when there's nothing on i'll watch.  And,,the library called and had the book i had reserved, the newest of the Clan of the Cave Bear series, and,,it says the last one.  It's like, 2" thick, hard to hold, but i sure got a ways into it last nite.

Who's gonna watch that Dancing With the Stars this time???,,If it could get worse, it just did.  They had to rake the dregs to come up with contestants last year, but this year???  I have rarely watched it, but sure WON"T this year.

That oatmeal was a DRUG.  Putting me to sleep. 

HAGD














Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Look Out Now,,Yall

I'm sooooo proud of myself, yall,  all on my own,  i stumbled on how to,,post to our new blogger, BBs son, Mr. nice guy himself, and,,,get this,,DDs!!!!!!!  Wasn't anything to do with cookies.  Somewhere, it showed google account, sooo,,,i redid it.  IT WORKED  I know yall are so glad,,that i can now post to ur blogs. lolololol,,,Especially, you DD. 

I bought one of those foam pillows about a year ago, so this morning i decided to give it a washing, with a set of sheets so my machine would balance, right?,,,That worked.  Went in there to check on it, and that pillow was floating, so,,,i had to reset and start it over.  Pushed it down and hoped it would work then.  lol,,Don't know how much it cleaned it, the cover still has the stains, but it was lucky i left it on, that foam had a whole lot of little pieces coming off.  When it dries, i'm gonna take the cover off, and clean all that off.  Gosh, that thing cost like, around 24.00 at Walmart.  Why would it do that?  I've tried the memory foam, used it awhile, didn't really like it.  Weighs a ton.  I like the foam best, of all i've ever used. 

See, you can talk about nothing, just get started. hahahaha

I also cleaned out the water thing outside, was all green and nasty.  So i washed that out too.  I just happened to look out yesterday, in time to see 2 mockingbirds land in the crepe myrtle there above, gasping, it was so hot.  Had their beaks open, panting.  Wish i had thot to put that container out lots sooner.  Just hadn't realized the critters around, that didn't have water.  When Jude goes out about my bedtime, i turn the lite on and see what might be out there, but haven't seen anything since the possum, his friend. 

Where did i see that ants won't cross a chalk line?  Well, i've tried it.  Had zillions of red ants coming around my house right past my back door.  So,,,i chalked the walk, and do u know?,,,it works!  Lol, i brought in about 3 or 4 one morning inside my paper.  Folded it back and poured them out the back door.  Then a day or 2 later, Jude was checking out a bug in my kitchen, and ,,,it was a red ant!  It got squished.  Now i feel bad.  I know they won't sting if you don't threaten them.  When i was a kid, i let them crawl all over my hands.  Just don't mash them. lololol  They were, and still are, fasinating.  Bees, also.  Dad kept bees for a while, in his back yard.  Don't think he ever got stung. 

Ok,,gotta quit this and eat, have had nothing today.  Might check back in later.

HAGD




















Monday, August 29, 2011

Quilts to Die For

Almost noon, just had brunch.  Made a pineapple pie, not ready yet.  Make it with vanilla  jello pudding, canned pineapple.  You can put it into a baked pie shell, or a graham cracker one.  I prefer the baked.  Got cool whip, now i'm ready!,,,Too bad i'm too full right now.  lolollol.  My kind of cooking.

Someone was talking about cook books, out at the birthday party.  Gosh, don't know how many i have.  I know they go back to the first one, Betty Crocker, a have-to-have.  For beginners anyway.  That one, and a sorority one for meats, were the major ones i used.  Then there's a family one, put together one year from everyone's favorite recipes.  Sold at a family reunion.  The money went for the next one.  One year we had an auction and my Aunt Stella put in some of her homemade quilts!   Priceless. lol.  I gave a lady, that did quilts, here, a few boxes of scraps one time, and she made!!! me take 3 of her quilts.  I felt so guilty because that was NOT the reason i gave them to her, i just had too many.  BUT, they are still treasures.  My daughter got the butterfly one, my son has one, and i still have the other.
I made each of my kids baby quilts, but never did but one large one.  Oops,, take that back.  My son showed up one day with a pile of his old levis.  Asked if i could make a quilt out of them,,so,,,i did.  Made 2, one for him, one for g/dotter.  I cut the jeans into different lengths and widths of strips,  making sure i got everything from the jeans, then i sewed them together, seams up to ravel.  hahahaha,,,did they ever.  I washed and dried them several times before i put the lining on.  I put a blanket inside my son's, MISTAKE,,,so i didn't do that on hers.  It was too hot.   My g/dotter was going to Trinity, in San Antonio, and OMG,,,when she opened that box, she wrapped that quilt around herself and didn't take it off all day. lololol,,,Was put on her bed at school, with it's pockets, button ups,  places to hide things.  I had told her, you can't hurt it, no matter what, already been thru just about everything while they were worn.   The backs were a bright red, white, and blue print. 




Well geeezzz,,,not sure what's going on, but spell check won't turn off.  Well, some sentences above. 

Pie's calling.  HAGD
















Sunday, August 28, 2011

Hey, I Didn't do It

Irene coulda been us!! Get that high pressure dome outa here!!!!  Could have cured this whole state of drought.  Well, i'm doing the next best thing, watching it on tv. 

"Wondering" if BB has chiggers.  Thot it was way too dry, but,,,,,sure sounds like em.  That thicket he's in is just right.  One time, my bro B and a cousin, up in Sherman, were wrestling around on the grass. AND,,,WOW Never have i seen so many on a human being in my life!!! He was in total misery for days.  You couldn't touch a spot on him without hitting one.  We don't have them here, like that, so he just didn't think about it.  (I laughed)

Boy o Boy, that BD party was sooo fun.  Lost track of time,,(again) and it was almost 9 when i left.  Have to turn on my bedroom AC by then to cool it off.   She and her hubby had gotten new mountain bikes, and he was saying how hard one of the trails were, that he had riden.  Told my son that, thinking he wouldn't be able to keep up. lmaooo,,, I asked my son,, how far do you ride?,,He laughed and said, ooo, about 25 miles.  On a hard trail.  I think it would be the other way around, keeping up with HIM.  He never runs outa wind, doing that, or running, whatever.  I never knew why until a few years ago, when he told me his lungs were longer than normal.  I was telling him about one of the high school kids that had those, and the trouble he was having playing football, don't remember the reason, but that's when i found out.  My son had never had that problem when he was young, but could have.

There's a Show World in my paper today!!,,,That had stopped way back.  Now i like what i have online, so too late for that. 

Hey, i did NOT change my font.  Leaving it alone for today, but i'll redo later.  Kinda like it, tho.  What do yall think?

Got woke up this morning, my sis calling, about 9.  Sure needed it.  Still haven't made it to the shower, or dressed yet.  No hurry, not going anywhere today. 

Might bbl,,,but just in case, HAGD

Made it back.  heyyy,,font back like it supposed to be,  i swear i didn't do it.  Had to tall ya,, heard it thunder about 5 pm.  Several times.  Finally looked on computer, and it went skirting right around the city limits,,,like always.  Still cloudy tho, cooled off a little.  Was 109.8.  Got my 2 hoses going, getting in my Sunday watering.  Just trying to make it til cooler weather,,,OR RAIN.   

Got out a bit ago and went to store.  Don't get much here, they like to gouge us.  But,, have to get ice cream.  So,, i did.  Was even on sale for .99 using their coupon.  Limit ONE.  Have to go back tomorrow and get another.  It's the store brand but pretty good.  For .99, mighty good.  Forgot eggs anyway so,,have to go back.  WOW,,,just got 2 yogurts tho, at .69.  Can just do without those til i get to the other place.  Told ya they gouge us. 

About time for me to run a movie.  Almost 8.  That takes me to bed time.

Just thot i'd put a few notes on here.

Cya tomorrow...TC, and all that stuff.