WTH is a Blog Feed????

OK, now i'm stumped,,WTH is a blog feed?  Is that why i've been stuck like Hobo, too?  I looked at my settings and have no idea what that blog feed is.   And maybe i have it, who knows?    

Gonna try to get my front door facings painted while i can open the house.  Still not able to do very much, but think i should be able to do that, no more time than it will take.  Gonna use foam brushes, so i can just throw them away.  Besides, they do a smoother job.  Today and all weekend will be perfect.  Not smoking any more, my house has stayed so clean.  When i quit, i had a man doing repainting inside, so all of it is still new looking.  Never realized how dirty, greasy cig smoke was. 

My niece, one of them, came by yesterday selling stuff for their class of '13,  and after looking for a long time, found some cheese balls i had been missing.  I had no use for cookies, candles, ornaments, etc, but,,,cheese  balls,,,YEAH.  Good snacky stuff.  lololol,,,just realized i don't know when i;ll get them.  O well, i've been snacking on cream cheese with onion and garlic,,,on ritz, good stuff.

This is gonna be short short, today, gotta finish my book that i couldn't last nite,  my eyes would NOT work long enough.  lolol,,,I get to 10 PM,,i shut down.  Forced it til 10;30, but,,,hahahaha,, wasn't able to get those last 20 or so pages read. 

So,,,yall HAGD,,,, might bb later.

Little Kinky Today

See?  Lots of kinky.  Told you about these shoe strings yesterday.  The purple ones on top were the ones I used a lot, the white ones look new.  You lace those up and then just leave em hanging out the sides.  You set them where u want so they aren’t tight, and that’s it.  They are stretchy.  Don’t know why you can’t get them any more.  A salesman had come by the place I was working, selling those and other things, and I bought everybody  some.  

Told you I had taken a pic of the Kingsland slab, but,,,it’s not there now.  Fooling around with the card or something at Walmart took it off.  I guess.   And I didn’t come back that way.  Gosh, I was so tired after that trip, wasn’t worth 2 cents the rest of the day.  Still not up to par after the pneumonia.

Had waffles for brunch today.  Soooo good too.  Took a long time to eat them, (2) and they still kinda feel like a lump in my upper stomach.  ( The itsy bitsy one).    Finally got the rest of the pork ribs finished.  The whole 2 of them. lololol.  Had 3 or 4 meals from them.  Not bad.  Gosh, another recall, bagged spinach I think he said.  I signed up one time to get notices for those, and had to quit, got so many.

I got so short on time in Walmart yesterday, I didn’t  have time to look around for some other things to eat, just grabbed my list of stuff.  Did get all of that.  And,,guess what!!! I remembered to use my coupons!  All 2 of em. lololol.  Well, 1.75 off.  I can go to the HEB in Kingsland and get stuff later.  Hey, we’re getting a raise in Jan. Woooohoooo….After 2 years, won’t seem like much tho.

Got this recipe out of the paper the other day, and it’s 1/2 c baking soda, 1 c vinegar, down ur drains to sweeten em up.  Desperately needed it in my kitchen drains.  So,,I poured that soda in the drain,,heyyyyy ,,, won’t go down!,, had to poke and prode for a while,,but finally got it mostly down, poured that vinegar slowly, good thing too, and whamo,  lotsss of boiling, spewing, finally settling down for the 15 minute wait time.  Rinsed with hot water, and that was just one, so still might have to do the other side.  This one was the one straight down to the p trap.  Heck, might just do all my drains. lol.  Our water here has some terrible stuff in it.  It’s leaving a ring in my commode too.  I have an excellent filter for drinking, cooking water.  Got 2 bottles of The Works, for the commode and it took off a lot of the old water stains.  And that ring.  Have to be careful, not inhale it.  I do, anyway, with the COPD.

Got all my Christmas shopping done now.  I’ve always done it early, and have picked up things all during the year, for birthdays, and whatever.  Now I have what?,,2 months to wrap?,,,lololol.  That’s the hard  part.  Have some bags I’ll use tho.  Stick em in the bag, ur done.

Enough rambling,,,yall HAGD

Busy Day Today

Going to Marble Falls later, getting it out of the way.  Foot doc said to come by at 3 so i'll make that work.  Then, i did something earlier i should not have done, and that was tell someone, don't know her, that i would play bridge tomorrow.  All i know is her first name, so now i've gotta go by and tell her i'm not going to.  She mentioned one name that would be there, and it hit me later, DO NOT want to see this person.  She and her live in rented a house from me, left owing of course, and also a mountain of trash in the front yard, and a filthy house.  The live in was a smart mouth cop and threatened to sue me over a leaking roof in the back, which i had told her about.  Said i had advertised as a 4 br, when it had to be a 3.  I just looked at him, dared him.  After they married, my nephew walked up on him in his police car, on duty, one nite out at the park, and guess what he was doing?  hahahaha,,,He was "doing" it to some ol girl in the car.  Nephew just said,,o,,and left.  Don't know if she's still married to that sucker or not, and don't care, just don't want to be around her.

Ok got that call made cancelling the bridge, darn it.  That was always my favorite game.  Found out the one i didn't wanna be around was subbing too, so maybe another time. 

Had my oatmeal, gotta get moving here, it's after 11, still have to shower, etc, to leave.  It's hard trying to time it, to be thru at Walmart, and at the docs by 3.  I've done it before, so doing it again, so i can leave and come on home when he gets thru fitting the shoes.  (Inserts).

Yall HAGD

Later, going on 4:30

Back with groceries, but no shoes, didn't fit.  Same as the ones i had on, but these were way too tight.
Reordered, be in in about 2 weeks, even tho i won't be going back for about a month.  Once a month is enough for me.  Liked em, tho.  They had stretchy shoe strings, didn't tie.  Way back around 90, i think, i got some shoe strings that were kinky, stretchy, and when u laced em in, u didn't tie em either.  You put em where u wanted em, and they stayed there.  Lol, camera in the car or i would take a pic of em,  still have 2 pair.  Do that for tomorrow. 

That darn camera told me the memory was full, after i took one pic of the Kingsland slab.  I nearly took the card out and put it back in, (which was what it was) but i didn't.  And that's what they found in Walmart.  I always delete after i upload em, so there was no way it could be full.  Put that on later too.  It's just never in the right place!!! 

Ok, gone again,,,bb tomorrow.

Where Does My Time Go?

Here it is, almost noon, and i'm still moving in slow motion.  Been up since 8:30, and little done.  Well, i did get my coffee down, read the paper, kinda vacummed a little, washed a few dishes, AND, ate oatmeal for brunch.  Putting it all down,,sounds like i have been busy,,,hahahahaha.  Got one burner on  on my gas range, all i needed for the chill in here.  Gosh, how can u not love this weather?

OK,,the rest of my battery story.  I left that little trickle charger on 'til 3 pm,,went out with fingers crossed, turned that key, AND ,,,,woooohooo, started up.  Left it running while i undid all the hookups, unplugged extension cord so i could close my door, and lock it, and headed up to the x's shop.  He had the new battery sitting there, ready.  So in a few minutes, i was good to go.  He didn't charge me any markup, and just a little for changing them out, disposal fee, etc.  Told you, he helps me sometimes.  lol, I made curtains for him, once.  He had an unusual size window, so ,,,i made them.
Ended up staying there about an hour, because i wanted to hear about his stepfather that is very ill, not long to live.  His Mom always called me her dotter she never had, even after we divorced.  He's having to run back and forth to Ft Worth, helping him, taking him to docs, hospitals, etc.  So now i know how he's doing, and what's been going on with him.

Lordy, i've gotten so behind on clipping coupons,,which i usually forget to use, but, i still do it.  O yeah, that's another thing i've done this morning, gone thru a few of those booklets.  Still have about 6 to go thru.   I've gone thru another catalog, and picked out a few more things for Christmas gifts.  Should finish me up.  I gave my dotter her gift for her birthday, so have to get another one. 

Gotta get my trash out today, and i saw that my container had blown over.  Also, gotta go to the library later, and pick up a book i am buying, about the history of this town.  It's an extension of the first one, written way back in the 70s.  I typed the whole manuscript for it, back then.  Anyway, today is the book signing, and distribution.  Need to pick up some more reading material too.  Think i might try to go to Marble Falls tomorrow, still gotta do that trip.  Too windy today, hate to drive in bad wind.

Yall TC now,,and HAGD

GRRRRRRRRRR. Dead Battery!!!!!!!!

Ever go out to leave, and ur car won't start?,,,,It hesitated twice on me yesterday, so i plugged in my little jumper thingy and charged it all nite, and then very calmly put it on, and DARN.  WON'T WORK.   Called   here, called there, lol, and my bro G is gonna bring me a trickle charger, and maybe it will start later today, to go to my x and get a new battery.  Now,, that's not all, yet.  Had to call the foot doc over in Marble Falls and cancel my apt. to pick up the shoes i have waiting there.  As a diabetic, i can get new shoes once a year thru medicare.  So that's the ones for this year.  THEN, my bro asked if i had an extension cord, why,,,of course i do.  Didn't know it was all in a tangled mess in the store room.  Come to find out,, there's 2 in that mess.  My other bro kinda loops all of his, so they don't get tangled, and easy to undo, but,,,oooo Lord, why???? didn't i do that?  After lots of kicking and slamming, i finally get enough of ONE cord out long enough to reach from my house to my car,   about 20 feet to my back door, and that's when i had found out there were 2, scared poor little Jude to death, throwing the other one back at the store room.  So,,here i sit, writing a blog, while all my good plans went away.  No shoes, no groceries, no Mexican food.  That battery is a 5 year one, and i don't know how long i've had it, but the first time one does me that way, it's REPLACE!!!  I could look it up, but why,,doesn't matter.  Gotta have a new one.  Agreed?  This poor ol helpless woman needs a car that will start, right?  Now, with that one cord strung out, Hey Jude might not come near it, and will starve.  All day.  Guess now i can go thru all the coupon stuff out of the paper, might be some i can use later, on my next trip,,,

OK , trickle charger on, gonna check it about 3 PM,,MAYBE it will start, run long enough to go get the new one. 

Big cold front coming in tonite, lots of wind, no rain.  Fire danger again.   Low 90s today tho.  Might be AC weather again.  One time, this same bro B, and a friend were living in Ft Worth, and decided to ride their motorcycles down here on Friday after they got off work,,,heck, temp was in the 70s, no problem.  This was in Jan.  They no sooner got down the highway a piece when that big bad one hit.  All they had on were lite jackets, no gloves or anything to help keep them warm.  Their wives were behind in the vehicles, but no way to do anything, no trailer.  It got down right quick into the 30s when that wind hit.  No matter was in the 70s a few minutes before. lololol.  They would go as far as they could, stop for coffee, get warm, hit the road again.  It's about 250 miles.  They made it, but NEVER did such a thing again.  They never heard of weather reports. lolololol.  They got a trailer and hauled those things back home.  It was kinda funny, in the strange way, that he and we got motorcycles at the same time, and they had never talked about them at all.  We bought a new 100 yamaha, and it was too small, but i kept it, and we got a bigger one too.  Street and trail, rode backroads, trails, down the river, everywhere we could.  First time i climbed a hill (cliff),, i looked at that thing, thot, well, all it can do is kill me, and off i went.  I was so shocked when i made it to the top, i fell off.  lolol.  This was up at San Angelo, out where the reservoir is, and it was a really high cliff.  I had that little 2 stroke wound out.  After we bought them, several more did, so there was a group later.  I did whatever they did.

Think i'll take a nap today,,,car just sitting there, hopefully getting a charge.

Yall HAGD

Raised Right By Golly

Gosh, guess i was raised right.  I learned how to do a lot of things, and more after i married, (at 16).  AND NO, wasn't pregnant either!  I helped do carpenting, plumbing, electrical, u name it, and o yeah, roofing.  After doing roofing the last time, i got tennis elbow, and NO MORE!  That was shingles.  My bro does metal only.  So living alone, i'm not helpless.  My first hubby was a perfectionist, and after sanding and taping a car for him to paint, one time, he told me i taped it TOOO close, so no more of that!!,  We were putting down new vinyl flooring once, in our kitchen, and he sat there, and sat there, for hours, measuring, remeasuring, thinking,,so i finally got so tired of it, i told him to get out i would do the thing myself, and i did!  I got the scissors, rolled out that flooring and started cutting.  Made ONE 1/2" mistake on a corner, but it didn't show.  I could eyeball things right.  lol, ask my history teacher in high school.  We made a huge stucco map of this county and i was drawing the rivers and creeks on it, by just looking at the other map when he walked over and nearly died.  Told me to stop!,,,Then he measured, and every one of them was right.  He just walked off, left me alone.

Back then, there was an epidemic of kids getting married, and a lot of us did.  I did go back and finish high school, tho.  Seems like each generation has it's own thing, that was ours.  Better than drugs, but,,,,there was still the drinking.  You could go to OK and get hitched no matter what ur age. No ?s.  When we went, we found a man laying on a hammock at 2 in the morning,  sign out front, marriage info, and he got up and took us to the hospital to get the blood tests, then to the court house the next morning.  How's that for super stupid?   2 of my best friends did the same, but i was the only one to finish HS.  Lots of others did too.  We were married 26 years, and we get along ok now.  He's even helped me out with my car every once in a while.  I bought it from them.

Today is my dotter's birthday, and i just went by there, took her gift, etc.  I had to give her her Christmas present, since i haven't been out any where to shop.  She was my first, then 3 sons.  Just her and one son now.  She had bigggg boxes, that her Dad had brought from Ft Worth, from his Mom's house for her.  Boxes and boxes of porcelain things. OMG  She has noooo idea what she's gonna do with all that stuff.  Some of it could be valuable, tho.  Some of it's real old.  I never liked that stuff, dust catchers all it was to me.  One of the ladies i had in home health, had a bunch of that stuff, and every once in a while, i would wash them.  I  wasn't afraid to handle them, didn't break things.  They looked so good afterwards, was worth it.

Well, didn't have anything to say, so guess i'll see yall later.

HAGD

Yep My Kitchen

 

My Mom was just horrified I was gonna replace these REAL WOOD cabinets, lololol,,,soooo, we spent at least 3 weeks taking 5 layers of paint off.  Then my bro G asked what color I was gonna paint them, I told him red,,,and of course, he said “WHAT?”  he never had any taste,,,hahahahaha

There’s not a whole lot of them, but,,there they are, and it’s enough for me.  I took that chefrobe? and made the huge pantry, adding shelving.

I tried and tried to add this to my post today, but could NOT get the pics there.  Got tired of messing with it, so here an add-on, mainly wanted Gypsy to see them.

Got my brunch done, now,,,if I could make myself get in that shower, ,,,,,,,HUSH!  I heard you,,,, lmaooooo.