Torture Over With

That torture wasn't tooo bad.  The best thing was i didn't have to sit and wait, they got me right in at the appointed time!  How bout that?  15 minutes and i was outa there.  I had put my cooking oil out so i wouldn't forget about the pond, so when i got back, i put some in it.  That thing has about 8 or 10" of water in it!  Wonder if my frog still lives in the waterfall. 

One time when it had rained and was washing down the gutters,  there were all these little frogs running around!  Where did they come from?  It was like they had just appeared, about a 1/2" long, out of nowhere.  Lol,,how was that possible?  I tried to catch a few to put over at my pond, but, man,,,those little suckers were fast!  But i guess some did make it, because i did have some really big ones.  When i would go out, i'd hear a loud splash.  I had some kind of lilly plant in it, and one time when i cleaned it out, the roots had become HUGE.  I'm talking, big as my arm.  Took up all the space almost.  So i got rid of those.  All the things i had growing around it, have died.  It will just be there for the next owner.  lol. 

Ok, got the city called to pick up my brush trimmings.  They do that on Fridays, for about 10.00 each 15 mins.  Last time, was just the 10.00, but i have quite a lot, in 2 piles, but still a good price.  Can't burn them any more.  There will be more, later, but just some small stuff.  I seem to have some of that b brush popping up all over again.  I might put some diesel on it, where i can.  Had to do that with a tree growing in a bad place.  I've always heard of ranchers around here, oiling mesquite.  And burning cactus. 

Got my oatmeal cooked, and gosh, i'm ready.  Don't know why i stayed so hungry yesterday, but it seemed like i never was satisfied.  Made for a bad nite.  Kept eating, til almost bedtime, and that's not good.  I wasn't really hungry for any one thing, just felt empty. 

Weatherman saying a strong cold front coming in Wed. nite.  Might even rain a little.  Highs in the 60s thurs and fri.  Heck, i'm ready. 

DD brought up a subject i think all of us "senior" citizens have thot about.  What will become of our pets if they outlive us?  That is why i haven't taken any of my son's rescued kittens, and just have the one, Jude.  He's about 8 or 9 years old, and will outlive me probably.  Then, on the other side of this, i would absolutely hate to NOT have one.  I think surely my son or my dotter would take him.  My x is gonna have to take his Mother's really old cat now.  She died several years ago, but his stepfather doesn't have long to live.  So he's going to bring it home with him.  It's  like, 18 years old, and he doesn't know how it's going to work with his other cats.

Yall HAGD

Torture Day

Well, here it is, Monday morning, again.  When i got up, my blood sugar was kinda low, 56, so i had to eat a little bit of a sweet, yukkkk., First thing, not good. lol.  But now it's up to 100, so, oatmeal on my list in a bit.  I got to drop one of my meds for diabetes, and wish i could drop the other.  Maybe in my future. lol.  I also got to drop 1/2 of one of my BP meds.  wow, getting there!  Sometimes, i just want to throw em all away, see what happens. 

Got a 1 pm apt for a mamogram, which i'm sure not looking forward to.  I do preventive as much as i can, and always have.  If a yearly checkup does any good, i'm all for it.  Been doing them seems like forever.  Not just that, but everything elso too.  Just called and set my eye exam for next Tues.  Gonna get em all done.  My eyes haven't changed at all, in 3 years now.  And i don't think they have now, either.  I had cataracts removed on both, several years ago, but doing fine.

I'm  having to do laundry more now, because i'm wearing heavier clothes.  So got that going today.  

As you can see, nothing to write about. lol.    Bro B told me my pond, with the rain water, was full of mosquito larvae, so gonna put a little oil in it.  Can't have that.  I hadn't even thot about it.  That was why i kept gold fish in it, til it dried up during the summer.  What fish were left, maybe 2, had died, so i had it all cleaned out.  I'm just not able to take care of it any more.  My pump had quit working the summer before last, too.  Goldfish didn't care, lol.

Well, it's about time for me to make a move.  get dressed, ready to go for the torture.  Yall feeling sorry for me yet?   hahahaha,,,

HAGD

Baby Owl?

My boys came rushing in one day, saying they had found some baby owls, wanting a box to bring them home.  I said NOOO.  They finally talked me into bringing just ONE home, and i gave them this box.  they looked at it, said it wasn't big enough.  What?  For a baby owl?  They left, and when they came in with that baby owl,,,i did a double take!  Was at least a foot tall, little pin feathers all over, a few feathers coming out on the wings, tail.  And the biggest, most beautiful eyes you ever saw!  Long curled black eyelashes, big yellow eyes.  The only place we had to put it, was out in the garage on a rafter.  It just took us as it's adopted parents right off.  Cheeped when it saw us, wanting foooood.  Well, i didn't know a thing about owls, so i went to the library the next day, got a book, found out they were meat eaters,,,soooo, that meant my son had to hunt every day for food.  Soooo neat, they could swallow anything, whole, then later, upchucked these balls, with the bones, fur, etc in them.  We had a pasture behind us, and the river down the hill, so there was plenty of food.  We named him Hoot, of course.  His wings folded double, and he walked like a buzzard.  I had him out one day, sitting on a tree limb while i was working in the yard.  A city tractor went by, and scared him into flying a ways.  We looked and looked for him.  A day or 2 later, we went to Austin, and when we drove into the drive later, we heard,,,CHEEEP,,,CHEEEP,,, but couldn't see him.  lololol,,,He was walking across the pasture in the weeds.  My son went out and got him.  He always let him ride on his shoulder, even with those longggg talons.  Hoot never used them, except enough to hold on, not fall.  I had all these things on film, but all that was in the stolen storage stuff.   He flew up to me one day, with me filming him,,and i ducked out, and he just dropped straight to the ground. lololol,,,Always watched when i hung things out, he might decide to come land on my shoulder.  He found the river, and stayed there a lot, but when my son would get on the roof of the garage and call him,,,he came.  We finally quit seeing him, but heard about this strange owl,,being seen in the daytime, not afraid of people.. lol.  My x said he saw one sitting on the top of the bridge one morning, just watching the traffic go by.  I like to think he found the others and stayed with them.  Even now, i hear them at certain times of the year, hooting, down on the river.  I raised a lot of things, but he was the most fascinating one of all.  When he saw the dog, his feathers would all stand straight out,,,like my siamese cat's hair.  lololol.  He'd put his wings out too.  Making himself look BIG.  Guess it worked, the dog would back away. hahahaha

Raised some sparrows once, from newly hatched, no feathers.  Kept them in a bird cage, and our cat would be right there looking at them.  Well, later, when i turned them loose, setting them on a tree limb, our cat went running up there, and they just SAT THERE.  Barely got there in time to shoo them away.  Never saw those ungrateful birds again, but,,,maybe i can guess why.  We all looked like crazy people, running everywhere with nets, trying to catch bugs.  Took a LOT for 4!! Don't know how their parents do it.  They got a lot of bread crumbs.

That Ramen was good stuff.  Put little hunks of chicken in it, from a bag of frozen fajitas.  Should have put some onion in it.  Will add that later to my leftovers.  I can find this low sodium kind in just one store, and that's the HEB in Kingsland.  You would think it would be everywhere, but it's NOT.

My nephew was in this weekend, and YESSS he said he'd paint my facings for a pizza.  Wooohooo.  They are done.  He did a great job, but i just gave him the money.  Then he told me he was trying to eat more healthy now, so was glad to get the money, not pizzas, lol. 

Ok, that's all i got, so yall HAGD

Up To No Good Today

 

This crazy fence has driven me nuts, since I saw it.  See those little posts just sticking up thru the wires, not connected to anything else?   And, they seem to be holding up those other strands of wire.   Still makes NOOO sense to me.

 

These are most of Ns chickens.  One feather is there on the top left, but,,he’s lost his one feather.  Foreground is Ms Clean, other white one, is one eye.  Then there’s stripes, and eenie, and meenie.  Mighty and mo died from the heat.  Little bit’s up above these on a cross walk.  Just could not get them to pose for me. 

Didn’t sleep much last nite.  My feet hurt, my hip, my knee, my wrist,,,all those aches and pains from just that little bit of painting.  Gosh, not even finished yet.  Think I might see if my nephew’s in, maybe he might help me.  Or,,I can just do it later,,,lololol.  I did get all the top part done, won’t have to use the step stool any more.  Should have put some shoes on,, standing on that thing.  I did decide to use a regular brush, that cedar eats up those sponge ones.  Went thru 3, right quick.  Had no staying power, yesterday.  Don’t have any get up and go, nor staying power, today.  Gonna nap, see what’s what, later.

Yall HAGD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.