Rain Rain Come and Stay

 We have had 4.3 inches of rain for the month. To us, that is a bonanza. The roses are sure happy!  Tee-total for the year is awful.  But we can join many others in that fact.

A great good day to you! My goodness, it has been close to a month since I was here.  I know I'm boring-- so not many think to come over and get bored outta their skivvies.  But here I am again.  

The main purrson who lives here, to whom the house and all of its servants its belong,  is still having a decent quality of life. So while we have an agreement between us, we don't have to haul it out again and re-read for instructions.  She is doing alright, right now.  She has, and she mentioned it in her own blog yesterday, come upon another food that she just can't get enough of!  Two cans !!!!!! a day, a teaspoon at a time to avoid horking it up.   That will stop..maybe even later today (making it going-on three days.) Since she weighs the same as a bag of sugar used to weigh...(they shorted it some years ago to 4 pounds instead of 5)...go figure. Far as I know she is still six pounds.  I'll find out next ear cleaning, nail cutting, and Vitamin shot. 

I had someone send me a rude email a few weeks ago.  Unexpected and very rude.  Just a few days prior to that, they were warm and fuzzy.  If you don't care for something any longer  when you thought that you did want to do...just don't do it.  Simple.  Don't be rude completely out of the blue~ saying so.  Yeah, yer right.  Got my feelings hurt. 

Guess what?  For some inexplicable reason...completely out of the blue I'll tell you, I remembered when I danced a reasonable Merengue with Latin American friends while a teenager and got a hankering to do some here at home, just me, for exercise.  Um, no.  I thought, OK...let's do Salsa.  (had to learn how though) Um...perhaps go back to what you were always doing in aerobics,  OK?  Ok. Sometimes, ya gotta face facts.  Besides, I might get twisted into a pretzel and not be able to reach my yelly-o-fone (as I call it.)

OK.  "And that's the way it is" (still miss your actual unbiased accounting Walter.)

Jackie and Shadow...Be Blessed, Beautiful Pair.  

 

 

I'll be asking your opinion.

You all! 

First, here is the finished door and I have a question. Hope you answer sooner than later because the man will be here after awhile today.

I opened the door to show you that there is carpet all the way to the threshold.  You can see the rub marks if you look hard enough.  I was thinking of asking my man if he is willing to cut all the way across of course, the carpet down to about 6 feet in length what ever the door sweep is, I guess...no idea right now, and put in either tile, if it isn't too thick,  or fake wood flooring,  what is it, vinyl? What ever it is that is so popular now.  (I have it in the bathroom...LOVE it) (Keeping that clean is so easy it ought to be against the law!!) That way the carpet won't look any worse as it won't be there!  I'd love slate but that is VERY expensive.  

What do you think?  Seriously.  Hope someone reads and wants to comment.  Not many people travel over this way to come see me (and Katie.)  If no one feels like  saying an opinion, dang it, I'll have to think for myself.  Hate it when that happens.  I will also ask the man...as he would be the one to do it.  

In case you're wondering, I've been saving for repairs etc.  So, all is well.  It's best to sock away a few shillings to have for a rainy day.  Then, if it's not needed...you can give yourself a fab present.  Right?  Right. Have a dead dead dead tree out back and the guys will, as mentioned before fell it for me.  It is tall but it can fall anywhere.  It'll just hit other trees equally tall or more.  

If you come by, let me know your suggestions or not if you don't have 'em.  See ya later! 

Good Golly Miss Molly!!!

 Well, the new door is finally in place.  Not the lock and knobs but in place.  He's gone for a few to the hardware store.  He'll be back.  Wanna see?

Taking its ease in front of my closet in the Hallway

He's done the weather stripping, and made sure my front door burglar alarm sensor will work. He'll install the doorknob and lock mechanism when he is back here shortly.  I have asked him if he will refinish the solid wood doors in the house as well.  Said he would.  Don't know the estimate.  He wanted to do this first. 

Things are going alright.  Just Katie Isabella has her aging problems. Eating (not)  is the hardest to bear.

Need to have a dead dead dead tree felled.  The guy gave me an estimate and said maybe next week if it isn't as hot.  I never even saw that thing (dead tree) until a week ago!!!  

It's supposed to be in the mid 90's today and all week-- and it's well on its way!   Katie's Client is gone earlier than I expected as is his Mom of course who brought him about 1130.   (He's 11 now, btw.)

All that complaining I did about being too cold with the thermostat set on 72...it was me, not the a/c.  I bought an inside digital thermometer and right on the money.  I am used to it now.  No longer in flannel nighties and flannel shirts in the house! One of my boys programmed it before he left after a weeks visit and I am loathe to mess with it.  (In other words I don't know what I'm doing.)  Next time he comes back, we really need to set the 7 days a week temps for winter too.  We were so hot and uncomfortable we (he) just did the summer stuff. 

I am soooo taking my time here

 Holy Moly.  I have been reading enough on Face Book to seriously consider quitting.  It's a terrific waste of my time.  I am a slave to reading the posts when nothing else beckons. I will say, however, that I love the Country and Gospel music I get to hear occasionally.  And Sigra ,the Lioness.  However, I can do without all the horrible posts from  discombobulated strangers. Getting so no place is safe from filled -with- hate- and extreme profanity posts.  May as well close the page I have.  I'll think about it strongly the next few days.

Meanwhile, the new a/c is keeping it cold -seeming in here.  I have it set at 74 for the day time.  It waits till it gets 72 or even 71 before it kicks on.  I sit sometimes in the evening with a heavy flannel shirt on.  Can't wear shorts or sleeveless things.   (The programming is a pain) That old motor that finally gave up the ghost on the Trane must have been far more pitiful in its waning months to even years, and kept me from seeing how cold it could be set at 74. 

  OH!  I inquired about my new front door an hour ago.  It should arrive at the hardware store in a week...then, my man said he would text  me to get a good installation date.  After that fuss is all over, I am calling in the carpet cleaners.  The door will need to be painted.  I have already chosen the color.  To those who have been here, it will be the same as the old door in color.  

I am a perfume wearer all the way back to early teens.  I got hung up on Chanel Mademoiselle.  I have used that for years,  Maybe ten years.  Rive Gauche  (YSL)  before Chanel (Norell before then) Now I am hung up on Yves Saint Laurent again. A new one out not long ago.  Yessiree, it's expensive.  But worth it to me.  Still have half a bottle of Chanel Mademoiselle.  Too bad you can't wear them both at the same time ;-) But that would be "awfully loud" as they say here in east Tennessee.  So, one at a time.  Since it is perfume I have a while before I need to be concerned as to its condition. Katie would not like me wearing it to bed. 

OK. Time to get out of this house!  Come on along.  We are going to several types of stores.  Name yer poison and we'll go there too. 

Ew UGH and Yuck

 I got up…got into the kitchen to get her breakfast ready and wondered why on earth the floor was sticky.  I looked down and she had had a diarrhea on the floor (not the carpet thank goodness) and I had unknowingly stepped in it and spread it around.  The rug  in front of the sink was ruined as I walked over it with the largest amount on my feet.  I won't pollute my machine washing it.  I'm throwing it out. I had to stop all I had been doing of course and wipe my feet, clean up the smeared stool all over the floor, go put my feet in the tub and try to clean them, come back and try to get the smears remaining off the floor.   Half an hour later I started her breakfast.  She didn’t do it on purpose.  I was glad to see tan earlier offering already in the box.  It must have hit her suddenly.  She just went again a few moments ago.  In the box.   I saw later  after the flurry of my activity that the afore mentioned “product” had been produced and put in the proper place durning the night.  I assume that it must have been something that "came over her" before she could get to the Box that cause the kitchen accident.They are incapable of doing these things on purpose.  I know it was an accident.  But what a mess to clean up. 

I have a new AC/heat unit out there now.  Mine had a blower motor that quit.  My son is visiting and though I warned him it was hot in here he came anyway.  We ready suffered.  It was so so hot in here.  Sleeping was spotty at best.  Went out early Friday and they didn't come to install a new HVAC till Tuesday.  Man.  That was really hard with all the heat and humidity.  My house is old and not insulated in the walls.  I think I had better call and get an estimate.

Going to get Micah's oil changed this morning and the brakes tended...brake flush..and whatever else is needed with them.  Son is here, and will follow me there and I won't have to sit hours waiting. 

I hade a lemon pound cake that was so good I can't believe it.  Found why.  It was faintly underdone in the middle third.  But oh MY!  GOOOOOOD!  

Come see me.  ;-) 

Oh What a Day!

 The day  mentioned in the title is in HER blog.  I will try not to let her make me type it all for her again here.  The little hussy. 

We are in a drought as are many of our friends.  One son in Charlotte NC,  along with the City of Charlotte  and surrounding area are in severe drought and under water restriction.  My roses said they were sick and tired waiting for me to get the memo that THEY needed water very badly.  They started looking badly and that is what it took for me to realize how remiss I had been.  The sky finally opened and so far in the 6 days of this week we got 2  inches.  Supposed to keep on for another week.  When nature stops watering, I will start moving the hose from bush to bush right after with each getting 30-45 min. each day for several weeks & get them caught up.  The gardenias were starting to look sad and only the camellia kept looking normal.  

I hope daylight savings time for all year does pass.  I'd take either time cycle if one would be chosen and stuck to.  Let's hope.

*RANT* I was wondering.  Am I, and many of the CB, the only ones in the U.S. who can write a sentence without the F word?  That's the surest method to keep me from reading your blogs and Face Book page.  I can't STAND that! If you have to say it aloud as well with every breath and I am there to hear it, well, so long.  I know you won't miss me.  Nor I you.  I guess said offenders think they look allllll grown up. *END RANT*

For the first time in probably 12 years, said boy in NC is not going to be traipsing around the rest of the world as he usually is during the Summer...and will be here the seventh of June for a WEEK!!  HOORAY!!!  Can't wait. Neither can Katie.  He's her favorite brother! 

Got me laughing even when I didn't want to. 

LOVED this one!!

For Pete sake

 First of all, her wonder who this guy named Pete is, that we do things for his sake?  

Anyhow, I entitled it that because if it isn't one thing it's another!  I have a  thing going on with my right eye for the past year.  A few days ago, I had to call for a work-in with the ophthalmologist as I thought I had something rough edged in my eye.  Got the appointment within an hour.  He flipped my upper eyelid inside out.  Thought that would hurt but all I knew was for a few seconds~ The pain was gone when he flipped the lid  until he let the lid back down, then, pain back. The pros have to give me eye drops to just examine my eyes for years they are so dry. 

While the lid was back side forward...he saw that the problem was extreme dryness and the inside lid was very irritated.  He prescribed three things for it which started working right away.

Using eye drops don't help but for 20 minutes or so.  Because, after all this time, the problem turned into something worse...still under the "title" of dry eyes however.  It was explained to me why this happened, why other painful event on my eye happens and now that I know I can try to alleviate the  problem going forward. Wish I had known what was causing all the problems the past 3 years so that I could have taken some steps to help.  Again eye drops are not the answer.  Too long to go into here.  So right now, I am much much better.  Can't wear my mascara for awhile now.  My blonde eyelashes are there looking invisible~ unless yer gonna smooch me. Then, they're pretty. Got my blonde eyebrows darkened some though.  That's it.  Plainest face I have had for a while.  Decided to do without lipstick too for a while.  That's just a personal silliness.   May as well be invisible except for my hair. Red. 

Grandboy is coming over after his haircut!  Get ready for some noise and lots of eating.  

Katie said to tell you CB'ers that she is still doing decently.  Eating her meals, though not large ones, playing a little and staying with me all night, cuddled up.