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Tillie
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Posted: 23 July 2014 - 10:40 AM
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Good morning everybody :)
Moving slow today, sorta stiff & sore from the marathon garden clean up. Did an ant check and so far all my No Clutter Zones are safe. Nice and cool here this morning. After I get done with the usual daily stuff I plan to play. Wishing you all a GREAT Wednesday. :)
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LR2014
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Posted: 23 July 2014 - 10:22 AM
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Good morning.
Roxie: So great to hear from you! Continuing to think about you!
Hi to everyone. I have read your posts, but I'll keep comments short for the moment.
Yesterday, I worked on the goals I didn't get done on Monday. Worked once again with others during the chat time and got a lot done on some of my paperwork tasks. Right before the nighttime chat, I started having issues with a shoulder, and I'm taking it easy today (and putting ice on it when I can). Sounds like a day to follow Tillie's advice to have fun. Maybe I'll pop a movie in the DVD player or something. FYI, too bad I didn't read your post before I went to sleep last night, Tillie. (I had weird, bad dreams.) Maybe I'll have better ones tonight.
One-armed hugs to everyone: Everyone)))
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Tatoulia
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Posted: 23 July 2014 - 08:08 AM
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It's okay if I don't have every little thing that someone could possibly need, thank you LR and others for knowing how I feel. It's okay if I don't have every little thing that someone could need, I'll say that today.
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Tatloulia
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Posted: 23 July 2014 - 07:59 AM
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Good morning! Thank you everyone for your ce posts! Diane, congratulations on your continued work re freezer! Excellent work! And congratulations to everyone else-- we are getting through this.
For me, I just can't get over the fact that I'm a hoarder, I can't believe that there isn't one surface of my home that is free of junk. Not one, it's terrible. It's everywhere. I feel overwhelmed today and don't know where to start. I'd like to continue working on one of my kitchen cabinets but then the hoarder in me says, you can't do that, you don't have any shelf paper once you've cleaned it out. And then part of me says, but if you clean out your cabinets, you'll have plenty of room to put things away.
Going to be very hot here today. Going to ask my brother to drive me to true value so I can get some shelf paper. Normally i would walk but too hot and humid,
Have great days everyone! Thank you for being here for me, I feel terrible today but will turn it around, I' just hate knowing that I'm a hoarder, i will look past the seeming futility of my life and I will go do something positive today'. I will tackle something,
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diane
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Posted: 23 July 2014 - 12:54 AM
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Good to hear from you Tillie. Yes, now I remember about your pump house and light bulb, thanks.pder Well lots of lightning, rain on and off, then a big down pour so I went out and checked for leaks. tonight I put the little tv in kitchen and did dishes, made a big pot of soup, washed all things that I used while making soup. Knocked over my glass of water, went all over floor, good reason to clean kitchen floor. Productive evening and now am heading to bed, tired.
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Tillie
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Posted: 22 July 2014 - 09:49 PM
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HELLO EVERYBODY!!! :D
Hi Tatoulia :) Trying to have something/whatever someone else may need some day is a trap that my hoarder also falls into. So far, nobody has ever really needed anything he has and if they did he could never find it any way. :) WAY TO GO! for all the hard work you are doing there! :D
Hi Diane :) YEA!!! a shiney new freezer! :D Here, my pumphouse can not be allowed to freeze. It is a very small room, insulated. Most of the Winter we don't worry about it but when we have a deep Winter freeze we just turn on the light and leave it on. This is a regular light bulb, not one of those new curly ones. Just the light bulb generates enough heat to keep the room warm enough.
Hi LR2014 :) WAY TO GO! for ALL you have accomplished! :D You sure have some very busy days. :)
Hi Bitsy :) WAY TO GO! for all you accomplished! YEA!!! for being such a GREAT bird whistler. :D
HI ROXIE :D So WONDERFUL to "see" you! (((HUGS))) Very happy you have a good friend who helped you.
Well, today was so beautiful out that I was outside almost all day long weeding in my garden. It was really a big mess, all over grown with lots of weeds. But it was just too hot these last few weeks to spend any time taking care of it. I came in when it started to get hot about 11:00am and then went back out there in the afternoon when a big rain cloud came & cooled it off nicely. Rained a tiny bit but I appreciate any rain. I was so dirty! :D Felt really good to take a shower & now I have time to sit & read the message board. I am so tired but in that good way.
You all have a great evening and happy dreams. (((hugs)))
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bitsy
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Posted: 22 July 2014 - 09:01 PM
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah!!! Roxie is home!
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diane
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Posted: 22 July 2014 - 08:15 PM
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Roxie, HELLO, thanks for letting us know where you have been. Happy to hear you are home and friend is so wise and helpful. Tat, great you are posting. I have been watching storm, over 4000 lightning strikes already, only 8 new fires today, hopefully they have already got them out. I finished fixing up area for freezer. I plan to plug it in tomorrow and go to store to fill it. So happy Tillie suggested it months ago. Will no longer feel I am rationing frozen fruit and vegetables. Will be so great to have cooked protein things in there, don't cook in the heat. I read online that there is a new insulation made from wool, so I stapled a wool blanket that I had felted, but was donating because too thick, on wall behind freezer, over insulation I put up today, looks a little funky but I think it was a great idea. Stretched it tight so looks ok. Now am putting up white shelving above freezer over blanket at the top,so looks better. Took longer than I thought, but it is done now. Hope all are doing well and you heal quickly Roxie. Tillie are you buried in beads?
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Tatoulia
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Posted: 22 July 2014 - 07:54 PM
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Oh Roxie I feel like I know you from reading your past posts and all the nice and helpful things you have said. I could tell everyone was worried and I'm so glad to hear from you. Take good care of yourself. I am glad you went to the hospital. I am sure this is a difficult time for you. Just take care of yourself and know that you have served as inspiration to me, as I struggle with my hoarding issues. It is difficult to even realize that I'm a hoarder but I don't feel alone thanks to you and all of your friends here. Take care.
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Roxie
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Posted: 22 July 2014 - 06:54 PM
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I feel glad to have all the lovely posts to read, including newcomers' posts. Yes, I went to the hospital. I had emailed my friend on Sunday around 2:00 and she called me later. She insisted on taking me to the ER, which was good. I had yet another stent put in. Then I had breathing problems, so I just got back out of the hospital this evening.
I am glad to be home. They discovered my gall bladder needs to come out but surgeons won't operate until I am off blood thinners from this new stent, which will be several months. All I can do is monitor and get myself back to ER if I run into further trouble. Forget about colonoscopy or going in search of ulcers because those things lead to the same problem with the blood thinners.
Patt stopped with me at the grocery store so I have enough to get by for a few good days, which is a relief. I could not have done that trip by myself, as she handled the heavier lifting.
I much appreciate your hellos while I was gone.
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Tatoulia
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Posted: 22 July 2014 - 04:45 PM
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Hello everyone! Thank you for your support! I am glad to hear that you are making progress. Today I was at work (I usually work from home two days a week, go to office the other three). Tried to make a list of something I could get done tonight. Part of me says kitchen (oh to see even one counter bare and clean) while the other part of me reminds me that living room still isn't livable. Still can't walk in there without walking around or over something. For now, I am tired from walk home from work (hot and sticky, had to take a shower immediately). Will rest, watch the news, and then try to do something productive on the house tonight.
Great to read everyone's posts. Keep up the good work!
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diane
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Posted: 22 July 2014 - 03:37 PM
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I wrote a long brilliant post, sent it off, then it did not post. Ok, maybe not so brilliant, just what I have been up to today and how much it helped me reading LR and Tat posts. I was trying to figure out how to make something for a friend that she wants over her tub, reading your hero posts made me see how high I get figuring out things for others, when in reality, need to work on my own life!. This morning worked in yard, some big cleanup done. Then started redoing rock path in front of shed, then Tillie said in my head, sometimes good enough is good enough. So I just finished it without changing anything, now it is done good enough. Worked in insulated room, put insulation on wall facing north where wind in winter comes from. Then finished taking all packing off freezer, including under it, put it in place, perfect for that space, and so cute. Then found some white coated white wire baskets to use to put food in, see that is why hoarders keep containers---never know when you will need one. will wash containers today grateful dog sitting money bought freezer and this weekend dog sitting will buy food to fill it with. I am so grateful for the extra money. Supposed to rain this afternoon and thunderstorm, yes to rain, no to lightning! Still have some work to do in that room. Then plan to vacuum in here, do the few dishes in sink, and then reward-----sewing. Ok, here is hoping to post this. Much more to say---later
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bitsy
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Posted: 22 July 2014 - 12:58 PM
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Finally got the car sort of cleaned out yesterday took it to the shop; sold some stock from dwindling savings to cover that. My granddaughter and I will be sharing the 98 ford explorer in the meantime. I have to go take her to work soon. I am not comfortable driving the explorer. Paid most of this month's bills. Oh, took granddaughter and great grand kids to lunch. Seeing them means so much to me. The boy will be 5 already in September and the girl will be 4 in December. They are so much fun to be around. Then last evening one of the wrens flew inside the shed when the door was open and kept trying to get out through the windows in the back instead of the big open door. It was getting dark and time to lock the shed. I didn't know how to get it out. I started whistling back at it. We chirped and whistled back and forth for a good 30 minutes. I was just about to give up when it sounded like it was closer to the door, so I kept up my effort and suddenly the little wren burst up out of that door chirping nonstop and flew way up high and away. It was free and I was so relieved and pleased that I actually may have helped it find the way out.
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LR2014
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Posted: 22 July 2014 - 08:59 AM
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Good morning, everybody.
Tillie: I'm glad you were able to get those extra two hours of sleep yesterday. And yea for no ants so far! Hope you had fun during the day!
Tatoulia: I so relate to the "have whatever someone else might need" issue. In many ways, that's been a moot point for me the past few years. Even if I did have what someone might need, I wouldn't have been able to find it! But what you have described was a big motivating factor for me for many prior years when it came to saving and acquiring. I noticed those "hero" feelings this past weekend when I was with a group of people and someone asked, "Does anyone happen to have a tape measurer?" I immediately said, "I do!" and hurried out to my vehicle to get it. In that case, no harm was done. The person used it, gave it back, I put it away, and it took very little time out of my schedule. I would have been keeping that tape measurer with me in my vehicle, anyway, for my own use. That being said, I was well aware of that "rush" I got from using my "stuff" to "come to the rescue." If I'm not careful, I can derive feelings of self-worth from such an event. Today I realize (in my head, at least) that if my self-worth is tied up in "having what someone else might need," then both my living space and my sense of self-worth are in trouble! In short . . . I hear ya on that issue!
diane: Wow! What a day of successes! It's great you were able to "sit through the discomfort" yesterday with that situation! I think that it's also nice that you were able to be open with the friend about the discomfort. Glad you two had a good visit!
Me: Yesterday I posted four "definite" goals for the day, and I only did two out of the four "definite goals." (Hmmm . . .) In the morning, an unexpected thing happened that threw off my morning plans. By evening, I was tired and achy and ended up hitting the sack early. But in the in-between time, I got on chat and ended up getting a number of things done that I hadn't originally planned, such as continuing to work on my cluttered dining room area. (It looks better now.) Opened up one big bin that was sitting in that area, only to find that the big bin was practically empty! (That was a nice surprise! Less work involved than I thought.) Overall, I ended up feeling good about the day.
Plans for today include doing the two "definite plans" (ha) that I didn't do yesterday. I had at one point planned to work in that rural area today, but the expected heat and the air quality warnings my area today made me rethink that plan (especially considering I was a little under the weather last night . . . no pun intended). I will likely get on chat at some point today and get some more general indoor work done.
I still have lots and lots of clutter around here. I've made just enough headway in each room, though (especially in my master bedroom) to feel much more hopeful about my clutter than I have in many years. As always, thank you all for your help, encouragement, and suggestions.
Have a super day!
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Tatoulia
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Posted: 21 July 2014 - 09:28 PM
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Congratulations! I'm pleased you were able to pick up your freezer! And giant hugs to you AND your friend for visiting for such a nice long time. I really couldn't visit with anyone here just yet. I worked on my place today; was able to make one bag to be donated and took two bags to the recycle bin. Only one bag of trash but trash isn't much of an issue for me. It's more about stuff. Glasses, dishes, this thing, that thing. I keep telling myself that I don't need to have something for each and every situation that I or anyone I know may run into. I don't need to 'be a hero' by having stuff "just in case." Realizing that one of my problems is I want to have as much as possible so I can rescue someone when they need something...I'm trying to get rid of my "just in case" stuff. It gives me a headache to get rid if things. It hurts but I'm doing it. Trying to be everyone else's hero is making my life a living hell. I need to be my own hero of my own life.
Easier said than done. But I'm trying. We all are.
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diane
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Posted: 21 July 2014 - 08:39 PM
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hello everyone. It is cooler today, hooray. I worked all morning cleaning and vacuuming my little insulated room off garage. My friend came at noon and we went to pickup freezer. with a dolly, I wheeled it into the room, took box off, it is so nice to have it. I read the book, said not to put in a room that gets below 55 degrees, at first I was really disappointed then thought,, I have several months before it gets cold, and no hurry to figure it out. Can call manufacturer and see how impt. it is, since it gets under 55 in here lots of nights, but much colder out there. Big news---I sat with my discomfort and we visited until 3:15, that is the longest anyone has been here in YEARS. I did tell her how uncomfortable I was, then got back to conversation and really enjoyed our chat. We talked about all kinds of things we think about, and feelings associated with thoughts, very nice. Had some good chuckles. I have been worn out and done nothing since she left, and happy I was able to hang in there for so long, it will only become more comfortable if I sit through discomfort. Pat on the back. Have to wait 24-48 hours before plug in freezer, since it had to be on its side on the way home, have to wait until refrigerant settles. Have plans to cook some food soon, need more protein. Watered lots of plants this morning. Supposed to have lightning tomorrow, not good for firefighters. Enjoyed chat last night, it was so helpful, see storage bins in a new light. Bins and drawers will never organize too much stuff.
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Tatoulia
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Posted: 21 July 2014 - 03:33 PM
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Nice that you have a day to yourself, Tillie. Glad to hear the ants are gone. I hope everyone else had a good day too and that LR got things donated as planned. I did multiple loads of laundry and started on the dishes. Picked out some more books to donate (so hard, really hurts my feelings --thank goodness for kindle--no new books coming in house) and some glassware/china pieces. It is difficult and gives me a headache. I am following the good advice to stay hydrated and will try to eat a good meal tonight. PS I call it my house but in truth it's a 630 square foot apt/condo. Very tight living.
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Tillie
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Posted: 21 July 2014 - 11:42 AM
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Good Morning :)
So nice and cool last night and this morning. :) Woke up at about 6am, thought about how I don't have to get up, rolled over & slept in till 8am. YEA!
Hi LR2014 :) WAY TO GO! getting rid of those things that bring up bad/sad memories/feelings. :D Keep around you only those things that have positive memories/emotions attached. :D Good Luck with all your plans for today! :D
Hi Tatoulia :) WAY TO GO! getting laundry and dishes done and for finding items for your donation bag! :D Yes, papers are very time consuming. It is usually better to declutter as much of the home as possible before tackling & sorting through them all. Once the home is more under control, with more open space the papers are more easily sorted out.
Twinkles has been eating his yogurt this morning! YEA! :D Had to give him more since Marty ate the first serving. Guess it takes time for cats to adjust to it. Did a search all around the house and found no ant invasions, so far. Taking it easy today, doing some self care like shampoo & pedicure and just generally planning to play all day.
Wishing you all a GREAT day. :D
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Tatoulia
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Posted: 21 July 2014 - 10:02 AM
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Thank you for including me, LR. I feeling much better today. I did join the chat for a while last night. Today I am working from home and can easily work on laundry and dishes while working. I have been able to put three more books into a bag to donate. I have a lot of papers to deal with but think that I need to concentrate on getting things out of my house. The papers need to be gone through and it's time-consuming and I feel like managing papers is futile. So to stay positive, I will work on garbage and kitchen for a while today.
I'm glad I found everyone here and hoping you all have a wonderful, productive day.
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LR2014
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Posted: 21 July 2014 - 09:31 AM
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Good morning.
Roxie: Ditto to what the others have said. I'm thinking about you!
Tillie: Yea for the rain! Like the suggestion about rolling dice. That visual of the ants is pretty powerful. Yikes! Definitely an inspiration to clean up! FYI, yesterday I was going around looking for items to donate. Keeping in mind some of your recommendations about how you decide what to keep and what not to keep, I paid special attention when I ran across items that brought back sad/bad memories and feelings. That helped me make a decision on some items I'd been waffling about. Some such items are now in my to-donate bin. (Yea!) Looking forward to getting them out the door. Thanks for all your wonderful help and suggestions.
diane: Keep up all the great progress! (And have fun, too, as Tillie reminds us!) FYI, I realized this morning where some of the question marks might have come from that you had last night about how much help (in terms of number of people) I do or don't have available to me. I'll try to remember to explain that better next time we're on chat together. Also, I think your baby deer story is very cool. Tillie takes care of robins; you took care to help a baby deer!
Tatoulia: I hope you're feeling better today! Yea for all that you've gotten done!
Barb: Have a great time on your trip!
Me: I need to get back out to that rural area shortly to check on things and get some work done out there. I need to do that either today or else within the next few days; I'll take my donation items with me, since one of my favorite donation places is along that same route. Here are a few definite plans/goals for today: spend at least fifteen minutes on bills and paperwork, add to my gratitude list, meet with some friends later in the day, and dry my laundry at the Laundromat.
Hugs!
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Tillie
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Posted: 20 July 2014 - 06:45 PM
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Finally, finally, finally, finally.... It is RAINING here!!!! :D YIPPPEEEEE
Been busy here all day today. Went into his bedroom to serve Marty & Twinkles their morning saucer of canned food breakfast and discovered the pissants had taken over the entire room. Millions & millions of them crawling all over everything. You may recall that his bedroom is filled with garbage, food scraps & wrappers piled up everywhere in there. He was out socializing with his buddies, having coffee. When he returned home I forced him to put on his glasses and using my mini-mag flashlight I showed him all the ants. He spent many hours in there "doin stuff". There is still garbage and food based crap in there but he decided he had done "good enough".
Anyways, while he was doing that I worked in my "No Clutter Zones". Swept, vacuumed, washed some things/areas and did a real good cleaning in the kitchen. Can't be too careful since even one tiny crumb is a feast to the pissants. Nice reward for doing all this was the lovely cool refreshing rain. It is still gently falling. :D
Diane, Diane, Diane... You got to pet and help out a baby deer! How wonderful!!! Think about that experience and be happy, don't focus on what you hadn't completed around your home. And WAY TO GO!!!! For having a big bunch of things all ready for donation!!! Yes, this summer heat does make the kitchen smell real funky if we don't keep up with the dishes. :)
Hi LR2014 :) Yep, the same Robin. She has been living here all summer eating earth worms & berries. Drinking & bathing in the bird bath. She's pretty used to me being around. :) WAY TO GO!!! Accomplishing tasks and getting motivation from the others in chat. :) Another way to help decide on what task to tackle next is to make your To-Do list, number the tasks 1 through 12 or 1 through 6 and then roll dice to see what number comes up. :) Sort of like picking a number from a hat.
Hi Tatoulia :) WAY TO GO!!!! For making all those hard decisions and letting go of so much stuff!!! :D Always try to stop and rest before you become too exhausted and it is very important that you eat properly & drink enough water. Hope you feel better soon. A really GREAT book you should read is "Buried In Treasures". It will help you with decision making.
Roxie (((hugs))) You are in my thoughts & heart every day.
See you all in chat in a short while! :D
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diane
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Posted: 20 July 2014 - 04:48 PM
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Hi Roxie, hope you are ok.
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diane
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Posted: 20 July 2014 - 04:46 PM
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hello fellow posters, looking forward to chat tonight So I started working outside, then took some stuff, like sander and saw out to garage, organized some stuff, looked for ways to use "vertical space" better. Got some stuff out to donate, left on steps. Thought, Tillie would say, you will do anything to avoid dishes, so in I went, did almost all of them, all that would fit in drainer. Sink had to be disinfected before I could even start dishes, really smelled funky. Went out to water deck plants and neighbor yelled, there is a baby deer in your back yard. By the time I got out there, deer had jumped on roof and into yard in front. Neighbor came in and we finally got the fawn and wrapped in carpet and carried it down several blocks and let go. I felt sick that the one time a neighbor had to come in entry way, there was donations all over the steps. Could not see how nice I had made the area. In yard I was aware of some stuff that I had not finished, she saw it all. I felt bad for over an hour. Then thought it is just a great wake up call to finish what I start.
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LR2014
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Posted: 20 July 2014 - 04:02 PM
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Welcome, Tatoulia! We'll be happy to give you suggestions as you go along. You may not physically feel like it tonight, but if you do, please join us for the Sunday night chat (or else join us Tuesday night). Just click the "online support group" button at the right of the screen, and you can see the times we "meet" in the chat room.
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Tatoulia
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Posted: 20 July 2014 - 03:22 PM
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In the end I kept the pillows but I did go into the kitchen and I took many Tupperware, Corning ware and ramekin dishes and put them into a donation bag. Am back from goodwill. I have a headache and will lay down for a while. I don't feel as good as I should about my accomplishments today. Instead I feel sick and dehydrated.
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Tatoulia
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Posted: 20 July 2014 - 01:52 PM
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Thank you for the warm welcome. I am trying to force myself to get one more bag together. Brother arrives in 15 minutes. Started to get rid of old, useless pillows but hesitated and put them back. It's the hesitation that I need to ignore. Many thanks for the support. Let me know if you have any hints to getting things done. I want to be able to invite people into my living room.
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Tatoulia
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Posted: 20 July 2014 - 01:52 PM
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Thank you for the warm welcome. I am trying to force myself to get one more bag together. Brother arrives in 15 minutes. Started to get rid of old, useless pillows but hesitated and put them back. It's the hesitation that I need to ignore. Many thanks for the support. Let me know if you have any hints to getting things done. I want to be able to invite people into my living room.
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Tillie
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Posted: 20 July 2014 - 01:30 PM
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Welcome Tatoulia :)
BIG "WAY TO GO!!!!" Fantastic job you are doing! :D
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Tatoulia
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Posted: 20 July 2014 - 12:45 PM
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I just found this website today. I just got together four large bags to take to goodwill. So hard to get rid of books. Had to really think about some of th china/glass items. I try to tell myself that they are not really infused with meaning. I out a lot of meaning into things. My brother is coming in a little while to get me to goodwill. I know I'll feel better. My goal is to be able to walk into my living room without tripping on something or having to walk around something,
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LR2014
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Posted: 20 July 2014 - 09:28 AM
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Good morning.
Tillie: As always, thanks for all of your encouragement. Still the same robin that has been helping you? (Assuming it is the same one . . . that's so cool!)
Barb: I like your idea for a brainstorming session. Hope you got to go to your Dancing in the Streets event and that you had fun!
diane: I'm not particularly experienced with putting in fence posts, but I am considering doing that in a certain area in the not-too-distant future. The reminder to call 811 is good and timely. Thanks. Hope you are still enjoying Tanner.
Me: I did get home much later than planned yesterday. Got on the chat awhile in the afternoon and got some things done with buddies there. Thanks to all of you who were on the chat yesterday, and also thanks to those of you who read and/or post here regularly. It's so great to have your help and encouragement and to have the chance to "work together."
I have a lot of tasks on my "potential" to-do list for today. It's been a little hard to decide which ones to pick. Sometimes I make a list of all the things I need to get done and try working on each one for just a little bit. At other times when I have had various areas/projects I need to "attack" (especially when those things may require more than just a few minutes of attention at a time), I have sometimes written each one out on an index card. Then I draw something from the stack of cards to work on. Sometimes doing that helps give me direction for a day. I might try the latter idea for at least part of today.
Happy Sunday.
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diane
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Posted: 19 July 2014 - 06:49 PM
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Barb so happy you slept and are feeling good, yes planning is the easy part, starting is tricky for us, and especially following through and finishing. I am great at 1/2 finished projects. Tillie, so more heat and humidity for you, darn summers. Is it always that hot there? It is rare that we have 20 days in a row 90-100 degrees, don't ever remember it in the 20 years I have been here. Wow your property tax is low, mine is $1000 and I live in a throw away trailer and 1/2 the land you do. Beads=fun LR great to hear from you. Anyone hear from Roxie? I think of her daily and hope she is doing ok. I got up and worked in the yard all morning then wasted a few hours making more shade outside. Yes Tillie, anything other than do dishes and clean craft room up. I did call 811 yesterday to have them come and tell me where the water runs underground. Meter is on another street, and don't know how it gets up here, after the frozen pipes this winter, I am wanting to know the pipes path incase it freezes and breaks under ground. I have put fence posts in and every time, I worry about hitting a water pipe, so it is time to find out. Since one pipe froze under the cement definitely need to know the direction of pipe so can know where cement has to be removed if it breaks further out. Smoke has gotten worse as winds pick up today. It was pretty clear this morning, loved it. Ok, I did not get on chat support yesterday, was afraid I would have to do dishes, kidding. I sure appreciate this site and group, I would feel so alone without you fellow organizers. ok, enough from me, will report back when I actually do some work in here!!
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Barb
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Posted: 19 July 2014 - 12:48 PM
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Hi friends, I slept in this morning. That felt good. I woke up refreshed and relaxed. I need to get busy cleaning and decluttering. I want to go downtown to "Dancing in the Streets" tonight and the band I want to hear starts at 4:30. Today I need to wash some T shirts and underwear for my trip next week. Since I will be at the ball field most of the time, packing should be pretty easy. I've been trying to spend a little extra time with the dogs and the cat. I really hate being separated from them. I like reading all your posts and seeing what you are getting accomplished. I am better at the planning phase than I am the actual starting and following through phases. You all keep me motivated and moving toward my own goals and vision of a clean and comfortable home. When I am where I want to be and back on a regular home maintenance schedule, I would like to brainstorm with you all on a way to help a lot of these people who want to get started but have no local resources or funding. I know that mental health associations are strapped right now with the new regulations that stripped funding from outpatient and day centered programs, but I would like to see them offer some kind of support groups where we can get together and talk honestly about our successes and failures. We need to have better solutions than arresting people and condemning their homes.
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Tillie
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Posted: 19 July 2014 - 10:31 AM
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Good Morning :)
Hi Diane :) Sorry you have to deal with all the smoke. WAY TO GO! working in your yard! :D My Granma always said "Well, those dishes aren't going to wash themselves" and now that's what I say when I finally get around to tackling them. :D Hope you found someone in chat to keep you company while you washed dishes. Your cluttered craft room seems to be very motivating for you to get so many things accomplished. You will do anything to avoid having to deal with working on it. :D LOL (((HUGS)))
Hi LR2014 :) WAY TO GO! for working in chat and getting over stuffed drawers tackled and finding long lost items! :D Good luck accomplishing all your goals. :D
HELLO!!!! Everybody else. Miss you and think about you all often. (((HUGS)))
Cool this morning. Quiet except for all the birds. Yesterday the Robin helped me water outside and we were joined by a ringed neck Dove. Then I spent almost the whole rest of the day playing with all my beads. :D Got my property tax bill in the mail... Taxes went down a little. 386.37 due this year. Want to get some groceries today. Have my list all made up. Plan to spend more time today figuring out how my beads want to be strung and work on my latest wind chime. Six pieces of assorted thinly sliced agate that tinkle like glass when the wind stirs them. :) Weather prediction for today is 100 degrees with 60% humidity, scattered thunder storms. These thunder storms are what keep igniting all these wildfires in the western states. :(
Have a fun & safe day. Remember to add play time to your To-Do lists. :D
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LR2014
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Posted: 19 July 2014 - 07:17 AM
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Good morning!
diane: Glad that you're happy with the yard work. Sorry you're having to deal with all that smoke. Best wishes with your dishes! (I relate to what you were saying about that.)
Tillie: I, too, am glad you were feeling better yesterday and that you got some rest. Hope you had some fun, too!
Barb: Yea for your upcoming trip, and yea for how the home projects are coming along! Looking forward to hearing more updates.
Me: I did get some work done (emphasis on the word "some") Thursday and Friday in that section of the living/dining area that I wrote about on Thursday. Some of the work that I got done Thursday was with the help of others on chat; again, thank you! One of the things I did during the chat was to work on yet another overstuffed drawer; I found some needed items in the process. (Yea!)
I have some away-from-home plans for most of the morning. How much I get done this afternoon depends in part on how early I end up getting back home. Some definite goals are to add to my gratitude list and to spend at least twenty minutes on bills and paperwork. I will save the rest of my goal-setting for when I return home.
Happy Saturday!
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diane
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Posted: 18 July 2014 - 08:01 PM
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Hi Tillie. Happy to hear you feel better. I had lots more energy today. worked in the yard all morning. Smoke is getting thicker, wind has really picked up. I did so great keeping dishes done last week, guess I thought they would wash themselves this week. Now will be under 90 so hopefully will get more done soon. Pretty happy with what I accomplished in yard today. Guess I will have to join chat to get the dishes done, sometimes a person needs help.
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Tillie
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Posted: 18 July 2014 - 09:15 AM
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Good Morning :)
Slept all night and think I am all better now. Must have been the heat.
Getting the watering outside started. Have the water going in the flower/herb garden area. Have a cotton tail bunny out there. The sunshine has that weird yellow glow from the burning wildfires, fortunately for us the smoke is not bad here. :) Need to tidy up a bit here today then I hope I can stay awake and do something fun.
Hope you are all well and doing fine. (((hugs)))
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Tillie
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Posted: 17 July 2014 - 07:21 PM
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Hi Barb :) WAY TO GO! getting things rolling! :D Have fun on your mini vacation. :)
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diane
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Posted: 17 July 2014 - 07:21 PM
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Hi Barb and Tillie, brilliant minds think alike, we all posted at the same time!!!
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Barb
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Posted: 17 July 2014 - 07:18 PM
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Hi everyone. I received the cost estimate from the plumber. The dishwasher I ordered came in and the appliance store will hold it for me until the plumber is ready to put it in. The woman I talked to at the plumbing supply house is on vacation this week. I will go in Monday morning and order the fixtures and get a cost estimate for those. My plumber will pick them up. My plumber told me that if I want to replace the flooring in the guest bathroom, I need to have that done BEFORE they put in the toilet, so today I picked up 3 samples of linoleum to bring home. Decluttering has slowed some the past few days. I have made a list of everything that absolutely has to be completed before the workmen start. Next week is the week I go to chaperone my nephew's baseball team. I leave on Tuesday morning and return late Sunday night. I am ready for another break away from the house. My brother is paying for the hotel. It will be nice to stay in a nice clean, uncluttered place where someone else does the cooking and cleaning for a few days. I know at the end of the week I will be ready to come home and start in afresh. I was amused by the post today from Mary and her ad. I think she has come to the wrong place. Just what we hoarders need---more temptation to purchase more stuff---NOT! Have a great evening, everyone. It is clear and cool here today; perfect for sitting outside with a glass of iced tea.
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Tillie
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Posted: 17 July 2014 - 07:18 PM
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Hi Diane :) We were posting at the same time :D Hope the smoke doean't get too thick at your house. Fortunately for me the wildfires are far enough away and the winds are blowing the smoke the other directions. WTG! doing a locely, welcomung job on the steps. Have fun with Tanner. :D
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Tillie
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Posted: 17 July 2014 - 07:13 PM
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Hi Everybody :)
Today I have been so tired and sleepy all day. Got sleep last night and still kept falling asleep all day today. Took care of the cat's needs and nothing else. Looking forward to bed time.
Hope you all are doing well today. :)
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diane
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Posted: 17 July 2014 - 07:11 PM
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Hello all. Tillie, thanks for the reminder not to move lilacs in the heat! We have wildfires in every directions and the wind is kicking the firmens butts, 25mph winds, gusting to 30+. Not enough people or equipment because so many burning. Tanner got here at 9am, nice to have him here, although he mostly does his own thing. Hi mom said my front steps and front area are "very welcoming" now, I felt proud that I did such a good job on it. Organized a couple of cabinets and drawers in garage this morning. Moved several rocks to area in yard that I have been cleaning up. Felt good to work in yard. Have a sink full of dishes talking to me. Feel tired today, will be good to have temperatures under 90 starting tomorrow. I have lots of work planned, hopefully more energy tomorrow. Thinking of everyone, hoping you are having lots of fun cleaning today.
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LR2014
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Posted: 17 July 2014 - 07:48 AM
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Good morning!
Roxie: Thinking about you. Iced tea clink!
diane: I hope you have a great time with Tanner!
Tillie: I'm glad to hear you got a good night's rest Tuesday night. I hope you slept well last night also.
Me: I did do my goals for yesterday. I also got several other things done with the help of people in chat room yesterday afternoon. One of my main goals for today is to continue to work on a certain section of my living/dining area that is particularly cluttered at the moment. I found a very odd assortment of items when I was working on that section yesterday, including a belated birthday card I'd purchased for someone. Now I don't remember whose birthday I had forgotten!
Have a great day, everyone.
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Tillie
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Posted: 16 July 2014 - 10:54 PM
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Hi Barb :) How's it going getting things ready there?
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Tillie
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Posted: 16 July 2014 - 10:51 PM
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Hi LR2014 :)
WTG! finding that list so fast! :D
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Tillie
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Posted: 16 July 2014 - 10:45 PM
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Hi :)
When I moved in here there were three very sad looking lilac bushes in different locations around the property. They were very old and had lots of branches with little roots. I dug them up and separated them out. They looked like sticks. I planted all these sticks in a row and with water & manure they started to grow big & leafy very quickly. They are all very tall now. They get seeds and some seeds grow into new lilac bushes. Some are in the hedge row so I leave them. Others grow where ever in the yard and I allow my friends to take them for their yards. The transplants do very well but it is important not to move them when it is hot or they will just die. Best to move them in early Spring.
Best lilac bush I have ever seen was in Virginia City. It is very old, next to one of the original old houses there. The house is two stories and the lilac is just as tall as the house. :D
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diane
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Posted: 16 July 2014 - 05:38 PM
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Thanks Tillie, I cooked it with lid off that must be why it was like eating a tough tongue!! Will try with lid. 98 degrees is hot. Smokey too. I pulled weeds and grass, trimmed edges of lawn. Picked up things in yard for garbage. Still have not put away some things in here, just not much motivation in the heat, good today is hottest day of the week. 92 might feel better tomorrow. Might get down to high 80's this weekend. Tomorrow at 9am Tanner comes to visit for 4 days, looking forward to my little pooch friend being here. I watered some this morning, worked outside from 6am to 1pm today, slow motion but did get some things done. I have a crocheted blanket and some string lights that go on outdoor umbrella ready to go away, have a really big black bag and would like to fill it this week, with donations. Tiillie did you transplant lilacs to form your row or did they just march to next spot. I see mine are popping up in new places. was thinking it would be good to move some to east side of big deck so I have shade next summer, well will take a few years to get that big, but my tacky shade cloth I put up on top of big umbrellas on deck today, made me think trees would be a lot better and prettier. I was cleaning that area of yard today and realized it is just bare dirt and would look so much better with trees there.
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Tillie
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Posted: 16 July 2014 - 11:05 AM
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Good morning :)
Got the watering done already. Finally got a good night's sleep last night. Was totally exhausted. Need to eat actual real food today and not just snack on fruit, chips & chocolate. Just a few things to tidy up around here and the house will be good enough. Cats have all already started melting, drapped all limp on window sills, dressers & back of couch, napping. Looking forward to watching movies on Netflix and playing with my beads & sewing projects. So, what are you all up to today? :)
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LR2014
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Posted: 16 July 2014 - 09:30 AM
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Good morning.
Well, I did end up being able to meet my posted goals yesterday. I was happy that I was able to find that address list within my ten-minute time frame. (Yea!)
Some of my minimum goals for today are to put away laundry I dried yesterday, take out trash, load the dishwasher, and spend some more time (at least fifteen minutes) working on some clutter in a certain section of my living/dining room area.
Have a great day!
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Tillie
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Posted: 15 July 2014 - 06:57 PM
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Hi Diane :) Great plans you have for working around this heat. Sorry you have wildfire smoke too to deal with. Weather report here lied, temps up to 108 today not the cool 100 they promised. Whenever I have cooked chicken breast in the microwave I have put it into a lidded casserole type bowl. Uncovered it will dry up. Depending on the size of the chicken and the power of the microwave it is best to cook it for 5 to 10 minutes, check, then another 5 to 10 minutes till no more pink.
I don't eat chicken but one winter had a Robin who had been shot living here till she recovered and was able to fly again. I fed her lots of different foods but she loved chicken. She decided she would no longer eat anything except chicken. So I cooked chicken for her. Then she decided that she only wanted white meat. So I cooked her chicken breasts. Eventually her wing healed and she regained her strength. Her leg was crippled but she was able to use it well enough to stand or perch or hop around. When it was time to let her go she really didn't want to leave. She had to think about it for hours before she finally flew out the open door. :D
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