Hey Tillie! I'm glad to see you are back. I was starting to get worried.

I haven't been here in a couple of weeks. I've been working a lot doing cookie/cracker resets at Albertsons and a few times I was the only team member to show up so I had a few 18 hour days. At least that will be good for my paycheck. Tomorrow they are sending me over 100 miles away to Buellton. I hope the others show up.
I haven't been able to do anything to clean up my mess at the house. just come home, sleep for a few hours and back to work.

I took my car to the dealership and found out my radio is toast after my neighbor clanked the jumper cables together and blew it out. $700.00 for a new one. :( So I looked at new cars/SUVs. A new one would have a factory warranty and be safer sitting up high so I can see better...but I also need 2 roofs and probably shouldn't take on a car payment. I'm getting overwhelmed with silly problems. Maybe I should tell my neighbor that he blew out my radio but he was just trying to help me so I didn't say anything.

Why are simple nothing things so hard for me? I remember when I had REAL problems. Maybe the nonstop working got to me...can't think anymore.

Then there's my old saying... "When things get really bad or crazy, go out and buy a new car...it makes you feel much better"... lol.. at least I still have my sense of humor.

Hi Dianne :)

Good luck with the goat trails today!

Remember that slow & steady gets it done.
Start with the goal of clearing a small area about one foot square.
This way you will be able to see good results quickly.

Seeing good results will be motivating for you to do another square. And so on. :D

You can even sit in a chair and get to whatever you can reach. This is a good way to rest a bit while you work.

I am here cheering you on! :D

It is later than I thought! :(

Daylight savings time is the pits.

Remember that tonight's chat is at 5pm PST.

Springing forward is always worst than Falling back.
Wish they would stop this silly nonsense.

Good morning :)

Saturday!
I have no plans for today.
Hoping my Hoarder will tackle the project we discussed.

The front yard up close to the house is my area where I have my garden & lawn.
Between this area and the road is another area.
The area that you first see when approaching our property.
He has three trucks parked & abandoned there.
Weeds and nasty little trees all growing up around them. Some trees are actually growing up through the engine compartments.
The wind has blown tumbleweeds into all this mess too. The wasps love to nest in the vehicles and dry rotting foliage.

He said he would clean it up. He has been saying that for years now.

Maybe this weekend he will actually do it.

Why am I always such an optimist?

TTYL :)

Bye Bye MayMay :D

Right now I'm getting ready to head to the airport. :)

Watch out Houston! MayMay's coming to town! :D

Bye everyone. :)

So far the only thing that I have been eating today is tootsie pops. :)

So far today I have had 20 tootsie pops; and right now I'm eating my 21st one. :)

I have no idea why, but for some reason I have been really obsessed with tootsie pops lately. :)

Thanks MayMay :D


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Daylight savings time is a great time to put a fresh battery into your smoke alarms.

If you do not have a smoke alarm
PLEASE make it a priority to get one and install it this month.

The life you save may be your own. :)

Good luck Tillie! :)
And will do. ;)

Good morning :)

Still dark, cloudy, snowy type of day here.

My plan for today...
There is this small area in "The Garage" where I keep things that belong stored in a garage.

The hoarder in my life has piled things up in front of this area making it impossible to get to my stuff.

I am going to be needing this stuff I have stored out there. Things that I need to work around the garden with.

Today I am going to suit up and go in there and try to free my things from this area.
There is nowhere else to keep yard and garden things.

This is the best time of year to enter "The Garage" because the snakes are still hibernating and the black widow spiders are not active and the only critters I will have to face are the deer mice.

I will wear a face mask and strip down and shower right afterward.

Wish me luck & send out a search party if you don't hear back from me by sun down. :D

Today I have to pack for my trip to Houston. I am leaving tomorrow afternoon. :)

Then later on today I am going to take Matt and Cory to my boyfriend's house; where we will be spending the night. And then Matt and Cory are going to stay there while I'm in Houston. :)

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?

Because I have no idea...

I tried to find out by licking a tootsie pop while my boyfriend counted how many times I have licked it; but then my boyfriend lost count. So I just decided to go ahead and bite into it. :)

Plus my tongue was starting to get tired. Lol. :)

Good morning :)

Cold dark and cloudy snow day here today.

I have been taking it easy.
Fed the cats.
Been surfing the interwebs, reading articles & watching animal videos.

Need to do a quick tidy up...
swish & swipe the bathroom
sweep the floor & porches
scoop litter boxes
wash a few dishes

Talk To Ya'll later :)

Good Morning! :D

Woke up so early that I got to watch the sun rise.

Been doing a million little things, all fun & relaxing.

The wind is blowing very hard, bringing in the next snow storm.

Wishing everyone some fun today. :)

Thanks Dianne. :)

Good morning :)

I am all dressed and ready to clean the house today!

Sweep the floors & porches.
Clean the bathroom 100%.
Wash the floors.
Vacuum the carpet.
Wipe/wash off door knobs, light switches and lots of other things.
Dust & polish.
Generally straighten up and put things where they belong.
Shower & shampoo me. ;)

All the above tasks will take me about 4 hours to complete then I basically have the rest of the week to do the more fun things in life.

Have a fun and productive day everybody!

Thanks MayMay & Dianne :)

We are on our own well too and I always keep a jug of water stored on hand
"Just In Case" because the power goes out sometimes for no reason at all.

WTG! On raking all those leaves Tillie. :)

I had a GREAT cardio workout today.
Spent two full hours raking!
In Autumn we leave most of the leaves in the yard.
They cover the plants and help keep them from freezing to death during Winter.
Today I got the rest of them all raked out of my areas. :D

The Daffodils, Iris, Day Lilys, Grape Hyacinth and Rhubarb are all starting to poke their leaves up through the dirt.

Good morning Dianne & MayMay :)

All my plans for today will be put off until tomorrow.
He is home on his unpaid furlough day.
So no reason for me to do the weekly house cleaning with him underfoot.

Thinking about going outside and seeing what I want to do there.
The sun is shining today and the next storm is due in tomorrow.

The trash service changed our pick up day from Monday to Wednesday.
Maybe I can get him to fill all the trash cans!
Yeah right lol :D

Hope everyone has a great day!

Hi Dianne,

Both Matt and Cory are also german shepherds. And I'm also allowed to take them to work with me. :)

I work at a bar but my boss lets me bring Matt and Cory to work with me because everyone loves them so much and they are very well behaved. :)

I don't take them to work with me everyday though. I mostly only take them to work with me on the weekends. :)

And when I do take them to work with me they mostly hangout behind the bar with me while I'm working. :)

Hi Dianne :)
Very happy to hear your Grandson is doing well and am keeping him in my thoughts for a speedy and uneventful complete recovery. (((hugs)))

You sure have a lot of animal tasks!
Makes my two litter boxes, four water bowls, four kibble bowls and dozen blankets/beds seem like a walk in the park. :D

By posting our plans here we become accountable to who ever reads and sometimes that is all it takes for us to make sure to complete our tasks. :)

Sorry you can't come to chat :(

Winter returned over night.
Today is dark & cloudy & cold & wet. :(

He bought me a red rose bush and I was planning to plant it today. Oh Well!

I always worry when he brings me gifts.
Makes me wonder what he bought for himself. How big and it heavy it must be for me to get something nice like a rose bush.

Today my plan is to scrub sanitize and refill the two cat litter boxes.
Clean the kitchen.

Then find something fun to do. :D

I agree. :)
It is easier to go into his room when my allergies take away my sense of smell but I still need to see to climb over everything to get in there. ;)

Hey Lillie,
LMAO! :D

LOL.

As a future "extreme cleaner" I suggest you poke yourself in the nose next time. I have a relatively clean hoard, something I am quite proud of really, :-) I don't hoard trash, animals and their feces and rotting food, but that day could come, there but for the grace of god go I, as they say. But you will, certainly, need your eyes, so be careful. I poke myself in the eye with some frequency ... sometimes I can even manage to put my glasses on without poking myself in the eye. It hurts, and then there's the temporary blindness and all the tearing.

Better to poke yourself in the nose next time, I think.

OUCH!!!!!

I just accidentally poked myself in the eye.

Luckily I can still see out of it though. :)

As a future extreme cleaner, it would be really bad if I went blind. Because if I went blind I wouldn't be able to see what I was cleaning. Lol. :)

Good morning :)

I have no idea what I will be doing today.
The weather is so beautiful again. Lots of sunshine and warm temps.

Going to go have some fun! :D

MayMay,
There were a lot of dirty clothes in his bed too.
The hamper had about three loads in it and with the bedding & two blankets it all was a LOT! :)

Hey Tillie,

WOW!

7 loads worth of laundry to do in his hamper?! And then another 5 or 6 loads of laundry scattered throughout his room?! :o

That's a lot of laundry!

And I thought my room was bad! Lol. ;)

Thanks MayMay :)

Since today is his birthday (55)
I stripped his bed and washed everything.
Then I washed all the clothes in his hamper.
Seven washer loads!
There is still another five or six washer loads all scattered around in there but I only wash the clothes he puts in the hamper. :p

This should make him good and angry :D lol

Hey Tillie,

LOL. :D

Sure I'll come over and clean your hoarders bedroom. I'd be happy to do it. :)

Good morning

MayMay, come here today and clean my hoarder's bedroom.
It really stinks and you can smell it even with the door kept closed.
But be careful because he gets very angry when he discovers that somebody has put clean bedding on his bed and gathered up and washed all his dirty clothing!
That's why I'm not going to do it.

LOL :D

I'm sooooo EXCITED for next weekend! :)

Next weekend I get to go to Houston, Texas. :)

I'm sooooo EXCITED and glad that I get to help another hoarder and that I get to be away from Ohio for 2 weeks. :)

I even booked an appointment to have a spa day during the second week that I am there. :)

I will miss Matt and Cory while I'm in Texas though. :(

WARNING!!!!!

NEVER try to walk and put on pants at the same time!

If you try it, YOU WILL FALL!!!!!

Good morning :)

Another lovely day here.
Have three loads of laundry drying out on the clothes line.

Need to figure out what I want to eat then cook it.
Afterward I will clean the kitchen.

Yesterday evening I was standing at the window admiring how nicely my garden area was coming along with all the raking and pruning I have been doing.
Then a Falcon (Merlin) flew in and perched on a tree branch not 7 feet away from my face!
She sat there a full five minutes fluffing her feathers and preening before she saw her dinner fly by and took off after him.

That is what I love most about living here.
All the beautiful wildlife. :D

OMG! I just found out about the shark attack that happened in New Zealand yesterday! :o

In May I will be going to Hawaii for 3 weeks. And one of the things that I planned on doing while I'm there, is to go snorkeling in the ocean.

But now I don't think I want to go snorkeling when I'm in Hawaii anymore. Because I don't want to get attacked by a shark!

Hi Dianne :)

Sounds like you have a great plan going there.
Spending the evenings with your Granddaughter must be a lot of fun too.

Let us know how your decluttering is going. :)

Good morning :)

I'm thinking about going outside again today.
But depends on the wind not blowing.

Getting out in the fresh air & sunshine does so much to improve a persons mood and general outlook on life.

My daffodils are starting to send up their leaves. Spring will soon be here. YEA! :D

Have some fun today whatever you are doing. :)

Hey Tillie,

Lol. :)

I love ferrets! I really want to get a ferret. But I'm kind of scared that if I do get a ferret, then Cory and Matt might try to eat it. Lol.

Was probably a mouse playing the guitar.
Or maybe a ferret. I once saw a ferret in a guitar.

Me, Matt, and Cory just got woken up by the weirdest noise.

We woke up to what sounded like someone strumming my guitar. At first I thought that it was just my head playing tricks on me or something. But once I saw Cory and Matt react to it, that was when I realized that the noise I heard was real.

It was so CREEPY!

Good morning :)

Just as it was warming up nicely yesterday the wind started blowing. That wind was extremely cold. So I didn't get to go outside.

Going to try again today.

He took today off from work because he has to take care of a speeding ticket and not having proof of insurance in the car when he was pulled over.
This happened the day he was driving to work and developed severe kidney stone pain. Wasn't paying close enough attention to the speed limit due to the pain. :D lol

I know, I'm evil. ;)

Anyways, have some fun today.

Thanks MayMay :D

WELCOME BACK TILLIE!!!!! :D