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What are you doing today?
Tillie
Posted: 17 August 2012 - 10:50 PM
 

Today my To-Do list included
water the garden and trees
clean the litter boxes
make a grocery list
clean kitchen
work on quilt

What is on your list? 😀

 

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Tillie
Posted: 04 March 2013 - 12:10 PM
 

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 😀

Hope everyone has a great day!

 
MayMay
Posted: 04 March 2013 - 11:55 AM
 

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. 🙂

 
Dianne
Posted: 04 March 2013 - 10:25 AM
 

Hi Tillie,

Thank you so much for good thoughts for grandson. I just love him to pieces. 🙂

One of the reasons I quit my job years ago was that my animals' care at home needed more attention. I was working at a kennel/emergency vet. I thought, I was putting so much time into other people's animals which I dearly loved (and I could take my German Shepherds to work with me) but my babies at home deserved as much or more. I also left to help my daughter with the premie twins who came home hooked to wires everywhere. Hit by drunk driver. That news story from New York is tragically familiar to us. 🙁

Cleaning the hoard gets neglected because animals care comes first. It comes before my care too which isn't so good. The cats love the hoard because they can play jungle kitties and have lots of hiding places. We rotate the little dogs and the big dogs in and out (3 well fenced acres) and their areas inside are kept clean and clear. They navigate the goat trails everywhere else very well.

What keeps me from adding more is that I want to outlive them. All except 4 cats should be gone within 10 years. If I die sooner money and homes are lined up. Although my vet gives me 50% off expenses are still crazy. In the past couple years I've turned down requests to accept more because all the ones here now are a good balance and as they age I don't want to stress them. One of the Shepherds is considered dangerous to smaller animals so we have a solid system to keep him with his brother or people only.

So today's chores are daily maintainence which includes washing floors in kitchen, breakfast room, laundryroom and dog room.
Clean deck (also known as poop deck). 🙂
Multiple scooping of litter boxes throughout the day (daughter will do this when I am gone).
Quick brushing for everyone.
Food and meds 2x am and pm.
Exercise time for cats, supervised runs for dogs in backyard.
Collect people laundry to take to granddaughter's house for wash tonight.
Collect some bags of papers/old mail to sort and trash later tonight.
Post office to send cards to grandson and daughter in hospital.
Pick up granddaughter from school.

I'm actually liking this schedule with the back and forth between 2 houses. The little bit of pressure to get it all done is motivating.

Hope everyone has a good day. 🙂

 
Tillie
Posted: 03 March 2013 - 03:57 PM
 

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. 😀

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 🙁

 
Dianne
Posted: 03 March 2013 - 01:10 PM
 

Tillie I like reading your daily check-ins letting us know your plans. I'll try that and see if it helps motivate me.

Today, Sunday, I have a few more hours at home than I will during the week.
So I loaded the truck for a run to the dump tomorrow.
I brushed out the 6 little dogs and trimmed nails.
I filled food bins for dogs and cats.
I still need to clean, sanitize and refill my litter boxes, 7 of them. That's a bit of a job as I do multiple layers of 2 types of litter and baking soda.
I have to do 2 loads of animal beds and 1 load of people laundry.
I would like to get some stickers together for my granddaughter and I to make cards for her brother tomorrow. If I can't dig them out that's ok.
Then I have almost an hour to decompress as I drive back to her house. My son-in-law leaves again tomorrow morning on a business trip. My grandson Jakey came thru the surgery well. He needs to be kept straight and still. He has seen Ronald McDonald and therapy dogs and hopefully will begin bending therapy this week.

I can't do online chat on their computer. You guys take good care. 🙂

 
Tillie
Posted: 03 March 2013 - 11:37 AM
 

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. 😀

 
Tillie
Posted: 03 March 2013 - 11:30 AM
 

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. 😉

 
MayMay
Posted: 02 March 2013 - 09:22 PM
 

Hey Lillie,
LMAO! 😀

 
Lillie
Posted: 02 March 2013 - 08:57 PM
 

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.

 
MayMay
Posted: 02 March 2013 - 08:24 PM
 

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. 🙂

 
Tillie
Posted: 02 March 2013 - 11:06 AM
 

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! 😀

 
Tillie
Posted: 02 March 2013 - 11:02 AM
 

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! 🙂

 
MayMay
Posted: 01 March 2013 - 09:53 PM
 

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?! 😮

That's a lot of laundry!

And I thought my room was bad! Lol. 😉

 
Tillie
Posted: 01 March 2013 - 07:54 PM
 

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 😀 lol

 
MayMay
Posted: 01 March 2013 - 11:37 AM
 

Hey Tillie,

LOL. 😀

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

 
Tillie
Posted: 01 March 2013 - 11:26 AM
 

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 😀

 
MayMay
Posted: 01 March 2013 - 08:11 AM
 

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. 🙁

 
MayMay
Posted: 28 February 2013 - 07:17 PM
 

WARNING!!!!!

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

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

 
Tillie
Posted: 28 February 2013 - 11:05 AM
 

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. 😀

 
MayMay
Posted: 28 February 2013 - 11:04 AM
 

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

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!

 
Tillie
Posted: 28 February 2013 - 10:55 AM
 

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. 🙂

 
Dianne
Posted: 28 February 2013 - 08:54 AM
 

Hi everybody,

Sorry I missed the last two chats. My daughter, son-in-law and grandson (Jakey just turned 6) left for Minnesota on Sunday. Jakey had a 6 hour spinal surgery yesterday to help with CP. I am taking care of my grandaughter Anna (Jakey's twin sister) in their home.

He'll be in the hospital for 6 weeks with daily therapy and another 3 months of therapy 5 days a week when he comes home.

So my great plan is to get Anna to school, get back here, treat cleaning my hoard as a job and get back to pick her up and do the evening routine and spend the night there. Her Dad will be home on a varying schedule since his job requires him to travel a lot this time of year.

My daughter Laura will need to take on more responsibility here while I'm gone.

Today is off to a good start. Bright sunshine, nice temperature and thankfully I had a good night's sleep.

Tillie I see you're back and look forward to getting to know you! 🙂

take care all ~~ Dianne

 
Tillie
Posted: 27 February 2013 - 11:29 AM
 

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! 😀

Have some fun today whatever you are doing. 🙂

 
MayMay
Posted: 26 February 2013 - 07:59 PM
 

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.

 
Tillie
Posted: 26 February 2013 - 06:12 PM
 

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

 
MayMay
Posted: 26 February 2013 - 11:22 AM
 

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!

 
Tillie
Posted: 26 February 2013 - 10:24 AM
 

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. 😀 lol

I know, I'm evil. 😉

Anyways, have some fun today.

 
Tillie
Posted: 26 February 2013 - 12:47 AM
 

Thanks MayMay 😀

 
MayMay
Posted: 25 February 2013 - 12:14 PM
 

WELCOME BACK TILLIE!!!!! 😀

 
Tillie
Posted: 25 February 2013 - 11:29 AM
 

Good morning 🙂
Sorry if I worried everyone but I needed to take a break from life for a while.

Not planning on doing a lot today.
Going to go outside when it warms up and do a little cleaning in my garden area.
Mainly just a fun way to enjoy the outdoors and sunshine.

There is the tiny area right in front of the house where I have flowers, bushes and a small patch of grass that I maintain.
It is like a beautiful little oasis surrounded by a desert of hoard and neglect.

When I look out the front window I can see my garden and all the lovely birds that come to visit.

Last night's chatroom was fun. A lot of nice people were there.

Have a pleasant day! 🙂

 
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