Well Tatoulia
If you were thinking of going shopping for you & your Mom...

I'm heartbroken for The United States Of America.
I'm crying for us all.

Just wanted to follow up and say the situation for my roommate's sis and bil is resolved - 2 officers were shot but no serious injuries, and suspect is in custody. 👮🏼‍♂️🚓

That is good news.

I think I may go take a chill period, perhaps a nap, 🛌🏼 as we worked pretty hard yesterday. Roommate is already taking a nap.

It's grey here and we had a little rain. 🌧️

Trying to figure out what to do about my computer but without stressing over it or rushing to do anything too impulsively. There may be options I am still needing to learn about. I guess I just never foresaw how quickly everything would change in personal tech.

I just want to be creative - write, do graphics and digital art, etc. - without a ton of hassle! Is that too much to ask? 😩

Tillie, keep on recovering and limbering up. SubC, enjoy Bean! Tatoulia, be safe and take things at a comfortable pace. Hugs all. 💞🤗

Hi Subclinical

I completely and wholeheartedly support the peaceful demonstrators.
It's the anarchists, looters and vandals that are ruining the entire message.
They are there only to destroy all that is good.

We will all be watching the virus numbers closely in these cities.
Along with all the places where people decided pool parties and other gatherings were ok to do too.

Very relieved your kids are in safe areas of the big cities (((((HUGS)))))

They better keep updating you with any changes even the quiet things.

WAY TO GO! for evaluations, weeds, dishwasher and a plate!!!

Did you get the crib?
You must have cake or something special when the virtual baby shower is happening.
Such an exciting time!
Wishing it wasn't during a pandemic quarantine ((((HUGS))))

Stay safe everybody
these are interesting times
Love, Tillie

Good Morning Everybody

Hi Subclinical
Hoping you two had a most wonderful date night! 😀
Happy Bean day!. 😀

Hi CriticalMass
So nice you were with relatives.
WAY TO GO! for EVERYTHING!
Yep, some fishes just don't do well with changes (((hug)))
Prayers for peace in your areas and the world.

Hi Tatoulia
Best wishes for all your health and dieting plans.
You CAN do it!!!
🦡 Here's Badger!

Been having a hard time finding a comfortable position to sit at the computer.
But doing better mobility wise with moving about.
Yesterday I managed to run the vacuum.
Just the main areas, no moving furniture or anything, just kicked cat toys out of the way.
Little by little, slowly, I think I will get there someday.

Hi Subclinical

I completely and wholeheartedly support the peaceful demonstrators.
It's the anarchists, looters and vandals that are ruining the entire message.
They are there only to destroy all that is good.

We will all be watching the virus numbers closely in these cities.
Along with all the places where people decided pool parties and other gatherings were ok to do too.

Very relieved your kids are in safe areas of the big cities (((((HUGS)))))

They better keep updating you with any changes even the quiet things.

WAY TO GO! for evaluations, weeds, dishwasher and a plate!!!

Did you get the crib?
You must have cake or something special when the virtual baby shower is happening.
Such an exciting time!
Wishing it wasn't during a pandemic quarantine ((((HUGS))))

Stay safe everybody
these are interesting times
Love, Tillie

Good Morning Everybody

Hi CriticalMass
The time stamp for me is always wrong, it was only 10pm when I posted, so not a night Owl. 😉
WTG! for figuring out how to back up your photos on the phone.

When I watched "Dark Shadows" I had to laugh at myself because I started to sound like the guys on mystery science theater with all my snarky comments. 😀
Glad you are enjoying it too.

My fingers are crossed for Roommate's scan tomorrow. Steven's later scans showed the glowy spots were resolved, diminished, gone.

True, some people have been doing the hard mental work to help reduce clutter or overcome hoarding due to the popularity of those methods.
But without ever doing the mental work, hoarding is a danger for some people.
Decluttering all starts in the mindset.

Maybe doing some light physical work after eating lunch would help you not get so sleepy?
I have to get up after lunch or I will just fall asleep too.

Hi Subclinical
YES! pots boiling away on the stove! LOL 😀

I am so happy and grateful for you having your Dh there living and working with you (((HUGS)))

WAY TO GO! you have been doing so much! Keeping up with things and enjoying gathering up your harvest and making wonderful additions to your stash of foods. 😀

Last night I was laying on the bed, Scooter laying beside me.
He was on his back with all four legs sprawled out in different directions.
He was enjoying finally cooling off under the ceiling fan. 😀

YES Tatoulia

Sleep in the back tonight away from the street view windows.

Glad Mom is not fretting ((((HUGS))))

Very relieved BF is home safe and you are at home safe too.

I saw Boston on TV and it looks like the police are making good strides in keeping it contained.

(((((HUGS)))))

Cm, I van picture the image of your uncle at the funeral. Very, very sweet and sad image.

Good for you to have the nativity set go to someone else. You are amazing. Your hard work is paying off handsomely.

I hope that your roommate can find a vehicle.

We had protests here on Friday and thank goodness stayed peaceful. I got nervous and could only walk for about 45 minutes before heading home. BF was okay; I'd offered to work with him that night.

It's humid here today. Not what I signed up for. I'll try to walk later in the day. Late afternoon should work.

I'm running the dishwasher and doing a load of laundry. Anyone see the badger? I could use some help.

YES Tatoulia

Sleep in the back tonight away from the street view windows.

Glad Mom is not fretting ((((HUGS))))

Very relieved BF is home safe and you are at home safe too.

I saw Boston on TV and it looks like the police are making good strides in keeping it contained.

(((((HUGS)))))

Good morning!

To start - tatoulia, you absolutely must report the man. The facility needs to know. You can do it very nicely "I need to talk with so and so, he sold my mom a computer. I'm sure he was trying to help her, but apparently he's unaware that she can't see well enough to use it. I'm sure she wouldn't tell him. But I need him to return the money and take the computer back. Also, is there some place I can make a note that employees shouldn't be helping my mother write checks?

As an aside - if your mother can't see her checks, why does she have a checkbook? You should have the checkbook.

I'm laughing about the dangerous trees, because Dh and I took a walk around the property last night (Dh says we're going to do it every night - it's 1.4 miles, more if we add any interior paths) and one if the things we actually did was make note of dangerous trees. Also ripening blackberries.

And, my dad was an insurance agent (now retired) for years and years he had people tell him a tree "suddenly appeared" or "jumped out in front of" them. Seriously. People would say the tree jumped in front of them. They must have been those dangerous Boston trees. I'm glad you are watching out for them.

I hope you get the washer thing resolved quickly!

Tillie, I am very pleased with your bead supply. I can envision the strand. My inner squirrel finds it quite promising.

I am worried about the evaporative cooler though.

CM, I'm glad you and roommate have a fun evening activity.

I too am excited for the baby. Dd has an appointment this morning. She has started texting me every morning: "still pregnant. <Frown emoji>."

Listening to all your computer things made me think. There are so many things I don't have to do in a day because I have Dh. So, Tatoulia, I may sound very busy to you, but there are a lot of things I don't have to do that you take for granted. For example, we are updating our wills. All I had to do was answer three questions Dh asked me. Then later I will have to sign things. Easy peasy. The brakes are going bad on the truck (don't worry, it's a "never moving again" kind of bad, not a "can't stop" kind - the way I drive the truck, worst case I get stuck on the road within 5 miles of home and someone pulls it off to the side and gives me a ride.) So Dh is researching the cost of replacing the brakes vs. options for a new farm truck. (I may get a new truck!) Dh filed our taxes. He mows, he takes care of dangerous trees, he provides me with fire wood, he cooks dinner....

I mean, seriously, someone cooks me dinner. I used to cook dinner, so I know how much time that frees up!

I am still working on getting my days and my weight under control (the walk is Dh trying to help me.)

Yesterday I picked blackberries, cleaned stalls, froze the ice cream, made more ice tea, finished the dried beans, and emailed students.

Today more beans, random garden maintenance, maybe more ice cream mix, laundry and finish up my island for tomorrow. Dh is nudging me to make pickles. I think that can wait for Friday. Nothing like a stove covered in boiling pots to make a baby show up.

Good Morning Everybody

Hi CriticalMass
The time stamp for me is always wrong, it was only 10pm when I posted, so not a night Owl. 😉
WTG! for figuring out how to back up your photos on the phone.

When I watched "Dark Shadows" I had to laugh at myself because I started to sound like the guys on mystery science theater with all my snarky comments. 😀
Glad you are enjoying it too.

My fingers are crossed for Roommate's scan tomorrow. Steven's later scans showed the glowy spots were resolved, diminished, gone.

True, some people have been doing the hard mental work to help reduce clutter or overcome hoarding due to the popularity of those methods.
But without ever doing the mental work, hoarding is a danger for some people.
Decluttering all starts in the mindset.

Maybe doing some light physical work after eating lunch would help you not get so sleepy?
I have to get up after lunch or I will just fall asleep too.

Hi Subclinical
YES! pots boiling away on the stove! LOL 😀

I am so happy and grateful for you having your Dh there living and working with you (((HUGS)))

WAY TO GO! you have been doing so much! Keeping up with things and enjoying gathering up your harvest and making wonderful additions to your stash of foods. 😀

Last night I was laying on the bed, Scooter laying beside me.
He was on his back with all four legs sprawled out in different directions.
He was enjoying finally cooling off under the ceiling fan. 😀

CM, I did not mean to leave you out! I am happy for your sewer miracle and hope you get a brake miracle to go with it!

Saturday eve -

"Breaking news" my roommate just gave me about 10:45 a cop was shot in Peculiar, MO where her sister and brother-in-law and his father are, ongoing emergency situation. BIL is a trained Natl Guardsman and has his gun ready if needed.

End of a long day and end of an eventful week... and now:

The post I was working on, which is already a second draft and which I'm doing offline with frequent saves because...

I had about half a post written an hour or so ago, and my laptop locked up again when I tried to go to Emojicopy to get an emoji. I'm getting pretty disillusioned with this Linux operating system.

And about ready to take the nuclear option, aka going to the computer store and having them reload Windows 7 - yes, 7, on it. I'll have to disconnect from the internet while working on my own work, I guess, because of the security risks, but I don't care. Well, I do care, but the computer industry is leaving me few other choices that I feel comfortable with.

Yesterday of course I went to the funeral of my aunt. Hit me right in the feels, seeing my frail 96-year-old uncle leaning over the casket, saying final goodbyes to his wife of 72 years. This is the couple who buried 3 out of their 4 children.

I got to meet several extended family members for the first time in person. I knew some of them on Facebook, and others just vaguely as "one of cousin So-and-So's kids." Took several pictures of the group on the church steps so I can remember.

Talked to my cousin, the youngest and surviving, who with her daughter has been going thru and working on decluttering grandmas house where my two aunts who passed earlier this year had lived until they went into the care home. They had gotten it pretty badly hoarded by that time because I guess it was just too much for them as they aged.

She asked me about some items including a Nativity stable that my dad had made and I'd painted the figurines for, for my Grandma in the 70s. We had one of our own and I still have that one, and my cousin said she'd take Grandma's set. I was very happy that she wanted it and told her my Dad would no doubt love for her to have it.

This morning my roommate and I went to do errands. She got her letter of pre-qualification for a car loan. She'll probably go to KC on Tuesday with her sister, as there are a couple prospective cars her brothers-in-law have found for her to look at. (Assuming of course this situation in the greater KC area doesn't turn into another violent s---show.)

Then this afternoon we bailed out and disassembled the 29-gallon aquarium and fixins. And managed to get it all cleaned and loaded into my van. Sadly, fish stick didn't survive - he had been in his smaller aquarium but he died early this evening.

We were both rather tired, achy, and cranky but also with a sense of accomplishment after all we've done today. I pray the situation in her sister's area resolves without further trouble.

Weather has been in the 90s last 2-3 days but is set to change to 70s-60s tomorrow. But should be sunny for the garage sale next week.

That's all I have for now.

CM, I did not mean to leave you out! I am happy for your sewer miracle and hope you get a brake miracle to go with it!

Tillie, I see we are both being night owls. It's hard to get much done these past days. I'm glad my laptop is working a lot better though.

It is thundering here.

July is in that hot draining stage sometimes. Add to that quarantine disorientation and it seems like the days pass with not much getting done. After lunch I get ridiculously sleepy, so I hope to start eating smaller lighter lunches because if I doze off that carves the heart out of the day.

Yesterday was crazy - I wanted to get the photos on my phone backed up and technology wasn't cooperative. Had to try several different strategies, finally did get most of it done. And my roommate is working on end of fiscal year stuff trying to get figures to balance etc. Then the landline phone kept ringing. We're not going to have it much longer - it's redundant nowadays. So many annoying interruptions and such frazzlement.

In the evening is still "Dark Shadows" time around here. I'm amazed how hooked my roommate has gotten; I didn't know if she'd like it because it wasn't straight sci-fi, but she likes classic horror, and the characters are likeable or love-to-hate and make snarky comments about. LOL.

SubC, you have been quite busy and I'm sure excited about when the baby will come. You've got some good things going on with being able to provide food and stuff. Hope the stuff from the store is better next time. I've thought sometimes about how we aren't very self-sufficient in this industrialized society, how we can so easily take things like available shelf-stable groceries for granted.

There probably will be a few hoarders from this pandemic - whether they were latent and this will just be the catalyst, or conditions like this can actually create hoarders out of "normies," hard to say. Although this is the first big event in a time in which we also have the Marie Kondos and the minimalists and Swedish Death Cleaners - a time in which we're aware we've been overly materialistic and some want to change. That could mitigate some of it, maybe.

Tillie, I'm sorry the cooler is acting up and the hot weather makes everything more frustrating. Hope the beading helps take your mind off at least some of it.

Tatoulia, I'm sorry you had a run-in with a jerk and then a crook where your mom is! Especially the latter - wish you could report him or at the very least tip off as many people as possible. My mom went completely blind the last few years of her life, and it was sad to know how vulnerable she was.

"Dangerous Trees" sounds like the title of a crime suspense novel or something. 😉

Roommate has a medical scan tomorrow on the other side of town, midday-ish. I'm getting tired and it's later than I meant to stay up, so I'll say goodnite.

Good morning!

To start - tatoulia, you absolutely must report the man. The facility needs to know. You can do it very nicely "I need to talk with so and so, he sold my mom a computer. I'm sure he was trying to help her, but apparently he's unaware that she can't see well enough to use it. I'm sure she wouldn't tell him. But I need him to return the money and take the computer back. Also, is there some place I can make a note that employees shouldn't be helping my mother write checks?

As an aside - if your mother can't see her checks, why does she have a checkbook? You should have the checkbook.

I'm laughing about the dangerous trees, because Dh and I took a walk around the property last night (Dh says we're going to do it every night - it's 1.4 miles, more if we add any interior paths) and one if the things we actually did was make note of dangerous trees. Also ripening blackberries.

And, my dad was an insurance agent (now retired) for years and years he had people tell him a tree "suddenly appeared" or "jumped out in front of" them. Seriously. People would say the tree jumped in front of them. They must have been those dangerous Boston trees. I'm glad you are watching out for them.

I hope you get the washer thing resolved quickly!

Tillie, I am very pleased with your bead supply. I can envision the strand. My inner squirrel finds it quite promising.

I am worried about the evaporative cooler though.

CM, I'm glad you and roommate have a fun evening activity.

I too am excited for the baby. Dd has an appointment this morning. She has started texting me every morning: "still pregnant. <Frown emoji>."

Listening to all your computer things made me think. There are so many things I don't have to do in a day because I have Dh. So, Tatoulia, I may sound very busy to you, but there are a lot of things I don't have to do that you take for granted. For example, we are updating our wills. All I had to do was answer three questions Dh asked me. Then later I will have to sign things. Easy peasy. The brakes are going bad on the truck (don't worry, it's a "never moving again" kind of bad, not a "can't stop" kind - the way I drive the truck, worst case I get stuck on the road within 5 miles of home and someone pulls it off to the side and gives me a ride.) So Dh is researching the cost of replacing the brakes vs. options for a new farm truck. (I may get a new truck!) Dh filed our taxes. He mows, he takes care of dangerous trees, he provides me with fire wood, he cooks dinner....

I mean, seriously, someone cooks me dinner. I used to cook dinner, so I know how much time that frees up!

I am still working on getting my days and my weight under control (the walk is Dh trying to help me.)

Yesterday I picked blackberries, cleaned stalls, froze the ice cream, made more ice tea, finished the dried beans, and emailed students.

Today more beans, random garden maintenance, maybe more ice cream mix, laundry and finish up my island for tomorrow. Dh is nudging me to make pickles. I think that can wait for Friday. Nothing like a stove covered in boiling pots to make a baby show up.

Tatoulia, be careful and stay safe!

All my children live in protest cities, but in "safe" areas. They keep messaging me that the rioting is not near them.

Dsil was on call to potentially go bail a friend out of jail last night, but fortunately things did not go that direction.

I am very angry at the anarchists and opportunists who are just using this as a chance to destroy things and steal. Especially when they destroy small businesses that support the communities that are already suffering. I also worry about the protestors getting sick.

Tillie, it sounds like your house is getting very nice.

I did my minimum evaluations today. Pulled a few weeds. Ran the dishwasher. And got a plate ready to go in the kiln. Also talked with dd1 for a long while. We are having a virtual baby shower on Saturday and she will be showing off her nursery and wanted to show me how they were setting it up.

The "school" room is slowly getting neater as I do evaluations and recycle notes.

Hello everyone! SubC enjoy your date night!

Tillie my absolute favorite character is Mary Richards of the Mary Tyler Moore Show. And she would sleep on the foldout and put it back together in the AM. So now I picture you doing that.

I am sorry about your back. I have not had a back or neck injury and I understand that they are completely debilitating. I know you are taking good care of yourself. Wish I could help.

I am glad he got the cat litter for you. That is a heavy bucket!

I've been keeping my dining table neat and nice. Work is very busy. I'm not sure if I checked in or not but my presentation on the company-wide meeting went well. There were nearly 500 people on the zoom. My favorite moment was before it was my turn, someone texted me and told me that my hair looks fantastic. I replied, thanks, I washed it. And she wrote back, I can tell. Such a hoot.

Taking care of my body is going well. I'm walking and eating better. My buddy in Pennsylvania is doing this with me. So it's great. I weigh 30 more lbs than I did in June 2019. I've got this. I can do this and I feel great. My hair is growing out pretty nicely. I figure if we go back to the office in January, I can lose at least some of the 30 I've put on and I'll feel better. With no Christmas parties this year, that will help too.

I need to get rid of more stuff. I'm getting there. I have two bags I'm working on.

I have a few more clues that someone might be leaving the company, which would leave the door open for my promotion. I'm hoping so.

I have t slept well the last two nights, either. One night because I didn't take my pills and last night I don't know why.

It was a fairly cool and pretty day today. I met a girlfriend for a walk. I last saw her in March. It was nice to see her.

BF and I were going to run errands tonight but the battery was dead on his car. We jumped it with my car. But then the battery was dead on his remote alarm, and we could t get the car's alarm to stop. By the time we got that sorted, we couldn't really run errands as his second employee had to leave at eight. So we just walked around. I was glad for the exercise.

Tomorrow I'll have to use my car to get mom's groceries. I need to do a proper shopping for her.

It's humid here. I may have to put my AC back together if I want a decent night's sleep.

I am happy I am taking care of my body. I have a really good yoga session I've been doing in fridays during lunch. It's making a huge difference in how I feel about myself.

I see that I am rambling.

I need the badger to get me to measure my bathroom and order the paint.

So

Tatoulia, be careful and stay safe!

All my children live in protest cities, but in "safe" areas. They keep messaging me that the rioting is not near them.

Dsil was on call to potentially go bail a friend out of jail last night, but fortunately things did not go that direction.

I am very angry at the anarchists and opportunists who are just using this as a chance to destroy things and steal. Especially when they destroy small businesses that support the communities that are already suffering. I also worry about the protestors getting sick.

Tillie, it sounds like your house is getting very nice.

I did my minimum evaluations today. Pulled a few weeds. Ran the dishwasher. And got a plate ready to go in the kiln. Also talked with dd1 for a long while. We are having a virtual baby shower on Saturday and she will be showing off her nursery and wanted to show me how they were setting it up.

The "school" room is slowly getting neater as I do evaluations and recycle notes.

Good Evening Everyone

I am OUTRAGED! Tatoulia
I want that scum reported, arrested for crimes against the elderly!!! >:/

Or find and give me all his personal info like address etc. and I will hunt him down and exact justice on his ass!

He has probably scammed other residents, stole their money or assets.
He is a danger to the residents and I would be a danger to him!

Good luck getting the washing machine replaced or fixed.
You MUST have a washer. You NEED a washer.
It is a medical device for you to relieve tension (((HUG)))

I am so happy and relieved that you are on the job of ferreting out and reporting all those dangerous trees. ;D

I could fix the cooler myself if my hands and arms were strong enough to remove a panel and if my back was good enough to lift it out, the panel is too heavy for me.
But I have a bad back and weak and puny hands & arms.
It was up tp 85F in here today.
I don't want to ask him to help because I am emotionally too weak to tolerate hearing him scream at me to die and for everything here to die again.

Early this evening I watered the grass and spent time walking in the wet grass and getting sprinkled on and my dress all wet.

I have black out insulated window covers and kept them shut and had the malfunctioning cooler running & that helped a little and I had fans on.
I also have a mist maker. A bottle that you pump up and the nozzle sprays a fine mist on you.

An evaporative cooler has a contraption that has 8 arms attached to a center hub.
The water goes into the hub and drizzles out the 8 arms, wetting the excelsior pads.
It is called a "spider".
The water is not coming out all the arms to wet the pads.
The cooler has 4 sides with pads.
Only 2 pads are getting wet.
So the air is not very cooled.

The sun has set and the grass is wet.
I have a fan in the front window now bringing in the wet grass coolness.
The ceiling fan is blowing it all down onto my bed. 😀

Tillie, I see we are both being night owls. It's hard to get much done these past days. I'm glad my laptop is working a lot better though.

It is thundering here.

July is in that hot draining stage sometimes. Add to that quarantine disorientation and it seems like the days pass with not much getting done. After lunch I get ridiculously sleepy, so I hope to start eating smaller lighter lunches because if I doze off that carves the heart out of the day.

Yesterday was crazy - I wanted to get the photos on my phone backed up and technology wasn't cooperative. Had to try several different strategies, finally did get most of it done. And my roommate is working on end of fiscal year stuff trying to get figures to balance etc. Then the landline phone kept ringing. We're not going to have it much longer - it's redundant nowadays. So many annoying interruptions and such frazzlement.

In the evening is still "Dark Shadows" time around here. I'm amazed how hooked my roommate has gotten; I didn't know if she'd like it because it wasn't straight sci-fi, but she likes classic horror, and the characters are likeable or love-to-hate and make snarky comments about. LOL.

SubC, you have been quite busy and I'm sure excited about when the baby will come. You've got some good things going on with being able to provide food and stuff. Hope the stuff from the store is better next time. I've thought sometimes about how we aren't very self-sufficient in this industrialized society, how we can so easily take things like available shelf-stable groceries for granted.

There probably will be a few hoarders from this pandemic - whether they were latent and this will just be the catalyst, or conditions like this can actually create hoarders out of "normies," hard to say. Although this is the first big event in a time in which we also have the Marie Kondos and the minimalists and Swedish Death Cleaners - a time in which we're aware we've been overly materialistic and some want to change. That could mitigate some of it, maybe.

Tillie, I'm sorry the cooler is acting up and the hot weather makes everything more frustrating. Hope the beading helps take your mind off at least some of it.

Tatoulia, I'm sorry you had a run-in with a jerk and then a crook where your mom is! Especially the latter - wish you could report him or at the very least tip off as many people as possible. My mom went completely blind the last few years of her life, and it was sad to know how vulnerable she was.

"Dangerous Trees" sounds like the title of a crime suspense novel or something. 😉

Roommate has a medical scan tomorrow on the other side of town, midday-ish. I'm getting tired and it's later than I meant to stay up, so I'll say goodnite.

Good Evening Everyone

I am OUTRAGED! Tatoulia
I want that scum reported, arrested for crimes against the elderly!!! >:/

Or find and give me all his personal info like address etc. and I will hunt him down and exact justice on his ass!

He has probably scammed other residents, stole their money or assets.
He is a danger to the residents and I would be a danger to him!

Good luck getting the washing machine replaced or fixed.
You MUST have a washer. You NEED a washer.
It is a medical device for you to relieve tension (((HUG)))

I am so happy and relieved that you are on the job of ferreting out and reporting all those dangerous trees. ;D

I could fix the cooler myself if my hands and arms were strong enough to remove a panel and if my back was good enough to lift it out, the panel is too heavy for me.
But I have a bad back and weak and puny hands & arms.
It was up tp 85F in here today.
I don't want to ask him to help because I am emotionally too weak to tolerate hearing him scream at me to die and for everything here to die again.

Early this evening I watered the grass and spent time walking in the wet grass and getting sprinkled on and my dress all wet.

I have black out insulated window covers and kept them shut and had the malfunctioning cooler running & that helped a little and I had fans on.
I also have a mist maker. A bottle that you pump up and the nozzle sprays a fine mist on you.

An evaporative cooler has a contraption that has 8 arms attached to a center hub.
The water goes into the hub and drizzles out the 8 arms, wetting the excelsior pads.
It is called a "spider".
The water is not coming out all the arms to wet the pads.
The cooler has 4 sides with pads.
Only 2 pads are getting wet.
So the air is not very cooled.

The sun has set and the grass is wet.
I have a fan in the front window now bringing in the wet grass coolness.
The ceiling fan is blowing it all down onto my bed. 😀

Things have taken a turn here. I understand. My mother doesn't sound worried and feels very supportive of the pain and rage. It's not up by us yet but it's taken a bit of a turn. I may sleep in the back. My couch folds out. I live on a main thoroughfare and not sure if it will head up here or not. Bf made it safely home.

I didn't clean stalls or prep for school.

I built a temporary rooster pen and I cut up tomatoes and I emailed with my boss and a student and i did a load of dishes and a load of laundry.

Dh and I have a date tonight! Live stream concert to project on the big sheet screen we set up and surround sound with his speakers.

Also he got a very nice bottle of whiskey from work last week for the successful completion of something big, So we will be opening that.

Best of all, he talked to dd about his event and she is still bringing Bean over to see him tomorrow. Which I think means I get to go over one more time on Monday.

Things have taken a turn here. I understand. My mother doesn't sound worried and feels very supportive of the pain and rage. It's not up by us yet but it's taken a bit of a turn. I may sleep in the back. My couch folds out. I live on a main thoroughfare and not sure if it will head up here or not. Bf made it safely home.

Tillie! I am worried about your evaporative cooler. Is there any chance Steven would take a second pass at it?

SubC that potato salad sounds absolutely delicious! Once again, I am amazed by how much you do in a day!

I am up to see Bf today. Only for a minute. Significantly cooler today. I hadn't realized it til I went up to his house. I'm. Not sure if I'll use AC tonight in bedroom or not.

I was out in charge for the washer repairs today. The guy told me we are really looking at a new one. I Ike this small shop where we get our appliances. I've purchased most everything from them, and years ago my mother bought her entire kitchen from them. They don't have our model in stock and they don't expect to til mid August. I have asked for an estimate to repair, and I'll call another small shop that I've used tomorrow. I hope the other shop can help us out. We have a tight space and we want Maytag as we need something large and with commercial grade components. I will take my towels to the fluff and fold tomorrow. I washed them over the weekend but when I folded them, they hadn't gotten clean. If I have to wash pjs or other things, I'll do myself at their laundromat. They use too high heat at their fluff and fold service.

Okay another incident involving mom. My mother is functionally blind. She can't see us and she can't even read the enlarged letters on the Tv. So I find out that someone at her place (a worker, not an aide) sold her a computer. He brought her a computer, wrote out a check to himself, and she signed it. She lied to me about the amount, first saying 20 then 100 then when I told her I was calling her bank she said 150. Of course she can't see so it could be any amount. I lost a night's sleep over it. He didn't come into her apartment today and so she hasn't told him she can't see her computer and she needs her money back. I'm not reporting him. Out of respect for my mother but what a snake. BF and I are active and strong forces in my mother's life and he pulls thus? Of course I am greatly shortening the story and mom fought me tooth and nail. She's embarrassed that she fell for this guy's scam. And she's afraid that he will be mean to her. She still thinks he was being kind but naturally I don't see this. Today she was going to tell him to take it back but since he didn't show up for his regularly scheduled service at her place, she didn't. I can't stop payment because I don't have enough info although her banker was very kind and put a note in her file.

So I feel like I'm dying.

I am now having trouble with work computer so I just emailed someone. BF is accusing me, very sweetly and kindly, of looking for things to be upset about. So we've been laughing about that. I told him I'm going to head outside to look for dangerous trees so I can complain to the city. This is an expression that we've fallen back on over the years. We will be driving along and he will ask me if I see any trees to report. Or if I'm getting worked up too much he'll interrupt to find out how the trees are. I don't know where it started but it's a good shorthand in our relationship. So I'm looking for dangerous trees.

Love you all. Thank you for sticking with me. I will get through this.

Good Morning

Tossed & turned in bed last night but finally fell sound asleep and slept until almost 11:00am.

He's taken off to yard and rummage sales. >:(
He got a 35 pound plastic bucket of "Tidy Cats" kitty litter.
He was just going to leave it out by the back porch and got angry when I begged him to please set it inside the door, he did set it just inside the door.
No way could I carry it anywhere.
So I will use a cup or bowl to ladle some into the litter boxes.
So YEA! the cats have their litter! 😀

Smoke hazy today and will be warm 80s.
Scooter has done his "scarf&barf" twice this morning.
He just eats too much too fast.
Fears from when he was a starving baby and never knew if he would have food ever again.

Been thinking seriously that I should go grocery shopping this week.

Really missing FRESH produce. 🙁

If I do decide to go I will go on Thursday when from 7am to 8am only old people are allowed inside.
Last 2 times I went then and the store was practically deserted and the few people in there were courteous.

Good Morning Everybody
"Clink!"

Got up, got dressed and went out and watered the garden.
Came back in and fed the cats.
Now I get to have my tea.

Yesterday got all the rose quartz beads strung and I have an almost 4 foot strand to work with.
Today I will string the multicolored fluorite beads and will probably have a strand just as long.

Going to be another hot day but this morning is pleasantly cool and very quiet.

Tillie! I am worried about your evaporative cooler. Is there any chance Steven would take a second pass at it?

SubC that potato salad sounds absolutely delicious! Once again, I am amazed by how much you do in a day!

I am up to see Bf today. Only for a minute. Significantly cooler today. I hadn't realized it til I went up to his house. I'm. Not sure if I'll use AC tonight in bedroom or not.

I was out in charge for the washer repairs today. The guy told me we are really looking at a new one. I Ike this small shop where we get our appliances. I've purchased most everything from them, and years ago my mother bought her entire kitchen from them. They don't have our model in stock and they don't expect to til mid August. I have asked for an estimate to repair, and I'll call another small shop that I've used tomorrow. I hope the other shop can help us out. We have a tight space and we want Maytag as we need something large and with commercial grade components. I will take my towels to the fluff and fold tomorrow. I washed them over the weekend but when I folded them, they hadn't gotten clean. If I have to wash pjs or other things, I'll do myself at their laundromat. They use too high heat at their fluff and fold service.

Okay another incident involving mom. My mother is functionally blind. She can't see us and she can't even read the enlarged letters on the Tv. So I find out that someone at her place (a worker, not an aide) sold her a computer. He brought her a computer, wrote out a check to himself, and she signed it. She lied to me about the amount, first saying 20 then 100 then when I told her I was calling her bank she said 150. Of course she can't see so it could be any amount. I lost a night's sleep over it. He didn't come into her apartment today and so she hasn't told him she can't see her computer and she needs her money back. I'm not reporting him. Out of respect for my mother but what a snake. BF and I are active and strong forces in my mother's life and he pulls thus? Of course I am greatly shortening the story and mom fought me tooth and nail. She's embarrassed that she fell for this guy's scam. And she's afraid that he will be mean to her. She still thinks he was being kind but naturally I don't see this. Today she was going to tell him to take it back but since he didn't show up for his regularly scheduled service at her place, she didn't. I can't stop payment because I don't have enough info although her banker was very kind and put a note in her file.

So I feel like I'm dying.

I am now having trouble with work computer so I just emailed someone. BF is accusing me, very sweetly and kindly, of looking for things to be upset about. So we've been laughing about that. I told him I'm going to head outside to look for dangerous trees so I can complain to the city. This is an expression that we've fallen back on over the years. We will be driving along and he will ask me if I see any trees to report. Or if I'm getting worked up too much he'll interrupt to find out how the trees are. I don't know where it started but it's a good shorthand in our relationship. So I'm looking for dangerous trees.

Love you all. Thank you for sticking with me. I will get through this.