Good Evening Everyone

You accomplished a LOT Subclinical
So ok, tomorrow muck out the stalls and work on lesson prepping.

Today I did a whole lot of pencil puzzles while laying in bed.

You have lots of lovely tomatoes put up and cheeses too.
So many tasty dishes you will have.

Noticed today the Apricot tree has small patches of gold leaves now.

5:15pm going out now to water my flowers.
Chrysanthemum all have so many flower buds.

Good Afternoon Everybody

YEA!!! CriticalMass
So relieved the sewer line was so much less than feared!!!
So, is it fixed yet? If not when will it be fixed?

My fingers are crossed your brake noise will be as easy to fix and hopefully still under warranty.

Have a great restful nap. ;D

Hi Tatoulia
Yes, I must admit that little booger Cowgirl Cat has me trained.
But in my defense she is just so darned cute!

Glad you have such a lovely day.
1pm here & 70 degrees with a very pleasant little breeze.

I used to always brew black tea for iced tea but have been enjoying the change to the herbal raspberry.

Detroit had some horrible riots in the 1960s.
So depressing to ride the busses and see all the rubble where there once were family owned businesses.
The people on the bus said "leave it" as a reminder of what has been lost.
The people on the bus also told me it was their own family members, young men who rioted and destroyed the businesses that had housed and fed them all their lives.
So heartbreaking.
I was living with my Granma in Detroit when Martin Luther King was assassinated.
There was a curfew and a lot of tension but fortunately no rioting.

Decided to draw a line through one more item on my June cleaning list.
I washed and ironed curtains.
These aren't window curtains but curtains for shelves and my tiny cubby hole closet.
Just looks so much better with a curtain rather than seeing what is stored on the shelves.
Plus I made a curtain/cover for my mesh hanging shoe holder because I don't like looking at the soles of my shoes hanging there.

😀
Subclinical
You have come so far and learned so much about yourself.
I am so very proud of you and all the hard physical and emotional work you have been doing.

You make very good decisions about just what Justin Case can keep around.
Your purchasing has been very well thought out and the things were useful to you today, not someday maybe.

(((HUG)))

WTG! for getting the beans going and making cheese!
That hot potato salad sounds delicious.
The best I ever had was at my Granma's cottage.
YEA! for cheese dishes in the dishwasher!

The evaporative cooler is having technical difficulties.
The inside of the house was 85F degrees.
On one side the water quit dripping down wetting the pad.
Steven "fixed" it but then the other side wasn't getting wet.
He beotched and swore and slammed things around.
Said terrible and hurtful things.
Was unnecessarily cruel and nasty.

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.

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.

Well Tillie,

It is helping me.

The wonderful reuse store is taking this time to sort out and reorganize and they are having two "free days" this week - one "everything that we set out in the parking lot is free to anybody" day and one "if you can show that you are a teacher and tell us how you are going to use it in your classroom you can have it" day.

I want very badly to go. But not badly enough to risk getting sick. Even if I wasn't waiting for grandbaby, none of that is worth risking anyone's life. I still feel guilty about the time I spent in the pottery studio. I think it was safe, but it wasn't actually necessary.

I am learning what Justin really needs (very little) and how easy it is to create abundance.

I got my beans set up in the dehydrator, and I made more cheese.

I ran the dishwasher again with just the cheese dishes, but the dishes are all backed up again because Dh made a yummy hot potato and green bean salad for dinner. His portion had bacon. It used a lot of pans.

Time for me to head to bed.

😀
Subclinical
You have come so far and learned so much about yourself.
I am so very proud of you and all the hard physical and emotional work you have been doing.

You make very good decisions about just what Justin Case can keep around.
Your purchasing has been very well thought out and the things were useful to you today, not someday maybe.

(((HUG)))

WTG! for getting the beans going and making cheese!
That hot potato salad sounds delicious.
The best I ever had was at my Granma's cottage.
YEA! for cheese dishes in the dishwasher!

The evaporative cooler is having technical difficulties.
The inside of the house was 85F degrees.
On one side the water quit dripping down wetting the pad.
Steven "fixed" it but then the other side wasn't getting wet.
He beotched and swore and slammed things around.
Said terrible and hurtful things.
Was unnecessarily cruel and nasty.

Good Afternoon Everybody

YEA!!! CriticalMass
So relieved the sewer line was so much less than feared!!!
So, is it fixed yet? If not when will it be fixed?

My fingers are crossed your brake noise will be as easy to fix and hopefully still under warranty.

Have a great restful nap. ;D

Hi Tatoulia
Yes, I must admit that little booger Cowgirl Cat has me trained.
But in my defense she is just so darned cute!

Glad you have such a lovely day.
1pm here & 70 degrees with a very pleasant little breeze.

I used to always brew black tea for iced tea but have been enjoying the change to the herbal raspberry.

Detroit had some horrible riots in the 1960s.
So depressing to ride the busses and see all the rubble where there once were family owned businesses.
The people on the bus said "leave it" as a reminder of what has been lost.
The people on the bus also told me it was their own family members, young men who rioted and destroyed the businesses that had housed and fed them all their lives.
So heartbreaking.
I was living with my Granma in Detroit when Martin Luther King was assassinated.
There was a curfew and a lot of tension but fortunately no rioting.

Decided to draw a line through one more item on my June cleaning list.
I washed and ironed curtains.
These aren't window curtains but curtains for shelves and my tiny cubby hole closet.
Just looks so much better with a curtain rather than seeing what is stored on the shelves.
Plus I made a curtain/cover for my mesh hanging shoe holder because I don't like looking at the soles of my shoes hanging there.

Tillie, I'm glad your weather is getting better!

I think I would have given up on the bed a long time ago. You are a good example.

Ok, I am feeling overwhelmed and underaccomplished.

I did my morning chores.

I made Dh breakfast

I emailed my boss (unsatisfactory reply)

I canned three pints of tomato sauce because that was how much tomatoes I had cut up.

I picked the tomatoes in the garden

and put the dehydrating tomatoes in the dehydrator (running half full) and left the cutting up tomatoes on the counter.

I made two wheels of mozzarella and a pint of ricotta

I ran a load through the wash and dryer and started another load of wash

I put away two baskets of previously washed laundry

I cleaned up the kitchen and ran the dishwasher but not all the dishes fit.

I did not do those things in order because they can overlap.

Dh is bringing home dinner, and there will be chores and bedtime and I did not get any lesson prep done.

Or stall cleaning - which is high on tomorrow's list.

A miracle on the sewer line! 😀 It turned out to be not nearly what had been thought. Only $250 instead of $5-10k. Hallelujah!

I couldn't help that I woke at 3:00 a.m. and had a doozy of a worry session, though. Just had to pray and ride it through. My brain was like a dog with a bone but it finally lost interest in the bone.

Still I only got a little over 3 hours of sleep, so will nap this afternoon. First will call mechanic re brakes. Hope that is easier than expected too.

I actually found when he worked on them last by checking my past posts here! It was October 2019 and it was the front brakes then. Wonder if there's any chance something is still under warranty to reduce the cost.

Keep fingers crossed...

Tatoulia, stay safe...

SubC-congratulations on your progress. And your donut!!!! You are doing a great job with your evaluations and your post it notes! Great system!!
Cm I am so sorry about the sewer line. And the brakes. I'm just so sorry.
Tillie I love how Cowgirl cat has you trained. It's so sweet. WTG on your drapery project. Take good care of your spine today.

I feel like myself today. It's beautiful and cool (not your nice 40F overnight drop, Tillie). It's beautiful and sunny and no humidity. Lovely. I've been enjoying coffee since I can. My iced tea is generally black tea although sometimes I work in a little bit of other tea, too.

I will get dressed soon enough. I watched live on YouTube last night, too, Tillie. Right on my tv. So far things are calm here. I don't know what will happen but so far we are seeing fairly good leadership. I love Atlanta's Mayor. She's so strong.

Well I must now figure out my next steps for the day.

I need to keep moving forward.

Don't mind me.
I've just been thinking bout stuff...

So many hoarders featured on "HOARDERS" say that they save everything and especially food no matter how old & questionable it is because...

They or their mother/grandmother lived through the depression and/or wartime rationing.

Granted, those were hard and traumatic times.

With this new "normal" we are experiencing will this lead people who did not hoard things before to begin a lifetime of hoarding things for Justin Case?

Yes, many people hoarded up everything in the stores when this first started.
I figure they did that as a temporary defense mechanism against having to go without.
They were being ruled by fear.

But will some just regular people living through this start hoarding now?

Will their reasons for hoarding be because they lived through the pandemic?
Will future generations hoard because their mothers and grandmothers lived through this pandemic?

What I think is that yes, this worldwide pandemic will create hoarders.
It is scary and traumatic and nobody knows what the future will hold.
A feeling of helplessness, depression and unrelenting anxiety.
There are many people experiencing extreme grief.
These are all contributing factors that cause some people to fall into hoarding behavior.

If ever the world needed education and understanding about the hoarding condition,
it is now.

Love, Tillie (((HUG)))

Well Tillie,

It is helping me.

The wonderful reuse store is taking this time to sort out and reorganize and they are having two "free days" this week - one "everything that we set out in the parking lot is free to anybody" day and one "if you can show that you are a teacher and tell us how you are going to use it in your classroom you can have it" day.

I want very badly to go. But not badly enough to risk getting sick. Even if I wasn't waiting for grandbaby, none of that is worth risking anyone's life. I still feel guilty about the time I spent in the pottery studio. I think it was safe, but it wasn't actually necessary.

I am learning what Justin really needs (very little) and how easy it is to create abundance.

I got my beans set up in the dehydrator, and I made more cheese.

I ran the dishwasher again with just the cheese dishes, but the dishes are all backed up again because Dh made a yummy hot potato and green bean salad for dinner. His portion had bacon. It used a lot of pans.

Time for me to head to bed.

A miracle on the sewer line! 😀 It turned out to be not nearly what had been thought. Only $250 instead of $5-10k. Hallelujah!

I couldn't help that I woke at 3:00 a.m. and had a doozy of a worry session, though. Just had to pray and ride it through. My brain was like a dog with a bone but it finally lost interest in the bone.

Still I only got a little over 3 hours of sleep, so will nap this afternoon. First will call mechanic re brakes. Hope that is easier than expected too.

I actually found when he worked on them last by checking my past posts here! It was October 2019 and it was the front brakes then. Wonder if there's any chance something is still under warranty to reduce the cost.

Keep fingers crossed...

Tatoulia, stay safe...

Good Afternoon

Hi Subclinical
WAY TO GO!!!
You sure did a LOT!
So very happy you are going to sit and relax and that you slept in too! 😀

Your omelet sounds delicious and those green beans will be so nice & crunchy to munch on.

OK Charlie...
I guess you can do what I have done before.
Keep talking to and feeding him snax until he relaxes and comes over to have you pet him.
Eventually that should win him over enough that you can pick him up and shove his butt into a cage and drag him screaming off to the Vet.
?

Got Lilacs watered and then put the hose on a slow drizzle and am watering trees now.
Sitting in here with the cooler on, watching a "HOARDERS" marathon with Dorothy The organizer and stringing all the rose quartz beads onto monofilament so I can see how long the strand will be.
Then I can figure out what to do with them. 😀

Don't mind me.
I've just been thinking bout stuff...

So many hoarders featured on "HOARDERS" say that they save everything and especially food no matter how old & questionable it is because...

They or their mother/grandmother lived through the depression and/or wartime rationing.

Granted, those were hard and traumatic times.

With this new "normal" we are experiencing will this lead people who did not hoard things before to begin a lifetime of hoarding things for Justin Case?

Yes, many people hoarded up everything in the stores when this first started.
I figure they did that as a temporary defense mechanism against having to go without.
They were being ruled by fear.

But will some just regular people living through this start hoarding now?

Will their reasons for hoarding be because they lived through the pandemic?
Will future generations hoard because their mothers and grandmothers lived through this pandemic?

What I think is that yes, this worldwide pandemic will create hoarders.
It is scary and traumatic and nobody knows what the future will hold.
A feeling of helplessness, depression and unrelenting anxiety.
There are many people experiencing extreme grief.
These are all contributing factors that cause some people to fall into hoarding behavior.

If ever the world needed education and understanding about the hoarding condition,
it is now.

Love, Tillie (((HUG)))

SubC-congratulations on your progress. And your donut!!!! You are doing a great job with your evaluations and your post it notes! Great system!!
Cm I am so sorry about the sewer line. And the brakes. I'm just so sorry.
Tillie I love how Cowgirl cat has you trained. It's so sweet. WTG on your drapery project. Take good care of your spine today.

I feel like myself today. It's beautiful and cool (not your nice 40F overnight drop, Tillie). It's beautiful and sunny and no humidity. Lovely. I've been enjoying coffee since I can. My iced tea is generally black tea although sometimes I work in a little bit of other tea, too.

I will get dressed soon enough. I watched live on YouTube last night, too, Tillie. Right on my tv. So far things are calm here. I don't know what will happen but so far we are seeing fairly good leadership. I love Atlanta's Mayor. She's so strong.

Well I must now figure out my next steps for the day.

I need to keep moving forward.

Good Morning Everybody
"Clink!"

Hi Subclinical
Good luck with your tomato, milk and lesson plans today.

I have seen seating layouts for other classrooms and they do look so strange.
Tape on the floor and desks all placed 6 feet apart.
Knowing kids, it will be hard for them to not go hang over a fellow student's shoulder and talk.

Good plan to have a "wait and see" as to how things are going at school.
In one month you should know if the virus is there and spreading even with all the precautions in place.

Sure do understand your Dh's predicament with his back.
Laying here we see all the things we would be doing.
Then the pain eases up a little one day and we are able to do a little thing now.
But next day we are almost back at square one again.
So disheartening. 🙁

With the weather not getting any higher than the 80s I can now stop watering the grass every other day.
Really helps with that one day off from watering, gives my back the break it needs.
The garden flowers still show stress if they don't get water every other day.
But they have shallow roots, not like the grass and lilacs or trees.

I sleep on the sofa bed.
Every single day for years I would fold up my bedding and remake up the couch.
Have not been able to do this for many weeks now.
So I just have my bed here to lay in all the time since it's impossible for me to do the movements necessary to redo it morning and night.
Scooter loves this arrangement and I still can't do a sitting position anyways...

Good Afternoon

Hi Subclinical
WAY TO GO!!!
You sure did a LOT!
So very happy you are going to sit and relax and that you slept in too! 😀

Your omelet sounds delicious and those green beans will be so nice & crunchy to munch on.

OK Charlie...
I guess you can do what I have done before.
Keep talking to and feeding him snax until he relaxes and comes over to have you pet him.
Eventually that should win him over enough that you can pick him up and shove his butt into a cage and drag him screaming off to the Vet.
?

Got Lilacs watered and then put the hose on a slow drizzle and am watering trees now.
Sitting in here with the cooler on, watching a "HOARDERS" marathon with Dorothy The organizer and stringing all the rose quartz beads onto monofilament so I can see how long the strand will be.
Then I can figure out what to do with them. 😀

Good Morning

Hello CriticalMass
I'm really hoping the repairs on the sewer line and van brakes are quick, easy and relatively inexpensive.

Unfortunately those two things are so very important and can't be put off.

Try not to see too much news.
It is very distressing and makes our souls weary. 🙁

Hello Subclinical
Glad you have nice weather and hoping you can get away from evaluations enough to enjoy being out in it.

Nice you had a video visit with your friends.
Worth staying up late for. ;D

WTG! for planting basil, evaluations and eliminating 3 post its!

Did you enjoy your properly socially distanced donut? 😉

Hello Tatoulia
You are heavy on my mind, living in the big city with so much unrest going on.
Take care, stay safe (((((HUGS)))))

Temps went down into the 40s over night.
I'm cold, the cats are cold. ;p

Cm, wishing you peace and for good luck on the sale.

Tillie, keep resting and taking it slow. Dh keeps taking two steps forward, one step back because He tries to do too much when he feels better.

Twinkles can stand a few brambles.

Hi Tatoulia!

My classroom is set up for my first class. I even put materials out on the tables. It looks so strange. I had to swap out my colorful group tables for rows of individual white squares, and there is tape on the floor showing where your chair goes.

Dh has a "socially distanced" work event tonight, so Dd is waiting to decide if I can come on Monday after she talks to him after it. Once school starts, we are going to wait two weeks and have a discussion about visits.

Today is going to be about tomatoes and milk and lesson prep.

Good Morning

Hello CriticalMass
I'm really hoping the repairs on the sewer line and van brakes are quick, easy and relatively inexpensive.

Unfortunately those two things are so very important and can't be put off.

Try not to see too much news.
It is very distressing and makes our souls weary. 🙁

Hello Subclinical
Glad you have nice weather and hoping you can get away from evaluations enough to enjoy being out in it.

Nice you had a video visit with your friends.
Worth staying up late for. ;D

WTG! for planting basil, evaluations and eliminating 3 post its!

Did you enjoy your properly socially distanced donut? 😉

Hello Tatoulia
You are heavy on my mind, living in the big city with so much unrest going on.
Take care, stay safe (((((HUGS)))))

Temps went down into the 40s over night.
I'm cold, the cats are cold. ;p

So much going on!

Yesterday I planted basil, did my minimum evaluations, got rid of three Post it notes, and added one.

Dh played golf, and this time he brought me donuts.

He also brought me a picture of the donut shop with masked employees and the one other man in the shop at the same time and the Xs on the floor.

I got a slow start this morning because we stayed up late last night video chatting with another couple. It was good to catch up.

The weather has been nice and I have been feeling sad because I am tied to the computer trying to crunch through evaluations.

Good afternoon!

I almost got on last night and told you I thought Charlie cat was gone, but this morning he was on the porch. I think somebody has trapped him before. I don't know what to do.

Tatoulia, I agree with Tillieabout the crying and about the awful man. I think you should get a cane and poke people with it if they get too close!

This morning I slept late.

Did my chores, picked beans, cukes and zucchini, made up the ice cream mix, did some laundry and got the dishwasher going.

I made myself a nice omelette with onions and beet greens for lunch and in a few minutes I'm going to try to find a video to watch while I sort out the green beans - some for Dh to cook for dinner, and the rest to blanch, salt, and dehydrate for crispy snacks.

Good afternoon!

I almost got on last night and told you I thought Charlie cat was gone, but this morning he was on the porch. I think somebody has trapped him before. I don't know what to do.

Tatoulia, I agree with Tillieabout the crying and about the awful man. I think you should get a cane and poke people with it if they get too close!

This morning I slept late.

Did my chores, picked beans, cukes and zucchini, made up the ice cream mix, did some laundry and got the dishwasher going.

I made myself a nice omelette with onions and beet greens for lunch and in a few minutes I'm going to try to find a video to watch while I sort out the green beans - some for Dh to cook for dinner, and the rest to blanch, salt, and dehydrate for crispy snacks.

So much going on!

Yesterday I planted basil, did my minimum evaluations, got rid of three Post it notes, and added one.

Dh played golf, and this time he brought me donuts.

He also brought me a picture of the donut shop with masked employees and the one other man in the shop at the same time and the Xs on the floor.

I got a slow start this morning because we stayed up late last night video chatting with another couple. It was good to catch up.

The weather has been nice and I have been feeling sad because I am tied to the computer trying to crunch through evaluations.

Good Evening Everyone

Hi Pib and Fish stick🐈🐟

Hi CriticalMass
What kind of pie?
Was the cinnamon roll iced?

Glad you are getting a handle on the scheduling anxiety.
Wishing you smooth sailing from here on. ⛵

Nice you have relatives there. 🙂

I got the grass watered today.
Asked him to buy kitty litter, he didn't.
Nice gentle breeze today kept the smoke away from me.
Twinkles was really begging/suffering to go outside so I let him.
He was so happy and took a nap under the sage brush and got sticks & stuff all caught in his fur.
Still can't brush him or bend or a lot of things.

Good Morning Everyone

Hi Tatoulia
Crying is alright.
It is a way our bodies release built up tensions and frustration and other emotional things.
Sometimes a good cry is necessary.
(((HUGS)))

I am outraged about that horrid man invading your and your Mom's space.
But happy you got to hold little sister 🙂

Glad you are keeping up with dishes, laundry and making your bed every day.
These kinds of tasks help keep us grounded.

Be careful with the heat but still keep wearing out your shoes with walking 😀

9am. I need to get outside and water my Lilacs before it gets too hot.
BBL 😉

It's me

Has this week felt a month long or what. So much terrible news. I pray about it all, and feel sad.

Tillie, I hope you get moderate weather - I know I'm not ready for triple digits.

Tatoulia, happy for you getting to see your mom, and SubC, your family.

There had been an ominous smell in the laundry room. Roommate had been already thinking sewer line was overdue for cleaning. And it's imperative it get done before her radioactive treatment because it wouldn't do to put repair people in danger of having to work on it with the radioactive stuff in the pipes.

Our guy came today and started to snake it, then discovered the line has collapsed. Big job, how big depending upon how much is collapsed. It may be costly. We just don't know.

Then this afternoon a grinding sound came from the brakes in my van. I'm like, really?

We are both pretty mind blown, weary, dismayed, and stressed. Keep us in your thoughts, please?

Went to the funeral home for visitation, then stopped by my cousin's business and talked awhile, saw Pib the office cat (pic on IG). Pib is a chubby gal and so sweet.

Stopped at an Amish restaurant for pie, bought a cinnamon roll to bring back for my roommate. Things are going smoothly. Anxiety about All The Stuff I Have To Do is lessening. I'm thankful!

Roommate is pursuing pre-qualification for buying a different car. My cousin gave me some kitchenware for the bunny club garage sale. We will prepare to drain the aquarium and relocate Fish Stick (that's what my roommate calls him, LOL) over the weekend. And pull out stuff for the garage sale of hers and mine.

Keep recovering slowly and steadily, Tillie!