You know who you are. (((((MK))))))))
I hope some of these make you smile –
For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.
Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet.
Happy, happy birthday to one of the NICEST ladies in the world!
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Oh, please. This is cute – and depressing at the same time.
I will tell you, though, that I’m making a bit of progress on getting the lard off. I lost another pound, so my total off now is 31, with almost 29 inches gone. It’s especially hard during the holidays to try to keep my mouth shut. My goal is to TASTE it all, enjoying every bite, but TRYING to maintain my dignity…. :0)
I did discover – to my horror – that some of the meals we have been getting from Stu’s Clean Cookin’ have too much sugar for us. Last night we decided to SHARE one individual meal and eat an extra veggie on the side. That worked out well, and gave us half the amount of sugar we would have ingested otherwise. We need to be more vigilant. The food is high quality and excellent, as is that of Real Food. They are not made for diabetics and weight-challenged, though, and we need to keep tweaking what we are eating more intelligently. Stu’s lists sugar, salt, calories, etc. Real Food doesn’t, but lists ingredients. Both help us keep our portions good. So we will try to do better homework, plus do more sharing.
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We turned off our irrigation system to the yard, and the one to the garden a few weeks ago because of threatened freezes. It always makes me a bit sad because things start to wilt almost immediately when we do.
Our elephant ear plants did really well this year, giving us many hours of pleasure. They are looking quite sad right now. As soon as they are completely down, leaves brown and hanging down, I’ll cut them off as close to the soil surface as possible and lay thick layers of mulch as tightly as I can to see if they’ll over winter in place this time, as digging them up and storing them in the garage in peat moss last year was unsuccessful.
We had kind of a weird growing season this time. Our lettuce did well, giving us lots of nice salads. Our spinach was nice, too. Then things warmed up really quickly, causing all my spring garden to bolt at once. We had nice tomatoes, but due to the weather changes, they weren’t ‘pretty’ this year. Thankfully, our stomachs don’t care about that a bit! :0) This is the way we winter over our raised bed, square foot garden. I carefully weeded, then topped off the 4’x4′ wooden boxes with fresh Mel’s Mix (peat moss, vermiculite, and 3 kinds of compost (I used mushroom, barnyard, and cotton). Hopefully, I won’t have a whole lot to do to prepare the boxes for planting in the spring. I’m already itching to get the plants in as soon as they are available.
I’m going to start getting serious about pruning flower planters and readying things for winter very soon.
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Things happen in cycles around here.
I exercise to try to stay reasonably strong and as healthy as I can be, though I do it grudgingly. I have a “life alert” type medallion that we got along with our security system for the house. It only works within so many feet of the house, I think. I forget to wear it. :0) I am careful when I’m doing something I know is ‘above my pay grade’ physically – like when I decided the other day to NOT try to balance on the rickity ladder on a slope in the gravel at the bottom of the driveway while trying to freshen the paint on the greeter robot.
I haven’t fallen on my head or tripped lately. I’m due. Knowing this, I’m trying to plan better, to TRY to remember if I’m working outside to find and put on the medallion necklace, etc., but it will happen sooner or later…
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I’ve been very good lately and finally saw some improvement on my scales this morning! I am now a bit past my 30-lbs.-off point and am happily hopeful I can keep it up and continue the downward trend.
We went to Ft. Smith first thing this morning. As luck would have it, on the way home, my husband decided he wanted to stop for breakfast at the Greenwood Waffle House. :0( Happily, when we went in, the place was over-flowing with hungry people and no place to sit down. We left, and I’ll fix us some lunch in about an hour. I love to eat – love even more to eat out – but I am happy that this time I didn’t have to lose my progress.
I hope you’re having a great weekend with nice weather and people you love.
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It’s a beautiful morning – sunshine-y and a bit chilly at 37 degrees F. right now.
We’re looking forward to Lunch Bunch soon. We’ll do errands after and then be home the rest of the day.
Under the category of “I Ain’t Dead Yet,” I found Christopher King singing, “Don’t Close Your Eyes” that I hope you’ll like, too. :0)
If this doesn’t show up, here is the URL – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee4ZxsJIPys&ab_channel=AmazingPeopleWorld
Not sure what the rest of this day will bring. I hope yours is wonderful, too.
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In my travels on the net, I found a nice solar-powered set of windchimes – not the ones above – and ordered them. I’ll show you a picture when I get them and hang them up. :0)
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I’m a relaxed, happy cat right now. I just got home from doing a few errands and having my second massage for the month. (My first was an unexpected and thoroughly appreciated gift from my cousin in Thibodaux, LA.) So this is one very spoiled lady. :0)
It’s also my husband’s birthday today. (Shhhh! He’s very grumpy and doesn’t want to talk about it. I took this opportunity to sing “Happy Birthday” to him this morning. His response was a stuck-out tongue, and then a pat. I’ve done some other things I’ll surprise him with later, but we are officially ‘ignoring’ his birthday. I think it’s wonderful that he gets to all the birthdays first. By the time I have that birthday, it doesn’t hurt so much.
In a couple of minutes I’ll fix our lunch, then we’ll relax awhile.
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We are back from our trip to Ft. Smith for our dental cleaning. We are still alive, with clean teeth, a good report, and I didn’t bite anyone – a good thing because, although I’ve had my Covid shots and a booster, I have NOT had a rabies shot. :0)
As we left, I took a pic of the refurbished greeter robot at the bottom of our driveway. No green. No rust.
As I type, we have not had the predicted thunderstorm, though it looks darker and darker outside and looks like the rain could come any time. Until then, we’re enjoying having our doors open to welcome a truly wonderful breeze.
I’m going to enjoy some time with a good book and a cup of coffee now.
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I guess you can tell from the expression on my face above – it’s the height of being spoiled to admit that, when I’m lucky enough to have one of the best dentists on the planet with a full crew of good hygienists, I still HATE going there for our twice-a-year appointments.
Other than braces as a teenager, until this year I had never had a cavity or anything else done. One of the perks of getting to be older-than-dirt is that you start falling apart. Now I’ve had one cavity filled and one tooth pulled.
One of the things that scares me the most is the cancer check. My mom died of oral cancer. Hers, I think, was due to smoking. It still worries me that there MIGHT be a hereditary factor at play. Thankfully, my hygienist now does that screening for me first. (Did I tell you what wonderful people these are?)
I did the repainting of the greeter robot at the bottom of our driveway yesterday afternoon. He doesn’t look ‘new,’ but it definitely looks as if he is a treasured member of the family now. I’ll try to get a pic of him to show you later as we leave for the dentist this morning.
We’re due for thunderstorms and colder temperatures starting this afternoon, so I’m glad I got that little project finished.
Have a wonderful Wednesday!
We have finished our errands for the day. We will have some lunch and relax a bit, and then I’ll head down to the bottom of our driveway in the truck with the supplies needed to refurbish the greeter robot.
I was surprised to see how well the mold/mildew/elephant remover spray worked. I hosed him down twice and the green disappeared! Now the sweet robot is showing his rust. :0)
He is basically black and white, but there is a lot of masking to do so that I can see if I can use the spray can of white I bought. I’m hopeful that I can. This would make his refurbishment a lot easier. I have a can of hiding white and a brush, otherwise. I hope to do this all this afternoon, as we are scheduled for a cold front tomorrow afternoon with colder temperatures and rain.
Mother Nature is smiling on us today, though, so I’ll try to take full advantage of that.
Have a terrific Tuesday!
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