Hey all!
Cheery sunshine for a change. That could change during the course of the day. Im thinking a day in our present weather resembles our lives. Our lives too have all shades of weather, sunny, cloudy, drizzly, torrential rain, hail, balmy. And the blessed ones get a balmy day throughout from early morn to midnight.
Very glad to check in and see the positive update from Barry.
Barry - Do you think he ate a poisonous something? I remember our Lab (now hopefully galloping in the fields on the other side of the Rainbow Bridge) got a swollen face due to what i dont know, his normally long face was looking like a quilted pin cushion, all plump folds and his eyes were resembling slits. Yes, he looked like Marlon Brandos Don Corleone.
Thankfully he got better the next day.
Rock - the plumbing in old houses really causes headaches. Nothing more irritating than a blocked drain and the unclogging of it. All that yucky stuff coming out. And if a bathroom user has long hair like DD n me, then woe is us. DHs favourite pasttime when he is not playing golf or watching tv is picking up hair from drain covers in the bathroom, brandishing it and shouting at us.
He has the advantage since he has very little hair so we cant answer back.
i once had to spend better part of a day unclogging a commode downstairs where doggie poo had got stuck and wouldnt drain. I used something from the internet and it worked. A vinegar, baking soda, something else concoction, forgot what but it did the trick. i was a glad person when it finally flushed!
I hope you soon are over your cold. Some colds are worse than others. Life seems miserable when one has one.
Mikie - been a long time since i made roast chicken. Time restraints. i also dont relish having to clean the oven of grease afterward. Our supermarket sells roast chicken fresh off the grill but its expensive.
Yesterday and day before we ate veg. I had to again tackle fallen leaves, i dont mind raking leaves, i made a bonfire which crackled merrily but it made the neighbours nervous, due to a fire which occured some weeks ago in the neighbourhood. I could hear someone on the other side of our wall, anxiously asking what the smoke was that was billowing into 5he sky i shouted to a pretend someone, to put more leaves on so they would know no ones house was on fire.
I hope your energy slowly returns. i would say you are burning up a lot of health karma this lifetime and especially these past months!
Granni - i noticed a couple of auto correct errors in your post and laughed. Especially your DH having a cow waiting in the other room. Im sorry the staff messed up your appointment.
i had a meltdown once in the reception hall in front of numerous patients when i took a relative to a doctor after making an appointment some weeks in advance and found she had gone on holiday and had not returned. and she wasnt even picking her phone up to deal with the matter.
More disturbing, the doctor was a psychiatrist, supposed to be therapist. At such times i go into hulk mode. From a quiet mild mannered cant say boo to a goose, i turn into this raging virago all flashing eyes and banshee voice.
Now with hindsight, i empathise with mind doctors. They deal with more than we can imagine and take in so much garbage from their patients, im sure a little bit sticks when they go home after listening all day to troubles, troubles and more troubles. After all, theyre humans too, not robots.
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DD returned from a ten day trip to Bangladesh to attend her friends wedding. Friend from college in U.S. This is the third Bangladeshi friends whose wedding she attended. Thank goodness, theyre all done. She didnt attend one more friends and the friend was soooo angry. But DD said she seemed fine now. i was hard put to hold the fort here on my own. DS and DH do their own thing. And i and the dogs do ours.
It puzzles me about Bangladesh, They are supposed to be so poor but the rich are ultra rich. DD was saying the wedding was done on a grand scale, DD was there for six events and hadto miss two from grooms side because she had to come back.
The bride and groom entered the hall on a motorcycle, and when they stood on the podium, huge pyrotechnics went off behind them. Well, i hope the moneyis well spent and the couple live happily ever after. It seems the girls family is very well off and she fell in love with this boy who is not so well off as them and she had to spend years convincing her family she would consider none other as her husband.
I went out yesterday to get rid of the cabin fever i got. i walked all the way to town, very enjoyable in the crisp air, had to duck into a restaurant to use their restroom, felt a little awkward to pass the guard at the gate on the way out so i ordered tofu curry takeaway for the family, then i went and browsed in bookstores, and ate my dinner at a quiet little place, and went back home part of the way by bus.
God bless
P.S. i read Justin Bieber has Lyme disease.
