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whodat111/susan posted an update Thursday, Sep 30, 2021, 2:42am EDT, 2 years, 7 months ago
Hi Potties! Haven't had much to write about.
Katie - Bear used to have the bank order him $2 bills & he used them for tips when we ate out. I have about 20 but not sure how I came by them. They're not leftovers from when Bear was still at home. We went to a pizza place some years ago & Bear wanted to use a $2 bill towards the amount due - the teenaged clerk wouldn't take it. She didn't believe it was real money!
I love your deer pictures. We have a small herd around here but I rarely see them. Same with the wild turkeys - used to have quite a few of those but only see a few crossing our road once in a while. Too much development happening.
Don't think we've ever shocked our well; didn't know we might need to. Ours is only about 300' deep.Gordon - Yes, I was diagnosed with COPD when I was in my mid-late 50's. Was shocked 'cause I'd quit smoking about 5 yrs. earlier & I believed the doctors who said when you quit smoking your lungs would recover. Apparently not 🙁 At least I've been lucky & mine has progressed slowly.
Hope there's good news after you see your doctor. Let us know how it goes.Max - I'm glad your GD adopts her dogs. I've thought about getting another one but it might be hard to find a "cat proof" senior dog that's housebroken. Then too, it might outlive me & I'm asking enough of Selena Anne that she take in my cats but she'd give them more of a home like I have than Zac could. He's not a cat nut like both of us & my guys wouldn't appreciate his 2 small children.
Bear used to have many, many prescriptions & at times we weren't sure what half of them were for. He doesn't have as many now & the folks at the home know what they're for. I have my 2 inhaler prescriptions but my other pills are over the counter stuff - low dose asprin, vitamin D & calcium.Marson - I like dahlias but they don't like me back. I bought 2 marked down ones in the spring - 1 did nothing all summer & the other grew fairly tall & bloomed exactly once. I think I'll just leave them in their pots & if they survive the winter fine, if not fine. I don't even try house plants since my shady yard keeps the house too dark for them to live - much less thrive. I have a Boston fern hanging basket that I've brought in for 2 winters & hung in the bathroom skylight. Got another one on sale this summer & need to figure a way to hang it in the living room skylight if I hope to bring them both thru this winter. Still have a ton of bulbs over at the old house that I need to move but am waiting for the mosquitoes to die off before I try & do much moving.
I went last week & paid the property taxes on both places. Now waiting to get the bill for the car tag that comes due in Bear's birthday month. Then wait to do it again next year.Sales at the booth have picked up a bit since it got a little cooler. The sales aren't big but more a steady stream of small ones. I have a box of replacement "stuff" to take over on Friday when I go to pay the booth rent & may stop by to pay U-Haul for the storage space & sort thru another box or 2. I really want to get into a smaller (translate that as cheaper) room. Right now that's what I'm using for restocking the booth. Will go back to sorting at the old house when there's less change of bugs. Seems like the older I get, the less I can cope with creepy-crawlies.
I got Zac to load the 4 O'Charley's take-out bags full of books in the car for me the other night & made a run by the drop box at the library this afternoon. Already started a new bag but I won't wait so long to drop them off next time. Next week I may make a drop at Goodwill with the current batch of donations. Guess this is my version of down-sizing.
Time to feed the zoo & then off to bed. I went back to weeding up by the road earlier this week but it takes a long time to clear an area just a few feet square. Most of the problem is the vining weed with the fat root that has to be dug deep to remove. It may rain next week so I want to weed as much as I can so I can fertilize the daylilies & roses up there 1 last time before it turns cold.
Everybody take care & enjoy the somewhat cooler weather, except Gordon who's welcoming spring. Later.
Susan