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whodat111/susan posted an update Saturday, Dec 18, 2021, 1:31am EST, 2 years, 5 months ago
Hi Potties!
Katie - What a beautiful tree. Shaped like a Christmas card tree. Hardly looks real.
You mentioned bad weather a couple of days ago. Apparently it never materialized? I've heard of Thundershirts but didn't realize they actually worked. We're on a well too - just got county water lines installed out here last summer. Between the meter charge & the probable cost for a really long line down to the house, I doubt I'll worry with it.
Your Christmas truck shirt is really cute. Looks like one I'd wear this time of year.
Congratulations on winning the fire pit - a really nice mortgage company to do something like that. Zac has his eye on the one I gave Bear a few years ago. Since he put it together for us I think that gives him 1st dibs on being its next home.Max - Is your SIL back home? How's he doing?
When Kathie called with the good news about the sale of all our glowy glass, I thought of you first thing. I took some small stuff to the booth this afternoon & the shelf looked sorta sad - 1st time I haven't had any glass in there in several years. I doubt I'll find any more at either house - no idea what's in the 2 sheds but it's unlikely that any nice glass is in either of them.Shelly - Welcome back!!! I've miss your nice newsy posts. I think of your son's beautiful fish pond when I feed my little bunch.
I'm glad all the bad weather missed y'all. It really did a lot of damage where it went thru. I don't see how those folks will ever be able to rebuild. Several years ago there was a TV program about a town in the Midwest that was pretty much wiped off the map & the entire town decided to rebuild to the highest environmental standards. It wasn't easy but they managed. Hope all these folks can just rebuild - period. I'm sure many of them had no insurance - not a wealthy part of the country. Don't stay gone so long - we worry!
My god-daughters were finally able to get rid of the old man who was mishandling the Trust. He greatly overcharged the last couple of months when he provided virtually no service. Selena is managing it for me now so I don't have to worry about it any more.Marson - Hard to believe you aren't knee deep in snow already. I'm sure you'll get your share eventually.
I understand having an out-dated computer. I've had this one for a number of years & Bear had it several years before I got it from him. I've been thinking about replacing it for the past year or so - especially since I'm still using Windows 7. I've been putting off doing anything 'cause my guy isn't super quick & I hate being out of touch with everybody for a number of days. I stay in touch more with email than phone calls. Good luck with whatever you end up doing.I've had 2 calls about Bear this week. The 1st was an aide - she was trimming his beard (something I never got to do) & noticed one ear was swollen. When he was brought up here last year to see the doctors at Emory, they stressed his ears needed to be kept clean because he makes so much wax. It was brought up during the quarterly phone call in November. We were told it was being done. I mentioned to this lady that I strongly urged them to set up a schedule of some sort so he wouldn't have these issues in the future. He's on antibiotics to fix the problem.
A different lady called today to mention Bear had lost some weight & she wanted to put him on Glucerna twice a day & I told her I had no objection. I also mentioned the problem with his ears & asked that she follow up on the matter. Maybe I'll call Erin the 1st of the week & see what she has to say.
My electrician came this afternoon. He's a Navy veteran & is a couple of years older than I am. Guess he just likes to keep busy. He's coming back on Tues. One outlet was OK. He needs to get me a new outlet to replace the one Irish tried to set on fire & will need to replace the light fixture in the closet. Those lights with the pull chain apparently can't be fixed. Guess I'm lucky it lasted so many years. I've waited several weeks before finding him so I guess I can wait a few days for him to get back to me.
We've had beautiful spring-like weather the past several days. I got my daffodil & Dutch iris bulbs out of the fridge yesterday & got them in the ground. I was able to get the allium bulbs planted on the back deck today since it gets more sun. We're forecast for rain later tonight & that will help them get settled in before the cold weather sets in for the winter. Since we have rain forecast, I got the fern down in the living room & put it out on the front deck to get a long drink. It will be pretty warm the next couple of days so I can let it drain before I move it back inside.
The first of the college bowl games started tonight so I guess I'll be pretty much useless for the next couple of weeks. The next few days I'll try & get all my packages wrapped while watching the games. I did get all the cards w/cash for the god-grandbabies put together last night. Everything I ordered is here & ready to wrap. Every year I give all the kids blown glass ornaments to go on the trees we gave them for their 1st Christmas & I have a stash of ornaments in one of the store rooms that I'll bring out to sort thru in the next couple of days. I'm hoping I can get Selena to come by & get all the family gifts to take to her mom's house on Christmas Eve.
Getting towards time to feed the land sharks so will wander off for now. Everybody take care & stay warm if it's chilly where you are. Later.
Susan