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whodat111/susan posted an update Friday, Jan 7, 2022, 3:55am EST, 2 years, 4 months ago
Hi Potties! Cold weather coming my way - makes me glad to have the heated mattress pad.
Katie - What's Mike's disability rating? I wonder if trying to get him re-evaluated would help? I didn't realized personal assets were an issue but Bear & I weren't married when he went through all the hoops the government puts a veteran thru, so I didn't know much about his trouble getting his rating established. He did give up on getting the Agent Orange rating even tho he was sure he was exposed when off Vietnam in the late '60's - he felt it wasn't worth more years of red tape. I'm happy for y'all that they finally figured out an antibiotic that would work for Mike. Sounds like that discovery gave him a new lease on life.
Max - I've had Jitterbug for several years - I get 600 minutes/month for a little under $30. I have the bare bones flip phone program - no text, no nothing. Their phones act a little wonky some times - the other night was stuck on Zac's # & it took a while to get it straightened out. Good thing I just kept pushing buttons 'cause their customer service is more like banker's hours - think something like 6AM to 6PM Pacific time. Have you checked with Consumer Cellular? I don't know much about them but believe their rates are supposed to be reasonable.
Storms do strange things to TVs & satellite dishes. I'm glad you were able to set things right with a reset button. Life is so confusing for those of us who are technically challenged.Shelly - It would be nice if the government would honor their responsibilities to the veterans but seems like the politicians would rather spend their time fighting amongst themselves instead of doing their jobs.
I hope your family keeps being lucky with dodging the covid bullet. I sometimes wonder if we all will get it eventually, no matter what we do.
I was sorry to hear your son had a fire - most of the time mobile homes go up too fast to be saved. Will keep my fingers crossed that he can get it repaired quickly. Seems really hard to get building materials now. It's a blessing that he was up & caught it early. There's not many nights that the news here goes without mentioning a house or apartment fire - often with loss of life. Makes me be really careful with my space heater since that often seems to be responsible for house fires.Gordon - Sylvia's story is the stuff of nightmares! There seem to be a lot of horror stories about families not taking care of each other. It's a blessing Sylvia has you to count on. I give thanks every day for Selena's family & Zac being willing to help me out. I'm not sure what I'd do since I have no relatives to call on if I needed help.
The picture of the parrots was gorgeous. You have a real talent for getting professional quality nature pictures.I got a call yesterday from Bobby at Harborview to update me on things at the home. Right now they have 10 employees at home with covid. Also have 27 residents that are being kept in isolation now too. Bear is getting the single room that came available but we're not sure when - the home is using it to isolate the covid patients right now. I'm happy to wait just as long as he eventually gets it.
Got a letter from U-Haul upping the rent by $5/mon. I guess I really need to try & make some extra space in my 2 spare rooms to see if I could get most of that stuff here - no charge involved if it's here but not sure if I can make that much room. I guess I'll try & spend more time trying to move some of that stuff to the booth. I'll have to cut back on what I can take out of the old house but at least the old house is free even tho hard on the contents. If I spend less time sleeping & reading I might could make more progress but I'm a world class procrastinator so I won't bet the farm on how much progress I'll make.
Supposed to be below freezing for the next several nights so I guess I can kiss most of my camellia blooms good-bye. Some of the smaller buds may survive but the hellebores don't seem to mind cold so I'll count on them for any cut flowers in the near future. I made it a point to feed the fish today since I expect them to have an ice "roof" for the next few days - probably more such days to come in Jan. & Feb. too. I'll be sure to keep enough food out for the birds - no sense in them going hungry for no reason. I always feel sad for the stray cats & dogs when there's bad weather - it's why no stray shows up here & leaves hungry. Don't know if I'm soft-hearted or soft-headed - maybe both.
Time to feed the zoo. Everybody take care - especially those of you where the weather is bad. Later.
Susan