Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: LilyFestre
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 12:07 PM

Fine by me, it's already been copied and sent to where it needs to go.

Somebody needs to back up and take the very direct hint to LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE. I've had enough and will NO LONGER sit back and try to be respectful or to try and figure out what the hell she's trying to say. I did not say anything bad about her or Greg but she absolutely took it that way.

Everyone tip toes around her and I'm not going to be one of them anymore. If she gets in my face, she can fully expect it back. So much for all those sermons and righteous life she lives about loving your neighbors. What a joke.

I have put up with it for years and it will stop here.

Feel free to delete this post too. Just wanted to state where I stand.

For the love of God, I even wished her well with her medical appointment last week. What the fuck was I thinking?!?!?!?

I can think of another medical appointment that should be made.

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 11:51 AM

I'm going to ask Kat to remove the last two posts. We need to keep it friendly here, and the behind the scenes personal stuff just doesn't fit and makes everyone uncomfortable. We're working on clutter, not baggage. Okay? :) It's hot - relax, and come back when you are back to your old self.

SRS

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: LilyFestre
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 11:19 AM

Susan,

Why are you so defensive about this?

Yes, I was part of another team. Problem with that?
People walk whenever they can and for however long they can. I don't have an issue with that, nor does anyone else....except maybe you.

I simply pointed out I was having fun while you and Greg were doing your laps. If you read more into that than was there, go enjoy your misery as nothing was meant by it at all


I didn't say ANYONE had a problem with your participation or Greg's participation. Go look for a fight with someone else. I'm not interested.


And, FYI, all teams welcome people in to visit, chat, laugh, commiserate...whatever in their team tents. Another FYI, I'm already on St. Paul's Team for next year. :) I'm sure you think it's to annoy you because you are so self centered in EVERYTHING you do but sorry to disrupt your giant ego...it has NOTHING to do with you AT ALL.

Go twist things around with someone else.

Michelle

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 10:37 AM

Michelle: Bonnie T and Pat D are the captains for the St. Paul's Relay team; thank you for visiting our team tent in support of Relay for Life, and I am glad you enjoyed seeing a side of some folks that we see all the time.

You have made it clear that you are on another Relay team. Bonnie and Pat have no issues with Hardi or his participation. Or mine. Period.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 10:00 AM

Penny, turning garments right-side-out after all of that work is the last puzzle of the whole operation, isn't it? Sometimes a whole-lotta cloth gets shoved through one tiny space! And it sounds like you are doing some design on the fly as you fit pieces - good luck with that!

This morning I was walking the dogs and neighbors up the street were working in their gorgeous yard. I teased the husband that I had mulch to put out in my yard when he finished there. She said "don't get me started about your yard!" half teasing, half serious. I guess the jury is still out, or has severe reservations about if I'll ever get this place actually looking like the image I see of it in my head. I think they're mostly sorry to see that I let the grass die in the summer and just keep the beds watered. But I enjoy it, and I'll use that remark as the boost to get a few beds thinned and weeded again. I have a soaker hose going in one bed right now, and if I thin the Louisiana iris that alone will improve the appearance of that bed, so I may go ahead and do it during a 20 minute break this morning. That's usually enough to get some work done but not be completely overheated.

Zeke came down to play in the yard for a few minutes this morning, and we had breakfast al fresco with all of the dogs and showed Susie where he learned his new trick about waiting to eat. She likes that one and had him do it last night before dinner. He sits and drools until he's told to eat. :)

Tons to do today, and I need to hustle with a couple of chores. No oversight this week - my boss's first grandchild was born yesterday so he's taking a few days off! The mom is in the hospital for a couple of days with a low blood platelet count that they've been addressing.

Must ship several eBay packages today. Good work!

SRS

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: Penny S.
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 02:33 AM

SRS, you have reminded me of the first time I went off to help a friend with his thesis field work - I had started cooking beetroot in the slow cooker, and hung washing on the line. When I got home very late, the beetroot was perfect, but the washing was crawling with earwigs!

The lining stitching didn't go quite right. Mum had cut long curved strips from the hem of a skirt which was as full as a New Look skirt from the 50s and I had sewn these together with contrast zigzag to look like a design feature, picking up the colour from the outside. But with the juggling to fit the pattern piece, the lines looked crooked, so I had to hand sew invisibly, and unpick the zigzagging. This has slowed the whole project down.

I'm still playing with the topology of the turning inside out trick. The pattern directs sewing the shoulder seams before that process, and I'm sure that with two closed loops in the piece, turning inside out is not possible. In fact, I think it's not possible with one closed loop. The pattern suggests leaving both side seams open, and turning through one of them, sewing up afterwards, which would be very difficult by machine. I'm planning to leave the shoulders open, and have the side seams on the right side closed, with one on the lining open to turn through. Those would be easy to hand sew. I think I might have to make a model first!

I ate a big salad yesterday, with a lot coming from the garden. Lettuce (though one has been completely destroyed by slugs), radish, spring onion, and the first, full size carrot. The second lot of radishes have poked up above the surface, but there'll be a gap in the lettuce supply. The seedlings aren't showing, and I can't get pre-sown ones from the garden centres. I think I might get "living salad leaves" from the supermarket and plant them out. I've made a soup from the onion stems, peapods, lettuce leaves not up to salad, with the whey from the curds and the drippings from some burgers I had for Saturday's meal.

Penny

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 12:06 AM

I think any other discussion of clergy walking time slots or not might be best via PM, so no one gets themselves into a corner by discussing it in an open venue. Just a thought.

My kitchen was a sauna this evening; I canned peaches last year but I had to give myself a small trial run to see how the new pot would work. Great for blanching, but it's a real squeeze to get a full inch of head room out of it when jars are in the colander. It will be perfect for 1/2 pints, but too short for any more pints. I have a taller pot and will put a rack in the bottom and take jars out with the jar lifter for the rest of the peaches.

Collected by laundry on the line by Coleman lantern light. Gave each piece a good shake in case of bugs. This afternoon I did the basic layout for some 2x2" cedar planks to make myself a potting table out of an old cast-iron framework that used to hold firewood. It might not be pretty when it's finished, but it will give me a good-sized working space at a nice height.

Several eBay items to ship tomorrow, and I must list some more.

SRS

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: LilyFestre
Date: 10 Jul 11 - 07:53 PM

Susan,

   I'll be happy to talk to Father Greg about the Relay For Life and share how one is able to walk at any time (except during the Survivor Walk) from 10:00am on Friday until 10:00am on Saturday. No one is required to walk in the wee hours of the morning or for even an hour. Most teams have 30 minute sign up slots. Even further, coming to the event at all is voluntary. If he didn't want to go, he didn't have to go. However, from the cheerful demeanor he had when he came over to talk with us, I'd say he was fine with it. If he wasn't, that would me he was lying...no?

I'll be sure to talk to him about it. If YOU are perturbed because YOU had to be out late, I'd say see the above paragraph.

I had a BLAST and so did everyone else I came into contact with! The Relay For Life is a community unto it's own with most participants having had cancer themselves or have been deeply touched by watching a loved one suffer through or dying. We share a common goal, to raise awareness, funding and the hope that one day no one will have to hear the words, "You have cancer."

Michelle

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Jul 11 - 04:58 PM

It's so often the case that when you get involved in something that you thought you'd do for only a set period that you end up staying way longer than planned. I have several events like that at work. Good job, all of you!

It's the regular afternoon slowdown, the funk when it's so hot outside. A little cooler today, only about 100, but still, hard on everything. I do wish I had a black water tank to elevate and run a shower from. Shower on the lawn after dark and at least water that spot where you're standing! Maybe I can set something up this summer that can go in the garage during the winter. I do hate running perfectly good city water on the yard, it's better to make it do a little work before we pour it on the ground.

The kitchen is just about cleared for some cooking this evening. Canning peaches, and if there's time, juicing strawberries for jelly later. I have to make sure I have lots of convenient surfaces handy for setting things to cool that can be undisturbed for a while.

Several eBay items headed out the door soon, and I'll have to list a few more. I also returned a couple of things to Home Depot that either failed or weren't needed. Clearing out in several directions! I swept the front porch last night so it was a pleasure to walk barefoot over to the corner where the faucet is and be sure it was off. Sometimes with all of the pebbles the porch felt like it was covered with Legos. :-/ I have to clear weeds lying dry on the driveway and finish filling holes dug in the back yard over the last couple of weeks. And laundry to hang out. Just the usual puttering!

SRS

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Jul 11 - 03:51 PM

When a priest signs up for an hour, Michelle, he does more than an hour, just as he does for a liturgical vigil, even on his day off and even if he ends up paying for it all he rest of the weekend services.

~S~

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: LilyFestre
Date: 10 Jul 11 - 01:49 PM

I am exhausted today. My beloved let me sleep in and was totally okay with it when I wandered down the stairs at noon. I've had some breakfast and am ready to go back to bed. I LOVE LOVE LOVE doing the Relay For Life but it wears me out. I worked all day at the Survivor Tent (signing folks in and also being support for new people, listeing to stories of loss), walked the Opening Lap, the Survivor Lap, the Luminaria Lap, several laps with a new friend who has asked to report my story in the local paper and a few laps alone...time to read all the names on the bags (over 1,200 of them were on the track), time to pause and reflect, time to give thanks for my life and time to remember.
   I worked all day with a woman from my church...we made an incredible team and I am so looking forward to working more with her!!! I also hung out with some other women from my church while Susan and Greg were doing their allotted hour of (maybe a half hour...I dunno) walking/scooting. What a HOOT!!! I see several more fun times together ahead!!!   Dancing, laughter, sharing of stories, silliness....wooo hoooo!! Who knew that under those reserve Sunday folks were some funny bunnies waiting to come out and play? YAY!!!

Saul...I'll write soon...promise.

If I can find a smidge of energy, I might do some dishes after lunch. Course....they'll still be there tomorrow too!

Lator Gators!!!

Michelle

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Jul 11 - 12:58 PM

Up early, working in the garden (pouring buckets of water with compost tea and fish fertilizer) around the crops. I'll sprinkle some amendments (greensand and lava sand) later. Just trying to keep the plants alive so they can produce in the fall.

I've run my grape juice through a fine sieve to try to clear up the cloudy appearance. It usually isn't completely clear, as strawberry juice usually is, but it seems cloudier than usual. I'm going to run to the store to get some bags of frozen strawberries and run them through the steam juicer. That I can use completely - the juice for jelly, the fruit for jam. The leftover grape seeds and skins went into the compost.

Another load of laundry needs to wash and hang try today.

Waiting in anticipation of the work at Andrea's next week. Keep those photos coming!

SRS

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 10 Jul 11 - 10:48 AM

I have prepared for the impending zombie attack by thoroughly cleaning and organising every square inch of bathroom and most of kitchen. I need sterile rooms. Just in case.

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Jul 11 - 08:08 AM

I DID make the Relay's late-night shift and enjoyed an hour's scootering and chatting with Hardi who usually dies his hour alone. Came back to catch 3 hours' sleep then off to ydy's planned work thing: attending a GREAT retreat yesterday with the new people on a Commission that advises the Bishop on people seeking ordination; he led the retreat gloriously and my "seniority-comments" were helpful.... new people on the group are superb. I see new friends there.

With the realignment on roles certain people play with my healthcare (only some reflected here... much more actually going on), I had the energy and focus to do my work there despite very short sleep.

I then zoomed the 2 hours back home in good order (still hearing song after rock-radio song that was PERFECT for recent struggles' reflections), to find Hardi too whacked to do the Sat. nite music-- so I led that without him, as Ed and I used to do when we played at other churches.

Edema-swelled ankles behaved themselves all this sitting-time, even thru a "pamper-us" dinner, and then we came home and I slept like a log. I think Hardi finally did, too. TBTG for peace in work He gives us to do, along with the strength to DO it even when beset by troubles and distractors.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: Penny S.
Date: 10 Jul 11 - 07:31 AM

Today I have filtered curds of most of my milk which had turned which I am going to turn into an Indian sweet.

I have also been piecing parts of a skirt which my mother had partly cut up for patchwork, and am now cutting it to make a lning for a sleeveless jacket- not exactly a waistcoat (vest) as its a bit loose. It's a bit slippery, and I am now juggling it about as it has got slightly too small for the pattern.

The main fabric is from a pair of teal linen trousers which had worn away between the legs. I then have to work out exactly how I'm going to turn it inside out, as the way the trousers are won't work the way the pattern wants. I'm not going to undo an existing seam because the pattern makers grasp of topology is not very mathemstical.

The dress fabric is creamy green with a pattern of hedgerow flowers. Among them are some tiny quail. My mum obviously did not see these, as they are upside down in her construction, and will probably have to be in mine, as well.

Penny

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: saulgoldie
Date: 09 Jul 11 - 11:47 PM

Dear Lily,
Please PM me about snail letters. Thanks.

Saul(goldie)

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Jul 11 - 06:58 PM

The juice looks kind of cloudy - I suspect it needs to settle out some of those little cysts of whatever those little yellowish drifts of stuff are one usually sees in the bottom of the jar. Meanwhile, I went over with a paintbrush and a jar of Roundup and I painted the leaves of some of the poison ivy around the grape tree, then I came home and dropped all of my clothes in a pile and took a shower.

There are some clouds in the sky, but with a 10% chance of rain, I doubt the laundry I need to hang this afternoon is going to tempt any precipitation.

I bought a galvanized stock tank to add to the other one already in the yard and I'll take out the plastic pool that Cinnamon is allergic to. I hope the metal tank lasts longer than the plastic pool, for the price!

SRS

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Jul 11 - 01:29 PM

Michelle, get a good day of sleep, or at least a long nap today. Congratulations on the fund raising! Kat, congratulations on getting the hospital to settle that debt. It's only fair. Andrea, don't spend the entire weekend vacuuming!

I have been getting up earlier every morning to use the cooler time to get work done. I went to bed at 9:15 last night and was up at 6 this morning. Zeke went home (Cinnamon is so disappointed!), I picked a bucket of mustang grapes, and I took the trimmer out and knocked down the weeds along the edges of gardens that get watered regularly. I have a push mower I'm going to use on the lawn, I don't need to fire up the gas mower for what amounts to a few grass seed heads.

This morning I also cooked up two batches of grape juice in the steam juicer. I have to clear out the fridge to make room for the juice until I make jelly, and I have to go shopping for pectin, lids, and sugar before that happens. I also have to can peaches.

A batch of laundry will go on the line out back in a few minutes. No rain in sight these days, though you'd think I could at least tempt it by hanging out laundry. Maybe I should wash the pickup instead.

Clearing up a couple of eBay items that didn't sell, and packing the rest (several sales end tomorrow, and it looks like I'll have to combine orders for one guy who bid on several different auction books.)

SRS

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: LilyFestre
Date: 09 Jul 11 - 11:52 AM

Home from the Relay For Life...

Had

a

BLAST!!!!!


I worked at the Survivor Tent, walked several miles, hung out with some really FUN women during the wee hours of the morning...think lots of laughter, dancing and utter silliness, hosted a Survivor Breakfast and helped to break down camp. I spent 27.5 hours at the Relay, awake for 26.5 of those hours. WOOOOO!!! I am SO beyond tired that I'm NOT tired!!!   Time to sit back, relax, put my feet up and take a nap when my body finally slams into that cloud of sleepiness.

The goal of $113,000 was reached and then some. EXCELLENT for the small community we live in!!!!!! Much larger areas held Relay events this year and raised substantially lesser amounts! I'm so proud to have been on the committee for my local relay and am thrilled that the community came together to raise so much money for research and to help local people!!!

Michelle

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Jul 11 - 12:13 AM

SRS, you be careful in that heat. I heard it is supposed to be that way for at least another week. You're right...it does just sap the energy right out.

I had a busy day with exercise at 9a with Morgan in tow; hand therapy at 10a, then home for lunch, then at 2p delivered M to his mom and went off to get another high-cost shot at the kidney doc. Met the new doc and quite liked him. He sounded like an echo of the pulmonologist, "Keep doing what you're doing...it's working." Nice to hear!

Also, a couple of weeks ago, Rog and I met with the CEO and Chief Med. Officer of the first hospital I was in in Feb. The one which really messed things up including an ER report which said my "chief complaint" was a "gunshot wound!" Anyway, I'd written a letter delineating what all went wrong including the consequences and asked them to write off the remaining $900+ which is what we owed after insurance paid. The CEO promised to let me know their decision last week, but no call, so I left him a message yesterday. Today, his PA called to tell me they were writing it off...it was a done deal. I am really glad of that. Still have some issues to resolve, but it's a start. I feel a sense of accomplishment, esp. after calling a few lawyers in town and being told no one wants to take a case against the hospital due to the smallish size city and their wanting to stay on good terms with their "care" provider.

Rog had to work today, but will have Monday off, so we'll do errands tomorrow, groceries, etc. and go to breakfast at Morgan's to celebrate his dad's birthday. We've got a few things to clean up in the yard and inside...the usual, mostly. I hope to get some more decluttering done. Have also been working on getting the files accepted by CreateSpace for my old book. I figure it's easier to start with it, then I'll have a template, of sorts, for Prairie Child. I spent about three hours on that, yesterday.

Andrea...love watching it all come down and, soon, go up!

kat

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jul 11 - 10:03 PM

One hot hot day today. 105^o and the dogs came in the house when I got home. This just wrings the energy right out of you.

Ellie and I finished the range of books (each side has the equivalent of 10 tall bookcases) this morning with a half hour to spare. That means we don't need to go back and do it later on in July when they scheduled more time for us.

Today a letter came from the tax office - I tried a new online tax protest link back in May. My house was built in the mid-1970s and is in good shape and surrounded by other houses built around the same time that are also in good shape. To our north 1 block begins a neighborhood with much smaller much older cute little houses, and to our east are the new houses being built in the development that started about 3 years ago. They're high dollar compared to mine, yet those were presented as the "comparable value" homes that kept my tax high (there was a form with those addresses and prices on the web site.)

I went into a realtor web site and found a couple of houses in my part of the village, the same size and age as mine, and did a PDF screen capture of each page, and wrote out a statement protesting that the comparables used for my tax rate were not right. The online protest process rejected my protest when I filed it (an instant response sort of site), but apparently a human later looked at the documents I sent in, along with my statement, and my house taxable rate was dropped by $8,600. This is the tax figure, it would be ideal if I ever sold it that it would go for more than the tax rate (they typically do). But that is a little bit shaved off of the mortgage next year.

I don't have a phone line or fax any more, so I did a little research and ended up faxing this back via a web page that will let you do one free fax a day, with no ads on the cover page. Three-page limit, but this worked perfectly. It's a Canadian company (http://www.gotfreefax.com/) and seems to have good reviews.

eBay is perking along. I picked up a flat of peaches today so I'll be cleaning the kitchen tonight in preparation for canning tomorrow, and I also need to use the juicer for the grapes. It's a general work around the house weekend.

SRS

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Jul 11 - 06:02 PM

Pool walking 36 x 50 (1800 steps) plus ai chi stretch-out.

PT/OT appt for Monday afternoon with the sports-focus dudes.

~S~

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: mouldy
Date: 08 Jul 11 - 02:05 AM

Yes it is an immense amount of 'crete to move. They have asked for extra bodies to help. Luckily the truck driver is the dad of the young ox who is one of the labourers, and so he is going to stay around until it's all delivered, unlike some who have a time-slot, and dump the rest on the road if it's time to go.
There is minimal water in the trench this morning. At the moment it is blue sky and clouds. If the sun can burn through in time, it may get rid of the rest. Hopefully the inspector will say it's dry enough to pour onto. Alo, if it stays dry today, the crud on the carpet with dry more, and might vac out a bit.

Hope you get the help you want, Susan. It's a great feeling when you actually get referred to the right people!

The sun is starting to show through...fingers crossed!

Andrea

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Jul 11 - 12:35 AM

TBTG for nurse-types who hang out with female patients who have great but overly-testosteroned male doctors. TBTG for husbands who go that extra mile and stick it out when it's tough. TBTG for a good friend and my new priest.

It went as well as it could I guess. BIG outcome is referral to the best PT/OT team in the wider area to give some expert guidance on next steps, literally.

I am very sad to miss (probably) Saturday's Relay activities. Might be able to get to the late-night stuff. Have to work.

~S~

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jul 11 - 12:25 AM

Andrea, four cubic meters of concrete moved in wheelbarrows? Over here that would be colloquially called a f**king shitload of concrete (no numbers attached, just sympathy for the folks who have to move that much weight in so many trips!)

Susan, I hope things work out. You've been working steadily to make your life easier. It will be good if you health cooperates with your planning!

Michelle, the key word here is "triage." The things that really need attention rise to the surface, and everything else gets the time that is left over.

I'm picking 1/3 to 1/2 bucket of grapes a day, and this weekend I'll use the steam juicer and be ready for jelly making soon. Then come the peaches.

Thank goodness tomorrow is Friday. I need a couple of days to rest up from the week.

SRS

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: LilyFestre
Date: 07 Jul 11 - 06:46 PM

Andrea,

    I watch a show on HGTV where people purchase homes internationally. I've seen houses like yours (in it's current state) and people who purchase them. I've always been kind of envious to be able to design things yourself in such lovely older buildings that have SO MUCH character!!! YAY for YOU!!!

Michelle

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: mouldy
Date: 07 Jul 11 - 04:42 PM

The building inspector comes tomorrow to look at the trench for the foundations - half an hour later (9am) the cement (4 cubic metres of it) arrives, and has to be barrowed in. When the poor guys have finished struggling with that, they have to cope with the delivery of the trench blocks in the afternoon. If the cement "goes off" okay over the weekend, it starts to go upwards from monday.

Interesting thing - when the architect came on Tuesday, he said the other outbuildings (aka my coalhouse and 2 other sheds) were to come down to (the previous owner had wanted them down). Well from an aesthetic and light point of view, it makes sense, but they are perfectly useable buildings...I will just have to cope with the narrow dark space between the new and old bits!

The dining room carpet is absolutely WRECKED after all the muck and mud. Beige carpet is not a good idea when you are coming on and off a building site! I will give it a vac over the weekend, and maybe a shampoo later in the year when the work's done. However, it will not be replaced until after the place has also bee re-wired and plastered, which will hopefully be some time next year.

Andrea

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: LilyFestre
Date: 07 Jul 11 - 01:51 PM

Oh...and Susan....I hope your appointment goes well!

Michelle

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: LilyFestre
Date: 07 Jul 11 - 01:39 PM

So much for the nap....BUT...I did get everything primed AND painted. I even got most of the eyelet screws in!!! I decided that some of the MUST do's are going to still happen but perhaps not exactly the way I had thought. I am not going to kill myself running and running and running. People are going to be so involved with each other, talking, playing games, walking and eating that the tiny detail things I am so focused on are just not that important. Don't misunderstand, they are important but not enough to make me run into a wall of pure, fall over, I can't take it, crying because I'm so freaking tired.

Yep. I really am THAT tired. And covered in several colors of acrylic paint. I love to paint but I am SO MESSY. *shrug* It's part of the fun!!!

Must eat something....that hasn't been a priority today....I can feel my sugar free-falling. Smiling, knowing there is watermelon in the fridge all cut up and blueberries and chicken (pre-BBQed).

Michelle

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Jul 11 - 12:10 PM

Re-evaluation following the most recent good boohoo is proceeding well and hopefully will dovetail effectively with doctor's appt for this aftn. It's a big one!

~S~

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: LilyFestre
Date: 07 Jul 11 - 10:37 AM

10 smallish (12 inches tall) wooden ribbons primed & drying to be painted later today.

3 large (3 feet tall) wooden ribbons primed & drying to be painted later today.

One load of laundry done and hanging on the line.

Breakfast made, lunches packed.

I have a HUGE list for today that MUST be done and I am so exhausted already. It's going to be a LONG day. Mama IS going to sleep while the baby does. I am out of energy, steam and desire is dwindling and right now, that's the only thing keeping me going.

Michelle

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Jul 11 - 09:18 PM

Another hot day today, and most of it spent over at the library. I go back again tomorrow, and will drive over on Friday to deliver another case of the Carnation Instant Breakfast for our chemo coworker. It has been at or above 100 for a couple of weeks now, no rain, and I feel like a dried up piece of leather. I'm going to soak my feet then put lotion on them.

I'm eating a lot of fruit these days, and I'll start checking for local fresh peaches for canning soon. I picked 1/3 of a bucket of the mustang grapes this morning. The back half of the big tree collapsed and while the tree is dead, the grave vines survived and all of the grapes that had been out of reach are down at human level. I'm going to use Penny's trick of painting the poison ivy over there with Roundup; I don't want to harm anything else, just the ivy. When I get enough grapes I'll put them in the steam juicer and make jelly later on.

Several of my eBay items have buyers so slowly stuff is moving out of the sun room, and there are a few dollars rolling slowly into the PayPal account.

SRS

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: LilyFestre
Date: 06 Jul 11 - 07:29 PM

Spent today at the hospital going over tests and such. Pretty much everything is ok. I need to alter my menu a bit but it's doable. Did some major grocery shopping at a farmer's market and at the store. Everything is in, put away and I'm hanging out with my feet up trying to go over in my head exactly what it is I'm to do. Complicated....but it will come.

Michelle

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Jul 11 - 07:15 PM

That must feel good, Penny. I admire the way you keep at it.

Haven't done much for decluttering, today, but got in plenty of walking. 9a at the dentist for new, permanent crown, then to the blood draw where they were too slow, so on to a 1030a appt for hand therapy, then back for blood draw. Still too slow, so Rog picked up Morgan at noon. The seven year old is back! Yea! He and I did a bunch of running around culminating in him getting a haircut at the same place "Papa" goes and then he took me out for an ice cream cone. We had a blast!

I have been working, for the past hour, on getting files ready for CreateSpace for WindWords...to no avail. Started a tech thread for help. I've had it for the night, though. Soon Rog will be home and we'll eat supper and watch another episode of A Touch of Frost.

I have a free day tomorrow morning, so will try getting back to the books then.

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: Penny S.
Date: 06 Jul 11 - 12:17 PM

Today I finished screwing the table from Dad's office together in my study, as I had cleared enough to do it. Which means I have a surface clear for sorting books on.

I cleared some more vinca, so none is visible. it will come up again, but I can paint it with weedkiller. Not spray, as it is close to my brambles. I bought some topsoil, intending to lift some more slabs and make a new bed, but felt I'd done enough, and had a bath instead. There was some wilting in a couple of tomatoes, so I did a water - odd, as we had some heavy rain earlier.

Penny

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 Jul 11 - 06:27 AM

Hardi and I spent some time ydy de-goofing the exercise plan the doc ought to be directing-- and will, as of tomorrow's appt.

I grabbed a baseline of what I can do in the pool nowadays and we made a chart showing time/steps toward whatever goal the doc or his referred designees sets; ydy was 30 minutes to do 1300 shallow-end steps and I was able to stay warm that long, too. I paid for that with low blood sugars tho-- staying warm eats a lot of calories-- so despite sensible eating I was up, too hungry to sleep, at 3.

~S~

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 11:47 PM

Alice, so nice to *see* you here and to see those photos. Gorgeous!

Maybe there was a grumpy imp running round among us, today. I didn't know it, but I was to have Morgan for almost a full ten hours, today. Too much! I knew he would be over as there was no half-day summer school today, but had no idea both his parents would be working late until this morning when he came in and told me. Unfortunately, I'd had a restless night from a sore knee and he hadn't been to bed until 11p, so a seven year old-going-on-two-year-old met a grumpy-take-no-nonsense granny today and, other than about two hours here and there, the day was one long slog. He is grounded from my computers and television for tomorrow.

Rog and I did a good job of cleaning the house this weekend and it still looks okay, thank goodness.

I have appts. all morning, then Morgan at noon. He promised the seven year old would be in residence, tomorrow, and suspect that will hold true. I hope we will get a couple of things done, tomorrow. I think I will ask him to help me empty the CD changer, putting each one in it's sleeve, then stacking them for loading onto the PC. Either that, or I'll enlist his help in putting them in the computer...he won't touch it, but he could alphabetise them in the bin for me and we could go from there. OR, there IS a bin of files I need to go through which will need some shredding. Wish me luck!**bg**

Andrea, that's okay. They are smooth, in that they are round and smooth to the touch. I understand, though...probably a bit large, anyway. Thanks!

kat

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: LilyFestre
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 11:41 PM

Spent 3 hours setting up yard sale stuff. More to go on Thursday. Tomorrow is a trip to the hospital for an appointment.

Night!

Michelle

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 11:03 PM

Alice, those photos look like they could be some of your paintings. Stunning sunset!

I've hit a wall as far as the heat is concerned. Today I had no energy, and I made the mistake of grabbing a sweet snack on my way home from work (butter toffee popcorn - Fiddle Faddle for those of you in the U.S.) That sugar really seems to have drained me. The pavement is now always warm, the air conditioning seems always to be on, and I need to get up earlier and earlier to avoid the heat.

Three eBay packages shipped today and another item had a bid. One that didn't sell is going to the recycle bin or Goodwill. The box I fitted for it (to weigh and measure to calculate shipping for eBay) will be emptied, sytrofoam back into that bin, etc.

Off to bed. A bit earlier than I've managed of late.

SRS

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: Alice
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 06:09 PM

Hello, all.
I now have more room in the deck closet outside where I have had two old air conditioners that came with the house stored. They were too heavy for me to move, and I never took them out and used them.
Finally, I found someone on freecycle who would take them away.

Just to share something off topic, these photos from last evening were kind of lost in the independence day thread, so I thought I'd post the link here to share the natural beauty:

4th of July sunset photos


Alice

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: LilyFestre
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 03:45 PM

The back of a full size pick up truck is now full and ready to go to the yard sale after one stop to pick up a dresser to add to the mix. Then it's time to unload, organize and go home to do it all again. I won't have as much to deliver on Thursday but the pieces will be bigger. WHEW. Lots of work...hopefully it pays off!!!

Michelle

PS. Dishes, laundry, some floors done as well.

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: mouldy
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 12:24 PM

Unfortunately not, but the most exciting thing so far is what is probably the bottom of a late 18th century wine bottle - that is dating evidence. The latest it can be is early 19th century. Plus a small, but beautiful shard of English delft (a bit of a plate or saucer) which came out of the same area. It was also low down in the trench, which takes it earlier than some other bits and bobs we had.
The drains are going to have to be tweaked about a bit so that the build misses the current inspection chamber. The architect had drawn it about 2-3 feet away! However, he did come round this afternoon, and having looked at the area by the back wall, says it would be better for the old wall to leave it open, and to build a run-off for rain water into the ground level. (It will also save buying lead.) He says the planners don't have to be told, as it isn't altering the structure of the building. Good-oh!

Thanks for the offer of the beads, Kat, but I am using smooth ones (like crystal balls).

Michelle, isn't it amazing how little ones seem to make up for lost time when they've been poorly?

We now await the building inspector to okay the foundation trenches, and then the concrete base for the walls can go in - with rain forecast for the rest of the week!

Andrea

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: Penny S.
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 12:13 PM

Yesterday I sowed salad seeds in the latest patch of topsoil and watered them in, and made a hanging basket for the front which I filled with a campanula, clearing quite a large space near the house.
The topsoil they sell in bags is odd. One lot was a bit powdery, and contained material which looked like roadstone chips. This lot was dark and full of humus, but no sandy material, and the odd piece of what seemed to be squidged plastic bag. Not what I would imagine to have been on the top of any soil profile any time recently.
Today I got up really early, and fixed the back gate, adding a lock to it, drilling a keyhole for the lock, and changing the position of the bolt loop (?) at the top, which didn't really engage with its bolt. This bolt could be drawn from outside, so wasn't really helpful to security, hence the lock. I have another, stronger bolt for lower down, too. The window cleaner will have to ask before coming in in future.
My appetite is rather peculiar this week. After days of eating large salads, I just don't feel up to preparing them. And I don't feel like eating any breakfast. I'm drinking loads of water = which doesn't need any preparation, and I ate a special rice from the Chinese takeaway yesterday, and a bowl of tinned rice pudding with raspberries today. Also a lot of cherries.

Penny

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 11:30 AM

Sounds like everyone is cranky at your house, getting over this bug!

I've moved a bunch of gardening stuff into a smaller set of shelves in the sun room, moved some of the large items to the bottom of the pantry shelves nearby, and have opened up the floor space considerably. Three packages go out for eBay today, clearing some of the tabletop, and several other await sales (fingers crossed!)

Stay cool, everyone! Andrea, I hope your archaeologist report is interesting but doesn't slow the work. If they find the holy grail in your back yard, do you get to keep it?

SRS

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: LilyFestre
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 10:25 AM

I love buying clothes for Jeremiah, especially at consignment shops or yard sales. I think I can count on my fingers how many NEW outfits I've purchased for him. I'm keeping some things...the outfit he arrived in, the outfit he wore for his baptism, etc. There's also a silly hat that I loved to see him wear!!! SO STINKIN' CUTE!!!

I'm in a bad mood this morning. Crabby. Bitchy. Just GRRRR. I've loaded a good deal of yard sale stuff onto the truck, did a load of dishes, a load of laundry and now I'm taking a break before I load any more.

Jeremiah is into everything. EVERYTHING. Cupboards, garbage, pitching fits when I won't let him in off limit areas...screaming, jumping up and down, the whole she-bang. GEEZ LOUISE CHILD!!!! I love you and am glad you are feeling MUCH better but CHILL OUT!!!!

Back to work.

Michelle

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 01:09 AM

Michelle, we were here watching you buy all of those baby clothes - it's a pleasure to look at and use those tiny clothes, and it's amazing how fast they outgrow them. *Spoiler alert* He won't stop outgrowing clothes any time soon. :)

I'm about half-way through the moving stuff into the dining area from the sun room. I set up a wire shelf and right now it has storage containers, Pyrex of many shapes and sizes, a convection oven and some steel pots on top. I put my baking sheets and muffin and cake pans in a cupboard to see if they work there (i.e., will I remember I put them there). A low trunk is beside the door and it has three seat cushions are sitting on top. They can be taken out when needed for the wrought iron bench, but otherwise, to be cushions on the trunk for a shoe changing station.

I have a full week at work, but there will be opportunities to check in.

SRS

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: LilyFestre
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 11:38 PM

It's been a most enjoyable day here. I did some freehand drawing for wooden patterns of awareness ribbons. Pete cut them out (Thank you Love!!!)....10 smaller ones and 3 three foot ones. I primed them and will paint them tomorrow. When they are dry, I will attach eyelet screws and a swivel, then connecting the smaller ribbons to fish line to hang from the Survivor Tent at the Relay For Life. The larger ribbons, which will all be purple, will have stakes attached to stand in front of the Survivor Tent. Let's see...then I did loads of marking yard sale stuff. Anything that isn't clothing is marked with a sticker. The clothes, however, are all marked with tags attached with a safety pin. I went through a box of 200 hang tags and ran out...oh brother. Jeremiah has more clothes than I've had in the last 10 years!!! :) I have fun at yard sales, what can I say?

We went for ice cream this afternoon, a ride and then out for dinner. We all played in the yard after the sun cooled down a bit. It's been a lovely day!

Michelle

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 09:17 PM

Hardi got ambitious today for a LONG overdue dream of mine, not really a big thing but a big chair I longed to have in one guest room went up there (it took us both) AND the very old family rocker that had sat there actually fit up the way-narrow attic stairwell.... so that room now has A Real Chair. AND an ottoman gathering dust in the LR now replaces the bigger one taking up way too much real estate in our prayer room/landing which doubles as a go-to lounge when it's too hot to be anywhere else. LOL, it's Anti-Hell-- both ways. The too-big ottoman is now sitting with the nice-big chair we took up.... aaahhhhh for me (leg-break on office days) and for visiting guests. Color matches room. Cats love that chair.


Then we adjourned to Fun Stuff, including porch reading with Kindles, making a nice supper, and then making a list of Scooter Fun spots of the right scale; we then left to go do one, making an accessibility map as we went-- my sketchpad and his bike-odometer. I named places he's seen and not been able to refer to easily for years, and now they are OURS.

~S~

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 05:14 PM

I've been moving shelves today. Took a break to come check my eBay sales (see if there were any more questions). One of the dogs behind me is snoring. These hot afternoons see the gang come indoors for an hour or two to cool off. Back to the kitchen in a minute, all four of us, and they'll be underfoot on the kitchen tile floor. I need to finish this moving so I have places for people to sit in case my son takes me up on the offer of a dinner of fresh wild salmon.

The things moving into the kitchen are various countertop things - my extra bread machine, extra convection oven, the coffee maker I only use when I have company (because I don't drink coffee). They used to be in the bottom shelf of the big pantry set of shelves in the hall. Out of sight and out of mind. I'll put some of my gardening gallon jugs on that pantry shelf - vinegar, commercial compost tea, etc. It will still in in that area where I have all of the rest of my gardening stuff (the things that aren't stored in the garage, that is.)

I'll post a few photos when I finish.

SRS

Subject: RE: Declutter & Exercise - Build on Success -July 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 04:56 PM

Andrea, I have some beautiful, multi-faceted about 8mm rose quartz beads if you want any. Leftovers from a design I did for a friend who'd bought them and told me to keep what we didn't use.