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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 23 Sep 11 - 08:42 PM My right arm got a lot of exercise this evening trying to get my "easy start" trimmer going. It wouldn't stay running except on half-choke so I think it's time to clean it out. But I did get the grass growing in the garden around the okra and eggplants so picking will be easier. If we get another inch of rain the weeding out there will be good, but it isn't easy now. Before the trimmer I got exercise with the spade fork attacking the tall grass and weeds. Time to finally watch my NetFlix DVDs and send them back. I'm going to drop the BluRay feature - I can only watch those in one room in the house and I'd like to watch my movies in my office or on the laptop. So that'll reduce the cost a little. And I'm going to have to switch my son to his own streaming account. Virtual tidying. It feels wonderful this evening, so I'm going to clear the kitchen counter and see if I have time to make a batch of tortillas. I also need to cook and freeze some more eggplant. I picked a bucket full today, gave a couple away, but still have something over 5 pounds of them to process. I hope you all had a good week and will have a great weekend! Michelle, are you feeling any better today? You may need to have a pampered weekend - let Pete and Jeremiah bring you breakfast in bed tomorrow. :) SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: katlaughing Date: 23 Sep 11 - 11:27 PM SRS, I am doing this using Dragon NaturallySpeaking, but I haven't figured out all of the editing commands so please excuse any typos. You asked about stretching exercises. I have found the ones from that link that you sent me being aligned to be well linked to be quite good . Also, the ones I am using right now are excellent, especially for stretching warm-up exercises. That one is called yoga for the rest of us by P EGGY C a PPY. The other one I've been using is Q I G0NG by Lee HOLDEN. I've noticed that the stretching exercises I do using a strap as in yoga as Sean in the align to be well to really help with tight leg muscles and the yoga one really helps with tight shoulders, arms, and neck. They really get you warmed up and ready for all that fantastic work you do. Your new greenhouse looks wonderful and I am in awe of your abilities. Michelle, really really glad to hear your good news! I did a little bit of walking today with Roger as we shopped. Getting a little tired of not being able to drive myself, but the therapy is helping. Tomorrow we may go for drive to another town about it to an half-hour trip all the way round. That should read about eight to and no didn't get that one either. T WO and one half hour trip is what it should say. In the morning, Morgan will be coming over for breakfast and to try his hand at Dragon NaturallySpeaking and play with Luna. About that it's spelled your name right that's not what I said. What I said was, how about that it's spelled your name her name right. LOL… I'll have to practice on the tutorials to figure out the editing on this program. It's pretty amazing how quickly that has understood my way of speaking though. I've only done the minimum of training to set up my profile and I think it's done a pretty good job. I also need to learn how to use it to navigate the web and post directly to my cat… Okay I'll have to spell it out it looks like… To post directly to MUDC a T. LOL… Not sure what's up with the capitalization and non-caps anyway I will figure it out and catch up with y'all later. LUVYAKAT… Sorry for the caps, not really shouting! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Sep 11 - 12:42 AM It's different, speaking and writing, isn't it? I finished my tortillas, used one to make a bean burrito with some of the chicken from last night and finished the cheese in a bag in the fridge. Totally leftover and totally delicious. The rest of the batch is in the freezer for upcoming meals. It doesn't take long to make them when you're cooking, but once you start you have to keep up the pace and be careful not to burn them. Looking forward to a lovely weekend, though I do have to finish some photos for work in the morning. I had a setting wrong on the camera, and another one I need to get checked out. I guess I need to pull out the instructions and see if that will help. When all else fails . . . SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Sep 11 - 02:16 PM Lovely morning but hot this afternoon. Good time to wash the dogs and hang some laundry. I'll get some exercise out working in the yard and greenhouse. It doesn't entirely feel like fall yet, but I want to be ready! I am ready in the sense that I feel like cooking. (I just need to be careful in the "feel like eating" part that I don't get too many carbs and calories!) SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: SINSULL Date: 24 Sep 11 - 02:41 PM We moved our department over a few rows and I managed to sprain my toe while connecting computer wires. One helpful co-worker suggested I should have let someone else do it. My response was that if I have to admit to myself that I can't get down on my hands and knees I will just give up. So now I am hobbling around occasionally wincing and in general being annoyed at my carelessness. WHINE! Maybe some WINE too. It will probably helpIt was a very stupid thing to do. SINS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Sep 11 - 03:56 PM The dogs are clean and shiny, laundry is in. Mary, take care that you don't trip or stub your toe on anything because reinjuring it will hurt more and it will take longer to heal. Ask me now I know . . . Kat, I read your exchange with your son about the books - what a great treat that he likes them so much! And what a great mom you are to have sent them to him. My kids aren't ready for too much stuff yet, they don't have the room, but I hope I'll be able to pass along things they can use when they can use them and not make them wait till I'm gone and they have their own houses full of furniture that they'd need to fit mine into. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Sep 11 - 09:19 PM The center support is now finished (I had to put a large notch in the top end) and level in the greenhouse. That was the last of the things to be sure this is stable, an addition that my friend and I discussed when I was dismantling it at his house. (He, by the way, is a new grandfather - his step son and girlfriend had a baby boy last week. At least that's a big bright spot in an otherwise grim summer and fall!) I've been thinking about how to put in place covers over the vents when it gets cold. I think putting an angled nail at both ends of a padded board and simply hooking it over the top leuvers will do. My friend tried stuffing all of the slots with insulating foam and cloth and such - made a mess I had to clear out. I'll work on that system now while it's warm and be ready for winter. Today also I've been finishing up food preparation, stuff on trays in the freezer is bagged, new stuff will go in. I picked a bunch of basil and it is cleaned and drying. The freezer is filling up and the pantry shelves will be holding more herbs as the fall progresses. Laundry is out of the way, another batch needs to run later tonight. I can still line dry because it is Texas, after all. Gonna watch a movie and send it back to NetFlix. About time, I've had it forever. Good thing my son gets a lot of use out of the account, though I have to redo it and give him his own. The grandchildren of my next door neighbors came over this afternoon and each picked an eggplant to take home to their mother. My neighbor assures me their mother likes and cooks it. :) I told them if their mom doesn't want them they can bring them back. Little kids are so much fun to take into the garden - it makes such an impression on them. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: katlaughing Date: 24 Sep 11 - 11:28 PM SRS, I hadn't thought to share my son's reaction to the box of books I sent him on here, but it's a neat thing to see after having been so careful about what I did with my old books. So, here it is. For the rest of you, this is what my son had to say when he received a box of old family books, part of my recent decluttering efforts: "Mom, thanks! I opened the corona beer box of books and when I removed the foam stuffing and saw the books, I was taken aback. The value of these books hit me. Stuff from my grandpa's collection, and others also, they are all great books. before I even picked them up I thought wow, cool! What a great library this would be in the 19th century western plains! The text in Two Years Before The Mast is a neat connection with our ancestors. Thanks again, Im psyched!" 30 min. of qi gong during our trip today. Marigold, take very good care of that toe. My daughter stubbed hers on the leg of a coffee table and it caused her quite a bit of trouble. But then she's too young to have taken good care from the get-go and we all know with age comes sagacity, right? LOL LUV why a cat( this program keeps coming up with the most inventive ways of my signoff! :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Sep 11 - 12:04 AM You'll need to set up an exception of some sort to let it use your usual signoff run together. There are probably a couple of keystrokes or a word you can use that will drop in a particular word or phrase you want. Work is done, fooling with facebook. Sent a young woman, a friend of my daughter's, this Leonard Cohen song (Dance Me to the End of Love). She's newly engaged. This song may simply swamp her, but it's so beautiful. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: mouldy Date: 25 Sep 11 - 01:15 PM Managed to lose 3lbs last week at fat club. I'm not going this time because I am going down south for a charty lunch in Surrey, which will include a get together with my old flatmates from my college days. (One of them, a breast cancer survivor, is the organiser of the lunch). I have handed the planning paperwork back ovcer to the architect, as he is used to the long-winded forms, and which bits of them need ignoring for what is a mere small addition to the plans. There will be more photos up on FB soon. I'm starting to get a bit frustrated with not being able to get sorting out the back garden. I suppose it will mean I have something to keep me occupied over the winter months! Andrea |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Sep 11 - 01:27 PM I put a couple of greenhouse and garden photos up on my facebook page. I'll load them on Google+ also. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: LilyFestre Date: 25 Sep 11 - 04:28 PM Stubbed toes...YOUCH!!!!!!!! I have no decluttering news or exercise to report but we did do something exciting today.... ***Drum roll please...**** We purchased a camper!!!!!! YAY!!! Good times ahead! Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Sep 11 - 05:32 PM What kind? Goes on the back of a pickup, a trailer, a pop-up? I used to have a double-axle Aljo trailer that I loved but my now ex talked me into selling. I always regretted that. I was always a tent camper, but trailers have a lot of interesting uses and can make a trip much easier if you're not going places too difficult to park or drive. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: LilyFestre Date: 25 Sep 11 - 07:21 PM We purchased a Coleman Pop-Up. It's lightweight, easy to tow, really easy to set up and a great starter camper for us! I have to learn how to back it up though.... It's going to be a lesson in patience, I can just tell!!! ;) Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Sep 11 - 08:42 PM Put your steering hand on the bottom of the steering wheel and push it the direction you want the trailer to go. You want the trailer to move to the right, hold the wheel on the bottom and push it toward the right. I don't like baking trailers, but I had to do it over the years. That was a trick that someone taught me (I learned it when I was baking a trailer bear trap in the national park campground where I worked). I have a few pots of soil with seeds in them for fall things in the garden - chard and I'll see if I can get a few beans, they usually grow well in the fall. I tidied up the garage, and I moved some stuff out and it will go to recycling or trash. I need to do a garage sale pretty soon and I've found a few items for that also. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: LilyFestre Date: 26 Sep 11 - 01:47 AM Dishes done, 2 loads of laundry done, high chair got the deluxe wipe down, the table has been found, got rid of a bunch of junk mail and old newspapers (I swear those things procreate a few times daily), grocery list made for the week, toys are ALL picked up (YAY!) so the floor will be ready to sweep, mop and vacuum first thing in the morning. Tomorrow I have no plans except to stay home and catch up on laundry and to can pears. I have 2 bushels to do. Pete and I were going to do them together this weekend but we ended up being swamped with a few things. No matter just so long as they get done. I could probably go for a few more hours but I know I have to be up early in the morning. Sweet dreams everybody! Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: mouldy Date: 26 Sep 11 - 07:39 AM That sounds like what we over here call a trailer tent. I too am a wary one when it comes to trailer manoeuvring! Anyway, at the moment I am not going anywhere because the clutch cylinder is leaking on my car, and the garage have got to source a new one, then drop out the gearbox to get at the blasted thing. Law of sod in action again - I need it to go down south in a couple of days! The roof trusses came today, but the walls aren't ready for them yet. There's another piece of scaffold needed from next door so that they can get at the upper part of the back wall. This was supposed to go up last week, and now it is expected today! There are no builders actually building at the moment because of this. Andrea |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Sep 11 - 03:13 PM Andrea, are they using pre-fabricated trusses, delivered ready to put into place? That is an option that is excellent when people know about it - the factory ones are a lot stronger, according to an engineer friend of mine. He designed some trusses for a garage he was building, sent the order in to a place that manufactured them and delivered them to his property. Michelle, the first time we took my daughter camping (in a tent) was in a park about 90 minutes from home. We played in the campground, ate, all sorts of things she enjoyed, but she was 2 years old and didn't understand about not going home to go to bed. I set up the big mattress we put our bedding on (roll up foam and we took sheets and blankets, it was too warm still for sleeping bags) and she was confused, over-tired but not wanting to go to bed. I lay down with her after reading and she cried real hard for a couple of minutes then fell asleep and slept all night. The next day she was up and as happy as can be and didn't have any more problems adjusting to camping. And of course, when her brother came along and we went camping, he modeled his behavior on hers and was just fine with it. Dishes washed, drained, and put away. Laundry and clothes taken care of, a healthy breakfast and lunch eaten. It's time to work on the diet again, watching carbs and with good proteins, but I'll adopt the Weight Watchers policy about fruit and veggies - as much as I want. I just learned that my class will do a 40-year high school reunion in August next year. Spending the next 11 months taking off the weight is a reasonable amount of time for this much weight (30 pounds) and it's a great goal, to feel like I'm looking my best to go see friends I haven't seen in all of these years. I didn't go to my 20th because I'd had my son a few months earlier, he was nursing, I hadn't lost the baby weight, I felt like a lump and would have had to take my son with me for the whole thing. This time I hope to go and enjoy myself. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: LilyFestre Date: 26 Sep 11 - 04:05 PM Thanks for the backing up tips Maggie! I'm sure Jeremiah will have an issue at bedtime but he always does unless he is in his own bed. He has stayed overnight with his Nana and also with me when I'm traveling...if it's not his own bed, he has to be WORN OUT COMPLETELY before we should even think about settling him in for the night. I'm sure he will LOVE the rest of it though as he is an outside boy to be sure!!! I have the last batch of pears in the canner, 2 loads of laundry done (not put away yet though), floors swept, carpet vacuumed...need to mop but I'm about tuckered out at the moment. I got a whopping 4 hours of sleep last night, if that. Just me being awake. Anyway, it's been a productive day. I've also done some planning for an upcoming trip. I'm hoping to connect with one of my best college friends who I haven't seen in FAR too many years!!! About losing weight for your class reunion....if that motivates you, it works!!! I will tell you that I went to my 25th class reunion this year with the baby and my goofy hair and my weight gain and I was greeted with hugs and kisses all around. Not one person said anything or even looked at me funny. I think everyone is self conscious about themselves and also really too busy enjoying chatting with everyone to care about that stuff (ok..there may be one or two people...but seriously..who cares about that?). You are beautiful as is Maggie...inside and out!!! Make sure you take that weight off for YOU and YOU alone. Love to all, Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Sep 11 - 05:15 PM I know, Michelle, but I think I have been looking for something to motivate me. I won't beat myself up if I don't get there, but I am looking forward to it and would love to have the full enjoyment of not only seeing old friends, but of being pleased with myself for how I know I can look in my slimmer clothes. Plus, it'll be in August, nice months in the northwest for hiking, and I'd like to get out and do some without the burden of extra weight slowing me down. Working on a design project this afternoon, one with a lot of elements to collect and then organize. It's the kind of job that makes you suddenly feel real tired - and take a power nap that helps sort out the design. I think I'm getting close to what I want it to look like. My next door neighbor has hired a crew to come work on her yard today. Digging out gardens, mulching, raking, planting - I will start burning a few calories by heading into my yard to work on similar projects in the next couple of weeks. Weeding is on the top of the list. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: mouldy Date: 26 Sep 11 - 05:18 PM Yes, they are prefabricated. They are now stacked against the back wall of the garden until needed. Still no news of the car... Andrea |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 27 Sep 11 - 10:36 AM We were supposed to have a cold front come through - but I think what passed through meant that yesterday was 90o and not 95o - still waiting for a consistently cool crisp fall day. Andrea, do you have buses and trains in your area, or is it exclusively car travel? Kat, hows the automated program working? Michelle, do you have a photo from your calendar shoot you can share? Susan, how's the PT and the office organizing working? Okay, enough procrastination, back to the poster I'm designing. Maggie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: LilyFestre Date: 27 Sep 11 - 05:42 PM I won't have the calendar photo for awhile but will share it when I can! Because Jeremiah's story and mine intertwine, the photographer wanted a photo of us together...fine by me!! We had our picture taken in front of a Christmas tree and will be the December models. :) Dishes and laundry are done for the day (well, might do another load of laundry). The water tank in the toilet overflowed and flooded the bathroom. I have it as cleaned up enough for now and I will mop it again tonight after the floor has a chance to dry up a bit more. Jeremiah was wanting to help...he brought be both a broom and the vacuum cleaner!! When he wasn't helping, he was emptying the soup cupboard into the back of a little car he has (it's a walker/rider kind of thing). I can't help but laugh! Pete is coming home early tonight so I can go to a local book club. A Mommy night out!! I have dinner in the oven waiting for Pete: Ham, scalloped potatoes and Harvard beets. He'll be happy. :) I am loving these fall temperatures!!! At the moment, the sunlight on the fields is absolutely stunning!! Have a great evening everybody! Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: LilyFestre Date: 28 Sep 11 - 01:06 PM I moved an old CD player into the kitchen, grabbed a random CD and danced all over the kitchen with Jeremiah this morning for about half an hour...FUN! Video being uploaded to FB as I type! Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: mouldy Date: 28 Sep 11 - 03:54 PM We do have buses here, and I can get to a railway station on them However, rail travel is extortionately expensive, especially at short notice, and I would have about a 300 mile trip to make each way to get down to Hertfordshire, which is Friday's destination. My plan was to go down (today) to Yorkshire, and spend some time with mu daughter, them go down further south on Friday afternoon to arrive when my friend gets back from work. However, as long as I get the car tomorrow sometime, this is a possibility. I called the garage yesterday afternoon, and they had been sent the wrong part. They have had to strip loads off the underneath of the car to even get at the gearbox and clutch, and when they get the right part, which was due to be sometime around midday today, all being well, it's all got to go back. They said they couldn't guarantee it for today, but that I'd hopefully get it tomorrow. Anyway, the scaffolders have been, and the existing scaffolding has been raised, and I hope the other bit may have been put up too next door. I've put more photos onto FB. Andrea |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 28 Sep 11 - 06:41 PM Nice work! It's kind of hard to believe that at one time the older part of your house looked as crisp as that new part looks now. Give it all fifty years and it will match perfectly. I was dressed in office clothes today or I'd have stopped at my friend's house to help him clear out junk in his back yard. The guy who gave me the greenhouse - as we sorted stuff that was no good for anything, a pile of trash grew, that would eventually be cleaned up. It's behind a fence, not visible from the street. But either the nosy next door neighbor OR the new owner of the house complained to Code Enforcement and he now has to move that trash out of view of the side gate by Friday or get a $1000 fine. When it rains, it pours. He has until Oct. 16 to move, apparently, and the new owner, whoever, doesn't factor into it, apparently. I'll go over tomorrow after he gets home from work to help. Gotta put some more stuff on eBay. Clutter in the sun room destined to go out the door one way or another. There's a lot of tidying to do around here, but at least I took care of one little eyesore- the unviewed NetFlix movies. They've been here for a couple of months. I watch streaming, my son watches streaming, but when I set up my BluRay player for streaming, they upped my account to BluRay and have been sending BluRay disks. Thing is, there is only one BluRay player in the house and I don't always watch movies there. I watch them on the computer in the kitchen, on the TV/DVD combo in my sewing room, on my office computer, even in my bedroom - and I could never make myself sit down to watch those stupid things in the living room, I was too busy. So I sent them back and stopped the BluRay delivery. I'm fine with DVD, my player does the up-sizing anyway and there isn't much difference between regular DVD and the BluRay. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: katlaughing Date: 28 Sep 11 - 11:00 PM The new program is going pretty well, SRS, thanks for asking. There have been some changes around here, most of all, Morgan will be in enrichment classes after school until December break, so I won't be seeing much of him except on the weekends. He seems to be really happy with it and need the extra help with reading. He's doing kind of what is mom did she has not photographic memory but audio graphics memory and until second grade everyone thought that she was reading because she could tell you read a book so to speak verbatim after hearing a one-time. He's not doing exactly that but he's rushing he's always in a hurry to read and it infers pretty much exactly what it's supposed to be saying but is skipping words and major thing they're going to be working with them on is slowing down. He was very excited about the first couple of days because he got to read to kindergartner and also helped her swing on the playground. As he has no siblings-that's good for him. Other than that I've been continuing hand and finger therapy, Got the TENS unit to circumvent some pain patterns and so far, it seems to have helped. I have also started uploading chapter by chapter my book WindWords of Wyoming to become an e-book available toa myriad of readers and online outlets. So far it's looking good. I am doing it through the new company I wrote about in the thread for writers resources recently, that is www.bookBrewer.com.so far the process is a heck of a lot easier than what create space is like at Amazon. I may still release that there is a hardcopy but we'll see how this goes with the other company first. The neat thing is it will be very easy and quick for me to get my other novels up as e-books. I find that very exciting. I hope I can get at least two of them up before NaNoWriMo starts in November. Other than that, Roger did a great job of getting the a bunch of trash out of the driveway before the trash pickup came last Friday and Morgan came over Sunday and did a fabulous job of vacuuming the sofa after the dirty little dog and playing with her and even did a little mopping.I continue with the daily laundry several loads it seems like throughout the week and exercising the dog, Ms. Luna. She is an aerial artiste! You should see her jump up up on off of all 4 feet and capture the frisbee! She is quite an Acrobat.the only problem we've had with her lately his new neighbours with a very yappy little dog. She has taken to chiming on which is going to require little work but nothing that we can't handle; she trains very easily and continues to make us laugh and enjoy our evenings with her plus she gets me out of the house during the day. I'll be dropping by now and then to post, but please know I am reading this thread if none other, everyday. You are all doing a great job and I'll talk you soon. luvyakat ( almost have it trained to sign off correctly.I forgot to turn off the automatic capitalization of the first letter. LOL) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: wysiwyg Date: 29 Sep 11 - 02:41 PM Susan, how's the PT and the office organizing working? PT is great and the upstrs organizing is going slowly but well. The dnstrs is still more organized and clear/clean than not, tho maintenance is a challenge in the busiest time of the Diocesan calendar for both of us. That's because most Dio. meetings are 3 hours away, each way, and the day after is just so tough after my legs have swelled up like balloons. I'm paring down expectations on the upstairs because I may need to get to Chicago (for my sister) sooner than I had thought. Also I can't afford Adrian this next month at all-- the ca. 1979 cooktop finally died at the same time 2 tires on the van died. But a set of books for my studies just arrived, thanks to a generous donor who passed along someone else's books, and I am getting in a good study segment each morning. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 29 Sep 11 - 06:20 PM Almost to the end of the month! And what a month. Today topped out at 100o. The Internet seems to be heating up and keeping track of anything on facebook with all of the changes they've made is tough. I need to turn off the computer and read a book. For a while I won't be posting links to photos of my projects here, just the usual topical links to articles and resources. You'll find my photos in facebook and can send me a PM if you need that URL. It's just easier for now. Gotta go help my friend clean up his back yard. It needs some T.L.C. or the Code Enforcement folks will charge a big F.I.N.E. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 30 Sep 11 - 10:57 AM I helped in my friend's yard - it was full of roaches under the pile of trash - major YUCK! factor. I'm a park naturalist, I know they're just insects, but still, to get one racing up the inside of your pants let - eewwwww! One of those times when I will squeal like a girl and jump all around. The "deal" he has with the bank is that when his house was listed for sale on the courthouse steps it didn't sell, so the bank still owns it. They offered him $2000 if by Oct. 16 he has the house "broom clean," so he's tackling this code enforcement thing then waiting for payday to get a 30-yard dumpster to empty the house of things he can't use and doesn't want to fool with a garage sale. He's looking at moving to some marginal housing in as Section 8 neighborhood, a roof over his head. He'll have to build his credit back and go from there so as long as he has a door he can shut and lock at the end of the day, I think that's the minimum he's hoping for. This would be a perfect weekend for a garage sale, but I'm not ready yet. We may push it clear till next month and hope for good weather in the first weekend of November. It feels like the weekend to make a move into major fall cleaning mode is about here. The garden is looking happier and we had a little rain last night, so I may do some weeding and turn the compost. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fall feats-Declutter & Exercise SEPT '11 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 30 Sep 11 - 06:46 PM Here's the next thread. Onward and downward (weight-wise!) SRS |
