D D How difficult can it be

To clean ONE kitchen counter !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Phone rings. SIL Dana calling me from work to ask me if I would be busy tomorrow and could they come to swim tomorrow or am I overloaded and wish not to have company. hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Me:  No problem.....
Then he asks me to give Cher a call and invite her as he doesn't want her to know he called me. She had been in a bad mood when he left for work as their summer is being spent INDOORS. 
Me: No problem.
Ringie dingy. Me: Cher, before I forget it, if you all want to come here next week to use the pool, etc. Jill will be away for a week.  I know tomorrow will be hot. You are welcome to come. Mike is doing okay and it won't be a problem with us . Jill will be mowing the lawn in the morning and most likely will be in and out .
Long story short. She seemed agreeable and wants to come after Dana goes to church in the morning.
Was just telling Dana that she and the kids are always stuck in the house while he works. One car. Yadda,yadda,yadda.

Brrrrrrrrrring. Dana calling back. Did I make that call. How did she sound.  Told me never to call her again when I left for work this morning. Doesn't want to talk to me anymore. 
   Told him she seemed agreeable to it and none the wiser that he and I talked.
Long story short. We hung up saying mum's the word!   Let's see how this plays out.  Tomorrow is Sunday.
Our day to go out to eat if hubby is up to it. There is a wake he wanted to go to as well.  Old aquaintance ( Bobby) brother of an old friend who's wife recently passed away and he couldn't make it to that wake, but would see Joe there to offer his condolances to both his losses. 

Okay...Up and at EM !!! Counter still waiting to be cleared off and cleaned.

Next to enter the front door was Jill's son Gil III .  He is working with her for a sit down dinner, catering for 200 guests. They left at one.
   Before that,  W.B. had left. Then ...surprise, surprise....he comes back with his daughter Alex and hangs around until she leaves.  He said to me as he left, " a quiet afternoon for you,huh."
I'm thinking yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.
I hear Gil say ," someone just pulled into the driveway."  Jill: "Oh, it's Sarah and her friend."
I said, " so much for my quiet afternoon." To which she said, " they won't be here long and they are not noisy."  Off she and Gil went. 
Sarah loved the two maternity tops and black maternity capris I picked up on sale for her. May break down and wear her first maternity top to work tomorrow. ;0)
It's almost two. They are chatting and laughing. True they are no problem, but if I wanted to take a nap....I'd be shit outta luck. 
Mind you...it's only 2ish and who knows what the rest of my day will be like.  I won't even fathom to guess!
You are right! I'll be dead a longggggggggggggggg time and have plenty of quiet THEN. 
   Oh...before they came ...dogs were a barking and who appears, but daughter Michelle's youngest half brother to see Jill. He's a fireman and he proudly tells me that he worked 70 hours last wee. Forty regular hours and 30 hours overtime. UNLIKE W.B. that does not take all the overtime he can get . He definately needs the money. Why not, is anyones good guess.
It's been years since Timmy was in this house.  We had hubby's ex's three kids from her second marriage  here a few times to swim and enjoy the day with their brother and sister. 
Alright ...Hear Yea, Hear Yea ..... I'm expecting a MEDAL when I die.  I shit you not! ;0)
   Between twelve and twelve thirty I did something I swore I wasn't going to do. I made hubby Kraft mac and cheese standing over the stove.   Woke him to take his meds and eat lunch. After some grumbling he took his meds and two bites of his dinner and said, " I'm not eating this shit. It tastes horrible."
You have got to be shitting me...well that's what I said to him. Brought him in the dirty pan to see and the empty box and he would not admit he thought it was Instant and agree to eat it. Which therefore....I said, " You are leaving me no choice but to put you in a nursing home. I can't let you ruin my health as well as my mind. Seems like we can only stand to be around each other an hour or less. I'll come visit you and leave after an hour. " " Don't bother", he said.  Neither of us meant it....well I know I didn't. YET!!!!!
  Dogs were a woofffffing! Tracie came in.  I told her to sit and I'd be right with her.
She was at the table reading the newspaper that hubby had already read. He hears her commenting on todays news and says, " I haven't read my paper yet." Told him he did and that was how he knew Bobby died. He insisted THAT funeral notice was in Fridays paper, so I brought him Fridays paper. " Show me", i said.
Pssssssssssssssst! I'm still waiting. ;0)  Tracie came into our bedroom with todays paper.  This man is so effin stubborn. Absolutely can't admit he is ever wrong. I got tired of hearing from him, " I'm not God, but I'm the closest thing to him", years ago.  I shit you not! 
    Hubby just needed to use his urinal and I had to guard the doors to our bedroom by keeping my eyes glued to the young women in the pool and Tracie at the kitchen table .  Just a little incidental that was FORGOTTEN. No privacy!
Which will be a repeat when Cher and Shayla are here.  sigh!
What price..... is being...all  about FAMILY ???
Longgggggggggggggggggggg day still ahead of me.  sigh!
It's not all hubby that makes my patience short.  As you can read above ...it's a combination of things that sets me ON EDGE.
Grandson Ryan, Sarah's husband came awhile ago and for some reason is mowing the lawn.  He has never done this before.  Is he planning to have his friends over to use the pool and cookout tomorrow????
Ut oh!  Cheryl won't want to come if he is here. He is Jill's son and didn't invite her to his wedding. sigh!
Three o'clock Sarah and her friend Kara leave . Sarah will be back.  Three twenty my son Terry comes from N.H. to visit and his residence is not close to me.  While he's lived in his house a year, I haven't been there. It's a distance of about thirty miles from me..  His wife had plans for him ( painting a bathroom ) and he booked off!
So now I have Tracie, Ryan, and Terry here. sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

UT OH!!!!!!!!!!!! Ryan just came in and he asked for stuff to clean the tables out in the yard.
I asked what he was up to. Might have a few friends over tomorrow and I thought the lawn could use mowing and it was nice out so I mowed the lawn.  UT OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
I need to make a call to Cheryl and fib. BIG TIME!
WTF!!! I can't win for loosing!  I shit you not!
Why do I have to LIE ????  Oh, I know...to keep the peace.  I shit you not!
Cheryl hates  Jill and her kids, her half brother Larry because he didn't go to her second wedding and went Four Wheeling instead, and,and,and. 
I don't know why i think my house should be any different. Jill held Thanksgiving dinner for the entire family at her house when she was married to the Ex SIL from HELL.  Cheryl would not come because Larry would be there.  NOTHINGS CHANGED ! I shit you not!

Gave Ryan all the cleaning supplies he needed and made the phone call to Cheryl. She accepted my LIE better than I thought she would. Well at least on the phone to me she did.  I can only imagine what her kids heard and Dana when he got home from work. sigh!  So it's Monday that Cher will come and possibly Tuesday too. Dana gets out of work early those two days.

Asked hubby what he wanted to eat around 5. Not hungry.  All you do is feed me diet food since we have been to Florida.  Once again we went round and round with me swearing on my life and the lives of my children that what I gave him was not Instant and was cooked in a pan on the stove.  Instant does not mean DIET I explained to him as mac and cheese is NOT DIET FOOD, No Way, No HOW.  Which made me upset to think I ate a bowl of it, just because I hate to see waste and there is no way he could eat an entire box of the stuff even if he loved it.  He never accepted what I told him as The Gospel Truth....knowing him, I knew he wouldn't. sigh!
   Tracie and I took off to TJMaxx. Ryan said he and Sarah would be here quite awhile making the back yard porch nice, cleaning the wicker furniture as well. When I left he had the spray nozzle on and was washing the porch off of all the leaves and pinwheels.  Something that is done way,way before now .
Not this year by me! Maybe next year...maybe not!
FIRST we had to go to another town so she could pay her storage fees before they toss her stuff in a trash container. Then further away from TJMaxx to get gas cheaper. Except when we got there ...the gas stations we had passed had cheaper gas, so we headed back to one of them. She uses PLUS in her old Buick. 
Not that the book it came with says to.  Just because..... and I use unleaded El Cheapest in my ten year old Taurus. Just because. ;0)
On to the store we were headed to...FINALLY.  I found a coffe mug...just my favorite size. Not too BIG, Not too LITTLE and it was meant for me! Had my name on it. ;0) What do you think???
Well, I'll be a SOB. The dang picture won't download to my computer. Wonder what's up with that. 
The cup reads,  KEEP CALM
                             and
                         CARRY ON

Called Ryans cell. They would be here until 7:30. 
We decided on Good Tymes to eat. I had the large salad topped with sliced teryaki chicken.  Honey mustard dressing on the side. It was as good as I remembered. :0)  Tracie had an 8oz. sirloin dinner. 
Stopped on my way home and got hubby shrimp lo mein.   He came out to the table to eat it.  Ate all, but the shrimp. They tasted old, he said.  I tried them....and ate them.  Tasted fine to moi. I shit you not!
Leaving the table, hubby had trouble walking back to bed.   Helped him get in bed and noticed that he had a velcro weight strapped around his ankle.   Asked him what that was doing on his leg and all I got was "ma leave me alone. I'm trying to get back up to sitting position . Just leave me alone. " Then I watched him squint and he looked confused as he tried  to see what I was referring to and reach down to undo it and take it off. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm could that be why he was having trouble? Put it on to exercize his leg and FORGOT it was on. 
Then he promptly fell asleep.  Took that picture and it also won't upload to my computer. 

Jill and Gil came in at ten exactly. Gil changed out of his uniform and hugged me goodbye and headed home.
Jill talked to Michelle on the phone to ask her how close she was to dropping someone off that worked this wedding with them and told her that she would buzz her in.  Hmmmmm Moose or VFW???  Earlier I had heard just how much pain she/Michelle was in with her back.  Well I had to make the comment that she couldn't have been in too much pain if she is meeting Jill for a drink after working that wedding with them.
I'm a BITCH!    
   Okay, let's try to upload the three pictures Gil sent me from his cell phone of that wedding cake Jill and Gil were catering today.
Never have I seen this and NEVER have I made one like it, nor would I.  To each their own. I shit you not!

What's in between the tiers you ask?

Can you see what I see?   :0) Clue: They need water to live. Noooo, not flowers. ;0) Click to enlarge.
There is some beautiful work done on this cake.  Gorgeous colors.  Bride and groom must have a pretty colored tongue after eating this. 
I AGREE.... IT'S DIFFERENT !  I shit you not!

It's after 11 p.m. Time to hit the hay. Morning comes early.  Too Early..... some mornings.


Sunday July 10th

It was after midnight before I fell asleep.  Climbed into bed after covering hubby up. Felt the arm closest to me and it felt cold. Got up and turned the fan aimed directly at him OFF. 
Once back in bed I remembered something that I thought could wait until this morning and now I'm trying to remember what that was. sigh!
Then  I remembered Logan asked me to have his mother call him. Don't remember if I mentioned above that I called him to tell him that I missed and loved him.  He hadn't been to the beach yet. Did I really think he would go every day like he thought he would.............NO.    It was 105 there.He was out riding a new skooter that his step mom bought him.  Yesterday morning I had asked Jill if she had gotten any money.  No. Priorities....and child support isn't one of them. sigh!
I was worried I'd forget to tell her to call Logan so my mind more or less waited until I heard her come in to tell her before I could fall asleep.  Which woke hubby when he heard me call out to her and it was then that he removed his glasses and asked for his kiss goodnight. 
   Sleep!!!! Whoa did I ever. Heard him have an accident using his urinal during the night and muttering " you have got to be shitting me."  ( Did he get that line from me....or did I get that line from him? ) hmmmmmmm
Woke at 8 A.M.  Remembered part of one dream.  I think I had just left that dream when I woke and was still po'd at .................hubby of course.  Only trouble is.....it was impossible for him to have done what I dreamt. Move furniture out of an entire room and he wouldn't tell me why he did it when I repeatedly asked him.  Know I told him that he could  go get and carry his own dang coffee, etc. from now on if he could move efffin furniture around. 
He was awake when I woke from that ????  Dream/nightmare/PIPE DREAM!!! 
   Just got us each our second cup of coffee.   It was JUST a dream. :0) 
Got those 2 pictures to upload this morning.  What a difference a day makes ;0) or is it because i am more awake? Whatever! I'll take it. I shit you not!

Is that a tiara??? Crown ???

That's exactly as he was when I covered him and climbed into bed.

Porta potty has been moved closer to him......for those times......

No Ginger beside him on the bed. She's.....

Under my desktop ,below my feet in her OTHER bed.  ;0)

It's 9:15 a.m. The clocks a tickin. I shit you not!

That's All Folks!

D D Happy Birthday Ron

Today would have been my brother Ron's aka/Scott 's 73rd birthday.
I wrote a long post about him ...then deleted it. While I do love him, he should not be given more than HIS DUE.  I remember him on his birthday......the rest of the year he is out of my mind.


Visiting nurse and physical therapist came yesterday.
There wasn't much that P.T. could do. Hubby had showered by then. Needed Jill's and my help to get from the bathroom back to bed and was WIPED OUT. 
Thought I had fifteen minutes to grab my shower ( P.T. said between 1 and 1:30 p.m. and 12:45 while I was in the shower she arrived. ) Looks at me as I emerged from the bathroom and said " you look exhausted."
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeah.  I was !!!!

Jill and I went to Walmart and JC Penney in N.H. to save a few dollars in tax for a return to each store and to make purchases. We were away from 2 to 4 and I left Jill's cell phone number with hubby in case of an emergency. He was warned not to get up off the bed and was asleep upon our return two hours later. :0)
From where I live to Nashua N.H. is maybe 13 miles.  I've forgot the distance. Maybe another time I will check the odometer. Maybe.............

Later in the evening I went to the Chinese Buffet with Tracie.  We did no shopping. :0)  Straight there and back. Over ate. :0(  Brought a book and tried to read while Tracie chewed. Managed to read some, BUT. 
I'm sorry if reading while you are eating with someone is rude, BUT....we are pretty much talked out AND I find that is the only time I get to read lately.   PLUS, it's been a habit of mine AT HOME for YEARS...Bad or Good. !!! I'm not making excuses, but I see Tracie every day. Why am I even giving this SPACE in my brain.....................?????

Jill leaves for FL this Monday for a week. She just cleaned the fish tank. This makes TWICE since I have been home. HOLY HANNAH!!!  While in FL those four months, grandson L.J's fish tank that was in our bedroom ONLY needed water added to it.
I'm thinking that I need to give this back to son Randy and tell him to sell it on Craigs List.
It's more work than I bargained for and I don't think Jill will mind either.
It's a THOUGHT!   Hoping it becomes a PLAN.  I shit you not!
I don't care for where it had to be set up anyway. In front of the fireplace. :0(
Here I go. Right away I think I will be hurting Randy's feelings. sigh !!!!

Hubby seems good at present. Earlier he felt his heart racing. I brought it to the nurses attention when she was here that the V.A. in FL wrote STOP on some of his med's and his new orders from the V.A. say TAKE. She called his doctor and eventually someone called us and said TAKE. Only problem is...when I was told to STOP, I threw the meds OUT. sigh!  Monday he sees his primary and the pharmacy is in that building so we will get it straightened out.  He's been doing just FINE with his BP without them.
I'll need an explanation from his primary as to why he should still be on them. I shit you not!

W.B. is already here this morning. Was back and forth a few times yesterday too.
His house goes up for auction next month and he has done not one thing in preparation of moving out.
NOT ONE!   Without any overtime his paycheck after everything is taken out is around $170.
Where the F can you live on that??????????????? Not my problem, BUT still I give it SPACE in my brain. sigh!  Not so much SPACE as I will let him move in here.  I SHIT YOU NOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've let my first cup of coffee go COLD. Only have taken a few sips.  A repeat of what I do on a daily basis. 
It's just a NUKE away from being drinkable. ;0)

Missing Logan. I'll pretend right now that he is still asleep.  Have been wondering what his friend Kenny will be doing while he is gone. They have been joined at the hip so to speak.
Jill's son Gil is without his girlfriend Emily for two weeks. She went on a family vacation.
Speaking of vacationssssssssssssssssss.....I've sat at my computer long enough. 
I need to move about and WAKE UP.   Hubby has been reading the newspaper and wants to shower.
R and R IS OVER.  I shit you not!


That's All Folks!

D D Cow Patties

Cow patties and dribbles  beginning from my room to the bathroom as hubby made his way in there is what I faced at 7:15 a.m.
Began the cleaning up job and hubby is still on the commode.  What he has left in him is anyones guess.  From the looks of what I cleaned up, I'd say NOTHING!  I shit you not!
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand  Why he didn't use the porta potty in our bedroom, I do not know.
During the night he got his pj's soaked with urine as he stood to use his urinal. Heard him mumbling and sounding confused as to how that happened as he crawled naked back into bed.  Wish I knew too hon, WISH I KNEW! sigh!
Soon as he's done on the toilet and in the shower, I will finish the clean up job with lots of good smelling chemicals . .
One plus if there is one is....the bedroom rug still hasn't been cleaned. 
If you are thinking that I would have been more upset this morning than I am about this smelly mess if the rug had been shampooed....YOU WOULD BE RIGHT!
Also heard him say to me or no one in particular as he struggled to get his legs up on the bed after he voided last night, " I'm loosing alot of ground." 
Sadly...he is. :0( 

We are having rain showers this morning. The mallard pair came and left after a swim. No food here.
   On a brighter note.... at the chiropractors yesterday afternoon, I got the adjustment room with the regulation type scale like M.D.s have at their offices.
Must say, it was kinder than my Weight Watcher scale to me.  178.  :0)  I'm asking myself if you can even trust those things to be accurate. It's been a long time since I was that weight.  I shit you not!
Because of my height, I can wear SOME size 14's .  Not in many brand names. but I'll take the wins where ever I can. :0)


Okay hubby is in the shower. That's my cue to begin the clean up job in the bathroom .  Thank heavens for washers and running water and electricity and cleaning products and, and, and.    I shit you not!


That's All Folks!

D D Hubby is home

Hubby came home and his ability to get from Point A to Point B is severely limited today. sigh!
An appointment with the urologist will come in the mail.  This time HOPEFULLY they will get to the bottom of what ails him.
Jill is getting him from the bathroom to the bed as I type.
Last night she stayed with him while I went out to Kohls with Tracie and a late supper after 9 p.m. at the
99 Restaurant. Salad and a seafood chowder for me. Chicken Parm for Tracie. 
My meal tasted like a FOUR STAR meal. The meal I ate before that was a salad for lunch at twelve.
  
Logan has left for 2 weeks in MS and 1 week in Florida.  I am going to miss him, but will also enjoy less commotion ( summer hangout for the kids he chums around with ). All good kids, BUT...well you know what I mean....... old people's nerves.
Hope it's ALL he thinks it will be. Last trip in the van to MS was described as The Trip From Hell.  How soon we forget! I shit you not!

Some guy from the Work. Comp. insurance company just came and left. This year instead of at the kitchen table , the interview and picture taking was done in bed.
It's an annual visit to make sure hubby is still alive   Wonder if they will send him for a medical evaluation like they have in past years. Damn fools!
Told him he can report back that he is alive and we'd like that BIG CHECK they owe us.  ;0)

I go to the chiropractor at 4:30.  No T.P. Therapy until next week when they will be staffed.
One person on the desk can  not leave to do a therapy.  I know....because I worked there. 
It's IMPOSSIBLE!!!!   I shit you not!

Things to do........BUT will I ?   That remains to be seen.  It's almost noon. 

Daughter Cheryl called  me as the EMT's were leaving here the 5th  to tell me about their time at Canobie Lake park the 4th and I did not want to cut her short.....so I listened.  Until someone ( Jill or hubby ) reminded me that I was suppose to be getting him ready to leave to go to the hospital.  Sigh!
She called me back yesterday. They had a good time and left right before THE DOWNPOUR before the fireworks went off.  :0)

Just looked back at the bed. Hubby has dozed off ...just as I predicted to the man that just left. ;0)
I asked him as we shook hands how old he was.  Thirty eight. Why, he replied.  To which I replied, "Oh shit ! I'm looking for someone for my daughter . She's 50." He laughed and walked off to his car.  Cute sucker he was! I shit you not!

Yesterday W.B. was threatening suicide to Jill.  Left and came back a few times after she told him for the umpteenth time she is not committing to him.  Hand me a violin. Same old, same old. 

It's a beautiful day out. It's summertime here in NewEngland.  Can I hear an AYE! 


That's All Folks!

D D Could this be why ???

Later in the day as I was stripping our bed, I found hubby's meds from the night before in his nightstand.
Which means....he had no 6 p.m. pain med orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr high blood pressure meds.
Hmmmmmmmm, could this be why his B/P was so high???? 
Many times when I hold his med cup out in front of him he gets impatient with me and tells me to just sit it down. Needs to blow nose. mneeds to cough up and spit out what's in his throat.  Damn!  I hate standing and standing while he goes through 4 or more kleenexes and in between blows he yells " just sit them down." Guess I need to buy a WHIP and stand over him. I shit you not!
The E.R. doctor said she would keep him for ONE DAY to watch him.  He has a catheter and IV in. Talked to him last night around 9ish and before that around 6 p.m. 
This morning I called maybe fifteen minutes ago and he don't know yet what's going on or what is wrong with him or if the doctors even know.
He sounds good ...if that's any indication.  Doctors make their rounds by ten and if someone from the hopsital doesn't call me before I call them to see what is going on.....fine. It all works. ;0)
Hubby said a doctor yesterday suspected ?  ( hubby is a poor historian as well as relater of what doctors have told him minutes ago.) 
I say KEEP HIM THERE and do the Router Rooter job that many nursing staff have jokingly referred to. ;0)

Kept myself busy cleaning ......this morning I emptied the drawer in the hutch that COLLECTS ALL and is getting impossible to shut.  This makes how many times over the years that I  have cleaned it????
Pens,pencils, staples, erasers, rulers, paper clips, cards, dice games, scissors, small paint brushes for projects, rubber bands, tacks, scotch tape, white out, roll on glues. The WHOLE 9 YARDS!  I shit you not!
I need to get up off my hiney and keep my Mo Jo going. 

Jill went out around 6 last night saying she was going for cig's and a drink.  She called me later to ask for hubby's direct phone number and I could tell she had more than ONE.  When I told her she sounded like she had more than ONE she admitted it, but told me she is drinking a glass of water in between drinks.  Yeah right!!!  Still can get drunk.  Came in at eleven.  Asked her if she was in for the night and when she replied she didn't sound as bad as she did at 8:30.  So who knows!  I didn't lose any sleep over it. She gets stopped by the police and goes to jail....SHE GOES TO JAIL.  I shit you not!

Tracie showed fairly early and watched me clean.  Later I showered, dressed and after talking with hubby and we went to eat. Decisions, decisions. Headed one way...then another. As we were passing the road that led to the Outback on our way to a Chinese Buffet, I pouted. Tracie aquiesced . :0)
 She had been there the night before and was disatisfied. With the dessert, YET!  A sample of each of their 3 desserts.  You have got to be SHITTING ME!!!! 
Back home she hung around until after 10:30 p.m. watching the tv going in my room while I read a few bloggers. 
DON'T GET ME STARTED!!!!!! I had left the TV on the station that carried Casey Anthony's Trial and was in SHOCK when she was found NOT GUILTY.  The channel was covering the OUTRAGE of the verdict still.
Apparently ....this was one smart 2 year old.  She went to that ditch a quarter mile from her house where her mommy used to bury her dolls with a playmate , put  3 pieces of duct tape over her nose and mouth ( the same rare brand found to have been used to post pictures of the missing child ) , put herself in the matching laundry bag found in the garage, triple bagged herself in black plastic bags and lay down to die.   ASSININE!   I shit you not!  I could see her not getting First Degree, but COM'ON .
The only consolation is ( if there is any without justice for poor Caylee ) is she is another OJ type and down the road she will get herself in trouble with the law again.  WHO ELSE parties and gets a tattoo of the Good Life in Italian for 31 days after their non existant ( proven ) nanny kidnaps their child like Casey Anthony did. WHO?????????
The state of Florida needs to change it's motto from The Sunshine State....tooooooooooooooooo.
I'll leave that to everyone's imagination.  

I best get a shower, get dressed and be ready in case that call comes from the hospital to come get hubby.
Ya think???

That's All Folks!

D D More days on the idea of yesterday

ARE NEEDED!
Not to convey that it was a Walk In The Park, but having the energy and desire to attempt projects was a reward in itself.  In my kitchen corner cabinet where some people have a carousel type thingie, I chose not to and that's where I keep all my baking needs ie; cookie sheets,muffin pans,cake pans, meatloaf pans, brownie pan, etc., etc, and a 4 quart and 6 quart prssure cooker that belonged to my mother. 
These she cooked with when I was young and a few times when she lived here with me and they always made me nervous, so why I have kept them and gave them SPACE I know not why.  Maybe I did at the time that she passed away, but I have since forgot. I shit you not!
Found other items that I do not know what they came from or where, old tinny pans that had seen better days that got tossed and while that cabinet is still pretty FULL , it's arranged and I know what I have under there. NOW ....keyword NOW. ;0)
  The corner above it on the counter had a ? hider that had a roll down front. That had seen better days and when my new counter was put on the W.B. took all the measurements and made each piece up out of wood that needs to be stained,varnished and put together. It SITS in it's many pieces in a pile in a corner of my bedroom.  I got tired of seeing it on the table with nothing being done further to it and put it there.
Ah ha ! Knew it would come to me :0) it's called an Appliance Center.  At my age...it's exciting when you can finally recall something that has left your mind.  AND note worthy! :0)
Jill had a box sitting in that space with all the stuff that had been kept in that area behind the door and I found OTHER HOMES for them and all that is sitting exposed  is the mixer on the stand.  I went through another cabinet that we keep the George Foreman, some bbq tools and large platters amongst some other things and cleaned, wiped and arranged it too, while I had the Forman out making hubby and I a cheeseburger for our dinner at 2 p.m.  Made mac salad in the morning to go with them and we had a quiet dinner. No muss and not too much fuss. ;0) Welllllllllllll later an issue with hubby on  the catsup he put on his burger did.  Out of the blue he asked me what brand of catsup I gave him as it tasted like shit and we must have bought a different brand.  May the floor open up and swallow me....it's Heinz that we have always used and it's Heinz he ate. 
Not that he belived me.  sigh!  Insists we changed brands it tastes like SHIT!    He slept off and on most of the time I was working and Jill,W.B.,Gil,Emily and THE DOG went to son Michaels in N.H. for BBQ.
No one under foot or in my path......YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
There are more cabinets to go through, wipe out and re-arrange, and,and,and rid myself of things I don't use and never will. eeeek! So hard to do.  Are those sprinkler thingies ( you know the metal thing with holes that has a cork bottom that you stuck in a coke bottle and used to sprinkle your ironing have any value????
Or are they still available ???  I still have mine or was it my moms. ????  I threw away 4 corks yesterday. WATCH..............Logan will have a school project that he needs them for. :0) See where my mind goes with this.  If I throw things away, they may be needed in the furture.  sigh!
Hey!!! It's happened.  Just as you toss something, someone says " do you have".  I shit you not!
Got up on the step stool and cleaned the kitchen windows. Then cleaned the sill and all the pretties I keep there. re-potted the ?  It will come to me.  Ahhhhhhhh Chix and Hens.

Tracie came at 4:15 just minutes after I got on the bed to rest my  burning feet.Gave her 15 minutes of my time. No not going out, don't need anything, still in pj's.  She asked to use the phone to call her neice to tell her she got home safe. had forgot the night before to call her.  that's something that i would do...no problem.

Half hour of sleep and Jill and the gang came in. 

Showered at ....some time.   Fell asleep watching the Batchelor and hearing fireworks being shot off all over the neighborhood. BUT, not before Tracie came back just before darkness fell to ask for 3 large black bags ( was collecting bottles that had been put in recycle bins for thrash pickup today ) and to use my bathroom.
She had been to the Outback to eat...complained about the service, been to Target and Khols as well.

Hubby just woke again to pee. Somehow he got pee on the side of the bottom sheet. Been having issues with it getting on his underwear and pj's and not knowing HOW it happened. I'm not talking about A DROP. Oh well....this time it's the sheet and not his clothes.I have a zippored mattress cover on the mattress. :0)  Thought just crossed my mind that things could be worst.
I could be from another generation in the past that didn't have a washer and dryer.  While I have used a scrub board in the bathtub to wash clothes in 1954 and 1955, a wringer washer before that and after......I'm thinking even further beyond that. Am I the only one that thinks back on what our ancesters had before there was an US and what future things the women after US will have to make their workload lighter. ????????
Hubby seems more upset with himself than I am.  Yesterday it was the floor beside the bed and luckily I hadn't or Jill hadn't used the new Bissell rug cleaner. We lucked out there too. :0)

THAT cute pair of mallard duck were back yesterday. Jill had cleaned the pool bottom the night before. :0(
Later i noticed them in the above  ground pool out back. One was swimming around and the other was sitting on the rim and Paul the neighbor was in the pool cleaning it. TOO FUNNY!!!!!
So I made chat over the fence about them almost being like pets and he says , " the wife feeds them good."
OH SHIT!  Robin is another me when it comes to animals, BUT I was not feeding these ducks and encouraging them to visit daily.  sigh!  To SHOO out of my pool...or not to SHOO. That is the question.
It would be nice when Logan is home if he woke earlier and he and his friends became ROWDY.
I'm doing some Wishful Thinking.  ;0)

Hubby is moaning and groaning. Hurts everywhere. When I asked where...............all over. When I asked was it his sinus' ...no.  SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!
His heart is racing he just said. 173/102  pulse 75. He got his morning med's late.  Shoot me!
He wanted to sleep and now  I see his coffee and his meds haven't been touched since I put them there. sigh!
Do I really need to stand there and stand there and stand there wile he blows his nose a dozen times and coughs up a ??? until he finally decides to take his meds?  I DON'T THINK SO!
   Visiting nurse will be coming at noon.  Hopefully by that time his meds will have done THEIR THING and we won't need to go to the hospital. 
ME...BE BAD.  Thinking I could get this rug shampooed if he did and get alot more done around here.

Now he's FREEZING!  I'm in shortie pj's. Says he is getting worse. 911 called !

That's All Folks!

D D Maybe it was something I said!

Out of the blue without any words between us or prompting.....
Jill spent the entire day from  early this morning until 6:30 p.m. cleaning the house.
Put the new rug shampooer together. Cleaned the stove top. vacuumed floors and washed the diningroom and kitchen floors.  The three rooms she worked in  haven't looked this good in a long time.  Needs more TLC, but Rome wasn't built in a day.  She left awhile ago to go pick up Tracie at the train station and take her to her apartment in Bedford ( Home Of The Minuteman ). Lots of History in that town.
Don't know if Jill plans on returning home right after or not. Time will tell.  sigh!

Tracie went to ME for her great nieces 2nd birthday party yesterday and Jill.W.B.Gil and his girlfriend Emily went out on W.B.'s boat fishing and took Cash with them.  From noon until after 9 p.m. I worked my tushhie off doing laundry, doing housework and grocery shopping, but not before I took Logan and Kenny with me to Walmart and Game Stop.  Wait ! It's coming back to me...left the house at 12:30 and got back at 3.  Then I began doing chores.  Before they left to go fishing I had asked Jill to ask someone ( Gil, W.B. ) to put together a floor stand fan and it was forgotten.  Sooooooooooo I said to myself....why should you be the only one upset about this and I called her cell phone.  Just to let her know she forgot to do that...of course. ;0)  Who am I shitting...IT WAS A DIG!  Excuse.....she forgot in trying to get everything together for the boat excursion.  She told us later that Cash did not like the boat AT ALL. Green was the word she used and he spent most of the time under a dampened towel on the floor and in her arms shivering with fright when the boat went at a good clip for speed. 
Dog out from under my feet, I was able to move about this house to get THINGS ACCOMPLISHED without the fear of stepping on him or falling over him.

Hubby has been peeing ALOT!  I think he is over whatever ailed him with that . :0) Also that fungal rash is cleared up too.  Now to get his sinus' under control.  He even took a short stroll in the backyard yesterday. 

Mary a long time ago friend, but more of an aquaintance stopped by yesterday.   I had asked her daughter Robin that lives in back of me ( it was Mary's home once  ) how her mother was.  Mom is Mom ,she said. One minute she hates everyone, another she doesn't. Agreed with me that she sees Alzheimers. sigh! I walked her out to her car. OMG! Another Tracie....with the hoarding only her car looked sort of organized. Stuffed toys piled.  She drives around going through peoples trash...just like Tracie.  Noticed new damage on her Mercury.  A retired cop hit her, but she is getting the blame.  Hmmmmmmmmmmmm who was really at fault I will not know, nor is it my concern. 
She always was an agressive driver. 
Thankfully she knows not to wear her welcome out . :0) It was a short break for me and then back to cleaning.  She again told me that she only has narrow paths from room to room in her house. Boxes floor to ceiling and DEEP! 

My Cheryl, her husband Dana, Trevor, Shayla and her new boyfriend John came and visited for a little over an hour today.  We adults sat out in the back yard while Jill continued to do whatever chore she was doing at the time. A few times Cher got aggitated over some of my suggestions and most any comment that her husband made about her son from her first marriage ,Danny.  I saw her bristle at anything that Dana spoke of.
While she did admit that he is an alcoholic she was quick to tell how loving, etc. he was.  Danny suffers a seizure when he tries to cut drinking cold turkey and again when I mentioned med's for that I got slammed that drugs were poisoning people. She was taking Traminol for her arm pain and experience odd things such as her body shaking where her brain told her to get down on the floor before she went DOWN. Quit that med three weeks ago and has had nausea off and on ,day and night  ever since.   I dared to mention POT that I know she uses. All huffy, huffy she got.  Doesn't know of anyone that has died from POT and...it's her DRUG OF CHOICE. Without it she would have slit her throat years ago......her words....NOT MINE!
So what do you say to that...without getting her going off on a tangent. I didn't. I didn't need IT!

Sombay called me this evening too  to ask if I was having a cookout. She and my son Larry would have come if  I was.      Nope, not this year.  Just relaxing. No plans.  Feel some GUILT, but not enough to matter. ;0)

To end my evening Tracie came and hung around over an hour to tell me how her weekend went.  As soon as I heard her voice I thought ....Holy EFF. NOoooooooooooooooooo. Jill had taken her home and she got into her car and came almost right behind her. sigh!
Jill had come home, showered and put pj's on.  Yeah, I thought for sure she would get dressed and go out too. Glad I was wrong. This day has been a nice change. 
Logan went to dads house earlier. Young Gil and his girlfriend came to pick him and his friend Kenny up.
Dad's flight got in tonight at 7:30 p.m. from Korea and his step mom 's flight arrives at 11p.m. tonight.
Dad's been gone a month in Korea and wants to play " Family Man ". 
Young Gil told his mother that Julie's mom said the house looked like a pig pen. He let her know that each time she comes to visit from FL that they have to clean the house pretty much 24 hours straight before her arrival.  Phew! I thought mine was bad. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm  Food for thought here.
 I shit you not!  Once again their house was infested with fleas and he had to spend $40 of  his own money to set off bug bombs to get rid of them before Julie's mom came back from her sons in CT this week. 
Scratch, itchy, itchy.  Hope they made it up that flight of stairs to the Master bedroom. ;0) I'm not shitting you...EITHER !!!!

Listening to fireworks going off all over the neighborhood and I'm yawning.
Looking forward to tomorrow, especially if it was like today.   A day above ground is better than one below in my book. Maybe together Jill and I can clean the center of my bedroom rug where the dogs stop to pee on their way out to pee OR  just pee for The Mell Of It. . Oh and lest I forget...hubby's side of the bed where he has been accident prone as of late. 

From my casa to your casa ....have a great and safe 4th. 
I may not write tomorrow.  Depends. 

That's All Folks!