vickie didnt you get the thundershirt for millie?? i got mine for my chihuahua and have used it twice for a few minutes. while the jury is still out in full blown thunder it did hail pea size the other day and doggy was on my pillow in his shirt. in itself is a wonder as he usually heads to my closet at the least smell of rain..:)
do they make human thundershirts??? i could use one myself!
I'm here---hanging in, just barely. Visited a Green House Home project today. It is still under construction but slated to open by June. It seems like the best placement concept, BUT, it is so-o-o-o expensive. I need to win Powerball or something.
jerseymama--that is interesting, about the expense. The Green House project that is under construction in Baltimore is for low-income people. I guess they run the gamut. Heard Dr. Bill Thomas, who developed the concept, speak at an event last week. Very interesting speaker--he has a completely different view of "elders".
Today has been good so far. I closed on the condo so I don't have that extra expense. Today is also our anniversary (45 years). Of course DH didn't remember and when I wished him a happy anniversary he was surprised. I asked him if he knew how long we had been married and he said 30 years. That's better than a few weeks ago when he said 16. Now if he doesn't start with any paranoia episodes the rest of the day will be good.
It is April 6 and snowing like the middle of January!!!!! I am so sick of winter. Need some nice Spring weather so DH can go outside and do his thing. Supposed to get to 50 today but I highly doubt that when at 11AM you can't see across the street for the snow! It's not like we live in Alaska!
divvi, yes, I got the Thundershirt - yesterday, after the storm! She loves it though and I've posted pictures on FB. Will try it for the next rain and/or storm.
Jean, so glad you closed on the condo - one less worry. Happy anniversary, too. DH never remembers how long we've been married either.
Went grocery shopping this morning and got my shingles vaccine - cost me $75, but said my insurance saved me $154.
DH is still doing much better after stopping the Salsalate.
Sun is shining today but it's still rather chilly out. I'm sick of this too. This is spring - somewhere!
Happy Anniversary, Jean. I ask my DH of 54 years if he was married and he said no. I ask him why he was wearing a wedding band and he said he was just getting use to wearing it just in case he did decide to get married.
Sorry if I misled anyone into thinking I had a great morning on April 1 !! (Second entry in this discussion). My dh can't do any of those things. I have to lead him everywhere by the hand, even if it's only from the kitchen to the bedroom, and he can hardly make a coherent sentence. But yesterday his former assistant (from when we had our own company) came to visit; she's an attractive and vivacious young woman and he did his best to join the conversation. She hadn't seen him for a year and I know it was shocking for her to see him like that but she remained cheerful and it was a lovely afternoon (for me anyway).
JeanetteB - I am so sorry ro hear about your husband. Seems like such a short time ago you two were riding your bicycles together every day. This stage came on rather quickly, didn't it?
Yes, Bev, day to day things don't seem to change but looking back it seems that he has gone downhill at a tremendous rate. I've had to lock his bike away. So sad. He kept looking for it (never found it). He kept trying to ride mine, which is always locked, so he kept discovering that it is "broken." Now he doesn't even try to ride mine anymore, that's sad too. He's usually smiling and cooperative, so I have that to be thankful for. Every morning and evening we giggle about how many buttons he has on his shirts and pajamas. I put my head up against his while I do his buttons and I pretend to complain about them, which makes him laugh. That's become our best joke. Sad, too.
I don't know whether I posted that I was in Florida in March with my son and family for a week, camping at Disney and having a wonderful, warm, carefree week. I lost count of the times we rode Splash Mountain, everybody's favorite. On the way home it really hit me that I was coming home to Siem in such a sad state. He did very well at the ALF place he was staying although he needed more care than they usually give. He had a little trouble adjusting to the home routine and so did I: I put off coming back here. I know it's time to place him.
What a day! I got online this morning to pay SIL's pharmacy bill. Couldn't log on the site wasn't accepting my user id or password not even my email address. I had to go back to our bank today because I forgot to sign a paper while I was there yesterday. When I got back called SIL's bank in Ohio and found out what I had to do to pay her bill online so I ended up with a different user id and password. Paid the pharmacy bill and checked her account. Since March 10 she has written checks for the grocery store amounting to $333.00. I knew it would be for cat food but called the ALF this afternoon to find out how she was getting to the store so often. Apparently she is having the concierge go to the store for her. The staff at the ALF had tried to tell her about spending so much on cat food but she gets mad. She is opening 4 to 5 cans of food a day. They even took her and the cat to the vet who told her she only needs to feed the cat twice a day but as usual she is doing what she wants. I told the concierge to try telling SIL that because gas prices are up that she can't go to the store more than once a week. Of course if it works it will only be for a day! If it doesn't work maybe her doctor can come up with something to settle her down and stop her for getting mad at the staff. Tomorrow I have to go have my picture taken for the Church Directory. I HATE getting my picture taken.
We're going to have number 35 this year. It really doesn't seem that long ago. We have been together 38 1/2 years. I was 19 and he was 23 1/2. Lots of snow in Montana today. It finally let up a bit ago. The weekend is supposed to be pretty nice, low 40s.
Jeanette - I'm so glad you were able to get a bit of fun at Disney, such a terrific way to forget your cares for just a little while.
Today, for awhile, my husband seemed like his old self today. I'm really puzzled. Just yesterday he didn't seem to want to even talk to me, and the day before he couldn't remember what he did in the morning. But today he was so different... I still feel as though I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop, so to speak. You know how they say, "the calm before the storm?" Hopefully, we'll have a few days of this and be able to do something fun this weekend. It's supposed to be in the 80s! Can't believe it; it seems so long since we've had a warm day. Maybe we'll go to the zoo. I'll let him ride on the tram. Usually I say no, we have to walk. But, this time we'll ride the tram from place to place. He'll have more fun that way.
Have fun, Bev! We've been having mild sunny days and it is so good to get that washing out on the line. I figure if my mother who is 89 does it in Ohio all winter long if at all possible, I can do it in the spring as a tribute to her !! Two birthdays this weekend. Today my SIL is celebrating hers and having us over for supper. Their son with Downs syndrome is home for the weekend so it will probably be french fries and hot dogs. Dh will love it. Then tomorrow is dh's birthday (68). We're expecting son and family in the afternoon and his two brothers will drop in for drinks and the traditional apple tart with whipped cream. I got him a big fluffy floppy dog (stuffed) from IKEA. No idea what he'll think of it, but he seemed to like it in the store so I went back and got it while he was eating in the restaurant.
Mary! Hope the 35th is a good one. Seems like a lot of people on this site have been married more than 25 years. That makes you still pretty young. Hope Spring comes quickly in Montana. It sure has been slow coming to PA! Had snow this week but temps are warming up for a few days. Just need to see the sun. I know it's there somewhere.
JeanetteB Don't be sorry. I'm Just slow :) My dad would get me EVERY YEAR on April fool's day....every year. Guess I'm still not getting it! Any one got any swamp land to sell?
Sun is out and the birds are singing and I still feel sad. Don't know what is wrong with me. Just am having a hard time enjoying life.
Spring and love is in the air. If you are on Facebook you would have seen Susan's and Mark's annoucements of the new loves in their lives. Susan and Ed are officially engaged!!
Tornado sirens blasting for past 2 hours. Millie has on her Thundershirt, is in DH's lap, very calm! Amazing!!! Even with the thunder, rain and hail we just got.
Shrimp and cole slaw for dinner - along with the brownies I made yesterday.
Beautiful warm windy Sunday in Kansas. I potted a few flowers and enjoyed the sunshine. Tom and I went out and actually played bingo last night. He did a really good job following for the most part. Had a good time and we are both having a good day!
In the 80s here in Northern Illinois. My husband and I went for a nice walk. Not going to last too long though. We are expected to have some pretty severe thunderstorms tonight and back to the high 50s, low 60s tomorrow.
No tornado warnings here= yet, but severe thunderstorms. Millie knew it before I did, so I put on her Thundershirt and she's snoozing in DH's lap! Amazing shirt. Calms her right down. Still looking for one for me. LOL
DH cleaned out the bird feeders this morning - at least he tried. I finished up. Birds were trying to build nests on our porch, fan, columns - all over! That won't work -got some twirly things and put up- and that has kept them off the porch. Hopefully, can put up our hummingbird feeders tomorrow. I love watching them.
EVeryone be safe - so many storms, fires, flooding - all over.
Went to the doctors this morning for the results of my labs. Everything is normal, cholesterol was 158 and I have gained back about 10lbs of the weight I had lost! After my appointment I went to my circle meeting and then we all went to lunch. I was gone longer than usual, about 5 hours, and DH didn't seem too happy about it when I got home but I had a good time so what the heck! I have to take him tomorrow for a bone density test so we will probably go for breakfast afterward. Weather is pretty good except I am wondering if the wind will ever stop blowing so hard. At least it's better than all the storms, tornados and hail that seem to be everywhere. I hope everyone is safe and secure.
Lost my patience with hb today. Where we park here in the RV park, we were parking the car dolly in the tent site parking next to us. This weekend is the annual 'barrel tasting' celebration in the valley - that is when they open the barrels of wine from previous years before they start bottling it. It is evidently a big thing as the RV park is booked two years in advance, so the tent site will be used. When we came back yesterday after getting the furnace fixed, we moved the car dolly on the grass behind us. When I came back from doing laundry he had moved it back into the parking spot. He said he didn't want it to kill the grass and still does not understand the parking spaces in the park. It is set up weird so I understand but he just can't get it. Hopefully while I am at work tomorrow he will not move it back. But my immediate reaction was to yell at him trying to figure out why he did it, what was he thinking, etc. I hope he forgets the yelling.
Otherwise it was a beautiful day, the winds were light for a change and the sun was shining. Later we went for a long walk.
Sun out here and I got my hike in and hubby went with the guys..and I got the dining room table of paper work cleared off..still have stuff to do with it and all this is going into the garage which will be my playgound for the next couple of months so I can weed things out for donate and trash etc...Just getting one small project done in itself is rewarding these days.
It was warm and muggy in Kansas today. After a few small thunderstorms with intermittent hail, the sky cleared and the evening was beautiful. We visited a friend who had back surgery on Monday. She is doing well. Today Tom slept from 11am till 2:30. Ate lunch and slept from 2:45 till almost 5:30. He said he just had no energy to do anything. Back to bed at 10:30pm. He normally sleeps thru the night so hope this night is no different. OT on my hand tomorrow morning at 8AM so I'll be up and running early (for me). Hopes this OT helps....I'm not ready for more surgery....don't have time.
I hope everyone has a great Friday. Getting close to Easter.
A windy with some showers but mostly overcast today. We have a full weekend with this being the barrel tasting festival. For all the serious wine drinkers out there you know what it means. we had about 30 check in today and another 70 tomorrow. We have a few in tents and I hope they do not blow away!!
Art has been doing work around the house while I am working - dishes, vacuuming, even cleaned the vent screen in the bathroom so good there is no signs of dust in it. He cleaned the cat litter today in a way our cat does not like. CC does not bury her poop and always pees in the corners of the litter box. I use crystal litter which keeps it all underneath. He cleaned it today and stirred it up. CC will not use it if the litter with pee in it is on top - then she pees on the mat in front of her box which if you don't know it you will step in it. I have told him the two times before he 'helped' so much that he can't do cause she will not use it then. I am afraid I lost my temper - guess I will have to remember to clean it first thing in the morning!
I am really enjoying working using my brain and talking to all the people that come into the park. It gives me a few hours to be out of my world and into another world.
If April showers bring May flowers, we should have plenty here in south western PA. Sure has been a lot of rain. Calling for some sun tomorrow but I will believe it when I see it.
Yesterday, many tornadoes in NC. Several even here in Raleigh. We were lucky to have missed them in our neighborhood. I am underwhelmed by the concern of my children. Of the four only one called to see if we were okay.
Cooler here today, sun is out, got the one guest room cleared and cleaned and today it is the rest of the house..got to figure out what to do with Cookie while the girls are here..no one wants that Puddy Tat sleeping with them and she is a holy terror sometimes..Ebonie is a good girl..can't put them together..don't like each other AND they each have different diets..Cookie can eat anything but Ebonie cannot ( allergic to fish she is and so many foods have fish or fish meal in them). Ebonie is not a big eater, Cookie is a trash can.
maryd, I'm glad you let us know how things are with you. Our news here in Canada is filled with the storms and bad weather you're having and the number of deaths resulting. I have this map in my mind of all the members on this site and where they live, and weather reports like this have me concerned for you all. As for your kids, it hurts, I know. Not much you can do about it, except be glad about the one. I have the same situation here. For a long time, I thought it was my fault. Now I know that it is something they have to work out for themselves.
We're in a snowstorm again. It's a winter wonderland out there much to the annoyance of all the birds. Saw my first American Goldfinch yesterday. My mallards are out there right now pecking at the dry corn I put out covered in snow.
I just now found out my BIL has Leukemia. He's 73. The Golden Years are not for the timid and it's so clear that one of the challenges is to get on with living our lives whatever time brings us.
I spilt coffee on my keyboard this morning and had a little sobbing fit where the sounds I was making were really interesting. I don't think noise like that has come out of my mouth ever before. Welcome to serious stress.
On the other hand I'm well stocked and glad to be alive. If the keyboard goes I'll get a new one. It's just money and it's going to start pouring out of here like Niagara Falls when she goes to a home anyway.
There's nothing good to say about AD; but, as I told my SIL who gave me that news, the one good thing is that AD has stripped away all the mundane and shallow stuff that I used to be absorbed in and has turned me into a battlefield veteran. Anyone coming for me should consider getting a bigger gun. I'm going to roll over and give up the way a screaming banshee has an absolute conniption.
Very rainy night with very gusty winds in RI. Not a bad storm unless it destroyed a squirrels' nest, no not nest but I think condo, made out of our chaise lounge cushions they tore apart last fall! Our yard looks like there are blobs of ice all over the place or that a very fuzzy Easter bunny got torn apart flying through our tall pines! Need to plot a way I can capture the squirrels and send them to Divvi.....
scs lordy no dont even think of sending me more squirrels. even the little ones are making a beeline to my door for a handout! i think there is a silent word out in the squirrel community that divvi is a pushover! i have taken some really cute upclose pics of squirrly and wish i could post it. shes getting wayy too tame and it scares me.
sunny and rather chilly here in central tx after the front went thru a few days ago. i am finding time to read again and its a good way to escape for a while. i hope your sunday is good and the stress levels are down:) goodness i cant believe snowstorms still going on. wishing you all up north some spring weather soon! sunshine and birds singing are good for the soul
Divvi - if they are on your computer post them in FB under our group there.
sun came out today, winds are light just in time for people to head home. A lot of people were feeling no pain last night after all the wine tasting yesterday. Fortunately 12 of the wineries have created a 'Vintner Village' about two blocks away so they walk, not drive.
It has been good to get away from hb the 4-5 hours I work but now I am finding when I come home I find things he has gotten into or did. One day it was into my desk and hid my remote. Yesterday I found the cupboard in the toilet room open and wondered why. When I went to get my brush this morning I found out: for some reason he had the hair dryer and then put it in my brush drawer! I have a feeling it is going to be a looooooooooooong summer until October.
Nice day today celebrating DIL's birthday. Enjoyed the grandchildren and their little friends and dh just sat there looking fairly pleasant and watched them play, shook hands with anybody who greeted him without saying a word. Son has a NAVO conference in June and they need me to babysit (as we have traditionally done) on the evenings and day when son usually takes care of the kids but understands that I can't do it this year in dh's condition, unless he is placed on time. I've said we could just come one day. A neighbor, who was also there today, has consented to do the two evenings. Stopped for KFC supper on the way home. We always do this but dh never remembers the place and is very reluctant to get out of the car. Once inside we luckily got the same table we urually do and he sat there while I got the food, and then ate greedily. LOVES the chicken. On the way into the restaurant, he remarked as he always does, that he had no money with him. This was the first and only thing he said all the way home. It really worries him. I assured him (again, again) that we could use my debit card as usual. Quick shower after getting home and he was asleep in five minutes. Very tiring day for him.
Had a nice time at my sister's celebrating her son's birthday. My husband seemed to enjoy being there---especially the cake. Got a nice surprise from my parents. A KINDLE :) Since my dad's been having back problems I have been handling alot of their errands while my husband is at day care (my mom doesn't drive). As a thank you, they ordered one for me and they gave it to me today. I'm quite tickled about it.
Joan, Hope you are feeling better. Sorry to hear that, not only do you have to care for Sid and your Dad, but yourself as well. Lay low and get some rest - if possible.
Good morning and thank you to all of you for being here especially those who have been cheering me on in my nervous breakdown thread. Don't think I would be functional today if it were not for you all. I am groggy from the Xanax I took to get a little sleep but have 4 1/2 hours to get the house ready for the realtor to list and take some pics. I can do it!
Today is starting out just dandy. Woke up to a thud at 5AM. DH had bent over to find his slippers and smacked his face on the chair. 3 cuts on his forehead and one on the bridge of his nose. WIll look really nice for Easter. Then I was making breakfast and the toast caught on fire. Fortunately the guy who is putting in the shower in our bedroom came in then and grabbed the toaster oven and took it outside. Now I have that mess to clean up. And that was before 8AM. All I can say is "Bring it on .....I'm ready for the rest of the day!"