We've been working inside the house since it's rained almost every
day. My garden needs weeding but the flowers and indoor plants are
doing wonderfully. It feels good to have growing things around us. We
decided to start at one end of the house and work our way to the other.
We started in the library. I put bracers on each shelf (ones that I
hadn't done before) 30 of them. Pull the books down, drill hole in
bracer and shelf, screw down, drill 2nd and 3rd hole, repeating, put
shelf back, restock books. We're taking advantage of the work to
rearrange the books in an order more conducive to our reading and
research. While Jackie rearranged books I went through all the stacks
of papers, bills, odds-n-ends on desk shelves and cleared off the LONG
quilt top that had become a catch-all over the last year and a half.
Maybe I'll start learning how to quilt. More accomplishments: I reached
my goal for words written in the National November Writing Month summer
camp - first time! I managed 15,000 words in 20 days. In November
we'll see if I can reach 50,000 in 30 days. Eeeek! I also completed a
college course online on English grammar. Ugh.
Next is scrubbing the floors and the family room will be done.
Jackie has started on the screened in porch which is a task with the
carpet out there and we finished that today. We have two tubs to go
through out there but the carpet was swept and powdered (for fleas
getting in from the yard). We’ll vacuum tomorrow and then in a few days
to break their cycle. Eventually we'll work our way to the craft/guest
room and then downward to the basement and garage and the stuff in
boxes and tubs.
I did the running all over town routine trying to find affordable non-gluten flours and baking goods. Try and get healthy and your wallet becomes very unhealthy!
I did the running all over town routine trying to find affordable non-gluten flours and baking goods. Try and get healthy and your wallet becomes very unhealthy!
On the 3rd I was petting a feral cat that we’ve been
working to tame. We’ve gotten to the point where I could pet him and
he’d do “cute kitty” – rolling, twisting, presenting his belly, etc. He
routinely hisses and has scratched me but I could usually avoid
damage. Not that day, something startled him as I was squatting near
him and he leapt for my hand and sank his fangs in. Ow to the ow!
Jackie and I cleaned the wounds as best we could: antibacterial
soap, peroxide, rubbing alcohol and Neosporin. I had a bad bite four
years ago and the red streaks got past the middle of my arm before the
antibiotics (FOUR days of IVs) worked. I did not want to repeat that! I
kept the wounds open and marked my hand to the point where the redness
extended. That night the veins were more pronounced, darker and the
redness was spreading. We went to the emergency room and I got some
antibiotics. We had the SPCA on the phone before I was even seen in the
ER. They brought a trap cage and we got Henry late that afternoon.
Yeah, we named him and made a commitment to claim him after his
quarantine. Henry went into 10 days of quarantine. We got Henry back
from the SPCA on the 14th and got him into the vet the next day to have his life changed. No more being a papa! LOL
3 days after I got bit I found a turtle in the weeds as I was weed
whacking one handed. Jackie picked him up to move him to a safer place
and he bit her! He didn’t break the skin but it pinched. He had the
most p*ssed off expression!
Another cat falls to the cat whisper's charms!!!
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