Thanks Mopsie, it was exhausting.

Accomplished
 

I actually wrote out and mailed holiday cards this week.

That is an accomplishment for me. Haha!

:grinch:

Last night.....I talked with my oldest son by phone. He says he is fine, but I'm his mother and my motherly radar says differently. I'm going to send him a holiday card and put a little something extra in it, to lift his heart and brighten his day.

Today.... I don't have any plans, other than to make a special meal for myself, and keep myself entertained with creating an holiday card for my oldest son. I might go for a short walk, and say a few 'prayers' for my boys and a few close friends.... who feel not quite right..... "we're all just walking each other home (Ram Dass)", right?

:praying: :praying: :praying:

a mile in chlorine (and then not freezing on the way to my car 😜)

I declared today an accomplishment-free day.

I am taking a rest and relax day. :)

Wash dishes, fix breakfast, wash dishes again. Gather garbage and loaded my truck and went to the dump. Then I drove up the road to an auction and they had already sold what I went up there for. Stop by the grocery store then came home and put my groceries up. Went to town and picked up two bales of hay for the goats and came back home again. When I got home I fed and watered the goats and the cats came inside and fed Skippy. All I have left to do now is fix my supper.

Met my new primary doctor today (she's super smart and very savvy), picked up new med's, bought a few groceries, and now to snuggle up in bed and continue reading Love In The Time Of Cholera (omg, such an endearing and achingly sad, yet kind of comical too, type of story).

Yesterday I painstakingly colored my hair...... it turned out very nice. Today I trimmed my hair up, just a skosh. Tomorrow, after I get an errand accomplished, I plan to very carefully shape my nails with my new file, then polish my nails.

<<<<<~~ slowly getting my groove back.

:hk20:

Spoke with my rheumatologist and his triage nurse about my fall and what Urgicare told me about my hips; they are referring me to a special Ortho immediately and processing an order for DME. (they were shocked my regular doctor and UrgiCare refused to refer me to Ortho)

Did some household chores.
Got info from insurance company.

Took my meds.

And arranged a very important delivery.

Mailed off bill payments.

Went to grocery store.

Picked up rx's for my folks.

I went to the social security office to check on my disability status. After that, I took the bus down to an local business near me, to window shop. I found an awesome area rug, good quality, for $25 . I bought it and they helped me get it out to the bus stop. Luckily riders helped me get it on and off the bus. And when I got home, neighbors helped me by carrying it upstairs to my home.

It's very pretty and I love it.

It was simply beautiful here today.

Getting out in the sunshine did me an world of good.

Finally going to town to get those solar lights I've been wanting

Windstream Internet service techs and Direct TV "Loyalty Office" have kissed my ass in the past when I had to resolve issues, and/or get credits.

And when I had to contact the Corp office for my new car warranty several years ago...I told them "you're the third person I was transferred to in the last 10 minutes, by the time I get done explaining myself, the ONLY thing you're allowed to say to me is YES Ma'am".

It worked...they agreed to rebuild my engine and transmission under warranty.

Accomplished
 

Mowing lots of mowing.
I mow a while then get hot and come in the house to clean. After I cool off I go back out and continue to mow. Repeat many times.

:cowboy:

Not really much. I covered 2 stumps I had been burning almost every weekend for the past couple of months. They were finally burned out low enough to cover with dirt and never be a problem again.

I am taking it easy these days and some physical issues seem to be improving in small increments. :) YAY FOR THAT!
:)

Does getting out of bed to use the bathroom count as an accomplishment?

Trip to the farmer's market (bought from several of my favorite, elderly vendors)
Other chores like trip to vets and IGA...
Transplanted 30 veggie plants into larger containers (major effort and exercise while gritting teeth from pain in lumbar and kidney area, but very happy with my work)...
Showered.
Grilled a damn good dinner.

Today I will accomplish getting the yard sprayed down with bug b gone. Going to go shopping because I need some new shorts.

Accomplished
 

So far I mowed a couple of acres with the push mower. Completed some weeding. Cleaned up and went grocery shopping. It is hot outside so the rest of the day will be resting with light indoor chores.

:cowboy:

Yesterday....

It was.a banner day

I got our living room upstairs cleaned

Also our bedroom mostly cleaned...gotta re vacuum and mop

Did five loads of.wash and hung out four

Stripped the bed

Made.it up all purty with the nice, light summer comforter (finally)

Gave all 4 dogs a bath and applied flea treatment

With the honeys help, brought trash and recycling to the dump.

Started mowing the lawn but the mower kept stalling...honey finished it

Got the new, huge chicken coop put together (!!!)

Cleaned out the fridge

Changed the cat box

Pre organized the upstairs huge closet in anticipation of bins my honey got for that project

Got a workout in somewhere in the midst.of it all...

Today my officemate needed me to explain the moth meme. This is huge bc she is a millennial and I’m gen-x

Nothing!

I got a break for once!

I got my car registration sticker in the mail...its not due til next month...I don't want to put it on my car yet as I don't want to appear too organized! (Its on my fridge under a margaritaville magnet)

house is decorated for christmas, started christmas cards, some christmas shopping :xmascandle::xmascandle:

I finished one assignment ahead of schedule today, and finished the solo part of another that has to be done in pairs, and spotted and caught a nasty little rider in the assignment brief that I don't think my colleague has noticed (I certainly hadn't until I checked whether my efforts met the brief) - we have to finish the thing tomorrow!

Cleaned up the backyard some. Planted 2 more Autumn Blaze Maple trees. In the next 6 months to a year, I want to plant a dozen or so of those Japanese maples --- quite a variety .... plus sooner than that, plant several of the purple flowered fast growing shade trees in strategic areas.

Taking down all those tall pines around my house is taking the A.C. longer to cool things down to 65 to 68 degrees in warm weather. And some all different shades of wisteria vines down near the road. It will be easy to build very tall lattice - put numerous tall 4x4's in the ground with concrete, secure lattice to the rx4's. A kumquat tree in a large planter on wheels brings big anticipation every time I think of it. I love kumquats!!! :) Muskadine and scuppernong (spelling??) vines too. Few vegetables next summer! Especially tomatoes. Will have to put wire around edibles, even the top. I cannot share with all the wild critters. I would not get any of it!

Will run fence on and off some this afternoon after I drag a couple more logs from the back woods to the front by the road.

I am leisurely accomplishing things but not pushing too hard. Heck, might even fit a 45 minute power nap in there somewhere. I feel good and it is a pleasent day outside ... sunny and perfect. I could not be any happier. :)

not a darn thing....and it was wonderful!

Laundry

Dog bath

Tidying my room

Accomplished
 

On my vacation day I ran errands, fixed mom's truck, and baked an Angel Food Cake.

Now to get after those strawberries.

:cowboy:

Well not much worth of note will be happening around here today because I slept past noon. I wasn't really up all that late last night. Maybe it's just because my body needed some deep sleep, which hasn't happened in awhile. In any case not using it as an excuse to lazy out, know how much I can usually get done in a day from lunchtime to nighttime so determined to accomplish at least that. So far tided up the bathroom, ran some laundry, worked a bit on shopping list. Other than that not much else besides fix breakfast. Small dent, nowhere close to being done, and so the beat goes on.

Took my daughter for her road test and she passed, which is great. (She didn't pass when she tried last week)

Some tidying of the house.

Check in at work (On vacation but still...)

Laundry

Gym for daughter and I both.

Flu shot for daughter

Home to make dinner

more laundry.

Taking a break ... forgot to take ibuprophren (3 hours late makes a big difference) ... if I don't get rained out, I hope to get four 4"x4"x10' planted two feet in concrete in the ground. I have a new method, no jarring on the body and it is less tiring too. It takes a little longer but you do what you have to do to keep everything in tact. The pups have been out all morning helping me yank bushes with tow ropes out of the ground. I did notice Kevie taking frequent nap breaks but he stays close to the action. Jeffrey, his normal self, grabs pieces of scrubs after they are out of the ground before I have time to get out of the truck and throw them on the bed. Seriously, they are all over the front yard right now. I cannot keep up with his messy traits. I will let him have his fun ... then do one clean-up at the end of the day. Jennifer just wants me to remember to tell her how pretty she is ... needs it verbalized often. LOL!

drove dee to meet with a client, looked for alternate wedding locations (thanks Trump for shutting down the government along with out wedding venue), went to the liquor store, went to the grocery store, got a massage, did some housework, now watching a movie with dee.

I got out of the house for a bit & ran a few errands, then came back home and got busy on my research projects!

While doing my Chicago research, I came across a few new places that I hopefully visit my next trip there..:hangloose: