That's really something that you can get such nice green peppers from a house plant.
So good to have that taken care of. I remember that feeling of relief when I looked at the NOAA images of your property and your house was still standing.
Around here, it's hard to find hefty guy crews. The younger generation doesn't seem to think occasional heavy lifting is something anyone should have to do. When my ex-renter's 27 year-old son was cleaning out the house, he and his buddy had no idea how they were going to even begin to lift a certain TV stand, much less carry it out to the truck. I had to hire a no-nonsense guy to come in and get the furniture out. He made them help him with it with the two of them picking up one end and he handled the other end by himself, and they were so pleased with themselves to have accomplished something so manly. It was like first graders who got to 'help dad' and were lavishly praised.
Sometimes it seems like the whole point is the leftovers.
It's such good news that your house made it through and you are ticking along, although that time in the hospital sounds rough. Proof that you are resilient, the ultimate goal for any of us.
We have pine squirrels that lately have been throwing hard green pine cones down from the tops of the trees then coming down to carry them away. It sounds like gunshots when the cones hit the roof. Last year a red "town" squirrel was here for awhile, but left. Maybe it got lonely. We called it 'Big Red.'
It used to be that I trusted Amazon without checking all that, seems like it has gotten sketchier, more like eBay, which is definitely a Buyer Beware situation.
Yes, you covered it all! I admire your make-ahead meal prep.
Too many funerals. I hope those visiting cousins are helping with the cooking at your sister's house.
It's good to hear from you. I had to Google "Blinkie" - put "solder" in the search string, and that worked. Now I know.
Right now I'm reading a novel about a paraplegic detective (author: Anne Holt) and at one point I wondered if the author has personal experience with it because she spends a lot of time on it.
Jealous men are a real hazard. February 2 this year my renter decided his wife had had an affair with the bartender where she worked as a waitress, told me they were going to dissolve their marriage, but next thing, he'd shot her and then himself.
His family told me that in his 52 years, he'd been married 9 times plus had 13 serious girlfriends - note that they kept score, and I often wonder why he had to shoot her - he should have known there's plenty of fish in his sea.
Anyhow, the point is - jealousy in a relationship is no joke.
We've watched #4 & 5. #4: If that kid had not been white, he'd have gone to prison for life because nobody would take the time to work through it.
#5: it reminded me of working with Gen X members in the 1990s - they acted like us 'old folks' spent too much time planning and working through a process to make sure a given event or project would go smoothly - they said in the meetings that 'it'll be fine,' end of discussion. When it became a big mess, they said 'who knew this could happen?' but they didn't learn from it - they decided it was us old folks' fault because we 'let that happen.'
Meanwhile, near Las Vegas: low water level in Lake Mead has so far revealed 4 or 5 sets of human remains. More to come.
Something sounds fishy in all that, and I don't mean from your end of it. Not that it matters a whole lot as long as you have a chair to use at the computer, and it brightens the place up. It's a strange feeling to get to where we don't care if something lasts forever, just need it to last as long as we do, and then we don't care what becomes of it. In some ways, it's a liberating feeling. xoxo
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