Just need to talk to my friends (210)

BethL

Yes, Mint, what a gorgeous moon this morning! Full and big and yellow. I loved seeing it.

Lorita, glad you got the check for your refrigerator.

Carl, the Stroll garden sounds fantastic. What a nice day you had!

Lorita

Morning, not up yet. Think I may let the GPs out and stay in bed a while and watch the first morning news show. My back feels ok MInt, thank you. I forgot about the full moon so will look at it tonjght. Have a good Sunday.

harshedbuzz

Good morning. It rained overnight and this morning which is good. Things were starting to look a little parched. Some of my trees are already starting to turn color and shed leaves.

Ron— Bummer about your grandson dropping football; I remember you enjoyed watching him in the games.

I can appreciate wanting to do a walk through. Is there anything available in the general area for sale that might meet your requirements. The timeline for a new build is considerable and has a lot of moving pieces that could result in delays. Turnaround time from contract to possession here is 6-9 months in a planned community where all the permitting and grading has been done. If you need to find a parcel of land, buy it, have it tested for suitability for well/septic or bring in city water/sewer, get permits, find a builder and have it built it could be a lot longer. I guess it comes down to what you want more— the experience of the project that results in your dream cabin or having your own real kitchen asap. Sounds like you're well fed without that because of your family.

Lorita— I have a friend who worked for a time with a large charity serving the unhoused in Philadelphia. One of her issues with these kinds of programs is the inhumanity with which the unhoused are treated. So much of the language used in discussing the problem makes people sound like vermin— like if we take away their nests or stop feeding them, they'll go somewhere else. Shelters aren't a good answer; most require residents to clear out during the day. Her organization was unique in that they focused on getting folks housed and then help them with mental health, substance use and employment once they're safe instead of requiring them to earn a place by doing so. It's a more humane and successful strategy.

Jerilynn— The allergies have been awful this year. The tree pollen season was OK, but the weeds are kicking my butt. I'm using both Zyrtec and Flonase daily along with Pataday for my itchy eyes.

I'm glad the Grandparents Day was a success.

LOL, on my scheduling skills. My niece once laughed that if anything happened to me that my poor DH wouldn't last a year. I told her he'd be dead in less than 90 days. She replied "that's awfully specific". I said, "the man has no idea where his heart medication comes from or how to get more".

Judith— What do you mean you did 2 paintings? Did you paint them, study them or something else entirely?

Tigermom— You can't go wrong with RICE for a sprain. Compression feels good.

I wonder if the update scheduled here on Tuesday evening will put an end to the editing glitch so many have run into.

Gothic G— I laughed at the description of your DH's hair. Once mom and I were in the waiting room of her pulmo and a man came in with seriously disheveled hair. He was otherwise nicely dressed so it caught my eye. I heard him chatting with the desk at check-in. It turns out the man has a side hustle impersonating Albert Einstein which is a fairly lucrative endeavor a mere 30 miles from his home in Princeton.

Mint— I am not ready for 44F in the morning. TBH, I'm not loving darkness at 7:30 in the evening or when I wake up in the morning.

Carl— That's some next level people watching. I don't get the whole furries thing. Especially on a warm day. But, to each their own.
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I'm catching up on some laundry today. I washed the small rugs from the bathrooms. May I live long enough for them to actually dry.

Still waiting on one of my tests; it's been 12 days already. I'll reach out to the CNP who ordered it if we got to 2 weeks. I was told "about a week".

HB

Lorita

HB your friend was doing the right thing.. People are homeless for many reasons and I'm sure time was not taken to find the reason. These people have struggled to find a few personal things including things to be used for shelter and the officials came in, grabbed everything and threw it in a truck. One thing I can't forget was a man who had a tent for shelter. They came in, tore it down and threw it in the truck. Somehow he managed to get it back and there was a video of him pulling it across the grass to put it back up, I guess.

On my.previous post I mentioned they shot a persons dog. The man was asleep and the dog was probably trying to protect him while he slept. It was said the dog lunged at the shooter. They did operate on the fog but later I heard the he died. It showed the owner and he wss so upset about losing his dog, his friend and protector.

They should have made sure there would be shelter for everyone before they began rounding them up. I don't know if they followed through with this but it was said they would be given a choice of going to a shelter or to jail. Evidently all the shelters were full and it showed people returning back to their area but, this time, without anything at all. This wasn't done in the right way.

They're going to do an update? In the past they did this fairly often and things were confusing for a while. Hope this update helps.