Just need to talk to my friends (203)

I don't love the trees we have here; they were planted by the prior owners. And they were planted WAY too close together.

My favorite trees include tulip tree, linden, flowering crabapple, maple and peach. Our lot is so small; not sure what we will do as we enhance our plantings. Tulip tree above.

Good morning all. I'm just going to say it, burrr. From the last several days being beautiful to a front last night with rain. Its in the low 40's with a north wind. These temp. changes are wild.

I'd had a long list on my 'to do' list for yesterday. But things changed and yesterday's list is now today's list! I certainly won't be working outside.

I hope everyone has a fabulous day. Let's be safe.

Hello again.

All 3 of Jackie's and Shawows, eggs have hatched. From what I have read, she feeds them in a pecking order. I feel sad when she just feeds one, but they say she's feeds them all, equally.

Carl. You did the right think for both you and your DW. You need to stay healthy, so you can be there for her. When my DH, was in MC, he was always looking for me, even when I was there.

Beth. Yes, Arizona and Hawaii, are the 2 states that don't change times. That tulip tree is beautiful 😍

We had rain and wind yesterday, I enjoyed the rain, but not the wind. Hugs to all, Zetta

Beth, your tree looks like a tulip poplar to me. They grow really tall, rapidly. At my last house, my next door neighbor planted one right on the property line and it shaded my deck. I could lie back on a recliner with a drink and look up at the beautiful blooms. Lorita, what you describe as a tulip tree is popular here. It isn't nearly so big and the blooms get frozen and turn black about every year, but it's pretty too.

I live about an hour north of Rockaway Beach, but I haven't been there in years. I love Eureka Springs and have stayed at the "haunted" hotel but haven't been there in years either. In fact, I haven't spent a night away from home since about 2017, when DW got down with AD. We went to Savannah GA that year and had a great time, but we have stayed home since.

Got to go. TTYL

The baby Great Grand feeding Peanut ❤️ She had an absolute blast yesterday.

I spent today cleaning and then cooked for one set of Grandkids. The grandson came to help DH work on a tractor so I slipped him a little $ and made a late lunch of burgers, fries and smoked sausages. It was a nice day until the wind picked up around 5. Colder weather forecast for tomorrow.

Babies are fed and bedded down in their crate, so I’m going to take a hot bath and turn in early. SIL and her husband are coming tomorrow so I’ll be up early to make chicken salad and an Apple Dump cake. Good night and sweet rest!

Lorita, day care is Monday - Friday only, closed on weekends. Their primary focus is care for young adults, who appear to have been disabled since birth, while their middle-aged parents work, but they have some Alzheimer's clients as well. It's pretty noisy there, which aggravates DW's headache, so she went without her hearing aids yesterday. I don't know how long this can last, but reading HB's note on Gene Hackman's last week, wandering around the house alone after his wife's death, motivates me to give it every chance.

My father grew up in the Texas panhandle, where a grove of trees is a sign there is a house in the middle and somebody watering them. He liked SW Missouri because it has four seasons instead of two (hot wind and cold wind), but he missed being able to see 70 miles in every direction. NE Oklahoma is pretty. I had an aunt and uncle who settled just outside Ada after they sold their store in Oklahoma City. They had a little hilltop house with a peach tree in the yard, a nice place to retire.

JeriLynn, Peanut is almost as cute as the girl feeding him! My in-laws had a miniature pinscher named Troubles, because he had to be bottle fed and was trouble from the day he was born.

Daylight savings time starts in a few hours. One of my friends worked the 6:30 - 3:00 shift and loved summer, because with DST it was like having a whole afternoon off. We need to drive carefully Monday morning, because the streets will be full of sleep-deprived drivers and there will be extra collisions.

Sleep tight, friends. Take care of yourselves and each other.

Happy DST to those on the porch. May you enjoy resetting the time on your range and vehicle's dashboard display. My goal is to synchronize the time displays on my range and over-the-range microwave— it makes my eye twitch whenever they're really off. It's sort of like an unmatched plaid.

Beth— That looks like a tulip polar to me, too. We don't have many where I live, but you do sometimes see them as street trees and in the arboretums in Philadelphia.

My feeder is down currently as suggested by the county DNR. There has been bird flu among wild birds in the next county and this is one way to mitigate that risk. We don't get many interesting birds at this house, but when we lived on the creek you never knew what you might see— great blue herons, fishing ospreys, woodpeckers as tall as a toddler, etc.

Jerilynn— I love the picture. Your great grand is adorable. Think of the memories she's making.

Carl— Even if the day program isn't ideal, any steps you can take to support you as a caregiver will be beneficial to your DW as well.

The Hackman story really struck me as we had a similar situation in my family. Mom and dad were living their best lives in FL one winter when dad was undiagnosed (mom fought me a decade around this) by in the middle stages of mixed dementia when mom developed an autoimmune liver failure. I called most days to check in, especially since I knew mom wasn't feeling well. When mom got to a point where she wasn't up to answering the phone, I'd call dad, and he'd assure me she was shopping or at the pool. These confabulations tracked but weren't true. Once a 48-hour period went by without anyone answering so I called for a well-check. Dad answered the door and told the police the same conflated nonsense he told me. Dad took mom to Publix where she ran into a neighbor who was a nurse and recognized mom's severe jaundice and confusion and drove her to the ED. The hospital staff recognized dad's diminished capacity and tracked me down via an emergency contact form at her PCP's office. I flew down, visited mom and then drove to her house where I found dad hosting neighborhood happy hour in nothing but a bath towel. Had she died, I have no idea what I would have walked into.

Gothic— I didn't have those, but my younger sister did. She was barely 5' so finding jeans was more of a challenge for her. I had hot pants. I remember one outfit my mom made me that not only had low rise hot pants it had a bare midriff top. It was basically a bikini with sleeves bordering on fetish wear. In retrospect— what was she thinking? She used to borrow the top to wear with white jeans but never those hoochie shorts.
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I'm up early. The pharmacist overseeing mom's medication wants me to check the medication ball 18 hours after it was switched. Mom is reporting it as "empty" which could be an issue as the PICC line could coagulate if nothing is being pumped through it. The infusion nurses have a sense of urgency about this. Two weeks in, this hasn't been an issue— the line flushes easily. As with all medical procedures and tests, I asked him what we would be doing with that information, and he really couldn't tell me which makes this feel like a fool's errand. The nurses tell me they have different regulators and could perhaps slow the infusion at bit. My plan is to drive over there by 8am and then come home and shower and then drive back over there at noon. Ugh.

I'm making my annual corned beef and cabbage for dinner. It occurs to me that DH's birthday is Friday so I will need to sort out dinner for that. I still own mom a birthday dinner as she was in the hospital for hers. Maybe we'll combine them and then DH and I will sneak out later for a date night.

HB

I set no clocks forward….ugh

LLC, chapter S, chapter C, leases, trusts….blah, blah blah!!!! Time for Netflix!!!!!!

I'm up.

Iris

MOVIES! Watching one now that has 8 seasons. In the morning I watch all 3 news channels and the market reports. No more TV until 3p when Jeopardy is on.

Loved the pic of peanuts and the GG.

Good morning

40 degrees this morning!
Moon is pretty this morning. Think it will be full Friday. Believe it is the worm moon. States ground is thawing and earthworms should be emerging.

Good Morning,

Doctor's appointment for me today. Sunny and bright here with temps in the 60's. Rain and storms later this week when we hit a high of 80 on Thursday. Predicting 1 - 3.5 inches of rain… a gully washer.

The babies are fine. We are going to try them with Boogie when I get home. We'll see if she will let them nurse and bottle feed to supplement today. They'll come back in for the evening, I hope. DH is determined they need to be with Mama. We'll also give them access to grain today. They've been nibbling hay in their crate in the living room, lol.

Tax prep continues, slow but sure.

Hope everyone has a good day.