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Daily Ooo's: March 17/18 : Weekend Edition

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Happy St Patrick's Day my friends.

We did our corned beef and cabbage last night and I had a very non-Irish Coors Light to go with it.
Yum!

I am sorry I have been pretty quiet, and havn't been keeping up with personasl. Been so tired. But I have a nice 3 day weekend, and hope to get some down time in. Catzilla disagrees, she wants attention LOL

xoxo
 
Oh Chris...hope that you do get that much needed rest this weekend!

I woke up at 1:30...some idiot text message about my chance to win a Walmart giftcard. It scared me...I thought maybe something had happened to a niece or nephew... Then I couldn't go back to sleep. Finally went back to bed at 5:30 and slept until 8:30.

Not much on our agenda today. Someone coming to give us a quote for vinyl siding. I hate having to buy things like roofs or siding. So not the way I want to spend my money! Then, I have a massage this afternoon.

Another gorgeous day in Iowa...might go practice soccer. Might breakdown and replace the glasses that I lost in Maui. Might just stay in pj's for awhile and scrap!

((hugs)) to you all
 
hi, guys. started the day at 4:30 a.m. for no apparent reason. (i can't blame it on a stupid random Walmart text, Linda!! that was SO rude!) i was tired and actually went up to bed early last night (around 10:30.) so. all i get is around 6 hours, no matter when it starts. :frusty:

ha. THEN i went outside to do some yard work (while simultaneously baking my Easter bread to freeze), came in to wash my hands, touched my neck and thought i was picking off some dirt. it turned out to be a tick. swell. hopefully the mouthpiece still isn't embedded in my neck. HOWEVER, the Easter bread turned out great. hubby was the taste tester and he said it was good.

Chris, we're having leftover corned beef and cabbage for dinner tonight. YAY! no cooking! i will have a very non-Irish glass (or 2...) of Cupcake Red Velvet wine with my corned beef.

i still can't believe this weather. 72 degrees. heaven.

happy weekend, everyone!

phylis
 
Phylis, Cupcake Red Velvet wine sounds very interesting! Not good about the tick! What kind of Easter bread did you make? And then you freeze it after you bake it? That sounds like something that would make Easter easier. (Although, of all my holiday meals, Easter is the easiest one that I have.)
 
Linda, i make what we call Paska. it's an egg bread, like Challah, with the cross of the Eastern Christian Church on top of the loaf. the loaves are round. i'll try to get an image of it up here. our Easter and Christmas Eve dinners are pretty "ethnic." Eastern European goodies! i realized about 10 years ago that i didn't HAVE to wake up at 4 a.m. on Christmas and Easter to bake the bread. just bake it, cool, wrap snugly, freeze, then thaw out and heat in the over a bit and it's good as new!
 
Ack...wrote a long one and then went and clicked off before posting. Why do I do that...:ohwell:

Anyhow, we did some gardening cleanup - finally - today as well as rearranging the contents of two large kitchen drawers. I also uploaded the last 29 ...godwillin'...of my 2011 layouts to Persnickety and then bought more credits for this year. I have 85 again which should easily hold me til the October sale.

Then tonight we went and bought...wait for it...two new trashcans. We are just a wild and craaaazy 8) couple!

back tomorrow for personals, but Phylis, do you make the cheese spread for that bread - which looks beautiful! Did you need my address to send me one?!??! or should I just appear on the doorstep. I'm guessing you celebrate at a different time than we Western rite folk.
 
evening all - dancing lessons this am, followed by yard work. It has been so unseasonally warm here- all my daffodils are blooming- before my forsythia. I finished a layout. No going out for me- just not the evening I want. Will head to the hot tub soon with frost fire wine. Tomorrow- work catch up after church and then, maybe more yard work! Need to plant my peas!
 
Maureen, the bread doesn't mail well, or i WOULD send you one! it's fairly easy to make but takes hours because it's rising about a million times, or so it seems. no cheese spread. tell me about "THE cheese spread!" also, the Byzantine Rite celebrates Easter and Christmas with the Western Rite. Orthodox has different dates than us.

today. waiting for SKYPE to do its thing so i can have a quick work with The Grandmen and their parents. the boys usually show me a few things, (bulldozers and the like,) do some somersaults off the sofa, then run away, so i'm left chatting with their dad.

i actually got 8 straight hours of sleep last night. i did wake up once, and my brain started singing "Pretty Women" from "Sweeny Todd," but i managed to fall back asleep.

enjoy Sunday!

phylis
 
is anyone else having a bizarre experience with trying to upload at Persnickety? when i tried last week, the (new?) upload program was so twitchy and jumpy and awful that i ended up buying at a different site.
 
Hi Ladies!! Its Sunday morning here, and I am on my second cup of coffee and I locked Catzilla in the bedroom, so I think I actually have a chance to catch up with all of you!

I was so tired yesterday, that I laid in bed and read for at least an hour in the afternoon. Then I did a bit of yard work and hiked on the trail out back with Gray, Scott and Ravyn. my neighbors have been buying up land behind out houses as soon as the town puts it up for auction. They have been doing this for years now because they want to keep it wooded, and not built on. They have built a boardwalk partway in and have been clearing trails back through it. There are little spots with tables and chairs, tree roots, downed tree trunks that formed a little clearing. They are arsty/hippie-ish and the trail is just like walking into another world.

Ravyn had a blast too, I hadn't seen her so happy since Harley died. She was jumping logs and running around. We also tried to get her to retrieve sticks, but the silly dog is a retriever that doesn't get the idea of retrieve. SMH!!!

I was hoping for some nice sunny weather today. I am really working hard on shooting in Manual and there is only so many goofy things I can take pics of in my house. If you only saw how many photos I have of my feet LOL But its really overcast right now- maybe it will burn off in a bit.

Hope that you have a fab day!!
 
Linda S-- ugh!! There is nothing worse than a call/text in the middle of the night but for it to be a stupid commercial?? ahhh!!!!!
Hope that the siding estimate wasn't too bad.
How is soccer coaching for Syd coming along?

Phyllis- 4:30am? That is brutal! on weekends I make myself stay in bed until at least 6, just so I feel like I am sleeping in a bit. Which is really silly if I am just rolling around trying to get comfy.
Oh yuck, ticks........ my biggest fear in life. I feel like I am a walking talking PSA on ticks and Lyme but I can't help it. So bear with me all of you as I try to promote Lyme awareness.
This is going to be a worse than normal year for ticks because of the mild winter. Ticks can and do live year round, but are more active when the weather is warm. Also becasue of the warmth and lack of snow the vectors (animals that carry the ticks from place to place) such as mice and deer, are also more plentiful.
Lyme and other tick borne infections (bartonella, babessia, ehrlichia, rocky mt spotted fever) can be found in and transmitted by many types of ticks, not just deer ticks.
Transmission of the Lyme spirochete can take place as soon as the tick is attached. However, the least amount of time attached means the less likelihood of transmission.
Most people do not recall a tick bite and most people do NOT get a bulls-eye rash.
Last bit-- 2 weeks of doxycline-- the standard dose- will not completely eradicate the bacteria.

Do you want me to shut up now?:banplease: I am sorry, I can't help it,:(

Now i am itching and feeling crawly- which is ironic because the reason that you don't "feel" a tick but is that there is some anesthetic in their saliva.

So Phyllis, did I freak you out? I am sorry if it did.
I wish I could go back in time and have ignorance about Lyme and TBI's. The killer part of this all is that any of us can get "cured" and then bitten again and reinfected- which is what happened to Caitlyn last year. *sigh*

On to waaaaaaay better topics!! :hungry:
That bread looks delicious!!!!!!!

Maureen-- woo hoo-- trashcans! My kind of date-night :pound:
I saw that sale ar Persnickity, what a great idea. I was thinking that I might put together a book of the pages I did of Christopher for his b-day , but if I am going to do that I'd better get cracking.

Laurie-sounds like a wonderful day-- esp the part about sitting in the hot tub with some wine!!
Its really crazy about this spring, my daffodils are halfway up with a few "buds" and my allergies are going like crazy.

Phyllis-- woo hoo, 8 hours of sleep!!!! That sounds so good for you!
Your bread should mail to NJ juuuust fine, if ya ask me! How was skype with your g-sons? They sound like so much fun!

xoxo to all of you!!
 
Maureen, I think that trash cans are splendid!!! We are pretty wild and crazy like that as well.

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Laurie, we have daffodils up in Iowa as well...and also crocus! :-) And my tulip tree started blooming yesterday. What a crazy winter. I am keeping my fingers crossed that we don't have any more hard freezes. But it seems nearly impossible.
 
no, Chris. you didn't freak me out. i know all that Lyme stuff, so i was freaking out all by myself...!
 
I have never used Persnickety. I always use Artscow to print my books. I know that I sometimes I hear that the colors aren't quite as good...but I've always been happy with them. And I've been carrying a purse for two years that I got from there...a photo of the kids on the side of the bag. Oh, and made my dad a blanket for his birthday a couple of years ago...had a photo of my nephew pitching on it. Going to bury my dad with that blanket!
 
Oh Chris, sounds like a wonderful walk. Someday, when I come to visit you, we will go take a walk! You didn't see any bears did you?

I too freak out about ticks. I won't go mushroom hunting in the spring because of ticks. We don't have the lyme that you do out east but we do still have it in Iowa.
 
whatnext said:
no, Chris. you didn't freak me out. i know all that Lyme stuff, so i was freaking out all by myself...!
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whew!! I always waver between blurting it all out and either freaking people out, making people think I wear a DEET covered tinfoil hat, or have them get aggravated because I have already "lectured" everyone and anyone who will listen.

Thx for not hating me! :D
 
Morning all..

Overcast and almost chilly here, esp after the days of 70s and 80s. Weird, isn't it.

Chris - I get the fear of God each time I'm outside and near any non-concrete place. I had a tick bite once as a child and my mother had to dose me with alcohol on the spot (after taking me to the doctor) and it burned like bloody hell. I'm hoping that was long enough ago -aprx 60 years ago! - to presume I will not have any effects from that. Did we even have some of these diseases back then???

You mentioned the great wooded path behind you and your " arsty/hippie-ish" neighbors. I'm glad they also have the money to do this kind of thing. While I don't want to BE in the woods, I hate to see them disappear bit by bit.

Linda, vinyl siding and roofs are sad but necessary big $$ expenditures, aren't they. I recall the shock I had when we had to get two VERY necessary beams in our house even before we started the renovation. That took a big hunk of change from our design budget and I was not amused.

Laurie, it appears yesterday was a yard work day for most of us. I suspect all the spring flowers will be gone fairly soon as every single one of mine are in full bloom and some are already spent. It used to be ..plant peas on Good Friday…but I think planted now they might be peas by then!

Phylis, the cheese sounds like an uncooked version of cheesecake to me or the cheese filling in a Danish. Easter Cheese btw, if you get the same page ads as I do look on the right…Spam Break the Monotony! Ugh.

Yes, Persnickety was the way it always is during a big sale, but I plodded on through to get my last year's prints up and out. Ordinarily I would never do that during a sale. That's why I like buying the credits but …


Well, I have no more plans for today except to think seriously about all the crapola I had in my 36" drawer in the kitchen. It became a serious BIG junk drawer and a place to hide chocolate chips from some man. I think I'll give those chips to my skinny little friend who does bake cookies and then see what can go to the charity shops and what I will really use of some of these kitchen tools. sigh.

Have a peaceful and happy Sunday!
 
that bread looks so good phylis!!!


so i was tasked to write out what a typical day looks like for me....so yeah it was long...and i thought i'd share it here too LOL if you ever wonder why i am not around that much this is why LOL

lets see during the week my day looks like this...
wake up 6:30....get out of bed 6:45....wake the husband up...wake the girls up get them ready to get to school...get the husband breakfast and lunch made....make the girls breakfast....make sure they eat, brush their hair, brush their teeth, have on clean clothes, makes sure they have all their homework and their backpacks and anything else they need to take to school....7am the husband is out the door to work....7:28am the older 2 girls get on the bus and head to school...then its just me and helena....she usually sits and watches a movie after they leave for school...and i get in 20mins of exercise...then i go out let the goats out make sure they have water....check the hamsters make sure they have food water, feed and water the dogs....i'll do dishes usually real quick as well....then me and helena are out the door at 8:40am to go to my friends house for our 9am hour workout....helena will play with toys or even workout with us sometimes LOL...after that we sit and chill for a bit...then me and helena come home usually home by 11am....then i make both of us lunch....then we play games....we now have hungry hungry hippo so i am sure that is something me and her will be doing on a daily basis....we go outside and play now that the weather has been nice and she colors with sidewalk chalk or swings....also when its nice out i like to take the dogs outside in the back to let them run around for a while...the love it...the goats do NOT....i try to find some commputer time...during the day....by 4pm raianna and elyse are home....they usually want a snack so we do that......the husband doesn't get home til about 6:30 mon-thurs. so i try to hold them off on dinner until that time but sometimes they dont make it and i make dinner for them...make sure they do their homework....sometimes they will play outside while the sun is still up before they do their homework and that is fine...then i end up making dinner for him when he gets home...after that i sometimes jump on the elliptical for another 10-20mins....monday nights me and the husband watch the voice and house....tuesday nights its the biggest looser....dont think there is anything on wednesday nights we watch....haha...anyways 8pm is bed time for the girls....i make sure they take showers if they need it brush their teeth....raianna usually stays up in bed reading til about 8:30-9 which is fine she is older than the other 2....i am usually in bed by 10pm crashed!

ohh yeah and in between all that i do try to clean the house....vacumming is pretty much a daily task and laundry i get to about every other day...and dishes is daily....lol.....im exhausted about reading about my day!!!! how i manage to find computer time is beyond me LOL
 
Kristy-- yikes, that makes me so tired just to read that!!!

Maureen- Lyme bacteria was found in the Ice Man that was found in Italy. He was approx 5000 years old.

Perhaps most surprising, researchers found the genetic footprint of bacteria known as Borrelia burgdorferi in his DNA—making the Iceman the earliest known human infected by the bug that causes Lyme disease.
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http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/11/iceman-autopsy/hall-text

There are a lot of theories out there why Lyme is so much more prevalent and even more virulent- some I need that DEET coated tin foil hat to explain, others are relatively innocuous, like urban sprawl.
Sadly, I find a combo of the conspiracy exacerbated by natural factors the most likely reason why is has become a prolific disease and yet a political football to deal with.

One of the reasons that I am so incredibly and annoyingly vocal about Lyme and TBI's is that there is so much misinformation out there and so much research is being dismissed. I recently saw an Army Report that Lyme bacteria had been found in dog ticks. The study was from 1994. So the last 20 years of most Infectious Disease drs and the CDC saying that it is rare and only in deer ticks-- bull pucky!

(oh crap, here I go again........... :tape: )
 
Chris. here's something funny: i am RELATED genetically to The Ice Man. that came up in my DNA analysis from the Genographic Project test i did!!

Maureen: Hrudka? we call that Easter Cheese. basically it's scrambled eggs, milk and a little salt and sugar. you cook it all together until the egg starts setting and separating from the liquid. then you dump it all into a cheesecloth-lined seive, tie it up into a round ball bundle and let it drain into the sink. (i tie it up on the faucet!) then refrigerate. i used to make it every year, but no one likes it. not even me. so i stopped making it! love that link you provided! except that is not paska. paska is the bread i made!

drat. i'm getting one of my funny painless migraines where there's a bright spot in my field of vision, and i can't see what i'm writing very well. off to sit quetly for 10 minute until it goes away!
 
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That bread is gorgeous! I love homemade bread, but I'm afraid I'm relegated to bread-maker bread because kneading by hand is out of the question these days.

That is interesting about the Lyme's. When I was about 9, I went to a Girl Scout camp and woke up one morning with a HUGE welt on my arm. Similar to a mosquito bite, but about 10x the size. They took me to a local clinic, and the doctor there said he wasn't positive because we didn't catch the culprit, but he suspected either a spider or tick. Fast forward about 6 months - I started having TERRIBLE pain in my joints. After going to doctor after doctor, and clinic after clinic, one of the physicians made the conclusion it was probably Lyme's Disease (though i never tested positive for it, but I understand that is not uncommon). They administered IV meds 4 times per day for about 8 weeks. Guess what. NO change. So, they decided after all that work, perhaps it wasn't Lyme's after all. Every time I hear someone talk about Lyme's and ticks, I shudder. Turns out I had Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, though I've never received a positive test for that either. The doctors think it was an underlying genetic possibility that was somehow triggered to fast-track by the mysterious bite. Isn't this world crazy? I sometimes wonder what answers our great-great grandchildren will have. How X is related to Y and can cause Z, etc.

Sorry for the long story. I've been a sickmaid for nearly a week and my brain is fried. My poor baby has RSV, two ear infections, and 3 new teeth coming in. She's miserable, so I am miserable. :-/
 
OH Stef- hugs for the sick baby- some of the kiddo's I work with or their younger sibs have had RSV and been hospitalized. I got work done today and now I am home to finish my home stuff before the week begins!
 
Stef, hope you little one is feeling better soon. about 30 years ago i got bit by something in Kent, Ohio, and the bites were ENORMOUS. eventually they went away. have no idea what that was about. i have had joint pain since i was wee little, according to my Baby book and my mom's writing--and what i remember from my childhood. i've never tested positive for anything either, but i now feel like i have bursitis in all my joints. since 1991. yup. it IS a weird world!! my favorite is how defensive the medical community gets when it can't TELL you what happened. and if you're a girl, well, forget it: it's all in your head, so calm down. :twitch:
 
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Stef, hope you little one is feeling better soon. about 30 years ago i got bit by something in Kent, Ohio, and the bites were ENORMOUS. eventually they went away. have no idea what that was about. i have had joint pain since i was wee little, according to my Baby book and my mom's writing--and what i remember from my childhood. i've never tested positive for anything either, but i now feel like i have bursitis in all my joints. since 1991. yup. it IS a weird world!! my favorite is how defensive the medical community gets when it can't TELL you what happened. and if you're a girl, well, forget it: it's all in your head, so calm down. :twitch:
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Yes. I think the majority of the delay in getting me some kind of diagnosis was that they thought I was a dramatic child that was making it up. :tape:
 
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