Daily Ooos: Tuesday, June 3

[faerywings]

It's here. It's here, it's HERE!!!!

[Debby-- scroll past>>>>>>]

The babies are coming home today!
I can't wait to get my hands on them for sweet snuggles. I asked Caitlyn if she thought I would be allergic to these girls, too. She laughed at me. I seem to get more allergic with each "batch" of rats yet it doesn't stop me from cuddling them. What's a "few" hives here and there?
Caitlyn and Tom have a long road trip ahead since the pickup point is near the MA/NH border ~ 3.5 hours from us. To be young, in love, and spending the day together with baby ratties.

How was your day yesterday? The field trip was good. It went by so quickly and the kids seemed to have a blast. My coworker and I did 2 rotations of my least favorite lesson, Forest Floor. It's counting different types of leaves with a rope boundary. And then we make an ecosystem yarn web. That part is fun, but the leaf counting--- pfft. I'd rather look for animals and insects. *G* We did see a baby (really tiny) black rat snake and a pretty big toad. They were nowhere near each other, not that the snake would have been able to eat the toad b/c of the size difference.

Gary texted me a bunch of pictures while I was at work. Apparently, we have a young bunny living under our hedges. He took a video of the bun eating an entire black-eyed Susan leaf in less than a minute. Good thing I have plenty of them in the garden. (Like the chipmunk and squirrels that destroyed the onion plants and several of the pepper plants in the buckets. They have to eat too, I guess!)

Off to pick up groceries this morning and then it is the last day of HS until the fall. I am bringing the kids to the upper stream and we can explore in there . I made a freshwater ecosystem game for them to play too. It's going to be hot and sunny so a perfect day to do that.

Time to post this, then personals, and then get my day going!

 

[faerywings]

@tanteva The weather has been bonkers here too-- We had to put the heat on both Saturday and Sunday. Today is going to be 80*.
Have a wonderful trip and all fingers are crossed that the renovations kept the same chill vibe the hotel had before.
Maybe you'll get your mojo back after the trip?
I haven't read any Dickens since I was in HS and back then, I wasn't impressed. Maybe I should give him another try. Right now I am reading The Alice Network which is about female spies in WWI and WWII. How much more depressing can A Tale of Two Cities be?
So exciting to hear about he baby birds and the woodpecker! I hope you can get some pics!

@Terri M I hope that your weather is lovely again!

If I were a better person I would make something now that would be ready in the crock pot when I come home, but I’m not.

Relatable. 100% relatable.

My MIL gave me her 1st gen iPad years ago and it was giving me grief the same way yours is. *alarm! alarm! You have no room! You have to update!*
I finally gave up and got a Samsung tablet. Now I have room. hehehe

I do have to take time to heal and Doc wont schedule before a certain amount of time. So the next one isn't until November. Just in time for Holidays and Dec. Jury Duty. Cause wont that be fun. Hobble in and say yeah I wanna sit around and do nothing all day while the courts move super slow picking people.

I am happy to hear that you have time between surgeries. If I know you, you will have as much of the holiday prep done beforehand. Can you get a medical excuse for jury duty?

Not much going on today. So ready to be back to normal. I'm sick of sitting and doing nothing. It is worth all the sitting and when I get going next month moving like normal it will be a forgotten memory of how bad it was to sit. It always amazes me how hard it is to sit and how it can actually be painful to sit. My body needs to move a bit or it hurts. I think that might be the worst, that it hurts to sit, like achey muscles. And I have no mind work to keep me busy.

ITA, that is the worst! Sitting/hurting/boredom/more sitting. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Hang in there, you got this!!!

@JeanneMN Wow, that is amazing that you were on the indoor bike! I couldn't do that ever, let alone a week or so post-op. I am still carrying my trekking pole when I am at work, so I get the anxiety of walking around outside.
Is the orange sky from the wildfires in Canada?

Our weather has been pretty good. muggy and hot (high 80's) Friday, DD #1 and I went to an estate sale and shopping small businesses and it was great. Great pool weather and the family came over on Saturday (and my grandson Carson) and we swam in the pool. On Sunday, we went grocery shopping. Today, we went over early to take our grandson to camp. I love the mornings with him. He is so cute! This evening we watched Carson's T ball game ages 4-6 and there are a few 5 year olds. They are hilarius. Carson's cousin (3) plays as well and the two of them are Laurel and Hardy in the field. All in all it was great!

I bet in another week or so, your weather is going to be hotter and more humid. If you are in the 80s not, it only has one way to go, right?
That must be so much fun watching the kiddos playing T-ball. Laurel and Hardy sound like the perfect description!

HAGD!

 

[JeanneMN]

Wow, that is amazing that you were on the indoor bike! I couldn't do that ever, let alone a week or so post-op. I am still carrying my trekking pole when I am at work, so I get the anxiety of walking around outside.
Is the orange sky from the wildfires in Canada?

Well darlin' , I'm not the amazing one, that would be my surgeon and his nurse practitioner. Everyone assumes I had my surgery at THE Mayo Clinic . There is actually another hospital in Rochester that's affiliated with my clinic at home and they have a fabulous othopedic department. The same nurse has done my initial check-in check since my knee replacements in 2018, it's like old home gathering when I go. My surgeon wears crazy socks so he's definitely my kind of guy & the nurse practioner is a quilter. Needless to say we don't always stay on topic. Even my doc & I spent more time talking Key West than my surgery LOL.

Yes, the smoke is from Canadian wildfires, and this morning when I got up early, the temp was 62° and the smoke was ground level. It's raining now & looks to rain most of the morning. I messaged my cousin last night who lives on the chain of lakes where we vacation. That's in northern MinnesotaWow, that is amazing that you were on the indoor bike! I couldn't do that ever, let alone a week or so post-op. I am still carrying my trekking pole when I am at work, so I get the anxiety of walking around outside.

Is the orange sky from the wildfires in Canada?

Well darlin' , I'm not the amazing one, that would be my surgeon and his nurse practitioner. Everyone assumes I had my surgery at THE Mayo Clinic . There is actually another hospital in Rochester that's affiliated with my clinic at home and they have a fabulous othopedic department. The same nurse has done my initial check-in check since my knee replacements in 2018, it's like old home gathering when I go. My surgeon wears crazy socks so he's definitely my kind of guy & the nurse practioner is a quilter. Needless to say we don't always stay on topic. Even my doc & I spent more time talking Key West than my surgery LOL.

Yes, the smoke is from Canadian wildfires, and this morning when I got up early, the temp was 62° and the smoke was ground level. It's raining now & looks to rain most of the morning. I messaged my cousin last night who lives on the chain of lakes where we vacation. That's in northern Minnesota and she said she gardened yesterday morning, but by afternoon they couldn't see across the lake and they are still a third of the way down from Canadian border.

It's kind of nice to know there are people on the weather rollercoaster with me. 91 yesterday & 60 this morning. I'm ready with the rest of you to get off the ride.

Nothing planned for today other than couch time, walk around the house time , and I'll probably climb on the bike again too. Maybe I'll try to tackle one of the new challenges on my tablet. Have a great day everyone, time for breakfast and more coffee.

 

[Terri M]

Another pretty day, getting warmer. The heat pump guy came this morning, they check twice a year. Cleaned a dead bird out of it. Last year it was a snake. I guess they go in the vents and get stuck or maybe electrocuted? I don’t know, but I rather he take care of it than me. (Not that I would, of course, that would fall on David’s shoulders, but you know what I mean.)

I ordered Mexican food for pickup on my way home while I was in my meeting yesterday afternoon, so I wasn’t really thinking too well. So I ordered a burrito bowl and a burrito plate, which I know is too much. Well, it was MUCH too much. So we will be having a burrito tonight instead of the salad I had planned, plus there’s leftover burrito bowl for lunch. No, I didn’t do it on purpose.

My sister, brother, mom and I all paint a picture seasonally. We choose one of the videos on YouTube that walk you thru step by step. I forgot to do my spring picture, so that’s today’s creative endeavor. When they’re all done we do a big reveal at the same time. It’s kind of fun. We started during Covid, when people were putting a bunch of those videos out.

Apparently, we have a young bunny living under our hedges. He took a video of the bun eating an entire black-eyed Susan leaf in less than a minute

The bunnies generally don’t eat too much of our stuff — they leave it for the deer — but one of them has become very fond of the parsley in my herb garden. David has put up a tiny mesh fence around it, we’ll see if that helps.

Off to gather my paints!

 

[AK_Tracy]

Good Morning!
Another rainy day here. Keeps me indoors though so I guess its a good thing I am loving how green everything is though. The trees are now full leaves and the grass is growing and the pops of yellow dandelions. Awwwww summer.

I am happy to hear that you have time between surgeries. If I know you, you will have as much of the holiday prep done beforehand. Can you get a medical excuse for jury duty?

Nope, cant move jury duty. I already had asked it be moved to December for medical. I didn't know we would be doing a Nov. surgery so now I am stuck. Oh well, not much happens in Dec and I never get picked so I'm not too worried other than having to be there early to check in and having to put compression pants on

@JeanneMN dont over do it today with the house wondering and biking. Your surgical team sounds fun. Its always a good thing when you bond with the docs like that. That's how our WA doc is with my daughter and I. So much fun. Professional but personable.

@Terri M the painting sounds so fun. What a creative way to have fun when you cant all be together.

@BoatLady Have fun today Debby!! I'm loving the updates of what youre doing. Congrats to your daughter on the house! That's so wonderful.

Not much happening since its raining and I'm bonding with the couch. I did a bit more yesterday, and it felt good to move but as soon as my body said stop, I did. The weirdest sensation has been in my hips. The only way to remove fibrotic cells is liposuction and since they focused on front of thigh and hips this time its been weird. Sometimes while standing it feels like my hips are all loose and wont hold me up. I know they will but between the numbing stuff, which is slow to wear off, and the removal of excess fibrotic fat it feels so different.

Time to start my shuffle to the coffee pot for a second cup of coffee. Have a wonderful day!

 

[BrightEyes]

Morning, all. Sorry I didn't make it in here yesterday.... I had downloaded a CP kit but then the storm arrived - thunder/lightening/rain so had to shut down the computer and stay off of it for the rest of the day as the storms were rolling through off and on the rest of the day. So will use the kit for a challenge.... when I figure out which challenge to use it. And there will be rain/storms rolling through for the next few days which may keep me off the computer if there is thunder/lightening with them.

My sister left to head back home this morning. It was so good to have her for the week. Turned out that not only DD#1 was staying with us but DD#3 ended up spending most nights here, too. The DDs were working over at DD#1's son house every day. There is still a lot of work to do there so DD#1 will be here for another week. And her hubby plus 4 of his sisters/hubby will be here on Thursday - Sunday to help. They will be staying in a hotel so I don't have to worry about meals for them. DD#1 and hubby plus his Sister#3 and hubby will be celebrating their wedding anniversaries on the 5th.

I may be hit/miss getting in here for the next several days. Should be able to be back to normal here during the Birthday celebration. Gotta run... BBL

ETA: Turns out it was not a Color Play kit... it is not released until June 6!!! Thank goodness so I have time to get a LO done before it is released!!!

 

[AK_Tracy]

Morning, all. Sorry I didn't make it in here yesterday.... I had downloaded a CP kit but then the storm arrived - thunder/lightening/rain so had to shut down the computer and stay off of it for the rest of the day as the storms were rolling through off and on the rest of the day. So will use the kit for a challenge.... when I figure out which challenge to use it. And there will be rain/storms rolling through for the next few days which may keep me off the computer if there is thunder/lightening with them.

My sister left to head back home this morning. It was so good to have her for the week. Turned out that not only DD#1 was staying with us but DD#3 ended up spending most nights here, too. The DDs were working over at DD#1's son house every day. There is still a lot of work to do there so DD#1 will be here for another week. And her hubby plus 4 of his sisters/hubby will be here on Thursday - Sunday to help. They will be staying in a hotel so I don't have to worry about meals for them. DD#1 and hubby plus his Sister#3 and hubby will be celebrating their wedding anniversaries on the 5th.

I may be hit/miss getting in here for the next several days. Should be able to be back to normal here during the Birthday celebration. Gotta run... BBL

This sounds so crazy busy but how fun to have all that family around. Enjoy the fellowship but dont get wore out playing. Hope the storms leave you alone.

 

[JeanneMN]

We did see a baby (really tiny) black rat snake and a pretty big toad.

Really tiny, any kind of tiny, I don't want to find a snake, but I have more than one toad or frog or combo of all of them. It's rained all day and it must have gotten the frog's juices flowing again. I've been awake since 4 and they've been singing, more like screaming, all day long. a Gives whole new meaning to screaming O and I don't mean me seeing a snake, but then I've only read about the others. Honestly it's getting on my nerves, but we did get over an inch and a half of rain, and like Tracy, trees are fully leafed out and things are bright green. So good for all the growing things. I told Wendell yesterday I thought the tadpoles had arrived because the fish were tearing around the pond like the Fishdy 500, from the sounds today they'll be racing again in a couple weeks. I wasn't outside enough yet to see the rosary beads strung among the plants.

My sister left to head back home this morning. It was so good to have her for the week. Turned out that not only DD#1 was staying with us but DD#3 ended up spending most nights here, too. The DDs were working over at DD#1's son house every day. There is still a lot of work to do there so DD#1 will be here for another week. And her hubby plus 4 of his sisters/hubby will be here on Thursday - Sunday to help. They will be staying in a hotel so I don't have to worry about meals for them. DD#1 and hubby plus his Sister#3 and hubby will be celebrating their wedding anniversaries on the 5th.

Wow you have been busy, but how fun to have all that family sharing time together. I think you can let a couple of us taking root to our couches to pick up some slack for you. In my case, it won't be scrapping, I'm WAYYY too slow on the tablet.

I just popped supper in the oven, wild rice and smoked gouda stuffed chicken breast, big enough we can split it and have plenty . Tomorrow is my first post-op check-up with my NP. We have a bunch of other errands to run, air quality alert is still in effect tomorrow, hopefully it won't be as bad as today. Today central Minnesota was in a purple alert which we'd never heard of, worse than red, which is what we were in & that air isn't good for anyone. I downloaded a CP kit today, but I did laugh out loud, Kay, when you said you downloaded one only it wasn't a Color Play. I've been there , done that.