pinkytoe
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So unfair when your hands help you do what you love...I tend to think the idea of a temporary reprieve (six months or so) rather than an absolute is...

I am finally over my hesitancy and somehow missed the email saying to schedule an appt with my health provider. Now I don't know when they will again...

I had it when I was severely anemic. Went away when that was corrected.

Scallops on pasta with pesto sauce; spinach salad

This is a long article but I found the history of climate changes through the millennia fascinating. It seems we have been living in the golden age...

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

When I was around 18, I read a fictionalized history of Sacajawea by Anna Waldo that I really enjoyed at the time. I dug it out last fall and tried...

I recently read Michael Pollan's book Second Nature on gardening with nature. If I understood it correctly, "native" at the time this book was...

I can't say why exactly, but I am not drawn to hybrids anymore. To me, they are fussy. I am slowly reclaiming this yard I am now tied to indefinitely...

When DH was young, one of his first job's was as a plumber's helper. After a few stints cleaning the drains at a funeral home, he decided not to go...

One of my nieces got an MA in a water management field, quit that, bought a farm, raised hogs for a while and then decided to become a welder. She...

Just the opposite here...too many years in hot weather. My nickname is three pants woman - tights, thermals, sweats. We keep the thermostat at 63...

On a related topic, I still have in my possession a large pastel portrait done of me when I was 12 or 13. It was a thing in San Antonio where I grew...

I am getting first hand accounts from relatives and friends in central TX. Total chaos and miscommunication like a dystopian nightmare. DD was just...

DD's power (outside Austin) has come and gone over the last two days - once for over ten hours. Groceries have reduced hours if open at all, hotels...

An older book by Michael Pollan - Second Nature - about gardening and nature philosophy.

My father left boxes and boxes of slides that turned out to be shots taken from airplanes.

This project is still in limbo with the dining room table covered in piles of photos. One mystery photo led me to email my older brother, the family...

I do like the idea of separating the me pile from the legacy ones. That way at some point in the future, I might be able to let the emotional ones go...

And then I come across a DVD that was apparently copied from old home movie reels of 6 yo me dancing around the living room in a tutu and little 2...

Describes my mountain brother to a tee. He loves his mountain home high above a small town he can venture down into if he gets an urge to be social...

DD says they have been without power since midnight and have 6" of snow. Historic to have two snows in one winter there. I imagine a lot of flora and...

Watching my central TX family deal with ice and cold has been interesting. It has been decades there since trees limbs cracked from ice or sub 20...

I am registered with my health care provider and will wait. Given the crazy winter weather, I wouldn't want to go out chasing other avenues.

I knew Ben Sasse personally at one time and he is a man of high principles. I am proud of him for standing his ground. Agreed this wasn't a...

I am canceling my Prime membership - at least for now. It is just as easy to order from other places and on principle, I have issues with amazon. I...

Egg pie (potato crust), pear salad and sourdough bread.

Beef stew, asparagus salad and sourdough rolls.

I learned I was very fortunate during these times to be healthy and retired with a simple but comfortable, paid for house. And I learned that I love...

Something I was wondering about...tuned into the last few minutes of the Super Bowl and after the big win the players were hugging and slobbering all...

Here lately, I am constantly hungry. Not just bored hungry but stomach clawing hungry every few hours. Not putting on weight though so not too...

Maybe it's also what you eat and not just how much?

We went through nightmare customer service to sign DH up with the required drug coverage. We call it Hellcare instead of Wellcare. $17 bucks a month...

First day of your birthday month. The "physical" is supposed to be a benefit but as near as I could tell, it provides an opportunity to promote all...

Flat iron steak and avocado tacos (with corn tortillas), roasted potatoes with Mexican spices and orange slices.

One of the reasons we moved to Colorado from TX as new retirees was the vast difference in property taxes. Going from $10,000K per year to $1200 per...

I think all medical decisions are risk vs benefit. If it means I can see my grandchildren, I will get the one dose one when available here. I think...

Sounds like all the variants popping up will add to the fray. Booster shots I guess. All one big cluster truck.

MIL's assisted living place is low to moderately priced at around $7000 a month for that type of facility. The food which is usually her primary joy...

MIL had to be dragged kicking and screaming from her house to assisted living. She was falling down weekly and totally dependent on her daughter who...