Beautiful table, IL!
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Beautiful table, IL!
Have to send a rave out for my brother. He took part of his inheritance and is using it to pay for our stepsister's college fees. She might not have been able to go and this is something Dad would approve of.
He even called me to let me know and make sure I would ensure she had the funds if anything happened to him.
That's wonderful, sweetana! So nice to hear a GOOD inheritance story!Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetana3
That is great and generous, and useful.Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetana3
None of the kids in our family have kids and we are all retired. I think we have all found that we are blessed and need to give back. I used part of my inheritance to buy a digital Xray machine for our local spay/neuter clinic and had my Dad's name put on it.
Oh, wow, what an awesome memorial for your Dad, and a great thing for all those pups and kitties!Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetana3
I found an eye doctor in New Hampshire who will not require me to wear a mask. So next month I will take a day off work (haven't used any of my sick days), drive up, and see some fall foliage too. It's northern New Hampshire there should be color already when I go.
Still have not found a dentist or primary care physician, but maybe that practice will know of someone.
That is so nice! I love hearing wonderful family stories!Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetana3
That is wonderful, Sweetana.
thanks everyone. Never do it to get our name mentioned just enjoy the nice feelings we get while spreading some good deeds.
The simplest thing I did recently was make long rice bags with flannel covers for the surgery unit at the spay/neuter clinic. The flannel covers are made so the outer layer can be washed. I made some a couple of years ago and they called requesting more saying how they were very useful. Got to the sewing machine and made up 20. Got the nicest card signed by all the surgery staff. Made my day. One year I collected leftover fleece from a variety of sources and made cage blankets to the size they needed. Simple and useful with little cost and a good reuse of leftover pieces of fleece.
I really like the way my window boxes turned out this year. I have 4 of them. Every year I try something different, but I think I like this one the best: there are deep purple petunias, yellow begonias, creeping Jenny, some kind of annual violet I've never seen before, and the coleus with little leaves. I am loving the color palette of purple, yellow and sage green. That's my theme for the whole yard.
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Gosh darn it--why did the single window picture come out sideways? I downloaded it and it's oriented correctly on my desktop.
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catherine, those are very pretty!! thanks for sharing.
Didn't intend to do until tomorrow or maybe next weekend but I got my Fall decor out and decorated the kitchen and living room. Fall is my favorite season and having the house decorated in those warm rich colors makes my heart happy.
Nice combination, Catherine. I don't have much luck with petunias.
Those are gorgeous catherine!
Really beautiful Catherine!!
Very inspiring, Catherine! Compositionally wonderful, thank you!
I like your sage siding and window frames. The flower boxes are the perfect final touch.
Really pretty windowboxes Catherine. I do like that shade of green on your house.
How often do you have to water window boxes? Here they would have to be watered every day.
Catherine, they are beautiful. I have the same question as IL...I am an awful waterer so never do too well with annuals in planters...bad enough in the ground, so I truly admire lovely, lush boxes.
Yes, I learned the hard way that you have to water them more frequently than anything else--including planters/containers. So I try to remember to wet the soil every day. Just long enough for the water to start dripping out through the drain holes. Petunias do have to be deadheaded otherwise they get very sparse and leggy. I hate that chore, so that's why I replaced most of the petunias with begonias this year.
I also learned that if it rains, I'm not necessarily off the hook for watering. The eaves are not big at all, but big enough to divert the rain water from the boxes.
Very pretty. Same question about watering and was also wondering what the ground plants are under the boxes?
Hostas. They were there when we arrived, and they do make such a nice border against the house.Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
DH tested positive this morning for Covid. He got sick Friday night, has been laying low with a fever and headache and cough runny nose, but yesterday he felt good enough to get on the riding mower and mow our 1 acre. So I think he’s going to come out of this OK. He was not vaccinated. He had none of the comorbidities though other than being old at 67.
So, I am happy because we survived Covid. I am fine although I have very slight intestinal stuff for a couple of days but I do not know if that was related to Covid or not.
A friend's husband and daughter both survived it in the last few weeks. I'm glad your husband is on the other side of it.
IL, glad hubby is feeling better.
IL covid has evolved to get milder and milder so his experience, while not fun, fits this pattern. A while back I told the Library Trustees other libraries didn't have mask mandates and the sky did not fall. Next I am going to tell them about lockers, which I saw at another library. You go the outdoor locker at any hour of day or night and pick up the library materials you ordered. It's like picking up an online order from Home Depot. If you are nervous you do that instead of forcing everyone in the building to wear masks.
Glad your DH is OK, Iris.
Yes, isnt Omicron supposed to be easily transmissible but not very severe? I think I have that right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
That's a good idea for several reasons--kind of like Amazon has at various locations for package pickup.Quote:
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Glad your dh is okay, IL. Wishing him a speedy full recovery.
We've had a couple of cases in the school (2nd week), so I'm waiting to see if/when/how much it spreads.
jeppy I can’t grok that there are STILL mask mandates in your area. Is that right? Is it a mandate by gubment, or,does library system choose to require masks?Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
I sent to see a surgeon yesterday and you could not enter the office without a mask, and the doctor saw me out via the backdoor.
Yes, that is fine with individual institutions. Health offices of course are especially cautious.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
But city wide, county wide, statewide mandates for ALL places? Or, are there statewide mandates for health offices?
At the risk of sounding like Jeppy, I was more than a little gratified to know my own dr does not require masks in her office (last time I was there anyway, about June) when DH’s dr has a snotty note on the clinic doors saying something close to this:
“ We require you to wear a mask and if you can’t be bothered to do that, you need to go home and come back when you are prepared to wear a mask.”
I'm not sure if it is still mandated, but I have to wear a mask to enter Mom's memory care, plus have my temperature taken and fill out the form about symptoms.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
How many times can you get covid? I think the doc and staff don’t want to be reinfected repeatedly. I don’t blame them for requiring masks. They come in contact with many people daily including those with compromised immune systems, as well.
Just had a nice interaction with someone at a cemetary in Savannah, about burial of ashes of family members. She was patient with my rather weird questions.
That seems reasonable, that your mother’s nursing home takes all precautions to protect that very vulnerable population.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
in the city I see many people wearing mask when out and about. I see grocery store clerks at one particular grocery store wear a masks. I don’t blame them because I probably would as well having to stand across a counter from hundreds of people every day. The grocery store clerks in Herman or in the nearby bigger city (not St. Louis) do not wear masks.
It is a mixed bag in my region.
Iris lilies, totally mixed here. We will talk about all the people we know with or just recovered with Covid but only a few wear masks in our exercise class. Instructor always does as does one new student. Many of us are headed out to get the new booster and our flu shots.
No library mandate now, but I am worried they will try to bring it back this fall/winter when due to seasonality we get an uptick in all sorts of viruses.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
We still have a state mandate in medical/dental settings.