National Cotton Candy Day

[BarbaraRose]

Good morning gals!

9:00 and already 97* outside! Going for a high around 117*

Got a fecal sample from Lola this morning and need to bring that in to the vet shortly. Then back home and working inside all day. Lots to do around here anyways.

I really love this house so far and feel very comfortable here already. It is the perfect size for me and once I get everything where it needs to go and get things decorated, it will be a great little home!

Have a great day!

[MandysMom]

Good morning Barbara! So glad you found the home you really like. It's headed to maybe 104 here today. Before 8 it was 79. Hot for us and certainly hinders packing my van and any outdoor activity! I got my shower and will head soon to get my hair shortened a little. I do still like it so I can have a pony tail or down as I like that day. Have a few errands then home to AC. Thankfully Mandy was quiet overnight. I hope she is settling in but she sure doesn't like not being in my arms. So I have her a quick cuddle each visit to her room.
Hope everyone is safe and having a good day. I'm setting out virtual fixings for ice tea or coffee of your choice this morning.
Velda

[Acadianmom]

I looked up holidays for June 11 and some of the others are Call Your Doctor Day, Dirty Book Day and Corn On The Cob Day. lol

It's only 80 this morning. We had a cool front come through and the temperature at night is suppose to be in the 60's for 3 nights. I probably should go mow around the barn.

Not much going on here as usual. Yesterday I decided to make spaghetti sauce since the slow cooker was out from Sunday. I had some cans of tomatoes and tomato paste that were going out of date so I put them all in the slow cooker plus a jar of salsa and can of V-8. I had a pound of ground meat in the freezer that needed to be cooked so put that in. Didn't think it had enough meat so put some cooked sausage that was in the freezer in. I let it cook all day and it was actually pretty good. I seldom eat spaghetti because anything with tomatoes use to set my stomach off but it was ok.

Tonight is our monthly Cattlewomen meeting and in June the men are invited for Father's Day. We will have a steak dinner which I'm sure some of the men will cook. I use to not go because Harold would never go to things like that but I'm not going to miss a meal. I joined the book club that some of the women from the meetup group belong to. They told me I don't have to read the book, I can just come for the meal.

Better go feed the outside cats. They are looking for their breakfast.

Martha

[JudyJB]

Nice to eat food that other people cook, isn't it, Martha? I get so bored with my own cooking, i sometimes go on a take-out binge and that will satisfy me for a while.

Armitage Park allows you to wash your rig right on your spot, so before it hits the expected 98 degrees, I am going out and scrub it. Got a urology appointment at 1 so they can check to see if the kidney stone I had three weeks ago is really gone. Keeping my fingers crossed!

And heading south tomorrow. Might stay at Grant's pass, which will be 100, but next day I have reservations at Crescent City, which will be much cooler!

[snowball]

so I posted about today on the other day's
want to see what I did today go to it
sheila

[JudyJB]

Two weeks ago, my latest kidney stone was stuck 2/3 way down ureter. X-ray today showed it in exactly the same place.

Kidney is still working and urine is somehow managing to get past stuck stone, so we are waiting for another month to see if it might pass. If not, will have to come back here just before cataract surgery to get another lithotripsy. That means another stent for a week. Yuck.

[Acadianmom]

Judy, I hope your kidney stone passes so you don't have to deal with that and cataract surgery at the same time. One of my sister's boys has kidney stones and he is the only one in the family that has them.

I didn't ask where the steaks we had tonight came from but they were big. Who ever was cooking knew what he was doing. I brought half my meal home.

Martha

[Bethers]

Oh, Judy, I hope it passes... With no pain and soon.

[BarbaraRose]

I got word today that the escrow on this house is officially closed! Yay!

It didn't get to 117 but about 115. Tomorrow is supposed to be a little hotter before it cools off (relatively speaking!). It all feels hot when it is over 100 but I can definitely feel my energy levels drastically decrease as the temp gets higher. It is almost midnight and is still 97*. I thought it was supposed to cool off at night in the desert!

I went out to drop off Lola's sample at the vet for tomorrow's appointment. Stopped at the mall and got a new cool outfit at Penneys. Also found a Cinnabon there which I love! Brought some home with me. By the time I got home I was wiped out and took a nap. The Spectrum guy showed up later and took the rest of the furniture. He takes it to Mexico and gives it to needy families down there. So now I can start bringing my stuff home from storage (once it cools off a bit!). I need to contact the guy who offered to help me with the furniture and set up a time to do that. Will rent a Uhaul truck for that. The storage unit is just a mile down the road so a truck will be cheaper than a trailer for this.

Then realized (due to Lola's incessant meowing!) that I was out of cat food so had to go out again to get her some food and picked up some tacos for me.

I have never had kidney stones and I hope I never do. They don't sound fun at all! UTI's are bad enough!

Off to bed soon!

[JudyJB]

I have long known that my father's mother died of kidney disease in 1935. Her death certificate says "chronic interstitial nephritis." Basically, that means her kidneys were not working, but it could have been kidney stones. She was only 40 and left seven children and a husband who was an alcoholic. My father was the oldest at age 18. When my father was 22 and recently married, his father and one brother died due to a defective furnace. My dad took in his youngest brother, who was 9, and is that elderly uncle I keep talking about. His oldest sister raised the two younger girls.

One of the interesting things I learned researching my family is that my grandmother's father also died of kidney disease at age 43 in 1894, leaving a pregnant wife and seven sons. The baby-to-be was my grandmother who later died of the same disease!! (Her poor mother must have been thrilled to have a little girl after all those boys!)

I passed my first kidney stone at age 33 and had kidney surgery at age 34. That was before they could blast them with sound waves without cutting you open. But in 1894 and 1935, even surgery was not regularly available for such things. I don't know about my great-grandfather, but my grandmother was very poor, and she did not see a doctor until she was almost dying.

So, even though my father and no one else in his family have had kidney problems, I definitely have inherited all the kidney stones for my generation! And since I was 33, i have been passing at least two each year! I am just really grateful for modern medicine and can't imagine how difficult it must have been for my grandmother and her father dying at such a young age, and leaving such large families.

[snowball]

[quote="BarbaraRose"]I It is almost midnight and is still 97*. I thought it was supposed to cool off at night in the desert!

It does Barbie in the winter
sheila