Sunshine on Monday

[Colliemom]

Good morning. Beautiful weather pattern here, so you gals out East will have something to look forward to in the coming days.

Shirl, I love that wall saying too. Your place is beautiful. I have more ideas for mine too, as my budget allows. Where did you get the vinyl wall saying and the cabinet you assembled?

Velda, glad to hear your BP is coming down and your handyman is back on tbe job.

Lots of talk about cateract surgery in here. Those of you contemplating it, just know that the issue I am having with my old implant is rare. Only about 0.02-3% of people ever have it. This one was put in over 30 years ago when implants were a new thing. So much has improved since. My doctor was going to use the numbing eye drops and the anesthesiologist was going to be there as well. I have had minor sedation in past, never an issue. It can make me sick to my stomach but I just let them know beforehand and they can take care of that.

Off to go grocery shopping this morning. Have a nice day all

[PeggyinCT]

Good morning Sue and All who follow. Thanks for sending the sunshine this way, Sue. The snow is pretty much gone, and there are crocuses blooming everywhere.
Shirl, I just love “ it came in a flat box and I put it together”. Good for you. You have spatial skills and can visualize how it all goes together. I have trouble putting a cardboard box together....
All the fixins’ for corned beef and cabbage are on sale this week, so that’s what I’m buying today. May even make some Irish soda bread. Enjoy today. Peggy

[Shirlv]

Good Morning Sue and All, sunny here but tomorrow it will be sunny and 60. I have my bikini ready. Edith said “at least wear a shawl “. She is so funny. Sue, white sideboard, curio cabinet and wall decal came from Wayfair. Prices have shot up in two years but they were good to deal with. The cabinet was easy to assemble, all the holes lined up perfectly. Peggy, if instructions come with pictures I’m good, without I struggle. Lol. I will copy your shopping list for St. Patrick’s day dinner. Be safe

[asirimarco]

Good morning to all - after all the drama of coming home and finding the mess, getting our first covid shot and all the other things that had to be taken care of last week we had a wonderful day yesterday. Simple things do wonder for moral. First watched a great soccer game with a very good outcome for our favorite team. Then I watched the NASCAR race in the afternoon and my favorite driver finally had a very good day, came in 3rd. And last night somehow I found a concert on You Tube - no idea how - it was The Highwaymen - Willie, Waylan, Johnny and Kris. Had to be from middle 1990's. Great way to end the day. And only found two new mouse poops. Weather was great too. In high 70's so even Bill was not cold.
Thanks for all info about eyes. I hate the thought of someone touching my eyes, but going to bite the bullet and do it.

[dpf]

Good Morning! I did remember to say Rabbits! Hard to believe it’s been a year this week since I’ve been pretty much isolating. I did get my first vaccination on the 25th and go back on March 25th. Irmi, I love your casita! Tina, so glad you’re feeling better. Sue, hope your eye surgery is successful. Barbie, have you ever thought about getting a tens unit? I have one that I bought on ebay for around $40. and whenever I had back issues 20 minutes using it really helps. Anita, glad your apartment is going to be ready soon. Karen sounds like you are almost all settled. Beth, when do you head north? Velda.I need a handy man. Martha, your pet stories crack me up. Carol, I don’t envy you having to clean up after the rodents. Sorry if I have forgotten anyone…this is just what my feeble mind can think of right now. Shirl and Liz, I tried some pot tomatoes last summer and didn’t have much luck. Heinz or Hunts are not going to be contracting me for my crop.

Really haven’t got a lot of news. Bronc’s 7th birthday party was last week. They grow up too fast. All his “city” cousins were there. It’s calving season and they got a bit of a farm education. They came running into the house to tell Ryan that a cow had a bubble coming out of her butt, followed by the two farm kids…Haddie informed Ryan that a cow was calving, and Bronc proceeded to tell him that it was one of the heifers and her tag number. It was muddy and all of them looked like they belonged in a Tide commercial.

Have a good week.

[BarbaraRose]

Woke up to extreme winds this morning! I guess there is a big storm system moving into southern CA tomorrow thru Friday, so will see if we get any rain out of it around here. I sure hope so. We need it desperately!

Pat, that is funny about the city kids and the birthing cow comment! My dad and I watched a cow give birth at the MN State Fair once. My dad was so thrilled! Me, not so much.

Carol, I would love to see that concert with the "Highway Men". Love those guys! Glad you finally had a nice relaxing day! We all need those!

Need to get up and started on my (long) list of things to do around here.

Have a good day!

[Bethers]

Pat, I cracked up with the bubble out of the butt story. Kids do say things the best.

Amazingly, I was up before 8 this morning, walked Ty, got everything unhooked and was 2nd in line for propane at 9. By 9:30 not only was everything hooked back up but I filled my water tank, too. Cloudy today so it feels cooler than it is. What a difference the sun makes. But it feels good anyway. Barbie I didn't look more than a couple days ahead for wind, but our temps are dropping some for the next week. No where near where we got before but I'll be wearing leggings again.

Farm kids were way ahead of most of us regarding sex. They were birthing something or other all the time. No one had to tell them where babies came from. Us city kids mostly had no clue. Thus the questions parents dreaded lol

[MandysMom]

Only going to be in 50's here today. Rain later or tomorrow. I'm waiting for tree guys to get here and finish the front tree, take down the last one and get some dead branches out of my big redwood. Curves at 12:30. Got dishwasher going with full load after 2 days with no sink. That's a relief. Still tired and can't seem to get more than 5-6 hours sleep most nights, no matter how early I turn off lights. Frustrating. Maybe getting back to regular exercise routine will help.
Barbara, hope you get needed rain and us too. All of you planning cataract surgery, I can't emphasize enough, ask for what you want. Rarely are there complications and good surgeons can avoid that. With the newer anesthetic drops and newer lenses and Or equipment, it's a far cry from the cataract surgeries and recoveries of half century ago when I trained as a nurse. You will have a day or two of normal surgical inflammation causing a little blurriness after, but if you adhere to your after care drops routine, that passes quickly. The better vision is well worth it. I had no pain after, and one afternoon of it feeling itchy, but otherwise, it's just take it easy and let your surgery heal. There are no stitches as incisions are microscopic and seal on their own in hours and heal in 4-6 weeks. It is interesting in the hours after, before dilating drops wear off, to use mirror and look and you can see your new IOLs! Sue, I think if they replace your errant IOL, you will be pleased with the improvements over the past decades! Hope that happens soon!
Have a good day everyone.
Velda

[BarbaraRose]

Beth, you get our weather a day later. We were cloudy yesterday. Yes, temps are dropping this week but as long as I don't see my breath when I step outside, it is still warm enough for me! You will probably get this wind tomorrow.

Lola is being very sweet this morning. Her dish must me empty!

[Cudedog]

Farm kids were way ahead of most of us regarding sex. They were birthing something or other all the time. No one had to tell them where babies came from. Us city kids mostly had no clue. Thus the questions parents dreaded lol

Too true, Beth!

All of this talk about calving brought to mind an incident that happened many years ago on my old place up in the Sierra foothills. We kept two or three cows, and had not had success with A.I., so when I found a young bull calf for sale at a cheap price from an acquaintance I snapped him up.

The owner, being truthful, told me that he had had this calf for quite a while, and he was concerned because it seemed to him that the calf had never done much growing. For this reason, he didn't want to sell the calf to me, but I perservered. I wasn't trying to start a herd, I just wanted to get my cows with calf.

I figured this young bull could get the job done, and then I would just. . . well, never mind on that part.

Anyway, this guy never did get very tall (he was unusually short-legged, was a black whiteface), but he did bulk out quite a bit as time went on - and he did "get the job done", even with my (much taller) cows.

One day some teenage city friends came to visit (we were good friends with their parents) with their girlfriends, and I gave them a tour of the "ranch". When we were looking at the cows, one of the boys, closely holding hands with his girlfriend (they had been sneaking smooches) noticed my little bull, and how he was, um, "different" from my steer, and pointed to the bull's back end and asked "what is that?"

As I said, this bull was very short-legged, so his "equipment" (we also had a young steer at the time that was missing this part, which is why the kid noticed the difference) was hanging down almost to his hocks (it was a hot day).

I looked at the guy, and his girlfriend, and didn't really know what to say! So, trying not to embarrass him or laugh (and actually able to keep a straight face for once) I said, "Well. . . hrm. What do you think it is?"

He thought.

I could see the light turn on, as a look of amazement spread across his face, his jaw dropping open. That little bull might have had short legs, but that part of his anatomy was definitely full-size.

I turned away, hiding a smile.

Anne

[Acadianmom]

I think I have everything loaded. I'm waiting for my son to come so he can follow me in my car so I can have my car. He is having an MRI on his arm. He fell about a week ago and tore the bicep muscle and is probably going to need surgery. If they schedule it this week I am going to have to change my camping plans.

We had a cow that had a C-Section in the barn and amazingly both the cow and calf survived. I don't remember what that cost but probably more than the cow was worth.

It looks like we are going to have nice weather this week. The temperature is 75 but very windy.

Shirl, I need you to come put the exercise bike together that has been in the living room floor for 2 years. Hopefully we can find all the parts. lol

Martha

[OregonLuvr]

I am packing my suitcase and dog bag to head to Medford tomorrow and will come back on Friday. Having some yard work done on Friday so will leave right after my doc appt. Taking out the arbortivae and juniper bushes. Then I can plant and design my front yard. The back yard is hopeless right now but I have years to get that fixed up LOL My deck will just have to do for now until I decide what I can do with it. My BFF Laura is coming down this weekend. YIPPEE, my first overnight guest. She would have come down to stay sooner but it took me forever to get my mattresses. Then she was busy upgrading her place, then the big ice storm a few weeks ago. So now we are actually going to make it happen.

[JudyJB]

The most difficult part of my cataract surgery was the week between my left and my right eye. Normally, they like to do them two weeks apart, but I asked the doctor to do them closer together because I had to be online for my class, and he agreed.

With the first eye, I had to take the lens out of my prescription glasses, but I still had problems with close vision on my computer, so I had to wear reading glasses I had bought at a drugstore. I had to get a second pair because the first ones were not quite right and did not fit well. ALso, my depth perception was horrible for that first week. I had taken Uber to the surgery, had to wait four hours, and then took Uber home again, but just getting into the car was tricky because there was a line on the pavement and I could not tell if it was a step or not. They had to lead me until I was able to touch the car. Getting out and home was easier. It took quite a while before the ground seemed to stay in one place!! So no jogging or hiking during that week! It you are getting a distance implant, you might want to get a couple of pair of drugstore reading glasses ahead of time.

Also, I could not get prescription reading glasses for 5 weeks because your eyes can change during the post surgery time, and the drugstore glasses did not work well, at least for me. I have a friend who is getting cataract surgery done, but she is younger and is a graphic designer, so warned her that it may take some time for her to be comfortable at work. Luckily, she works with two huge monitors at one time, but her vision is really critical to her in her job. She is working from home now, but she has the biggest collection of computers and monitors I have ever seen because she also repairs computers!!!

[snowball]

I got on yesterday for a moment looked at something and then saw it was time for chat went there and then forgot that I'd not read much of anything... so been catching up...
would someone write the saying down for me??? I can't read all of it talk about eye's something that I will need to figure out when to do it
still not sure when I will leave called a friend today as I remembered that she is on the city counsel and asked about the vaccine she told me where to call and that the drugstore should have them then to find out if they are the 2 shot or the 1 shot if 2 shot then do I wait and have it up north or go for it here and wait to go north later... the advantage to going in less than two weeks is that I will possibly be able to help with mom sooner as well as having someone to help me drive the truck while towing... the disadvantage is weather in that I will have to store the trailer till we know where I will be and the snows clear... so in away tempted to do the vaccine and wait till April to go up North... but on the other hand having a driver to help would be nice... my son will be working in St George for awhile maybe if I asked pretty please and timed it right he could help and maybe take the bus back on Sunday something to think about...
got done today what I planned on doing so it was a good day!!!
tomorrow going to have the 5th wheel washed hopefully it's suppose to be windy so don't know if it will happen or not... will see
you all have a good day
sheila