What I did today

Yesterday started off with me meeting a couple of buddies that I worked with, in high school, 50 years ago. Reminiscing and catching up about people and the town we grew up in was well worth the time. Ruby seems to have a UTI infection, or something, so sweetheart got here into the vets to have it checked out. She had to leave her there for a couple of hours and then came home with instructions of no water or food for twenty four hours. Sweetheart’s 2 sons made time in their schedules to start installing the boiler and such for the hot water heat in the garage floor. When the garage addition was built on they had the foresight to install the tubing needed at that time.

Today the boys are back to install the gas piping required and a hose spigot in the garage. Ruby has had nothing to eat or drink but seems to be getting back to her normal puppy self. A limited amount of boiled chicken and rice are on the menu for the next couple of days. Everything is complete for the garage heat except for the pumping in of the water/antifreeze mixture in the pipes and one the boys will be back tomorrow morning to do that. Another thing off our bucket list…..

centralilrookie, so sorry about Josie. When you mentioned Ruby I had to go back and see what happened. Sounds like Ruby has found a loving home.

Today, I got my most recent Covid 19 Moderna shot, around 4:15 pm. The only thing that may have done to me, was give me a slight headache - something I rarely get, but it may have been unrelated. Before that, since I was out in that area early, I went over to lidl - it was more crowded than when I go there, when they open (when I usually go to most of the stores), but not that bad, like most stores I drive by these days! I got a few things, but one of the deals - the butter, buy 2, get one free - isn't what it was when I got it, as the butter was $3.45 this time (2.30 after the discount), not $2.26, like last time. I texted a friend, who was thinking of stocking up on it, and she told me not to get any for them, and I still have a bunch I didn't use with cookies. lol Maybe it'll get even lower after the holidays.

The last few nights, after I finished the cookies and cleaning up the kitchen, I went through my seeds, and threw out any seeds I knew were bad, either the germination, or the whatever the variety was like, some of them spitters, or some that did not grow well at all - things I would not give to anyone, unless I didn't like them! All the varieties that I might grow again, of tomatoes and peppers, went in one bag of each of those, and everything I would give to someone, but not grow again, would go in a trade bag, and the ones I will be growing (so far - still early) of the tomatoes and peppers, are marked "24". Everything else is just in the old bags. The only ones I haven't gotten to yet are the beans and peas. I'll do that tomorrow. I got the idea to do this when I got my first seed order a few days ago, from Tim's Tomatoes, on Etsy.

Kiddo ended up at home yesterday and I needed to take a dreaded trip to town and decided that one trip would have to do. Picked up a gift for my dad and mother-in-law and declared Christmas shopping finished! Thankfully my niece let us know that her boyfriend's daughter would be there as well and I always pick up extra art supplies at the back-to-school sales, so pretty well covered there. On the way I dropped off Christmas goodies for kiddo's classmates and made sure the other little girl with special needs got first pick of the crocheted toboggans mom made. She was delighted and surprisingly so were the other kids as nearly all of them were wearing them when I left.

Today I'll begin working on a gift for mom, which in reality means I'll probably spend 4-5 hours picking out the right fabrics and then another 2-3 hours of being intimidated by the pattern at which point I'll declare that I will start first thing the next morning.

Wide awake at 2:30 this morning. Fell asleep watching TV at 7:30 last night. So I got up, showered, started laundry. Then got to vacuuming, mostly done by 0700. Ate breakfast, thinking about a project DH and I were talking about a couple months ago. Our bed is a waterbed frame, solid oak and pricey in it's day. Still looks new after 34 years. We wanted to make a riser to fit inside the waterbed frame to raise the mattress. Years ago we got rid of the water mattress and put in a California King mattress. A couple years ago we replaced that with a Nectar one. Love it. So I piddled around taking measurements and drawing it out. Went to lumber yard in small town 9 miles away and got all the supplies for it. They do free cuts so had them cut the plywood pieces to fit and in a way they would fit in the SUV. Worked great. A Christmas project for me and DS. Looks easy enough, on paper anyway. The guy at the lumber yard thought it looked good.

Heading for walk next, then home to make those pinwheel date cookies, maybe, if I have any steam left.

emmsmommy, A cloud with a silver lining......but it could have been a different cloud!