SHEs Organized

Get on that ol' thinking cap today and use it - do you need reflection today? Concentration? Planning? A thinking cap attitude will serves all our activities and keeps us on our game!

Morning twins… Thanks for starting us

It’s Thursday and that means laundry day for me. Have everything ready to start my first load. Need to finish up my morning routines.

I have several errands. I need to run in, sweetie will be going with me.

Post office for priority boxes
Kohl’s to return on Amazon
You break it I fix it for sweetie‘s phone. He needs something done with it and they were helpful the last time.

And since I’ll be close to the grocery store, I need to make a quick run to pick up a few things.

Tonight we are going out to dinner with some friends. They were gone for a month and live across the street from us. We picked up their mail for them while they were gone and they want to take us out to dinner as a thank you.

I finally bit the bullet and took some of my migraine medicine and it helped my head tremendously. Hope I don’t have to do that again because I don’t like taking it and I’m not supposed to take it all the time. We’ll see how it goes.

Waving to y’all…BBL

Know what’s worse than a stinky boy? A classroom full of them.

In junior high stinky boys were rampant. When this happened in my classroom, I would take the young man out in the hallway, which was my office and ask him if he had any deodorant to use. The school provided deodorant for boys if they needed it. I tried to be as kind as I could, and explain to the young man that smelling stinky was not a good thing and that perhaps his friends were talking about him. Sometimes I solve the problem.

Course the way, a lot of boys handled it was using this aftershave called ax… Lucy Lee probably knows what it is and it smells worse than a stinky boy. Sometimes a kid will load himself up with it so bad that I had to take him out of the room and have him wash it off.

If none of this worked, my next thing to do was to talk to the male gym teacher to see if he could help with a problem. Last resort was always calling the parent. However, I had a boy that smelled so bad I could hardly get near him. It was not only him but his clothes and his hair. Turned out that his mother was just as bad as he was. I had a hard time handling that, but it was what it was.

I talked to the boys counselor about it, and was told that this had been a previous problem with his older brother. It was a shame because this boy that I had was probably one of the handsomest boys I’ve ever had in my class.

Harriet… many of my former husbands country relatives drank buttermilk. My former mother-in-law‘s biscuits were so good. We used to talk about putting her around the corner so she could sell them and her fried chicken and we would never have to work again. She used buttermilk too. When I make biscuits and I don’t have buttermilk I substitute a couple of tablespoons of vinegar into a cup of regular milk and let it sit for a while and use that for mine.

Hi!

I think I should have gone back to bed. Dh is still sleeping. I've been up for 3 hours.
I took the recycling and compost out right away. Recycling truck has picked up already.

All 3 cats supervised while I took the compost bin to the end of the driveway. They have all come in for their treats and now the oldest 2 are having their morning naps.

It's another windy and overcast day here.

I loaded the dishwasher and turned it on. I've also been doing pots and pans from yesterday. I also did 2 large bowls. We had popcorn last night.

After forgetting my vitamins yesterday, I had them this morning along with a cup of hot tea.

Dh got up briefly and let me know his arm "really, really hurts". He never used to complain, so I'm guessing it must really hurt.

I'm still in a get-er done mood...I have a workout at two, and dh is out tonight. I'm thinking that tomorrow a.m. I'll head to the downtown library for some research.

Carry over from yesterday. I'm not sure that all these things are on the agenda for today but trying to keep them in my thinking cap.
-take packed raincoat to post office for mailing (will do after workout)
-pick up CPAP supplies (after workout)
-find something that I can sit upstairs bookcase on while I paint it
-Send a letter re: mosquito control bill for April through August. No paying it
-Notes for temple member doing an "organizational" study for the board
-put a closet door on Facebook market - was removed when we redid the kitchen two or three summers ago
-photo SU ink pads with reinkers to put up for sale in SU buy/sell groups
-photo Silhouette Cameo machine to sell - I've never gotten the hang of it and it just sits
-make an appointment to get hearing checked and hearing aids cleaned, serviced
-repot peace lily, aloe plant
-what else?

Dog is walked two laps. Groceries delivered and dh put them away mostly. I need to get on with the morning.

Good morning

It's the last day of school for the week. DS17 stayed up late to finish today's assignments, and now that I've graded them, homeschool is officially done. This is our final year with a four-day school week, as the state has passed a law mandating all public schools to be in-person five days a week starting next year.

Last night's trip to the city turned out to be more eventful than I anticipated. A man in the middle of a mental crisis stole a gun and tragically shot himself inside Walmart. We were at Sam's Club next door, so we weren't directly involved, but we observed the scene from across the large parking lot. Public suicides are deeply unsettling on so many levels.

My hip pad is packed with notes and reminders for today. It feels good to have a clear plan.
23 SHE cards completed.

Cathy - Which arm is hurting? Is there a known reason?

Is there such a thing as a focus cap?
I think all the time but I have a ping pong brain.

waving to all of you!!!
helper, who was here on Tuesday, was amazed that mom is up and about. She too, and dd younger, thought mom would not be here today.
I have to focus and then I will be back

I was up for briefly at four went back to bed up by 7:00.
Did only my bujo so far; of the stack of a.m. journals planners etc.
Watered & walked one lap around the block.
De-seeded some holly hock seeds to go out later.
Had my coffee.
Came back to turn off water and take Rx my phone reminder alarm went off for that.
Still need to finish / heat advisory considering gazelle.
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Goals:
Finish walk w/ ddoggo saw two groups of turkey
walk about in basement/ later
vacuumed Liv. rm x sewing zone x my bedrm. x
bathroom #1 X
#2 X
Sweep X
Mop X
Dining table is a fright! ACK!

Looking forward to these now!
Read
Journal

Waving to everyone.
Thanks I needed that thinking cap reminder. Bw2 & the focus cap q.
I did hear a great yt on books / reading it helps the brain!

Peppers, especially, will shrivel fast without any protection.

This caught my attention. I harvest and leave peppers sitting on the kitchen counter for a week or longer without any issues. I'm intrigued. Of course, there could be countless reasons. What type of peppers? Where were they harvested and how were they transported? Were they refrigerated or overheated? Were chemicals used? What type of soil? And so many other possibilities. I am obviously over thinking it.

This morning in the garden.....
I've planted beets, radish and two types of squash
I've harvested beets, tomatoes, peppers, and okra.

Cold items purchased last night to be processed...
** Celery cleaned and chopped
** Spinach cleaned, bagged and froze
** Carrots shredded and froze
** 4 Blocks of cheese shredded, packaged, and froze.