Tuesday, July 1st, Happy Canada Day!

[Kathryn-in-Canada]

Nancy: The view active topic did get messed up in the software upgrade (Google is my friend.) Apparently a setting that used to be On automatically, is Off automatically now. I tried to turn it on.

You, or Twins, can let me know if it is working better.

[Lilac]

Mystery, I agree with FelineFriend. I love your new avatar.

Dgd17 daughter of dd1, called and asked me to go to a movie preview with her tonight. She works at the movie theatre and they preview movies before they start. We are going to see Tammy, which is the new Melissa McCarthy movie, which starts tomorrow. She is picking me up. I told dh that this is a new experience for me, being picked up by a dgd.

My dh found a motorhome that he wants. He called today and asked them questions. It is on ebay. So he gave a lowball offer of $5000 less than the asking price. Now he realizes that he can't find anything else he likes as well and will have to pay full price now, if he wants it. Grrr....

[Harmony]

I appreciate reading all the tips being posted about our new site. I will just have to get used to how everything looks now. I have the Tara screen up now and I must say it is very pretty and I like the color.

Mail came bringing a nice check so I took that right down to the bank. Tonight I worked on the books and got payroll taxes all ready to submit tomorrow. I am slowly getting that stuff caught up.

Sure enjoy reading posts from those who haven't been here recently.

Happy Canada Day to all our Canadians. Happy Anniversary Nancy and DH. Mystery I love your picture.

[Norma]

YAY! Thank you Harriet! Also I checked back on my iPhone and was able to put the new site on from a link on the message from Katherine. I have my FoxFire on and will do the same. I think I am good to go. Thanks again.

[Sunny]

Happy Canada Day!

Happy Birthday Mr. Dee!

Happy Anniversary Nancy & Dh!

Another pleasant day for dh and me. Ddil did not work today and had some grocery shopping to do and asked if i wanted to go along. We went to another small town with Costco. Dgs 12 spent the afternoon with a dfriend who lives nearby.

I've been in touch with ddil#2 at home and dgd19 and her group will be coming home from Scotland tomorrow. Ds#2 says our ddogs are doing fine...I miss them.

I read posts from the weekend; it was nice hearing from those we have seen for a while. I'm still getting used to the new look here, but I like it.

I want to cuop for today.....

[Lilac]

Harmony, I am using Tara also. I wonder if lucylee is too?

Sunny, it sounds like you are having a great visit with your ds#3 and family.

As per usual, dh is obsessed with finding the new wheels, that he now thinks he can't live without. This drives me crazy but after 43+ years, I should be used to it.

[Nancy]

K in C yes the view active topics is working better now yippie!

Back after watering we will dine out this week end.
I am watering now. Hen have been fed.

Next yr. Fire works will only be allowed 48 hrs. Around the fourth now it is 4 days my hens and other animals and I are going to be so much happier!

[Kathryn-in-Canada]

We knew we'd see the main fireworks. What we hadn't realized is that we'd see dozens of local fireworks displays including one right below us!

It was great! (And still going on below us.)

[lucylee]

Wow… I am going to HAVE TO start getting here earlier in the day… y’all have been so BUSY…

Happy Canada Day to our Canadian SHEs…
And
Happy Anniversary to Nancy & DH
And
Happy Birthday to Mr. Dee!!!

Now about that “half-point of the year” and “do you know where your routines are?” Hmmm… Yeah, I’m afraid I know where they are… pretty much ignored at the bottom of a pile of good intentions and wishful thinking.

Harmony, I’m using the silver-blue – I forget the exact name of it – subsilver? – but it has the feature you’re talking about – where you can see threads you have read or not read, go to “first unread post,” etc. I think this is the blue that someone (Kathryn?) said was driving her crazy, LOL, and I did look at some of the other ones… but in the end I came back to this one b/c it was what I was using before. * Shock* huh? That I wouldn’t want to CHANGE??? Nah… not me… I especially liked the one with the hot air balloon… but in the end, I came back to my old tried & true.
Another LOL – Lilac, I tried Tara first of all, OF COURSE… but it just seemed too… different? to me.
I do tend to enjoy a rut once I get in it.

Routines... gosh, y'all... I am like a walking advertisement -- make that a motion-less advertisement -- for accomplishing NOTHING.
I don't know how to change this crazy schedule we are on. I am open to suggestions...
Keep in mind, we are usually up until 3:00 a.m. I know, I know, this is INSANE. But that being a given, I have to accept that we are living somewhat like shift-workers.
We watch tv till 1:30, and then, since dh realized the morning paper has arrived by that time... so we read the paper.
Okay... 8 hours sleep puts us getting up around 11:00 a.m.
Then... ds wants to come run, usually around 12:00/1:00... and if dh joins us, 2:00 p.m. (b/c he won't walk until Rush L. goes off the radio) so I can't s2s before then, b/c the only way I'm going to get any exercise at all is if I walk with him after his run. And he likes his routine of running 1.5 miles and then walking 3 miles with me. Plus, it is great quality time for us to talk.
So I'm kinda in limbo-land until at least 3:30 p.m.
By the time I've s2s, it's almost 5:00 and that is supper time, usually.
Then... after we eat... well you know how the evening hours go... one kinda loses any momentum they had anyway. It's just ridiculous.
I'm looking at this, and I see I have at least an hour before ds might arrive, so that should be a good time for some focus/zone cleaning attention. It's hard for me to make myself jump right out of bed and get at it like that, but that would probably be a good place to start.
I can't do any vacuuming before 2:00 p.m. b/c of the aforementioned radio program... but there is a LOT of housework to be done that does NOT include vacuuming, right? Just b/c I have it in my head that that is the most important task, that does not mean it is the ONLY task.
Then, if I could force myself to do another hour after supper... that is the only way, right?
I mean, even if I am living like a vampire, I've still got 16 hours in my day.
Minus 2 hours to walk and s2s... be generous, make that 3... that leaves 13 hours.
Even if I spent 3 hours eating meals... that leaves 10 hours.
There is no way I should be so unproductive. If I allowed for 8 hours sleep pre-retirement, I only had six hours in the day, five allowing for supper, and a lot of those hours were spent on school work and elder care. My dmom needs some attention now, but nothing like the time we spent with dmil. So... I've just got to form a new habit to my day. Accomplish what I can before walking, and then force myself to accomplish SOMETHING again in the evening, just like I always had to when I worked.

Another thing about being a sweaty mess until 3 or 4 in the afternoon is that it really pushes a person to conduct business with the public. Like today... I was DETERMINED that I would get out to this little boutique store that does a lot of monogramming. I've been wanting a t-shirt from there, and wanted to get ddil one for her birthday, coming up July 14. They close at 5:00. I got out there before 4:30... but I was rushing.

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And I have another OMM tonight.
Dmom says everyone just assumes that we KNOW we are all invited to dcousin's house for the 4th of July. And she said that daunt casually mentioned this at the dinner following other dcousin's funeral.
Dmom said, "No one has actually INVITED me to this, but I am assuming y'all do want my macaroni & cheese?"
Daunt said, "Of course! You know you are invited!"
Well... I was not present at this conversation and no one has said diddly-squat to me about it. I was also not informed of their Memorial Day gathering, but dmom was, and dmom said she suspected that they all knew we were out of town at the time.
Anyway... I have called daunt TWICE in the last two weeks since dcousin's death... but daunt no longer has caller ID, and apparently does not answer the phone at all anymore, preferring to simply listen to messages and return at her leisure. * sheesh * Both she & my other aunt/uncle have changed phone service and eliminated caller ID and are operating on this system now. Drives me crazy... b/c neither of them have returned my last 3 calls!
I suspect the younger generation, my cousins, rely on text messaging, but I have a text block on my phone. No one can get a text to me, but they have no way of knowing that when they send one. They just think I ignore texts, I guess. (I know this b/c dnephew has mentioned sometimes, "I texted you, did you get that?"
* sigh * AUAAUAUGGGHHH!!!
So? How do I handle 4th of July activities?

[Harriet]

Sadie, in case you get in to read again, I sent you an email. Also your avatar is up, so Tweety Bird is ready for your posting again.