SHEs Organized

Glad to hear that Pepper's appetite is back. It will make Helia's life easier as well when she administers the meds.

Strange day here. I barely did anything but managed to water the plants, wind the clocks and do laundry. I cooked dinner and helped dh put the stamps on the calendars at the post office (we had to go to two post offices to find one with $10 stamps in stock.)

There were police cars and an ambulance in the driveway as we left and the manager was talking to one officer. Didn't know what to make of it except we know both are dispatched when dead body is found. There was no sense of rush so I figured body as opposed to medical emergency.

Later, riding the elevator at rush hour, I learned that it was the assistant superintendent. He had a massive heart attack and died. He was only 48. We really liked him, he always had a smile on his face and a wave for us. He'd hang out in the summer by the garage entrance where there's always a breeze and if I drove up, he'd trigger the opener for me so I didn't have to lean out of the car window. I'm really sad.

Class tonight was interesting but I'm not feeling well at all. Bad indigestion. So I'm off to bed now (will take a Tums) and will try and sleep. I'm short steps for the day but will let it go.

I'm glad I pushed to clean out the shed today while it was still warm. I threw away a lot of trash and raked out all the leaves that had blown in. I had bought a small caddy for yard tools some weeks ago and finally got it put together and set in place.

DH has 4 large plastic bins in the shed for cat shelters. I emptied them of last year's makeshift cushions, and refilled them for this year. Each one now has a layer of dry leaves and 1 or 2 pieces of old clothing that are too worn out for DH to wear any more. We don't think the bins are used very much even in the coldest part of the winter, but every now and then we'll look in the shed and see a cat sleeping in one.

They're tough outdoors cats and they seem to prefer either the high rafters in the garage or the dark under the front porch.

I cleaned the whole shed by myself and that annoyed me -- mostly because of the amount of obvious trash that who knows why DH didn't just throw away in the can that was right in there. When I came in the house for a break to clean the sticky burrs out of my work gloves, I called down to DH's mancave to ask him to help me pick up trash in the yard -- again junk that he had put down and hadn't bothered to pick up all summer. He came out right away, though, and we filled a large trash bag, and then he mowed some leaves since it was still nice out.

We are assuming that was his last chance to mow. We're supposed to get a mix of rain & snow tonight, and then it will stay around freezing for several days.

Tomorrow my plan is to spend most of the day looking for things to donate or throw away. It will also be laundry day as those tasks seem to go well together while I'm home waiting for the machines to do their jobs.

Helia ~ I'm glad to hear that Pepper is feeling better already.
Kathryn ~ Oh how very sad. 48 is much, much too young.

Booksaver: I remember how pleased I'd be when the shed was tidied up. Same with the garage. Sure it won't remain clean, but for the moment, it was organized and I'd feel lighter.

I really need to get to bed but really don't want to go. My head is still spinning from class (it was interesting, on the symbols associated with the saints and how to 'read' the story in paintings of them.)

I'm going to have some yogurt to see if that settles the tummy.

LOL LOL LOL Dh joins Pepper in feeling better after just one dose of prednisone and an antibiotic. Dh said that if he holds his head a certain way, he can hear out of it. The pharmacist told me that dh was to take the prednisone once a day, but that he should take 1 dose as soon as he came home from work and then to start taking them in the morning, starting tomorrow. She said that would kind of give him a jumpstart. He definitely needs one. When you think of it, it is rather scary just how well prednisone works. You know it is some potent medicine.

So glad Mr. Lilac * and Pepper * are feeling better.
Also so sorry to hear about the asst superintendent in your building, Kathryn! He sounds like such a nice guy... and that is such a shock, someone that young. (((BIG HUGS)))

I've read some on here today, but I've mostly been MIA -- partly b/c apparently I have some sort of weird sleeping sickness.
I slept all afternoon yesterday, and then again today! I don't know what's got into me. I mean, granted, as I have admitted here quite often, we live something like vampires... but I probably got at least 6-7 hours sleep Friday night, and then 7-8 hours last night. But Saturday night, I probably only slept about 4 hours before getting up to go to church. But surely I have caught up by now. Good grief.
DS came over and I walked with him (2 miles) and then I slept another couple hours this afternoon. So -- with my late awakening time -- that pretty well took the day.

DH and I went out and ate at Captain D's -- and the service was sooo slow, my baked potato was hard as a rock, and his jambalya was cold... * sheesh *
Then we went to Dairy Queen and that made up for it.
When we got home, of course, after eating ice cream, I had to spend a lot of time in the bathroom... but then I got interested in watching Blue Bloods on TV and I have had a very relaxing day, all in all. Plus, I did a load of laundry!

Also called a plumber for dmom -- who is without phone service. They are putting in gas and water lines on her road and they accidentally cut the phone lines. She can use her cell phone, but only when she is standing at the edge of her yard... She wants her plumber friend to come out and make sure they run the water lines right.

Tomorrow is nursing home day. It will be a busy day, b/c that's the afternoon, and then we'll keep dgs while ds goes with the gospel group tomorrow night and ddil goes to choir practice. Oh -- the potty training is on hold again, I think. DS said dgs got to the point that he was fighting sitting on the potty, so they didn't want to push the issue too much. He's not quite 29 months old yet, so I think they've got time to work on this.