Heather's Heavenly Vapes - THE BIG THREAD (Part 6)

DavidOH

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Evening....Well no work for me tomorrow.. Time for my 6 month BP check. Followed by a hearing appointment at Costco.:) I got a letter this week telling me the safety interval since my last cancer test has expired. Which means it's time to set an appointment with the Ohio Gastroenterology Group..:eek: And today the state reminded me my CDL is going to expire in March. Which means fingerprints to make sure I haven't turned to the dark side and a HazMat test. But those can wait till January. Other than that I'm good..:p Oh and Happy National Pizza Day..(that's every day for me):thumb:

 

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Greetings from Florida. My cousin is getting married this weekend, so I flew into Tampa to pick up my mom and we drove over today. We rented a nice beach front condo and are having my Aunt and Uncle join us. It’s such a treat to spend time with my mom, and the cousin getting married is the one whose mom just passed away (my Aunt Ida) so I’m glad to be here for a nice happy occasion for a change.

I really should have put in a new coil before I left. It’s pretty icky.

Hope you are well and Robin... you’ve got to stop landing in the hospital!!hope you’re feeling better.
 

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Good morning :). I come to this thread occasionaly to check on Miss @Robino1's progress. Yeay on the earlier surgery. Good luck sweetie :wub:

And because I love your posts @Bronze, after I checked on Robin I read yours. I've missed you my friend since I stopped visiting that other thread. You make me laugh…a rare thing :wub:

Seriously though. If I had to quickly escape my house the only thing I would insist on taking with me is my revolver. I'd take that before I'd take my underwear. If that doesn't scare away the looters the revolver will. :)
And I too would make sure my hand guns went with me…although there are a few other things too.

One thing leads to another and it's never simple.

Hurricane taking dead aim on us.
Secure items on deck including turning the table upside down.
Look at the brackets that hold the legs together and it reminds me they are messed up and has been driving me nuts for 10 years.
Go to remove eight bolts. Two different sizes. Some english, some metric. All hard to get to.
Some rusted beyond belief.
Go to and from garage at least 12 times getting different tools and stuff to try.
Finally get them off after employing unconventional persuasion on the rusty fasteners.
Bang out the dents in the brackets.
Go to sandblast/repaint them. No sand.
Run to store to get sand.
Home Depot sold out.
Run to Lowes and they have it.
Come back, sandblaster gun is shot.
Rip it all apart, no go. It's finished.
Ordered another sandblast gun.
Sit and wait till it shows up.
I left out a whole bunch of other things on this list.

What started as hurricane prep ended in a table that is in pieces laying all over the place next to a million tools and gear and now I sit and pick my azz looking at the mess I made until the gun shows up. Nothing ever goes to plan no matter how simple. Nothing! Not ever!

Right, BK?
This sounds like us. Hubs and I are repurposers, builders and fixers. But somehow there are different types of screws on everything we fix/make/do because we recycle screws too from job to job. And your sanblaster story made me chuckle because that's so us too. There isn't a single project that has ever been simple from start to finish. Arghhh!

It keeps sprouting big green leaves every Spring for 12 years now.
Yup. These holes don't mean tree's duying. I worried about this one but a master tree guy said as the tree is regenarating bark it's fine but the hole may take years to close and maybe it never will. The hole is mine is over 5 years old and as you can see from the second photo the tree is happy :)

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Yup. These holes don't mean tree's duying. I worried about this one but a master tree guy said as the tree is regenarating bark it's fine but the hole make years to close and maybe it never will. The hole is mine is over 5 years old and as you can see from the second photo the tree is happy :)
It's odd. Sometimes lightning will kill a tree and sometimes it wont. Lots of times the tree will survive the strike but the bugs will infest the wound and kill it that way. I kept spraying insecticide on the wound. The carpenter bees liked to drill their holes in the thing. The tree keeps healing though.
 

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It's odd. Sometimes lightning will kill a tree and sometimes it wont. Lots of times the tree will survive the strike but the bugs will infest the wound and kill it that way. I kept spraying insecticide on the wound. The carpenter bees liked to drill their holes in the thing. The tree keeps healing though.

I have an intense dislike for carpenter bees. They seem to be getting worse here in Ole Ky.
 

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I'm doing ok. Not great but definitely ok. I've managed to stay out of the ER for two nights now and have only two more before the big day.

Hubby is flying back here on Saturday and I've missed him so much this last week or so. He surely is my rock.

My sleeping pattern sucks big time and I wake frequently. I'm up for about a half hour to an hour then manage to sleep for another couple of hours. This goes on all night. I have pain from the pressure of the fluid that the cancer is putting out in my belly. A couple of Tylenol takes care of it but only lasts about 4 hours.

I look preggers again. They have drained it a few times, each hospital stay. It comes back rather quickly though. First time they got 1.8 liters, second time 1.3 and this last time 1.4. I'm so looking forward to not having that fluid anymore.

Three more days....
 

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I'm doing ok. Not great but definitely ok. I've managed to stay out of the ER for two nights now and have only two more before the big day.

Hubby is flying back here on Saturday and I've missed him so much this last week or so. He surely is my rock.

My sleeping pattern sucks big time and I wake frequently. I'm up for about a half hour to an hour then manage to sleep for another couple of hours. This goes on all night. I have pain from the pressure of the fluid that the cancer is putting out in my belly. A couple of Tylenol takes care of it but only lasts about 4 hours.

I look preggers again. They have drained it a few times, each hospital stay. It comes back rather quickly though. First time they got 1.8 liters, second time 1.3 and this last time 1.4. I'm so looking forward to not having that fluid anymore.

Three more days....
good luck with the surgery and a speedy recovery. I'm sure you won't feel up to posting for a while afterwards…perhaps your hubby could give us a quick post to let us know how you are.
 

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Afternoon...Checked out at the Doctor... All good. And went to Costco... I'm closer to broke than I've been for awhile... Hearing aids $2500.00..Plus $160 for a membership. But I'll get some of that back for shopping. Get them next Saturday.. I'm sure these will be much better..

 

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Raining here again. One place said we will have a chance of rain everyday until October 1st. We have already had a little over a month of this mess. I just could not believe my eyes. I didn't even get a chance to go to the store yet. I've been busy on some things that couldn't wait. I hope they are wrong about that forecast. The ground is already quite wet. For sure we will have significant rain today, and over the weekend. At least the temperature will cool down, but I'd rather have some more heat than flooding.
 

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Friday Evening. Tired, cleaned up, fed. 40 years ago it would have been PARTY TIME !
Now I just try to decide between TV or sleep. Sleep might win ....
If getting old is this exciting, I don't know if I will keep up in my '60's (age, not decade).
 

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