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El Dee

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Glad you're seeing fair weather Fran !!!

Saw the blockage thread on the FB....Glad that's all taken care of...

Just up the road from my house sits a school built in 1928.....It's huge....everyone from around these parts went there....I did for 11 years until the new high school was built...The school was abandoned in 2010 for a new school and was just sitting going downhill....Saturday night after eating I got a text that it was on fire....Yeah I was at the beach working and there's a raging inferno to close for comfort at home...They got it under control but now only the brick remain standing...I got a glimpse of the situation yesterday minutes before dark..It's very sad for sure...There was a preservation society getting involved....They say lightening struck the school....

Got my sheetrock hung and bathroom wall re-built....Now I need to finish the sheetrock and get some paint on the walls....
 

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With me, I've got the new 18" dock wheels mounted on our homemade raft/boat, and put in a new, buried, cable from our breaker box to the pump box. I fired up the new wiring and saw the pump isn't making it to the 60psi cutout; easiest possibility will be a gunked up foot valve at the intake in the lake, though the water temp is still kind of brisk [emoji3]
 

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Man, yall are making me tired with all the work you guys are doing! I haven't done much since my gallbladder got in the way, but after a good soaking ran over the weekend, I redneck aerated my back yard with a pitch fork yesterday. The ground was hard as a rock in places and not letting the grass spread, or take in nutrients. It ain't a professional job, but the price was right :lol:

Glad you got some sunshine, Fran! It's sure good for the soul after a long gloomy period!!
 

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You all have been busy!
Bov I’ll be thinking of you on Friday and will be waiting to hear your U/S results. 7:00 is early for sure but just think, you’ll have it out of the way and the full day ahead of you. :) The U/S showed them all they needed to see to know that mine needed to be removed, but my Aunts did not. It took some sort of nuclear type of test that sounded like a duck quacking to diagnose hers. Hopefully yours is simple like mine was. Fingers crossed!

The oldies loved my sparkles!!! ;) I’ve bought a kit and you tube is teaching me how to apply them so they just might get sparkled in the near future. (At least those willing)
 

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What a fun treat that would be for your Forever 21 ladies!!

I'm pretty sure you all know that my insurance is Medicaid, and they usually want to go the cheapest route. In this case, I would think that removal without a ton of other tests would be most cost effective...at least that's my hope. Unless the U/S doesn't show anything. At this point in my life I'm like...if I can live without it, kick it to the curb :lol:
 

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Bella Boo :)

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Yepp..... Bella is a great looking pup for sure.....

Aunt is getting radiation 5 days a week so the family has been stepping in to help take care of her needs....her husband has recently been diagnosed with dementia as well....Yesterday was my day....Today Cuzzo breezes in from Richmond, Va....Just a visit to see mom and Aunts....Was gonna come Monday and stay until tomorrow but I squashed those plans....I'm down here juggling sheet trying to survive....Making sure all these elderly peeps have what they need don't leave much time for entertaining....

I did manage to hit the parts store for a boat battery....I plan on getting that boat up to snuff and selling it....Fire from the school covered the yard with ashes....I'm just thankful they weren't flaming....Tacoma was covered and then it rained and streaked that....I washed it Monday as I usually would with my car wash brush....That left the ash marks....I gave it a good hard scrubbing with a rag today and it looked pretty OK after drying...Thought for a minute my paint was ruined....not 100% sure it isn't.....
 

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Hahaha @Forever 21!!! There’s a few, and I, no doubt am amongst their tribe! ;) When these glitter strands fall out I will start rocking my feather extensions for summer. At least I can apply those in myself. Glitter strands tie onto a single strand...no way that’s happening with these old eyes and a mirror!

My pond got all the attention yesterday. New flowering lily did not have the stones on top and I didn’t realize it before dropping it to bottom. Murky mess is what it turned my pond into! I bought some micro horsetail and forget me nots for the marginals. A new yellow and white koi named bubba was released in there as well. Will hopefully be able to see him soon!
 

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Dee, the fact that you are the only responsible person to help all your elders makes me want to come up there and slap some folks around!! But having been in that situation with Katie, I understand. She had a nephew and a couple of nieces that were no better than the ex...circling like buzzards thinking she had a big pile of money they could get their hands on. You are doing a great job, and I have much respect for you :wub:

LoL Tracy! I'm sure Bubba will be lounging in better waters soon :lol:

Bella...yup, she's definitely captured my heart! The saying about seeing a cardinal is a loved one coming to visit...I have a male one who hangs out in a tree in my yard and sits on the fence when Bella and I sit outside in the early evenings. I like to think it's Chase hanging with us :)

Will update when I get home from the Imaging Center tomorrow.
 

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I will be thinking of you tomorrow Bov! It’s easy Peary, but early as the dickens and I know you aren’t a morning person.

I hit the ground running this entire week long and I am over it! Looking forward to the weekend when I will likely not get out of my p.j.’s before noon! That’s the plan anyways.

My neighbors messy tree is going through a heavy seeding year right now. Those little freakin helicopters are EVERYWHERE and Bo is about to snap his cookies! I wish I didn’t like them so much or I’d tell them I’m hiring a yard service and sending them the bill. There ought to be a law I tell ya; had it with that blasted tree!
Rant over.

Hugs to all my buzzard buds, this buzzard needs sleep!
 

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And so the mystery deepens...! Official U/S results obviously need to be made by the Radiologist, but nothing abnormal seen in GB, liver, pancreas, spleen. One teeny tiny stone that was hard to find in my GB, and maybe a little bit of sludge, but seemingly not big enough to block a bile duct. Depending on Radiologist and Dr opinions, the next step will either be a Fraction Ejection test to see how quickly my GB empties (too slow would cause the biliary colic) or just a wait and see approach. As a side note, there is what looks like a very small cyst on my left kidney, and tiny stone in my right kidney. We'll see what they say about those, but I don't expect any worries.

Thank you for your love and prayers! Will keep yall updated as I learn more :wub:

Tracy, I'll trade you your helicopters for my damn gumballs off my only shade tree from the afternoon sun :lol:
 

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Well all those tests and we still don't know anything....Seems I've heard this before....Better than bad news though!!!

Those three years I was married....well I moved too the big city of Fayetteville, NC....There was a Gum Tree of massive proportions right beside the deck/screened porch/house...Gum Balls by the pick up load on the daily...I got Dad down there and we cabled that tree to a 4X4 and cut it...Took about ten minutes after that tree hit the ground for the law to show up....Turns out even though the tree was massive I'd dropped it safely and really hadn't broken any laws....I'm guessing had the tree hit the neighbors property maybe then I'd have broken some negligence law or something....
 

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If you continue to feel poorly after eating, remember what I said about that nuclear type test Bov. All other tests showed nothing for my aunt until they did that one. After her gb was removed she felt so much better!
I’m hoping you get to keep yours and whatever was ailing ya has moved on.

Gumballs, helicopters, pears (they have 2 pear trees back there as well...rotting fruit smells horrible in the hot sun of summer and the flies and bees they draw are dangerous for my mom; it’s all a freakin mess I tell ya and when houses are as close as ours are, you should have to speak with your immediate neighbors before planting those monstrosities. If I wanted messy trees to clean up after, I’d have planted some myself!!! Grrrr!
Now I’m getting cranky, lol
My long week isn’t letting up, and my plan of sleeping in won’t be happening tomorrow bc my coworker is sick. She’s not been the most reliable lately so I’m a bit peeved. Anyways, she was supposed to work the entire weekend, as she was sick on Tuesday and other coworker covered her shift. He’s now at max amt of hours for the week so that leaves me. I can def use the extra money so I’m happy for that, but there goes my sleeping in a bit!
I’m done crying now. Lol Suck it up buttercup!!!!

I hope you all have a good weekend!
 
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