thank you Fin, dont think the cubs game is going well

Kay hope it goes away soon will oatmeal help any? or an aspirin paste

Cub game ... 3rd inning ... Marlins: 5 ... Cubs: 0
mid-4th ... Marlins: 5 .. Cubs 2

Brewers game ... 5th inning ... houston:3 .. brewers:4 (houston still up)

they just tied it up vonnie hear sandy yelling lol

ya .. and Houston just scored and got passed the brewers ... 8 - 4!! watching a 3 run homer ...

7 runs in ONE inning!! started with a walk ... and 2 outs ... and just now a pop-out (almost homer!)

I'm just a faker, Frank.

an hour to an hour and a half at dawn, and then another again at dusk, and I'm basically done for the day.

so, that's a nice retirement, eh?

90% of the day, I'm napping, curled up with a book, or goofing off on the computer.

I just mostly TALK about the chores, because they define my day... like bookends, and give continuity and meaning to my life of basically slothfulness and leisure, lol !!

so, yesterday, I got to WATCH Persephone deliver her babies... she had three huge healthy little guinea piglets... they're the most amazing critters, within an hour, they're walking around, nursing, and eating lettuce... I got to watch mama lick her babies clean, and

raising children would've been a LOT easier for me, if THEY got independent as quickly, lol !!

of the 15 duck-moms on nests, 12 have hatched out their clutches by now, and we've a total of 107 (or so) ducklings cruising around.

yesterday morning I had to develop a new strategy... there's too many babies for the little waterers to be sufficient, so I dragged the giant black plastic water dishes I used for the goslings into the ducky nursery...

thought I was so smart, eh ?

NOT !!

mad chirping and cheeping woke me from yesterday's nappy, and I ran (hobbled, lol!) to the nursery to find two baby ducklings had somehow gotten IN the dishes, and were waterlogged, and exhausted from swimming.

they'd gotten IN, but couldn't get back OUT... silly duckies.

see, duckie-baybies mustn't go swimming this young, their oil glands aren't up-n-running yet, so water DOESN'T do the "like water off a duck's back" thing yet.

and ha ha ha ha ha, two of the mama ducks tried to BITE me when I attempted to rescue the lil early-swimmers...

geez, so protective !!

so, my fabulous solution was to find a couple of large rocks, and plop 'em into the dishes, so, the babies will have some help climbing back out if they should accidentally go swimming again.



hubby's been working all morning, creating a galantine... anybody here ever have that fancy dish?

I never have, and I'm looking forward to it... and he's really going from scratch, grinding up some pork (Kevin Bacon) for the forcemeat stuffing, and spending an hour carefully deboning the chilled bird that we plucked two days ago....

I smell the stock simmering deliciously, and am enjoying watching mi esposo figure out substitutes for some of the ingredients... really hard to find things like truffles and fennel and pistachios in the jungle, LOL !!

http://www.chefdecuisine.com/main/ch..._GALANTINE.asp

too bad it's gonna be HOURS before I get to taste it !

Hey Jim



and brewers lose wooohoooo

Hi all again.

Been feeling wiped out again, made me upset, so I'm coming up with some "new" ideas to try to reign in this fatigue thing.

We've never been consistant with bedtimes, that's over with. I need to start getting a normal time for sleep at night.

The second thing is, as much as I won't like it, taking a nap in the bedroom where the alarm is so I don't oversleep.

The water aerobics thing isn't working out that well, think it's because it's a half hour too long. I get past the point where it's helping into the point that it's not, so need to come up with something else to keep me healthy and raise energy without killing me too much.

I know, seems like common sense, LOL. But like I've said before - I'm a stubborn one who has to learn the hard way. Gotta remember I learned everything I need to know from kindergarten.

Hi everyone! I hope you all had a good weekend.

Renee - Many hugs to you.

Sandy and Jim - Hope you had fun at the game.

Fin -Maybe only doing 1/2 of the class will help. It is hard to set a regular sleep schedule. I mean, how can you go to sleep when you are not tired. lol I am not a night owl so going to bed between 9 and 10 is no problem. I do hope the new "rule" work for you.

So, did you post the painting? I would love to see it.

Vonn - Glad you checked in.

Frank - What are you going to do now that your buddy will be working?

Kay - I truly don't know how you do it all. You are definitely one amazing and inspirational woman.

Barb - How can you not go to Red Lobster and not blow it? lol Yummy!!! I love the biscuits too! Don't worry though allow yourself a treat every now and then. You are doing great so far and I'm proud of you.

Hi Everyone else that I missed. Hope you are doing well.

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Had a great weekend at DBF's. I painted and he worked on his Harley. He has his big ride coming up and started working on his older bike to ride (road king - so it has the saddlebags, etc.). Of course, we didn't work on the house at all which suited me just fine. It is too humid and the evaporative cooler doesn't work well in humid weather. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evapora...rative_cooling for those that don't know what these are.) So with increased muscle fatigue, weakness and extra spasms and shocks, I would not have been able to do much. The evap cooler in the garage works so much better than in the house so I spent my time in the garage doing paintings as well as DD16, DBF, and myself all chipping in to get the laundry done.

Oh, I did cook a Sunday morning breakfast this morning and then had to take a cold bath to cool down and get some mobility back. That was my big chore. lol

evenin' trish.

I am jealous!

haven't cooked in years, it's just too dangerous, me and knives and hot pans, and the stove, and standing up... and numb weak hands...

not a winning combination.

This weekend stunk!! I thought I'd be able to take my kayak out with my friend and I spent the entire time picking up stuff for the move and segregating stuff into storage and stuff to move. The highlight of my day was when I got to scrub the pooper scooper clean. A close second would be the brown rug I bought to bring (they warned us to bring lots of rugs). Lugged it in the house - it weighs so much, I could barely drag it. In non-fluorescent light - it's actually olive.... I'm hoping the movers will help me lug it back into the car so I can return it. I wouldn't bother but it was expensive enough that it's not worth keeping.

Luckily I have one more evening. That will be when i tackle the bedroom and bathrooms. Give me strength!