Morning all.
Happy - Although I love most sweets, including pastry, apple turnovers aren't something I've succumbed to. Apple fritters are another matter, lol. ==Glad you were able to handle the bingo while your partner dealt with the critter. It's kind of a blessing to know you won't be tempted by the food offerings at bingo!! == Are you going to get another cortisone shot in your knee?? == Bummer that the pricing stickers are not sticking to the spines of the books!!
Awful to think that there are people removing price tags in a shop that supports a good cause. == I agree- the guy parking his truck & boat trailer across multiple spots is asking for trouble.. I hope you can get your boat out during the nice weather.
Shad - I do find it odd that the relatively inexpensive medical items aren't covered by insurance like the shoe inserts, but foot surgery would be covered. Or that the US medicare system has no dental coverage.
== I do think our government's social security will eventually change and limit the amount collected by people who are "too rich" as you say. Even though we've paid in all our lives...
== I wonder what it is that's growing out of your compost pile?? Shall we all make guesses? Flower, veg, or weed? I'll be the cynic & guess weed, lol. I hope Sunday the cat is adjusting to fewer teeth & managing to eat an adequate amount. == Safe travels to see the granddaughter - don't forget those earplugs!!
= Oh, yes, I occasionally lurk on the thread Ruthxxx posts on & saw she was engaged. But I've fallen off on my lurking & don't know the details.
Ceejay - Bf thinks my mom's place is cursed because the projects he does over there always have some difficulty or other... = Nice that your nephew comes to check in on you.
Susie - I hope you don't have to work too much on your staycation. == Saw the post on fb selling your dresses - have you thought about joining a private Facebook virtual garage sale group in your local area? Maybe you can reach buyers that way. == Another great loss last week!!
Hellos to the rest of you!
Happy Fourth of July to those of us in the USofA!
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Been keeping slightly busy this weekend. Saturday I shopped all afternoon with my mom while Bf reinstalled her plumbing in the kitchen. I was tired after all the walking around the giant home improvement store followed by the equally giant grocery store. Mom's got stamina, that's for sure.
On Sunday I went to my friend B's house. We rode our bikes on the trail near her house, and then caught up over lunch afterwards.
Yesterday my mom and I went for a stroll around the lovely grounds of her community - there's a nice path that goes around the large pond. They have a pair of swans there to keep the geese away, and there are baby swans right now. Cute. We'll have to see the raised veggie gardens and the "summer house" another time. We stopped a few times to sit & didn't get over to see those areas.
I finally sprayed all the weeds yesterday afternoon. We'll see in a few days if I mixed the weed killer concentrate with the right amount of water...
Yesterday evening bf's mom took bf & I to dinner at a Japanese seafood/ steak restaurant - where they cook at your table. It was delicious. That was my birthday gift, which we never got to last year because she had fallen and broke her hip that day. I'm so happy she's doing pretty well after all that.
Today I might go to our town's parade, but I really want to finally get the rest of the flowers planted. I can do both if I'm not too lazy, lol. I guess we'll go to see fireworks tonight.
Back to work tomorrow, but it'll be quiet, I'm sure. The boss will be out, yay for that.
Okay, time to cut & paste & post. Have a great day everyone.
I told N that the stickers are easily peeled off (and unscrupulous people will indeed take them off as we are finding removed price stickers all over the store). She said her first priority is to get the books priced even if the stickers won't stick. So I told her to just go and price them and I am following behind putting clear tape over the sticker. And there were 20 books of donations which I went through and sorted and stacked and boxed up some of the things like music cassette tapes that we don't want to keep any more. I ran out of time to tape book stickers so 2 hours after I was going to originally leave after spending another 5 hours at the store, I took a call from DH. He came and picked me up and we went to a very popular place for pizza. Well this is heck week for living in this town - the most busy week of the entire year here filled with all sorts of out of towners taking up our spaces. We wound up going to our favorite Italian restaurant. They had just opened for the night so we had no problems getting in. We sat on the patio and ordered drinks and pizza and salad. It was a GORGEOUS day so it was expecially nice. Up until 8pm you can enjoy the outside before the bugs set in. Came home and about 30 minutes afterwards 2 bear cubs wandered into our yard nosing around. DH went out to take down the hummingbird feeders from the deck and they didn't like the noise (although they were hungry) and left. I was going to go into the store to finish up today but I am working 11 to 3 tomorrow - everyone else "took the holiday off" including today's regular volunteers. I didn't want to leave my winter partner all alone - she is 82 so I am going in to be with her as this is a busy time at the store also. So since I am already going to be there tomorrow I decided heck with today. I am getting tired already and if N is not concerned about people pulling off price stickers, well then I'm not going to worry about it either. I'll do some laundry and cleaning today. Am still debating about getting peaches from the peach truck. I do have 13 of them I got in the replacement order - do I need 25 pounds? No I think not. I have about 5 or 6 jars left from what I canned last year. I might head over there later this afternoon when they come and pick up some blueberries also. If they have some, I'll get some, if not I'll won't. Simple as that. 
