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Mary, good news that you will get your lens fixed. It would likely be hard for Dr.'s to remember ALL the individual details from their patients. I'm really amazed at the cheekiness of anyone who would do something to someone else's property because he is not happy about their pets. If he is resistive in ways, animals sense that often and react a bit.
Sad that the man has some health issues, but others, humans or canines, should not have to be distressed or harmed due to that. I would like to think that it will resolve but if management won' t work with tenants there is little bur protect yourself and your pet as much as you can.
Nothing much planned today. Have a phone appt. with the Nutritionist/Cardiac rehab coach. Busy tomorrow ( have to be at hosp @ 6:45 ) and get the lesion taken out of my bladder. Sure be glad to get that done. I'm so far over-due. It is a lot bigger, but I hope the Dr. can get it all and maybe I won't have to do anything else, or at least not much.
So, I have all the equipment now for my rehab. Some was slow in coming. Have to set up the pedometer today but won't start using it until maybe the day after tomorrow -- which I expect to be a quiet day for me.
Hope you all will have a good day and not too hot where you are. Safe travels if going anywhere.
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Mcbaker - hope you can get individual to stop messing with your trike. Sad that he's bothering pets as well. Glad your getting your glasses taken care of
Will be thinking of you tomorrow morning illinoislady as you go through your surgery. Prayers for an easy recovery.
I had my sore shoulder injected this morning and the doctor gave me a prescription for PT. Will try to piggyback that into my PT I'm doing for my hip. Heading to my REIKI session shortly. Need the relaxation and the energy I get from the session.
Enjoy your day.
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Cindy, It sounds like you are having an enjoyable trip back. (except for mountain rains)
mc, I hope they catch the person that is messing with your bike.
Illinoislady, best wishes on your upcoming procedure.
Sandy, I hope you get the car problem resolved. There are several little Tesla cars in my neighborhood
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Sandy - have fun in Toronto. I love downtown Toronto and the Island across from downtown. Chicago to Toronto is a 9 hour drive - and price of gas in Canada is close to $9/gal - It's over $2/liter. Good news on Bob's colonoscopy. I need to schedule mine - I called the GI office and they said it had to be the same month as the last one as insurance won't pay otherwise. I can't book in August as my insurance will be changing. So I called my insurance company and they will pay regardless what month. I'm on the 5 year schedule, so I"m trying for last half of June or early July.
It's heating up here through Thursday to the high 80s, then 40 degree drop on Friday with highs in the high 40s!!!
Just ordered the 8 free antigen home tests. We are still trying to decide on 2nd booster. My oncologist says it only good for 1-2 months and a doctor acquaintance said it couldn't hurt to get it - well then, it couldn't hurt not to get it!!!
Stay healthy.
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Keywest, Asheville was like a hippie enclave. We had not heard of any violence, and we also weren’t out late at night. Cafe - shrimp & cheesy grits for me, trout for step son, meatloaf for partner and a fig & Brie burger. All excellent. Bierhirami (not correctly spelled I’m sure) was the brewery. Outdoor seating, good beers, decent food - burgers, chopped salad, chicken sandwich.
IllinoisLady, Jackie, early morning surgery is the best. Less time for nerves to kick in. Hoping also for an easy recovery.
Cardplayer, hope your shoulder benefits from the injection.
Sandy - commiserate with you on cars. We leave partners Fiat on a trickle charger while we’re gone. It wouldn’t turn over yesterday, AAA tried to jump it, and says it’s not the battery. Three guys agreed it sounds like the starter. They towed it to the dealer. This mornings call is they need to do a diagnostic on it, $159, before anything. And they can’t get to it before tomorrow.
The car issues were on top of: we had a call Monday night as my niece was checking my house, turning back on circuit breakers for hot water to be ready, she discovered our basement was flooded. About 12” it looked like by water marks, but it was at 6” when she sent me pictures.
I called my cousin Billy, thank god for family. He came over and saw what was leaking, a pressure valve on the side of my boiler. He turned off the water to the house and put a sump pump in to get the water out. With no one here, my niece stayed 2 hours as it ran so it didn’t burn out the pump if it emptied and no one shut it off.
We came home 3pm yesterday and restarted the pump. It ran for over 3 hours and the basement- which is a dirt floor basement and thankfully nothing is stored down there, is as dry as the pump could get it. We opened all the windows and left them like that, won’t close them for a while. Minimal shallow puddles here & there. I called the insurance company, who are assigning a claims adjuster. No one has gotten back to me yet. My only fear is a damaged boiler. Water heater worked, we had hot showers last night.
Then we moved the sump pump to my above ground pool cover. It worked its magic and the pool cover is near as empty as it can be. I did have to take a dead bird out of the pool cover water. High pines next to the pool, we always lose a few birds to it.
This morning I’m back on track, although quite slow. I went to the front porch to go out and get the newspaper (yes we still read real paper HA). I keep old slippers out there for going outside. I put my foot in and said WHAT IS THAT?! It was a dead mouse curled up in the toe part of my slipper. Not dead too long, he wasn’t dehydrated yet. We leave poison throughout the house, mostly in the attic. House being near 100, they get in who knows where in the winter. He’s in the garbage now.
If you’ve read this far, I apologize for the lengthy story. Hope you have a great day! Looks sunny here with a high of 70, I can live with that.
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My DB came yesterday to check out the deck in my powder room garden window. It has been in sad shape for a while and again another postponed home project. The supports we knew were also disintegrating and needed to be replaced as well. He ended up having to rebuild the entire bottom of the window, rebuilding the supports and installing a new decking material since the wood did not hold up. The new one is a white plastic material which might work better in the long run. Today DH gets to paint the supports.
I got him to take one of the hydrangea split pieces for his DD. My DD will take 2 for her yard so that leaves me with the 2 large pieces I wanted to keep and 2 smaller ones I will locate in my yard. They look wilted even though we have had downpours later in the day. The walkway contractor stopped by to draw up a plot drawing for the permit required by the township even though this is a replacement of an existing walkway, not a new one in that sense of the word. He is also doing the patio realignment and said he plans on starting that while waiting for the township approval. He expressed his annoyance with the permitting process because true to word sometimes they never examine the work during or after installation. However, I'd rather have it than have an issue where I might be required to tear it out. He had advised me that I could split the hydrangeas and also told me that I might be better off keeping the splits in buckets of water rather than the soil I had them in. He also told me which plants I should remove in anticipation of them starting the walkway which is far less than I had expected. So far I am pleased with my decision to award him the contract. I did hear from the other company I had asked for an estimate and told them I was not going with them. After comparing both estimates, products used, etc they were far too costly for both the walkway and patio.
I had a budget in mind for my "on hold" household restoration projects (separate from tree damage/insurance ones) and found that I will come in way under budget even though I have purchased a vintage Persian rug for the family room, am getting the new walkway, steps and patio realignment, refinishing my kitchen cabinets, refinished the floors in the kitchen and family room and had repairs made to the garden window.
I got to tackle a large flower bed on Monday and to plant some bulbs I had bought for this area. Today I want to get the rest of the plants in to this bed and to tackle another bed that needs raking and weeding. I have a large patch of periwinkle I want to thin and then transplant to other areas as well. The yellow iris and purple iris are in full bloom and look lovely. The lilac by my front door is in full bloom and the fragrance is amazing. The ones on the side of the house will bloom soon but their fragrance is not as heady. Wish I could bottle the scent because we sat on the patio on the back of the house on Sunday and could smell the lilac. The lily of the valley are also in bloom. The hummingbird has returned! I look forward to his return. I want to hit the garden because it is supposed to shower again this evening. Have a good day.
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Illinoislady - I hope all is well and that your procedure went smoothly.
I haven't been to Toronto in years. I have family (niece & nephew and their families), but just haven't made it up there. Was in Key West years ago when my kids were younger. Enjoyed wandering around the shops, went on a snorkeling trip, enjoyed people watching. Never made it to Asheville, although my husband and I traveled to Western Carolina, where he went to college. Wish we had visited when we were nearby.
Feel like my life is just PT and doctor visits, sprinkled in with walks and house cleaning. Tomorrow we go to Nordstrom, where I hope to find a comfortable bra. It's a little over an hour drive. So that'll be different for a change.
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If we knew the true power of belief and positive thinking, we would never have a negative thought.
Susan Santucci
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I will just say 'to all those who may write long notes' I love it. I get to really know you and how you feel about things. I get to experience the people that have influenced the emotions you are telling me about. I get to share the good and bad. I learn what you are indifferent about as well as what is closest to your heart. You also help me think about things that are done well by you and help me critique myself safely -- great pointers and ideas. I hope you never stop. We all do it now and then too.
As to today's procedure I received way, way better news than I was expecting. There were moments -- like getting to the operating and spending way more time awake on that cold, hard operating table awake then I thought I would. Every other time when they have used heavy anesthesia, they had me asleep before they even took me in. I think there were some concerns being addressed so they waited. Anyway, long story short -- my blood pressure did not want to register. Not all of it anyway. The systolic would show, but then the cuff would deflate and re-start -- over and over. They can only use my right arm but did fry both legs. They worked on the machine, then tried both legs again. Finally they went back to the rt. arm and the machine finally decided to behave. My family was worried. The board looked as if I had been having surgery for two hrs. The first 45 mins. at least were attempts at trying to get blood pressure established. I'm sure all the people there were just as frustrated as I was. They were late getting me started right off the top -- then added 45 more minutes to it.
This is how easy it is to make an entry longer than it might otherwise be. While in blissful sleep, with nary a notice of the cold hard table, it was discovered that what had been perceived as a huge cancer lesion was no such thing - it was a cyst. I did have a tumor -- very, very tiny. It was dealt with but I have no idea if the lab will be able to find what kind of cancer it was. The other highly positive item -- I did not have to come home with a catheter after all. Had the cyst actually been a cancer, Dr. B was pretty positive that he would have to give me the rest my bladder needed to be afforded, by use of a catheter. Knowing I dislike him, he warned me again before my procedure. How nice not to wake up with it there.
Considering all that, I did manage to make it home by noon. Some stomach cramping ( highly tolerable for me -- and a bit of a burning sensation ) but it is something else I can ignore in order to bypass issues for results. Quicker I "go" the quicker I get to go home.I'm behind on my medicine but taking what it seems I most need -- like the water meds since they IV you in surgery and I'm on water restriction. I was able before it kicked in to get a really nice long nap in while wearing off more of the anesthesia.Now, to get good reports on my colonoscopy when it gets done, and chest CT in August.0 -
Jackie, that’s great news
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Jackie, that is great news!! Given what you have been through the past few months, maybe your medical crises will simmer down.
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Wonderful news, Jackie. I am so happy that for once your news is better than anticipated. Hope the pathology report is good as well. You are deserving of some good luck after all you have been through lately. Glad you enjoy lengthy messages as I have a tendency to post them. I do enjoy when others post them as well. It's nice to come here for some normalcy on one's daily life.
Cindy, hope your basement dries quickly and that your insurance company handles your claim fast.
Mary, the guy who is messing with your bike deserves a caning. There is something wrong with him and I would keep the police advised of his behavior.
ChiSandy, I hope you enjoy your trip to Toronto. We went there 35 years ago and DH did not make advanced reservations because it was September and who goes to Toronto then? Well, turns out it is a conference city and we ended up staying in a motel by the lake. The ceiling was mirrored over one of the beds which my 4 year old thought was wonderful because she could see herself jump on the bed. Plus the bathroom was totally mirrored and I have to say confronting my butt ( I was skinny then) was a rude awakening. Didn't necessarily want to see full body nudity. The mattress when it heated up reeked of BenGay so we ended up getting a new one the next night after the motel owner heated it up again using a heating pad. Loved the city and would love to go back and stay at a nice hotel this time. Please do tell us about any wonderful sights and meals! Hope your DS and DDIL have fun on their honeymoon.
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Jackie, You’ve made my day with such happy news. Thank you. Sometimes, unexpectedly, life comes along and hands you a gift. And I’m glad you received such a good one, and a nap, too
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My recertification interview went well. I am working to get a doctor's note. Since I can't walk distances and I need to lose weight and bicycling does not significantly put stress on my knee, I need to move to a two-bedroom apt as a reasonable accommodation for my disability. There is an empty one streetside on the other side of me. It has been empty for quite a while. I will have enough room for my bike, and for making a mess with my sewing.
I suspect that whoever visited my bike did so with the intention of theft, was disappointed that it was securely chained up, and messed with it out of revenge.
Bought some dirt for a low area in my garden and put in a row of beans yesterday. I experimented with making a sunshade for Tippy. Attached one end of a tarp to the beanpoles and the other end to the ground with some stakes. He liked it. I need to get a stake for the middle of the tarp. Sunny and hot is really rough on the little guy.
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Illinoislady, I am glad surgery went pretty well. The blood pressure issue was odd.
Cindy, what a mess to come home to. I would have been hysterical with a mouse in my slipper.
Nothing much going on here. We have an electrician coming over to do some work and tomorrow we pressure wash the cool deck. It has been too hot for my walks and definitely too hot for hiking. I have been doing Silver Sneakers videos.
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Wonderful news that your surgery went well Jackie. I hope you continue to feel better.
Feeling achy, but pushed through my exercises this morning. Getting ready for my bra shopping later this morning. DH will be driving in with me. We plan on eating at the food court at the mall. We can have lunch out, which is a rare treat for us. I can bring my own food and he can pick what he wants. I have Gastroparesis, delayed stomach emptying. I have a very limited diet, so eating away from home is difficult for me. There are very few restaurants that I have found that can accommodate my diet and make meal that I can eat.
Hope it's sunny and warm where you live. It's a beautiful day here. Enjoy your day.
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We believe that it is difficult to let go, but in truth, it is much more difficult and painful to hold and protect. Reflect upon anything in your life that you grasp hold of--an opinion, a historical resentment, an ambition, or an unfulfilled fantasy. Sense the tightness, fear, and defensiveness that surrounds the grasping. It is a painful, anxious experience of unhappiness. We do not let go in order to make ourselves impoverished or bereft. We let go in order to discover happiness and peace.
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Thanks for all the cheering on. Many of you here are an inspiration to me -- which helps me accept my struggles while trying to conquer them which I expect to do fully.
Yesterday it rained. Today looks to be sunny and I hope it stays that way. I have some projects I'd like to do -- especially wash my deck windows. As mentioned long ago, my kitchen door opens directly onto the deck ( towards one end ) and the bank of 4 fairly tall windows are a yd. and few inches to the right of the door. Those windows allow us to see so much. Soon the black out curtains will be pulled more closed than not but for now those windows need cleaning. Can't expect SIL to do ALL the typically woman's work round here. He is a good cook by the way and quick study. Loved learning how to cook bacon in the microwave.
Pretty sure you all know this but : if you cook bacon in the microwave it cancels out the nitrites or is it nitrates, which is a cancer producer in bacon. I can eat a little bit of bacon and did I say -- I found some regular ( meaning not the turkey bacon that you chew for half a day and it is still one piece in entirety and I swallow finally just to be rid of it ) bacon that had less salt in it then the turkey bacon had. Good reason to read labels and keep reading them. Things change and also, you will learn things you never knew. Like fat, salt and sugar content that you would never dream would be prevalent in certain foods. e
Even if you don't have food restrictions it is nice to know what you are really getting. For instance -- I was amazed to see some canned foods with almost my whole daily requirement of salt. Then other things I thought to be salty had little. I also think the majority of boxed food has way too many un-identified things in it. Meant to make it taste like something familiar to us and it does -- just isn't real food but chemical additives and flavorings. Most of the Nutritionists I talk to caution the use of boxed food for that reason. Nice to know that we do have FDA and others to help be a guide. Some rigidity and regulation are good. Lots of people like to fight rules, but many times ( like forcing manufacturers to put info on food labels ) or getting rid of trans fats is a good thing. Labels are now reflecting this fairly well.Hoping you all feel well too and have nice weather and get only the best results of your endeavors for the day. Glad that it is only the beginning of summer and so loving the beautiful green everywhere outside.0 -
Jackie, I don't know how you cooked the bacon in your microwave and whether you have one of those racks mean for microwaving bacon, but I just use a meat platter and layer the bacon between sheets of plain white paper towels. It absorbs the grease and while it might take a tad longer because I like my bacon finger crispy. Turkey bacon and turkey sausage do not cut it for me so I will just eat less to be able to have the real thing.
Most boxed foods are heavy in salt and fat to make them tastier, so you are better off avoiding them if you can. Canned goods are also salted for taste but also as a form of preservative for longer shelf life.
It rained here last night and of course, the lawn service shows up today to cut the wet lawn. It is still too high for my liking but it does look lush. It used to take DH in excess of 4 hours to cut a lawn that takes then with their large stand on mowers, less than 20 minutes. Our property is steep so a rider mower was not usable for us and even the lawn service has to weed whack a large part of it. I did make a dent in one flower bed yesterday after I trimmed the dead branches out of the Butterfly bush. I didn't finish but did get the plants and bulbs in, transplanted some periwinkle, and will try to finish up today once it dries up a bit. DH got 8 bags of mulch for this one bed but the larger one needs about 12-15 bags. I am using less mulch than I have in the past with filling in with perennials that self-seed or naturalize. I used to order 200 bags from Home Depot and have them deliver it on 2 pallets. I have probably cut this in half or maybe even less. I'll keep a tally for those beds I do this year so I know what I'll need later. The largest bed I have probably takes 30 bags and I am trying to introduce a ground cover to reduce this.
Off to buy some plants for the window boxes. I find I can buy hanging baskets at the local grocery store that have at least 4-5 plants in them cheaper than buying the individual plants at the nursery. So I load up on the hanging baskets and then split them out to fill my planters. Have a good day.
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My grandmother kept a kosher kitchen, but my grandfather loved bacon. He had a hot plate and frying pan in the basement and use to cook bacon frequently. Grandma wouldn't let him eat it upstairs.
My DH makes turkey bacon every week. He likes it on his sandwiches during the week. So once a week, he has turkey bacon and eggs for dinner with hash brown potatoes. I make myself an eggbeater overcooked spinach omelette with a baked potato. Guess I should check the nitrate level of the bacon.
We have marigolds in one flower box and wave petunias in the other. The flower boxes hang over the deck rail. Other flowers in pots on the deck.We have a small lot that backs up to common area. Mostly locust trees, a few pines and an oak. Gives us some summer privacy.
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Snow in the forecast for Friday and Saturday. It got to 90 today and at 7:06 its still 84. By tomorrow it will be in the 40s. I will bring in my 2 petunia hanging baskets and the plant my son bought me for my birthday that I planted in a pot for the garden fountain. We generally wait till Memorial Day to plant. This year DH wants to plant ground cover in the fountain garden and petunias but just not as many flowers so in the winter there is something besides dirt.
Love hearing people's good news. Keep it coming. Have a great rest of the day.
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(Good grief--I lost two long posts in quick succession. Heeere we go again)
Jackie, so glad your surgery turned out well despite the early BP hassle. I nuke my bacon between paper towels on one of those ridged melamine bacon plates. Easy cleanup but fewer drippings for the can. But Happy gets to lick the paper, which is the highlight of his day.
Judy, I've been to Asheville several times, for the annual SERFA folk music conference at Montreat Center outside Black Mt. Each year we'd carpool into Asheville for an afternoon to teach the kids at the elementary/middle school about our folk instruments, and even let them strum. One time, after having lunch with an ex-Chicago folkie who'd moved to Asheville, we took a self-guided walking tour of the little museum adjacent to Biltmore's gift shop (it was too late in the day for the full tour). Missed the conference this year, alas. I've stopped attending these conferences because I no longer tour nor look for bookings more than a day's drive up & back.
Cindy, hope you can get your basement fully dried! That mouse-in-the-shoe story made my skin crawl; though our first cat would leave "presents" in my shoes--the back 2/3s of waterbugs she'd caught and decapitated. She once tried to bring me a live mouse to play wirh, but Bob interceded.
Cardplayer, my parents grew up in kosher homes and rebelled against it first chance they got. On Saturday mornings we had bacon & eggs and on Sundays, "appetizing" (bagels, bialys, smoked fishes). Why not vice versa? Because the appetizing stores (all kosher) were closed on Shabbat. The one item of tref my mom didn't cook was pork chops--because she was terrified she'd give us all trichinosis, the one time she made them they were so overdone as to be inedible.
Well, I think I've solved the mystery about why Bob's car appears to be a mystery to the Ford mechanics--they don't know jack squat about hybrids, having sold very few down in that SW suburban (read "gas-guzzling-SUV-and-pickup-land") dealership. I asked him tonight just which warning light came on. (Mind you, he originally told me "the engine warning light"). Was it steady or flashing, I asked. He replied steady. What color? "A red triangle." D'OH! The infamous, universal triangle of hybrid-battery-death. (Same on Priuses too). "Did you tell them that?" I asked. He said, "I told them the warning light came on." If the mechanic had known it was the red triangle, he could have ordered a replacement hybrid battery a week ago instead of futzing around with diagnostic code readers (for heaven knows how many hours of labor costs) and we could have saved days & days of car-rental fees. If by some dint of miracle the car will start and run with just a new 12V battery (which I seriously doubt), I will insist he take it to a hybrid-specialist independent mechanic (most likely, one the taxi fleets use for all the 2010 & 2011 Escape Hybrids they snapped up so I got stuck with the Fusion instead).
Why didn't he know what to ask or to say? He grew up in a non-driving household--his mom was old-fashioned and said driving was for "the man of the house" and would do her shopping on foot with a shlep-cart. His dad didn't believe in driving, declaring he didn't "have a driving personality" (his aversion was based on Bob's grandfather, a NYC subway motorman, having been hit by a car rolling backwards downhill--who inculcated in my FIL the notion that automobiles were evil). Bob did not drive until he was 33 years old--when during the last year of his cardiology fellowship he mooniighted at far south suburban & S. Side hospitals poorly served by public transit--and I was sick of playing chauffeur after having worked all day. Gordy doesn't drive either--but that's because sensory-integration-deficit spatial-perception problems made driving lessons such a nightmare that he never bothered to take the road test; he's comfortable with rideshares and public transit (and Leslie drives).
OTOH, I used to do my own oil changes and even gap the spark plugs on our first car (a 1972 Datsun 1200) when we moved here from Seattle and there was no Datsun (now Nissan) dealership nor affordable mechanics nearby.
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We may have to cancel our Memorial Day weekend trip to Toronto. Even though proof of vaccination is sufficient for us to fly into Canada, we have to test negative (regardless of citizenship, vaccination, and short length of stay) no earlier than 1 day before we (attempt to) fly home. We can use our own rapid antigen tests--provided they come with a telehealth service that has a provider look at and verify our negative test results. If we want to test at the airport, it's $67.80 for each of us--and if either of us test positive we both will be stuck in Canada, isolating (where, who the hell knows?) for at least 5 days if not longer. This is INSANE--if we drive or take a bus or train home, we don't have to test, but if we fly.... Canada will let us in without a test, but the US will not let us fly home without a CDC-compliant telehealth-verified negative test taken no earlier than Sun. May 29 (our flight home is Mon. the 30th). The only exception is if we test negative here in the US and spend only a day in Canada--but the test would still have to be a telehealth-verified negative.
We could try to cancel our return flight on Porter (they've waived all change & cancellation fees on flights purchased before May 31) and either rent a car or take a train or bus home--but Bob has to be back at work Tues. May 31 at 8 am.
Has anyone here run into this before?
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Sorry your having travel challenges chisandy. Covid testing and quarantine makes traveling between countries difficult.
My husband planted a Caladiums in a pot on our deck. We've had an issue with a squirrel getting into the flowers. The picture below is the latest. I've been watching CaddyShack for ideas, but he'll probably go with chicken wire and a new plant. Enjoy your day
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We are all born with a belief in God. It may not have a name or face. We may not even see it as God. But it is there. It is the sense that comes over us as we stare into the starlit sky, or watch the last fiery rays of an evening sunset. It is the morning shiver as we wake on a beautiful day and smell a richness in the air that we know and love from somewhere we can't quite recall. It is the mystery behind the beginning of time and beyond the limits of space. It is a sense of otherness that brings alive something deep in our hearts. -Kent Nerburn
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I don't travel, but I do feel for you Sandy. Can't imagine trying to put together a hopefully enjoyable get-away and then have it up-ended at the last minute almost. I hope you can find a way to make it work out.
Just wow cardplayer. I've seen this before -- around here so don't have too much around anymore. We have everything ( which I know was the original issue with you ) in the ground. We have lost a lot of our ground cover. To the deer. They don't want to eat the ground-cover -- they get into the beds for the acorn munchies. If we can get enough of the ground cover coming up -- they won't make such an impact or destroy so much of the groundcover - but for now.
Had a wild time of it yesterday evening. Big thunderstorm and pouring rain. Seemed like it went on most of the night. I was up late finishing my meds so wrecked my sleep a bit, but did manage to get enough I think.
Today I am attempting to go over and help my friend with her house. She cannot keep up and so I told her I would try -- that I'd be slow for sure. I feel fairly up to it, but have no idea if it will work out or not.
The sun is out -- and some small drying out will take place, but could be rain again in the wee hours. I sure hope not. There is a tree ( not quite all the way, in the way ) at the top of our road coming in here. Loosened likely from all the water. It was not alive so makes it even easier.
My sinuses are full today so not hearing well at all.
I hope you all have a really good day.
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Sandy - my husband did end of last month when he went to Winnepeg for 2 nights. Both DH and his colleague tested before they left for Canada then the next day had to test for Covid. They decided that if either one tested positive they would rent a car and cross the border. He went to Vancouver last week and same thing, except they were there for 4 nights. Same drill. It is a hassle to say the least. Could you cancel return flight, rent car and drive to Buffalo and fly from Buffalo to Chicago? That would be less driving than the 9 hours Toronto to Chicago, but just as much travel time. We just ordered 8 more free home antigen tests and before we travel this summer, international, will test at home day before we leave even though as of now we don't need testing and will bring antigen tests with us.
Went this morning for our 2nd booster. We both had Pzifer for the first 3, but switched to Moderna based on DH's retired PCP. Hoping for no side effects. I didn't have any besides sore arm, but DH got sick with each one and each one was worse.
Cold and damp - its been raining all morning and turning to snow this afternoon. Brought my plants in last night.
Need to get busy cooking, baking and cleaning.
Have a great Friday and week-end.
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We could cancel the return flight (for a credit from Porter) and rent a car, drive to the border crossing at Windsor (same length of drive from Toronto as Buffalo) and then fly home from Detroit. Detroit-Chi is a much shorter flight (about an hour) than from Buffalo.We've flown out of Detroit as the last leg of travel from our 2015 Mediterranean cruise (Barcelona to Amsterdam to Detroit to Chicago) on Delta. I asked Bob and he said to roll the dice on testing at Billy Bishop the day we are to fly home (or even that Sunday in downtown Toronto); I asked what if we test positive, and he said there are worse things than being holed up for 5 days in a luxury hotel getting room service (especially from their 4-diamond Chinese restaurant), watching TV and reading--which for him is an ideal vacation, like the one we took to a condo in the Berkshires. Having had COVID in January and staying home for 5 days made him less afraid to have to adjust his work schedule.
The only fly in the ointment with the drive-cross border-fly home domestically plan would be if to pacify the GQPers, Biden imposed a testing requirement at our southern border--in which case the requirement would be extended to ALL overland and water ports of entry.
We and the kids will rapid-test next Thurs. (they leave for Spain the same day we leave for Toronto, but from different airports). They were turned down for second boosters because of their age and the fact that it's been less than 5 months since their first boosters. I think that's unfair: he has asthma and she is obese, so they're both vulnerable to more serious infection (and also too young to qualify for antivirals). There is still the possibility that if they test positive before flying home from Madrid, they'd be stuck in Spain for a week. She speaks Spanish (grew up in Texas) but his only foreign language is French.
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Of all the gifts that wise Providence
grants us to make life full and happy,
friendship is the most beautiful.
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Having thunderstorms today. I ran out to wash the deck windows in-between when rain was gone for a bit. Our next sunny day I'll be able to see exactly what I missed and what will have to be re-done. It is the first cleaning of the season, so I wash with dish soap knowing I'm likely to have to go back -- which I will do with Windex.
Nothing special planned to today. Laundry and some windows -- a nap in the chair. Some tuna fish for lunch in a couple minutes, and I think I have it covered.
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