10/28/24 - Donuts and still sleepy

Good morning all....
I'm sorry your coffee is broken rf...... give the hours you've been working it's no wonder you are still tired.....
Summer has returned to the plains states.... 89 degrees and 20mph winds.... It will be this way most of the week but the weather guessers say the weekend will be a wash out....true in more ways than just rain as we also have change our clocks... really how hard would it be for this lack luster congress to pass something we all need.... a stop to the insanity of changing our clocks??? they could do it in the short time they have left and be heroes to all.....

I hope OC gets news on her MRI results today and it's helpful information.......

Now on to a Monday....
 
It's sunny, windy and in the 80s this afternoon. Rain is iffy until Sat.

After lunch, I went outside. I told myself I was going to stop raking behind the bird feeders.
I didn't get that far. I wore my heavy pants and got overheated. I raked 8 cans of leaves and
moved them. It's going to take me awhile to get all the leaves gone from behind my house.
I was happy to see where I raked yesterday was still clear with the windy day.

rf, I hope you'll be getting some time off soon.

robin, I wish they would let get rid of daylight savings time soon. I think some silly people
voted to have it year round.

I hope everyone is having the best day possible.
 
Windy here, too, tho it has climbed up to 65! Manager came by on his little tractor and ran across all the leaves everywhere, thus chopping them into small pieces.......the area he did yesterday is now all filled with leaves, so am guessing that is what is in store here for us tomorrow. He lives behind us all (16 units/homes) and had a really large home, with a huge expanse of grass yard.....all his. This used to be a 9 hole golf course so there are underground sprinkler system, really nice grassy areas, but he manages to upkeep really nice. His home used to be the clubhouse, which is why so huge. The entire property has been in his family over 100 years, and he won't sell any of the land. Thus we all own just our houses........not the land they sit on. However a few of the homes have large garden patches in back, I think there are 3, maybe 4, each shared by 2 homes. (he told me he is sorry he did that, and won't allow any more. ) some folks plant flowers, some a bit of veggie garden. I don't plant anything, there are plants that just fill it, no idea what they are........but my back doesn't let me bend........so..............30 seconds is it. LOL
 
Poirot, that's an interesting concept, to allow people to own homes but not the property the sit on. Maybe it isn't so uncommon but I hadn't heard of it before. Now I'm sitting here pondering the pros and cons of such an arrangement.

Robin, I'm sure everybody here knows how I feel about Daylight Savings. I'm all for doing away with the changes but the trouble with that would be getting to an agreement on how to do it. Some people would like for it to stay on Daylight Savings year round, while others prefer going back to Standard time permanently. Of course I'd be for the latter. I like my extra light at the beginning of the day, not at the end. I'm hoping I can manage to start getting up earlier when we fall back this weekend.

Kat, I can't even wrap my mind around raking up 8 cans of leaves! What do you do with them once they are in the cans? I'm disappointed that a few areas in my yard have grown back up with sparse, spindly TALL grass since I last had it mowed. It's not enough for me to get the whole yard mowed again but I can't hire the mower guy to come back and weed eat a few areas. So they will just die and stay there, which isn't much worse than the dead ones lying all over the yard because it got mowed too late. In reality, probably no one will ever notice it besides me. Few will even see it.

Sexton, I'm sorry you're so tired and I agree with others who pointed out how overworked you've been. But I also have to say you made me laugh by saying, "I think my coffee is broken." It reminds me of my daughter-in-law, who has some chronic health issues. I've heard her say, "I'm pretty sure my body hates me." None of these things are laughing matters but I think it sometimes helps to try to keep a sense of humor in uncomfortable situations.

Robin, thanks to you for my second laugh. Goats are so fun to watch, they almost always make me laugh. But then I've never had any living in my yard. I've known people who did and it got to be more of a nightmare than a comedy....
Hey, thank you for the good wishes on my MRI. I haven't heard anything yet but here's the slightly amusing thing that happened this morning. The person, who was supposed to set up my appointment in the first place but never did, called me about an hour ago---to set up the appointment for me. I'd already had it on Thursday 24th, after waiting a week for someone to set it up, and getting it then only because I nagged them. She told me she'd been out on a family emergency, which I can totally understand, but it seems unprofessional to me to not have something in place to carry on with business when someone has to be out of the office for days. I don't know whether it's due to a shortage of staff or disorganization or simply indifference, but it's disheartening to see and know so many people (other than myself) suffering in pain and in some cases with very serious, even life-threatening health issues, waiting for days and weeks or longer for tests and treatment. Even so, we probably still have the best health care available world wide, even though I am one who takes issue with a lot of the approaches and try for natural means whenever possible.
With that all said, it's the strangest thing but my arm seems to be getting better. I don't know if it will continue in this direction but I've definitely seen some improvement over the past few days.

Sunny and hot, around 90* today and tomorrow. Wind gusting to 30 today and 40 tomorrow.
 
OC, I'm raking up just the leaves that fell in the ditch. There are several trees by my house along ditch.
I put the leaves behind the homes with privacy fences. They compost during the year and the owners
can't see them. I will probably have close to 20 or more cans to rake.
 
OC the only contact I've had with a bunch of goats was one spring when my father hired a man to bring goats to eat the brush around his house. Did my idiot father have a fence around his property? No, so to save money the day they delivered the goats, I had to help the really angry at him goat owner string around some of the orange plastic fencing around the property. The goats did what goes do they ate down all the brush so my dad's insurance was lower because after they left he had a defensible space around his property. I had blisters from pounding stakes and stringing plastic fencing.
But they do make me smile....
 
EEK, Robin, putting up any kind of a fence or barrier on the spur of the moment and in a hurry sounds like heavy duty stress and hard work! I've always wished I could somehow use goats for weed control but it just wouldn't work in my situation.

I hope all of us can get a good night's rest!
 
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