The Old Folks Home

[bruceha2000]

I would definitely check with the power company when all is said and done and see what they can do if this should happen again....and it probably will.

I don't know that power companies have "loaner" generators though that does sound like a great idea for customers that have a critical need and can't afford to buy a generator. Doesn't take too long to deliver a generator. Maybe they could provide them for a puny monthly charge so they are already at the residence.

 

[microchick]

So I did the 10,000 post?

Cool!

Girl Sidney was spayed today. Did great. They told me when I called to check on her that we got her in just in time. She was set to go into baby mode any day so glad that is taken care of and answers the question of why the boys are fighting and scent spraying everything in sight. Ben is next in line to lose the family jewels. My meek little runt boy with a beautiful colored face and loving attitude towards DH and myself has turned into alpha male with the other dogs and boy does he like to throw that autority around.

Okay, ladies, tell me how this hits you. Neighbor with 13 kids here. Always she seems to pop in when I'm in the middle of cleaning which I usually do on Mondays. so rugs were piled, vacuum was out, general chaos and as it was late afternoon and I'd just taken pain meds, I had my bum parked on the futon working on my quilt project, taking a break.

We got to talking about how bad the road dust was and she remarked that she was lucky. Their house is away from the road and her girls don't let the house get dirty. I'll send my cleaning crew over to help you out if you need them.

She wasn't being catty and I thanked her but dusting and dust mopping the floor daily is SOP here in late summer when the heat sets in and the gravel road bakes to powdery dust. Plus, I used to have a plaque that read my house is clean enough to be healthy and dirty enough to be happy. I don't let clutter bother me until it reaches the boiling point and then it's bulldozer time and I spend a couple of days clearing everything off and deep cleaning. Usually happens once a month. My mom was neurotically clean which was looking back stressful on us kids and I swore never to be that neurotic about sanitizing the house. So I clean on Mondays, touch up on Fridays and that is the law of the land here except for the monthly bulldozing effort.

What struck me is, let's see. Multiple teen aged girls in the house and all they want to do is follow the younger kids around, pick up and cleaning after them? No whining, no mouthing back, no fits being thrown or doors slamming. I've been in their house. Looks like a bunch of senior citizens live there. Nothing out of place, no toys, no tea glasses sitting on the cupboard......Something abnormal about it. 11 kids at home and no clutter? At all? Am I looking at this wrong and missing something here? I'm still scratching my head and going hmmmmm. DH keeps telling me not to let it bother me. We have lives, hobbies, interests afterall. And at least there wasn't an injured chicken wandering around trying to evade capture by me or the dogs. Y'all are chicken people. It happens.

But aren't the teen aged years supposed to be the happy slob phase of childhood? You know, where your parents threaten you to bring dirty dishes to the kitchen and not store them under the sofa or under your bed? And dirty clothes are supposed to go IN the clothes hamper, not kicked in the back of the closet?

Just wondering.

Back to your regularly scheduled Old Folks Home. I gotta make dinner.....and yes, I DO was dishes!

 

[trumpeting_angel]

Oooh I liked Dr. Wong.... Boy you have to have a strong constitution to do that kind of work....

I think of it like a puzzle, fitting information together from the defendant, attorney, police report, etc., and then my thoughts, reactions, and feelings, and then check all that information against the legal standard.

Some of it is, indeed, gruesome. But the vast majority of what comes through local jurisdictions is people stumbling around in their lives and getting unlucky. So little of it is planned, or even thought about at the time. Almost all of it is like folks stumbling around in the dark, often drunk or high, and bumping into trouble.

Crime shows wouldn’t last long showing the everyday reality! And psychologists wouldn’t last long hollering at people and pushing them around like Dr. Phil!

 

[trumpeting_angel]

She is scheduled for first think in the morning. With aprox. 900 people out, many are on various medical support machines. She is a priority, but they simply can't do it today.

You are a champion! What an ordeal. I shudder to think of all the folks who live in precarious situations like your aunt.

 

[trumpeting_angel]

At work we were saying that this kind of paperwork was a reason people are delaying retirement

I hope it all works out for you

You’re kind! It’s a lame thing to complain about, having to mess around with retirement money! Today I contacted the people who have to tell the plan that I don’t work there any more. But that person’s email got me an out-of-office reply. So I sent it to the generic company email, but it was returned saying the domain doesn’t exist. So I called. No response.

Maybe people are putting off retirement because they try to do the paperwork but it never works!

 

[trumpeting_angel]

13 kids! I barely managed one plus a couple of steps.

My stepdaughters were at the home of a neighbor who also had a big clan. They watched in astonishment as all those kids got up after dinner, cleared up, and put away the leftovers like a well-oiled machine. Without being told! After we marveled at the idea, we realized that it was probably the only way parents of so many kids could keep their sanity.

Mind you, this was just after-dinner cleanup. But maybe it’s just how they kept from falling to pieces in that house.

Either that, or the kids are threatened with bear spray if they get out of line.

 

[bruceha2000]

Multiple teen aged girls in the house and all they want to do is follow the younger kids around, pick up and cleaning after them?

Send a couple of them here. Either we'll find out that they are genetically programmed to be tidy (and my house will be livable) or they will revel living in a clutter strewn home.

 

[trumpeting_angel]

I’ll take three!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Well moved out old fridge where little freezer had lived in the laundry room don't move one for 4 years it was dirty not horrible thank heavens bread was done already still need to take photos of them

 

[ronott1]

Well moved out old fridge where little freezer had lived in the laundry room don't move one for 4 years it was dirty not horrible thank heavens bread was done already still need to take photos of them

Enjoy the new fridge!