The Old Folks Home

[ShrekDawg]

Grandpa had OCD... my grandmas Husband.... He would wash his hands over and over left to right then the same amount of times right to left. Door locking click click lock.... click click lock... fawcet off turn turn off snug up.... Grandma got smart and bought washerless fawcets because he would wear then out.

One time I came over and he was kneeling on the front lawn with his special knee pads on... Vaccuming the rabbit poo out of the grass... carefully parting the grass as he went.

Actually his whole family was odd.... so I am not surprised... His sister still calls grandma every Saturday at Precisely ten am and talks with grandma precisely ten minutes... Shes ninety and can barely hear hear still lives alone.

deb

Oh wow that is definitely pretty OCD! Vacuuming rabbit poo out of the lawn!? Never heard of that one before. I don’t even know if I could even find any rabbit poo in ours if I tried ha

 

[ShrekDawg]

View attachment 1870894 That is an odd Family! What about cousins from that side?

X2 lol

 

[perchie.girl]

View attachment 1870894 That is an odd Family! What about cousins from that side?

Lets see... He had three brothers and one sister...
Norman the oldest had possibly an IQ of about seventy... Good singer Married a Minister that ran his life with an iron fist.

next brother .... was a concrete inspector for Nuclear power stations.... after he spent a couple of years in Atascadaro for exposing himself.

Next brother bought a house next to their mother... He never let his children vist ever.
He was a Postal carrier for years Most of it Horribly tortured by Shingles... I believe he is still alive. And the most normal.

Their dad built their house and only finished out the bottom floor. The top floor where the Bedrooms were supposed to be was only framed in. NO privacy ....

so Yeh... family was messed up.... But Grandpa was kind and even if a bit odd took care of Grandma... He was her third husband...

deb

 

[drumstick diva]

All I have figured out in my life is that it takes ALL kinds of people, to make the world turn. I accept that.

 

[perchie.girl]

View attachment 1870894 That is an odd Family! What about cousins from that side?

Cousins...
Paulines only son Died of a brain tumor when he was in highschool

Concrete inspector... Both daughters ran off and married black men.... He never spoke to them again. They are doing very well One has a daugter that is the same age as my son. Her husband is an artist...

Norman and Preacher never had children...

Grandpa had a daughter from a previous marriage... Her boys are An Electrical engineer and a Mathmatics school teacher. He left them when she was about six or seven... and was told it would be better if he had no contact...

Grandma Made him contact her when she was about sixteen... She had had a horrible life till then. Alcaholic mother... No food in the house she relied on neighbors to take care of her till mom came home.

So... I have a few suspicions on what was going on in that family. but I dont dwell...

deb

 

[ronott1]

Lets see... He had three brothers and one sister...
Norman the oldest had possibly an IQ of about seventy... Good singer Married a Minister that ran his life with an iron fist.

next brother .... was a concrete inspector for Nuclear power stations.... after he spent a couple of years in Atascadaro for exposing himself.

Next brother bought a house next to their mother... He never let his children vist ever.
He was a Postal carrier for years Most of it Horribly tortured by Shingles... I believe he is still alive. And the most normal.

Their dad built their house and only finished out the bottom floor. The top floor where the Bedrooms were supposed to be was only framed in. NO privacy ....

so Yeh... family was messed up.... But Grandpa was kind and even if a bit odd took care of Grandma... He was her third husband...

deb

One of my Aunts, Mom's middle Sister, Married into a Family like that. His Family had quite a bit of mental issues. Their 4 kids all had substance abuse with one being bi polar and another having Schizophrenia.

I do not have much contact with them anymore

 

[ShrekDawg]

Barely been on my phone today.

Been kind of bad the last like almost hour cause I’ve been on it most of that time/more than I wanted to be BUT it’s the first time I’ve used it all day so I guess that’s not so bad. I did plant for like half an hour like 12:30 to 1 but now the past 20 minutes I’ve been multitasking with getting and eating ice cream and typing this haha so got up/quit planting. Just taking a while to type. Anyway, haven’t been on like all day.

I did check the time this morning and also unlock my phone to turn the alarms off since I woke up before them but that’s it.

But this morning I woke up like 10:08 (though I think I might have been awake before then and laying there a while but not sure) and normally I would just lay there until the 10:30 alarm went off or sometimes even until 11 but today I decided to just get up and stay up. Peed in record time without bringing my phone with me then I did go back to my room to turn the alarms off and also quickly read a little verse thing from the Bible, an actual physical Bible not the Bible app on my phone, then came downstairs. Immediately went out and checked the garden and the chickens. Refilled their food cause it was empty. Collected the eggs. Only two but that’s okay. Blackie was dust bathing before going back to the nest. Came back in. Made myself breakfast for once (normally never do cause I never have time cause I wake up late and/or sit on my phone wasting time ). 3 eggs scrambled with olive oil (trying not to eat much dairy so no butter so I say as I down tons of ice cream ) and some summer squash from our garden sliced and sautéed? Fried? Idk in olive oil. I just put olive oil in a pan and put the slices in there and flipped them when they browned then ate them with the eggs. Also had some Emergen-C Immune Plus drink mix and a couple bites of banana. But I was pretty full and almost nauseous before being full so I didn’t finish the eggs but ate most. I think my mom ate the rest. Idk why I felt like that. I think because it was still before 11 and I normally never eat breakfast or eat that early haha

Anyway, was considering using my phone after breakfast, but decided to just hold off on that until after work since work isn’t very long. So that’s what I did.

Made it to work on time. Even a couple minutes early. Normally lately I’m sometimes like 5 or 10 minutes late despite it only being down the street because I am so slow leaving. but I made it early today. 11:28. Start 11:30. Left a few minutes after 12. But we had fun hanging out and playing and stuff haha

Did use the phone while there to take pictures of the client’s dog but that’s it. Didn’t do anything else on it. And didn’t post them on FB until after I got home. Actually, not even then.

I finally brought my bags in from the car (we got home Monday and I still hadn’t done that yet ) and brought them upstairs to my room. Didn’t unpack them but I don’t really want to cause I might need them tonight. Plus I was tired ha

Anyway, after that I did check the phone and post the pictures to FB and check BYC for the first time all day.

So I think that’s progress. But idk.

But I’m kind of surprised I was able to just completely not use it until after work and even then did yet another task first before I checked it haha

And I also didn’t have to go waste money buying lunch because I am not hungry.

It’s stupid but I’m kind of proud of myself haha

And now I’m gonna go do something else and stop wasting time on my phone haha I don’t even want to sit here anymore. I’m already annoyed I’ve wasted even just an hour.

 

[ronott1]

Barely been on my phone today.

Been kind of bad the last like almost hour cause I’ve been on it most of that time/more than I wanted to be BUT it’s the first time I’ve used it all day so I guess that’s not so bad. I did plant for like half an hour like 12:30 to 1 but now the past 20 minutes I’ve been multitasking with getting and eating ice cream and typing this haha so got up/quit planting. Just taking a while to type. Anyway, haven’t been on like all day.

I did check the time this morning and also unlock my phone to turn the alarms off since I woke up before them but that’s it.

But this morning I woke up like 10:08 (though I think I might have been awake before then and laying there a while but not sure) and normally I would just lay there until the 10:30 alarm went off or sometimes even until 11 but today I decided to just get up and stay up. Peed in record time without bringing my phone with me then I did go back to my room to turn the alarms off and also quickly read a little verse thing from the Bible, an actual physical Bible not the Bible app on my phone, then came downstairs. Immediately went out and checked the garden and the chickens. Refilled their food cause it was empty. Collected the eggs. Only two but that’s okay. Blackie was dust bathing before going back to the nest. Came back in. Made myself breakfast for once (normally never do cause I never have time cause I wake up late and/or sit on my phone wasting time ). 3 eggs scrambled with olive oil (trying not to eat much dairy so no butter so I say as I down tons of ice cream ) and some summer squash from our garden sliced and sautéed? Fried? Idk in olive oil. I just put olive oil in a pan and put the slices in there and flipped them when they browned then ate them with the eggs. Also had some Emergen-C Immune Plus drink mix and a couple bites of banana. But I was pretty full and almost nauseous before being full so I didn’t finish the eggs but ate most. I think my mom ate the rest. Idk why I felt like that. I think because it was still before 11 and I normally never eat breakfast or eat that early haha

Anyway, was considering using my phone after breakfast, but decided to just hold off on that until after work since work isn’t very long. So that’s what I did.

Made it to work on time. Even a couple minutes early. Normally lately I’m sometimes like 5 or 10 minutes late despite it only being down the street because I am so slow leaving. but I made it early today. 11:28. Start 11:30. Left a few minutes after 12. But we had fun hanging out and playing and stuff haha

Did use the phone while there to take pictures of the client’s dog but that’s it. Didn’t do anything else on it. And didn’t post them on FB until after I got home. Actually, not even then.

I finally brought my bags in from the car (we got home Monday and I still hadn’t done that yet ) and brought them upstairs to my room. Didn’t unpack them but I don’t really want to cause I might need them tonight. Plus I was tired ha

Anyway, after that I did check the phone and post the pictures to FB and check BYC for the first time all day.

So I think that’s progress. But idk.

But I’m kind of surprised I was able to just completely not use it until after work and even then did yet another task first before I checked it haha

And I also didn’t have to go waste money buying lunch because I am not hungry.

It’s stupid but I’m kind of proud of myself haha

And now I’m gonna go do something else and stop wasting time on my phone haha I don’t even want to sit here anymore. I’m already annoyed I’ve wasted even just an hour.

It is good that you are working on this!

 

[ShrekDawg]

It is good that you are working on this!

Thank you! I’m trying!

Oh and I forgot, I also refilled their water bucket too even though it wasn’t empty. Just wanted to refill it. It was about half full I think.

Also idk if it’s because I ate a good breakfast including veggies and a vitamin drink so have more energy or if it’s because I was productive this morning and want to keep it up or if it’s because I’ve been downing tons of water or what it is but I like.... don’t want to sit still. Too bad it’s so freaking humid out or I would be doing tons in the garden right now. Instead I might go off but idk. I don’t want to waste time. It’s really freaking me out.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good Morning old folks made another year of it wiser? less willing to put up with carp ?
have to clean my coops a good therapy for most of us hope this finds all well love the time here also know it needs a balance