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Here it comes! According to the Weather Widget on my phone, and the weather guys on local TV, we've got some serious heat in our near future. But, hey, this is South Texas, we should be expecting this.
Triple digits before Summer arrives. Yep.
posted Friday 09/Jun/2023 ~11:00 #QNJUN2023
posted by Roscoe
A lot of physical labor late this morning and into the early afternoon (cutting those branches and limbs that came down during the weekend's storm) left me sweaty but Oh, So relaxed through the rest of the day. That's not a bad way to be.
Have spent most of the evening watching the Yankees / White Sox game. Nice!
posted Thursday 08/Jun/2023 ~20:40 #QNJUN2023
posted by Roscoe
Yesterday late afternoon through the evening found me bouncing between news reports from a variety of sources and baseball games until my Wheel of Fortune at 18:30 was followed by the Texas Rangers game at 19:00. And that took me to my nighttime prayers and a pretty good night's sleep. Hoping for another good night's sleep tonight, I'm following the same entertainment scheme this evening.
posted Wednesday 07/Jun/2023 ~17:40 #QNJUN2023
posted by Roscoe
The first cup of evening coffee. You know, it may even taste better than the morning coffee. And that's saying a lot!
posted Tuesday 06 June ~16:55 #QNJUN2023
posted by Roscoe
Midday Monday and all is well.
Taking advantage of yesterday's organizing, I completed a form Sylvia will need for her bonded title application. I fielded a call from my primary doctor's office and told them I'd already completed an eye doctor's appointment they asked about and have his report in my file. And I gathered material I'll need to complete a KofC project. All this before lunch.
posted Monday 05/Jun/2023 ~13:45 #QNJUN2023
posted by Roscoe
This has been a good Sunday. Made it to my KofC Council's Corporate Mass today, I missed the last one. It was the first time I've seen some of these guys in a month.
After Mass I cleaned up a lot of the fallen tree limbs and branches the crew last night had left scattered around. Now they're in one big brush pile behind the sheds in my back yard.
Got off a couple Exemplification packets. Well, actually they'll go out tomorrow, no mail service on Sunday. but the packets are addressed, sealed, and stamped, ready for tomorrow's outbound.
And I even got a surprising amount of cleaning and organizing done back here in my home/office. Sure, there's more to do. Always more. But I go to bed tonight in a cleaner, better organized place.
posted Sunday 04/Jun/2023 ~20:45 #QNJUN2023
posted by Roscoe
“Honey, you've got a problem,” the wife announced from the door to my room as I was following a baseball game.
“Huh?” I replied, “what kind of a problem?”
“C'mere, let me show you.” And she took me out to the back yard.
Big old branch, must be 20 feet long and very big around came down, it must have been during last night's storm. and is covering and weighing down lines coming into our house (on the right in this photo) from the poles back in the alley.
Anyway I called the power company, reported this, and they said they'd send someone out to look at it later today.
Now, I'm not afraid to cut the big branch into little pieces so the City can haul it away. But I don't want do do that if there's electricity running through it. Know what I mean?
So I wait for the guys from the power company to arrive.
And the adventure continues.
posted Saturday 03/Jun/2023 ~16:15 #QNJUN2023
posted by Roscoe
So this literally happened just a few minutes ago. As I was walking out to my mailbox, trying to decide whether to finish trimming my front lawn (which clearly needs some serious trimming), or to cut back the foliage in the alley behind my back yard, I suddenly felt a scrapping on the top of my head. Big old ash tree dropped a big old branch on me.
A message from above? Oh yeah, that's how I took it! I drug that darned branch around to my side yard, and determined to spend the rest of the day inside. Don't have to tell this old boy twice!
posted Friday 02/Jun/2023 #QNJUN2023
posted by Roscoe
Had a follow-up appointment this afternoon with a Nurse Practitioner at my primary care Doctor's office re: my fall back on 07 May. I like meeting with his Nurse Practitioners, they're really smart and easy to talk to.
posted Thursday 01/Jun/2023 ~18:25 #QNJUN2023
posted by Roscoe
It seems the yard work I did yesterday took a bigger toll on my body than I realized. Shoulder pain kept me from sleeping comfortably last night. And it was so intense in the morning that I had to use the sling on my left arm for several hours just to move around and do a minimal amount of work. Both shoulders and upper arms are actually hurting, but it is the left that is the real problem. Yes, I'm seriously dosing with extra strength Tylenol today. I will reach for the Ibuprofen tonight, too.
Rather glad I have a doctor's appointment scheduled for tomorrow afternoon.
Heck, I've got so many things going on right now that I'm considering using mind-mapping software to keep everything straight. Haven't needed to use that for almost 20 years, but maybe now it will help me keep things organized and reduce my stress.
posted Wednesday 31/May/2023 ~17:00 #QNMAY2023
posted by Roscoe