Sunday Snippets 11/5/23
This past week I paid Maria to sort out my closets.
I gave her a lot of stuff inside them as well. So she’s going to organize my kitchen cabinets for the trade there.
Hopefully then I can get to things I need more easily. Because I can only stand on my feet for a very short time before I have to sit back down on the rollator I have behind me.
This is the second time I’ve had her organize the closets. She does a fantastic job.
Overstretching:
This past week I had to cut back the part of my garden that was out by the sidewalk. Like the tall canna lily.
I suppose I overstretched while rolling the foot or so on my garden seat. So the only way I can think that I did that was stretching forward on my feet trying to reach things.
Later that day I began to have pain on the inside of my ankle. Later the pain began to go up my leg. With it hurting on both sides, it made it very difficult to walk at all.
So Steve brought his girlfriend’s late husband’s wheelchair over. I’ve been using it when the pain exceeds using the walker.
Greg told me yesterday not to even try to get to the parking lot.
Seems like I can’t do much of anything without hurting something else.
That sure gets old. My world keeps getting smaller and smaller. A lucky thing I love being at home.
Baking Brownies:
I made brownies on Friday. While they were cooling, all I had to do was stick my head out the patio door and yell to Peg: “I made brownies.”
She was outside cutting back her dead hydrangeas. “I’ll be right there,” she yelled back.
I texted Lisa about the brownies and she brought her plate so she could take brownies home.
What I’m Cooking Today:
Today I’m cooking in the crock pot. It’s an easy recipe with only 3 ingredients I found at Gimme Some Oven.
Those ingredients are chicken breasts, salsa, and taco seasoning mix. I didn’t add as much salsa or as much taco seasoning as she used in her recipe.
As she mentioned, you can use shredded chicken in a lot of ways. Tacos, on salads, in burritos, on nachos, etc.
Peg’s Squirrels:
I call them Peg’s squirrels because she always feeds them peanuts in the shell and they follow her around.
They have begun to follow her when she walks over here. Yesterday one sat in one of the patio chairs waiting for her to come out.
Peg talks to her squirrels as they they are her pets. She doesn’t have any indoor pets, but she has her squirrels.
They’ve become pretty spoiled!
Peg adores Ivy. If something happens to me, it is Peg I have decided should take care of Ivy. We’ve discussed it and she said she’d be happy to do that.
Do you remember when Ivy gave a squirrel the stink eye from the patio door?
Ivy:
Ivy suddenly wants to sleep with her head cocked to one side against things. I don’t know why she began doing this.
I keep thinking she’s going to hurt her neck. But apparently she doesn’t.
What I’m Watching/Streaming:
Last night I finished watching “Without Motive” on BritBox.
There is an investigation of the brutal murder of a young woman in Bristol. It threatens to tear the lead character’s family apart and change the course of his life forever.
The Bristol murder is linked to a series of recent killings, known as the ‘M4 Murders’.
The investigating team then grows to more than a dozen detectives trying to find the killer before he strikes again.
With little clue or pattern to suggest the identity of the killer, the team are forced to a race against time.
BritBox emails me about crime shows and mysteries that are currently streaming. That helps me to decide what to watch.
What I’m Reading:
I’m still reading “The Boy” by Tami Hoag. But I only have a few more chapters left.
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Sorry to hear you keep experiencing pain when you try to do anything.
While I don’t care to have pets of my own, I enjoy seeing pictures of Ivy & hearing about her antics..lol.
I think I remember that you enjoyed watching “Bosch” on Amazon Prime, then the legacy series which is on prime but with ads…there is a 2nd season now…I’m enjoying it, his daughter has more roles also.
And if you have Acorntv Harry Wild is an awesome series with Jane Seymour …a 2nd season has been added..
Have you thought about acupuncture or acupressure? You might find someone who would come to your home. Might be worth looking into at least. Best wishes to you!
Love the photo of Ivy. Such a contented kitty. Just as it should be. How fun to watch the squirrels following Peg around. Certainly not something you see every day. Let us know how your chicken turned out.
I watch a YouTube channel called “Squirrels at the Window.” While I do not feed my squirrels from my hand, they are bold enough to come up the steps from the patio and jump on the patio door screen and rattle it to let me know if their food is gone out of the feeders and that the blue jays have eaten all of the peanuts that I threw out on the concrete patio. I get free lawn aeration from the squirrels burying peanuts and hazelnuts in my front and back yards. Today it was relatively nice out and I worked three hours plus doing more clean-up in the garden beds and sweeping the patio, raking leaves, etc. It seems to get more overwhelming every year. Surely I never had this many leaves before, I think. But no, it’s just that I’m slower than I use to be, and the wind circle around like mini tornadoes on my lawn, for some strange reason. With all the raking and on Friday (back yard) and Saturday (front yard) shoving the mower around on a low setting to suck up leaves and give the grass what I hope will be its final cut for the year, my neck and upper shoulders are sore. Yeah, you have to be tough to age and deal with all the aches and pains and issues. Brownies, my favorite to bake. I get free snow blowing from some of the male neighbors just by passing them out.
Brenda,
Good evening. So very sorry that you are in pain. But as you say, the good thing is that you enjoy being at home. And lucky for you, you have such kind caring people around.
Speaking of which, how is your daughter? Did you mention a few weeks ago that your daughter was ill?
Have a great week, enjoy your brownies and tacos.
You surely have a lot who help you…it surely helps us stay independent better with just a little help here and there. Even in limited circumstances like yours and ours, it is still way better than it will be if/when we end up in a care facility!!
Ivy sleeping with her cheek pressing again something may just be Ivy being quirky, and I don’t want to create worries, Brenda, but if she starts not eating well you may want to check with your vet or the mobile vet to be sure she doesn’t have something bothering her tooth or ear, that is if she always does it on the same side. Of course it well may be nothing as our kitties do tend to suddenly adopt odd little habits out of nowhere. They really are inscrutable sometimes! Hope your ankle eases up very soon.
My husband used to feed the squirrels at a previous apartment before we were married. One day he left for work and he only left the screen patio door closed so that he could air out the apartment. When he came home that screen had been ripped open at the bottom. He started finding nuts hidden in his toaster, under cushions, inside potted plants, etc. For days he kept discovering nuts in all sorts of places.
I hope that things get better for you health-wise. I am glad that you have caring neighbors.