Smoky Tuesday

[wsantia1]

Good morning everyone. I woke up this morning to hazy skies and the weather folks are saying that the haze is a result the wildfires out west. Oh well temps are going up into the 90s again with very little chance of rain until tomorrow afternoon when a "cold front" comes through.

It looks like my San Fran BBS is finally out for delivery. I probably won't be home when it gets here because I have a few errand to run. My day will start off with PT at 8:40 am and then I have to make arrangements to rent a tuxedo for my daughter's wedding in August. I might try to get a haircut while I'm running around.

Wishing you all a great day.

[LizStreithorst]

Good morning Willie.  Hope your PT goes well this morning.  I had the same thing with my pain doctor.  Nice and good at explaining the first time, silent and got good at communications the second.  Oh well.  I go for the 3rd time tomorrow.

I feel very good today.  I'm back to where I was before my lovely big mow.  I won't be doing much outside work today because it's supposed to rain off and on all day.  The sun won't come out between rains as it had been doing.  Seeing a little sun is good for my emotional state.  There is one thing I want to do that shouldn't be too hard.  The entrance to the horse's shed is total mud and muck.  I want to make a new entrance to the shed where the ground is higher and hard. 

I still haven't gotten around to processing my tomatoes.  I went out earlier in the drizzle and picked several more.  The tomatoes I've been saving up are all still good so I I'll get on it today as there is little left that I have to do.

Barb, you're always up to something interesting.  What's your plan for today?

Ron, it's about time you checked in with us.  We're feeling that we've been deserted by a friend.

[Barb]

Hi Willie and Liz, sorry to hear you both have "strange" medical folks who have split personalities or something.  Here, I have many places to choose from for all my medical needs, so I wouldn't think twice about changing providers if I got treated as you both have.  But you may not have options to change like I do?

Today I took my mom for her monthly eye treatment for Mac. Degeneration.  It involves injections into each eyeball, numbing eye drops first of course.  Then I had a few errands.  When it stops raining, I have a million new weeds that have popped up from the rain.  I want to get them before they get too big.  I pull, weed whack or use round up depending on the areas infested.

I enjoyed watching the Jeff Bezos (he is worth 200 Billion $ by the way) rocket go up this morning, it was so exciting, and 52 years to the day since I watched man walk on the moon, on a small black and white TV  with about 100 of us crowded around it, in the lobby of the Glacier Natl. Park Lodge where I was working for the summer.  I had just graduated from HS the month before. And since I was an Airman in the USAF, all things space interest me.   Such memories...
Barb

[wsantia1]

Hey Barb, my primary care doctor is excellent. It's the specialist he refers me to that I question.

BTW my BBS cyst finally arrived. I already have the first batch going.

[LizStreithorst]

Barb, there are many choices around here.  Hattiesburg is kind of a medical hub with 2 big hospitals and their assorted specialists.  I go on recommendations from people I trust.  When my family Dr recommended I see a neurosurgeon he suggested Dr. Clatterbuck.  He said that he sent his wife to Jackson but if Dr. Clatterbuck was here back then he'd have sent her to him.  I've also talked to other people here and there who have used him and agree he is the best (including my current pain doctor.)

My pain doctor, Dr. Leigh is who my family doctor's wife takes her mother to.  That's good enough for me as long as the doctor is competent in what he is trained to do.  If he's not talkative when I see him tomorrow, I will pull the information I want from him.  I want to know exactly what he's doing and how he's going about it.  It's not just because it's my own body.  It's also because I like knowing how people who know how to go about fixing things do their jobs.  I'm like that when people come to the house to fix things.  I ask if I can watch and when they say yes and see that I want to learn they explain what they are doing as they are doing it.  It's just my nature to be curious.

A good customer with a top quality Scotty I love to groom called today.  She knows about my back and I told her what was up with me now and to call me back in a week.  Her husband has a bad back and she needs a hip replacement.  She's is smart and knows about this stuff from experience.  She recommended a physical therapists to me.  When I see my pain doctor tomorrow I will ask if he recommends this guy.

My first pain doctor turned out to be a drug dealer.  It was obvious.  I went once, never went back, and reported him to the Mississippi Board of Physicians.  I went to a kind but not knowledgeable pain doctor once.  Since I was ignorant about differences in PT doctors I just figured that PT wouldn't work for me.  It wasn't until my customer said how much her PT doctor helped both her and her husband  that I realized that my first PT doc didn't have a clue.

I pull weeds here and there in my gardens.  Little by little I get them.  I haven't been able to Round Up because of the rain.  It isn't too late here to plant annuals but it's hard to find seeds since people buy them up in the Spring.  Since I had to pull up all my Cleome there is great nakedness in my front gardens.  The dollar store has seeds of a wildflower blend, a bird and butterfly blend, a butterfly blend.  They all look like mostly types of wild flower blends.  The ones that are happy where I plant them will re-seed since wildflowers are basically pretty weeds.  I'll remove the cleome that is laying right where I pulled it, plant the seeds and put the dead cleome back to act as green mulch and most of all protect the seed from the chickens long enough for them to reach a decent size.

[LizStreithorst]

Willie, my snails are still traveling the country.  I'll post a screenshot of the tracking.  It's already almost a page long.  Since I'm sure the snails are long dead and will stink to high heaven when they arrive, the whole thing has become comical to me.

[wsantia1]

Willie, my snails are still traveling the country.  I'll post a screenshot of the tracking.  It's already almost a page long.  Since I'm sure the snails are long dead and will stink to high heaven when they arrive, the whole thing has become comical to me.

And just when we thought to PO was starting to get its act together. Sorry about your snails, Liz.