What did you do today?

[Mark J]

Tried to get some wood turning done today, but someone was sleeping on the job.

[treeslayer]

Good help is hard to find 

[Coop]

I’m getting too old for this stuff. I made a small, 17’ long by 3’ wide walkway and filled it with crushed granite, about 20 years ago. Over time, soil has gotten into it and grass and weeds crept in. Using a pick hoe and shovel, I removed the old and replaced it with new. Not wanting to buy too little or too much, I calculated it at being 1/2 yard and that worked out well. I hope to put the hand operated tapper back in storage for a good while

[Chestnut]

Hit 50 so it's finally comfortable to grill wearing shorts and barefoot.

[drzaius]

We have our oldest grandson staying over this weekend & he wanted to watch Moonfall. So last night we all watched it with his mom and my other daughter and SIL. That movie is truly awful. Like terrible awful. But it was also  great because we heckled it through the whole movie. Good times.

[JohnG]

Got up to my eyeballs in poison ivy vines to pull out a tree that recently fell. Some is destined for firewood and some will be milled.

Also found a little friend when I was about to make a cut. Rough green snake (I believe).

[Mark J]

I agree it's green.  And it's a snake. 

[Chet]

On 4/10/2022 at 11:31 AM, JohnG said:

 Rough green snake (I believe).

On 4/10/2022 at 3:45 PM, Mark J said:

I agree it's green.  And it's a snake.

If they are rough I hit them with 180 grit, if they are real rough I start with 120.

[tperson]

Didn’t do it today, but I fell prey to a strawberry plant sale last week that included free shipping. Plants arrived Friday and we planted 250 strawberry plants yesterday, started at 930AM and walked in the house at 5PM…no lunch break. I had tilled the rows earlier last week so we hilled them with a rake, covered them in landscape fabric, and then came back and planted after that…ended up with 5, 50’ rows. Our garden grows a little every year, this year we’re adding strawberries and popcorn to our lineup. Last year we had a few hills of squash/cucumbers/zucchini get washed out and when we went to replant, the sharpie marker had faded off the flag…so we guessed what we needed. Ended up with 9 zucchini/summer squash and 1 cucumber…we ate sauteed summer squash/zucchini every night for 3 weeks before we threw the towel in and gave some away. Won’t make that mistake again!

[Woodworking_Hobby]

I am jealous of what everyone got done this weekend!  :-). We spent the entire weekend at kids sports…a good time and lots of fun but feel like I fell behind at home. 

[JohnG]

 

On 4/11/2022 at 1:09 PM, tperson said:

Didn’t do it today, but I fell prey to a strawberry plant sale last week that included free shipping. Plants arrived Friday and we planted 250 strawberry plants yesterday, started at 930AM and walked in the house at 5PM…no lunch break. I had tilled the rows earlier last week so we hilled them with a rake, covered them in landscape fabric, and then came back and planted after that…ended up with 5, 50’ rows. Our garden grows a little every year, this year we’re adding strawberries and popcorn to our lineup. 

Won’t the landscape fabric prevent the  daughter plants from taking root and growing? Or am I missing something?

[JohnG]

On 4/11/2022 at 1:09 PM, tperson said:

the sharpie marker had faded off the flag

We got these tags for marking plants. They are a metal foil over cardstock. You can write on them with a pencil or any blunt tip and it leaves an impression. Won’t fade or wash away. 
 

[Coop]

John, I had forgotten about those things. And they work great. Thanks! 

[Tom King]

Spent more than half the day in the Emergency room today with my Mother, who will be 106 on the 18th.  She sleeps in a hospital bed with a very sturdy siderail that is always up.  It takes both Pam and me to get her out of bed, since she's paralyzed on one side from a stroke two years ago.  Somehow she found enough strength in her sleep to get herself out of bed, but collapsed on the floor putting the bad leg under her.  She's clear headed, but has some bad dreams sometimes, and had one last night that left her thinking she needed to escape.

Long story shortened, called 911 and EMT's carried her to the ER.  They do xrays in the room now, and after a couple of xrays, they determined she had only bruised the knee, so sent her back home.

I'm always completely worn out after spending time in the ER, but wearing an N95 mask the whole time made it even worse today.

I didn't get anything done the rest of the day. 

At the same time the EMT's were coming in the house, Pam was helping deliver a litter of puppies.

[treeslayer]

sorry to hear that Tom and i'm glad she's ok, you're doing all the right things as hard as they are, so many people don't these days, i don't understand it

[wtnhighlander]

Glad to hear you mother didn't suffer a serious injury, Tom! I hope you and Pam get a couple of quiet days to recover.

[Coop]

I’m so glad she didn’t break a hip or worse and she’s back home! 

[Mark J]

Yikes, like everyone said, I'm glad it wasn't worse.

[legenddc]

Wow, hope she's okay and wasn't on the floor too long. I think the rush of that would have made me exhausted too, mask or not.

[Tom King]

She hadn't been on the floor long.  We have a monitor in our bedroom, so we can hear her.  This happened while we were getting the dogs outside just before we go to get her up.  We had heard nothing on the monitor the night before.

Thanks for the well wishes everyone.  I'm thankful that I'm still able to handle a 120 pound person at my age.  I'm going to have to stay closer to the house though, because she won't be able to help stand up at all for a while, and I don't want Pam hurting her back.

I've been fortunate to have work to do close to the house since she's been with us.  No way could I be off working somewhere else.  Even before this, I had to stay a few minutes from the house, and come when Pam calls me.

[legenddc]

I'm glad to hear that. I was going to suggest a monitor or alert of some sort. I'm sure she would have no idea how the hell to use it but I believe some of the new Apple Watches have fall detection where it can alert someone or even call 911 if someone falls and doesn't hit the button saying they're okay. There are probably more options out there targeted at older people.

Hope everything also went well with the puppies.

[Tom King]

There is normally no way for her to fall.  She doesn't move unless we move her.  We have no idea how she managed to get over the strong siderail on the hospital bed.  One of us is never far away from her.

If she stayed in a nursing home, it would cost us almost 10,000 dollars a month for the level of care she needs.  Those places are pretty pitiful at best though, since almost all the occupants are not as clear headed as she is, and they always have a bad smell to them.  The dogs are a great comfort to her here too.

Puppies are doing well.  There was a pair of twins in the 5 that had a total weigh for the two of them of a normal puppy.  One weighs 2-1/2 OZ., but is very strong and is nursing almost non-stop.  We've only ever had one other puppy this small before, but he is doing fine, and one of the top Agility dogs in the country now.

[pkinneb]

Stepped away from WW for a couple days to add Apple Car Play to our car...Step one remove half of the interior...step two plug in a new USB hub two wires...Step three reinstall all the interior pieces. I was surprised this only involved four screws and two 10M bolts, the rest was snap in clips.

Success

 

[legenddc]

Is that a Mazda? We have a Mazda CX-5 before the interior redesign to that style of entertainment system. I'll have to look and see if we can add Apple Carplay.

[JohnG]

I had a ‘15 CX-5 and the infotainment system was infuriating. I got excited when Mazda announced that they were adding Apple Carplay to current and prior models, but by the time I sold the car I still hadn’t heard any more about it.