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Making a few inroads on the cleaning

My house is filthy. I admit it. I have neglected it something awful. I feel helpless to get it done but I am trying.

I have not had the energy to clean as thoroughly as I should for a few years now. I look at all that needs doing and just hide from him and everyone else and cry.

Most of it stems from my back hurting so bad all the time. (I have, on too many occasions, hurt it getting The Curmudgeon up from the floor.) I can only do so much and then I have to sit down to ease the pain.

I don’t have the time or energy to run back and forth to the doctor for my back and my numb arm. My Tens machine can only help so much.

Therefore, my house is dirty.

I try but I can’t seem to get it clean enough to begin to keep up with it. then I get depressed and don’t even want to be here.

As of lately, I am working on clearing out the back porch. I have hopes of managing to do each room of the house and then finding a way to keep up with the mess.

So now my garden gets neglected. Sigh.

Then there’s the attic, I need to hire someone to do it. I know that room is way beyond me. The mess from the roofer is more than I can handle.

Yesterday’s shirt

tomatoes

Yesterday’s Tee

old gals still rock

Keeping Dad busy

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Yesterday’s Tee shirt

I buy some of my Tee shirts from teddythedog.com. I really enjoy their shirts and other products, like Lucy’s blanket, Ted.

This shirt I bought from them because all profits went to the Pulse Victims Fund.

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Yes, we have two refrigerators…

Why? Because his idiot parents designed the kitchen and only left room for a very small one. The second one gives me spill-over room.

We’d used our original coppertone fridge for a spill-over fridge when we got a new one about five years ago. (That one had to fit in the small space where the coppertone one was. So it too is small of stature and room.)

So when our 43-year-old coppertone (our original refrigerator) died, I needed a new one to replace it.

The new one, being on the back porch, has only one size restraint. It had to fit through the doors.

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Never ….

Stay seated when a crazy bull terrier runs directly at you.

A. They don’t stop, they just run over you.

B. You thought you had bruises before? Yeah, guess again.

Today’s Tee shirt

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My potted garden

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Momma washed the couch cover…

And Ted. (Her blanket)

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This is Ted:

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If ever a day crawled by…

Yesterday sure did.

Yesterday’s Tee shirt

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Got treats?

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43 years of faithful service

So last night I said to The Curmudgeon, “The old fridge is making strange noises. I have a feeling it is not long for this world.”

It died today.

I’m used to having an overflow fridge on the back porch because the one in the kitchen is small but it is the only size that fits in the space. (My in-laws’ idiotic kitchen design strikes again. Never buy a house from your in-laws.)

I went hunting for a new one. So glad Home Dump had some on sale.

New one gets here Wednesday.

RIP old coppertone

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What do you see?

I bought cherries today. I held these two up to show the Curmudgeon.

“Look! Cherry scrotum!

I’m a sick, sick person. Yep.

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Well, the hammock is 1/3 there

So I dragged out the hammock stand yesterday

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And now the weather prediction for the day is …yep, you guessed it…RAIN