What Are You Doing Today?

Hoot Crawford said:
Not a thing - my elbow just started hurting and swelling Sunday evening, and just kept getting worse. Bursitis + infection. No falls, no cuts, no bites, no nothing. Go figure.
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Please keep two eyes on this!
I have a spider bite and it does not look pretty. Appointment tomorrow after 90 minutes of physical therapy. I will not change clothes.
 
We finally got the flag put up and my "patriotic" wreath on the front door. I can't believe it's July already. I'm doing laundry and watering plants. Called our lawyer to set up an appointment to revise our wills. We had named our brother-in-law as executor in the event of both our deaths; he is showing signs of dementia so that must be changed ASAP. So that will be done tomorrow.
 
Welllll, I took daughter for a haircut, grocery shopping, and chiropractor appointment after chores.
A freak storm came up with hail hitting our car roof pretty well. Earlier a rain missed us again. But we finally got some--maybe 3/8 an inch. It came down so hard it had to have broken surface tension enough to get INTO the ground after months of no rain. But we could use more.
I watched the following vid and it made my hands cramp just watching it.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
We finally got the flag put up and my "patriotic" wreath on the front door. I can't believe it's July already. I'm doing laundry and watering plants. Called our lawyer to set up an appointment to revise our wills. We had named our brother-in-law as executor in the event of both our deaths; he is showing signs of dementia so that must be changed ASAP. So that will be done tomorrow.
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so very sorry Beth...
 
Mary Stetler said:
Welllll, I took daughter for a haircut, grocery shopping, and chiropractor appointment after chores.
A freak storm came up with hail hitting our car roof pretty well. Earlier a rain missed us again. But we finally got some--maybe 3/8 an inch. It came down so hard it had to have broken surface tension enough to get INTO the ground after months of no rain. But we could use more.
I watched the following vid and it made my hands cramp just watching it.
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Everyone is ok. Everything else does not really matter.
 
Marie Miller said:
Please keep two eyes on this!
I have a spider bite and it does not look pretty. Appointment tomorrow after 90 minutes of physical therapy. I will not change clothes.
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The circle grew to about three inches. Steroids, antibiotics and “go to the ER if it does not improve”. Marked nicely in black magic marker. The last one turned into a nasty six months event and a big scar.
Physical therapist is out of this realm. He knows what he is doing, has a salty sense of humor and lives up to his promise that hurt will heal. One of his contraptions is a step up plate which is a bit smaller than the wobble cushion he adds to the top. SO built him one to fit the cushion dimensions, will hold 350 pounds nd is fire engine red with a handle. Guess who got to use it?
 
Marie Miller said:
The circle grew to about three inches. Steroids, antibiotics and “go to the ER if it does not improve”. Marked nicely in black magic marker. The last one turned into a nasty six months event and a big scar.
Physical therapist is out of this realm. He knows what he is doing, has a salty sense of humor and lives up to his promise that hurt will heal. One of his contraptions is a step up plate which is a bit smaller than the wobble cushion he adds to the top. SO built him one to fit the cushion dimensions, will hold 350 pounds nd is fire engine red with a handle. Guess who got to use it?
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My daughter followed everyone's advice after a spider bite. Sadly, some of them dissolve flesh so spider can drink it's dinner. but when it is done your body will repair as it is able.
 
Mary Stetler said:
My daughter followed everyone's advice after a spider bite. Sadly, some of them dissolve flesh so spider can drink it's dinner. but when it is done your body will repair as it is able.
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Brown Recluse are known flesh melters. They are hard to kill because they are a filthy spider — they don’t clean themselves like other spiders do.

I pay a hefty dollar for pest control in and around the house. This past week I saw two decent sized spiders on the floor. It’s hard to tell a young Wolf Spider from a Brown Recluse at a quick glance, so they both ended up dead. I for sure saw a Brown Recluse under an empty water bucket at the barn, but the ugly thing got away before I could kill it.

I think spiders are going to be bad this year.

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In other news: Got my six month physical yesterday. Lost 11#. BP dropped to 134/57, lowest that’s been since I was early 50’s. Doctor added Valsartan to my BisoProlo so that’s probably why. He drew blood since the “current” results are six months old. Except for my skeletal trauma issues, anything wrong with me, it genetically driven, so I try to watch what I eat.

He was surprised, albeit happy, I’m still going to the barn every day, which Segways into the farrier was here promptly at 7:30 AM this morning. This is a new guy and both horses love him, so I tip him. Horse folks know how hard it is to find a good farrier; neither of mine are ridden, so they stay barefoot, but a lousy farrier can still really muck up a hoof trim if they don’t understand the physics of each individual horse.

So far, the horses are doing pretty good in this heat. I keep the barrel fans running in the barn. They spend their days in there and their nights outside grazing. We are supposed to have a “cool down” come Monday. By that I mean, the temperatures are going to drop down to 91°, ain’t it great
 
@Connie Bennett - I can agree spiders, small ones are even showing up in the house. My daughter got bit by black widow as a child, very nasty ER Visit. The upstairs in this 108 yr old house after recent has bugs all over the floors,no idea why. Here almost 4 years never seen any bugs of any kind in this house. The weather affect, I assume.
 
Not much going on around here. I did some dead-heading in the flowerbeds and watered everything before it got so hot. Placed a grocery order that I'll need to go pick up at 2 o'clock. I ordered fresh strawberries to make ice cream in the Ninja tomorrow.

The grocery store (HEB) has bone-in prime ribeye steak on sale for the first time in months so I ordered two packages, which is the "limit." I never miss a beef sale these days.
 
Never a dull day. The lock mechanism in the front door broke. It was replaced. Fiddling around, need to make two lemon cakes, bread and pasta salad, harvest before the peppers knock on the door.
 
I probably should be weeding (with a torch) or side-dressing today, but who knows if I will get around to it. I have to take down a few trees and cut up ones that are already down too. My truck is still down after a visit to the "pro". He thought it was electrical, but I think it is fuel system related. I bought a MAP sensor, so I am going to try to get that swapped if I can get the right tool to get to it.
 
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