It’s been a while
Nov. 17th, 2025 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elizillaWow, I haven’t posted in ages. What has happened since July?
The mosquito traps worked well. The CO2 didn’t seem to change much. We have put them away until spring.
When we bought the lot behind our house, we agreed to leave it as a pocket wilderness. But I didn’t think that would last, and it didn’t. Steve spent the whole summer cutting things down. So I ordered 400 bulbs for him to plant, and he did. Then I ordered a lot of native wildflower seeds, which are supposed to be spread on frozen ground so they can cold stratify. We will see what we get, next spring.
My dad went on a cruise and came back with a nightmarish wound on his foot. I was afraid he would lose the foot, it was that bad, but it seems to have healed, whew! He has also had other health adventures. A melanoma on his face, and a thyroid nodule that they say is cancerous. Getting old is not for sissies.
Clara had a bladder infection and had to take a course of pills. We got through it and it cleared up. Carmello has become reluctant to spend much time outside, now that the weather is cold, but he still hasn’t visited the litter box in the basement. He hasn’t made any messes indoors, but until he shows he knows where the box is, we have to chase him out a couple times per day.
We had two more freezer-not-closed incidents and lost a lot of food. We got a new fridge. It’s an inverter compressor which should be quieter. And we got a new mattress. And I bought a new mobility scooter that can go over bad ground. My credit card bill is huge and I need to not buy anything more for a while.
The mosquito traps worked well. The CO2 didn’t seem to change much. We have put them away until spring.
When we bought the lot behind our house, we agreed to leave it as a pocket wilderness. But I didn’t think that would last, and it didn’t. Steve spent the whole summer cutting things down. So I ordered 400 bulbs for him to plant, and he did. Then I ordered a lot of native wildflower seeds, which are supposed to be spread on frozen ground so they can cold stratify. We will see what we get, next spring.
My dad went on a cruise and came back with a nightmarish wound on his foot. I was afraid he would lose the foot, it was that bad, but it seems to have healed, whew! He has also had other health adventures. A melanoma on his face, and a thyroid nodule that they say is cancerous. Getting old is not for sissies.
Clara had a bladder infection and had to take a course of pills. We got through it and it cleared up. Carmello has become reluctant to spend much time outside, now that the weather is cold, but he still hasn’t visited the litter box in the basement. He hasn’t made any messes indoors, but until he shows he knows where the box is, we have to chase him out a couple times per day.
We had two more freezer-not-closed incidents and lost a lot of food. We got a new fridge. It’s an inverter compressor which should be quieter. And we got a new mattress. And I bought a new mobility scooter that can go over bad ground. My credit card bill is huge and I need to not buy anything more for a while.
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Date: 2025-12-06 11:37 pm (UTC)I was wondering about that. Ah well; you can always put a keggerator in the garage...
-R
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