2025: June

 Finally made my cornbread. Krusteaz was the only mix without additives, artificial ingredients or preservatives. It asked for milk, egg, and oil. So I experimented as I do not do milk or eggs. It took longer to bake and is not as tall as the photo on the box but it is delicious,sweet and crumbly but stays together. Says 12 servings I think I got 18 in the freez

er.oops contains a bio engineered food ingredient. Maybe if I eat enough of it for 20 years I will grow a penis on my forehead.

batter in pan

pyrex baking dish in larger metal pan just in case the pyrex cracked.

Fresh out of the oven. I had to improvise cooling racks as I threw away my ancient ones recently. So I placed 4 dinner knives on paper towels and the cornbread on parchment paper on top - worked fine

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June 22 2025

This note was found at the base of shrubs below as I headed for my parking lot walk

Tempted to write on reverse side:

Please

after reading and executing the message on reverse side  dispose of this paper properly, not leave it to the wind and make me pick it up. Fuck you or thank you as the case may be.

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2025: RACCOON INVASION

 2:12 am Friday- the raccoons left the building. Not without having a fart festival earlier. Mother and 4 kits took a long time deciding how to get to ground. I kept saying "use the stairs" as I always do to these rascals. They eventually take my advice. one little one kept climbing back up the wall toward the eaves. Mother would grab the kit by the neck. They are so freaking adorable. Well worth all the sleepless nights from the noises they made. I took a video but it will take a while to post.

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The mother kept trying to teach them how to use the stairs. Most of them preferred the deck railing then to the stairs outside railing. Only one- the tiniest- followed mother down the stairs.

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Listen to the noises they make

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2025-WILDFLOWER GARDEN EXPERIMENT

  I planted the wildflower seeds in  6 pots below and as an experiment placed  plates of glass from broken picture frames over the pots- like a cold frame of sorts. We will see in 10 days if seedlings appear. Some seeds were the size of a dried garbanzo bean!

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ditched the glass.

need to note here before I forget- I fertilzed pots and honeysuckle with Osmocote May 30

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2025: MAY

 so got out before breakfast for a 20 minute walk with the rollator. Not the most comfortable walk- it is like pushing a wheel barrow with the angle my arms are out front of me. I will have to tweak that and have something I can grab like a shopping cart. Or walk with just a cane . Took plenty of pix to prove to myself I did it LOL. 

will add more lateer maybe.

May 6

Did 5 rounds of walking in the parking lot first thing this morning without cane or rollator. one extra round trying to tweak the rollator for my comfort, height and my hands. Set to maximum height and either or or both cane and dowel slipped through seems to work. Final  result no photo because it was such a task getting the rollator back inside I ran out of steam.Like me parallel parking with a blindfold. A little more adjusting and I should be able to EVENTALLY make it to the post office and back.

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still May 6

RULE #1 NEVER GO BAREFOOT HERE

Finishing up doing dishes and fixing my usual mug of mint tea for the evening. Drying a spoon rest and tiny tea cup at the same time. dropped the tea cup. smithereens on the floor. side stepped the mess while finishing drying dishes. Sighed knowing I had to go down the stairs to retrieve my "new"broom and dust pan. My old (40 years) broom broke last year and I had  never owned a dust pan. So got to use that tonight. what the heck are those teeth for on the dust pan?Shards traveled 12 feet by the way.

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May 8

One hour of walking usually gives me a healthy appetite. Today nope- I craved a cigarette and wanted to eat my body weight in dark chocolate and was ready to strip down to my underwear I was so hot. LOL

well got out there with rollator and headed to the post office to mail a package and liquor store to get lottery ticket. Left here at 10:39am and back in this parking lot 2 minutes before noon. CRAP that was torture. I think there was smooth surface for 1/8 of a mile when I was on the bike path. Nice to have people stop and let me cross the street etc. BUT the roads are awful. Pot holes, broken utility caps in the road, uneven surfaces. Heavy doors to stores that do not stay open long enough, an employee assisted me in getting out of the liquor store. Post office the right hand door is broken , left hand door awkward so I backed in with the rollator. A new bench on the bike path was a welcome sight. I sat still for 5 minutes and solved all the world's problem. Nice view of blue sky.

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May 11

Get while the getting is good. A bulldozer will  be coming through here soon. So I wanted to check out what all the noise has been about at the sewer entrance. A short walk turned into 30 minutes of course. No major changes to the area but maybe big piles of dirt. A lone needle pine is thriving back there- my favorite evergreen. Fed birds and checked mail box and back inside by 7:30am. Nice when an old path remains relatively unchanged.

sad bananna face

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May 15

blurry photo but it says:"place frozen crinkle cut carrots in 1/4 boiling water"

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May 30

Walked to liquor store for lottery and need to check mailers at Post office. Took me an hour and 20 minutes. A walk that used to take 40 minutes tops. On my way I noticed the ice cream shop had installed a mat to make walkers, wheelchairs easier to use. I did not try the rollator on it. I was on a mission. Looks like the ramp at post office complex is still a mess. and post office door still broken. Looks to me like an absentee landlord's typically being a slum lord. That may be too harsh. think not.

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2025: APRIL

Laundry day for pick up and delivery. I drop the bags off the deck hoping they land on the chairs below- a fun game LOL  they pick it up and deliver it a few hours later. I used to have a sign on the chairs to leave laundry on the chairs. Invariably it is delivered on the chairs or the guy is brave enough to climb the outside stairs and plunk on the deck.

This is what greeted his  sight LOL so now just about everyone has been frightened by my panties getting their solar charge for my wonder woman  super powers.

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April 6

Baby steps

Stopped raining long enough for me to check mailbox and feed birds. also moved 4 bricks. one at a time. now a nap is screaming my name.

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April 17

was able to do 5 rounds in 15 minutes in the parking lot with the rollator. I had to clear out the stairwell below so my brother can change lightbulbs for me- that gave me incentive- moving broom, walker, rollator outside. First round had to adjust the height of the handle bars. One round of that was too high. Finally got it right but clothes still hang heavy on my shoulders. So until I can walk naked outside I will never be happy.  Nice day out there - may do another "spin" later. Still toting the cane for a weapon.

or  maybe a nap.

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April 24 2025

I designed it and Jer's men did the heavy work. Feels good underfoot and should make a great path for me and the rollator. Getting impatient getting my strength back! Blue stone slates from old outdoor shower and patterned stones from bird feeder area. They moved some flower pots for me as well.

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2025: PHOTO DUMP FROM INACTIVITY WHILE RECUPERATING

 No particular order but going through photo files of pix I took while too incapacitated by fall and covid.
July 2024

laundry

apparently I dropped the laundry below for delRoy on the 2nd of July and it was picked up Wednesday and delivered Wednesday but I did not retrieve it until Thursday July 4th.

Boiught a Kindle Fire that did not work so was returned not without a hassle oh now I rememberf I could not get it to do English as a language

The garden I planted in Junne was a disaster I could not get out there to water so my onlt enjoyment was the hydrangeas I could see from the deck.

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April 2024

Almost 9 months ago I fell backwards and hit my head and cracked bones etc and managed to get covid so they found when I was in the emergency room. No joke I am still recovering. But my hobby for almost 20 years was documenting gravestones. It took me until TODAY to be able to work on my photo files of what I had done in 2024 and before. I was trying to update my blog at the same time and gave up as the blog had glitches. But it sure felt good to label 4-5 gravestone pix just now from April 2024. I can feel the cold air on my face from that day like it was today. These were all stone they had dug up and were going to re-set. Though I will never get out there again and see the results I did accomplish something

felt good to be able to accomplish this at last. My brain felt like it froze when I tried for 8 months.

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