Been a few days
By Ithink
@Ithink (10114)
United States
November 18, 2025 1:38pm CST
Moms went pretty good, ordered her propane, thou they still haven't delivered she said. I'm going to have to call and see what is going on. Now we are waiting for her to get mail to change a deposit to her new checking account so I can close the old one. She had somehow added something to her Penelec (electric) I called to cancel but will cost a little over 100.00 to cancel early and she only has a few months to go with it before you can just cancel so will leave it be for now.
Finally warming up a bit its 38 degrees with snow on the ground. Im already ready for Spring. Thou in the Spring it is even busier than now but it will be outside work to be done. Been going through my books and other things. I love to read and have shelves full of books but I have to go through and get rid of some, there are just to many. Then to hit going through all the craft items I have, between, resin, bead work, scrapbooking, wreath making, along with a few other things, I need to decide what I like best and declutter. Never ending it seems on some days, but little by little getting through it.
House other than regular cleaning was left to its own device basically for way to long between being sick for so long and schooling. Now to get it back to what it once was and even better. We bought flooring to put down and I want to paint the rooms and make it more me. I have changed a lot the last few years and finding things no longer serve me or I dont like the way some things look or even like them anymore.
I think the one thing that is the same is I love books and reading, canning and gardening, being outside. Well that is about all I have not much going on really, just an older lady taking care of her mom and her home, and trying to take ours back.
Hope everyone is doing well.
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@Ithink (10114)
• United States
3h
@AmbiePam Crocheting was hard at first but the single stitch is really easy. I crocheted our first born a ripple baby blanket while pregnant with her. I love gardening, my only drawback is that I'm allergic to weeds and dust so I always break out. I don't let it stop me thou as there is nothing that tastes better than fresh vegetables and knowing you did it makes it that more better.
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@DaddyEvil (162331)
• United States
18 Nov
May I ask what state you're in? I don't want to ask you for city, though. I'm not a creeper.
I live in Southern Missouri and it was 74F today for our high. Very nice outside
My daughter and I moved into a small (750 sq ft) house from a larger (2,000 sq ft) house. (Pretty went through everything we owned.) We gave things away, donated stuff to a local thrift shop and threw away a huge amount of "stuff" we knew we didn't need and would have no room to store at the new-to-us house and still filled the garage here. We've been in this house 9 years and go through and take more stuff to the thrift store at least once a year. (I know exactly how you feel!)
When we moved here, I had tons of books on shelves in the old house but there just wasn't room for them all here. We started filling plastic totes with my books and half the garage is full of those totes. (I tried to donate a lot of them to the local library but they said they didn't have room for all of them, either, and wouldn't accept them.)
I've switched to an ebook site and read everything on my Kindle app on my phone, my Kindle Color or let my laptop read the ebooks when I can't see to read them myself. (If you ever want the site, just let me know. I'll definitely share it with you.)
I had to give up working with plants outside. I had been growing tomatoes, bell peppers, onions and a few other delicious foods in pots on our front porch but can't always see to go out and water them in the heat of summer. My daughter said she had enough to do without watering plants when we can just buy food when we need it. 
I'm older but not old yet... and miss all the things I used to do. I still cook and clean around the house and play online when I can see to do those things.
I'm older but not old yet... and miss all the things I used to do. I still cook and clean around the house and play online when I can see to do those things.2 people like this
@Ithink (10114)
• United States
21 Nov
I'm in NW PA, in the snowbelt area and wish it was in the 70's ..lol It is warmer today or so they say 44 degrees is what they say, I'm hard pressed in believing it. lol I don't even know how big this place is, been here for 32 years. It is an old farmhouse kinda. Found out going thru the ownership deed, my not sure if he would be my great great uncle or 3 greats, owned it and most likely built it. Would love to tell him some closets would have been nice! lol
I have totes of books and shelves of books, slowly going through them. Hubby did buy me a kindle and I read it everyday for about an hour or so but have like 3000 books on it. Haha, my problem is everything interests me. My poor browser on my desktop is horrible, hubby laughs at me because I must have like thousandths of bookmarks on all kind of subjects. Its horrible and I say I'm not going to add anymore and just go thru them, but find myself finding something interesting and bookmarking it until I get "time".
I have a huge garden and I told hubby I want to make it bigger, we will see. He started me a greenhouse hopefully will have it finished this Spring, we have apple and pear trees. Sometimes I get overwhelmed with it but I love when we open something I canned and enjoy the homemade food. If you don't mind what is wrong with your sight?
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@DaddyEvil (162331)
• United States
21 Nov
@Ithink I grew up on a farm and we didn't have closets until dad sectioned off part of each bedroom and put shelves in and one corner got a bar across it for hanging clothes. (Mom's parents gave her $2,000 as a wedding gift and she used that money to buy the farm she grew up on. I have no idea how old that house was when mom bought it. One interesting thing about it was there were no indoor toilets or running water until I was 15 and one of my older brothers added an indoor bathroom, a new living room and a new kitchen to the house.)
You sound like me! Take a look at this website and see what you think. All the ebooks are free and there are tons of authors from most countries around the world. You can only download 5 ebooks within 24 hours unless you donate some money to them. (I donated $20 when I found the site and can download 10 ebooks in 24 hours.) Once in a while they run a special and offer to let you do unlimited downloads for one month... 10 ebooks at a time is more than I can read so I don't bother donating more money to them. (I download the ebooks to my laptop and then use a Send to Kindle app to store all the ebooks on the Kindle Cloud. As long as you use the Kindle app or your Kindle, you can store unlimited ebooks there.)
Oh, sorry, most people I talk with already know I have hyperthyroidism. (I forget when I'm talking to somebody new-to-me to tell them... Really, I just don't tell people unless they're curious enough to ask.) The meat and fat around my eyes swells up and forces my eyelids shut or my eyelids swell up and look like bags full of water covering my eyes. It happens about 90% of the time. *shrug* A lot of the time, I have my face pressed against my laptop screen when I'm reading or writing on myLot.
I learned how to can from mom when I was a teenager but I never bought a pressure cooker/canner. I used to dehydrate lots of things from the garden or when we buy too many veggies. Dehydrated veggies last forever as long as they don't get damp. I store them in Ziploc Storage bags and put the bags in airtight containers.
You sound like me! Take a look at this website and see what you think. All the ebooks are free and there are tons of authors from most countries around the world. You can only download 5 ebooks within 24 hours unless you donate some money to them. (I donated $20 when I found the site and can download 10 ebooks in 24 hours.) Once in a while they run a special and offer to let you do unlimited downloads for one month... 10 ebooks at a time is more than I can read so I don't bother donating more money to them. (I download the ebooks to my laptop and then use a Send to Kindle app to store all the ebooks on the Kindle Cloud. As long as you use the Kindle app or your Kindle, you can store unlimited ebooks there.)
Oh, sorry, most people I talk with already know I have hyperthyroidism. (I forget when I'm talking to somebody new-to-me to tell them... Really, I just don't tell people unless they're curious enough to ask.) The meat and fat around my eyes swells up and forces my eyelids shut or my eyelids swell up and look like bags full of water covering my eyes. It happens about 90% of the time. *shrug* A lot of the time, I have my face pressed against my laptop screen when I'm reading or writing on myLot.
I learned how to can from mom when I was a teenager but I never bought a pressure cooker/canner. I used to dehydrate lots of things from the garden or when we buy too many veggies. Dehydrated veggies last forever as long as they don't get damp. I store them in Ziploc Storage bags and put the bags in airtight containers.
@kaylachan (80850)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
18 Nov
Just take things a day at a time.
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