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50 degrees this morning, going for a high of 68 and the light rain currently falling is supposed to end by mid-morning. Does anyone know anything good or bad you'd share about Humana Medicare Supplement insurance. It could be posted here, or sent to me in a private message. Long, dull story...

Yep, Jinman is definitely missed. I also thought of him when I saw the first Bluebonnets yesterday in my neighborhood. And I, too, hope for a little more rain tonight.

PJS posted, "We pay for trash pickup at our place through private contractors." That reminds me of something that happened when we lived out in the country down in Navarro County. There was NO official or governmental garbage collection, but an individual had his own little business; no...

Sure hope her eye problem isn't too serious.

I see a lot of you still having pretty cool weather . . . But not here. 56 degrees going for a high of 65 today with, supposedly, a 90% chance of rain this evening and tonight. We really do need the rain, and I'm not at all confident in the forecast. So, since I don't have the equipment to...

Make me happy my township came up a contract to have trash pickup one time a week. They will take anything put out a road. Except environmental hazard. It is a line item on our tax bills. About $180 a year. I see that several people have mentioned what they pay for garbage collection. So . . ...

The little forms we filled out didn't ask for any insurance information. And when the little hospital made the appointment, nothing was mentioned about insurance, but when we got there, they knew our ages, and asked about our Medicare cards, which we readily gave to them. But we got our first...

Our 16 year old granddaughter decided that she wants to try a small garden in 4' x 6' planter boxes that they have. So I went with her to the Home Depot on a bright sunny day yesterday. WOW . . what a crowd they had at the Home Depot and they now have a much bigger variety of plants than I've...

My own opinion is exactly like yours.

TNG said, "Looks like maybe a half inch of rain overnight." But here in north Texas, I only got about .04" so far, last night or early this morning. We sure need some rain.

txdon said, "Bird That pending deposit may be something else. The stimulus checks would have totaled $2,800. I have not received any notification as of this morning. I too am running the A/C." And of course you're right. It DOES say, $2800; don't know how I managed to type $2400.

Is it Summer yet? I've had to turn on the A/C the last couple of days because it got too warm in the house. Low temperature of 65 at night and going to near 80 in the daytime. I went ahead and got 8 clocks set forward for Daylight Savings Time to start tomorrow. I just now paid the biggest...

sodamo said, "I can also remember putting 25 cents worth in the tank." I got my first car, a ten year old "1946" Chevy, when I was 16 and I used to carry a gallon can of gas in the trunk in case I ran out. That gallon always cost about a quarter and I seldom bought more than 50 cents worth of...

LouNY said, "I filled my pickup yesterday, $2.999 so might as well say $3.00 a gallon." That's even worse than north Texas. I filled up a few minutes ago at Buc-ee's (usually the cheapest place around here) and it was $2.599. That's the most I've paid since July 3, 2019.

Don said, "I bought some lawn fertilizer before the big freeze, today is a good day to spread it." I have not bought fertilizer yet; might do that today. But it's sure too windy here to spread it today. 56 degrees this morning, going for a high of 73 and a strong southerly breeze; currently...

Thanks Ron, and you, too, Don. I remember Harvey saying that he had the beginning of Alzheimer's and just wondered how he and Glenda are doing. I've been having some serious memory problems myself now for a year or so, and I saw a new doctor a couple of weeks ago. He told me he only knows of...

Don, have you, or anyone else for that matter, heard from Harvey (wronghtn_harv) lately?

Yep, Dennis, some nice weather. So yesterday I got the oil & filter changed in the car and got the annual safety inspection done Aah yes, many, many years ago I had to help Dad cut down a tree, split it, find the queen and move those bees into a hive. Then Dad bought several more hives, so I...

Last night, I had gone to bed early and the power went off about 10:30 p.m., fortunately only very briefly and back on. We had lots of thunder, lightning, and heavy rain. The airport, 10 miles north of us shows to have gotten .52" of rain before midnight and .26" after midnight. My little rain...

And I just had it happen less than a month ago. I'd never seen that little fan in the back. I thought the service guy was going to take the whole refrigerator apart.:laughing: But he lubricated that little fan and all has been well since.

Same here. Of course they could adjust how much the knee bent and the nurses said I asked them to bend my knee more than most.

Weird weather this morning. When I look about the temperature, I'm most frequently looking at the Denton Regional Airport which is 10 miles north of me. If I look at my city's weather, they are usually at least ABOUT the same. But this morning, the airport is showing 30 degrees and here 10...

NWS says it's 25 degrees but going for a high of 67 today. And their website makes it appear that our freezing weather could be over for the year.:cool2:

Weird weather indeed this year. I don't even remember when the freeze first hit, and the snow that actually stayed around for days. BUT . . this morning's temperature was 24 degrees and the ice was still frozen on my driveway. No sun hits my driveway; blocked by a big tree. But I was able to...

I've had the sugar cube AND the vaccination to prevent polio. Unfortunately, I had polio before the doctors knew what it was; late 1941 when I was 22 months old. But since doctors said you could have polio more than once, I got the sugar cube and vaccination when everyone else did.

9 degrees in Denton, and also 35 forecast. I have prepared the longest grocery list I've made in many, many years. Hope to go to the store later today or tomorrow and have no idea how much of it they will have. But we do have enough food in the house to last a good bit longer if necessary...

My wife used to make her own chili, but it's been many, many years ago. We now just use Wick Fowler's 2 Alarm Chili mix, to which we add a little extra tomato sauce, and I add shredded cheese to my bowl, and have cornbread with it. And that's what I made yesterday.:D

Some of you fellows have been talking about sewing and using sewing machines, so I'll probably be posting something I've posted before, but anyway . . . . My mother made all of her own clothes most of her life. She also made most of 5 kids' clothes. And for awhile one summer, she worked in a...

When I had my eye exam last week, they had a new machine/instrument or whatever that I'd never seen before and know nothing about, but it cost me about $45 and the claim is that it does a better job than dilating the eyes did and no dilation required.

-3 degrees this morning or -6 if you use the airport reading 10 miles from here. Supposedly going all the way up to 21 or 22 today. The good news (so far) is that we've had no power outage here at our house . . . YET, although we still expect it to happen. Supposedly over 100,000 without...

If it ain't one thing, it's another. I've been letting the faucet in the kitchen sink drip, or run a tiny stream, but I went to wash a couple of dishes and found that opening the faucet didn't do anything. Wide open gets the same tiny stream that I already had. I'm inclined to think that...

I don't know how you measure it either. But my rain gauge that holds 6" of water is almost full of snow.:confused3: Now whether that's a reasonable measurement is anybodie's guess.:laughing:

At least if LOOKED cold outside this morning, BUT now the sun has come out and looking out the window, it appears to be a beautiful sunny day. But the temperature outside is still 5 degrees.:confused3:

Our miserably cold weather is forecast to only get worse tonight and tomorrow, and not much better for a week or so. And I've figured we'd be OK as long as the electricity doesn't go off. BUT the TV news says the power company, Ercot, has started their "rolling blackouts" 15 to 45 minutes at a...

6 degrees this morning, going for a high of 14, then back down to zero tonight. I can't even remember weather this bad for this long in the past.

Same thing happening here. I got up this morning before 4 a.m. and it was 20 degrees, but now it's down to 15.

Instead of that, I've left the door open a bit from the kitchen/dining area into the garage. The garage itself is pretty well insulated but the overhead garage door is not all that great. However, so far it's keeping the garage temperature above 50 degrees. I imagine all our next electric...

The sun came out and our temperature was up to 30 degrees this afternoon by 2 p.m. Our washer and dryer are actually in the garage, which is not heated. So I figured the small heaters would be sold out at Walmart, but on the chance that they'd have one, I went shopping. I went to THREE...

COME ON GLOBAL WARMING!!!! It's been awhile since we had temperatures this low and lasting this long; 20 degrees, or less, for 2 or 3 days. This morning is the first time in a few years that the backup electric heat came on to help the heat pump. And you can bet that there's going to be a lot...

Until a couple of days ago, I thought we were going to almost have no Winter. Guessed wrong again. In spite of the cold, my immediate area has had no ice problems . . . so far. Yesterday afternoon, I got an email that it was time for me to have an eye exam, and I knew I needed a change in my...

I don't know of anything I could say to make it easier for you, Randy, but you and your mom will certainly be in our prayers.

This morning I found an email from late yesterday afternoon from TurboTax saying that my return had been accepted by the IRS and refund should arrive within 3 weeks.

They sure LOOK good. Wish I could sample one to see what it tastes like.:licking:

Our weather is sure different from many of you. Currently 68 sunny degrees and a light southerly breeze. Hard to believe it's February.

We're still having what I'd consider to be unusual weather; 57 degrees going for 74 today with 28 to 36 mph wind. There was also a 40% chance of rain, but it's already passed by here and missed us.

I'm one of the kind of people who would have to get that fixed IMMEDIATELY.:laughing:

This is the first I've heard of such a severe reaction. It would be my guess that you might not have the same reaction if you got the same medication, but I can certainly understand your reluctance.

That really is a shame; for you to have so much trouble getting your vaccinations after you helped others of us, including me, of course, to get ours quicker.

Thanks to all for the birthday wishes and well wishes for my little problem yesterday. I just felt bad all day yesterday; nothing serious, no severe pains, etc., but just felt bad. My arm where I got the shot was very sore, I even went and looked at the house thermostat twice because I felt...

Thanks to all for the Birthday Wishes. And now a little update. This second vaccine shot has sure been different. The shot itself was only a little pin prick with the needle, so I thought it was even less than the first shot. We got the shots just before 10 a.m. yesterday and the nurse did...

I read that same thing somewhere, but then later I read that the extra booster would not be needed. So who knows? I don't mind taking another shot if it's needed.

Sure hope so anyway. My wife and I got our second (and presumably last) Moderna Covid-19 injections this morning. So we hope they work.:laughing: I'll probably always remember when I got this injection since tomorrow will be my 81st birthday.

52 foggy degrees this morning, going for a high of 65. I went to Walmart for a few things, foggy and everything LOOKED wet but never had to use the windshield wipers a single time. And talking of racing . . . . well, like other dumb kids I did my share of racing, mostly drag racing with a '56...

I wonder if I'm the only one trying to get everything done as early as possible; just in case I should fall victim to the virus, or some other problem, and I don't want to leave my wife and daughters with a mess of paperwork if I should be in the hospital or dead. So I have our auto and...

After you helped many others of us, I'm glad you finally get yours, too.:laughing:

I don't guess any of us know whether one brand is better than another. We just hope all of them work. We're scheduled for our second shot one week from today, and we got the Moderna vaccine.

I use those same pods, but just put Folgers Gourmet Supreme coffee in them every morning.:D

Yep, I remember my Dad doing that.

Ah yes. Homes used to be advertised in the newspaper with words such as "3 rooms and a bath". Well, we had 4 rooms and a path. It was nice when we finally got running water in the house and great when we actually got a bathroom. Our kids never learned what it was like to take a bath in a...

We've had some snow this afternoon, too. But none stayed after it hit the ground. The lowest our temperature got was 34.

I've read the same thing. I also read somewhere in the past that it takes nearly a month after the second shot to get to the full immunity, but somewhere I recently read it only takes a week after the second shot.:confused3:

The city changed our health insurance provider for this year, and so far it's a nightmare. My wife has been getting some pretty expensive COPD medications from a mail order pharmacy and it's cost us nothing. But that pharmacy doesn't take this new insurance that the city says is going to be so...

Not being a very trusting soul, I wondered about the second shot because my wife said they told her we'd be notified. So after a couple of days of wondering whether she might have misunderstood, I sent an email to ask when we could get the second shot. And I got the same answer that she had...

I hope it all works out well for you. I was a bit undecided a couple of months ago, but went ahead and signed up with AHS for almost $50 a month. But after thinking about it and listening to you and Txdon, I just decided it wasn't for me. So . . . I called and finally got through to an almost...

Is this the contractor provided by American Home Shield?

Yep, no mention was made of checking with ANYONE.

Yep, things do change, and sometimes unexpectedly and not necessarily for the better. When I retired from the police department, my "irrevocable" life time pension included an escalation clause that guaranteed me a raise each year; same amount every year; just about $100 a month raise the first...

I was 12 years old and had 4 younger siblings the first time my Dad bought a car and financed part of it. I still remember the bank having a problem because Dad had no credit rating; had been like your parents, paid cash or did without. Of course years later, he owned his own business and had...

Me, too. And I like it with roast beef, but usually just forget and don't have it with my roast beef.:laughing:

I hate to hear that you're having a problem finding a source for yourself, but those of us for whom you've found a source certainly appreciate your help.

She certainly has my sympathy. I can understand how she feels.

I got sleepy early, VERY early, yesterday evening, and went to bed. We were getting a little drizzling rain. My wife stayed up and said we had a downpour, the electricity went off twice, but back on quickly. So this morning I went out and poured about 1.85" of rain out of the gauge. And the...

I've definitely already marked my calendar and have their phone number handy.:laughing: The Denton newspaper this morning says the health department has already scheduled all the vaccine they have.

Don, I was more than a little bit surprised at the lack of questions. I think there were 5 questions to just check yes or no; Have you been diagnosed with covid? Have you been exposed that you know of? Are you currently sick? And I forgot the others. They made a copy of each of our drivers...

And it's my wife's 77th. I wish a Happy Birthday for both of them.:laughing:

We've only been over it once; about 1992 I think, and it was so foggy and cloudy that we couldn't see anything; it was a wasted trip.:laughing:

My arm is a bit sore this morning, but no more so than I've had with some other vaccinations; no visible swelling or any other problem. One other thing that surprised me, though, is the fact that the nurse was NOT putting any Band-Aid or such on the spot where she did the injection. I don't...

Yesterday I went to Horizon Medical Center's website: Horizon Medical Center And then I clicked on "contact us": Contact Us - Horizon Medical Center I went down to the place you can enter your name, phone number, email address and what you want to ask, which of course was when could we get...

Thanks for the information, Don. Margaret and I have a 1 p.m. appointment today for our first shots.

I guess it doesn't surprise anyone for the news media to be wrong.:laughing: And this far north, we don't have an HEB store. Many years ago, that was my mother's favorite store, both in Port Aransas and later in Navarro County.

Some of you may remember me talking in the past about my next door neighbor who moved in there about 12 years ago. He was almost exactly 10 years older than I am. Anyway, it wasn't long after he moved in that he started having some serious health issues. He was smart enough to realize that he...

52 degrees for a low this morning and going for a high of 70 degrees is hard to believe. My wife and I took down and stored all the Christmas decorations yesterday because we had no wind yesterday, expecting some breeze today, and then maybe rain the next 3 days.

Like most youngsters, I wanted a motor scooter when I was about 12 years old, and a boy in my class at school had his up for sale. So I finally talked my dad into going to look at it. Just proves how dumb I was at that age. When we knocked on the door, my classmate came to the door on his...

I think that's been told as a joke by many people, but I actually had it happen once in the hospital, so I'm sure it's happened to others. When that nurse woke me to take a pill, I asked her, "What is it?" and when she said, "A sleeping pill" I said, "You've got to be kidding" and when she...

I think most folks can't even imagine what 3 weeks in a hospital would be like. Glad you're out now and I hope all is well.

A young fellow showed up in a Sears vehicle and I got the impression that he knew what he was doing. He took that washing machine apart and I got to see parts of it I'd never seen before. There's a water hose in there that takes the water to the tub and it had something like pin hole leaks in...

Ken, that's one I never heard of. If it's got a filter, I never knew it. The washer (and dryer) are about 12 years old and there's no problem with it draining normally. However, the Sears man is supposed to be here sometime in the next 3 hours. I still have a service policy with Sears that...

It seems to me that we're having rather odd weather for this time of year; frost in the mornings and warm sunny weather in the afternoon. Calm 31 degrees this morning, but going for a high of 69. Our washing machine apparently has a leak somewhere. The last 2 times it was used, there was a...

We had our Christmas with the family yesterday. My wife & I, and our older daughter and her husband, wore our face masks except when we were eating and we were spread out pretty far apart then instead of being at one table. The younger daughter, her 16 year old daughter, our grandson, his...

Me, too. And now we have a very small deep fryer for occasional use for such things as chicken or pork chops, etc., always include french fries, and I do the same, pour it through a double layer of cheese cloth, thoroughly wash the little deep fryer, put the filtered oil back in it, put the lid...

My wife, of course, whose 77th birthday will be New Years Eve.

I'm getting old and forgetful; can't remember just how long it took, but I've sure fried a lot of turkeys in peanut oil for us as well as for friends and neighbors. And the very first turkey I ever fried did result in the oil boiling over when I lowered the turkey in too fast. That was in my...

Glad she recovered Eric.

Another small order from Walmart, promised deliver by this coming Wednesday the 23rd actually arrived yesterday the 19th.

I guess we've all had a problem with USPS, UPS, and FedEx at one time or another, and of course, having worked 5 years long ago in the Post Office, I naturally usually oppose putting cash in the mail. However, my wife put a $50 bill in a Christmas card to West Virginia and it got delivered just...

I haven't gotten such a letter, nor have I talked to any USPS employees lately, BUT . . . our mail carrier USUALLY comes around 3:30 p.m., give or take a half hour. But twice last week, no mail carrier before I went to bed, well after dark, but then found mail in the box the next morning. I...

I just recently signed up for such a plan and haven't used it yet. I've had a plan with Sears on our refrigerator, washer/dryer, and a window unit A/C in my shop for several years. The Sears plan was pretty expensive and only covered those 4 items and is expiring in the next 2 months. With...

My wife and I, too, will take the shots when they are available. But of course I'm so old that I'll be among the last to get them, if I live that long.:laughing: So I figure by the time we're able to get the shots they will have been thoroughly vetted.:laughing:

Haven't seen, or even thought of, one in a long time. I ate in one once and once was enough, so I wasn't surprised when they disappeared.

Brought them in because it started pouring. That reminds me of my first attempt at cooking a brisket. Our first old and small house had a small gas grill at the edge of a concrete patio with no cover. I'd never used a grill and I'd never cooked a brisket, but I'd heard they had to cook a long...

:laughing:Eric, in this part of Texas, at least, Texas Toast is just thick sliced toast. We buy it frozen, and keep it on hand all the time, some that's already buttered on both sides and frozen; just pop it in the skillet to heat and brown it a bit. Our LOW temperature this morning is 41...

Yep, dogs develop habits just as humans do. When I was a teenager, I worked as a postman, part time when a regular carrier was off, and in those days in that little town, there were almost no fences around yards, so lots of dogs running loose, and in the whole town, I knew of one dog I needed...

Weird weather for Winter. We're having mornings just below freezing, then afternoons in the 70s. All summer, I mowed my yard one notch higher than the neighbors on either side of us, and we did have a thick, spongy yard. So yesterday, I decided to mow it for the last time of the year. Of...

Good looking bread.

Same here.

Our current home, in which we've lived the last 15 years HAS a fireplace and I carefully vacuumed out all the ashes right after we oved in, closed the flue, and we've never used it. The first two homes we had with fireplaces was also when I could go cut my own firewood, and both houses had...

I can sure understand that. It seems that Oak is the most popular, but I had very good luck with Mesquite once I learned that it gets hotter and you have to not use so much at a time. In our first house with a fireplace, I burned mortar out from between the fire bricks and made a job for...

While we would certainly be WILLINHG to take the vaccine anytime, I'll have to admit that it's logical to put us old folks last.

I can sympathize with those of you who have problems with deliveries. I've just never had that problem. When we lived 20 miles from town, I went into the Post Office to do a change of address card and the lady (turned out to be the postmaster, or I guess you'd say postmistress) asked if I'd...

Yep, Don, 29 degrees for the low here this morning, too. But going for a sunny 57.

Never even heard of them, much less seen them in a store.

I haven't bought anything but the Honeycrisp lately. I think they're as good as it gets.

My Dad was the most proficient squirrel hunter I ever knew. When I was old enough to get my first .22 rifle, we'd walk on opposite sides of the creek and he'd find and shoot 6 squirrels to my 1 every time. And yep, we ate every squirrel we could find. Did you skin them out right over the...

I keep a spray bottle with Round-Up in it handy just for that purpose.

31 degrees forecast yesterday for today, but now the NWS says it's actually 20 degrees, but going for a sunny and calm 57 today.

Yep, never met a chocolate chip cookie that I didn't like. Makes no difference to me whether it's the crisp or soft texture.

After dark last night, but before midnight, we got about .65" of rain and were glad to get it. Temperature today is 45 going for a high of 53, but supposed to be below freezing in the morning. If they're anything like the ones from The Collin Street bakery in Corsicana, TX, they'll be great.

David, I told you about my parents visiting Hawaii and eating the pineapple. Well, my Dad got curious when he heard how long it takes to produce a pineapple, and having started life as a farmer, he and his dad liked to experiment, so Dad produced a pineapple (indoors of course) in Anchorage and...

I guess I missed that. I just assumed it was canned like I used. Incidentally, many, many, many years ago my parents visited your state and they visited a pineapple farm or whatever they called it, and they were offered samples of the pineapple juice. I never forget my mother saying that she...

This morning, shortly after 8 a.m., I went driving around and didn't see any unusual number of vehicles at any of the 3 nearest Walmarts or anywhere else except Kohl's and Academy Sports. I guess they must have run some ads, and opened a bit early. But I just got back from grocery shopping at...

That ham looks like it's got as much pineapple as I put on mine.:laughing: But I didn't have any cherries to add to it.

Just got back from younger daugher's home. There were 6 of us for Thanksgiving Dinner and only had enough food for maybe 25 or 30 people.:eek: But it was sure good, and a very nice visit. Four of us kept our masks on except when actually eating. Hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving.

Does anyone know anything either good or bad about these Revitive gadgets, and if so, what's the difference between the cheaper one and the more expensive one? Device Offers for All Products - REVITIVE Circulation Booster My wife spends most of her time sitting on the sofa, but her legs get to...

We'll certainly pray for them and know it much be tough.

We just have one of the simple little pulse oximeters.

That's your privilege and right and I can respect that. But to me, that's just like saying you aren't going to drive on public streets and roads until the powers that be will GUARANTEE that you will not be involved in an accident. There aren't too many guarantees in this old life, so I just...

Nope, none at all.

I went in one of the Denton Walmarts this morning, so I checked the paper isles and there didn't appear to be any shortage of any of the paper products.

I know they are generally referred to as an "estimate" but I started quoting prices when I was a kid mowing yards, and many years later, doing the "estimates" in my brothers' tire shop and garage in Anchorage. And in all my days the final price was NEVER going to be more than my quoted...

I understand, but she sure does not want to go to the hospital, and I understand that, too. So she's sitting in her favorite spot on the sofa watching TV and I just now checked and her oxygen level is 96. Of course she has on the oxygen line to the big machine that she uses here at home, day...

We appreciate everyone's thoughts and prayers. In spite of what the doctor, who was supposed to do the cataract surgery, said, Margaret has insisted that she didn't feel any worse than usual. Her oxygen level can fluctuate over a pretty wide range. When she's up and moving around, as when she...

This has not been a good day. I got Margaret to the day surgery place just after 7 a.m. (7:15 a.m. appointment) to have cataract surgery on her left eye. Got the paperwork done, sat and waited a relatively short time, then a nurse took her back about 7:45 a.m. and I could not go back with her...

Right now . . . or so far . . . Younger daughter and granddaughter are planning for us and older daughter and her husband to get together for Thanksgiving at younger daughter's home. So 6 of us from 3 households. Of course, my wife has an appointment in the morning for cataract surgery on one...

It's been very windy and warm lately, but not the wind has died. So we have 30 degrees and dead calm, but it's supposed to warm up to a sunny 68 today.

We've had a very warm, but also very windy, day. I got the hedge shears out and did some trimming this morning, and I went to Walmart for some printer paper. Otherwise, a slow day of doing very little.

It's that time of year again when my wife wants the HEAT on in the morning and the COOLING in the evening. Nice sunny weather in mid-day but we'd sure like to have some more rain.

Kyle, I used to be Commander of the Helicopter Section of the police department. The prior commander was promoted to another position and had never been a pilot himself, but I decided to work to get a pilot's license for the helicopters, and just before I was ready to go for a test, the police...

Everything is always changing. I said I was going to let their technician install the new printer, but yesterday morning, I had just a few things I wanted to print; about 6 pages. SO . .. I went ahead and installed it, got it paired up with both my computers and everything working as it...

Well, that HP Envy 5660 was a good printer for 4 years and, as I said, they've sent me emails saying no service available, obsolete, etc. so after looking at Walmart and such, I went back to Best Buy and got an HP Envy 7155. It looks like the old one, uses the same ink cartridges, etc. just...

60 degrees going for a sunny 76 today; doesn't hardly seem like Winter, but I still like it. But what I DON'T like is problems with a computer printer. It's an HP Envy 5660 only 4 years old this month and I guess for nearly a year I've been getting emails from HP telling me that there is no...

I would expect that to taste bad enough that you'd NEED a chaser, if you didn't puke before you could get to the chaser.

My 12 gallon Craftsman wet/dry vac that I've had now for more than 15 years is still a dandy. I have two hoses; one the size you'd normally expect and one big diameter hose if you want to suck up larger stuff; rarely used, but I did use it this past month to pick up acorns and twigs and such in...

Haven't heard of Circuit City in a long time, but I sure hated to see them go, too. My first satellite TV receiver system was one I bought from Circuit City and installed myself. And I bought a number of other things from them as well.

I know I've mentioned this before, but my brother and his wife used to live in a wooded area in Navarro County and they had bird feeders out, but also got to throwing bread out in the back yard. The racoons liked that bread so much that she started getting 100 loaves at a time from the local...

Yep, that's what our newspaper said.

32 degrees this morning, but the sun came out and the temperature went into the 60s so it was a bit warmer than I would have preferred while I was mowing the yard this afternoon, but got it done and hope I won't have to mow so often for the next couple of months.

I assume Walmart is doing that nationwide, but the news media here mentioned that you can still buy a gun there; just that an employee will have to go get it from the store room instead of them being displayed. Since I don't need any more guns, I haven't verified that.:laughing: But I clean...

Daylight Savings Time ends Monday; two days from now. So I just got through changing 10 clocks just to confuse my wife.:laughing:

Yep, most (not all, of course, but most) of those I've known of breaking a hip don't live long afterwards. As for deeding the house . . . I don't know. We have a reverse mortgage on our house, and naturally it should be worth more than will be owed on it when we die and I read in some of their...

I reckon old age is overtaking me. I'm now older than any male member of my family has ever made it to. And I've fallen twice in the house, twice in then yard, and once on the back porch in the last month. No damage, or broken bones so far; just a few bruises and a little bleeding. My wife...

I have gone through many, many garden hoses in my life, but a little over 8 years ago, I bought three Gilmour Flexogen hoses at The Home Depot; two 50 footers and one 75 foot. Supposedly a lifetime warranty. They stay on hose reels outdoors in the weather year round. Now they're thick and...

The last time I bought HP ink cartridges, a sales lady at Walmart tried to sell me their off brand, but since I wasn't sure, I went elsewhere and bought genuine HP cartridges. I didn't know there was a shortage. At least I have some new ones on hand if or when I need them. And I've gotten...

My car thermometer showed 39 degrees as I was going to and from Walmart. I got new styrofoam covers to put on the outside water faucets and put them on when I got back.

And down here in North Texas, it's 36 degrees going for another drizzling miserable day with 43 forecast for the high.

Kinda makes me curious. Which shot did you get? Two of my doctors in the past, in the same office, disagreed on how many shots were needed and how long they'd be good for. So I got: PPSV23 on 02/09/2007 PPSV23 on 09/10/2013 and Prevnar 13 on 02/03/2017

:cool2:65 degrees for a low temperature today and going for a high of 67 according to the NWS. But the best news is that it started raining at 7 a.m. for the first rain in exactly one month and one day.:cool2:

I put stamps on ours and deposited them in the mail chute inside the post office some days ago. Supposedly the post office will deliver them even without stamps, but I decided to not risk it.

I think it SHOULD work, but this reminds me of when we bought a new fifth-wheel motorhome many, many years ago (1989 to be specific) and I had the dealer install a propane powered generator. Right away, that generator would not work. It would start, and almost immediately die. The RV dealer...

I set them out by the curb for the garbage men to pick up Monday.

As usual, that big pretty live oak tree in my front yard produced great quantities of tiny acorns again this year. I've been blowing them off the driveways each day with my EGO leaf blower, but since the temperature was a dry 52 this morning, going for 77 later today, I got our there with the...

Dang, Drew, it sounds as if your DMV folks are as bad as ours in north Texas. It's just next to impossible to get into their office, and when you do, you can almost bet that you won't have everything they can think of to ask for. I have a granddaughter who, after 3 trips, had to make an...

Maybe . . . . Depends on the insurance company and policy. Many years ago I had two repaired and the insurance paid. But the last one I had repaired . . . I learned that my insurance would not pay for it.

I didn't bother to ask yesterday, but I know that he only does one eye, then after that eye is satisfactorily healed, he'll do the other eye. In my case, 9 years ago; one month apart.

61 degrees going for a clear and sunny 80 today. Last year when my wife got her eyes checked and new glasses, they told her she had the start of cataracts. Sure enough, this year they said she needed to go to an eye surgeon. I had cataract surgery on both eyes 9 years ago, so I guess it's...

Temperature this morning is 60 degrees going for a high of 75, but now the wind seems to be dying down, so I got the sprinklers going front and back.

Not a drop of rain. I did do just a little bit of watering after spreading the fertilizer, then hoped for rain that didn't come. So I just went out this morning thinking about doing some more watering, but it's so windy that I wouldn't know where to put the sprinklers to get the water where I...

72 degrees this morning going for a high of 86. I did not apply either fertilizer or insecticide to our yard earlier this year as I've done in the past. So 4 days ago, I sprayed the entire yard with Ortho Bug B Gone, then yesterday I applied a heavy dose of 32-0-10 Scotts Winter Guard...

Yep, very lengthy detailed instructions that must be followed exactly. So it's time consuming, but maybe no more so than standing in line to vote in person. I believe that I, too, have voted in every election since I was old enough to vote; sometimes quick and easy, sometimes stand in long...

55 degrees this morning, going for 83. Sure was nice sitting outside this morning. My A#1 Air technician came this morning for the semi-annual check of our HVAC system. And the mail today brought our Vote by Mail ballots. I didn't expect them this early.

I had the same situation when we moved into this house. There's a workshop under the same roof as the house and that shop has 2 duplex outlets on each wall, plus a 220V outlet on one wall. And there's 2 switches just inside the back door. One of them is for a light just outside the door. But...

61 degrees this morning going for a sunny 83. I got up just after 4 a.m., did my exercises, checked news and weather on the Internet, fixed myself a couple of eggs, 2 sausage patties, 2 biscuits with butter and honey, then went to the nearest Walmart just after it opened this morning for 4...

Yep, she looks like she's having a good time.

I'll hope for the best, Ken. I've only had one refrigerator with a freon leak, and even though it was only a few years old, I was told the fix would cost more than a new refrigerator, so we got a new one. And I'm definitely doing that.

One more comment about my refrigerator repair. The lights in the refrigerator have always worked and the bulbs had never been replaced. But Miguel told me those lights produce a lot of heat; ought to replace them with LEDs. OK, two Walmarts and Lowe's did not have the right bulbs, but The...

I posted the above on the 10th of this month; Thursday. Sure enough on the 11th (Friday), the Sears independent contractor called, and arrived promptly. His name was Miguel, obviously of Hispanic origin which has nothing to do with what I'm saying EXCEPT with my hearing, I have a problem...

12/7/1941, Since I was born in 1940, I don't remember much about 1941 11/22/1963, I was working an evening shift in the Dallas Post Office just south of the assassination site. I thought about going in early to watch the parade, but decided not to. A coworker was standing right where I would...

My mother and my paternal grandmother made all our quilts when I was a kid, and I've helped stitching a bit in my preteen years. We had hooks dad mounted in the ceiling, so a quilt in progress could be pulled up over our heads when it wasn't being worked on, and lowered to the right height for...

56 degrees this morning, going for a high of 70 after that cold front came through yesterday. We got a very heavy, but relatively brief, downpour 3 times for a total of a little over an inch of rain. It's been a long time since we had weather this cool. The ice maker in the refrigerator has...

Sixty years ago, I was living in a house trailer (before they invented mobile homes) and had a little terrior that I started feeding Gravy Train dog food; one that you stir water into. She loved it, but the odor, even outside in a pen she used, was so bad that I changed dog foods and haven't...

Whether anyone "cares" or not, we certainly understand the pride.:laughing:

Did you ever wonder why some people take an interest in guns and others do not. I got my first .22 rifle when I was 10 years old, two years later, a 12 gauge shotgun, my first pistol when I was 18. Then I because a police officer when I was 24, married my wife a year later. Before we were...

84 degrees this afternoon and I just finished mowing the yard. I prefer mowing very early in the mornings, but we're having dew on the grass and it's gone by 2 p.m., so I mowed in spite of the heat. Does anyone else on TBN have a Reverse Mortgage? We went with a Reverse Mortgage 6 years ago...

Gas prices have gone back up around here. This past week I had to pay $1.819 at Bucc-ee's. With the pandemic, we aren't doing much going so we're not using much gas, and our little 2017 Ford Escape has averaged 25.769 mph since it was new, so we're not getting hurt very bad.

We're now up to 7.65" of rain in about the last 16 hours and we're still getting a light rain. There's been a number of street closures due to deep water, but I haven't read of any serious damage, injuries, or deaths fortunately. 73 degrees going for 84 today.

We got just about our ANNUAL rainfall in the first 6 months of this year. Then 1.37" in July; mostly in the last few days, and then .98" in August; sure been dry lately. But then, this afternoon, a front passed through, I reckon. It didn't start raining here until after 1 p.m. and just after...

Of why not just use a little manual suction pump, as I've done? In fact, I guess I still have that little pump.

Buc-ee's in Denton, TX has the biggest most elaborate, most effective drive through car wash that I've ever seen. And you decide whether you want the $9, $12, or $16 car wash. And no matter which you select, the vacuum is included. And of course, they have 3 different types of hoses, and more...

Yep, when I first asked our Walmart pharmacy (the 10th of this month), the pharmacist said they had the lower dose, and expected the high dose during that week. Sure enough, one week later we got the shots on the 17th. Of course Medicare pays for them. But early this morning, I happened to...

I've forgotten all the details, but when I was commander of police communications in the Dallas city hall, down in the basement, we had two generators. They were just alike, V-12 diesels. And the power was shut off in the building about 6 a.m. every Sunday morning. In other words, when there...

Yep, shorts and a t-shirt were plenty warm for me.:laughing:

62 degrees this morning, but going for a high of 94. At least the cool weather made mowing a more pleasant job than I've had in a while. Of course, I almost finished mowing before daylight (love the headlights on the EGO self-propelled lawnmower). And with less than a third of an inch of rain...

Ron, it seems to me that we just get earlier and earlier.:laughing: I don't recall just when we got them when I was still an officer, but for the 6 years after I retired, we spent late October in West Virginia each year because Oct. 31 was my mother-in-law's birthday. And back then, we got our...

Another slightly cooler day today; 73 degrees going for 92 and the BEST news is that we got almost .3" of rain just before midnight last night; first rain of the month. This morning we went to Walmart for just a very few things, AND we got our annual flu shots, so that's out of the way for...

I can well imagine the sadness. Sorry to hear Muffin's gone.

A cool front has arrived. Only 79 degrees this morning going for 101; yep, about 3 to 5 degrees cooler than it has been lately. And we even have a 30%l chance of rain today and 50% tomorrow. The lawns around here, including mine, are showing the effects of a lack of rain, even if they're...

Another odd coincidence. Last week was the first time my wife tried bbq sauce in her stuffed peppers. She always adds chopped onion, and I have always forbid the use of ketchup in them.

I don't know about your state, but here in mine, the motorcycle endorsement used to only be $5, but I dropped mine many years ago.

I don't know how the rest of you cope with the heat, but I've hated hot weather all my life. And as I'm getting older . . . well, it gets worse. 82 degrees this morning, going for a high of 99 and clear skies. Now I've reached an age, or stage of life, that I don't get around too well when I...

Sure does sound like you're talking about me.:laughing: My wife & I have been living in this same house 15 years now; the longest I've ever lived in one place. In 12 years of school, I changed schools 11 times, went to 3 schools twice (moved away, moved back). College wasn't quite as...

All this talk about Fordhook and lima beans, sure got me to thinking about how long it's been since I had any of such. That's just one of those things that my wife doesn't like, so we never have them. I DO like them, and like them whether they're a bit overcooked or undercooked. I'm not...