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Skipping the coffee was the worst part of such exams. However, the last time we had a Wellness visit, the doctor told us that we can have our coffee in the morning since neither of us put anything else in our coffee.

In 1985, I bought a new Honda Aspencade. For those who don't know, that was a 1200cc Goldwing with AM/FM auto volume stereo radio with cassette player, all digital instruments that oddly enough were clearly visible in all light conditions. I was surprised that it did not originally have cruise...

29 degree low, going for a 52 degree high and mostly cloudy today. But supposed to rain tonight and tomorrow. Friday, I got the first recall notice for my 2017 Ford Escape. The recall notice says the possible effects are "Coolant intrusion into the cylinder bores can lead to coolant loss...

I've SEEN a neighbor with shingles, so I got the Zostavax shot in 2012, then the Shingrix first dose July, 2019 and second dose Sept. 2019. The medical "experts" told us the Zostavax was great UNTIL they came out with the Shingrix and then told us the Zostavax was minimally effective. Anyway...

Well, now I've heard it all; a health fanatic that doesn't get the flu shot.:laughing::laughing: 33 degrees here this morning, but going for a sunny high of 54.

My FIRST flu shot was when I was 20 or 21 years old. THREE DAYS later, I went to see a doctor; had the flu so bad that I wasn't sure I was going to make it home. And then for a week, I only got out of bed to go to the bathroom or to heat up another can of soup. Yep, I THINK you're right about...

Well, you can add me and my wife to that list. The first one got me for one day and the second one got my wife for one day.

I'm the senior member of my family, and almost my wife's. However, she has one brother older than me, and her only sister is one day older than me.

Yes, you, and your mother, have my sympathy. My wife and I have been there.

I actually am looking forward to lawn mowing. I've just never been very good at just sitting around and right now there just isn't much to do outside. It's just been a cool misty day so far; not really raining, but just enough to have the windshield wipers on the intermittent setting.

46 degrees for a low and going for a high of 55 today. Yesterday afternoon, I dumped about 3/4" of rain out of my gauge, and this morning I dumped another half inch. It's all been relatively light, but persistent rain; still felt misty when I went out about 6 a.m. and more rain in the...

And the dimmer switch.:laughing:

Having been a police officer AND having supervised the department's safety section, I learned to absolutely forbid that practice. It works just fine as long as there's NEVER anything unexpected or an emergency. But when something unexpected happens, you may stomp down on the brake with your...

Kyle, it sounds like you might need to get acquainted with a lawyer, if you're not already. Weird weather here today. Current temperature of 65 going for a high of 73 and a bit foggy. But the weird thing is that it was 55 degrees around 9 p.m. last night and has been steadily climbing instead...

It's such a common name. It seems familiar but I can't place him, being a victim of old timer's disease does that to me.

My daughter and son-in-law gave me the book "Behind the Texas Badge" for Christmas. Of course I've been retired from law enforcement for 30 years, but I knew some of the people in the book. The authors/producers, or whatever, sent the same questions to law enforcement officers all over the...

Well, that was 4:30 a.m., and now . . . the temperature was gone DOWN to 28 and snowing; heavy snow in the last hour or so, but lightning up some now. Our first snow of the season. In fact, the last snow we had was January 19 of last year, almost exactly a year ago.

36 degrees this morning, going for a high of 42. We had light misty sprinkles most of the day yesterday. Then I went to bed early last night and the NWS radar was showing lots of activity and warnings and such west of us. I woke up about 9:30 p.m. and noticed it was dark in the house; no...

Yep, it was the same here as long as you don't change one or two to another company. If you change one of the policies to another company, would you still get those discounts?

I guess everyone knows that you get some kind of discount if you have both house and cars insured with the same company. I have had for several years. But the problem was that they expired or had to be renewed at different times, so it was a little hard to accurately compare all the other...

It's supposed to be Winter, ain't it?:confused3: 53 degrees going for a high of 67 today. We're supposed to have some rainy weather the next 3 days. We had steak, taters, and salad yesterday, but my wife suggested chili for today, so since chili always tastes better the second day, after all...

I have no idea what they would do. I only started with AAA about 14 years ago when we had to move back to town and I decided it might be a good idea for my wife driving on city streets. But I've called AAA twice to come here to the house; once to change a flat tire and once to jump start the...

You know I grew up in the service station and auto parts business with my Dad, and Fleet Management used to be part of my job in the police department, and now . . . . well, my 2017 Ford Escape just turned over 30k miles, gets driven a few miles almost every day and will be 3 years old in about...

I'd say it's all gone very well. I've been going twice a week and will go again Thursday, then we'll cut back to once a week. And of course, I'll continue to do some of those exercises at home.

32 degrees going for a sunny 61 today. I've got an hour or so of physical therapy at 7:30 a.m.; been going twice each week and will be glad when it's over. I'd much rather do the same exercises here at home.

I didn't even know I had a national day.:laughing: 31 degrees this morning, but on it's way to a sunny 64.

We're supposed to have a little bigger than normal temperature spread today; 29 degrees for a windless low and going for a 59 degree sunny high.

I'll bet she's having a good time, too. In the 10th grade in high school in Marlow, OK, I took a year of Spanish; couldn't get any of my friends to join me, so it was just me and 6 girls. But you had to take Spanish 2 years for 2 credits, and we moved to Marietta, OK that summer and the school...

Randy, I worry about my wife and the huge amount of sale she uses. I think she pours salt on everything she eats, and she eats lots of salty chips and crackers. I almost never add salt to what I eat, but I figure I probably get more salt than I need.

I just finished my lunch or dinner or whatever you want to call it near 1 p.m. I had canned blackeyed peas with snaps, Glory brand (we'd never tried before) "seasoned, southern style, mixed greens" that were very tasty, cornbread muffins (buttered, of course), sliced tomatoes, and slices of a...

New Year's Eve. Aaahhh, how things change. Today is also my wife's 76th Birthday. Before I retired from the police department, many years ago, we always had a neighborhood combined party on New Years Eve for Margaret's Birthday and a New Year Party at our house, and yep, the party always...

Temperature stayed at 55 to 60 yesterday, cloudy, light rain sprinkles most of the day, then a brief downpour. I got about .55" of rain. Today, looks like it's going to be dry and about 10 degrees cooler. I got the new TurboTax installed on my computer; now just waiting to get everything I...

Makes me miss our old friends/next door neighbors of Hispanic origin. That was a Christmas tradition and they made theirs a little different from what we were accustomed to in Texas, but stlll very good. They came to Texas from Kansas City and eventually went back there when they retired.

That's interesting, Ron. I've never seen that model walker before. It certainly looks impressive.

Eric, I'm guessing you got the BTE (behind the ear) models. I let my hearing aid lady talk me into trying some of those, but I was afraid I'd lose them, so I've stayed with the old fashioned ITE (in the ear) type. Now my first Beltone lady, many years ago, was telling me about their warranty...

I'm still not sure why I received the letter that I got from the Texas DMV, but awhile back they sent me a letter for me to return that letter with $10 if I wanted the new REAL ID license. No other ID or information was requested. So I sent a personal check for $10, and sure enough, after a...

45 degrees going for a sunny 70 today, then supposed to start down tomorrow.

Getting OUT of a hospital is always the best news. I'm still hunting for that button.

32 degrees this morning, going for a sunny 61. Nope, but I was pretty comfortable until I got so sleepy that I got up and went to bed, and slept pretty well there.:laughing: I did learn that I want to find myself a thin pillow to have behind my head when I'm laid back watching TV. All the...

26 windless degrees this morning, going for a sunny 52. And my new chair that I ordered a month ago arrived about 8:30 a.m. this morning. I think I'm gonna like it, but it's a little early to know for sure. Perfect Sleep Chair | Sleeper & lift chairs you'll love sleeping in

No snow here, Don. I got about .49" of rain; about half before midnight and half after midnight last night and all over before 5 a.m.

:laughing:Yep, my first car, a 1946 Chevrolet had that manual choke. And one cold night I was parked in a head in parking spot that was slightly downhill to the curb. I pulled the choke out, started the engine, pushed the choke in, eased out of the clutch and killed the engine. Repeated that...

The only car I've owned with the automatic feature was my 1955 Cadillac Coupe DeVille.:laughing:

That reminds me of the best definition of Christmas that I ever heard: It's the time when you buy something that you would love to have to give to someone who has absolutely no use for it.

My 2017 Ford Escape is supposed to have an oil change between 5 and 10 thousand miles and has a warning light (according to the manual) when you have 5% left on your oil life. I just never have waited on that light to come on.:laughing: Ford calls it an "Intelligent Oil Life Monitor".

Been doing that for many years. I have a Fellowes shredder from Walmart and also use Fellowes shredder oil from Walmart. And I do it as that video showed by putting the oil on a piece of paper then run that paper through the shredder. I always do a second sheet of paper with the oily side...

Eric, when you're so old that you remember when cars had NO oil filter, you changed oil every thousand miles, and if you could go a thousand miles without adding more than 1 quart, you had a super fine automobile, yep, it's hard to get used to going 10k miles between oil changes and not having...

I believe it was 1988 when I went to see a specialist about the almost constant ringing in my ears. That was the first time I ever heard of "tinnitus". He told me, "You don't need hearing aids YET but you will." May 8, 1992, I got my first pair of Beltone hearing aids; cost $1,630. June 13...

Remember them? I was a lieutenant on the police department the first time I used a squad car that was NOT three on the tree. And the 1963 Ford squad cars were the first ones with a synchromesh low (first gear). The Chevrolets didn't have that until 1965.

Her license would expire in December, 2021, and in Texas "Most driver licenses and identification cards can be renewed up to two years before and after the expiration date." So I'm guessing that since she could go to a driver's license office and renew her license now, that's why. Nope, I got...

I'd probably never be able to find the old posts, but awhile back, we talked about the coming requirement for a REAL ID driver's license in the future. My driver's license did not have the star on it and didn't expire until 2023. The State (Texas Department of Public Safety) sent me a letter...

Reminds me of the summer I spent working in my brother's tire dealership and garage in Anchorage. I had a guy come in who owned an old Chevrolet with the hydroboost brake system. It was working, but he was "restoring" the old car and wanted a new hydroboost unit. There was not one to be had...

Yep, I still remember my first encounter with ether, too. It was just to have my tonsils out, but when they put that mask on there to suffocate me, I decided I'd better fight. Instead of using more people to hold me down, they just went and told my Dad, and he just stuck his head in the door...

This is the first time I've heard of oyster dressing in a lot of years. My parents used to spend the winters on the Texas coast, so they always had lots of all kinds of food from the ocean, including oysters. And Mother used to make the oyster dressing "good and moist" as you said. They liked...

I've eaten lamb at my sister's house, many years ago, and I've eaten it at friends' home. And I liked it. But my wife and I have never bought or cooked any lamb. I've always remembered when my Dad, before I was 10 years old, had a job that made him spend one night a week in the Kincaid Hotel...

Yes, Don, I have a USB port that's never been used.:laughing: I suppose I ought to try what you said, but not sure I want to mess with it. What's "Apple Car Plan"?

45 degrees going for a high of 67 forecast for today with a 40 to 80% chance of rain right on through today and tomorrow. We're only getting a light sprinkle right now. I appreciate everyone's response about the NAV systems. Our daughters say they just use their cell phones. I CAN do that...

I was wondering how many of you have a navigation system in your car. Our 2017 Ford Escape came with Ford's navigation system and it's been very handy a few times. although not used a lot. It was a window sticker $795 option. And now, after nearly 3 years, I've noticed quite a number of...

46 degrees this morning for a low and only going up one degree for the high today, and it's raining; may continue most of today and tomorrow. Sorry to hear of so many of you having health problem, like Toppop. Our younger daughter, and granddaughter, are both sick, so it looks as if it'll just...

36 degrees this morning, going for a high of 54. The cold front arrived. Now having gotten kind of lazy, and with a wife who likes to eat out, we told the kids we'd pay for all of us to go out for Thanksgiving dinner instead of cooking at home tomorrow. Of course most restaurants will be...

Been there, had a very good steak dinner; but didn't try the monster steak. And the mountain oysters were a fine appetizer, too. Of course it was many years ago when we were there.

About 35 miles.

We were given quite a tour of that Sun City by a gentleman at the Visitor Center on February 6, 1990. How time flies. That was a long time ago.

Most of you started with newer cars than I did. My first one was a green 2 door 1946 Chevy in 1956 with just a little under 100k miles on it when I got it. Dad paid $75 for it. And I hated that vacuum shift.

46 degrees this morning, forecast to go as high as 48.:laughing: NWS says Denton got .01" of rain before midnight and .06" since. It's not raining now and I just found about .26" in my gauge, but with rain on it's way apparently.

:laughing::laughing:You can't win. We had DirecTV and when it got bad enough, we changed to Spectrum about 6 years ago, and as they kept going up and up on the price, we changed to Dish a bit over a month ago.

Ron, I don't know whether we have the same thing or not; sounds as if we might. Yesterday, they delivered this "Queen Dual pSE 360 Smart Bed" and of course put it on the Flexfit 2 that we bought a couple of years ago. It certainly felt different last night from the one we've been using. Too...

We bought our first Sleep Number bed more than 30 years ago and after more than 20 years, my wife talked me into buying a new one, but the wrong one. It's not really bad; just not as good as the old model "5000" which naturally is no longer made. So today the one we've had for 6 years, and...

37 degrees this morning, going for a sunny high of 76. Installers to be here between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. to install our new Sleep Number bed in our bedroom and move the existing one to the guest bedroom.

A man after my own heart. Whether cars, trucks, motorcycles, or tractors, I believe in breaking them in easy . . . for the first 5 to 10 minutes, then see what'll do.:laughing:

21 degrees this morning with a northerly breeze, but going for a sunny high of 40. Just gonna stay in and have a big pot of chili today.

58 degrees this morning is very nice, forecast to only go up to 61, then start falling to 36 this afternoon and 23 tonight.:eek:

I haven't posted much about it, but this past week was a . . . . well, I'm not sure what I'd call it, but it wasn't good. I've had minor back problems for quite some time, usually worst when I first get up in the morning. Well, this past Tuesday was my first time to ride in an ambulance to the...

Way back when we were full time RVers, I kept a couple of plug in gauges all the time to first check the receptacles in RV parks before plugging my rig in. One place in Pennsylvania had a 30 amp plug, but only a 20 amp breaker. The owner got the electrician out the next day to correct that...

It's been many years since we briefly visited those places, but we certainly enjoyed it. Rain started around midnight, temperature was 65 degrees and has gradually fallen to the current 44 and expected to go on down to 38. I think the rain is now over and I just dumped about 1.68" out of the...

57 degrees going for a wet 73 today. Supposed to rain the next 2 days.

26 degrees this morning, going for a sunny high of 58. We've had Spectrum (formerly Charter) TV now for 6 years. We changed from DirecTV when they upped the price on us unexpectedly. And after we changed, a lady from DirecTV called and offered to cut our bill in half if we'd stay with them...

Jay, it's been the same here all day until about 2 minutes ago when the real rain arrived. We drove around a good bit before noon and had to keep the wipers on the slowest intermittent speed the whole time. Tuesdays, Rosa's Café and Tortilla factory (Rosas Cafe) has a 3 taco special with beans...

NWS says it's currently 43 degrees going for a high of 46, with a 40% chance or rain increasing to 90% later today.:laughing:

I don't know if it's true everywhere (although I think it is), but in Texas the feral hogs are considered a nuisance animal and anything you can do to get rid of them is legal.

47 degrees and misty with some fog this morning; cleared off before 10 a.m. and eventually got up to 64 degrees. I had to take my wife and her sister to meet their brother for lunch about 75 miles east of here. Nice day but I'm glad to be back home.

63 degrees right now and going for a high of 67. How's that for a span?:laughing: NWS says 50% to 90% chance of rain this afternoon and 80% tonight. I guess I can hope anyway.

l guess everyone is a little concerned about having eye surgery, but it's quite common. I had the cataract surgery on my left eye on 10/13/2011, then the right eye a month later, 11/15/2011. It was painless day surgery.

Nope, never pickled any, but I've sure eaten such and liked it.:) 54 degrees here going for a sunny 79 today, but hopefully cooler and wetter the next few days.

Yep, I can see'em, but only with a magnifying glass with my old eyes.:laughing: But it's a beautiful place.

58 degrees this morning, going for 72. Wife's sister arrived yesterday from West Virginia for a 10 day visit. One of her daughters has to take her to Charlotte, NC to fly to Dallas via American Airlines. At the last minute her flight was delayed for several hours for reasons unknown so they...

I've often said, in this area, especially the north side of the DFW Airport that I suspect the traffic planners designed these roads, then sat back and giggled saying "wait until the drivers try to figure this one out." I think they have contests to see which of them can design the most...

So some like traffic circles and some do not. Some places, Dallas included, have taken out their traffic circles while others, such as Denton, TX, has a new one under construction at this time. I'll never forget "The Circle" at Harry Hines Blvd and Northwest Highway. When I was a young...

Yep, we've owned one slide in pickup camper, 3 travel trailers, and 2 motorhomes and they all had the 2 way refrigerators, and while I certainly am not "recommending" it to anyone else, we always ran them on LPG on the road.

The chili looks good, but did you bake a birthday cake to go with it?:D In any case, Happy Birthday, Ellen.

I've never seen anything like your first 2 pictures, but I periodically pull and dispose of the other two from my own yard.

61 degrees this morning, going for a high of 80 with a 20% chance of rain. Does anyone celebrate Columbus Day? It's an official holiday, but I don't know of anything special done, or anyone who even thinks about it being a holiday EXCEPT the banks and post office have a day off.:laughing:

I am most definitely not a football fan, but today was the annual "shootout" in the Cotton Bowl in the Dallas State Fair grounds between the Oklahoma Sooners and the Texas Longhorns. Since I'm a native of Oklahoma, but have lived in Texas most of my life, and there wasn't anything else on the...

I don’t know how many of you are driving cars with this new fangled TPMS (Tire Pressure Monitoring System), but with the sudden drop in temperature around here this morng (31 degrees) those blasted lights were on in my instrument panel this morning. Now being inherently lazy, when that happens...

34 degrees this morning, going for a high of 65. We have a frost advisory, but I don't think I have any frost; just dew on the grass. The indoor temperature was 3 degrees below our normal setting, so I turned on the heat for the first time this season just to keep the wife happy. Well, I...

Yep, Don, I posted my temperature as 45 this morning, then it went on down to 42. The rain didn't last long, but about 3/4" this morning and about a tenth of an inch yesterday is certainly appreciated. And now, clear skies and 60 degrees.

45 degrees this morning, light rain (sure hope we get enough to amount to something) with 22 to 29 mph northerly breeze; just heard the first thunder of the day.

Yep, it's changing, effective the first of 2020. For a few years now, we've had a United Healthcare plan that cost me $860 a month, but we paid nothing out of pocket for doctors or hospitals. We did have copay for prescriptions, dental, and vision expenses. For next year, that plan will no...

50 degrees this morning, absolute perfect temperature as far as I'm concerned, but going for a sunny 80. Some have posted recently about health insurance, and I've been reading, phoning, and talking the last week or so to insurance folks myself. I'm so old that I can remember when you didn't...

Yesterday, between 5 and 6 p.m. the NWS broke in on our TV with severe weather warnings. Radar showed it just west of us and on the way. Then we started to get little sprinkles of rain. The temperature started dropping from 94 degrees, headed down. And then . . . the thunderstorm split and...

It's been almost a month and a half since we had any rain. Today's temperature is 67 going for a high of 86, so I just now got the sprinklers going on the yard. We don't have as much water pressure as normal this morning, and I have no idea why unless a lot of people in the area are also...

I know the retailers try to get a jump on the new seasons, but I was surprised day before yesterday (yep, 9/29/2019) when I went into our nearest Walmart and saw all the Christmas trees and Christmas decorations already on display. And with another day, today, with a low of 79 degrees this...

True, but you've got a darned good start at it.:laughing: Congratulations to both of you.

79 for a low, forecast to be going for 93 today, but it's already 94. They say this month will be a record high for September. Of course some other parts of the country are having the opposite. The younger of my two brothers and his wife spend the summers in the middle of Washington state and...

I can't recall every eating a peach that wasn't good, but of course some are better than others. Yours are sure pretty, and while I never heard of that variety before, I'll bet it's sure good.

75 degrees this morning, going for a high of 94, so it's a little better than it has been. But the good news is that the humidity got down to 70% so the grass was dry for me to mow this morning.:cool2:

77 degrees this morning, going for 96. For quite some time, we've had a possibility of rain in the forecast nearly every day, but it just never happens here. So for this month, we've had hot temperatures and only once did we get a measurable amount of precipitation; barely .01" for the month...

I didn't lose the Internet; just TBN.

I'll take your word for it, but explain how that caused the same Internet loss here; north of Dallas, TX.:confused3:

It didn't take too long this morning for both of us to get the second Shingrix shot, then while were there at the Walmart pharmacy, we got our annual flu shots in the other arm.:)

I'm surprised that some don't like horse radish. Of course my homemade shrimp dippin' sauce is the only way I use it at home. And while I haven't had any Arby's roast beef sandwiches with horsey sauce in awhile, that's one other way in which I find horse radish to be delicious. Oops, I...

NWS says it's 74 degrees going for a high of 90 today with a 60% chance of rain. I'm hoping, but not too optimistic. Two months ago today we both got our first Singrix shot, so I reckon we might go get the second one. Just don't know whether it makes any difference whether we go now or wait...

I've always liked shrimp cocktail and many years ago, one evening, I found that I had shrimp, but was out of cocktail sauce. So I mixed a little catsup with horse radish sauce that was on hand, and liked it so much that I never bought cocktail sauce again. I just mix catsup and horse radish...

Yep, that's Texas alright. Yesterday, our temperature ranged from 70 to 92 and sunny, and I mowed, edged, and trimmed the lawn in hopes that the rain down south would get up here. Today the temperature has ranged from 73 to 82, and stayed mostly cloudy with a 20% chance of rain in the...

Tire brands, like everything else, may be part of a much bigger company. Years ago, my brothers were B. F. Goodrich dealers, but at that time Goodrich, Michelin, and Uniroyal were all owned by the same company. Even more mergers now. I had pretty good luck with B. F. Goodrich, but right now...

Of course I have no personal knowledge, but I've read that okra was brought into this country from Africa. I've not only been quite fond of it all my life, but it was my first money crop when I was 11-12 years old. Cut it every other day and sold it to the local grocery stores. I think it's...

70 degrees this morning, going for 98 again. The yard was in dire need of mowing; hadn't been mowed in the last 9 days. The weather forecast shows no changes in the foreseeable future; hot and dry . . . BUT . . . we have a heavy dew EVERY day that lasts most of the day. I checked yesterday...

We used to have an outside grill and a smoker, but we've gotten lazy. We're rather fond of baby back ribs ourselves, but now I just buy them ready made at Sam's Club. Of course they cost a bit more, but sure are good and without all the work. I've got 2 spare racks of them in the freezer...

70 degrees this morning going for 99. The yard needs mowing . . . BUT . . . a heavy dew keeps me from wanting to do that early, and the heat keeps me from wanting to do it later. I reckon I'll just have to think about it awhile.

I can't say for sure; haven't done any scientific tests, but yes, I do believe it's shorter when run in the heat.

That's interesting. The EGO equipment supposedly has a 5 year warranty and the batteries a 3 year warranty. This month I'm at the 3 year mark for the smaller batteries, 2.4 Ah, for the string trimmer and blower, and no sign of them weakening when I mowed, trimmed, edged, etc. EXCEPT on 8/23...

I'm a little ahead of you, Ron. Just poured my 3rd cup of coffee. 72 degrees going for another sunny 96 today. We both have 11 a.m. appointments with our primary card physician for routine physical checkups and to get get the results of blood samples taken a couple of weeks ago.

Yep, the world's changing. Like you and Don, I once bought one with the salesman asking that I let him finance it and promise to leave it financed there for 3 months for a better price. So I did.

I don't blame you a bit, if you had good luck with them, I'd recommend you stay with them.

We always like to hear good news.

Yesterday, we had a new sofa and two new recliners delivered. The delivery service just left those big cardboard boxes out by where the garbage is usually picked up. And the forecast today called for a 20% chance of rain. So before daylight, I got those big boxes and cut them up so the...

I can only imagine how tough that is, but as you said, she's now in a better place.

I used Paypal ONE TIME; and by the time they got their act together and their mistakes straightened out, I knew that I would NEVER have anything to do with that outfit again.

75 degrees this morning going for 95 with a 20% chance of rain later today. The last couple of days I've been looking at furniture. We'd like a new sofa for the living room, plus one or two recliners. It seems to me that modern furniture is made for looks instead of comfort. We both visited...

77 degrees at 5:30 a.m. going for a high of 86 and the rain started about 3 minutes ago.:cool2: It's wonderful. And at 7:45 a.m. the temperature has come down to 71, my rain gauge has just over 1" in it so far and we're still getting a light rain.

102 degrees this afternoon, but hoping for a cold front and maybe even rain late tonight and tomorrow,

You just don't know how painful Plantar Faciities can be until you have it. I'd never heard of it until I got it in the Fall of 2008, but fortunately once I got over it, I haven't had it since.

80 degrees early this morning, going for a high of 101, so it looks like a good day to stay in. It's then supposed to cool off and even strong chances of rain the next couple of days. We both went to our doctor's office this morning at 9 a.m. before eating anything for the nurse to draw blood...

Very true!

Hope you have a Happy Anniversary, Kyle. And it just dawned on me that you two have now been married exactly 1/3 as long as Margaret and I have been.:laughing:

Yep, we always have some hot and some cool weather during the State Fair in October. And today is the last day of the North Texas Fair in Denton. I did all the mowing yesterday in hopes that it was going to rain. But I went to bed last night about 8 p.m. and we had not gotten any rain...

79 this morning going for a high of 96 with a 40% chance of rain. So I got started mowing the yard shortly after 5 a.m., got it mowed, edged, and trimmed, then decided to knock down tall grass on the other side of the fence with the string trimmer. Young couple with 3 small kids and school...

Yep, I reckon I've posted it before, but we've done all that. Everything is planned and paid for. Our daughters don't need to spend a dime when we die, although, knowing them, I've no doubt they'll spend some money on flowers.:laughing:

Mine, too. Six weeks when I was 8 years old to fix polio damage to my left foot and ankle. Then back again for another week a few years later.

83 degrees this morning, going for 101. Since I want to stay in out of the heat, I've decided to use the Hoover steam vac on the carpets. I don't even know if they need it, but I'll see.

If I remember right, way back yonder, we used to stop at a place in Marion and buy a few cartons of cigarettes; cheapest cigarettes between Dallas and Princeton. But that place closed up more than 45 years ago.

Been through Bristol so many times I lost count; just 1000 miles from home to Bristol, then only 100 more miles to my wife's family in Princeton, WV.

82 degrees this morning, going for 100. I sure hate to get out, but the yard just HAS to be mowed, so I'm just about to go do that.

I've quit even messing with cooking ribs. I haven't found any better than the ones we get at Sam's Club. They already have plenty of BBQ sauce, fully cooked, etc. Just cut'em apart and heat'em up, although they ain't bad cold.:laughing...

Ron, I'm sure sorry to hear that. I guess I hadn't really realized how bad Betty's problem is. I don't know how much you and Betty know about Hospice, but I'm guessing you both know quite a bit. My Dad was in Hospice care the last few months, and after that experience, my Mother KNEW that she...

OK, TXU Energy now has my bill in their website. Now the "breakdown?" on the bill on 8/14/2019 shows: Base Charge...…………………………………………….....$9.95 Energy Charge (1420 kWH x $0.0810000)..$124.82 Subtotal:...............…...……………………………...$134.77 TDU Charges and Other Fees Oncor TDU Delivery...

Before we moved back to town, we were on a rural electric coop. When you got your bill, the part you returned with your payment had a form for you to enter the new meter reading yourself. So we read our own meters and were always one month behind on the payment. They told us they were...

Randy, we're always glad to hear good news. Hope it continues to go well for you.

There you go making it more complicated.:laughing: One other little thing that I don't really like about TXU Engery is their billing. I paid my bill for the last month ($201.49) this morning because their website showed it's that amount. But the actual bill will not be available online for...

Electric usage and cost: Average Monthly Average Monthly Year: KWH Used: Bill: Per KWH: 2011 1507 $200.45 $0.133034124 2012 1351 $152.73 $0.113082002 2013 1468...

There are no natural gas lines in my neighborhood. There are a couple of very old homes in the area with propane tanks in the backyard, but everyone else is total electric. I think we have a much less than honest system. I'm one who has stayed with the old original electric company; TXU...

I think my rain might be just about over; still getting a tiny sprinkle, but I found that my gauge has 1.5" in it.:dance1: My billing cycle ends in 2 days; forecast to be about 1600 KWH for $200. As of this morning, it's 1485 KWH for $187.

It's been 10 miserably hot days since our last rain, so I was glad to be awakened at 4 a.m. this morning by tremendously loud thunder and plenty of very bright lightning. I got up, went into the kitchen, turned on the coffee maker, and we had another very loud clap of thunder . . . and the...

We all have our prejudices, I guess. But I was less than 10 years old when my great grandmother went to see a chiropractor and he broke her hip. She never got out of bed again until she died a few months later. I think it was finally decided that she may have had bone cancer that weakened the...

80 degrees this morning, going for 101, which it also got to yesterday. I think I've hated the month of August all my life.

And the same for nursing homes. 78 degrees going for 101 today. It hit 100 briefly yesterday. But I got the yard mowed, edged, trimmed, and watered.

Don, let me know which one you and Betty get. I don't know about 3 hours or so being long enough at times.

Margaret's home unit is continuous flow with the amount adjutabble, but the little bottles are never used on continuous flow. They're certainly capable of it, but as you said, that would eat up the tanks fast. We keep 7 bottles on hand, and they'll deliver, but since we like to go riding...

No, Ron, she has the big one in the house with a long hose. And when she leaves the house, she has the little 6 cu. ft. bottles (not the big tall ones they show on TV trying to sell their small oxygen generators). Margaret's oxygen bottles are less than 14 inches tall, and she has a carrying...

81 degrees for a low both yesterday and today, forecast to go to 100 today, as it did yesterday. Heat index up to 110. Definitely miserable outside this week unless you get out early.

Ron, I haven't posted a lot here lately, but we're certainly keeping you and Betty in our thoughts and prayers.

Cloudy 77 degrees this morning, going for 89. For more than a week now, we've had some problems with our Spectrum cable system. My Internet service periodically goes down, then comes back after anything from 6 to 60 minutes. The TV never stayed down, but would flicker and go down for a matter...

83 degrees this morning, going for a high of 92 with a 50% chance of rain today and tonight. I turned the sprinklers on this morning to try to encourage it to rain.:D

Yesterday was our first 100 degree day for this year, but I fear it will not be the last one. I think that July is officially hotter than August around here, but it always seemed to me that August was the worst month of the year, perhaps that's because some of us are so tired of hot weather by...

Dang, Randy, you've had some tough times lately. Hope things start to get better soon.

When we needed to sell our place in Navarro County and move back to town, I called one of the biggest real estate companies in the area to list the place for sale. The salesman came to the house, got me to sign the paperwork guaranteeing him a commission if the place sold in the next 90 days...

64 degrees this morning (unbelievable) going for a high of 90. I need to mow the yard and would be out there doing that right now if it weren't for such heavy dew. The wife, both daughters, and granddaughter planning to go to a movie theater in the middle of the day to see the new Lion King movie.

Been to Carlsbad a couple of times and through a small cave in Texas . . . . but . . . . we went to Mammoth Cave one day when it was hotter'n ???? Well, miserably hot, and they told us the tours were all filled for today, that we'd have to make reservations for another date. So I said, "OK...

61 degrees going for a high of 89 is almost unbelievable. I'd like to mow the yard while it's cool, but it's also dripping wet with dew, so I guess I'll have to decide whether to wait until later in the day today or tomorrow, or mow it while it's wet. I was doing a little lawn watering...

Our older daughter was recently going through our old photos and found one I made with the cheap camera we had at the time. It was an attempt, and not too successful an attempt, to get a photo of the first men on the moon as it was broadcast and we were watching it on the first color TV we ever...

Yep, that's what we've got 68 degrees going for 89 instead of the 90s.:laughing: But I just got back from Walmart and it's HOT out in the sun.

Nope, ours do not. However, since we have no expectation of flying again, or leaving the USA I reckon it's not a big deal. Ron, glad to hear good news about Betty. After getting very little sleep night before last because of the side effects of the Shingrix shot, then going to Ft. Worth...

Hope the less invasive option is successful.

That's what I've assumed. My wife has had no side effects except a very sore arm and shoulder. It was our first, and they said they'll call to remind us that the second shot is due in 2 months.

Yep, pretty good headlights on that EGO walk behind, self-propelled mower. So I got the yard all mowed and watered yesterday. But then I had a pretty miserable night last night, aches and pains, primarily in most of my torso, and a severe case of diarrhea; went to bed early (before 6 p.m.) but...

Sorry to hear that, Ron. Hope all turns out well for her.

I think (not absolutely sure) that it would be illegal now, but way back when I was a teenager and became a part time temporary mail carrier, sometimes baby alligators were sent through the mail in a little box and we delivered them the same as any other mail. Once when I opened a relay box...

80 degrees again this morning, going for a high of 97 and sunny. I figure I've proven the theory that old people and fat people suffer more from the heat, since I'm a participant in both those categories, so I got out at 4:30 a.m. and mowed the yard in about an hour, then got the sprinklers...

80 degrees for the low this morning and 93 now with a heat index of 99, going for a high of 96. I had an appointment with my retina specialist this morning for a checkup and they dilated both eyes, so I haven't been inclined to get out in the sun and work on the yard today. Instead, I plan to...

NWS says it started at 79 degrees this morning going for a high of 98, although they also say today just might be the first 100 degree day of the year. I just know it's way too hot to suit me.

You have my sympathy. I had my right shoulder replaced on 4/24/2017, had the right arm in a sling for 6 weeks and was told I shouldn't mow the yard for 6 months. So I reckon I felt the same then as you do now, watching someone else doing my mowing.

Yes, as you said, Ross Perot did many, many gracious acts; some big, some small. When I started on the police department in Dallas, we had pretty good classroom and firing range facilities and instruction, but practically none of the physical training that everyone does now. The head of the...

74 degrees going for 89 today. I took the advice to take a nap yesterday, went to bed about 4 p.m., got up just after 7 p.m. and watched a couple of innings of the Texas Rangers/Houston :Astros ballgame and went back to bed.:laughing:

Fresh peach ice cream is hard to beat. But today I'm just glad to see the weekend. Thursday morning, I left home about 6 a.m. to go to Ft. Worth and get our younger daughter and got her to her dentist at 8 a.m. to have impressions made for false teeth. That didn't take them long. Then we...

73 degrees this morning, going for a high of 93. And as mostly_gas said, a little storm went through here yesterday evening around 5 p.m. NWS and the TV news said we had winds up to 77 mph in my little town. I was a bit concerned about the trees around here. And my gauge got a bit more than...

The bears hibernate in the Winter, and sometimes I wish I could hibernate in the Summer. I hate hot weather, and right now it's 98 degrees. The low this morning was 78.:(

Yesterday afternoon, it got cloudy, a little north breeze, and you could even smell the rain, but there was heavy rain both north and south of us, but not here. However, this morning I did find about .07" of rain in my gauge. And it was only 72 degrees, but going for 95 of course.

78 degrees going for 95 today with a 20% chance of rain this afternoon. I had the experts trim a tree in the front yard and remove one dead one and one live one from the back yard this past week. When they were working, I noticed they were raising a lot of dust. So yesterday, I ran the...

Yeah, I forgot to mention the results. They did the tests one day, then I had to go back the next day for the results. But the doctor said it all looks "normal for my age":laughing: In other words, maybe a 10% blockage in one artery.:D Nothing to be concerned about.

78 degrees this morning, going for a high of 93. I got the lawn sprinklers going front and back this morning at 5 a.m. for the first time this year. We've had way more than our normal rainfall early this year, but none since the 23rd of last month. And just the last 2 days, I've been killing...

I remember txdon receiving a new Kidde fire extinguisher for one that was recalled, but I don't remember when, and I don't remember anyone else receiving one. Anyway, my new one arrived today via FedEx and I have the old one packaged and have called FedEx to pick it up tomorrow.

My first trip to see the Carlsbad Caverns was when I graduated from high school in 1958. Two friends went with me in my 1956 Mercury convertible. Twenty years later, my wife and I went out there in our new Plymouth Roadrunner. In those days, I worked different shifts, different day off, etc...

I've always liked yellow meat watermelons, but they are sure hard to find around here. The last one I bought (3 or 4 years ago) was at the local 3 day a week Farmer's Market. I got it home split it . . . only to find that it was a long ways from being ripe; absolutely worthless.

78 degrees this morning, going for a high of 91. And I have an 11 a.m. appointment for an for an Echo Test and a Carotid Doppler Bilateral Test. So I haven't made any other plans for today.

Before we got married, my wife was curious about the guns and she once fired ONE shot with one of my .38s. That's the only time she's ever fired a gun. But many years ago, when I worked the late night shift, she sometimes slept with the S&W Chief under her pillow. And any time I went home...

:laughing:Yep, that would give you something to think about. Of course when I said I left my gun on a chest of drawers, that was when I was an officer and carried it every day. Now . . . well, they ain't locked up, but they're not out in plain sight either.

I suppose, in this day and age, I'm doing things all wrong, but I know, at least from the time I was 3 years old, I've never lived in a house or home without at least one loaded *******, and never "secured". When we were small kids, I guess we all knew that Dad's loaded .22 ***** was in the...

Wow, Jay, that sounds terrible. Glad you're recovering, though.

Many years ago, when I was a young patrolman, it was illegal to even POSSESS fireworks in the City of Dallas. I assume it still is. At any rate, if we caught someone with fireworks, we confiscated the fireworks and issued a citation that amounted to about the same thing as a traffic ticket...

Very true. If a person really wants to dies, he/she will. But I saw even more "attempt suicides" in which the person didn't really intend to die; was just looking for sympathy.