Evening Doug and all following.

Char, my heart went into my mouth with your initial posting. It’s back in place now. Just hugs.

It rained here. Overnight and most of the day. More is forecast for another week. tanks are nearly full again and we even planted some grass seed.

Even better, good rain is falling on the fire grounds down south.

Wallabies and screechies are fed. Cats have had the emptiness of their soul filled. Time for us to eat

A word to the wise, Doug. The 16rh? I remember Bill having trouble with my 23th

Good day all,

Couldn’t sleep much. The weather worries me and now another storm is heading our way.

Annie, I seem to have forgotten the 23th. No grudges I hope.

QS, there are a couple I left out of the collection. I should sell them or give them away as I’ll never use them.

Char, hoping the news keeps getting better for Ted.
Bill

A good Thursday to all……chilly and still drizzling here. Will be one of those blah days.

Will run a few errands today….tonight it will be either potato soup with sour dough bread or fried rice and Wanton soup from our favorite Vietnamese restaurant (he uses smoked turkey in his Wanton…absolutely to die for)….haven’t decided yet.

Hope we have good news from Char sometime today…….

JJ……safe flight and enjoy your journey.

Annie……..yay for the rain.

Cats are demanding breakfast….via the 8 claw argument method. Breakfast and meds for me. Lisa should be rising soon………….Greetings to all here and those to come……….may your day, evening or night be fulfilling.

Be good, do good…….
Steve.

Good morning all, to those who wash up later on the tide, and huggles to all who need them :grouphug:

Special hugs to (((Char and Ted))) :grouphug: I’ve just caught up with yesterday’s happenings after not managing to make it to the Wash yesterday, and it’s good that Ted’s health is showing an improvement.

JJ, I hope you have a great trip.

I had a reasonable day yesterday, except for the falling asleep at the drop of a hat so not making it here. I’ve finally finished my latest work project collating details of all our blocks of flats and working out which electoral ward each is in. Some have been rather complicated, and I’ve had to get the details of the block up on the Housing management system, Google Maps, and an Ordnance Survey online map of electoral districts all open, where the boundaries of the electoral districts run right down the middle of a road or where one crosses a road to check which side of the road the property’s on, or the house numbers on either side of the boundary. When I’d done the details of all the blocks and thought I’d finished, I did discover I’d managed to ‘lose’ a block, which took some time to track down, but all the numbers match now and all is well.

The contractors who’ve been to look at the porch roof have just left. They checked the roof and discovered that the UPVC roof panels had slipped slightly and there was a 10mm gap at the top of the sloping roof where it meets the house wall. You couldn’t see daylight or anything – the panels had just slipped down the UPVC rafter at the top of the roof, so when it rained heavily, as it had both times recently when it’s leaked, the water was hitting the top rafter and running between the UPVC rafter and roof panels and then dripping through on the inside. They’ve pushed the panels back into place, and sealed all around the roof with silicone again.

Fingers crossed that this solved the leaks once and for all!

I’m going to go and put a couple of hours work in as it’s this month’s PPG meeting on Monday afternoon, and if I do a couple of hours today and make an early start on Monday morning I won’t have to rush back after the meeting to do any more work on Monday afternoon.

This afternoon we have someone coming out from the company I’ve always had my wheelchairs from to measure up the stairs and give us a quote for a new stair lift. At some point this year I’m going to be replacing my wheelchair, so I might see if they’ve got any wheelchair brochures, as I have a lot of damage on one of the armrests from trying to get through the fairly narrow doors at work (if I don’t get my approach angle dead on straight, the armrest catches on the door frame, as there’s only around half an inch clearance at the side of the wheelchair) and I’ve also managed to damage one of the footrests. Where it joins onto the front of the wheelchair, the whole metal fixing is bent out of shape, which is making the footrest fall lower than the other, and it catches on the ground on a slope or ramps. I think I did it a few weeks ago at work when I managed to get the footrest tangled with one of my desk legs in the office and not realising, tried to reverse and ended up dragging my desk out of place with my wheelchair. It’s also fairly wide, so although it’s got a very tight turning radius, so I can turn it really easily (it more or less turns on a sixpence due to having a central drive wheel), it’s width means I can struggle to get into tight spaces. It’s 11 years old though now, so it’s done really well. I’ll have to wait a couple of months or so though, as I wasn’t planning to replace the stair lift, so I’ll need to replenish my piggy bank!

Back later!

Good Morning Wash Gang! It’s still dark as a witch’s heart out my window. While the thermometer claims it’s above freezing, the cold wind is raw and making it much colder. It rained on the way home from the hospital last evening with no more rain expected till Saturday.

The Thames River is flooding its banks again. It has not peaked yet.

I’m heading to the hospital shortly. I’m going to take Ted his phone. Hooked up to so many tubes and wires, he cannot easily get to the landline beside his bed. Because his BP continues to be really low, he’s not allowed to get up and about anyway. The two older boys were able to talk to him last night, though. Nurse Adam helped move the phone and got Ted sitting more upright. And, Ted’s best friend Wayne visited last night. He called me and said that he’d be visiting again tonight. Two remarkable men… Wayne is a cancer survivor who was given an 8% chance of surviving his colon cancer. I also need to bring in some pajama bottoms, but not the shirt. The Nurse said there are just too many wires connected to his chest. Hopefully, that will just be a short term thing. Also, Nurse Adam told me that I could bring the glucometer that reads from the patch. They’ve been sticking Ted’s fingers every few hours again, monitoring his blood sugars.

Doug, what is your group painting on this 16rh of January?

Oh Happy Day!, oh happy da-ay… Annie!! Sewing grass seed must also be sewing joy in your heart.

QS, may the inventor of autocorrect resist in restaurant.

Bill, what a wonderful collection of palettes!! You need to post your photo in the Palette Addicts thread!

Wow, Sylvia, what are the odds that both you and Kari are home to white squirrels?

Two delicious choices, Steve! I’m craving the carbs, so the potato soup and sourdough bread would be my favourite.

Best of luck to your Daughter, Marshall! You must be very proud.

I hope that fix to the roof solves your leaking problems, Rachel!!! Most buildings are really not designed to accommodate disabled people. What a shame that your chair gets damaged because of the narrow spaces.

to All yet to come. ((hug)) to All who’re feeling under the weather. I must get out the door and hope to be able to post later in the day. that Ted’s potassium levels have come down again. In the meantime, have yourselves a happy and creative day!