What are U doing today? (Ongoing thread) Showing 4,801-4,850 of 8,509

[Nina]

Happy Reading, Werner.

[Werner]

Thanks, Nina!

[Werner]

Well, it looks as though Barb's picked up a bit of a flu bug. So, barring a miraculous recovery by tomorrow, it looks like our trip is off for this time. :-( But we'll plan on more trips up there next summer!

[Nina]

Sorry. Hard enough to be in the flu cycle in winter but seems worse in summer. Hope she is better soon.

[Jim]

Bummer. :(

[Werner]

Thanks, Nina and Jim!

[Mary JL]

Well, I will be in the house for a few days. Twisted my knee badly---rest, ice and meds are prescribed---and had knee X-rays today.

May need some physical therapy ,too. Well, on the good side, I have plenty to read while confined to me chair. Stay well, everyone.

[Werner]

So sorry to hear about that accident, Mary JL. :-( Hope your knee heals up really quickly! Happy reading in the meantime.

[Nina]

Bummer, Mary JL. Take Care and perhaps books will ease your pain. But, hurting is no fun.

[Jim]

Ouch. Feel better, Mary.

[Mary JL]

Thank you all. The pain is not really too bad--but when I first stand up the knee wobbles quite a bit and I am afraid of falling so I am keeping my cane close to hand! Will get the X-ray reports Monday.

PS Btw, ever noticed as soon as you CAN'T go out, you WANT to go out?! Human nature, lol.

[Nina]

Yes, always we seem to want what we can't have/I'd like to be in Paris with my daughter sipping Cote d Rhone.

[Mary JL]

Still housebound. Borrowed a walker from a friend temporarily. Seeing an orthopedic surgeon on Monday.

[Nina]

Hope you can get relief soon.

[Jim]

I hope everyone had a good weekend. I had a restful one. I got the lawn mowed & fiddled out in the shop since we had a lot of rain. 2 more 2x4's have been cut up, sanded, primed into another few dozen blocks for the grandmonster. A few more days of spray painting left.

I also played a dozen games of 2048 & finally got it up over 4096 for 45K+ points. I don't know how some folks get it over 3 million. Wow.

[Jim]

Here's a few pictures of grandson Colin in Nova Scotia & playing the role of sea turtle. He comes by his love of water honestly & obviously has as little fear of it as his father.
https://www.goodreads.com/photo/user/...

[Nina]

Mary JL wrote: "Still housebound. Borrowed a walker from a friend temporarily. Seeing an orthopedic surgeon on Monday."Hwo are you doing now?

[Werner]

Great pictures, Jim; thanks for sharing those!

[Mary JL]

Nina: Sorry to be so late. I am much better now; the knee aches a bit now and then but no comparison to last week.

So, since it is supposed to rain all day, I am inside doing bits and pieces of housework I did not get done last week.

Hope you and everyone are well and have a great Labor Day weekend.

[Werner]

You have a great Labor Day weekend too, Mary JL! Glad to hear that knee is improving.

[Nina]

Glad to hear you are improved and take care and don't overdo...nina

[Jim]

Knees are a drag. Be careful with it, Mary. Hope it gets all better soon.

[Werner]

I'm not offline, and still at home. We decided to once again scrub our trip plans, this time until next summer. Deborah's picked up a virulent bug that's got her too sick to be left alone for four days (and Barb's probably catching it). :-( So our Labor Day weekend will be spent right here. The silver lining in the cloud is that I get to be online (sometimes) during that time.

[Jim]

Sheesh! Hope you all are OK, Werner.

[Werner]

Thanks, Jim! We'll be okay; these bugs come and go. So far, the grandkids and I haven't caught this one.

[Nina]

Take care, Werner and enjoy what you can read on or off line.

[Werner]

Thanks, Nina; will do!

[Nina]

Have a nice day tomorrow and try not to Labor too much.

[Werner]

Same to you, Nina! I'll try not to labor too hard. :-)

[Nina]

I'm into classics; has anyone read, "Peony" by Pearl Buck or "Ulysses," or "Mill on the Floss?"

[Werner]

Nina, I generally enjoy classics, too, though I'm not as well read in them as I should (and would like to) be. I haven't read any of the three you mentioned, or any novels by Joyce at all. But I have read Buck's The Good Earth, and several of George Eliot's works: Silas Marner, Adam Bede, Middlemarch, and The Lifted Veil. The Mill on the Floss is on my to-read shelf.

[Jim]

Had a great time today with Marg & her friend, Monica, riding around Masterson Station. It was a great trail ride, lasted about an hour. We jumped a little & Chip was a practically perfect pony. He didn't want to canter along the hedgerow next to the federal prison - the 'No Trespassing' signs kept startling him as we trotted along. Hedgerows shouldn't grow white signs in his opinion. Possibly he has a guilty conscience & just wanted to stay away from the prison, too. It was interesting since I was riding bareback & we'd sweated up a slick seat by that time.
:)

[Mary JL]

Nina: When I discovered Pearl s. Buck, I read several of her works and "Peony" was one of them.

[Jim]

If you go to this FB page, you'll see Rascal & his new owner. They're having a blast!
https://www.facebook.com/sarahthomas0240

[Werner]

Jim, I've tried that link twice now, on two different computers, and it hasn't worked for me either time. Is it possible it has a typo?

[Jim]

Probably not, Werner. It might be security settings. I don't know how Sarah shared them out. You might try this link:
http://www.facebook.com/sarahthomas0240
and see if it works. If not, no great loss. They're just regular pictures of a 9 year old girl riding Rascal, nothing earth shattering. It probably doesn't mean a lot to anyone but us. We just love it that the two are getting along so well. Thanks for trying.

[Werner]

Nope, that link doesn't work either. :-( Thanks for posting them, though (we can imagine the pictures in our mind's eye :-) ). Glad that the two are enjoying each other's company!

[Nina]

We are in our usual crazy weather pattern this week. Monday was ninety and tomorrow night goes down to forty. But, it's that way when we get to September. Come October I might not be on Goodreads for a while as I am involved with a grandson's wedding; plus a family reunion/five overnight guests for five nights; at least some will be here that long/breakfasts every morning some days for fifteen/two dinners, one for eighteen to twenty and I can't remember what else. I go to sleep with visions of sugarplums dancing in my head. I haven't read a real good book lately or maybe I can't concentrate long enough to know if it's good. Wish me luck.

[Werner]

We will be wishing you luck, Nina --as well as patience and energy! Hope you folks have a wonderful family reunion; and I wish the happy couple all the best.

[Jim]

Good luck, Nina. We're in the same boat with the weather. I have a feeling it's going to be a brutal winter. I'm glad we got so much rain through August. The fields are full of grass & need to be mowed again already. I just mowed them a few weeks ago, but I'll do them again so they get a bit more growing in. We also have a barn full of good hay & are down to just 4 horses.

[Nina]

Jim wrote: "If you go to this FB page, you'll see Rascal & his new owner. They're having a blast!
https://www.facebook.com/sarahthomas0240"I got one picture of someone leaning over next to a horse. Good one of a horse. My daughter's horse, Sugar who is six years old has a very bad foot/some broken bones. He has been treated and continuing treatment by vet but if he isn't improving may have to be put down. Very sad for my daughter.

[Werner]

Nina, we'll be hoping the very best for Sugar!

[Nina]

Werner wrote: "Nina, we'll be hoping the very best for Sugar!"Thanks, I'll keep you informed This daughter has a swimming pool in her back yard and during one of our very cold days last winter one of her pipes broke so her pool was unusable all summer/and they couldn't get anyone to come until this week as others had the very same problems. But, yeah they got it fixed and drained the pool. Now she has green sludge to clean out and hundreds of dead frogs. She says she will have to put in a pool just for the frogs next summer.NOT>.

[Jim]

Yuck. That's a mess.

[Nina]

My daughter has to have rotator cuff surgery the week before Thanksgiving/they are going to have to break her shoulder in order to get the huge calcium deposit out and then shave the bone. She will be recuperating for several months. She does have a job that she is taking a leave from for a month to six weeks; plus, two horses and two lively rat terriors. And, thank God she has a husband. But, it wil be hard. We'll help when we are able and if the weather holds out. Wish us luck. But, first comes all the overnight guests and dinners at my house for 18 to 20 plus, many large breakfasts. I have lost count. This is around my grandson's wedding and it is a family reuinion. So, this fall is a busy time for me.

[Werner]

Hang in there, Nina! My prayers will be with your daughter(and the rest of the family); I'm so sorry she has to go through such an ordeal. :-(

[Jim]

Good luck, Nina. That's a drag about your daughter.

[Jim]

There is a new group for Historical Nonfiction in case anyone is interested. It's tiny, less than a dozen members so far.
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

[Werner]

Jim, thanks for sharing the link. (I'd probably be interested myself, if I wasn't already in 18 groups....)

Last month, I think that I mentioned that Barb and I built a fenced pen at our daughter Deborah's house for her two growing puppies. Unfortunately, they've learned to get out of it, sometimes by jumping high enough to scrabble over it and sometimes by climbing up the roughly four-foot-high stone retaining wall at the back end of it (which I wouldn't have considered possible, but Deborah's seen them do it). So, after breakfast, we went over and spent the day, building a fence above the retaining wall, and making a lot of progress in replacing the slats of the lower fence with much higher ones, which also meant re-hanging both gates. (Barb had raised the height of this fence somewhat before, but we're through with half measures!) With a break for lunch (and a trip to Lowes for more lumber) it took us until late in the afternoon, and what with some other errands, we didn't get back home until a quarter to six. But the progress made was worth the effort!

[Jim]

Another thought for fences, since some dogs are climbers, is to put pvc pipes on ropes up at the top. Then the dogs can't get purchase to climb. If you're interested, Stacey Mantle has posted them on her web site. I'd have to look around, but could likely find it for you.