Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?

Ah -- painting is difficult for me, but I will be washing down the cat room now that the roof is out. So noisy -- and we couldn't get three of the cats in the house so they "tolerated" the whole ordeal. Then, I'm taking a break but have been out there for three hours sweeping and trying to clean up an incredible mess of crap that felt through as they were doing the roof. Some time later, Dh will get insulation board and put it on. But for now, and after my lemonade I will be out there working.

Good thing I hadn't started my cat room spring cleaning -- though I've known for a while ( since we did our taxes ) but normally I've almost almost done with that by now. I had the inside to do so something was getting done. Still, after doing so much hard work out there --- I just may as well finish now. It takes at least three days if only one is working -- and since Dh is working so much more now I don't feel like I can ask. He has a few chores to catch up with too. Anyway, I don't have idle hands lately. That is a good thing.

Puffin, You definitely have a magic orchid thumb. We have only had one rebloom - but it was the one that smells like chocolate.

Yes Sandy.... I have one of those also.... AND a hat.... Hah! I'll use it on the higher part of the garage walls....

And using a roller & pan is pretty easy.... The thing is............ I just do a little at a time... Same with yard work....At least my shoulder isn't sore this morning.... So I must not have done enough...

DUCKY...................HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR FRIEND!

Do not say, "It is morning,"
and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
See it for the first time
as a newborn child that has no name.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Okay Jackie! I found that cake you wanted to give Ducky! Doesn't it look Goooooooooooood? We could ALL have a piece!

Happy birthday Ducky. Chevy, the cake looks yummy, but it's probably not gluten free!

Anne, come organize and down size our basement! Great job.

Dh had to cancel the cataract surgery he was to have Thurs, due to the cold from hell we have both been battling. Boy I'm tired of coughing. He's re-scheduled for June 22. His 80th Bday is the 21st. Guess the surgery is his Bday present! Raining here, supposed to get a soaking. Need to get the grass cut, lawn guys have to wait til the rain lets up.

Wow, ducky! I had my hands full with just one kid, and no grandkids yet (at least none that I know of).

Wow! The Duckmiester did it again, Hah! And how is little Grayson? We love you & all of your family Ducky!

Cold here.... only 34 degrees!

Shuf, great to see you. Glad you stopped in to say hi. Sometimes it gets a bit quiet her --- you know, people get busy and since I put quotes ( in more than one place ) I'm always around -- even if it can be a little lonesome. I hope you are doing things that you like and enjoying life. We have had nice sunshine and warm days --- something that always fills me with hope and inspirations. Yesterday was due to be sort of hot but there was such a nice breeze I wasn't at all affected.

Have been working in my kitty screen/all seasons room. Had a new rood put into place. Three of the cats would not come inside the house. I was worried but they seem to have recovered from the upheaval and noise, dirt and destruction -- all that pounding. They hit -- I have cat towers -- the kind with holes you can go into --- but still I felt for them and worried they be paranoid or schizoid afterwards, but back to normal, thank goodness.

Hope you all have a really wonderful day.

Heavy wet snow here today so decided it was a good day for indoor projects. I indexed 9 more of Lew's videotapes (only 56 left in this batch) - wide range of years from grandkids crawling across the carpet and sitting in high chairs who are now 18 years old, to our trips to Alaska, Australia and Panama.

Been sitting too long, time to get up and move around and stretch.

Poured rain here a couple times late after -- well, serious leak in the new roof. He will come and take care of it soon as we have some dry time. Rats -- was so hoping that we wouldn't have a leak. Oh well -- at least only one place and it will be taken care of -- we could be back where we were so it will be right soon enough.

Wow !!! We had quite the rain storm late yesterday afternoon --- and lots of rain after the initial long pour down. Have been late starting my day as I had to fast in order to go to Mt. Vernon and have pre-testing done so I could get my physical on May 4th. Hopefully ( I sure expect it ) all will be well. I've ( as usual for me ) felt fine and have been getting a fair amt. done around here. Some time afterward I will have to have my yearly mammogram. Likely he will want me to do a colonoscopy --- and maybe I will do one. I've not actually had one since my dx. in 2007 --- and I do know if things are fine they hopefully would quit making the demand for three yrs. or so. That would be nice. So, I'm crossing my fingers now but I do feel all will be quite fine.

Later on in the month of May, I will be dog sitting for my former employees. Good for me. Not having an extra income has been though not impossible a mite thinnish for spreading funds around where they need to go. I've made some adjustments and so far we are okay, but most depends on nothing too much happening.

We are going ( drat ) to have several more days of rain. Boo -- but as you know it is not so much the rain but the gray and dampness that come with it. Still, it is okay since I have some lights that mimic the sun ( a sweet and kind-hearted member had extra from here that she sent to me ) and so it is not as dreadful as it once was to me. Hope she knows I thank her with my whole heart every time I turn them on.

Just now getting my breakfast done ( 1 p.m. ) since I had to go without eating for the blood tests.

I hope you are all going to have a fantastic day with as little bad weather as possible. We are doing okay ( very fine mist ) rain-wise, but I think will come tonight.

I recopied this from Ill Ladies as I knew the whole thing would come out far different if it weren't the original. Once I leave the unit of time and frame of mind I was in -- I don't always get it back so well. Hope you don't mind.

Good for you Sandy. We lived too long and come too far and paid and paid. I'm all for if people can't follow directions, use at least some common sense, though I know sometimes there might still be matters where people's common sense is just a mite different --- then it is fitting to demand things be made right while you look at other possibilities.

Dh and I are sort of in the same general place over how our screen roof was done. There was no insulation and when I asked -- I was told, well, there wasn't any before. That is true, but it was sheets of heavy plastic fiber ( forget what it is called ) and they were not heat producing like metal -- so insulation wasn't a must then. For what we paid -- we thought a person would know to include insulation. So I told the guy --- nicely but in a definite way -- I did not take these cats in off the street, spend most of my social security for supplies, medicine, vet trips, and the like only to roast them with a heat producing roof after all this time. That should have been evident -- so while we both mis-understood I feel cheated. I will now have to figure out how to get insulation, pay for it, and put it up myself. A project that was not included in my plans for the year.

When I had my shore house I had a sprinkler system front and back of the house.....very expensive system, but kept the lawn looking gorgeous, especially back where the pool was....it was like sleeping on a mattress if you laid down in it.......well my lawn guy would every season mow my sprinkler heads right off, never checking to see if they were completely ground level when he began running his big machine like a fool...........after a couple of big bills to have them replaced I began deducting the cost of replacing them from his monthly bill that I would get........he soon realized it was more profitable to be careful then to just ride around like a fool.............it worked...and no more chopped off sprinkler heads.......