Subj : Getting Tired [1] To : Dave Drum From : Ruth Haffly Date : Wed Jul 02 2025 15:16:14 Hi Dave, DD> When the chirrun get a new forever home for their fur kids I'm going DD> to hit an ASPCA adoption event and let a kitten adopt me. I'm nore of DD> a cat person than a dog person anyway. RH> I'd rather have a cat but........ DD> I avoided getting a kitten when I moved in here since I had bought a DD> leather couch and easy chair at yhe Re-Store - and we all know that DD> kitty claws are sharp. Bv)= Even if you provide a scratching post DD> Catbert is going to knead the claws where Catbert wants - not where DD> you want. I know, our last cat did a number on an upholstered chair in Berlin. Her favorite scratching surface was the carpet but that never tore up. DD> Today's session is the half-way point. For registration marks I have DD> some large(ish) "X" marks with waterproof tape over the junction so it DD> doesn't wash away in the shower. RH> You are getting off easy but still be aware of the side effects. DD> Today and Wednesday are the final sessions. Still no extra tiredness. DD> We'll see what happens after next Wednesday. RH> It may take some time or you may escape it entirely. Just make sure RH> that if it hits while you're cooking, to turn off the stove, put knives RH> in a secure spot and any open food gets stowed before going to lie RH> down. DD> Good advice for if, as and when. I just don't want to read somewhere that you got done in by something that was easily remidiable by a bit of advance thinking. Knives make prep work easy but if you're slicing something up when tired, it's too easy to slice fresh meat at the same time. DD> 8<----- XXXXX ----->8 RH> Very much so! Attendant at the rest area was a young man, probably a RH> summer hire, who did fill out an incident report but otherwise didn't RH> do much of anything. Steve pulled out the first aid kit from the truck RH> to put temporary patches on until we got to the ER. DD> We have several "Urgent Care" centers (walk-in clinics) spotted around DD> town for stuff like that. It frees up the ER for trauma and other DD> severe cases. The fall happed at a rest stop in the middle of nowhere on a state road. We'd gone over the mountain, nearest town was 40 minutes in back of us. Since we weren't sure of what damage I'd done and if the metal plate/screws in the elbow had been damaged, we went back to the ER there. Set us back several hours but it was worth getting checked out at an ER vs an Urgent Care. I'd missed lunch and got out of the ER near supper time so we stopped at a DQ for cones before going back over the mountain for the 3rd time that day. Spent the night boondocking at a remote trailhead in SE Utah. DD> Steve was probablu up in pay-grade by then. If he's been E-2 or E-3 it DD> would probably have been a different story. RH> Depends on the unit, some are better than others. Steve was a Master RH> Sergeant (E-8) by then. He always took me to my treatments in uniform RH> so one time one lady who was there with her husband made the offer that RH> if we didn't want to drive up from Fort Stewart (Hinesville, about an RH> hour away) every day, I could stay with them. We politely thanked her RH> and told her that we live in Savannah. Never got her name but it was RH> nice of her to make the offer to us. DD> There are good people everywhere. Sadlt they are outnumbered by the DD> d*** weeds who put self before all else. It is sad, but we try to help where/whenever we can. Often we're one of, or the last people to leave somewhere because we're helping to get the place ready for the next use. RH> you will have to call for a new ride home. Don't know, we've not tried RH> it, but I don't want to be caught at the grocey store with a sack full RH> of perishables and have to wait for a ride. The bus loops on the hour RH> so if you just miss it, you're waiting almost 2 hours for the next one. RH> Not good for groceries! DD> My Hy-Vee (currently USA Today's #1 Grocer) offers both pick-up and DD> deliverry if I buy U$25 or more worth of grub. Which, given today's DD> prices is not at all hard to do. That's how I get pantry items and DD> frozen stuff. Fresh meat and produce - I still buy in person. But the DD> delivery (even tipping the driver) or pick-up saves a lot of time and, DD> especially, effort. I'm still enjoying shopping in person but may try a pick up/delivery service at some point. Most of our groceries we get at Wegman's but go to super big box stores for paper goods, vitamins, etc. Eventually we'll probably condense everything down to one store but we're not ready to yet. .... Mind... Mind... Let's see, I had one of those around here someplace. --- PPoint 3.01 * Origin: Sew! That's My Point (1:396/45.28) .