Friday this and that

The blacktop paved driveway looks so nice. It was a huge cost, but is so worth to not have mud when it rains, dust all summer, and easily plowed in winter.  Now we just need the fence guy to put up the fence.

Our neighbors have a paved driveway, but of course it's "old" now, so it's all gray colored and lightened up. Neighbor over looking at ours and is like well, now I have to reseal mine, haha.

In other excitement I went out to the chicken coop after dinner last night to fill their feeder and water and when I turned around to push the door open, to leave, it was stuck! It's on a spring loaded thing and I thought well maybe when it slammed shut it jarred the latch over just enough to block it from opening. I tried pushing a couple more times, but if that's what happened I didn't want to break it. I knew DH (or thought he was) was still outside, out front, so I texted him "Help, I'm locked in the chicken coop", hoping he had his phone with him. He will often just leave it on his desk. No read notification yet, no reply. I thought about calling house phone but if he was inside he would have heard his phone ding so obviously he was outside. I waited another minute or two and here he comes around the corner  "are you serious?" Yep, haha. Turns out it was a little rock that got stuck under the door as it closed and was keeping it from opening. Of course, he had a great laugh over it all ;)

DH wasn't going to post a pic of the driveway on Facebook, but then thought what the heck, he's so happy with how it turned out. He was finally able to use his drone again and get pics and video without construction stuff in the view, or something partially finished, and no more ugly truck of neighbors always in the corner of the pics, haha (I think neighbors were more excited to get rid of that old truck than we were). Before he even posted it, he called what his brother's comment would be. "oh good place to come and do burnouts". Guess some people never change. The sad part is he would do it. While of course a bunch of his friends clicked like on it, and some commented how nice it looked, brother wasn't one who clicked like, just the comment. And I love Australian guys - (one of our FB friends) they can cuss like no tomorrow and then say something like "it looks lovely" LOL.

We seem to have the worst luck when it comes to grass seed. When we bought our grass seed last fall, we decided to get it from a nearby mom and pop feed store. You know, support local business. Then we realized we needed some more, but when I went back they were out and weren't getting anymore in until next spring. So, I got what was left of a different blend. While we now have grass growing, it's not the greatest and we had watched a hundred birds try to eat it all up last fall. Then just before spring that feed store went out of business.  Our neighbors just seeded the area between our properties and it came up fast and the birds didn't seem to bother it, so dh wanted to get some of that to over seed our areas still trying to grow. Neighbor said she got the bags at the local county extension office of the university. So, I just called to see about getting some and he says they are out of it now and won't be getting any more in for the season. He gave me the name of the seed place they get it from, but it's like 100 miles away. I called them up and he said they will ship it, if we'd like, so that's what we are going to do.

This afternoon we have a work "company" meeting online. I do know one of the things they will be telling everyone is that they are going to do the 401k matching (for last years contributions) but will not be doing the profit sharing piece, as they have always done in the past. Bummer. For me, that's about an extra $3000 in my 401k every year. It's also extremely unlikely we'll make our sales goal this year and get any bonus. Another big bummer. Another reason to keep working on the MTurks. My last 3 day transfer to my checking was $40, so doing better than I was, that's for sure.

This morning my mom was "not feeling well" again (so that's 3 times in last 10 days). She always acts like this is something new she has never had before. "I just don't feel well" is about all I can get for a description. No headache, no stomach ache, no temperature. She says she has taken her meds from her pill box. She has acid reflux issues (why she takes omeprazole) but I'm wondering if these "off" days are caused by something she ate the day before that just didn't quite agree with her stomach. With the meals being provided, of course it's quite a variety of foods each day, so maybe some things are less agreeable to her stomach than other meals. I also see that her meds list with her dr. says to take the omeprazole "before a meal", but she has always only taken in it the morning, it appears, so I'm not sure if she really should be taking it before each meal? Once I get her in to see a new doctor, we can of course go over all her meds. I also asked her about her yeast infection as to how that was feeling this morning - apparently not really bothering her now, but I reminded her to take the other 2 doses so she completes the course of it.

Tomorrow morning we are supposed to "get out and about" as this is the first day of her quarantine being ended. Now of course she's worried she won't feel well. Tomorrow is also the first morning she's supposed to go down to the dining room to eat. I have a feeling she'll be calling me to tell me she doesn't feel well. But, I'm hoping since she usually doesn't have this happen 2 days in a row, she'll feel fine tomorrow. Like when I was there last Sunday - she went from feeling bad to all of a sudden up and about, forgetting she even felt bad. At least me putting the thermometers right by her pill box has helped, so she can take her temp when she's not feeling well and knows it's ok, rather than not being able to find her thermometer. She's already thought she's lived there a month now and been quarantined a month. I said no, 14 days, but it probably feels like a month. I know when she had only lived at her other apartment for 2-3 months she thought she had lived there for like a year.