My mom's senior living place will be giving the first round of Covid-19 vaccinations tomorrow. I guess they were asking the residents to bring down to the office their insurance cards, so they could make a copy, for insurance billing. She called me 3 times yesterday morning asking me what she needs to take down. Your BCBS insurance card in your wallet........apparently she has some AllianceRX paperwork sent in the mail and she's thinking that has something to do with what she needs to show them. I said no, that's just paperwork they mail you every time they refill your prescriptions, you can just throw those away. Somewhere in her mail has got to be something from her investment company with the dang pin# I requested. She never throws any mail away (I always do it when I go there and she's in the bathroom, LOL) so it's most likely arrived in the last week, but buried.
My uncle said he had the first shot a week or so ago and just a sore arm for about a day or two. I'm hoping that's all she has for effects. I guess the good part with short term memory loss is if she gets herself worrying she'll have effects, she'll forget about it shortly.
She has apparently forgotten all about writing her recent transactions in her checking register, LOL. The email I sent listing them is still unread.
We haven't received anymore of those annoying calls to our landline, so hopefully my blocking those numbers they were calling from did the trick. If it starts up again, I think I will just have the landline forwarded to my cell phone awhile, until they give up. That way we (ie dh) aren't hearing the dang phone ring all day.
DH has been wanting this nice pocketknife, so we ordered him one yesterday. It has a pretty walnut handle and the blade is even engraved. I always remember my grandpa carried a pocket knife. Came in handy, LOL. I also remember, as a little kid, him teaching me to play "mumbly peg" with it. The good old days...you know, when we drove around with no car seats and rode in the back of pickups and played with pocket knives, haha.
Linda wanted to see a picture of the hall trees dd is making and selling:
This is the one she first made, for herself and she made the bench a little narrower than most she is making, as she doesn't have a lot of room as you walk in her front door.
My new bike is supposed to be here tomorrow. It will give dh something else to put together, haha.
The monitor cable I ordered so dh can use one of these extra monitors I have came last night, but I haven't hooked him up yet. UPS hasn't been coming until like 8pm and I didn't feel like messing with it by then. My office floor looks like an IT places mess. 2 big empty boxes from my new monitors, 2 old monitors, old cables. I still have the big box from my vacuum. Was holding on to it for awhile to make sure the vacuum works ok. We have sooo many boxes to get rid of all the time. Ugh. There is no recycling service here.
DH is annoying me today. I guess awhile back he was looking online for a latch for the new front fence gate, but of course, he never bookmarks anything and then when he searches for it again, he can't find it. So, he's getting frustrated. He keeps thinking he found something like he wants, calls me downstairs to show me and then I'm standing there forever while he's trying to either navigate through a poor website or realizes he's looking at some guys Etsy page for metal gate latches, who ships from Ukraine. Then he's worried that won't get here or take too long I said well, the guy has 5 stars and 428 sales. I think if he had gotten a bunch of complaints Etsy would close his store down? How hard is it to just bookmark something so you can find it later? I have been downstairs like 4 times and each time he's not ready to order yet. Finally, he just decided to go with the Etsy seller in Ukraine. All his reviews are good.
Well, too much work today, so back at it.
When I was 24 I resigned and spent six months travelling round Australia. A friend gave me a Swiss army knife as a going-away present and I've never been without one since (almost 40 years later), so I can understand your husband wanting a nice knife. Oddly enough it's not so much the knife I use (more the corkscrew(???) or the tweezers). I had to laugh when you posted that picture of a hall tree though because I had no idea what a hall tree is. I just pictured something like a wooden Christmas tree. It's very pretty - your daughter is very talented!
ReplyDeleteseems like a little pocket knife would be a handy thing to have, especially the Swiss Army ones.
DeleteThat hall tree is not what I imagined, either. I hope she charges a pretty penny and gets what she is worth by the hour. It looks very useful, sturdy, too. What price?
ReplyDeleteI hope your mother can find the right card and get the vaccine. It sounds like maybe her condition is progressing. Too bad.
My vacuum box sat here until I decided I was going to keep it. AND, I had other prime boxes waiting to see if I will keep things I ordered. Finally, Tommy cut them up with a utility knife for the trash can. The guys use a truck to lift trash cans, so everything must me inside the can. It is a pain but there is never leftover trash piles on the street.
I am baffled every time I need a knife and guys do not carry one. I know it is partly time times we live in, but it is annoying. I have had to fish out my cuticle nippers for a tool!
I never bookmark anything, either. Thankfully, Amazon shows me what I have looked at.
She is charging $200. She said someone else was advertising them from an area about 1/2 hour from her and they were asking $250. Seems lots of people these days are into that "farmhouse" or "rustic" look, so probably why they are popular.
DeleteLike Treaders I imagined the hall tree quiet differently. It looks very nice.
ReplyDeleteI've seen them over the years. Some are fancier, with solid backs and the bench seat is enclosed for storage.
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