Turkey, anyone?

We now have a heated garage. The guy showed up with a helper and they got it installed in about 2 1/2 hours. It's a propane wall heater, like we have in the shop. We have a smaller one, about half the size, in the shop bathroom, as well.

A big rafter of turkey's just went through the backyard. I didn't get all of them in the picture, but I counted 17 in total.

It got really cold last night, around 25 degrees, but no snow, like was predicted.

We're going to need to get some more groceries in the next week. I had thought, with picking up some extra milk, bread, etc when we stopped at Walmart last week to get the turkeys, I would have plenty to get me through and we could go do a pickup order after Thanksgiving. DH is going through more bread than usual. And eggs. And I seem to be going through more milk than usual. So, now I am trying to decide if I want to go pick up an order this weekend, or wait and go in next Wednesday, when I have the day off. Not that we will be going inside the store, but I feel like everything in the city is going to be hectic/traffic the day before Thanksgiving. 

I also want to get into Costco whenever they get their big live Christmas wreath's in stock. I wonder if they will have them out before Thanksgiving? Last year we saw them in Costco a day or two after Thanksgiving. I guess worse comes to worse, we can stop in and get them on Dec 4th, when we have to go into the city for dh's MRI. That's the whole reason I decided to get a Costco membership this year LOL. Well, I did it for eye exams and glasses, too.

I think we're going to try to sell our chest freezer. I just need to look up what we paid for it, so I can get an idea of how much we should ask. I got it at Home Depot, but don't remember what it cost. I remember using some of our Covid stimulus to buy it.

More heat

The propane guy showed up. 10am and minutes after I had to listen to dh rant about if he's going to show up or not this time. Apparently we're going to be able to submit this for a $200 energy rebate, so that is good to help offset a little of the cost.

We've been getting deer in our yard in the evenings. It's right at dusk, so a bit too dark to try to get a good picture of them. For sure we saw a momma and her 2 young ones. 

I've made it through day 2 of intermittent fasting. I think waiting to eat this morning seemed harder than yesterday. I've been having my cup of coffee after I eat breakfast now and boy it sure tastes good! The 8 hour window I can eat seems to go by super fast. The hours between dinner and bed aren't too bad, but the 2 hours in the morning until I can eat seem to be the hardest part, so far. I do start drinking water when I get up (and in the evenings). I just have to keep reminding myself that in order to get my normal calories, I need to eat my evening snack in the afternoon, LOL.

We live in a very small community - there's only about 4000 people in the whole county, with 3 small towns. Apparently in the last month there have been 2 drug overdoses, resulting in death, in one of the small towns (pop about 500). Sad. Probably fentanyl. Dh said he had just read an article that one of the large cities in our state recently had like 6 fentanyl OD's in one weekend. Like one of our friends said - what is the suppliers end game here? Doesn't seem good business sense to kill off your customers.......

Monday

Back to Monday. I'm counting the days until next Tuesday LOL. After that I have a week off :) 

We got back to playing pool this weekend. Since before our cruise we had only played once. After we got home from the cruise we were sick with Covid, then the lingering exhaustion for weeks. Then dh got sick with his stomach issue. He can be a poor looser 😆

I finished the book I was reading yesterday morning. The other e-book that was ready to borrow is about intermittent fasting, so not as fun to read, haha. One thing I got out the the book, kind of unrelated to fasting, is most coffee sold has chemicals and mold in it. I did not know that. While I only drink one cup a day, the thought of putting chemicals and mold into my body isn't very appetizing. I've decided to order a bag of chemical/toxin and mold free coffee to give a try. It's expensive, but since I only drink one cup a day, I think it would be worth the bit of extra cost per day.

DAN finally came and took away his little excavator from lot 5. It's all a mystery LOL. I'm not sure if he also took down the realtor's big for sale sign on a tree, but maybe his sale for this lot was on a delayed closing for some reason. The state's property website still shows him as the owner of this lot, while he supposedly sold both lots at the same time last July, the other lot shows in the new owners names, for the past few months. His out of state house is still not sold....he's into his 4th year of trying to sell it now. Just crazy. This insane length of time on the market for a nice home has to have people who see the listing wonder what the heck is wrong with it, that it has been on the market over 3 years now. The only reasons I can guess why it has not sold is it's still way too high priced and zero landscaping in a nice subdivision of homes on an acre with some water view. Next spring should be interesting around here, if we have 3 homes being built. The couple that owns lot 6 (for the past 5 years) are also supposed to start building next year.

I sure hope the propane guy shows up tomorrow to install the garage heater, like he says he will. I'm not holding my breath, though. Obviously now that it's cold out, emergency calls to fix people's heating takes priority, but at least message us if you aren't coming!

Ready for weekend relaxing time

DH's computer showed up around noon yesterday. I took a lunch break to take it up to my office and check it out. There was a paper with it saying they replaced the processor and heatsink and had to reinstall the operating system. So, I basically had to set it up from scratch again, but did (or rather thought I did) have the back up copy on OneDrive now. Some of it had backed up to OneDrive from before I sent it back, but I ended up just transferring the backup (that had everything) from the external hard drive. The hour or so I had it at my desk, getting it set up again, it was super quiet - not a peep out of the fan, like before. So, hopefully it is really fixed now! And hopefully I don't have to buy dh a new computer for a LONG time........

I do still need to learn more about how OneDrive works because I am still confused by how it all works and how it works with file explorer. I paid $70 for a OneDrive one year subscription to back up, but if I don't end up figuring it out (by next Sept LOL) I may cancel it and just go back to backing up via an external drive. When I first started it (just before I sent the computer back) it was taking forever to sync all his files (like 12,000 pictures is most of it!) and using up ALL of our our internet bandwith. So, I now remember I just turned it off after we figured out it was using all our bandwidth and I was going to work on figuring it out and then a few days later ended up sending the computer back. I have a feeling our internet speed is just going to be too slow to use this OneDrive. There is a setting where I can limit the bandwidth it uses, so while it's syncing (and taking forever, it's only like 10% done) it's now *only* using up half our bandwidth.

DH did message that propane guy yesterday and now he says he'll be here next Tuesday. Let's hope so, so we can get this done.

I was walking across our living room yesterday, after work, and suddenly had this sharp nerve type pain in the ball of my left foot. Every time I stepped on my foot there was pain there. It seems better this morning, but very weird. I hope it doesn't come back. That was very painful to walk on and it's probably not a good long term solution to try to walk without putting weight on the ball of my foot! Lately I seem to get these aches and pains out of nowhere, that last 2-3 days, and then they go away.

I started reading one of the ebooks I borrowed from the library. Really good so far (Matt Haig, The Life Impossible) so that kept me busy last night. More than likely I'll finish it this weekend. I've liked his other books I've read.

We might get some snow tonight, but kind of sounds like it might still be more up in the mountains and on the pass. DH needs some snow! He needs to get off the internet and do something that relaxes him, like plowing snow. We've been getting quite a bit of rain this past week, but the temps are just a little too high to make it snow.

Computer returning

The fit I threw with the Dell customer care manager on Wednesday morning must have done some good because yesterday afternoon I got an email that my computer was repaired and being shipped back overnight. Tracking shows it will be here sometime today (but it's FedEx, so who knows). But, honestly, I have my doubts if it even got fixed. Or if it was the processor that got replaced, if it's even the same one it's supposed to be. If it's not fixed, it certainly won't be going back there. I'll find some place in the city to work on it.

We still have not heard back from the propane guy to install our garage heater. DH had said he was going to message him yesterday, but of course he didn't. I don't know why he can't follow up with people when they aren't doing what they said they would do. How hard is it to just send a text asking the guy for an update? He acts like the world is going to end if he has to "bother" someone about something. But, then I have to hear him constantly complaining about the situation. It's a freaking business transaction, it's not like he's asking a friend to do a favor or something for him! It's very annoying.

My boss kept me hopping all day yesterday, starting first thing yesterday morning, so I didn't get time to write up a blog post. Plus my sis was working and has questions off and on, so we hop on Teams a lot. I'm hoping for a quieter Friday. She's not working and hopefully my boss got what she needed from me for her project.

We need to order some new flags for our big flag pole out front. They are getting a little ratty. I was going to just order from the company we bought the pole and US flag from (the state flag was a gift from dd), but saw their price had gone up from $53 to $70. DH still had the box the flag came in, so we had the brand/part# and lots of online places sell it - for under $50, even Amazon, so that's where I'm getting the flags from now. 

I had a some ebooks reserved from the library to borrow and finally 2 of them are ready to borrow, so it will be nice to have something to read again. I haven't read anything since before we went on the cruise. I seem to flip flop between finding a show to watch a bunch of seasons and reading. Now I can take a break from watching shows and get back to reading for a bit.

DH is feeling pretty down and grumpy with his ongoing stomach/pancreas issue. I'm sure it is getting very old feeling nauseous all the time. I sure hope the MRI next month will show something and hoping he can get some relief if they can figure out what is going on.  Just wish he didn't have to wait this long for the MRI appointment.

Still waiting

Nothing much new since yesterday. I got a nice picture of the sunrise this morning

I spent part of my morning on the phone with Dell again, after they have now delayed my estimated date of repair out another few days. I ended up requesting to talk to a customer service manager. Still not getting anywhere other than "we'll escalate your case" I said I was already told by 2 people that was done 2 weeks ago. He said he couldn't find where it was done. I asked for confirmation that it gets done. He did say the more detail I can't see online is that the part they are waiting for is a new processor - so that is a major part that is causing the issue, not just a faulty fan. The first person I talked to said becaue it's been so long now, I can get a replacement and he had to transfer me. Then the person he transferred me to said no, I can't because I didn't report the issue until 32 days and warranty for replacement or refund is 30 days. That's when I asked to talk to her manager. He said he can put it for a replacement, but it might be a refurbished used one. I said NO! I paid for a brand new computer I barely got to use. Regardless, it's all going to take weeks to request that, if that's what I want. I'm going to wait the 5 more days they now say it will take. Then I will be calling my credit card company to see if they can help with a dispute on it. But, now I'm reading that most credit card companies you can dispute within 60 days of the charge going on your account and it's now been over 60 days. It's all just infuriating.

 

 

 

Done for the day

We were up at 5:30 (ugh) and out the door by 6:15. It usually takes a little less than an hour to get there, but there was notice that a part of the freeway was going to have some road construction where we'd have to stop and wait for a pilot car. Well turns out that didn't start until 7am, so we sailed right through haha. But, dh wanted to be there a little early anyway, to use the bathroom beforehand.

We were there 2 hours for a 10 minute procedure, LOL. Literally - they wheeled him out of the room and 10 minutes later were rolling him back in and waking him up. The doctor said nothing was found to cause his issues going on. She did see a couple of stomach polyps, but those are usually totally benign and a little bit of erosion in his pre-pyloric region. She removed the polyps and did a biopsy in the erosion area and those will go to pathology, just as a matter of routine. She said she sees the erosion in that area all the time. 

So, now we wait until he can get the MRI done, to see if they can tell anything more from his pancreas, what is going on. They can't get him in for that until Dec 4th.

He was starving by the time we got home a little after 10:30 since he hadn't had anything to eat in about 15 hours. Then he went back to bed for a nap. About an hour later, I joined him and took about a 90 minute nap. 5:30 is too early for me ;)

I probably could have just worked the rest of today, only missing a couple of hours, but might was well use up some of my 300+ hours of PTO. I'm just grateful we got this procedure and the MRI to be done next month, in before the end of the year and it will all be covered 100%.