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I am home sick today. For the second time in a week, I was awakened with a horrible stomach bug. This time was the worst, and there was no way I could go to work. Odd that there is a terrible respiratory flu going around, but I get an intestinal one. Ick. I do not want a repeat. I think I have not taken a sick day, when I have been sick, in about three years.
I want to announce something…..THE SUN IS OUT!!!! It may just last for a mintue, but I am going to savor it.
We bought this freezer on Craig’s List for fifty dollars. Took a lot to get it inside and in place, but we did it. I have started loading it with soup for the winter. BUT, this thing would rival a ski resort snow making machine. I have tried to put foam around the seal, and it helped the side, but nothing is helping the top. So, I broke done and ordered a new seal, and Ann will pick it up this afternoon. She is also going to pick me up a strawberry lime slushie from Sonic…I think that is good for what ails me. Now the freezer was fifty dollars….the seal you ask? SEVENTY!! But, if it makes the freezer really work correctly, it will be worth it. My next job will be replacing it, but it does not look too difficult. Famous last words.
This is just after two weeks…..
Pam asked about Bernice. Well, Bernice is going to be put on a trailer and transported to Possum Manor West where she can be in a car port, and Ann can work on her the evenings she is there. Sounds good to me.
Speaking of VW ….we were weren’t we? Our VW van bird house has a tenant. It might not be the tenant we had anticipated, but in these days of financial difficulties you take what you can get.
The sun is now gone (sure did not last long), but there is no rain at the moment. The chickens are so happy not to be drenched. I really have to get this new coop going before the bad weather is here for good.
Love the little snowman in the freezer….he looks so happy!
You need to defrost some of that chicken soup to make you feel better.
well, i for one hope you feel better quickly. Being sick is miserable. Being sick in the rain is even worse. However, i DO think you should go on to school and infect the little monsters you teach. Just tell them “today you will refer to me as Ms Montezuma”. Tomorrow or the next day they MAY understand, depending on how literate they might be.
They would not get it at all, sadly. One I told them the purpose of the quiz was twofold..one it was spelling, secondly it was information. I saw some of them folding their paper and could not figure out why. I thought it was one of those “drop your books at 1 things). When the quiz was over and I asked them to hand in their papers, one kid wanted to know why I had them fold their papers. I said I did not ask them to any such thing. One of the other kids said, “Yes you did. You told us to fold.” Who could make these things up?
I put a new seal on the freezer yesterday. We now invested $75 more into a $50 freezer. Well, the darn thing will not close. I duct taped it shut, and called a repair guy…well many. I was very rudely informed that they do not come out for something that little. One guy told me to junk it. Anyway, one guy told me to take a hair dryer and heat the seal up real good. Then use a piece of tape to keep it closed and leave it. He said it will set its own seal. Well, that did work expect on the top left corner. It is as if the door is all of a sudden warped, which it is not. So I will call him back and invest another $75 into a $50 freezer. I could have gotten and good upright for $350; so this might just end up to be a mistake. It sure works well though.
Oh I am better and heading to school today. I would have loved to sleep this morning. Why is sleep always best just when the alarm rings?
Okay, so i go get my mail this morning, and i find this package from “ButterBean” in it. Now you got to wonder what a chicken could send,,,but you know, i figure Kathie is not going to let her put anything illegal in there, right? Okay, well, Kathie MIGHT, but Ann isn’t going to let Kathie.
So it’s chicken poop. That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, chicken poop.
Now i have actually been having a problem in the last few days with chapped lips, so little Butter Bean’s timing could never be better. I smeared some on and i feel much better already.
it was particularly amusing when my partner came home from errands and asked what was on my lips. Chicken poop. My lips feel better. Don’t know when my partner will recover.
Thank you, Butter Bean.
hahah That arrived quickly. Butter Bean spent all her savings on the postage. Chickens do not get much of an allowance.
Ok, both of you I just wet my pants laughing!!
Kathie, glad you are feeling better!
p.s. love the tenant in the VW birdhouse
By the way….it is chicken poop chap stick. I think you are all getting it for Christmas. Yes, my bloggers will get chicken poop.
Okay, Dianna, i am SO tempted…the opportunity for bathroom jokes is one i rarely pass up. But i will not go there.
As to the VW resident, though…while i could be glad it is occupied, i have this absolutely irrational fear of spiders. I have actually used cans of hairspray or aerosol deodorant and Bic lighters to make homemade flamethrowers to incinerate them. (Okay, yeah, so i may have some pyromania issues). The problem, though is that AFTER i kill one i cannot sleep. I am secretly afraid that all the spider’s relatives are going to sneak up on me in my sleep and do terrible spider things.
Just saying.
I use to feel that way about spiders. I saw a movie once where someone ran a spider down the drain, and it did come back up with thousands more. I believed that for most of my childhood. I also believed I was born at Sears (“Let’s go to the baby department.”); that if your friend was watching the same television program as you, you could yell through the television speaker to them; and I believed that every day the department store filled up with stairs because of the escalator.
Pam, I LOVE bathroom jokes so PLEEEEEAASE go there, Kathie won’t mind if we hijack her blog for a few jokes, now would she. LOL