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Post by upnorthlady2 on Dec 30, 2021 23:01:49 GMT -5
Just wanted to touch base with everyone and wish all of you a Happy New Year! Let's hope 2022 is a much better year. It sure would be nice if things were normal again! Christmas was rather quiet here for us. We had a lot of snow on Christmas Day and that sort of put the damper on my dinner plans. Many guests couldn't come. Only one old guy who is 83 came. He said he can "drive in anything". He's an old dairy farmer and says he's seen a lot of bad weather, so it didn't bother him. Tomorrow I am playing accordion at the local nursing home here. I haven't played there for 2 years because of covid. They have opened up the nursing home temporarily. I'm vaccinated, and I'll wear a mask if I have to. The residents have been begging for music. It'll be very cold, though. The high is supposed to be minus 17 and the low tomorrow will be close to 40 below zero. A good night to stay home and play Scrabble with the husband and eat snacks and drink hot cider. At least I'll be playing music in the afternoon at the nursing home, so it won't be too bad. So many people have lost their homes this holiday to the tornado and now the wildfires in Colorado. We are very fortunate. A little cold and snow doesn't seem like too much in comparison. Winter is a good time to relax and do inside things. We just put down a new floor in the bathroom, a laminate type. It was a new experience for us, but it turned out good. We have a few painting projects to do, and I want to finish a quilt. I've been looking through some of the recipes on this site, and trying to decide which ones to try. And then there's always the 2022 garden to plan.
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Post by Granny Smith on Jan 3, 2022 19:02:27 GMT -5
Happy New Year, Patty and all. Sorry I haven't been on. Another one of my sons moved back home with his wife and puppy while they try to find a house. One top of that everyone has been here visiting for Christmas and New Years. I'm doing my best to hold things together. lol
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Post by upnorthlady2 on Feb 21, 2022 16:43:45 GMT -5
Hope everyone is doing well so far this year. Not much has changed since my last post. We are still getting lots of snow and the below zero temps are pretty much a weekly thing. This has been an unusually cold winter,even by Minnesota standards. One morning we hit minus 45. This week we will have minus temps not only at night but for highs during the day, with Thursday being another minus 30. This is really getting old! To cheer myself up I started some seeds and I have the trays on boards and sawhorses in my living room in front of our big bay window like I usually do. Some things take about 11 weeks to get going, so I started geraniums, petunias, and a couple kinds of onions. In a couple weeks I'll start peppers and some other flowers, and couple weeks after that, tomatoes and cabbages. I need to see some green things growing! I've been on an embroidering jag this winter. I have so many skeins of embroidery threads, most of which was given to me. There's probably 1000 skeins of all kinds of colors in several boxes. So I bought a set of 5 table runners to embroider for various holidays. I finished the heart themed one for Valentine's Day, and now I'm working on one for St. Patrick's Day. Then there's one for Easter, one for Mother's Day and one that is a Christian themed one of a cross with roses entwined on it. I also got another runner stamped with flowers and bees, and a pillowcase stamped with butterflies and flowers. I figure by the time I finish all these I should have used up quite a lot of those embroidery threads! I already finished a pillowcase with loons on a lake. So far hubby and I have managed to avoid getting covid. I'm glad all this covid nonsense is on the downward slope. We all need to get back to sanity. Hoping for an early spring so I can get back into gardening and working in my high tunnel greenhouse.
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Post by Granny Smith on Feb 21, 2022 17:25:47 GMT -5
I had covid, but it was a very mild case. All it did was make me sleep. I was taking 10-12 naps per day. Most of them were short, around 10-20 minutes. I never got a fever, cough, or any of the other symptoms. It's the after-effects that are getting me. My teeth all got loose and one fell out. Most have tightened back up, but not all of them. Also, my hair is falling out, really bad. A ponytail used to be as thick as all 4 of my fingers put together. Now it's about half the thickness of my pinkie. On the bright-side, I've read that it will grow back within 6 months. I think some of it already has, even though I'm still losing it. Oh, well, it is what it is.
My guests are still here, but should be moving out next month, as soon as the house they're going to rent is ready. Ben is moving with them, so it will just be Dan and me, and he's gone most of the time, hanging out with the old men at the country store. When he's home, he stays in his room, watching TV. I got him a TV for his room because he's nearly deaf and has to play it so loud. Even with his door shut, I can hear every word they say. Sometimes, if I'm watching TV in the livingroom, I have to ask him to turn his down so I can hear mine.
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Post by upnorthlady2 on Feb 21, 2022 18:56:15 GMT -5
Oh my! Loose teeth and hair loss would drive me crazy! But if all this will correct itself in time, that is certainly a comfort. Harold's two sisters both got covid and were not vaccinated. One was ok pretty much but the other one got pneumonia and was in the hospital for a couple weeks. Then she got blood clots on her lungs and in her legs. This whole covid thing is so mysterious as to how it affects people in so many different ways. I am just so grateful that I didn't have to deal with any of it. Thing is, people who were vaxxed still got covid! Makes a person wonder what's going on? Very strange.
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Post by Granny Smith on Feb 21, 2022 19:07:07 GMT -5
I believe that people who are vaccinated can pass it on to people who aren't. I got covid shortly after my husband was vaccinated. He's had 2 shots, so far. I haven't had any. The doctor told me, years ago, not to take anymore vaccinations. The lady at the health department didn't believe me and asked which doctor told me that. I told her it was the one at the health department. She got really quiet for a bit. I believe she was looking up my records. I was telling her the truth. I had a bad reaction to a seasonal flu shot and could have lost my arm. Luckily, I have a very strong immune system and it healed, which shocked the doctor.
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