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Fbg 6.7

Visible App is still telling me my HRV readings are low, and I need to pace myself better. And that's because I was doing the outdoor mouse/rat proofing yesterday.
Yes, I am doing too much, but I need to stop them coming in. I've done everything around the immediate area where they came in. But these doors that are so badly designed, just a thin piece of plastic or UVPC whatever it is. It is a miracle it's held for 25 years against rodent infestation. And the installer only put a very thin bit of sealant all the way underneath the doorstep. I have just ordered some more stuff so that all the rest of the door steps, over the next few weeks can be done. The outside doorsteps all need doing underneath and I found some wlre netting pre cut sheets online, which will make that job easier. Doorsteps are that close to the ground, that you don't lie on the ground to look under them to see if a builder has installed them properly. You need a large Dentist's mirror to be able to look at underneath doorsteps. I cannot even reach down to take a photo of it with my phone to see what is exactly under there. I'm just sticking curved wire into it, fishing around. Whatever happened to those old-fashioned wire coathangers you used to get at dry cleaners, they were brilliant for all kinds of jobs.

Weather warnings here for my area. Do not go outside on Sunday. Really!

It was a very red sky this morning.

Creative... I was awake in the night so I got a water mister ( the water turns this pen purple), a black pen, and a piece of card and I drew this tree...

Have your best kind of day

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Good morning everyone on a dull, overcast but at the same time wonderful day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.6 this a.m.
A splendid sunny day yesterday so a bright and beautiful walk , faces into the sun, lots of free vitamin D in the making. Afternoon; sprayed the fence with algae remover stuff - second spray this year - should all be clear in a few days. Mrs Miggins want’s to paint the fence Mr Miyagi style.
Not sure about today as it’s turning into one of those perfect atmospheric film sets for the opening scene of a horror movie staring Marty Feldman and Madeleine Khan.
Art bit - ink.
Have a poem that I like - image
Hope your day is a kind one. Circumstances don’t care about our feelings so I am ignoring the protestations from a sore knee. Best make koffy.
 

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5.8 this morning. Lovely sunny weather.

It is going to be a relaxing day today with lots of coffee.

Bonnie managed to reach the BT Halo thingy for our broadband. Luckily I caught it before it hit the floor. It is now installed in the dining room and interestingly the signal to my Kindle in the conservatory is better now than when the Halo was in the conservatory.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

Visible App is still telling me my HRV readings are low, and I need to pace myself better. And that's because I was doing the outdoor mouse/rat proofing yesterday.
Yes, I am doing too much, but I need to stop them coming in. I've done everything around the immediate area where they came in. But these doors that are so badly designed, just a thin piece of plastic or UVPC whatever it is. It is a miracle it's held for 25 years against rodent infestation. And the installer only put a very thin bit of sealant all the way underneath the doorstep. I have just ordered some more stuff so that all the rest of the door steps, over the next few weeks can be done. The outside doorsteps all need doing underneath and I found some wlre netting pre cut sheets online, which will make that job easier. Doorsteps are that close to the ground, that you don't lie on the ground to look under them to see if a builder has installed them properly. You need a large Dentist's mirror to be able to look at underneath doorsteps. I cannot even reach down to take a photo of it with my phone to see what is exactly under there. I'm just sticking curved wire into it, fishing around. Whatever happened to those old-fashioned wire coathangers you used to get at dry cleaners, they were brilliant for all kinds of jobs.

Weather warnings here for my area. Do not go outside on Sunday. Really!

It was a very red sky this morning.

Creative... I was awake in the night so I got a water mister ( the water turns this pen purple), a black pen, and a piece of card and I drew this tree...

Have your best kind of day

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Lots of work going on with those steps and yes, those wire coat hangers were really handy. You could even furnish an antenna out of them. I like the way the purple dye leaches from the ink and spreads into the sprayed paper.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on a dull, overcast but at the same time wonderful day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.6 this a.m.
A splendid sunny day yesterday so a bright and beautiful walk , faces into the sun, lots of free vitamin D in the making. Afternoon; sprayed the fence with algae remover stuff - second spray this year - should all be clear in a few days. Mrs Miggins want’s to paint the fence Mr Miyagi style.
Not sure about today as it’s turning into one of those perfect atmospheric film sets for the opening scene of a horror movie staring Marty Feldman and Madeleine Khan.
Art bit - ink.
Have a poem that I like - image
Hope your day is a kind one. Circumstances don’t care about our feelings so I am ignoring the protestations from a sore knee. Best make koffy.
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Great poem @dunelm
I love how you've achieved this painting...
 
dunelm said:
Lots of work going on with those steps and yes, those wire coat hangers were really handy. You could even furnish an antenna out of them. I like the way the purple dye leaches from the ink and spreads into the sprayed paper.
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Thank you @dunelm
They are my favourite pens to use a water mister with...
 

I need someone to hold, to hold on for me
To what i can't seem to hold on to
The life we used to live, is slipping through my fingertips
Like a thread that's unraveling
I suppose that nothing lasts forever, and everything is lost in its time.
When I can't find the words that I trying to speak
When I don't know the face in the mirror I see
When I feel I'm forgotten and lost in this world
Won't you please remember me
Remember me
I know there'll come a day, when i have gone away
And the memory of me will fade
But darling think of me, and who I use to be
And I'll be right there with you again
I hope I'm one thing worth not forgetting
Tell me that you'll never let me go
When I can't find the words that I trying to speak
When I don't know the face in the mirror I see
When I feel I'm forgotten and lost in this world
Won't you please remember me
Remember me
I hope I'm one thing worth not forgetting
Tell me that you'll never let me go
When I can't find the words that I trying to speak
When I don't know the face in the mirror I see
When I feel like I'm lost and alone in this world
Won't you please remember me
Remember me
 
JohnEGreen said:

I need someone to hold, to hold on for me
To what i can't seem to hold on to
The life we used to live, is slipping through my fingertips
Like a thread that's unraveling
I suppose that nothing lasts forever, and everything is lost in its time.
When I can't find the words that I trying to speak
When I don't know the face in the mirror I see
When I feel I'm forgotten and lost in this world
Won't you please remember me
Remember me
I know there'll come a day, when i have gone away
And the memory of me will fade
But darling think of me, and who I use to be
And I'll be right there with you again
I hope I'm one thing worth not forgetting
Tell me that you'll never let me go
When I can't find the words that I trying to speak
When I don't know the face in the mirror I see
When I feel I'm forgotten and lost in this world
Won't you please remember me
Remember me
I hope I'm one thing worth not forgetting
Tell me that you'll never let me go
When I can't find the words that I trying to speak
When I don't know the face in the mirror I see
When I feel like I'm lost and alone in this world
Won't you please remember me
Remember me
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Poignant. My father slipped imperceptibly into the dark depths of his mind during the last two years of his life. His final last breaths were probably a kindness, perhaps.
 
JohnEGreen said:

I need someone to hold, to hold on for me
To what i can't seem to hold on to
The life we used to live, is slipping through my fingertips
Like a thread that's unraveling
I suppose that nothing lasts forever, and everything is lost in its time.
When I can't find the words that I trying to speak
When I don't know the face in the mirror I see
When I feel I'm forgotten and lost in this world
Won't you please remember me
Remember me
I know there'll come a day, when i have gone away
And the memory of me will fade
But darling think of me, and who I use to be
And I'll be right there with you again
I hope I'm one thing worth not forgetting
Tell me that you'll never let me go
When I can't find the words that I trying to speak
When I don't know the face in the mirror I see
When I feel I'm forgotten and lost in this world
Won't you please remember me
Remember me
I hope I'm one thing worth not forgetting
Tell me that you'll never let me go
When I can't find the words that I trying to speak
When I don't know the face in the mirror I see
When I feel like I'm lost and alone in this world
Won't you please remember me
Remember me
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I read this and similar to Mrs L.
she replied.......Wot!
 
7.2
It's raining!
and a bit blowy.
got time to reply now as Mrs L has decided, (not me) to spend some time in bed.
it's all quiet on the western peninsula.
seldom things are in the oven for later.
gammon midweek. Piece my DiL found was only £6.
And it's not quite half a pig!!
so that is in soak, to feed us most of the week.
I have lots to get sorted about Mrs L and of course how to proceed when getting the results.

one thing I have noticed about myself. Is I do seem to be mentally stronger dealing with what the fates have brought.
Hope everyone is ok.
My bestest ever wishes.
 
JohnEGreen said:

I need someone to hold, to hold on for me
To what i can't seem to hold on to
The life we used to live, is slipping through my fingertips
Like a thread that's unraveling
I suppose that nothing lasts forever, and everything is lost in its time.
When I can't find the words that I trying to speak
When I don't know the face in the mirror I see
When I feel I'm forgotten and lost in this world
Won't you please remember me
Remember me
I know there'll come a day, when i have gone away
And the memory of me will fade
But darling think of me, and who I use to be
And I'll be right there with you again
I hope I'm one thing worth not forgetting
Tell me that you'll never let me go
When I can't find the words that I trying to speak
When I don't know the face in the mirror I see
When I feel I'm forgotten and lost in this world
Won't you please remember me
Remember me
I hope I'm one thing worth not forgetting
Tell me that you'll never let me go
When I can't find the words that I trying to speak
When I don't know the face in the mirror I see
When I feel like I'm lost and alone in this world
Won't you please remember me
Remember me
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Thank you @JohnEGreen
This is beautiful
Thank you for the words.

I am crying all the way through.
My birth mother, who I did not know was my birth mother until after she died, had Alzheimer's in the last two years of her life. My cousin, who was my brother but I did not know then, would take me to see her. At each time he warned, she doesn't remember anything she won't know you, she doesn't know me... and the nursing staff warned me not to be upset that she didn't recognise me.

But each time I went, I don't know whether she smelt my scent coming in the room, she suddenly sat upright from being slumped, smiles beaming from her face. "Little gennepher" she said each time, and her gnarled hands would open up. I stroked them...then she slumped again into her world. Even a few days before she died, she still recognised me., "Little gennepher", and I stroked her hands for the last time.

It's at the funeral that my cousin held my hand and said I had to walk behind the coffin and I could not understand why, and he said some words about all the paintings I had made for her, and all the jumpers I had knitted for her were in the coffin with her and she was wearing her favourite one, then he said she's your mother...I'm your brother....

There was a bond there so strong, even if it could not be acknowledged in her lifetime...
 
dunelm said:
Thank you @gennepher - my mother sent me the poem she said that it reminds her of how both she and I like to start the day - bathing in the quietness of it.
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I like to start the day quietly @dunelm, sitting in total peace, and stillness, every part of my body at peace with all its body parts. Not a thought, nothing stirs...
 
Lamont D said:
7.2
It's raining!
and a bit blowy.
got time to reply now as Mrs L has decided, (not me) to spend some time in bed.
it's all quiet on the western peninsula.
seldom things are in the oven for later.
gammon midweek. Piece my DiL found was only £6.
And it's not quite half a pig!!
so that is in soak, to feed us most of the week.
I have lots to get sorted about Mrs L and of course how to proceed when getting the results.

one thing I have noticed about myself. Is I do seem to be mentally stronger dealing with what the fates have brought.
Hope everyone is ok.
My bestest ever wishes.
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That is really good @Lamont D that you seem to be mentally stronger with dealing with what the fates have bought to you.

I am going to join Mrs L in an afternoon nap.
I'm tired... the day is still and grey, definitely a sleeping kind of day...catch you later...
 
JohnEGreen said:

I need someone to hold, to hold on for me
To what i can't seem to hold on to
The life we used to live, is slipping through my fingertips
Like a thread that's unraveling
I suppose that nothing lasts forever, and everything is lost in its time.
When I can't find the words that I trying to speak
When I don't know the face in the mirror I see
When I feel I'm forgotten and lost in this world
Won't you please remember me
Remember me
I know there'll come a day, when i have gone away
And the memory of me will fade
But darling think of me, and who I use to be
And I'll be right there with you again
I hope I'm one thing worth not forgetting
Tell me that you'll never let me go
When I can't find the words that I trying to speak
When I don't know the face in the mirror I see
When I feel I'm forgotten and lost in this world
Won't you please remember me
Remember me
I hope I'm one thing worth not forgetting
Tell me that you'll never let me go
When I can't find the words that I trying to speak
When I don't know the face in the mirror I see
When I feel like I'm lost and alone in this world
Won't you please remember me
Remember me
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Lovely song, John, and so poignant. It reduced me to tears, but no harm in that.

I seem to be so wrapped up in remembering, or discovering, the names of those I never knew, and how they lived, possibly because I felt so forgotten and unimportant when Tom forgot his wife of 53 years. I understood, but it hurt. How long will it take for me to be forgotten? Possibly a couple of generations will remember the old biddy who they visited from time to time, but maybe not. One generation then - Em will remember who I was, even if she doesn't think of me often. Why should she? Does it matter? Not really. Just hubris I guess.
 
8.2 at 04.20 today. Still in the 8's despite insulin and a small amount of food.

Wet and windy here and no sign of it abating yet. No work to be done on the roof tomorrow, I guess.

I had an e-mail from the Royal Mail to tell me they would be delivering a package from Amazon "Sunday 23rd February, before 7.30 pm". I guess the Royal Mail doesn't know that, whatever they do on the mainland, they don't deliver on the Island on Sunday - ever. Whether it arrives tomorrow will depend on the weather. Recently they are getting to be quite premature in telling me when tracked mail will arrive.
 
Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen.

Blood sugars this morning were 7.6 .Ah the rewards for eating, cautiously I might add a full on homemade steak and mushroom pie with roast vegetables. Followed by a chocolate mousse fruit salad. Would I eat it again?

I don’t know about you fellow posters and painters, but its nice that the temperature is rising and the daylight hours are getting longer by approximately 3 minutes everyday.

Now I must depart and plan or more aptly…..plot
 
alf_Josiah said:
Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen.

Blood sugars this morning were 7.6 .Ah the rewards for eating, cautiously I might add a full on homemade steak and mushroom pie with roast vegetables. Followed by a chocolate mousse fruit salad. Would I eat it again?

I don’t know about you fellow posters and painters, but its nice that the temperature is rising and the daylight hours are getting longer by approximately 3 minutes everyday.

Now I must depart and plan or more aptly…..plot
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I need these extra daylight hours @alf_Josiah ...

Enjoy your plotting.
 
I was trying to get a nap and I am still very tired.
Friend of mine has urgently contacted me, I do not know what the urgency is, but she is trying to find a particular catholic Bible which says this in that section, which says that in another section, which phrase is this and it needs to be in that section ...in that section and she's been searching for days. She had no idea there were that many versions of the Bible....
She is a catholic and I am not....
 
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