First thank you to everyone who donated to Kamyk’s go fund me. He had to start it out at the minimum of $300 due to the rules of the site. The real goal is $1,000 which will allow him to get the game, a secure pack for storing it, and a little left over for a set of earbuds and a few games. Currently he has to have it set for $600 because the rules say he has to set it up in stages. I don’t understand it but he sent me the goals and I put it on the page. The current amount donated is $315. Again thanks to everyone for helping if you can. I understand if you can’t. I can’t until next week when Ron gets paid. This last week we had to put the groceries and medications on the credit card.
Which leads me to the second update I want to share. After I got home from my visit with Suzy Sunshine in which we both decided she couldn’t help me, Ron got a call from his sister. She had fallen and broke her wrist a few days ago. I guess it was bad. So Friday around noon she called and was very upset. Ron said he never saw her this way before. She told him she couldn’t handle the situation of trying to show the home and everything along with the pain in her wrist that she couldn’t use for anything. She wanted him to come to Texas and be with her. It would be for at least a month maybe more and then she would be coming back to Florida in March anyway. In two weeks she will have surgery on the wrist and will need the extra help anyway.
Ron looked at me and I knew what he wanted to ask so I told him it was OK. I understood the bond between him and his sister. I understand he needs to help her in her time of need. I was in a good place, I have the van and it is running well, and we already did the large grocery shopping. I would be OK for a month and half if he needed. So he spent yesterday afternoon packing and left in the car early this morning for Texas. It is about 1,000 miles to where his sister lives. He is going to do it in two days. The good thing is it should give me lots of time to do all the blogging stuff. Hugs
Scottie's Playtime 
Tell Ron bon voyage, and comfortable healing for his sister. She is truly undertaking a great deal right after her loss of her husband. And you, Scottie, you take care of you. Each day is 24 hours: 8 for work/blog, 8 for rest, 8 for what you will. 😉
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I should try this!
Thanks for the update, by the way. The only thing missing is a duplicate link to make finding the gofundme page easier.
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Hi MDavis. I did pin the post to the top of the blog pages. I am not sure what you mean? Let me know and if it is something I can do I will. I really want Kamyk to get his thing. He has so little and life is so hard in a nursing home. His own father is an evangelical preacher who told his gay son that he was hoping god would help him forget his son was burning in hell as he was enjoying his afterlife in the holy city in heaven. Hugs
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Pinning should work. I usually come to this site through new post notifications, so I never noticed.
My daily driver is going to the shop tomorrow for an estimate and maybe some basic stuff. I need a couple of new tires and maybe an oil change, but the valve timing issue is the one that could be expensive. I’ll want to get that done before it gets worse. Don’t know yet if they can find the parts, so I may end up needing a new (used) daily driver.
I’ll know more tomorrow.
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Hi MDavis. How old is the daily driver? Our old 2007 Toyota van still runs great and is our back up car. But our newer 2018 blew the engine one month after the loan was paid off. Go figure. Ron wants to replace the newer one as he doesn’t trust the car anymore. Hugs
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It’s a 2008 small Chevy truck, the last vehicle my Ed bought for me. It has an aftermarket engine and a bent frame from some sort of accident, Because of this it wears through front tires faster than it should. It came back today with no new codes on the valve cam issue so I got today’s stuff done pretty cheaply. It gets decent mileage for its age, approaching 20 mpg.
I have a 94 Ford as my backup driver and a 2000-ish VW bug with manual tranny but the clutch is gone and that is more difficult than I would have thought to get fixed. The shop I’ve been using would look at it if I have it towed, but that would put me on the schedule, I guess, so I’d have to have it towed back home and then back to the shop when they can get it in. My first choice for mechanic to do it is in no hurry because I keep losing the argument about whether I[‘ll pay him or not. Why would he want to put in the time for no pay? But he says Ed made him promise … something about watching out for me. That one is the next best bet for getting back on the road.
Sorry, TMI.
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Hi MDavis. All good! All friends here. Hugs
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Hi Ali. Ron has his big sister and it seems I also have one. Are all big sisters this full of big sister energy? Sorry to ask but it is a new thing to have a caring big sister, the hell spawn only though of ways to abuse me or farm me out, not protect or help me.
Thank you. I do understand, but I already violated your suggestion. I stayed up 18 hours the first day, got up this morning after only 6 hours sleep and started again. I did take a 2 hour afternoon nap.
BUT BUT I promise I will pace myself better now. I just had so much pent up energy I needed to burn off. So this week I want to try several new cooking projects. I want to try to make the bread come out correctly. I want to learn how to prepare and cook drumlettes. Those as I understand are the small chicken drumsticks used to Buffalo wings. Ron and I got some and tried it before and they were great, but he made the sauce for them. I want to try it myself. Anyway. I should be OK, Ron has already asked me not to try to clean up any rooms or anything, just to have a good time and wait for him to come home. Hugs
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Ron’s advice sounds good!
Back in the days before blogs when there were email groups, a woman from Buffalo told me that in her neighborhood, the cooks could come together with lots of separated chicken wings, put them in baking pans and baked at 375 degrees until the skin was crispy, then throw them into a bucket that had lots and lots of hot sauce and butter or buttery spread (they used Imperial margarine! And Louisiana hot sauce but any was fine.) Then they’d shake the bucket until every thing was coated, then either eat, or put back in the oven for a more roasted effect. She said, “we don’t call them Buffalo wings, we just call them wings.” I use her recipe, though on a much smaller scale! I look forward to reading/seeing how you play with your wings!
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Hi Ali. I really don’t care for the wings, I like the little drumsticks as they have more meat on them. But you can’t find them in the stores much. I am going to see if I can get them from Amazon or other food delivery company. If you have an idea of where to try to get them let me know.
Off topic it was 31 here according to Apple Weather when I got up this morning. Randy had snow for a couple of days, and I bet you are colder there than it is here. Stay warm! I have an electric heater running in each room and it is 78 inside. The electric bill will be murder but better than my old mishappen bones screaming at me in pain. Hugs
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I like the whole wings, but my Kroger store sells 3 types: the full wing with that bit that no one can really eat much of but makes great stock; what they call party wings, which are the drummette and the part with the 2 thinner bones, separated. Then they have the drummettes. The drummettes alone usually run us at least 2 dollars more per pound. Now all of these I’m writing about are in big bags in the freezer section. They have a little bit of added salt, as they individually freeze each piece, then pack them. I hope you find what you’re looking for, Scottie!
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Thank you Ali. I wish we had a Kroger’s here. I will keep your suggestions in mind. Right now I don’t have much hunger and I am forcing myself to eat. But next Monday I will have more steroid injections and I will suddenly want to eat everything I can get my teeth into. Hugs
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Oh, yeah. It’s been a pendulum here with the temps. It’s either in the teens, or high 40s to 50s. Today is teens. For my own arthritis, it doesn’t matter if the indoor temp is high or low, so I keep it at 66, or 67 if I’m dribbling water to keep the pipes from freezing; I also leave the cabinet doors open. But I don’t care for the cold this year like I always did before. I used to think that if a day is cloudy and no warmer than 45 degrees, it’s the perfect day. I’ve raised that temp to 50. 🙂
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Hi Ali. Oh I understand how the cold affects the bones. I commend and am in awe of your restraint for the temperature. I can’t do that. I have to keep the house temperature up to at lest upper 70s, or I am almost in tears. It was why we moved to Florida.
I was working Nuclear Security in 1994 and we had such huge amounts of snow that we had to have a bucket loader come in and clear our driveway as our snowblower couldn’t blow it high enough to clear the side banks. Then the asshole who did it charged me double and if I did not pay it would fill the driveway back up with all the stuff on the side walls. Well I had to walk the fences of the nuclear plant in that stuff so we moved to Florida. It made my bones ache so bad. We did not know then but my bones were dying and the cold was affecting them.
Side note. Tomorrow morning I have to take Tupac to the vets. He jumped down from the day bed and started limping. Then this evening he jumped from my desk before I could stop him. He struggled to walk after. He lashed out at me when I went near him. He either tore his shoulder or … worse. But for the last few days he has lost total control of his bladder. So Ron is steeling himself if I have to make the call to have him put down. Hugs
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Do take care, please Scottie. Eat well, get some sleep. And let’s concentrate on comfort overnight for Tupac, and something easy in the morning at the vet.
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Oh, yeah! I frequently use boneless, skinless thighs for “wings”; they’re very low-fat, but still cook up officially, they hold the sauce/rub, and have the same texture as the actual drumette section. I started out using bone-in, skin on thighs; those cooked exactly like drummettes, with the crispy skin. You just trim the thighs into 2-3 pieces; one will have the bone in. I like the skinless boneless ones, though, because I usually don’t want to make stock or even trim the thighs other than to cut them into 2-3 pieces. If you can’t find drummettes, try thighs. They’ll usually be cheaper, also. Go figure.
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You guys are getting more than your share, for sure.
Have you considered saging your place?
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Hi MDavis. I love your comment. Ron is a big one on saging / cleansing a place. He was a Wiccan for many years. Personally I can’t stand the smell of the stuff when he does it, I ask him to do it when I have a doctor’s appointment so it can air out by the time I get home. But I hate to admit it without empirical evidence, it does seem to work to calm things down in the house for a while. Both Ron and I have woken in a panic to see a dark shadowy figure either in the doorway or standing at the bedside looking down at us. I can explain it due to my abuse or science says sleep paralysis. But Ron has none of those issues. I used dismiss most unexplained stuff as woo. But as I age I understand that some unexplained stuff is just stuff science has not gotten advanced enough to explain yet. Hugs
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Have you considered sweetgrass as a chaser?
If I understand it, and this is how I use it (when I use it) sage – bad out, sweetgrass – good in. It has a nice smell, and the other big difference in application is that you reverse the sweeping from the way you do sage. With sage, sweep away from you, with sweetgrass, sweep toward you.
In my experience, sweetgrass is harder to find. I tried growing it once, but it just wasn’t happy here. I killed several plugs before I just stopped updated the guy I bought the first one from.
All that said, it might not work without Ron. It’s likely a focusing exercise to access Jungian stuff.
Protego.
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That’s an abundance of complicated matters for dealing. Please be a good shepherd of yourself and pay attention to your health. Stay well for you and Ron. Safe travels for Ron and hope for a quick recovery for his sister. Hugs ‘n peace, M
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Hi Michael. Good advice. I will try to limit my desire to skip meals and focus on just blogging full time. I will find time for relaxing and doing other activities like watching movies or playing games. Hugs
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