Wednesday

 On Wednesday morning I left a message with former doctor, not new one. In less than ten minutes, the nurse called back. Then, she called pharmacy and I had a prescription by noon. THEN, around four pm, I got a voice mail from her, saying he was sending me a prescription to take. So, I got that one, too. Tommy left the first one in the hot car for five hours, so I wonder how effective it will be. I am continuing with the first med. 

There is no way I was attempting to assemble the chicken, rice, soup, and broccoli casserole. However, with Tommy's help, I got one package of chicken in the crockpot with the remainder of the orange marmalade and the remainder of a bottle of Italian dressing, both rinsed out with water. Two hours later, we had chicken; he had sweet potatoes and green beans; I had the lion's share of can of green beans. 

In a few minutes, I will take the marmalade chicken out and put thighs into the crockpot with bbq sauce. Or I may wait until tomorrow and put carrots, potatoes, bell peppers, and onions, probably the latter.  

Tomorrow, with Tommy's help, I will assemble the chicken breasts, brown rice, broccoli, mushroom soup casserole. I broached the subject of putting pimiento into the casserole, telling him I would drain off the juice since that is not as tasty as the pimiento. He said he hated anything where the pimiento was 1/3 of the ingredients but did not mind it in moderation, saying sometimes it was good. Well, that was quite a little explosion and something he never told me. He usually says he hate pimiento and won't eat whatever. Sooo, I will add pimiento to the casserole. He refused to eat pimiento and cheese his mother made, so I suppose that is the only thing he has eaten that he knew had pimiento that he hated. Oh well. 

Whatever tore open the bag of fire ant bait came back Tuesday and dragged it across the porch and tore it open. Well, I put both in a garbage bag, so it tore that open, the original bag and dragged about two cups of the bait onto the porch. I need a trail cam! 

I did put fire ant bait out on two beds in the yard despite my inability to walk steadily. Things have to be done no matter how bad I feel. Tommy would put out too much, so I did it. 

Hopefully, I can get my hair color on and not spill it on my chair since I cannot stand to apply it. This quilt on the chair is expendable and cheap, meant to protect the chair, so I will not worry. 

I tried to defend and explain my position and the shape of the nonexistent curriculum in comments on last post. So, I deleted my lengthy comment. But, I know what I am doing, have education, experience and resources and don't have to keep defending myself. Tommy is coming around to helping me. He has never done anything like this. But, he is comfortable and kind to little children. 

Tommy took out two loads of laundry for me. I have clothes to hang and towels and stuff to fold. It is after midnight, I think. And, I am so tired, but he keeps yelling about everything! 

Gotta go. 

Can anyone imagine why a critter would tear into fire ant bait? I need to check the bag and see if it will kill animals. I certainly hope it won't kill birds! 

Monday and Squash

After another sleepless night (2 hours), I called the company that handles medical items and told them to come get this Darth Vade machine and bring me a quieter one. They said they could do that over a week ago. Now, I am beyond ready. The machine was to improve my health, and I cannot imagine getting an average of three hours sleep per night is improving my health.

Okay, it is almost 5 pm and a replacement machine just came. It is much lighter and a new model, not so bulky either. Maybe tonight will be better. 

Tommy is in charge of his breakfast and lunch as am I for mine. When I wake near noon, I do not eat my usual banana. I eat the pb, MW, and banana sandwich, so I am not eating anything he wants, and I do not offer it. Just now, at 1:30, he had a plate with a big pile of cherries, about 2 cups of Romaine, and a piece of bread with cheese. Great! He can feed himself! If I am going in to get food, I ask if he wants anything. If I am making a grilled cheese sandwich, I offer to make one for him. 

When the guy called and said he was bringing the new machine, we went outside. I got the fire ant bait and spread it around a huge mound at the base of his dogwood tree. Then, I opened a pink bag with wet ads and looked at those and threw them all away. Another awaits.

He turned the water on for me and I watered the plants on the porch. We make a good team...lol. There is only one squash I can see--about 2 inches long. There are a dozen or so blossoms fading, so there should be little squashes there, too. I did water too early because the sun was hurting my skin. 

Now, I have to wash dishes and cook bacon in the microwave. And wash my hair. 

Tomorrow, we are going to Cullman to eat lunch with friends, al fresco, of course. We have not seen them for a long time. 

Are your squash in blossom or growing? 

We Watched the Fire Ants

Over a week ago, I wrote this.

Where the sidewalk abuts the driveway fire ants built a long red mound. I put Amdro at both ends.  I told Tommy not to drive through it. He lifted his walker over. Because the bait had moved, I wondered if the bait had washed, but there had been no rain.

Tommy said he wondered why the bait had moved. It's yellow so very obvious. He observed it was moving and looked more closely. He could see the ants carrying the yellow granules above their heads. They were carrying it to the mound to feed everyone down there, including the QUEEN...hha. I think they are all dead now.

I went out for  a few  things. At Lowe's I bought potting mix. I learned not to use potting soil and I forgot why. I needed more Amdro Fire Ant Bait since there are more mounds. I looked at chairs while I was there.

Other things I got while out:

2 lb. bag of Ronco spaghetti, used coupon which was doubled
2 gallons of vinegar
6 more bananas
4 Granny Smith apples
2 Red Delicious apples
taco season mix
2 half gallons of a2milk
2 packages of pint freezer bags
package of  two gallon freezer bags
bottle of Italian Dressing for Tommy

All the junk is gone from the house where I got the table. Then, I asked to go look for junk piles. There were none. He took me to a toney part of town. Then, we went to another part of town and I saw the biggest rooster I have ever seen. Tommy told me earlier that chickens were not allowed in this town. Now, I know better. The ride relaxed me until he seemed to be veering off the road.

We got all the stuff in from the car. Finally, I finally found Ronco spaghetti. I had the choice of 2 lbs or 7 oz. That was a no-brainer. I have wanted Dial soft soap or Dial bar soap. There are plenty of pink Dove bars at the store and here!

I have three bananas. They are getting ripe with little black spots. I am going to freeze those flat and chunked. Then, I will put them in a freezer bag for smoothies.  The Granny Smith apples are to put into the spice cake I bought or thought I bought...lol. Oh, maybe it was here before I bought the two cake mixes. I still have 3 or 4 half gallons of milk but got two more half gallons.

For dinner tonight we are having a boxed dinner that uses ground beef.  Valu Time Pasta Dinner Mix was given to me, and I decided to keep it for a time like this. It has pasta and a sauce mix. I cook beef and add water. Hopefully, it is edible. I won't use the whole pound of ground beef. I will cook it all and save some beef for another meal. We will have a salad with this meal.

Okay, we had the boxed dinner. Tommy really liked it. It never got thick but that might have been my fault. With a salad, it was filling. But, there are no leftovers since a helping was 1/2 cup. However, there is meat to use for another meal.

I plan to finish off the leaf lettuce in a salad before I buy more.  Monday will probably be potatoes, cabbage, and field peas with the bit of leftover ground beef from the lasagna meal. Instead, I put bbq sauce on the meat, had coleslaw and baked sweet potatoes. It was delicious.

Since I use a lot of vinegar, I like to buy it as cheaply as I can. The vinegar at Piggly Wiggly is $1.74 for one gallon. Then, with the 10% added, it is still cheaper than WM or Publix vinegar or any place i have checked. Usually it is over $2, about $2.48.

I had another set of inserts and could not find them. Then, miraculously, I saw the pink bag. So, now i have another coupon for Ronco Spaghetti and Northern Toilet Paper. Nice! I found more Ronco Spaghetti but not the Northern Toilet Paper.

I am thrilled that the Fire Ant Bait worked to kill the whole mound. Fire Ant Killer just makes the fire ants grab the queen and flee to a new location.

Do you put killer or bait on fire ant beds?

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