Healthy Living Thread

[marcy]

Hi Kids!

Dee Jay, I’ve had grilled hot dogs split too. They cook better that way. I don’t recall the last time I had a hot dog though. That sounds like me going to get a chicken and then I buy out the store. Sweet you scored so many treasures going to that auction. And nice to get the last batch for a dollar. I am glad you got it all in your car. I hope the picture taking project is going well. Good idea to go get some tips from the Genius Bar. Marty got me a little portable Lume light that’s on a 3 go 4 inch tripod that has different shades and intensities of light that I use when I’m on a video. I point it at a white wall behind me and use a desk lamp on the other side doing the same. With the white background it brightens the wall and lights up my face. I’m just throwing that out there in case something like that would help light up your glassware. You do a very nice job staging them. And I am always glad to help.

Deegee, I have heard implants aren’t anyone’s idea of fun. Right now that temp tooth is doing fine. Can’t I just keep that? I bet you are counting down the hours by now. Sweet. My dad served in Korea, he was always very patriotic too. And that’s not a bad thing. Your band looks great with your diamond ring. A perfect match. That is too bad about your finger swelling. I have that problem in the summer when it’s hot. In the morning I can barely get a ring on and then it’s falling around on my fingers later in the day. Yes, we do have the same bands from WF. I have the one like yours and also a 1/3 ctw. I wear them both. My original scattered band from WF is a bit too large, but I wear it as well. I didn’t know it was national burger day. I had one for supper though. I am sure Ruby enjoyed fetching the ball for you. I had a ton of stuff to pack out when I retired. I worked on it some each day for a few weeks. Ironically, my desk here looks very similar.

Speaking of videos, I have been working on them - but it’s only audio from me, I am not on camera. I THINK my boss has given up on asking me to be a host and hasn’t invited me back yet as a guest. And I don’t mind.

More progress on the book we are editing. We should be writing captions soon and I think we’ll be done with our end,

I got my hair cut yesterday and need to go to the bank tomorrow. WOW, two outings in the week for me. Marty is buying some pine lumber - or something like that - for his bathroom downstairs from some friend of a friend so I need to go get some cash for that deal.

The lights are still going strong and V2 of the flagpole is still standing. We had spells of no wind today - short lived, of course - so I kept telling Marty the flagpole was broken. He doesn’t think I am funny. I wonder why?

We finally had some clear skies tonight. Here’s a shot of the crescent moon. I am going to shoot another galaxy photo until Marty shuts down the observatory.

Laters,
Curby

 

[Dee*Jay]

Happy Friday kids!

Curby, LOL on two outings in one week. I swear, I fell the same way! Is Marty putting in a full bath downstairs? I can't remember -- is the basement area finished? Wow, you're really whipping through your part of the work on the book! That crescent moon shot is SO cool! We had a really neat moon last night, but there's no way I can ever get a pic as good as yours.

As you know, I spent a two solid hours at he Genius Bar today and left with another $1,200 worth of stuff. Oy. I'm frankly too tired to even break the seal on the boxes ... but I plan on trying it all out tomorrow. I also have a new different photo set up involving white sheers on rolling garment racks... and that required an amazon order and two trips to Walmart, ha ha. That's also going to get tested out tomorrow. My goal is to have everything sorted out and be able to take pictures again by the end of this weekend. The estate sale lady is going on vacation for two weeks starting tomorrow so I'll have some down time.

Not much else to report... I think I'm heading to bead early!

 

[marcy]

Hi Kids!

Dee Jay, that was something for me venturing out twice this week. Marty is building a bathroom will a full vanity but isn’t putting in a shower. The basement shower was never used once in the old house. We are coming along on that book, but still have quite a bit to do. The author responded to the publisher with a long email today. He’s 87 and still very set in his ways.

The moon was pretty last night. I got a few other shots last night but it sky was kind of mucky.

Good luck tomorrow with the new setup and iPad. I know what you mean about perfect lighting. The the house before the last had the best sunlight to get back light on jewelry. I’ve never quite been able to find that angle again.

Good plan to go to bed early.

I had a very sucky night last night. I woke up at 2 a.m. for an unknown reason. My heart beat was going pretty fast. I think the most likely thing is something startled me and triggered it. I couldn’t go back to sleep. I finally got up and looked to see if I took my beta blocker because that is why I take them is a rapid heart beat. Ironically, I’d taken my blood pressure at about 10 and it was 111/69 with a heartbeat of 67 so I know it was okay earlier. I was awake for over two hours. Those episodes just wear me out. Marty’s friend who hooked him up with the guy he’s buying the lumber from is going with him in the morning to pick it up so I plan on sleeping in and then making myself some homemade biscuits for breakfast.

I did to get Marty’s cash this morning but other than that I worked on articles and videos.

Laters,
Curby

 

[Dee*Jay]

Happy Monday kids!

Curby, LOL on the 87 year old author being set in his ways. Not likely to change that at this point! I wonder what woke you up the other night. Maybe one of the many critters wandering around was knocking on the window looking for a snack. (That thought is the direct result of how ridiculously many raccoon reels I get in my Instagram feed!) I love homemade biscuits! Not much chance of that around here right now with Liam's gluten issue, but I did pick up a box of gluten free Red Lobster Cheesy Biscuits at the store a few weeks ago. I'll break those out some night as a surprise.

The weekend flew by! I spent all of Saturday d!cking around with the new curtains and getting a good photo set-up, then yesterday I took a bunch of pics. I think they're OK, and the process with adding the text on the iPad seems to work, but I still maintain that my 11 took better pictures!

Billy Ray went to the dealer this morning for his annual oil change. I'm channeling you, sporting a white Macan for the the next few hours! I've got two orders to pack, and some cleaning up to do before they call me to come and get BR. The guy said it would be around noon, so I've got plenty of time.

Alright, off to get this party rolling!

 

[marcy]

Hi Kids!

Dee Jay, I hope the gluten free Red Lobster biscuits are good. That’s about the only thing I like at Red Lobster. I am not a fan is fish. I love the hot rolls they have a Texas Roadhouse. I always swear I am only eating one, that doesn’t happen. Then I eat my salad and have no room for my dinner.

How are the raccoons? I haven’t seen any antelope lately. But some of the big rabbits are still hoping around and some cat comes to visit our patio almost nightly.

That author continues to be a challenge, he wrote a huge response to the publisher’s email. I am glad our part is almost done.

I hope your new photo process gets smoother once you get your routine down. I am still puzzled that the pictures from the new phone are not as good as your older one. You must have had the pick of the liter on that one.

We were twins today for a few hours. Did they get Billy Ray all tuned up? That reminds me I need to make an appointment for my annual service. They are usually booked for months. I wish we had a local dealer.

I was a temp fill in today for a livestream, but luckily they didn’t need me. I had fun writing a new article though and the lady who is a “real editor” did the second edit on it and she said I did a nice job. I feel bad for her, she edits my scripts for videos and is always tweaking punctuation and verb tenses. I told her my days of grammar school were a LONG time ago.

I didn’t get to bed very early last night, I was playing with the software I used to process astrophotos and some of the images won’t process right. I think I am missing some star databases. I probably lost them moving to the new computer a few weeks ago.

We had another thunderstorm this afternoon. It got foggy so the world outside disappeared.

Laters,
Curby

 

[marcy]

Hi Kids!

Deegee, are you enjoying your retirement?

Dee Jay, how are the photos going?

We had temps in the 40’s today. No rain though. Yay.

Laters,
Curby

 

[Dee*Jay]

Happy Wednesday kids!

Curby, Billy Ray's trip to the dealer turned out to be exxxxpennnnsivvvve. Oil change (which is already an over $600 ordeal) PLUS a new battery PLUS three new tires because they were over six years old (and which they ordered but won't be in until the end of this week/beginning of next) was about $2,800. Ack! I also need to get the hood struts replaced, but I'll wait until right before I am ready for storage this fall to do that. As I always say, nobody ever bought a 911 to save money! We had a huge thunderstorm yesterday afternoon too. I knew something big was coming because poor Blue started acted squirrelly, and a few minutes later the thunder and lightening started. Liam picked the worst possible moment to come home to grab a quick Coke and a granola bar and he got soaked just going from his truck to the house. Our temps have been really good these past few days though, and when Liam and I went for a walk after dinner tonight we both agreed that if it were like this all the time we wouldn't be so keen to move!

The picture taking continues... I got quite a few done yesterday before the rain hit, but only a few today. That's OK though because I dug into a couple of boxes from the really good auction weekend before last and washed up a bunch of pieces for tomorrow. Every box is like Christmas because I ended up with so much stuff that I didn't even know I was buying LOL.

I did so much laundry today I told Liam that he had to take it upstairs because I'm afraid the hanging racks in the laundry room are going to snap under all the weight!

Alright, off to call it an early night.

 

[marcy]

Hi KIds!

Dee Jay, exactly - we didn’t buy Porsches because they are cheap to maintain. I have brand new tires in the garage we can put back on the car when we sell it. I am not a fan of Goodyear, so I bought Michelins within a week of buying the car. I was thinking I might need a new battery now that the car is 4 years old. We had more heavy rain this afternoon but no hail this time. Now that I don’t have flower pots, small hail doesn’t bother me. Our weeds seem to survive fine. I am glad you like the weather now.

That’s exciting to be opening boxes not knowing exactly what treasures you will find. It’s like all the boxes in our basement I still need to crack open. All my photos - and you can imagine the pile of photos I have - are downstairs. I don’t have any place to put them.

Laundry can be heavy especially hanging up. We had the option here for racks to hang laundry or cupboards. I chose cupboards. If I have something to dry I hang it up in the spare closest and leave trash bags on the spare bed to dry things that need to lay flat. I’m such a home body I generally wear sweats anyway instead of my sweaters.

I kind of had fun today writing a new story. One of my jobs is to continually update older articles with current information. Who know that Friday the 13th has so many varieties I and reasons for when they occur. It’s based on a few things - what day of the week January 1 is on, then any month that its 1st day is on a Sunday is when there’ll be a Friday the 13th. In 2025 we have one Friday the 13th and it’s June, but we didn’t have a previous article for June so I got to do the research on that. I enjoyed that. Something new. I did work on videos too.

I was quite frustrated that my software I use to process my astrophotos was giving me errors messages. Marty supposedly fixed it, but then I had the same issues again. But I THINK it’s fixed now. Of course, the rain continues so it’s not like I will get any new pictures.

I fried up five pounds of hamburger tonight. That’s four meals for each of us. Marty gets four pounds and I get one pound. That’s why I say Marty eats for four.

Laters,
Curby