Friday, May 31, 2019

Leonards 3rd cousin once removed.


Bathing Suit Condo dweller, Florida Curly Tail Anole, might be Leonard Lizards 3rd cousin once removed. 
I call him Curly, so far no Larry or Moe..
He measures 6 inches long when tail uncurls. 

I found a sight that says they are hard to tell from Brown Anoles because they sometimes curl and sometimes don't. 
I know the length because I measured the rod he lays on.  

Want more info? Go HERE to a site called Snake Hacks.. everything you ever waned to know about these guys and a lot you don't.

It SAYS we can make them a PET! I don't want to pet, I just talk to them.
Joining The LLB Gang  for Nature Friday.


He is calling the ladies...


Thursday, May 30, 2019

WEEE WWWWeee Wee all the way home


WEEEEEEE are HOME......
This is not a pic of Bob, it has Nothing to do with the hospital visit, I found it on a cd from they year 2006 and liked it. I have to say, I am fast approaching looking like a pig from stress eating.

The surgery went well. We arrived at 6 am, his surgery started at 8 am, and we were home by 10:30am.
The Doctor came in to say what she had planned, the circle she drew was 3 times the size of the circle from last week. She said I want to get as much as I can, but we may have to do this again. I said, well good luck with that, because HE says he will not come back for a second surgery.

When she came out to talk to me after surgery she said you will see I took a second piece almost as big as the first, He has two large circular incisions. From what you told me, I decided I better get the other suspicious looking spot since this might be the last one. Now we wait for results.
She said bring him in on the 7th to get the stiches out, I said OH NO, he already has 2 appointmens at your office on 10th and 17th. for ultrasound and results. she said call the office and tell them I will remove stiches on the 10th after the ultrasound and I almost shouted for joy in her face.

Murphy's law did visit, we got up at 4, and Big Boy went out and peed only, no poop.. he ALWAYS poops at 4 am. we left the poor guy home with no pooping, no walk, no breakfast, no egg at 6:30 and when we came home he had been a perfect boy. HE was wild with joy, we think he thought he was abandoned again...
2nd Murphy visit was at 4:30 am, I went through the bathroom door, jammed my little toe and it may be broken. I had to limp and not whine but we made it anyway. (OH NO! I could not wear the shoes I planned on wearing, because they hurt the toe, and I had to change the pants I was wearing because they did not match the shoes I could wear 😁😁 this also meant changing the shirt and earrings)

The good news is After 4 visits to outpatient clinic, I know where every rest room in all 4 halls is found.  One surgery, 6 pees.... He did not go the whole time... how do they do that? I did have 6 cups of coffee and 2 waters. could that be the reason?



Wednesday, May 29, 2019

The Tree and ME


Rose of Time Stand Still, made a comment on my Shadow ME post that if i had stepped to the right, the tree could have been my hair..... NOW IT IS. I got carried away in PicMonkey as you can SEE.

A little tweak made my eyes greener than they are and I lost a few wrinkles while I grew the tree hair.... Your wish is my command............. I will do ANYTHING to find post fodder.
TOMORROW IS OUR Second Attempt to have the Melanoma removed from Bobs back at the Out patient clinic... Will post about that When/IF it happens.
I have missed 2 weeks of TOPS and have gained 3 pounds stress eating.
Random Thoughts Keeping Me Awake as we await pending out patient visit.

Will all the staff in pre-opt be pointing and whispering, There they ARE, again,  as we walk in?

What if we get the same nurse, Chad? Will he refuse to work with us? Will he whisper to the other RNS, That' Them, the one from last Thursday that LEFT without being Discharged.

Will the anesthesia guy leave us hanging when I say, he will not sign that paper unless it has LOCAL only on it?
To be continued as it happens.....




Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Animated Gif tutorial


In a comment a few days ago, Beatrice Boyd of The Frog n Penguin, asked how I did the animated me pics. here is the tutorial . I used Google Photo Storage, very easy to use.
First take 2 or 3 photos that are very similar. You can do it with any photo but unless they are taken at same time will look like a slideshow instead of animation.

Go to Google.com and click on the 9 dots by your photo, click on the pinwheel, that is Google Photo Storage. My phone and tablet auto place photos there and I put the ones from my camera in it on my desk top or laptop. Upload or drag them there.


Find 2 similar photos click on the edge, see the blue checkmark above.. then click on the PLUS + and in the drop menu pick animation. it does it automatically, and when you click on the arrow at top left you go back to photos and there it is. click on it and go to top right and click download to save it in computer or share it where you want to with the share icon.


I created one with four photos to show that if photos are different the same steps make a slideshow.

Monday, May 27, 2019

Memorial Day 2019



"Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it. It flies with the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it." unknown author

“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.” "May we never forget freedom isn't free." "A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."
Michael Stillwell, Joseph Campbelll

See Slide show of Famous Memorial Day Photos and quotes HERE...


Sunday, May 26, 2019

Shadow me


Sunday walkabout with Shadow Me every time I walk, twice a day, this tree is standing right in my path. I love it.

Saturday, May 25, 2019

Keep On Singing


Remember, when the teakettle is up to it's neck in hot water, it continues to sing... author unknown

 Did any of you really believe I could miss showing a photo of the almost fire under the kettle?

OK, move along now, nothing else to TEA here today....have a brewtiful day...



Friday, May 24, 2019

The surgery that almost WAS


SHORT answer to why Bob still has his melanoma. We waited 6 hours, we left, we are waiting to reschedule or cancel… If you don’t want to read a book about it, you may escape the blog NOW… thanks for caring.

I am a ‘talker’ thus I ‘talk’ too much when writing. You have been warned.

Bob’s Melanoma outpatient surgery was scheduled at  9, surgery at 11.  Pre-op IV and vitals completed by 9:30. We wait…………….. 6 patients sent to sit in waiting room, there is No room to hook up more victims, patients until some of us move on to surgery holding unit.

Word is our surgeon is Stuck In Cath Lab… (????? I don’t know either) I am stuck in pre-op with a white haired BEAR that last had food at 5 pm the night before which is 19 hours plus no coffee and never wanted to be there in the first place.

3 hours after IV, At noon, they roll Bob and 3 others to a backup holding room. We can tell this because the room is full of equipment that has been pushed in the corner right in front of the back hurting gurney the bear is on. Nurse says one more hour.

12:20 Surgeon appears in fake holding room. “I am stuck in the cath lab” at least another hour. (How did she get out occurs to me) and THEN she says Let me mark the site to be ready when I get out. Bob sits Up, she says where is the site? I point to lower shoulder thinking she is verifying so she doesn’t cut out the wrong thing. She says is it this scar or that scar, he has many. I say I think it is this. Supposed to 3 cm wide and deep as you can go. She says.. I spoke to a melanoma specialist and he says don’t take the whole scar, only take the margin around the biopsy site. Are you sure this is it? Well I think so.

She draws a small purple circle and LEAVES to become stuck in the cath lab, which I know she has been in since 8, because she answered her cell while standing there drawing the circle and snapped I HAVE been in the hospital since EIGHT…. (we can assume the 3 people waiting for her behind us are calling the office to complain) 

Bob and I start to yammer because he is threatening to pull IV and leave, which he has been known to do in past years. 2002 in fact. The nurse covering lunches says are you OK? NO! I am not ok and fill her ear with the above story.
She walks away comes back with her phone and sits down to entertain us with photos of her dogs and bunnys and children, because she heard me fretting over Big home alone. She was keeping us occupied because she called the Direct of Nursing and she appeared and the nurse left.
By this time is is 2:20 Bob with no food.coffee now at 22 hours. The gist of her story was she had spoken to Doctor IN CathLAB and it will be at LEAST another hour and if it gets to late it will have to be rescheduled. She said your option is to leave now and reschedule or wait another couple of hours and still maybe reschedule.
I say we will leave now on top of Bob’s voice saying it at the same time. I said what if I cancel it. We are not sure we want to do this and I tell her the story. She says you can discuss that with her. I said what about what you did here yesterday and today, the insurance will not pay if we leave. She said they will if you reschedule I say I don’t want him going under anesthesia with the breathing tube down his throat for that tiny incision that could be done in an office. She says give me five minute, makes a call and says they will not charge us. RIGHT I am thinking.
We choose to leave and reschedule or cancel and find another way. We want the surgery to be done with a local, not anesthesia since it is half the size of what was done with local at another time and Doctor.
That is where we are now… he still has the Melanoma and I still have the HEADACHE of dealing with insurance, doctors and BOB. We have not heard from the Surgeon Office, she may still be Stuck In The Cath Lab..
UPDATE! the Surgeon called me at 8:45 and started the conversation with an apology and assured me there would be no anesthesia, but local and that she knew where it is and also had a lengthy talk with a Melanoma specialist. the incision will be narrow but deep and must be done as out patient in case of bleeding or something out of the ordinary that could not be handled in a chair... I am satisfied and she said they would schedule us for first on next Thursday.
and next week will be day before blood work and same old same old AGAIN with the white headed bear.

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Bob's surgery

We did not get the surgery, long story, still has to have it removed, were there for over 6 hours and came home with out it. Decisions to make. details later. we are fine, other than AGGRAVATED TO THE MAX...

Today In Our Lives...



Today I am not at TOPS, because Today Bob is having a Melanoma Cancer removed from the top left shoulder/neck, scheduled for 9 am.
 In June of 2017, he had Melanoma  removed and it has recurred in the same spot. This time requires a General Surgeon, and out patient surgery at the hospital because it will be very deep and wide... We are praying she can get clear margins to prevent more test and surgery and that it has not spread into his body.



Bob has spent every single day the sun shines out in it since 1970. He moved from Pennsylvania fleeing cold and rain and dreary days.  His skin is like leather. He says it was worth it, he is 82 years old and has enjoyed every day of his life outside.
I say this to say, if you are outside for hours, wear SPF, he did not, ever! Neither did I. I don't need it now because the sun makes me so hot I can't stay in it.


All my hundreds of photos show him just like this. He spends his day in and out of our pool, every single day and at the beach if he can.


This is the lotion the Dermatologist gave us to get his leather like skin soft enough to see the skin cancers. it worked wonders in 3 days.


Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Handy Photo Bomber


Our Pothos in the kitchen corner is 5 feet long now and getting bigger and bigger. I have to trim it about once a month. I placed two pieces in my glass container full of water and they have grown 4 inches in a few weeks.. Just Because I could.

Just as I snapped the photo Bob reached out to turn on the faucet and photo bombed my pic. Of course the TV photo bomb is always there.

Monday, May 20, 2019

Necessities


You butter believe this will never happen again... their is a rumor I want to spread, It may sound nutty but I LOVE PEANUT BUTTER!

For the first time in my life I ran out of PEANUT BUTTER. This jar had barely enough for a half English muffin. NO PROBLEM I always have an extra one. NOOO! the spot it lives in was empty.

These two foods are NECESSARY.. I have both every single day of my life.
I put a spoon of PB in my oatmeal, eat it on bagel, English muffin, toast, saltines. I have it daily either for breakfast or supper. (dinner to some)
As a child if mother cooked birds that daddy killed while hunting, while crying I had a peanut butters sandwich. If she forgot to remove my portion from ANYTHING she put onions in, I had peanut butter. My kids were raised on PBJ. 
my hurricane supplies include 3 jars of Jif and 3 of Smuckers and many boxes of no salt on top Saltines...Bottled water and a few jars of jelly and we are ready.

 I could not blame Bob, he eats JIF only... How did I let my hurricane supplies be depleted, I had 2 of Jif. I don't eat Jif, it has sugar in it. 

How did this happen? The answer is Wal-Mart has been remodeling for 3 months, I could find NOTHING.. prior to that, as I walked the aisles in order, I would SEE the peanut butter and grab one. out of sight out of mind. 
Don't Panic! I now have one open and 2 back ups. The good news was, when I went to get it, it was ON SALE... 
Do you have food or drink that are necessary each day?



Sunday, May 19, 2019

Sunrise Walk


Summer heat is killing me and it is only MAY..... I started doing my walking at 6:30 am, as soon as we get home from the YMCA.
This is what I see while walking. the sun is beautiful as long as it is below the horizon...THEY said this morning that we are going to have a heat wave starting tomorrow. So what have we been having? For now, it sure is worth the walk to see this...
                                                        I'm walking on in sunshine...this could be my SOL-mate!
today is Sunday, a day named after the SUN, right?  Light up Your World with smiles.

Saturday, May 18, 2019

What..Why..

Those of you who follow me, know I gave up Sugar in January of 2017. What does that have to do with my new Tea Kettle? The cup you see above, was given to me as a prize for weight loss. 


The Why factor came when I discovered Swiss Miss Hot Chocolate with no added sugar. That was about 4 months ago. I drink it in the glass cup as my last food of each day. It satisfies the sugar and chocolate desires and does no harm.
I have been heating water in a small pan and pouring it in. 
I decided it was dangerous using the pan, for me the Senior and our Senior Dog. 
I give you my new whistling hot chocolate kettle. 


Why so many photos? because I pipped my  kettle with my Samsung tablet, Just Because I could...


Friday, May 17, 2019

Freddy's BACK with friends



Freddy is back in the bathing suit condo. He might be Freddy or Freddy II.. who knows? He is sharing the bathing suit condo with a 5 inch long Big Black Lizard.. who might be Leonard the 12th and I talk to both of them. Today, Saturday May 11, 2019 I was taking photos of the female on the blue towel and asking where is  Leonard II? Leonard II is HUGE and black, about 5 to 6 inches . Leonard and Freddy have been sharing the bathing suit for about 10 days.

I talked to Lizzie the II or III and Freddy II, assured them I meant no harm, asked Freddy II if he and his pals could keep the Croaks down to a low roar and I went inside. At noon, I went to see who was HOME and screamed to Bob...

A Curly Tail Anole, I have never seen one, BOB says WHAT? I say Holly posted one on FB and said she had never seen one. She lives directly across the state of FL from us and is a friend I worked with for years. She and her husband are wildlife photographers. Now we have one... (a curly tail, not a wildlife photographer.)

I ran in the house and grabbed the camera and fussed about the sun in the wrong direction. Then I got these using the flash and scared Curly to death and he dove inside the condo. NO MORE PICS.

Came in to investigoogle and OH NO.... Curly Tails are PREDATORS and EAT brown anoles. I will spare you the photo I found on line.
Now I wonder if Leonard Jr is dead and gone and been cannibalized... More Soon

Prior Post of FREDDY

hope you can see the curly tail... Curly the predator. YIKES  HA HA ONLY in Florida and ON MadSnapper.... Rosy, does this fit in your Nature Friday????


Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Salt and Pepper!


The best defense against pepper spray is A salt rifle.

Sorry, its been a while since I went punning for you...

INFOMERCIAL from ME. 
While out at breakfast with my TOPS friends, Rosemary grabbed the salt and pepper shakers and said Watch This.
She demonstrated the perfect way to pepper your eggs. Hold them bottom to bottom and gently turn the salt shaker round and round touching the bottom of the upside down pepper shaker.
It's just like the fancy pepper mills. 
Enjoy!


Tuesday, May 14, 2019

SanVanna and the New Stove


I try to keep up my 'modeling' skills just in case Vanna White retires. How come she never looks silly....  and why do I always look up? the camera is sitting on the counter.
                              Please Ignore Water Wings When Commenting..

Oh Crepe! I forgot to open the door to the oven so I could use the pun... Open Range! heh heh heh


The good thing about these jeggins is IF I EVER went out on a boat and it was sinking, I could take them off and wave for help. How Could they Miss them? Or the site of me without them?

Sunshine pointing out the tropical jeggins with no help from me the poor photographer. Jeggin Selfies are IN. ha ha

Monday, May 13, 2019

That's Not All She Wrote


While digging through a JUNK drawer, I found the pen you see above. The SL stands for Staff Leasing, which is the company I retired from in 2006. About this pen. IT STILL WRITES and write perfectly. The box I found on internet. The Cross Pen and Mechanical Pencil set was an award for a job well done in 1994. I gave the pencil to a friend who would use it and kept the pen. I have never replaced the cartridge and can't believe it still writes.  This was before INTERNET and we USED a pen to write with at work.
I ran a search for Pen Puns and laughed myself silly. Jump on over to Jive Jokes and laugh like I did. below are two that I found there.

That's All She Wrote.... heh heh heh...…….. see you tomorrow..... I hope. 

Sunday, May 12, 2019

Mothers Day Memories

My Mother, Mary Lucille Overby McCall- 1925-1990

I snitched these questions from Myra's Post HERE.. thank you Myra.

Where did your mom grow up? My mother grew up in Palmetto, Florida. 2 miles from the home I have lived in the past 30 years. She was born in the hospital  2 miles from my home and played in the water above that is at our beach. She dug clams and caught crabs and fished with my grandfather in the same waters  I wade in.

Tell us about her siblings, if she has/had any.  Mother had one sister, Patricia. this makes her my favorite aunt on Mothers side of the family. I loved her like a sister, she was 9 years older than me, and when she was in her teens, she took me with her and her friends to the movies. I felt so grown up. I was in her wedding as flower girl and was instantly in love with her Navy Uniform Clad new hubby. While standing in the receiving line, I peaked around her and looked up at her new hubby and  asked her if I could marry him to, when I grew up. She saved my life many times when I did stupid things. NEVER TO BE TOLD HERE.

What is ONE of your favorite memories, you can share with us of your mom. The most fun we ever had at her expense, was the year she and my brothers wife both purchased not ONE but THREE identical presents for each other.   They were so shocked as they opened gifts under the tree and each time it was the same gift.  it seems, they went shopping together and each while trying to decide waht to buy for the other, would ask "do you like this" oh yes! they both went back later to buy the infamous 3 identical gifts.   the Joke was... neither of them really wanted any of the 3 items.

A glass cake dish, a brass plant stand and now I can't remember the 3rd item.



Saturday, May 11, 2019

GE what a surprise


I bought myself a surprise! My old range was 30 years old, still worked but the burners coils were not right. One did the outside only, the other did the inside only and one did nothing. Since I despise cooking and use the oven about 3 times a year I went bottom line. $700.00 was the price but on Scratch N Dent for 397.00.... woo hoo. all I needed was a 2 burner hot plate and almost put a sheet of plywood on top of the old stove and put a hot plate on top... Since I use the kitchen to take selfies of my self I would have been embarrassed for you to see that. I am Kind of Embarrassed to admit to scratch n dent shopping. but here I AM tell ALL.

I got the controls on the front and not the top because when Bob Cooks His Breakfast he gets Grease on everything. Think Bacon Fat on the controls. One thing I did not notice, is it has NO CLOCK. there are 3 others in the kitchen but I can't remember to LOOK at them. I keep staring at the top right corner of the BIG WHITE TOP that JUMPS out at me every time I walk in the kitchen.  The other one had a black glass door and black glass on the top... All White Glare! YAY

UPDATE after a ton of comments about gas cooking. this stove is Electric, which is all I have ever used except for a 3 months of horror burning everything I cooked on gas back in 1970.
the things that look like pilot lights are sensors to shut it down if I forget to leave it to long and it gets to hot.

Friday, May 10, 2019

Bottom of The Barrel Nature


Literally this is the Bottom Of The Barrel, the Rain barrels is empty... We need rain....


Double Barrel, because I could

Mama climbed out of her bucket and sat on the edge of the empty barrel for about an hour. While I was snapping this photo Sunday morning. she fell to the ground and died. No idea why. Lack of rainwater we think.
RIP sweet Mama... I will miss you...