Saturday Update Snapper,Bob,Beau

7 weeks, since Bob stopped walking on 3/27, and can only walk by using a Walker, only point a to point B, using his upper body strength to do that. While in hospital his BP was lower than usual, THEY said because he was in bed, and at home it continues until yesterday it was 110/50 and way to low. 

Its been 9 days, 9 of the Longest Days of My Life, since I told you this blog is closed temporarily. 

No change, still the same as the March 28th, when he woke up unable to walk unassisted.

home from hospital a week now, still the same even with 5 days with 3 nurse, 3 therapist visits,  none of which has changed his condition at all. We tried to cancel nurses and have only therapists, nope, he needs a nurse. Memory and not walking. OT comes today with plans for making bathrooms safe for him, not safe for our savings.  I am still standing, but do a lot of crying. 

a photo is worth a thousand words, The blood thinner, Chain Saw Massacre several times ✅ foot prints in red a trail from bath to sofa ✅ I did not cry as I sprayed the trusting bottle of peroxide even though tears have been common for the past week.

Beau had an ear infection, he is doing great, Vet let me order drops by email and I just picked them up. 

I cut my hair All By Myself! I even did the back,

I asked Bob to take a photo of the back, he ended up with 4 photos, 3 of his walker and one of his finger over the lens. We laughed long and hard.

Exhaustion Is My Middle Name. While seeking my cousins wisdom by phone, she said Just order your groceries, I order all of mine. She said she loves Walmart delivery.

Sunday morning I went to the Walmart app in my phone, at 6 am, signed up for Walmart +, for price of 98 per year, free shipping and free  delivery from store.  I picked a delivery time of 11 to 1, same day delivery, with instructions to leave on front porch. Tip is added and paid for with groceries.

Sunday 11:40 AM, my First Delivery from Walmart

 Bob is on the throne, 

my hands are buried in the meatloaf mix, 

I hear a car door slam in driveway

I lift pot of green beans off burner, leaving burner on

peer out window at driveway, delivery girl is getting in car.

I open door and the entire porch floor is covered in bags, and bottles of pool chemicals

(I did not specify leave on bench)

while saying, Beau get back, Beau get back,

I hear shouting from the throne, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

over my head the fire alarm starts SHRIEKING!

The throne voice shouts over and over, turn it off! Get a ladder! (he knows he can reach it but I can't)

I don't answer because I am trying to turn it off with my dads CANE.

I shriek, I AM TRYING! SHUT UP!

Throne shouts, STOP IT STOP IT

I SHOUT I AM TRYING while standing on foot stool trying to reach over my head without falling and Beau is whirling in circles around the stool because the shrieking is hurting his ears.

I realize the reason it did not turn off is the BURNER IS STILL ON PUTTING OUT HEAT. 

I step carefully down from the stool, race to kitchen, turn off burner and back to the stool and The Quiet Returns and at that moment the 12 noon Cell Alarm goes off playing a song to warn me to TAKE MY VITAMINS.

Shouting from throne changes to The Phone Is Ringing, I turn it off and it changes to

Who was that, what is going on.

Walmart brought the groceries. What Groceries? He has forgotten I ordered them.

I get him up and out and down on the sofa and say calmly, Lunch will be late,  no really, I did say it calmly while we laughed and laughed at the comedy of errors our life has become.

Bob's lunch plate was late, I call it that because I can eat the potatoes and about 6 beans and the pickled beets with my rice pasta.

My apologies for posting, and not reading yours posts, but it took me 3 days to type this. I still snap photos of any/all things for just in case I return to blogging.

Barbie Pink?

 

If you live in the USA, you will by now know what Barbie Pink is! 

If not, you will by the end of this post.  

I have never been a PINK Girl/teen/woman/senior. Browsing in WM for a 100% cotton gown, I found this pink one, purchased it and came home to model for Bob and said, 

what do you think? Its Barbie pink.

He said, I like it, you look good in pink. I have never liked pink, but I like this.

I said everything in the store is now Barbie Pink! 

He said what is Barbie Pink?  He had no clue who Barbie was in the past or is in the present. The thing is, a few nights ago we watched the Oscar Awards and the Barbie movie had 8 nominations AND I watched Ryan Gosling Ken Dance TWICE, click on twice to see it as many times as you would like.

Bob even came in the computer room when he heard the music and said what are you watching?

I answer the Ken Dance from Barbie. He left and had no clue what I was watching.

He is still unaware that Barbie the Movie has taken over the USA. He does know who Taylor Swift is because he grumps every time she is on TV screen.

Imagine my surprise when I found Barbie Pink Glass Flamingos in Home Depot Garden shop.

I wanted them but Just said No.. they are solar lights. And now I know of 2 things I like in 

Barbie Pink. I say Barbie Pink because Flamingo Pink is not this color. 

I have not seen the movie but I have watched the trailer which did not make me want to watch the movie, but I may have watched the Ken Dance a third time. I love dancing and dancers.

Barbi Trailer Here or below. Yes David, I know you don't want to see it. 😍😉💞😍❣️

Saturday Shopper Clothing

My WM friend and I created by AI

All of you, are my dear E-Friends. I have Shopper-Friends at Wal-Mart. Our WM store opens at 6 AM every day. On Saturday at 6 AM I am standing in front of the door and the second it opens I am IN. I have 4 shoppers and 4 employees that I see every Saturday. We chat! 

This is my Away from Bob Home time. 

 I love to talk; I write like I talk, you know, this!  I might need a support group for addictive talking.

I forgot Bob's breakfast sausage this past Saturday. My errand list included picking up prescriptions at Publix. I rarely buy food there because it is the highest price in town. Having talked with my Swedish E-friend about nondairy yogurt, I stood staring at 8 thousand yogurts, trying to find one. I heard a voice say, "this is not Walmart!" and turned to find my Wal-Mart shopper friend standing there. 

We chatted for a good 15 minutes, really good. We were on a roll. She is a tiny, very attractive 60ish Vietnamese lady. I am always shocked to find that we live almost identical lives, our hubbies are the same, dogs the same, we share a lot of things the same. As we said our goodbyes, see you Saturday and I walked to the check out, I suddenly had a Thought!

OH no! I had on my Saturday Shopping Clothes. I wear the same thing every week. The shirt is WARM for AC, the leggins have 2 pockets. 

I thought SHE sees this outfit every week. She always has on different clothes.

I told to Bob when I came home and said I am mortified. She thinks I have no clothes but these. 

He said, I am sure she did not even notice.

I said I AM Sure she Did! Remember the PA from the doctor's office that we used to see every Saturday shopping way back when you would shop with me? 

What do you remember about her. Do you remember how we discussed if she had any other clothes?

Oh! he says. That was different! 

WHAT? we talked about it every week when we saw her, even when we got home!

. She wore a similar out fit to this.

She did NOT look like this. I wish I looked Like This, and I would wear it to. Every Saturday!

do you notice what others are wearing? saying? doing? how they shop? do you watch the young men that are shopping for themselves. Watch their basket contents, not the men? HEH HEH

If you saw me once a week would you notice i always had on the same clothes?

AI and I creation

Gobsmacked Again

 

Today, Sept 7, 2022, Bob picked up the coffee pot to pour his 2nd cup and said:

"Did you stop making a full pot of coffee?'

"Yes, I went to 10 cups the last day of July, which was when I wrote the check to Red Dog for the new roof. I told you then I was doing it, I told you a few weeks later, we were saving a pot a week, that the container of coffee is lasting longer, which means a savings of 52 pots a year and how much money that is. I also said, I know longer pour coffee down the drain, that drinking less coffee is helping my stomach."

He replied, "Is that a yes?" 

"You are just like my mother, she could not say a simple answer, had to run on and on until she forgot what she was saying."

I am taking bets; he could not tell me one word of what I said 

and will not remember 

I said yes, I make less coffee. 

He has picked up that coffee pot 38 times since I cut back.

Why Today??? 

I decided to look for a coffee cup to put on this post, typing in the search bar the words coffee cup, I was totally Gobsmacked by the fact I have posted about coffee cups, since 

2009,

EIGHTY-ONE TIMES.

I found 14 labels for Coffee, 13 Labels for Coffee Mugs, 4 Labels for Coffee Pot.

that is 32 labels out of 81 posts. Which means I missed labels on more than half the posts.

This could be a good thing because I may have repeated myself a few times.

 

The first Coffee Cup post was in 2009.

I found posts that said almost the same things I said yesterday and last month and last year.

I also found that most of the coffee posts mentioned Memory Problems, including Microwaving an empty coffee cup, twice in one morning.

Which means I have been posting about memory problems for 13 years. 

I am now pondering if the memory problems started when I started Blogging but there is no way o find out because I can't remember, and there is no record.

In the old post about senior memory, 16 comments said they were suffering the same thing.

Last but not least I want to thank everyone who commented on my Missing coffee post

and the Missing flashlight post, which were the two posts before this one.

Brian, for Thankful Thursday, I am thankful for all of you who make me laugh and read my nonsense.

Your comments made me laugh and smile and read out loud to Bob.

Seems all of us are doing the same things and I feel so much better, 13 years later and I am still doing the same crazy things and so are YOU...

R U Smtr Thn A Cll Phn?

This is a post from 2012. I stumbled on it and wow, have I changed in 10 years. I am going to try something I have never done before. I am in the OLD post and changing the date to Thursday. Hope it works.  Greetings from a post from the past. I HOPE.

If you can read the title to this post, R U Smtr Thn A Cll Phn....... You MAY be smarter than a cell phone....

Above collage, the tiny little phone in my hand, has ridden in my car for 7 years. A Tracfone that is for "Dial Out for ER Use Only!"  This includes calling the Cable provider when my house phone goes out.  I bought 50 minutes per month for 10.99 for 7 years. when I transferred HA HA HO HO the minutes I had 2023 minutes. You can tell by that it is rarely used. I don't want/need/desire a cell phone since I rarely talk to anyone. It was bought for safety on my commute to work ONLY.

The Dial Out for ER when my house phone went out last month was a garbled, underwater conversation. Seems after only 7 years of riding in a 125 degree car, the battery went bad and a new one cost more than 3 new phones.

I dash to Wal-Mart for a new phone. YIKES! they have no plain old simple old dial out only phone. After extended information from the manager of the phone dept, she helps me decide on this flip phone for idiot seniors for only 14.88. Since she is a Senior and says She Has One and Loves it. I buy it. Let the fun begin

The USELESS booklet, tells me it will send/receive text. So now I can text my Cable Guy to say the cable is out.

 All I Want is to Dial Out or Answer!

 I need help so Under the list I find, IDIOT SENIOR instructions that say IF you need HELP,  go to the website and there I have to transfer my number, my minutes (this took over and hour since when I finally completed the online transfer it says If you do not agree with 1100 minutes transfer, call this number.

 I call this number. No Speaka De English,  I can't understand a word, well maybe 3 words.

She is losing patience with me (color ME Calm!)

 and says in a HUFFY voice,  ALL I CAN TRANSFER IS 1100 minutes.

 and no matter how many times I said to her, that is what is says on the web site, it said to call you if I don't agree. I don't agree. 

After a while I snapped, JUST ACTIVATE the PHONE.

Next day I call and get a different person and within 5 minutes she had downloaded my other 1200 minutes. (color me HAPPY)


 I went to enter 15 ER phone numbers and HAD NO CLUE how, there was a little NIFTY  Interactive site (see above photo)with a picture of my phone and it said 

For Interactive, CLICK MY BUTTONS... I did click the buttons and after 40 to 50 clicks I GOT IT.

PLUS... the whole point of this story is They Did CLICK MY BUTTONS and I am Not Smarter than a Cell phone.

Now I Know, Thus You Know

Have you ever asked yourself these questions?

Frustrated, tired, can't think properly, forgetful. Turning on wrong burners, setting kitchens on fire. On an on... then I received a news letter from Web MD with the article titled, What to expect in your 70's.

I am well past 70, only 5 months from 78. 

Quick summary of what I learned. Well, just delete Quick.  We know I am not.

 Life in your 70's, not in THE 70's, YOUR 70's.

 Some changes in your 70s are universal, 

Experts sometimes call this “pure aging.” 

Shifts happen, 😋

If we live long enough, 😋

Your Mind! 

The brain shrinks, signals from different areas to your brain, Slow Down, multitask is harder, 

 attention span gets shorter.

Your Heart

After 70 your heart can’t beat as fast during exercise or when you’re stressed. 

The heart walls get thicker, valves get stiffer. Blood may not flow through as efficiently. 

The heart’s electrical system may start to glitch, which can cause an irregular heartbeat. 

Plaque builds in veins.  (plagues come and stay)

Your Skin

Age spots and wrinkles appear. Skin bruises more, you sweat less.

Skin dries, feels like paper. Itchy, easily irritated.

Nutrition

Your metabolism slows

.We gain or spread out, we don't drink enough water because the body doesn't tell us we are thirsty.

 1 in 4 women -- and some men, too -- over 65 have osteoporosis, a bone-thinning disease. Your muscles get weaker, and the tendons -- which connect muscles to your skeleton -- get stiffer. 

(sit for and hour and try to get up)

We have a decrease in strength, flexibility.

 In your 70's, you might lose an inch or two off your height as disks in your back flatten. .

(2 of my inches are GONE)

Your Sleep

you either sleep to much, or not at all, or sleep with many wakeups. Sleep patterns change.

Your Immune System

Your body’s defenses lose a step in your 70s, which leaves you more vulnerable to illness. 

Vaccines don’t work as well as they once did for you, we are more susceptible to infection and viruses

Your Digestive System

Your stomach lining is more fragile. your digestive system doesn't move the food as well as it did.

Constipation comes, or the opposite.

 Urinary Tract

Your bladder can’t hold as much as it once did, and your muscles that support it lose strength. 

more trips to the bathroom or not enough trips.

(leakage happens)

Your Vision

Your pupils react more slowly to changes in light

eye muscles weaken

it takes more time for eyes to adjust from bright to dark or vice versa

fine details are to to see because there are fewer cells to send messages to your brain that tells it what to do

lens thicken, makes it harder to see in dim lighting, colors are less vibrant.

Your Ears

certain sounds can't be heard

hard to understand what others are saying. 

Background noise also can interfere more with your conversations. 

For details and answers got to WebMD HERE

Depressed yet? Hang in there. I have always said humans have expiration dates, just like merchandise and products... Now I know MINE is rapidly approaching since Every single one of the above mentions I HAVE in my 70's. (I will cancel WebMd news letters before I reach 80.

There is nothing wrong with me, I am just IN MY 70's!
I AM NORMAL! 😎

UPDATE AFTER 9 COMMENTS.

This is not scary, it is comforting to me. When I read it, I thought so I am not alone, this is supposed to happen, I am not going crazy or getting ill. 

Conversation Where I can Find it

Leaving for our walk, we discussed in depth the house of 7 cars, now 4, had hung 7 throw rugs out on the porch railing. the point was trying to decide if they were people rugs or dog rugs, and why they were on the rail not on the line in the backyard.

Next we discussed where the 2 rabbits that lived in the 2 trucks and 1 car house. were they eaten? given away or are they locked in cages.

Bob ranted about the SAME thing he Rants about every single day we walk, which is 365 days a year.

 The fact the man has 2 trucks, 1 van and a huge boat in his front yard. he then discusses that 20 years ago, the woman who is dead now, reported Bob for having a small boat in the driveway and he had to sell it.

 I KID YOU NOT, every day is groundhog day.

I came home and gave him this report from my ALONE walk with no one talk to.

I step in the door and the first thing out of my mouth is.......

"The 20 somethings that live in the brown house and never speak, came up behind me with their dog, and did not move over or warn me they were there."

"I turned to look at the house that burned because 2 dogs barked from there and when I looked over my shoulder to make sure I was safe from the crazy drivers, I  was right in the faces of the couple that NEVER speaks."

"Maybe they hate old people."

"You know, the house that burned?  there are 2 cars and 2 young people that look to be barely out of their teens, have moved in the house that is not finished yet. I forgot to tell you that about 2 weeks ago

the first time I saw the green jeep there, I saw a Boy come  outside in his PJ's shorts, wet a wash cloth at the outside faucet and go back in the house.  I think they might be grandkids, maybe house sitting or maybe they are camped out in there. No electric, the commones are sitting in the garage. How can they live there like that?

Guess what Bob said????   

NOTHING! AT! ALL!

 I said Well?? 

He said  WHAT!!!! 

I said NEVERMIND..... 

He said What did you say???   I said REALLY????

Pandemic Entertainment FFF with Yam

Joining Final Friday Fiction with Wild Yam, for the Rules if you want to participate, go HERE

Pandemic Entertainment by MadSnapper

 Our living space includes one big room, living and kitchen, the entire middle of the house. If we are awake we are in that area.

The 108 inch Window frames the house accross the street.

About a year ago, we watched 4 adults move in. 3 months later 2 more adults moved in. 

The day they moved in we spent the entire day watching, it was better than TV. First they took a 70's firebird off the back of a trailer.

What a hoot! They tried and tried again and again to back the trailer up to the carport. finally left it sideways, the girl gets in the car while it is ON the trailer, the two guys push it down, while she guides. 

We were splitting our sides. then they pushed it backwards into the carport. We surmised it must not run because other than the day 6 weeks later when they pushed it out of one side and into the other side and covered with a tarp, it remains undriven.

The first move was not much to watch, the 2nd move in I spent the entire day telling bob what they had moved in or OUT. 

I actually counted out loud to Bob, each drum part they took off and in the house. And described it.

Peering out the bedroom window, I would shout, they just took and entire drum set inside. Now they are taking 2 more drums, Bob they just took 2 more, they don't match.

He answers where are they putting all this stuff. the house is only 1850 sq feet.

What about the noise all cooped up with a drumer???

We call the house, The Parking Lot.  Six Adults, Seven Cars.

we call the people Mom and Dad, Big Man, Big girl, Small man, small girl.

We have surmised they are family because the girls look just alike except for size. thus the Big and Small and both girls look just like Mom. By girls, I mean young, like mid 30's. Young compared to us

PLEASE, keep in mind while judging this post, we have been locked down

 by Pandemic we have Zero to talk about.

2 weeks ago, Big and Big came home in a convertible, a brand new Camaro. With the top down.. LONG discussion on which of the cars was missing and was traded. 

Imagine our shock when instead of 6 cars there were now 7.

I quickly checked the price of a new Carmaro! Wow

Listen to a FEW of our MANY comments...

the Camaro just came home, that makes 6 cars in the lot.

The Audi just left, there are only 4 cars across the street.

The big guy in the red car, just came home with take out. No wait, she has a bag to. How do they afford to eat nothing but takeout when the rent on the house is 1800.00 a month?

Well, they have 6 people paying rent together! How do they live shut inside with the windows all closed and only 2 people who sometimes go to work?

Have you ever seen them bring grocery bags in the in the house? 

How do 6 adults live together in a 3 bedroom house? they never go outside. I saw 2 dogs twice, so when do the dogs go out to pee? they are boxers, big dogs, I feel bad for them.

Maybe the dogs aren't there now, haven't seen them since the first week. 

No, they are there I hear them bark sometimes

Maybe they take them in the back yard out the back door. There is no fence, they must use the leash, the only times i saw them they were on leash.

Look, bob, they got a new lawn mower, its bright green, and makes no noise. I can't even hear it.

Does it have a power cord?

No, but no sound and they are cutting the weeds.

Then it is one of those rechargeable ones. I saw it on TV, it comes with 2 other things, a set, they are all rechargeable. Plug a thing in the wall and recharges all of it.

Well, that is what they got, because now the big girl is out with a bright green car wash power sprayer. I bet That's what came in the Amazon truck yesterday. Must be the set because its the same color...

The Fedex truck and Amazon trucks come almost every day. Where are they putting all this stuff with 6 people in the house?

Only two of them work, so who pays for all this?

Yeah, and what do they do all day, shut in that house. The only time a car leaves is to pick up dinner.

Bob, the carpet cleaning truck is back, this makes 4 times in a year.

Probably from the dogs messing in the house since they never go outside.

This house is what keeps our conversations going and is better entertainment than cable TV... 

All this from our living room window.....I wonder what a set of binoculars cost??????? 

And NO they don't spend their time talking about us because they never open their curtains.

Final Friday Fiction 😁😁😁and this is NOT Fiction.

Miscellaneous Moments!

MISC #1

 Bob and I were walking Beau, We met our neighbor John who loves to talk as much as I do. Most of the time we meet going opposite ways, chat and move on.

On this day we met at the 4 way stop, and ended up walking along together. John was against the left curb, Bob against the right curb, holding Beaus leash, I was in the middle of the street.

We were managing the social distance thing, but there was a problem for me. 

Both John and Bob have extreme hearing problems.  As we walked John was talking up a storm in my left ear, Bob doing the same in my right ear.  

Neither of them Knew the other was talking, 

I was dying with laughter trying to carry on two conversations with them about different subjects.

Think stereo system with sound from each speaker playing a different song....😛😛😛

I AM THANKFUL I CAN HEAR and TALK

Misc #2
My oatmeal is on a plate. the small part if for Beau the Beautiful Canine. Mine has walnuts and rasins, his does not. I use the plate to make it cool faster. I feed it to him off the end of my finger.
He sucks it off like a baby taking a bottle.

I AM THANKFUL WE FOUND BEAU

Misc #3

 Blogger TIP.

If you are creating a post in blogger,  and the silly thing keeps doing double spaces and you want single space,  look to your left, and the drop box that says Paragraph, change that to normal. It will then behave itself. 

No, it will not stay that way, sometimes it stays and sometimes NOT. This IS Blogger...

I AM THANKFUL I FOUND BLOGGER AND ALL OF YOU....

The House That Burned

About 6 months ago, the house below, had a kitchen fire, it destroyed the roof and 1/2 the house. It has been sitting there for months causing much conversation is to what they would do, and why it sat there so long.

Last week we turned the corner and this is what we saw.

They took it down to three walls..

they are busy framing it today, Jan 17. 

I said to Bob, we need to replace the fire extinguisher that is in the kitchen cabinet. It might be 10 years old.

He said, we have a fire extinguisher ? Why?

OMG OMD OMC

I said Can You Say KITCHEN FIRE???????

they did a little framing and added a room that wasn't there.

on the 22 and on the 25 they started a new roof.

The old roof was flat, this one is not.

Seems they are building a new home. Here we have a law you can not tear a house down and rebuild on the lost without a HUGE hassle. If you leave three walls standing you can do whatever you want on the same foot print and even add.

We wait...

Wonder why the builders look at me like I am crazy when I walk by every day and stop and stare and sometimes SNAP

I should stop and tell them, after we saw the house burned, I bought a new fire extingquiser for the kitchen. When I brought it in the house, Bob said, why did you buy that?

Well Duh! can you say KITCHEN FIRE burned the neighbors house down??? they were old like we are . Forgetful! Do you remember we are forgetful? Do you remember the house fire?

Charge! Charged % Charging

 

Continued from Dongles continued

This post has been hanging out in drafts since Jan

I knew I saved it for a reason

 January 10th, I charged on my charge at Amazon, this charging station. 

I can now charge 7 devices at one time on my kitchen counter.

It has 3 power outlets, and 4 USB ports that charge.

The above pics were taken while setting it up. the lower right is a 3 power extension cord, only 20 inches of cord. I used it to put behind the toaster oven for more outlets.

I plugged 3 chargers that go in the wall into it and created 7

I did not buy these but gathered from different places in the house.

BTW I have one in the bathroom wall that stays there for emergency use of cell or kindle that are not fully charge

Above is what the counter looks like today

the tiny extension cord is now hanging from the wall next to my rocker
the short cord, 20 inches brought to mind way back 3 years ago my conversation with an employee that said They Don't Make Short Cords, prior post HERE

which is the port that the Bonsai tree is plugged in so I don't have to use batteries. also gives me an extra charging port by the rocker in case I forget to charge the phone.
Of course The Op Pack made a comment about the wires and now they are The Chronicle of Woes, not WOOS because she sent me the link to THIS and I am fighting the impulse as I type this

Will it ever end????

Wordy Wed - UPDATES!!!

 

My phone rang, I could not answer it, Bob was yelling WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT THING?Note: I have the ringer as loud as it will go to be able to hear it.

I was yelling at Bob,  STOP yelling at me, while screaming I AM TRYING TO ANWSER IT and IT WILL NOT LET ME..   

 there is more, just imagine it ... loudly.

MY PHONE RINGS,  SAME screaming conversation again only 20 minutes later.

 @$%^$ Spammers!  I MUTE THE PHONE SO IT CAN"T RING and explain quietly HA HA to Bob the phone worked fine yesterday..  today it will not answer when I tap or swipe.

I have had the phone 6 months, to answer the Cell, I had 2 choices, tap it, or swipe to the right. 

NOTHING happens and  it rings 7 times. 

I tried to find some where to make it ring 2 times or anything less than 7. I don't want to mute it because I can't hear the text dings or FB dings or Messenger dings. 

Dings are important to me

No one calls me on it, but the spammers were driving me crazy.

I said Hey Google, I can't answer my Samsung a10e phone. 

I weed my way through tons of questions like mine and pick the one close to what is happening.

I  can't read it on phone and follow instructios.

I sit in the rocker with my lap top and the phone and did the google search on laptop because it is MUCH easier to read.

The simple answer after digging around was Samsung changed the way to answer in an update WITH OUT TELLING US! they removed the swipe to the right and the TAP, which is the easiest way to answer.

Now I must answer by swiping UP, only Straight UP, swipe NORTH it says or you may use the UP sound button to answer and tone on button to end.

Heaven help the people on this earth who don't know North from South. My son once asked me for directions, back before cell phones. I said go south on 34th street, until you get to 57th ave and turn East and go South about 30 miles. His answer was is south towards the skyway or away from the skyway.

The phone should say you must swipe NORTH only or swipe away from the skyway

Am I crazy or are they? Couldn't they just send me a text warning me the update will change the way to answer? I mean what if it was govt calling to tell me I am on the list for my Covid 19 shot? I might die before I could answer the phone.

Shave it! BTW Happy Birthday Bob

Age 82

HE NEVER AGES! 

Happy 84th Birthday Bob

 I am thinking of making Bob shave his beard. I have never seen him without it. He has had it for 50 years and never shaved it... 

The reason I want him to shave it????   I think the reason he never ages, is the beard hides the WRINKLES!  How do we know what is under there, will he look OLDER?

 I have no way to hide my wrinkles.  And now that I mentioned that, I may have to start shaving.

It seems I have 7 HUGE stiff white hairs on my chinny chin chin.... I cut them off with scissors and they grow faster and get longer...

Of course I can put off the shaving thing until they set us free from the dreaded MASK.. 

it sure covers the brown spots and stiff hairs and wrinkles. It also makes me crazy trying to talk through it and understand others talking through it...  I long for a conversation with non mask wearing people.

But I don't have to worry about beards or wrinkles for now. I want to make my eyes look better, despite the droopy hooded thing going on. 

Now if only I could find mascara that I am not allergic to.... if i paint up the eyes they get red rimmed and runny....... that part shows above the mask and says LOOK isn't she a mess.

5 Bloviators and counting

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BLOVIATORS!!!!

This past Thursday there were 5 bloviators in the lobby of the Surgical Clinic. Bob and I waited for his name to be called. A man came in the door, wandered around, started back out the door, spied Bob and froze, staring at him for long seconds, he pushed the door open, backed up letting it close, and stood staring at Bob.
He stepped over to where we sat and said  "I'm sorry for staring but you look so much like my friend Harry, I thought you were him."
I laughed and said he has many look a-likes here...and shared the story of the woman who jumped in Bob's face as we walked into Wal-Mart one morning. She shook her finger at him and raked him over the coals for delivering her washer and dryer and not taking the old ones with him. She ranted and carried on even when Bob said he did not know her and The Bloviator Set Her Straight.

Anyhoo… that was the first bloviator that we met that day. He sat down and we talked until the air was blue with words. He stood up and said I have to go walk around, can't sit for long and as he walked out, Bob said to me  "he talks more than you do".

Impossible I said. And explained at length I am a Chatty Cathy and he was a Chatty Carl and I will spare you that story.
they called Bob back and in walked another Chatty Cathy and a Chatty Carl together. The chose to sit facing me, and our knees almost touched.
Talk about Blue Air from words flying. The 3 of us talked over and under and on top of each other.

I LOVED EVERY MINUTE... I could go on and tell you what we talked about but, since it was over an hour, I will spare you. Bob was NOT sad he missed it. Of course I gave him the Run Down on every word he missed. He was a captive audience and I was driving. What could he do?

Are you a chatty person? Do you LOVE to talk to strangers? do you repeat conversations you had to other people?


I did an image google search for bloviators and OH WOW! Look WHAT I FOUND HERE I searched for my photo and could not find it... but we all KNOW I should be there.

Off The Wall

This framed photo of daddy, has hung in our hall, next to the door, since 1993. Below it hung this Gold Four Leaf Clover. A gift from our neighbor Bridgette, fresh from Ireland, with the sweetest lilt in her voice. A wedding gift in 1985, when I came to live in Bob's Home.
           These words are engraved on the back of it.

One leaf is for hope,

And one is for Faith.

And one is for love, you know,

And God put another in for luck.

Last Saturday, I heard a CRASH! Bob was mopping the ceramic tiled hall, and after 1560 times of mopping that hall, the mop handle hit Daddy's frame and OFF THE WALL it went and into 87 million tiny slivers of glass.  (capital letters means loud)

I said "ARE YOU OK? WHAT WAS THAT?" and came running to see him standing barefoot in glass.

He said "STAY BACK, I CAN GET IT! And starts to walk. 

I scream NO, don't move, let me get your shoes, I HAVE TO GET MY SHOES ON FIRST?

He said "I am FINE. I CAN GET IT!  

by this time I am back with his shoes in my hand and mine on my feet, with broom and tiny handheld Vac.

He say "YOU DON"T NEED THAT! I can pick it up!

   I said "YOU DON"T WANT ME TO GET GLASS IN MY FEET" WE NEED THE VAC! What if Big Boy gets glass in his paw?

He says "ITS ONLY UNDER THE FRAME!"

I say "ARE YOU CRAZY?" there are tiny slivers all over the hall, I can see then shining in the light.  

There may have been more SAID, and there may have been fire coming out of our eyes, we are both KNOWN for Drama, when Drama happens.

No feet were harmed by glass, furry or skinned.

The Question is How could this happen with a Lucky Four Leaf Clover on the wall? And after one thousand, five hundred and sixty mopping's?

He has no clue how he did it. Did the Luck where off? Should I hang the photo back up? 

Does it look funny with just the clover there alone?  

So much to ponder. Does 18 carat gold plated mean it is worth something? 

If so would it be bad luck to sell it on ebay?

 For Now the Lucky Clover Hangs out in the hall Alone!

Mayo or No Mayo?

While jumping up and down exercising/chatting in the pool with my friends Jackie and Patsy, as we do five days a week, I said I could eat Mayo with a spoon. Not out of the blue mind you. Patsy is a KOP, Keep off Pounds sensibly, and the person who directed me to TOPS 3 years ago.

The comment fit the conversation we were having. Discussing healthy vs unhealthy foods.

I said I love mayonnaise on bread, crackers, burgers, sandwiches. Just give me a slice of WHITE bread and a jar of Mayo... or a box of crackers and a jar of mayo.

Patsy said "I can't remember when I last ate Mayonnaise. In fact I have never had  jar of it in my home, not even as a child"

WHAT?

I would have fainted dead on the floor at this comment but, we WERE in the pool.

What do you put in deviled eggs, potato salad, chicken salad, ham salad, bacon sandwich, TOMATO sandwich?
Her answer was MUSTARD? OMW!!! I put mayo AND mustard in eggs, potato salad or hotdogs.

Forget healthy, I know it is NOT but  lets hear from all of you?

Mayo or No Mayo? tell me please?
 Do you eat Mayonnaise?
What is your favorite brand? I am Blue Plate since birth. But there are a zillion brands, click HERE to see the brands, and this has to mean a lot of people eat Mayo or there would not be a zillion brands.

Bloviator?

Yes, LC, it is a word

My friend Rose, of Time Stand Still, loves to go back in time and read under the labels conversation or Bob, which is  the conversations between the two of us.

She says they make her laugh.  Last week she emailed and said she needed cheering up, and went to my post from 5 years ago, to re-read Bloviator.

Bloviator prior post here 

I had been awaiting in inspiration for a new header, Thank You Rose.

In 2009, I named the blog MadSnapper because I took 87 million photos of any and all things. 

Over the years my blog evolved into talking about the banal, mundane, humdrum, day-to-day life I lead.

From this day forward, I will be known as MadSnapper AKA Bloviator.

Evidently I write the same as I TALK!

I have been told by others:

 if I worked outside my tongue would get burned.

that I have a black belt in conversation

and my husband was asked if his wife was the one that talks a lot ,by the life guard at the YMCA.

I am NOT fluent in Silence!

A few 😁 may have thought but not said, You sound better with your mouth closed.

If the Bloviator fits...………...😎

Waiting on a Friend

I drove a friend to her doctors appointment and while waiting on her, just happened to snap a few shots with my phone.

The ceiling was 2 floors high, the offices did not go all the way to the ceiling. With the conversations I overheard from the people inside those offices, I am now wondering if the exam rooms had ceilings. This is a Women's Resource Building, as in GYN... hummm.
One conversation was with the IT guy/gal...

Something like this. I came in and booted up my compuer and NOTHING, just a screen, then it did strange things and POOF! all of it was gone. there was more but I can't remember. It was hilarious. I have been on the end of the person calling IT and trying to explain to the geeks what the computer is doing or not doing.  Just more free entertainment. I did not even have to read in my kindle.

The lime green chair was Bright Lime and the one that looks Red was bright Orange., I loved them.

Pantophobia

More of the Christmas Day Selfies by waving at my cell phone. My son had no idea what he was doing when he told me why his selfies look better than mine.  My arms are not long enough, but I can wave at the phone.

Charlie Brown on Phobias.

Lucy Van Pelt: Are you afraid of responsibility? If you are, then you have hypengyophobia.
Charlie Brown: I don't think that's quite it.
Lucy Van Pelt: How about cats? If you're afraid of cats, you have ailurophasia.
Charlie Brown: Well, sort of, but I'm not sure.
Lucy Van Pelt: Are you afraid of staircases? If you are, then you have climacaphobia. Maybe you have thalassophobia. This is fear of the ocean, or gephyrobia, which is the fear of crossing bridges. Or maybe you have pantophobia. Do you think you have pantophobia?
Charlie Brown: What's pantophobia?
Lucy Van Pelt: The fear of everything.
Charlie Brown: THAT'S IT! Fear of everything.

I am not sure how or where I found the above conversation, but it has answered my FEARS about my FEARS....
I suffer from Pantophobia!!!!   I am the MadSnapper of Henny Penny-it is...If the sky can fall it will.

What is Pantophobia? Pantophobia is the fear of everything. The origin of the word pant is Greek (meaning every) and phobia is Greek (meaning fear)
This is my short list of 3 Fears that have been with me since as far back as I can remember.

Fear of DARK

Claustrophobia EXTREME. Includes being contained in any way. I can't read a book or watch a movie where someone is trapped.

Heights and WATER as in large bodies.

The longer list include anything my mind can come up with. Kids in trees will fall, Toddlers and dogs running free in front yards will run out in front of cars. Men climbing ladders will break their ribs when it turns over. (Bob did this)

you are getting my drift. Driving on interstates, riding with others on interstates, high speeds. I see the danger in everything. I don't want to and at least now I know what I have a fear of is only one word. Pantophobia.

At least I have no fear of cameras, but should I?

Bray Park Walkabout

It's Saturday and if you are reading this early I am in Walmart shopping. Last week I left home at 6:15 which is my regular shopping time. I did not return home until 8:30, I am usually home by 7:30.

Some of you know I like to TALK...a LOT! it took 40 minutes to shop, and the rest was spent talking to 3 employees that stock the shelves before 7 am each week, the deli guy, a man next in line behind be at the deli,  a friend from the past that I worked with and as I walked out the door, a woman said I love your pants. I had on the Fancy Pants Bright Colored Leggins, you have seen before.

One word led to another, and Susan the complete stranger and I walked to our car, talking for 35 minutes. She found out I was 74, she was 72, we both love fancy leggings, she follows the same diet and excercises I do and I will spare you the whole conversation.. we agreed we were 'sistas' under the skin.   Do you talk to strangers in strange places?

 Bob thought I had been carjacked on the way home. NOPE! I was conversation jacked!!! he he he

We love to walk in this park, we also loved  This Precious Pup. I loved his harness and since we saw 3 dogs with them on, his owner demonstrated and we talked and talked. Big Boy Owns one now. Bob even got a few words in edgewise.. ha ha

I took 3 shots of him, his name is Charlie Brown. I had to Play with his photos. three would be good, don't you think? I think Rosey, Arty and Jakey would love him, don't you? I did a little triple exposures in PicMonkey.