Dear Myra, here is my whistle

Dear Myra, here is my whistle

I am hoping this'll

go well with your hockey helmet.

Myra had a near miss with a tornado and a friend that lost family members in a tornado told her they purchased helmets for family members because they had head injuries.

Now she has TWO. I read this on her blog post HERE

I Replied to her, I will add them to my list. After our near miss with Hurricane Irma and my stay in the closet terrified, I saw a woman on the news, that was buried in debris and they found her because she was blowing a whistle 

We have 7 trees that can fall on our house.

to bury me

 Next day I bought a Whistle, here it is.

Myra what kind of whistle did you buy???

We are Sisters of the What If Clan. My other Sista Is Ginny of Let Your Light Shine.

Ginny, let us know if you add these two items to your shopping list.

We might be sistas of the Henny Penny clan.

PS to all who must know.

The whistle hangs in the bedroom on the hook with the leash, that hangs by the window in the bedroom. The leash is just in case of fire or serial killer in the living room, we can go out the window with the dog.

Before I lost weight, I was afraid I would not FIT OUT THE window and wanted to put a sledge hammer under the bed to break the window.

OF course the dog weighs 65 pounds and we are old, so I may have to build a movable ramp since neither of us could lift Big out the window.

With the leash we could lead him up the ramp.😊 Bob says if the house is on fire or a serial killer is in the living room HE will pick up the dog with no problem. HA

I mean who would build a house with all 3 doors to the outside in the living area with no doors in the bedrooms..

New Neighbors and Good Things from Irma

New Neighbors 

2 days before Irma came, we watched our new nieghbors board up their home, put out sandbags. Hmmmm we thought, what is up with that?

This is there fence between us After Irma.They have 2 dogs, and we were out at daybreak, I walked next door to advise they have no fence.

She comes out to talk and I find out they moved here from New Orleans, thus the preparations. Her name is Sarah, his is Dennis and they have 2 small girls. We became instant friends, and now if we need help in the future, he said any time we can call on him. He offered to help Bob when he replaces the 2 sections we lost in our fence and donates a piece of fencing he did not need.

1. New Friends made, after Irma... and we found future help from both neighbors if we ever need it,

2.I had no weight gain after 2 weeks of stress, the sinus crud we both had for 10 days, was over before Irma. Plus Bob's ER trip with his arm was 4 days before Irma, not during it.

3. We did not lose power. or AC. (slight upset over 8 days without internet/tv/phone)

4. woke me up at midnight on day 3 of cleanup and put the thought of our  85 and 81 year old neighbors across the street  on my mind. I said when we woke up, I  need to go check on them, they have been in the house without power for several days.
I knocked on the door and he came to the door and said Please can you call 911, my wife fell, she is incoherent.. I called and waited for EMS to transport. the story is to  long  But I list this as a good thing. They needed help, I gave it.

no damage to house

This tree did no damage to our home... and we met my neighbors son and grandson that had come to stay with Barbara. The also offered help when/if we need it.

GOOD BYE IRMA! I am done with reporting on her. this has been in drafts for 6 weeks. OOPS

UnbeLeafable Fall Color

Around the corner from our home, I found this unbeleafable and beautiful dead tree, It fell during Irma and weeks of laying on the curb turned the green to autumn colors. There is beauty every where, we just have to See It.

Leaves are falling and autumn is calling. I have fallen for you, and I hope this leafs you happy.

Banana Fronds Fall Color

 Fall Color we get in Florida, dying Banana tree fronds, that are dying from our FALL HEAT. As far as we can see into the weather future we will be in the 90's every day...

I had my little Canon in hand and found a setting called Poster... it changed the colors to what you see here, without edits by me. I don't like it and will never use it again but I am OUT OF THINGS TO POST ABOUT...

Thanks a bunch for stopping by.

I find you all so a-peeling and I am Bananas for you.

Please, let's never split.... no matter how bad my post get.

These photos were taken a couple of week before the storm Irma.. all of this is gone now, including the fence that needs to be replaced.

Sept 25th, Irma Suvivors

Sept. 25th, Two weeks after Hurricane Irma, flowers, Bob and Jake. Irma Suvivors and Victims of MS Camera

While Daddy works on the green pool, Jake goes Walkabout

Sing Alleluia, All is Well... Thank you Lord for our survival and prayers go up for your country and your world that you created.

Mad Mish Mash Moments!

NOTE: for those of you that have been using free PicMonkey, it is free to use but you can't save your work unless you pay for subscription. I did not know this because I have paid for pro for about 5 years. Ipiccy is still free... and fairly easy to use.

Have you ever tried to sit in a car seat and hold a laptop on your lap?  Laptop Desk For sale. $19.99 if you order now.  . Minus the laptop of course.

PHOTO SHOWN is my laptop desktop in my Kia, hanging out behind Publix using Free Wi-Fi to keep in touch with you during IRMA... I can FedEx one to you, for 19.99, the desk silly, not the hurricane...

Do you know your ears and nose never stop growing? I asked Google Girl because the last time Bob cut my hair really short, I checked it out in the mirror and all I saw was EARS....say what?

This Is True

Check it out on Curiostydotcom

OH JOY!!!!! As you age, gravity causes the cartilage in your ears and nose to break down and sag. This results in droopier, longer features. Studies have estimated that ears lengthen at a rate of about .22 millimeters per year. The growth appears in men and women, so it's just one of the many universal joys of getting older.

Do we need larger ear buds? do we need larger Ear Rings? by the time we are 85, will we be able to walk and carry our head upright?  How soon before I look like a beagle?

Do you know how many ears Spock has? 3..left ear, right ear and final front-ier. If you don't know Spock, skip on down.

Please do not stop coming ear often, I promise I will be good....NEXT TIME  What? I can ear you laughing, I know I can...

Madsnapper in MY Mirror

Simply Put...The Pool Is A Mess

The POOL the morning after Irma was, simply put... A Mess! All of the above has been removed, but the pool is still green murky water, Bob has worked on it for 9 days, and we still can't see the bottom and what is left in there.
The leaves and limbs were thick enough we could almost walk across it.  Bob worked for 3 days just removing debris. When he started to vacuum  the back flow line clogged.

Call a plumber he shouts! I shout.. Not a Plumber, a POOL repair guy... I will skip the rest of that conversation.

I started to wonder, Just What is the porpoise in our life right now.

I called 4 plumbers, all said NO.. I called 7 pool repairs, all said NO.. Plumbers do NOT work on pools, but I knew that! Half the pool people had no power, the other half said 3 weeks.

Meanwhile, Hurricane BOB is in the back yard, spouting off about having to WAIT.. He Yells Call Rotor Rooter they will do Anything. I call, she says tomorrow between 3 and 5. Next morning she calls and says. We Don't Do Pools..... Did you hear the Man ? screaming All We Need Is a Snake Run Down the PIPE.... anyone can DO THAT!

BUT WAIT! there is MORE!

My cell is a TracFone that I add minutes monthly. It is a smartphone that works beautiful with 3 or more bars, in my house it gets 0 to 1 or 2, if I go outside and walk around holding it in the air I can get 4. It is only for emergency use, in car and at home when our Spectrum home phone is off line. Which it was.. During the worst of storm and all week, I could text anywhere, but to talk had to go outside and say  Can you hear me now? 

I found the best spot with 4 bars and made all those calls. I was sick of listening to the words, I can't hear you, you are breaking up! OF course I was, I was in hurricane aftermath mode

The Punch Line is I have been so crazy from stress of last 3 months, I looked at my phone and saw the word call logs… there were about 30 numbers, 4 were relatives numbers, the rest said unknown numbers, just numbers. I FREAKED and said to Bob, I have been hacked, there are 15 numbers I do not recognize that called and why did the phone not ring? How did they get this number?

I Raved Ranted Carried ON…. After I calmed down and started to delete them a light bulb went off!

They were all the numbers I HAD CALLED to find POOL HELP…. My Mind Is Blown…Simply Put, not only is the Pool a mess, so is my MIND. 

The good news is I now know how to use the phone, know what a call log is, know where the 4 bar spot is in my back yard.  PLUS! I drove the Mad Pool Man to HOME DEPOT and BOUGHT a Plumbers Snake for 30 dollars and WE unplugged the pool our selves. Now to figure out how to get rid of the murky green water.... don't even ask about chemicals, we have poured a fortune in it...

Clean Up Crew!

The above grapefruit is one of around 100 that fell from our tree, The whole Nov/Dec crop is gone. I was in charge of picking up grapefruit.  I lack photos because I was to upset to take many.

To the tune of "Chainsaw/Generators" we did our "After Irma" cleanup.
Bend/Stoop/Pickup/Toss on Pile
Bend/Stoop/Pickup/Toss on Pile
Bend/Stoop/Pickup/Toss on Pile
IN UNISON, Bob and I until we had 4 piles as high as my waist/shoulders.

I was smart and used the grabby pick up squeezy thingy because if I bent over 100 times, I would not be here to report this. It was difficult seeing the grapefruit because my glasses had sweat drops on them that were blinding me. I wiped the sweat off with my shirt and OH MY! that was better LOL

The good news is, if I had not lost weight before Irma, Bob would have been alone on this crew. Can you say Exhausted? ORANGE you glad I shared this?????

Hello, My Name Is....

Hurricane Irma came calling and blew away our Internet/TV/Phone for EIGHT DAYS. I prepared for losing water, by filling every jug in the house, prepared for eating with no power by boiling eggs.

We did not lose power, 60% of our city was without power and now 9 days later thousands are still without. In a later post, I will share a few things, but first comes the most important. No Permanent damage to our home, 5 days of cleanup work and a pool that is still dark green. we are fine.

NO TV and NO INTERNET for EIGHT DAYS... we searched for a support group to whine with because.....

Hello, my name is Sandra and I am addicted to the internet.
Hello, my name is Bob and I am addicted to TV with a specialized addiction for NEWS!

IT IS BACK as of 11 am 9/18. And I am WARNING Hurricane Maria to stay away from us. We will not survive another DAY with out our pacifiers. YOU MIGHT WANT to duck for cover since I have TONS OF STUFF TO TELL YOU......coming soon to a blog near you.....

Tiny HOUSE or Safe Room?

Since I am the opposite of procrastinator, when I heard we would be a direct hit from Irma, the biggest and nastiest hurricane to ever hit Florida, My fretter kicked into over drive and I thought SAFE HOUSE ... Closet in middle of house...she was 9 hours away.
While we waited for Irma the Hurricane, I gathered things for the walk in closet safe room. Above is an old photo from 2005. When we added Jake as 3rd dog in our crew, I needed a bed big enough for Three. under the sheet is a lounge cushion like the insert. Someone made it and it was perfect for a bed and fit right under the front window. Above pic is when our new sofa did not show up on time, Bob and I TRIED to use it for a sofa. we lost.

UPDATE: I will be off line for blogging for at least a couple of days. we are fine but facing massive cleanup, at least a couple of days. I will check emails and FB a few times a day. We did not lose power, only our provider of TV/internet. sorry I can return your comments.

It took 2 hours to remove all from the 48 x 71 inches closet. The dog pad is 71 inches. Woo hoo. I laid it wall to wall. Tried to sit on it and get back up. OH MY! OWIE!

I grabbed the bottom and back cushions from the two DOG bed chairs in our bedroom and created seating, one in each corner, a few blankets, a dog bed in 3rd corner and Supplies in 4th corner.

In the pot is peanut butter, knife, dog food, crackers and a jug of water, battery radio. do not laugh. I warn you I will be mad if you do. The reason the supplies are in a big metal pot???

Because I could not find a whistle to blow if the tree falls on the house trapping us in the closet, I will use the butter knife to beat like crazy on the bottom of the pot. YOU SHOULD HERE IT!. Bob has rolled his eyes so many times at my preparations they probably hurt.

Between the bed, 2 hats, case full of prescriptons, charger that charges cell phone without power. 2 flashlights, 1 zippy cup for both of us to drink water from, 2 cups of coffee in thermal, kindle, Bible and thank you Jo for reminding me of that. Loaded pistol, 2 watches, survival knife, matches, candles, lighter stick. 6 battery candles to use first so we don't burn the closet down. Black bag with wallets, keys, birth cert and proof we live here. all credit cards/cash, that is the grab bag if we have to climb out window or on roof. everything in both bags is sealed in baggies.

The drill is... wear clothes with pockets, put on hats, tape down glasess with duct tape so they don't blow off in the wind. grab what will go in our pockets and FLEE by climbing or floating. I said to my brother how would I get on the roof, he said just float silly... Bob said go to garage, put up ladder, I take the dog, you take the bag and the chain saw and we cut a hole in the roof to get out...
To be continued....

Irma UPDATE

This flamingo lives on my cousins screen pool area.... Irma has sucked all the color out except for the flamingo. The lunatic and lunapic had a lot to do with that. Color spotting is in the list under Adjust if you go to Lunapic to try it. For some reason, when saving this filter it saves to a gif and must be changed to Jpeg with another program.

We are alive, we are waiting. our winds will pick up at 9 to noon to 50 mph and  8 pm to 2  Am Monday it will be slamming us up to 90 to 120 mph.  Power will go out, just when is the question. I added FPL to my cell phone because they want us to report all downed lines ASAP. I assume that means so they can turn off the power there if it is still on. so now I have NEW scenes playing out in my head. I am praying for Irma to shift a little further west of us, but as it is at 3 am Sunday she is coming here
This will be my last post until it is over.. I will update FB by cell if I can but will be saving battery power on that to. I will post one word only, OK will be that word.

The Birthday that Wasn't...

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Bob had sinus crud for 9 days before Friday  night, Sept, 1 the beginning of  THE 3 day HOLIDAY WEEKEND, he did not sleep all night, his shoulder and elbow and neck were so painful he could not sleep. He did not sleep for 4 nights and not even during the day, Saturday am he did not want breakfast, he ate a piece of cheese toast, he laid on the sofa for those 4 days.

NOTE: all this stuff is happening while watching Hurricane Harvey Horror, and also watching Hurricane IRMA head our way....

On Sept 5th, at the dawning of my 73rd Birthday, Bob said at 5:30 am, I need to go to the doctor. He said the pain was so intense he could not take it any longer. I prepared to order a casket, since he has always said, if I don't eat, you will know to bury me. I dressed in the above NEW never worn Jeggings and the kind of new blouse because ER is always freezing.

We reached ER and 4 hours, numerous tests later, Doc came in and said. "I can tell you it is not a stroke, it is not heart, it is not a blood test, his lungs are clear, his x-ray and blood work are perfect. My BEST GUESS is muscle spasms, you can go home and I will give you muscle relaxers.

The pills helped him sleep, and relax, he started to eat his meals but the pain continued and still does as I type. I, the internet trained Doctor, have diagnosed it as a pinched nerve.

Now We Wait, we wait and watch the storm and I watch Bob...

JUST SO YOU KNOW...

The photos above were taken by Madsnapper, using the timer on camera that she had never used before, running all over the kitchen trying to show you all my jeans and new blue blouse that I intended to wear to Culvers for a Birthday Burger. The Birthday That Wasn't. 

Hating the photos, I went out side. OH MY even worse

I hope Rebecca and Mersad do not see this photo, but the camera was on a small table. 

If this was not boring enough I am sharing The Cabinet That is Ready for IRMA... all those coffee cans I save because i can't bare to part with them, are now full of water and snuggled next to 5 gallons of water in there at all time, because We Never Know what can and will happen to this firm believer in Murphy's Law. THINK last week the water went off 3 times that week because of roadwork..

While making coffee a few minutes ago for tomorrow morning. Boom! I had a super duper IDEA.
Just before Irma gets here, I will make Two Pots of Coffee, and sit them on the stove, and when the power fails???? cold coffee is better than no coffee when we wake up. IF we sleep! I hope coffee doesn't go bad, because I will drink it. We are Prepared and waiting. If possible I will post updates on FB and blog to let you know what is what...