What did you do today? - 2022 version

[Dreamer]

aja8888: I am sorry to hear that your DW is in the hospital and I hope that she recovers quickly. That is great that the hospital only has 1 Covid cases

RobbieB: Your boat looks great. Captain's chair looks original.

W2R: We have an appointment at 11:00 to sign our wills, POAs and Living Will. Our last Will was done in 1975 when DH was in the military. He will be 71 next month and his heart attack and prostrate cancer diagnosis told us it was time to get it done. He is also doing well, thankfully. He started Cardiac Rehab yesterday.

 

[aja8888]

aja8888: I am sorry to hear that your DW is in the hospital and I hope that she recovers quickly. That is great that the hospital only has 1 Covid cases

RobbieB: Your boat looks great. Captain's chair looks original.

W2R: We have an appointment at 11:00 to sign our wills, POAs and Living Will. Our last Will was done in 1975 when DH was in the military. He will be 71 next month and his heart attack and prostrate cancer diagnosis told us it was time to get it done. He is also doing well, thankfully. He started Cardiac Rehab yesterday.

Dreamer, I hope your DH gets through all this OK. My DW has pneumonia and it's a tough one with her COPD. Getting old ain't for sissies.

 

[MBAustin]

This morning our attorney led a Zoom meeting with us and our kids to give them an overview of our estate planning and their responsibilities as eventual executor/trustee. It was a very useful way to start having these awkward conversations with our children (early 30s, both unattached). The fact that this was part of their service outlined up front was attractive to me but was even more valuable than we expected. Highly recommended.

After dog and I got our daily exercise, I took our ramp accessible minivan to Advance Auto Parts for a new battery. We only use it for short local travel, so the wheelchair ramp eats up the battery. So I was shocked when they pulled up our last purchase on their computer and said it was under full replacement warranty. Zero cost and they installed it quickly as well. What a pleasant surprise!

Now watching Duke-Kansas basketball, unfortunately almost an hour late due to double overtime Michigan State over Kentucky.

 

[Gumby]

Today, I made 7 pounds of Italian hot sausage links from pork shoulder roast and fatback. Yummo!

 

[Ronstar]

Making charcuterie boards from wood scraps that I have accumulated. Studying for knife making class. Putting in some time in the side by side to get over the break in period prior to snow plow season. A 7 stop errand spree getting stuff for Thanksgiving. Wellness check on MIL.

 

[ls99]

Got my mug shot taken by the sheriff, ........ for renewing CCW permit.

 

[street]

Hunted again this morning after a light skiff of snow last night. I have a spot I walk and get on a high spot I can see several meadows and large drainages. It was around 30 degree and was hoping to see something in that area. With more snow coming this afternoon and cold tomorrow it would have been nice to have an opportunity. Late yesterday afternoon I had a couple of bucks in there but decided not to get one because it was getting late. I would have been packing it out in quarters in the dark, now I'm rethinking my decision yesterday.

 

[pb4uski]

I miss deer hunting, though I don't miss getting up before the crack of dawn and the cold weather. Most of my hunting was with a group of friends. We would usually sit in the early morning while the deer were active and then do organized drives later in the morning and then sit again in the late afternoon. The nice thing about group hunting is that you have manpower around to help drag the field dressed buck to the road as a team.

My best day was where I had a friend wound a buck in the morning and I was able to find it and finish it off... so an assist of sorts. Then in the afternoon that same friend drove a big 6-pointer by me and I bagged him, but only after the first shot went "click" and didn't fire. The second shot did go off the way it is supposed to. I had him mounted and he is on the gable and of our living room.

We loved it when we had fresh snow and could get a better sense of how they were moving around.

 

[W2R]

W2R: We have an appointment at 11:00 to sign our wills, POAs and Living Will. Our last Will was done in 1975 when DH was in the military. He will be 71 next month and his heart attack and prostrate cancer diagnosis told us it was time to get it done. He is also doing well, thankfully. He started Cardiac Rehab yesterday.

Sorry to read about your DH's heart attack and prostate cancer! Hope he recovers as quickly and completely as possible. Sounds like he is getting good care.

I signed my will today and got a couple of official paper copies for my records, plus a PDF copy, plus the attorney will keep a paper copy and the PDF in his files. It's such a relief to have that off my "to do" list, where it has been for decades!

 

[street]

I miss deer hunting, though I don't miss getting up before the crack of dawn and the cold weather. Most of my hunting was with a group of friends. We would usually sit in the early morning while the deer were active and then do organized drives later in the morning and then sit again in the late afternoon. The nice thing about group hunting is that you have manpower around to help drag the field dressed buck to the road as a team.

My best day was where I had a friend wound a buck in the morning and I was able to find it and finish it off... so an assist of sorts. Then in the afternoon that same friend drove a big 6-pointer by me and I bagged him, but only after the first shot went "click" and didn't fire. The second shot did go off the way it is supposed to. I had him mounted and he is on the gable and of our living room.

We loved it when we had fresh snow and could get a better sense of how they were moving around.

All the good memories and being in the outdoors. Great story!

 

[RobbieB]

Sounds like a lotta work. Me thinks I'll stick with gutting and filleting fish -

Speaking of fish, went out to the boat today and successfully found out how to transfer fuel from one tank to another. Called "polishing" fuel in the marine world, with 4 fuel tanks and the transfer pump you can pump from one and return to another through the (off engine) Racor fuel filters. So you can empty a pair and refuel the empties. The pumps are small though and it took over a half hour to transfer 1/8 of a tank. I'll finish up when I go back to replace the aft bilge pump.

Yeah, you wanted to know about the fish right? While I was down in the engine room I noticed a lot of water in the bilge. Enough to start an aquarium. So my task of fuel transfer was interrupted by a need to pump the bilge. Thankfully the forward pump was working and it took a good 15 minutes to pump it dry. With a 1500 gallon per hour pump. This is not supposed to happen, the aft pump is supposed to be automatic and not only is it not automatic, it doesn't work manual either.

Good thing I went to the boat today and I'll be back tomorrow to replace the aft pump and the auto switch.

Yeah, if you ever get bored in your retirement, just get a boat. You'll have lots to keep you busy -

 

[cnocmmz]

Went to the dentist today and it I always an interesting time. Not fond of it lol
Also, been doing some investing in retirement. Trying to take advantage of Dollar Cost Averaging in this down market. More tech stocks; I.e. Amazon, Google, and Apple. Also, been buying T-bills, and maxed out 10k in I bonds in 2022 for safety.
62 these days and hoping some of these stocks do well for the Grandkids [emoji4]
BTW, I only invest money I am not counting to live on.

 

[Time2]

I voted too. Or at least Maybe I did. Got there and found I was no longer on the rolls.

Better make sure you still have a pulse!
Maybe it doesn't matter, you voted either way.

 

[pacergal]

Early am drive to the lab for some routine fasting bloodwork, now home and having breakfast and coffee.

 

[ElizabethT]

After taking basic sailing lessons this past summer, just discovered and joined an association that focuses on getting non-boat-owning, new sailors out onto the water on a regular basis. In that I don't see a boat in my near future (DH gets seasick, plus we already have one big toy, that being our TrailManor travel trailer), I'm thrilled. I loved my in-the-calm-harbor summer sailing lessons, but feel I have much, much, much to learn before even thinking of navigating a larger boat out on the ocean on my own.

Otherwise, today will consist of a long beach walk, a stint with my beach foundation volunteer group, sunset Happy Hour on the sand to kick off the weekend, then homemade marinara, meatballs, and pasta back at the house.

 

[Walt34]

Started up the snow blower and checked that everything worked, including the heated handgrips and brighter LED light that I installed last spring. I'd ordered them during the winter but they were backordered (like about everything else) and didn't arrive until spring when I had the machine summerized. I wasn't about to undo all that just to check out the handgrips so that waited until today.

So if we ever actually get any snow the rest of me may be freezing but my fingers will be warm when I'm clearing it. Yesterday I saw two (count 'em, TWO!) snowflakes. Therefore if you live in a winter climate and hate snow, spend a pile of money on a nice snowblower and that'll stop the snow right in it's tracks. Unless you live in Buffalo. It doesn't work there according to my cousins.

 

[Trailwalker]

Looked outside and saw half an inch of snow on top of ice. Shoveled the sloping driveway without slipping and falling. Spread wood stove ash on the ice. Retrieved my snowblower from the pole shed, started it for the first time this season, and moved it to the garage. Put the plow on the atv. Plowed the area in front of the pole building to make sure everything was attached correctly and working. Took the dog for a four mile walk and picked up library books from the library. Settled in next to the wood stove with a book for the afternoon.

 

[braumeister]

Much to my surprise, my annual physical with a new doctor (replacement for one who retired this year) was actually quite pleasant. This is the first one who didn't read me the riot act about my high LDL cholesterol. Everything except that was well within specs and with my high HDL and low trigs, I'm perfectly happy with the numbers.

I had been worried about this, since I had gotten my old doc to mostly lay off the lectures about the wonders of statins, but the new one was fine with my refusal. I think I'll keep her.

 

[steelyman]

I got my seasonal flu vaccine (first time for 65+ dose). It wasn’t easy to find around here (I think it’s the same for the standard dose).

Covid booster was done in October (last month).

It’s good to believe you may have some protection.

 

[street]

Sounds like a lotta work. Me thinks I'll stick with gutting and filleting fish -

Speaking of fish, went out to the boat today and successfully found out how to transfer fuel from one tank to another. Called "polishing" fuel in the marine world, with 4 fuel tanks and the transfer pump you can pump from one and return to another through the (off engine) Racor fuel filters. So you can empty a pair and refuel the empties. The pumps are small though and it took over a half hour to transfer 1/8 of a tank. I'll finish up when I go back to replace the aft bilge pump.

Yeah, you wanted to know about the fish right? While I was down in the engine room I noticed a lot of water in the bilge. Enough to start an aquarium. So my task of fuel transfer was interrupted by a need to pump the bilge. Thankfully the forward pump was working and it took a good 15 minutes to pump it dry. With a 1500 gallon per hour pump. This is not supposed to happen, the aft pump is supposed to be automatic and not only is it not automatic, it doesn't work manual either.

Good thing I went to the boat today and I'll be back tomorrow to replace the aft pump and the auto switch.

Yeah, if you ever get bored in your retirement, just get a boat. You'll have lots to keep you busy -

Sounds like work and boat is in control of life, with things that need to be done. Lol

If you do what you love to do than you can call it work and it doesn't seem like work.

Sounds like an interesting and fun purchase.

 

[aja8888]

After two+ weeks in the hospital with pneumonia, DW is now in a skilled nursing facility. Since the bacteriological infection was so bad (Pseudomonas Aeruginosa bacteria), it took two weeks to get a her back in reasonable condition to move on.

According to the infection doctor, she will need the antibiotic Meropenem three times daily by IV for at least another 5 weeks. So she has a picc line in her arm and hates it.

This has been a tough ordeal for a 77 year old woman with COPD. But we will get past this.

 

[street]

After two+ weeks in the hospital with pneumonia, DW is now in a skilled nursing facility. Since the bacteriological infection was so bad (Pseudomonas Aeruginosa bacteria), it took two weeks to get a her back in reasonable condition to move on.

According to the infection doctor, she will need the antibiotic Meropenem three times daily by IV for at least another 5 weeks. So she has a picc line in her arm and hates it.

This has been a tough ordeal for a 77 year old woman with COPD. But we will get past this.

Thinking of yeah, both of you. A rough time for everyone involved I hope for good clean recovery.

 

[braumeister]

Winter has arrived in Kentucky.
It was 18°F when I went out for my run this morning.

Honestly, I like this, since I go noticeably faster when it's cold!

 

[Car-Guy]

After two+ weeks in the hospital with pneumonia, DW is now in a skilled nursing facility. Since the bacteriological infection was so bad (Pseudomonas Aeruginosa bacteria), it took two weeks to get a her back in reasonable condition to move on.

According to the infection doctor, she will need the antibiotic Meropenem three times daily by IV for at least another 5 weeks. So she has a picc line in her arm and hates it.

This has been a tough ordeal for a 77 year old woman with COPD. But we will get past this.

Hang in there... Wishing you and your DW the best...

 

[pacergal]

After two+ weeks in the hospital with pneumonia, DW is now in a skilled nursing facility. Since the bacteriological infection was so bad (Pseudomonas Aeruginosa bacteria), it took two weeks to get a her back in reasonable condition to move on.

According to the infection doctor, she will need the antibiotic Meropenem three times daily by IV for at least another 5 weeks. So she has a picc line in her arm and hates it.

This has been a tough ordeal for a 77 year old woman with COPD. But we will get past this.

so glad she is improving! Pseudomonas is a nasty bacteria, fights off almost everything docs throw at it.
Be sure to take care of yourself as you take care of her.