hi, Ronny... glad to see you back....

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Glad you came to talk, Ronny.   Welcome back.

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I remember you, Ronny.  Glad you're back!
Trish

We found that a kay safe next to the front door worked very well.
They are easy to use and changing the combo is easy.  It worked
for allowing home health aides to get in the house.

Our 911 folks have the combination in their database, as well as
info about the oxygen and Mom's patient record number at the
hospital.

Just continueing on with a few things I didn't put in my "short" post
the other day. :-)

I'm thinking of getting a fishing license this year since we have a home
health care worker coming in twice a week for 4 hours at a time. Like I
said;I don't usually need both those days to go grocery shopping,get
Mom's meds,etc. And we have a great lake just a few miles from us,with a
nice creek running in one side. Easy to get to and just a few miles down
the road. :-) I think I would like to go fishing again. LoL Hope I can
catch something too, :-) as Mom and I love all sorts of fish and that's
something easy for her to eat.

I was brought up being taught never to lie;but now I find it best to at
times with Mom. Let me explain. :-) Like she worries about the baby,
though there is no baby,yet in her mind that baby is real. I used to
tell her the baby wasn't real and telling her that finally got to where
it really upset her and I couldn't convince her anyway. So now,when she
asks about the baby I say one of my older sisters is keeping it so that
she (Mom) can rest. That satisfies her and she usually drops off to
sleep after that.

Then there are the many deceased loved ones that she asks me where they
are at? To her, they are still alive and live close around here.  So I
just tell her that they are at their own homes.

Then she asked where Dad was tonight? And he passed away over 25 years
ago. Can't tell Mom that Dad's at his own home,so I just say he's gone
off somewhere for awhile? And then I change the subject. That works so
far.

And then Mom waves to some people on TV.:-) That's been going on for
several months now. Like she may wave to Pat and Vanna when the Wheel of
Fortune show is at it's end for the day. That used to bother me;but
doesn't anymore. I just wish she enjoyed that show as much as she once
did;but it seems like she doesn't notice/keep up with nearly as much
stuff on TV shows now. Can't really tell how much or little she does
keep up with?

But the other day I swear she tried to touch someone on TV! :-) She was
standing close to the TV and just put out her hand to touch someone on
the screen. I didn't say anything about it. Didn't see any need to,so
just kept my mouth shut.

As for me,I've been raising some guineas (poultry) again. Used to have 2
to 3 dozen of them years ago. Bought 7 baby keets from a local women
back in May. Also bought 47 eggs to put in my small incubator. Got 25
guineas from that bunch of eggs. So now we have 32 guineas. Mom likes to
go out in the backyard and look at them sometimes. :-) She even shook
her cane at some of them the other day!LoL

Of my 7 oldest guineas,4 of them are guinea hens and I hope they will
start laying soon. It's time for them to;but they haven't listened to me
yet when I tell them that! LoL Hope to get more guinea eggs in the
future both for eating and setting more in my small poultry incubator. I
don't really know how many I want? 50,100? :-)

And I've also wanted to start back to raising a few Cortunix quail like
I used to years ago. But I couldn't find the small egg cups for my
incubator,so the other day I just ordered some. Now just need to clean
up my incubator somemore and run it for awhile to make sure all is
working right? Then I'll be ready to order my quail eggs. Not sure yet
if I will order 50 or a 100 eggs of two different sorts of quail? Both
types I'm set on getting are bigger than the ones I used to raise and
are good for eating and for eggs.

And then I do just a very small amount of vegetable gardening in my
yard. Have two 4x4 raised boxed beds for that and would like to add a
bit more to that. Also have my big garden outback that I haven't used in
years;but have some plans for at least part of it.

Haven't gotten much done though this late summer as I've been sick a bit
with bronchitis.

Have just been doing some things I can do in my own yard and thinking up
more things I can do there. And that way I can keep an eye on Mom too if
and when she comes outside.

One big thing I've got to remember to get the next time I go to town is
locks for our two screen doors. It's cooled off enough now so that many
times of the day we have the AC off and the wooden doors open. Only
thing how to go to sleep then as Mom can go right out those doors? I do
fall off to sleep at times;but it's not a good idea and it's not such
restful sleep when i keep waking up and looking around to make sure
she's still inside. So,gotta get those two locks for the screen doors.

About talked out again tonight, :-) so will soon hush! LoL

Lots of stress this summer and a little less now; but I'm still not in
as good a shape as I would like to be. I'm not much good at helping
others right now or even much trying to. So,hope that will be understood
in here. I want to;but I'm just not up to doing a lot right now. And
too,I have another discussion group like this where I've known a number
of people for years. Right now I'm into that group more and trying to
keep up there. (And I hate that one person in particular over there is
really trying to disrupt that group. It's really a shame when someone
trys to and does do such a thing in a group that is good for and helping
to a lot of people! <sigh> It's some better there now though.)

Thank you all again for the welcome backs. :-)
Ronny