What was your day like?

[Edwin]

We have company staying, part of them at our daughter's house, 600 feet away from ours, and the other part staying at our house. It is my younger sister, her daughter, her 12 year old daughter from her first marriage, and her little son, less than a year old, and the others who live here with us who belong to our daughter.

This morning I was able to play the piano some. Carol and I did some price checking on her diabetes medication. We check the prices first then we buy. We were too trusting in the past, and thought we were saving lots of money using Medicare Part D, and boy did we get ripped off. We paid $1400. 00 more for her medication using medicare than we did when she had no insurance and we were using Costco Pharmacy. We were so trusting that we didn't even realize how badly we got ripped off until I did our Income Tax return. After that we did the price check first, not allowing them to use our credit card unless the prices checked out. Well we did better because the doctor put Carol on all generic cheaper medications. Then one of our price checks revealed some shocking news that we were about to get ripped off again, so we went back to Costco Pharmacy and got reasonable medications. So much for the pie in the sky dream of making big savings by being on Medicare Part D, and the sad part is that I think people all over the country are getting ripped off big time, and they don't even know it. This is corrupt government socialist failure. We have to pay $29.90 every month because once you get on their program you can only get off once a year. Even with the $29.90 we are still money ahead to use Costco Pharmacy. Carol gets some free test strips for her blood sugar testing, and they are expensive, so the $29.90 might be worth that, and when we thought of that it made us feel better about spending the $29.90. I am younger than Carol, so in a few months I will be the age to qualify, but I may opt to not take any of it, because I take no medications of any kind, and I don't see the doctor, unless I have an emergency. So that is going to be a big decision for me. It will cost me probably about $1400.00 a year more the Medicare, and if I don't use it, it might not be worth having. There is a penalty for getting on board later, but the penalty might be cheaper when and if I need it.

I hauled water, played the piano more. I had pizza with pineapple on it. I milked the cow while our daughter did the rest of the chores, and then we had a salad, lettuce, more pineapples, apples, raisins, peppers, and other garden stuff in it, and was it good. I drank a glass of cpws ,o;l, ate some chocolate icecream, I really prefere vanilla, but chocolate is what it was, so I ate it, and some raisin spice cake. It was almost dark by this time, but I still walked Scoobie the big Great Swiss Mountain Dog that is in my picture for about 4 miles. Now I am doing this.

[Edwin]

Yesterday and today have been unusual days for us. We just returned from our visiting trip near to Spokane, Washington. Funny thing is that our son-in-law here has family in Spokane also, as well as them having other friends in Spokane, so they go that direction a lot. They were planning a trip to Spokane about as soon as we returned from there. We got home Friday afternoon, and they left Saturday morning for Spokane. So I got up earlier than I normally do to get the chores started. I milk the milk cow and two goats as well as watering the animals, and Carol feeds the other animals, chickens, ducks, goats, and then I feed the hay as well as well because some of the animals are confinded without enough pasture for various reasons.

We ran water on the garden early for about a half hour, and then we have to wait three hours to water the animals because the well puts out a limited amout of water. When it is hot everything including the garden and animals take more water, so we have to juggle our watering. We then went to town and bought some groceries from Walmart, and I bought dog food and oil as well as an oil filter so I could change the oil and filter on our car. When I got home I ran the front wheels up on ramps, and did something I have never done before. I went too far and ran it off the ramp on the front end. I ended up having to jack the car up to get the ramps out, but it turned out that there was no damage, so I was thankful for that. I tried it again only I was more careful than I even needed to be to make sure it did not happen again. I dropped the oil out of the engine, and took the oil filter off when the engine was very warm so that the dirty oil would all run out of the engine.

Then I hauled our water for drinking, dish washing, and toilet flushing, as well as showering water. When I finished with that I put the oil plug back in the pan, put the new oil filter on, and filled the engine with oil. By this time it was almost time to do chores again, so we quickly each ate a half cantalope, and went to do the chores. One of the goats was in a bad mood, and kicked and stomped until I lost at least half or more of the milk on the floor. Then she had trouble standing up because the floor was so slick with milk. This morning I used two buckets and emptied into another bucket every time I had an accumulation of milk. I wouldn't have need to have done that as she was in a better mood and barely kicked and stomped at all. She is a very good goat, but she is young enought that she has not learned well yet. This morning was the last my our doing chores as our kids will return shortly. I don't help her that much when she is here, only when she is gone and needs someone to do the chores. She likes to do the chores so well that she doesn't want help. It is funny because when she was a little girl she used to follow me around while I did barn chores, and now I follow her around like I am the little kid while she does barn chores.

[bachuichui]

my day today?? haha
im wearing my PE uniform slightly wet..ggggrrrrrr

i forgot to dry it..the weather here not so good.

[Edwin]

my day today?? haha
im wearing my PE uniform slightly wet..ggggrrrrrr

i forgot to dry it..the weather here not so good.

Here lately your P.E. uniform would dry quickly as it is hot and dry here, for us anyway. We don't have as high temperatures as they do in the valley, in the towns. We have been up to the high 80s F. and just into the low 90s F. some days. It is cooler here than it was a few days ago.

We have an electric clothes dryer, but Carol tries to hang them out on the line to dry. Last time she did clothes the week before we went to our kids' place by Spokane she used the dryer as she was feeling tired, and maybe she didn't feel good beyond being tired.

[crisipicada]

Oh sorry i was not online for few days i was not feeling well. I hope that i will be okay then. I do walking and jogging. I do stay at home last weekend and then do some household chores. Today i was so disparate knowing that i wont be transfer to my hometown.

[crisipicada]

I like this information. Hope that i will find a guy that is concerned about me and love me.

[Edwin]

I like this information. Hope that i will find a guy that is concerned about me and love me.

Crisi, I hope also that you will find someone that will be concerned about you and love you. We missed you when you were not online, and sorry to hear you were not feeling well.

This morning I took a recking bar and pulled off a piece of sofeting that was hanging down. Our daughter was bringing home a young lady from Germany, and she was concerned about the way the place looked, and pulling that sofeting down did make it look better. This place still needs a lot of repairing but I am doing first things first, and eventually I will get to other necessary tasks. First the roof needs to be replaced, and I have part of the materials, the roofing, to replace it. Then comes insulated wrap to cut down on the wind getting in the house in the winter when it is so cold. Then siding and sofeting. Then more work on the inside of the house. The progress is slowly being made. This morning after pulling the sofeting piece hanging down off I was tempted to play the piano, but I decided that I needed to work on our water line. So I went into the ditch and glued water pipe together. Before I had to quit because I ran out of supplies, and our son-in-law brought all his store had, so he had to order more for this job. Once the supplies came I cut my finger badly enough so that I decided it was not wise to try to use it, so I backed off and let it set for a while. After coming back from visiting our kids I figured my finger was healed enough to tackle the task, which I did this morning. I ran out of glue for the pipes before the job was completed, but I almost finished gluing those pipes. I worked pretty steady most of the day to get it done, as I am working in a narrow ditch 5 to 6 feet deep. As cold as it gets here in the winter we need the water pipes down that deep to keep them from freezing. I had to shovel a while to get some loose dirt out of the ditch that had fallen in because of the lapse in time. So I was not extremely tired, but I was tired enough to be happy to stop working, and it was time to quit anyway. Without an excuse for quitting I sometimes work too hard and too long, and then I get pretty tired. It will be nice to have running water in the house, although I don't mind carrying it. Carol would like to have running water in the house again for a change. I have a huge hole dug for a root cellar, and now I need to dig out from under the house so that I can place the pressure tank and hot water heater.

[crisipicada]

I thank God for daily protection and guidance. Thanks be to God for the guidance and protection. He is good all the time and He never leave us nor forsake us.

[Edwin]

I thank God for daily protection and guidance. Thanks be to God for the guidance and protection. He is good all the time and He never leave us nor forsake us.

You are so correct, Crisi!

[bachuichui]

my day today..haha
today is thursday here in the philippines.. it is school day..
i was thinking that we don't have a class today because
i was confused if today is a holiday or not because today
is the President's State of the Nation address.

my class today starts at 7:30 am.. and i wake up 7:30..
not bad my dormitory is a few steps from our school..
so i quickly get up from my bed and take my bath..
i did not take my breakfast already.

i was late for about 15 minutes.. whooo