March 29, 2013

  • There ARE Times He Comes In Handy

    TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM

    The Beast broke the flush handle on his toilet today.  They were cheap.  The builder didn’t build this to last more than a few years as far as things like that are.  So off he goes to Lowe’s and buys some new hardware to install.  He’d been having trouble with that toilet that he never mentioned to me.  Once he had the stuff in hand, he changed both toilets so that it was over and done with.  Didn’t take him all that long either.  He CAN be useful at times….LOL

    I did manage to get my room straightened up and the quilts washed and dried.  The Beast then did a load of his under things (tshirts, underwear and white socks) and he just set the basket with the dried results here next to my chair.  I fold them and mate the socks then pile them in the basket and he carries them into the bedroom and puts them away.  Since he’s already gone to bed, he’ll do that tomorrow.  I’ll just set the basket in his recliner.  That will serve two purposes:  it will keep Baron off the chair and it will ensure that the Beast can’t ignore the basket.  Last week I put the basket on the coffee table and the Beast ignored it for three days!    Yeah, and he’s normally almost anal about keeping things off that table. 

    My room still needs vacuuming.  The Beast was using it in our bedroom and he says he’s still not done with it.  He’s moving furniture so he’s doing a spring cleaning in there.  Since that’s what my plans are in here, I told him to just make sure I get it when he’s done.  He’s also going to bring the rug cleaner back in the house since he put it out in the cottage.  I was looking for it out in the garage but there aren’t many places he could have put it so I figured it out that he had either put it in the cottage or the barn.  I wanted to get rid of this one large plastic container in here but Chewlee calls it her *drawing table*.  She likes it because she can draw on it AND still watch TV, too.  It takes up a lot of space but I decided I would leave it for now.  I’ll have the Beast put it in the cottage in a couple weeks.  Then Chewlee will have to use the table in here, instead.

    I was watching this program called *NY ER* and it’s amazing the number of young and attractive doctors they have.  I’m sure the hospital was chosen for that reason and others (busy ER comes to mind).  Some of them are amazing in how they handle even the most difficult patients.  BTW, that’s how the Beast is when he ends up in an ER.  You should have seen him when he had his first stroke.  Strokes are funny things.  There’s no pain involved so it’s hard for a patient to believe they need to be in a hospital at all.  Which is why the Beast even tried to run away and he suddenly discovered that he truly WAS paralyzed on his left side.  He kept saying that he couldn’t find his arm and STILL didn’t realize what was going on.  After his failed attempt to get up and get dressed to leave, he felt lucky to be able to fall back on his bed and then wait for the nurses to come and move him back in place (his head ended up at the foot of the bed). 

    It was absolutely gorgeous out today but I didn’t end up having Chewlee.  The Princess was notified that she didn’t have to come in until one day next week so she was able to make other plans for the day.  I’m really hoping that they make it to the aquarium and the zoo since Chewlee has been going on and on about both places all the time.  You never grow tired of the zoo and I am hoping one day to be able to go with them on that adventure.  I don’t think I can do it without being able to rent a wheelchair.  I KNOW I will probably never have the stamina to walk all over the place for hours.  And I have always loved the zoo….any zoo.  I used to take my brothers and sisters to Brookfield Zoo all the time on *free* days.  We would pack a lunch and spend the whole day there.  I loved to watch how excited they got about all the different animals.  They didn’t really like the snakes but the Reptile House was a great place to go on hot days because it was air conditioned inside.  We would stay long enough to cool down.  When they opened the Penquin feature, that was a favorite place because it was really COLD but they were fun to watch.

    Ahh, memories.  Memories can be both good and bad.  I think I have an equal measure of both although my worst memories are involved with the Beast.  My best involve my family….my siblings mostly.  I think they were the most fun for me.  How about you?  Best?  Worst?  How is your life NOW?

    Well, more nice days ahead until Sunday or Monday, I think the weather channel said.  And even the states that are getting some snow today will be getting warmer weather that will melt all that stuff away.  Just cross your fingers that you don’t get flooding now.  Love you all.  Be careful.  Stay dry. 

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