MORNING ROLL CALL DECEMBER 2024

[DaveMcK]

MORNING ROLL CALL DECEMBER 2024

Top of the morning to everyone on this 1st day of DECEMBER 2024.

Happy Birthday to all of our DECEMBER Birthday members.

[Frozenoem]

OK then I’m kinda here, heat has taken its toll on me. A/C will hopefully go on today. Someone gave me an offer on the house and I’m trying to clean it up and out.

I really, really don’t need 9 rooms finished or 3 rooms unfinished or the 2 1/2 bay garage, etc.Also tend to wonder if I can keep heating with wood and oil.

With luck he’ll get financing and I’m off to NH or the flatlands. So if you don’t see me here often, I’m around.

Froze

[Therapist4u]

HI Froze! @Frozenoem....

Always glad to see your post here😃....even if you’re only “kinda here” 😎🤣LOL!..... & hope you’re doing well!

Howz ya health?...in spite of having to put up with the heat and humidity....

remember that >>>>> 🍂 FALL 🍂 IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER 🍂 LOL!....

& other than the old bugaboos>>>>>the left & right 1.finger salutes (swollen up) and wrist and lower back....are they any better now? Are you getting around OK?

RE: “Someone gave me an offer on the house ......that’s great news!!.👍...and trying to clean it up and out...the 9 rooms finished, 3 rooms unfinished...and the 2 1/2 bay garage, etc.....well....As @catwoman500 mentioned.... That is quite an undertaking!

Anyway...Please... both of y’all,.....have a wonderful weekend too!

Stay safe....&...KEEP COOL...& HYDRATED!

Take care friends!

☮️  🚤  🌄🍦  ~Allen 🌈 ⛵  🎨 🛶

[catwoman500]

@Frozenoem ...Good luck with everything. That is quite an undertaking! 🤞

[Therapist4u]

Hi Nicole

Yes ....finally getting Notifications.....

Hi Therapist4u,

TakeThatStepTODAY mentioned you in a post!

Take care Nicole!......

and all y’all PORCHERS>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

@DaveMcK  @catwoman500 @MsStretch @Frozenoem @LaDolceVita

☮️  🌩🌦~Allen 🌈  ⛵  🌞

[LaDolceVita]

Hello Porchers!  I am tired from the heat and daily rain but otherwise OK. I take a nap after lunch and wake up groggy due to humidity.  It does not dry up long enough to mow the yard and walking is harder than normal and more hazardous.  I mean snakes.   Have only seen 2 copper heads since moving here but I would not like to step on a large black snake either.  Does not look like a change is coming any time soon in the weather department, although it can shift quickly here.  Oh yeah, dead branches on trees get saturated and fall, happening a lot lately.  

My doctor's appointment was canceled  at the last minute due to the PA not showing up so I have to get psyched up again to drink black coffee & hurry up to make an 8:30 appointment.  

Somehow I must make time for Hotel Portofino, I really liked it last year.  Location a big plus!   One of my all-time PBS favorites, Doc Martin had a wonderful location too.

[catwoman500]

@LaDolceVita ...We need your rain, but you can keep the snakes! Yikes! 🙀

[Winter2024]

[7/27/24] So NO Grantchester tomorrow Catwoman/lol  😂🤣

On the serious side, I am assuming we have ANOTHER episode? I tend NOT to find this out. Do you know IF All Creatures is returning and when?

Thanks,

Nicole  👵 

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[*** CATWOMAN wrote: Hi Dave. Yes, I'll be watching all events that I like. My faves are swimming, diving, and gymnastics. ***]

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[Frozenoem]

@Winter2024

Your vicar will not be returning it”: the sports car vicar  for the next several seasons, on Grantchester. If my satellite Tv is correct.

Froze

[Winter2024]

I APPRECIATE you responding BIG BRO @Frozenoem  🤗🤗🤗

[*** BIG BRO wrote: Your vicar will not be returning it”: the sports car vicar  for the next several seasons, on Grantchester. If my satellite Tv is correct.

Froze  ***]

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[catwoman500]

@Winter2024 ... All Creatures new season starts January 7th.

As for tomorrow...I will be taking a break from Olympics for the new season of Hotel Portofino and Grantchester of course! 😸

[DaveMcK]

Hoping everyone has a great weekend. 

We are watching the Olympics. How about you? 

Our favorite sport is swimming.

2 of our 3 daughters swam in college on scholarship at UW Milwaukee.

[catwoman500]

Hi, @DaveMcK ...

Yes, I'll be watching all events that I like. My faves are swimming, diving, and gymnastics.

[Winter2024]

[7/26/24] Have an AWESOME WEEKEND  💃💃💃

[Therapist4u]

Hi Nicole @Winter2024

As I didn’t get any notices about my tag from you, I just happened to see this as I was scrolling down ‘all recent posts’

Anyway...

Thank you for that….right back at ya!

Take care!

☮️  🌩🌦~Allen 🌈  ⛵  🌞

[Winter2024]

(7/26/24) Allen @Therapist4u , you are welcome and thanks, Nicole  👵

[*** ALLEN wrote: Hi Nicole. As I didn’t get any notices about my tag from you, I just happened to see this as I was scrolling down ‘all recent posts’

Anyway...

Thank you for that….right back at ya!

Take care!

☮️  🌩🌦~Allen 🌈  ⛵  🌞 ***]

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[MsStretch]

Hey everyone.  Really nothing new to report other than to reiterate the heat and humidity. Yes, @Frozenoem , climate change is here and it's real. 🥵

Some of you might remember the turtle 🐢 who showed up on my deck last year to imbibe in the furkids' leftovers.  I posted a pic or two.  Trudy is back!  I had marked her shell with a spot of fingernail polish and it is her!  Otherwise, the chickens next door get the leftovers.  And in return, I get fresh eggs.🥚  Can't beat that.  I had offered to pay for them, but the neighbor said just throw the chickens some leftovers now and again, and I asked even cat food?  Oh yeah, they love pecking at those seafood shreds and assorted crunchies mix. 🐔

And our resident raccoon showed up with a baby in tow recently.  My neighbor/landlord leaves crunchies on their deck, so this goldish-colored raccoon has become a regular visitor.  I've seen Giorgio bop her on her head, but no harm done.  They tolerate each other, sometimes ignoring each other.

So there's my update -- wild critters.  Thinking recently it's a nice time to become a hermit oblivious to the world, but I keep forgetting to turn off those darn news alerts on my phone.

Doctors?  Don't even want to go there, but wishing everyone the best for the travails they are going through.  It sucks. 

Speaking of wild critters, I'm going back to watching the bear cams at Katmai🐻🦈, my current guilty pleasure and diversion.  (Don't ask me how I became one of 'those bear peeps'. 😁)

[Therapist4u]

Hi @MsStretch

Always glad to see your post here....& (in spite of having to put up with the heat and humidity) hope you’re doing well!👍😊

BTW: Yertle the Turtle....asked me, to ask you,....if ya think that YOUR Turtle..... 🐢Trudy 🐢 ...might be,...ya know...‘available’...like for dating? Hahahaaa

Yertle the Turtle

Anyway...

And to you...& all my other BEST PORCH PEEPS: Dave @DaveMcK @LaDolceVita @catwoman500 Froze! @Frozenoem & Lee @LeeS4949 (& others of course) Please have a wonderful week too!

Stay safe....&...KEEP COOL...& HYDRATED!

Take care all y’all friends!

☮️🚤🌄🍦  ~Allen 🌈 ⛵  🎨 🛶

[catwoman500]

@MsStretch ...I do remember your turtle! 🐢

Other than the groundhog that lives under my shed, not much wildlife news. Too hot for the critters? Yesterday morning a deer ran across the street...young doe by the looks of her. Last month I heard foxes SCREAMING in my back yard, but that was only a one-night thing.

Goldfinches are feasting on my coneflowers, and something is eating one of my plants. I have 6 pots of the same plant, but whatever critter it is seems to like only the one pot.

More storms coming but looks like relief from the heat will get to us by Friday!

@Therapist4u ...Thanks for the belated birthday wishes. 😺

Yep...First thing I thought of when I heard Ingrid sing was Roseanne! UGH!

Hang in there, All!

[DaveMcK]

Yesterday evening was another very stormy evening here in Southern Wisconsin.

Heavy rain and winds as high as 80 mph which are strong enough to take the rooftop of a house.

We got the rain with 60 mph winds.

Today we will not see any rains with the possibility sunny skies this afternoon.

[catwoman500]

Hi there Porch Peeps!

   We are now heading into our third heat wave this summer. It has been brutal as I’m sure a lot of you know. We’re not talking 3-day heat waves, but endless days and weeks with maybe a one- or two-day break to the high 80’s and if we were lucky a break in the humidity. I don’t really remember a summer in a long while with this non-stop “wet blanket hitting me in the face” weather as I open the door. Haven’t even been able to enjoy my porch that much. Dread getting my electric bill this week.

At this moment it is 99, feels like 106. UGH!

Sounds like we are not only being hit with ugly weather, but ugly health stuff. Sorry to hear about everyone’s troubles.

@Therapist4u …have had gel shots. Meh 😶

@Frozenoem ... had stair glides put in to upstairs and basement. Can’t do the steps.

PT had me doing several step exercises, and I still do them at home begrudgingly.

@DaveMcK ... On the 4th, went out to eat and went back to one friend’s house to play games.

@LaDolceVita …I also hate going to the doctor!

Did the birthday thing last month with a bunch of lunches with different friend groups. Just had the last one this past week.

One cute thing…as I was talking to one of the deli ladies at my Acme, she had asked me which birthday it was. When I said, “76,” this young thing at the other end of the deli whipped around, miss-hearing the 76 and she said, “96????” I laughed and said, I may feel like 96, but it’s just 76.”

And let me tell you, this weather can make anyone feel decades older!

Please, all of you take care and stay hydrated!

P.S. Anyone catch the fiasco rendition of the National Anthem at the All-Star Home Run Derby? OMG!

[Therapist4u]

Hi, @catwoman500

....glad to see your post here...& hope you’re doing well!

Last things 1st....LOL!

RE: The “fiasco”..I just had to research this & when I saw a few headlines... like “Ingrid Andress says she was drunk, going to rehab....”  I was curious to hear how bad it was...then I thought back to another infamous horrible butchering... courtesy of ...”Roseanne Barr's off-key, crotch-grabbin..” etc. ....& that was enough...not to ever want to hear that.... or anything else...so insulting to All of us..& to our ears....HAHAHAA

RE: ugly weather...YA ...SEEMS it’s contagious... for all us Porch Peeps!

RE: your birthday...sorry I’m late in wishing you a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY MS. CAT!

But I had an excuse.....

 LOL!

Anyway...KEEP COOL...& HYDRATED!

As always, ... Stay safe....&...Take care!

☮️  🚤  🌄🍦  ~Allen 🌈 ⛵  🎨 🛶

[LaDolceVita]

@Therapist4u   I am laughing at your question about bravery in going to doctor.  I am a chicken and that is why I hate going to the doctor.  I guess no-one really likes going.  I feel like a whiner, knowing you and Froze have been through and still going through the mill.   I did make an appointment to begin the annual testing procedure week after next.  I feel like I would like to have calcium score because I have been on lowish carb high fat diet for 15 years.  Cholesterol tends to go up with age and bone density goes down.  So will have bone scan  also.  

Where are the ladies on the Porch?  @MsStretch,@Winter2024  and Catwoman, please report in.

[Frozenoem]

Geez it’s hotter than that dbl. hockey sticks place, or at least in my little backwater.>90* and dew points, honestly can say it felt like Phoenix for a week.Only major difference rain & thunderstorms daily.

Still haven’t put A/C on but, that will change soon with more temps in the 90”s.August temps in July in the mountains of Maine (yeesh).

Fourth of July was pleasant with rain and boomers.

No kids blowing digits off or animals being spooked.

Spent the holiday at Old camp and returned yesterday?

Have to avoid sunshine for 2 weeks, new script.Note-

to weather gods stay in 90’s no problem.When weatherstripping on garage doors melt to concrete, it could be a sign.

Stay hydrated y’all

Froze

[Therapist4u]

HI Froze! @Frozenoem

Howz ya health?...other than havin to stay outta da light?

Just the last week....I’ve seen my Pain management Doc, my PCP, & 3 new Orthopedic Surgeons....gotta shot in my hand, ...hip, ...back ...& knees....

So many holes.....I leak when I drink water.... LOL!

This pic is my knee gel shots waitin for me!

my knee gel shots waitin for me!

RE: “Still haven’t put A/C on”...well...we’ve not only had ours on most days since early May, but while I, & many in my area, have decent Home A/C systems...we also need window A/Cs for 2nd floors.... that retain heat... even at night! Let’s compare our electric bills side by side...HAHAAA

RE: “Geez it’s hotter than that dbl. hockey sticks place, or at least in my little backwater.>90*”

Well....in Middle America: expected continued dangerous heat and humidity. Was over 110 heat index today....& lookie here at da temps a comin:

Unfortunately, I have to be outside for long periods of time, usually no shade ....& no place to sit...while waiting for my Doc rides!! Suxbigtimebutwhatyagonnado?

Anyway...Stay safe....&...Take care my friend!

Please have a wonderful week/end too!

☮️  🚤  🌄🍦  ~Allen 🌈 ⛵  🎨 🛶

[Frozenoem]

Allan, the only things that hurt for moment are my left & right 1.finger salutes (swollen up) and my wrist and lower back.

Electric holding at $32 beats all heck outta $300, winter surprise. Furnace is off, if I want hot water kill-away can tell me how deadly that is. I can wait 10 minutes if I need hot water.

My cell has overheated 10 times today, ignoring calls to charge.😎We both have been enjoying sitting on ice packs.👍

Presently 68*, my doors are open. Must be getting old, starting to check out heat indexes , and air quaity

where I’ve considered moving. Except for Winters, Maine still has other places beat.

Midwest for you lotsa luck.

Froze

[Therapist4u]

HI Froze! @Frozenoem

You win on elec bill comaparison...hahaaa!😉

Howz ya health...other than left & right 1.finger salutes (swollen up) 🤕 and wrist and lower back....are they any better now? 💪👍

Are you standing .....& getting around OK?👣

Me...I have the last of the 3 knee gel shots Wed...have pain mgnt every month...been waiting 3 weeks for a PA on a med...& it shouldn’t take more than a few days....esp after I just saw my PCP... who wrote them! Also a few meds have been in short supply...or they don’t have enough when I come to pick them up....sux making more trips just for the same meds....& I have to set up rides for each one...that takes a lot of time! Also as said, I must be outside for long periods of time, 110 heat index...olda folks not posta be outside for that long....usually no shade ....& no place to sit...while waiting for my Doc & Pharmacy rides!! 😒Suxbigtimebutwhatyagonnado?

Did get my new PT eval.....but I don’t have time to make 2-3 extra round-trips each week...so I have to decline for now! moreSux!☹️

Also waiting for an epidural in my back within the next 2 weeks....it hurts to get those shots...but it is worth it for later pain >>>>’lessening’ (as you know ...it doesn’t relive all the pain...just a bit less hurtin)

Pain Pain go away...& DON’T come back another day...for my Bud Froze & me....LOL!!😊

Anyway...Stay safe....&...Take care my friend!

Please have a wonderful week too!

☮️🚤🌄🍦  ~Allen 🌈 ⛵  🎨 🛶

[Frozenoem]

It’s difficult to install an AC when your busy saluting the window frame, just can’t get the correct angle.I blame finger saluting to. To many crazed city drivers with perhaps a little time in Sicily a month in a rental: 

TIME for a nice can of concentrated soup With yummy magnesium until it’s replaced with something similar. Spent last 3 days reading, Drugs.com app of all med’s with names..

When I had to stand outside for hours, or take very walks through the forest in Summer, used to carry a 2-3 Liter insulated Camelback stuffed with water and ice cubes, kept water cool vs tasting like something else.

Pain says I’m doing great, no docs until August, No doc’s, no sunshine otherwise I’ll look like raw hamburger. Which is great cause I have no desire to cook anything right now.

Had my first bowl of cereal with water, remembering to stay hydrated.

Time to try more food, pills are talking back.

Froze

[Therapist4u]

HI Froze! @Frozenoem

Thanks for the reply & info....

enjoyin the camaraderie....

gotta go 4 now...

We’ll talk again soon... Take care

~Allen

[LaDolceVita]

Hello folks!  We had a super hot 4th here, very humid.   Pretty quiet, just mowing and other usual chores.  Will be making a day trip  next week to buy peaches at a peach farm offering tons and tons of varieties.  Used to go there with the senior center back when we lived in the exurbs.  

Hope everyone is OK and busy having a good time.   I will have to think about annual doctor visits to eye doctor, primary care and the usual tests they want.   Will have to be brave and have a calcium score done.  ☹️

[Frozenoem]

Bone density and me, reason for the “Magnesium” and more breakage of parts and pieces. I just wish I wouldn’t start rumbling immediately after taking it.

Presently 90* outside and 70* inside , haven’t done anything to house and A/C still isn’t in. But, temperature

Is comfortable for now.

Time to refill my water, and find something cold to eat, no desire to eat hot today, not even Hot sauce worked last night.

Froze