What have you done today?

[Marie Mallory]

I like to watch my husband work too!

It's fun, huh. grin.

 

[Marie Mallory]

I am being productive today, at least so far . I had my morning coffee, doing laundry, exercised and danced on the vibration plate for my morning 15 minutes,( which totally energized me), and then made ice cream for tomorrow for after we go to the fitness center and i swim.
I am making Banana Split ice cream in the Ninja Creami this time. It is one of our favorites !
It is actually frozen yogurt, because i use my homemade yogurt rather than milk or cream for the recipe. It has a banana, crushed pineapple, vanilla protein powder, sf vanilla pudding mix, and the yogurt, all blended up and is now in the freezer for tomorrow.

No sugar, no fake ingredients, it is like having a protein shake with yogurt and natural fruit in it, but frozen. After the Ninja Creami does its magic, then we have ice cream.
I will add some strawberries and a little chocolate syrup to top it off when we eat it .
Ice cream makes just the perfect after-workout meal. It is quick and easy to make, and healthy.

@Yvonne Smith are you still taking the Restore? I'm almost finished my first bag.
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Only did a few vines this last week, and they are coming back with a vengeance.
I need to get busy again on vines real soon. Some of the trees I've saved are really looking beautiful now.
Today I've been just online or small jobs inside.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

NAT. (Not A Thing...)

 

[Marie Mallory]

Today has not gone like we planned it at all ! We have a Sam’s Club delivery expected today, and FedEx is usually here in the morning, and then we planned to go to the fitness center and work out and swim. However, the FedEx drove on down the street, so now we do not know if he is going to loop back later, or perhaps not even bring the order until tomorrow, making us watch for it yet another day.

At least it is a nice sunshiny day, sort of warm, and Bobby has been outside enjoying the sunshine. It is going on three weeks since our old forum went offline, and no one has heard anything at all; so I am beginning to think that it is not coming back this time, and we just have to start over again. I wish we had some way to let more of the people know who were part of the old forum, but I only have emails for a few people, and I have already given them the link for this forum.

Well ! Looks like FedEx is here after all, so that part is good news, but it is too late to go to the fitness center today anyway.

Yvonne I'm going to stay off forums for awhile and catch up on dog training and other thing, just didn't want anyone wondering what happened.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

Yvonne I'm going to stay off forums for awhile and catch up on dog training and other thing, just didn't want anyone wondering what happened.

Thank you for letting us know, @Marie Mallory ! We would have been worried if we didn’t see you for a while and didn’t know if you and Jake were okay. I know in the spring, it always seems like there is a lot to catch up with; so enjoy your forum vacation, and we will see you when you have a little tie to write and visit again.
Prayers for safety for you and Jake as you take care of the farm.

 

[Shortie]

I have had a very productive day today been able to get a lot of work done and also catch up on chores I do love when Spring arrives, always boosts my mood

 

[Schwallenstutter]

Ran a bit.

 

[Krystal]

So far, I have cooked some black-eye peas that I had soaked all night, done some light house cleaning, and ran a few errands.

 

[Susannah]

A lot of my time seems to be involved with the sick kitty now. He’s been fed 3 times and it isn’t noon yet. He just looks at me like he’s saying what is this crap? He’s grumbling something, might be something instead of crap.

 

[Krystal]

A lot of my time seems to be involved with the sick kitty now. He’s been fed 3 times and it isn’t noon yet. He just looks at me like he’s saying what is this crap? He’s grumbling something, might be something instead of crap.

I understand. I am having to give my kitty liquid antibiotic from his dental surgery he had and he hates it! He is on to me! As soon as I kneel down onto the floor; hiding the dropper of medicine behind me, he runs behind the sofa. I swear he sticks his paw around the edge of he sofa and gives me the finger. I had to get creative giving him his antibiotic and I can't trick him the same way everytime.

 

[Susannah]

I understand. I am having to give my kitty liquid antibiotic from his dental surgery he had and he hates it! He is on to me! As soon as I kneel down onto the floor; hiding the dropper of medicine behind me, he runs behind the sofa. I swear he sticks his paw around the edge of he sofa and gives me the finger. I had to get creative giving him his antibiotic and I can't trick him the same way everytime.

I’m having to use a syringe too and he hates it. It’s going fairly well. He’s only managed to spit it out once. Hang in there.

 

[Krystal]

We trimmed the shrubs; shaping them up for the year and cleaned up the landscaping. Picked up limbs around the yard from the storm we had on Friday and hauled them off. Took a nap.

 

[Mary Stetler]

My first planting of beans was a dud. The seed seems to have been too old so today I put in a second planting. Put a few hills of summer squash. Forgot the cucumbers. I also put asparagus seedlings along a shallow ditch to add to my food forest. Now, where to put the potatoes....

 

[Axel Slingerland]

A day or two ago, I made the mistake of posting that I had not been sick since September. I can't say that anymore. Me and my big mouth. The same day I caught a cold from a woman with a sick kid at Walmart.

I need a Mocha...

 

[Axel Slingerland]

Last night, after I made my previous post, my son and I went to get the aforementioned Mocha. We get outside and our car is gone. Now there are a few possibilities here.

1. My daughter took the car. She has a key and is on the title so she is allowed to do that. Would she do it without saying anything, knowing that we depend on the car for so many things? I don't think so, but you never know...

2. The car was stolen. Unlikely, since it's ten years old and has body damage. Plus the parking lot has many cars actually worth stealing. On the other hand, the value of it is supposedly more than $10k. We were offered $13k in Eureka two years ago but my daughter said it was worth more here, but like almost everything else she said about this area, she was wrong.

3. The Sheriff's Department towed the car. (Edison does not have its own Police Department.) I parked in what we were told was a former no parking space supposedly for the mail truck. But the mail truck isn't allowed to park in marked no parking zones, even on private property, and the drivers of the mail truck never parked in it anyway, so the apartment complex supposedly turned it back into a regular parking space.

In addition to that, the Sheriff's Department never comes here unless they're called, and they have never done anything about parking violations. Disabled Parking Space and Fire Lane violations are an every day occurrence here, and is why I parked there in the first place. I would love to park closer to my apartment in one of four Disabled Parking Spaces there.

4. The apartment complex Manager had the car towed. That seems unlikely as well, since even if she called the Sheriff about it, it's only a $40 fine in Kern County. If they came here for that, it seem more logical I would just get a parking ticket.

So I'm waiting for business hours so I can make some calls.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

That is terrible , @Axel Slingerland ! I hope you are able to find out what happened with your car, and get it back again. Unless it was stolen, you should be able to get it back, and if they wrongly towed it, they should bring it back again and not charge you for it.
Many years ago, back when my kids were all little, we had a similar thing happen to us. My husband had gone to work, and the car was in the driveway when he left, but the kids and I slept in later and when we got up, our car (a 65 Dodge Polaris) was just gone.
I asked the neighbors, and one of them said they remembered seeing a tow truck hauling it away !

There was no reason for our car to be towed, it was in our own driveway, and an old car that was completely paid for and owned for a long time by us. we had no idea which towing company had taken it, so I started calling the ones in our area.
It turned out that the driver had been sent out to pick up a similar car somewhere in the same area, and took ours by mistake. Even though it was their fault, they refused to bring it back, and we had to wait until my husband got home from work and drive down to the wrecking company and pick it up.
I a sure that it was their responsibility to return my car, but we were poor and they probably knew that they could refuse and we would just find a way to come and get it back.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

Well, it was towed. My apartment complex got a new Manager about six months ago. She was the fifth new one in the year and a half I had lived here at the time. We've got a pretty big parking lot, but for over 100 parking spaces, they only have 8 disabled spaces. California requires 10% of available spaces be designated as disabled spaces. 10% would be 10 spaces. Add to that, people parked in the disabled spaces, and just on our side of the building, there were 4 dead cars, and 9 in the entire lot.

When we got our latest Manager, the dead cars disappeared. For the next several months we could always find a spot on our side of the building, even if it was just a regular space. But about a month ago, parking spaces near my apartment started getting hard to find. What I didn't know was the Manager had contracted what I find on the Internet has been referred to as a "predatory towing company" to patrol the lot every once in awhile and tow dead or illegally parked cars. I found that out today. All I can find about this place is their phone number, no address. The BBB has several complaints agaisnt them.

I can get it back, but it's going to be a problem. I don't have a lot of money, except for what I was planning to leave to my kids. Plus, because I had my daughter put the car in her name so it could be driven down here (and I never changed it), it's gonna take a good bit of jumping through the hoops.

Here's a picture of the sign in front of the towing company in Bakersfield I found on Yelp.

If you notice the little sign that has their fees on it, the one that jumps out at me is "Storage Fee $45 (per day)". So in addition to the $175 towing fee, the $75 labor fee and the $75 equipment fee, that storage fee is gonna kill me. One week adds up to $315! I was already going to have to raid my savings for grocery money this month, and this just made that problem 10 times worse.

I have a really bad feeling about this...

 

[Yvonne Smith]

Since your vehicle should not have been towed, maybe the people who own/manage the apartments can get it back for you ? It sounds like you were parked in a valid space, and the vehicle is a running vehicle ; so there was no reason for it being towed.
If they can’t help you, see if there is one of those places where they assist seniors that can help you, @Axel Slingerland .

I searched, and the ADRC (Aging Disability Resource Connection) has an office for Kern County . (I searched for Bakersfield) if this is not the right one for where you live, they should be able to refer you. They can give you free legal help and maybe more, to get your vehicle returned.

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[Marie Mallory]

So far, I have cooked some black-eye peas that I had soaked all night, done some light house cleaning, and ran a few errands.

We canned 42 qt's of beans a couple weeks ago, soon we will some chicken. Would like to can tomatoes but they are just too expensive.
Still clearing fallen tree and limbs from Hurrican Helene.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

I searched, and the ADRC (Aging Disability Resource Connection) has an office for Kern County . (I searched for Bakersfield) if this is not the right one for where you live, they should be able to refer you. They can give you free legal help and maybe more, to get your vehicle returned.

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Thanks, this whole thing has me rather scatterbrained. But I got my daughter's attention by saying "Your inheritance is getting smaller by the day." I had to giggle after that. She's been doing her best to get her claws in what I have left, so it's actually kind of amusing. Specially since my son, who's been there every day for me, is going to get most of it anyway.

Yes, that is the right area. Edison is the same size of a town as Eureka, but because you cross the city limits on the west side and you're in Bakersfield, and Edison doesn't have a lot of stuff that Eureka does because of that, plus it's in the desert instead of the north coast, it's definitely different. In Humboldt County, Eureka is the big city. There's 25,000 people there, vs. 420,000 in Bakersfield. Kern County is the third largest county in California by size, but the population of the county is 775,000 than Humboldt.

Anyway, we discussed this situation last night and we have some choices.

1. Get the car back regardless of how much it will cost, and stay here.
2. Cut our losses and go home to Humboldt County.

As far as staying here goes, the website you posted will be very helpful. I never heard of it. Then there's a place called the Independent Living Center that could help my son when my check out time comes, specially if that happens before I have a backup plan.

After spending half of my life on the road, it's where I stayed the longest since I was a kid. So I will always see Humboldt County / Eureka as home. But there are valid reasons to vote against that, like the shortage of Docs. Here there's plenty of them, but there's a shortage of good Docs.

If we decide to go home, then the first question would be how to get there. Amtrak goes half way by train and half by bus, and that is the cheapest choice, but we would arrive with little more than the clothes we have on so in the end it actually wouldn't be. We would have to replace almost everything.

The second option, definitely the most expensive, is U-Haul at about $1,000, and we could keep most of our stuff. But It would take us a week to get there as I'm only good for driving about 100 miles a day. And I would have to hire people to load and unload the truck. That sort of thing is all but impossible in a wheelchair.

The best option is to rent a minivan. That would cost about $500 for a week in the end, with rental, gas, etc., but even though we could only keep the most important stuff, we could stop by Sequoia National Park on the way. Then any way we drive, we would need a room for at least half the nights, as neither of us can camp anymore, and we can't sleep in the car seats every night.

So in the end it would cost about the same no matter what we do.

Decisions, decisions... I need coffee.