possibly the last gasp of winter, yes?
May. 12th, 2020 05:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkNo actual snow accumulation, but we did have flakes falling on Sunday, in between rain showers. Friday night the birdbath froze nearly solid -- there was just enough water in the bottom that I was able to break it up with a hammer and some hot water. (A frozen solid birdbath is hard to get the ice out of.) I dumped the water out on Monday evening so that it wouldn't freeze -- it's easy to get a jug of tap water to refill it in the AM. They tell us that it will probably freeze again tonight. Then, finally, it will warm up and stay there, getting to 'normal' range by the end of the week. I did not plant the california poppy seeds last weekend -- packet says 'after last freeze', which should be this weekend. Despite the cold, things are leafing out and flower buds (apple, lilac) are starting to crack open and show color.
Today was a major shopping trip - I went to Costco! We'll be out of a couple of things from there by Friday, so off I went. It was not very crowded, and seemed fairly well stocked, at least in the places where I looked (I don't usually buy groceries there, so I didn't look). I also went to two different Meijer stores - the big one had some odd holes in the stock, and I was able to get those things at the smaller store. None of the stores I went to had crunchy peanut butter in anything smaller than the large jar, which I don't like buying because it's just too big. We have plenty of Velvet, but J doesn't like it. He may have to choose between Jif/Skippy and crunchy.... Frozen chicken is getting scarce again (processing plants closing?), still sparse stocks of rice, dried beans, flour, pasta, ramen, & chocolate chips. House brand bleach is back in stock, and name brand liquid soaps are reappearing as stock makes it through the distribution network. Freezer cases are understocked in just about everything. I tried to spend money at the local hardware store, but they didn't have any of things I was looking for (Meijer had one, Menard's had the other two).
One of the things I've been doing is actually labelling my yarn boxes, and last week I had a collapse in the system. The batteries in the PTouch died, and we had one AAA battery left (of course, the labeller uses more than that). OK, I'll use the Dymo, which uses AA batteries of which we still have plenty. It ran out of tape, and I didn't have another cartridge. Today I was able to resupply both batteries and labeller tape.
PT today worked on the front of the shoulder -- he says that the knot-loosening on Friday helped, and it's much more mobile. Still not anywhere near 'done', though -- there's still a lot of work left to balance the muscles. And a lot of it is repetitive and boring stuff that needs to be done twice a day so that my brain can remember how it's supposed to work when it doesn't hurt.
Today was a major shopping trip - I went to Costco! We'll be out of a couple of things from there by Friday, so off I went. It was not very crowded, and seemed fairly well stocked, at least in the places where I looked (I don't usually buy groceries there, so I didn't look). I also went to two different Meijer stores - the big one had some odd holes in the stock, and I was able to get those things at the smaller store. None of the stores I went to had crunchy peanut butter in anything smaller than the large jar, which I don't like buying because it's just too big. We have plenty of Velvet, but J doesn't like it. He may have to choose between Jif/Skippy and crunchy.... Frozen chicken is getting scarce again (processing plants closing?), still sparse stocks of rice, dried beans, flour, pasta, ramen, & chocolate chips. House brand bleach is back in stock, and name brand liquid soaps are reappearing as stock makes it through the distribution network. Freezer cases are understocked in just about everything. I tried to spend money at the local hardware store, but they didn't have any of things I was looking for (Meijer had one, Menard's had the other two).
One of the things I've been doing is actually labelling my yarn boxes, and last week I had a collapse in the system. The batteries in the PTouch died, and we had one AAA battery left (of course, the labeller uses more than that). OK, I'll use the Dymo, which uses AA batteries of which we still have plenty. It ran out of tape, and I didn't have another cartridge. Today I was able to resupply both batteries and labeller tape.
PT today worked on the front of the shoulder -- he says that the knot-loosening on Friday helped, and it's much more mobile. Still not anywhere near 'done', though -- there's still a lot of work left to balance the muscles. And a lot of it is repetitive and boring stuff that needs to be done twice a day so that my brain can remember how it's supposed to work when it doesn't hurt.
