Plans for today (2019-2022)

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So its a sort of crisp bread?
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Ish… this batch are because I have made the too thin. I followed the recipe. I should have gone with my gut but I hadn't written down that they make 2 and 2/3rd of a sheet not 3 sheets... so a double recipe will make 5 sheets nicely. These will soften a touch now they are out of the dehydrator which is nicer in our opinion. I've got some pictures that I'll upload now that they are done.

But I've a few other things on the gone today at the moment including
  • washing on the line
  • deal with a darned broody bantam (they make awful mums in my experience because the 2 bantam we have are basically feral and I don't like not being able to handle my chooks)
  • crumpet - double batch on the go as we speak
  • I've just bottled 1 batch of the orange and lemon kefir (the pomegranate looks like in needs longer)
  • a loaf of bread on (600g flour, 300g water, 2.0g yeast - still working on the yeast side of life but have got the getting it out the tin sussed)
  • there's a couple of add-ons that need updating (including one that I have reported a bug with which I'm keen to resolve).
  • Just to get through the day.
  • Descriptions to update
  • Write up about 5 recipes (done a couple)
  • Tinker with more settings on site
  • Remember to walk to letterbox to collect mail
  • Remember to collect eggs and lock up chooks
  • Move chook feeder so magpies can't eat out of it (needs more adjustment)
relegated to tomorrow now...
  • 2 loads of washing (1 down, 1 to go - that's tomorrow)
  • Cashew nut cheese to start (tomorrow now)
  • Seeds to plant out (soaking now) - yeah must do this later
  • Water existing seeds and seedlings (done)
  • Water kefir to make (2nd batch - probably deferred til tomorrow)
  • Sourdough to wake up
  • Oatcakes (Staffordshire ones) - can't don't have enough oatmeal
  • Cover over bbq area with new shading
  • housework



  • ?
 
Another day in the 90's - unusual for this time of year here, to say the least. I don't think I remember what rain looks like.

Heading over for an early-morning appointment to get MrsTasty's heart monitor registered with a local monitoring clinic.

Also, took my car in yesterday for an oil change, but now it's over $1K in repairs. Still cheaper than a new one, but ouch!
 
TastyReuben said:
Another day in the 90's - unusual for this time of year here, to say the least. I don't think I remember what rain looks like.
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It should be mid tens to low twenties here at this time of year, with frosts or close to at night. Last night was double figures. Today was 28C. Needless to say we have no idea what rain looks like here either. Last rain I saw was back in the UK in August! Strangely it was a bank holiday weekend.

3 medical appointments next week and it's only a 4 day working week here!
But for once, 2 of them are for my husband. He's turned 50 back in March but his ankles and feet have been playing up on him for decades. He got nagged at big time by his mother when we were back in the UK. She had seen the problems last November when they were here. I've been 'nagging' him to do something about it as well and could only say I know to her. He can't walk without his custom orthotics him which mean he has to be in his shoes all the time in the house (I find this annoying because we always used to have a no shoes rule, slippers only but they don't fit his slippers. The problem is that he doesn't check the bottom of his shoes before he walks in, enough said. Well he finally made an appointment to see the doctor, his mother has mentioned it every time he has spoken to them which is weekly at the minimum. My MIL has gotten through to him where I haven't.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn - I can commiserate with your hubs. I have plantar fasciitis in both feet, and it can be pretty damn painful.

I also don't like to wear shoes (which probably contributed to developing the condition), but the first thing the foot doc told me was: wake up, stretch feet and calf muscles, then put on shoes, all before you take your first step. I also sleep with braces on my feet, though sometimes I skip that.

I hope he's doing better. We had three appointments this week (last one is today) and we already have one scheduled next week, and the week after. Between here myositis, her stroke, and now her heart, but the usual stuff for both of us, it's like that year round.

I get so tired of sitting in doc's offices and exam rooms. :(
 
TastyReuben said:
SatNavSaysStraightOn - I can commiserate with your hubs. I have plantar fasciitis in both feet, and it can be pretty damn painful.

I also don't like to wear shoes (which probably contributed to developing the condition), but the first thing the foot doc told me was: wake up, stretch feet and calf muscles, then put on shoes, all before you take your first step. I also sleep with braces on my feet, though sometimes I skip that.

I hope he's doing better. We had three appointments this week (last one is today) and we already have one scheduled next week, and the week after. Between here myositis, her stroke, and now her heart, but the usual stuff for both of us, it's like that year round.

I get so tired of sitting in doc's offices and exam rooms. :(
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sadly we have been the same since my early 20's. I was 19 when I had an accident which caused my left writs to dislocate 20-30 times a day.
l lived in chronic pain for 15 years and even threatened to severe the affected nerve myself at one point. I finally got somewhere after that, but it took 11 operations over those 15 years to sort the wrist out. I was finally OK and managing my severe asthma when my back went. Wheelchair and so many appointments... even now I am seeing people on a regular basis. This last month has been unusually quiet for me which has been bliss but I know that that just means the next month is going to be murder instead.

Hubby got ill this time last year and since then has gone down hill. He now has something called haemochromatosis - though technically he has had it all his life, but it was managed accidentally by him usually giving blood 3 or 4 times a year which ironically is actually the only treatment for the condition - but coming to Australia meant he could no longer give blood (Aussie regulations) so the condition caught up with him. Hashimoto's disease was also diagnosed at the same time, but it is the haemochromatosis that is much more severe.
He's had flat feet (and the exact opposite of arches) all of his life, stretching isn't the solution sadly though everyone tells him he should be stretching… He's literally just told me over the phone what the MRI report says (you can access them before seeing your GP here in Aus). Sometimes that's not a good thing, but we now know that at 50 he's just been diagnosed with bad to severe osteo-arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis as well. He sees the specialist next week (He rang the dr for a referral code so he could book the apt whilst he was waiting for his plane - delayed take off, I guess it has its uses.) the other apt is apparently physio -dr wants him to see one of those as well. But at 50, they won't operate, so I'm not quite sure how we continue as we are right now. I can't pick up what he can't do, my back is simply not up to it. I'm only at the desk on the computer because I'm in the wheelchair which I can sit in for much longer than a normal desk chair - plus it actually gives the chair a purpose other than staying in the back of his car! (I tactfully asked that I have access to it in case of an emergency when he is away)… I am so glad that in our 20s, 30s, and his 40's we were very fit and very active and took up every opportunity we had. With what is happening now and the prospects for both of us (not sure what you have picked up on with me, but its not good) we can at least know we did what we wanted to whilst we could. Now we have to work out how to carry on given the circumstances and work out how to get our lives back again - we were nearly there. At least one good thing has come out of it - the doctor has told him he needs to lose weight! Apparently that is and his mother are much more influential than his wife! (I've only been telling him for 18 months now!)

Ah well - fingers crossed for the both of you as well. We both know what it is like. I have even taken to taking my knitting with me to my medical appointments! It is amazing how often people come up to me and ask me what it is I am knitting. They don't seem to realise that you used to have to knit socks (and technically they still are, but by machines). I hand knit all of my socks and sometimes even had spin the wool as well.
Right that's me done for the night - I need to go and lock up the chooks and do a head count, collect eggs and have a gaze at the stars. It is a mild night at the moment and there is only a toenail of a moon and the sky is (yet again) clear.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn - oh, I hear you on being dependent, so to speak, on each other, and on having no regrets. We talk about that all the time, even in the car on the way over: "Whatever you do, Tasty, don't you get sick! We should at least be happy that everything going wrong is going wrong with just one of us!"

With her myositis...that's treated by a rheumatologist, so we know what it's like a bit with that as well. Both her dad and his mom had severe RA, too.

Regrets: oh, how people scolded us for going on relatively expensive vacations in our 30's and beyond! But MrsTasty always says (even this morning), "If the worst happens today, we'll...I've seen more of the world than most. Totally worth it."

I really hope you guys do well and feel as good as possible going forward. It's trying, being sick all the time and just generally feeling like crap, and having your whole existence framed by medical issues. Big hug!
 
Last day (hopefully) of 90s temps. Tomorrow isn't even supposed to make it out of the 60s, and Sunday, they're forecasting rain, glorious rain. If I remember correctly, rain is water that falls from the sky. It's so hard to remember...:)

We're at the hospital now, MrsTasty is mid-heart cath as I type. If you have to be in a hospital, this is the one to be in. It looks just like walking into a luxury hotel when passing through the entrance. All rooms private, too, and a decent cafeteria, a full gym with swimming pool, etc.

Still a hospital, though. MrsTasty was angry because in the doc's office, it was "30-35 minutes" for the procedure, then today, it was "an hour or so," and right before they wheeled her in, they said she had to stay here six hours flat on her back, so if she's lucky, the earliest she's leaving is 5PM-6PMish tonight, where she'd earlier worked out 1PMish, so now she's mad about the whole thing, because she feels like they're always intentionally deceptive about how long this kind of stuff takes.
 
Well, everything's over and we're home. Good news is, everything checked out, no coronary disease, no blocks, so no stents. Regular doses of bacon and butter aren't hurting her.

Slightly less good news...she definitely had a heart attack, and they don't know why. Now it's back home and hope the monitor catches something over the next couple of years.

Funny side story: this weekend is the last Oktoberfest of the season, hosted by our local Donauschwaben Society. We never miss this, as it puts a nice cap on the last two months of friendship and frivolity (which was seriously curtailed this year by her eye surgeries).

All week, she's been moaning that "this thing on Thursday better not mess up Oktoberfest!" 😤

When they called me back after the procedure, the nurses were laughing and told me, "She's just waking up now, she's already talking!"

Apparently, her first words were, "...can...I...<moan>...still...have beer on Sunday...?"🤒
 
TastyReuben said:
Well, everything's over and we're home. Good news is, everything checked out, no coronary disease, no blocks, so no stents. Regular doses of bacon and butter aren't hurting her.
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Great!
TastyReuben said:
When they called me back after the procedure, the nurses were laughing and told me, "She's just waking up now, she's already talking!"

Apparently, her first words were, "...can...I...<moan>...still...have beer on Sunday...?"🤒
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That's the spirit! You will have to have fun at that Oktoberfest.
 
TastyReuben said:
SatNavSaysStraightOn - I can commiserate with your hubs. I have plantar fasciitis in both feet, and it can be pretty damn painful.

I also don't like to wear shoes (which probably contributed to developing the condition), but the first thing the foot doc told me was: wake up, stretch feet and calf muscles, then put on shoes, all before you take your first step. I also sleep with braces on my feet, though sometimes I skip that.

I hope he's doing better. We had three appointments this week (last one is today) and we already have one scheduled next week, and the week after. Between here myositis, her stroke, and now her heart, but the usual stuff for both of us, it's like that year round.

I get so tired of sitting in doc's offices and exam rooms. :(
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I'm barefoot 24/7 unless I'm working or going out. I read somewhere it makes you feel at one with the earth.???

Russ
 
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