I'm on board with flannel, too. Right now, though, I'm sleeping on a (comfortable) camp chair with my feet propped on a dining chair. My partner has taken over my usual sleeping arrangements since his stroke has crippled him and he cannot get upstairs to his room. I'm actually quite comfortable. I've been sleeping sitting up for years now. If the recliner had fit in my place, I would have moved it from my atelier.
YIKES! That is a lot for y'all. We have finally gotten something close to normal weather. That means rain and cooler temps. I'll have to cut wood in the rain now, but it is welcome because the summer was so hot. They've lifted the burn bans and I have a lot of slash to burn off. It's going to be expensive and difficult to keep enough wood around this coming winter. The partner will be here 24/7 and there is no help with him to process enough wood. I'm thinking I'll need at least double the amount I needed last year. He does like it warmer than I do. I'm not even considering the cost of running the generator. As soon as it's too cold to spend time outside, he'll be in here watching his shows all day.
Feather ticks! Loved them in Europe when I stayed at B&Bs there. I still have a couple but finding the covers for them here is almost impossible. They are "da bomb" for cold winter nights.
The weather turned here, too. I'll have to clean the flues this weekend because I think I'm running out of time. With as cool as it has been, we'll need the wood burner sooner rather than later. I still have tons of wood to bring in, too.I think summer here has packed up & left. It's been kinda cool & rainy off & on the last couple of days so the house was getting a bit chilly and I was almost tempted to start a fire to warm it up...…..instead I chose to make it a baking day. Did a cake, a batch of oatmeal, peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, a chicken for supper and a batch of bread....one loaf, a few rolls and even fried a few pieces for our brunch.
I don't know what I did differently with the bread from my usual recipe, but today's turned out pretty darned close to my mothers. She was famous for her cooking especially her homemade bread being so light & fluffy with a soft chewy crust. After she passed, everyone asked me for her recipe. Unfortunately she never used a recipe, it was always a bit of this & dab of that and a bunch of something else. And her bread was something she never really taught me and I didn't pay enough attention, cause well, ya know...I thought I could do it better. . All I can remember is her having flour from head to toe, proofing her yeast in a glass, hands covered with globs of dough, and oil.
Somehow I doubt I'd ever be able to do it again.
Same here, glad to see you here, Lumpy. I sleep sitting up because my hips just don't work sleeping flat any more. I was scheduled for a hip replacement a week after the partner had his stroke. I'm just glad he stroked out before I had that surgery. Neither of us would have done half so well. As it is, both my brother and my daughter will be available next summer and I hope that the partner will be able to go back to work before that happens.
"atelier" .. wait a sec., I have to look that up....atelier - Dictionary Definition
cool .. I like that word, ya know, it's not easy being a bumpkin ..
Yup, flannel does the trick .. if I fall asleep on a recliner or a camp chair and I wake up hours later ... I have to admit, I'm kinda bent over for a while these days.. Have you considered an air mattress, easy fill up, easy deflate, and the doubles are pretty comfy ... only $29.95 at your nearest Lumpy Store..
Sorry for your partners adversity and yours as well .. best wishes there Gallant and nice seeing you around..
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Just a cold hypocrite. I'm all for maximum use of the animals that we sacrifice. I try not to waste skins, either. One of the things I like about my "meat guys" is how efficient they are about using the entire animal. The only part they don't seem to use is the large intestine. I don't blame them there...
Same here, glad to see you here, Lumpy. I sleep sitting up because my hips just don't work sleeping flat any more. I was scheduled for a hip replacement a week after the partner had his stroke. I'm just glad he stroked out before I had that surgery. Neither of us would have done half so well. As it is, both my brother and my daughter will be available next summer and I hope that the partner will be able to go back to work before that happens.
"atelier" .. wait a sec., I have to look that up....atelier - Dictionary Definition
cool .. I like that word, ya know, it's not easy being a bumpkin ..
Yup, flannel does the trick .. if I fall asleep on a recliner or a camp chair and I wake up hours later ... I have to admit, I'm kinda bent over for a while these days.. Have you considered an air mattress, easy fill up, easy deflate, and the doubles are pretty comfy ... only $29.95 at your nearest Lumpy Store..
Sorry for your partners adversity and yours as well .. best wishes there Gallant and nice seeing you around..
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How are things going for you? I haven't seen you around these parts for a while.
I know what you mean about the Coffee Shop. If nothing else, I will drop by here because the folks are so...folksy!Same here, glad to see you here, Lumpy. I sleep sitting up because my hips just don't work sleeping flat any more. I was scheduled for a hip replacement a week after the partner had his stroke. I'm just glad he stroked out before I had that surgery. Neither of us would have done half so well. As it is, both my brother and my daughter will be available next summer and I hope that the partner will be able to go back to work before that happens.
"atelier" .. wait a sec., I have to look that up....atelier - Dictionary Definition
cool .. I like that word, ya know, it's not easy being a bumpkin ..
Yup, flannel does the trick .. if I fall asleep on a recliner or a camp chair and I wake up hours later ... I have to admit, I'm kinda bent over for a while these days.. Have you considered an air mattress, easy fill up, easy deflate, and the doubles are pretty comfy ... only $29.95 at your nearest Lumpy Store..
Sorry for your partners adversity and yours as well .. best wishes there Gallant and nice seeing you around..
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How are things going for you? I haven't seen you around these parts for a while.
Great .. so there is hope and a positive direction going on..
Everything considered, I'm enjoying my life and I feel lucky and blessed despite some difficult stuff, you know, embracing the suck and pursuing the positive..
I've been fading in and out on posting for a few years now. I do drop by the Coffee Shop occasionally but just haven't had much to say, I'm not sure why. It's like visiting a group old friends, sitting on the couch relaxing and just listening, learning, laughing and I might even have a cup of coffee.
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I know what you mean about the Coffee Shop. If nothing else, I will drop by here because the folks are so...folksy!Same here, glad to see you here, Lumpy. I sleep sitting up because my hips just don't work sleeping flat any more. I was scheduled for a hip replacement a week after the partner had his stroke. I'm just glad he stroked out before I had that surgery. Neither of us would have done half so well. As it is, both my brother and my daughter will be available next summer and I hope that the partner will be able to go back to work before that happens.
"atelier" .. wait a sec., I have to look that up....atelier - Dictionary Definition
cool .. I like that word, ya know, it's not easy being a bumpkin ..
Yup, flannel does the trick .. if I fall asleep on a recliner or a camp chair and I wake up hours later ... I have to admit, I'm kinda bent over for a while these days.. Have you considered an air mattress, easy fill up, easy deflate, and the doubles are pretty comfy ... only $29.95 at your nearest Lumpy Store..
Sorry for your partners adversity and yours as well .. best wishes there Gallant and nice seeing you around..
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How are things going for you? I haven't seen you around these parts for a while.
Great .. so there is hope and a positive direction going on..
Everything considered, I'm enjoying my life and I feel lucky and blessed despite some difficult stuff, you know, embracing the suck and pursuing the positive..
I've been fading in and out on posting for a few years now. I do drop by the Coffee Shop occasionally but just haven't had much to say, I'm not sure why. It's like visiting a group old friends, sitting on the couch relaxing and just listening, learning, laughing and I might even have a cup of coffee.
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I am glad to know you are coping well. I know that things can take unforeseen turns and also like to focus on the more positive aspects of things. Bless you, Lumpy!
The weather turned here, too. I'll have to clean the flues this weekend because I think I'm running out of time. With as cool as it has been, we'll need the wood burner sooner rather than later. I still have tons of wood to bring in, too.I think summer here has packed up & left. It's been kinda cool & rainy off & on the last couple of days so the house was getting a bit chilly and I was almost tempted to start a fire to warm it up...…..instead I chose to make it a baking day. Did a cake, a batch of oatmeal, peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, a chicken for supper and a batch of bread....one loaf, a few rolls and even fried a few pieces for our brunch.
I don't know what I did differently with the bread from my usual recipe, but today's turned out pretty darned close to my mothers. She was famous for her cooking especially her homemade bread being so light & fluffy with a soft chewy crust. After she passed, everyone asked me for her recipe. Unfortunately she never used a recipe, it was always a bit of this & dab of that and a bunch of something else. And her bread was something she never really taught me and I didn't pay enough attention, cause well, ya know...I thought I could do it better. . All I can remember is her having flour from head to toe, proofing her yeast in a glass, hands covered with globs of dough, and oil.
Somehow I doubt I'd ever be able to do it again.
Mine was quite noticeableWell, the 16gb of RAM will noticeably speed it up. We're not talking WOW factor speed increase but noticeable.
We have Xfinity high speed internet bundled with cable and phones. It is excellent and very reliable--rarely ever goes off and when it does it is rarely for more than a very short time. We really have all that kind of capability we need. I am relaying our discussions here to Hombre and he says he really isn't frustrated--at least not often
Don't tell him but I am looking for a good deal on a 27" monitor for him for Christmas though.
An M2.2 solid state drive would give the WOW factor but again, they're still sorta expensive, no where near as expensive as they used to be but still more expensive than a old style disk drive without the large storage space provided on old hard drives.
I've got an M.2 drive, after having only used regular spinning drives prior to it, and I didn't find it to be a wow sort of upgrade.
.. I have a son and daughter that have gone through US Army boot camps, they taught me things and my parents were bluntly pragmatic. My daughter has been sweating it out (war games) in a California desert for the past 3+ weeks.. Sheesh ..
