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Good morning, 16 degrees here in the Annapolis Valley, sun shining, windy. Going out for a walk soon after having skyped with mother in Germany.
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Just a quick pop-in....I'm on zoom for our regional council's annual meeting, but I have time to do other stuff! We put my schnauzer down this week. Her name was Faith. She was over 14 1/2 and probably had cancer, based on blood counts and copious lumps. It was done with everyone getting a chance to say goodbye; she had a last romp in the garden to eat carrots. It was the toughest decision ever, but when I felt her finally relax in my arms at the vet's, I realized, she hadn't relaxed for a very long time. She was in pain, and I had interpretted it as her sympathy for my pain. She is buried at her happy spot on St. Joesph Island...the place she hated to leave. We planted a tree in her honour, and now, I can relax and cry for her.
 
Too many dying doggies these days. Condolences, @Nancy. Schnauzers are on my list if I ever have a dog again. My best bud had a miniature when we were kids and I was quite fond of the little guy.
 
Oh, dear, another friend for Helios to greet at the Rainbow Bridge. Hugs, Nancy; it's never an easy decision.
 
Damn me. After I got home, I got around to dragging in the containers of cat litter. The big damned box, which I have stopped buying for downstairs, convinced it's going to kill me, I still buy for the ground floor litter, and as I lifted it, and twisted a bit to open the door, I felt a hamstring wrench, and my back and butt have been killing me ever since, painkillers and Voltaren cream be damned. Ouch!
 
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Damn me. After I got home, I got around to dragging in the containers of cat litter. The big damned box, which I have stopped buying for downstairs, convinced it's going to kill me, I still buy for the ground floor litter, and as I lifted it, and twisted a bit to open the door, I felt a hamstring wrench, and my back and butt have been killing me ever since, painkillers and Voltaren cream be damned. Ouch!
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Ouch. Sounds like me and my back. I pretty much have back or neck issues on a regular basis nowadays. Sometimes leading to tension headaches.
 
Ouch. Sorry to hear about the pain. Seems like the most ordinary thing starts setting it off sometimes.
My Mom, who had arthritis just about everywhere, used to have this stuff called HEET. I think it was essentially horse liniment. It had an interesting aroma, and the burn was such you forgot about whatever pain it was trying to remedy, it seems
 
I am calling chiropractor and leaving message hoping for a Monday adjustment.

And no, Red, even the Voltaren is really dicey, given the very "shreddy" condition of much of my poor skin. I know the stuff you mean, and it would be death to my outer surface.

Gummies are not entirely a bad thing.
 
Oh so sorry to hear of the loss of your beloved friend @Nancy. St. Joe's is a lovely place - and planting a tree is a great gesture of memory and future hope.

Ouch Bette. Sorry to hear about that wrenched back. More of 2020 curses.

In my home, we've had a bad & expensive week - furnace got shut down after annual inspection - so we are VERY thankful for this week's warmer weather. Asbestos wrap on some ductwork has to be removed before new furnace will be installed. Both are expensive. And then our fridge conked out - hoping the Maytag repairman will find a simple cheap repair on Tuesday when he visits. So I guess that's the magical "3" things ... that should be all! Was kinda hoping we would win the lottery last night .... but alas.
 
Ouch to you, Carolla. Never rains but it pours, yes?

I've been so careful since daughter left about only buying large container for upstairs. All the rest are plastic hogs, and I hate them, but I buy one jug as needed for basement (cat needs a litter on both levels). Thought I was doing okay just bringing the big one inside. May have to enlist the boarder's useless brother in cat litter movement.

And yeah, ancient asbestos. Yuck. I have a small panel of it behind water pipes. Last guy to notice it said, "spray with lots of water, unscrew, and no-one will ever know"...
 
Nice thing about having a "new" (in relative terms) house is that it was built after asbestos was banned from new house construction. I have had to deal with it in work environments, though (e.g. the old school where the library head office was located for the first 6 or so years I worked there). Nasty stuff. Was so pleased to hear that Asbestos, PQ is going to change their name. No point in honouring a product that is no widely regarded as toxic (though we were still exporting it to developing countries as late as the Harper government, not sure if that's been remedied or not).
 
Good morning! It's a beautiful autumn day, let us enjoy it! The election week cycle seems to be behind us, except for the whining from Trump.
Let us lift a mug in celebration!

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Mug lifted.....Good to have someone in who kind of looks and acts like a real president.
 
And Joe Biden is pretty good, too. :giggle:

Another nice day here, but the end is in sight, sadly. Looks like a cold front coming through Tuesday night and into Wednesday. Go from 22 on Tuesday to single digit highs and 0 lows at the end of the week.
 
Good morning. We have a special weather statement calling for snow in the area. We went for a hike yesterday and at times it felt like snow was in the air. It has been extremely windy since yesterday afternoon. That north wind is bringing the cold air in. Not to worry. It won't last and we're cozy here
 
Raking done. For this week. This is the second time this fall. Next yard waste pickup is in two weeks so there's still for a third.

And look who came to say "hi" while I was working. Scared the bejeebers out of me at first, but they are kind of cute, really. I think it's a wolf spider but haven't gone Googling yet. I think that may be the best pic I have taken of a spider. Coaxed them on to a stick and put them in one of my bushes. That's the yard waste bag they are sitting on and I didn't want to crush them when I was packing the leaves down.

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Also had a couple doggies pop in for a visit with their humans in hot pursuit. Got loose somehow, I guess. Bear and Wolf were their names.
 
Carolla said:
YIKES Mendalla! That's a big arachnid!! Good job on the photo tho.
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Looks bigger in the photo than it actually was, but wolf spiders are one of the largest species in Ontario (dock spiders are bigger) so they weren't small. Probably an inch or a bit more legspan. Big enough to trigger my arachnophobia in a way a smaller one wouldn't.
 
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