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Saturday, October 14, 2017

Too cold then too hot

I like the fact that it is getting a bit cooler outside and inside. However, if I turn off the ac, I immediately get too warm. The worst part is I cannot breathe as the air is stifling. With the ac on at night, I am a bit chilly, even if I can breathe well. So, I put cover on me. With that move, I am too warm. So, I just cover my feet and have the sheet over the rest of me.

When, I get too warm, I sometimes sweat around my neck and head, just from the sheet, and that makes my throat hurt. Then, my chest feels tight. My ears pop and I have too much earwax. What's that all about?

I have been sneezing all day, usually grabbing my blouse and sneezing down inside it when I could not grab a Kleenex. My nose has been running and my eyes are blurry from being too dry and then my eyes water.

Remember, October is the month I am most likely to be very ill. My allergies run rampant. I am very tired all the time. I suspect this is the allergies. It could be all the allergy meds I must take. Who knows? (rhetorical)

At any rate, I did nothing today and seemed to be resting up from drama with J all week. I awoke at 6:30 am and took three naps before 9 pm tonight. I feel like I am recovering from something. Maybe I am. However, the day is soooo dreary with not one bit of sunshine. Maybe that is it. Lack of sunshine really does a number on me.

I went to WM late afternoon/early evening and worked on Shopkick. I thought it was me because I had so much trouble working with it. No, something on my phone had been turned off or on, not sure. Once I got that fixed by employee in electronics, all was better, almost. the site then had problems. ugh

While there, I bought a $2.98 salad in a bowl and bananas. I really needed to buy nothing, and the salad was quick, cheap meal, and good for me. Well, it was cheap for eating out. That was my splurge for the week...lol. I ate it at home with a glass of water. It was delicious and healthy.

And, there was/is nothing I want to watch on TV!

Hopefully, the sun will be out tomorrow. Hopefully, the allergy symptoms will leave. Yes, I am taking allergy meds, all of them. Today, I have been discombobulated!

Your turn
Do you ever have a day where you are discombobulated? Almost ill? Too cold and then too hot?

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The Cast

Fancy is my favorite hen. She is one of the three youngest hens I adopted. Because she is so gentle and friendly, she may be the one I rescued when she was being pecked to death after she could no longer stand. She got to live in the house in a box. Sometimes, I let her sit in my lap while she was convalescing. Now, she comes to sit in the swing with me, cuddling up to my body like a cat or dog. She died in February 2012.

Fancy follows me begging, complaining, needing me to do for her. She talks to me in various voices. She allows me to pick her up and carry her. When she became an adult, her head was a darker red and her body was light brown. Around her neck were tips of black feathers. It appeared she had a necklace of jet around her neck. When I showed this characteristic to a friend, he said, "Oh, you have fancy chickens and plain chickens."

Chessie has a broken toe. I broke it! She had a habit of jumping really high and almost sticking. A raccoon ate her in October 2009.

Thelma is the blonde. She is also the largest hen and the alpha hen. I suspect the gigantic eggs are from her. She often squats and presents herself to me. She is top hen, but I suspect she knows she had better be deferent to top feeder of the flock--me.

Louise is the auburn-feathered hen. She looks like the true Rhode Island Reds in pictures. She is almost as large as Thelma. Some days I suspect she is trying to be top chicken. When I got Pepper, I found out Louise is the Alpha hen.

Pepper came here from the same home as the first four. We were discussing putting red pepper on their food, wondering if it really would increase egg production. Pepper is the only name we agreed on. She is terrorized each day by Louise. Even after the worst was over, she was and is still filled with terror and very wary.

Linda is owned by four hens. They allow her to fetch for them. She loves them dearly, so she allows them to boss her around. Linda comes out in the rain to perform chores for them and make sure they have food and water. She begs scraps from all sorts of places to make sure they have fresh fruits and vegetables.

Parsimony is not a vegetable

Parsimony is extreme care in spending money. Stick around and learn about my random thoughts on accomplishing goals economically--dumpster diving aka safari, gleaning, do-it-yourself, sewing tips, recipes, and whatever is happening in my life.

Okay so maybe "parsimony" is not your thing. How about thrift, frugality or just plain saving money? I try not to go the tightwad route as that seems to imply others will suffer from my habits.

Some of my not-spending habits have very much been a part of my lifelong habits. Other habits are newly acquired and are an extension of my lifelong not-spending habits.

I am very imaginative when it comes to substituting or making instead of buying. I will tell you about making a heater for the chickens' water. Not one dime was spent since I had everything I needed right in my basement.

Practicality must rear its head alongside parsimony. For example, I will use the dryer in bad weather or because of allergies in the spring. But, I will not wash clothes in a tub as long as I have a washing machine or can find one.

You may hear more about my four Rhode Island Red hens than you care to hear. They lay delicious brown eggs.

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Saturday, October 14, 2017

Too cold then too hot