Accident Prone

A Housefull

2009-11-26T14:50:35Z

I've got a full house and a big turkey and ham...

The grandkid kid Sean is having a blast with the puppy although the puppy took his pacifer and is running around with it in his mouth.

I need to get a shot...

No need for me to hit the road but I love this song from way back then.

Tiny Feets

Distant Roads are Calling Me

2009-11-25T13:17:03Z

Like the Sirens of the Island of the Faiakes But I'm firmly secured to my Mast.

I Don't Miss the Snow!

2009-11-23T13:18:59Z

Save your money and don't go to the show.

Poor Nanuck...

Six Am Why am I Outside Already?

2009-11-22T14:04:23Z

Every morning the new pup wakes me scratching at his Kennel Priscillia jumps from the bed to taunt him and I grab my boots as fast as I can so as to not wake the wife...

They have me well trained.

Even Betsy get's involved most days...

No More Tears

2009-11-20T13:27:02Z

What a Good Day

2009-11-20T01:38:49Z

The power chair is frickin excellent went to the Doc's for the wife and talked about my surgery recovery time and he emphasized I wouldn't be able to just jump up and take care of her a week later which will help me later trust me LOL and he looked over the chair mods brought his staff in to look and out of the blue he said I needed to write a book about all the bullets we both dodged in the last six or so years longer for my wife which felt good but I doubt I'd have the attention span to actually do it I need to corner some publisher or maybe make an outline and send it off to a few and explain I'd need a hand I know nothing of how all this works maybe it will give me something to research while I'm flat on my back I'm close to having all the loose ends wrapped up and am going to relocate the computer to the puppy nightstand device and screw down all the wires so the puppy can't get to them and I can just by reaching over, add a wireless keyboard and I'll be set and also have my desk top cleared off so it's actual usable I'm so close to sorting out the mail found all over the house just two and a half boxes left and with a usable desk I
l'll be able to get rid of the card table I'm using to keep stacks of sorted things on and have plenty of room to hobble around in here without falling over something.

Except the puppy.

We also stopped a few places the wife is having a blast going up and down isles without me pushing her in a hurriedly manner (I hate window shopping) and I can just wonder around or walk laps up an down the isles we stopped at Good Will one of my favorite places to shop I'm still looking for a sewing machine but settled on a pretty nice digital TV for $39 to put up in the guest suite so if the neighbors grand daughter moves in as planned after my surgery she can have tv and the network is already run up there so when she's not in class and just hanging out during the day she can have some privacy, got home lay on the heating pad for an hour and I'm actually still mostly awake at eight without a nap...

I also got four calls on the rental and the ad came out this morning so I should be able to get someone in there with time to spare before I get a knife taken to me.

It was a stress relieving day.

The Second Day

2009-11-19T13:33:05Z

Geez I woke at five took the guest to a job came home sat in the tub an hour easy and I'm already spent from taking the wife to the doc's yesterday and then some shopping the power chair works great no bridge needed to get her from bed so suddenly she can tour the house without much effort from the caregivers or myself got a transfer belt instead of reinventing wheels and making one myself it's exactly what I was seeing in my mind scary...

I need a better bridge to the car though and now I am looking at the dog house and thinking a simple plank with a six inch padded box below it I could jam between the car seat and chair seat would work out better maybe especially if the top layer had beveled edges and a slick finish it would just be a matter of laterial motion but and anyways another doc appointment after lunch the heat from the tub didn't last the day like it usually does so I'm going to lay back down with the heating pad until the wife wakes up.

Or as long as I can keep the pup from barking for attention...

Live Wire

2009-11-18T14:04:09Z

So yesterday I had a friend helping me finish up the rental and it used to have a well out back that went dry so I had city water hooked up instead of putting down a new well. It was actually cheaper and down the road I won't have to repair it if we get a lightning strike or something but I had a small shelter built around it for freezes with an outlet and light and I wanted to grab the water tank since it is short and squat and will fit in the bunker perfectly.

I went back prepared with pipe wrenches and my favorite pair of dikes, capped off the water line to the tank and went to cut the power line headed to the pressure switch so I could yank the tank out and boom I discover the line is line lots of arcing and such but I've done this before sometimes intentionally to trip the breaker me being lazy and all and but anyways after the first zap I figured the breaker blew so I grabbed the dikes again and squeezed hard to cut the cable and once again boom and sparks fly as I kneel in the water that drained from the tank I squeezed harder and finally severed the line.

I ruined the dikes to LOL melted a big hole in them I might try and weld it but I dunno if I'd be able to grind a new edge on it in such a small space.

At this point I was saying to myself the breaker definitely blew this time and when I went to pull the tank out I realized I'd need to tear down the mini well house so I began to disassemble the outlet switch and light and just let them lay in the ground. Since the cable and water line is deeply buried I wanted to put a post and security light up and add a water tap since it's a big yard and a tenant might want a garden I gather my tools and make a mental note to come back with the chain saw to dispatch the well house and grab the tank leaving the wires laying on the wet ground, walk into the trailer and check the power box and the breaker still hadn't tripped.

30 amps sitting next to me like a snake LOL.

I closed the breaker and duct taped it off just in case to keep me out of the doghouse...

In The Doghouse

2009-11-17T14:06:55Z

At least that's where I found the cat this morning...

She didn't feel like posing for a picture and hopped out as soon as she saw the camera.

Scraps of wood make for a side table / dog refuge. When Priscillia has a litter the little ones won't be able to crawl out of it until they have grown a bit. I'm going to seal the inside with fiberglass resin then stain it Mahogany and it will make a table over Maxwell's kennel and give Priscillia an easily defended cave to escape to when the pup wears her out playing.

Finally I'm Getting Something Done!

2009-11-15T13:55:43Z

I swear that's a line from some sci fi movie but the title eldudes me.

Eludes me I mean to say.

Rescued a friend yesterday long story and in turn he helped a few hours on the rental he crashed in the guest suite to destress gave him a handful of Videos to watch I bet he slept on the couch LOL. I ran out of steam when we got home or rather my back was being itself so I lay down for a bit on the heating pad and watched PBS with the headphones on while the wife watched the news, got up for thirty minutes and glued together the beginning of the mini in house dog house this AM at 6 the cat was sleeping in it...

Today I need to get back to paper work sorting and respond to another collection place that is really twisting the rules and swearing and all that to boot so I'm probably going to turn it over to an Attorney that's been giving me help on the side and I haven't heard yet from the third I sent a letter off to.

On top of that someone used our phone number on a loan to buy a truck or something from Fargo and I've called them three times to explain reguardless of what number he put down my truck is twenty one years old and my name isn't whatever they keep trying to ask for and suggested they try the DMV and maybe it was a typo but all in all things are well in that matter or will be.

The carpet looks great and if the friend seeking sanctuary get's up anytime soon he's gonna drink some coffee and head over to the rental and finish the painting then I have a few odds and ends and we can attempt to rerent it.

I'll be picky this time I tend to let people slide on things if I know they are having trouble but it's to the point I can't be like this and need someone in there that I won't have to worry about after the surgery.

I Still Cannot Operate the Coffee Maker

2009-11-14T13:47:05Z

I'm gonna need to break down and find my glasses and read the instructions.

Filled it up with water and coffee left it "On" for fifteen then tried to pump out a cup which ended up being semi hot clear water popped the lid up and there is just a drop of moisture in the center of the ground up awakedness so I transfer it to the old maker and use it once again.

Oddly enough it has not leaked a drop the past two days and I was here all day because our caregiver had some medical issues that were important thank gawd for old time doctors that even in an ER have that tingley feeling that all on the surface is not the entire story the day the wife and I went to get her blood work and had the caregiver get seen for an antibiotic for a tooth and made a day of it lots of XRays and why is it taking so long just to get an antibiotic and I knew a lady who swallowed a fly she had to have a procedure done yesterday and has a serious infection being treated aggressively I told her to just do anything she needed to do for herself and lay most of the day on the heating pad it was a long long week of doctors for the wife and took care of her even got her to scoot over to the power chair which is a piece of cake from the bed to there and back for her and she toured around the house for thirty and I got the head board seriously lag bolted to the wall studs to the point it accurred to me if I pulled to hard I'd knock the bed off it's posts...

I also stared at the scraps of Birch plywood and came up with a second dog house for Priscillia next to the Kennel with a top over both to act as a side table for me and I can screw down all the cords for my head phones and charges etc and puppy proof them and make the door of Priscillias abode too high for the puppy to get over, make the top detachable add a shelf inside once again for P to get out of puppy reach, fiberglass the bottom for easy cleaning and she can have a litter in there one day.

I got as far as cutting the wood LOL and I'm just spent I'm too the point about the only way I don't hurt is to lay flat on my back but I'm getting things done still and will have more than the time I want to lay on my back in January...

I Cannot Operate the Coffee Maker

2009-11-13T14:01:32Z

Oh the humanity this morning I stumble over dogs to the kitchen and realize quickly that the night before as the caregiver and I stared at the replacement coffee maker for the one that made two cups at a time and leaked half of one over the counter since day one almost, and wondered where the on button was, I realized I never read the instructions the night before that being last night and now once again I stare at a button that just says program and remember percorlators and simplicity and I replug the old one back in and decided to approach the matter at a later time.

The carpet people got the carpet down in the rental yesterday at least when I went over to get my portable table saw they were halfway done super nice job but,

they were supposed to call first and do it next week after all the painting was completely finished and I had cleaned the place up of tools and returned the plank flooring that ended up being such a poor product. Oddly enough my friend that was painting it and was going to move my air compressor for me back to here called yesterday morning and had a small job and I told him not to worry about getting up there since it wouldn't be put down until next week LOL.

No big deal.

Headless Lolly Pops Dance Through the House

2009-11-12T13:31:59Z

I've been finding left over Halloween sucker's minus the sticks and a few chews through the wrapper all over the foot of my bed. I kept picking it them up thinking I must have just dropped the same one after snatching it from the puppy's wrath but then it accurred to me they seemed to change colors...

I just went into the dining room and there is a little side table next to the dining table said candy had been placed there in a large bowl.

The Table cloth was much in Dissaray and a chair had been pulled out leading me to surmise the Priscillia had jumped to the chair to the table slid around on the top and had been dropping the lollypops down to the puppy this being all my fault for letting the puppy chew on a used lolly pop stick after I had removed any traces of sugar in exchange for it to stop chewing my boot laces.

Team Work.

As Predicted

2009-11-11T14:19:01Z

The wife slept and slept woke at 8 pm and asked for breakfast and wondered why the sun wasn't up LOL.

Things went fine one more follow up today here in town.

My back's letting me know it's there the wind was too high to have her power chair hanging off the tail end of the car so I had to pick her up a few times but heat does wonders...

I should ask for an electric blanket for Christmas but the puppy would probably chew it, he's into everything chewable but I think I got the point across about not chewing wires with a few stern words but he took out four sets of headphones first. I took him out at 5 am this morning and left him out of the crate since he had done his business, got up at 7 to make coffee and he must have guard dog in him cause he went bazerk with the emergency barking noises woke the wife who asked for tea and what is that dog upset about so another early day here.

Glad I didn't have to drag her under the house though LOL.

Ida No

2009-11-10T12:35:06Z

I seem to have Slept through it, not a single creak last night to wake me...

Made it to Pennsacola with the wife for a Doc's appointment now were headed for cateract surgery. I never heard the rain or any winds we might have had last night but it stopped for a moment here so I could take the dogs out and the radar makes it look like it speeded up came ashore and is north of me already so we'll just have a day of heavy rains when it turns East.

Perfect, the Ions will let her sleep.

Morpheous

2009-11-09T15:44:32Z

Got me Big Time

Yesterday I just ran out of energy and lay down around two for a "nap", and woke up around nine had dinner and fell asleep before Cold Case was over...

I'm just too old to work non stop LOL but I got the head board finished I just need to lag bolt it to the studs in the wall.

Common sense hit me halfway through and I figured I'd better try the winch so I bolted it down and fired it up.

It sounded like a dozer was driving through the house...

I quickly realized the wife would freak and went with a simple rope system and get about a nine or ten to one ratio so pull five foot of rope to slide her six inches no heavy straining and down the road I won't need someone to stay nights after the surgery.

Plan ahead.

My Dog Bit Me on the Nose Today...

2009-11-08T12:59:58Z

But the cat didn't claw my eyes

LOL dang puppy I had him on my lap and he was being a puppy tugging at my sleaves and licking my ears and out of the blue he nipped my nose with those razor sharp teeth which I ignored until I noticed the blood dripping off the end.

It looks like a snake got me, two long cuts for another scar.

I'll have to think of a better cover story though for use down the road...

In the Beginning

2009-11-07T12:36:50Z

There was an idea...

This is the start of the powered head board project starting with a peice of Birch furniture grade 3/4 inch plywood. I had the shape in my head used a string to draw the curve and then took quarter bead and ran it around the edges. The top piece I had to soak in hot water for 30 minutes so I could bend it someday I need to make a steamer but the tub worked fine.

This will be lag bolted to the wall and the winch and cables pulleys rings rope and all will bolt to it. A draw sheet is for moving people in bed if you've ever been in a hospital you know what I mean and I'll make a few with two rings sewn in at the top and the ropes will attach there with a snap ring so they can just be hung on the wall when not in use but when the wife slips down in bed I'll be able to pull her up a few inches even if I can only stand, no more leaning over and pulling I've been running on half days the past three with the remainder laying on a heating pad and since the winch I found buried in the basement has a remote control in theory the wife could straighten herself out if I left the lines on. It will run off a motorcycle gell cell no fumes and have a trickle charger on it to keep the thing topped off, and I'll try and have the bulk of the gear mounted near the floor out of sight.

After I get everything mounted and working I'll dissasemble it and add some ornate pieces then stain it and polyurethane it to match the side table I made her.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Handicap-Friendly-Nightstand/

Procrastinate Now!

2009-11-06T12:35:08Z

The wife let me reschedule my surgery for January which is a big stress releaver I just couldn't get everything done in 4 weeks and to get 24 hour aday help in December would be hard to ask of people. I spent a few hours trying to get the floor down in the wife's rental and all the stooping hit me hard I came home and slept and feel it this morning.

There is a carpet place in town I know real well so I gave them a key and explained the situation and most likely they can carpet the place for just a little bit more than what the flooring cost and I can return that so I'm gonna have to suck it up and let someone help me out. I'm having trouble just pulling the wife up in bed when she slides down and she has 4 days of doc appointments including cateract surgery next week so today I'm gonna take a piece of finished Oak plywood I've been saving for shelves in my closet and gonna make a "head board" to screw to the wall at the top of the bed and mount a cable winch on it from my truck, add some pulleys and a motorcycle battery, look for another sewing machine cause apparently the one I got 2 years ago and learned to sew has also "dissapeared", make her some custom draw sheets with big button holes in it to attach the cables to and use the remote control to pull her up effortlessly...

I drew it all up in my head and will work like a charm and I'll stain it to make it appear formal to match the decor.

There's always away around a problem.

I might add a retinal scanner to the front door if I find anything else missing from here.

Finally

2009-11-05T12:31:53Z

Up since 3 with the puppy.

At least dogs are easier to potty train than humans...

I hear the Blackbird.

Live Vaccine

2009-11-03T12:50:37Z

I got the live H1N1 vaccine the other day mostly because my immune system is stronger than a chicken egg in my opinion. I cleaned under a rental house with a leaf blower long ago and stirred up some super finerodent dropping and gave myself a dose of Hantavirus that hit me like a hurricane 12 hours later cold sweats and paralized and geez it was a long night I couldn't even call for help but I walked it off like a 24 hour bug.

Call me lucky or stupid but when I grew up I always would drink from the stream in my parents backyard to avoid walking all the way home and crawled around dusty attics looking for treasures to take to the flea market under the guise of "Cleaning" people's attics. It's a great way to get paid twice for the same thing LOL.

Maxwell and Priscilia were scheduled for shots yesterday at the vets and 15 minutes before I left the puppy started having troubles sitting and would bob his head from sign to sign the Vet ran lots of tests thought he might have hit his head and the guy is a little terror chasing after the Queen and all I could figure is he did a power slide into a wall or chair leg so I left him there and canceled my back brace fitting until today but by 3 he was AOK and I brought him home.

The first thing he did was pee in the yard good boy then race to the kitchen and chow down then settle into his kennel for a nap...

I'm pushing the wife to let me put the surgery off a month I just don't see how I can jump through so many hoops in 4 weeks especially since half this month is Doctors appointments and she has her second cateract surgery next week. The first one got her 20 / 40 and she can read things without glasses now but add to that I still have to finish the repairs on her trailer and all the holidays I don't see it as being very realistic to have a procedure done that is going to leave me flat out for a month plus it's gonna be too hard to get 24 hour a day help here during Christmas and New Years and to make things worse her power bed seems to be haunted suddenly going up and down at random LOL.

I built it I can fix it but there is that time factor again...

Bah

2009-11-02T15:23:01Z

I got to mentally adding up the things I need to have done before my surgery and throwing in the holidays and the need to get some help for like 20 hours a day and I'm thinking I need or should see if I can reschedule it for the beginning of January just for realities sake.

Coolest Thing Evar!

2009-11-01T12:27:14Z

I could use one of these to cut the grass and pull the garbage cans up to the street after they take a knife to me...

http://www.remotemower.com

Trick or Treat~!

That's real hair not a wig...

Snakes in the Trees

2009-10-31T13:34:18Z

Yesterday I was on the phone listening to Rosie Radio on Sirous XM for testing pupoises, pacing back and forth because they wanted to discuss hoarding with me and my thousands of Pez dispensers, Imagine me a hoarder...) and I looked in the Oak out back and saw the biggest Rat Snake I've seen to date lounging on a few branches about 25 feet in the air.

He looked like he just had lunch and spent the day there but is gone this morning, probably relocated to the bottom garage which is ok by me. I always tend to let one live down there in the winter cause the mice like to squeeze under the garage door when it's cold but geez this guy is over five foot long.

I tried to get a clear shot but he blended in so well none of them came out but he was there I swear it!

LOL.

The caregiver can confirm this and was wanting me to dispatch the guy but I said he serves my puposes and leave him be but added that although they aren't poinsonous and look similar to a moccasin from a distance but aren't, being bitten would still hurt and maybe lead to a tetunous shot.

Life is all around.

This is a Moccasin I got a shot of from 12 inches...

One Down

2009-10-30T11:32:14Z

Two? to go.

Settled with one of the past due accounts on terms I can afford done deal in two weeks with a judge to review and sign off.

Super nice negotiating over emails and I've picked up another skill as a bonus.

The Laws are clear and I'm pushing forward in a fair way but geez, one of these place is boldly lying right to me big mistake the FTC will kindly spend hours on the phone explaining your rights I'd suggest you call them if you're in the same mess I am.

Firm two is full of smiling faces that fake sympathy all the while trying to prod info and actually telling me things are the Law that clearly are not an $8k bill jacked to $48,000 LOL.

I'm forgetfull not stupid although getting involved in credit cards was truly stupid being in LALA land I wonder how they possibly even gave me these cards unable to speak or remember a thought long enough to finish a sentence and ten minutes of googling they have been in Federal court countless times for unfair practices and lost every case I found...

It's the bottom line they get fined a $1000 and go back to business as usual preying on the uninformed with strong armed threats but quit swearing once I began recording the phone calls and the FCC will also spend time speaking and explaining that Law even to a simpleton like myself.

A $10 gadget at Radio Shack off the shelf and I am back to phreaking without my beloved and long lost Cap'n Crunch whistle.

Simple.

Being in debt and owing money I never knew I owed is extremely embarrassing but there are so many out there that will benefit from this info that when I am done I'll post my own page of do's and don'ts and a bill of rights to boot.

Only Forward.