The weather is definitely spring/winter. It rained and was cloudy after it was nice weather so it's on and off again but very cold the last few days.
A sad note, the lady that was below us passed away, she had several windchimes in the Jacaranda tree that we enjoyed hearing when it was windy. It's very quiet now, her garden area is almost empty but I managed to snag a hummingbird feeder and a spring fake floral wreath for our door.
Beautiful perfect spring skies today and yesterday. That garden area had a small table, a plant stand, black wire fencing and outdoor lights and decorations. Windchimes and other things hanging from the tree. It's sad to see. She was a nice enough lady but then found out that she was anti-vax, which made it frustrating and more sad. She got covid, then pneumonia and then a heart attack while at the hospital and didn't survive. I discovered today why, she was a Jehova's Witness. As Jon says, I will not be dying for my religion. Sad that she's gone, but that was her choice.
I got to my appointment almost running on fumes for gas and not enough money in the bank to cover parking, which would have been $4 but we were that broke. Luckily I mentioned it to the nurse who checked me in and they have parking passes for situations like that. I had my last 'ladies check up' if everything is cleared in a day or two. If samples come back negative for anything then I don't need that sort of checking again.


I also ordered a new pair of glasses finally. I should have gotten all
the 'bells and whistles' I should but only opted for the progressives.
It's all good, pictures when I get them in about a week. I couldn't remember how much my insurance covered so had to ask and frames are covered up to $400. After I saw the prices of most of the 'designer' frames I was only looking at the ones that were under 200. Because in the past the limit was about 350 or less. So yay! Those are Kate Spade (whoopee) and blue purple faded rims and ear piece, I think there's even some glitter in the ear piece.
We have been having a wonderful two days after getting all the monies on the first (SS, EBT and OTC loaded). Much silliness and comedy of errors really. Can't remember half of what we were doing but we were having fun laughing. At one point while we were driving and I gestured to the cars at the intersection and said, 'it's lunchtime traffic' so he commented about it being Saturday I leaned slightly toward him and said, 'It's Monday'. Then we remembered a short reel he saw about some young guy who realized buses came in a longer size. It took him a couple of days (and me pointing it out) for him to realize that the guy had been on 'short buses' all his life, he could not stop laughing when the guy had basically admitted he was a 'short bus kid'. So after his day of the week mistake I told him his nickname was going to be 'Short Bus'. Which made us both laugh even harder. Now, do not get on my case for laughing at 'special needs' indicators.
If you know me you know that laughter truly is the best medicine and so
is money. Speaking of medicine, Jon's labs came back and his A1c is stable and
normal (insert comedic comment) and so is his kidney function .His meds
are helping him lose weight and that makes his breathing easier and
activity better.
So yeah, anyone who says money can't buy happiness has never been on their last dime and then get paid.
We have two of our three grocery runs done, got major purchases done at
Costco on Tuesday, today we needed to get a new bath mat at walmart and
got wet cat food for Rocky. I may have overspent a little because of my
glasses but everything so far is needed things. At Costco I did splurge and get some thin sliced 'carne asada' chuck steak. That's at least three meals of meat when I divided it up, bag of
frozen shrimp that will be at least 3 meals, hamburger (6 meals) and chicken breasts (with three packs left over that's 9 meals) So we're set for meat other than chicken thighs which will add about four more meals. Without leftovers and non meat meals, that's three weeks of meat meals. We actually have to buy rice again this month. Careful planning and scheduling we'll have food for the month again.


This was the view for four days out my bedroom window (so glad we cleaned that!) First picture is fou r days ago and the second is day before yesterday. Oh yeah and those weeds. They were not even visible from this angle in January. There's two chairs just below that small bathroom window that have been swallowed by mallow plants. Not sure when they're going to cut those down. Almost tempted to toss a note over the fence telling them I'll cut them down if they have the tools and pay me $100. But nah, don't think I could do that all in one shot. Not my yard, not my problem.
I'm worried about my car tires and brakes, the wet weather cleaned the brakes so I heard them scraping the other day when I was stopping. Brakes AND tires.... that's $1000 I do not have and will not open a credit card to get them done (doubt I'd qualify for that much credit anyway). That's a rough estimate, I figure brakes is about 300-500 and tires.... about the same I'm figuring about $100 per tire. Oh and gas cost me $50 for an almost full tank of gas yesterday, that is the most I've ever had to pay for gas recently.
Other than that, not much else. Just hoping to coast to the end of the month without too much hassle.
It feels good to laugh at ourselves with all the depressing and stressful things going on. I could have sworn it was Mel Brooks or Don Rickles or someone Jewish who said something like 'if you can't laugh at yourself then who can you laugh at?' I looked it up and most of the sites attribute it to Tiger Woods and others but I remember hearing that way back in the 80's or 90's maybe before that. Oh well.