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Darn Tough’s are close to $25 a pair. (But they are worth it because you can get another pair for free when/if they wear out.

How excellent. And Doug -

The beauty of darn toughs is that they are guaranteed for life. If you wear a pair out, you take them where they sell them and get a new pair for free. Wear my socks out in the heel - and so far I’ve only exchanged one pair. (They are not cheap.) they have lots of adorable designs.

Better the last couple of days. Now I just feel like I have a “regular” cold, lol. Two days of absolute miserable, two days of bad on either side of that. Steve has hand surgery on Thursday for his Dupuytren’s contracture, so he’s out of commission for doing most things. So far he hasn’t caught covid, so we are hopeful. Ever since my back issues (when he had to do everything for 4 months) he’s been doing half the cooking and most of the grocery shopping which has been really nice. Now it’s my turn to do it all again, so I’m glad I’m getting better!

In the winter I wear darn tough. Best socks ever. Multiple weights and sizes and they keep my feet warm. I’m the summer I wear whatever cotton mens ankle height socks I can find at Walmart. We don’t have many choices for clothing here. I wear a 10.5 - 11 shoe and women’s socks never fit me.

Sounds good. I wouldn’t reinstall it either!

Bernard, one of my gallery mates got hers a couple of weeks ago - early - because she had heard it was going around. She was right!

I agree. It was a good monologue.

What are you going to do with the sliding door? Are you going to put a deck back up? I like the color scheme.

Wow, Steve. Glad you took it down.

Your descriptions made me laugh, Amanda! We are in Butte, Montana. We’ve been here since 2018, and just the thought of moving again raises my blood pressure! We moved (and bought and sold houses) 4 times from 2012 - 2018, the last two were from Montana to Northern Maine and back. Steve has driven the largest U-Haul van with an auto transport trailer in almost all of our moves, driving multiple trips with various vehicles, and I did have to scout ahead via google earth from home for him to figure out which motels had parking that he could safely pull in and out of (with the Uhaul circus ) without having to back up (because backing up is impossible)! Then I would call and make a reservation for him for the night. I think those last two moves took 6 driving days (5 nights in motels).

And yes, Steve was patient 0 (or one of 4 patient 0’s) in Montana in March of 2020. He was much sicker than I was that first time, and that was compounded massively by the unknown/fear factor. We self quarantined in our house for a month, with friends dropping off groceries and toilet paper on our front porch. I caught it again in the fall of 2023 (before I got my booster) and now, but not last year (I got my booster in time) - I don’t know what I was thinking this year, but have had so many things going on lately that i just couldn’t find the time, BIG mistake! Because I remember 2023 covid feeling like I was much sicker than in 2020. Same this time. Yuck.

Amazing that you didn’t have a reaction to the shingles vaccine - that one was pretty awful for me, especially the second time since I knew what was coming!

Every time I put the shopping carts back at the grocery store I think of having to push 7 at a time in from the parking lot at Costco and breaking down into tears the first day. And sadly, my back has given up on me, too many years of riding really bouncy horses has taken its toll. Almost 2 years of lower and upper back pain, multiple MRI’s, epidural steroids, several specialists (neurosurgeon and orthopedic surgeon) with the ortho surgeon saying surgery is likely going to cause more problems than it solves. Luckily moving (walking) helps, so I can still do stuff - sitting upright is what brings on the pain. Makes it difficult to do anything at a desk or the kitchen table for very long. And the only thing I manage on horseback currently is walking, which means I rarely ride anymore.

️ Should have gotten my vaccine late summer instead of waiting til fall. It has flattened me - fever and cough and truly feel like death warmed over. Didn’t catch it last year. But got it bad the year before. This sucks.

I am so sorry. Sounds awful!

Slight rant with the no added sugar labels on “health” food. It should say no added refined sugar. Date powder is sugar - fructose and glucose. This product doesn’t have a ton of sugar like kids breakfast cereals, but it DOES have added sugar. Fruit concentrates are full of sugar. Cane sugar is sucrose - which a disaccharide made of fructose and glucose. Same as than the fructose and glucose they are adding using the date powder. Yes, there are other things in dates, like fiber, which is good. But dates are mostly sugar, especially the ripe ones. It’s like the YouTuber recipes that say No sugar! But they use honey, or maple syrup. It’s still freaking sugar.
Rant over, lol. (To be clear, I’m all about checking labels and not buying things with too much sugar, and this one doesn’t have that much. )

@Bernard said in This guy is amazing (garden shed edition):

My small Siloe art collection.

This is so cool!

I think I shared the video of him fixing up the outside of this shed. I love him. This is the inside, and what he does with stuff most people would take to the dump is amazing. Best watched in the YouTube app.

Best watched in the YouTube app

Scammers take peoples money using AI to create video and music.
Worth watching.

I like it.