I forgot all about signing up for the.....

Until I heard all the bustle of the folks setting up next door and in the hallway.
I have not donated blood for several decades. For one thing, I was anemic as hell for several years and sort of got out of the habit. One of the lab ladies started the ball rolling and here we are.

They have to do a whole lot more screening these days; have you had sex with a,b,c?? I remember sex... have you traveled to A.B.C? Um no, I prefer to stay off air planes simply for the reason that it is a damned uncomfortable exercise.

I was also worried that I was still too anemic to donate. Lady stuck my finger and my hemoglobin was 15.1 you must be at 12.5 to qualify. Oh goodie onto the rest of it. After answering multiple questions on screen, I was escorted into the donating room. The technician inspected my antecubital fossa (forearm where needle goes) looking for prime veins. So site selected, needle inserted, tubing hooked up, squeeze little ball once every 4 seconds.

There was a young man in the next chair and he was having a little difficulty and the lady finally had to tell him that they would what they had. I have type B positive blood. I once heard that the Basque population is mostly B positive blood type.

Last step cookies and OJ.



My favorite, Chocolate chip!

The scaffolding is gone

The owner of the scaffolding knocked on the door this evening. I was surprised to see that he had almost everything already loaded. Boy he was either very quiet or my tinnitus was so loud I couldn't hear a thing. I gave him a check and got his number in case we need scaffolding in future. Probably next year for the sun room demo and fix.

Still waiting to hear from the roofer. But Labor Day weekend is coming and I'm thinking he won't want to start a job over the holiday? I could be wrong.

Tonight I made turkey pot pie, it turned out fairly tasty, I added dill to the mix.

The lawn is brown, if God meant for me to water the lawn in the summer, it would rain. I have faith.

AS YOU CAN SEE...

Ths scaffolding is still neatly stacked in the front yard. I googled to see how much these cost, one site said about 50 bucks for each frame, x 8 is 400 bucks
plus the cross ties, the levels, nuts, bolts and hefty wooden planks are extra, I'm sure. Hope the owner comes and picks them up before it starts raining again and the lawn grows up around the pile...sigh...

The scaffolding is down.

....and is stacked neatly in the front yard waiting to be taken away tomorrow. There are only a couple hours work left to do, finish the short upper wall on the east side of the chimney, put the drains back up to the gutters, install the fence and gate and Bob's yer uncle.

Also the roofer guy did not come today, maybe Monday..it was hot today but not as hot as yesterday.

Today at work was our annual mandatory in service on safety, ergonomics, Hipaa, security, lock out tag out, infection control, policies and procedures, and fire safety. After we got to use extinguishers to put out a HUGE fire, we got donuts, popcorn and pizza. One of the videos we watched was "Give him the pickle!".

Nice little bit all about customer service. Remember Ferrel's Ice Cream stores? Mr. Ferrel told several stories about customer service. The one regarding the pickle was about a letter he received from a customer who told him that he always ordered extra pickles until one day the waitress told him they would have to charge him for a side of pickles for 75 cents. That little policy got changed and customers got their pickles. Anyway, Jim went to a Ferrels' once in Sacramento, I believe, he at something huge and might even have gotten "Happy Birthday" sung to him.

I liked his definition of team work; anything a team member does to make another team member look good.

More construction and eating...

He's got the top tier added to reach the top floor, hopefully that will go quickly.
The roofer came over today and said he would start tomorrow. He would have started today but it was beastly hot. He will work on the North half of the roof while the siding is being completed. The painting on the siding will have to wait for the roofer to be through with tossing stuff off the sides.



I was also motivated to make a pie, its' sort of a Shepherds pie only there is hominy instead of peas and at no time was a Shepherd harmed in the making of this pie. Husband has sampled it already and says it tastes pretty good. That ought to last a couple three days.

SCAFFOLDING IS UP

The scaffolding got set up today, more siding put up, more caulking of things that needed to be caulked. The office window got removed and the subcontractor put in new wood all the way around, it sure needed it. If you will look at the top of the picture, he stood on THAT to fix the window and there is yet a third deck to go on top of that to fix up to the roof line. I get dizzy just looking that far up.

Wish we could afford to just keep on going around the house but not this year.

NECK PIERCING OR NAPE PIERCING

I was walking down the hall at work the other day and stopped at a traffic jam to wait for one of the aids to take a food tray into one of the rooms. I noticed that she had a neck pierce similar to photo just above. She is very young. I was a little shocked.

Here are five reasons not to pierce your neck:

1. Immune reaction, your body might reject the foreign object.
2. Infection. Keep it clean.
3. Limited employment, especially if there is a dress code that extends to body piercing.
4. Personal problems if friends or family strongly object to piercing adding stress to your already colorful life.
5. Extended piercing, in cases where the piercee is getting older, can leave permanent holes in youse hide.

... and my personal favorite:

6. Better sleep on your face unless you take the trouble to remove that 1 1/2 inch bar from the back of your neck, you jack wagon!!