WWQP Bulletin Board Chat

Hot air

Costs. Or at least, air in balloons costs. When I met with my school chums at The Globe a week or so ago for lunch, I bought three balloons in our school colours...garnet, green and gold..and tied them to the bannister going upstairs in the inn so the women would know where to find our table. After lunch we gathered on the steps of the small inn to have our photos taken and someone moved my basket to which the balloons were attached. The balloons then took that opportunity to leap off the handles of my basket and we watched in dismay as three lovely helium-filled balloons lifted skyward, never to be seen again. The friend who dislodged the balloons wrote yesterday to thank me for arranging the luncheon and inside were tucked three rubber balloons. I took them into town this morning to be filled with helium...the cost: $1.00 per balloon, plus tax. It was the tax that got me...paying tax on air. They are now residing in our familyroom.

Sara, I called my friend Joan in Fla. this morning but she was out...100% humidity would make my curly hair curlier and likely make me feel like I was suffocating. How do you cope?

I'm spooling down quite nicely now. I have to go cold turkey running around as I do during my B&B season. I get so wound up that sitting down is boring for me so I find something else to do. What is of concern is my tingly feet. My blood sugar is okay so it's not a diabetic concern. I swam in a pool all winter and while I'm allergic to chlorine, can tolerate a certain amount of it but one morning I got up and my feet were burning badly. Red as can be, both of them and up around my baby toes...both feet the same. I thought that I had walked or stood on chemicals in the pool area. It took several months for the burning to receed, then my feet ached. I'm on my feet constantly in the kitchen, primarily, baking, cooking, etc. during my four month season so it was a bit of a haul getting through the summer this way. I still have burning on the ball of each foot and my baby toes but primarily it's left me with the tingling numbish feeling which comes and goes plus one very tickly itch which can't be itched because it's inside my feet not on the surface. I have also been tested by a specialist who scratched my feet with a feather...whatever ....to see if the feeling was there or not...that turned out fairly well...so the only other thing that I can think of is: the continual movement at Curves on the pads between the machines, plus perhaps a fibro reaction. Tingling in the feet can go with fibro. I do not want to take an anti-inflammatory and can't think that I'd be offered anything else for this problem so Jane, if what you are taking is not a Naisad (or however you spell that), please post and let us know how you are doing on the drug.

Another insulting thing happened the day before yesterday...a mouse entered my spelt pita bread which sitting in an open plastic wrapper in the bread box, the china top of which Jock managed to break but not until it had been in use for two years so that was a record for him in not breaking it until then. The mouse pooped on my spelt pita. What in insult. I brushed it off and ate the pita but can't bring myself to repeat it and will throw the last one out. Shoot! It even went upstairs and pooped on two guest beds...tried to trap it, no luck...it's likely making a tour around the house like goldilocks trying to find the right bed to sleep in for the winter ahead.

Marion, I can see why your little wallhanging as been confiscated by the family. It must have been fun to work on, too.

Guess that about covers it for this week. Just waiting for B&B guests to arrive but the season is drawing to a close. I'm not tired actually but mindful of slowing down, which I need to do.

Rosey

posted by RoseyP @ 11:58 AM