Dusty's Frugal Fortnights Return!

dustydigger

Yup.the spelling thing is crazy. Dobbie,Dobie,Dobbye,Doughby,Dobby, Doby,Dobey are all versions of my ancestor's name. Of course illiterate people just said the word and the priest or clerk wrote it down as he pleased. One of my family back in 1853 was Dobbie,the son was Dobby,but on his marriage was Dobie. The family was always known as Dobie,but the grandson on retiring  got his pension as Dobey,and he eturned the book,think it was a spelling mistake On protesting he was shocked to find that was correct. He had never had a copy  of his birth certificate (born 1905)Sent away for a copy and sure enough it said Dobey 65 years under false pretences.

Family history is such fun!

dustydigger

Morning all ! Feeling a little better,good old ibuprofen did its stuff as ever. But yesterday,putting weight on the other leg to avoid pain has set off the other leg in sympathy. Not too bad just normal for me.

 May have lots of visitors today in honour of Father's Day. Tomorrow the various families will be trotting off for family fun,so grandkids and their offspring will drop off cards for granda etc today.

Things to do today

+hoover!!!! hasnt been done for a week,been too distracted or in pain to do anything.

+ mop bathroom and kitchen floor,both look awful.babies coming today,need to be clean

+ wash my hair.Been in too much pain to lift my arms above my head. damned rotator cuff tendinitus,better do some exercises that help,the whole shoulder has been grinding all this week.

+ make salmon for Mr Ds dinner

+ try to fit in reading somemore short stories for my Alphabet challenge.Did an author for letter I and letter J yesterday. Letter N and O today,that will leave only 4 authos to do. - and 8 titles. Keep putting off reading the main books on my June TBR.,cant concentrate on more serious stuff.

better get cracking as I cant only do things in 5 to 10 minute segments.

dustydigger

What a day. Did most of the tasks I set myself. Mr Dusty kindly hoovered the whole house! Floors looked an awful lot better after I mopped them :)Had all four of my children together for the first time in a long time.Also GD1 brought the twins,and DS2 brought his littl'un. She will be two next month,we are to have a party July 2nd,in a public space,so nothing for me to do,thank heavens. We went to sit in the garden,but it was windy and overcast,we soon came back inside.We've not seen any heatwave round here always that cold wind off the sea.DD2 came,with her arm in a sling from breaking her elbow. We hadnt told Mr Dusty about it,he would have fretted. As it was,he was shocked and fretting about it all afternoon,although she is much better,just has to be on sick pay for three months.Its her right arm,so she finds doing anything difficult.

So glad I havent burdened him with my issues. Got a letter this morning saying I have a CT scan on June 27th at 6.30 pm! They must have really shoe-horned me in. Mr Dusty sort of thinks its only for my knee,like the last time when we were sent out in the bush ,figuratively speaking, to have a scan on my knee,so I didnt enlighten him,lets wait and see what developes.

Then catastrophe struck.Mr Dusty had a phone call. His younger daughter has had a lump removed from her breast,and she says her treatment will be long term. She has had to move to the capital to live with her daughter to be near the big hospital there. She sounded so weak and frightened,and couldnt talk long,we got few details.Mr D is so shocked and feeling helpless. He is obsessing about finding money to send to pay for treatment. .His other daughter retires from work next month and she is already worrying about how she will live.. Looks like we have even more financial challenges than we expected. Never rains but it pours.

I'm very upset about the sick person. She lived with us,and I brought her up for 11 years in Uganda.Seems like yesterday I was teaching her nursery rhymes and fairy tales.

beanielou

So sorry to hear about the sick person.

Glad that you are getting the CT scan quickly.

dustydigger

beanielou said:

So sorry to hear about the sick person.

Glad that you are getting the CT scan quickly.

thanks beanielou.Do you know anything about ''stalwarts'' and levels of MSE?

beanielou

dustydigger said:

beanielou said:

So sorry to hear about the sick person.

Glad that you are getting the CT scan quickly.

thanks beanielou.Do you know anything about ''stalwarts'' and levels of MSE?

Sorry, no.

dustydigger

Morning. I have hardly been online the last two days.. Mentally low,brain fog and sleeping all the time. I think I had 4 periods of one or more hours sleeping duing the day yesterday,and yawning all the rest of the time.Then only had 2hrs then 3hrs sleep during the night. Aleady had an hour nap,and had to drag myself up to peel potatoes. Its probably the PA,only less than 3 weeks to my next B12 needle.,I run out of steam.

I'll work on the dinner now,will try to get back on here sometime in the afternoon.

Mr Dusty has sent money this morning  to help his daughters,and we told their brother,my stepson in the USA, the news last night. Aleady costing a fortune in phone calls.At least there is whatsapp fo the US,only 2 o 3 p a minute,but whatsapp is patchy in Uganda,we have to use a phone card,its about £1.40 a minute. Ouch.

We've been told the treatment will be 6 months long. Probably we are not getting the real story. Perhaps my stepson will get more info.

Oh well,I'm off to use some leftover cooked chicken in some sort of curried dish. Then tonight its little curried chicken pasties. I'm defrosting diced beef for the slow cooker overnight.

More and more I smile remembering my 86 year old sister complaining that she was sick of cooking!''I'm tired of looking at food. I've been cooking for a man for 66 years and  I'm sick of it''. I've been doing it fo a mere 52 years,so I have some way to go!

dustydigger

My group on LibraryThing has already announced the next state in our Salute to Canada reading challenge in July.

In July, we head back west to our final Canadian province, Saskatchewan. (But fear not, we still have one more territory to go in August.) It is the middle of the three Prairie provinces, with Manitoba to the east and Alberta to the west. It’s bordered to the north by the Northwest Territories, and to the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota. With Alberta, it is one of the only two landlocked provinces in Canada. Nearly 10% of Saskatchewan’s total area of 651,900 square kilometers is fresh water, which is composed mostly of rivers, reservoirs, and the province's 100,000 lakes. Most of the population is in the southern half of the province, with half of the total population in the largest city, Saskatoon, and the capital, Regina.

Saskatchewan has been inhabited for thousands of years by various indigenous groups. Europeans first explored the area in 1690 and first settled in the area in 1774. It became a province in 1905, carved out from the Northwest Territories. The province's economy is based on agriculture, mining, and energy.

Saskatchewan receives more hours of sunshine than any other Canadian province. Summers can get very hot, sometimes above 38 °C (100 °F) during the day, and with humidity decreasing from northeast to southwest. Winters are usually bitterly cold, with frequent Arctic air descending from the north, but warm chinook winds often blow from the west, bringing periods of mild weather. Saskatchewan is one of the most tornado-active parts of Canada, averaging roughly 12 to 18 tornadoes per year, some violent.


Hockey is the most popular sport in the province. More than 490 NHL players have been born in Saskatchewan, the highest per capita output of any Canadian province, U.S. state, or European country. Saskatchewan does not have an NHL or minor professional franchise, but five teams in the junior Western Hockey League are located in the province: the Moose Jaw Warriors, Prince Albert Raiders, Regina Pats, Saskatoon Blades and Swift Current Broncos. In 2015, Budweiser honored Saskatchewan for their abundance of hockey players by sculpting a 12-foot-tall hockey player monument in ice for Saskatchewan's capital city of Regina. The company then filmed this frozen monument for a national television commercial, thanking the province for creating so many goal scorers throughout hockey's history. Budweiser also gifted the "hockey player" province a trophy made of white birch—Saskatchewan's provincial tree—which bears the name of every pro player in history. Sitting atop the trophy was a golden Budweiser Red Light, synched to every current Saskatchewan player in the pros. However, Curling is the official sport of Saskatchewan. Their curling team has won three Canadian and World women’s championships in the ’90s, followed by the first-ever women’s Olympic gold medal in curling in 1998. But they also love football – the Saskatchewan Roughriders are a professional football team based in Regina.


Fun Facts:
• The Athabasca Sand Dunes are one of the most northerly active sand dune formations on the planet. The dunes are housed inside of the Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park and are only accessible by floatplane.


• Saskatchewan is home to many purple sand beaches, which are a unique phenomenon. They can be seen at the Hunter Bay, and Prince Albert National Park in northern Saskatchewan.


• Regina, Saskatchewan is home of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), with each and every recruit spending their training time in the city before being deployed anywhere and everywhere across Canada. You can visit the RCMP Heritage Museum, and during the summer months you can watch their Sunset Retreat Ceremony. It’s rare to see an RCMP member in their Red Serge uniform outside of special ceremonies, alas.


• The longest bridge over the shortest span of water can be found in Regina. The Albert Street Bridge was built in 1903 and is 850 feet long, while Wascana Creek below is only a few feet wide.


The Saskatchewan Challenge:

1. Read a book set in Saskatchewan OR Read a book set on a lake OR Read set in a sunny locale.

2. Read a book that features a tornado or other natural disaster OR Read a book with a purple cover OR Read a book with an athlete in any sport included in the Winter Olympics (the athlete need not be an Olympian),

3. Read a book featuring a Mountie or other police officer OR Read a book showing sand on the cover OR read a book whose author’s initials can be found in SASKATOON and REGINA

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I'll have to think about what to read. I like this challenge because it has so much choice

I'll post my challenge after sorting what I have available.

dustydigger

My July Saskatchewan Challenge
1. Read a book set in Saskatchewan : Gail Bowen - The Wandering Soul Murders

2. Read with a purple cover: Jenny Joseph - Warning When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

3. Read a book whose author’s initials can be found in SASKATOON and REGINA: Kat Richardson - Labyrinth

dustydigger

Once again I have slept a lot of the afternoon. As soon as I sit in a chair I go to sleep! But I definitely feel more alert today in between my naps. Hope to get back into things tomorrow.

off now to put a meat pie in the oven for Mr Dusty.

Never read a word today,but after supper I'll read a fun cozy mystery. Off my kindle on the computer where I can make the font larger.Most book print or on the phone is just too small.