Yesterday was busy. The weather wasn’t lovely, chilly, cloudy, some drizzle, a good day to spend time indoors.
I took the opportunity to mill flour yesterday, the two one-gallon jars had only about one cup left. It takes time to mill the flour, as I give the mill time to cool between sessions, usually milling only a half a gallon jar of flour at one go. The project takes up a lot of counter space as well, so other projects are put on hold. All done now, and ready to make some hamburger buns today.
It has been a busy day so far, Attila in the garden and now mowing the lawn, me collecting all the bills payable, and then paying them. I also took a large number of items to the local thrift shop, to donate them. Most of them are still new in the box, and I’ve been dragging them around with me for decades, unused. Time to let them go to more appreciative homes, to live their best lives.
It is time to bake hamburger buns again, another project for today, we are having sausage burgers for dinner tonight, with a fresh green salad, with mostly spinach from the garden. My lunch was another stir fry with onions, mushrooms, garden spinach, beet leaves, and Chinese broccoli. I do love the spring greens.
The warm up exercises assigned by the cardiac rehab team seem to be having a positive effect. They don’t really seem like they are doing much while doing them, but I notice some differences in how I feel when going out for a walk. The tightness in my chest when walking up long hills has disappeared, and my arms seem to be stronger. Worth the effort just in these things, who knows what internal benefits are being reaped undetected.
Attila and I both need to wear sunglasses when we work outside. The ones we have been using over the last decade are relatively inexpensive and purchased at a discount store. They break easily, the lenses frequently fall out, not much value for the money, we have made it work. Recently though I read about someone who loved wearing their safety sunglasses. Now that was a thought.
I looked at the local stores, $12 and up for a pair of flimsy plastic safety sunglasses. They would not last a week with us. So I kept looking online. Finally I found some pairs that looked a little more robust at Grainger in Canada, and the price was right, under $4 per pair. I ordered 20 pairs, that should last us a while, and if they are more robust than the ones we had been buying, the purchase might last us a very long while. Fashion and appearances do not come into the mix, not for us. The order arrived today. They don’t fit perfectly over my glasses, but they certainly will do the job.
Attila wears another pair just the same as these.
I think I am beginning to really enjoy being a fashion criminal! Getting old has so many perks!
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“Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior [behaviour] is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.”
Roy H. Williams
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I ask myself, if we are so smart, why do we keep losing this knowledge when it has obvious value? My conclusion, we think more highly of ourselves as a species than we deserve.
Being an “old lady fashion criminal” really is fun. I’ve been embracing it with increasing frequency myself.
Wendy! Yes, so much fun isn’t it. Interesting too that the most interesting, and sincere, people are interested in talking to you when you embrace your inner fashion criminal. Another perk.
As sunglasses are so very essential in extremely sunny Arizona, what I do is have two pairs of glasses made up when I get new glasses, same frame, same prescription, but with dark lens. Of course, that is not as inexpensive as your solution! (But I did wait over ten years between new glasses (probably too long!)) I hope these hold up well for you.
Joan, that is a great idea! I might go for this the next time I have my eyes checked, worth looking into. They wanted me to get new glasses at my last exam, but the cost was beyond us at that time. So I am waiting for my next eye examination and hoping for the best.
My last pair of glasses were well over $800, and that was at the beginning of the pandemic, and we had partial health coverage for them at that time. Now, as we are both retired, there is no assistance for glasses, we have to pay for all of it. This is expensive enough that Attila will not wear his prescription reading glasses unless it is a special circumstance, in case he breaks them, he is prone to breaking things. I was supposed to get new glasses after my last eye test, but the cost was a little too steep, so I am waiting until my next eye test and if I still need new glasses I will get them at that time.
I wish they sold a generic and durable, high-quality frame at a very cheap price, I am so tired of having to choose from “designer” offerings that cost the sun and the moon. I don’t need designer anything, I need functional durable eyeglasses.
Since we retired, we’ve been ordering our glasses online from Zenni. DH gets clip-on sunglasses that attach to his wire noseband. I get Transitions lenses for my glasses. My glasses with progressive and Transitions cost the same as they did when we had insurance from DH’s former employer, about $200.
Thanks Teri, I will look into that. The eye doctor I see is attached to a eye glasses store, so I am not quite sure how to get the prescription out of that system so that I can use it where I want to go. Will have to call them and find out.