http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/ jjoohhnn's Blog en-us © 13:20:24 Greasy.com All rights reserved. Wed, Feb 13:20:24 8 GMT 30 http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/benny_doing_well.html Benny was falling-down dead weight when me and my buddy Adam got him out of the truck after his surgery. It's a good thing I had a ride for him. There is no well in hell that he would have been able to walk home that day. We put "the cone" around his neck while he was laying in the back seat, but it probably wasn't necessary at that point. I think he was too far out of it to go for the wound, but who knew. He's really such a good boy... that cone must be extremely uncomfortable, he can't e ... http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/benny_doing_well.html#comments Thu, 2 Feb 2012 18:10:23 GMT http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/poor_benny__.html Benny has a few fatty deposits that apparently come with age. The one on his thy got larger and he started licking at it, so I called the vet yesterday. When the woman heard that it was getting red, she put me on hold.... Came back and asked if I could being him in tomorrow (today) at 8:45. I said "sure", and here I sit at 8 ready to go. He's still waiting for breakfast, but they don't wont him to have anything in case they fit him into today's surgery schedule. I try not to speculate sinc ... http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/poor_benny__.html#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:01:14 GMT http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/keep_waiting__.html Been planning to blog for weeks but there's always one more thing to do first. Sometimes it's necessary to just make the commitment. In Rome that's 29. For anyone who doesn't recognize the medallion, it's what AA gives out to celebrate years sober. The only possible drawback to accumulating sober time is getting old in the process. But as the saying goes, getting old sure beats the alternative. I came to AA out of desperation when I was 29-years old. On the one hand I wanted to die, on the ... http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/keep_waiting__.html#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:28:05 GMT http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/bubba_come_back_and_margs_slippers.html Even that has been cleaned up and packed away with the rest. I take the time to band each row of branches so that it's easy to put up the next year. I can only imagine how it would be for the poor fool who throws the branches in a box, one by one, and leaves it to somebody else to following year to figure out. Bubby and the bossman finished up the inside work last week--everything except a few window cam-locks. We'll make a plan on how to get the siding up, although it doesn't seem to be a ... http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/bubba_come_back_and_margs_slippers.html#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:40:08 GMT http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/bubba_home.html Work on the house reminds me of the Twilight Zone. The same day is relived over and over, day after day. But there is finally light at the end of the hall! The contractor is a recent transplant to the area as so many of us are. That is part of his difficulty in getting started in business up here. He needs to have accounts at all the local building supply companies and he needs to have a cash reserve before he bids jobs. He waits to get paid from previous jobs, and when the money doesn't c ... http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/bubba_home.html#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:37:46 GMT http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/day_bubba.html The long-scheduled work on the house finally began last week. Two guys showed up to remove tile from bathroom #2 and install the new tub surround. Looks like they also finished the plumbing. Still need to replace the floor, which is probably no big deal to somebody who knows what he's doing. That was Friday a week ago. This past week, only one guy showed up (Bubba) to repair and paint the ceilings. Turns out that Bubba actually does nice work when he knows what he's doing, but for the time ... http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/day_bubba.html#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:11:29 GMT http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/got_seconds.html I have as much chance of winning this as fill-in-the-blank (R) does of becoming president, but I'd appreciate your vote anyway. You know, just to inflate my ego a bit. I'm a fan of Man Vs. Wild although my wildest accomplishments (other than drunk women in the days when that pic was taken) are the high peaks of the Catskills. The mountain in the picture on the site happens to be Marcy, highest in New York, and the peak I'm sitting on is Haystack, third highest. I listed the year as '71, al ... http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/got_seconds.html#comments Wed, 9 Nov 2011 22:47:01 GMT http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/fall_looks_get_this_martin.html I think about blogging often. I really do even tho you wouldn't know it based on the date of my last post. I come and read about what others are up to almost every day. I keep hoping that one of these days I'll have something interesting to talk about, but alas, it still hasn't happened. There is some work that need to be done on the house, and that is finally scheduled to begin next week. I should have some interesting pictures, since part of the job involves roof work. Metal roofs cause ... http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/fall_looks_get_this_martin.html#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:03:33 GMT http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/summber_summer.html Hard to believe, but heating season has arrived in Delaware County. We haven't had frost yet, but it's been 36 degrees overnight for the past few nights, and the days haven't warmed past 60. We'll get a reprieve, but for now, there a fire in the stove. The garden is all but finished. I haven't found a satisfactory recipe for green tomatoes so we haven't harvested them. The ones that still ripen are small and soft and turn more of a pale pink than red. I froze (after boiling) about 30 bags ... http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/summber_summer.html#comments Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:32:54 GMT http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/geezer_camp.html The first planning meeting for this year's session of 4C Camp for Adults was held back in February and camp finally took place last weekend. We had two fun-filled days until the news of the eminent arrival of Hurricane Irene caused camp to come to an abrupt halt on Saturday after dinner. Prizes were all beautifully displayed for "casino night" which was to begin after dinner, but safety came first. I took a few pics to post, including a pic of Donna teaching crochet to a couple of her stud ... http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/geezer_camp.html#comments Sun, 4 Sep 2011 01:50:22 GMT http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/summer_2.html Summer came late this year. Two trips to the hospital in April and May took a bit of energy and I didn't really feel good until sometime in July. We had one really hot week (as opposed to one super-hot month like Oklahoma and Texas) but it's been damn pleasant most of the time! The garden is doing well, although Donna harvested a tomato the other day that was affected by something--fortunately it doesn't appear to be the blight that killed all the tomatoes two or three years ago. We'll be ... http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/summer_2.html#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:54:44 GMT http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/urge_.html Yeah, if you know me well enough your mind went in "that" direction.... You're right, of course. I lost some weight after the last two stays in the hospital and the urge to get it on comes often, and shall we say, hard. Geez... this has nothing to do with why I came here.... I had the urge to blog. I enjoyed the recent posts about peoples' neighborhoods and surroundings, and I have every intention of doing one. I didn't get around to it yet, but we were heading over one of the back roads t ... http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/urge_.html#comments Sat, 9 Jul 2011 23:42:44 GMT http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/dilaudid_nights.html I'm back from the hospital again. The third attack of pancreatitis came only four weeks after the second, and fortunately, they think they have it figured out and fixed this time. The process involved another eight days in the hospital and a procedure to remove debris from the bile ducts that lead to the liver. I ended up with a blood infection from the crap that backed up, but it seems to be responding to antibiotics. Next day, a different surgeon removed my gallbladder, which was the cau ... http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/dilaudid_nights.html#comments Sun, 5 Jun 2011 15:56:43 GMT http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/sludge.html It's good to be back online! I spent five days in the hospital again (without a smart phone) with another bout of pancreatitis. This is a repeat of the experience 22 months ago, although I didn't stay sick for quite as long. This time, they have come up with a more reasonable explanation of the cause. Last time they blamed it on one of my blood pressure meds (HCTZ) and had me discontinue that. Good plan, but it didn't work for even two years. This time, they did an ultrasound instead of a ... http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/sludge.html#comments Wed, 4 May 2011 14:37:25 GMT http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/upstairs_downstairs_and_outside.html "The doors of 165 Eaton Place are open again, and the cobwebs are off the chandeliers. Three decades after the last episode of "Upstairs, Downstairs" aired on PBS' "Masterpiece Theatre," the beloved British drama series returns Sunday with a long-overdue, three-episode sequel." Hard to believe that it's been almost 40 years since this was on. I can't remember where I was when I watched it, but from the time line, I know I must have still been living in NYC. I was like most viewers--more in ... http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/upstairs_downstairs_and_outside.html#comments Sun, 10 Apr 2011 16:34:25 GMT http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/wal-mart_2.html Ok, so I went to Wal-mart to buy groceries for the month (except meat). I know the pros and cons of this behavior, but as the saying goes, sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do. I was in the produce department and noticed that green bell peppers were $1.88. Too much! Peppers weren't on the list, but I buy them when the price is right. Then I noticed that red peppers were $1.68. That isn't cheap, but peppers for a change would be nice, so I picked four small(ish) ones that would make a mea ... http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/wal-mart_2.html#comments Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:40:47 GMT http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/4c_or_geezer_camp.html Last summer, Donna went off to adult camp for a few days in August. She read about it (I think) in the quarterly senior news paper from the Office of the Aging, and since I didn't know enough about it, I wasn't about to go. I've been a tent camper and then an RVer for way too many years to sleep in some sort of a cabin, and I wasn't about to put the boyz in a kennel to go camping, especially since they like to camp as much as I do and it took a lot of time, medication and behavior modifica ... http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/4c_or_geezer_camp.html#comments Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:38:13 GMT http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/meanwhile_back_homestead_.html Day four without water is half over with no sign of the backhoe that will dig down to the well-head. I started out optimistic on Saturday, but diagnosis of the problem has changed several times. So, even after the hole is dug, there's not guarantee that the fix will go smoothly. Fortunately, I have years of tent-camping and RV boondocking experience, so I'm no stranger to water conservation. We brought home 30 gallons of potable water from town last night, and melting snow for toilet flush ... http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/meanwhile_back_homestead_.html#comments Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:44:56 GMT http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/finally_job_finished.html A week short of six months since the fire... But the rebuilding is finally finished. It turned out just the way I pictured it, and it's better than what was there before. The garage had been next to the house, as you see in the pic above. Now it's further back on the property and in the corner. I'll have to wait until spring for the grass to fill in and the lilacs to bloom, but that's life. At least I can shovel the drive way and parking area when the snow comes. If you want to see how a p ... http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/finally_job_finished.html#comments Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:04:42 GMT http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/finally_got_built.html Ok, so it isn't the garage, but it's a start. This was the old metal carport that was framed and sided. A window on the front end and an open door actually lets in a lot of light and it is certainly much bigger than my old shed. The contractor's office called this morning, but apparently what the nice lady told the boss didn't quite add up so he called a bit later. Somehow she got the idea that I wanted hinged doors. That would be a real PIA, especially when there is snow on the ground. So ... http://my.greasy.com/jjoohhnn/finally_got_built.html#comments Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:42:29 GMT