What are you doing today?

shadow puppet said:
Rheumatologist appointment day. Which means blood work and needles in arm. Not so much bliss.
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How did your fridge situation work out? I know about a month ago, you said you had some concern over losing some meds (like $6K worth of Humira), on top of just dealing with a failing appliance.
 
DT said:
How did your fridge situation work out? I know about a month ago, you said you had some concern over losing some meds (like $6K worth of Humira), on top of just dealing with a failing appliance.
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The thermostat and damper are fixed. Then around 9:30P, the fridge started flooding my kitchen. When a fridge freezes like mine did, sometimes the tubes that channel water through the system, also freeze, expand and split. So now I'm waiting on parts to come in to fix this part. At least the refrigerator works (other than it can't make ice or in-door water - those are turned off while waiting for the parts). But at least now, my Humira is at the right temp.
 
Apple fanboy said:
Good luck. Beautiful day here. Drove home with a t-shirt on and the sunroof open.
Later I have to try and retrieve a coin from the washing machine. Wish me luck.
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Sounds beautiful! The weather wasn’t too bad yesterday, just a little weird. Lots of tornadoes directly west of us. We did get a tornado warning in the middle of the night, but otherwise, nothing like predicted. Today is gorgeous.

I’m actually having a friend in for coffee this morning. A guy I used to teach with. We used to have coffee together every morning before school. He only lives about 10 minutes away now (and no bridge to cross!), so I hope to see more of him.
 
Wife got fresh oysters from Omaha Steaks, they're sent live, chilled, overnight shipping, they were very tender, sweet, clean, we had a few with just a quick roast, but for the majority of them, we did this :)


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Alli said:
Sounds beautiful! The weather wasn’t too bad yesterday, just a little weird. Lots of tornadoes directly west of us. We did get a tornado warning in the middle of the night, but otherwise, nothing like predicted. Today is gorgeous.

I’m actually having a friend in for coffee this morning. A guy I used to teach with. We used to have coffee together every morning before school. He only lives about 10 minutes away now (and no bridge to cross!), so I hope to see more of him.
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Beautiful here again today. Watered some plants Mrs AFB had moved this week.
Work was somewhere I would rather not have been today. Far better things to be doing on a beautiful spring day.
Enjoy your coffee morning.
 
Today here was, as had been predicted, wet and chilly, so not a good day to be outdoors if one could avoid that. I have stayed in and spent some time reviewing and editing some of the (many) images I shot yesterday. Quite a lot more yet to be reviewed and maybe processed, but at least it's a start! Did other odds-and-ends of things too throughout the day. A friend sent me a couple of mp3 audio files so I wanted to add them to my iTunes library. I have not moved on to Apple Music; I'm perfectly happy with iTunes, thank you. However, it has been rather some time -- maybe two, three or even four years -- since I last manually added something to my iTunes library as opposed to simply purchasing something -- an album, a song track or two -- through the store, and quickly realized that I needed a refresher, as some things definitely have changed. All is well now.

Alli -- glad that the horrible, destructive weather in New Orleans did not come your way and that you and your husband are nicely settling into the new digs. Waiting for photos!
 
Finally saw first robin of the season... about three weeks late! He's apparently staking claim to my yard but may be disappointed this evening as we're to get some kind of ice storm overnight. Real spring weather is having a hard time getting off the launch pad again this year. Anyway I was thrilled to see that bird today,
 
I've seen our resident sparrow population and a few crows along with the water bird gang, but interestingly, no (American) robins.... They must be out there and I just have not seen them yet!
 
DT said:
Wife got fresh oysters from Omaha Steaks, they're sent live, chilled, overnight shipping, they were very tender, sweet, clean, we had a few with just a quick roast, but for the majority of them, we did this :)
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Maaaaannn!!! Brings back memories of summers in Massachusetts. Can't remember the last time I had fresh oysters.
 
Clix Pix said:
I've seen our resident sparrow population and a few crows along with the water bird gang, but interestingly, no (American) robins.... They must be out there and I just have not seen them yet!
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I'm waiting for the sweet buzzy call of the red winged blackbirds. They have not shown up yet, not surprising beause of our rollercoaster mid-to-late winter, but I was surprised to see the robin in the vanguard, and a loner at that. Usually it's the blackbirds and then robins in flocks, not quite ready to sort out into turf claimers and then into the squabbles over finding mates.
 
lizkat said:
Finally saw first robin of the season... about three weeks late! He's apparently staking claim to my yard but may be disappointed this evening as we're to get some kind of ice storm overnight. Real spring weather is having a hard time getting off the launch pad again this year. Anyway I was thrilled to see that bird today,
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Our U.K. Robin lives here all year round. Always comes to supervise gardening activities. At this time of year, Mrs Robin Is also in attendance. He sings to her and brings her food. Hoping for a baby or two again this year.
 
Clix Pix said:
I've seen our resident sparrow population and a few crows along with the water bird gang, but interestingly, no (American) robins.... They must be out there and I just have not seen them yet!
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Our sparrows are never far from the bird feeders. However Mrs AFB tells me the sack of sunflower hearts we buy has done up from £18 a sack, to £24 a sack.
They might be on rations!
 
My mouth was watering when I saw that photo of the oysters! Mmmmmmm!

One of my favorite treats is fresh, icy-cold cherrystone clams on the half-shell....blessed by a spritz of lemon.....ahhhhhhh! The restaurant where I used to get this as an appetizer prior to whatever meal I was going to have there is now no longer, and the pandemic kind of interrupted my search for a new place to savor this delight. Now that things are seemingly heading in a positive direction and restrictions lifting, time to undertake the search once again!
 
Clix Pix said:
My mouth was watering when I saw that photo of the oysters! Mmmmmmm!

One of my favorite treats is fresh, icy-cold cherrystone clams on the half-shell....blessed by a spritz of lemon.....ahhhhhhh! The restaurant where I used to get this as an appetizer prior to whatever meal I was going to have there is now no longer, and the pandemic kind of interrupted my search for a new place to savor this delight. Now that things are seemingly heading in a positive direction and restrictions lifting, time to undertake the search once again!
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Sounds amazing, I haven't had as many clams in this neck of the woods, but now I want to track some down. Muscles are popular around here, the standard prep is a buttery/garlic type broth, muscle steamed and piled in, some bread for sopping up the goodies :D

I wasn't hip to specific clams outside of the common littleneck, but the cherrystone sound amazing, hahaha, found this video, it's a mouth-water-er :D

 
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