For those of you following my landlord saga, here's the latest:

So we wait around for him to show up with potentials at 6pm. Once this is done we are planning to go out to eat with his folks since they are going home. We wait until 6:30 and then my husband calls him. Hubby asks him if he still coming out and he says not tonight that it was being rescheduled. My hubby asks him to call us in the future when there is a change and how we have been waiting around. Landlord says that he talked to me and since I wanted to be there when he did the walkthrough that he had to reschedule but it wasn't for tonight. He apologized, but don't you like how he put it on me? I'm the woman so i must be wrong! I hate that man! When he got off the phone I clearly told my hubby what was said and that I wasn't confused. My husband knows that the landlord is full of crap. When he was on the phone he also confirmed with him that we are to be present when he shows the place. So I decided that I am no longer dealing with him. He thinks he can get away with stuff by calling me. My sister is the one who usually answers the main phones at work so I told her to direct the calls to my husband. If he does happen to get through to me I'm just gonna tell him that he needs to talk to my husband because I am not sure I will be home. I'm done!!

Good Morning, it's rainy and dreary here today, it looks like a good day to stay in.

Sorry about the idiot landlord Woo, sounds like he was deprived of oxygen right before he was born.

Hang in there, Woo. Just a couple more weeks and you will be done with that idiot.

I'm trying to decide if I should go to the dr. I broke out with a reaction after working on the bushes in the back yard. I remember now that this has happened before. Last time, we both got it. Mine went away, but Mrs. Web finally had to go get a shot to get over hers. I've got it all over my tummy and a few places on my left arm.

I'm trying to figure out what is there that is nasty. There is no poison ivy, but that is what my reaction looks like. There is a hedge but I've worked on that many times without issue. In the hedge is a volunteer kind of tree that grows really fast. That is what I was cutting out of the hedge. I suspect that is what got me, but I have no idea what kind of "tree" it is. I say "tree" because the volunteers that grow seem to be shoots off of a main root somewhere. If I dig under a volunteer shoot, it goes down to what looks more like main runner going off to the side rather than a tree root going down. Its weird stuff whatever it is.

Poison oak or sumac maybe?

-- Edited by MzHartz at 08:47, 2008-05-08

You should post a picture. I'm sure one of us could find it.

Uhh....you did wash before using the facilities I hope!

Well if you would have kept your shirt on while you were working Stud.....

Morning all. Yesterday's rain for some of you in the Midwest has arrive here. Other than that, just another day to do work. I did manage to leave the cellphone at home today though. Guess I wasn't thinking when I walked out of the house this morning. Who am I kidding? I don't think.

Sparky, your clouds must have moved down here now. It was mostly sunny but now we're all cloudy. No rain in the forecast though.

It's rainy and nasty here. The Mississippi and Illinois Rivers are up and have shut down the ferry that I use to go to work. Soooooo...I get to take I-270 to work everyday. I'm trying to stay positive, but right now the only thing I'm positive about is that if I have to take it much longer I'm going to lose my mind.

Stayed up till midnight last night making cookies. Total count that were delivered to my aunt was around 15 dozen. Had to have three dozen left for home.

I showed that page to my wife and she thinks what we have looks just like that. I think my rash confirms it too.


This is what is nice about living in a small town . . . Just before lunch, a friend from church who is a city employee called me. He said a fellow employee told him that he just saw a lady fall backwards off her curb into the street and where it was. This friend knew that the lady was my grandmother. She told the guy that helped her that she was fine and went inside, but he called me to let me know what happened.

That was really nice of him to call me.

My grandmother already has a lot of back pain so I knew this couldn't have been good for her so I went to check on her. She said her back was hurting but she thought she was ok. I tried to get her to go to the doctor but she wouldn't go.

I knew my dad was at a track meet for his wife's grand daughter in another smaller town 16 miles from her. I got his wife on the cell phone and told her what was going on. My dad called grandma and she said that after sitting there another hour, she was hurting even more. He didn't give her an option, he was going to come and take her to the dr to have her checked out.

I hope she's ok, it was a pretty good fall. She was picking up something off the ground and lost her balance and fell backwards off the curb. She landed mostly on her butt on the concrete, but then rolled back and hit her head on the street too. She said her leg was really hurting too and pointed to where a front pants pocket would be. I'll have to check with dad later and see what they find.

I hope she is allright too Web! That's what I miss about smaller town living. Everybody is there to help in one way or another. Be it a phone call like that or following up to make sure someone you helped is allright.

My dad finally called.

They did xrays and ct scans. The only damage they can see is a little chip off the outside edge of her pelvis. Its nothing they can do about that. They decided to keep her in the hospital over night to watch her and so they can manage pain if it should get worse later.

She's in quite a bit of pain when she has to move, but just lying in the bed, she's not hurting too bad.

Yeah. She's had back problems the last few years, I'm surprised this didn't do more damage than it did.

She's 84 now. It will probably take another incident or two like this to get her convinced that she shouldn't be living at home alone any more.