Sewingmachine, sorry to hear about your husband's injuries. Were you affected by the wildfires at all? A friend of mine over there was hospitalized from it because he was rescuing farm animals and refused to leave until he got them all to safety. He told me the eucalyptus trees were exploding even after the fires were put out. The truck sinking in the yard reminded me of the time we were having cement work done in our yard and the contractor told the cement truck driver to back in slowly. Driver ignored him and rushed in forward toward the pond, realized there was a pond at the last second, slammed on his brakes & the front end sunk into the ground so hard it broke the steps on his truck. The driver called his supervisor who wanted to speak with my father (obviously that was back when he was still alive). My father had been trying to get some sort of assistance to get the truck unstuck but the supervisor started screaming & swearing at my father on the phone and telling him he was going to bill him for the damage to the truck, the cost of a tow vehicle, and all the time the vehicle was out of commission. My father responded that it was the driver's fault for disregarding directions & being reckless & he could take it up with his driver. Our contractor (who has also since passed away) told us not to worry about it that we wouldn't be charged any extra & he'd be getting a new concrete company after that. A couple hours later a large towtruck arrived from Lake Charles and pulled in to the middle of the yard (where we warned them that the ground was soft). They hooked up a winch and tried to pull the cement truck out but it barely moved and then the tow truck sunk down & got stuck. A couple hours later another tow truck arrived and parked on high dry ground, ran a cable with a winch to the 1st tow truck & started pulling it. The Parish had some workers out doing something on a backhoe & they were coming to clear something near our yard, saw the predicament & helped out as much as they could. They then asked us not to tell anyone as they could get in trouble for using the backhoe for unofficial work. It took more time for the people pouring cement to get the stuff out of the truck and pour it bc it was too far away so they had to build a system of chutes but they decided to bill the delivery company for the extra time it took rather than charge us.
Peanut, I hope your parents are OK.
I also have hypothyroid & the medicine I take contributes to my kidney stones. I had to stop drinking tea because it made me have them more often. I haven't had to go to the hospital over it yet, but they really suck. It's mostly my right kidney that gives me trouble. My doctor mentioned that at some point I should get an MRI but where I live, they won't do MRIs on people who don't have insurance- and won't do them on insured people without pre-approval. My mother has to take a bunch of medications for Diabetes, high cholesterol, hypothyroid, polyneuropathy, etc. But her heart is in better condition than mine & she'll be 70 this year. I take medicine for hypothyroid, high cholesterol, and perimenopause.
Today I ended up sleeping longer than intended-- one of my exhausted days. I'm not as exhausted as frequently since I started taking medicine for hypothyroid, but I still have a chronic recurring virus related to mono that kicks my tail from time to time. Being fat doesn't help either. LOL. I try to take things slowly. I had to do a lot of cleaning with dishes because my brother cooked himself something and made a huge mess. He doesn't believe in dumping the grease out of his pans or rinsing stuff. He also forgot to turn the 2nd to last time he cooked so he permanently burned stuff into the pan and warped it. We have a Nu-Wave induction cooktop bc our stove is ruined from mice. Despite having 16 cats, the mice can still get in under the stove, get inside, and climb in to the insulation between the stove & the oven. I'm a big fan of the microwave for cooking. LOL.
I made beef stroganoff from a hamburger helper box. I add heavy cream & garlic salt during the cooking process and then a serving spoon full of sour cream at the end. I like to add mushrooms and a little white wine, but my mother doesn't like that so I leave it out. I decided to do a little bit of re-arranging of stuff once I put leftovers away. We had some plastic bins that stuff was shoved in while moving stuff around that were sitting in the kitchen taking up space. There was a coffee table that my brother threw out of his room and left in the hallway in front of my bedroom door (so I was constantly having to move it to get past it). A week after I asked him to put it in the front room & he disregarded the request, I decided to move it. Fortunately, it was lighter than I expected. At first I put it in the front room, but then I realized it would fit just about perfectly next to the counter where one of the plastic bins was sitting. So, I moved the top bin to sit on top of another bin, and then moved that bin in to the front room and set the coffee table in its place. Now I just need to pick up the stuff the cats knocked on the floor & get rid of the area rugs that got ruined from stuff spilling on them. Stuff fell on the floor and splattered. The rugs are there to cover the large area of missing parquet floor.
As an aside, what section would be a good place for me to do a thread about the numerous projects for my house/yard? It ranges from landscaping for a driveway, adding a gate opener & repairing the workshop to putting in flooring & renovating rooms in the house (mostly bathrooms). I don't know if I should do separate threads for separate projects or lump them all in one. I think I will do a separate thread for the projects at my best friend's house.
. Incidentally welcome to the forum from Australia here where we have had flooding rains recently. 
