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[luvsbulldogs]

@Bird mama

Wow you did better on the price of seed than we did.  We bought ours with $2.00 off per bag.  Sorry that you have to lug it from the street.  Please be careful. 

[Bird mama]

So, last night I had my own version of the Olympic games - gymnastics category.

I have a combination shower/bathtub with a shower curtain.  Since I was a kid, I prefer a bath, even a quickie bath.

So I took a leisurely bath yesterday morning, thinking I would be getting my haircut.  Found out my hairdresser was on vacation.  I needed to do the grocery shopping so I needed to be clean for that :-)

So, later I go walking on the treadmill because I'm feeling guilty about eating an entire box of milk duds (movie sized).  I get a little sweaty.

I put the birds to bed and decide to take a quickie shower.  What the hell possessed me I don't know. 

I jump into the shower, squirt shampoo in my hands and don't see the blob hit the floor of the tub.  I have grippie things on the tub floor. 

I hit the blob of shampoo, do the electric slide (dance) for a split second and fall back, like I'm either trying to break dance, crowd surf or do a floor routine.

Shower curtain gives, I hit the toilet.  Stunned I make sure I can move my legs and I get up, turn off the shower and glance at the broken toilet seat (where it connects to the porcelain).  I utter I'll be a sonofab----- and I get back into the tub, this time filling it up, take a quick bath/shampoo and rinse off using the shower.

Gotta love my birds - after I dried off, I went to see if the massive crash scared them.  Poppi and Presto were out like a light, Grayson comes waltzing upstairs - he didn't hear a thing.

I have a couple of bruises - the worst is mid-back, just left of my spine.  I immediately thanked God that I didn't crash into the toilet in my spine.

I'm kinda stiff today and hope that the bruises heal before my colonoscopy in a couple of weeks.

Lesson - stick with what works for me..... BATH.

I will be picking up a bath math even though I have new grippies for the tub.  I have to measure the kohler toilet and buy a new seat.  The one I have now is slightly cockeyed.  I don't use the upstairs bathroom that much.  I use the 1/2 bath on the main floor.

Talk about feeling stupid.

[Bird mama]

The bird of the day is the Northern Shoveler

[mousiegirl]

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@Bird mama wrote:

So, last night I had my own version of the Olympic games - gymnastics category.

I have a combination shower/bathtub with a shower curtain.  Since I was a kid, I prefer a bath, even a quickie bath.

So I took a leisurely bath yesterday morning, thinking I would be getting my haircut.  Found out my hairdresser was on vacation.  I needed to do the grocery shopping so I needed to be clean for that :-)

So, later I go walking on the treadmill because I'm feeling guilty about eating an entire box of milk duds (movie sized).  I get a little sweaty.

I put the birds to bed and decide to take a quickie shower.  What the hell possessed me I don't know. 

I jump into the shower, squirt shampoo in my hands and don't see the blob hit the floor of the tub.  I have grippie things on the tub floor. 

I hit the blob of shampoo, do the electric slide (dance) for a split second and fall back, like I'm either trying to break dance, crowd surf or do a floor routine.

Shower curtain gives, I hit the toilet.  Stunned I make sure I can move my legs and I get up, turn off the shower and glance at the broken toilet seat (where it connects to the porcelain).  I utter I'll be a sonofab----- and I get back into the tub, this time filling it up, take a quick bath/shampoo and rinse off using the shower.

Gotta love my birds - after I dried off, I went to see if the massive crash scared them.  Poppi and Presto were out like a light, Grayson comes waltzing upstairs - he didn't hear a thing.

I have a couple of bruises - the worst is mid-back, just left of my spine.  I immediately thanked God that I didn't crash into the toilet in my spine.

I'm kinda stiff today and hope that the bruises heal before my colonoscopy in a couple of weeks.

Lesson - stick with what works for me..... BATH.

I will be picking up a bath math even though I have new grippies for the tub.  I have to measure the kohler toilet and buy a new seat.  The one I have now is slightly cockeyed.  I don't use the upstairs bathroom that much.  I use the 1/2 bath on the main floor.

Talk about feeling stupid.

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@Bird mama  So glad you are not badly injured.  Falls are scary, and come for me, more often as the years pass.  I forget my age and go flying around, sooner or later tripping on something, a lot of land mines around here, so I am trying to be more careful.  I will always have the scar above my lip when I fell onto the rocks earlier this year, should be a great reminder for me.

A few days ago, I had just finished potting some daylilies, and grabbed two large pots to place them elsewhere when down I went.  Fortunately, it was under the fig tree which is next to my potting area and the pots I fell on were very small plastic.  I was so ticked that I began throwing them as I needed to make a spot so I could get on my knees to get up, and ever madder when I saw that the pots had emptied, tags all over, so now I don't know which is which and will have to wait until they bloom.  It is better to fall on ground, lol, a softer landing.

[possummink]

Bernie and Mousie,   Above is my 'dream' for a shower.   I am not a bath person at all, as I love the shower, have since I was a kid.  Another reason is my dermatologists have told me over the years to do tepid showers as my skin is so dang sensitive.

At home, we have a walk in shower, not fancy like above, but at my son's it's a tub with a shower and I'm about as graceful anymore as a one legged kangaroo on a grease spot.   I did something similar to your Olympic feat, Bernie, a few months back.   I stepped on some shampoo and did the most graceless slip and slide and fell backwards out of the shower.  The shower curtain, the rod that holds it and I all tumbled out onto the bathroom floor at about 2 in the morning.  The shower curtain broke my fall, but I did hurt my elbow, the same one I'd hurt at home tripping over something.  Like Mousie said about falling more as I age, true,  true, unfortunately so true.!!!!   

Back to my fall out of the tub, my oldest GS came knocking on the door asking if I was ok and thankfully I was, except for the bruised elbow and ego.  I had to untangle myself from the curtain and try to stand on it as it was dripping as was I.  I had to have him put the shower curtain back up as I'm not tall enough to put it where it's supposed to be positioned.  He was so concerned and I was so embarrassed at being such a klutz.    I do notice anymore, some unsteadiness when I get up suddenly or get out of bed.  My balancing acts aren't what they used to be.  Age thing I guess. 

I'm glad you weren't hurt, Bernie and you Mousie with your fall under the fig tree.  I guess our Guardian Angels have to rush in to save us from ourselves.   My Angel has had a lifetime of saving me or softening the falls. 

[possummink]

A photo of Eric and Little B on a limb right near their nest.  Their mama, Rachel, was just there and I wish you could have heard all the Osprey talk going on.  Needed ear plugs.  No wonder that eagle can find their nest, although I don't think that's what lured him in.  The video showed Steve trying to head the eagle off when it grabbed Spirit.  Rough side of nature.

At least the two above can fly pretty well now.   Their parents are still feeding them too and staying close by.   Some scientest said the eagle population is increasing in the Northeast and that might mean a decline in the Osprey population.  Sad to hear. 

[luvsbulldogs]

@Bird mama

Here I go telling you to be careful with lugging in the seed and you go and take a dive in the shower!  Thank God that nothing broke and you were able to get yourself up and out of the shower!  Sorry about the soreness and the bruises.  I think you had better stick with baths that you said that you like better anyways.  I am thinking of switching to baths myself because we have a stall shower with no place to grab onto if you feel yourself slipping.  I have seen something that looks like a handle in the stores but wonder how good they are considering they get wet and probably will slide. 

@mousiegirl

I remember you mentioning about your fall out in your garden but did not know that you have a scar from it.  Sorry to hear that.  I find that as I age I am less stable on my feet like you also mentioned.  I guess we all need to slow down a bit as we age.

@possummink

Oh no not you too falling in the shower!  Glad to hear that you also did not break anything.  Thank goodness your GS heard you fall.  Be careful Possum. 

Thanks everyone for the great pics!!! 

[mousiegirl]

Pictures of my winshield after being bombed by a pinecone.

[Bird mama]

@mousiegirl

A pinecone did THAT????

[mousiegirl]

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@Bird mama wrote:

@mousiegirl

A pinecone did THAT????

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@Bird mama  Before a pinecone opens up, it is hard and pointed.  What I don't get is how they come flying off the tree.  I would think they would just drop.  When they hit the roof, it makes me jump the noise is so loud.