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Farm Doin's - 2020
sKePTiKal:
Nope, I can't name it; already asked when I realized how long their proposed name was. The county system is based on historical place names; which I'm all for - I've read a good bit of the history of this place. And since it's really a "place name" instead of a road that goes somewhere... I think I like it. Covers all ~150 acres. I'll have to check Google Earth and see if my driveway name gets updated in a few months. LOLOLOL. Right now, they have my address shown as being on the other side of the ridge - which isn't surprising since GPS craps out right about there too. Hol says her phone app says you have to walk the rest of the way, from where our mailboxes are at the highway. LOLOLOL.
If you don't know what you're looking for as you're driving the highway - you'll completely miss my road (as it's called now) and since my new address won't be the same road and you won't be able to get to here EXCEPT via the first road - my fingers are crossed the post office will let me move the mailboxes the mile up the road to my driveway (will get marked private shortly). I'm not holding my breath though.
Guess I'll have to shop for a couple signs for my place. To keep the UPS/FedEx guys happy and my neighbors who often have to give directions to the delivery guys from having to explain "we're not who you're looking for, no matter what your GPS or Google says".
Hopalong:
The Google maps lady once directed me straight into a Pennsylvania cornfield.
Not a joke.
:)
Hops
sKePTiKal:
It's 10 years ago, now... but I rented a car at O'Hare to drive to my Dad's funeral and asked for a map. The last time I'd driven in Chicago was 10 more years before THAT. The agent just looked at me funny and asked if I wanted recreational attractions or restaurants/hotels... and I had to explain I wanted a roap map. They didn't have one anywhere in the office. I stopped at a gas station somewhere in Indiana and got one. Fortunately, my memory is such that the route numbers and landmarks were still in my head - even in a stressful, time sensitive situation (I couldn't get an earlier flight as I was vacationing at the beach when the call came) - I made it just fine. I had to change clothes when I got there.
I can drive from the beach to Michigan, without a map because the roads & exits are engraved on my memory. But I now ALWAYS pack my own current atlas. I still have my fear of getting lost or turned around in cities. Out in the boonies, I'm better off... and known the general compass direction I'm driving... and haven't been shy about stopping and asking directions if I'm that far off the beaten trail. I just take immense pleasure in knowing that there are still places that aren't identifiable by satellite or GPS coordinates around. I even have a star, constellation identifier that doesn't work here - because it can't verify my GPS location. LOLOLOL.
That's how you know you're really in the boonies. :D
Hopalong:
Boonie Girl,
With you on all that, and hooray for real maps!
I enjoy them less these days because of glasses-switching, but that's because I've been relying on varying drugstore readers for too long. I definitely need a proper prescription. Coming back home last night I missed an exit and had a nice long detour. Finally faced facts...I MUST have prescription glasses for driving. Things are just getting fuzzy in the dark. Damn, I'll have to break my winning streak of not going indoors anywhere.
One thing I feel compelled to add to the B saga, even though it's not really necessary. I just want to pipe up for docs who really are in it for the right reasons. We've all met burned-out or indifferent medicos, but there are also many who do it because they care about people and want to relieve pain and cure disease. I think an overwhelmed, underfunded system that doesn't support them and reduces them to paper pushers (keyboard clickers) has changed things for patients but I don't believe most docs are bad or indifferent people. I'm terribly sorry B has dealt with poor medicine and medical errors so much. To live in such pain really grates on the spirit.
Hugs
Hops
sKePTiKal:
Agreed on the docs, Hops. I know some fine ones. This complaint isn't against docs/nurses (who did everything in their power to help him over the last 4 years)... it is TOTALLY against the system that has been made rediculously cumbersome and complex. I laugh maniacally at times, at how the patient record database is essentially useless despite the massive financial investments and time it took to get it up & running when the humans don't bother looking at it and READING it. Of course, most of 'em are under pressure to get a patient in/out in 15 minutes or less. As if that's good medical practice. :rolling eyes so far I'm looking out my rear end: (I wonder if rolling my eyes that far would help stop the cataracts I seem to be developing?)
Now that he's home, he's following his own healing protocols. Figure a week at most, before he tries to get back "at it" again, knowing him. Meanwhile I've asked him to think long and hard about just what absolutely has to be done - and what he's willing to let go - to get here and have some support and the possibility of finishing up getting him physically ready to be well. And to please be flexible about taking things one day at a time, and not sticking to any original plan or goal... IF the situation warrants an adjustment in "timeline, how, goals met".
This is going to cost me a whole batch of oatmeal raisin cookies, with some molasses/spice cookies for good measure.
He drives a hard bargain. ;)
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