The TTO Show was a popular radio show in my area when I was growing up. It was a hodgepodge of happenings and interesting topics, and it was always fun and informative, as the hosts had a great sense of humor. Sadly, the show has been off the air for decades now, but I’ve decided to go with that theme in today’s post.
In case you’re wondering, TTO stands for “This, That and the Other.” Today’s focus will be “Words of the Week.”
“I think I re-injured it again.”
I recently shared these words with my hubby. Back in September 2010, I took a nasty fall in our yard and injured my rotator cuff in my right shoulder, and it seems that once again, I’ve reinjured it while lifting heavy boxes during my sister and brother-in-law’s recent move to their new home on the farm. Unfortunately, I am right-handed, so this is just not good. There are times in my life that I don’t have all that much that needs to be done, but this is not such a time. Once again, I’m relying on prescription Naproxen and my little arm sling for relief while trying to get the things done that must still be done.
“I’m a country girl now!”
That’s what she said. (lol) Well, that’s what my sister said to me on the evening after we helped move them to their new home on their oldest son’s farm last week. Yes, I lifted way too many heavy things, but it’s done now.
I’m laying low for the next two weeks while her boys get things ready for the estate sale at their former home. Parting with most of her possessions is going to be hard on her.
The trustee wants the keys to the house by the end of this month to start some repairs and get it ready to list with a realtor to get those funds back into my sister’s trust. The trustee had some hard words with my sister’s middle son about how all this works, and that’s unfortunate. Her son wanted to take a couple of months to get things ready, but that is just not remotely reasonable in this situation. I will be so glad when the estate sale is over and all this stuff can finally start settling down, especially since the move was especially hard on my brother-in-law, who has Parkinson’s Disease.
“It has to be done, hun.”
These were my words to my hubby as the time to start our spring yard work was upon us last weekend. With all the activity from the move, we were behind on doing yardwork, and I wasn’t able to help due to my shoulder. Over breakfast on Saturday, as we discussed what all needed to be done and whether we should try to just hire someone to do it all this year, I uttered these words to him to bring him back to reality on the situation. Bless his heart, he worked his tail off scalping the yard, too. The worst is behind us with that task completed, and hopefully we will have some good spring rains to help get the yard off to a good start soon.
I’m glad to report that our tree in the backyard is once again blooming in full after a nasty attack by borers last September while we were gone to New Mexico for a week. From now on, we will treat that tree every Spring (and maybe every Fall, too) to prevent this from happening again.
“I miss you so much!”
On Monday, I enjoyed a nice lunch with my dear friend who now lives in Utah while she was back on a quick visit to see family here. I shared these words with her, and it is the absolute truth. She is such a dear friend, and I miss having her nearby. We had a good lunch visit with another mutual friend, and it refreshed my soul once again, as well as my tummy as we dined on wonderful Mexican food. I need to plan a trip to go see her up there some time this year, preferably when it’s miserably hot here this summer.
Oh wait, it’s already hot!
“It’s 96 degrees right now at our house! I’m ready to move to Alaska.”
I shared these words with the hubby yesterday when he inquired as to what the weather was at home. It was pretty incredible to have such heat in mid-March yesterday, and I was totally unprepared for it in my jeans and long-sleeved shirt. While the official high temperature here was only 92, we frequently register a few degrees warmer at our house than what’s registered at the official site. I’m not sure I want to know what’s ahead for us as far as summer heat this year, but I hope and pray it’s not another 2011 again because I really don’t think I can handle another summer like that one right now.
“I can’t believe we have to buy this thing.”
I said this to an employee at Best Buy earlier this week. A few days ago, Uverse and our local NBC affiliate failed to reach an agreement on the continuation of services between the two, and we lost our ability to watch that station on our televisions at home, since we are Uverse subscribers.
We hoped the disagreement would be quickly resolved, but it now seems that it is going to be a permanent thing. I hear of these types of disagreements more and more these days and not just with our cable provider. So, after some discussion, we decided to just go to Best Buy and purchase HD antennas to get our local stations going forward.
If it had been any other local station, we probably wouldn’t have bothered to take this step right now. But our local NBC affiliate is everyone’s “go-to” news station for local news and weather, and with severe weather season soon to be upon us, maybe even later this week, we didn’t want to be without that resource.
The big winner in all this is anyone who sells HD antennas. $75 later (for three of these things), we are good to go once again. I’m not all that displeased that we opted to go this route either because we now have a little backup in case we lose cable signal. We’ve lost signal on a few occasions when the weather was pretty bad, although not nearly as often as when we had satellite cable service years ago.
“This is sooo good!”
One of my favorite foods right now is Firecracker Shrimp, and I recently made tacos with them, similar to a dish served by our favorite Mexican food restaurant. I’m pleased to share that I got really close to what the restaurant serves, and the words above were pretty much what we thought of this tasty dish. I’ve already made it a second time because it’s a quick, easy and tasty dish that works well on my low carb plan, since I bought Mission tortillas that are only 4 net carbs each.
“I’m ready to go again!”
When driving down a nearby neighborhood street a few days ago, we saw an RV in a driveway with people loading supplies in it, probably for a spring break week vacation. It made me realize just how ready I am to go camping in our RV once again, although it looks like we won’t be going anywhere until sometime in April now. Hubby is slammed at work and probably needs to just stay put until things slow down a bit. We agreed that we are both ready to go again, too.
Well, that’s about it for this episode of TTO! Who knows what the next week will bring.
My Five Fs 
Well, you TTO was pretty interesting, I’d say. I am sorry about the rotator cuff injury and hope it feels better very soon. You’ve had a lot on your plate lately – and not just Firecracker Shrimp tacos!! ha! – so I bet you are more than ready to take off in that RV of yours. 🙂
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I *need* more of those tacos! haha Gosh, they are so good and easy to make. I guess the good thing about the shoulder injury is that I’m done for now with everything associated with the move and the sale. Actually, I’m pretty much done with anything right now, I’m afraid. 😦
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Sorry to hear about the repeat injury. Seems as we age some of those old mistakes come back to haunt us with renewed vigor!
Having a digital antenna as backup is a smart idea. Cable isn’t perfect and I’ve always been a fan of having a backup plan! The one we got is very similar. But it still kind of grinds my gears that you need a fancy antenna to pickup digital signals when the analog ones were so much easier to receive. And that if you don’t have a strong signal you get nothing (stray pixels); with analog even if the signal was bad you could usually hear the audio and know about emergencies.
I may not like fish tacos — but I’d eat one o’ them shrimp tacos any day! 😍🍴
We have hit 90º once, but we have two +90º days coming up this week. Gettin’ ready for the oven….
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I used Pioneer Woman’s online recipe for the shrimp, bought the pico at the grocery store along with the tomatoes, and I also put *hot* salsa on ours, mixing a little in with the coleslaw mix. The shrimp are also good on a salad, too.
With the shoulder injury, I’m done with the rest of the move and the sale efforts, which is probably a good thing. But, it does hurt a lot, and I’m not at all happy about that.
I’m ok with the purchase of the antennas for the backup capability. We seldom record any programs on NBC anyway, mostly just watch them for the local news and weather. Another oldies station actually comes in much clearer on the antenna that it does through Uverse, too. We like to watch those old shows quite often for some good, nostalgic laughs, so it will be nice to see them much clearer now.
The only advantage we have with the heat here over the heat you will have is the low humidity. I hope you guys adapt to the higher humidity/heat ok. I’m usually ok as long as things cool off at night, but when it’s also hot at night, it’s tough. We definitely handle cool weather better than heat these days.
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Old shows…. Yeah… we find ourselves watching more of the old ones than the new. Whether or not we’ve seen the others before at least they aren’t as insipid as what’s being called entertainment nowadays.
I’m excited to see what it’s like. I may hate it, but I’m still excited over the prospect.
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