Senior Golden Sneakers
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Anne, it's very much pot luck I'm sure and unless your Sylvia has gone on to the site in the hopes of finding you or anyone else you won't link up there. I saw a video on you tube not too long ago where a girl had always wondered about her parentage because she looked so different to her siblings and sent her DNA to a company only to find her real father had his DNA with them too. They said if they had chosen different companies they wouldn't have found each other. Turned out he was her mother's first love and never knew she existed and certainly look very happy in each others company now.
I see those pads are sold on Amazon but will check tomorrow in case our pet superstore sells them. A great idea to get a much larger size, thanks.
Sipping a cuppa and searching google for replacement garage doors!
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Thursday is as always, good to be with you all! Cloudy but without rain. Drops could be falling at any moment.
Katie is bored with all this rain so she is acting out. Stealing socks from my laudndry basket. Chewing on my house plants...she eats the leaves on my jade tree, barking endlessly at nothing, wanting to play ball and have me play with her and her various stuffed animals. I must give up any thought of chores or tasks other than playing with Katie. She is a full time job.
Finished watching The Christmas Carol last night. Next I will watch a cute little movie called “Prancer.” It is live action and very well done with a live reindeer. When we lived in Alaska, a special trip to the Arctic area, we saw reindeer herds and a couple grizzly bear. BIG GRIZZLY BEAR! One of life’s peak moments.
I have spent hours trying to find old friends on the internet. Unsuccessful and upsetting, really. I will have to just honor that friendship in memories.
Note to Jackie...we had a garage door with an opener but as you know it is rainy here. The wood swelled and got very heavy. It burned out the opener and swelled shut. Very annoying and troublesome. Something to think about.
Patsy
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My friends' daughter has been in a facility for 58 years, and I cannot begin to imagine the guilt as well as grief they are probably undergoing, even though they should not feel that way! I am so grateful for my fairly normal "inconveniences" rather than life-shaking ones!
I got so involved in "stuff" today I forgot to make dinner plans.
. I certainly learned not to trust the first few things that come up in Amazon! I did much better on an original vendor's site than Amazon! Waste of my day again. Enjoyed all your posts, though getting my reply in was chore! It kept typing right to left (backwards ) for far too long! I think the cables in my building were being worked with this afternoon! Anyway, I'd better go down and order some carry-out to eat up here, which I'd just as soon! XOXOXO
Buzz
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Mark rolled up this afternoon looking bronzed and after a short love-in with Jilly Bean staggered out with two large cacti. It's barely made a hole in the jungle that's left but I should get rid of the rest over the weekend. He also solved my Canada Revenue worry. It appears to be their mistake. I certainly don't own any property anyway! Letter mailed and signed by both of us.
Let me know if your superstore sells the cloth plastic backed pee pads or not JACKIE. A bit pricey but well worth it in saving the environment, ones sanity, and the cost of constantly buying Dettol and worrying about running out of disposable pads. I still think you will have one clean little girl by January. Any ideas on what to do with these squares once they aren't needed anymore? There's got to be something!
LIN my very favourite dessert is fruit cake and I'm astounded how many people in Canada can't stand it. The same goes for Christmas pudding (MJs task). It's so delicious with Brandy sauce or sweet white sauce laced with Brandy. When MJs parents were alive they used to pull the most awful faces when the Christmas pudding was brought in with Brandy ablaze. It was quite funny watching them and they never did try a mouthful. Fancy, a whole lifetime of no Christmas pud or cake!
Well it's about teatime,
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Anne, we never had any type of Christmas pudding but literally more than a dozen varieties of cookies and many types of homemade candy. It was a busy time of year. I helped my mom when I was at home and after I was married I started my own elf sweet shoppe. The goal was to have loads of different things and you would make up big plates of various cookies and candies. I thought they were quite beautiful and was proud to deliver them to friends and neighbors. Oh another memory, my Grandmother’s sister would send her a small fruitcake each year. She was a Canadian who lived in Alberta. You always knew what was in the little package from Bonnie. My Grandmother liked that fruit cake, I suspect it was because her sister sent it to her.
Sandy, I meant nothing towards you personally about that strange login. I did wonder if you thought location services could be that far off. Me in Iowa, login shown as Illinois? That’s all, I should have explained. Sorry.
Hey, my mail has arrived. Time to trudge the half block to the mailboxes. It is wet out there. Ick! My sinuses seem to be unhappy about winter this year. I know, suck it up Butter up. Haaaaaa.
Hugs.
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Sunshine!! Not to last long but at least we're drying off a bit today and I managed to walk George and Betty to the Hurlers and back. Once we were in the open near the stones I let Betty off her lead but she tended to stick by my side unsure of her freedom.... fine until in the distance a man walked with his Spaniel and she looked ready to run over barking so back on her lead. Less than 5 minutes back home before she pee'd on the carpet leaving me with the impression we are going backwards so since our local pet store doesn't sell washable pads I've purchased from Amazon and added a long paragraph of directions to my property together with my mobile number. Let's see what happens this time!!
Anne, the descriptions on Amazon suggest the pads can be used on furniture when our dogs have been out in the rain or car seats but once I've seen and felt them I will see if I can think of other uses.
It never crossed my mind that our fruit Christmas cakes and puds were quite so British although I know German and Scandinavian cakes as well as eastern European are more pastry, fat with a little fruit and dusted with icing sugar so perhaps that's where the influence in North America originates.
Patsy, I'm sure Anne finds the same as me and you what absolute time wasters our pups are but such fun!
The old garage doors have done just as you describe, soaked up the increased rainfall, expanded, become weighty and burst under the pressure! I'm hoping a cheaper metal up and over style will do.
A trip to the Arctic is on my bucket list but it seems I'd better hurry before it melts away... tragic!
Since I'm on my iPhone I can't easily turn back a page so will for now say hello to Sandy, Lin and Buzz and get off my sofa and rear!
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I'll generally comment later, but for now that's a great idea JACKIE for the pads, especially as Jilly loves going in Michael's car to the pet store for her treats. She gets quite vocal if we don't go in the car somewhere on his arrival, and we have to laugh because we know exactly what she's telling us. They really DO take over our lives these young dogs. Also on the furniture for protection BUT as long as they don't think, "ooh, a new place to pee on a cold day",lol. Think I'll forget that idea ! I thought maybe under the door mat to help with muddy paws. Anchor with the door mat though so WE don't skid on it, plastic being slippery!
Anyway, I'm up terribly late for me, and Mike will be here before I know it so must scoot. I think I relaxed and overslept after Mark solved the Canada Revenue business.
Happy grocery shop girls,
Anne.
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Can't resist one last memory. Did you, as a child JACKIE, have great luck in finding the silver sixpence in your dollop of Christmas pud? As a child I was extremely lucky in this. "Eat slowly" mum would say, "watch out for the lucky sixpence" and there it was! Amazing, lol. I wonder how many kids swallowed the lucky silver sixpence and got rushed to the docs who would assure their worried parents not to worry seeing that as Christmas pud is mainly currents, sultanas and raisins it would soon pass on! Dad called Christmas pudding - plum duff. Mary Jo tried Christmas pudding, unlike her parents, on marrying Mark. She's been addicted ever since and is our pud maker, but she refuses to enclose a silver dime, wrapped or not, in the uncooked mixture. She calls it unhygienic, well yes, but it stops the fun of losing a filling or worse, a tooth at Christmas dinner wouldn't you say, lol,
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That made me laugh Anne and yes, we always added a silver sixpence in fact it was a tradition to make a big ceremony of dropping one into the mix when the puds were being made. As the girl in the family I had to help in the kitchen regularly while my brothers went out to play and at the time I did resent it but am so glad now because I like to think I've always been able throw most recipes together without weighing ingredients. A not so lucky sixpence was swallowed by me when very small and playing under the dining table rolling it towards the wall and watching it come back at me. Lesson learned, keep mouth firmly closed when playing such games! I must have been very small because I remember my grandmother, who was babysitting at the time, grabbing me by my feet, hanging me upside down and slapping me on the back. To no avail however because I ended up having a chest x-ray in case I had swallowed it, which I hadn't. Once out that sixpence hung around the house for years afterwards as a reminder!!
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Happy Friday!
Spending a lot of time on the computer looking for a drug prescription plan since my supplement is going up in price in January. In checking with friends my supplement seems to be the cheapest so I will keep it and see if I can lower my drug plan. They make things so complicated for us seniors.
I really do not like fruit cake of any kind, I just hate fruit that comes out of jars. So whenever anyone gave us a fruit cake as a present it was re-gifted to someone else. Sorry. We had no Christmas puddings so life is different in the UK compared to the States. I am sure we all loved our own traditions and that is all that matters.
Jackie, Betty hasn't been with you long, so it will take time to re train her not to do her business indoors. If she spent her whole life in a cage she must certainly be confused. I remember George giving you a hard time when you first got him and look at him now.
Anne, forgive me again but sometimes my memory fails me. Mark and Mary Jo are married how long? So your grandson is their child correct? Mike has been married but no longer?
If I am being too nosy just tell me, I understand.
Lin, no offense was taken about the login, I was just curious on how you got Schaumburg as a location. Where does it say the location, I don't see it when I log in. Again sometimes those messenger things have spam attached to them so I try not to open any links. We both changed our passwords so I think we are both safe.
Buzz, I hope today is a good day for you and you can start enjoying your facility again. There seems to be so much sadness there lately but life has to go on. Will any of your children be coming in for the holidays??
Patsy, Daisy is exactly like Katie. She is nine years old and still thinks she is a puppy. She wears Babe out so hopefully at his son's house she will tire herself out playing with their beagle.
I have some bills to pay, games to play and start mentally packing for my trip next week.
Have a great day.
Sandy
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We had clear skies and sun for several hours this morning. It was lovely. However a marine layer has rolled in and we have fog and mist. That’s okay because I have things to do.
Just heard about the earthquake in Anchorage. When we lived there, we went through some pretty scary earthquakes. You cannot believe the terror one feels. I guess it is similar to what you feel in those tornado/hail/lightning storms. Mom Nature is a fierce lady! I need to try to get in touch with friends in Alaska. I am really worried about them.
Saw this funny quote...”do you ever stand with the refrigerator door open looking for answers?” Yeah, that’s me. Hunting for delicious sweet low calorie things to eat. Hummmmmm. Maybe that is a real oxymoron. Not sure what a oxymoron is but it sounds bad! I will look this up.
Washed a new shirt and ALL of the buttons came off in the washing machine. I don’t have high hopes for this cute shirt. It was one of those boutique fashion shirts that was big in style but obviously small in quality. Why can’t we have both? Only the plain boring clothes seem to have good fabric, good fit, and good construction. I seem to be drawn to funny creative high style. The kind of thing that falls apart in the washing machine.
Well, to work! Sewing on buttons, watering my house plants and continue working on my several homemade Christmas cards. I am doing tiny little paintings on watercolor paper to attach on the cards. I will print up a message in some arty font for the inside...then the important part....a check or a nice big chunk of cash. But t is fun to paint this tiny little painting.
Katie is potty trained but that’s about all. She comes when called, when she so desires. She eats when it suits her, oh I could go on and on. We love her dearly and she is as spoiled as we let her be. I guess we trained her to be the boss of the household.
Patsy
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Good evening, first, I have never had any food with money added to it and I don’t feel deprived! Second, if I laundered a new blouse and all the buttons came off, I would be making a trip back to the store! They need to sew the buttons on for you or replace the blouse. Although they will be well attached when you finish with them Patsy.
It was a nice day. Tai Chi/Qigong classes, some chatter with a friend there and then off to meet my long lost friend. We had a few hours of discussion and I enjoyed it! Then home to finally get around to the laundry and worked on the Christmas card I agreed to make for our Tai Chi teacher. I promised to have it there next week for people to sign. Almost finished.
Tomorrow is a get together at the library to work on projects and some time is set aside for making tags for Christmas gifts. Should be fun BUT the weather sounds horrible. Rain, rain, rain and snow and whatever! This morning the roads were slick and the parking lot was a bit frightening. Our recreation center is part of a complex with other buildings including the high school and the indoor pool. So lots of traffic and people can get kind of wild as they zoom in and out and hunt for parking places. I was very sorry to hear an employee at the high school was hit in a crosswalk on her way into work yesterday morning. They showed some video of the scene and the poor woman’s insulated coffee container laying on the pavement on its side. That made me very sad.
Must run along and start packing for tomorrow morning. I do plan to do unless we have a downpour of Biblical proportions.
Hugs all.
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Hmmmm, I thought I had signed in earlier, but I don't see my post so I guess I was dreaming! I am also not of the fruit cake lovers as I also don't care for the fruits that have been held in containers waiting to be whipped into shape. I never eat canned or jarred fruits, so thank goodness, they are only served twice a week! On the other hand, Sunday night we are having a potato pancake party, and I love potato pancakes! It's so nice that the establishment accommodates the different ethnicities and faiths living here, and tonight the dining room was so festive with holiday decorations put up by a group of residents who love holiday decorating! They are collecting for a fresh start for next year, as many of the trees and other things have seen better days!
I used some new cushions I bought from Costco when I went to the auditorium tonight to watch a requested oldie, "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?". It was definitely not my kind of film, though I thought the reviews were good when it emerged; but the cushion did not help one bit as my thigh//groin cramp set in again, as it does when I sit in the new chairs bought when the upstairs was being renovated. So I now have one more set of useless cushions!
I hope no one has friends or relatives in Anchorage, where they had a massive quake today!
I was also listening to the quake (I thought!) in the "collusion" investigation, and was certain this was the straw that will break the camel's back! But no, his followers are a true cult, and they talk in glowing terms about his accomplishments! Have they no shame?
Midnight approaches and I'm desperate for "Beauty sleep"! Buzz
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I've just got up and I'm grinning away to myself at the reaction my packets of raisins and sultanas have caused. Honestly girls haven't you ever eaten 'trail mix" bought from health food stores? Or a packet of raisins to nibble on? That's the dried grapes, cranberries and nuts that go into fruit cakes and scones.
Sixpence to find in the pudding? Just Superstition promising of riches to come in the coming year and fun to hopefully find.
To each his or her own of course. Personally I don't fancy grits, anything McDonald's, lobsters, chocolate coated strawberries, (who on earth thought of dipping a nice normal strawberry into chocolate!) stringy things called French fries, give me a good old chip any day, and black grapes trampled up and down on to produce red wine. Oh, and the poor old turkey doesn't get a look in, in this family's household. Mind you to be fair I don't drink red wine because of migraines produced by it.
This all said tongue in cheek of course because what would life be like if we all chomped on the same diet? Boring!
Mark and Mary Jo have been married 30 years SANDY and have one son, handsome, debonair Derek. Owner of Hobbes the monster kitten.
Michael was married for 26 years, actually still is, so about 34 years I think. They've just gone their separate ways like you and Babe. Similar problems. Their son is our very interesting Devin.
I'm hoping the plants will find their way home today!
So happy chomping girls on whatever you fancy! Anyone fancy a nice slice of haggis?
Hugs from Anne who is going to bake mixed fruit scones today ! With NOT canned pears etc, but with packets of raisins - from California methinks.
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I'm laughing at your post a lot Anne as I had left it to you to explain the dried fruit ingredients as opposed to jars of mince (now that word will confuse the issue even more
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A busy morning as I shopped early before walking so will now get myself lunch and pop back later.
Oh yes, a new up and over garage door has been ordered after a local firm came straight over yesterday to see how they could help, measured up and hopefully the job will be completed week after next. More money flying out but it had to be done.
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Oh please! Don't let's get into jars of mincemeat (with suet, horrors). Okay girls get your own back. What delicacy do you eat which us Brits would view with horror? Rattlesnake stew with baked beans out on the prairie? Etc.
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Dear Anne, there is nothing at all that we consume that is objectionable. Haaaaa.
Hugs.
Lin
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What! Nothing from pioneering days, no roasted squirrel or baked in clay hedgehogs!?0
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Anne, not too long ago a butcher put a sign in his window selling squirrels as a delicacy (as a joke) and was amazed how many serious enquiries he received. It was around the time we were being told the greys needed to be culled in order to stop our reds becoming extinct so perhaps people thought they were helping the cause!!
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And I remember in Yorkshire the gypsies ate roast squirrel and encased hedgehogs in clay to be baked in the campfire embers. Apparently when you cracked the baked clay open the spikes came off with the skin. Didn't Daniel Boone have a squirrel hat with the tail hanging down. Presumably he'd eaten the poor squirrel as he roamed the woods with his musket. Needs must in those days.
Going back to Christmas cake, OH NO! .....it dates back to medieval times when plums where used instead of raisins. Remember little Jack Horner. Dried fruit was called sweetmeats as opposed to meat. In Tudor times, Henry's banquets were considered the most lavish in the whole of Europe with lots of "sweetmeats". Anyone for roast swan?
All swans in GB belong to the queen so don't get any ideas for Christmas dinner, Jackie! Watch young George as he splashes through any ponds!
Hey, the plants are going home this afternoon! I can now start looking at small real fir trees for a change. Jilly's never seen a decorated Christmas tree. We were scared she'd eat pine or plastic needles last year when she was still very much a puppy.
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Happy Saturday! We will be celebrating Rob's birthday with pizza and (normal) angel food cake with strawberries and whipped cream this afternoon. I probably won't be going to 5:00 Mass so will have to go in the morning. We are having lots of rain and Babe said he isn't moving until it stops raining which could be tomorrow or Monday.
There are lots of foods that I don't eat Anne, such as escargot, venison, ears and feet of some animals, not a fan of mushrooms or onions except for flavoring. In other words I am pretty fussy and stick to basic cooking. As you said to each his own. I do like most of what you don't but not eating things high in carbs so just boring foods.
Have a good day.
Sandy
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Hey, I'm with you when it comes to escargot SANDY, fancy eating a little snail! I'm rather fond of snails. I've got a couple of blown glass ones. I'd NEVER eat venison or veal either and it would take a lot for me to eat red meat of any kind, especially ears and feet!! I was born in the year of the Pig and have a few ceramic and brass pigs strewn about as well, so however delicious pork may be I cannot bring myself to virtually eat myself!. Mainly vegetarian I will pinch some of Jilly's chicken occasionally. I'm very basic in cooking like you, tried and tested recipes over the years so we have that in common.
Enjoy Robs angel cake with strawberries and whipped cream - now THAT'S the way to eat strawberries! I think our Victoria sponge cake is the same as angel cake.
Anne.
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Happy Saturday to everyone! We have a partly sunny day. No rain so far this morning. I am getting cabin crazy. I think I have been home too many days in a row. Off to get my hair cut and styled. I might get a color just to jazz up things a bit. Maybe not. We will see.
I like way too many things to eat. I try to think about any of the live creatures and just avoid eating them when ever I can. John still loves chicken and fish. I cook them and eat some but not very often. I love veggie burgers and baked sweet potato fries, spicy chili and most Tex-mex food, I love cake, cookies, and pie and chocolate. As you can plainly see, I don’t have too much trouble finding things I love to eat. Fruit and veggies are big in our house. I have taught John to love them as well. He still will not eat Brussels sprouts or turnips or kale, so I don’t fix them. I think haggis must not be too different than those link sausages. But I have never and never will be eating any. I grew up on a ranch and my delicate sense abilities were not catered to at all. In fact I was ridiculed for not liking meat. I never feel it necessary to criticize what others like to eat. Enjoy it in good health!
I am still tinkering with my tiny paintings for the Christmas cards. This has once again made me appreciate Lin’s wonderful cards. I do love playing in my paints!
Patsy
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My 2 cents! Until you have tasted a huge juicy ripe Florida strawberry dipped into a dark (obviously for lovers of bittersweet chocolate!) delicious silky chocolate coating, don't knock it! It took a gift box from my kids to awaken my taste buds to heaven!0
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Also gave up most red meats and cholesterol has normalized! ALso think my neuropathy of hands is not neuropathy but carpal tunnel! When I concentrate on what's happening, it's the right hand and 3 or 4 fingers, plus tendons or something crackling when moved! I'm applying for my M.D. in the morning (Maybe a Doctor)!0
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Which proves how different our taste buds are dear BUZZ. If I get any huge, juicy, Florida strawberries dipped in dark, silky, chocolate I hereby promise to send the box to you. Now promise me you will send me in return any Brandy filled British Christmas cake left in your socks by that fella Santa!
Now I'll shut up, but that was a lot of pre Christmas fun girls!
JACKIE, can you remember a comedy show about Britains secret weapon, an exploding Christmas pudding? It's lurking in the murky passages of my brain.
Love and hugs to all and hope you will forgive my quirky sense of humour,
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ANNE, I might try just a bite before sending it on! My tastes do change lately!!!0
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Happy Sunday! Birthday celebration was fun although I ate too much food. I am going to mass this morning, not sure if I am stopping at Babe's or not until he calls. I want to stop at Ross just to check out some tops and boots, other than that it will be a day at home.
I will try to get back later.
Sandy
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God day. We keep alternating between rain and snow. My sump pump is running quite steadily. I was concerned this morning about black ice so I stayed home. I am finishing some cards I need early in the week and I have sweet potatoes in the oven. I found a DVD set I bought quite a while ago but didn’t watch it at the time. I am laughing as it is Mrs. Brown’s Boys. Outrageous but such a hoot.
Sandy, enjoy your shopping. Take care, snowing in your area?
Not many posting today or maybe my iPad won’t refresh. Never know.
I am going to have some soup now.
Hugs all.
Lin0
