Senior Golden Sneakers
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Good drippy morning from here. Big storms overnight which disturbed my sleep! Foggy and drizzly now. I am glad I do not have to commute to work, there were some power outages affecting traffic lights while folks were trying to be to work and yes, there were accidents.
I have finished a couple of loads of laundry, working on mopping floors and cleaning toilets. Took a break to meet a lady for a tiny sale. Would you believe a couple of dollars were given to me in nickels and dimes?
Need to gather up trash for tomorrow’s trash day and should do some cooking and cleaning out the refrigerator. And then back to cards. I have an idea for a card for the shower. Now to see if it will work. Gathering materials, dies and sentiments takes me forever. Or close to it.
Jackie, I hope your trip and test go well. Sorry the groomer couldn’t visit today. Have you seen the video of the lady starting to trim her dog’s nails and he keels over pretending to faint? It is hilarious. They showed it on our local news this morning. I think this is the link.
https://youtu.be/nmwE77LLhMg
Anne, I would never have fit in my doll’s buggy. How cute! Hope you and Jillo are having a good morning.
Sandy, safe travel and enjoy yourself. Any contact with Babe’s family would drive me insane. You are quite patient.
Patsy, how long will you have visitors?
Buzz, all the photos are lovely aren’t they? Your mother was so petite at under 5’. Wow. My ex husband’s grandmother was about 4’10”. So incredibly tiny and fragile.
Hugs my friend. Must try to accomplish a few things today. ❤️❤️
Lin
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Not only big (although the old doll buggy was only as wide as my small teddy bear) SANDY but apparently I could talk at six months. Mom thought this normal until folks started commenting and the vicar nearly dropped me when I said hello to him at my baptism. Okay, I know, I know, I've never shut up since! I'm off!
Enjoy your trip! Isn't it amazing how these idiots think all will be well if they say sorry. (Until next time). Cute baby you, and about 4 months I'd say.
Another thing, wasn't I a scruffy child with masses of awful hair compared to your beautiful little grand daughter. I don't think I ever wore a princess dress and forget bows, flowers or whatever in my hair. Well they'd get lost in the thatch I was born with. Poor Mom, she wanted a little girl as pretty as my cousins!
Anne.
LIN you just beat me posting but must tell you I too found the fainting dog hilarious!1 -
Oh Lord, lost my long post just as I was about to send it. I might try again later or more likely catch up tomorrow. 😤
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Ack, tornado watch until 10pm. Meanwhile strong storms headed our way. Will keep my head down.
Sorry you lost you post Jackie. Very frustrating.
Anne, hello again. Got the trash ready to take out. Finally. But now with the strong winds expected, I think it will remain in the garage overnight.
Lin
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Good thinking LIN. Stay safe! We don't want YOU blown out of Iowa! Anne.0
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All I can add is WOW!
Buzz
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Hooray found you but what a struggle! As ever I'm in the middle of tidying the garden, especially now there are morning and evening hints of Autumn but at the moment the sun is shining and all well with the world. My gardener is away today but will drop in tomorrow.
In retrospect it was as well last night's post disappeared because it was a long ramble about another awful car journey, the amount of cars on the roads since I retired and a feeling, similar to Lin's that I'm relieved I don't have to drive to work on a daily basis. Why a rush hour is called that I don't know since no one is able to rush anywhere, just sit and watch traffic lights change from red to green and back to red several times as nothing moves! The hospital visit was as per normal and I now have a week to 10 days to concern myself with what ifs!!
No baby pictures I'm afraid because according to my mother she suffered post natal depression after my brother was born 18 months earlier so was unable to bond with me. Very few photos of my brother too unless other family members taking part! Of course kids are resilient so what I didn't know I didn't miss and she did do her best to rectify a rather distant relationship later in life.
Loved the video Lin. I must show it to George so he can practice before his groomer turns up in a couple of weeks. What a laugh that would be!
Back into the garden for me but will check in this evening, especially now the British parliament has closed for a few weeks so no more shouting, yelling and general disrespect to watch hour upon hour!! I do still so much want us to leave the European Union but am losing the will to watch even one more debate on the subject!
Happy Tuesday.
Jackie
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I had the same problem with my mom JACKIE if it helps. She had an abscess and almost killed me apparently with the milk. I guess no bonding as various aunts bottle fed me whilst she was bed ridden. I suspect post natal depression because she slept an awful lot in my toddler days. We got on better in her later years, but still very difficult and not just with me. I hated being an only child, no spoiling, but sometimes bullying from other kids. We survived!
I shall miss all the hullabaloo and shouting in the green and pleasant land. I still want GB out of the EU as well. We did okay before we joined! Difficult for me over here to understand what all the fuss is about. With the pound drop, my small pensions gone down roughly $100 since its peak. Still want you guys out! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🤓
Anne.
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Happy Tuesday! 😄 Our train ride was great as noted in picture.
The time went fast and the conversation was good. Played a game last night and today I think we are going to St. Louis to go up in the Gateway Arch. They are having a heat wave here but their pool is still open, although I might be the only one who loves the sun.
Just wanted to check in and say hi.
Have a great day!
Sandy
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Hello dear sneakers. We are to have showers today. I am glad to see them. The wildfires were just too scary to think about. The temps are cool and that makes Katie happy. She endured a really short hair cut due to some matting. She gets regular brushing in between her monthly bath and ear, toenail clipping. However, I must have done an incomplete job recently. I saw mats in places i was sure I brushed throughly the day before. She is now clipped rather short to start the fall and winter long coat growth. We have a Doggie beauty shop here.
Our Columbian guest is quite charming and a glamour queen. I can see that our son likes her as a sailing friend. She is interesting and pretty. But I guess my romantic nature got the better of me. I don’t think our son thinks of her as anything more than an interesting sailing friend. Oh well! It is so true...I am a hopeless romantic. Our son and his crew are planning a big sailing adventure and his friend will be on the sail. I will try to get a few photos at dinner tonight.
I am so slow getting anything done, I have not had a minute to get any old photos rounded up to join in the fun of sharing. I love having houseguests but I confess to being a fussbudget over tiny things. Paper napkins/cloth etc. who cares? I did find a small marine painting to give to our guest. I usually paint much larger. Our son and his guest loved the gesture.
I have been obsessing a bit over new developments in our political scene. The empeachment drama is in full force. Wow! What took it so long to get started?
Be brave! Enjoy the moment.
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Lost post, desktop, my mind, you name it, but everything disappeared in the flash of a finger. And I am needing to get some sleep, so I cannot redo it all! So let's just say the world will have to solve its problems without my interference, and I'll try again tomorrow! My trip to Costco did me in this afternoon,... I used to be young!!! Buzz
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Ah yes Buzz I know the feeling when one wrong button sends everything into oblivion!!
A miserable day here, overcast with drizzle but at least it's still relatively mild.
It seems the dismissal of our parliament was unlawful so the rabble will be back to yell and scream abuse at each other. Whatever happened to the Statesmen of old who held firm beliefs and respected each others opinons so were able to debate without behaving like yobs having hissy fits? I for one won't be watching them drag our country's reputation even further down the drain.
George has been barking at nothing for the past 10 minutes, gardener Sue is hanging back from a trip here because of the weather and Amazon decided they don't recognise my password but I think I will attack paperwork and try to regain a semblance of order in and around my desk. Amazon can wait!
I'll be back!
Jackie
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Yesterday evaporated. Storms overnight and in the morning as well. Missed lots of sleep and big booms and drenching rain just as it was time to climb into the shower. It stopped by the time I drove to Mah Jongg. Played quite a few games and I even won one of them. Yippee! Drove home, made some lunch and then was off to the library for coloring. Several new people but still lots of talking. Stayed late and then ran into a neighbor at the mailbox as I returned home which resulted in even more chatting.
The evening also melted away as I was exhausted and kept falling asleep.
I have to make a trip back to Costco today as I was reminded I need to have a check on the rotated tires to have the bolts torqued. Oh joy. I do need to pick up several items for the church, have several items to return, would like to have my glasses checked and need to get gas for my car so it won’t be a wasted trip. Well, maybe a time waster again.
More rain expected the next several days. Yesterday we had more than we needed so the sump pump was talking to me from the basement.
Looks like Sandy is having a good time once again.
Jackie, now you starting to a need to avoid the news. Maybe not to the degree we do, but so disappointing to watch the antics of the leaders of nations.
Patsy, your company sounds delightful even if there is no romance involved.
Anne, I was an only child too but don’t remember hating it other than being taunted by other children. I loved reading, spending time with my grandmother and then when I got a dog I had a best friend.
Buzz, hello my friend. Good to hear from you. Losing posts is an epidemic here. Unfortunately.
Well, a day of remembrance here today with memorials and lowered flags and ceremonies. So sad.
Many best wishes and many hugs.
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Happy Wednesday!😃 Continued fun with pizza and salad and some wine. (there goes my diet). Today we are going to Laurie's sister's house where she has lots of property and some ATV's. They also have a shooting range but not sure I am comfortable with that. She also has a movie theater room where we are going to watch Bohemian Rhapsody because I loved it. After her house we are going to a winery and after Bryanna and Laurie might go on a walking haunted tour. I am chicken so will go home.
But we are leaving early so I have to eat and get ready so have a good day.
Sandy
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PATSY, if and when the right partner comes along, things will happen in the proper time. In the meantime, let his sailing start while we obsess about our State of the Union! I gasp at all the rule and law-breaking Teflon prez gets away with but his followers see no harm! Meantime, he wants to keep out survivors of Hurricane Dorian, in case the "wrong kind of people (?) are planning to invade us!
********** I could have sworn I posted this last night, but it disappeared when I clicked REPLY!
Might as well continue on and post it with today's meager offerings!
After 18 years, I still tear up when 9/11 comes around! On top of which, an article I read this morning about the hundreds of private boats on Florida's east coast, belonging to ordinary citizens and professionals , all giving up their time and energies to gathering everything possible to help those stranded Bahamians 90 miles and more out into choppy seas because after years of fishing in the same waters for so many years, they are our "friends"! Reminds me of "Dunkirk", with human beings acting humanely to other human beings in need!
HOW COME our leaders don't get this???...I choke up every time I think about it!
My computer just informed me it is about to update, so it wants to restart
. Buzz
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Finally I'm back as promised but only briefly. Yet again I've been bogged down with emails from our solicitor and question and answer Skype calls to my brother in Spain about the London property. It would be so much easier if only one of us dealt with the correspondence but not to be so struggle on we must!!
The rain has been with us all day so I've pottered round the cottage, set up my father's 1970's record player brought home from London and even played a couple of albums from that era and have to say my choice of music was rather good back then with a definite country influence. Mason Williams.... what ever happened to him?
Sandy, sounds like you are having a great time and again I find myself saying to you never mind the diet, just enjoy yourself!
Patsy, perhaps your son has the right idea enjoying his sailing with good friends. The right woman is out there somewhere, he just has to bump into her!
Lin, my brother was just telling me there are storms overhead and predicted floods in Spain and I thought surely Lin's storm hasn't rushed across the Atlantic that quickly!! Hopefully a decent night's sleep for you tonight.
Buzz, we currently have our own baby Trump saying the first thing that comes into his head and sacking anyone who disagrees. Our baby T got rid of over 20 members in his party and immediately not only reduced his support but created more dissenting voices.... and he's supposed to be intelligent!!
An early night for me I think. Nothing worth watching on tv this time of night and too late to find a movie. Catch up with you all tomorrow.
Jackie
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Checked back tonight after a fascinating program on Hamilton, during which the speaker used the screen very often so we could "read" the rap right along with his descriptions of the biggest hit on Broadway now. People have actually paid over a thousand dollars per ticket! It appears to be saying the "Founding Fathers" of the USA were a diverse in every way as today's leaders, BUT, they understood the importance of agreeing to write a Constitution TOGETHER,
leaving out nothing that the future might hold for our brash new country to survive. Even as they were writing it, they were disregarding some of their own important words, like all men being equals (many of them actually "owned" slaves!); but work togetherthey did. Today's politicians put party before country, accomplishing only divisiveness.
By the way, I enjoyed the rap, finding it very rhythmic.
SANDY, glad to read you liked Bohemian Rhapsody, which left me sort of bewildered, as did Rocketman. It was not until the endings that I finally enjoyed either one! And I did not recognize the music of either one! What a difference generation makes!
Whoops, after midnight..... Buzz
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As far as I know the British parliament in Victorian days was just as rowdy and squabbling as today's lot in the debating chamber. Heavens, the centre dividing the opposing groups was designed to be two swords wide to prevent duels. But, like it or not isn't that what democracy is all about, the freedom to disagree? The EU leaders must be sweating with GBs hopeful departure along with their monetary contribution, plus there are rumblings from other countries who might follow Britains lead. Despite the Corbyns, the Johnson's and all the other characters in this Shakespearean "play" the world moves on....eventually.
The founding "fathers". Ah yes. "All MEN being equal". Not a mention of white women being equal never mind black men AND women even though I believe some of the founding "fathers" actually BEING fathers to mixed race offspring.
Meanwhile here in Canada we have our own election looming for October 21st. Think I'll vote for Elizabeth May and the Green Party. Christmas will be such a relief after all 2019s drama!
Much more interesting on the news was the discovery of a new planet with WATER.
I've suddenly got the ambition to get into my crafty self again. Feel like doing a spot of knitting so an amble to the "Wool barn" might be in order, knit one, purl one, pass the time away, if the Bean lets me.
Anne.....the knit wit. 🙃🐶♥️
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Another morning of rumbling thunder and showers. I did my Costco run yesterday and got home fairly drenched. And it was forecast as scattered showers. Right. Well, going to grab my raincoat and go out to meet the former library ladies and I do hope some will show up.
Maybe there have always been disagreements and heated debates but goodness, tonight’s debate apparently will not have the broadcast delay so those appearing tonight have been warned to keep their language clean. I do hope they can. Dangerous move.
Anne, a new planet with water? I will have to hunt for that news. And I wish I had mastered knitting. I did lots of crocheting in the past but never was able to do much good knitting. I found some Alpaca yarn on sale (online), so soft, hypo allergenic, lovely. I was hoping to making a huge warm shawl to wear at church during the winter as the sanctuary often pretty chilly. The yarn arrived and it is just lovely but it is a quite thin (is that the right word?), like a baby yarn so I think small gauge needles would be needed. I am thinking of asking my knitting friend how much she would charge to make a shawl for me. Or maybe she’ll tell me I bought the wrong yarn. Anyway, happy trip to the “wool barn” and I hope you find something interesting but not *too* many interesting things.
Jackie, I hope all is sorted out regarding the house soon and that it all ends up happily for everyone involved. I don’t have lots of experience with this, just my auntie’s estate and my dad’s but everything took longer, involved more paperwork than I thought imaginable, and surprises popped up.
Buzz, interesting program. Really, your programming is astounding. And I am glad you are able to take advantage of it. Well done.
Sandy, your trip looks like lots of fun. Continued safe travels.
Hugs.
Lin
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If interested LIN the planet is named K2. - 18b, its miles and miles away, but maybe habitable. Your wool/yarn could be 3 ply and thats mainly used for baby clothes and baby shawls these days. In the dim past we did knit jumpers or sweaters with it. Took for ever! Anne.0
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I've been running behind all day since delaying the doggie walk until thick fog lifted. When I did get to the car park for our favourite moors walk I chatted to a nice young lady who had just returned from her walk when I noticed her van had signs on it that she ran a dog walking business. She's given me a flyer with details on it just in case I should need her services. She also told me she had set off an hour earlier with her charge, a beautiful black Labrador, and got lost in the fog so was relieved to be back in the car park!
It seems my emails yesterday to our solicitor contained the information he was looking for so being a bit naughty this morning I forwarded his confirmation to my rather pedantic brother who would have had me writing many paragraphs when a couple of lines sufficed... he's not responded!
It's muggy and overcast so I've been working in the garden at a slow pace before picking lots of tomatoes in my greenhouse that are now spread out on the conservatory table.
Not much else happening. Betty has her weight check with the vet in the morning that may remind me to jump on my scales. I've not been good, eating too many snacks and just enjoyed a Mr Kipling slice of almond cake with my cuppa. Betty has been good but I'm not co vinced she will have lost weight.
Time to put a pork chop in the oven and I've got allotment runner beans with asparagus to accompany it.
Enjoy the rest of the day everyone.
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ANNE, I'm not sure any longer what democracy is about! After reading an editorial in today's NYT, it seems to be disappearing all over the world. I was shocked at the brazen act of the Carolina Senate yesterday when the Republicans held a secret vote while others were attending
the memorial for 9/11, passing a vote the governor said he would veto. and I think they said his veto would not count! (North? Carolina). No more rules, it seems, with politics placing party over country. No that's not Democracy, it's thieving takeover! I try to watch as little as possible these days, and I do feel people of conscience have lost all power! WHen I hear about Bahamians being disallowed into this country because their visas were lost to the ocean, it makes me ill! And then in speeches that end with G-- Bless America,....why do they even say that? Do they believe anything goes? Sorry, I needed to explode and thank you for allowing me to do that! Buzz 
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BUZZ, you are only writing what Mike and I think. The rich are in control and we, everywhere, are merely puppets. I think I'm right in saying, not so long ago when Greece was in an awful mess with cash, I seem to remember the EU saying the Greek government should eliminate the old age security payments to pay off the debt. Not much compassion there for aged people. Another reason why if I still lived in GB I'd want the country out of the EU.
It's hard to believe isn't it that the land of the free would bar homeless, possessions lost Bahamians because their visas were lost to the sea.
Unfortunately there's little thee and me at our age can do to put the world to rights. I'll just post that little verse again:
So many faiths, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
When just the art of being kind,
Is what the old world needs.
Anne, your "sister" in despair, God bless, dear.
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I feel your despair Buzz when it comes to our politicians today. Democracy isn't a consideration with most but conniving to defeat the opposition, telling lies and shouting down those trying their best to debate respectfully is the order of the day. No wonder society follows their lead. I used to love to watch every twist and turn in our British parliament but today my frustration at their behaviour has me switching off and most of my friends say they feel the same so who's monitoring these leaders of our nations as they throw the rule books out the window?
Time for my bed.
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Oh dear, the not so slow slide into autocracy! Anyone not worried about it is simply not paying attention! Perhaps I can go sleep it off! Buzz ! 1
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Our morning walk on a late summer's day... The perfect start!
Jackie
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So good to wake up to a tranquil scene JACKIE.
We've had two days of downpours and thunderstorms. Even a tornado touchdown to the west of us.
But going back to our more somber posts, you know what troubles me more than the squabbling politicians? The rising violence and abuse against women and girls. Is it really on the rise or are we more aware with all this technology. It seems to be on the rise.
For me, today brings the groceries. I am really pleased with this service and it's well worth the delivery charge. Everything is so fresh, particularly the vegetables. This is because they come straight from the warehouse rather than journeying to and wilting in the stores. I still buy organic but my grocery bill each week is comparable to the Organic store I once shopped at despite the delivery charge. And it saves me stumbling around the store shelves trying to find items. A click on "search" and there the item usually is. Plus I can get items reduced, such as broccoli which is abundant right now, and I get points which every so often means a further saving on the order. Each order list comes with the name of the person who hand picked my order plus the delivery man's name. All round, very pleased indeed.
Well, brekkie time for me and Bean,
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Off now for a reflexology appointment. Have finished the bridal shower card for tomorrow. Ooooooh my, how productive. 😂😂
Hugs.
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No time to chat....leaving for home his afternoon, will post tomorrow.
Sandy
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I wonder what on earth is going wrong with MFP and me.....I have posted two times and my post looks like it is on the forum with everyone else. But then it just disappears into the great internet cosmos. Giving this one more try. Also there is that jumping when typing. Aaaaaaargh
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