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I'm not actually making up excuses , but I just fell asleep in the lobby while I sat down for a moment on the way back home! All the rain has left its mark on my joints, but I needed to grab our bus on its weekly Target run. While there, I noticed a CVS Pharmacy, and asked about flu shots and wow! Yes, I got that more potent shot and I'm through for this year! But I cannot stay awake, so it's a HI, GOODNIGHT, until tomorrow!
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Beautiful LIN, now you just need a masked ball to show off your skill!
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Plenty of rain this morning so housework for me, not before time! Lin .....and a powdered wig to wear at the masked ball of course!! Now I see what it was you were making it is beautiful, clever you as ever!
Jackie
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good morningAll0
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Happy Saturday!
Boys wore me out last night so other than Mass later I think I am staying put inside today. I have to be there to sit at 8:30 AM tomorrow which means getting up at 7:00 AM. Not my favorite time of day. 
They will be gone until around 3:00 so I will be exhausted when I get home and will have to pack to leave Monday.
MARIE So good to hear from you. Hope you have a wonderful day!!
Lin, your mask is just beautiful!! You should put it in a glass covered frame and hang it on your wall. Your talent is above amazing!!!
Anne and Jeri, have a wonderful Thanksgiving, I probably won't get on the internet Monday or the rest of the week so wishing you a great holiday. We celebrate Columbus Day Monday so no mail, school or work for some people.
Buzz, I heard that the flu this year is going to be bad, so when I get back I might go get a shot. Still leary of getting sick since I did that one year but will think about it.
Jackie, of course my friend's daughter said it was the new bedspread she bought for her mom and my friend said it was the new throw rug she bought so in reality we all had a part in the sale. No windows this time, but lots of packing. We will still have our last hoorah at the casino and great dinners, so it will be worth the six hour drive.
Patsy, you can be our social director any time, we all like to have a good time.
Enjoy your weekend and I will check in when I can but if you don't hear from me have a great week!!
Sandy
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I am reading all your delightful posts, though I cannot seem to recall reading why SANDY won't be here most of the coming week. I'm having trouble staying awake and wonder if weather has anything to do with it. Probably it's nothing more than lack of sleep! Happy Thanksgiving Day, ANNE. Hope I mentioned that magnificent mask of LIN's talent, and dungeon is fine with me, PATSY! JACKIE, so relieved you found that purple hedgehog!!! And MARIE, have a wonderful day! JERI, and all our friends north of the border, Happy Thanksgiving! I'll try a nap before dinner! Buzz
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Good evening.
Buzz, my friend, get some rest. I continue to be concerned as you do not seem to get much sleep. It was probably a very wise idea to get that flu shot since you are living with many people and they all are likely not as healthy as you.
Marie, hello my friend. So happy to see you!!
Sandy, you seem to be on the run pretty much all the se days! Have a safe trip to Wisconsin. It is so good of you to help them pack. I don’t know many people would do that.
Patsy, okay, we are all for you becoming the social director. Kind of a problem that we all live in different localities.
Jackie, ick, housework. Well good for you in getting so much accomplished. I do my best to avoid it and keep it to a minimum in any case.
Anne, are you doing any cooking or baking for Thanksgiving or do you have the opportunity to just go and enjoy yourself? I know Jilly will have a stupendous time.
Well World Card Day did not pass me by. I worked on fussing about with cards all day. I am home and of course I have unpacked and I am back to making cards. I will collapse later. Haaaaa.
Hugs.
Lin
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I am going to get back on my sewing Plan on makin a Dallas Cowboy Collar to wear with a Sweatshirt in Lin definite ot lots of Talent1
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Went out to lunch and spent so much time I didn't get to buy my pumpkins or mums. I guess this will be a Sunday afternoon thing. We love to go to this seafood place for lunch. We buy Katie a well cooked hamburger patty as a treat. She gets excited when we drive into the restaurant parking lot!
It is rather cold and we have rain and gloom. People really get into decorating for Halloween here. Lots of houses have outdoor decor. It is fun to see and I know grow ups love to dress up in costume as much as the kids do. The harvest moon has been glorious. The moon light on the water was so outrageously beautiful.
Buzz : interesting about your sleep issues. Our doctor is very concerned about my sleep problem. He says that many seniors have sleep depravation. He has really been very firm about a regular bedtime and usung an alarm to keep me on schedule. He would like me to take a daily nap. I am not very good at napping. He also is very insistent about the exercise and weight lifting. Not heavy weights but I guess light weights are very useful for building strength as well. I bring this up because these strategies are very helpful for me. Boring and at times very hard to follow his advice.
Lin: there is something so lovely about getting a card in the mail. A handmade card is a lovely gift. I have a large box of special cards that I have kept over the years. I cannot even think of getting rid of them.
Jackie: I think it is harder to do housework when it is rainy and cold. Why(?) who knows?
Anne: have a lovely Thanksgiving with your family. Do you have turkey and pumpkin pie for thanksgiving like we do here? I force everyone to watch Charlie Browns thanksgiving and the Great pumpkin patch movie. A Classic!
I got our son several trendy sweaters for his birthday. Here in Oregon we go around in very casual clothes but even the casual clothes are very spendy. As a bachelor, he has to have clothing that is easy to care for and not "scratchy." No wool! No light fussy colors! You can see this wasn't easy.
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Hello girls. PATSY, I think most people here follow the Thanksgiving food of the USA, but my little lot don't. To us it's still harvest festival which in the old days was a trip to church to see the wheat sheaves and all the flowers and veggies decorating the altar and singing of the the old hymns. Then home to a normal Sunday dinner, roast whatever, Yorkshire pudding etc. I'm sure Mary Jo will have soup, a roast or maybe fish followed by her scrumptious home made apple pie. Not a turkey in sight. Confession, none of us like turkey; the turkeys will be relieved to learn. I'll take along a strawberry cheesecake and little madam. I'm not surprised Katie recognizes the parking lot and a hamburger in store for her! What dog wouldn't!
Hope everyone enjoys Columbus Day on Monday!
The harvest moon is glorious here as well in keeping with the day. So bright, it peeps through the chinks in the blinds and lights up the bed.
I dug out an old painting I did before Jilly's somewhat disruptive arrival and I've got the urge to start painting again. My easel is huge which might confuse Jilly for a while, it taking up a fair chunk of the back room. I should get creative and call my version of PATSYs dungeon something different than "back room". After all it also contains most stuff I don't want to clutter anywhere else. Maybe The Dump? Any ideas?
Uh uh, time for Roy's phone call from the UK.
Bye,
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Read all your dear posts, and I will simply add that without my favorite turkey it would not seem like Thanksgiving to me. I love it, right down to the carcass which made the most delicious broth! I miss smelling it roasting in the oven! And I always made a wonderful cranberry sauce and still have a stash of cinnamon sticks left over from heaven knows when!
PATSY, you are so right about the sleep deprivation...and the exercise. About the only thing I do aside from the long walk to the dining room is the sit/stand/sit/stand which I do often with arms folded. Lately I am just tired!
Saw the movie Churchill this afternoon. I never knew his approach to D-Day! Brought memories back as if it were yesterday, as I lost 6 friends in that invasion! Mere boys! I keep wondering how anyone can consider "proving our strength" by threatening war! Nuclear wars must never ever be even considered!
Friends have invited me out to dinner so I'm off and running! Hugs to everyone! Buzz
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Good evening, another busy day. After all the church obligations I came home had lunch and got obsessed with hooking up my Cricut machine and worked on cutting some intricate holiday items. Not a straightforward issue as resizing, the weight of the card stock, stickiness of the mat all have an influence. So I guess I am saying the machine would cut for a. Dry ,one time and then I would find some of the detail had torn. Darn. I need to hunt down some more heavy paper. Meanwhile, did a load of laundry and am reading the Bookman mystery again.
Take care everyone.
Hugs.
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I am a couple of days early but Barbie's husband Jake's birthday is Tuesday and I am not sure I can get on the Internet! Wanted to wish him a happy birthday if he or Barbie check here!
I will be back for Anne's birthday next Sunday!
Have a great week!
Sandy
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Yesterday flew by with me doing a variety of chores after a gloriously sunny walk on the moors with George. Today is more Autumnal but still lovely and I have plans for outside so long as it remains dry. The gardener who will cut back the huge hedge between me and my nice neighbours will start next week and that will certainly made a difference with more light and air in the coming Winter months. The Harvest moon has been joyful to see lighting up the surrounding area and yesterday as we walked on the moors it was still visible high in the sky like a distant white balloon.... I love this time of year!!
Sandy ~ Good luck at the casino.... let's hope you come home loaded!!
Buzz ~ It could be your tiredness is to do with the traumatic year you've had after losing Mike as well as a lack of sleep and of course the two may go together but if you nod off you nod off and I'm sure your friends will forgive you. My arthritic hip wakes me in the night and I find I toss and turn a bit then feel a distinct grumpiness in the day that isn't like me at all so lake of sleep certainly has its related issues. I read somewhere our lives are shortened by not getting enough sleep but by how much I'm not sure and won't let that worry keep me awake at night!!!
Anne ~ Apparently your Thanksgiving in Canada was imported by American refugees escaping their civil war hence the turkey and trimmings. A Yorkshire pud sounds far more scrumptious to me too!!
Patsy ~ One of the reasons I keep moving during the day is because if I sit and even begin to relax I nod off so although I know my body is telling me to rest it just seems a waste of daylight hours to me!! How are the exercises going and is your sciatica pain easing at all? The friend I dog walk with thinks she has a similar problem and is in the process of seeing doctors and getting an x-ray but I suggested she also download a few yoga exercises to follow as I do find they are helping me. I always think it amazing that we can share a Harvest moon even with the thousands of miles between us!
Marie ~ Wonderful to see you back with us and I'm so happy you still have needle in hand to make those Dallas Cowboy outfits! Here's a bear just for you!
Here we are, another Monday so have a good one everyone, especially those with celebrations to enjoy.
Jackie
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Happy, pouring with rain here, Columbus Day.
Our day out yesterday was a huge success. Derek had his friend from university days over (he hails from the Yukon) his lovely girlfriend who's Chinese, and then of course us English. MJ, Portuguese and of course Jilly who's 3 DNAs hail from Tibet, Mexico and Germany. This made for a hilarious evening of merriment and much cheating etc during cards later. MJ cooked her scrumptious Duke of Wellington pie, mashed potatoes, carrots and parsnips and salad, followed by apple pie as predicted and my cheesecake, and Jilly was on her very best behaviour. I think she was slightly overwhelmed by the laughter and music but not too much because her little tail was continualy wagging. We finally staggered home, me full of unused to drinking port wine and we've woken up late. In fact madam has crawled back to bed. Obviously not used to English pub nights.
Did I tell you of an English friend who took his dog out regularly for long evening walks? He died and his widow decided to take the dog out. All went well until they came to the village pub. Doggie stopped at the door, sat and refused to budge. A chap came out and said "well, well, well, its old Bills dog, are you his widow?" It turned out old Bill and his dog had a nightly pint!
I won't say it's nice to know, but it appears we all share arthritic hips which wake us up in the wee small hours! I stagger to the bathroom and sometimes check my emails for news from different time zones! By the time I've read what's going on in Australia, the U.K. Etc it's somwhat eased off, the old hip, and I go back to bed with less stagger. Jill sleeps through all this night activity, oh to be a young pup again!
Derek, who lived with friends during his university days, but then came home for a year, is moving out again at 24 to live in a downtown 2 bedroom condo with the aforementioned friend, who's another Derek. I think MJ will miss him, although she won't miss the washing and tidying up after him. The young have to share because the rent is unbelievable in downtown Toronto. About a thousand more than my combined pensions!
Well, that's about me done for actual thanksgiving day!
Bye,
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Good Morning Everyone and Happy Canadian Thanksgiving. Thanks for the good wishes Sandy and Buzz. We will be going over to Melanie’s for our family Thanksgiving Dinner. Should be lots of fun.
I had my little finger operated on again last Friday for Duyputren’s Contracture as it was bending in again. I go back next Monday, a week from today to get the bandages and stitches taken out. It hasn’t even been a year since my last operation. He said he did a more thorough job this time (cutting out the diseased area) as it had reoccurred so quickly. I have this huge splint, bandages etc on my finger which makes it very awkward. Glad I’m not doing the turkey today.
Marie Glad to see you back.
Lin the mask is outstanding. Wow.
Jackie Your walks on the moor make me envious. Fall really is a wonderful season. I’m afraid our leaves are now really starting to fall and with a good wind or rain they’ll be gone before we know it. Darn.
Buzz your description of the turkey roasting made me smile. As we are going to Mel’s I will miss the leftover turkey but usually we are sent home with a “care package” so that will do just fine.
Anne painting again. Looking forward to seeing the results.
Patsy what kind of exercises do you do with your weights. I really need to start doing that myself.
I woke early as I often do. Ed is still asleep upstairs. I guess I didn’t make too much noise. I can’t do anything quietly it appears. How can such a small person be so noisy??? LOL. I’ve had my breakfast, read my email and am enjoying a cup of chamomile tea. I’ve been plagued with acid reflux this past year and have stopped drinking regular tea or coffee. I always have chamomile tea packages in my purse as lots of places don’t carry it. I’m a cheap date as often all I order is a cup of hot water. I used to worry about bringing my own tea bag but I’ve never had a problem. That and the plastic zip lock with my cut up apple for a snack. LOL
Have a great day everyone.
Jeri
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I'd rather be early than forgetful! SO...A very HEALTHY one, dear friend
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Buzz
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Good afternoon everyone! The day started rather foggy and cold but the sun is out now and it is a lovely warm afternoon. I need to use it to good advantage.
Yesterday I had a little trip to the ER for attention to my ever present diabetic ulcer on my heel. It never really heals and needs attention constantly. But no infection, pain is minimal, I am upright and limping around!
We put much of the inherited stuff in storage until my friend's son has strength and time to consider which of these things he wants to keep. To this I want to suggest something...I bought a rolling cart that I use instead of trying to lug heavy things across our rugs and floor. It is about the size of a grocery basket but with shelves instead of a deep basket. It is so useful. And much safer than trying to lift and carry stuff. For example, I put my plant food, watering can, scissors and a refuse bag on the cart as I wheel it around caring for my inside plants. This is not good for stairs however.
Jeri: so sorry to hear about your finger and hand problems. I hope you are healing well now. Having something wrong with your hand must be so troublesome. You have our symapathies, my friend? The cannot be easy.
Anne: your thanksgiving sounds absolutely perfect! What a wonderful family you have! It sounds like they all love and take good care of their dear Annne and her beautiful little pup.
afternoon chores to complete......
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Good evening,
Patsy I am sorry about your heel ulcer. My goodness, a trip to the ER sounds serious to me. Thanks heavens there is no infection. It sounds as if you have found a very good method of moving things about the house. Good for you! I need a freight elevator. I am always moving something to the basement or out of it. Laundry is so much fun as most of it accumulates on the second floor of my house and the washer/dryer are in the basement. So far, not a problem but everything can change quickly.
Two members of my church had a health crisis yesterday. Each was taken by ambulance to the hospital. Both have survived so far. I was shocked and have done nothing to call or to visit. I haven’t even started cards. I feel like I am holding my breath waiting for more news and praying it will be good news.
Jeri. I am sorry you required surgery again. Heal up quickly. I hope your Thanksgiving dinner was wonderful. I had to laugh, a cheap date indeed. Your own snacks and your own teabag. I often do the same thing but have trouble finding hot water!
Anne, I won’t claim to have an arthritic hip but generally various body parts take their turns screaming at me. Today I woke up with an angry left hip and knee but later my right hand aches and ached. I dropped things all day long. More than usual that is.
Jackie, I am sure you are looking forward to having everything nicely trimmed once again. I know when I had a tree trimmed up it was amazing how much more light there was!
The weather here was nice today so i took advantage of it to do some errands as the weather is now cold and windy with lots of rain expected tomorrow. I got home around lunch time, did a bit of cooking and have been sorting through email, downloading files and doing lots of cutting again with my electronic machine. The last set of snowflakes just took more than an hour to cut and I haven’t removed them from the cutting mat yet. Maybe I will just shut things down and do that another day.
Tomorrow is Mah Jongg and coloring in the afternoon.
I will wear my heavy raincoat!!
Hugs to my friends.
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