Senior Golden Sneakers

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  • pinkperil
    pinkperil Posts: 5,072 Member
    Anne, Hillary is flogging her latest book on the circuit.... caught a glimpse last night! 🤑🤑

    Came home from Sue and her moving house chaos with more than a couple of plants so there go my other plans!
    Jackie
  • linder4866
    linder4866 Posts: 11,419 Member
    edited November 2019
    Good morning, yes Hillary is selling her book. I could care less about her opinion.

    Our snow stopped yesterday, the sun came out, my driveway was cleaned out, the city snowplow scraped snow and ice into the end of the driveway so I did some shoveling. Today it is record cold for us and frozen over streets. But we are not snowed in.

    I am meeting a friend this morning and we will try some cribbage. The normal Mah Jongg game has been cancelled due to lack of players willing to come out in the cold and one lady with a different get together she wishes to attend. Should be fun. I have played on the computer but that is not the same as real life.

    Coloring at the library this afternoon. Wahoo.

    And there is a book club tonight. I have never attended at this particular library. I did finish reading the book but due to the very cold temperatures, I will likely pass.

    Jackie, oh my, plans just go out the window when the unexpected happens. Lots of plants? Good reason to readjust I think. If they are things you truly want.

    Anne, I am glad you have someone doing snow blowing for you. Especially good since you have furnace service today. I hope Jilly doesn’t get a sore throat from all the barking excitement.

    Sandy, did you purchase a new bed? Where will you put the current furniture if you don’t get it sold?

    Buzz, continued prayers and best wishes for DD and for you. ❤️❤️

    Patsy, earplugs. You need something to screen out the barking until Katie calms down. I am sorry she is so sensitive to changes in her environment.

    Must get moving. Need to stop at the post office before meeting my friend for cribbage.

    Hugs and best wishes. ❤️❤️

    Lin
  • Gawanne35
    Gawanne35 Posts: 2,670 Member
    Ha, all is revealed. Hilary is flogging a new book. Thanks JACKIE and LIN for enlightening me. Haven't had time to read the two articles, but for a moment I wondered if she was running again.

    Me and The Bean have just been out shovelling the bits the snow blower couldn't reach. Envigorating because it's very cold. Mark text to say he would be soon over to shovel but very grateful when I said we were all done! Coffee time for me and snuggle under her blankie time for Jilly. You know, if I'm honest, I do rather enjoy winter. I know, once a weirdo, always a weirdo!
    Anne. ☃️🙃☃️🐶
  • karengreen7140
    karengreen7140 Posts: 13 Member
    Hi all! Just checking in. Haven't had a chance to catch up with you-all, but I guess I'll just follow along for a bit and will eventually figure it out. I'll share a bit of what's been going on with me as well as we go along. Best wishes!
  • jwubben6600
    jwubben6600 Posts: 1,677 Member
    Hello sneakers! A special hello Karen. I don’t think I have met you before but happy to meet you now.
    We have a wet day here. Not too cold. Katie has been out drinking icky water numerous times. Life is normal here on the Oregon coast.

    John’s birthday is the 14th and we have officially hit that uncomfortable time when b’day presents are not wanted, needed or expected. I have hinted at various ideas and they have been resoundingly rejected. So I guess a hand made card and a seafood dinner will be the celebration. I think the kids will call and he does enjoy that. Have we entered crankydom? Oh no!

    I will be listening to the hearing tomorrow. I think I will bake John a batch of blueberry muffins while I listen to this American soap opera. I do remember where I was during the Nixon drama as well as the Clinton hearings. Then of course there was not the huge TV news presence.

    Confession.....I absolutely love watching the standup comedy routines on YouTube. I find I am really enjoying YouTube more and more. There is always a presentation on everything I might even remotely be interested in. Currently... trying to develop a strategy to train Katie not to bark until I am ready the go totally insane or a blog on making jellyroll quilts. YouTube rules!
    Stay warm sneakers, the arctic blast isn’t kidding around, it is mean!
    Patsy☘️
  • Sandydur
    Sandydur Posts: 9,322 Member
    Happy Tuesday! Very cold here but we are going to Wildfire for dinner with Bryanna and then home to play Settlers of Catan. They did buy me a new bed yesterday, I insisted on paying anything over $500 which was $149. It really is only a mattress and box spring on a bed frame. Bryanna wants my trundle bed so they will help me take it apart tomorrow before they leave. The new bed will come Friday.

    Laurie, my dil, sewed my top, bought me a new bed and did some work on my computer for me. She is also taking two tops home to shorten them for me. She is a gem, of course so is my son but that's without saying. lol

    Will be back tomorrow I hope.
    Sandy
    One Day at a Time
  • delraybuzz
    delraybuzz Posts: 2,779 Member
    PATSY, You and John have your values straight. Have a wonderful celebration together tomorrow!
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    SANDY, what goes around, comes around! I have heard sons choose wives similar to their Mothers...dear gem!
    JACKIE, I think I have a drawer with a number of floppy discs I planned to use before learning how to find folders and files. I could never figure out how to use them! Now we have to buy separate drawers as my new laptop does not have one built in! Save that story; sounds like the beginning of a good movie! But I no longer know "today's" stars! Sorry your poor little chook is gone and hope things work out in the henhouse! J & G annd I were trying to make head or tail out of Brexit at the dinner table tonight. Sounds so confusing with only some areas leaving and others remaining. Will you need visas to cross certain borders in your Isles?
    LIN, my dear, how brave you are just chukking so many memories! I hope driving was not too difficult in the snow!
    ANNE, I'm wondering if this might be your last winter in this home that has been your comfort so many years! W may stand for "Wierd" but I think "W"onderful is more appropriate!
    KAREN, good to see you back. You'll catch up soon enough, as you usually do.

    I am expecting my TENS Unit tomorrow an am hoping it works for my "destroyed" hip. extremely painful shoulder, and newly swollen foot and........oh what the heck, very little works in original manner any longer! Including me!!! If you are curious, here's the link:
    https://amazon.com/dp/B07RZLX3FJ/ref=nav_timeline_asin?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1...Reviews were excellent for this one.
    <3 Buzz
    .....................Always Believe Something Wonderful is About to Happen!................................
  • pinkperil
    pinkperil Posts: 5,072 Member
    Brrr, a cold start to the day but I walked George and Betty early because we are expecting rain later and my barometer is falling fast! The wind was bitter but we managed a good hour's stroll and I chatted to other dog walkers as they passed by. Last night's meeting at the pub with other allotmenteers was fun and there were a lot of new faces who seem keen and interested in the community side of growing veggies so after a few drinks and chats we all headed home feeling full of enthusiasm.
    The auctioneer wasn't impressed with the vintage fishing gear apart from one rod so at the moment I'm going to keep it all together and perhaps find a fishing group I can donate it to.
    My other white Wyandotte isn't looking too happy and like her sister who died, seems to spend a lot of time sitting still with eyes closed. Generally our vets aren't interested in seeing poorly hens because living in a rural area they are looked upon as roast dinner! :o
    Housework today once my feet have warmed up but otherwise a quiet time.

    Lin, you don't appear to let the icy conditions and cold stop you getting out and about so I'm thinking you have a chunky vehicle that copes well. My old Ford Maverick was a dream when it snowed but unfortunately had to go because it eat up fuel and gave out too much in the way of emissions.

    Oops, back in a bit, got a visitor!
    Jackie
  • Gawanne35
    Gawanne35 Posts: 2,670 Member
    Good morning Sneakers! Good morning Karen,

    Great excitement yesterday for Jilly. She helped me shovel the bits the snow blower couldn't reach and then the furnace maintenance man arrived. The maintenance man actually knelt down to play "fingers" with her, Jill's very favourite game, and she doesn't bite just chases, and then oh joy, Mark arrived with all his photos of a very empty Portugal. At 70 degrees not a tourist in sight, empty beaches, empty streets etc, just a few hardy German folk and all the fish and chip shops closed - the British presumably home eagerly awaiting the election.

    Mark text his cousin Alison in Adelaide and I heard from her mom, my cousin Helen in Australia. They are all safe so far, but Helen said she can hear the fire engines racing to the bush fire, and she is keeping a wary eye on the valley across her road for signs of fire. She lives on the outskirts of Sidney.

    Something to be said for snow!

    We are at minus 12 which is 10 deg F. Rather nippy! And rather icy out there with folks trudging past like large clothes bundles with just noses peeping out. Red noses!

    Porridge is calling. It was cooling as I pen my nonsense.

    Anne.
  • pinkperil
    pinkperil Posts: 5,072 Member
    My friend Christine dropped in with a bundle of newspapers to line the henhouse before the bedding is layed on top. It acts as insulation so although they perch at night I think it must keep them cosy, at least I hope so. The rain has since arrived and Christine was telling me she has just been riding one of her ponies on the moors, an elderly boy who seizes up if he isn't exercised.... I know that feeling!! That somehow reminds me, a couple of weeks ago I watched a BBC documentary called Prince Charles, Inside the Duchy of Cornwall and in it appeared neighbours who farm just up the road from me, Michael and Margaret Hooper. If you get the chance to see it you might recognise the area Michael rides his pony from photos I take on my morning walks! I think Anne in particular will be fascinated by the work he has done to build up the Duchy and also to see Poundbury in Dorset with its wonderful architecture that proves the point my local fields crammed with little boxes called houses look awful!

    Back to Lin.... no I didn't really want everything that Sue pushed in my direction and did my best to persuade her to take more with her but got the impression panic was setting in to be clear in time for the new owner to move in on Monday. I did say if she felt I could help I would but actually think I might be more of a hindrance. Some cuttings only taken recently I've put in my greenhouse but there is a rather expensive rose and also a Mahonia both with nursery labels still attached so once I have her new address I plan to send a card with a voucher from an upmarket supermarket that's a favourite of hers and suggest she treats herself since I am aware she is struggling financially.

    Buzz, knowing how much J & G travelled the world I doubt they would have been in Britain at the time of the Lisbon treaty that is sending the EU towards Federalism, a central government with its own army and as far as I'm concerned stomping on our British democracy. At the moment there is an awful lot of rhetoric from Scotland's National party with threats of leaving the Union but they had a referendum a few years ago when the majority chose to remain. Then there is Northern Ireland DUP still fighting their religious war in their heads with the Republic so we have to be seen to keep the borders open between the two. Now the 3 of you will be even more confused!! :p

    Sandy, sounds like you are having a great time with your family.

    Patsy, knowing how much effort you put into your family celebrations I'm imagining you will be busy today preparing for John's birthday, with a lot of intervention from Katie of course.

    Hi Karen. Lovely to see you popping in again. Look forward to learning what you are getting up to these days.

    Must get on. It's after 2pm and I've not even had my lunch!
    Jackie


  • jwubben6600
    jwubben6600 Posts: 1,677 Member
    Hello dear ones! Beautiful sunny mild day here. I feel like I should do something significant like wash a few more windows and clean a couple of window screens of spider webs. Not promising anything however. I confess to watching a bit of our big impeachment hearings. Interesting but very time consuming. It is a part of our American process and I recognize how important it is. But it would take hours to get my head wrapped around the facts and interpretations. I would have made a terrible attorney.

    Anne: wildfires are something we really keep a watchful eye on. We live in the midst of a prime forest growing area. Logging and fishing were the big industries. A fire would sweep through 100 foot trees like a bomb. Scary stuff!

    Jackie: I am always impressed that your community gardeners get along so well. We have several in our area and there always seem to be huge disagreements. Some gardeners do not do their share of work or someone took too much, and on and on. I am such a terrible gardener, I would never try to be part of a group.

    Lin: cribbage! I have not heard about that in years. It was popular years ago here. That is the little board with tiny pegs? John and our son are chess players. They can spend hours playing...actually days. I “yak” too much, so they will only play card games with me.

    Buzz: John says “thank you for the birthday wishes. I will certainly try for a very happy birthday!” And patsy ☘️
  • linder4866
    linder4866 Posts: 11,419 Member
    Patsy, please send along my wishes—Happy birthday tomorrow John. 👍🏻🥳🎁

    I have been less than productive today. I ran out to shop at Trader Joe’s this morning and then packed up to go to a morning book club at the Senior Center. Got there, checked in and looked over the things they are selling in the craft room. The office person came in and said, no book club is always the third Wednesday of the month no showed her that the calendar showed it on the 13th. She said sorry, no one else had mentioned that. If I had ever been there before I would have realized it was an error. Haaaa. Oh well. I went to another library and picked up a book club book for their Brown Bag group which is a week from tomorrow. If the weather is horrible, no worries, I just won’t go. I stopped for some organic tomatoes and then came home to hunt for some little tiny beanie things I want for the centers of some paper poinsettias I am making. Finally found them!

    I am reading the newest book club selection, working on cards, and will admit to not watching the televised coverage. I will listen to some summaries on national news this evening.

    Karen, wahoo, good to see you pop in for a visit. See you soon I hope.

    Sandy, wow, you got that shopping accomplished quickly! Well done. Hope you have had a wonderful day.

    Jackie, sorry you ended up with more than you really wanted. When someone is intent on giving away things before moving, I think they get quite insistent with their friends. They want a good home for everything. Certainly your home is a good one. And yes, one of my vehicles is an SUV which is very handy in the winter. If it was just my little car, I would stay at home much more.

    Anne, lucky Jilly finding a service person willing to play her favorite game. She does just twist people to her will. Too cute by far! What’s up today?

    Buzz, I remembered the really old floppy discs. We had a computer with no hard drive so one drive had the operating system on a disc and the other one could be used for document storage. And I worked for the university for a bit and they had those totally huge discs. 8” I believe. Oh my, how things change.

    Must run along.

    Wishing everyone the best health and much happiness.

    Hugs.

    Lin
  • pinkperil
    pinkperil Posts: 5,072 Member
    Cold, wet and windy today! Nothing else to add to my weather report. 🌨🌬☔
    I headed to the local woods with the pooches and just as I slipped their leads so they could run round we were coincidentally joined by Sue the gardener and her 5 Springer spaniels.
    The first thing she asked was would I like a bone china full service tea set that had belonged to her aunt! I explained I have my mother's that rarely gets used so got out of that one as she strode off in her wellies leaving us behind... George and Betty with their short legs were never going to keep up with Springers!

    The company that makes cedar wood greenhouses has just phoned and I spoke to a very pleasant young man called George (!) about the style I'm interested in because even they have Black Friday deals so I need to measure up the area I hope to place it in.

    Happy birthday wishes to John Patsy. Enjoy yourselves 😊
    To be honest, our allotments aren't the perfect communal hub of togetherness I might make them sound because we each have our own patch to tend. Lots of grumbling goes on if some aren't kept tidy and weed free, something I mentioned to my neighbour I share a plot with as we came home from our meeting... we need to close ours down for the Winter which means an afternoon of digging (if it ever stops raining!).

    It's definitely soup weather so I plan to make some carrot and leak with the 'wonky' carrots purchased this morning. Our supermarkets are finally realising consumers don't need the perfect size and shaped carrot if all we then do is chop them up and it seems wonky means cheaper so I'm more than happy! 😄

    One of our news channels has a live stream from your current hearing but after 10 minutes of watching I was left feeling extremely uncomfortable about the many leading questions trying to put words into mouths that I thought surely shouldn't be allowed so in the end switched off.

    My tummy tells me it's time for my lunch so a warm hello to Sandy, Anne and Buzz and any other sneakers dropping in. Happy Thursday! 🙋‍♀️
    Jackie
  • Gawanne35
    Gawanne35 Posts: 2,670 Member
    Good morning, just a quick post because I've a lot to do today, but would like to share with you a surprising thing I'm finding about online grocery shopping. I've just made out my list for tomorrow and it will be roughly my 35th order.
    1. The food is very good, and in particular the veggies and fruit are very fresh with the meat and fish well within the sell by date.
    2. I don't have the hassle of walking, or catching a bus, or driving a car to the store.
    3. No hunting and wasting time at different stores for bargains. My delivery service offers reduced prices weekly on various items.
    4. No unloading and stumbling in with bags of groceries and we aren't encouraged to tip the delivery men as they are said to be well paid
    5. No wasting time looking for items on store shelves. This service seems to have everything I fancy.

    The funniest thing of all is I find my weekly food bills are DOWN despite a $10 delivery charge. We order one day with delivery the next, your choice of time, and have several hours to add or modify an order.

    Boring post, but if anyone is contemplating this route my experience is GOOD.
    Anne.
  • linder4866
    linder4866 Posts: 11,419 Member
    Me again. It is former library ladies morning so need to keep moving. We escaped the snow yesterday with the very lightest bit of precipitation on my windshield as I drove home. It was a gray overcast day but moisture went around us. I was not offended.

    I am making progress on the newest book club book. I have decided this will keep me with a long reading list. If I read a current selection and decide to attend a meeting I am prepared. If not, I have read a book that I would likely passed over. We even have a library that hosts an introverts book club. You read the book and either post comments or read what others post. Another option is a group that gets together and everyone reads their own book selection silently. No required interaction.

    Isn’t the world interesting?

    Anne, I have been hunting for pretty much exactly what you have found with your delivery service. So far, I have struck out but I can definitely see how your service is in a word, perfect.

    Jackie, oh my, your ex gardener seems to be in frantic mode. Poor dear. Too much stress. Meanwhile, wahoo, I am excited for you and your upcoming purchase. Do they install it or do you hire your own contractor? Looking forward to hearing more about this. That was always my dream! I got no where close, only several good sized cold frames. 🤣😂🤣

    Must move now. I spend the rest of my time on cards, laundry and cooking by the way. Card work is now a daily habit.

    Hugs.

    Lin
  • Sandydur
    Sandydur Posts: 9,322 Member
    edited November 2019
    Happy Thursday! Meeting day so time is short. The kids left yesterday after another wonderful visit and after they took my trundle bed apart which is now lying against the wall of my dining room until Bryanna can get someone to move it to her house. The new bed comes tomorrow and I am excited to see how it will look in my spare room.
    I went to visit my friend who hurt her leg and then to bingo where I won $28. It will come in handy today when I get my hair colored and trimmed after my meeting.

    Will catch up tomorrow when I finally get a day to myself minus the delivery and a guy who is going to clean my vent for the dryer.

    Have a great day.
    Sandy
    One Day at a time

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  • Gawanne35
    Gawanne35 Posts: 2,670 Member
    Ooh yes, last post was early and I forgot to add:

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PATSYS JOHN, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU !!!
  • delraybuzz
    delraybuzz Posts: 2,779 Member
    I cannot figure out how it gets so darn late, but MFP website has been frozen on my computer all evening, so I just logged off and on and all's well. Skimmed through everyone's posts, and I'm smelling the wonderful odor of cedar, JACKIE! Too sleepy to add all my thoughts to today's happy posts, but am including the latest blurb from my long-suffering DD, and what a wonderful shock this is, indeed:

    " Just back from hospital. Pathology report shows no cancer. Lowers lymphoma chance way down. Very atypical for lymphoma all along. This has been insane and we are in a good shock. Sending panel of blood to mayo clinic. They'll do work up. We are all in shock and know not what to think. Could be late onset MS.
    I'll take anything (maybe) over pcnsl. " (The latter was the type of CA they were looking for!)

    Now I'll get to Happy Sleep for the first time since May!!!
    <3 Buzz
    ...........................Always Believe Something Wonderful is About to Happen! <3 .....................
  • Gawanne35
    Gawanne35 Posts: 2,670 Member
    Sweet dreams BUZZ, Anne.
  • pinkperil
    pinkperil Posts: 5,072 Member
    A very cold day but at least it's bright with lots of sunshine. I had to dig my winter gloves out to wear on our morning walk and have to say I was really glad of them! Halfway round I met a couple I sometimes see who told me their little dog Maggie May had been bitten by an adder snake not so long ago and had to spend 3 days on a drip before coming home from the vet. They had been enjoying a lovely walk on the far moors when it happened and were over 2 hours away from their car so a worrying time as she went down hill so quickly. Today she was running round as normal sniffing out the rabbits and no worse off for the incident! It was so nice to catch up with them I didn't keep an eye on the time until nearly back to my car when I realised I was going to have to rush so as not to be late for a hair appointment.... just made it in time! Always a mistake grocery shopping when hungry which is what I did on my way home so have just unpacked a Stollen cake, Christmas cake, bread rolls and pitta bread on top of my regular shop. It's so cold my chooks are tending to go to bed just after 4pm to get out of the wind so I've been down early to throw some corn out for them the brought in dry towels that were washed earlier and am now going to clean out the fire ready to relight it.
    My window cleaner turned up yesterday in a force 8 gale that froze us both as we talked outside. He showed me a huge lump growing on the back of his leg where he had just knocked it falling off his ladder at the previous house. Of course I was terribly concerned but he just laughed saying that's nothing, I used to play rugby! The good news is I've given him my dad's fishing rods and reels because he goes fishing every Friday night with a group of friends and thinks they should make use of most of them. I told him I don't want any money, just to know they will be in the hands of fishermen is enough.

    Buzz, such brilliant news for your DD as the roller coaster continues but at least it's climbing high this time! Let's hope if the hospital stops looking for cancer the truth will out and the real culprit show itself. Of course it could turn out to be one of those mystery conditions that goes away without anyone finding out what it was but thank goodness, right now you can rest easy. <3

    Lin, my first question to George mark 2 was the same.... have I got to find someone to construct the greenhouse but no, they deliver and put it together, I just have to get the base layed. Black Friday means a great saving as they will deduct VAT but include staging and shelves plus I think he said blinds too! Here's a picture
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    If only my garden could look like that too!! :D

    An introverts book club; now that sounds different and rather interesting as in who thought of it in the first place because I'm thinking it would be more appropriate to encourage an introvert to interact in person. At least it gets people reading though which has to be a good idea.

    New bed day for Sandy! Photos please!

    Anne, you have found a gem with the company delivering your groceries. I know several people here who tried it but soon got fed up with the poor choices in their boxes and went back to shopping in store. It's always been in the back of my mind to use if I should ever get housebound rather than being shipped off to the dreaded care home!!

    I must get the fire lit before my feet turn to ice!

    Jackie
  • Sandydur
    Sandydur Posts: 9,322 Member
    Happy Friday! :) Tons of laundry the last few days, doing all the bedding, sheets, comforters, etc from the trundle bed and rewashing bedding for the new bed being delivered today. I am also doing my own personal laundry so I hate to see my water bill next month. lol
    Also my landlord finally has someone coming today to clean my dryer vent and hose.

    Buzz, wonderful news indeed, I hope you did get a good night's sleep and can now relax a little. <3

    Jackie, we will weigh in tomorrow, I did not like today's weight. lol

    Everyone seems busy so I will check in later but I did forget to say hi to Karen and was happy to see her post.

    Sandy
    One Day at a Time
  • jwubben6600
    jwubben6600 Posts: 1,677 Member
    Hello sweet friends! Looks kind of dreary out today. I am sure there is a shower or two in those clouds.

    We had a lovely birthday evening and dinner. Nice visit with our kids. John was very appreciative of all your birthday wishes. You all are extended friends to him. By that I mean most evenings he will ask over dinner...”so what’s new with the sneakers?” He knows everyone and is constantly amazed that we ladies have kept in amiable but distant contact as long as we have?

    I too have a lot of laundry. Wet dog towels and somehow just more general laundry. How knows how or why!

    Buzz: I am so delighted to hear about your daughter’s diognoses. You know, she really could have had a condition that just slowly healed on it’s own. The science of health is indeed a mystery.

    Jackie: how beautiful! The proposed greenhouse is a beauty. Great that it will be very close to your house. I know you will out there a great deal. Install a doggie door so the fur family can enter in and out as you dig and plant to your heart’s content.

    Sandy: your new guest room will be wonderful for visiting family. It is lovely how it all worked out. You also have a great family and nice that they will be more comfortable.

    Must run! Dryer just binged to tell me it is time to fold and put away.
    A warm affectionate hug to all you dear sneakers from both John and me.
    Patsy☘️
  • linder4866
    linder4866 Posts: 11,419 Member
    Good day. I am doing bits of this and that but mainly working on card projects. Wahoo! Sunny and warmer today. I found that out when I drove over to the library to return some books.

    Jackie, I am so excited for you. I LOVE ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ the greenhouse! It is definitely calling your name. Loudly. 😄 does it have a heater? Power outlets etc.? I can’t wait for you to have it. Oh yes, treats in all the stores now. Luckily I cannot have a good portion of them due to my food issues and sensitivities BUT the ones I can have are outlandish in price. That doesn’t seem to stop me.

    Buzz, honestly these medical issues are beyond puzzling. Will she be traveling to Mayo soon? Clearly something is not right. Praying they will figure it out. Soon. Hugs.

    Anne, aha, delivery day for you.

    Sandy, a different type of delivery day for you.

    Patsy, time to recover from a birthday celebration?

    Best wishes to all. Many hugs.

    Lin
  • Gawanne35
    Gawanne35 Posts: 2,670 Member
    Laugh of the day.
    Went out in the melting snow to collect the rubbish bin.
    Passing the corner of the house a huge lump of snow fell off the roof right onto the middle of my head.
    I'm towelling my soaking hair.
    Groceries arrived. Great as ever. Jilly doesn't like the new delivery man. Barks non stop as I pay with my debit card.
    Anne.
  • Sandydur
    Sandydur Posts: 9,322 Member
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    Here is my new bed for guest room. I love it!!

    Jackie, somehow I missed your post this morning but like everyone else I love your new greenhouse. <3


    Sandy
  • delraybuzz
    delraybuzz Posts: 2,779 Member
    Again, after 1 AM! I'm too disorganized, though there's usually a good excuse! Tonight I screwed up 2 bill-paying dates and became frantic when my bank couldn't deliver on the 18th!
    Love both SANDY's new guest bed and JACKIE's soon to be new cedar cabin! ANNE, is your delivery service named "Instacart"? I found them to be fussier than I picking latest dates and fresh beautiful items! Ordering as often as you do, is it cheaper to pay their yearly fee? I only ordered when they offered free delivery, since I gave a nice tip to the delivery person, usually a student. LIN, you are well worth the extra cost of food and health, and look at your self-control! PATSY, be sure to tell John he has honarary membership in our sneaker bunch!
    I slept til 11:30 AM, this morning. What a shock! Was mesmerized by the interrogation of that female Ambassador, Yovanovitch, and believe she will end up being one of the best witnesses to this leader's infantalism! Yet another of his cronies, Stone, has been found guilty in court of law, as I hope he, too will be found, stealing from his "foundations", cheating his "students"..conning his followers, country and his world, putting his own profits ahead of his country's security! How did we get this bum? Today was a good day!
    Latest email from DD..."I rewrote the update last night after listening to the recorded appointment and came away with a different idea of what I heard second time around. He seemed to add autoimmune encephalitis to the picture while only shifting lymphoma (pcnsL) down slightly. we still have little idea of what is happening.".......is this crazy-making?
    OK, finished "mea culpa-ing" so I can go to bed NOW!!! I do think the low barometric pressure affects my breathing. I'm huffing and puffing just to stay upright!
    <3 Buzz
    ........................Always Believe Something Wonderful is About to Happen!............................
  • Gawanne35
    Gawanne35 Posts: 2,670 Member
    A very long post I was writing just disappeared before my eyes. Too disheartened to rewrite. This happens far too often.
    See you all another time,
    Anne.
  • pinkperil
    pinkperil Posts: 5,072 Member
    Love the bed Sandy and the words on your little pillow made me laugh out loud! :D

    Patsy, believe me, I know I will struggle to keep Betty out of my greenhouse once it's installed even without a doggy door so promise I'll keep the door open when I'm pottering in it. What I don't want is the neighbourhood cats setting up home so will have to ensure I close the windows at night!

    Lin, I think I will see how plants get on in the winter months before installing electricity but can always get one of those little fuel heaters if we have a particularly cold spell. My mind is buzzing about what has to be moved round the garden but if I can organise myself, the spot I have in mind for its construction is sheltered and generally climate change is giving us wetter winters rather than colder. Oh-oh, that's tempting fate, especially when I see the number of berries on the trees still hanging everywhere. My crab apple tree is laden so that's a job to do soon.... pick and create jars of jelly.

    Buzz, your DD is going full circle with the different possibilities so I do hope she gets a definitive diagnosis very soon. As for Teflon man, I think decent people are appalled by his bullying tactics but still he gets away with it. We have our own drama unfolding with an interview to be aired with Prince Andrew excusing himself from his dealings with Epstein or as he says, kicking himself (only because he's been caught out!) and from what I've seen so far there isn't a jot of truth in what he says.... that old saying about Pants on Fire comes to mind but it seems anything goes these days with these powerful people!

    Anne, no damage from that lump of icy snow I trust! :o A similar thing happened to George early this year but he turned and bit chunks out of the pile surrounding him!

    Lunchtime and we have a drier day than forecast so I must get on with some chores.
    Happy Saturday.
    Jackie

  • linder4866
    linder4866 Posts: 11,419 Member
    edited November 2019
    Good morning and excuse me for posting this photo from Facebook. It just struck my oddball funny bone this morning and I needed a giggle. Apologizing in advance. Love you all.

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    Hugs.

    Lin
  • Gawanne35
    Gawanne35 Posts: 2,670 Member
    Thanks for the giggle LIN! I hope Santa was missing delivering gifts. The "reindeer" looks awfully happy and well fed !!!!!!!!!
    Anne.