Senior Golden Sneakers
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Anne, go to home page, then settings, then change username. Good luck.
Happy Thursday!
Going to be really warm but with a shower. I have my meeting and then early dinner with friends. I am sure we will be doing some gambling as well. I managed to walk over 3 miles yesterday but was tired when I got home. My back is acting up but I am almost sure it is arthritis from my back surgeries. My vacation weight is coming off so that is all that matters. Of course eating corn beef today won't help that cause.
The funeral is tomorrow so I will probably post when I get home as I have to be there by 10:30.
Anne, so glad to have you back and hope you can get your user name changed. Good for you getting all your spring cleaning done, me not so much. Bryanna will clean my house next week as my son and dil are coming for a few days at the end of next week.
Lin, I am sorry your allergies are acting up. Every since I had covid I have a cough every once in a while but still feel congested when sleeping. I am still grateful it was mild with the help of my vaccines. Lisa did a home test and was negative, I think it is just regular colds but one never knows anymore. Robby's school called and said to pick him up because he was congested. My birthday celebration with them on Saturday might be postponed.
Patsy, wow, 66 years is amazing. If I would have made it with my 1st. husband we would be married 60 years this year but only made it to 14 years. 44 years with Babe but married 31 but separated almost 10. I envy couples who stayed married through thick and thin, you are my heroes.
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Going to run a few errands. Was going to go earlier but a serviceman showed up and blocked my driveway. 🤦🏼♀️
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I did that SANDY but the problem is I've been kicked off so often I can't remember my PRESENT password. Tried the lot but none accepted. Shame because I've got a funny tale about the perils of bread making when you are old and short sighted. Back to the drawing board or emails.
Anne. The shingles caused a bit of hair loss. Shame, because I feel like pulling my hair out with this frustrating site. Grrrrrrrrrr, thats me, not the Bean.0 -
Anne, trying signing out and when signing in use forgot password. Use your old username that you want and get a new password. Sorry have to run but hope it works.
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SANDY, not sure as I type, but I think it has worked. Thank you. Sorry to bug you when you are so rushed off your feet.
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Hello friends, happy to see Anne post again. 🤞🏻that you can continue to login. I was on MFP earlier but all of a sudden I couldn’t do anything until I logged in again. Very unexpected when that pops up!
Sandy, enjoy your day and evening with friends, dinners and gambling! I was at the grocery store waiting to checkout (they have one live person now) and the gent ahead of me had Guinness and several other drinks along with a frozen pizza. Looked like he was going to celebrate the day. Sorry Robby had to leave school but it is extremely difficult now to sort out a little cold or allergies from a bout of Covid. Sorry you still have a bit of coughing remaining. I didn’t realize that.
Anne, waiting for your story!! 👍🏻😁👍🏻 I hope you can get back to us.
Patsy, how is the anniversary planning going? Has the trip to Costco been completed?
Jackie, have I missed you again? Several videos today from Dan. Pumpkin placed in another home for the time being. At least they are all safe for now. I looked into the Patreon pricing. Unfortunately that is not going to work for me. I am supporting World Central Kitchen which has the highest rating from Charity Navigator.
Barbie, I hope everything is going smoothly now. Best wishes.
Well, I must check on my laundry. How exciting!
Lin🙋🏼♀️
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What oh, I AM back with my old name. Isn't SANDY marvellous, a miracle worker. I have to admit though I am getting fed up of being booted off the site every three months it seems. Aint getting any younger either to work things out.
Mark came over yesterday because along with the shingles I lost the hearing in one ear, AND more importantly, more short sighted than ever. He came over to do my taxes. I feel sorry for the lad because he ends up doing taxes for 4 people now. We've replaced MJs parents who are no longer with us.
Anyway, I'm to be sent a $37 refund from our government. $37 of treats for one small spoilt dog.
Ha the bread. It's been a day of EVERYTHING going wrong [except for the help of Sandy]. After spending a hour trying to get back here I decided I couldn't face kneading etc my own bread. I would use the bread machine. I carefully measured everything, and set this wonder machine a-going. Jill and I retreated to do the chores when I noticed that the gentle purring of a kneading machine sounded like a jet taking off, and it was! We dashed into the kitchen to see the wonder machine taking flight off the kitchen table. It didnt open fortunately!
Inside wasn't a nice silky ball of dough. Instead a crumbly mass of marble sized dry bits. What on earth??? and then I realized, being shortsighted I'd added 3 and 3 quarter cups of flour instead of 3 and 1 quarter cup. Anyway into the mixing bowl it went and I did what I should have done in the first place, kneaded it with more added milk and water. Back into the machine and finally I've now got the oddest looking loaf of bread which tastes surprisingly better than it looks. Yes, had to try a slice, well buttered with marmite. NO photos by the way. I have a lot of disasters which probably explains why my marriage only lasted a surprising 24 years. Happily single for 45 years. Wow, where did the time go!
Not much else happening here except we are enjoying everyone elses past warming trend. Jilly has gone to sleep, worn out from being a seeing/hearing dog. Maybe I will join her and try to live a normal tranquil life.
I did enjoy everyones posts whilst awol.
Anne. zzzzzzzz joining the Bean.
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Aaargh! Lost a long, long post after a horrible day. Can’t go through it all again right now but promise to be back in the morning. Didn’t even mention the invasion!!
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A very happy St. Patrick’s Day to you all. I used to dye John’s coffee green, just for fun. But he says “YUCK! Not funny Mrs. Wubben! “. What a grouch he is when I disturb his morning coffee. Anyway. The morning is cold and cloudy.
I will fix an Irish stew with chicken instead of beef. Gran called it mulligatawny. I looked it up and her recipe wasn’t even close to the real recipe. I have a cd with lots of Irish American songs. I will play them during dinner and I know we both will get a giggle out of an Irish tenor singing “My Wild Irish Rose.” I am well aware that we celebrate Paddy’s Day in a totally different way than they do in Ireland. Truth be told, a lot of singing, dancing and drinking beer with friends is pretty darn special in my book. We can’t dye the Columbia river green like some places do to their local rivers, but it is fun to think about it. I loved to hear Gran speak a bit of Gaelic. She sang like an angel. Huge range and always on key. She knew all the songs! Sorry, I can’t help being sentimental in my old age.
Anne: so glad to have you back. Whatever name or as our son would say…whatever flag your flying. We will be very interested in all those happenings at your house. So much must have happened that we need to catch up on. Welcome home, sweet Anne!
Barbie: so glad Jake is doing okay. Modern medicine is wonderful and he seems to have a good medical team to help him. We all admire your strength. I know for a fact that having you calm and steadfast was an important part of Jakes support.
Lin: is that tea set Belleak? Our family seems to have scads of that we gave each other when younger. I can’t spell that name but when anyone from our family went to Ireland they returned with loads of it to pass around the family as gifts.
Jackie: I do hope Chrissie is doing okay. And that she will consider Bella rehoming with the foster family. Your friends, Dan Baker family, really brings the human costs of war up close and personal. There are times I want to start digging a foxhole in our backyard to hide, quaking in fear.0 -
Oooooops….forgot to sign at the end of the post above.
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JillyBurg7 wrote: »SANDY, not sure as I type, but I think it has worked. Thank you. Sorry to bug you when you are so rushed off your feet.
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Oh, and now a teapot. Sorry, friend phoned as I was finishing my post. Thanks for the bread story Anne! Glad you ended up with a tasty product all in all.
Patsy, your celebration sounds good. It doesn’t have to be traditional, just what suits you. And I don’t know if that was Belleek china. Might be.
Jackie, sorry you lost your post. I saw you purchased a print. Well done. I don’t have a great printer so will pass for now.
Silly teapot to share.
Lin🙋🏼♀️
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Another long message just bit the dust after spending 30 minutes repeating yesterday’s horrid day.
I’ll try again tonight by which time I might think it’s not worth going on about it!
Happy Friday!
Jackie 🥰
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Oh JACKIE, so sorry about the two lost posts. Join us lost Sneakers wandering around "never never land". Do you remember the early days before new owners decided to "improve" things.
I've got groceries to be delivered, its garbage day and Michael saying he's coming over because he has to work tomorrow on what should be his new day off. He's threatening Bean with a spring bath.
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Hello, it is cold and rainy but no snow so far. Just stopping by to say ‘hi’—I have lots of bills to pay and I am teary eyed today. My friend with the dementia problem has gotten worse. Her granddaughter went on vacation with her family and while they were gone apparently her grandmother called the police again and by the time they got there she was out walking on the road trying to stop cars.
She was taken to a local hospital and is in a locked area. I have no details but the outcome is the state is apparently taking over her care and they are placing her in a facility a long way from here. She is not allowed any visitors or phone calls for now.
At some point her mailing address may be released by her granddaughter.
I know I should be relieved that she won’t wander, or set the house on fire or anything but right now, I am overwhelmingly sad.
I hope you stop losing your posts Jackie. So annoying.
Anne, happy grocery day. Glad you will receive a refund in your taxes. More treats for Jilly.
Sandy, I hope the day is not too stressful for you. And I hope you did have a good time lady evening.
Bye for now.
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Well, Mike showed up and Mikes now gone because he's had to go into work this afternoon as well. At least Bean had two long walks and didn't have her bath which I'm sure made her happy. Fast asleep in her basket right now. Mike was very helpful he brought my blue recycle bins in. The only problem I only have ONE recyclable bin. I found this out when I took beetroot tops to a brown bag in the garage for next weeks garden waste. So out I trudged with it and put it on my front again waiting for its rightful owner. He left with a promise to see us Sunday for much longer. He also left full of peas, mashed potatoes and 2 haddock fillets etc in his tum.
Yesterday was a day of minor mishaps and disasters for me. I await to see what happened to JACKIE because I think hers must have been much worse.
LIN, your friend sounds so much like Tony next door to me. One day he was out telling my poor grocery delivery man to "clear off" HIS drive. Its a terrible disease and poor Marie has definitely aged looking after him. She has to keep the doors locked now as they await a placement.
I guess SANDY is at the bereavement.
The only one seemingly having fun is PATSY making her Irish stew. Well Jilly is; having got out of a bath.
Hi BARBIE.
And that's me so far today,
Anne.
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Happy Friday! I am home from funeral Mass and have started the laundry. It was a beautiful service and nice seeing the family of Babe's brother who I haven't seen in over ten years. He had five children, 20 grandchildren and even some great grandchildren. I didn't go to the cemetery or the luncheon as I just wanted to pay my respects. They all asked about Babe and told me to give him their condolences about his son which I did when I got home.
Our dinner was fun but I am not a big fan of corn beef and cabbage only if it is home cooked. This was shredded and put of top of cabbage. We did do a little gambling but I didn't lose much as we didn't stay too long. I knew I had to get up early so wanted to get home to go to bed early.
Not sure about my birthday celebration with the kiddos tomorrow, haven't heard how they are all feeling today. Babe wants to come here Sunday so I will make dinner for him. I like the trial days to see how well I am going to cope with him here.
Anne, I am so glad you were able to get back on with your old name and new password. It is wonderful that your sons come and visit you weekly, you raised them right. Sorry for minor minor mishaps and disasters, I hope nothing too serious.
Jackie, I do hope you are able to post about your troublesome day so we don't have to worry about you.
Is everything okay?
Lin, I am sorry about your friend, did she call you or someone else? Dementia is a terrible disease, it broke my heart with my uncle. All you can do is pray for her and be there for her if needed.
Patsy, you amaze me with all your clever meals, you make every holiday special. John is a lucky man.
Barbie, hope Jake is doing better each day.
Have a good rest of your day.
Sandy
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High overcast day…I think it is a marine layer that might burn off. Maybe. Just a bit chilly. A sweater and a light rain jacket against the mist in the air should keep me warm and dry.
Katie is supervising a couple of visiting crows. They squawk and Katie barks. It is a conversation that happens most mornings now. After a quick ball game Kate is ready for her treats and a nap or she goes on watch at the French door windows. That is the reason those windows are a total disgrace most of the time. Another ball game with John later. He got her a new fuzzy ball. It is one of the ruff-tuff toys that are so durable. She is in love. She carries it around constantly.
Had a nice St. Patrick’s Day dinner and music and also a long chat with Damon. Now on to Easter! Damon is coming. We are so looking forward to seeing him again. I think I will make Easter baskets for daughter and family as well as John and Damon. It will be fun to set them out at the dinner. If I can find them, I had bunny ears I used to put on. I guess I will make Katie a new kerchief. She always tries to eat her kerchiefs as we take photos. You’d think I had it tied so tight it was choking. NOT! Her kerchiefs are very loose and quite pretty.
As I have aged I seem to really value small celebrations like we used to have when we were a young family. I know it is a memory I like to revisit. Everyone seems to enjoy it or at least they like to see me enjoy it. I have the most fun because I plan and do most of the preparation. I have to have the bandage changed on my toe ulcer. Hopefully no more minor surgery or removal of dead tissue. Yuck. It is a very slow healing process. I might have to start wearing a sort of post surgery protective boot. Very uncomfortable but if it helps and protects….I guess I will pull on my big girl pants and DO IT!
No big mishaps today. I do hobble around and am slower than a snail but there isn’t any reason to hurry. This is pizza night and we are going to watch an old funny movie called “Best in Show.” And I really need to drag a stool in front of the fridge a do a purge of antique food. Seriously…
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I’m in!! It’s a beautiful day in spite of a gale force southerly and we had a long, blustery walk across the moors where George chased his tail and Betty tucked in behind me, a bit scared of the strong wind. There are a lot of chores to do in my garden so I’ll get on and find my way back to the sneakers later in the day. I’ve decided not to repeat the lost posts, not because there was anything contentious in them that would make it disappear but probably ongoing events will pop up in later posts so why rumble on?
A funny thing, when I finally got myself into our forum just now I read a post with a picture of a happy Thanksgiving Turkey and thought I was going mad. Turned out I had been sent to page 1, not 1315!
Happy Saturday
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That happened to me JACKIE. Time travellers!
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Happy Saturday! Another gloomy day with rain on and off. Will have a zoom call with my family and then go celebrate my birthday with the kiddos. Got all my laundry done yesterday, just have to put the clean sheets on the guest bed for my son and his wife who arrive next Friday.
While I am sitting for my daughter's dog in May I found out my friend is having a 90th birthday party for her husband on May 22nd. I am coming home May 24th but I think I am going to change my flight to come home Saturday the 21st so I can attend his party. I will call my daughter today and she might be upset because I won't see her at all while I am there since she leaves two days before I get there and gets home on the Sunday of the party. This party is important to my friend and her husband is a very good friend as well so I really want to celebrate with them.
Jackie, glad you made it back and hope life is better on your side of the world even though you are now getting a new variant. Will it every end???
Good morning to everyone else, time to make that call. Have a good day.
Sandy
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Hello friends. I am working on birthday cards today and struggling with WiFi connection problems.
I am glad that both Anne and Jackie are here. I hope you are having a good day/evening.
Sandy, enjoy your birthday party. 🥳 I hope your daughter does not get upset with your change in travel plans.
Sorry I didn’t get back yesterday to post my daily teapot.
Here’s a nice one.
Be safe everyone.
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Hello everyone! Our day is partly cloudy but the sun keeps parting those clouds to shine on through. Hello Mr. Sunshine🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
Today starts with Katie barking non-stop for an hour. She is upset by something in the back yard. Who knows what? I looked and I can’t see anything. She is a whack-job, to be certain!
John has a short list of things only he can do so I will stay out of his way. He is very intense when he has a repair job in process. Look out…don’t get in the way. It could result in a very loud cranky retort. He says it is a guy thing. I am not buying it. It is a John thing!
Personal corespondence today and making meatless chili. I will serve it with avocado slices and a lime. Since John will be very absorbed in his repair work, I will try not to annoy him with too much extra spices. You know me. Just like Mae West used to say, “too much of a good thing is WONDERFUL!”
My list of anniversary gift possibilities are a year of lawn service, new drapes for the living room and dining room plus installation. Having cars washed and detailed inside and outside. I know my list is insanely too practical and basically uninteresting. It is just that we have been married so long, we have collected way too much stuff, and we are sentimental and don’t get rid of much. John is not adding much to the gift list, he is mainly in charge of crossing things off the list. So far he has wrinkled his nose at most of the things I have suggested.
Sandy: sounds like you are one busy lady and back to traveling. Complicated trip coming up! Will your daughter be upset that she will not see you? And if you leave early, what happens to the dog you were dog sitting? I am sure it will all work out. You seem able to work through those issues.
Anne: so glad you are back.
Jackie: this is the time of year when we get consumed with our list of things we want to accomplish this spring. What is there about spring? Makes us think of cleaning, planting, painting, building, and or traveling! Katie is dreaming of love, I fear. She is barking love songs to a neighbors cat, two crows and a nest of little green garden snakes. I am excited for you about your new raised garden beds. Maybe you and your good neighbor could share an allotment on your property. I can just imagine you gathering your harvest all summer.one.
Lin: I loved seeing your cards and designs. I hope you show us more as you finish them.
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Well better late than never. I too got lost in the above page numbers trying to find my way back to here. I would be two pages done, get busy and have to repeat trying to find where I was. However I am back for this update anyway.
So much has gone on with everyone. Glad to hear those that have had illnesses are doing a lot better. Jackie definitely had her challenges with all of the great changes to her cottage. From the one picture I saw it looks fabulous ! Sandy it looks like you had a great vacation to Jamaica with your family and Happy Belated Birthday too. Sorry to hear about B s son. Lin you are so creative with your cards that you make and love that your creativity with them is growing. Look forward to seeing your Easter cards ! Barbie I am glad your hubbie is doing a lot better now. Definitely a big concern for you. As for Ann and Patsy take care of yourselves. Ann with all of that itching I don't know how you lasted so long with the shingles. Thankfully I have had my shots for that. Since I have no tolerance for skin itching I was feeling for you and wondering if you needed a better topical lotion. Patsy....know about those foot boots. I have broken both baby toes. Have a boot I would give you taking up place in my closet.
Lots of wind this winter here in the Sacto Valley with no rain for 66 days straight. Some due today in 2 small storms then next week two 80 degrees days then cooler again. Our lake levels are way down again and they are concerned about our summer fires already. They definitely are getting worse each year, but I live in a suburb in a senior community, so things are ok here.
Thankfully all is well here though can get a bit boring. Time to get walking again and change up my interests a bit. Our senior 12 yr old toy poodle keeps us challenged, but doing ok. Between his meds, special diet and a specialist we own stock in our vets....just kidding. Glad he was a healthy dog for so many years!
As for our kids, our daughter and family moved 45 min away with 6.5 acres, 3 dogs and now 3 goats. Lots of projects to be done, but they are loving it. The eldest is at ASU and loving it. Still 2 at home. And our son and family bought a house a year ago about 1/2 hr away, but due to Calif. high cost of living now they are in the midst of cleaning it out to put the house on the market to move to Tennessee where the cost of living is a lot less. Hate to see this happen and we will miss them and our 2 granddaughters, (12 and 14), but you do what you have to do. Mid May they will be leaving...We were really hoping they were going to be around for our later senior yrs. They said why not move too ? We are quite comfortable, so that definitely isn't in our plans.
Hopefully I haven't bored you all to death. Shall try to stay on top of this now that I have finally caught up. Look forward to hearing about your lives and projects everyone is doing. With no family any where near and life changing for others it is like what Sandy says....One Day at a Time. We will get thru this....
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Good Morning Diane, good to read your post.
Here its raining all day. I've just had a text from Michael that he's coming over so I'm baking a chicken and veggie pot pie in anticipation. We will have half for lunch and he can take the other half home for a couple of days lunches now his work hours have changed.
You can tell how "exciting" my life is when I tell you I've finally managed to put my black jeans on. Great excitement because I've slopped around in pyjama bottoms for months because of the painful leg scabs. Anyway, I'm finally back to being almost "normal" and had a super undisturbed sleep last night despite Bean curling round my tum and as close as she could get. Feeling my old optimistic self again as well which sure beats wondering if I'm about to push up daisies.
I too wondered the same as PATSY what will happen to the dog if your daughters flight is delayed back SANDY? I think I would rather see my offspring than go to a party but its different strokes for different folks and as you say the friends are very special to you. Just a thought though that plans can change in the two months before one reaches 90 years! Sorry to be a downer!
So thats about it. Nothing on the news except mad Vlads doings. I'm still wondering what happened to JACKIE?
See y'all,
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Happy Sunday! Just finished watching mass and soon will shower and get ready so I can pick up Babe when he returns from attorney. He will spend the day with me and I will make dinner. It is sunny and going to be warm so maybe we can go for a short walk in building his strength.
Not to worry about Dexter my grand pup. My grandson is 25 and he does not work on weekends so he will be home for Dexter. He will be home every night as well so I won't be alone all the time. I just spent a week with my daughter and her husband so she was understanding in my changing my flight and said I could come back anytime. I have known this couple for over 25 years and they really wanted me there and if he doesn't make it to his birthday I can always change my flight. He is still driving and they have a farm about an hour away they go to on weekends so he should be fine.
I will go back and visit my daughter later in the year to spend time with her as she and her husband are very busy with travel plans this year. They are going to Hawaii in August for three weeks to spend time with her son and his wife. They don't come here to visit me very often so I do not feel guilty as I paid for my own airfare to take care of Dexter.
Diane, great to hear from you and hope you continue to join us. Sorry about those fires and hope they aren't as bad as last year. Always sad when our children move out of state but they do have their own lives. I am grateful Rob, Lisa, Bryanna and the kiddos are near me and I see then often.
Have a great day on this first day of Spring.
Sandy
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At the moment I can only get on to the sneakers on my tablet and already the page is unstable so see how I get on. A dry but cooler day and I decided I need to get back to more exercise so when I took George and Betty to the moors I chose a place that’s open and steep, the strode quickly all the way to the top. George thought it was a great game as he raced with me while dear Betty tried to take short cuts to keep up! On the way home I caught sight of my dog walker Brian with his Westie walking along the road so pulled over and spoke to him through the passenger window. He seems brighter, probably because the weather has improved, and told me another dog walker friend had been asking if he had seen me because he was worried and in fact he had worried too. All these men concerned for me!! The other man was David whose little pug had lost the use of her back legs and last week he came in search of me, going on what little I had said about where I live. A long story that was told in a lost post but the upshot was that sadly little pug had been put to sleep after a traumatic experience he had with a vet and he and his other dog are still pining. I now have his phone number so we can arrange to meet up for a walk one day.
Friends phoned when I was home and making coffee and we had an exchange of news. More sad news; her horse Smarty collapsed and died last week. She was only 22 so not particularly old but a knowledgeable friend told her it sounded like a heart attack because she apparently laid down, rolled a couple of times then was gone.
This afternoon I’ve been measuring the area I plan to create raised beds then began to dig and weed and now my tomato and pepper seeds are doing well I’ve replaced them in the electric propagator with courgette and kale seeds.
Very sad news for Chrissie who has been told her Lymphoma has returned and the oncologist doesn’t feel she is strong enough for chemo treatment. Instead they will put her on steroids but if that fails she may only have weeks. What a terrible shock for her to deal with. Her friend Katie was the only one person allowed to visit but now Chrissie has received this news a schedule will hopefully be made by Katie more of us can visit and not clash with each other. Katie tells me she will inspect a care home that’s literally five minutes from my cottage so Chrissie can be released from hospital. That would mean I can pop in every day, even for five minutes.
Hello Diane. What a lovely surprise. I was only thinking of you the other day, wondering how you were. Those fires are scary aren’t they and I remember how we all worried so much about Patsy and John in Portland. Yes, those builders were a challenge so I’m hoping I’ll never have to have one in my house again, although they did do a grand job!
Anne, my ex gardener Sue has sent a newsy email and mentioned her shingles has returned. She puts it down to the stress of looking for a house to buy and after looking in other areas of England is back to a place she looked at quite a few weeks ago but dismissed. As ever, I won’t offer an opinion because liking a property is a very personal thing. We have definitely been time travellers on MFP. 🤣. I even saw Shirley’s name pop up and she left us a long time ago!
Sandy, I agree, old friends are very special and certainly life teaches us to make the most of every opportunity to meet up. Family too of course. Enjoy your day with Babe and hopefully get out for that walk, even a short one. Our Covid numbers are rising in a dramatic way and my friend Linda continues to struggle with a nasty cough and lack of energy. She had asthma which adds complications and a district nurse has advised she must use her puffa more often even if she doesn’t feel she needs it. She also forecast long Covid for Linda which naturally upset her.
Lin, I did mention in both my lost posts that I was feeling once Dan and his family got to England they have so much support from his parents and brothers, he shouldn’t need us other than as a regular blogger. Along with millions of us Brits, I’ve donated funds to our Emergency Disasters Fund that supports every charity needed in Eastern European countries coping with millions of refugees. It makes sense to me that they should be in a position to offer the most help. He does look happy today and has lost that hunted look.
Patsy, poor Katie feeling those love arrows hit her. Brady goes through a similar struggle this time of year when feels an extra love for Betty! She will take a certain amount of head rubbing but draws the line when he gets too frisky! Funny to watch but definitely not normal!! I’m definitely looking forward to my little veggie gardens and not having to get the car out late evening to drive to the allotments to water everything. Debs and Louise plan to demolish an old garden shed to make room for a poly tunnel which sounds like serious business to me!
I will leave other events for another day because it’s time to throw a pasta and salad dish together as well as feed the pets.
I won’t spell check because the post might fly away!
Take care
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Who knows what’s going on but I’m really cross with MFP. Typed the longest post, repeated what was lost in previous post, answered everyone, touched POST REPLY and it disappeared. Sorry friends but I certainly won’t be repeating the whole post in the near future!
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Cloudy and showers this AM. Rain was Expected and so no expectations of a sunny warm day. We will be chatting with Damon and trying not to read the latest war news. There are times when I feel like a ninny….avoiding any bad news so I can go blissfully on my way.
I must admit I too would choose a visit with our children but then I am not a party animal. I love small gatherings with special things to share like photos, surprises, small gifts, special foods (Anne’s chicken pot pie) and music. John certainly is not a party person. He likes a gathering with two or three other people. I might enjoy a gathering of maybe 6 other people.
Talk about a romantic anniversary gift….hold the phone! I can’t believe I went along for this. New siding for the house. Oh my. Expensive and what a mess it is going to be. But as I said, we aren’t much into travel, except for day trips or over night trips, if they accept doggies. We have enough stuff. We will do a little celebration with our kids. And we will look at the siding colors and design. Everyone will voice their opinion on color etc. we will ignore all suggestions and do what we please. But it will be a great conversation topic for days on end!
Diane: helloThere! So happy to see you. I hope your schedule will allow you to come back often. As you can read above, my news certainly never registers as even remotely exciting. I guess I am okay with that. I think we all love hearing our family news and views. We know everyone and even their pets. We have missed you!
Sandy: glad you explained about the daughter and little Dexter. I sort of knew you would be working out some arrangement. As I said before, it is a complicated trip. The point is this…enjoy your trip and the friend’s birthday party. The interesting truth is that there are many more 90+ People around these days. So this friend will doubtless be around for his 91 or 93-95. Best wishes to him.
Anne: yea! Mike is back for his weekly visit and lunch. That would almost be a weekly party for me. Having our son come once a week would be such a great! Enjoy! I too have wondered and have been concerned about our Jackie. I assume she is involved in a massive gardening project. I am always last to post because I am not an early morning person. And I live thousands of miles away from most of you. Does the iPad know about daylight savings time? Maybe……….
Patsy☘️🦮🎾🔨🪚🪜0
