WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY 2017

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  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,714 Member
    KJ - We are going on a 16 night Baltic cruise. Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, St Petersburg, Tallinn, Germany, Holland (going to taxi to Haarlem) and a Danish fishing island. We are only taking organised trips in St Petersburg. One an orientation, one an evening visit with concert to the Hermitage and one the next day to three cathedrals.
    Otherwise we are doing it under our own steam. I hope to potter around the small German town and practise my German. I am 42% fluent right now. :laugh:

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxx
  • Peach1948
    Peach1948 Posts: 2,473 Member
    Had a binge day yesterday! :D Mad at DH and took it out on food and drink! Sometimes, I just can't help it. Will get back on track today.

    Margaret ~ Love the photos. I especially liked the sculpture of the birds. They looked so realistic.

    Machka ~ Your hair is beautiful and you look so pretty in your hat. I have never ever had long hair. When my DnL looked at a picture of my first grade class (60+ yrs ago), she remarked that none of us girls had long hair. I guess we all had the perms for little girls that were popular in those days.

    Dana & Terre ~ Pictures of you beautiful!

    Insurance ~ We are so lucky! Being a retired teacher from GA, the retirement plan has somehow made insurance very affordable for retired teachers. I feel so blessed. I do feel that the cost of each procedure is rediculous. When I had my knee injections a while back, they charged $250 for the PA to stick the needle in. And, that wasn't the injection medicine.

    Prayers for all who are facing physical and emotional problems.

    Carol in GA
  • GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS
    GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS Posts: 2,573 Member
    Machka - Beautiful hair, such a nice color, too! I've finally decided that a nice 'bob' with it stacked in the back is hat look best ono me and my DH likes it. Easy to fix and wash and blow out. My morning facial routine takes longer to do than my hair.

    Lenora
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,615 Member
    Peach1948 wrote: »
    Machka ~ Your hair is beautiful and you look so pretty in your hat. I have never ever had long hair. When my DnL looked at a picture of my first grade class (60+ yrs ago), she remarked that none of us girls had long hair. I guess we all had the perms for little girls that were popular in those days.
    GRITSandSLUTS wrote: »
    Machka - Beautiful hair, such a nice color, too! I've finally decided that a nice 'bob' with it stacked in the back is hat look best ono me and my DH likes it. Easy to fix and wash and blow out. My morning facial routine takes longer to do than my hair.

    Lenora

    Thanks!

    I had short hair until I was in my early 20s, then I grew it out and discovered that it was so much easier to deal with, so it has stayed long. :)

    The colour has changed a bit now ... it changes every 6 months or so. :grin: Naturally, I'm a mousy salt-and-pepper. I started going grey in my early 30s!! But I've been dying my hair since I was about 16, so I've just kept on. Right now it is quite dark underneath, with a reddish layer on top, and a blonde swath across the front. I got a bit creative. :lol:

  • DanaReel180
    DanaReel180 Posts: 463 Member
    TGIF!

    Machka You have long beautiful hair! Love it. I keep mine shoulder length or longer now but I love long hair!
    When I was 12 years old my hair was pretty long and my mom took me and my sister to our aunt's house and she cut our hair. OMG! I hated it. It was so short and she styled it up into a duck-tail!! This was in 1961. From that day forward I refused to let my mom do anything to my hair!! I had my hair longer and longer. Then I was a hippie!

    Allie I would like to be a fly on the wall today at Tomcat's deposition!

    Heather I too was abused. I used to stare into mirrors until the point I would freak out like the image wasn't me. My abuser was my own father. I believe my mother knew. I was about 12 then and I was very shy around people mostly men.
    I hated my father and couldn't stand to be around him. Over time, 50 years, I forgave him. Never did he apologize, I guess I was expecting that to happen before he died. I think maybe he did in his own way like buying me a horse; we all went water skiing and even flying. He was a good provider, but I don't understand how he could do that to his daughter. I was unable to talk about it like people would think badly of me. But I don't care about that anymore.

    Margaret The garden photos are beautiful! And the stained glass window is awesome!
    We have a botanical garden here run by the University of Arkansas. Garvin Woodland Gardens sits on 300 acres on Lake Catherine. It so beautiful!
    I'll try to find pictures for you. If you are ever in central Arkansas, it's a must see!

    Carol Just get back to tracking. It's hard eating out! You'll be ok!

    Heather. I have cousins in Denmark. We share my maternal great grandmother. One sister came to America and the other stayed in Copenhagen. I hope some day I can go visit. We are friends on Facebook and stay in contact.

    I guess I'll get up. I've been reading all the posts and typing for 40 minutes! Dolly jumped on the bed and is pawing at me to get up!

    Funny thing. I put a basket in the living room for Dolly's toys. I filled it up and as soon as she saw me doing that she came over and took them out! I would throw one back in and she would go over and get it out. Not to play with it mind you but just took it out and placed on the floor where it was and walked off! So funny! Coonhounds! So funny!

    Have a happy day!!
    Dana in Arkansas

    Treeing Walker Coonhounds:
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  • fanncy0626
    fanncy0626 Posts: 7,152 Member
    Shep looks tiny from this angle but huge compared to the wheel barrow!

  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,530 Member
    In VA right now. Surgery went well, doc doesn't see any problem. Actually, Jess keeps telling me to go home today but she now has two large dogs to take care of in addition to the little dog so I'm glad that I'm staying. Been exercising every day but probably not that intensely. Have to modify.

    I'll probably just skim to try to catch up so please excuse me. Plan to leave tomorrow.

    I guess it's just me, but I'm not used to eating real late at night. And then to go for ice cream! They wanted to the other night, but I just didn't have anything. Trying to be good about choices.

    Heather - I like Aldi for some of their things. The canned goods are a good bargain, the baking goods, some cereals, condiments. It's hit-or-miss on fruits. Usually they're pretty good on produce. Lidl is supposed to be coming our way, can't wait. Like you, we usually have leftovers but they are predestined for future meals and into the freezer they go right after they are cooked.

    Jess just informed me that I'm going to be baking the cake for the shower...lol! She saw this cake on Pinterest where the body is the cake and I know I have a pan like that, so I'm thinking that I'll make two. She had a good suggestion, she suggested making one vanilla and the other chocolate, then cutting them in 2 or 3 sections so each cake is vanilla and chocolate. What a good idea! I'm thinking that I can probably use my cake leveler to make the cuts

    Regarding feeling bad after eating something (like pizza), I was feeling really really full yesterday, I had two brownies. Didn't really care for any dinner, was feeling too full.

    Personally, I am not a fan of the red beets, but I LOVE the golden beets.

    Lenora - the wedding is the last Friday in Oct (don't remember the exact date right now). Can't come soon enough for me! Denise wants everyone to pay for her honeymoon instead of giving her gifts at her bridal shower. Personally, I think that's tacky. Register somewhere and give people the option -- I think that's fine. But asking for money? Not fine. She's after Jess as to when the shower will be since she needs to have the money by the 15th. Why she didn't just set up a go-fund-me account so that if the shower was after the date she needs to pay for the honeymoon in full, she could then get the money and put it towards something else. But she just wants people to send the money to the travel agency. Whatever...... Jess got the inserts for the bridal shower telling about donating. The travel agency made them up. They look like a 2yr old made them. Jess is going to redo them so at least they look decent. Guess they never heard to copy&paste!

    Probably the only problem with the Instantpot just like a pressure cooker is that it doesn't brown the meat. You have to prebrown it, then put it in the pot. But otherwise, it's probably really great. I know I love my pressure cooker.

    tere - gorgeous pic

    I don't look good in capris. Like my shorts about 5" long. Don't like the bermuda shorts, either. But love wearing shorts

    Got jess to go with me to the ceramics place in Haymarket. I didn't know that she got nautious in the car or I wouldn't have asked her to go! But I was thinking that it would be good for her to get out of the house someplace nonstressful

    When Vince is sick he's on the Internet researching everything. Me? I don't bother because then I do think that I'm in the throes of dying

    Heather - I hate when I leave the door to the freezer a cracked open. Actually, our freezer and refrig will give you a "ding" if the door is left open for too long.

    KJ - that's horrible about the law not paying!

    Allie - my heart just breaks for Tom <snicker> Be sure to cough near him!! Something good might as well come from your being sick..Update: Hope your getting better because you gave it to tom

    Dana beautiful in 82 and today

    Guess I should take the small dog out. Seem he needs to go out quite often or else he pees in the house. And I don't want that. When we got back from the hosp he had pooped in the house. Fortunately, Jess knows that he's prone to doing this so she put him in the kitchen.

    Michele from NC now in VA
  • margaretturk
    margaretturk Posts: 5,259 Member
    Mary love the picture!
  • suebdew
    suebdew Posts: 1,298 Member
    Happy Friday. Off to lunch with golf friends. Took Mucinex yesterday and feel better today.
    Heather - we did the Baltic cruise out of Amsterdam. First night the ship hit a cable while going through the locks to the North Sea. Long story short everyone had to be send home and they paid all expenses. We went 6 weeks later on a different ship. Great cruise, you will enjoy every country.
    Mary- either a big dog or small wheel barrow. Lol.
    Allie-I am beging to feel better also. Keep drinking the water.
    Better get going. Have a great day.
    SueBDew in TX
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,714 Member
    edited July 2017
    Michele - You can brown the meat/chicken etc in an Instant Pot. There is a SAUTÉ button, which does different temperatures. What I like about it is you can just set a time for the pressure cooking and there is no danger if you forget it. It keeps food warm for hours if you want that. I have risen bread in it and sprouted seeds (yum - just had some in a wrap with my Greek yoghurt I made) I don't think you should get one though as it is PERFECT for cheesecake. I can see you supplying the neighbourhood! :D<3<3 (I have resisted so far ) I am eyeing the Limoncello recipe. :o;)>:)

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxx
  • SophieRosieMom
    SophieRosieMom Posts: 3,660 Member
    <3Happy Friday ladies! <3

    Margaret - great photos! Love the sculpture and church windows and garden tours are my favorite. I saw bee balm and hyssop in the one photo...my bee balm is about a week away from blooming I think. Plants aren't doing well, too wet here during the winter and the roots are rotten, but hope to get a few blooms.

    Heather - I'm afraid I'd worry myself into a state like your DH going on a cruise. He's lucky to have you as the coordinator ;-).

    Machka     - love your long hair, so thick and healthy. You look great in those hats!!

    Joyce - so happy your kitten is doing well.

    Sharon     - great to see you here again! Please fill us in on your work situation when you get a chance.

    Marcelyn - teaching your granddaughters to sew is marvelous. She did a great job on that little dress. Skills like that are invaluable. Seems the trend with sewing machines was to have "cams" for all kinds of fancy stitches. I am satisfied with my old machine which sews straight and zig-zags, which is plenty.

    Lisa - happy travels!

    NY Karen     - good luck with your interview on Monday! It helps being on the interviewer side of the panel and knowing how the questioning can go, tho I always tried to make it fun. But still, so glad I'll never have to sit in the hot seat again. B)

    Finished my leg strengthening regimen a little while ago, will do the upper body in a bit. Bicep curls aren't bad, but lifting weights over my head are a struggle...I have to slow down and breathe, otherwise I can get light-headed. But am making progress.

    After I took off those 12# ankle weights and walked back into the house, I marveled at how "light" I felt and remembered how good it felt to lose pounds in the past. My highest weight was in the 190's....lowest around 130 (too low! Anorexic!).

    My eating has not been the best lately, but I credit exercise and weights with upping my metabolism a bit and thankfully my weight has not gone up. Totally off blood pressure meds now.

    Woke up to 44 degrees this morning, expecting a high of 83.

    Make it a great day!

    Lanette
    SW WA State
  • OregonMother
    OregonMother Posts: 1,664 Member
    edited July 2017
    Good morning, all. I'm feeling a little better. Thanks for the words of encouragement. I do not enjoy weight lifting, but I have been trying to incorporate it into my routine. I need to be more diligent about doing it three days a week.

    I have my 16 year old back home after his four week visit to Kansas. I was really missing him.

    We get our greenhouse delivered tomorrow!!! We are so excited.

    NYKaren - Good job stopping the binge. These things happen.

    Allie -- I hope you continue feeling better. 6 pounds lost is an upside. :wink:

    Katla -- Horse riding sounds wonderful. It looks like it will be hot today, after our couple days of relative coolness.

    Lanette -- Congrats on being off bp medication! I hope I can get there.

    Machka -- I also love your hair! So pretty.

    Dana -- How funny about Dolly! We have a dog who won't play fetch and a cat who will. Last night at dinner, she brought one of her gloves to my husband, dropped it, waited for him to throw it, went after it and wrestled it for a few minutes, and then brought it back to him to throw again. She is crazy!

    Marcelyn -- I love that you taught your granddaughter to sew. One of the things my 10 year old was excited for while visiting my mother is that she has been teaching him embroidery. He loves it, and it gives them something quiet to do together while he's there.

    Heather -- your cruise sounds lovely.

    I know I've missed so much; work has been a little hectic this week.

    eta: As a relative newbie, I wish a warm welcome to the other new ladies.

    Everyone enjoy your Friday!

    Felicia
    Willamette Valley, Oregon

  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,714 Member
    Lanette - We are going on the exact same ship, in the exact same cabin as last time! I hoped that would help his nerves. It would be nice if some of the personnel are the same. Last time it was all just about perfect. <3
    How are you doing with the IP?

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxx
  • margaretturk
    margaretturk Posts: 5,259 Member
    Lanette yes it is be balm and hyssop they planted these right outside their vegetable garden the raise food for the food shelf. They are perfect pollinators. I have pink bee balm and it is full bloom now. I have so much shade that it brightens up the spot it is in. I have some else I call pinks. Their foliage is similar to phlox. They have a spike like flower that smells wonderful just like milkweed. It is in bloom too.

    Heather have a wonderful trip!

    :heart: Margaret
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,714 Member
    Dr Katie - Have you got the 8qt? I keep my 6qt in the utility room where it doesn't loom at me. I like to have it out so I use it. I cooked my broccoli in it this evening. Perfect.
    Good luck for the funeral. <3<3<3

    Heather UK. Xxxxxxx
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,272 Member
    Karla thx, that was sweet of u to say that. I swear I was tired this morning but I feel no matter how much I complain to my inner self I still manage to keep going. In this case, I really didn't want to ride into work, I was just plain tired. But I find that I am just on auto pilot and rode the 14miles into work anyway. I know I don't have to. I guess I'll have plenty of time to take a break when I die
  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,530 Member
    Heather – I’m sorry I didn’t make myself clear. What I meant was that you need to take an extra step in browning the meat, be it in the Instant Pot or on the stovetop. You can’t just put the meat in the InstantPot and have it cook and it comes out browned. Lol you thinking I shouldn’t get one…lol If I do, you can bet that I would give things to people because I wanted to try new recipes in it!

    I had a DVD ready to do today but for some reason it wouldn’t work in my laptop so I just did the DVD I did yesterday. At least I did something

    I didn’t think about it yesterday, but I should have borrowed Jess’ Fitbit to see what I think of it. I notice (boo) that she doesn’t wear it as much as she used to.

    Marcelyn – I called the bridal shop where I bought my dress for Denise’s wedding just to ask them how much the alterations would be because I know Diane will charge me much less. I almost died. To have it taken about an inch in on each side and then shortened about 6” would cost me almost $100. Your granddaughter could make a lot of money when she grows up with her sewing skills. Unfortunately, I used to know how to sew, but I haven’t done it in a while. I did put in an elastic on a pair of PJ’s that I wear in the condo. Do you know that I had to look up how to do it? I’d forgotten. I really didn’t do that great a job, but the only person that’ll see me is Vince so I’m not concerned about that.

    Question for anyone who machine quilts: Diane machine quilted Jess’ quilt not that I’m complaining, she did a great job for what she had to work with. But I did noticed that some of the stitches are smaller than the others. What causes that?

    Lanette – whenever I do exercises for the shoulders, I usually use lighter weights since the shoulder muscles are smaller.

    Lisa – glad to see you

    So glad I brought my own food to jess’. She doesn’t have any fruit (except for a few grapes). I also did bring up food for her that I’ve been eating

    Felicia – you can tell your 10yo (if he doesn’t already know it) that the football player, Rosie Greer (the refrigerator as he’s known) does needlepoint.

    Drkatiebug – I know the funeral will be lovely with you doing the service

    A friend of jess’ is over right now so I just went upstairs so they can visit.

    Michele in NC now in VA until tomorrow
  • Peach1948
    Peach1948 Posts: 2,473 Member
    Katie ~ So sorry for the loss of your cousin. You will do great at the funeral!

    I think my Nesco pressure cooker is 6 qt. Because I am so short, I usually have to put it in the sink to load food. It does have a browning setting and a slow cook setting and a set the time to later setting.

    Pip ~ I looked at your diary before you started closing it and I wonder if maybe you are not eating enough for all those calories you burn exercising. Maybe that's why you are so tired. I know it's none of my business, but just a thought.

    Heather ~ Your son and DnL look so happy.

    Please keep my Sis and I in your thoughts/prayers. It's about my mom's house we were in under her life estate.

    Carol in GA
  • GodMomKim
    GodMomKim Posts: 3,703 Member
    :)
  • SophieRosieMom
    SophieRosieMom Posts: 3,660 Member
    edited July 2017
    Heather, next recipe for the IP will either be hardboiled eggs or meatballs/pasta in sauce. Been reading lots of recipes on how to throw it all in the IP together so don't have to boil the macaroni separately. DH doesn't like spaghetti, he likes macaroni instead. We'll see. Still want to try stuffed meatballs but have some frozen meatballs in the freezer that need to be used. Love the photo of the kids at Wimbledon - they are having definitely having some fun!

    DrKatiebug, I also found the Instant Pot too big to fit in the cupboard. Mine too lives in the pantry/laundry room and sits on the front-loading dryer. I used to have a huge food dehydrator up there that I rarely used so this is perfect. You are so sweet to do the service for your cousin. My SIL, who was a preacher's kid, did the service for my dad and did a great job - you will, too.

    Carol     - Prayers and hugs heading your way ref your mom's estate. Hope it gets resolved soon...always hard, especially with other relatives involved.

    Michele - yes, I definitely use smaller weights for the overhead presses. I've been able to make good progress in the bicep curls and upward rows as far as slowly increasing the weight, but just have to accept the fact that I might be stuck at lighter weights on the shoulder stuff for quite a while. That's OK, I've still made progress from when I started. It's all good.

    Well, we have one less cat now. I took our indoor kitty to the vet to be euthanized this morning. She had been losing weight for a while - likely had diabetes or worse - and had a lot of "behavioral issues" from the start - she was a rescue we took in when she was 6 and we gave her a good home for 6 more years. Hopefully once the cat hair gets swept up once and for all, my allergies will improve.

    We still have a kitty who sleeps in DH's shop. She's friendly and DH's little buddy. In the winter when it's cold, she'll come in the house and sleep on the back of the sofa during the day, but goes back into the shop in the evening to eat/sleep/use her litter box and guard against mouse invasions. His shop is set up as an office with a nice recliner, heater, etc. Lap of luxury. When it comes her time to cross the rainbow bridge, she will be missed.

    That's the latest.

    Lanette
    SW WA State
  • Marcelynh
    Marcelynh Posts: 974 Member
    lhscapil wrote: »
    Marcelyn - teaching your granddaughters to sew is marvelous. She did a great job on that little dress. Skills like that are invaluable. Seems the trend with sewing machines was to have "cams" for all kinds of fancy stitches. I am satisfied with my old machine which sews straight and zig-zags, which is plenty.

    I've never met anyone who regretted learning how to sew but plenty of people who wished they had the skill. I started sewing when I was about 6 and have sewed ever since. I made most of my children's clothing and make most of my dresses still today. Shorts are a quick 30 minute throw together and I've done plenty of other stuff. I even used to make my husband's jeans, although I don't do that anymore.

    I have four sewing machines and one serger. Seriously, four. One is my first machine which is in getting cleaned and will be passed on to a daughter. A second one is a heavy duty machine that I use to sew and repair heavy duty stuff, like jeans, work coats etc. I don't like to mess up my tension and nice machines with that. Then I have my mother's Bernina, she bought it in 1964 and it's the one my granddaughters use when they sew. Runs perfect and is pretty basic although it has a selection of fancy stitches. It's not electronic/computerized so it's easier for them to deal with. Then I have my nice newest Bernina which is computerized and has the option of adding on an embroidery module. I haven't done that because I really don't have a desire to do embroidery. It is amazing to sew with and I love it. My husband spoiled me with it as a birthday gift a few years ago. The granddaughters don't touch it. My serger is the fastest way to throw together some basic items and do do t-shirt material since it does the finished edge all in one step. I tend to do a lot of things by hand though. Old school....

    Marcelyn
    sweltering in Houston humidity

  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,272 Member
    edited July 2017
    Peach- I'm not always tired just today. And yes, I know I didn't eat enough cards actually to sustain the energy I am giving out . I'm just getting old.... + I don't like eating any of the calories I burn
  • suetour
    suetour Posts: 22 Member
    Wife,Mother, Grandma no excuses.....looking forward
  • drkatiebug
    drkatiebug Posts: 1,976 Member
    cityjaneLondon wrote: »
    Dr Katie - Have you got the 8qt? I keep my 6qt in the utility room where it doesn't loom at me. I like to have it out so I use it. I cooked my broccoli in it this evening. Perfect.
    Good luck for the funeral. <3<3<3

    Heather UK. Xxxxxxx

    Yes, the 8 quart. It's the one that was on sale on Prime Day. I may gather the courage to use it tomorrow!

  • GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS
    GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS Posts: 2,573 Member
    Machka – Louis and the boys do not want me to dye my hair anymore. It stayed dyed as long as I worked. I had it an auburn (which DH did not like); but, it was auburn when we met and married. I did a lot of things when I worked that I cannot afford to do now. Like having my nails done every 2 weeks. I’d pop for an occasional pedicure; but more often during the summer when I wore sandals. All 4 of my granddaughters have long hair and thick as thieves, too. I don’t think mine ever did much of anything after having 9 weeks of chemo after I lost my first baby. It thinned out; but pretty much all over. When I washed it that is when I noticed it most. Tried growing it out before the wedding so it could be ‘put up’. Tami did it and I was still pulling Bobbie pins out of it 4 days later. I guess the longest I had it was in HS; thick then, and wore it in a Farah Fawcett cut. I also streaked it, too.

    Carol – I don’t think I ever wore my hair long enough to have a permanent. I had what they called a ‘pixie’ cut. Suzanne was the only one that had shoulder length hair (in HS). Both she and Margaret had longer hair.

    I want to wear my hair ‘up’ in a ponytail; but the longer it got the thinner it got; and, it did not help to cut the ends. It still grows out in different areas faster than others, and, I must have been cleaned off by a cow at some point.

    Taylor’s mother cut ‘bangs’ on her hair, whatever she was thinking I will never know. They were short, really short … even shorter than that lady that dresses up in a nude suit with only her intestines and drags another woman around. She cried until they grew out. She must have cut them ‘wet’ is the only reason I can think is why they turned out so short. The shorter her hair is the less manageable it is. She washes it and lets it dry, if she combs or brushes it … it sticks out. Most of the time she scrunches it. It has a lot of natural wave. My hair is bone-straight. Even my gray hair in fine.

    Cracker’s toys are in a box as well. If I put the squirrel/duck that Louis will throw for her on the bottom, she will pull everything out. I wish I could ‘teach’ her to put them back in.

    Allie – I would ‘love’ to be a ‘fly on the wall during TomCat’s deposition. Sure hope your attorney ‘rips him a new one’.

    Mary – He might ‘look little’ but when you consider he is standing in a wheelbarrow you know he is big.

    Michele – Glad that Jess’s surgery went well. With dogs she probably needs for you to stay. She doesn’t need to worry about walking them or having them jump up because they are happy to see her.
    Will and Tami ‘registered’ in Natchez, MS (closest to them, right across the River; but, for the most part people gave the ‘gift cards’ since they each had a houseful of stuff and did not really need too much. His big boss gave him one of those grills that it called an “Egg” because of its shape. Now he has about 4 grills; his DFnL made one for him and wrapped it in wood and made a table to one side so he could put things on it. He has another one that has burners. He can have a party cooking different things on different grills. His other 4 bosses either gave him ‘gift cards’ and one paid for them to have a ‘rental car’ and a ‘deep sea fishing trip’ while they were on their honeymoon. A client of Tami’s gave her a week at the condo she has there; so all they had to pay for was tickets in First Class (which costs a pretty penny). Tami surprised him with an ‘elk hunt in Colorado’ (I think that was where it was). She asked his bosses for permission before she did it. I’m sorry; but, I would not want someone to send money to a travel agency. Borrow the money, pay for it and then pay back the loan. Kids now-a-days have such ‘skewed’ ideas of what they want; and, don’t think about ‘proper etiquette in the process. I made my boys write ‘thank you notes’ when they were younger. Mallory is my only granddaughter who will write ‘thank you notes’ without being threatened to do so. We got one the other day that said while she had ‘thanked us over the phone, this was her ‘official thank you’. I try to stress proper etiquette to my children, especially Taylor, now that she will be going out into real life. Things like thank you notes and politeness is something that people will remember.

    I notice that when I cooked chicken in mine; next time I will brown it. Also will do that for other things. The pressure cooker cookbook I bought said that things like ribs need to be boiled for a while; but, we do that when they are cooking out on the grill.

    Louis likes his shorts to be ‘short’ because his inseam is less than 29”; the ones that might hit a taller man above the knees would hit Louis below or at the knee. I tell him that Tony could hem them (provided they don’t have those ‘side’ pockets.

    I get nauseous if I am riding any other place than the front passenger seat if I am not driving. If there are 3 of us in the back, I want to be in the middle so I can see the road. When I was little and cars did not have seatbelts and most had bench seats front and back, I would stand in between Mother and Daddy until I got too big to do that, then I sat between my two older sisters and drove them ‘nuts’. Daddy used to call me ‘Len-O-Me’ because he would tell me “Don’t lean on me!” But, the nickname that stuck right up until he died was “Dale”. He rarely called me ‘Lenora’.

    Both Jenn and Taylor search the Internet for symptoms. Taylor asked me about if there was anybody in our family who had something that was 4-letters (an acronym for a much longer name). I told her that I had never heard of it, so I couldn’t really tell her. I think my DDnL#1 contacted her Mother to find out family history, then she gave her, her telephone number after she told her to tell Taylor to call her.
    “Salvage Dawgs” are taking apart a house and you would not believe the things they are taking out of there. A bathroom sink and fixtures that original sold for several $1000s and a grapevine dining room chandelier. I remember watching them once, take down a log house, should have called the “Barn house Builders” for that job. Then one day on “Fixer Upper” someone had painted Pecky Cypress wood in the MBR white. Which looked hideous; but, I thought that Clint, their carpenter should have been called in to supervise Chip in taking it down. Our den and dining room are paneled in Pecky Cypress. Hard to find and very expensive. Sounds like some ‘decorator’ got to them. I know I can get an hour worth of ‘decorating advice’ whenever I buy furniture where I do; but, 2 of them that did come out told me to ‘take down the wall mounts’ and the other one told me to ‘paint’ the ‘shiplap’. I told her, first off, it was NOT ‘shiplap’ and I had no intentions on filling in the walls and painting it and certainly was not going to sheetrock over it.

    Are you serious? Did Allie really give TomCat her cold? NOW … she needs to let him ‘doctor’ himself.

    Needlepoint can be very relaxing to some. I could do that and cross-stitch and sew; but, I could never knit or crochet. I’d add or drop stitches on every row; and, everything turned out to be ‘catawampus’.


    Katla – Is “Kissy PooP (whoops) [goes better with TomCat] going really going to ‘allow’ TomCat to move in with her? Yes, M-E-O-W, TomCat deserves whatever he gets {so does she]; he’s been ‘begging’ for it for years, now it is time for him to go lay in it. I think, at the ‘other woman’ that I’d be so upset from being ‘embarrassed’ in front of my co-workers that I would not want anything to do with TomCat. But, having TomCat move in with her might makes things worse for him, if it did go to court. I don’t think it will be good for his stance on a ‘settlement’. That’d be the ‘last place’ I would go since she was ‘also’ served with a subpoena. Was the deposition today?

    This past 2 years both Louis and I have had a lot of claims on our health insurance. Then, to boot, I wrecked my Honda (twice). Then the door would not close sounding like a heavy door, started sounding like we were closing a tin can with no insulation. The body shop and insurance adjuster both came to the conclusion that I had to have run over a curb. I know I did not do it, Louis and Trey said they didn’t. Jenn ‘swears’ she did, and that would only leave Taylor to do it. Only other person to have driven it would have been one of the employees at the body shop (or maybe someone at Honda – which I doubt). But since the body shop man said that ‘if’ my insurance did not pay, he’d help me out. In the first wreck, I did run over a curb before I hit the utility pole. But, when Louis went to pick up the car, Trey drove off with it and he did not tell Louis that we owed anything and they talked for a little bit about it. You can’t even tell that the running board had been bowed up. At least it was not part of the frame. If it had been, they would have definitely ‘totaled’ the car.

    Felicia – Glad that you are feeling better. Seems like a lot of you have been ‘under the weather’ lately. Hope all of you are feeling much better.

    Katie – I messed up when I put uncooked rice in with my chicken and mushroom soup. It came out a bit ‘sticky’. I have a particular pot that I cook my rice in and nothing else. Will took the middle-sized one years ago and would ‘hide’ it when we came out there. Then, II asked him ‘what pot did he use when he cooked rice’; and, he pulled it out of the cabinet over the fridge. Then told me that I could not have it back. Didn’t matter because now I use the one my DMnL used. She’d cook enough when we went down to fill it up; then she’d ‘fluff’ it and could feed 4 adults with the rice in that pot. So with it being just the 2 of us, I don’t need any pot bigger.

    Louis would literally eat rice 3x a day if I would cook it. His mother used to put the left-over rice in the scrambled eggs the next AM.

    Marcelyn – Encourage your grandchildren to sew; and, my Mimi (even though she knew how to sew well) took sewing classes at the Singer Sewing Machine place in Macon after she moved down to be near Mother and Daddy. She started as if she never had sewn anything in the Beginner class and worked herself all the way up to ‘tailoring’ classes. She made beautiful clothes for herself and always used Vogue patterns. The one thing she told me about Vogue and maybe McCall’s is that you ‘have’ to follow the directions as written or else you’ll be ripping things out. Especially the Vogue. Said sometimes the directions just did not say what she would have normally done; but, twice of ripping out something, she started following the directions verbatim. Yeah, she’d make a ‘lot’ of money being a tailor. It costs me $10 to have a pair of pants hemmed or taken in. Last time I picked up a couple of pair of jeans for Louis he told me ‘oh, you don’t owe anything, that’s payback for Louis taking me somewhere (to meet his daughter). So that was $20 I put into my purse – for use at a later time. LOL!

    Lenora
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    jmkmomm Posts: 3,247 Member
    Mashca, I do t dare show your picture to my DH, he would be so jealous. He loved my long hair. For work I put it up in a pony tail a lot but it was pretty hard wearing a nurses cap. Yep. That was the days when we actually wore our caps we worked so hard for. I do still have mine.

    I think my kitten thinks my house is a total playground. Even if there is an envelope. He has to try to go under, on topography, around and through. It doesn't matter how big or small or even if it is something I am saving.

    The other night I finally got around to buying an address book and today I have transferred most of my passwords to it. Some of the websites I am finding I have two passwords to so I am going to have to log in and see which one works. The desk will look mush neater and I don't have to sort through this large pile of pieces of paper to find the one I want. Whoever sggusted it is a genius"

    Joyce, Indiana
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