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Thank you Susan for letting Colin know. Yes it sure has been cold here but good news we haven’t had further snow, at least in this area, I know other do have snow and of course always up in the mountains, snow pretty much all the time, I have managed to stay warm, the other day I turned my thermostat up higher and that seemed to do the job with keeping the place warmer. Hope you enjoyed your quiet relaxing day making cards, and making surprises for your ladies group. Hope you have a good week.
Linda, glad you made good time and got over the mountain safely. Glad you got home in time to unpack and go to church and visit after with some friends. Hope you enjoy decorating your house tomorrow. Glad the weather was good for you espevv CCC ially with the forecast saying snow next 3 days. You probably won’t mind staying in decorating your house and doing other things as you prepare for Christmas.
Today was quiet for me. Watched our Live Tream service, lit my Week 2 Advent candle, the Candle of Peace. Visited with my daughter and texted with friends. So it was a quiet day but all good! Tomorrow I am starting my Family cards I make and write up other cards I send out in community and beyond. I’m late getting the cards out so getting most tomorrow and get them in our mail box we have here, the mail is picked up at our buildings mailbox every morning Monday thru Friday at 8:00am. So helpful for us who can’t get out to Post Office. Blessings on your night, see you tomorrow. Sending you my Love and Hugs! ❤️🤗0 -
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Marilyn I laughed at your quote today. It is so true. We can choose what we want to tolerate as our life circumstances and change what we do not want. It takes effort but it is worth the work.
I have pinto beans cooking in the crock pot for dinner and now I need to get busy getting the Christmas stuff out of the garage. I will probably not finish today but will at least get started. We bought a small tree for this house so it will not take much to decorate it. My husband loves to turn off all the house lights and just have the tree lights blinking. It is restful for him he says. He needs to relax so maybe we should have the tree lit all year. 😊 He is actually doing much better with delegating things he used to do. He gave away the responsibilities to the deans of the college to deal with student issues and concerns today. I am glad he can pass these things off gradually so it is not such a big change for him.
Susan - I did not realize that Colin was a Type 1 diabetic. I am so glad that he can have a pump to help control his blood sugars. They are really made a lot of changes in diabetic care since I started nursing. I remember we tested a Type 2 diabetic person's urine to see how much insulin they needed. That was the best we cold do at the time but not very precise.1 -
Linda, you brought back memories of my early nursing days as we did the same thing testing the urine to see where the levels were to know how much insulin to administer. My how times have changed.
My Dad was Diagnosed with Diabetes when he was in his late 30’s but that was after years of passing out with my Mom finding Dad wrapped around the toilet and Dad feeling not well and would pull over to side of road passing out with police finding him unconscious in car, it was years later they finally diagnosed him. So thankful that medical technology has advanced to the place it is now.
So happy you are getting your place decorated, you mentioned your hubby loves the lights turned out with just Tree lights on, happy he says it’s restful. I love the lights too. Your pinto beans sound yummy. Can you share your recipe, it might be something I can eat in time. Thank you Linda.
Marilyn, this last quote sure spoke, good one, thank you for sharing.
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Hi friends. Judith, glad you are able to punch that thermostat up. I like to think of you staying warm! So sorry about your Dad being a Diabetic in the days before they could treat him well. I hadn't realised you and Linda were both nurses! Another point you have in common. (I was not a nurse 😊)
Marilyn, lol! Good quote!
Linda, Col has a few more health issues on top of his Type 1 Diabetes and skeletal issues. He is a wonder the way he acts like nothing is wrong. He's got cardio vascular disease, epilepsy, no hearing in his left ear, very little vision in his right eye, he has had a hiatus hernia repair but needs further investigation, he has asthma, has had one knee replacement and needs another...I am probably forgetting something.1 -
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Judith - my bean soup was not something I would want to repeat! I actually did not have a recipe but put together several recipes and replaced what I did not have. I put diced tomatoes with peppers in it but it was too hot so I added more vegetables and it called for rice so I put in cauliflower rice to not have high carbohydrates. Although my gracious husband said it was OK, I will not be doing that again. I really wanted a nice ham bone to put in with the beans and to make cornbread but decided to be adventurous. Next time I will stick with what I know works well.
Susan - Colin does seem to do well with all he has to deal with physically. I am glad he has you to encourage him and help him if he ever needs it. You make a very cute couple in your picture you shared.
It rained last night but it is drying off today. It is cloudy with a little blue sky showing through. A second band of weather is coming tonight with maybe a little snow. Time will tell on that one. Sometimes it rains here in the desert but it dries up before it can hit the ground.
I got my piano tuned today and it sounds so much better. The man does the tuning by ear rather than by machine so we had to be very quiet as he worked. He said that even me running water would distract him. He also was a big talker so it took longer for him to get done. He would occasionally stop and turn around on the piano stool and ask questions about us or make comments on our house.2 -
Yes Susan your husband is amazing in all that he deals with and you are such a blessing and encourager to Colin and everyone you come in contact with. thank you Susan, I finally have the thermostat up to a place I can keep my place warm. Was looking at your weather you are having, wow, such a contrast to what we are having here with our weather, so happy you have AC in your home and car. Please stay safe and as cool as you can.
So glad you got your piano tunes.I can almost heat Christmas Carol's and Hymns coming from it. Thank you Linda for letting me know about your soup, sounds interesting but know what you mean, sometimes preparing recipes we know is probably best. I love the idea of corn bread and putting the ham bone in the soup, yummy, one thing for sure when I can eat better I will be munching on cornbread!
Thank you Marilyn for all the great quotes you share, yes I like this last one especially as it reminds me that I- We all need to learn to rest when we are tired instead of keeping on when we should stop pause and rest!
Sorry I am getting to you all late and early, I began at 11:30pm and now it’s 12:15am on Wednesday!
My Tuesday was super busy with deliveries and a gal stopping by to pick up a couple gifts I had for them as a thank you for helping me this past year.
They leave for Spain next Thursday and are spending Christmas and New Years there with family! The Lord bless you all, now I am calling it a day and signing off and heading to bed! Nite All!😴🤗1 -
It's always lovely to hear from all of you.
Judith, how nice to be able to thank your friends that way. 😊 I do hope more variety comes your way soon with your diet. I was just wondering, have you ever made pumpkin soup? It's a lovely savoury soup that can be (and usually is) blended, so maybe you could have some. I can tell you how I made it if it sounds like something you would like to try.
Linda, how good to have your piano tuned, but it sounded.like quite a process!
Thank you both for your kind words about Colin and I. I do fail at times in being totally supportive, but on the whole we do well together.
Marilyn, that is a wise quote today. Thank you.
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We had a little snow early this morning but it was huge flakes and melted when it hit the ground. We will take all the moisture we can get here, even a few snow flakes. There is a bigger storm coming through tonight so maybe we will get some measurable snow.
We have the inside of the house all decorated for Christmas but still have the outside. We bought "net lights" to go over the shrubs in the front since that is easier to put on then to try to get a strand of lights to look right. They are all placed in nice even rows to cover everything. I like symmetrical order and this works well. We also ordered a lot of presents online yesterday for the family but have a few more to buy or make.
Susan - I like the idea of pumpkin soup. I have had butternut soup so I assume it would be similar. My SIL makes a soup that is put inside of a pumpkin shell and baked. When you get the soup out, you also get some pumpkin from the side of the shell to give it more flavor. I can't recall now what type of soup was inside in the first place. She made it one Halloween night but it has been a while ago.
Judith - your weight is on the way up! One more tenth of a pound and you will be at 98. I hope this is a trend for you. We are cheering you on as you maintain or gain a bit of weight.1 -
Linda, I like order too so the net lights would be great! We had bought one of those rotating projector lights to throw images on the garage door but someone accidentally broke it with their car yesterday so we are back to a few solar light trees in our little front garden.
It's not much but they are Christmas lights! Lol!
Your pumpkin soup sounds nice. I use a butternut pumpkin too. I melt butter, add tumeric, coriander, cumin and pepper and fry till their flavour is released, then stir in chunks of pumpkin, then barely cover the pumpkin with chicken stock, then cook till the pumpkin is done, salt to taste and whizz it up in a blender. I add heavy pouring cream in a spiral to the bowls as I serve them then sprinkle with dried or fresh parsley or basil. You could use nutmeg, ginger and allspice instead of the curry spices if you wanted that flavour instead. (If you can tolerate onion and garlic, fry them with the spices you choose as well.)
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Susan - you have very cute Christmas trees in your yard. Do you have decorations inside your house? The weather reporter said last night we will be having more snow this week but it does not look like we will have any snow the week of Christmas. "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas" as the song says will be only dreaming for us.
We have our Family group Bible study at our house tomorrow night so I will be getting groceries today to make some Christmas crafts for them. I am using a sugar ice cream cone (the ones shaped like a cone not the flat bottom ones) and filling it with small candies then gluing it upside down to a flat cookie with icing. I will ice the outside with green icing and put sprinkles or colored candies on the outside to look like a Christmas tree. If I can get it done and I can figure out how to put pictures on here, I will show you what they look like after I make them.1 -
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Thank you all, I am just dropping by to say hi and Good Nite, a long day as I had my appointment with my Surgeon today. A long day at the hospital and a lot to take in, will be back in the morning. I will update you tomorrow and reply to your messages left. Thanks for your prayers! 😇🙏0
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Judith, I knew you had your appointment today. Will look for your update tomorrow. Sweet dreams tonight, my friend. 🙏💕
Marilyn, that's a good quote from Spark! Nice to see you saved some.
Linda, I'd love to see your cone trees. They sound like they will be cute. To post a picture, have the photo on the device you use to see our posts. Click on the picture icon above your post and search for the picture you want. Click it, then click Select. It will upload as a link. Post your post and the picture should appear.
Yes, I have done a tiny bit of decorating inside. We got this little white tree for the table today:
I'll take a few more pictures for you soon, if you like 😊🎄
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I would love to see more pictures Susan. We have a 4 foot tree that we put on a table next to the fireplace. We do not have room for much more so the bigger presents go on the floor and the smaller ones on the table next to the tree. Your white tree is very cute. I love the poinsettia on the top in place of a star. Thanks for the info on how to put pictures on here. I am using a laptop so I will need to download all the pictures I have in my phone and see what I can do.
Judith - we look forward to an update on your appointments. It sounds like a very long day at the hospital. I hope you got some rest last night and feel refreshed today.
I have to finish cleaning, putting up the last of the outside lights, making the "trees", exercise, a phone appointment and get the soup made today so I am pretty busy. I hope everyone is having a good day.2 -
Here are my Christmas trees. Obviously my husband and I are not professionals but our group enjoyed getting them and the thought behind them. The cones are filled with the chocolate candies M&M's. They can also eat the icecream cone as well as the sugar cookie the cone is resting on.
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Linda, you did it! I am glad you could post your candy trees! They sure look cute 😊💕1
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A designer series paper wreath I made.
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Thank-you Susan. Your wreath is gorgeous. It looks like it was made of dainty flowers.
We went to exercise yesterday and accidently locked ourselves out of the house and the car. My husband had changed into his exercise clothes and forgot to transfer his keys out of his jeans into his sweat pants. We do have a garage opener in the car but could not even get into it. Fortunately, since the church uses our house, several members have a key to it so we had to make multiple calls to different ones to see if they could bring their key over to open out house. It was sunny outside so our wait for someone to come rescue up was not too cold. Our minister was in a meeting with a campus student but he was able to come over with the student so they could continue their talk in the car. We made a decision that we will have an extra key hidden outside from now on so we do not do this again!
This afternoon we are going to a craft fair sponsored by a grade school that one of our families children attend. Their 3rd grader made knitted hats so we will be sure to check them out.
We are going to dinner with friends and then to watch the Christmas parade in a neighboring town. It is a pretty small town so I do not expect the parade to last long. It will be 39 degrees so I will be taking my heavy winter coat to stand along the street to watch the parade.1 -
Thank you, Linda. My wreath is scalloped circles rolled into cones and hot glued close together. I needed over 100 cones to make it.
Oh my word, isn't getting locked out of your house awful! Glad your minister could help! We always take our own sets of keys with us when we go out together so we have two sets. I don't blame you for wanting to leave a key outside and you can get some pretty natural looking key lockers disguised as rocks? Or maybe a neighbour would keep a key for you? The rest of your day sounds much more enjoyable. I hope you are warm enough
We had a great visit at our son's yesterday but today Col doesn't feel so well. He just got dressed for church though so I better shake a leg. I thought he may want to stay home. Guess not, which is kind of a good sign.
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Thank you all for sharing your photo’s. Loved the Candy ChristmasTree Linda and Susan your Wreath and Tree are so pretty.
Thank you Marilyn for sharing the quotes, always appreciated.
You all asked about my latest appointment; a lot of swelling and the pooling and bubbling of skin continues. Surgeon instructed me to use the ointment and when I see him in 4 weeks, just after Christmas he would examine my face and both upper and lower lips. He said I am reacting to the surgery that was done. I am not healing like he was hoping. He also said it was way too early to begin the injections as with the ongoing issues and the face reacting the injections would compromise everything so have to wait a little longer. It’s somewhat frustrating!
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Judith - I was just reading this morning about the persistent widow who kept pestering the judge to help her and he finally did it to just get rid of her. Jesus contrasted this to how his Father does not get tired to hearing from us and our requests. He will respond when it is time in his own loving way. We keep petitioning God for your healing but he will do it in his own time. I am so glad that he does not tire of our prayers. I am also glad that he knows the perfect time to answer. I am sorry that the injections can not be started but it seems the doctor's reason is sound. We do not want them to compromise what has already been done. When you said the skin was "reacting" to the surgery, that does not sound like "rejecting" the total surgery so that is good.
Susan - I hope Colon is feeling better after feeling unwell from the visit to your son.
The craft show was really fun. I was able to get a nice knitted hat to wear when we went to watch the Christmas Parade of Lights later. My head was the warmest part of me. I had worn double socks but my feet were still really cold. It was good to get in the car with a good heater to get them warmed up.2 -
Marilyn, that's a good way to live.
Judith, I too am.sorry to hear the surgeon needs to wait for more healing. I hear your frustrations and am also glad to see you are trusting the Lord in all this. I think I would have less patience but to what avail. Hon, you know you have our prayers and supplications and the Spirit pleads for you. Sending much love to you as well
Linda, glad you got a cute warm hat. It sounds like it was a good night except for the cold. I haven't done a lot more decorating but look what I found at our Clubhouse today:
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Susan - thanks for all the recipes. My daughter has done keto and I have several friends who also have lost a lot of weight on it. I have heard of Keto Fathead rolls but I have not made any. I have heard that they are delicious.
We had a lot of wind last night blowing in a new cold front today. It was so loud outside my bedroom window I was thinking it was going to keep me awake but it did not. Snow is predicted again today so it is very overcast. The weather people can not seem to agree on how much it will be depending on the TV station. What comes will come is all I have to say. 😏
We are changing our e-mail provider so I have been busy changing my correspondence over to another e-mail. I did not realize how many user names I have that need to be changed. I also went through and unsubscribed to quite a few things so I will get less on the new e-mail. I deleted a lot of e-mails too which is really not necessary but I wanted to make sure I did not miss anyone so I deleted them as I changed the e-mail or unsubscribed. It was tedious but I enjoyed decluttering them. I am not done but have only a few more to go.1 -
That's a tedious process with emails and usernames, Linda, but hopefully worthwhile. You are welcome for the recipes. I meant to post them long ago but MFP didn't allow the post. Sometimes it doesn't post but keeps your typed up words in the pre-post box. I didn't notice it did that for the Keto recipes.
Wise words, Marilyn.
We're at the Dr's office today seeing what they can do for Colin.1 -
Thank you girls for your prayers and encouragement. Appreciate all your posts. Enjoyed the Christmas pictures Susan’
I am so tired so calling it a Nite! Blessings all! 😴🛌🤗0 -
A little bit of snow this morning but not what was predicted. I know weather is an inexact science so they have to guess what might happen. The mountains did get a lot more snow than we did but we do have the cold weather.
Since I have my piano and it is tuned, I am trying to learn how to play cords instead of just written notes. Many of the songs they sing at church are the more modern ones that are not written down but are just guitar cords. My brain is having problems with learning this way but I do need to use my brain to keep it from getting lazy. Yesterday I was about to give up but today I am feeling better about it. I am learning minor, major, diminished, and augmented cords. I am taking lots of notes but I think it will fall into place eventually (at least I hope that will happen).
Susan - I hope that Colin's doctor visit was informative and he found some help.
Prayers continue for all who are struggling with health issues. The elementary school where my grand nephews go may close early for the Christmas season since so many are sick.. My grand nephew who is in first grade was running a 104 fever yesterday and my 1 year old grandnephew was taken to the ER for dehydration due to his vomiting and diarrhea. Hopefully they will all feel better so they can celebrate Christmas. In the mean time, we are staying away from family members in that part of the state.1
