WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR DECEMBER 2018

Well today has been a day..I did wrap all the presents I have gotten...went and met my friends and will start planning our 40th high school reunion..I bit the bullet and bought myself a stackable washer and dryer..so I don't have to truck my laundry down the hall..

okiewoman510 wrote: »

Pip - Your nails look great! I love them, red and gold are my favorite colors. Thanks for posting the acts of kindness. I got yesterdays in when we met my friends friend for a bubbly stroll. Today, I let a man go in front of me in line and I didn't even know it was today's suggestion! Yeah me. Ha!

Happy Sunday Ladies -

Okie in the TX Hill Country

thanks for the comp on the nails. I did mine yesterday and today too

You never get over losing a child/grandchild/step-grandchild. But to be told 'not to interfere - which we had never done - she told us on a sticky note that if we needed any further death certification we could get them from the funeral director. It might have been me she was the maddest at was me because I comment to Louis that her husband was 'meant to hear' ... it was disrespectful to have pool people digging a hole while we were having the wake for Nana. When he sent them off, Sherry came out 'screaming' and 'cursing' that it would be the end of the summer and into the fall before she could get them back out there. I don't know what she has ever said to her husband or to her Mother; but, she quickly told me that she did not need my help (in the kitchen) so I went outside and talked to the families that she had been the Nannie for. Between what she got out of her Granddaddy (through her Nana) she got somewhere over several hundred of thousand that she and one of the women at the
A/L/A would was a realtor and parlaid into at least half a million dollars through buying up 'rental propery' and being a 'slum lord'. I told Louis that the only thing we could do is just take the attitude that she and Dan and their baby had been transported to Europe somewhere and the plane went down over the Atlantic Ocean. I think he finally took me at my word and we haven't seen heads nor tails out of any of them. That was 12 years ago.

I was able to get into the Clerk's file and found out a lot that we would have spent $500 an hour that she did; but, Louis and Mike told me not to do so because then it would make it impossible for there to be any type of resolution to repair the relationship between either of them. I doubt she even knows that one of Mike's sons died a few years ago of cancer. My boys have both said that they really did not know what their (Daddy and Sherry's relationship had been; but, they were not going to contact about anything. I told them they could make that decision; but, I did not want to ever know if they had or not. But, sometimes when a child has made a decision; they 'don't care'. It would be 'awkwark' on so many levels to try to explain why her Papa has only seen her a couple of times since she was born. I don't expect anything will happen. Not that I don't want it to, just knowing her, it won't.

On the good side - thanks Pip for the calendar; I know I will use it daily. Well got to go, Louis just brought me my evening coffee and snack.

Lenora

Pip, your nails look awesome.

petrocoetsee wrote: »

Machka in Oz, Hi, no idea how to reply to a specific post. Some tips will be appreciated
I am just going to Sydney

Just click the Quote link under the post you're quoting.

Sydney has just been through a couple massive storms - dust then rain - but I think the weather should stabilise closer to Christmas.

If you take a train into the middle of the city (where the Opera House etc. are), you'll likely spend a lot of time walking around ... wear comfy shoes because you can cover a lot of ground in a day.


I'm in Tasmania ... much further south.

Machka in Oz

evie1958 wrote: »

In Canada we use the metric system, so gas is $1.28.9 per litre, which works out to about $4.90 per gallon. It very recently dropped from $1.34.9 and this summer was up around the $1.50 - $1.60 range. Crazy.....
Evelyn, from beautiful, sunny Vancouver Island!

It's about $1.6 per litre here in Tassie.


M in Oz

Morning, afternoon, and evening, my chickens...

Finished my office desks yesterday, well last night, I was putting the last bits of penetrating oil on the wood. If I get it straightened up enough, I'll take a picture here in a bit.

Instead of making adobo rolls yesterday, I froze the extra bread dough to make next week, and we made homemade tamales last night. We all love 'em, and found frozen ones made in Houston that were awesome, but at $7 a dozen (and the guys eat 10 to 11 each, while I eat two!) it was getting to be an expensive dinner. So I bought the masa and the guajillo peppers and corn shucks, and we all formed an assembly line and made about 4 dozen last night, ten beef and cheddar, the rest turkey and pepper jack cheese.

Overall cost, about $6 for all, homemade, so saved $40 on those alone, and have enough supplies to make another eight or 12 dozen. We froze two dozen, and ate the rest, and they were amazingly yummy. This recipe gives a lot of variations and short cuts in the comments, a couple of which we used. https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/34759/beef-tamales/

You can substitute beef broth for the lard, and we added the guajillo pepper sauce Corey made to both the masa and to the meat mixtures. After making all those, we still have more than a quart jar of sauce canned, and part of another - he just put all the spices together with the peppers and buzzed it up in the blender. Much easier than the way they show in the recipe.

The coffee pot is burbling with Corey's coffee, and I need to go make him a sandwich for his lunch, more leftover turkey from Thanksgiving that I pulled out of the freezer. That 59 cents a pound turkey is still going!

Love y'all,
Lisa in Arkansas