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Today is: A great day to say HI to my siblings!!
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Just heard back from Katla. “… [the eclipse] was amazing! We were lucky to have a blue sky and a good spot to watch the eclipse at my daughter’s place. … hummingbirds aren't here yet. They spend time in the South & I don't know when they'll come back to Illinois. ... I miss my fitness pal friends. I am focused on DH’s health challenges. He has an upcoming Doctor’s appointment. I hope it will improve things for him. Fingers crossed.”
Later, lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
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Morning, my chickens, from the swampy-feeling Arkansas River Valley,
The little weather weasels are getting it wrong serially in terms of when and where it's going to rain, but supposedly it will rain within an hour or so. That's OK...
Rusty in the UK - Welcome to the group, come back often. We have several participants in this thread from your part of the globe, and if you've read the conversations, you know there are several caregivers here, as well. Step into any conversation where you feel comfortable, and glad you're here!
Rebecca - I'm so glad you were able to level with your sister. I value my relationship with my baby sis more all the time. As different as we are, there's just so much of value in those sibling relationships, I think, and the sister bond is unique. Your convo with your sister has alerted me very much to the fact that, as the big sister, I need to not simply say "this is how things are going to be," and I appreciate that very much.
Machka - I love the fact that you are always alert for and willing to seize upon the opportunities in your world, no matter the arena. Inspiring. Interviews are so much less stressful when you know that your world will be just fine if you don't get the position you're interviewing for, as far as I was concerned. You're a much more attractive candidate if you don't sound desperate to leave your last working environment, but just interested in the available job.
Linda - Enjoy your New York state of mind!
Rita - Glad the reaction's going, and I know you'll rein the rest of it in when you can. You're one of the strongest people I know, dear heart.
Allie- Glad the genetics tests were OK for your Tracey.
Michele - My friend's coming in the first week of May instead, decided to skip the eclipse.
More in a second,
Lisa in AR5 -
And the rest of the story...For my American compatriots, here's a jump in the WABAC Machine - I will always remember that phrase in Paul Harvey's voice. If you want to join me in the machine, here's a recording of that amazing voice, one with an always surprising ending.
Spent all day yesterday struggling with the quilt. Rant for all you creatives out there:Finally got one small section of my niece's bookshelf quilt nearly completed, and I am not happy with it at all. I've got to figure out an easier way to make this happen, or I will never finish it. I don't want to admit that I cannot make a bookshelf quilt, people make these blessed things every day.
Here's my first-world designer problem: I appear to be suspended on this fence that separates realism and representation and need to fall off on one side or the other and get over it. I even know which side I need to fall off on, and I keep going back to trying to make it look real when I KNOW better.
I cannot make this look real, and I HAVE to stop trying to do so. It is possible (I've seen them) to make this look real, but I'm not that kind of designer, and I need to get over it. I'm trying to make something that puts people in mind, quite charmingly, of a bookshelf, not something that makes people think there's a rikkin-frikkin-frakkin *(&*(&%&#^%#&*(&) bookshelf lying flat on the top of a bed!
OK, rant over, I feel somewhat better now. Sometimes, you just have to give in to the fact that you cannot design what's in your mind's eye out of fabric. Well, I have to give in to that, anyway. *sigh* I'm such a noodge. Hopefully this self-lecture turned rant will be helpful in getting me over this bump. I need to get on with it. Honestly, it's one of the reasons I only do one quilt about every five years. Takes me that long to get over the last one!
OK, rant over. Between every paragraph written, I've been getting my chores done or begun, peeled all the bits off the top of the stove and threw them in the dishwasher, along with a few breakfast dishes, sheets and towels in the dryer, dark items in the washer, and the rain is now predicted to hold off until noon or 1 p.m. I think I'll go out and get a couple outside things done... because IF they finally got the rain chances right, I'll be in inside all afternoon.
Later, my babies,
Love,
Lisa in AR9 -
Morning ladies
Going to be warm today..
Nothing new..6 -
Anniesquats100 wrote: »Good morning ladies!
Rebecca when my sister came to visit mom, she reorganized and decluttered cabinets as a way to get rid of nervous energy. It was very helpful. But she went through my Mom's stuff, not mine. I'm glad you had a chat with your sister.
Margaret Yay for better health! Your diet is really working for you!
I'm rather disgusted with myself over evening snacking. I put all my goals in jeopardy over some extra food. Even after all the book work. It's only three hundred calories or so at a time, but I do it often enough to sabotage my plan. Oh well, water under the bridge. Might as well forgive and move on.
I have a busy day today. We see the lawyer which is a point of stress. I was promised I would inherit the house, but I don't see that in the will. It just says tangible personal property which doesn't include real estate. What a mess it would be to inherit the contents and not the house!
Have a fantastic day today ladies! May you be happy, healthy, safe and free!
Annie in Delaware
That was nice of your sister, and I am sure your Mom appreciated it. I think what my sister and I deal with is the difference of me with less stuff in general, and her thinking I don't out of not caring about myself. So she buys me stuff to treat me. She nearly had a fit when in casual conversation I had stated that I had 45 items. From shoes, socks, coats and clothes, and undies. This was when I was visiting her, and she took me shopping right then and there! It was a bit embarrassing, but I gave in. It was to an outdoor/sporting goods so I bought two shirts (I hardly wear). For me its pick and choose my battles. I didn't want to battle her that day.😂💖
Rebecca
Whidbey
Wa4 -
Good morning!
Lisa in AR: Can you put the fern in it’s pot in the planter? Then you could lift it out when the weather got cooler and bring it inside. My ex and son’s actually do this for their plumerias.
Rebecca: Yes! I actually try to focus on the fridge because the food in there is more perishable, but I am noticing that my pantry is become more of a staples/ingredients place rather than a “food” place.
Barbara: “Instead of sitting bathed in tire scent, took walk.” This made me laugh! Auto shops do have that distinctive tire smell, don’t they?
Grandmallie: That’s a lot of eggs! Call the Midwife is such a good show!!
Sue in WA: Document everything!!!
Carol in GA: Have you tried Sleep Stories on Calm? The stories are so good and put me to sleep so quickly, I don’t know now they end. LOL
Heather: Is it possible to rent a Rollator?
Rusty: Welcome! I don’t enjoy night sweats either, especially with a few furballs near by. And cheese. Seriously? That is totally not fair. There have been many times, I’ve consider if I could just eat my calories for the day in brie.
Machka: I make myself get down and up from the floor five times a day. Mostly because I want to be able to do it when the grandson’s are around. Sometimes with hands, sometimes with out.
Watching my food, but purposefully exercising has been a bust this week as I try to pack and get ready for my trip.
I’m giddy with glee! I gave up a digital SLR camera over 12 years ago. Lately, I’ve been missing it. I ordered one and it should be here today before I head to the airport! I feel like a kid at Christmas watching the FedEx updates. I may have to look into a photography class or something, it’s been awhile.
Hope to keep up while I’m in MN!
Make it a great day,
Linda
Jacksonville, FL
Glad I am not the only one that does that. I kind of get a thrill at looking in my cabinet with hardly anything staring back at me. Nice to meet you Linda!
Rebecca
Whidbey
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LisaInArkansas wrote: »Morning, my chickens, from the swampy-feeling Arkansas River Valley,
The little weather weasels are getting it wrong serially in terms of when and where it's going to rain, but supposedly it will rain within an hour or so. That's OK...
Rusty in the UK - Welcome to the group, come back often. We have several participants in this thread from your part of the globe, and if you've read the conversations, you know there are several caregivers here, as well. Step into any conversation where you feel comfortable, and glad you're here!
Rebecca - I'm so glad you were able to level with your sister. I value my relationship with my baby sis more all the time. As different as we are, there's just so much of value in those sibling relationships, I think, and the sister bond is unique. Your convo with your sister has alerted me very much to the fact that, as the big sister, I need to not simply say "this is how things are going to be," and I appreciate that very much.
Machka - I love the fact that you are always alert for and willing to seize upon the opportunities in your world, no matter the arena. Inspiring. Interviews are so much less stressful when you know that your world will be just fine if you don't get the position you're interviewing for, as far as I was concerned. You're a much more attractive candidate if you don't sound desperate to leave your last working environment, but just interested in the available job.
Linda - Enjoy your New York state of mind!
Rita - Glad the reaction's going, and I know you'll rein the rest of it in when you can. You're one of the strongest people I know, dear heart.
Allie- Glad the genetics tests were OK for your Tracey.
Michele - My friend's coming in the first week of May instead, decided to skip the eclipse.
More in a second,
Lisa in AR
My eldest sister and I have not always been close. There were years that she harbored a bit of anger towards my husband for "taking me away from family" and of "making me so submissive and not outgoing". What she saw as being compliant was me just being a good obedient Navy wife. My actions reflected back onto him, another thing the civilian world didn't understand. So us communicating all those years was stilted, and awkward. Then she got divorced, turned out it was her husband that was controlling and she had just stopped being the sister I had grown up with. She became a much more expressive person, and we did a lot of crying. Still do. The most intense emotional things to process is really messy! Seeing her process the loss of her husband has made me so proud of her, her strength. It helped me put my feelings regarding youngest sons past issues into proper perspective. I am glad she calls me on those tough days. 💖
Rebecca
Whidbey
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grandmallie wrote: »
Morning ladies
Going to be warm today..
Nothing new..
"Out to conquer the world"! Love the flowers weath on the door!💖👍🏼
Rebecca
Whidbey
Wa3 -
Allie ... that's a beautiful wreath on that door!
Lisa ... rikkin-frikkin-frakkin *(&*(&%&#^%#&*(&) ...
Barbara ... glad you are in communication with Katla! Thanks for sharing
Rita ... I remember the paint with water books and you're right ... they were better than the one you've shown us.
Machka ... I went back to page one! I hope you get a position that you love!
Beth near Buffalo
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My meal for my son and Edie was wonderful, if I say so myself!
Slow roast shoulder of lamb (6 hrs) , roast parsnips, carrots and onions, Greek salad, and a tahini and yoghurt sauce.
Hagen Daas Belgian chocolate ice cream, raspberries, and caramel sauce for dessert.
Much enjoyed.
Tomorrow John is taking Edie to football club, and collecting her, as the planned lift has cut her knee open . My son has to go to London. So I shall see her in the late afternoon.
I have Edie on Friday morning while John is at cricket, first day of the season.
Just as I was starting dinner the doctor rang for the painkillers consultation. She persuaded me not to go for anything stronger. I will continue with my regime as it is.
Linda - I think renting a rollator wouldn't be much cheaper. I might try the Red Cross, but Amazon have them quite cheap.
Haven't decided. I stopped an old lady in the street this morning who was using one and we had a chat. She loves hers and goes on the bus with it. That would be the major advantage for me.
Love to all, Heather UK xxxxxxxx Welcome Rusty!
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Stat for the day-
Walk w/family- 2hrs 6min 33sec, 121elev, 2.88ap, 6.18mi= 659c
Strava app = 757c4 -
Well, I'm feeling mildly accomplished, after three hours work outside taking off another section of siding. Then I had to come in and shower because saying it's spider heaven under old siding is seriously underestimating the situation. By the time I stopped, I was feeling them crawling on me, even though I knew they weren't. Grrf. Not fond of spiders. 🕷️😱Honestly, not terribly fond of anything with more than four legs or anything with no legs at all. 🐍 Nice to know I have standards. 👀🙃😀
Anyway, it finally started raining just as I was finishing the cleanup - fired up the shop vac and vacuumed all the walls that I had just freed from their siding prison - then whipped the top off the shopvac, sprayed the inside with spider spray and fastened it again. Did I say I hate spiders? 😀 They can stay in their dusty prison until I have the nerve to empty the vacuum. Maybe I'll get Corey to do it.
Threw some frozen fish filets in the oven while I was in the shower, and made them my very late lunch after I scrubbed all the imaginary spiders off. I make my own homemade tartar sauce with light mayo, and the combination is heavenly. Corey won't cook or eat fish, so I get the filets from Aldi that I can make easily for my lunch on days when a hot meal is called for...
Not last by any means, my way of not having to scrub the stovetop is to throw everything on top of it in the dishwasher, and then spray it down with 409 every time I walk by it the rest of the morning. Time to go wipe that down and get it put back together, get a little laundry folded, and by the time all that's put away, Corey will call to say he's on the way home. Not a creative day, but a productive one anyway.
Later, y'all,
Love from finally rainy Arkansas - so love that smell of new fallen rain...
Lisa7 -
Barbara - So glad we heard from Katla.
Thank you for doing all that. Much appreciated. 
Lisa - I feel you. I often have the same problem with representation. I think that was the problem Max was having. Sometimes it's better after a break, when you can see it in its own light. Think Impressionist! Mine always look a bit Dufyesque. That's my excuse anyway.
Having trouble keeping the pain down this evening. Probably a bit overambitious on the hostessing.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx3 -
LisaInArkansas wrote: »Well, I'm feeling mildly accomplished, after three hours work outside taking off another section of siding. Then I had to come in and shower because saying it's spider heaven under old siding is seriously underestimating the situation. By the time I stopped, I was feeling them crawling on me, even though I knew they weren't. Grrf. Not fond of spiders. 🕷️😱Honestly, not terribly fond of anything with more than four legs or anything with no legs at all. 🐍 Nice to know I have standards. 👀🙃😀
Anyway, it finally started raining just as I was finishing the cleanup - fired up the shop vac and vacuumed all the walls that I had just freed from their siding prison - then whipped the top off the shopvac, sprayed the inside with spider spray and fastened it again. Did I say I hate spiders? 😀 They can stay in their dusty prison until I have the nerve to empty the vacuum. Maybe I'll get Corey to do it.
Threw some frozen fish filets in the oven while I was in the shower, and made them my very late lunch after I scrubbed all the imaginary spiders off. I make my own homemade tartar sauce with light mayo, and the combination is heavenly. Corey won't cook or eat fish, so I get the filets from Aldi that I can make easily for my lunch on days when a hot meal is called for...
Not last by any means, my way of not having to scrub the stovetop is to throw everything on top of it in the dishwasher, and then spray it down with 409 every time I walk by it the rest of the morning. Time to go wipe that down and get it put back together, get a little laundry folded, and by the time all that's put away, Corey will call to say he's on the way home. Not a creative day, but a productive one anyway.
Later, y'all,
Love from finally rainy Arkansas - so love that smell of new fallen rain...
Lisa
I am getting crawly feelings just reading your post.😂. I admit, am a "every night look up at the 4 corners of the ceiling" person, because that's where spiders go. Every single night since I was a child.
Oh I had a fish fillet (beer battered) te other day. I put a sprinkling of malt vinegar, then while hot from the oven I press onto a slice of havarti cheese that's been melted on a flour street taco tortilla. I put some coleslaw on top and its my version of a fish taco. I make coleslaw with shredded cabbage, a spoonful of relish, a squirt of mustard, mayo, dash of sugar and salt and pepper, and a glug of apple cider vinegar. Its heaven. And it also serves as tartar sauce and coleslaw.😁
Rebecca
Whidbey
Wa5 -
Hello again
Texted Tracy this afternoon she told me that ,in the local news that a 5 yr old passed away while on a go cart last night.. and he was a before and after school daycare kid at where Miles goes to daycare..
They have started a Go Fund me for the funeral.. why anyone would let a 5 yr old on a go cart at 7 o clock at night is beyond me but..its still horrible to lose a child so young.
Got the dishwasher going and fed the furry kids..8 -
Barbara AHMOD-thanks so much for the Katla update-she sounds much the same.
Lisa-your discussion of spiders got me itching.
Heather-you may want to see what sort of walker the doctor would recommend after surgery. My doctor didn't want me using wheels in case they slid away from me so I used the four standards legs. I also got a tray to fit over so I could carry my coffee and food on it-helped my independence since I live alone. A. set up similar to this https://a.co/d/jcVjuSN except I have a pink tray.
Rebecca-sounds like you and sister are doing a good job working things out.
Allie-forgot to mention I am glad no genetic issues. I went to grade school with a girl without much of an arm below elbow and it never seemed to slow her down. And the advances in prothesis are amazing.
Tired to night. Had staff meetings-had to do two sessions of them. Will run off to ladies' groups. There is currently a gentle rain.
Take care all,
Ginny in Ohio5 -
A happy day today. I am grateful for sunshine, green grass for the horses, a washer and dryer so I will have clean sheets tonight and soup in the crockpot for dinner.
Wecome Rusty. Keep coming back.
Everyone take care, Sue in WA6 -
LisaInArkansas wrote: »And the rest of the story...For my American compatriots, here's a jump in the WABAC Machine - I will always remember that phrase in Paul Harvey's voice. If you want to join me in the machine, here's a recording of that amazing voice, one with an always surprising ending.
Spent all day yesterday struggling with the quilt. Rant for all you creatives out there:Finally got one small section of my niece's bookshelf quilt nearly completed, and I am not happy with it at all. I've got to figure out an easier way to make this happen, or I will never finish it. I don't want to admit that I cannot make a bookshelf quilt, people make these blessed things every day.
Here's my first-world designer problem: I appear to be suspended on this fence that separates realism and representation and need to fall off on one side or the other and get over it. I even know which side I need to fall off on, and I keep going back to trying to make it look real when I KNOW better.
I cannot make this look real, and I HAVE to stop trying to do so. It is possible (I've seen them) to make this look real, but I'm not that kind of designer, and I need to get over it. I'm trying to make something that puts people in mind, quite charmingly, of a bookshelf, not something that makes people think there's a rikkin-frikkin-frakkin *(&*(&%&#^%#&*(&) bookshelf lying flat on the top of a bed!
OK, rant over, I feel somewhat better now. Sometimes, you just have to give in to the fact that you cannot design what's in your mind's eye out of fabric. Well, I have to give in to that, anyway. *sigh* I'm such a noodge. Hopefully this self-lecture turned rant will be helpful in getting me over this bump. I need to get on with it. Honestly, it's one of the reasons I only do one quilt about every five years. Takes me that long to get over the last one!
OK, rant over. Between every paragraph written, I've been getting my chores done or begun, peeled all the bits off the top of the stove and threw them in the dishwasher, along with a few breakfast dishes, sheets and towels in the dryer, dark items in the washer, and the rain is now predicted to hold off until noon or 1 p.m. I think I'll go out and get a couple outside things done... because IF they finally got the rain chances right, I'll be in inside all afternoon.
Later, my babies,
Love,
Lisa in AR
A friend of mine does amazing quilts but she has a whole quilting set-up and a quilting machine. She did nice quilts before she got the machine but the machine took her to a whole new level.
So perhaps the bookshelf quilts you have seen were made by someone with quilting set-ups and machines.
M in Oz5 -
Heather-you may want to see what sort of walker the doctor would recommend after surgery. My doctor didn't want me using wheels in case they slid away from me so I used the four standards legs. I also got a tray to fit over so I could carry my coffee and food on it-helped my independence since I live alone. A. set up similar to this https://a.co/d/jcVjuSN except I have a pink tray.
Take care all,
Ginny in Ohio
No wheels for me either after my knees.3
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