General Discussion & Chat: Coffee and .... for Monday, September 11th, 1 by meezersfive

meezersfive wrote:
What a nice bouquet to start our day. I love cosmos, they are so reliable. Which reminded me I have a packet of seeds to throw out in back where I just dumped a handful of purple coneflower seeds. Think they'll get along? It's just a spot where DH had dumped some excess topsoil. He's talking about getting someone with a cat to scoop off the sod about three feet out from those side and back gardens, and putting it behind the new garage, and adding more good topsoil to make those beds bigger. GO!!

Casey, I knew that dresser was going to go through a transformation. Good plan, you are quite creative, and handy to be able to do that. I'm lucky to be able to get the paint off. Which I have done more times than I care to remember. LOL about your sewing machines....the main reason, perhaps the only one, for taking this class is to be able to make decent alterations on things that don't fit. Most times if the hip measurement is satisfactory, the waist is about two inches too big. Meaning my butt is too big but that's not changing any time soon. Plus, since I am shrinking with age I find I need to shorten many pants, which is no problem but I'd like to be able to redo the waist without it looking weird.

I've been mesmerized by the embroidery machines, when they are doing demonstrations...but I've dragged myself away, knowing what a short attention span I have for new hobbies.

Bonnie, send that child over here!! I've been looking at my list of flyers that have been left on the mailbox for cleaning services. I don't want a regular scheduled cleaner, I want someone to come and do the things I can't or don't want to do. Glass on cabinets and ceiling fans, and tops of bookcases and door frames, etc. Mostly requiring climbing up and down which I can't do a lot of without pain. Why oh why did none of my ungrateful children bless me with a granddaughter like yours?

Mary, you are so right, somebody is getting rich on all these tests and visits, and it sure isn't us. I don't even like the annual to my internist, but I have to go in order to get my prescriptions. I'm lucky I can skip the extra visit because she does the heart monitoring as well as the gyn. exam, in the same visit. Good job attacking the yellow jackets early morning before they get busy for the day. We haven't had as many this year, but the same old mud daubers have tried to start their work at the front entry, so I've had to hose those off several times.

Darius, a couple more weeks won't matter much in the overall scheme of things. Hope you enjoy your visit with your bro., and especially hope he shows up with the five pounds of shrimp. Ecstacy!! I'm tackling my peaches today so it looks like that will take up most of the day. Rainy ugly weather so it a good thing to do.

Ragweed is in full abundance here. Yesterday on the way to breakfast we passed huge swaths of them, and I sneezed all the way there and all the way home. I hope it feeds butterflies or something that justifies it's presence here on earth....

So, Sarv, what did you have for breakfast? And did you make a note to ask you PCP about appointment with an allergist? LOL Now that everyone has yelled at you, you cannot escape the inquisition. And another new baby on the way! Newborns are so nice to hold and you can give them back whenever you want to.

I didn't watch any of the 9/11 specials they had on tv, it's just too painful. And now I heard that they are calling this "Patriot's Day" and politicizing it. Anyone notice the drastic drop in gas prices just before the elections?
Even more obvious than the orange terrorist alerts before the elections last year. OK off my soap box.

Speaking of cats, (Oh, we weren't, were we?) take a look at what a monster Sammi has turned into. He's closing in on ten pounds and isn't done growing yet. Olivia isn't growing that fast and will never be his size, which is a good thing.

Off to the kitchen, peaches are waiting. Maria, that bread looks wonderful, hand me that bread knife!!

This message was edited Sep 11, 2006 7:31 AM