Today, I am thankful for...#5

Thank you. I thought it might be fun to meet, face to face, one or more DG friends while there. Do not know exact date of arrival or length of stay, but will be leaving Fort Lauderdale on the 5th. Maybe you could D-mail your phone #?

Q G , debby in Garland is one of the D Ger's that will show you some southern Hospitality . Don't miss that invitation . D H and I will be on our way to Colorado and going through OK City , so way out of your route . Wish I could meet you too .

Wow, what a trip that will be! If your route brings you near Panama City, (FL), we'll treat you to dinner., or lunch, or breakfast, or whatever. lol. We hang out on the beach for a week to celebrate the 4th and Mama Kay's birthday.
Today, I'm thankful for the Culligan man. I thought Amargia having a water cooler was silly at first. Now, I love the thing. ~Nadine~

Today, I am thankful that...

...I have a blanket and pillow at the office so I can lay down for a little while during long days.

...scrambled eggs with American cheese and ground black pepper (my supper).

...Dallas has Mark Cuban. Outspoken and often controversial, there is no denying his is a generous soul to someone in genuine need.

That is an EPIC road trip, Quilty. Have you driven that far before? The farthest I’ve ever driven was from Panama City, FL to just across the NY/Canadian border. It was important to my step-daughter that I be at her college graduation. Pottsdam (NY) has surprisingly few hotels for a college town. The only hotel with a vacancy was across the border.
Are you going to take all your DG friends with you on the trip via Laptop, Y5 and digital camera or are you unhooking for a while? It is amazing how many people you can fit in a car using cyber-space. :-)
Iowa, I recently walked that road myself with my mother. It sounds like your head and heart are in the right place for the journey. Appreciating the little victories makes it easier.
Are you getting the storms today, Digger? What can I say, it was Nadine’s turn to mow. :-) Think she overdid it this time.
Give Vic kie a hug from us, Kwan, if that get-together works out.
I’m thankful for a wife who saved me the last piece of cake since she can always DRINK her coffee. Black Magic cake would probably taste great made with Kahlua, Debra. I will see. We usually have that around. DW is one of those people for whom alcohol is like a sedative so, if she has a drink, she also needs to take in caffeine. Coffee and Kahlua is her drink of choice.
Wave, Vickie. Don't make me have to call and check on you again, young lady. :-) (Jim)

Storms last night here . Hope the plants get through the next month. Only concerned for the ones in buckets , but am paying a neighbor to come twice a week and water them .
Don't ask me how I handle Black Russians .

I will give a her a hug! Where is you, Vickie??? LOL

Today, I am thankful for buttons, thread and needles, gas stoves, storm clouds building and front porches.

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...understanding employees

...Ritz Vegetable crackers and Ramen noodles

...generic prescription medications

Jim, Nadine, I would love to hook up with you guys and I will be going that route. Maybe you could DMail your cell phone number to me? Years ago my sisters' families from TX and OH and me met up in Destin for a week mid June. The sand was amazing! So white and not hot. I was expecting miserable weather, but it was cooler than expected. Don't think I will get that this coming week - sounds very hot and humid. Hot I am used to, humidity I remember from WI (where it was not so hot) and ICK!

I have not done a long trip like this before and am not usually a car trip person. in 2007 DD and I (she won't come this time) drove to Yellowstone, stopping to stay with a friend in SLC. Less distance for me than my OH and TX sisters' families who drove and met up at Mt Rushmore first. I like flying to islands and hanging out at the beach (looking at the map and the closeness of the Bahamas longingly). When we were kids we drove from WI to CA when we moved after Christmas. We all get carsick so mom had us drugged most of the way, lol. As a driver, I don't get sick, but get very sleepy so I will try a RX DH has called Nuvigal.

I do not have a laptop, but do have an iPod Touch which gets DG when I am in WiFi range. I figure with iPod, camera, bluetooth, GPS and all the charger cords and adapters to charge them, it will fill the tote I usually have in a car to have stuff handy. I will bring my wind-up radio/flashlight, atlas, first aid and umbrella to keep in that bag too. Oh, and a small cooler and insulated cup!

I love road trips! Even vicarious cyber roads trips!!!

Today, I'm thankful for free plants! I participated in a weight lose program through DH's work and received a gift card for the business of my choice.

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quilty, used to love road trips. solo ones especially. not so much now, so i'll be like kwan and experience vicariously. hope you do get to meet up with the amargia folks. they are good people.

kwan, that particular rudbeckia needs more water than i care to give usually, but i like it so much i still plant it every once in awhile. :-)

Fortunately, my DH waters more than usual, so it should be fine there. LOL He thinks everything needs water every time the lawn does.

Today, I am thankful for...

Color printers

Bamboo skewers

Clear contact paper

My NJ friend was unable to get that particular time off work. We were disappointed we could not be Thelma and Louise, even Thought of the Grand Canyon...., lol. Called my dad yesterday, in Plano, thought maybe he might be interested in a FL to TX or TX to CA road trip and he went ballistic about how crazy buying a car (we did online, primo condition, low mileage - probably deceased old person car) and on and on, that I did not ask him. He even sent an eMail about paying me for my plane ticket already purchased for me not to go. Yes, this is a little crazy, but really, a little over reacting.

quilty, my boss has purchased 16 vehicles online just in the eight years that I have known him: three box trucks; a 1998 International semi-tractor; a Ford F150; a 2000 Land Rover; a 2003 Expedition; a 2005 Denali; a 1983 BMW (for a nephew); a 1969 Mercedes; a 1971 Mercedes (present for his mother); a 2000 Mercedes ML420 (present for his mother); a 2002 Jetta and a 2000 New Beetle (he has teenage daughters); a Ford minivan (for a former employee). The company Prius I drive was bought on eBay from a company in Massachusetts, that bought it from a Boston auction of cars from a bankrupt rental agency. Had 10,000 miles and was well under market value. We had it transported, but it would have been fine to drive it down, too. If you are careful, and check out the details of the vehicle and the seller, it is no more risky than buying a used car from a dealer where you live.

Thanks for that reinforcement!!! I will use that

Debra, what is the name of the company you work for, if you don't mind. I am using your info as an FYI to my dad.

Do you like seafood, Quilty?
Today, I am thankful Vickie (Cando1) is okay. She is having computer trouble, but otherwise seems fine. You can run into unique problems staying connected when you live in the sticks. We finally have our internet connection working right. It appears one of the neighbors goats developed a taste for the soy coating on electrical wires. That is the evidence anyway. There was a stretch of bare wire just outside the goat’s pen. I can’t blame the goats entirely; part of the delay was also my goof up. It would have worked yesterday except I connected the filter to the phone side and not the computer side. Meaning, neither would work right. Duh.
Vickie joked about getting a motorcycle when gas prices really went up and Debra shared a picture when the two of them met up. My imagination took it from there. I’m trying to get drawings of all the Granny Goons Gang. I’m only 24. So I can’t join the gang, but they graciously allow me to be their mascot. Lol.
You appear to be a DG hub, Debra. It seems everyone has relatives near you. Hope to meet you myself when we visit MK’s sister on the lake near Bouie, TX. I’ll even pull out your mower, if you need the rain. :-) ~Nadine~

Erecycler, LLC. We are in Dallas. The boss buys all kinds of used stuff online--machinery, including our $20K industrial shredder for hard drives; a plastics baler; two forklifts; a pallet wrapper; guitars and guitar parts; furniture; purses and jeans for his girls (they like the $200-a-pair-new kind and, as doting and indulgent a dad as he is, even HE won't pay that much retail LOL); and on and on...

If you look at the bottom of this page, you can see two of the trucks.
http://erecycler.net/gallery1.htm

Here's my company car again.

I understand your father's concerns and can see why he might not want you to drive cross-country by yourself, anyway. Can only say that buying a car online carries basically the same risk as buying local--you have use common sense and apply a little effort into checking out the seller, then go with the most practical, cost-effective option.

This morning I am thankful for bananas and fig cookies. (Fast breakfast!)

Today, I'm thankful for Time. Time for friends, time for family, time to see the world, time for...everything. Some folks do not have Time. I do, and am grateful for it.

Today I am glad for my Daddy calling to apologize for being so grumpy about my trip and car purchase. And now there is some irony to it as we are reconsidering the whole FL car/trip thing! The Blue Book is near the car cost, not including transportation (either by shipper or me traveling cross country). While I was dreading it at first, I started looking forward because of meeting up with cyber friends. Today is do or die decision day!

...Peter Lorre's Mr. Moto

...Fudgsicles

...the luxury of two days off in a row

I second Kwan's thankfulness. Precious free time.
I really don't know how you juggle work, a nice landscape and the other things you do, Debra.
Sorry, you won't be making it this way, Quilty. But, it would have been an exhausting trip for you on your own and, heaven forbid something vital had gone wrong with the car. Something vital like, the AC. lol. Temps hit 3 digits with high humidity. You've got our number if you do ever find yourself this way. Preferably, in March or Oct. It's great here then.
Tater-dog says she is thankful I splurged and got her some Frosty Paws ice cream. (Jim)

Jim, it's because working at the office and working in my yard is ALL I do. And I recruit younger, stronger helpers to do the tedious or tough stuff. Too tired or too lazy or too hot to do much of anything else. Highlight of my week is going to the grocery store--maybe. ROFL

I'm thankful for the blooming linden trees....What a wonderful fragrance! The whole yard smells like perfume.

Those are pretty. :-)
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Today, I am thankful for:

Books you still want to keep rereading 30 years after the first time you read it.

Cottage cheese.

Little curvy-claw shaped bamboo back scratchers.

I have one of those back scratchers! The cats like it, too. LOL

Today, I'm thankful for Burt Reynolds, Robert Heinlein, lasagna and plants that bounce back after you water them rather than dying anyway.

LOL! Yes, backscratchers!!! Something to be thankful for especially now when the mosquitoes are busy eating me up! good one!

Kwan, I have read many of his books, but only keep Friday, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, The Number of the Beast, and Stranger in a Strange Land. Also have Tramp Royale and Grumbles from the Grave. Both are non-fiction and, if you haven't read them, dmail me an address, I'll send them to you.

Deb

Today I am thankful for the outpourings of DG friends who were open to my visiting them. Maybe next time I will actually TAKE the trip.

I am very THANKFUL FOR AIR CONDITIONING as our weather attempts to challenge the temps many of you have had to endure.

Time for new thread, I think. :-)

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