Coffee and...Part 29...! :-D

LOL...Blooms...I'm sorry for laughing but I just couldn't help it! For the toe...as my MIL used to say (no matter WHAT the cursed problem!) RUB it! :-D

Pati...whether or not Sarv is going to listen to your advice, I *did*. I had no idea of the trouble that teeth can give a heart patient. (And BTW...I know where you're 'hiding' these days. So don't worry about checking in here.)

Oh and Blooms...are you standing in MY back yard right now? If so, I didn't see you while I was pulling weeds in those drops "10 inches apart". LOL I finally got the idea that I was getting wet, too. (That's why I'm here on the computer, along with you.) Hope your sore 'self' feels better now.

~julie~

Hey send some of those drops over here!!! Talk about parched, you'd thing WE were in Utah dessicating in the desert!! Ran out and did errands and now my feet hurt, but everything is put away and I can sit and rest.

Sarv, before I had my uppers pulled, due to all the pockets and problem areas that continually got infected I had recurring bladder infections, about every 4-5 months, and had a problem with styes on both eyes (sheeesh talk about graphic!) plus periodontal problems with my lower teeth. OK ....now listen up...once the uppers were gone ALL of that has gone away and no more trouble. My dental hygienist who has cleaned my teeth for thirty+ years gets so excited when I come in and she doesn't find any problems, you would think they were her teeth that were improving. And yes, I have also heard of people getting heart problems due to underlying dental infections, they dosed me up good with antibiotics before they started removing any of my teeth.

Yup, getting old sure puts a crimp in your gardening endurance. I used to be able to go all day pulling weeds or digging, now I consider two hours a good effort unless I want to do nothing at all the next day. That's what DH is for. Dig that, Move that, Drag that over here, Turn this over, Carry this in, Carry this out,......LOL

Robert, I've eaten all my biscotti too, but I didn't need to insulate for the coming winter, I carried over last year's lard in case there was a shortage..

Sarv is conspicuously absent here today. She usually posts first thing in the morning.

I am happy to share those seeds with yall. I think Katrina might have blown some off and not sure how long it takes them to make some more. I will keep an eye out for them though.

Julie, I would love some of those seeds, but I am going to ask you just to put my name on them and hold them till I know where I will end up.

Which brings me to this:
I received a phone call from my landlord today. He's whining because his taxes on this house are going up by around $7000. Nevermind that he just bought a $27,000 Boston Whaler this summer. And nevermind that he talked me into buying a lawnmower (giving me $60.00 a month off my rent to mow the yard) And nevermind that his mortgage on this house is only $33,000.

He's putting the house up for sale tomorrow and he wants to raise the rent. We had talked about this a couple months ago and he said he wasn't ready to sell and I didn't have to worry. So....I quit worrying, until today. I'm supposed to go meet with him and his wife to discuss this issue in further detail tomorrow after work.

I was only planning on staying here one more year, total of 2. I was going to spend this year planning to make the next move, whether it be to my property mid state (need to build a house there) or whether to sell the property and buy a house in a more restful, inexpensive community.

No matter what I do, it means I will need to build my business up in the new community so I can make a living. These things all take time and there just isn't enough right now.

I really am getting tired of other people making decisions that affect my life without any consideration. This is the second time in the past year and I sometimes wonder how many more unheavals I can take. I am getting too old for this stuff.

I know this sounds extremely whiney for one who is luckier than many in this country and I am doing what I can to help there and will do more if I can, and I apologize if I need to, but I still have to walk in these shoes of mine every day wondering where I am going to park myself in 3 months.

Thanks for listening yall.
Molly

Sheesh - I feel like a naughty kid.....I AM GOING ON MONDAY - OKKKKKK!!! No more discussion needed - thank you.

I have been here - and early like usual, just didn't want to incurr anymore wrath by posting.

On a more pleasant note. I went to lunch with my friend who just lost her husband. We had a nice time - she talked continually about him - think she needed that. Gave me a real mushy card thanking me for being her friend. I was kinda embarassed as she didn't give the other two gals one!

Going shopping with DIL tonight - we always have a fun time.

DGS has his first soccer game on Sat - temps supposed to be in the 90's again - whew- too hot to run up and down a field!!

No rain here (passed over us again) and I am tired of watering, so I think this is the demise of my gardens. I don't feel like hauling the hoses out again and again.

Gotta boogie - DH has dinner all ready.

Thanks for the the caring/concerns regarding you know what - but nuff said -

always...sarv

AW,,,,,I haven't put my 2 cents in sarv.....google...

subacute bacterial endocarditis......

Molly,

Is this all definite? Seems awful short notice for a landlord....

Yes Hap, he's putting it on the market tomorrow. The conversation we have tomorrow after work will be if I will stay until it's sold and how much I will pay, I reckon.

I am going to try to buy myself 6 months if I can, if it doesn't cost me too much. If he's unreasonable, I will go in 3. He already has enough money since last September for 3 months of rent. I have no doubt he has spent that money long ago. If he wants to play it that way, well, we'll see tomorrow.

Molly

Yeah Sarv, glad you have plans to see about you know what. I was/am very worried about it. What did DH have for supper? My DH does, eggs, bacon, toast,hot dogs and popcorn. LOL

Oh Molly, what lousy news. I don't know about your past situations, but you seem to indicate that this move isn't your first in a short while. I know what you mean about too old to do that. I hadn't moved in 28 years, and it took 6 months to just clear out the clutter and junk and get down to packing seriously. It would seem that the LL has a good investment in that property. Maybe he needs the $ to pay on his floating toy? I know what, you and Darius, just come to Ky and I'll help you look for something. When you find something you like, sell your property and invest here.

Well didn't do squat this afternoon. Reclined on couch, read and watched tv. This body just can't take the kind of strenous work I did yesterday.

Blooms, did you fall, or just stub the toe? Dang that hurts!! Always utter lots of profanity, although it doesn't help with the hurt. Guess I do that because most of my accidents are stupid self inflicted ones. Last one I had was a doozy. Fell over DHs beagle, landed on blacktop skinned nose, hand knees, and broke my finger and kneecap. That was back in Feb, and my finger and knee still hurt occasionally. Now I know why my mother didn't name me GRACE!! LOL.

Well off to read again, gonna try to finish this book tonight. May check in later to see what's going on.

M5...sure...I'll share my drops with you. I think I have an extra 15 or so if I can catch them before they run off the roof! (It's so dry here that they're evaporating between the edge of the roof and the ground!!) At least we didn't and don't have the drying winds we got here yesterday.
(I *loved* your remark about carrying over the lard from last year "just in case there's a shortage." LOL I resemble that remark!)

Molly...your situation really ticks me off (Read in *any* other word that suits your mind). It's a crying shame that landlords can't be a bit more considerate than that. And NO you don't *need* any more upheavals in your life...not until *you* are ready to make them for yourself!
(((( ~ HUGS ~ )))) As for the seeds...they're here when you're ready for them.

OK! I've heard from one of our lurkers! ~grin~ Joy, you might as well come on in now. Else I'll be talking to you and everyone will think I've lost what was left of my mind. hehehe (You can just say 'Hi'...we understand that life outside of DG *is* important. ;-))

Sarv...I'm glad you're going to get "it" fixed. One note about your lunch...your friend really appreciates having *you* in her life. Maybe those other ladies will look at their contributions and understand why they weren't included. ( I hope they didn't get their feelings hurt...)

~julie~

Edited to say "HI" to Hap and Dcat...and I'll bet I'll have missed someone else by the time I get this posted! LOL

This message was edited Sep 8, 2005 7:26 PM

I stepped over the dog on my way across the room, stubbed my toe (hard) on a crate of tools, fell forward across the room towards a bunch of other things, slammed my knee into the floor, one finger straight out into a table edge and the elbow [now shoulder whining] against another toolbox.

Just lovely to watch as she moves across the floor, so graceful and lithe in her movements. A thing of wonder as she crashes like a ton of bricks and DS hollers ''are you ok?''. Compared to what??? LOL

ROTFL....(Ooooops...sorry....did it again!) Blooms, you are precious! :-D

~julie~

Blooms, those dogs are dangerous!! Love your "as compared to what". If you were a wheelbarrow full of bricks you would be A-Okay. So sorry, I had to laugh at your description, but I have a weird sense of humor. Once years ago DH fell down a steep set of stairs, hitting everyone I think, I had to laugh before I asked if he was okay. I have even fallen, and laughed myself before I began to take inventory of damaged body parts.

Hi Julie, I read all posts, but haven't addressed you personally lately. Okay we start a campaign to bring Joy "out of the closet" Okay everybody on the count of three, yell "HELLO JOY" 1, 2, 3. Okay Joy let's see you. I loved hide and seek as a kid!! LOL

Hey everyone, tomorrow is "GROCERY SHOPPING" day, the one day of the week I absolutely hate. Send some good vibs my way, as I unually arrive home in a foul mood.

Night everybody.

I'm YELLING too!! :-D

HELLO JOY!!!
(I told ya so! hehehe)

~julie~
P.S. Nitie Night, D.Cat
(and hope everyone sleeps well)

Hi all, been reading most every day but by the time I get done with the H. Kat forum, I've been on here over and hour and have to hit the hay. Those 4-6 hours days on DG are a gone by luxury .... fondly remembered! lol

sarv - my sympathies but u know pati's right. Good thing janiejoy didn t pop it here - u would catch it from her - if I remember right, the infection in her knee was caused by an abcessed tooth. Not a good thing. Since everyone already yelled at u, I'll pass, just confirm the seriousness of the situation, which I'm sure u certainly know by now! (wry grin) But remember, if we didn t care, u wouldn t get yelled at!

Greetings to everyone - some of those goodies you guys are baking sound scrumptious!! Pass the plate.... actually went here before the Kat forum, so gotta check out a few threads and hit the hay. (Tried not to get too many 'work' abbreviations, etc. in there but when I m in a hurry, it gets worse smile hope it doesn t irritate u all too much)

Blooms, I am so sorry you fell and not as graceful as you hoped LOL. I remember way back as if it was only yesterday, I was 15 or 16 years old, my mother dripped over something and she fell flat out, I thought it was the funniest sight and started to laugh and could not stop, but if looks could kill I would have died right there and then though she was ok.
Maria

HI, 4:30 AM -again; didn't sleep last night either-got my room somewhat picked up (major change though) sorted out glass beads, read and then late AM nap-plan on staying up to get out into the garden early in the AM-need to plant!! Have plants from trades that might end up in the compost heap--the heat/humid that has graced WI all season (but no rain ) has put me behind in planting and I have a dead-line-will be visiting my sister in mid-Oct-and that is the first frost date in this area (this week-end is 90-ack!!).
Got my first daylilies from Lily Auction with 2 bonuses--yee hah--there goes a bit more of the ground meant for lawn..
Will have some dessert and will bring sweet, red Gypsy peppers-wonderful-thin walled and sweet as sugar.
Need to sort out craft stuff that I won't be using- got to stop watching HGTV.-Mission Organization!
Julie-wouldn't fall into the lake-smelled Really bad early in the summer - besides I don't swim--watching the waterfowl is a favorite though..and the gulls--just riding the thermals--beautiful.
You all have a wonderful week-end and take care.

Molly - sorry to hear of your landlord and the moving situation. Could you relocate near where you are so you donl't lose your clientel? Hope it all works out and things settle down for ya.

What's with all this clutzy stuff going on?? Do we need to haul out the walker for you gals? I, myself have taken three major falls down our wooden stairs. They were always when I was in a mad rush to get somewhere fast and wearing hose. I remember my butt being so black and blue that I could hardly sit down. Chiro says that was the cause of a whip lash in my neck - can you imagine!! I remember one fall hurt so badly that I couldn't even talk for sometime afterwards. I think swear words make me heal faster tho LOL

WHAT - there is someone new here called Joy? Come out, come out , wherever you are! Tell us all about yourself.

Marcia - I am often up wandering around the house at 2:30am - seems to be the magic hour here. For the past couple of weeks, I have been sleeping better, but I think it is because I am popping an allergy tab at night.

My sister (lazy, crazy one) is coming to Mich this weekend. She will be stopping by here on Monday, and we always have a grand time. Usually we shop til we drop, but since I don't need another piece of clothes, maybe we will hit the antique malls - I love to go there. I collect pounded tin ware - good for nothing other than to make me smile.

DH just left for work, and I am going to contours for a little work out. After than my work out friend and I are going to another friend's house to see her new quilting projects. I am giving her a quilting frame - I hate to quilt and someone come make better use of it than me. It just collects dust bunnies here.

DIL had the flu last night so we couldn't go shopping as planned. I am watching the caller ID - I am hoping she doesn't call me to substitue in her classroom - no energy for that stuff anymore!

Have a great day everyone!!

Three cheers for Sarv!! We won't yell any more, except at Joy. Come on in Joy, don't be hiding!! Share your cyber goodies and daily doings, and keep us company.

Off to golf this morning. Glad I don't have to watch that slow-as-molasses workman putting up siding on the garage! Showed DH they brought the wrong color gray, as we still had the samples that they left here for us to choose from. IN JUNE. Told DH they should put on what was ordered. He won't. He doesn't listen to me, even though we are paying up the wazoo for it. Correction, he's paying, via the home equity loan.

Haven't heard from DGS since DH hauled his truck in to a reliable mechanic for diagnostics. DH got sick of having it sit in our lower drive, and DGS not working on it, so while the car hauler was here he took it to this mechanic. DH couldn't figure out what was the problem, and it wasn't getting fixed. So now he's probably got his nose out of joint about it. Kids. We've got enough cars sitting around without having additional ones. Even when the new garage is finished we will still have more cars than garage space. Told someone last week I'm going to get one of those flag thingies you see strung over used car lots and hang it down the driveway. He's about one car away from being single!!

Blooms, watch your step!! I haven't done a prat fall for quite a while (knock on wood) but like dcat, I tend to laugh at my lack of grace before I check out what I've damaged! When my son was about 5, he did something that deserved a swat, and when I turned to deliver it, I twisted my knee out of joint and fell down....no laughing that time. And I was in the midst of packing for a move out of state, so that sure put a kink in my mobility. Kids didn't laugh either, they were so astonished to see their mother on the floor screaming in pain they didn't know what to do. Those darn knees still give me problems.

No rain. No rain. We're watering but it's just barely keeping things from dying. And I'm getting tired of hearing the pump running.

Molly, your landlord is a putz. What a pain, to rely on his promise and keep your end of the bargain, only to have him renege. Now I suppose you'll have to endure strangers wandering around looking at the place, at his convenience. Run him down with that mower, serve him right. And, you might just *forget* to mow for the duration of your tenancy......

Yuck, it's pitch dark outside and it's already 6 a.m. Slight glimmer of pink on the east. When does DLS end? October? Then we can run around and reset all our digital devices again. Some I don't even bother with, like the clock radio that doesn't work.

Robert, will you make us some peach crisp and cheer us up? Seems like we're all in some kind of a funk. Peach crisp would go a long way towards making us happier!

Check in with y'all later, after another round of terrible golf.

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Morning gobs, such a fitting title I think that is why I fell in love with this thread! Yes, I'm finally coming out! A little about me: married 35 years, 2 kids daughter Julie 26 in Oct., son Jonathan 19 in Oct. Daughter has lived in St. Thomas Virgin Is. since 1999 (married a year ago and finally met the son in law this summer) and son just graduated in June and is working for a local contractor and trying to eat us out of house and home. He is 6' 2" and is finally finding out what work is all about. DH is trying to scare the life out of me by talking retirement.........3 years he says.......I say your healthy keep working. lol.

I have gardened since a little girl with my pansy bed along side the house tucked in between the lily of the valleys, ditch lilies and trumpet vine runners. Everything but the pansies are still there. They have been replaced by my ever spreading bleeding hearts. My dad has gardened forever and still is even though it gets harder and harder for him. He is 80 and has lived in the same house since 1949 and believe it or not many of the plants there were there when he and mom moved in are still there and blooming! Bits and pieces are moving 9 miles south to our yard!

My heart goes out to Darius ((((((D))))) at the loss of your mom. I wrote in Caregivers about my mom earlier this year, it is so hard to say goodby before they go I cannot imagine what it will be like when the body finally does. Mom is catatonic (dr.s words) but can open or NOT open her mouth for food when we feed her. We 3 kids (all almost 50 or over)!! take turns with lunches and dad feeds her supper and sits with her every evening even though she does not know.

On to better things, Blooms!!!, be careful! Must tell my story from a couple years ago. I had plants started on my front porch and it was calling for frost so I thought I better get them into the garage for the night. Well, it being evening I was already in my long housecoat picked up a flat made it down the 2 steps to the garge door and going up the next 2 steps I tripped on my housecoat threw the flat in the door and I kept on going but not my feet. I landed flat on the flat of plants!! (Now if you could see me you would know there was nothing left of the plants.) With a loud shout I landed and knocked the breath out of myself. Laying there waiting for help I hear the side door slide open and my DH shouts "did you say something?" and shuts the door !! After picking myself and dead plants up I go in and we both have a good laugh but boy was I sore.

Sarv, thankfully Monday is one day closer.

My DH just said that I could finish 'coming out of the closet' later that he needs breakfast! Life goes on........wonder why I already love you gobs.

Joy

Joy, welcome to the GOBs. I love your sense of humor, I actually laughed out loud reading the account of your fall. Started my day off real good.

Meezer, I am smiling thinking about your flag thingies down your driveway. All men have their hobbies and passions, your one car away from being single has been changed here to one fishing trip away from being single. Although I can hide his hobby in the freezer, but I don't think a car would fit there. LOL

Sarv, if I had a walker, I would probably fall over it. Just give mine to somebody else, and I will make it on my own for awhile longer.

Marcia, Doesn't sleeplessness just drive you crazy? I am up and down several times a night, my main problem right now is dealing with carpel tunnel and the pain wakes me up several times a night. Reading is my remedy when I can't sleep. DH says he doesn't sleep at night, but everytime I am up, he is snoring up a storm. Can you snore and not be asleep? Seems like everything I have, he has it worse!!

Well I am off to the grocery, my least favorite thing to do. Will check in later, to see what you all have been up to.

First of all...
WELCOME to the GOB's, Joy! I knew we could talk you into saying something. hehehe Now, you have to show up at least every once in a while to let us know you're still 'out there' reading our saga. (I love your 'needs breakfast' closure! And you're right...I think *we* have more than a little in common! LOL)

Good MORNING Sarv! Good to see that you're getting out and about. I always wanted a quilting frame...and I'm darn glad I never GOT one! I'm sure it would have ended up taking up space in the basement with my knitting machine, woven rug frame, and artist's easel! (I always have the BEST of intentions. LOL)

M5...Hi!...I know what you mean with those mismatched siding colors. Ours is just a wee bit different on our garage, too. And it seems that it just gets worse after the sun hits it for a year or so. As my DH says..."Don't LOOK at it!" hehehe (Guess who picked out the siding? Not me!) As the "Just one away from single..." In my case it's RC models. At least DH has the common sense to hang them in HIS garage and not in OUR front room. LOL

Hi Marcia! Boy can I ever relate to your planting problem. I had it last year...and never actually caught up. This year I'm trying really hard to get a head start on UNplanting stuff before winter. (I let the stuff I didn't get into the ground in spring die earlier so I wouldn't have see it die now! ;-))

Dcat...I'm still LOLing about the 'snoring but not sleeping' comment. DH will sit in his chair for hours SNORING like crazy...then have the nerve to tell me he *wasn't* sleeping...just resting his eyes. At least when I snore I don't try to hide the fact that I'm sleeping. In fact, I announce that I'm "Taking a nap, now" just so he knows I intended to *snore* :-D :-D

Hey Kooger! Sounds like you're doing fairly well all around. And just want to let you know that your abbrevs don't bother me one bit. It's just good to see you pop in whenever you can.

Aria...I know those "Looks that could kill" moments, too. I've gotten them...AND given them! LOL

Blooms...I hope you weren't offended with my LOLing about that fall. Bless you heart. I know the pain...and I (like Sarv) think the profanity seems to help get things rolling so the healing can begin. You should have seen *my* big fall. I think the only thing that was funny that day was when I fell, I dropped my favorite coffee cup and broke it. Now *those* were some choice words, let me tell ya. But they only came out when I could breath again. :-D

Bad thing about falling...we need to try to remember to do it when there's someone around to help us up. When I fell...several years ago...I was at our weekend cabin on Monday morning...took a tumble down a flight of mossy (slippery) steps twisting one of my legs so that it was on the stair *above* the one my butt landed on and my foot was going inthe opposite direction to where it was supposed to be. There was no one in the area to hear me yell for help. So, I was on my own. It took over 45 minutes to drag myself back up the stairs, through the screen porch, and get to the phone to call my DH who was an hour's drive away. (Nope! We weren't even close enough to 'anywhere' to call 911 for help.)

I was in a lot of pain but...wonder of wonders...nothing was broken. Just "badly sprained." (The worst part of incident? I *had* to go to the bathroom!! LOL)

It took a while to recover...but to this day I'm scared to death of wet/slippery steps.

Well, I'll click on 'preview' to see who has posted since I started typing 1/2 an hour ago. LOL (WoW! imagine that...so far I've managed to get it all said without leaving anyone out!)

But just in case...
HELLO EVERYONE!!!

Y'all have a GREAT day!

~julie~

Love all the stories about falls even though most of y'all had pains associated with them.

Last time I fell was several years ago. My front door area had 3 steps and my dachshund had just had back surgery. I built a ramp for her along the side of the steps so she wouldn't injure her back again climbing the steps and the ramp had indoor-outdoor carpet covering it.

I was just standing on the top step, not even moving. Never figured out how, but somehow I went head over teacup across the abrasive ramp and onto the lawn. Only lost some dignity and lots of skin.

Hi Joy, welcome to the GOB kitchen.
Molly I do hope you find a permanant somewhere to move to this time.
Sarv glad you are going to be a good girl and do you as you are told!!!
I just hope all this talk of falling doesn't set me off again!! Stairs are the thing I seem to throw myself down on a regular basis!! One of the reasons we now live in a single story. Coming down the quick way HURTS!!
Kooger how is your ongoing saga with the INS progressing? Haven't heard about it for a while so I hope its all sorted out now?
Well I'm off to take my car to the car doctor - the AC is ticking, has been for months and its driving me nuts. I took it in a few weeks ago and it turned out to be the coolest day for months so it wouldn't do it!! Its hot again today so I'll try again because I'm planning a five hour trip and if it does that all the way I'll be a wreck when we get there!
Catch up with y'all later.
Carol

Well, hello Joyous, wonderful handle. [or name, as case may be] nice ta meetcha.

Julie, if I hadn't thought the fall was funny I wouldn't have posted it that way. Heck, I fall fairly often, am just plain clumsy sometimes. My Dad always said I moved too fast for my feet to keep up. LOL I avoid going down my cellar stairs after dark, for if I fall, it will be a while before anyone shows up.

I was a scabbed-knee kid and things haven't changed a lot - though my bounce back has slowed a little. When a weed I'm yanking suddenly lets loose and I roll onto my backside, I'm always laughing as I pick myself up. [and looking to see if the neighbors are getting a kick out of it too.]

We had RAIN again this morning, real rain that came down for a coupla hours. My plants are just loving this. I'm like Sarv, I was beginning to be a little lax in the watering department. Just enuff to keep things living - now they will perk up and be all pretty again. Whew. just in time for fall wind down.

now it's time to get started on the day here, before DS shows up to give all the trim its final coat of paint. There's so much of it now that it takes up quite a lot of room laying out waiting for it's 2nd coat. there's around the doors, the windows, the ceiling crown moldings and the baseboards. wow. then he'll bring down his air compressor and use his nail gun to put it all in place. Like a grand finale!! later y'all. ~Blooms

When a weed I'm yanking suddenly lets loose and I roll onto my backside, I'm always laughing as I pick myself up. [and looking to see if the neighbors are getting a kick out of it too.] (I don't know how to make those little blue 'quote' boxes.)

Blooms...you always manage to make me laugh...AND remember myself doing the same thing. But in my case, my neighbor is my son, and he'd better NOT be laughing! LOL

Jo...I was thinking about that 'jinxing' action of this conversation, too. And I hope NONE of us get into the 'quick' version of getting down those stairs.

Oh...Blooms...that 'grand finale' is *exactly* what the nail gun will sound like. I'm sure you'll be happy to see/hear that!

~julie~

Welcome Joy = I think you will fit right in with us all!! What's this about just meeting your SIL...

All these stories about falling really made me laugh - in our family toots and burps cause the same kind of laughter. We all just about die!!! Although I get real annoyed when DH does it - but when my sister and I are together we think it is hilarious!!! Any bodily function is fodder for a joke around our house. (must be because I only have boys)

Went to the work out joint (patting myself on the back), then to a friend's house that is gung ho about making quilts. I have little interest in doing that - hand work about sends me over the edge. Give me an old ratty blanket and I am just fine. However if any of you would like to make ME a quilt, I would love and treasure it!! LOL

I need to go gather up the last of the tomatoes and make some juice - just waiting until DH comes home- he can get them for me.

I was so pleased last night when I sat down to watch some TV, that DH wasn't watching his usual Thurs night gross wrestling - he had on a home improvement show (my kinda show) I didn't dare mention that he was missing his wrestling. He told me they changed the night to Fri!! Drat, now what can I do on Friday nights?? Wish someone lived closer to me...

Stopped at one of my favorite garden centers today - they had 50% off last week. Drat. Not much left and the sale was down to 25%. There were several oblisks that I want, but won't pay the $$ they are asking.

One bright spot in my life is my hot flashes have lessened (maybe even gone away) I have been staying covered up for hours in bed instead of throwing the covers off a zillion times a night.

Gotta go set the sprinklers again (I know I said I wasn't gonna, but my dahlias still look pretty good)

Well young ladies, our weather is back to normal, its raining. The Brugs are going to love that.Sort of puts a damper on burning scrap wood and debris though.
Welcome welcome Joy from probably the only male interloper.These is a bunch of cool cookies here.
Falling down stories? Last year I was on a chair in the sunroom reaching up to remove several small stained glass sun-catchers when the chair tipped over. I fell on top of the adjacent glass topped dining table.The top tipped over and landed on a stool rather than the tile floor and didn't break into a million pieces,I ended up with minor abrasions and sprained ankle.The chairs and I aren't on speaking terms any longer.
Molly, sure sorry to hear of the need to move. Hard under the best of conditions.Hope you find a better place.
I don't like working in the rain, so as long as it is wet out I'll be inside. Lots to do.No peaches so it will have to be apple crisp, then a batch of biscotti might be in order, and of course the dozen books to read that keep getting put off.
I got a laugh out of Joy's 'coming out of the closet vs DH's need for breakfast'. In our 30 years of marital bliss I don't recall my sweetheart making my breakfast, or lunch for that matter.Brunch now and then or breakfast when we had company, but never as a routine. Guess he spoiled me from the start.
Our summer has been exceptional this year. There is a decided nip in the air at night and it is nearing time to think about getting the furnace filters replaced, putting that extra blanket on the beds and making soups and stews.
Everyone take special care of your footing and hold on to the handrails.
robert

Dahlias will look good right up to frost if ya give 'em lovinwater.

'balvenie', is that your last name Robert ? anyhoo you posted while I did how funny is that? be n chairs are a nono i have trouble enuff with ladders. But I now own a two step folding stool that is perfect. DD left it here for me to have in my new kitchen. ;-))

furnace filters.!! heck at least one of my vents [bath] is still unconnected.
Besides I have a rule - no furnace til Halloween.

HI, catching up-Hello Joy-I pop in and out.
Molly-keeping my fingers crossed.
Falling, tripping etc-I have many ouchies!! Especially falling over the garden tools that I have left out. (I never really learned to pick up after myself-so now I just pick myself up!
Just short howdie do- want to check in at Katrina and then out to the garden before a nap-no sleep last night, so was able to get out to the garden at the crack of dawn. It was good, nice and cool. We are due for back into the 90's-the rain that was predicted didn't find its' way here, so will set up the sprinker again and take out a morgage for the water bill. It hasn't been this dry in years.
Happy gardening all.

Thanks for such a warm welcome. I'm in the same drought that most of you are in and am so tired of it, flowers are too. When I water it is from the rain barrel (what rain to fill it?) or DH brings home a load of water from the water plant. It is kinda fun to use up 300 gallons of water and know that the well won't go dry and that it only cost $1.25 but it sure was a lot easier to use the hose.

Molly so sorry about having to move but just decide right now it will only be better and I am sure it will.

Sarv, I told Julie in a d-mail that I was sure you and I were twins. We seem to have the same attitudes, habits and boy do I love it when you get on a roll. We live in quiltin country and I tried making a pillow once......that was enough. Give me a blanky and I'm happy.

Bal, when DH is home it is breakfast, lunch and dinner and boy am I tired of it. But considering the options I will continue. I have enjoyed following your building projects much less you cooking ones!

Blooms, DH is always starting a new project and never quite finishing the ones before, but we now have a new master bedroom on the first floor with the bathroom right around the corner. A touch of heaven! He has now decided that the laundry room is to small and is enlarging it by 5' longer and 7' wider so the washer and dryer can sit side by side. Do you think this might make him iterested in doing laundry? Thought he was going to leave the old outside siding on the inside of the addition ! I quickly explained the difference to him. lol.

I know I didn't quite get to everyone but I feel like I could pull up a chair and start right in with you all. Soon I will tell you about my major fall I took late last winter. I was sent to my chair and told not to get up by my DH! but another time.

Sarv...I told Joy in my return D-mail "OH NO! There *can't* be TWO of Sarv!" LOL & LOL (I didn't really say that, exactly...hehehe)

Hi Robert! I sure wish you lived closer to me...Your willingness to make biscotti would have me visiting ALL the time. ;-)

MarciaG...I don't how you did that...but saying it THREE times certainly got my attention. hehehe

OK...I gotta go move that sprinkler...*again*!! (And to think, last year I was complaining about getting TOO MUCH water!)

Joy, I was thinking I'd like to get a couple of rainbarrels, too. But unfortunately this year I'd have had to use the HOSE to fill them! :-D

~julie~

Julie, rain barrels are great until you tear your rotator cuff yanking a 3 gallon watering can out. Did that in 2002. OUCH

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I installed a hose bibb near the bottom of my rain barrel. Didn't have much pressure, but it worked.

Joy, I'm afraid I don't "do" the lifting part much anymore so there's not much chance of me doing that. (But I did get "tennis elbow" from yanking on the weeds so darn hard a couple of months ago...you should have seen my doc laugh at me!)

Darius...I was thinking of the same thing, a hose bib. Of course, I'll have to get a rain barrel first, tho. LOL

I've been outside gathering some of those Nicotiana seeds...and you know what? They're as 'sticky' as petunias! I'll have to use a brush to get the seeds OFF the stems! (Nahhhhh....I don't those anyway! :-D)

~julie~

Darius, remember you thought I 'threw away ' my other son? LOL. Well found a picture of him taken a few years back, here it is
I do remember my grandmother having rain barrels every where save a lot of trips to the well.
Maria

Maria, he's a cutie pie too!

Aha! the cobbler just popped out of the oven and at least gives the appearance of being tasty. Sweetened by a drizzle of honey rather than my usual sugar/cinnamon/nutmeg mix. Was so much out of "routine" that I forgot to add the spices. Sorry about that, I'll do better next time.
Julie, I've got the hose bib and rain, just lack the rail barrel. It does sound like a good project though. Might be fun to build a "water tower" a few feet off the ground to house a barrel next to the shop wall.
Help yourself to the apple cobbler, bland as it may be. A little cinnamon-brandy sauce on top of some French Vanilla ice cream doesn't sound too bad. I'm off to find a rain barrel.

Robert, I bought several plastic food grade 55 gal. barrels from a nearby Gerber (baby food) plant. They rec'd apricot puree in them. I paid $8 each, with lids. They last a lot longer than 55 gal. metal drums that rust out, but I also got one of those to burn trash.

Hi everyone. Today has the feel of fall in the air, cloudy, windy and only about 60 but still dry. Showers are possible in the next few days they say, but since we are on the dry slope between the valley and the mountains we seldom get much of it. Everybody hears about the rain in Oregon but that is the other side of the state. I live in the part you won't hear about unless it is on fire which thankfully is isn't at the moment as far as I can tell.

Welcome Joyous! It's nice to have you here yaking away with us and snacking on whatever goodies show up on the counter. Some of it is really basic like fresh fruit and some is downright exotic! Even the pictures make me drool........

Molly, maybe a new owner will let you keep renting without a hassle or raising the rent. Hope so. Moving is not anything I want to do again. We've been here 12 years and have lots of stuff.

One of my more spectacular falls happened a few years ago while crossing a barnyard carrying two buckets of water. Enough said! When I appeared in the utility room to get out of the wet and decorated clothes my sympathetic husband laughed and said he was sorry he missed it. We're still married.

Many of my flowers are looking heat stressed and won't recover until next season. I do have some Autum Joy sedum and a couple other types of that that are in their glory now, a few dahlias blooming, hollyhocks, a rose, snapdragons and a couple of mums but not much else I can think of. The 5 days I was gone took a toll on stuff but some of it was pretty sad when I left. At least 2 of those days it was 90 degrees with wind that really sucked the life out of them. Thankfully, they are perennials. I need to be out there with the pruners snipping tops off and adding the mess to the compost pile, and also need to mow the lawn. Off I go, see you later.