Coffee and...For Monday, April 10, 2006 =^..^=

Hi all please don't make much of my busyness it is mainly just this month and then back to my regular routine.

DR, Carol, I am so sorry for your loss. Know that you and your family will be in my prayers and also your dad.

Vann, our son is flying out of Syracuse. We are NOT city people and it is so much easier to get there than Rochester, I hate 390, 490 heck I hate all major many laned roads. Also it is a good excuse to go to Montezuma wildlife refuge eagles and ospreys are nesting. I can drive them but give me the back roads and then I can putt, say hi to the hawks and what ever else I see. I also can get som photos.

Dmc, I have a miniature shop at NYS first farm and craft market. It is called The Windmill. I have been there since June 1987, ds was a 6 month old babe. Now he is a 6'3" "babe" LOL. No web site, for my shop more than I want to do but here is the addy for our Market.

www.thewindmill.com

Molly have fun with the oven. The only good thing about cleaning mine is I don't have to bend over it is a wall one. But then I still don't bother very often.

GG wonderful about the job. Love DH but it sure takes grace to do it 24/7.

Well got the shop painted and don't like it! But that it that and it is clean and bright. Got the car cleaned out and I hope son is packed. It has been an absolutely beautiful day. Oh, and I got the Mantis out and could not start it ds did in about 3 pulls. Walked it down the yard and to the garden and tried to work up some of the area. Bounce, bounce bounce.....it will take some time to learn how to use it but it sure did a number on the soil that I did manage to work up. Will continue to report on it. I will say I have no arms left after painting for four hours and then messing with the tiller, muscles here I come!

better get supper going I'm hungry,

Joy~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~to those I didn't get to reply to.

edited to say my shop is on the "S. Street of Shops" page and it is called "Little Things of Joy"

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Oh yum, Maria! I just *love it* when I come in for coffee and you've been baking!! :) I'm swiping 2! *grin* LOL
... Elaine

Susie, yes that is what my table is, it was my husband's
Great Gtandparents. It makes a pretty large table

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Back again - folks made it home safe and sound and it was SO good to see them again! After a bit it seemed like they hadn't even been gone. My dinner turned out delicious and we all had a wonderful time chatting! DM and I even got in one game of scrabble - I beat her by a whisker (she got the X right at the end LOL)

DR, I am without words about your brother. If only they knew the heart ache they leave behind in doing something like that. And my heart goes out to your dad having to handle something like that during his stressful time. Such a shame for everyone..If there is anything any of us can do, please tell us...

Wood, I've read the Amy T. books - love them. Another of my favs is James Patterson -he always writes good mysteries. My aunt buys 3 or 4 books a week and gives me all of them. I can't bear to get rid of them, I pass on as many as I can. She only reads mysteries and I get tired of a steady diet of just that. So I visit my local library often!

GG - HOORAY Bill is back to work.....bet he will be in a better mood now! What's wrong with your legs???

I typed a long long post and it went poof- said refresh etc. I was so ticked, so tonight I'm not going to ramble on..

HI to everyone....pass the cookies...

Well, I have calmed down. I know that the fault with the computer is not all the fault of ISP, but one frustration after another, and I had not been happy with the ISP over some other stuff, so it just came to a head today.

Carol, I just can't find the words to express how terribly sorry I am for your loss. I have never had to deal with suicide first hand, but I am sure that it is not easy. Just try to remember him in a happier time, and know that what ever demons he was battling, he is at peace now. Please try to encourage your DF to hire a lawyer to handle the many things that must be done. He doesn't need the added stress right now.

Everybody else, Please know that I have read all, chuckled at the appropriate places, smiled at the animals cute faces, felt the dirt that you worked on my hands, and felt the pride that you feel when you accomplish gardening tasks. But the is just way too much to comment on.

On an up note, sometime ago I told you that Mr. B had a "date" and that we would be awaiting the jouous event. Well the birth of the puppies was yesterday. 2 boys and 4 girls. They are very tiny, and marked just like their proud papa. I will wait a few days, and try to get a picture to let you see our new family.

Well off to give the proud papa a good bath, as he rolled in something pretty stinky outside awhile ago, and sharing my bed like this is not an option. He is gonna be so pi****.

Later

dcat-proud papa had a celebratory roll?LOL...looking forward to the puppy pictures!!

Kelly-meant to celebrate with you too getting Bill back to work! Hooray!!

sarv-good for you too having a nice visit with the parental units.

joy-I just visited your shop! It's great, the whole market looks like a fun place to go. thanks for the link

Evening all,

Have been mostly sitting here sniffling, snorting, and sneezing today. Not enough energy to get much of anything done.

Had a nice chat with Bonnie who called earlier. I didn't know that Mr B had gotten into anything nasty though. Good luck with the bath!

My seedlings are mostly doing pretty well. Just got the second set of grow-lights set up today and am waiting for the best time to start transplanting some of these seedlings into peat pots. I have a question for the most experienced among us. If I just transfer the pots into the greenhouse (cold-frame for the cool weather crops) without doing the hardening off process (a couple of hours outside first, then a longer time, etc.) am I likely to lose most of them? I got the greenhouse mostly because we don't get much light in the house and my work schedule doesn't permit much gradual introduction to the great outdoors.

Carol, I'm so very sorry about the tradgedy in your family. I'm sure neither of your parents needed the additional stress, nor did you! Having a lawyer handle the legal mess that your brother left sounds like a good idea.

Thanks for the cookies, Maria. They sound great (apricot jam is my favorite).

GG ---- boy can I empathize! Hoooraay!!! I know exactly what you mean as I was beginning to at least contemplate divorce while my husband was at loose ends and constantly underfoot --- not only at home, but at my place of business as well.

Hi, Joy, good luck with this season's business! I've ended up the only dealer in my area who carries miniatures at all. Business has picked up because of this, of course, but it still isn't enough to carry the store. If that was all I had, I'd be in big trouble.

Darius, good to see you here and I hope we'll have the benefit of your posts more frequently once you get the cables set up.

Also good to see you a bit more, Molly. That's some dog you've adopted! I'll admire her from afar, if you don't mind. I've always been a cat person and I think that the dogs all know it immediately.

Dmcd, nice pic of the horse. That's another animal that I prefer to admire from afar. They're just so BIG! I do love to watch them run, but prefer not to be anywhere near (and especially not on top).

Tgif, nice pic of the clematis. I keep thinking that I should try planting one to climb the light post or the mailbox out front, but that's as far as it's ever gotten.

Sarv and Woodspirit, I also like Amy Tan's work although I'm mostly a Science Fiction reader.

Hi to Susan, 101, lauriwilson, M5, suzieq, Vann, Mary, pati, and Dianne. Also ~~~~~ to any of the regulars who haven't been around yet today. I wish you all a restful night and sweet dreams.

Carol, I just cannot express how sorry I am for your loss and all of the implications it will have in your family. Your father and mother let alone you and any others sibs did not need this added to your already full plate. Please know that you and your loved ones are in my thoughts and prayers daily. My DS thought she might like to try the "suicide" route and put us all through hell - she lived but to this day blames us (me to be exact) for stepping in and getting emerg help there on time. Well, I can still see myself when I look in the mirror each morning. Things aren't resolved completely but will with time. Who is the one (she calls )this past week_ to tell me she has wet grangrene in her right foot and will probably need a quad bypass before 2 weeks is up??? Guess she understands I listen to her pleas and will act without her consent if I have to. Hard to get a doc to treat my sis as she won';t let them into the house. Hate to be cruel here but I have this image of my sis's foot danglng out the mail slot and the doc trying to inspect it from outside while on his knees. LOL...... but really it is not - just very sad. I live an 8 hour drive from my sis so just can't take off and help or assess the situation firsthand. Oh man this is going to be a long week.
You are right DMC NO ONE appreciates warm spring days like a northerner. I spent the bulk of the morning out in the gardens raking, gawking and more raking So glad you were able to see all of Maria's pic of her cherished farm houseI knew yo u would enjoy them and she really is the person to have their brain picked about all of that. Right MAria?
Need to go and get dinner either on the table or just pretend we have ate and it is all cleaned up....... but I have a funny story to tell that happened this afternoon at work. A fellow came in with his 2 out of control kids, - the whole store goes on high alert- Tom completes all of his shopping, pays for the groceries and walks out with the twins never giving his groceries and what he had been doing the last half hour another thought. LOL..... I was on the floor laughing - I called him at home and he had just then missed the groceries as he needed toilet paper and was going to start dinner. This one takes the cake as far as I am concerned!!.
HAve a great night all. Hope the storms are settling down and all of you are out of harm's way.
Hugs and smiles across the miles

Dianne

I don't know about that, Dianne, there are times when I think it is not just the old house I miss it is all the happiness I had there and is no more just like as the house is lost to me. Bur such is life, memories become more important then the future when one lives in the autumn of ones lives. When one knows dreams once hoped for to become a reality never will come true.
I would have laughed to about the man and his twins, I like to know what he was thinking and what he would like to do, LOL

It was abeautiful spring day today, first there was frost early morning but the sun warmed up to the 60's did not go anywhere just walked around with Samson, the maniac, lol

Joy, you live at the fingerlakes? The country side is very beautiful there, spent about a week in that area, on a lovely vacation trip.

McCool, I had to chuckle about not wanting to get near a horse, well that is me too. You should have seen me when first married and my husband, who was quite an equestrian, trying to get me on his horse, no way, dug in my heels faster then any other time, not this city slicker was going to climb this huge beast lol, he never asked me again. Thank goodness!

oops, defoe, naughty baby getting into messes you have to clean up, not much fun for you nor him, he is going to be a very unhappy feller tonight when he can not be where he wants to be

Sarv, I bet your reliefed your parents are back save and sound but you doid not say how does your mother feel, I thought she had a problem with her health if I remember correctly.

Hello to the rest of you, glad you enjoyed the cookies, there are a lot left for tomorrow so do not forget

I better stop now before DG eats it up again as it happened to me three times today

sarv,
My NeuroDermatitis,,I was diagnosed last year,,,not much that can be done for it, except avoid stress,,,,LOL Like That's ever going to happen,,,I get really itchy and break out,,,,from the stress of the past 6-8 weeks they are really broken out. I'm glad it's my legs and not may arms much anymore.

dcat,
Can't wait to see the new family,,,,Love puppies,,,LOL

dmc,
Thank-You.

McCool,
So sorry to hear that you are sick. Hope it passes quickly. My business is in my home,,,so he was around All the time also. One of us would have ended up in jail or a white padded room.

KG,
Sure hope your sister gets the help she needs. Terrible when people won't go to the Dr. when clearly they need to. What a funny story,,,LOL

Well, getting awfully tired,,,way past my bed time again. Falling asleep at puter.

Kelly

Maria, Mr. B got his bath, has done his pouting, and is resting at my feet, waiting for me to signal it is time for bed. For the life of me, I cannot understand why he hates a bath so much. I know that he feels better, as he rolls around on the floor, and seems like he enjoys the after bath play.

The puppies are so tiny, and so very cute. They are all marked just about like he is. The mama has some black markings, and that has translated to the offspring as a darker color brown. And no, I am not taking pick of the litter, thank you very much. There is a stud fee, and I will enjoy spending it on plants!! He does have another "date" arranged for approximately 3 weeks. This is for a friend of DS. I have told him that he can take the pick of the litter, and sell if he wants. Our house does not need another dog. When you count DH's rat terrier, his pet, and 4 beagles, that is a total of 6, and as far as I am concerned, that is 5 too many. Mr B would be an only fur kid, if I had my way.

Well, Sarv, glad that the parents got home. How is your mother's health? And did you mention some problems with SF's mental state?

McCool, I didn't mention the smelly dog problem when we talked, because it hadn't happened at that time. Our neighbor has some cows in the pasture next to our yard, and I suspect that the smell was from cow droppings, that Mr. B found over there. Or that's what it smelled like!! Sure hope you get to feeling better.

Maria, we all tend to have "fond memories" of things, especially happy things. If it involves houses, or places where we were happy, time seems to romanticize them. The opposite is also true. I have horrible memories about the first place DH & I lived after we were married. Our house burned, and for newly weds, not having much to begin with, and loosing quite a few items, that is not a happy memory at all. About 4 years ago, I even drove by the property, to see if I had better feelings, and the place was unrecognizable, but those memories were still there.

KidneyGuy, I don't think I have every done something like your customer did, but have left lesser purchases behind because my mind was already on the "next" thing I needed to do. Add some twins to that mix, and I am not surprised!! I am a twin, so I can speak with authority!!

Joyous, DH just said that he was going away tomorrow, and did I want him to start the Mantis before he left, so that maybe when I got ready to use it tomorrow, it would start for me? I have trouble too, and if it doesn't start for me tomorrow, I am going to take it in to be services. They say the carbs need to be adjusted for the climate in which they will be used. Maybe you have mine, and I have yours? Want to trade?

GG, glad that Bill is back at work!! I know that it will make YOUR life easier.

dmc, thanks for the link to the equine forum. I have added it to my watched list, as if I needed anything else to watch. I think that DH is buying DGD another horse, I heard him making some calls tonight. She wants a quarter horse, but he is a little leery, and is trying to talk her into a walking horse. She thinks that she wants to race barrels, but methinks that she needs a few more years of riding before that.

Well, I have rambled, tonight, but it is because of the withdrawal that I have had today. I will make an effort to keep up tomorrow, and a better effort holding my temper.

Good night, and wishing a restful sleep.

~~ at those I didn't mention by name.

Well, looks like I'm the last again. :-( I just don't know where my day has gone.

I promise I have read everything but am just too tired to comment. Please forgive me if I just wave to all. I do want to say {{{Carol}}} even though I said it earlier. Just can't seem to get it out of my mind. Please know that each of you have become very special, and I *treasure* your friendship.
... Elaine~~~

I had a nice day today. My DS came up and we wandered around outside and admired all my plants. LOL

Then he called his GF and asked her to drive up when she got off work and have dinner. Since we had not met her, I was excited. This is his first GF and he is 30 years old. He is really happy for the first time. She seems like just what he needs and seems to really like him. I really hope so. He has always wanted a wife and family so bad, but never seemed to find anyone. She is so sweet.

Here is a picture of them. She wasn't real thrilled with the 'purple' hands, but we just overlooked that. LOL

I fixed pizza meatballs for dinner. It turned out really good and it is very easy to do.

Better go get the daily up because I need to go do the spca payroll so I can have it by Wednesday.

Susan
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Here is the daily for tomorrow

http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/590887/

I hope everyone has a good night.

Susan
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LOL Susan ... I thought you were saying Grandfather and that just wasn't making any sence to me! I told y'all I had been up toooo late!! LOL LOL Am definitely headed for bed now before I make an idiot of myself! :)
... elaine

What's with the purple hands?

The light from the camera, I hope. LOL
I think this may have been taken into the mirror, Dustin is holding the camera and I think he took the picture, so the color is probably off. btw her name is Holly.

Susan
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