Good morning everyone.
Thought I'd post a bouquet to start out your day. It's not so beautifully arranged as Maria's, but I'm just glad that I still have some flowers out in the veggie garden.
Here's where we've been http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/649357/
Beutifful flowers,McCool, nice way to start the morning. Hope you have a a good day and the same to to all of you, It is only 43' here but sunny. Am off now to bake my bread
PS edited to say , how time flies today it is is 5 years ago when that awful day in NYC happened and everything has changed forever after.
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Good Morning- watching the 911 memories and it still is heart wrenching to me. I will always remember where I was. School had just started and an aide came in the room and whispered in my ear that one of the twin towers had been hit. Without any tadoo, I walked to the back of the classroom, turned the tv so that the children couldn't see it and turned it on. I was drawn to watching all this unfold and could hardly talk or teach!! We were instructed to NOT let the children see the tv, but everywhere I went the TV was on. The teachers watched it in their lunchroom and after school when I went to the hairdressers, they had tv's on there too.
I need to think about some kind of dessert to serve my folks for dinner tonight. Anybody have any ideas?? Last time they were here we had ice cream sundaes, so I don't want that again (now I could do it, but I'd like something different!!)
McC - pretty posies...I need to make another bouquet of dahlias. We've had strong winds and rain, so I'm unsure what is useable in the gardens.
Mary, I tend to think the same as you about docs. I've seen so many family members shaken by the 'could be' syndrone. Then they go thru tons of tests only to find out it was nothing. Someones pockets are surely being lined with gold.
Carat- what in the world do you do with all those machines!! I have 2 sewing machines, but use neither. I seldom sew a lick anymore. In younger days I made everything. But time passes. One of my machines is in a huge piece of furniture and the machine doesn't even work (kids turned every knob on it) I really should get rid of it, but it was my moms and I remember it growing up. Just can't think of throwing it out. It's in a bedroom collecting dust. Wine holder is looking good!!
Well, I have a major mess to clean up, so I need to get going....
Good Morning everybody. Have been up since 5:30, awakened by coughing. When is this junk gonna leave? I had told DH that I planned to sleep in, and to quietly tiptoe this morning. He is still in bed, and I can hear the snoring from the bedroom. Was gonna change the beds, but first have to get him out of it!
Have a good many green peppers that must be chopped and frozen, and then a trip to the bank and a quick stop at the grocery. Gonna invite my neighbor for dinner, as his DW is away on a trip to visit family. Don't know what I will fix, but it probably will be better than his cooking.
Was trying to think what DGD said the foal's name would be. Know it is in the precious gem family, one name was Saphire,but can't think of the other. The mom to be is Jade. Seems she gets on a theme and names everything in sight with a variation. LOL
Have been out to check on the pregant animals, and still have big bellies, no offspring.
Rained last night, and we certainly was able to use it. Today is cloudy and overcast, but the temps are still very moderate. Forecast is for the mid 80's. I had some outside work to do, but with the wet ground, no digging or planting, maybe some weeding.
Well, fixed sausage and biscuit for breakfast, grab some off the counter to have with your coffee.
Have a good day, and I will BBL
McCool, nice flowers! I sure wish I had some flowers already in this new place but they will have to wait until next year... or the year after. I do have a few flowering perennials that Bluespiral just sent, need to get them planted!
Brother Bobby was supposed to leave around 6 am today, and will call me from Savannah when he stops for a break. If all goes well, he will be here for supper.
That means I have to make a bed for him, move some boxes from the hallway to that bedroom, clean that bathroom and do some sweeping. I arranged some heavy boxes of my sister's stuff in her bedroom last evening, and will put a sheet of plywood on top of them. Then the inflatable bed. He's too old and fat to just sleep on it on the floor... and I'd never be able to get him up from the floor!
I have decided to postpone the colonoscopy so I can enjoy my brother's visit. It's been 5 years since the last test... what's a couple more weeks? I still have a neighbor who will take me.
Actually I'm hoping instead that I can get him to go with me down to my storage unit in NC, a 5 hour drive each way. I NEED some things from storage so I can get started on building the pantry. We have a place to stay there if we don't want to go and come back all in one day, although with help driving after dark I'd rather not stay over. I like my own bed!
When I get a call that he's actually on his way, I will start some bread dough and thaw something for supper.
Sarv, make the sopapilla cheesecake that's in the recipe forum. Easy and everyone loves it.
Have a great day everyone... BBL
Darius - served that last time we were together along with ice cream. They guys couldn't get the name correct - they kept saying - give me a piece of Sofie...we all got a laugh out of that..
McCool-Beautiful flowers! Thanks
It was 36 degrees at 7 am....oooh a little nippy!!
DH worked in 2 World Trade Center for years, I used to take the kids in and we'd hang out in the conference center on the 59th floor. I always thought after the first bombing, that someone would try again. I hated being as far as the 59th floor and NEVER went any higher! never went up to Windows on the World....funny huh? I wouldn't let the kids even go near the outer walls because the windows went from ceiling to floor with just a heating bar like a curb along the floor and it always seemed as though you could trip and sail right out into space!! On windy days, the whole thing swayed...We had left in 98 and moved up to Albany, so that's where we were the news came.
I had gone shopping and came home to 37 messages on the answering machine! Everyone who ever knew Dh was checking in, everyone checked on each other, and DH found that his former analyst had been trapped trying to get to the roof. Another former coworker had been on the phone with him when the tower went down.
I've never gone back and still see the towers as clear as day. A lifetime wouldn't be long enough to process it. 35 people from our church in NJ alone, died that day, almost all of them had young families. I couldn't help but wonder how you would explain it to your kids.
Okay, enough reminiscence about that...Lots of thoughts and prayers, though, especially for our country as we go forward, and for all the kids who will inherit our world!
darius-hope your brother arrives safely and that you have a wonderful (and productive) time.
defoe-MMMMMthanks for the sausage and biscuits, nice on a cold morning! Sure hope you're cold clears up, I wonder if it's aggravated by allergies? I've been very congested with allergies....
Time for a coffee refill. Be right back/
dmc, my son had a breakfast meeting up in one of the towers at (9:30 AM, the company he worked for always had their monthily meetings there, it was he was fortunate that he never got there
Here is my Limpa Bread, just had the heal, still warm, with a slab of sweet cream butter and honey, yum , have some.
BTW Sarv, no I did not fix the flowers on the previous photo, they were a get well gift from a dear friend
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!!
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I only have one regret about 9-11. I am to old to serve in the military. Would love to draw a bead on a lot of those people in the mid-east. I do not like the way I see the world dealing with the middle east. It will only get worse. I only live a short ways from Whiteman AF base. I would love to see them turn that hornets nest loose on some of those mid east countries. They want terror then they should get it in the form of carpet bombing and daisy cutters until they change their mind. B-52s could be an excellent terrorist tool. Beats anything the terrorist have.
Morning all. Here is what I got done yesterday. I was wiped out and too pooped to post them yesterday.
This is the bed now, I forgot to take before pics. I had a clump of Iris here and there and clumps of everything. Now I have spread my clumps around it looks better except for the hibiscus that is growing straight up..
And the place where I had the Hostas all clumped together....LOL Can you tell I liked to plant in clumps??
And my next project..........clumped cannas...
I'll try to get a pic of the Azalea this afternoon when the sun is off of it...............Lauri
Elaine, WOW I envy anyone who has brug blooms and yours are beautiful....I have 4 Brugs that are pretty shrubs and that is about it....Lauri
Elaine your brugs are beautiful i only wish for them..
Defoe should not have cough that long, i had one for months months was one heart meds changed it no more cough.. please find out what it is for real..
maria the bread looks so so good.. i wish was there..
Darius sounds like you have to build the whole house over.. lots work there but if somone ccame in here be same coming down around my ears.. lol.. i burn wood to..
Hello everyone.. have great day..
Laura ... I can't do half of what you do! LOL I have no idea why it even grows but I love it as it was a gift from a DG friend. :-)
Hi Twyla ... am ~ing. Posted at the same time and didn't see you.
Darius, hope you have fun with your brother.
Sorry, CRS ... can't remember what else I've read!
My brother who is a Vietnam Vet asked about call up, and they said F11... when he asked what that meant, they said when an enemy gets to F street and 11th in Washington, DC you will be called up.
(That's just a joke, folks.)
I can't watch all the 911 stuff either, painful on many counts.
My BIG Cushaw (pumpkin squash) is chopped up, and half is ready for the canner, all my canner holds is 7 quarts. I think maybe 4 quarts in the second batch. But it takes 90 minutes in the pressure canner for a run so I will be in the kitchen quite a while. I never leave the canner unattended for more than 2-3 minutes.
Bobby called from just south of Savannah. He got a late start but should be here before dark thirty.
Back from the huff/puff - sweaty like a pig too. Did eight minutes on the elliptical...I'm trying for 30 min of cardio and am up to 23min...I'll hit 30 before the week is out. Came home and had an 'everything' bagel with veggie cream cheese for lunch- had the same thing for breakfast!! Now all the bagels are gone...
The washer is going as is the dryer, dishes are in the sink soaking and I still need to vacuum. Thank goodness my mom's eyes aren't as sharp as when she was younger. I'm skipping dusting today!! It is so chilly here - I cranked on the furnace for awhile. We're supposed to hit 80 by Friday....can't wait!
IO1- glad the brug is blooming its heart out - do you have to dig them and bring them in for the winter. Mine are huge like trees and I don't know how I will ever get them into the house. I probably should just take some cuttings, but I have dismal luck rooting them. Yours looks very healthy - and green!!
I am mesmerized by all the 911 shows. The problem is they keep playing them over and over and over and then I am sick to death of all the coverage. Bal - I agree with you completely - sometimes you just have to take the bull by the horns and get the job done.
When my kids were in high school there was a principal that was so so strict. You knew that if you broke a rule - the consequences were sure to be given out - swift and just. He retired and they had two successive mambie pambie people (male and female) All discipline went to pots - kids were unruly and rude - staff meetings were joke. Now they hired another strict disciplinarian and the staff and parents are much happier. All this lovey duvey stuff and feel good stuff is worthless. Life is rough, when you choose wrong you pay the consequences. Ok, off my soap box for the day!!
Maria, bread looks wonderful. I went to the grocery store and picked up a big loaf of homemade bread for dinner tonight- no oomph to make one from scratch - drat-why do you have to live so far from me!!
M5- itches have abated so the doc is on the back burner for the time being (I'm ducking as you will be sure to holler at me!)
Well, time for get my butt in gear...
FORGET DUCKING, YOU BETTER JUST RUN!! It wll be back.
Just had an update from my brother... he's just south of Charlotte and beginning to feel the long ride. I think on the way home he will stop halfway overnight!
First canner run of pumpkin is off the heat and cooling down so I can open it and start the last batch in a little while. Bread dough is rising in the oven with the oven light for heat. I betcha my brother hasn't had homemade bread in years. Still don't know what else we will eat tonight, probably leftover porkchops in sauerkraut and onions. Fresh tomatoes.
Hello. Darius, the menu sounds great. I hope your brother has a safe trip, and I think your idea to have him travel with you to your storage unit is good, share the loading, share the driving.
By the time I turned on the tv it was so late I only got a little bit of the 911 program.
Sarv, how about making some kind of cobbler with whatever fresh fruit is available?
I'll be back later, now I need to get back to those weeds. ~~~ at all of you that I missed.
Hi everyone! Hope you all had a great weekend. I didn't even try to go back over the weekends happenings. Only another day and a half of work before I go to Vegas and I have lots to do both here at work and at home..
I had to turn off the radio on my way to work. They had people telling their stories of 9/11. My cousin caught the last train out of NY that morning. She worked in a building about 2 blocks from the world trade center. She heard the first plane crash and beat it out as fast as she could. She is so traumatized by the whole thing she still can't talk about it.. I can't even imagine how frightening it was for her and I am so thankful that she was one of the lucky ones who made it out. Members of our church went up and worked at one of the churches where they prepared food for the rescue workers. Ok, enough about that, it's making me too sad.
Got the hair chopped yesterday. Had about 6 inches taken off and then colored it last night.
Elaine - Beautiful brug! This is the first year that I have had one. No blooms though. I'm hoping I can get it through the winter and maybe next year it will bloom.
Gotta get back to work. ~~~~~~~~~~to you all.
Jam's done, kitchen's cleaned up, cook is pooped. Frozen pizza for dinner. Gonna go flop on the sofa and watch the idiot box.
IO1, brug blossoms are beautiful. Don't think I'll get any this year.
Sheila
Suzie, are you going on vacation or moving to Vegas?
I'm like you, I hate to see those images of the World Trade Center on fire and its collapse. I lived in NYC as a child, until I was 11. I lived straight north, one block from the park. We always knew that NYC was a target. I cannot watch an atomic blast on t.v. We were trained to dive under our desks in case of a nuclear attack. How silly! All that did was terrorize the kids. Many had nightmares and some, like me, never completely recovered from that constant talk about the possibilities.
I went to a local nursery, run by a young friend, and swapped her 5 groups of 3 iris rhizomes for a couple of pots of pinks. I love barter. I moved one more group of daylilies and now my iris bed is roomier. I had planted them too close together. I am going to try to use another area that is slightly sloped for more irises.
Don't know what to do about my rose bed. The raspberries on the terrace below grew too tall and are shading the roses too much.
I am working more on my plantings now that in the spring when my house was undergoing a rehab. Also I have a small triangular area near my front door to plant. It has only one small shrub in it and I don't remember what it is, lol. I guess I'll have to wait to see if it ever bloom and then take a picture.
Sarv, one of the machines was my mothers and has sentimental value. Still works perfectly but I am saving it for my daughter. Another was my first machine and can sew any thickness of material like it was nothing. I use it for repairing jean or canvas materials. I was given a machine in trade for some sewing work and have never even used it. I took it to SC and plan on giving it to my best friends daughter now that she is having a baby and has been asking alot about sewing. My first serger still works but doesn't do nice satin stitching which I use alot, hense the reason for the second one. My oldest embroidery machine was a gift from my inlaws almost 15 years ago and it still works but is not compatible with newer computers and software so it is very limited on the stitches and designs. My newest machine, the Innovis, was a gift from my parents just before they passed away. It can do everything from threading the needle to telling me if the bobbin is low on thread. Okay I will stop before I get started on how I love to sew....
Darius, I understand why you are postponing the test just dont forget about it. Hey when is the dentist appointment???
DMC, you and DH have some strong connections with the events of that day. I feel so blessed and lucky that no one I am close with was effected on a personal level. A teacher from a local high school was on the plane that went into the pentagon. All of our flags flew at half mast for her, and the staff of the school paid for a plane ticket and a room for her parents to attend the memorial service in NY today.
Elaine, your brug is beautiful.
Lauri, you really did do alot. Looks great.
Sarv, all those soft and mushy principals and the parents that are the same way are the very reasons that helped create my job.
Okay, well I really need to get my butt in gear and get some laundry done before the monster takes over the house. Hope everyone has a great evening.
Dinner is done (koosa was wonderful) and for dessert we had cookies= just enough of a sweet to take care of the sweet tooth.
DM and I played 2 games of scrabble - we each won one. Then I showed her how to play scrabble on my computer - she was delighted. I'd love to get her a lap top for just that game - I know she would have a ball with it. I gave DSF a haircut and then it was time for them to bamboose. They need to get home before dark as DSF doesn't drive safely at night.
Carat- what a thoughtful thing to do for those parents. I didn't know anyone involved, but still am teary eyed watching all the news reports. I just can't comprehend such evil.
Darius- is your bro there yet? Can't wait to hear what fun things you two do!!
Hi folks,
I'm taking a break at the moment before heading to my workbench to start on a repair job that I really am not excited about. (Hmmm, bad grammar, I'm sure.) Oh well, anyway, I've been busy making candles and cooking today. Ended up baking the veggie pie I was working on until the wee hours this morning and making a dessert squash pie as well --- poor planning on my part, but it used up a good deal of garden produce that otherwise might have ended up in the compost.
Had a nice chat with Bonnie and one with I01 today, so it hasn't been all work and no play!
darius, if you'd like some cosmos seeds to throw in your meadow area, just let me know. That goes for everyone else here too. I'm letting them self-seed again this year, but certainly don't want all the seeds to end up in there ----- they'd leave no room for the veggies or other flowers. I hope that you have a great visit with your brother. I know exactly what you mean about the "other" brother. I had an uncle like that and refused to be in the same house at the same time. He was also a bigot and a racist, which didn't help at all.
Wow, Casey, that's some sewing machine collection! I can understand from what you posted why you have so many, but have to say I'm glad it's you who have to move all of them and not me! I have one treadle machine, an antique version of a "portable" machine (cast iron, but worked by a handle instead of a foot treadle) and one electric one that I salvaged before it ended up in the dump. I haven't even tried that one out yet. I'm not that much of a sewer --- mostly just use them to mend things, but I like having a machine that will sew leather and heavy fabrics and if I do embroidery, it's by hand. (Haven't actually embroidered anything for at least ten years now.)
Lauri, good work! You've certainly had a productive weekend! Your plantings look great.
I01, beautiful flowers! Did that brug turn out to be one of the fragrant ones?
Sheila, LOL on Olivia wanting a name change. D.K also responds to "Baby" as my mother persists in calling her that. (I think that she's also starting to respond to "you little s**t" and I'm afraid that DH and I are responsible for that one. Like all young'uns, she's into EVERYTHING.)
Twyla, hi and how are you doing? I'm almost afraid to ask you that, as the answer usually makes me feel really bad for you. I've got my fingers crossed that this time you're not feeling too bad.
Maria, your bread looks wonderful. Maybe someday I'll have the time to try baking bread again. How's Samson liking the Autumn weather? I'd think that he'd be more comfortable in his "fur coat" now than he was during the heat of Summer.
Bonnie, sure hope that you have a restful night and don't get awakened by that cough again. Good luck with the timing of the foal's birth --- hope it doesn't get in the way of your schedule and everything goes well (ditto for the "designer pups").
Hi to suzieq, woodspirit, dmcd, sarv, Mary, oz, and anyone else out there. I'll be back later to post tomorrow's link, but for now, hi ho, hi ho, it's back to work I go.
Here's my brother at his arrival about 6 pm... SO glad he had a safe trip!
Later he took me for a bike ride, I should have taken a pic of me in the funny helmet!
Good day for all, lots of work done, and I finished up the jam. Froze three bags of peaches for pie, and made two batches of jelly. One Raspberry and one peach, then mixed some together. Sure is pretty. We haven't used up all of last year's yet, so some will be given as gifts.
Went in to ask DH what he felt like having for dinner, and at that moment a call came in from a business friend asking us to dinner at a steak house that is one of my favorites. Since two of the people out of the party of six were staying in hotels we got everyone's doggy bag, so dinner tomorrow will be filets, fettucine alfredo, veggies, bread, and a single baked potato. Oh, and a big stack of haystack onions. What a deal. It was fun, too. I know two of the people well, and the guest from the U.K. was very social and funny, so it was very enjoyable.
Casey, I wish I still had my old treadle machine, you could sew through armor with that thing! Be careful, you might talk me into a new machine....and then who would clean the house?
I'm sleepy and stuffed and I think it's time to say goodnight...so
Good night Gracie
Sheila
gab gab gab ... now how am I ever suppose to respond to all y'all! :-)
Darius, so glad your bro made it safe. Bet he enjoyed that supper you had ready.
sarv, too bad we don't live closer. I love to play scrabble but the DH doesn't care for it all that much so we never play. I have one that has Braille along with the print and the board has a waffle feel to it so the tiles will stay in place when I frisk the board. :-)
Well, I had the biggest surprise when I went to the mail box today. There was a box inside but I wasn't expecting anything. Of course I always get excited when there's a package, so I ran back to the house and opened it pronto. Inside there was a gorgeous little rosemary plant in the cutest little clay pot, a light ring with scented oils for it, 2 bags of chocolate candy and the sweetest little bear figurines that perch on the edge of a flower pot you have *ever* seen. It was all from McCool. :-) I was so surprised! Wow, I've been having birthday all month long! :-)
As far as the stuff on tv ... well, I just couldn't watch it again either. I was sitting there watching Fox news the morning it all unfolded. I can remember calling my Mother and telling her about the first plane and how the entire thing started ... and then the second plane and well ... I just can't watch it. It makes me cry. I'm just too tender hearted.
Okay, I know I've missed so much today, but need to get up from here for now. Thanks for all the compliments on my brug. Oh sarv, I almost forgot ... I'm not planning to bring it in since I'm in 8B. And to whoever asked ... it's not particularly fragrant, although I do think I get a hint of a smell ... but I certainly wouldn't list it as a fragrant flower.
Okay I'll just ~ to everyone for now.
nighty night.
Darius, should we start calling you a biker babe now? LOL Hope you enjoyed the ride.
McCool, luckily for me I have moved all but my Innovis and one of the sergers to SC already. I knew I wouldn't be needing the others and needed to clear out some of the clutter in that room. I then turned around and found a short 3 drawer dresser to transform into a thread cabinet. This project will start after the wine rack is done.
If you still have some of those cosmo seeds left after I am in the SC I would love some. They are one of my favorite flowers. I can only get them to hang around during the fall here. I usually will buy one, two or threee and place it with the pot in a nice container near my front door for some added color during the fall months.
Bonnie, I hope that the cough is better in the morning. If you are bringing up alot of phlem with it try some of the over the counter med call mucinex. It really is helpful. Be sure to check with your doctor first though, the chemicals in it can have some negative effects on other medications. Dont want you getting sicker from something that is suppose to help.
Took another layer of paint off the dresser. I tested a few spots with the sander and I think I am only a couple more layers away. Someone actually painted this thing BRIGHT school bus yellow at one time. I think I am going to have to alter my original plans of the piano hinged top. The way that the back is attached to the side panels I am afraid it would cause to much stress on the joints. So I may just end up having a larger area for more wine bottles. OH whoa is me. LOL
Realized this afternoon after we did a full analysis report that we are going to be able to release 92 of our 111 students by Friday. So we could be sitting with less then 30 students on campus next week depending on how many are brought in over the next couple of days. I am going to have to find something to keep myself busy. I dont do well with idle hands. Wish I was able to bring a book and read or had access to DG at work.
Hope that all have a wonderful day tomorrow, ~~~~~~'s to all.
Casey
DH is deeply involved in the Raiders football game and I think I am going to head to the bedroom with my book.
Former biker chickie
Guess who ???
heeeeeeeeeeeeee ;-))
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Well, the MIA queen is checking in. It has been a busy, but productive day. Did some laundry, and thought I had killed the laundry monster, but by the end of the day, had another load ready. So I am gonna do it first thing in the morning, and maybe for a day, he will be dead. Had to make a run to the bank and the grocery this morning, then spent a good deal of time in the kitchen cooking for my guest this evening. Made BBQ ribs, corn on the cob, green beans, fried apples, fresh homemade bread, and a chocolate "better than sex" dessert. He asked what it was called, and as I blushed and mumbled the name, he said "I doubt that". Had a laugh about that. His DW is visiting family, and won't be home until tomorrow night. He told us that her brother had passed away, so when she returns tomorrow night, she will need to go to Illinois on Friday for the funeral.
Not gonna comment to anyone other than Carat, Musinex has a binder in it that I am allergic to, so therefore can't take it. I tried it last winter and for 2 days did reap some benefits from it, but then the allergic reaction set in.
I01, what a pretty bloom you have. Sure glad that you are enjoying it.
Darius, glad DB arrived safe and sound.
M5, good job on the jam.
Sarv, glad you had a good time with parents.
I am gonna check a couple of other forums, and then off to bed for me. Plan on working outside tomorrow, but they are predicting showers again, so we will see.
McCool, enjoyed our chat this afternoon, sure sounds like you got busy right afterwards. Sorry to hear that you are still working.
~~~ frantically to others, please do not take it personally, but this bod is tired, and gonna lay it down shortly.
Good night John boy.
... had a lovely evening with my brother, glad he is going to stay a few days (I hope!). He has a small electrical problem with one tail light on the bike so he'll go to the Harley dealer in Aningdon tomorrow while I go fetch my chainsaw from the repair shop in Marion. I'll pick him up if he needs to leave the bike.
Goodnight, Gracie.
Hi again folks,
Finally finished the PITA jewelry repair. It's pretty late and I have to get up early tomorrow ----errrrr, make that today. So, goodnight to all, I'll post the link in a minute.
Here ya go http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/650172/ See you on the new thread.
Oh my goodness, Scooter, what a cute picture. WEEEEEE! Somehow I can't picture Darius on a motorcycle even as a passenger! Biker chicks, how funny.
Carat, that's a lot of sewing machines but I see that you have uses and reasons for keeping all of them. I never met a sewing machine collector before, I think you are unique.
Defoe, when are those designer pups due? We could have a little fun guessing the day, time, number and gender of the pups, with the winner not having to take one. Whaddya think?
I collected an envelope full of cosmos seeds when I was at my friend's house yesterday helping her get new plants into the ground. She had a sick kitty, he was a rescue and never has been strong, yesterday he had labored breathing which she said had been getting worse over the last couple of days. Today she took him to the vet, and apparently he had a hole in his heart, the vet just heard wooosh wooosh when he tried to listen to the heartbeat. There was nothing he could do for the kitty, so my neighbor had to make that hard decision to have the poor little guy put to sleep. I talked to her this afternoon, she is quite broken up over it. She lost a cat a few weeks ago to a rattlesnake bite, and another cat of hers disappeared a few months ago. It's been a hard year for her.
The fires are still burning, putting up a lot of smoke. I spotted smoke in a new area this morning, so I guess there is another fire to add to the list. The smoke changes color depending on how hot the fire is, this one was dark, whiter smoke is indicitive of a cooler fire. There was no smoke here today, and I could see most of the mountains on two sides of us. About the end of the week there is rain coming into the state from the Gulf of Alaska, and a cooling trend. I don't think we will get much rain, but the increased humidity and cooler temperatures will help the fire situation.
I have the tv on, watching 9-11 coverage. Amazing to hear the stories of heroism and survival even 5 years after the incident and yes, it is still hard to believe people would do such things.
Today I pulled a lot of weeds. My lasagna bed got very weedy over the summer, it wasn't cleaned well last fall, not much this spring and now I have major weeds to pull. I've covered about half the area and it was the worst part, so the rest will be easy. Some of my new plants will go in there, and I have plans to move some of the plants to better locations. First tho, I will take the tractor down to the neighbor's big piles of sheep barn cleanings and add several inches of new material to the area. some plants will simply be picked up, have new dirt put under them and be set back down so get their roots into it. Under that nice top layer is hard clay, and some of these plants are not doing very well.
My neighbor called me this afternoon to help him figure out why one of his horses is lame. When I drove down there I could see how the horse was standing and shifting his weight from foot to foot. One front foot seemed to be more sensitive than the other but I could see that they both hurt. I examined his feet and used a hoof pick to clean them but could find no abcess or foreign object. When we tried to move the horse he wobbled and was a bit uncoordinated. His owner had been planning to move all 3 of his horses to another pasture down the road about 2 miles and had his trailer ready to load them. I told him I didn't think this horse could move around well enough to go there, 25 acres of hilly pasture, and he ageed, so the horse was put into a small pasture with plenty of feed, water and shade. We also wormed him. The others were hauled to the new pasture where they will do ok. This horse has lost a lot of weight recently, I think he can't get around well enough to get enough to eat in a large area where feed is kind of sparse and there is only one source of water. He is also getting old and his teeth probably need attention, so it might be hurting him to chew. The owner and his wife are leaving on a week long vacation tomorrow so I will be watching this fellow closely. I don't know for sure why his feet hurt, but I think he has not been getting enough to eat because it is easier for him to stand than to move around. He seemed much more comfortable immediately when turned into the little pasture with softer ground. He will probably look a lot better in a day or two when his belly is full and the calories kick in to give him enough energy to walk without wobbling. A vet visit is in his future soon after his owners come home so they can make whatever decisions need to be made for treatment. Meanwhile, he will be ok.
Our missionary family in Romania have let me know that my hubby arrived safely. Modern communications are so nice.
It's late, I'm half asleep and it is time to lay down. Goodnight everyone.
