Scattelogical ramblings and desultory humor - User's Guide

Thanks, DonnieBrook :-)

I am sending you and Carrie a metaphysical piece of the house: enjoy!

Yummmm, and it's so low calorie! One would think one was eating air it is so light! (Please note correct use of apostrophe.....) I've kept you from your marking long enough.......Sorry! (I spent 10 years marking, so I have true empathy for you!)

Finished until tomorrow. :-)

I've made gingerbread trains in the past, but never attempted a house. The cookies are also soft, and my favorite Christmas cookies.

I made a full-scale gingerbread house. The mice were horrible.

How long did you live there?

Until the witch showed up & shoved me in the oven.

Dave47, I don't remember doing that. Sorry, Patti

Patti, You caught me off guard. Very funny!

Dave 47, Yes, you must not having been paying attention, but I was obvious an utter failure, as I can still here you.

Seandor, I loved seeing your ginger bread house. I must do one next year. Inspirational.

Hey, Al, can I borrow those shoes? I did the Christmas eve table in black, white, and silver. I dressed in the same colors, but I had boring shoes. I still have my tree up as we just had our last holiday gathering yesterday. We are slow.

The weather going to be in the high 50's if not mid 60's tomorrow. I am heading out with my brush cutter and big loppers to do battle with more of the bramble on the edge of the yard. My DH went to VT, but I thought while he is away, I can get away with more clearing. He will see the piles when he gets back, but what can he do then except help me chip them. Patti

You can hear me?!

Utter failure? dat's a shame dere dontcha know, we'll hav ta put her down.

Dave47, Hear, Hear, I knew you would catch that! I just wanted to make sure that the real dave47 had survived the oven.
I am parking my broom and going to bed. I spent way to much time today fooling around with a spread sheet for a bulb coop and I am eye weary. Patti

Good idea,those free range bulbs never work out.

G'night Patti

Goodnight Gracie!

It's not my bedtime yet.

You're not Gracie. you're George.

The Animal Steele?

Huh??

I was on Burns & Allen.

why are you thievin animals?

Bigcityal, I am already in the prone position with my laptop at a very precarious angle. It is just a question of whether I have the energy to move it off the bed before I fall asleep. I will be an easy target to drop like a stone. Hey, I did con my 92 year old mom to help me plant bulbs when she came for the holidays. I will most a picture tomorrow of her bulb planting skills. She had a great gentleness to her drop, plus she almost always holed it. Must be her Scottish blood. She will out live George. Patti

He was a wrestling icon:
http://www.georgesteele.com/animal/bio.htm
Burns&Allen was before my time by 30 or 70 years I think.

say "Goodnight" Dick

Patti - did you get her to whitewash your fence too.LOL

bigcityal, Darned if I didn't try. She still scrubs and reseals the decks at her summer cottage in Canada every other year so I was hoping to get her to do ours. That is when she isn't our in her canoe or swimming. Plus she is still up at this hour, either reading or on her computer. Patti

Was she into your caffeinated soda again?

No, she drinks black coffee, tea, and water, no ice. As well as white wine, scotch (single malt from Islay) and an occasional liqueur. I drink water, juice, wine (any color) tea, coffee, but no soda. I think she gets it from being too busy to take the time to get tired. She wears me out. Patti

Listen to your mom!

I'm worn out hearing (hering? herring?) about her? x, Carrie

does she want to visit CT? She can stay here.

Yeah, there's tons of room in our house - after she cleans out the garage and moves all the storage stuff in there! You know we're kidding , Patti, right?
xxxx, Carrie

Carrie, Of course, I am just giving you a break before I post pictures of wonder woman. I don't think any of you would be ready for her. I am still recovering. She doesn't much like herring, but has no trouble hearing when she is here. I am avoiding her this week with all the election chatter, we would fight. She left me her rum ball recipe, which I will post tomorrow with some the pictures. Patti

Patti is living in the world of homonyms lately!

That's a fun world, Dave. My DD#2 is only just too old to be amazed anymore at all the different spellings of the sound "to". It's been useful, because she's in a French immersiin program, and there are (it seems from hear here) oodles more homonyms in French because the same letters in the same order but with or without an accent mean different things. Not in the since of your mother is a fish instead of your mother is wonderful, but nonsensical, like let's go two the library. Luckily i know enough French from High School to spot the trouble words - I don't always know when it's correct, but I know which words I always got wrong. French is Homonym City!
x, C

OK, drum roll. Mom and me planting bulbs on Dec 23. Note the deft handling for a perfect drop by the old gal (92) and please ignore the blond with the electric drill. Mere hired help. I got Mom to plant a few hundred with me in this sweet fern bed, which I will dutifully cut back before the narcissus bloom. Poor Carrie, I am going to post one more of her on Xmas eve at dinner. Then no more until she goes bungee jumping or bull riding. Patti

Great teamwork!

That is unreal Patti. Ground has been froze solid here for two months. Way to go MA!

Here is the last on, promise. Patti

My dear neighbor helped me break and haul a 25' cement walkway into my back yard when he was a mere 90. Old people rock!

We should all look so good and be able to do such things at 92 !
You GO, MOM !!!