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Kathy, You're not going to make us get up at 4am, are you?
I just can't be a hunter gatherer that early in the morn.

bj, the girls usually don't lay until after 8:30, so you are safe

Had to share:


press 'next' after each section...

http://pixiesplace.com/trainride/

Thanks Betty... that's priceless.

Let's everyone remember Marion in our thoughts and prayers today as she travels to her mom's... and remember her mom too as she recovers from her bad fall.

Good, Kathy... cause I'm thinking of this as a Labor Day vacation... and I don't think Marion can get up that early either...

This is wat I have been working on. My first bowling ball.
Linda Kay

bj, i plan on spoiling y'all

Wow Linda Kay, you've been craftily busy!! Congrats! I think I'd love to use my old bowling balls and turn them into giant critters like ladybugs!!

Betty, thanks for the link. I love it, and one thing I do trust, is my train Engineer ;)

Too funny reading Deborah wanting to borrow Don. Yep, BJ, you'll never get him back, he'll be on that train of Desperate DGers!!!

Hey Sis, yep, that's Ms. Alice. She's from Pa., of the Harris and Karchensky store. Sorry the gifts were not sent at one time, she must boxed them separately on account of the different sizes.

Poor Marion, hope this time you'd have something comfy to sleep on.

Sorry BJ, you are in so much pain. Sending pleasant thoughts your way, dear one.

I can visualize you all ladies getting up early just to pick eggs! But nothing beats the taste of fresh yolks! First time I picked up fresh laid eggs, I was taken aback by their warmth.
Thing I envision more is Sis, Joyce, BJ, Marion, Audrey and Deborah cackling above the hens!!!! Oh what fun that will be.
Sis, how many more goodies will be laid out for all? You will indeed spoil everyone, and you've already spoiled me without me ever seeing you!!!
Sheesh....I wannna go so badly, but too close to the appointments already penned out for the month. It's non stop for both of us :(

Edited to correct myself. Sorry Linda K, tis you with the bowling ball.

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I loved that Betty. Copied it and emailed it, too!

Thanks for sharing!

sis, i will make sure the table is always full while they are here.
spinach dip, devil eggs,pies, fried turkey, burgers, potatoe salad, baked beans, you get the picture

They'll need double stomachs Sis!!

i really wish you could come too. :o(

Well most of you know that I had a colonoscopy and waiting for biopsy, not to worry but received this and thought it was worthy of posting...

Thought I'd post the following..always humour in everything right?

Dave Barry's Colonoscopy Journal

I called my friend Andy Sable, a gastroenterologist, to make an appointment for a colonoscopy. A few days later, in his office Andy showed me a color diagram of the colon, a lengthy organ that appears to go all over the place, at one point passing briefly through Minneapolis.

Then Andy explained the colonoscopy procedure to me in a thorough, reassuring and patient manner. I nodded thoughtfully, but I didn't really
hear anything he said, because my brain was shrieking, quote, 'HE'S GOING TO STICK A TUBE 17,000 FEET UP YOUR BEHIND!

I left Andy's office with some written instructions, and a prescription for a product called 'Movi Prep,' which comes in a Box large enough to hold
a microwave oven. I will discuss Movi Prep in detail later; for now suffice it to say that we must never allow it to fall into the hands of America's
enemies.

I spent the next several days productively sitting around being nervous. Then, on the day before my colonoscopy, I began my preparation. In accordance with my instructions, I didn't eat any solid food that day; all I had was chicken broth, which is basically water, only with less flavor.

Then, in the evening, I took the Movi Prep. You mix two packets of powder together in a one-liter plastic jug, and then you fill it with lukewarm water.

(For those unfamiliar with the metric system, a liter is about 32 gallons.)

Then you have to drink the whole jug. This takes about an hour, because Movi Prep tastes - and here I am being kind - like a mixture of goat spit and urinal cleanser, with just a hint of lemon. The instructions for Movi Prep, clearly written by somebody with a great sense of humor, state that after you drink it, 'a loose watery bowel movement may result.' This is kind of like saying that after you jump off your roof, you may experience contact with the ground.

Movi Prep is a nuclear laxative. I don't want to be too graphic, here, but: Have you ever seen a space-shuttle launch? This is pretty much the Movi Prep experience, with you as the shuttle. There are times when you wish the commode had a seat belt. You spend several hours pretty much confined to the bathroom, spurting violently. You eliminate everything. And then, when you figure you must be totally empty, you have to drink another liter of Movi Prep, at which point, as far as I can tell, your bowels travel into the future and start eliminating food that you have not even eaten yet.

After an action-packed evening, I finally got to sleep. The next morning my wife drove me to the clinic. I was very nervous. Not only was I worried about the procedure, but I had been experiencing occasional return bouts of Movi Prep spurtage. I was thinking, 'What if I spurt on Andy?' How do you apologize to a friend for something like that? Flowers would not be enough.

At the clinic I had to sign many forms acknowledging that I understood and totally agreed with whatever the heck the forms said. Then they led me to a room full of other colonoscopy people, where I went inside a little curtained space and took off my clothes and put on one of those hospital garments designed by sadist perverts, the kind that, when you put it on, makes you feel even more naked than when you are actually naked.

Then a nurse named Eddie put a little needle in a vein in my left hand. Ordinarily I would have fainted, but Eddie was very good, and I was already lying down. Eddie also told me that some people put vodka in their Movi Prep. At first I was ticked off that I hadn't thought of this, but then I pondered what would happen if you got yourself too tipsy to make it to the bathroom, so you were staggering around in full Fire Hose Mode. You would have no choice but to burn your house.

When everything was ready, Eddie wheeled me into the procedure room, where Andy was waiting with a nurse and an anesthesiologist. I did not see the 17,000-foot tube, but I knew Andy had it hidden around there somewhere. I was seriously nervous at this point. Andy had me roll over on my left side, and the anesthesiologist began hooking something up to the needle in my hand. There was music playing in the room, and I realized that the song was 'Dancing Queen' by Abba. I remarked to Andy that, of all the songs that could be playing during this particular procedure, 'Dancing Queen' has to be the least appropriate.

'You want me to turn it up?' said Andy, from somewhere behind me. 'Ha ha,' I said. And then it was time, the moment I had been dreading for more than decade.

If you are squeamish, prepare yourself, because I am going to tell you, in explicit detail, exactly what it was like. I have no idea. Really. I slept through it. One moment, Abba was shrieking 'Dancing Queen! Feel the beat from the tambourine ... and the next moment, I was back in the other room, waking up in a very mellow mood.

Andy was looking down at me and asking me how I felt. I felt excellent. I felt even more excellent when Andy told me that it was all over, and that my colon had passed with flying colors. I have never been prouder of an internal organ.



ABOUT THE WRITER: Dave Barry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist

Just the word...'nuclear laxative' tells me everything I need to know on how potent that is!!!!
I'll remember the vodka trick if ever they gave me a Movi Prep!
Thanks Betty! I'll certainly share this wise info!! Lolol!

ROTFLMAO!!! That was so funny, and so true! Not so funny when it was me going throught it!
Hope everyone is doing just fine and dandy!
Later
Linda Kay

Dollie hits Tx. shore....but we're getting severe thundershowers here. So, will be offline till it subsides.
Bon...here comes the rain, and it did drop to the 80s!!

LOL... too funny.
The one thing I told my DR when I had mine was that the only thing his sheet of instructions didn't tell me was to be sure to have some vasaline ready when the nuclear explosion happened... because the burn was worse than the stuff I had to drink.

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Well Helloooo!

OMG, thought i'd drop in to see you all here and dang if i haven't spent a good portion of afternon in laughter.

My face hurts from laughing at all the funny reads.
...was just rolling at the signs posting...still giggling.

You are too much!!

Oh goodnes Marion, I sure hope mom mends quickly.
Yikes, Jaye hope that storm moves quickly.

Nice job on bowling ball!
And oh my what cute little bead insects. Love all but fave is the peacock.
They would be adorable in the tiny gardens.

Well, better get some work done, yahoo end of day for me.
LOL, wish i had a sign earlier, waaaaa, was thinking it was thursday!
Judy

well, it's gentle here so far - just a bit of thunder and rain, Jaye

me, too. having a pleasant afternoon reading all I've missed and laughing. Sounds like jordankittyjo is spending her summer cooking! making me so hungry!

hey jo - I could use a good recipe for chow chow

ROTFLMAO-repeatedly!! ANyone who has a had a bd cold or food poisoning geets a taste of the Nuclear laxative, and ever since I had my gall bladder out I get a case of it from too greasy of food-but that fact that his toilet needed a seatbelt and the 17,000 fett of hose!!! Oh boy, another thing to look forward to when I get older!!YEAH!!

Wasn't gentle here Bon. A storm followed by more storms!!
Lightning and thunder too close to the house more than a couple of times. Wasn't a good feeling at all, and we now know what the Iraqis and the Afghanis are going through. We haven't even checked outside as it's still raining, and we must separate Mama Tootsie from her kitties before 10, for her surgery tomorrow.
Thank God, the house is intact. Lights just returned to normal and almost time for Project Runway.
Hi Judy! I can see you just trying to hold back your guffaws and not appear strange!!
A jar of vaseline will be in my purse when its' my turn to do it, BJ!
But Stacey, colon cleansing is the best thing actually to rid your body of toxics!!

Not in your purse, Jaye... sit it next to the toilet. Use it often.

Edited to say that you use it while you're drinking the gallon of that yucky stuff the day before.

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LOL Fairy! I hear ya Loud and Clear! My body thinks its 95 years old anyway.

We got a good storm yesterday, drizzle yesterday afternoon, and another storm missed the house by about 2 miles. I hope everyone makes it ok from dealing with Dolly.

Great story Betty! I'm going to forward it to my mom, her husband just had one done about 3 weeks ago!

Jaye, we never got much but gentle rain. Chatham Cty/Chapel Hill however. got some very severe storm warning, excepting a lot on broken pines and building damage.

I guess like 35,000 people are without power in Little Rock tonight because of a severe thunderstorm that blew through there at 4:45 this afternoon. I drove home in it and it didn't seem that bad to me LOL I guess I missed the bad part.

Y'll are too much! Had some storms here on and off, nothing too bad, but kept me off the computer a lot today. Hope everybody is doing well!!

You're lucky to be on the road while a severe storm's going on Crissy!!
I give thanks to Him that you all are okay too... and the hurricane season hasn't ended. The ground's soaked enough that I won't be watering for the next 4 days. Just the ones in the pots. The explosive sounds caused by the lightning were so bad, that my little Chi hyperventilate from fear. Poor thing, Papa had to pick her up and held her tight against him, reassuring her.
Nope, still have not seen outside. Hope there are no damages to the only few trees we have.
On the good side, at least we get to see Project Runway!
Ok, BJ...got ya! Use it before bathroom trip, and look for one with a seatbelt ;)
My FIL was given some strong stuffs too at the hospital. His description after the ordeal was that he felt like a thousand ballbearings were coming out of his **s!!!
On that note, good night my sistahs. May we live to laugh another day!!

Jojo...my dial up takes forever to post the above! Want to tell you again, your royal gnome family is much envied!

I hope everything turns out ok from the storms Jaye. I love my gnome family. I have them on the mantle with Bailey right now. I keep going over to look at them and touch them. the detail on all of them and their little home is just so great. I can't get over them!! I'm in Gnome Heaven LOL!!

You'll certainly have a 'gnome-mentual' collection! Okay, I'm sure a castle is in your plans too!

Oh yes I want to restore Ellenia's crown! A castle is definately in order, maybe even a carriage!! I'm thinking it should be pulled by mice and maybe a toad coachman...kinda Cinderella in reverse!!

Then you may start tea parties for all the gnomes in the area!!
That is just too sweet of Lou to ensure you get the royal treatment! You truly deserve that!

Well you know I was thinking that she may need a roaly navy too...wonder where I can find a Gnome with sailing experience...

If Stacey were to read this in the morning, she'd be not only looking for a royal navy for you, but a royal airforce too with giant mosquitos!!!
Let me have the pleasure of looking for a gnome chef for you Jojo. All royalty needs their own personal chef you know!
Glad to get to spend some time with you. Now I must retire as this servant has much to do in the morning, and a slacker, I won't want to be!!
Love ya Jojo and Zman and Sterling too!

Good to talk to you too my dear. Stay safe and sweet dreams!!

Mornin' Sistahs,
Well, it's another day in paradise here. Don's finishing the stair rails today... and I'm NOT staining today. I'm sorry, but it's just going to have to cool off a bit for me to do that. Guess I'm going to get the laundry done so I can pack Don for his trip to Wisconsin tomorrow.

How is everyone in DG land today? What you all up to?

Good morning all y'all.

Seems like stuff is just breaking down all around me. First my son's jeep gets stolen, police find it 2 days trashed and stripped. Also still waiting to see if his job interview pans out. He is really looking forward to working for this recreation department. I can't get his situation off my mind. Just praying is all I know to do. Then the air condition breaks down, we get that fixed. Lawn mover folks slung a rock through my Dining room window. BJ, I had to take my striped table cloth that you gave me off the table to cover the window. New glass can not be installed. Calls for a whole new sash which also means 2 paint colors inside and outside. Dishwasher switch breaks, I ain't even mentioning this one to Larry. I'll just wash by hand. Then last night, out of the blue, my 5 year old lab has a terrible ceizure. I have no known reason for it. Neither does the vet who we called when it happen at 1:00am this morning. He's fine now, but it was the worse experience. I'm frazzled, need to go and plant something this morning.

OH, My... Deborah... maybe you're having one of those "7 days of bad luck" things... have you broken a mirror lately?
No kidding... hope things settle down for you again real soon. Yep.. plant something... that always makes you feel better.

good morning-deborah-we had a dog that had seizures all her life and i still remember the first one and how scary it was--she was put on anti seizure meds--

Oh My! I hope your dog's ok, that's horrible. Also about your son's Jeep! When I lived in CA my next door neighbor had his 1990 something Acura Legend stolen from right in front of his house, then the following week he had his old work truck stolen! They found the Acrua a few blocks away the following week, it was ok other than all of the speakers being stolen out of it and the ignition and steering column was all torn up, and I don't think they ever found his old work truck, but it's easy to hide a 1970 Chevy C10 primored pickup. Are you going to have to completely replace that window that's broken?

I am lifting the cloud that is hanging over you! It worked for me last week when someone else lifted the cloud over me, now I get to make it work for someone else!