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Post by cjayh16 on Sept 9, 2024 7:33:19 GMT -6
Good Morning....
It's not quite as chilly this morning. Looks like it will be a nice day and warming up throughout the week.
The Birthday party went really well. Almost all the great and grand kids were there. Even a big surprise for me and my mom....my step brother from Florida was there. I haven't seen him in 10 years. We were so happy to see him. All in all we all enjoyed the day. Here's a pic of my mom and me before everyone got there....
Have a great day everyone.....
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Post by Admin/Mamma on Sept 9, 2024 8:06:28 GMT -6
Good morning
CJ, what a great picture of you and your mom. And how wonderful that the party was such a happy time with a special surprise as well. 
Another hot and sticky morning followed by a hot and sticky week. Just a trip to the UPS store to return a faulty golf cart charger. The new one should be here on Thursday, but I won't need it for two weeks. A load of laundry is in the washer and then to make the bed. That is all I have planned for today.
Yesterday Karen came over for a visit and buy some cards. about 15 minutes later she got a phone call and was on the phone for 40 minutes. How rude and inconsiderate. I was beyond angry. Had I been at her house I would have gone home. After her phone call she looked at the cards, paid for them and headed home. No it was not an emergency phone call either, judging by all the laughing. This was not the first time she has done been this rude. I said not a word but she knew I was angry. My face tells my emotions and I did not try to hide them. She asked me to go to lunch with her this week, but I said no, I had spent my September allowance already. Which is not a lie and I was too upset to say yes.
Last night I slept well but had some really strange dreams again. At least they weren't scary dreams.
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Post by greenback on Sept 9, 2024 8:30:10 GMT -6
Good Morning Ladies - - - another nice morning with sunshine and 62, heading upward for the week. I have already had a phone call reminding me of a dental visit on Wed. - Gosh, I didn't even know about it, since it was a year ago that I went, but had been thinking there should be one coming up. Wed. is the day this week I could go, so guess all is well.
Today I will make a salad to take to the funeral tomorrow. I am planning to do a pineapple one with a cooked dressing. I have not done this before, so will see how it goes, but sounds good to me. Otherwise, not much happening here.
CJ, what a lovely picture of the two of you! A real treasure for you! Glad the party was such a success. I'm sure your Mom will relive it in her memories for a long time.
Mamma, I agree, how rude to sit and chat in front of you, and at your house! I would have been upset too.
Grammy has been missing for a few days - hope all is okay and just a lot of action at her house.
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Post by grammyoh on Sept 9, 2024 9:17:56 GMT -6
Goodmorning grannies it's a beautiful morning but still a bit cool out there woth te morning temp at 43! We had temps in the 80's just a few days ago. warmup as begun.
CJ what a nice picture of you and your mom and you beth seem to be enjoying the party. How nice fpr you to have the party for your mom!
Mamma that's one of the reasons I don't like cell phones!People use the phone with no consideration of others. Or they don't know how to say I'll call you later. I'm always cold wish you could share a little of your heat!
Laurie thanks for the nice card, I think of these things but never get them done. The card was a nice reminder than getting personal mail is a real treat! Most of our mail in the box is bills or advertisement.
I have spent a lot of time thinking about things I can't do anymore, I think 91 years if finally catching up with me! I can't drive, walk without a walker, even dress myself! I need help with almost everything.I think have to give up regular attendance at church. It's so difficult to get in and of the car. Just go on the days i feel better. Too many changes so quickly. Even the stairmaster might have been too late to be the helper I need. I now have a toe drop that makes it very hard to get off at the top of the stairs. Wish we thought of having this put in a long time ago! Seems the only thing I can do is sit and read and I sure get tired of doing that and nothing else. I still try to remember "this is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad"
Thinking of elle as I watch two small hummers chase one another away from the feeder. They will soon be gone. Just a late one showing up from time to time, I do enjoy watching them
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Post by elle on Sept 9, 2024 9:19:24 GMT -6
The weather here sounds like the rest of you in the GN, except for Mamma who has the hot weather now. The sun is shining and it's already warming up and heading toward 80*.I need to go to the grocery store and get the things I will be needing for Card/game day here. Getting the menu planned is the hardest part. I am not a good one for making decisions....especially food planning.
CJ It sounds like all the planning and hard work you put into the party for your mother paid off. I think you look a lot like your mom! What a wonderful surprise to have your step brother to come too. How long will he be staying?
MAMMA I'm actually cool sitting in my house but I like not having to have the a/c or furnace going. LOL I would be upset with Karen too. Oh my......
GREENBACK Let me know how the pineapple salad turns out. I'm making a pineapple fluff for the game day ladies. It's easy, and fast in making it. At least I think it will be, I haven't made it before so I hope it goes well with them.
I need to do some window washing today and cleaning of the decks too.
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Post by elle on Sept 9, 2024 9:23:13 GMT -6
GRAMMY My heart hurts for you as I read your post. I have no words as I'm not where you are. But know, that I and the GN love you and care about you. Your faith is addictive and beautiful. The best is yet to come!!! I have 2 hummers out of 4 still coming. Mine usually stay until the beginning of October but this has been such a crazy summer, one never knows when they'll leave. Praying for you Grammy!
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Post by italiancook on Sept 9, 2024 12:20:24 GMT -6
It was chilly when I woke up this morning Got up just in time to get dressed & take Tinker out before my meal came Had to wear a sweater Hopefully I'll have the dusting done today.
CJ Glad the party went well & you had a big surprise Beautiful picture of you & your mom.
Grammy We're all thinking of you I'm so glad you have your family to help you.
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Post by Admin/Mamma on Sept 9, 2024 14:13:46 GMT -6
Grammy, your fortitude, and attitude helps me to accept the things that I can no longer do as well as I use to. I don't accept aging well but I do look up to you and know that if Grammy can, I can at least try harder to accept the changes that life throws at me with the same attitude and strength. Thanks Grammy. And I would love to share all the heat down here with you.
Jane, could you share your salad recipe please. Potlucks every month has me in a quandary. I never know what to make.
Elle, food planning is not an easy task. But you always seem to come up with something good. Your meals are way better than mine too. I'm trying to be forgiving with Karen, but I can't yet even respond to any of her texts. I need to cool off a bit longer. The old German temper! what is in your pineapple fluff?
IC,I am way behind on my dusting. Ugh!
To each and every one of you dear long time friends. I not only draw strength and courage from Grammy, but ALL of you offer so much to my outlook, strength and courage. Without all the sharing, love and friendship here, I don't know how I would have made it through the last three years. Thank you all so very much.
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Post by grammydebbie on Sept 9, 2024 15:08:55 GMT -6
Good afternoon to all. No work for me or Mike today, that is no work that pays, we have both worked a lot here at home today. I had my morning walk, put a load of towels on the line, ironed a pair of capris, reconciled the checkbook to the bank statement, worked up a big soup pot full of tomatoes and now have 7 quarts of spaghetti sauce in the canner with a few pints left to do as well as about three pints worth of salsa that wouldn't fit in the canner on Saturday when I canned that. More tomatoes still ripening in the garden for a good bit yet, too! We are enjoying some sliced, too, on sandwiches. I also made a run to California, MO, went to chair yoga class for the first time in many weeks, picked up DD#1's contacts that had come in at the eye doctor there, got a gallon of Benjamin Moore exterior paint for the front door and went to Tractor Supply and got some canning lids. Bonus that they were 20% off! Then back home where I fixed lunch for us as well as our lunches for work tomorrow and started cooking the tomatoes down and doing dishes.
Mike has started tearing out the landscaping at the front of the house. We had a landscape guy come out and give us some advice late spring, but have been waiting until about this time of year to start on all of it . He has used the Bobcat to pull out several big bushes along the garage portion of the front and it is now completely bare over to the recess at the laundry room next to the porch. We have a Japanese maple tree there that was supposed to be a miniature and never get more than 6' tall. Well, it now towers up through that recessed area and is several feet above the roofline so it needs to come out as it is simply too big for the area. It is going to be a booger to get out as Mike says it will take more than the Bobcat or his small tractor to get it out. He has now torn up all the old landscaping fabric, plowed the underlying dirt and then raked it and filled in several low spots. He is going to sleep well tonight!
DD#2 invited us out to an impromptu steak cook out for Grandparents' Day last night and that was such a good time with her and her family, well it was until I went to give Josie a bath and the water quit running and their water went out! Mike and DSIL worked on it for a couple of hours and got things going for them again, thankfully. I put the kids to bed while they were all working on the water. Amelia didn't get a shower (Emmett, to his disgust, had already taken his; he would have gladly gone without a shower--LOL), but at least there was water for DD to do the dishes and for her and DSIL to shower this morning. Glad we were there to help.
Tonight's supper will be breaded pork loin, maybe as a sandwich with some sliced tomato--go figure!--some mac and cheese and maybe our last jar of green beans from a previous canning year. No green beans for us this year. The first crop didn't yield much and we were in Ireland when it was time to plant a fall crop. Maybe next year; in the meantime, we have tomatoes galore! Still a couple of pieces of the peach cobbler pound cake for dessert.
Cleaning bathrooms is next on my agenda while the tomatoes are in the canner. I also need to water my flowers.
Grammy, your worth is not measured in what you can do, but in what you can teach, the example you set, the prayer warrior you are and the wisdom you give to your daughters, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Think of how many lives you have, and still are, touching and enriching! I know you have greatly impacted/touched/enriched my life! I/we love you!
Jane, that salad sounds good; I would be happy to do the QC for you. How is the new home/neighborhood/school going for DS, DDIL and Dawson!
Mama, we didn't get invited to DD#2's until after church yesterday, but I have a recipe for homemade honey wheat bread that comes together really quickly (even though there is kneading involved) and it makes 3 loaves. I started it after 1:00 yesterday and had it baked and cooling on the rack by 4:30. I took two loaves to DD's house and kept one for us here. It was so good as it was still warm when I took it and DD had plenty of butter and her homemade strawberry jam and apple butter for it. That might be an idea for potlucks at church.
CJ, love the picture of you and your mom and am so glad the party went so well. Did your boys get to attend?
IC Cook, what did Meals on Wheels bring for you today?
Elle, does your pineapple fluff have pretzels in it? I once made a pineapple fluff that had crushed pretzels in it (Taste of Home recipe) and it was really good; thanks for reminding me about it!
Time to check the timer for the canner and get started on the bathrooms; my ambition is leaking out pretty quickly!
Love to all...
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Post by elle on Sept 9, 2024 15:57:13 GMT -6
DEBBIE/MAMMA My recipe for pineapple fluff has crushed pineapple with juice, vanilla pudding mix, mini marshmallows, coconut, chopped pecans, cool whip. Marachino cherries are optional. It's easy, just put it all together.
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Post by greenback on Sept 9, 2024 17:39:44 GMT -6
Well, changed my mind and there is no pineapple salad here today, but I will try it one day. I ended up making a pumpkin fluff salad. Guess the cool weather just spoke fall to me. I took it one other time a long time ago, and the funeral director director told me later how much he enjoyed it as he said he normally doesn't go for a fluff type, but tried it, and really liked it! Anyway, that's what it will be this time. Since I haven't tried the receipe, I won't share it until I do.
Grammy, we all admire your attitude and all that you do and even can't do. We are all going to be there and it seems that many of your challenges are already effecting many of us. Just keep doing what ever you can and feel up to, and enjoy the attention the others give you.
Debbie I make the pineapple salad with the toasted pretzels fairly often and it's always a big hit when I take it anywhere. I am pretty sure I have posted it on the receipes. It's not a big salad, so not one I take to church, but guess I could double it. You have had a very busy day again. My cleaning lady brought me 3 big tomatoes on Sat. and I had the smallest one for lunch today - it was my lunch!
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Post by lauriet on Sept 9, 2024 18:15:22 GMT -6
Grammy-much love to you. I agree with what the others have said, you are an inspiration to us all.
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