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Hi Adele,
Did you see where King Arthur is having a contest. You can win a kitchen aid mixer. I signed up and will see if I win it or not. It should be interesting. I usually do not win anything but maybe this time I will.lol I know better but it always nice to think that I can.
That was good news that Johnny was safe. That must have made him colder to be wet like that. He will have to wear layers of clothes under his coat to stay warm. It would be nice if he gets a route with a car to drive. That would be a lot nicer. He won’t get as wet that way.
Wow that is a lot more snow. 7 more inches. Maybe that birch will be okay. That is bad when you lose a tree like that. They cannot be replaced and a new one does not grow as fast as you like them to. Maybe it will not be as bad as you think that it is. I sure hope so. It is good that the lilac bushes will be okay. They always have such a good smell to them. We have two lilacs bushes on our property. We also have a holly bush and we thought that it would not make it but it is really big now. We planted it too close to the house but we did not think that it was going to get that big. We may have to cut it back.
I really do not care who wins today. It would be nice to see Patton Manning win because of it being his last year but we will see. I am not going to watch the game. Ron will watch it on the tv in the bedroom. I will watch the tv in the living room and watch a good movie. I have some on the dvr that I can watch. I also have a show from qvc that I have not watched yet. I am not making a lot of food tonight. Just the pigs in a blanket and the wings. We also have chips and dip that we will eat. As soon as I get done here I will start cooking. You should fix you somethings that you like. Gary can eat them if he likes or not . If you are making the lil sausages for him he should be happy with that. You need something good to eat since you are watching the game with him.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night and hope that Manning wins.
ColleenHi Adele,
I was hoping that most of the snow was going to go around you this year. I cannot believe the damage that the snow did this time. It did not do as much last year did it when you had all that snow. We are supposed to get some snow next week but we will see if it happens. We usually do not get that much snow though. I just hope that your tree comes back and is not as bad as it looks.
I used a spaghetti sauce. I did that because of have to pour some on top of the meat loaf. So just decided to do it that way. Then I did not have so much left over. We did not have as much sauce left as we did meat loaf. We have a lot of that left over.
I hope that Johnny did all right on his route that day in the snow. It is hard on the mail men that have to walk their route. The mail men we have ride in a car or a jeep to deliver. They have to drive their own vehicle they do not get a mail van. I cannot imagine all the ware and tear on their cares that it does. Our mail man does not come if we have a lot of snow. He is something else. I hope that everything was okay with Johnny when he called.
Not a whole lot going on here. My one daughter came over with her one daughter. The other daughter was out with friends. She is sixteen so do not see much of her anymore. She is into going with her friends. She is at the age where she is with friends more then with us. She is the one that would never do that she would always be with us. It was funny. we knew when she made friends she would not come over as much.
It would be nice if one of us won the contest this time around. It would be even better if all of us won. At least we do have a chance of that happening there are 12 months in the year. We just all have to think positive.
Well that is about all from here. Are you ready for the big game tomorrow? I will not watch the big game but will eat the snacks that we bought.lol Have a good night will talk to you later.
ColleenHi Gail,
I signed up for the contest this time too. I am going to think positive this time. I am going to win at least one time. We should all take that attitude and maybe one of us will win. Have you noticed all the people that have signed up for this site since that last quacker show? It happens every time they do a contest. That is really strange. Guess they think that they have to sign up for this site to be in the contest.
That is great about Brent. Sounds like he is really happy. Hope that he likes his new job. How nice to have a place in the mountains. I bet it is beautiful up there all year round. I really hope that things work out for him. I know what you mean about missing them more after they move away after staying with you for awhile. Melissa moved in with us when Ethan was younger and stayed with us for a long time. Mandy and her family moved in with us also. It is like going thru the empty nest syndrome again. Luckily the kids have not moved in with us again. I do not think that I could go thru that again.
Danyielle is going to find out that it is not as easy to leave a little on with a sitter. I could never have done that. I do not think that her boyfriend makes as much money as her ex did so she cannot afford to stay home and live off his salary for very long. He is new at this job and has not had time to build up his salary. He will though it just takes time. I told her the other day that for right now he is nice but if he moves out then he will be a jerk just like her ex. She was just laughing when I told her that.
How are your grand kids doing? You have not said much about them lately. What has Piper been up to. She is such a funny little girl. There is no telling what she will do next. Does she like to wear clothes yet? That is funny that she likes to take her clothes off. There a re a lot of kids that go thru that though. She just does some really cute things. She is going to be fun to hear about. I cannot wait to see what Aliza will be like.
I love to watch the deer. They are so graceful. It is amazing when they jump over fences they just look so pretty. We do not have as many deer in the yard since we have the dog. Austin is not as bad about chasing them as Biskit was. He does not want to get up unless he has to. Now if we are outside he will go after them. Dogs are strange.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night.
ColleenHi Adele,
That is too funny about Gary having a melt down at the doughnut shop. Did he end up buying the doughnuts? That is kind of expensive for them. It must have been a total shock to him. Hope he gets over it soon.
It is a good thing that you got up and shut the window or you would have had to put up with that noise all night. Wind can do a lot of damage sometimes glad that you did not have any. We are having another warm up and then it is going to get cold again. Those are the days that I would rather stay at home and hibernate. It would not be so bad if it would just stay cold until winter is over and then spring take over. It does not do that though at least not this year.
Has Johnny gotten a permanent job at the post office yet? I hope that he has. Does sound like he gets a lot of work just being a temp. The only bad thing about that is they can put you anywhere they want and call you in at all different hours. How are Steph and the kids?
I saw both of the Quacker shows this week. I have my dvr set to tape them whenever they come on. This new contest is a good one. It would be nice to win that five pieces of clothing from them. It can be anything that you want also. That was a cool idea. There are a few things that I would love to get. We all deserve it we buy so much.lol I think that is all I wear anymore is quacker. We do not go anywhere I cannot wear my dream jeannes and a quacker top. I have one dress but I am not sure that it fits me anymore. So when we go to weddings and things like that I will have to buy a new one. I have different jackets that I wear with it.
I did fix the meat loaf last night and added some of the sauce to the meat. It was really moist. Ron liked it just had to put some of my touches to it.lol It really was good with the sauce in the meat. I also used mozzarella cheese and that was good. That is two recipes that I will make again. Ron liked them both. I had to write down what I did or I will forget and it would be dry. My mind is not that good.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night.
ColleenHi Adele,
You must have gotten our rain because it went around us. It was nice that it did. We just had some rain in the morning and that was it. So things worked out pretty well. We did not need the rain yet. It will be nice if it waits a little longer to come here.
We are having it tonight. I was not feeling good last night so decided to have it tonight. I hope that it turns out really good.
That is really unusual that you do not have something baked. It happened twice that is really unusual. She may start bringing things with her so you two can have something sweet to eat. lol You have to have a special touch to bake things and make them taste really good. I do not have that anymore. I quit baking a long time ago and have lost it. I can still bake pies though. That is about the only thing that I can bake.
That black top was really cute. I did not buy anything this time around. Probably will not buy anything else for awhile. I have some easy pays that I need to get payed off before I buy anything else. So will have to resist for awhile. I have some red tops that I have ordered for Valentines day in the past. They do not have hearts on them but they are red and they sparkle.
Ron is helping his bil out at his car lot for awhile. It is nice to have the house to myself for awhile. I am always falling all over him all the time. I may be able to get some things done with him gone. It is just like when he worked full time he would come home eat and then we would watch some tv and he would fall asleep; We did do more on week-ends though. I really enjoyed being with him on the week-ends. He was a lot more fun. lol
Have not done much today. Need to go get something done. May have to vacuum the floors and mop the kitchen. That will probably be all for today. Have to follow docs orders and not do too much in one day.lol
Have a good day. will talk to you later.
ColleenHi Gail,
The Patrick Taylor series is easy to follow. He always has the same characters and then may add one or two new ones. So you can miss a few and still follow what is going on because they are all the same people. I am looking on Amazon trying to find that book. Will have to have my daughter do it for me. They will find it right away.
We just have the trees through out the property. They do not cause that much of a problem that way. Ron trims the trees when they need it so that is not too bad. He usually does it when he is cutting the grass. He will trim them when he cannot get under them without getting hit with a branch. My grandparents had a big one in their yard and it was so pretty it always reminds me of them when I see one. I do not think that we ever climbed it though. My older cousins and sisters might have but I never did. My grandma could make anything grow. She had a green thumb. She use to have beautiful flower gardens and veggie gardens. She did not have a lot of space but she still could grow a lot of things in the space she had.
She went back to work after she got the divorce. She only worked part time. She was working for Hall Mark and putting cards in the stores. Stores like Wal Mart and places like that. She will go back after the baby is old enough to be with a babysitter. It will probably be me or Amanda. If she goes back to work full time it will probably be when the baby is old enough to be taken care of by someone else.
Sounds like Brent has a lot of opportunities there. I hope that he finds a good job and keeps it for a long time. Is he still going with this new girl? That is one good thing about e-mail and texting you can keep in touch with him a lot easier. The kids all seem to respond to a text or an e-mail. I know that it will be hard with him gone. We have that same problem with Melissa. We do not get to see them as much as we would like to.
I never called Ron at work when he was working either. We were brought up different I guess. Well when we worked they would not be allowed to talk to us on the phone as much as they let them now. Times have really changed.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good day.
ColleenHi Adele,
That is funny that Gary loves all the action movies and still watches Hall Mark. He is showing his tender side. Ron does not do that often. He did watch the election stuff but turned it on in the bedroom. He knew that I did not want to watch it. I do the same for him so it works out even.
That cheese sandwich did look really good. I would not have thought about dipping that in egg either. It did look really good. I really appreciate that you told me that the meat loaf was dry so I know that I need to do something to make it moist. I am going to try it tomorrow and see how it turns out. Will let you know what happens. The biscuits looked okay that Carla made but they have too much fat and sugar. That is two things that I have to avoid. I will fry some things but that chicken you do not use that much grease in that so it was not that bad. Most things that they make looks so good. I messed up the biscuits were yesterday she made terimasu today. I know that I did not spell that right but hope you know what I mean. It did look really good.
The baby and Danyielle are both doing really good. Danyielle is getting a little bored with staying home by herself. She is use to working and just staying home is hard for her. I just hope that she stays home for at least two months or longer. It would be so much better for the baby. We will see what she does.
That was nice that Joyce came over for coffee. What type of sweets did you have to go with the coffee. I know you had to have something. You are always cooking something delicious in your kitchen. I wish that I had the talent that you have.
We were supposed to have storms today but they went around us. Thank God. It did rain a little this morning and that was it. We went out to dinner with friends tonight. We had a nice meal and a nice time. We had not gone out for awhile. So we had a lot to catch up on.There was a lot going on with her kids. She is going to be a great grandma again. I may not live to see any great grand kids. Not because I am sick or anything like that but the two older girls said they will never have kids. So that will be interesting. They are not too sure if they want to get married. We will see what happens.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night.
ColleenHI Gail,
It was the chicken schnitzel. It turned out really good. We liked the spinach with the nuts also. I had to use pecans we had no walnuts. We just did not make the sauce for the top. So you can use what you want to instead of their sauce that they made. We did like the gravy that I made. So you should try it and see what you think. If you put the apples and the vinegar on top let me know how that tasted.
The snow is going to miss us also. They predict it and then they change the forecast. I had not heard if the ground hog saw his shadow or not. I hope that we get a little cold weather to kill some of this stuff like bugs. We will see if we get some snow before winter is over. We only had that one and we got some sleet with that. We can do without the sleet.
I did not get the new Patrick Taylor book for Christmas so have to find it myself. One of the girls will order it for me off of Amazon they are usually pretty reasonable with their books..I was surprised that no one gave it to me. Danyielle usually always gets me a book for Christmas.I need to get that book soon. I am really curious to find out what is going on now. That is an interesting series. My mom gave me a book to read and I need to get it read and give it back to her.
We do not have any trees close to the house either. Ron did plant a weeping willow next to the deck but do not think that it is going to make it. We did have one in the yard but it died. We have no idea why. It must have got some type of disease. We have one out in the woods and that one is doing really well. Of course we cannot see it unless we go out somewhere and drive past that part of the woods. So we cannot really enjoy it. We are planting the fruit trees toward the back of the lot so they will not be close to the house.
There are so many viruses going around out there. I had not heard of that one. I am glad that the baby is here and she is fine. That is terrible that woman went to the tropical where this mosquito’s are I hope that they do not come here to the states. All we need is another mosquito that is carrying another virus. The poor babies that get that disease from their mom. There is a lot of weird things going around.
I am going to try that meat loaf that Adele made but am going to put some sauce in it to make it a little moist. I have never made one without any type of ketchup or something like that in it to keep it moist. It may not help but will give it a shot. I might just use Ragu sauce with mushrooms. That will do just as well as making it my self.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good day and will talk to you later.
Colleen
p.s. Have you heard from Brent? Hope he got the job and really likes it.Hi Gail,
I am here also. I just wrote an e-mail to you on the other discussion. But will be on this page from now on. Did anyone hear if the ground hog saw his shadow?
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