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Hi Adele,
Melissa will come on Wednesday. She has to wait until her son is out of school. He does not go on Wednesday. She may be here before we go to the doctor it depends on if her husband gets the day off or not. She will call me tonight or tomorrow and let me know. We are hoping that he is not on duty it will make it a long drive for them after he gets home. The schools do the days off different then the regular schools. Most of these guys take leave around this time and Christmas. So they figure the days at school to go along with furlows.
I hope that Greg will get Gail a new machine before Christmas. She will have extra laundry with Brent being home. Ron is stubborn like that also. I guess we all three have husbands like that. Mine has done some dumb things and I think you were talking about Gary blowing out a bunch of lights. I do not remember if you were talking about that or if it was someone else. My mind is going. It must be on another mini vacation again. What would we do without them.
Your pie and the cranberries look so good. It is a shame we cannot just reach in here and take a bite. I am waiting to see the creme brule pie that you are making. I have never made one and it sounds really good. I probably spelt it wrong. You are busy making all of this good food and I am doing nothing. It feels kind of funny not doing any cooking ahead of time.
I am surprised that they did not pick up on the holidays here. Her boyfriend sounds like they did not adapt to the states like a lot of others have. He may really get to like the holidays and celebrating after he spends time with your family. Then when he tastes you good cooking he will want to come every year.
I have been cleaning today. So nothing exciting going on here. Ron is in the living room taking a nap. He is always taking a nap. He was working on lawn mowers today and that really tires him out. He has a lot of lawn mowers right now and will have until spring. I hope he sells all of this stuff out and will not bring anymore home. This place is starting to look like an old lawn mower retirement home.
Well that is about all from here. Will talk to you later.
ColleenHi Adele,
I go Wednesday for my shot in the hip. I am not looking forward to it. Better to have it over with though. With my daughter coming here Wednesday it will make things a lot easier and will not have to worry about getting things done. It will also be fun to cook with her. We have not done that in a long time. Usually when she gets here just about everything is done. She will help with some things when she gets here but she has a long drive to get here. So they are staying for two nights and three days. It will be nice to have her here that long.
Ron has everything fixed and working fine. He did the dish washer right away which surprised me. I guess with me getting the shot he knew that the dishes would not get done so it was better to get it going again right away. We were lucky nothing was wrong with it. It just burned the plug. So he got that fixed and now we are good to go. I will get some of my cooking done before I go to the doctor Wednesday and put it in the fridge so we do not have to worry about it. I can make the candied sweet potatoes and just heat them up on Thursday and make the corn bread for the dressing. Then that will be done. The raisin dressing has been passed down from generation to generation in my family. I hope that the girls will keep it going when I am gone.
It has been cold here for a few days. It really has gotten cold here this week-end. We have been using a lot of covers at night. It is nice to snuggle up in the blankets at night. At least we do not have any snow yet. They are saying that we will not have snow until January and February. We have had a lot of snow on the ground around Valentines day here, We have also had snow on Easter. It is interesting around here every year.
You have been doing a lot of baking and still have a lot to do. Your pies sound like they are going to be really good. I will be bake to baking pies next year when my hip is better. Then I will make the pecan pies that my daughter wants.
I get really mad at Ron when he does things like Greg is doing. He was like that about getting a new computer and getting wi fi. He is old fashioned and does not want to pay for any of that. I am just lucky that I have a brother that works with computers and helps me out when I need him. If it was not for him I would not have this computer I have now. He is a good guy.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night and will talk to you later.
ColleenI am thank ful that our house did not burn down the other day.
Hi Gail,
If you really want to get to Greg. Do your laundry and not his. When you go to Jenny’s just wash some of your things and let him know that they are washed. I did that to Ron and that really got to him. That one was over the computer. I had his clothes piled all the way up to the light switch. That and potato soup will do the trick. I have to laugh about that now. I do not know if that would work again. I am going to have to think up some new things to do to him.
I just hope that he gets the washer fixed soon and does not come home with a top loader. Right now Ron is helping me with the laundry. He has been doing that since the doctor told him that my hip is not in good shape and I need to be careful and not make it worse. So things are going good right now. Just wait until after they give me the shot and things will go back to normal. I will be joining you with my head down in the washing machine and having a step stool there so I can get out. lol Men do have a tendency to get the things that they have fixed right away or purchase a new one. They need to remember if the washing machine is not working it effects them also. They will not have clean clothes after awhile.
Thank you for letting me know that. I will try and get on that page after I get done on here. She made a beautiful bride. You could really tell that she lost weight in that wedding dress. Dennis Basso did a really good job on that dress. She had a lot of the people from qvc that helped her get ready for that wedding. Mally did her make up and I cannot remember who the stylist was that did her hair. She was talking about it somewhere I cannot remember where I read it.
You are not crazy she did say that she was going on a cruise. Patrick has said that he is also going on a cruise. Maybe her cruise is not right away. She said something that they had it planned before they planned the wedding. They decided to combine the two. She did say something about she would be back next Wednesday for a show. We will have to wait and see. Maybe she will talk about it more then. That was nice that she shared her pictures of the wedding with all the quackers.
How much snow did you end up with? We have not heard much else about the snow I guess because we did not get any. I imagine that they have the roads in town cleared by now but on the roads out by where you are , are still snow covered. You would think that they would want to clean the roads for the people that live out in the country also. Especially now at the holidays. You never know what they are thinking though.
I am not going to be able to go shopping on black Friday this year. I am really disappointed. I may end up going to one store close to our house and look around for a gift for my mom. They opened a new women’s clothing store so will go in there and get my mom a couple of tops. I will be in withdrawal on Friday when I cannot shop. Ron may insist that I go for about an hour if I get too cranky.lol
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night.
ColleenHi Adele,
We do not know why it is happening. Our place is not that old. Some body just did a bad wiring job. Ron did get the dish washer working again. He put a new plug on the dish washer and a new and stronger out let where we plug it in. I did a load of dishes tonight and it worked okay. We are hoping that we can wait until after Christmas to have the electrician in to check it out. Wish we knew one in our area. We will find one though. We have a friend that knows all sort of repair people.
I am not going to worry about anything that we make for Thanksgiving this year. If it turns out and we can eat it that will be just fine. We have a twenty pound turkey that we have to bake so Ron and I will do that. We are use to doing that all the time. I will have to teach my daughter how to do both kinds of dressing. We put the raisin dressing in the turkey and the sage in a separate pan. It works out a lot better that way. The rest will take care of itself. The green bean casserole is easy to fix and mashed potatoes will be done already. Thank heaven for pre made food. lol Everyone else will be busy baking and cooking away and I am taking the lazy way out this year. Oh well next year they will get all the home made things.
It is really cold here. We did not get any snow just some flurries and they melted right away. I do not think that they even touched the ground. Gail really did get a lot of snow. We had rain first before we got any snow flurries. That is why it melted so fast.
That is funny about Heather and the garlic turkey. It is a good thing that our kids have a good sense of humor. Melissa laughed with us over the cinnamon in the dumplings. She blamed it all on her dad. So it all worked out well. He let her get away with it. I was surprised that he did not say something to correct her. It was just a fun day I guess.
That is funny that Azien does not like winter clothes either. He will have to run around in his pjs. also. Him and Piper. They will be the first two people that go to their prom in pajamas. So they can be comfortable. lol They will both probably change by that time. I just wonder sometime what our grands will be like when they are grown. I bet they will be characters.
Well that is about all from here. Didn’t Angel make a beautiful bride. I hope that they post more pictures on here so the ones who do not do face book can see them. I was glad that Gail posted some of them.
Have a good night.
ColleenHi Gail,
That Piper is something else. She is going to get really cold without any clothes on. That is funny that she calls snow no. She is just so cute. She is going to be quite a performer. Maybe Jenny will have to keep her in pajamas all the time. She seems to like to wear them. That is just so funny that she does not like to wear clothes.
Ron did get everything going again. He put a new plug on the dish washer and luckily that was all that was wrong with it. He put in a stronger plug in. So hopefully that will help. We are hoping that this will take care of things until after the holidays. It was hard to sleep last night. It was still a little scary. It will be better now that he has things working and I do not have to worry as much. Hope that Greg has luck fixing the dryer. Ron would do the same thing and mess the thing up worse then it was. He is like Greg he as to try it though. For awhile Ron liked to buy rebuilt things. Finally he discovered that we could have bought a couple of new washing machines for what we paid for the used ones. HE is kind of a slow learner. I kept telling him. He was buying some one else problem. But what did I know.lol
Remembering all of that stuff just shows how old that I am getting,. The only reason that I knew that was they showed it on TMC and that guy gave out all that information. For some reason it just stuck in my mind. Was that the first one made? I cannot remember if that was what he said about it or not. I have a dvd with Alistair Simms and wish I could find the one with Reginald Owens. I really like that one also. I remember the one with Albert Finney it was okay. I just like the older ones and all the new ones do not compare with the old. I saw the one with Mr. Magoo also. I never was that big of a Magoo fan. He was just a little too strange.
I cannot believe all the snow you have gotten there. It makes me miss Rockford. We had snow flurries here but that was it. It melted before it hit the ground. So we were lucky. We do not get as much snow as you and Adele get. You two are in the right place for a lot of snow.
Thanks for posting the pictures of Angel and Glen’s wedding. I cannot get of face book and that is the only way that you can see the pictures. I did e-mail Patrick and asked if he could post some for us that do not do face book. He has not responded yet but he is busy right now. So will see what happens. Her dress was beautiful She did make a beautiful bride. They both looked really happy. Hope to see more pictures.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night.
ColleenHi Adele,
I really feel good that she is going to come and help. She is a good daughter and she can surprise me sometimes. They all are at times it is just finding a time when they are all like that at one time. We are lucky that we have our kids to help when we need them. How nice that Marissa came over and helped you dust. That was nice that you had tea with Tillie. She must have really enjoyed that. I like to drink hot tea but cannot stand to drink hot coffee. Never could stand it. I have tried different kids but it still tastes like coffee. We did drink some kind of fancy coffee thing at Star Bucks but it still tasted like coffee. My daughters keep telling me that I will like the coffee there.So they took me there to try one and it tasted a little sweeter but still tasted like coffee.
Well I bought all my frozen pies and have them in our freezer. It is going to be all frozen pre made things this year. I do not want to have to do a lot of cooking and Melissa to have to make all this stuff. I do not think that she has ever made a pie before. So will not make her do it this time. She is the one that put cinnamon in our chicken and dumplings. She picked up the wrong bottle. We all laughed at her. We ate them even though she did that. it will be fun to see how things go this holiday.
It is interesting that you are a robot. I have never got that message. It is nice that they are keeping us informed about what is going on with this site. It is going to take them awhile to get all the kinks out of it. It will be a really good site when they get it fixed.
I will just wear a sparkly shirt for Thanksgiving. I have done this every year so far. I usually wear one of my Christmas shirts the day after. With the kids being her to decorate I can wear one of my shirts. I usually wear one when I go shopping on black Friday. Will not be going this year. I will miss it but it cannot be helped.
Well that is about all from here. Read the post to Gail. It will tell all about the incident we had here last night. It is too much to write it again.
ColleenHi Gail,
We have been hearing that snow is coming your way. That is odd that it is coming this early. Our weatherman has really been confusing with his prediction of the weather for winter. I think what he is doing is a lot of double talk and that way no one will know if he was right or not. This should be interesting to see if he is right or not.
I do not have any turkey shirts. I tried to get the turnkey shirt but it sold out before I got my order in. I did not get any of the pumpkins or the cornucopia. So will have to keep trying to get some of them for next year. I am like you and Adele I have enough Christmas shirts to dress everyone in the family. I will have to watch and see if a turkey shirt pops up on qvc internet. I will have to look up Quacker Factory.
Well it has been a long day here today. Last night I was up really late because I could not sleep. I was on the computer and I heard this loud noise and then I smelled smoke. I woke Ron up and we started investigating and we found three of our plug ins were burning. So Ron pulled them out got that taken care of and then he went today to get some new ones to put in. It burned the plug to my dish washer so we have to get a new one. Ron will get that tomorrow and will replace it and then I can use it again. Hopefully it did not burn my dish washer up. So needless to say I could not sleep all night. So I did a lot of sleeping today. Still am nervous and walking around smelling to be sure I do not smell anything else burning. We are going to get an electrician to come in after the holiday and have him check the wiring for us and see if we have a bigger problem then we think. It would have to happen right now. We have had that problem before though and Ron has replace a lot of our out lets. If it is not one thing it is 50 others.
I am sorry that you are going to have to replace your washing machine. This is not a good time to have to replace that either. I do not have the front load washing machine mine is a top loader. I do like them though. Danyielle has one and she really likes hers.
That may be the one that I am thinking of. Do your remember if If the Lockhart family was in that one? I like Reginald Owen he was good also. I have seen the Muppet one but it has been awhile ago. They did one with Mickey Mouse too didn’t they. It seems like I remember them doing that. They sure have had enough of them.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night.
ColleenHi Gail and Adele,
Gail I like the way that you let your turkey chill. That is a funny picture. If I knew how to set a turkey up like that I would do that when my daughter and her family come to see us on Wednesday. They are staying for the holiday and then they will go home on Friday night. Since I have to have another shot in my hip on Wednesday Melissa is going to come and stay and help fix Thanksgiving dinner. She will do most of the stirring and putting things in the oven and they are going to help to put up the Christmas decorations. She really wants to go thru my decoration and take a few that she wants. She is not kidding me.lol She is being really good about helping out. I really appreciate her doing this.
My brain goes on mini vacations all the time. I quit looking for it it usually comes home when it is ready. I will have to worry when it decides not to come back. Then I will have to send out for you girls to help me find my brain. lol
I did not know that the Tom Selleck sweater was Gary’s sexy look. That must have been a real let down if you did not notice him. That is funny. I have not found out what Ron’s sexy look is yet. At our age I think that we have lost it. We neither one look sexy at any time. We just do not want all the young ladies and men banging down our door. So we stay old and plain looking.lol Now that was a day dream. The only young people that come to our house are our grands. They always make us feel good about ourselves.
I bought two pairs of dream jeannes and two tops this time. I bought a Christmas top that had a picture going across the top and it said that I am a morning person on Christmas morning. That is as exciting as I get. I got the jeans with the sparkle on the bottom of the leg and a pair of the straight leg jeans and that was it. I forgot I bought a velvet shirt. I am not sure if it was on the show though. Maybe I got that before the show. See my brain is gone again.
This is the first time that I have heard of the tipsy elves shirts. That must really look cute. It is really nice that he will wear that elf suit for the ONP. I could not see Ron wearing one of those. That is coming up soon isn’t it. I hope that it works out really well for all the kids. That is such a great idea. All of you are so nice to do that for those families. They really appreciate it I am sure. How nice for them to have one really nice Christmas. That is one that they will never forget.
I love all those movies also. I have seen most of the Christmas Carol movies. I like the older ones that are in black and white. I like the one with Alister Sims and I can never remember the one that was in the first one. I know that in the first one it was a famous acting family that played Bob Cratchet and his wife and there one daughter was on there also. I cannot remember their names know. I think that it was June Lockhart. I am not sure though. I love White Christmas and Holiday Inn. They just do not make that good anymore.
Well girls that is about all from here. Oh I forget to tell Barb that most girls like shower gels and lotion.
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