[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #18376

Hi Adele,
I will look it up later. I am not sure what I can eat right now. I was sick again today. I think that I would rather have the weight on then to be sick like this all the time. That is what made me buy Quacker for the first time. She really made a lot of sense. So I have been decorating ever since then. I figure at my age I can wear what I want and if people do not like it they do not have to look. So if it was not for this I would still be a larger size and happy about it.
We usually do not have a lot of fires around here. We have careless kids who go out into the woods and make fires and do not make sure that they are put out when they are done. We just have to catch who ever it is. They like to hang out here in the evenings and all get together. They know that no police or anyone is going to come around and see them. That is why we have all start doing it. We have rain here all day here today so the chance of fire is nil.
I do not have that many temptations dishes. I have one set but it does not have the lids. I need to get some more. I do like they way they clean so easy. I use them a lot on holidays. Mine are the orange color. Should have gotten a different color,.
Will look that up also. We like cinnamon bread.That would be nice if you do not need butter on it. Most cinnamon bread is a little dry and need to butter to get it moist. King Arthur has some really good recipes on it. So you now know where Aizen gets his love of baked goods. He is like his father. That is nice that he is working for you while your driver is on vacation. I guess that he is still looking for a job. I hope he finds one soon.
Well that is about all from here. Have good night.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #18027

Hi Adele,
Your grand sons are so cute. Azien is at the age where he does all kinds of cute things. Pot pies are really good and that chicken and dumplings must taste like pot pie. I will have to look that recipe up and make it one night. Does it make a lot? You are talking about the recipe from King Arthur aren’t you are is this a different one? I have not made chicken and dumplings for a long time. Ron has been wanting some that I have to roll out and put in with the chicken. So guess that is what I will make someday soon.
i am not good with e-bay. Do not understand how it all works. Will have to ask one of my girls to help me with it. I have a lot of the wardrobers that they use to sell. I have the green with the pineapple and the one with the cherry and the lily and one more but cannot remember what it is. The striped tops look like new because I think that stripes make me look like a blimp. I just hope that I do not gain all that weight back again. I have a feeling that is what is going to happen. I am really going to have to watch what I eat.
The ghost cookies sound really cute. I have never baked like that before. They sound really good. You are such a good baker you could open you own bakery. I bet that you would sell a lot of things. Except you would have to keep the kids away or they will eat it all. lol You are lucky to have your family all so close to you. Seems like everyone is having to worry about family things here lately. I hope that it is nothing serious and it can all be fixed in no time. We will have to pray for everyone and their families.
It is a little warmer here today and we are supposed to have more rain. They keep telling us that but the rain never comes. We need a little rain here. For awhile we were getting all we needed and now it has stopped and it is dry here. We have had some fires in the woods around here. Luckily they have been seen in time and they put them out before they get out of hand. They have been on the other side of the road so far and none on our side. We all watch when we drive down the road which helps also. We have not heard how that fire started. We have a lot of wooded area around here. Luckily a lot of the people around here have had their woods thinned out and gotten rid of all the dead timber. We did that a couple of years ago. I am not sure how long you are supposed to wait until you do it again. We did plant some new trees to replace the old ones that were cut down.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #17948

Hi Gail,
I am sorry to hear about your tooth. I do not blame you for not wanting to get the implants. They are nice but if you cannot see them it is not worth it. This is the pits to have gum disease and the medicine that you take for the arthritis does not help it. You are smart to keep taking the medicine. I would rather not be in pain and have to have a tooth pulled. The tooth can be pulled but there is nothing that they can do for the arthritis. It is hard to decide what to do anymore.
that is good news that your sil is moved in with her fiance. That must have taken a lot off her mind. She needed to get moved in and get all that over with. It is hard to be unsettled. This is not the time of year to go on a cruise. Do they take you to a different destination if there is a hurricane on the place you want to go? I know that they can take different routes to get where you are going but do not know what they would do if the place you were going was in the hurricane. I would think that they would cancel the cruise if Purerta Vallerta was hit by the hurricane. I do not know much about cruised though. So I could be wrong about it. I hope that have a wonderful time. They both will need it after all the moving and things that they have been doing.
Greg and Ron are alike. Ron would watch any sport that comes on. That is why he has a tv in the bedroom. I do not mind watching once in awhile but cannot watch a whole game. It makes me nervous wondering if our team is going to win or lose. Now I like to go see the kids play or go to a game at the high school. They are a lot different. Those kids play for the fun of it especially the young kids. They just want to get out on the field. When they first start it is fun to watch them because there is no telling what they will do.
Ron use to play golf. He played when we first got here but the guy that he played with moved and he did not have anyone to golf with. So he has not golfed in a long time. My dad and brother use to love to play golf. I think that my brother still does. I do not know why Ron does not go play a round of golf with him but I guess they live too far apart. Well and my brother still works and does not have a lot of time.
I hope that Jenny and Adam do well in the marathon. No matter what place that they come in at all that matters is that they finish. It is hard to run like that I would think. Hopefully the weather will be just right for them.
Wish that Ron would cook dinner. He did a couple of times when I was feeling really bad but has not since. I guess that he thinks that I should do it now. So if I am not feeling well he eats snack food. The man never learns.lol
Well maybe the bird will either knock himself out are find a better window to run into. Good luck with your bird.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #17753

Hi Barbara,
You are like me. If one thing happens to this thing and I am done for. We are just lucky that my brother is a computer whiz and he can tell us what to do over the phone. If we need an up grade he will come and do it for us so we do not mess the computer up. That is the only reason he does it because he thinks that I will mess it up so bad that it will not work and he will have to find me another one. lol
My parents were not sure about Ron either. I had to sneak around and meet him to go out with him. Then when he went away in the service and he came home he came and knocked at the door and asked for me and my dad liked him after that. He said that it took a lot of courage for him to do that. That was something for my dad. He and Ron were good friends after that. They even played golf together. Which is something else. I guess that they find out that we know the men that we love and they just have to come around to love them also. We did pick out the right guys. What would we do without them.
If that cardinal is a loved one of Gail’s it will have to be a crazy one. Either it is crazy or it really wants to come in the house. I cannot believe that a cardinal is a loved one but I guess we all believe in different things. It is funny what people believe in.
We have mums growing in our yard. We do not bring them in during the winter. They just come back up every year. I do not know why but we have a bunch of them and have had them for a few years and they are really pretty. They are the only flowers that come up in the fall and beginning of the winter. At least we have color until then. Wish I could find a flower that will grow in the winter months.
Your roast sounds really good. We are going to have to have one when it gets cooler. Ron fixed those two pork roasts and we got kind so sick of it. He made them and bbq the one and made pulled pork and we ate that until we got really tired of it.
I hope that things work out for your sil and her family. It is hard when one of your kids go wrong. It is hard to see and even harder to get them on the right path again. I hope things work out for them and remember them in my prayers.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night.
Colleen

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in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #17750

Hi Adele,
Your pumpkin muffins look really good. The grands are really going to enjoy them. We are going to just give out store bought candy. I am not as good as you are at giving out really good treats. Your grand are lucky to have you as a grandma. I am the boring grandma.
I use to be really big also. When I started having trouble with my stomach is when the weight started coming off. I have to be so careful of what I eat so that is how I am losing weight. I do not recommend this to anyone. I just have to watch everything and that is not fun. All I have to worry about is if they ever get this straightened out that I will gain all the weight back. I have been trying to get rid of all my big clothes in hopes that will help. Right now I have to buy a lot of new clothes. I guess that is why Ron is not complaining because I have to get some smaller sizes. The others were getting big enough that I look like I am wearing someone else clothes. So I am not bragging. I would rather be fat and happy then skinny and sick.
We have not been doing much around here. It has been cool here and the sun has not been shinning. So you do not feel like doing too much. It is good weather for napping.lol Well that is about all from here. Have a good night.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #17476

Hi Cynthia,
I have been losing weight also. I am in a medium in Quacker clothes. I never thought that would happen. I hate to say what my weight was back then. I gained a lot of weight when i had children. I guess some of it was water weight and the rest was from eating too much or not eating the right things. That is a good picture of you and your husband. You both look very happy in that picture.
I love all kinds of candy but because of the diabetes I cannot have any. Well I do sneak a piece or two when I just cannot resist. 100 kids is a lot of kids on Halloween. We do not have any where we live now. Your treats sound good. That was a good idea to give out toys instead of just candy. Last year we gave out granola bars. The kids really loved them we were surprised. We had candy but they chose the bars instead. We gave all of them away and then the candy. We go to a church that has trunk or treat for Halloween. That is the only way that we get to see the kids. Two of our grand kids that live close to us are too old to go out and the others live too far away to come down here. It is not as much fun because they do not have any houses to go to. They live in neighborhoods that have a lot of kids and houses.
It seems like the older we get the harder it is too lose inches. I have to pedal to try and get my legs in shape. It is sad that we spread out when we get older and everything starts to drop. Gravity plays mean tricks on us as we age.
well that is about all from here. Have a good night.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #17428

Hi Cynthia,
I like the pictures of your house all decorated with the Halloween decor. You really went all out decorating. I bet all the kids liked to see it all and came there every year. I hope that the sale that you had was a success. I think I read it right that you have to have another one. A lot of people love yard sales.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #17425

Hi Adele,
The cinnamon bread sound really good. I will make some type of dessert. Maybe a pie or something if we have enough room to eat anything else after all the soup and bread. Maybe a good glass of wine would be nice. We could send Ron off somewhere else of if all the men come we could send them to my bil house he lives close. They can talk to him and bother my sil. We can have a good time laughing and eating. We can let them eat before they leave though.
Have a good evening.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #17423

Hi Gail,
Ron is being a pain isn’t he. He is sleeping right now so will tell him later when he gets up. He had a rough day. I did not think about the cardinal hitting your window maybe it is one of the old cardinals come back and went to the wrong state. lol It would be just like the cardinals to do that.
If a doctor tries to do the right thing he is asked to stop or move to another clinic. That is the shame of it all. They use to send out surveys at our doctors offices but they are not doing that right now. I guess they do not want to hear what the patients have to say about them. Or maybe they only send them to the people that will say what they want to hear. I would love to get one. I would tell them exactly what I think of the whole group. If they took their computers away they could not function. I better not start on this it really makes me mad.
You and Greg are like us. Ron likes the white meat and I like the dark. So when we buy fried chicken none of it goes to waste. It is hard to find a store that sells just thighs around here. They usually just sell the breast. That is strange the breast and the legs sell a lot around here. I guess little kids like the legs and the adults like the breast. Well some do. I think that little ones like the legs because they can hold them in their hands and not have to use a fork. Oh to be little again and do what feels comfortable to you.
I would be eating all the candy I could find if they told me that I had to have a tooth pulled. Especially after all the time you have put in trying to save it. I guess the older we get the harder it is to keep our teeth. They are falling apart like the rest of us.
It is a dark dreary day today. It is a typical fall day. We are supposed to get some rain tonight and tomorrow and possibly Sunday. Is that front heading your way? I have not heard where it is going. It is going to cool off again and that is good. We will not have to have the air or the fans and it is not cold enough to turn on the heat. This is my kind of weather.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good evening.
Colleen

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