[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #16932

Hi Gail,
Jenny’s step daughters are typical teenagers. My two oldest granddaughters do that also. They listen to music but not watch movies. They cannot out here because reception is not good here. They do not go anywhere with out them and if they have to put them down they get really sullen. We make them put them down when we eat. We even say something to our daughters about that. They can do without their phones while we are eating dinner. They get phone calls and texts while we are trying to eat. It is really aggravating. So we turn our phones off except the land line but we feel that we have to answer that because of my mom. If she needs us we need to be there for her.
This is the dad’s first baby but he has a sister that has two or three kids. So it will not be the first grands. We will have a nice time I just think that she is going to say something to me about trying to stop the whole thing. I do not think that it is my place to do that. This is his mom and I cannot tell her what to do. So things will work out they usually do. I will just sit with who ever I know that is there. If she sits with me that is fine and if she doesn’t that will be fine also. I think that she will sit with me because her sisters are not coming and I do not think my mom and sil and sister are going to come. Mom probably will not because of the steps. They are having this in the basement. So she will not come. She would be afraid that she will fall. So this should be interesting.
Gail I am so sorry to hear about Brent. Has he found a place to stay now that they have split. I would call him and tell him that he wants to come home to come home and stay with you again. He really must feel alone right now. That is terrible. We will be praying for him here. I hope that he comes home and you will not have to worry about him. I think that it is hard for kids to understand that they should have a place of their own until they find out if it is going to work. They are always so sure of themselves. He is just having a rough time.
I hope that the concert went well tonight. The poor cubs lost tonight. Ron was rooting for the Mets which really surprised me. I guess he has a thing going with his nephew. They both predicted who they thought would win the series. So we will see they still have more games to play. Did you find any nice things at the auction? I really like auctions but spend too much money at them. That is why we only go to the church auction. That way the money goes to the church like this one it goes for a good cause.
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. #16930

Hi Barbara,
I am not trying to take your job and will gladly pass it back to you. It is not fun and I do not like it. I will ignore her tomorrow and talk to other people and not give her a chance to get upset with me then. I will wait until we leave and then she can holler at me for awhile. It is the baby’s father’s mother that is having the shower so she should blame him or his mom and leave me alone. But as you know that is not how it works. One of these days we are going to have to stomp on those egg shells and let it all out. That will scare the heck out of everyone. Your dil should have understood why you and Jerry did not want to have a picture taken. You were recovering from a stroke and Jerry was not doing well either. Some people do not understand how it is to be sick and trying to take care of yourself.
She is really excited about the baby. She is having a girl and that is good news. She wanted a girl so she could dress her up and buy all kinds of cute things for her. She loves to buy clothes for the girls. This little girl will be the best dressed girl in the whole family lol
I wonder if everyone got one of those American Girl doll books. I got one also. I can pass mine on to my granddaughter. She loves those dolls. She will probably cut the pictures of the dolls out of the book and make paper dolls out of them. She is very creative. We have a lot of fun with her she is a girly girl and that is for sure.
The ribs sound really good. We have not had any in awhile. Ron said that was okay that you should go ahead and eat all the potato soup. He can do without it.lol He is something else some days. We went and had Chicken and Dumplings at the church today. They were so good and I did not have to cook tonight. They serve a lot and we were not hungry tonight when it was time for dinner. If we joined that church I would be as big as a house. They are always eating something. They have a lot of good cooks.
I have one of the extension swiffers. It is long enough that it reaches my fan but then my ceilings are not that high. So am not sure if that will help you or not. I do not climb ladders the way I fall all the time. Ron is in the house when I climb up the foot stole. It has three steps to it so I can reach the top cabinet. You all know how I fall though so you can understand why he does that.
Well that is about all from here. I think that you are going to have to hide that ladder from Jerry. He is determined to climb it.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #16849

Hi Adele,
I am glad that Gary did well with his surgery. Hopefully his hand will not get too sore after all the medicine wears off. He has really had a rough time of it here lately and so have you. It is hard when you have problems but when our husbands have problems it is even harder. We have to watch them and make sure they do what the doctor tells them to do. I hope this surgery healing time goes by fast.
I do not know the person that is throwing the shower. I think that it is a shame that she is doing this to Danyielle. We could have all just got together at a restaurant and brought her some gifts and not made a big deal out of it. She is really going overboard with the food. She has her sisters bringing all kinds of food. I thought it was just going to be sandwiches and chips. I have never heard of a shower where they make all this food. I guess that is just the type of family they have. They make a big deal out of everything.
They have not called yet with an appointment. I may have to call them on Monday and see what is going on. I f I have to wait for that nut case that I have for a primary care doc to do it, it will take months. They are not the speediest people I have ever seen. They take their time with everything.
You are right about our moms. It is scary to think that one day they will be gone. They just do not think about that. It will be hard on us when they go. I guess they do not think about that either. We probably won’t either when we get their age.
That is all from here. Have a great night will talk to you later.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #16812

Hi Bar bara,
Sounds like it was a bad idea for Joey to eat when he got home. That is funny that he ate and them took tums. They sloppy joes must have been really good for him to eat them and then have to take tums. Sounds like he was not going to turn them down for any reason.
I do not have a gall bladder. They say that is why I am having so much trouble with the bile duct. I had mine out in the 70’s so do not know why it waited so long to flare up like it did. They did finally find me a gasto guy and am waiting for them to get me an appointment. I think that I have the wrong insurance. It is hard to find one that covers a policy that covers everything that you need and all the doctors. I wish that I could find a good one.
Adele and I are blessed to have our mother’s. I just wish that mine did not live alone. Even if she would move closer to one of us that would be a big help. I guess we will all be that way as we age. We do not want to depend on anyone. It is easy to say that they need to be close to one of us but I would not want to leave my home and everything that I am familiar with.
Jerry’s dad sounds like he was a really great man. You were lucky to have him close to you for all those years. The boys did learn a lot from him. Maybe that is why they both are in health care in some form. They helped with their grandpa and they want to help other people. They are such good sons. The dinner that Neal is going to cook sounds really good. Does he want to cook for a bunch of us? We could all come over for ribs and potato salad. lol If we all got together there he would probably leave and not come back until we were all gone. We would be a wild bunch of ladies.
A lot of my cousins have passed away. Some of them were younger then I am. Not saying that I am young but you would not think that they would be gone already. We did not have cancer in our family and now it seems like it is hitting everyone or at least one or two in a family. It is really sad. My poor mom is the only one left in her family. She really gets lonesome for her sisters and brother sometimes. She misses grandma also. It is sad to hear her talk sometimes.
That was depressing time to move on. I will not get into that anymore.
Have you noticed the older we get the more health problems that we have. It is getting to where that is all we have to talk about. Our doctors are our new best friends. We see them more then we see our family. This new doc that we have we could do with out though. He is kind of a dunce. Ron keeps telling me that he is young.
You better watch out for Jerry. He will be buying that ladder that you can shape in so many different ways. You will have to hide it to keep him off of it. Ron loves tools but he does not buy ladders anymore. He has an extension ladder and that is all that he wants. Thank heaven for that. Now power tools he would be right there with Jerry buying those. They could have a good time buying tools and finding ways to use them. One of us would have to watch them at all times. Ron is still buying junk. He now goes to another junk man and buys some junk that he has found. He really needs a keeper.
Well that is about all from here have a good night. I did not realize that it was this late.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #16810

Hi Adele,
It sounds like Gary may be trying to do what the doctors tell him to do. It is hard to do sometimes. He is lucky to have you there looking out for him. It is hard when you have to wait for a long time to get the results of a test. Especially one like this one. It will determine a lot for him. Doctors never get in a hurry to check on anything.
Tillie sounds like my mom. She never listens. Mom fell down the steps a couple of years ago and did not call any of us to let us know that it happened. She hit hard enough that she broke her glasses and had a bruised eye and body. We have tried to get her to put something up so she will not fall down those steps again but there is not way she will do that. It will not look right in her house. She fell down the steps to the basement. She has an open floor plan to her house. Tillie is just like her. She would have done the same thing with the window and would not have gone to the doctor. The nanny cam sounds like a good idea. if she found it though there would be hell to pay.lol I just hope that we are not like that when we get their age. Knowing our luck we will be just like them and our kids will be saying the same things about us. lol
Our weather is really going to be cold this week-end also. We had some rain tonight which surprised us. We did not think we were supposed to get any. It was a down pour and then it stopped. Do not know if we will get more or not. We can use some rain but a slow steady rain would be better. We will have to go out to the garden tomorrow and pick what veggies we have out there. We will get our first frost Saturday morning. We had fresh tomatoes for dinner tonight. Who would have thought that this time of year we would have fresh tomatoes. We sure didn’t.
This baby shower that they are giving for my daughter is not working well for us at all. My other two daughters cannot come and Danyielle does not want one. So they are making this a surprise shower. I have never heard of a surprise baby shower. I really hope that she does not get upset about this. She can really get mad when she wants to. If she does get mad she will probably get mad at me over this. She will think that I should have stopped this. Our family is doing their part I am the only one going. Life is a pain sometimes.
Do they still sell that miracle finish on the Q? I have not seen it. I sure could use something on my cabinets they are really starting to look old and worn. Mine are at the point that you are talking about. The finish is starting to fade out a lot and they do not look good at all. It seems like at the handles on the cabinets where you have to open them all the time is the worse part. We just all need a maid and she can do all that work. We need to live a life of leisure.lol
My insurance company gave me a name of a gastro and I passed it on to that doctor that I saw. His nurse said that they will call and see if they can get that all set up for me. They will let me know as soon as they get it done. His nurse is a very nice person and sounds like she will try to help any way she can. She was more like him. They want to be sure that they get to the right doctor.
Well that is about all from here. Hope that Tillie will take care of herself and you won’t have to holler at her anymore.lol
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #16806

Hi Gail,
I think that Ron was glad that they were done playing. He said they were doing so bad that he hated to watch them. I forgot to say congratulations to all the cub fans. I hope that they win the world series this year. They deserve to win it. It has been a long time since they played in a world series. Ron is rooting for Kansas City. That will be interesting to see who wins the title. I do not watch the games . I just like to hear who wins. If I watch I am like you I get all excited and upset at the same time. So I gave up watching a long time ago. Ron likes to watch the game on tv and listen the radio announcers on the radio. Well it is going to be the Mets and the Cubs in the pennant. I thought it was almost over but they have to play a lot more games. It is too long . THey need ot make this shorter.
It is nice that Jenny will do Thanks giving. I will be doing every holiday again. Since Danyielle is with Kevin she will have to go to his house with the baby every other year. So it will be better if I just do it here every year. It makes it easier for everybody. I have told the other two girls that they can do it one year if they want. When they are ready to do it then just let me know. Danyielle did do it last year but she does not really want to do it again this year. So I will do it and do it the way that I like to. Maybe she will do it again when she is ready again. She just does things when she is in the mood to do it.
Hopefully this year everyone will be in good health for the Thanks giving week-end. I am not doing the shopping thing this year since I am getting a lot of gift cards this year. My mom just wants t-shirts this year to wear so will order them off of the q and she can wear them. That is all that she wants. Maybe I can find her a couple of shirts from Quacker that does not have a lot of bling on it. Just around the collar. She will like that.
Well that is about all from here. I hope that the concert does well for the ONP. You usually have a good crowd and make a lot for them. I am sure that it will be good again this year.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: What Books Are You Reading and Recommending Now? #16733

I just finished Montana Standoff by Sharon Dunn. That was another good book. It only took me a day and one night to read it. You could hardly put it down. There always seemed to be something happening all the time. You had to read on to find out what would happen next. Not sure what I will be reading next. I guess I am making up for lost time from when I did not read any books for awhile.

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #16731

Hi Cynthia,
Sounds like you have been really busy. Glad that your garage sales went so well. The heat there would kill me. I am glad to have the cool weather and not all that heat. The jaccuzi sounds really nice.
Those jeans are really cute. I did not get a pair. Not sure that I wanted all that bling at the leg. Sometime it is not comfortable when you sit down. They are really cute though. i bet you will look good in them.
You and your husband can celebrate. Maybe you can celebrate with your sister. That would be nice. I am sorry to hear about our Father in law. You have really had a lot of deaths in your family this year.
Take care.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #16729

Hi Adele,
That is really sad for your sil. I am sure that this is not the life she had planned for them. Fifty years is a long time. It would be hard to get use to not having your husband around. We had to put my dad in a nursing home. Mom could not take care of him and he had to have a catheter put in so that took special care for him. We all hated that he was in there. I am sorry for Gary also. It would be hard for him to see his brother going thru that. I will pray for all of you.
Poor Gary. He has really been going thru a lot here lately. I will be praying that he come thru all of that okay. It seems that the older we get we spend more time at the doctor then we do with anyone else. They have become our new best friends.lol I hope that his kidneys are functioning properly. What will they do if they are not? Will he go on dialysis or put more stints in? That is a hard thing to have to go thru.
There is a book about Alzheimer called Grace. They recommended that we read if where I worked. It was more a book for women though I am not sure what books that they have for men. It would be nice if they did. It would explain a lot of things that they do not know about. I have not heard about the movie Alice. I have not seen it or read a book about it. I know that it new and that may really help him a lot also.
I hope that Tillie’s back is okay. She just did not think. She wanted a window open and thought she could do it herself. She wants to be independent. With my mom we have to set her thermostat so she does not burn up in the summer or freeze during the winter. We will set it and my brother will tell her not to touch it. So every time he goes to her house he checks to see where the temp is set at or if she moved it. I guess when our parents get older they want to save money. So we have to watch our for them. You are lucky that Tillie lives with you. You can take care of her. My mom will not live with any of us. We told her she could go and stay a month with one of us and then move on to the next one of us. Seh will have nothing to do with that either. She says she will just be in the way. She is hard headed.
have a good night.
Colleen

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