[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #16727

Hi Gail,
Micheal Symon went thru the one where the veggies were the real ones. It is interesting to see how they grow them. He said that there were a lot of families that went thru there and he was glad to see kids in there. He thought that they enjoyed being in there to see how the veggies grow. That would be a fun place to go.
That made it really nice. You got the boulders you needed and they got rid of the boulders that they did not want. It seems like people that live in farm country are nice about doing things like that. They just want the stuff out of their way and do not worry about being paid for them. It works really well.
When we got our first color tv I was in grade school. I think the upper grades. I can remember because we invited all our friends in the neighborhood to come over and watch cartoons in color with us. I know that my parents were really excited when they had all these kids in the living room. They did not say anything though just set a limit for how long we could watch rv. That way they could send them home when they were ready.lol
Not much going on here just our same boring life. This month is going by so fast though. Halloween will be here soon and then Thanks giving. I cannot believe that it is going so fast. Will the family come to your house this year or will you go to Jenny’s. Everyone will be coming here. I do love the family get togethers this time of year.
Talk to you later.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #16669

Hi Adele,
Thank- you for the recipes. They both look and sound really good. I will have to try both of them. I saw a recipe on an ad for the dump crock pot meals and she made one with chicken and dressing. She did dump mixed veggies on it but I would not do that. The chicken and dressing would be enough for me.
Well I went to the doctor today and my primary doc sent me to the wrong one. He was a colon surgeon. He did talk to me and told me that he could do an mri and another test but then he would have to send me to a gastro doc after that. I told him that I thought he sent me to the wrong doc when I found out he was a surgeon. He said that he could do surgery but he did not think that was the way I wanted to go. I told him that he was right. I would rather they do the ercp and then there is not surgery and long stays in the hospital. So he is trying to find me a gastro so I can see who I need to see. He is a young doctor so he may have gone to school with the guy he thought about sending me to. I was so disgusted with the whole thing. I had to pay a 45 dollar copay for him to tell me I needed to see a gastro. I guess that he felt that he should help me out since they did that to me. He was a nice doc.
You need to find a recipe that they do not like and make it a few times when they complain about your meals. that is why I make potato soup a lot. I do like it but Ron does not. So when he makes me mad or says something that makes me mad he is on the potato soup diet.lol He is a slow learner. I cannot go on strike because I have been sick for awhile so do not cook big meals right now. I did make him some soup though. So what more does he want.
That is a smart thing to do leaving you bil in the home he is in. If they take him somewhere it may really confuse him an he will become more belligerent. Alzheimer is such a sad disease. Really nice people change over night. You do not see it coming as quickly as it does come. It also is better where he is at because there are a lot more people to help with him. If one person has a lot of problems with him there are others that can come and help. When you are home alone there is no one else but you. That can be really hard. God bless her that is a hard decision to make.
I hope that Gary’s doctors appointments went well today. It is hard when you have to go to two doctors on the same day.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night will talk to you later. Thank again for the recipes.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #16667

Hi Gail,
You are right it was the hydroponic garden.I bet that was fun to go thru. He really picked some big veggies. Did they let you buy any of the veggies are were they just for Epcot? That would be fun if they let you buy some and you could cook them at home. It all looked so good and would be fun to cook with. Today they had a contest between Mario and Micheal. Micheal made something with angel hair pasta and vegetables the Mario made some type of shrimp dish with hot peppers. They all voted for Micheal except for two people. They put a crown on Michael and had him wear a cape. Mario had to wear a jesters hat. It was really funny,.
They do grow corn and soy beans in our area. My mom has more of that where she lives. They do raise a lot of live stock here. On our land we do not have a lot of flat land to grow corn. It is not bad for cattle but not a lot of veggies will grow on the ground here. We also have a lot of rocks on our property. So it took a long time to get all the rocks out of the way of the gardens that we do have.
I do not remember those small refrigerators when we were younger either. It was really nice for Danyielle she went to college in St. Louis so we did not get up there as often. It was too far for her to come home very often. Her roommate was from Hawaii. She would bring us macadamia nuts from there and we always sent extra food for Danyielle to share with her. She did come and spend a week-end with us and one of her breaks she came home with Danyielle and stayed for a few days. She only went to school here for one year and then she went back home. I guess she really missed her family.
There are so many things that our kids and grand kids missed out on. The grands and the girls do not like to watch a black and white movie. They do not appreciate the history of it. We got Its a Wonderful Life in black and white and they will not hardly watch it. They are also making it in color now. We have not bought one it makes the actors and actresses look strange. They put that really red lipstick on them and it looks really thick. The girls still remember pay phones but the grands have no idea what we are talking about. It is funny how times have changed. We have to have a land line here also. I remember party lines.That was always interesting. You could never say anything that you did not want to get around everywhere. Everyone seemed to know who their was on their party line. I do not know if the telephone company told them or how they knew.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night.
Colleen

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I have not read the. Christmas Box set of books. I will have to look for them. That is a long time to live to read books.lol You are going to have to up the number of books that you are going to read next year. You may want to go up to 100 if you want to get all of those books read. It is hard to get all the books that sound really good. read. I guess we have to pick out the ones that are the best and forget the rest.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #16627

Hi Adele,
I bet the corn bread muffins tasted really good. It would be hard to bite into one they were so cute. They really look like miniature pumpkins. That was a cute idea. I would like to have the recipe for the sauerkraut. If I cannot find what I need her I can have my daughter look it up in St. Louis and see if she can find one there. I am sure that she can. They have all kinds of stores up there. They still have little communities where different nationalities live. It is nice even if part of the family shows up. At least there was family there. The dinner sounded really good if you want to print the recipes I will gladly try it.
We are lucky to have our mothers. There are not a lot of people that can say that they still have their moms at our age. That is good that Tillie remembered the recipe. She probably made it enough to remember it. It is fun to hear them talk about what it was like when they were girls. Life was so much different then. They seemed to have a good time no matter what they did.
My daughter is feeling fine now. She went thru a really rough time there for a while but she is over it now. We are all anxious for the baby to come. We still have a few more months to go though before the arrival. She has a really big tummy this time around. With her son I do not remember her getting that big. That was a long time ago though. I am just excited to have another grand child. They are so much fun. We were running out of kids that believed in Santa but now she will be the one. We will just have to watch the other kids. So they do not tell her. We are really trying to keep Kaylee from finding out. Her older brother knows and it is hard for him not to say anything. You know how kids are.
Our weather is cooling down. It was warmer in the morning then it was this afternoon. That cold front is moving thru our area so this week will be nice and cool. I really like that. I do not like it to be so hot this time of year. It is the time of year for all the festivals. I cannot wait to go to more of them.
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. #16625

Hi Gail,
That is nice that she can move some of her things to the second house. She will not have to get rid of all of her things. That would be hard to do. There a re a lot of my things that I would not want to get rid of. That sounds like my mom. She had white furniture in her living room in her one house and no one went in there but guests that came to see just her and my dad. They bought this after we had all moved away except my brother and he was getting ready to go to college.
I do not think that most people have a second baby shower. In Ron’s family they have one every time they get pregnant. I do not go to all of them. After the first I feel that I am not longer obligated unless I want to go. Sometimes I will go if the first baby was a girl and the second is a boy. It is hard to know what to do when each family is different. They are not like my side of the family. That makes it hard.
The autumn sounds like a nice drive. I love to go and see what people are selling. They have some creative people that can make a lot of nice things. My niece makes really pretty wreaths. She has made a couple for me. She has also made me a swag to hang over my door. It has been hanging there for years. I hope that you can go next year and see what all they have to offer.
I may have to show them that book by Micheal Symon. So they can see that he is a chef. If they did not say some things that are a little off the wall on the Chew they could watch that. I watched them today at Epcot. It was a pretty good show. It was fun to see Micheal make something from all the fresh veggies that he got from there. I cannot remember what they called their garden now. It will come to me after I get off of here. That hot pepper they had would be too hot for me to eat. I cannot believe that he fixed that in with his chicken well with the veggies. Ron use to grow those ghost peppers but they were too hot for anyone to eat so he stopped. So if these peppers are hotter then that it seems like ti would make you sick.
One thing these boys will find out that it gets expensive to go out to eat all the time. Even if it is going to Mc Donald’s. It is cheaper to cook and not depend on anyone to cook for you. Even the food in the cafeteria gets tiresome. When Danyielle lived at the dorm she liked it if I would bring her stuff she could fix in a microwave. Her and her room mate had a microwave and a little fridge in their room. You know the dorm size ones. So even they got tired of food from different places.
That is good that Piper and Lachlan like soup. They have some really good soups now. I love to make soup and when they have colds chicken noodle soup is really good for them. I made a big pot of it tonight for dinner. Ron liked that and ate a lot of it. So the next time it will be potato soup. I hope that he has not aggravated me and he has to eat it all week.lol
We did watch Indiana Jones. We watched all of the movies and the kids liked them also. That would be interesting to see how they did all those stunts for that movie. They had a lot in them. In the one that woman screamed so much I am surprised that she did not have a sore throat all the time. I have watched different movies like that one but not a lot.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night.
Colleen

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in reply to: What Books Are You Reading and Recommending Now? #16579

Hi Gail,
I heard about a book by James Patterson. It is called Murder House. I have never read any of his books but that one looked interesting. Have you read anything by him? I might try that book 11/22/63 that sounds really interesting. It may be the first Stephen King book that I like. I have read other books about Salem during the witch hunts. I am guessing that is what the book was about. I could be wrong. Some of those are good and some are crazy. So that will be two books to add to my list. Right now I will try and get thru the new book that I am reading. I have to let my eyes rest for a day before I start reading another book. Well anyway that is two books that sound really good.
Colleen

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Hi Barbara,
Sounds like all of your kids had a great time on their vacations. You and Jerry had a nice time also. Where are the two of you going are do you know yet. Hope you have as much fun as the kids had. Just take it easy and stop a lot so neither one of you get tired and sore.
I have heard of that snicker cake. I have never tried it though. It was really popular for awhile but do not know if they make it that much now. Maybe since I cannot eat it now I do not pay as much attention to whether it is on the table at buffets at family gatherings anymore. I am getting to be a boring cook.
I do not think kids ever change. My girls are the same way. If I have Halloween candy here they will eat some also. Sometimes they will stick it in there purses and take it home with them. They also tell me what Easter candy that I need to have in the bowl on the table. So they can have their favorite kind. We started going to trunk or treat at the church now since we do not get any kids here. So we have a five pound bag of candy here for the kids. They have a lot of kids that go to the church to get candy. I guess they feel safe going there. It would be strange for people to give out things that are not good at a church. We were glad that we found a place to go. It is fun and we do get to see the kids all dressed up.
Ron would have a fit if I found a new recipe for potato soup. He hates the stuff. He has been being really nice to me here lately. Guess he know that it is that time of year for the soup and he knows that potato is going to be here soon. lol. He is a pain sometimes but I do know how to make him do things that I want done with it. Guess I am not a nice person.
Thank you we are all excited for the arrival of the new baby. She will have a hard time competing with Piper. I remember Art Linkletter. We use to watch that show all the time when I was a kid. My mom really liked that. It is funny to think back that it was in black and white and now everything is in color. They do not realize how nice the black and white was. I enjoyed watching the old shows in black and white and think that they ruin them when they make them in color. They should leave them alone. It takes away from what they were,. I guess a lot of people do onto agree with me.
Mine do help me when they are here. Some of them like to bake and some do not. The boys use to like to until they found that it is being a sissy to help cook. Owen loves to cook. He likes to pick things out of the garden and then help me cook them on the stove. He would put an apron on and everything. He may do it now if the other kids are not here. Ethan is the same way. He likes to bake cookies though. He would not go as far as Owen. He will not do that if the other kids are around either. Boys are so much different girls.
I would not have gone near the water if their is sharks. I am a coward. They are really dangerous. They are coming closer to the shore a lot here lately.
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. #16567

Hi Adele,
Your pumpkin corn bread came out really good. Bet they tasted really good. How nice that the whole family is coming for dinner. Heather is a good daughter coming to help you since she knows that it is hard for you to stand that long. You have good kids.
The sauerkraut sounds really good. I hope that Tillie remembers how she made it. My moms family was German and my Dads was Irish. My grandma use to make some fantastic food but she never wrote a recipe down. When asked how to make things she would say oh use a dash of this and a dash of that. She never measured anything and it came out perfect all the time. We all wish that we could have some of grandmas recipes but they all went to heaven with her. My mom remembers some of them and wrote down the ones that she remembered and made a cook book for all the girls in the family. All of her granddaughters have one. They were all happy that she did that for them. So now they can make things that they loved to eat at grandmas. She use to make a fruit cake that was fantastic but she cannot remember how she made it. I know that she poured brandy on it every so often so it would not be dry. She use to let it sit in a cabinet and when you opened it you could smell the brandy. When you ate it you could not taste it though. They all made such good food. Even when we helped her in the kitchen you do not remember how to make things. It is a shame that we did not make notes of what we did to help her.
My mom will be 93 next month. It does not seem like she should be that old. I have noticed that she does not remember things like she use to but she is still pretty sharp. She does a lot of reading and studying different things. One day she wrote down all of the presidents and the year that they were in office. She had to look some of them up but remembered most of them. She even wrote a separate sheet of which ones were in office while she has been alive. She does that so she can stay sharp. She lives by herself and has a lot of time on her hands. Wish she was still driving she could get out more.
You have me thinking about my mom and my grandma now. It is fun to think back on the times when grandma and grandpa were around. They were two great people.
Well that is about all from here. Hope that your dinner turned out good and everyone showed up.
Colleen

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