[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #16231

Hi Barbara,
I am glad that you and Jerry are enjoying your time alone. The restaurant that you two went to sounds like they have really good food. I am glad that you both enjoyed it. It is nice to be alone for awhile. We love our kids but sometimes it is just nice to have that together time and just talk and do what we want.
Sounds like you hay rides were a lot of fun also. You fixed the same food that we fixed the other night. I guess that is standard hay ride food. We had a hard time keeping the hot dogs on the stick. The poor kids would drop them into the fire. I guess they were cooking them too long.
That is so funny that they were making moonshine and the kids were eating the fruit out of it. I bet you could have smacked them both for not telling you. It is a good thing that the boys did not eat anymore of it. That must have been a site with them loopy like that.
That is not right that they are cutting his pension. They pay into that the whole time that they work and it is not cheap. They should not have the right to cut it in half. They are doing it to all kinds of people. The car companies have been doing that also. My sister’s husband worked for Ford for years and they cut his pension and there health coverage. That was a big shock to them when they found out how much they would have to pay for health care. They really had to work hard and pay a lot into that and to lose it that is not fair.
Are you doing any decorating for Halloween? We did when we had the hay ride but took it all down the next day,. I may but some of it in the car when we go the trunk or treat at the church. That is fun to do. You get to see a lot of the kids and give out treats. There are a lot of people that come there to hand out treats. It is all the county people that do not get any kids at their homes. We have done this for the past two years, They are nice about saving us a space to park so we can do this.
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. #16229

Hi Adele,
Your dessert table is going to be really good. Do you make pumpkin pies? We have to make pumpkin and apple pies and a cherry for my grand daughter. I made pecan pies one year and they hardly ate any of it and I had to throw it out. So I told them that I will never bake another one. They take more time then the other two do so I will make the easier ones and forget making anything fancy. Do you have those pans with the designs on them from King Aurthur? I saw them on the site the other day and they are really pretty.
I think they will not come because of the drive there and home. My youngest daughter lives at Ft Leonard Wood so it is a long drive for her. So if they do not go trick or treating down here they would not make it home in time for the kids to go. The shower is in St. Louis so we all will have to drive a long ways to get there and back home. I will not stay that long so I can get home in time and not be on the road with all the kids out walking around. Some of the kids are careful but the older ones do not care and walk out in front of cars.
I have not tried the minestrone or the hot and sour soups that they have. I really love the potato and the chicken noodle. Ron likes the veggie and beef a lot. We always add some meat to it and more veggies and onions. He really loves onions. The break sounds really good. You are such a good baker. Wish I had your talent. I will have to look up that recipe and try it out. That would be a good idea for after Thanksgiving so you can use the left overs. It would be good with the chicken also. Trying new recipes because we are getting sick of the same old thing all the time.
How cute that Aizen likes to sing. He may write music or songs or be a famous singer. Your grands are so cute. JJ could draw. That is amazing that he could do that at such a young age. Does he like art classes they have at school? Both boys are very talented.
Well that is about all from here. Have a great night.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #16227

Hi Gail,
That is funny that Lachlan went skinny dipping in the pool. I am surprised that Piper did not try that also. She is a little dare devil. Well Greg was right there and knew that he needed to put a suit on so the neighbors would not be upset. You had such a good vacation.
It must have gone well at the dentist or Jenny would have called. It is hard not to take you tongue and keep touching the place where the tooth chipped. I do that if I have a sore tooth also. At least she got it fixed right away.
We did not know that either when we ordered it. It was well worth buying. All the kids were old enough to enjoy it and it did not scare anyone. Ron is thinking of getting a grim reaper costume next year and popping out and scaring my bil. That will be okay if he does not scare anyone else.
I do not understand all this new stuff they are doing for the play offs. They have changed all of that so much. I thought they played 7 games before they get decided if they stay in or not. They play so many different times now. That is also strange. It was better when they won the pennant and then played the world series. Now it goes way into October before they are done. We have baseball, football, hockey and basket ball all at the same time. It is just crazy,.
Thanks for the heads up on the new Patrick Taylor book. I have started reading again. I am reading Dancing in the Low Country. It is different but it is good. I will write more about it on the what are you reading post on here, I cannot imagine you not reading the whole time you were on vacation. You were having a good time and were with your grand kids so that was more important. I do not set a goal for how many books that I will read. I just read when I can. I am not going to read anymore books about the war. Especially what they did to the Jews. That was really depressing. Do not want to end up reading another book like that.
That must have been a mess for your bil and your friend both to be stranded and not able to get back to Washington or New York. I am surprised they did not have private jets to pick these guys up so they could get there. I guess that there were more people like them that were stranded. That was such a horrible day. I still cannot get over how brave those people were that decided to crash the plane that they were on and not let them crash into the white house. They had to have been brave people to do that.
The Vietnam museum must have been really interesting. I would like to go there. I had a friend that we went to school with that died over there. His name was on the wall. They would send home the name of the person and the date that he died. It was sad he died the day he got there. Stephen said that it is not unusual for that to happen. It is really sad.
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. #16151

Gail I forgot to say that I hope that they can fix Jenny’s tooth. That is a shame that she chipped it. Hope she does not have any pain with it.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #16149

Hi Adele,
We did turn out to have a good time at the hayride. I wrote some more that happened on what I wrote to Gail. If you want to read it. I do not remember if I told you about that are not. I am getting very forgetful.
I hope that the baby shower works out. We do not have the address yet. She did not send me an invitation yet so will have to call her and see where it is at. I will have to send on to my sil and see if she can come. Some people have already said they were not coming. They have other things going on that day and have to get their kids ready for Halloween. Mandy and her kids will not be going they have passes for Six Flags and they want to go there for the haunted house. They will stay there for the whole day and ride the rides and then stay until it closed at night. I guess they have a lot of fun things that they do there.
That is a lot of butter in a cake. It looks really good though. It would not look as good in a loaf pan the bundt pan is better. That will look nice on the table and if you fix two you con have one on each end of the table. What type of icing do you put on it or do you put any on it? That would be good with strawberries or blueberries and whip cream. This is really making me hungry and it is too late to be eating.
The soup and bread sounds really good. You do a lot of baking. I have not made a loaf of bread in a long time. We usually just buy it frozen and then stick it in the oven. I need to make a fresh loaf again. I love the bear creek soups. I am glad that you have tried them. We eat a lot of different types. I am starting to stock up for the winter.
That is good that Gary had such a good time with his friends. It is a shame that you did not get to go but you were better off staying home. Does he not like to stay out late? That is sweet that he said that he missed you. That had to make you feel good. He sounds like such a loving man.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #16147

Hi Gail,
It sounds like you had a great time. You were smart to rent the house and not stay at the hotel by Disney. They do not offer all that you had at the house you rented. You also could spend some fun time with Jenny and her family. I bet the kids had such a good time and you and Greg had fun watching them. Greg was smart to talk you into getting the scooter. It made it a lot easier on you and you did not seem to get as hot. You are better then I am that heat would have gotten me down,. You made it thru the whole day. That was nice that the kids got to go to the Halloween party. They do some really nice things for the kids there. They almost have to have the fast pass at six flags also. The lines are so long and if you do not want to wait forever then you need the pass. How did Piper act when she saw Minnie. I bet she was so excited. The science museum sounds great glad that you had such a good time. That would be a trip that would have been hard to come home. The house you stayed at sounded really nice.
The trouble with screening for guns is most of these people do not buy them legitimately. They buy them off the streets and then they do not have to register them. They have to get all the gun sellers off the street and that will never happen. So if everyone registers their guns ti will be the people that buy them for hunting or protection. The ones who want to do harm will never buy them that way. I do not know what the answer is but we are going to have to fight back or they are going to take over our country. I am still mad about this. I am tired of our children getting killed by some idiot that just walks into a school and starts shooting.
The dessert that the kids got from the Crab shack sounds really cute. I bet they had fun putting all the different flavors on them. That really is a good idea. Did you enjoy the food there? The person who thought of that must have had children of their own or grand children. Some people are so creative.
What about the Cubs? They are doing pretty good. SO are the Cardinals. I guess we will see who we will be playing Friday after the Cubs play their game. I cannot remember who they are playing. I sure hope we win the world series this year. If not us the Cubs can win it. lol I know that you feel the other way. You want the Cubs to win.
Our hayride was a lot of fun. We had a few bumps along the way but it all worked out in the end. We had plenty of food and lots of fun was had by all. Danyielle could not go on the hay ride this year but Owen did not care. He was going no matter what. He is getting older. We bought that door bell thing on qvc it plays Christmas music and Halloween music. The Halloween music was really good. It was scary and it took the adults awhile to figure out the noise was coming from. I could press the red button in the house and it would play the noise outside. That is what was confusing everyone. Once they thought it was motion activated. Then they decided that it wasn’t because it did not come on at the same time all the time. No one would be around it and it would play. we had fun with that.
Well that is about all from here. Glad that your vacation turned out so great. Rest all that you can. The holidays are coming and that can be hard on everyone.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #16093

Hi Cynthia,
I like your top. That is really cute. I do not have one with a pumpkin on it. Will try for that one next year. There are not any pumpkin ones left right now. I did get the ghost shirt with the grey vest. It is really cute.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #16091

HI Adele,
We ended up having a good time at the hay ride. We had more then enough food. My friend Ruth brought some things up and then my oldest daughter brought some food and we ended up with enough food and some left over. The one thing that we had more then enough of was marshmallows. I had about 5 bags of them and gave some to my youngest daughter to take home with her. She has to two small kids and they would love to have them to snack on. She is the one that has the son that is so smart. He goes to classes for smart kids. He is more intelligent then I am that is for sure. The kids had a ball. There were enough kids to play and go on the hay ride. Some of the adults went and some stayed by the fire. It was really cold when it started but then the wind died down and it got warmer out. We just had a good time. We hung up all the ghosts and the skeleton and we brought out the door bell that they sold on qvc. It played spooky sounds for Halloween. The kids loved it. They could not figure where the noise was coming from. A lot of people thought it was coming from the skeleton.
Your cake looks delicious. Everyone is going to like that. That is for sure. What kind of cake is it? It really looks good.
I wore the shirt with the dogs dressed in Halloween outfits. Hardly anyone got to see it though because I had to wear a sweat shirt and a coat to keep warm I freeze all the time. So even sitting by the fire it was cold. We are invited to another hay ride on the 30th of October. It will really be cold then. The fathers side of the family wants to have a baby shower for Danyielle on Halloween. I could not believe that they picked that day for a baby shower. They will have it at 11am and we will have to get back home in time for the trunk or treat. It is a bad day to have it but I guess that is when his sister is going to be in Missouri so she wants to be there and that is understandable.
I have to use ice on my back when sometimes. It is surprising how much it helps. I have to do that and some back exercises. They help also. Do they give you exercises to do at home? It may be different because your back is hurt worse then mine is. That was nice that Gary went out to dinner with friends. Hope he had a good time and made it home okay.
Well that is about all from here. Have a great night and day tomorrow.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #16044

Hi Adele,
Well this day is turning out to be a bust. Not as many people are coming that were supposed. It is cold outside and misting rain. What else can go wrong. The person that was supposed to bring all kinds of stuff is not bringing it at all. So a friend of mine is picking some stuff at the store for me so I will not have to worry about that. What a day this has been. I am sure that by tonight it will be fine but I am so upset. I had to complain to someone so I am on here complaining. This happens whenever my sil and her family is supposed to come. They never stick to what they say they are going to do. I like her and all but this is aggravating.
I think about those people that were on the plane on 9-11 they attacked the high jackers and did it without weapons. We are going to have to do things like that. If everybody would rush them they would not be able to shoot as many people and that would maybe save some lives. I am sorry I am just so tired of these jerks doing this stuff. I guess having a son-in-law in the service makes me look at things different. I may change my mind if something like this happened to me but I am just mad. I am tired of hearing about some other mother that has lost her child to violence.
So how is your day going? Well I guess I better go. Ron just thought of something else we need to do.
Colleen

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