[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #15986

Hi Adele,
That was good that you had no more leaks. The guy that came to fix it was really good. That is really a pain when you get a leak in the roof.
Poor Bobby. What a way to spend your vacation in the house all the time because of the rain. Hopefully he has some other things that he likes to do and can go and do that. We need to power wash our house it really needs it. He sounds like such a good cook. I love chicken parm. Does he put cheese on top? That is good with garlic bread or a buttered Italian bread. That is why I cannot lose weight. Every thing that we eat there is a bread that would taste good with it. lol Your blueberry tart sounds really good also. I need to go to your house to eat. lol
I was glad that Ron liked the cabbage dinner. I thought it was really good. He wants to have it again and next time to make more of it. I did not make as much as the recipe called for. Next time I will use the whole head of cabbage and more sausage. He said he could have eaten more of that today. We really enjoyed it. Tomorrow we are going to eat something light. We will eat a lot on Saturday at the hay ride. We have hot dogs galore and will make smores. One of the women coming is going to bring apple cider and cinnamon sticks. We will heat it up on the fire. That is the most fun of the whole thing. Sitting by the bon fire. I am really looking forward to this Saturday.
As far as the whole thing with that college we are going to have to start fighting back. Instead of lining up like a bunch of sheep we are going to have to rush these people and get them down so they cannot shoot. I know that it is horrible to say but we are going to have to do something. We have got to fight for ourselves and not let these people win. I feel so sorry for all the families of these kids. They went to school where they should be safe but that is not true anymore. So we have to fight back. We do not have enough people to guard all of us and be everywhere. I do not know what the answer is.. It is just sad.
Well that is about all from here.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #15859

Hi Cynthia,
I do not think that I would want to be in all that heat. We are cooling down here and it is nice. We can go outside and just sit on the deck with out getting too hot. We love this type of weather. It is time for the leaves to change here. Do you have that where you live or do you have a lot of trees?
New York sounds like a pretty state where you lived. I did not realize that you were born in New York. You really have traveled a lot. I do not like to fly so we mostly go where we can drive. I am a coward.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #15856

Hi Barbara,
Sounds like you had a nice drive. The doctor always tells me to get out and stand for awhile. Not to drive too far without doing that. We have started to do it and it really does help. We get out of the care and walk around for awhile and before we drive anymore. I hope this will help you and Jerry. Just take it easy and stop often.
It took me awhile to figure out that I had a page. I had some friend requests and that is how I found out. We can also send private messages which is nice also. It takes awhile to figure all of this out. It is not as easy as the old site was. We will all get use to it though.
Jerry and Ron are two peas in a pod. He is watching baseball now because the Cardinals are going to the play offs. He is so excited that they are going. They played a double hitter tonight so he watched both of them. So when the season is over he will be hollering at the tv again. He will also be out collecting more junk.
How nice that you had dinner with the boys and their girls. Sounds like Jerry enjoyed it also. It is nice to have a bbq for them before they go away for awhile. It will be nice for you and Jerry. You two can relax and not have to worry about them and what is going on with them. It does not seem like Neal and Sarah have been married for a year. That went by quickly. Maybe they will have the money to buy a house just a quickly.
I made some of Adele’s gravy and it is really good. I am going to make some more with the tomatoes that I have frozen. She has some good recipes. I made her sausage and cabbage with apples yesterday and Ron and I both loved it. Will be doing that again. You dinner sounded really good. The red velvet cake sounds really good. I have been craving sweets lately.
We are getting ready for the hay ride on Saturday. It will be a fun time. We have more people coming this year then we have had before. I cannot believe that they are all coming. It started out that it was just our family then my girls invited some of their friends and Ron sister called and he invited her and her family so we will have all of them. So we will have a crowd. He also invited some guy that works at the car lot. The guy said that he wanted to bring beer but Ron told him no. He said that there would be too many kids there for him to be drinking. So he said that he will not bring any. What a mess. We do not want people drinking because we do not want anyone getting hurt.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night. Enjoy your time with no kids.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #15854

Hi Adele,
He did not give Ron anything for the pleurisy. He said that he was okay and did not need anything for it. I should have had Ron eat some of his garlic before we went there. That would have taught him something. He may have left the room and not come back. I always come up with these ideas when we are gone. He asked Ron if he was short of breath and Ron said no and I told him that he was. He asked if he was winded at all. He then looks at me and says that some people call it something. I almost told him I have been married to this man for 45 years and I have never heard him use the word winded. I did restrain myself though. They did call today and let me know that they made me an appointment with a doctor that is a surgeon. I have not idea what he is going to do but guess that I will find out. I think this whole is funny. I have to laugh or I would pull my hair out.
We loved the cabbage and sausage. We ate almost all of it. I do have some in the fridge that we will eat later. That was really good. Ron told me to keep the recipe for another time. So I will do that. We can have it again in the winter when it is colder and we need to warm up. I used the Ekridge sausage though and it was good. Thank you for the recipe.
I got all my decorations our for Halloween. We had a lot that go in the house and then I have some that are made of wood that I will put on the table that we use outside. We will hang all the ghosts and the skeleton on Saturday during the day. So if it does decide to rain then they will not get wet. My mom gave me some of her decorations for Halloween So I will put them out this year. She gave me a haunted house that she made in ceramics and it lights up. So the kids will really like that one. She worked so hard on her ceramics that I cannot see letting her get rid of them. The family should take them. She was really happy when I told her that I would and that I would not let anyone give her ceramic things away. I have no idea where I will put them all but I will find a place for all of them. She gave me some smaller houses to put around for Halloween also. She loves to decorate like I do guess I got that from her.
Hopefully you do not have a leak in your ceiling. That is such a pain. Ron had to put some tar on our roof because of some leaks that we had. He stopped the leaks though. Our roof is not that high though. So he was not worried about getting up there.
We cooled down also after the rain. It has been so nice. You can go outside and do things without burning up. That is so nice. Well that is about all from here. Have a great night and enjoy your cool weather.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #15622

Hi Cynthia,
I do not know if I read that right or not but did you say you lived in New York before Vegas. That must have been an interesting place. We have never been there. Even when we were kids my parents would not go there. So I guess we just followed suit.
I like you ghoul pumpkin ghoul.. That is really cute.
Colleen

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in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #15620

Hi Adele,
That is good that they took it out if Gary was having problems with it. That can be miserable if they are hurting. He better keep drinking the water if he doesn’t he will be having problems again. Men you can never tell them anything. It was a good thing that I went to the doctor with Ron. He did not tell him all that was wrong with him. They said that he was fine now. They did some blood work and checked things out. They think what he had was pleurisy but he was not sure because he waited too long to come in. Well if he had appointments where you could get in to see him if you are sick that would be nice. He was not happy that I asked him about getting a referral for a GI doc. He wanted me to have a separate appointment. He really is a pain.
We had some warm weather and high humidity but it is cooling off again. It rained all morning this morning and all night last night. So it cooled things down again. The high on Saturday is supposed to be 64 so it will be chilly on the hay ride. Oh well the kids will still enjoy it.
I did not see that much of the things about the pope. I know that he talked to Bohner and he stepped down from house speaker. I wonder what he said to him. It will be interesting to find out what he said to him. He probably said something about how they are treating Israel and about abortions. There may have been a few other things that he said something about. Maybe he should have had a private with all of the members of the house and senate.lol
I am fixing your cabbage and sausage with apples tonight. Will find out what Ron thinks. It just sounds really good to me. I may have to leave a couple of things out though. I do not know if I have caraway seeds. I forgot to get them when I was at the store. I am getting old and forgetful.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: General Quacker Chatter Here! #15573

Hi Arlene,
I wish that I could help you. I have a sweater that runs on batteries and it has burn out on one side,. I do not know how to change it. I know that there is a battery pack in there but do not know how to change the battery in it. If you can get it opened it will show you what type of battery you will need. I will check mine out and see if I can figure it out . If I do I will let you know.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #15568

Hi Cynthia,
Where did you live before you moved to Vegas? I do not think that I could take that hot weather. Do you have high humidity there also are is the humidity low? When my daughter lived in Texas it did not seem like it was as hot because the humidity was low. I like the winter months when we get the snow and the cold. The air is so crisp and clean. I just guess it is just what you get use to.
We try to decorate the outside of our house when they kids are coming for a holiday. We do not put out as much because of all the wild animals. We do have one blow up thing but that is it. We have to have it close to the house. It is really a pain.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #15566

Hi Adele,
Well at least he does not have to worry about getting about getting the stint out anymore. It is over with. I hope that he is drinking a lot of water like the doctor told him to. Ron goes to the doctor tomorrow for his check on his lung. I will go with him so I make sure that he tells the doctor all that he needs to know. He always seems to leave things out when he goes to the doctor. Like how his lung hurts when he breathes. It is not as bad now so he will not tell him if I am not there.
I found a bunch of the ghosts with skull faces at the Dollar store. They were only a dollar so they were cheap enough that I bought enough to hang on the trees. It will be fun this year since all the grands are older and will not scare as easy.
Thanks for posting the recipe. I did not get it in my private mail. I do not know why. Unless it went into my spam and I did not see it. Sometimes I do not go thru my spam mail but I guess I better for awhile. I may be missing some e-mails from people that I want to hear from. That really irritates me. I do not know why they do that. I will have to check and start moving my mail over to the in box.
When we go to things like that I have to take my cane. If I don’t my back hurts really bad and I have to leave. My knee is acting up again so it is really a mess. I am still going though. You have a lot more wrong with your back then I have with mine. You do really well for all the trouble that you have. After a certain age it seems like we all start to fall apart. Our body does not want to work for us like it use to. Our minds still work and we feel young enough to do those things but then something happens to stop us.
I am going to try that recipe out this week-end. It sounds so good. It will be nice for Saturday if it is really cold like they say it is going to be. We are having our hay ride on Saturday so we will see how things turn out. It does not matter when we plan this thing the weather always gets cold. The kids won’t care though they will sit by the fire or they will do so much running around that it will not matter.
My ghost shirt has already shipped. I cannot believe how fast they send things out. It takes us a long time to get it but they ship it out quickly. Our mail is slow. I understand why they call it snail mail.lol
well that is all from here. Have a good night. I hope that Gary feels better by tomorrow.
Colleen

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