[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #15354

Hi Adele,
I hope that you had fun on your night out with the girls. We are going out tomorrow night with another couple. We have not gone out for dinner for a long time. So it will be nice. I got a coupon for a pizza place dinner for 4 at the auction. I hope that they made sense. So we are going and use it before I lose it.lol This is a new restaurant so it will be fun to go there for the first time. Where did you girls go for your dinner?
Ron is feeling better and probably will want to cancel his doctors appointment. That is usually what he does. I get so aggravated with him. Gary gets his stint out soon. Will he have to stay in the hospital or will they do that as an out patient? Taking them out will not be as bad as when they put them in. I hope that things go well for him.
Have you been watching the Chew? It has been pretty good. They have changed the way they do it this year. They had Jamie Lee Curtis on the other day and she was so funny, She said some things that they did not expect her to say. She is crazy. They have had some really good recipes on there this week. They are recipes that are quick and easy to fix.
I wrote to Gail about the Halloween decorations I found. They were at Micheals. They had some good prices. So if you want read what I wrote to her. All of the info is on there. Some things were really boring so do not want to write them twice.lol
Your apple crisp sounds really good. I have not made anything with apples yet. We need to go and pick some apples and do some baking. I like to melt some butter in a pan with sugar and cinnamon and cook my apples in there. They are good on top of ice cream or with whip cream on top. We usually ate it hot or at least warm. I am making myself hungry just thinking about it. I need to get some apples. 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. #15352

Hi Gail,
I did not know how lasagna would do if you freeze it. Sometimes if you freeze things with pasta it gets soggy. I will have to try that the next time that I make some. I know one thing you cannot freeze potato soup. I tried that and it tasted terrible. I must have done something wrong. You can get it in the freezer section of the grocery store.
I have been debating all day on whether I should keep the ghost top or cancel. I just cannot make up my mind. It is so cute and I only have one more Halloween top and it is the dog one in costume. The vest I can wear all year round but would I. I should not stop and think about this stuff. It is not worth it. Ron tells me to go ahead and get it but he still has not seen my credit card bill. He may change his mind.lol Most of my easy pay items will be paid off next month. I do not know why I am boring you with all this stuff. I will move on.
Your witch band sounds really cute. I wonder who won the witches hats that they were giving away on here. I have not heard have you . Now if I had that I could wear my hat and my ghost shirt. lol We are going to the church again this year and give out candy there. The kids are so cute and there is usually a lot of them. I bought one of those 5lb. bags of candy at Costco today. So that should be enough. I found some Halloween decorations at Micheals today. We bought a skeleton and a couple of ghosts and a spider in a web. They are not really big all but the skeleton it is large. Their Halloween decorations were 60% off or 50% off. So they had some really good deals. I think that we are going to make some ghosts to put out also. We looked at the ones that they sell and they are just a sheet over some cardboard on a stick. We think that we can do that. I will just have to find eyes that will shine in the dark. This year our hay ride will be spooky.
I would appreciate it if you sent me the number for the pants. I do not think that I will take a chance on the women with control pants. If they are tight on my stomach at all I won’t be able to wear them. I did not think about Liz Clayborn. They have some cute clothes. Do they run true to size or do you go up a size in her things also. I have been buying Quacker for so long that I do not remember how to order from other company’s.
It is just not right that they are keeping Gary B,. on the show and voting off the ones that are really trying. That really aggravates me. He cannot win he is not good enough. We will see who goes home on Monday. I do feel sorry for his partener. He cannot be an easy guy to work with.
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. #15348

Hi Cynthia,
It is hard to respond to all of the e-mails. There were two that you had posted and I did not have a response for either one. I did respond to your thread on the easy pay. I have started a thread and no one responded and you just go on and do not take it personal. We are all trying to get use to this site and it will take awhile and they are still trying to work all the bugs out. I always just come on here and see what everyone has to say. So we would hate to lose you. Just think it over and see if it gets better.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #15283

Hi Barbara,
Your lasagna sounds really good. I love lasagna but when I make it for us it is too much and we cannot eat it all. It would be nice to have the kids come over and help us eat it. It is sad that we cannot make things that we use to like because it is too much for two. I still have trouble cutting it down for just the two of us. Probably need to take cooking lessons for two.
It would be fun if we could all get together and have a picnic. We could all make our specialties. Who makes good fried chicken? That would be good with the potato salad. Can you imagine all the good baked goods we would have. If nothing else we would all gain 50 pounds. lol That is one thing that I do not need.
My daughter did that with garlic. She was taking so much that you could smell it thru her skin. I would have never thought that we could eat that much of anything that you could smell it thru the skin. That poor girl from the Philippines must have been embarrassed after she found out that she smelled like garlic. That must have been hard for you to have to tell her. I hope that she took it well.
Jerry and Ron seem to do similar things. I did not think to tell him about the hammer and the spike. Maybe he would have taken the hint earlier. It really did not help him either. He just made people stay away from him. He is so crazy sometimes.
That had to be cute with Neal running around in the buff with cowboy boots. He and Gail’s granddaughter would have gotten along really well. That is funny that they did not like wearing clothes. I wonder what it is about them that they do not like. Buddy was smart coming up with the idea that he could hide his toy in his pants.
I ended up buying the ghost shirt with the grey vest. It is really cute so I thought I might as welll get it and stop buying things. I have been buying too many things here lately. When Ron sees the bill he is going to be ready to shoot me. lol
Gary Busey is so weird. I cannot believe that a younger woman would want to marry him. He is scarey looking now. I thought for sure that he would get voted off the show. I thought that the jockey did a lot better then him. I just keep thinking maybe Monday he will go home. I hope that it is him and not Paula Deen. I cannot understand why they keep him around. The judges keep talking about his showman shiip and I do not see it. They have a lot of good dancers left on the show now I think. It will be interesting to see who wins.
Well that is about all from here. It was nice to hear from you. Have a great night.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #15204

Hi Adele,
If you lived closer you grands could come over and go on the hayride with us. You and Gary could sit by the fire with the ones who do not go on the hayride like me and roast hot dogs and marshmallows. We have more fun just sitting there talking and eating then anything else. I could not get in that hay wagon if I tried. So just do not try to get in there.
JJ will love the camping I am sure. Most boys do. That is good that he loves the meetings and wants to go. They will do some interesting things. My brother was in boy scouts and he loved it.
Your dinner sounds really good. Bobby might be surprised and really like it. If you send the recipe I may try that myself. We love cooked cabbage and anything with apples in it is good. I like apples cooked with sausage that is good also. I hope that all of you like it.
I hate that when I know that I have pieces that go to my villages and cannot find them. Usually they turn up after the holiday is over. I need to get my stuff out and get it all put up before the first week-end in October. The kids will be disappointed if the things are not up by the hay ride. I have the two haunted houses now and some other things to put out. The kids always like that stuff. I have a witch that I bought from Avon that sings Ghouls just want to have fun. They kids all like that on also. I love this time of the year when you get out all of your decorations for the holidays. The house looks so festive. I went looking for some Halloween things to put in the yard and I think that we can make some of that ourselves. They had ghosts made out of that netting stuff and it just had a Styrofoam ball for the head. I will just have to find some eyes that will glow in the dark and that is about all it was. They wanted 24 dollars for that. So it will be a lot cheaper to do it myself. If I can find some black material and a witches hat I can make some witches. I will have to look around and see what I can find.
The tree skirt that I made is cream with a big Poinsettia in the middle. So they are similar. I had made things for the kids but have no idea what they did with it after they moved away from home. I made one for my daughter to hang on her wall in her room. I know that she does not still have hers. they were probably too childish for them after they left home.
Have you tried any of the Women with Control pants? I am wondering if they are uncomfortable to wear. If they are tight across the stomach then I cannot wear them. I thought about buying a pair for when we go out somewhere and I cannot wear dj. I just want to find someone that has a pair and see what they think of them.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good evening and I hope that everyone loves you dinner.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #15203

Hi Gail,
Sounds like you and Nan had fun shopping. I like to look at all the pricey shops even if I cannot afford to buy. Their clothes are so much more expensive then what they are at the q. I was really surprised. I guess that I have not shopped for clothes in a regular store for a long time. I like to get my things from Quacker. Have you ever bought the clothes I cannot think of the name of them right now. Women with control. Wonder if the waist is tight from the material that they use to hold your stomach in. The name came to me right after I said that I could not remember. I thought about trying a pair but am afraid that if they put any pressure on my stomach I will not be able to wear them. So was wondering if anyone has tried them. I need to buy some dress pants that are not dream jeannes. lol I do not get dressed up that often but once in awhile I do.
This new doctor is not as good as the old one was. If we called and were sick he would work us in. They do not do that now at the doctors office where we go. We are going to have to find somewhere else to go. We have been looking but cannot find a place that we like. It is so hard to find a doctor that we are going to like as much as we liked the doctor we had. I can see now why he left that place. They are changing so much and he tried to do as much as he could for his patients. They want you in and out and do not want to take care of anything.
Will have to look on the internet and see what I can find. We are going to Micheals Wednesday so will look and see what they have there. If they have anything. We have to go to my mom’s and she needs to go there. I need more things to do around here. I will have to buy new needles and everything I have lost my old ones. Not needles but hooks.
I think that fall starts tomorrow. I am not sure though. They were talking about it on the news last night but now I do not remember for sure. I think that it is tomorrow. though.
I will have to look at Costco for their coffee. Ron likes Kirkland coffee. So he would like the k cups they have there. We buy a lot of things there. They have some good prices. I am going to get some granola bars to give away on Halloween. The kids really liked that last year when we gave them out. We are going to the church for their trunk or treat they have there. We will also buy a bag of candy to hand out. They get a lot of kids that come there. I guess it just works out better for them to go to the churches for that instead of trying to go from house to house. They are too far apart here.
Well that is about all from here. Have a great evening.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #15193

Hi Adele,
Sorry that I sent that e-mail to you. I was thinking about Cynthia and put your name on there. I am losing my mind I guess. I will apologize to you again.
I finally got him to agree but they would not work him in. He cannot see the doctor until Tuesday of next week. This doctor is not fast about anything. They said that I can go see a np but they are not all that good with something like this and I am not going to be bothered with them. They cannot do anything unless he okays it so why not just go to him.I am looking for a new doctor hope I find one soon.
That is funny about Bobby. He still snatches the batter for the cookies. My grand daughters do that if their mom buys the dough from the store. She went to bake the cookies and the dough was gone. I thought she was going to crazy after that. What was funny she was looking all over for the dough and they finally told her that they ate it. I will have to tell them about your son and that he still does that and he is not a teenager. lol Some habits are hard to break and I guess that is hard for Bobby to stop doing. That was nice that Marissa and Enzo came to help close the pool. That made it a lot easier on you and Gary. They got a nice reward for doing it. You are a good grandma.
If you ever get a chance you should go to a church auction. They are fun a lot more fun then a public auction. You can get better bargains and a bigger variety. It is nice that all the money goes to the church. This church is so good to the people in the community. That is one reason we do this every year. We also go to their chicken and dumpling dinners. They are always doing something at that church.
You will have to post a picture of the stocking. I bet that it is really pretty. You always make such nice things. The only creative thing that I ever did was latch hook. Did you ever do that? I made a tree skirt for my Christmas tree and then they stop making the kits so I stopped. I have not seen a kit since I made that. That is all the talent that I have.lol
That is nice that JJ signed up for boy scouts. He will really enjoy that. They always do so many fun things. I hope that he gets a good leader that is imporant. I hope that a lot of kids from his class joined so he will have friends in the troupe. It is fun to hear them recite the pledge when they first start to learn it. I had daughters and they belonged to girl scouts. They would mess up the pledge at first and some of the things that they would say was hysterical.
I have to start to put out my Halloween things out. I have two haunted housed that my mom made. They are really cute. She use to do ceramics all the time and she made some really pretty things. She has been giving me a lot of it. She is thinking that she will have to give up her house one day and she wants to get rid of a lot of stuff before she has to do that. She always said that when she turned 90 she was going to sell her house. Well she will soon be 93 and she is still living in her house. I just have to laugh at her. She is always worried about what she is going to do. She can take care of herself and can stay where she is. Everyone calls her every day so we always know that she is okay.
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. #15192

Hi Cynthia,
I am so sorry to hear about your fil. I will pray for you and your husband.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #15183

Hi Adele,
I am so sorry to hear about your Father in law. My prayers are with the two of you.
Colleen

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