[Colleen]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-August 2020 #117810

Hi Everyone,
It is hard to start losing our friends on here. Barbara was such a sweet person and she brought a lot to the group. We will really miss her. We will not be able to hear about Colin and what all he is up too. She was so proud to be his grandma. I better quit now or I will depress everyone.
I watched some of the Christmas shows they had. I like the David’s great big Christmas. I would love to have the big reindeer and the Santa. Do not have very many places to put them or store them after Christmas. We have plenty of yard and a big porch but we also have have a lot of animals the will knock them over and other things. I guess the dogs would lift their legs and that would really be a mess.
They are feeding Grayson both baby food and regular food. That may be the reason he is gaining weight. They took him to a Chinese restaurant today and fed him some type of soup. I am not sure what else they fed him. He is a good eater.
I am glad the you two are still posting the pictures and the memes. DD. your pictures are so calming and Gail the memes are really good. Thanks to both of you.
Hope everyone has a good night and stay safe.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-August 2020 #117660

Hi Everybody,
I cannot believe that Barbara is gone. I wonder what happened. I wonder if it was her heart. She was such a sweet person and we will miss her. I feel really bad for little Colin and what he is going to miss out on. I will say a prayer for the whole family poor Jerry.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-August 2020 #117378

I can understand why you cannot go to the grave site. I still cannot go to put flowers on my mom’s grave. I really need o do that. My brother said that he cannot go there either. He drives by and checks to be sure it is kept up but he does not get out of the car. You can see the grave from the church parking lot.
The hydrangea tree is so pretty. Do you have another one planted in the yard? I thought that you had two. I could be wrong I really get things wrong here lately. The older we get the more we forget. At least Ron and I are.
Ron fixed dinner tonight. We had bacon and tomato sandwiches. We did not have any lettuce but they were good. He will fix dinner every once in awhile but it is usually sandwiches of some kind. It is better then me having to cook. I still get to clean up but that is not as bad as having to do both.
That is so nice that you got to see Sonny crawl. He sounds so cute. I will see Grayson tomorrow so will get to see how he is crawling now. Brook said he is getting all over the place and get stuck in places. He is just too cute for words. I imagine Sonny is also.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night and stay safe.
Colleen
p.s. Did you hear from Barbara?

[Colleen]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-August 2020 #117376

Hi Gail,
I think Sue’s birthday is in August. I wished her Happy Birthday and I think it was in August. I do the birthdays and still do not remember what month their birthdays are. I just do them when I see them on the home page.
Th weather was so nice here and we did not have to use the air at night. I know what you mean about the weather getting hot again. I would rather have this weather and go right into winter weather. I cannot wait for the snow.
One that guy’s aunt watches Grayson and different ones in our family watch him. I watch him once in awhile but not very often. He is getting to be too much for me to handle. Besides that he is a big boy. Tomorrow Brook and I are going grocery shopping. She needs to start giving thee baby more veggies and fruits and cut down on the formula. I think that that is part of what is making him gain so much weight. He is crawling all over the place and is hard to keep up with.He is so cute.
It does get depressing not being able to do the things that we use to do. I will be glad when the kids come to visit again and we can enjoy having them here. We may bbq on Labor Day and have the kids over. We will be outside so every one can sit in their own space. We will eat off paper plates and use paper cups so their will not be any dishes. I just hope that I still have plastic utensils.
So I will have to get up early in the morning so I can get to the store during the elderly hours. Who thought we would ever call ourselves elderly. I do not know when it all happened. I look in the mirror and wonder where that old lady came from. Sometimes I see my mom looking back. I don’t know when that all happened.
Well that is about all from here. Have a great night and stay safe.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-August 2020 #117232

Hi Adele,
My computer is running so slow. They are putting Ron’ s minutes on mine for the lap top. He has a cell phone so I thought it was not connected to my lap top. We pay extra to have unlimited internet but somehow that was changed. So will have to call them and find out what is going on.
That was nice that the kids went to the grave site. It was nice that they took a cake and plant. That was a really nice thing to do. The plant should last a long time. Are you able to plant it in the ground or does it have to stay in a planter?
I really hope that your days are getting better and you are not crying as much. It will get easier as time goes on.It is just rough going thru it. Sounds like your family is sticking together thru this and that is important.
It sounds like the weather is cooler just about everywhere except in California and that area. I just hope that we do not pay for that later. Well that is about all from here. Have a good night and stay safe.
Colleen

I am glad that Gail is posting the memes. I feel so depressed

[Colleen]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-August 2020 #117133

Hi Gail,
Ron used that stuff when we had a leak on the roof. It worked pretty good but we have had a new roof put on since then. It did work and had no complaints just needed a new roof.
I do not know a lot of the people on the mask singer unless they are someone that has been around for awhile. I am not good with the newer singers. It is fun to watch and if I do not know someone then I can ask one of the kids. Melissa usually knows all of them.
My birthday was in July. We do not celebrate many of our birthdays just when we have one that makes us feel older. There is a few of us that turned 70 this year. You are not that much older then the rest of us.
Our weather has been really nice here also. I think that it is going to end this week-end. We are supposed to get hot again and storms. We have had so much rain this summer. It is hard to believe we have had this much in August.
There is not a lot going on here. The girls are working all the time now. I wish that Brook cold stay home with the baby but she will never be able to. She will always be the only one to work and raise her son.
Have a good day and stay safe.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-August 2020 #116906

Hi Gail,
I am glad to hear that you did not have any damage from the water in your basement. That could have been a real mess if it would have kept coming in. Have you seen that rubber stuff that you are supposed to be able to put around it around the windows and it will keep rain from coming in. I think they call it flexi steel. He spreads this stuff all over chicken wire and he make a boat out of it. He goes out in the boat in a lake. I wonder if that would help the leak you get in the basement when there is a hard rain.
I think that Ken is a riot. Has he ever guessed right on one of those shows? He does get excited when he thinks he knows. Ken and Jenny are right more then anyone. Who is the other judge? I cannot think of her name but she is not right very often.
I did see something about baseball on the news tonight. I think that they are in Chicago but am not sure. It will not be as much fun to watch with no fans in the stands. There will be no cheering and someone catching a home run in the crowd. This will be disappointing to all the kids that go to the games as a reward for school. THey always take the honor roll kids to see a game but that won’t happen this year.
Danyielle has been undecided about sending Aliza to preschool until second semester if things are better. I wonder about the little ones with all the teachers having masks on. It might be a little scary for them.
I am so glad that you are sending the memes. They always make me laugh and Ron also. We need to smile things right are not very good. I am glad that we do not live close to St. Louis. There have been so many killings it is getting scary.
I had to laugh at your govenor today. He was in East St. Louis today and he thinks if the restaurants and bars close by 11pm it will help stop the covid virus. I did not know that it did not spread after certain hours.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night and stay safe.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-August 2020 #116711

Hi Adele,
It does not seem like QVC has any good things on right now. I wish they would show more of the Christmas shows at least they are cheerful. I am not sure about the Halloween shows or not. I really like those also. You are right about decorating for holidays it is the best thing to do even if you are going to be alone .
I am hoping that we get a lot of snow this year. We did not get hardly any last year. I love the snow and to go sledding in our yard. It will be fun if the kids can come back and play in the snow. They drink hot chocolate and eat cookies to get warm. It is always fun to have them here.
We have not had much of a summer this year. We did not get to celebrate our 50th or my 70th birthday. We are going to have a family dinner to celebrate our 50th. We are going to order food to bring in and just be happy to be with each other. I never wanted a big party just family because they are the reason we stayed together. We loved each other and the kids.
I have been wondering about Barbara also. She does that once in awhile. I hope she is just busy doing something else right now. She has not been in the best of health. She is lucky like you are her son lives close to her and can watch out for them.
It must be easier for Marissa with the baby. He needs all of her attention and I am sure that he gets all of it and more. Amanda is also lucky she has you, Bobby and Tillie and Gary. She is not living in an apartment by herself.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night and stay safe.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-August 2020 #116705

Hi Gail,
The masked singer is the right show to come back. I wonder if they take their mask off if they have to have another mask on when they reveal themselves. If they do how will we know for sure who they are. I have too much time on my hands to think of things like that.
I wonder if football will really come back on. They keep saying baseball is coming back but they have not been on yet. It will not be that exciting without fans in the stands. This is such a weird time.
It will be nice to go on trips again. We would like to got to Knoxville and see Melissa’s house. We would also like to go looking around and see what they have there. We had such a good time when we were there before. Well not Knoxville but Cookeville.
They were going to start the schools where Owen go but now they are going to do it on the computer. He was really disappointed he wanted to go back to school. So far they are going to have the pre school open. Danyielle is no sure if she wants to send Aliza are not. The teachers will wear masks but the kids will not. We will see what happens. She goes to a really small school so they should be able to keep them apart. We will see what happens.
Just keep making plans to go and maybe it will lift your spirits. That is about all from here.Have a good night and stay safe.
Colleen

[Author]

Posts