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in reply to: What’s Happening? -May 2023 #149632
Hi Everyone,
I hope you all had a good Mother’s Day.
We all went out for brunch. I like that. We can spend some time together, get a good meal and go home. No muss no fuss. I’m so lazy in my old age. lol
By next week we will be in the 80’s so I guess summer will be here.
Jenny’s niece was just elected Milk Day Queen so that was exciting.
I love lilacs too. Especially the old fashioned ones. We transplanted some of my favorites from our old house to our property here but unfortunately Greg put most of them along the property line next to the field next to us which has no house and is still used for crops-either corn or soy beans and the guy must spray some kind of weed killer which has kind of killed off our good lilacs. We still have some lilacs in other places but they are the newer ones and the flowers on them are just different and not as nice. At least in my opinion.
Colleen, you might be glad those weeping willows died. We have a few because i always loved them but they are messy. The guy down on the corner had them along his property line in the front of his house and on one side and whenever it would storm there would be broken branches all over the street. Finally last year he had them all taken down and I have to say it looks nicer as they were getting pretty old and spindly looking.
Colleen, did you see the Masked Singer final. I didn’t even know that person who won. I hate that. It’s kind of a let down. Anyway, it’s a fun show. Ken makes me laugh.
Adele, are you feeling better now? I hope so.
Did Bobby cook for Mother’s Day or did you order out? You have so much better choices for ordering out than we do. Our choices are limited.
Have you seen your work ladies recently. I’ll bet they are a fun group.
Gailin reply to: What’s Happening? -May 2023 #149551Happy Mother’s Day Everyone!
in reply to: What’s Happening? -May 2023 #149428Hi Colleen,
Princess Kate does always dress so beautifully and she looks good in the clothes too. Their children are also adorable.
That is sweet that Nova likes to play with her dolls. I always liked playing with dolls as a kid-but i also had a pet garter snake. lol i was a contradiction even back then. lol
The grandkids other grandparents do still live on the farm. They used to live in town and just owned the family farm and just kept live stock there. But after Dick retired a couple of years ago they sold the house in town to one of their kids and they moved permanently out to the farm. it’s nice because they have chickens and sometimes Jenny has too many eggs so she will pass some on to us so we get nice fresh eggs.
I did not hear the thing about the grim reaper in the back of the Abby. it sounds like someone has an over active imagination. lol
We will see Brent this summer when we all get together for our 50th anniversary.
It’s not too bad because since they moved to Colorado we see him a few times a year where as when he was in NM we usually only saw him once.
We still watch the masked Singer. it’s such a fun show and doesn’t take itself too seriously. Plus the disguises are so imaginative.
Michael Bolton was actually one of the few people that I was able to guess easily. i recognized his voice and the way he holds his body as he is kind of stiff. Sometimes i don’t even know who the people are especially if they are like an internet influencer or something. I can’t wait to see who the last three singers are.
Gailin reply to: What’s Happening? -May 2023 #149423Hi Adele,
FFA is future farmers of America. All the kids have been in 4H at one time or another too. Last year Piper showed a pig at the fair. This year i think someone is showing a goat. Or maybe i imagined that. lol
Today is Greg’s birthday. Now he’s as old as me for the next six months. And can’t tell people that his wife is”much” older than him. When he was 39 he used to tell people that his wife was in her 40’s with out specifying that it was just 40.
What does your town do when someone turns 100? I know you can get on a smuckers jar on the Today show.
You were lucky to have your Mom well into her 90’s. So was Greg and Colleen. All your Mom’s had good lives and were well loved.
I have often thought too that it must be harder on you not being to get out of the house. It wouldn’t change things but it would be nice to have a change of scenery and a different perspective. Sometimes just chatting with someone at the grocery store helps. it’s hard being alone with your thoughts all the time.I have heard some people talk about gratitude helping get them through tough times. Each morning thinking of something that you are grateful for.
I have a little gratitude journal that I try to keep. I started during the pandemic.
The new host of DWTS is going to be Julianne Hough and they are going to keep Alfonso too.
I read the book that A man called Otto was based on. Good book. It was a man called Ove by Fredrick Bachman.
Gailin reply to: What’s Happening? -May 2023 #149368Hi Colleen,
I watched the coronation but I didn’t get up at four. I copied it and watched when I got up at seven. I found it pretty interesting. It’s amazing that some of the things they use in the ceremony go back centuries and even Westminster Abby is over seven hundred years old.
Plus you know me. I like to see the jewels. lol But I just enjoy seeing something like that for the history and am not likely to see another one in my lifetime and I missed Queen Elizabeth’s as I was only four when that happened. Charles and I are the same age. I can’t imagine waiting 70 years for that job just at the time of life when other people are retiring.
I was glad to hear DWTS was returning to ABC. I did get to watch a few episodes last year because Jenny has Disney plus.
I will miss Len.
I watched another program where Twitch was a judge and I will really miss him too.
How are the grands and the great grands?
Gailin reply to: What’s Happening? -May 2023 #149366Hi Adele,
I didn’t watch A Million Little Things but for some reason that night I did catch the ending and it did look terribly sad. An assisted suicide maybe for someone that was sick. I’m glad i didn’t watch as I would have cried too. I think what caught my attention was that they were playing a song from Wicked which was one of the songs that i had picked out to play when the family was just there during Kim’s visitation so that already would have set me off.
We are having some glorious weather. Greg has been rototilling the garden to get it ready for planting.
Kendall is in FFA so they are having a plant sale next weekend so Greg will go to that and see if he can find plants for the garden and help out the high school kids at the same time.
You know we have still had our heat on too but I think we may be looking at finally being able to turn it off-and maybe even put the air on.
We never had AC before we built this house and moved here and now I don’t know how we ever lived without it.
Gailin reply to: What’s Happening? -May 2023 #149303Hi Adele,
Yes, Sue passed away two years ago and I think Barbara was before that but I just can’t quite remember. it seems like maybe Barbara passed away before covid-is that possible?
Both were so unexpected and sad.
it’s still hard to believe that you and i never received an acknowledgement for the flowers we sent for Barbara.
it surprises me that even if her husband was not up to it that one of the kids or their wives wouldn’t have sent a thank you. I remember that you communicated with the oldest son’s wife a bit. I hope they are all doing well after their loss. The worst was her not being able to spend much time with her grand baby.
I think our better weather will be heading your way soon.
It’s nice to feel the warm sun again.
You know it’s also hard to believe that it is now just a bit over three years since all the covid lock downs when we were all so frightened because we had no idea what would or could possibly happen. It’s kind of funny when you think about it now we didn’t know if the world as we knew it was coming to an and and people were thinking about hoarding toilet paper. lol
I know that will be a big event in the lives of today’s young people just like the assassination of JFK was big in our lives and having to hid under our desks for bomb drills.
We have some pretty trees blooming in our front yard and pretty soon we will have lilacs and lily of the valley and then in June peonies. All those spring flowers are my favorites but they last for only a short time. Tonight we are having the first fresh asparagus of spring with dinner. Yum!
It’s been a sad week for Greg first one of his favorite singers Gordon Lightfoot died and last night was the last episode of the Goldberg’s-one of Greg’s favorites. lol He felt old when he had to go into the office and he mentioned about Gordon Loghtfoot and no one knew who he was. lol
At least we got to see him live once about 7 or 8 years ago.
Gailin reply to: What’s Happening? -May 2023 #149286Hi Everyone,
DD thanks for the picks of the dishes. I have some flameless candles that she made with that pattern. They are very pretty.
Adele, you should get on the QVC boards. They can’t talk about politics or religion or anything controversial over there so it is pretty nice.
Actually I hear lots of news over there. Someone will post it before I even hear about it.
Did you hear about the pile up down in the mid section of Il. There was a dust cloud and like 70 vehicles piled up over two miles of road. I’ve never seen anything like that.
So DWTS is coming back to ABC. That’s interesting. I wonder if it had something to do with Tyra not executive producing anymore or if they lost a ton of viewership.
I wonder how long the screen writers strike will last. If it’s long we’ll have tons of reruns and maybe reality and game shows.
I hope Colleen will drop in with an update soon.
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