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Hi Adele,
Wow! You are finally getting your kitchen redo! We will probably talk about it for another two years before it finally gets done. We are still having the quartz vs. granite argument and I am not willing to give in on this one. Which did you decide on? Are you getting a new sink? I like the farm sinks but will probably choose something else as I think those will be a passing fancy. Anyway, I know I have a lot of time to plan all this before it comes into fruition.
You had me really thinking when I read your note to Colleen on having to clean the fish. Coming from a family of fishermen I naturally thought about cleaning fish that someone has caught to prepare them for cooking. I was thinking-boy Adele is brave-you won’t catch me gutting fish-and then I realized you meant you had to clean the bowl of the betta. lol I thought boy you’re being a real outdoors woman. lol
No concert from Piper on Mother’s Day. However, when I was there on Monday we were making up songs about unicorns, and butterflies and rainbows. I must say-that child is exhausting-she literally never stops talking. lol She’s going to be in for a shock when she goes to school and discovers that you can’t chatter all day long. She did tell me one day that she just loves to talk. lol Echos of my own childhood where I always got in trouble for talking in school-of course that was the days of the nuns when you couldn’t even talk in the lunchroom-what was up with that anyway?
We are in for a cool weekend only in the 50’s-How can I wear my sandals without freezing my feet? I’m tired of shoes and socks.
I took Rocky to be groomed yesterday. He usually goes every 8 weeks but I hadn’t taken him since the first of the year and boy was he shaggy. His hair covered up his eyes-and he looked ten pounds heavier with all that fur. Now I can see his cute little face again.
GailHi Colleen,
That is funny that Aliza saw you on Mother’s Day and thought her Mom was leaving. How quickly those little minds learn things! I find that so fascinating.
As to the cuddling-Piper will cuddle but Kendall has never been a cuddler-even her Mom can’t get a kiss or a hug. She’s just very hands off. Lachlan will still cuddle with Jenny but I suppose that won’t last much longer.
Piper didn’t do a fashion show on Mother’s Day. However Greg had ordered some new golf shirts that came in the mail this week and he said he’s going to bring them to Jenny’s and model them for Piper. lol
Milk Day’s is the time that we go to all the barbecues. There is one at Jenny’s inlaws where we watch the parade, one at Greg’s golfing buddies house and usually one at Jenny’s. You can eat your way from one side of town to the other on that day.
When I was a kid Memorial Day kind of signified the beginning of summer. My Dad always marched in the parade-and every year it was a guessing game to see if he could fit back into his uniform or not. Fortunately in later years he was a fire commissioner so he rode in a car and didn’t have to worry about fitting into the uniform. After the parade and a ceremony in the park honoring the veterans and a 21 gun salute (the sound of that always scared me)-there was a big picnic in the park with my parents and their friends and family and school was usually over for the year by then-so it was the beginning of a long summer of reading and playing and swimming. Those really were the good old days-childhood summers.
GailHi Barbara,
Well this writing is better and even darker than before. That’s the nice thing about this site-because there are so few of us they usually can get to our requests in short order.
I hope Neal and Sarah are feeling better and will have a good time on their vacation.
You know making the box car into a storm shelter is actually a pretty good idea if you guys don’t have a basement. I never thought about it but I think Colleen doesn’t have a basement so I wonder where they go when there are tornado warnings. We have the basement and I am grateful for that. We have had some close calls over the years but thankfully we have been spared. A couple years back a tornado touched down and hit a few houses right on the end of the street where we used to live-which is only about two miles from where we are now. We live in the country so can’t hear the tornado sirens but I know if they go off Jenny will call and check to make sure that we go in the basement.
I’m not sure when we will see Brent again. He started a different job so I’m sure he won’t have any time off in the near future. Greg and I don’t mind going to NM but I’m not sure how soon Greg will have more free time since he is training someone new again at work.
You asked about things that our kids found useful for their babies. Jenny had this cradle type thing that I gave her that she used for all her kids. I looked for a picture of it but couldn’t find it so I wonder if it now has a newer incarnation. Anyway she loved that thing-it was like a portable cradle but it was made out of material. She had the baby in it up in their room at night and she moved it downstairs during the day so I could put the baby in it rather than having to go up and down the stairs. I will ask her if she remembers the name of it. I know she liked it so well that we went in together and gave it to a few of her friends for gifts also. I know they even brought it here sometimes to put the baby in if they were going to be here all day.
I like the story about Jerry and his Mom discussing shampoos. Poor Greg, being bald, would have had nothing to add to that conversation. lol
We are still having cool weather here. This weekend it will only be in the 50’s.
GailHi Adele,
I saw those red white and blue temptations dishes and really liked them. I have been a little leery of temptations ever since I heard about them breaking in the oven on people. Now you never know if they put a cold dish directly in there or what the circumstances were. Also I have no space between, temptations, lock and lock and Polish stoneware. I’m glad that someone I know got that Americana dish though-then I can live through you vicariously. It did tempt me but then I looked at my packed cabinets and resisted.
I don’t blame Aizen for loving the cake. At this point in my life I too am of the”life is short eat dessert first” way of thinking. It looks like Aizen has a “man bun”-how hip is that?! He’s already a fashion plate.
I have two Taurus’ also-Jenny and Greg. Brent is a Cancer and then I am all alone in the fall-a Libra.
You had the perfect day yesterday(other than the physical) out to lunch and dinner. I didn’t have to cook diner either as Greg had rehearsal and he and Tim go out and get something during rehearsal. He’s been getting this garlic steak and then he comes home all garlicky smelling. I know he won’t be bitten by a vampire on the nights that he has that.
I guess from this point on everyone that goes home on DWTS will be someone pretty good. I think the winner will probably be Niall or Ginger but I am still liking Paige a lot. I just find the juxtaposition between the tough fighter and the sensitive, smooth dancer kind of interesting. I enjoyed the judges dances-they should keep that and get rid of that switch up.
Hope that you are having sunny skies.
GailHi Everyone,
Yup! What’s up with this printing now. We need dark, clear print for these aging eyes.
Thank you Tiago for fixing the attachment issue so promptly. You had us all stumped for a bit there.
Christine, thanks for the Mother’s Day wishes. I certainly hope the new doctor will find a way to fix that foot of yours. That has been going on for way too long.
Dianne, Crater Lake looks spectacular-such a beautiful blue! We have a Milk Days festival in our town. It’s called the milk capital of the world even though it isn’t anymore as all the dairies have moved out to California. But it is the longest running festival in the state of Illinois. It’s like a big reunion weekend with many people that have moved away coming back to visit relatives. There are bed races for adults and big wheel races for the kids- A parade, carnival and many other activities over the long weekend.
Colleen, How was dinner at Danyielle’s-were you able to barbecue? Sounds like Aliza has you wrapped around her little finger. You had a busy weekend with all the traveling back and forth so I hope that you get a nice rest today.
Adele, what a luscious looking cake! Tillie looks so happy and pretty in her new birthday outfit. I like the picture of you and her looking at each other. Sounds like the party was a success. Is that Steph with the long,long hair-I had hair like that many moons ago too. How pretty it is.
We ended up going to brunch at noon so that Greg could get his golf game in. Then we came back home for a few hours and rested and then we went over to Jenny’s for a cook out. She had steak and potatoes and we brought some baked beans and asparagus and I ran into DQ and picked up an ice cream cake and had them write Happy Birthday Greg on it really quickly-so we combined Mother’s Day which was Sunday and Greg’s birthday which was Monday. So we had a nice relaxing day Brent called on Sunday to wish me Happy Mother’s Day and Greg Happy Birthday so we had all our bases covered. Unfortunately the weather went from 70’s over the weekend to 50’s and rainy again. We didn’t have a really bad winter but this has been a chilly spring. I have a feeling we will hit June and just jump right up to 90 degrees.
I heard this morning that Memphis is supposed to be due for some bad storms so I hope Barbara will be safe.
GailI have a note in to James about our inability to post pictures. I suppose we will just have to wait until the work week begins before the problem can be addressed.
I wrote a note to James about the photos not loading. We’ll see what happens.
I had a recipe discussion all set up to go but it will only let me post one picture for some reason-and with the way this is set up one picture doesn’t look right for the beginning of a discussion so I will try again later. I don’t understand what’s up with this. Maybe someone is playing with the site again so i will try again later on.
GailHi Colleen,
We are going to the same place that we went to for Easter. It is so convenient and we all enjoyed it. We are not going until noon though-that gives Greg time to golf in the morning. Although sometimes the other guys can’t go on Mother’s Day either so we will see. They never make their golfing plans until the last minute. I don’t know if people will come over here later or not. I know Greg has a lot of outdoor work to do on nice days at this time of year-and it’s more difficult for him this year working the longer hours again. It will probably be awhile until he can go back to part time again as the new guy just started at the beginning of April. It will be nice that you won’t have to do anything for Mother’s Day no matter how it ends up. Just relax and enjoy.
That’s funny that Aliza was trying to locate Danyielle when she heard her voice. How cute is that!
We had asparagus a couple of times last week. It will start to come in good now.
I think it’s a good idea to start a separate recipe page so we have them all together in one spot. That way we don’t have to search through all the past postings to find something. I will set it up if you want me to. I remember I made one before but maybe that was on the old site. I remember that I did it because i remember posting pictures of kitchens. We could use the recipe section on this site-not the Chic’s night in one-there is a separate one way down at the bottom of the discussions page-or I could make a separate one under General Quacker Chatter-whatever everyone wants to do is okay by me.
Have a great weekend.
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