[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: May 2016 Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous For All Quackers Near and Far! #24024

Hi Adele,
Poor Fishie with no name. He had a good life and was well loved. I guess you will have to decorate the house with black crepe in honor of Fishie and the Patriots. I wonder how long the mourning period will be? Will Gary refuse to watch the Super Bowl now-or will he watch it in order to root against the Broncos? I kind of think Carolina will win anyway as they are a powerhouse this year so maybe that will make him happy. You gotta watch it for the commercials if nothing else-it’s an American tradition.
I can’t believe that you broke your ankle two years in a row. You better wrap yourself in foam rubber. I do remember the platform shoes but didn’t really wear them. In fact it’s ironic that I never had to do the high heels for work thing and spent my adult life wearing “sensible” shoes yet I’m the one with bad ankles, flat feet and bunions-go figure.
Greg’s ankle is doing okay-sprains are slow healers. My ankle is okay-sometimes the cold bothers it-it’s just one of those things that you have to learn to deal with as best that you can. Greg was remarking the other day about how you don’t miss your mobility until it’s gone-and I told him he was preaching to the choir-plus how many times have I said the same thing to him about how we take our health for granted until something goes wrong. However, he would never remember that I said these things as there is a little switch in his brain that turns off his hearing as soon as I start talking. I know this for a scientific fact. lol Actually, sometimes it’s funny what he hears sometimes instead of what was really said-I wish I could remember what he thought the guy said when we were watching the men’s program in skating last night-it was so totally different from what was actually said and it was funny. Speaking of saying something funny-yesterday Piper and I were playing Barbies and of course we were making them go swimming and shopping and all sorts of activities. And then she was singing a song about what the Barbies were doing and she sang “we are going swimming and then we are going outside in the no and then we are going to jump on our dodo dicks.” Translation-we are going outside in the snow and jump on our pogo sticks. That just cracked me up. Also one of my favorites is when she talks about unicorns and she pronounces it oonacorn. It is so darn cute.
Well I hope fish number 2 won’t be too lonely. You will have to dance around the kitchen and tell him jokes to amuse him now.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: May 2016 Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous For All Quackers Near and Far! #23969

Hi Colleen,
Well, I hope some day that you will get your Kitchen Aide-I think it’s probably in my top three favorite things for the kitchen. When I first got it I actually felt kind of guilty as it made mixing some of those heavy doughs so darn easy-I hardly felt like I was doing anything at all. By the way-Greg ordered a part and I think mine is fixed so I won’t have to get a new one. He’s a handy guy to have around-he just recently fixed my washing machine and my mixer. Now if only I could fix his poor ankle for him.
I too wonder if they will have different motifs on the Americana shirt with the purses. I guess we will have to wait and see. Quacker does do some pretty Americana shirts. I think I am trying to get every butterfly shirt that they ever made. lol So far I’m doing a pretty good job of it too. Speaking of butterflies everyone should get some milkweed and plant them to help bring back the monarch butterfly population. We are losing monarchs because so many milkweeds have been lost due to farming and building and monarchs only use milkweeds for their larva. So this summer if you want to do one little thing sow some milkweed seeds. We did last summer and I want to add more this year.
That is so funny that your grandson wanted to take his fish to bed. The poor thing. I can remember when I was about 6 I had a fish that I won at a carnival. Well like most goldfish it didn’t last long and I was heartbroken and I put it in a box and buried it in the backyard. Of course about two weeks later I wanted to dig him up and look at his bones because I wanted to be an archaeologist-this was going to be my first great find. You know I never could find him again which was just as well as I doubt very much that he would have been dusty old bones in two weeks time and I probably would have been traumatized all over again. I often wonder if one of my parents anticipated my next move and snuck out and relocated his burial spot.
There’s a good chance that Danyielle’s dog and cat won’t even be bothered by the baby. Jenny’s dogs never seemed to mind the babies and our dogs and cats never did either. The dogs liked them and the cats basically ignored them. Poor Danyielle must be tired if she had a houseful of people all weekend. I hope they all brought food and drink so she didn’t have to worry about feeding and entertaining people.
We are supposed to have weather in the upper thirties by weeks end. That will be so nice. Rocky will appreciate it too and not be shivering when he comes in from going to the bathroom. We had a fire in the fireplace yesterday afternoon and that felt good. We haven’t had many fires this year. Some years Greg has one every night. I guess we had a pretty warm fall and we just didn’t use the fireplace as much as usual. It does make it feel warm and cozy when we are just in watching TV and there’s a warm fire crackling in the fireplace.
Did anyone get to watch any of the National Figure Skating Championships this weekend? I saw the women’s and pairs and ice dancing and copied the Men’s finals but haven’t watched it yet as we were watching football yesterday.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: May 2016 Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous For All Quackers Near and Far! #23967

Hi Adele,
I was wondering what a chicken ring was too-so I’m glad that Colleen explained.
How is your fish doing-unfortunately fish normally don’t live very long. When we used to have a fish tank if we had a fish that was doing that sometimes it would help to take him out of the tank and put him in a bowl with some salt water in for awhile. Sometimes that would revive them and sometimes not. Don’t ask me how much salt as I don’t remember-maybe you can find something online.
I hope Gary went out and got you that Gronk poster. lol Sorry about the Patriots-we said that missed extra point may come back to haunt them. I feel bad for their kicker as he must be kicking himself in the butt-but someone is going to be the winner and someone is going to be the loser no matter what.
I’m glad that most of the storm missed you. That was really a whopper! So many snowfall records broken-it looks like West Virginia and Virginia actually got the most. I hope that you fed your cookie monster/snowblower.
Poor Heather. I hope that she is feeling better. She probably looks like she got in a fight with Rhonda Rousey. I know those broken noses will give you some nice shiners to go along with them. Sometimes I think you can slip on ice no matter what kind of shoes that you have on. Look at Greg-he slipped and fell taking out the garbage and I don’t think he was wearing his high heeled boots that day. lol
Did anyone see the chocolate s’mores cake on the Chew last week. I definitely got that recipe-that marshmallow frosting looked so good. Plus I just realized that Greg set up my computer with the printer so I can go to The Chew website and look up the recipe and hit a button and just print it right out. How slick is that? Obviously their website is very user friendly for that very reason as I imagine many people go there to print recipes.
I’m glad that your bread turned out so good-now did that end up being a rye or a pumpernickel? I like a good rye for a sandwich-actually I will eat a good rye with just bread and butter. I hope the sun is shining today. We are supposed to warm up to the upper 30’s by the end of the week. I will take that anytime.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: May 2016 Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous For All Quackers Near and Far! #23965

Hi Sue,
I hope the snow is over for you and your neighbors and co-worker came back and shoveled again. As long as you were snowed in I hope that you made good use of the time by snuggling in with some movies or a good book. That was one whopper of a storm breaking records all over the place. The soup and the angel food cake sounds like a good snow day meal. Hope today is sunny and snow free!
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: May 2016 Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous For All Quackers Near and Far! #23883

Hi Adele,
Well with the cake and the mac and cheese you will be getting an informal impromptu party-so that is good-whoever is there is there and you won’t have to worry about playing referee.
That’s funny-I used to hide ingredients from Brent and Kim too-the big thing with them was onions-I would chop them really fine and tell them there weren’t any in the dish-other wise they would just automatically reject it without even trying it. Which would drive me nuts. Speaking of that today would have been Kim’s birthday. I imagine this is a tough day for her parents and sisters. My prayers go out to them.
Greg went to the doctor when he first sprained the ankle and they basically don’t do anything except to say rest it and right now he is not able to do that with so many people having been off on vacation at work over the holidays. So I know for a fact that he is not going back as there is nothing they can do.
I’m sorry to have to say I won’t be rooting for the Patriots although I think they will probably win. However I have a soft spot for Peyton Manning after he played all those years for Indy and my brother lived in Colorado for many years so I have to go with Denver. The other game I will have to go with Carolina as I remember watching Cam Newton in that college championship game and liking him back then. So we will have to be rivals this weekend-although I am not really committed to anyone as we don’t have a horse in this race-so to speak. I guess it’s a good thing that game is in Denver and not out east. What city do the Patriots actually play in anyway? New England is kind of a general term.
Did you get your fish last night. That sounded good. What kind of fish is it? Speaking of that I’ll bet you get good fish and seafood there being so close to the coast. That’s the one thing we don’t get much out here is good fresh seafood. We haven’t been to fish fry in a long time as we are usually at Jenny’s on Fridays. We picked up Taco Bell last night and brought it over for Jenny and the kids. Talking about all this food is making me hungry-I better go get some breakfast.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: May 2016 Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous For All Quackers Near and Far! #23881

Hi Colleen,
Okay-I won’t make you older than you really are-actually that makes you the baby of me, Barbara, Adele and you-so you are the one that we will have to spoil. lol
I don’t scroll down either. I go to Discussions-General Quacker chatter and then click on the last post which is usually by one of us anyway and that takes you straight to whoever posted last-like today it was Barbara-and then I can just scroll backwards and read what Barbara, you and Adele posted. I have no idea why they neglected to put pages on the discussions when they recreated this site. I still think this is not as user friendly as the original site from five years ago when I first came on.
I’m glad that so many women are nursing now a days. It’s so good for the babies and it’s so much more economical than buying formula too. Plus now they have those really good breast pumps that actually work and they can use them to pump and store extra milk in the freezer so there is extra milk for when they go back to work or are gone somewhere. Little babies are like us older folks-they take lots of naps! lol It will be nice just to visit with you, Danyielle and the baby and have them all to yourself for a bit.
I did get my shirts already and they are really cute. I was looking at where they posted some of the drawings of the new designs for spring and there was a short sleeve shirt with butterflies-now you know I will have to get that in every color as I have been looking for more short sleeve Quacker and butterflies is the added bonus.
My ankle is okay-about the same as there is no real cure besides surgery-so now Greg and I can go dancing in matching ankle braces. lol
My SIL is still struggling with those results on her bloodtests. I think she had more done last week and I haven’t heard the results yet. And then she broke her wrist a few months back and has been struggling with that too as we just don’t heal as quickly as we used too and she says it’s still pretty painful.
It’s good to hear that your Mom is doing so well. That is a huge relief, I’m sure. When will she get to see the baby?
The grandkids are good. The scarlet fever actually comes from the strep-some kids will develop it and some not-also if you don’t catch the strep right away it can then develop into scarlet fever-which is what happened to her as she was showing no symptoms the second time around. Then Piper and Jenny got it and Lachlan got bronchitis-the doctor didn’t even bother doing the strep test on him as she said the antibiotic for the bronchitis would take care of any strep also if he did have it. Hopefully, now that they have passed everything around for a month everyone will be healthy for the rest of the winter.
I can’t wait until summer as Jenny said yesterday that Lachlan and Piper will be on the same TBall team. This I gotta see! I will need to take movies. Oh my gosh. Last night she was hysterical. She had on her princess nightgown and she was dancing all around the family room and she kept on wanting me to say what dances she should do-like the cha cha- or the pony or the Nae nae and then she would go do them but they all actually looked the same-and then she did this one dance where she ran in a circle for about five minutes. The child never sleeps! Lachlan was asleep on the couch-Kendall had gone to bed and she was still going like it was noon. But then she had to stop to get some water to re-hydrate. That child is going to keep them jumping!
No snow here-thank goodness. I hope everyone out east stays safe and warm.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: May 2016 Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous For All Quackers Near and Far! #23879

Hi Barbara,
It’s funny how everything is a matter of perspective. Greg kind of wanted to retire to somewhere warmer and he was looking at property in Tennessee-and you guys from Tennessee were thinking about Florida. lol Of course then I put my foot down and said no way was I leaving the grandkids and have them growing up with us as strangers that they only saw once a year. So that changed all his ideas. Then he kind of wanted a summer home in Wisconsin and I really don’t want two houses to maintain when I can barely maintain one. I think he really just wants somewhere to fish and put his boat. Now we have decided that after he retires we will just rent a place in warmer weather for a few weeks each winter and then we won’t be tied down to the same spot all the time.
Okay-you asked for it-here’s where kick the bucket comes from-the wooden frame that was used to hang animals by their feet for slaughter was called a bucket-obviously they would struggle during this procedure and thus would “kick the bucket.” There’s a pleasant thought for this morning.
Now, on a much lighter note-popcorn and ice cream for dinner!!! Count me in! Hopefully it’s gourmet popcorn and ice cream. lol
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: May 2016 Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous For All Quackers Near and Far! #23840

Hi Adele,
I agree-humor can defuse many a tense situation. Laughter is good medicine-plus I am a glass half full person and I believe that you are too.
Glad that you got to lunch out an didn’t get towed away in the process. lol
So the panko crumbs and the Penzey’s spice made a winner winner chicken dinner. That’s funny that Bobby said they liked it because they are afraid of you. lol I don’t think that ever bothered them before when they didn’t like something. You have a unique snow blower that works on chocolate chip cookies instead of gas-I wonder which costs more-the gas or the cookies?
I have those soft pants in the black and went back to order them in the blue but they were long gone. They need to bring those back in more colors and greater numbers. At this stage of my life comfort is king!
Well happy Birthday today! I don’t know why I thought I read that it was on the 20th. Old age I guess. I hope that you pick out a good gift for yourself. lol
It’s funny that you said that about Gary liking fried clams as Brent and Kim liked those too. Maybe the people who have bad dietary habits and don’t eat vegetables all like the same stuff. Greg thinks fried clams are like eating rubberbands and I must say I agree with him on that one. I can really feel your pain as I know how hard it was to feed Brent. When he lived here he kept stuff in the freezer for times when I fixed stuff for me and Greg that he didn’t like but you can’t really do that to your husband although I’m sure there are times when you wish you could just give him a frozen dinner and cook for everyone else. It’s like having a little kid again and cooking something different for them all the time. It makes me grateful to cook for Greg who will eat about anything and who will go out for dinner just about any time that I want to also.
The poor guy-remember he sprained his ankle-well then his knee started hurting because he was walking funny with the ankle-so now he has a wrap on the ankle and a wrap on the knee-if things keep going the way they are he will be all wrapped up like a mummy.
They are predicting lots of snow for DC-I hope it misses you. Just in case though bake up some chocolate chip cookies.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: May 2016 Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous For All Quackers Near and Far! #23836

Hi Colleen,
I’m glad that you are not getting all the snow. We are not either except maybe a little dusting. I feel bad for Sue having to shovel herself. You know it is harder to find new postings on this site-I almost missed hers as I generally just click on whoever posted last under General Quacker Chatter and that normally takes me directly to this discussion. It just is not as easy to see when someone posts something new under a different heading as it used to be.
Aha! I am the elder of you and Adele so you guys have to listen to me and respect your elders. lol So you guys are Greg’s age as he is 66 and I am 67-you must have graduated high school in 1967 then. I graduated in 66-can you believe that is 50 years ago now. I wonder if there will be a reunion-there has been for all the other decades. I think we have gone to most of them. Yikes-am I old or what?!!!
I don’t blame you for waiting until all the activity subsides to go see the baby again. That way you can have Danyielle and the baby all to yourself rather than competing with a houseful of people. She will appreciate it more that way too-there’s nothing like having your Mom around with a new baby in the house.
I watched Chick’s night in or out or whatever it is but didn’t see anything that was that interesting either. Plus I can only take Albany in small doses as she seems kind of fake to me-but that’s just my opinion-I’m sure others love her. I guess that i don’t watch QVC as much as I used to as there are three new hosts and I barely even know who they are except for the one who was on In the Kitchen with David. Years ago I used to keep it on as kind of background noise-that was when they had much more diversity in their product lines.
Good Idea-get the chiropractor to recommend a whirlpool and then maybe Ron will go along with him-since you don’t think he’ll put much credence in my recommendation. lol While you’re at it maybe he could recommend a hot tub for your deck too. And a maid. lol
Gail

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