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Hi Colleen,
I hope your electrical troubles are over. It’s good that houses have smoke alarms all over them now too. That makes it easier to sleep.
Well the dryer is in pieces and Greg discovered that this one part is cracked so he developed a plan last night that he would temporarily go out and buy a really cheap used machine order the new part and fix the machine himself. For some reason he is really ticking me off about this-he just has such a bug up his butt about the cost of fixing the machine and it’s like he wants to prove somebody wrong. I realize that the machine isn’t that old but sometimes things do break and he’s making me feel like it’s my fault or something even though he hasn’t said as much. All I know is that if it was something of his that he uses almost daily it would either be fixed by now or he would have a new one. I don’t know why but this whole situation is turning into a battle ground. Pretty soon he will be eating potato soup. In any case how does he plan on getting the used washing machine upstairs by himself as our laundry is on the second floor? Although technically he could leave it on the first floor as our mudroom is set up to be used as a laundry room too-we just always have had it upstairs as it’s easier not to be carrying clothes and sheets and towels up and down the stairs. But I won’t remind him and I doubt that he would remember that. I finally just told him to do whatever he wanted to do because he was already walking that path anyway but don’t buy the used dryer i will just go to the laundromat if need be. Of course i have so many clothes i wouldn’t need to wash for quite awhile and we have lots of extra sheets and towels so we could go for awhile without washing except maybe we would run out of space to put the dirty stuff. lol The thing I am worried about now is when he puts the washer back together i wonder if he will be able to get the seal as tight as it was originally. It’s a front loader and that seal is all important. I can just picture him starting it up and water pouring all over the floor upstairs. It could end up being a lot more expensive than buying a new washer or paying an expert to fix it. He also mentioned when we were talking about getting a new one that i should get a top loader as it would be cheaper because then you wouldn’t have to buy a new pedestal. No one else is short and they don’t seem to understand that if I get a large capacity washer like I like that will accommodate big blankets and such i am practically standing on my head and falling into the washer to get things out of the bottom. In any case that’s where everything stands right now-who knows what today may bring.
So I looked it up-there were three other Christmas Carol movies before the 1938 Reginald Owens one-1901, 1910 and 1935. I was never a big Mr. Magoo fan either. I always felt kind of bad for him and didn’t find him particularly funny.
Colleen you don’t have to be on Facebook to see the pages of the people from QVC they are all public pages. Just type in the persons name and Facebook QVC and you can see all the hosts pages-you just cannot write on the pages without being signed up but you can read anything. I think I heard or read somewhere that there will be a video of the wedding on here by the 27th. I was wondering because I think I saw some Quacker shows on my DVR for next week who would be hosting them. I thought Angel was going a cruise for her honeymoon and I thought Patrick was going too-am I crazy or imagining things. Anyway-I wonder if she will be back already-that would be kind of a short cruise-or if someone else would host the shows or if they would just do them without her. Maybe James should go on and host them. lol I guess we’ll find out as they are on my schedule for Wednesday.
GailHi Adele,
Yes, I was saying last night that I think I was finally getting a thespian in the family. You should have seen her standing naked on a step stool in the middle of the family room singing a mash up of Let it Go and Twinkle Twinkle-just like Evita standing on the balcony singing to the masses. lol
Believe me my mother checked all the china replacement sites. There are many similar patterns but I have never seen one exactly the same. I also have my grandmothers gold plate stainless silverware-my Mom used that a lot too and put it in the dishwasher so much of the plating is gone. It has more sentimental value than anything else although the tureen was once appraised at several hundred dollars.
Angel did look stunning-I love that one picture of her sort of kicking her foot back-it looks so joyous. She sure is lucky her wedding wasn’t in northern Illinois. It is still snowing and doesn’t look to let up-Greg plowed here and plowed at the apartment and that’s about all the farther that we will be going today. He’s now going to take the dryer apart because just like he likes to second guess the directions from the GPS he thinks that every repairman in the world is out to rip him off. I told him to have at it if it will make him stop obsessing about it-i figure it’s no great loss anyway if he can’t get it back together since the thing is broken anyway. Men!!! Sometimes they are exasperating. I told him to go take it apart and get the bee out of his bonnet.
I doubt Barbara or Debbie are snowed in. Barbara is pretty far south-they would more likely get ice and Debbie is in an area that has little snow which usually melts quickly. You and I are probably in the snowiest areas. I don’t think Colleen got snow out of this one-it was hanging pretty far north.
GailThis just in from Piper playing out in the snow. “Mmmmmm the “no” is good-it tastes like mac and cheese.”
Click on the above pictures and then you can look at them full sized. I hate the way these stupid pictures attach.
Today I am grateful that we have a pick up truck with a snow plow on it.
Hi Colleen,
Yikes! I’m glad that nothing burned and that you and Ron are safe. I was going to say didn’t that happen before-it seems like I remember you talking about it happening a couple of years ago. It is a good idea to have someone come out and check your electrical system. I hope your dishwasher will be okay. I would hate for you to have to go out and buy a new appliance too.
Don’t worry about the frozen pies-no one will care as long as you are all together with your family. It’s not the food that brings us together it’s the day of giving Thanks with our family and friends. Every year we do what we can and some years it’s more and some years it’s less-we are just grateful to gather with loved ones. I heard yesterday that Patti LaBelle has a sweet potato pie that is just flying off the shelves at WalMart. And I know that the sides that you are serving will be good as I have had them myself. You will have fun that day and help with decorating the following day. Unfortunately my main minion will be in NM until right before Christmas so this year it will be mainly up to me to get things decorated. Greg will have to do the hauling for me.
Boy you are good! Because I am such a nerdy geek I had to check out June Lockhart in A Christmas Carol; well lo and behold she was Bob Cratchit’s daughter Belinda in the 1938 Reginald Owens version and Bob Cratchit was played by Gene Lockhart and Mrs. Cratchit was played by Kathleen Lockhart. I want you on my Trivial Pursuit team! Love that game. Gosh we haven’t had a good game night since the grandkids arrived. Pretty soon we can play some simple games with them again. That will be fun.
There was Mickey’s Christmas Carol-I think we may have it on VHS and there was a Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol too. everyone wants to get in on the action. And another musical one with Albert Finney. Does anyone else remember him from the movie Tom Jones? I must have seen that movie 100 times. I always thought he was so cute back then and of course a bit of a rouge-the 18th century version of the bad boy. lolGail
Hi Adele,
I’m glad that I could help-I hope that your robot problem is solved. That is a good idea about changing shirts for every meal. Maybe I could get everything in then but it would generate a lot of laundry as every meal I would probably drip something on the shirt. it’s just that it’s hard to part with any Quacker so i have Christmas stuff from way back. The only things that I will willingly part with are the cotton shirts from years back. Number one they don’t stretch and somehow my midsection has gotten bigger lol and I never wore them as much because of the buttons at the cuffs. I like sleeves that can be pushed up like with knits. They were never practical because whenever I went to rinse a dish or a glass you had to unbutton the cuff and roll it up so I found I never got as much wear out of them. I am much more a t shirt girl than a white collared blouse girl. Plus I never wore the button covers-just not my thing.
I must say I never put my china in the dishwasher-it was my grandmothers so it is probably 100 years old. When my Mom lived in Louisiana she used it all the time when they entertained and put it in the dishwasher and a lot of the gold has worn off. The worst part was they had been living in an apartment for a couple of years before they moved and at that point the china was packed away in their storage room. When they moved to Louisiana the movers offered to unpack it and repack it for the move and Mom told them not to bother. Well needless to say when they arrived and Mom unpacked all but three of the dinner plates were broken. We were never able to replace them as the area that they were made in Germany was heavily bombed during the war and all the porcelain factories were demolished. So we have similar but not matching dinner plates. The only other people that I know that had the same China were my grandmother’s three sisters. So I hope that after they were gone and their daughters were gone that the granddaughters kept the china and didn’t just sell it off in a garage sale. I always check in antique stores- I figure eventually i will run across that pattern somewhere and maybe they will have dinner plates.In any case I haven’t used it myself in quite awhile. Used to use it for holidays but kind of stopped with the grandkids around-I would put the replacement pieces in the dishwasher but at this point in time I would still handwash the original pieces. The set has a beautiful soup tureen and a vegetable bowl that always reminded me of Aladdin’s lamp for some reason.
Well we’ve had a foot of snow so far and it’s still coming down but not as hard. Getting home from Jenny’s last night when it was coming down hard and fast was not a treat. When we got there the kids were all excited because it was snowing and they kept opening the patio door to look at it. When we came in Piper, of course, was running around naked-since she doesn’t wear a diaper she likes to be prepared in case she has to pee lol. Anyway, she says Gigi come look at the “no” with me-so I go by the patio door and she opens it and says-ohhh it’s freezing out there- so needless to say I stated the obvious. We did get her back in underpants until she spilled her water on them at dinner and then off they came until it was time to put on her pajamas. I hope she makes friends with clothes before she starts school. lol
I was hoping that Greg and I could go shopping for a new wash machine today but I guess it depends on the weather now as the roads were really bad last night. I took my throw rugs to Jenny’s last night and washed them there so when I clean the downstairs this weekend and wash the kitchen floor at least the throw rugs will be clean. The rest of the stuff-sheets towels clothing can wait as we have enough of those.
GailAdele,
I’m not getting the robot thing but I usually stay signed in. If you don’t try signing in when you first come over and see how that works. They are still working the kinks out as seen in that e-mail that we received.
I wore my turkey shirt yesterday-I have a cornucopia one too or I might wear my leaf with the vest or my short sleeve fall tee with the hoodie. I won’t bring the Christmas out until the following day and then it will be a free for all trying to get all 20 years worth of Christmas tops in-good thing we celebrate until Epiphany on Jan 6th. lol What can I say-I’m a Christmas Quacker piggie.
No snow yet but they still say it’s acomin’. I’ll bet pretty soon Angel will be a married woman. It’s been so long I can’t even remember how exciting it was. I wish we could all be a fly on the wall but then turn back to a person afterwards because my Christmas Quacker wouldn’t fit on a fly. I wish her much future happiness.
GailToday I am grateful for all the beautiful Quacker clothes that I have in my closet. And I am grateful for all the wonderful Quacker friends I’ve made because of those clothes.
Adele, I have not been getting the I am not a robot thing. Maybe it’s because I usually end up just staying signed in. -
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