[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #15137

Hi Colleen,
I hope that you guys can convince Ron to go to the doctor. Maybe you will have to give him the same talk that Barbara gave to Jerry. What is the garlic supposed to do? And what is he so afraid of? Tell him no one likes to go but sometimes it really is necessary in order to stay well.
Here’s a thought for a place to have a shower. Our library has a room that you can use for showers or birthday parties. I’m not sure how much it costs but I’m sure it’s pretty reasonable. Maybe you could find a room somewhere like that to rent for a shower if necessary.
Gosh you sound like you have a lot of your Christmas shopping already done! How nice is that. Some years I have already started too but not this year. For those kids that like to read a book is always a good add on to a gift card.
Speaking of that have you read anything good lately? I think I will have to start a new book thread over here so that we can share reading ideas again.
I wonder why they are having two nights of DWTS next week? The Voice also will start up again so Monday nights will be some busy TV watching for me.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #15135

Hi Barbara,
Sorry to hear that Jerry and Neal are sick. It was funny though that Joey and Lisa sent them to their rooms so they could come in and get the pie though. I hope they keep their germs away from you too.
Your granddaughter sounds so talented. I hope she gets her dream job someday. Just think someday perhaps Joey and Neal will have kids and then you will be the one with the babies and the rest of us will have older grands. We love the older ones just as much but the babies are just so precious.
I no longer worry about the dust bunnies. It used to be so important to get all the cleaning done weekly and now I just don’t really care. For the most part the only people that see the house anymore are me and Greg. I guess we now have different priorities.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Hi Girls-Here's Celebrating the Dog Days of August Part 2 #15114

Hi Girls,
Started a new discussion. it’s under general Quacker chatter and Titled It’s Fall! Enjoyed DWTS last night. Yes, Bindi Erwin’s enthusiasm was contagious-I think she’s a chip off the old block. I hope Gary Busey stays on for awhile. We saw him on The Apprentice and sometimes you thought he was totally bonkers and sometimes you thought he was a mad genius. I know he’s not a good dancer but he’s interesting. Last night was a big dancing night-DWTS season opener and So You Think You Can Dance season finale-my favorite won-I always have a soft spot for the tap dancers.
I wonder who will win AGT-I hope the mentalist or the ventriloquist but I think the professional regurgitator has a chance too. he’s like a trainwreck-you can’t look and yet you can’t look away.
See you all over on the new page.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #15110

Hi Colleen,
Well it’s about Fall but we are having summer like temperatures this week. Our cooler temps have disappeared.
I was so glad when Greg switched over to my dentist three years ago. In all these last three years this is the first time that he has needed another big procedure-if he was still with his old dentist he probably would have had several more done between then and now. They ended up doing a triple root canal.. he was having some bad pain last night but he said it’s somewhat better this morning. He has rehearsal tonight so I don’t know how well he can sing. Maybe they will concentrate on practicing instruments today.
When I went to babysit yesterday Lachlan had just lost another tooth-so that’s two teeth in two weeks. So Lachlan was minus a tooth and Piper was minus her pants! lol She had on a shirt but no pants-that child is a little nudist between the swimsuits and the nakedness she is something else. lol I tried to talk her into letting me put a diaper on her but she told me she didn’t want any pants. So rather than have her have a screaming fit I just did what I always do and let her Mom deal with it when she got home. In the meantime I was sitting next to her on a leather couch reading books and hoping that she wouldn’t have an accident. lol. Anyway, she finally ended up putting on some underpants. She’s kind of in that in between potty training stage right now.
I see that there are some Quacker shows on QVC plus this week. I will have to set up our DVR to record the Quacker shows from that channel now too.
Hope everyone found the new discussion.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: It's Fall! Let's Celebrate Cooler Temperatures and Spectacular Fall Foliage. #15108

Hi Adele,
I don’t think we are missing posts even without the notifications. I just go to the last post and scroll back to find the last post that I read and start in from there. I can’t figure out why I’m not getting any notifications so I will just have to take matters into my own hands.
It sounds like the nursing home really has a nice facility for family get togethers. It shows that they realize how important those events are in the lives of their clients. It’s good that Gary now understands that his brother really needs the extra care. I don’t think anyone really understands how difficult Alzheimer’s can become for the caregiver until they actually live through the experience themselves. My heart goes out to all the caregivers in the world-it’s a tough-sometimes lonely-job.
Greg changed dentists three years ago so I know they are not doing anything unnecessary. He goes where I go now. But they send you out to a specialist for root canals whereas his old dentist did everything-even the teeth cleaning himself so he could keep all the money. They ended up doing a triple root canal. He had a lot of pain last night but seems better today so I hope that continues. He has to go back for the second part of the procedure next week and they have a concert the following night so I hope he will be okay for that.
Oh Adele, I am laughing-maybe the third time is the charm. I ended up changing from speech therapy too. I quit school after three years-worked for awhile and then went back to a different school as an English Major-which never did anyone any good. lol That’s why I always say that I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up. lol

It’s funny-where I grew up most of the kids went away to school and then when they finished most ended up moving to different areas of the country. A few stayed in the area but only a couple stayed in the same town. Here in Harvard so many of the kids graduate-go to college and then get married and come back and live in Harvard and raise their families there. I’ll bet in Jenny’s subdivision there are at least 20 other people that she or Brent went to school with. It’s different than what I experienced growing up.
Anything good cooking at your house this week? Did Tillie order anything new from those last Quacker shows. Does she like the fall/ Halloween stuff too?
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Hi Girls-Here's Celebrating the Dog Days of August Part 2 #15101

Hi Girls,
I am going to start a new discussion page since this one is getting so long. When we first came over here this discussion had pages to it and then they changed it. Weird. Anyway, I hope that I can remember how to do this-it may take me a few tries. Look for a new discussion that is titled something about Fall-I’m not sure exactly what it will say yet. See you all over there if I am successful.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Hi Girls-Here's Celebrating the Dog Days of August Part 2 #15074

Hi Colleen,
I don’t have any Halloween decorating suggestions right off the top of my head. Even though you don’t have a party store around maybe you can find one of those seasonal Halloween stores that pop up around this time of year.
Yesterday I took Jenny to Costco so she could get some stuff for her family. A family of five with two steps can save a lot of money by getting things in bulk there. Most of the things are in just too big of sizes for just me and Greg but for a young family it is a perfect place to get lots of things at bargain prices. They had a nice big light up yard spider there. And they were already putting out stuff for Christmas-children’s toys and some décor.
Lachlan had his first soccer game Saturday and he scored a goal so that was quite exciting for him.
Kendall’s school offers a bilingual (Spanish-English) program and a regular English program. If you are in the bilingual program it is not just learning Spanish but half of your day’s learning of all subjects is done in Spanish-so you may have history in Spanish or math in Spanish depending on the day. So you are immersed in the language for half the day. Jenny figured she would put her in there because it never hurts to know another language and you may as well learn it while you are young and your mind is like a sponge. I don’t know what happens when they leave this current school after third grade. I don’t know if the program continues into middle school or not. I will have to ask.
I’m sure Kaylee will do fine with Melissa as a teacher. I’m glad that she has other girls to play with in the neighborhood now. Kendall is always out playing now with the other kids on her block. It’s so nice for a kid to be able to do that. So many of the other families in that neighborhood are made up of people that my kids went to school with so they all kind of keep an eye out for each other’s kids. it’s a lot like the old fashioned neighborhoods.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Hi Girls-Here's Celebrating the Dog Days of August Part 2 #15073

Hi Adele,
I hope your evening with your BIL went well and Gary wasn’t too upset by it. Alzheimer’s is a horrible disease that steals one’s personality. Your SIL will need your ongoing support too. At some point a lot of sufferers need nursing home care. It just becomes too dangerous for them to remain at home. No one should feel bad about accepting whatever help is needed.
Somehow you and Barbara must have misunderstood what I wrote. I said I wanted to work with emotionally disturbed children but my mother steered me into Speech pathology-which backfired because I ended up doing neither and worked in accounting which was quite weird as I never really cared for math. Anyway, I retired from that when the kids came along and became a domestic goddess. lol
Greg has that endodontist appointment today. He already has a root canal in that tooth-in fact he has a root canal in just about every tooth in his mouth. I used to call his old dentist Doctor Root Canal and Doctor Demento. Every time Greg went there he had an expensive procedure and I kept telling him I thought that something was off with that doctor but he was just too stubborn to change until he had about three screw ups in a row. I still think that dentist saw Greg as a cash cow and did a lot of unnecessary work on him. Greg wouldn’t agree but I think it’s because he doesn’t want to admit that he made a mistake by continuing to go to him. Anyway, I know he’s hoping that this current problem won’t cause him to lose the tooth.
I still can’t figure out why I stopped getting my notices from here. Greg must have done something when he was on here because I stopped getting my zulily e-mails too. No wonder that I don’t like other people touching my computer. something always comes back not right.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Hi Girls-Here's Celebrating the Dog Days of August Part 2 #15048

Hi Barbara,
How wonderful to have a private birthday dinner with Joey. That was a great gift!
Somewhere I have a cross stitch piece with that same saying of PawPaw’s on it.
I am like you. Life would not be complete without books. My mother always said that if nothing else was available I would read the cereal box. I subscribe to several book sites and am always looking for what to read next. Right now I probably have a list of 500 books that I want to read. I still read paper books but also use my nook-probably about 50/50. I love the nook for the portability and that any book is available at the click of a finger. Plus we have a lot of books so the nook helps with storage.
You are going to have a rough year with Jerry and the news shows what with an election year coming up. Fortunately Greg is much more interested in watching sports than he is news-although that can get obsessive too as I think he would watch a tiddily winks tournament if it was labeled as “sports” programming.
Hope that you have a great weekend.
gail

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