[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Hi Girls-Here's Celebrating the Dog Days of August Part 2 #14663

Boy Adele,
You are strict no outside baked goods allowed in the house. We would have no desserts then as I hardly ever bake anymore. Which is weird as I always preferred homebaked cakes and especially cookies over store bought. I think my cooking always leaned more toward the supper time meal. However I loved to play around with different appetizers when we used to entertain at home. And when the kids were home I baked a couple of times a week. Please don’t faint but I always made brownies from a box. lol Jenny and Greg love brownies so I made them a lot.
It’s been so nice here this week with temps in the low 70’s-next week it will be in the 90’s.
I wonder if Colleen is not feeling well as she has been missing for a couple of days and mentioned being sick lately. I hope she finds a gastro soon and gets those problems taken care of.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Hi Girls-Here's Celebrating the Dog Days of August Part 2 #14661

Hi Cynthia,
You must be a long time QVC watcher as I remember them selling those Riddix things on there years ago. I often wondered if they worked. I remember when my Mom lived in Florida the little chameleons would get into the house sometimes. Plus they have fire ants and our son stepped on an ant hill when he was about three and got some bad stings from them-the poor little guy. I don’t understand either why the words are so tiny and close together when you are writing your post and then when you actually post it they get bigger and more readable. Maybe they can fix that eventually when they get their other kinks worked out.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Q Shopping #14640

You’re right Sue-i think it’s a promotion too. And who knows if they will keep it that way forever. Promotions usually go away after a certain time period.

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Hi Girls-Here's Celebrating the Dog Days of August Part 2 #14639

Hi Girls,
You are right Adele a parent could have kids in four different schools here too if they were spread apart enough.
I never pictured a stint as being that long either. I guess ignorance is bliss! Now the thought kind of makes me squirm. I imagine it’s even worse for Gary being the person who it was inside of.
No eagle picture. But then why under General Quacker chatter is there a discussion topic for posting pictures. I’m still trying to figure that one out.
I too have always enjoyed coming on here and learning how different people across the country live and do things in different ways and call things by different names. Two of my favorites were calling the grandfather Pawpaw-that was from Barbara. I knew they did that in the south because Kim called her grandfather PawPaw but I just liked to hear Barbara talk about him. The other thing we discovered is that there are no fireflies/lightening bugs west of the Mississippi. That was prompted by me doing research after a conversation with Debbie about how they weren’t in Oregon but she used to see them as a kid at her grandmother’s in Minnesota. I always said all the different women from across the country reminded me of when we had childhood pen pals.
Puppy/no name will adjust when JJ goes to school-Steph will just have to pay more attention to him. How’s he doing on housebreaking and such?
I never tried making that pumpkin cake. You have all those people at your house to admire it. We just like to eat the stuff so there’s no point in making it look too fancy and spending extra time when we are just going to gobble it down.
I have to e-mail my SIL this morning to see how she is feeling. Now is the long wait for results.
That turkey shirt is winging my way also. Plus the acorn shirt.
There will be a TSV next week so maybe there will be more fall/Halloween to see then.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Hi Girls-Here's Celebrating the Dog Days of August Part 2 #14626

Cynthia,
I posted another reply on your discussion topic.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Q Shopping #14625

Cynthia,
Perhaps you want to post something like this over on the Q boards. More people are likely to read and comment on it over there. I’m sorry that they instituted a policy that cannot accommodate everyone. I would think that they would not want to exclude anyone from shopping there. Even if you are not shopping the Q you can still enjoy chatting with us here. Hope that you are feeling well and that the headaches and seizures went away.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Hi Girls-Here's Celebrating the Dog Days of August Part 2 #14624

Hi,
I think that easy pay with the Q card is a brand new promotion that just started up to get more people to sign up for the card. Perhaps a call to customer service to learn the full policy might be in order.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Hi Girls-Here's Celebrating the Dog Days of August Part 2 #14590

Hi Girls,
I looked around and didn’t find an eagle picture anywhere. i wonder if Quacker is using the same server as the Q. Somehow I feel that there is a sameness to the look of their websites now. Or I’m just seeing things-that could be it also.
I wonder why when I took the garbage out this morning no one ever picked it up. Now I have to go out and bring it in again. Last time this happened they supposedly picked it up at five in the morning which is weird as they usually pick it up at 2 in the afternoon. Oh well. Good thing we have a second can.
So Adele-what did they finally name that puppy? I like the cooler weather but I could skip the snow. Too hard to get around.
Colleen, I agree with Kylie-I want to be a princess too. I think that I have been working on that my whole life. Our kids go to several different schools too. They just built a nice new K-3 a few years ago too. I think the smaller towns end up with the grades more separated because they have growth spurts and unless you are a really wealthy school district you can’t just abandon one school to build a whole new huge one. With schools being taxpayer funded here it just doesn’t allow it and sometimes schools are not set up for additions. Especially the older ones. The kids are usually with their same friends at the different schools so that makes it easier. There was tons of overcrowding when Brent and Jenny went to kindergarten and they attended the junior high for kindergarten. They basically kept them in one end of the school so they wouldn’t have to deal with the older kids.
Talking about dress up-somewhere i have photos of when Jenny and her friend Kim talked their brothers into letting them put on dress up clothes and lipstick. Funny pictures!
I’m glad that everyone is finding their way around here. It’s not that bad. Except for the picture part. I guess they want to keep it confined to just Quacker stuff.
My SIL had the bone marrow biopsy today. Won’t get results for two weeks-so keep praying.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Hi Girls-Here's Celebrating the Dog Days of August Part 2 #14534

Hi Adele,
Since you’re the good one with putting on pictures i noticed that there is a discussion page for photos on here. I wonder if you can post stuff there?
Gail
I know that I can no longer copy and paste into a discussion page. Already tried it several times.

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