[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: What’s Happening-March 2023 #147828

Hi Everyone,
Colleen, my brother was in rehab but now he is done with that. I hope your sister continues to improve.
Adele, I never watched Blue Bloods but I know a lot of people love the show. Unfortunately no show goes on forever.
I too don’t watch much QVC live anymore. I will copy some shows and flick through them quickly and I go through the recently on air and new stuff daily to see if there is anything of interest.
Unfortunately QVC’s business model is getting to be old fashioned in this day of internet shopping.
years ago I had it on morning noon and night just for the company but not anymore.
I used to look forward to the gold shows in January and August and the silver show in March but they have ditched all those too.
I do still like some of the clothing lines and still buy from them even though I don’t really need any new clothes I have enough to last me for years. I always liked that the Q did not upcharge for plus sizes as so many catalogs do. that has kept me loyal to them. They are getting expensive but so are other places too. I no longer enjoy going out and shopping in stores-it’s just too tiresome.
Brent will be coming to visit next week.
I have rented a lake house for the family to come to this summer to celebrate our 50th anniversary so that should be fun.
Jenny is dog sitting for a friend over spring break so they will have three dogs. It will be just like old times in our house. lol
My SIL and her husband went on a cruise with two other couples a few weeks ago. My SIL got covid on the cruise and had to be quarantined and by the time they got back her husband and two of the other women had it too. I imagine once one person gets it it spreads like wild fire. They are home and feeling better now though. Thank goodness.
We are having one nice day and then back to cold and maybe snow. Grrrr.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: What’s Happening?-February 2023 #147689

starting new discussion for March

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: What’s Happening?-February 2023 #147528

Hi Everyone,
Colleen, I’m glad that you had nothing broken. The darn arthritis is just part of aging and sometimes there’s just nothing to be done.
I always say how fortunate I am to have my RA pretty much under control with medicine. I thank my lucky stars daily as I remembered how my Dad suffered as they didn’t have some of the medicines back then that they do today.
DD, I heard that Portland got a bunch of snow. I think the weather has gone crazy.
Adele, glad the office clean out is moving right along. Marissa is such a help.
We lost power from eight in the morning yesterday until ten thirty last night. There was a big ice storm. Thank goodness we have the portable generator to run some heat and the refrigerator and freezer. I’ll be glad to be able to shower again today. Greg is exhausted from lugging the generator up from the barn and setting everything up with extension cords all over the house.
The insurance turned him down for his MRI so they are going to try PT first for the sciatica. It has been getting better as he’s been walking on the treadmill every day. Therapy doesn’t start until mid March so I said he probably won’t need it by then.
Brent is coming from March 11 to the 18th. They were also going to go to Ohio to visit his bio Dad but instead Randy(bio dad) has a brother in a town close by and he said he will come up to visit him when Brent is here so they don’t have to spend the time driving to Ohio.
So that will give us more time with Brent and Tynasha. Last year when they were here in March the weather was so cold. I hope this year it will be a bit warmer.
Piper wanted us to come over to their house yesterday for a sleepover when our power was out but we explained that we can’t leave the house with the generator running and we can’t just stop the generator otherwise we would lose all the food stored in our fridge and freezer. Plus we just went to Costco a month ago so our freezer is pretty stocked.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: What’s Happening? January 2023 #147135

I just checked and it’s there. You have to go the main discussions page click on General Quacker chatter and it should be there at or close to the top.

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: What’s Happening? January 2023 #147115

Better late than never. Starting a new discussion page for February.

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: What’s Happening? January 2023 #146933

Hi Everyone.
I hope you are all okay.
We had quite a bit on snow over the weekend. But fortunately it can down over several days and wasn’t a hard blowing snow. Although it was blowing on Friday so we decided not to go to Jenny’s that night.
Colleen, how was the MRI? I hope there were no breaks or cracks.
Greg is still struggling with the sciatica. He’s just coming off a few days of prednisone and is having an MRI next week and being sent to a pain doctor.
I hope they can find some way to help him as he is miserable all the time and it has affected his spirit and attitude.
Adele, how is Santino after the RSV. It’s funny now that disease has been in the news since the fall and I don’t remember hearing about it when our kids were little.
When you had the place in New Hampshire how far of a drive was it to get there? I’ll bet it was lots of fun.
My parents had snowmobiles at their place up north too but I was already in college when they bought it so I didn’t go up as much as I would have if they had bought it when I was younger. That’s one regret that I have since they offered it to us before they sold it but we were just married and couldn’t afford it. But Greg would always have loved a house on a lake in that area so I wish that things had been a little different or that they had held onto it as a summer home when they moved down south so he would have had a chance to go there because he would have loved it. My Dad loved to fish and so does Greg.
Adele, the castles in Germany sound so beautiful-and so much more ancient than anything we have here. Our country is like a baby compared to some of the other countries.
DD, how are things out west? Did you and Critt ever mend fences? That’s an unusual name-I think that’s the first time I’ve ever heard it.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: What’s Happening? January 2023 #146696

Hi Adele,
So if you were there for five years that means you were 13 when you returned state side.
Do you remember if that was scary coming back and starting over as an adolescent?
When you were over there did you get to visit other parts of Europe?
Now I am just an arm chair traveler but I am always so curious as to what the sights in the rest of the world look like.
I wish I would have had more opportunities to see the world in my younger days when I could get around better.
We just never think we might get older and be less mobile.
Do you remember if Stuttgart showed signs of bombing from the war?
So was your Dad teaching during the war or was he active duty?
My Dad was somewhere over in France. He never really talked about his military service and we never found out until after he died that he was in the Battle of the Bulge. He was a modest man.
Is it gloomy by you? It’s been gloomy here forever so today I am pretending that the sun is out just to try and make things more cheerful. lol
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: What’s Happening? January 2023 #146619

HI Everyone,
DD, I hope everyone out west will be able to dry out soon. I hear more rain is coming this week though.
Colleen, I’m sorry that you fell again. I hope everything will be okay with you.
I’m sorry to hear about Ron’s cousins. As you say since he has a big family there could eventually be a lot of funerals. We are definitely at the time of life where we attend more funerals than weddings. Every time we are just glad that it is not us. We are reminded of life’s preciousness which is a good thing.
We’re always thankful to be alive.
I have lost track of most of my cousins. I didn’t have many to begin with but i really don’t know where most of them are or if any have died. Kind of sad.
I had my check up with the cardiologist last week and everything was good.
Greg went to see his today so hopefully he will be good too.
He has really been suffering with the sciatica lately. It came on in October and then it got better and now it’s back worse then ever. I think he should go to the doctor again but we’ll see.
We haven’t been doing much. I guess we don’t feel like going out much in the dark and the cold. But I start to get cabin fever around this time so I will have to find something for us to do once in a while.
Adele, I was just thinking about this for some reason. Didn’t you say you lived over seas when you were a kid. Was it in Germany and how long did you live there? Did you learn the language? Was your father assigned there? Did you go to school there? Where you in a city or the country. What do you remember? Okay-I’ll stop being nosy now. I’m just a curious person. lol
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: What’s Happening? January 2023 #146451

Adele,
Oh good you got back on here. I just posted on the November thread thinking you might get a notification.

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