[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-September 2020 #118606

HI Colleen,
I am glad that Ron is doing better. It sounds like he may need some potato soup to whip him into place. lol I wonder why he needs the sun protection-is that related to the tick bite?
We had a good weekend-we picked up food twice! Saturday night we were driving over to a local restaurant to pick up their prime rib specials and we got part way there and we realized that Greg didn’t have a mask. So we were just about ready to turn around and get one when I remembered that I had one in my purse with (of course) butterflies on it. lol So he wore that into the restaurant for the pick up. lol He is really good about wearing the mask. He is much better in his older years about following doctor’s orders and such.
I feel bad for him though because he got a tooth extracted on Thursday and was fine the first day but as the weekend wore on he started having more pain. Of course he wouldn’t call the emergency number because of the long weekend so he was in pain and called this morning so is going in again later today. I suspect he got one of those dry sockets. I was surprised that they did not warn him to keep an eye out for that as I remember when I had molars pulled and the kids had wisdom teeth out they always mention that as a possibility and this was the same place that the kids had their wisdom teeth out.
As to the people at Walmart and mask wearing-they are telling people to wear masks going in but they don’t enforce it when people are inside because people get all mad and nasty and WalMart doesn’t want to get their workers hurt for something like that.
I am amazed that people have made such a big deal about mask wearing when it is for their own good and the good of others. In France you get a fine if you don’t have your mask on-simple as that.
Obviously we know people that have had covid since Jenny was exposed from a girlfriend and we also know people who have had friends and family members die so it’s out there-just in some places there is more of it than other places. I think the scariest thing is you can be standing right next to someone who has it and never know if they are asymptomatic-yet you could catch it from them. Which is why we are staying home for the most part.
Your barbecue sounded good. Greg, loves his barbecue. Whenever we travel he looks for barbecue places. I hope next summer we can travel again.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-September 2020 #118417

Hi Everyone,
DD, thanks for the heads up. I had the DVR set so I got it.
Colleen, I will continue to pray for Ron’s full recovery. Did he have lymes disease? I’m so glad to hear that he is doing better. Those darn ticks.
Sue, we were 46 degrees this morning and are supposed to get cool and rainy next week.
I am not crazy about Tyra Banks as a host either. I thought Tom was so quick witted and clever-he could make me laugh. However, I will watch as I like the dancing and the costumes. It is a good escape watching program and we do need that.
Adele, it’s funny spring is my favorite season although i like fall weather. I always think of spring as a new world coming to life and fall as the world falling to sleep for the winter hibernation.
Had to get up early yesterday morning to drive Greg for a tooth extraction. He needed a driver in case they had to give him some joy juice. lol However he didn’t need it, but his appointment was at 8:45 and we are 45 to 50 minutes away so we were up at the crack of dawn. I definitely had to nap yesterday. The tooth that was extracted had a gold crown so now because of the price of gold they automatically give you an envelope of a place to send it to for the money. I’m interested to see how much they give him-last I heard gold was $2,200 an ounce-obviously you don’t get that but i think he will be surprised at what he gets back. You can tell that was an old crown as they sure don’t do that anymore-unless you’re a rapper. lol
He also saw the cardiologist for his year check up and she said he could stop taking the blood thinner so he was very happy about that. He would go work in the yard and every little cut would bleed so now that should get better.
I can’t believe tomorrow is the Kentucky Derby. It is just so weird to have it running in September instead of May-and then of course without any spectators too. Everything this year is all catty wampus.
I wonder if there will be more covid outbreaks after Labor Day weekend. We of course have no plans. Just read this morning that Illinois is one of the seven states that Fauci says in on the cusp of another surge. I think it’s mainly because of the Chicago area in the north and the proximity to Saint Louis in the south.
It seems like college campuses are really struggling with containment too. I feel especially bad for kids that would be college freshmen this year. Going away to school is sort of a rite of passage for many and this year is so vastly difference from the normal college experience.
We have a Fleetwood Mac tribute to watch this weekend so that’s our high point. lol
We will probably barbecue and go to the farm stand and pick up the last sweet corn for the year as they usually stop selling it around labor day.
The week days blend into the week ends now except during the week Greg is usually on the phone with work in the mornings.
Have a happy, healthy and safe weekend everyone.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-August 2020 #118165

Starting new September thread. See you all there.

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-August 2020 #118150

Colleen,
Praying so very hard. Hugs to you.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-August 2020 #118085

Hi Everyone,
Well today is the last day of August. Tomorrow we will start the falls months. Even though there wasn’t much to do and places to go the summer still flew by. I think as we age time goes so much faster. Sometimes i realize it is evening and I don’t know where the day went. Remember when we were young and it seemed the summer stretched out forever. We have a bush next to the back deck that turns bright red in fall and I noticed yesterday that some of the leaves are getting a tinge of color. Greg said that some trees are already dropping leaves because it is so dry out. It’s supposed to rain today and maybe tomorrow so we will see. Hopefully it won’t stop his league golf this afternoon. Usually this time of year I would be planning our fall trip to see Brent and deciding what city we would meet in and where we would stay and what we would do. We will be putting that off and looking forward to seeing him next year. It’s hard. Normally Greg would just be getting back from his annual Canada fishing trip in late August. another thing that fell by the wayside this year. Of course Canada won’t let us in anyway and who can blame them. I wonder how much different this pandemic would be if we had a real leader in charge.
So Jenny is taking Piper to work with her now since school started. Piper needs the most help because she is the youngest and the two older kids couldn’t help her as they are attending their own virtual classrooms so this was the best solution as we can’t go over and help. I feel very guilty about that but I know Jenny doesn’t want to take the risk of us getting exposed to something from them. In fact she was exposed to a friend who got Covid and she got tested and was fortunately negative. But this is the hard thing as this lady was without symptoms-so you never know if the person standing next to you has it. I figure Piper will look back on this as a special year where she had extra bonding time with her mother.
Greg says they are having a hard time hiring people and he said it is not just them but it is a lot of other businesses too. Part of it is due to so many people being off work because of the pandemic and receiving the extra unemployment-so if they have child care issues because of schools not being over it doesn’t pay to go back to work and have to search for child care. I feel especially bad for the single working mothers during this time trying to figure out how to make it all work. It really has made life complicated.
We hadn’t had fish fry for ages so Friday we ordered out for walleye-it was such a treat and I miss dinners out. I will never take a restaurant visit for granted again. Or getting to hug my kids and grandkids.
Saturday night we streamed a live performance of On The Border an Eagles tribute band. Greg thought they were really good so with his musical background i know they were good and he really enjoyed it. I was a little tired as we had cleaned the first floor that day and it hadn’t been done in a bit so it really needed some extra cleaning,and even though he helped me I was a still tired-I just can’t do things like I used to so i was glad for the help. He’s a good man. I really look forward to these live stream events as that is the closest we get to really going out.
I remember how excited we were thinking that Piper was going to enter the Milk Day Princess contest this year and searching for some one to make a crepe paper dress. We had just found someone and the process was just getting started when the pandemic hit. I’m not sure if she will be too old if they can have it next year-maybe they will change the age limit because of the unforeseen pandemic. I am just in kind of a rambling thoughts mood this morning.
I hope everyone is well. We miss you Barbara.
Colleen, I hope you aren’t having computer trouble again as we haven’t heard from you in a while.
Stay safe-stay healthy everyone.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-August 2020 #117924

Thank you DD my brain calendar is so mixed up. lol

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-August 2020 #117903

Hi Colleen,
You will probably catch storms from the hurricane too. I hope they will not be bad.
It’s good that Grayson is a good eater. A picky eater is so difficult. I think it’s cute that they took him out for Chinese food. lol Did he get a fortune cookie?
I will keep posting the memes as I have collected a bunch of them since the pandemic started. Hopefully by this time next year we won’t need them anymore as we will have a vaccine or a cure. I always have hope.
It is fun to watch the Christmas shows. I sent a few things to the kids early on but didn’t see anything this last time around. I’m sure i will see more later on.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-August 2020 #117898

Hi Adele,
I like that you posted proof of cooking. lol Cute trees. I bought a very similar set of three with two small and one larger. Great minds think a like! lol
The man that sang that song got eliminated. I was surprised. I was sort of glad that those guys that twisted their limbs got eliminated as I didn’t like to watch them. I hope being on the show gives them some sort of boost though because they come from such a poor situation.
I thought that I heard Valerie was coming back for another fall show too.
Is this weekend Labor Day? I don’t even know anymore-there’s no schedule anymore with Greg being home all the time.
Which trees did you buy from the Q?
Greg had a tee time at 7:15 this morning about 40 minutes away so i think he was up at five? This is supposed to be fun?
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-August 2020 #117894

Hi DD,
It’s nice that you have a mobile groomer. I wish we had had one when I was taking three dogs at once. It would have been so much easier. with the three of them when we arrived at the groomers i always felt like we were a tornado entering the room and it was a small place. I think that groomer has moved farther away so if we ever get another dog I would have to find a new groomer.
As to saving posts all of our monthly discussions are still on this site. They don’t take them away after each month. It’s like our own little history.
You are lucky you are not getting smoke from the fires. Greg’s business partner lives in Idaho and he said they have smoke there in the mountains.
Those dish towels with the witch legs are cute.
Gail

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