[SpicyWoman]

Hope your day is wonderful, Rosebud! I checked out the picture of the organ and it is beautiful! I have no musical talent, but my parents certainly tried to give it to me. They had me have clarinet lessons for several years before they realized I was probably tone deaf!

Thanks, ladies, for posting here. I read your messages everyday, athough I don't always respond. Keeps me on the "straight and narrow."

Purple, I am going to get out an atlas and see where you live in the middle of England. I finished the Colin Dexter Insp. Morse book. Did I tell you? And then Sunday night I watched Masterpiece Theatre which was Insp. Lewis in Oxford. The buildings I can see on the program are all so old and stately. I wish I could visit in person! But I must stick to my armchair travels... better than none.

Okay, Chickies, keep walking the good path.
spicy

[Justwant2Bhealthy]

THANKS SPICEY ~ for nice birthday wishes and I did have a great day; and I think the best gift was that we went to friends to try and help them get some heat in their home and EUREKA ... they finally have some tonight; and we had a really nice dinner there with them too.

The furnace was working but no heat was going around the place; so we sumised between us (DH and I) that it was the circulating pump as I said to DH that it shouldn't be squeaking like that, so DH checked it out and we finally convinced the owner to call a plumber we know. He agreed to come right away and had it fixed in less than 30 minutes -- and yes, it was the pump. Within minutes of him fixing it, they had heat ... that was the best birthday gift really!

We are wiped out, so we are going to hit the hay now; I have been on my feet so much today -- have done enuff walking for a few days. Take care ladies ... ROSEBUD

[Justwant2Bhealthy]

HI LADIES ~ well, we had a pretty nice day today; it was snowing just a tiny bit this AM. After such a tiring day before, I slept in til 9 AM (well, that is sleeping in for me) ...

Just before lunch, the sun came out and we had a lovely, long drive thru the country on the way home (we took a detour). I told DH, "Now this is the fall that I recall, and I could just drive for miles and miles when the sun is out and the leaves are changing color, and it all looks so pretty!"

I was way behind on my mail; so I answered them this AM. Around noon, one of our woodpeckers came by looking for some food, but we needed to get some more bells so we went up town to get some to put in the fur tree for her. We also picked up some suets on sale for 1/2 price and a few other things I had wanted to pick up last week.

I got a small mini-heater that we can move here and there for those corners that remain a bit chilly in the winter time. I like to warm up our bathroom a bit before taking a shower and since our heating is a bit central, this small heater will be perfect for that. I also got a heating pad to warm up my side of the bed as sometimes it is cold when I get into it, and then it takes me ages to get to sleep; if it is warm, then I fall asleep much faster.

We can also use the little heater in the bedroom if we need to take the chill out of the air as well. Maybe later, we will get one of those heated blankets for the bed too. My mom used to use a heating pad to warm up their bed, so I hope it works well for me too.

We also picked up some decorations for the fall and All Saints Eve; we got a tall pumpkin man and a pretty nice looking lady scarecrow too. I also saw some jack-o-lanterns that have lights in them, but maybe we can get one of those later on; I want to look around and see what the other stores have too.

I am just taking it easy tonight; resting my legs for a while too. Am gonna put them up again soon and do a bit of reading tonight, and maybe write a letter as well. Hope you all are having nice weather like us and A FANTASTIC FRIDAY tomorrow too! Take good care of yourselves ... ROSEBUD

[SpicyWoman]

Hello, Chickies-
Just a quick hello before I call it a day. Tomorrow I have a postcard going out to Corbridge, Northumberland, England! Is that near you, Purple?

Good night
spicy

[purpleorc]

Hi Ladies

Just a swift drop by today so show that I have not dropped off the face of the earth. After the visit by my parents I am exhausted. I think I did too much in one day but oh boy it was fun but now I pay the price for it. Never learn do I I thought the older you got the wiser you got I think it missed me somewhere

I have managed to do plenty of exercise these past few days namely walking but today I am having a rest day from exercise to give my body time to recuperate. I made some cabbage soup yesterday which is a simple and easy recipe.

Ingredients for cabbage soup

• 1/2 head of any variety of cabbage
• garlic (I personally use one clove of this but if you like more then use more)
• chicken stock (made from either stock cubes or from a chicken carcass)
• 2 medium sized onions
• 1 tin of chopped tomatoes (400grams size)
• Then add any vegetables of your choice though not potatoes (sweet potatoes work fine though)

1. Chopped all vegetables finely add to a big pan
2. add the chicken stock
3. add the tomatoes
4. add onion chopped and garlic finely chopped
5. add chicken stock
6. now cook all the ingredients together until very soft
7. When the soup is cooked blitz down so that is is nice a smooth in texture.
8. Add any seasoning required. (If I have used stock cubes for the chicken stock I do not tend to need any more salt )

This makes a nice hearty soup for winter and plus it gets those vegetables inside us. First time I have made it for my parents and I had no empty bowls so that is a good sign. I made a batch that would make about 6 portions though obviously if would like to make more I double the recipe.

ROSEBUD Glad you had a lovely birthday and finally sorted the issue out with friends regarding the heating. With winter fast approaching that is important that you are nice and warm. I see that you are getting light coverings of snow so just in time then that heating I would say.

I see you are looking after our feathered friends well which is good as it will be so hard for them to get food with your climate. A neighbour of ours puts out a coconut cut in half and drills a hole through the shell. Then suspends it from the fence. It is fun seeing the birds feed from there especially those who are way to big and just don't have the agility of the other birds. They look so ungainly when they are so big not to mention all the energy they expend trying to get this coconut.

SPICY Many cities have old grand looking buildings. Oxford especially has many of these buildings. Nottingham my own city has a mixture of old and new. One of the buildings which is the council house which was build 1920's era so not so old compared so many others is often the meeting place for people. They would say "meet by the lions" why lions well either side of this building are two big stone lions so that is where that term came from. I have found a page on an online encyclopaedia all about my city but most of all it shows some of our lovely old buildings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottingham

I see you are sending a postcard to friends in Northumberland. Has the name suggests it is in the North of England. I worked it out it would take 3 1/2 hours to roughly get to where they live as it is some 174 miles away. So not quite on my door step.

Time for me to rest and put my feet up and behave myself today Hope you have a grand day this Friday. It is the weekend tomorrow for all our working friends. bye bye ladies

[Justwant2Bhealthy]

HI LADIES ~ We had another lovely day filled with so we just had to take advantage of that and go for a drive in the country again. We picked up a few nice fall and All Saints decos for our lawn
and porch -- pumpkins, and fall leaves, a cute lady scarecrow, and window decos to pretty things up for Thanksgiving month (as we like to call it).

However, one sad note for our neigbours; when we came back to have lunch, the girl from across the street came to tell us that someone had stolen the motor off their boat (she was very upset becuz she had borrowed it from her Dad). This is the second time this has happened on our street (and block) this past month. So DH has put our stuff away and locked it up
better -- seems to be a thief in our neighbourhood, and a sneaky one becuz the night it disappeared was the only night the three closest neighbours were all away at the same time.

HEY PURPLE ~ glad you had so much fun having your parents over for a while; now you can rest up for a few days. When I am feeling well or with good company, I tend to overdo it too and have to rest for a couple days afterwards. I took a look at that site for your city, NOTTINGHAM. I didn't realize you lived in the city of NOTTINGHAM, I thought you meant the county, but I learned a lot about the area today.

You do indeed have some awesome architecture over there; love those stately buildings indeed. I have always thought the buildings there (in European countries) are so beautiful ... Quebec buildings remind me of that too and we do have some nice ones in Ottawa (our Capital) too; as well as a few other larger cities in our country.

Thanks for the recipe to your cabbage soup; I will definintely try that one as I just love soup. I love to make a veggie soup base that I add other things to and I'll share the basic recipe with you, but I bet you already make something like it yourself.

VEGGIE SOUP BASE

2 cups chopped onions
1 cup carrots, chopped or sliced
1 cup celery, chopped or sliced
a bunch of celery leaves (or a celery heart/centers)
garlic (1-2 cloves or 1 tsp garlic powder)
1 tsp each salt & black pepper & thyme
2 tbl parsley (chopped or flaked)
1-2 bay leaves
1 cup green and/or yellow beans
2 cups mixed veggies (ie broccoli, corn, zucchini, cabbage, peas)
1 cup chopped tomatoes
6-8 cups broth of choice

Put all in large pot and bring to boil; simmer, covered, until all veggies are soft (2-3 hours). You can mash some of them or whiz 1/2 if you desire. I often add other things like maybe a bit of barley (1/3 cup) or brown rice or white navy beans (cooked) or pea lentils; whatever I like really. I freeze the leftovers in 1-2 cups containers, and add other stuff when I make it for our lunch or dinner.

Sometimes I add this to 1 tin of soup if we want something different (ie mushroom + water or any kind we have on hand). If I have any leftover meat or veggies from a meal, I will add that to a container of the soup base to make it different too.

SPICEY ~ hope you have a nice weekend too ...

Hope you all are having a lovely fall and enjoying this pretty time of year, like we are. Take good care of yourselves ladies ... ROSEBUD

[purpleorc]

Hi Ladies

Was really busy fitting in chores that maybe I would have done in the week but with my parents here they got put off a little. So after yesterday I think I am about squared up just got my last load of washing drying on the line outside. It seems a nice sunny day on the horizon so fingers crossed it stays like that for a for hours more. Washed all the dogs bedding yesterday from the car and house. Plus then washed Rizzie not in the washing machine I hasten to say So this morning he feels ultra soft and fluffy not to mention a lot sweeter smelling.

Kitchen fiasco still goes on I am afraid and the inspector of course did not pass it. So now the work is going to be done under a managers supervision on Thursday. All that got sorted on Friday was the leak. So I still have doors that do not shut, taps that aren't straight, wobbly worktop and worktop missing. Not to allow the workmen in without a manager because the inspector told me that's the way to do it. The manager will be dressed differently in a shirt rather than the works uniform for the council. So watch this space. They have one more chance to rectify this then I have to start rattling a few cages


ROSEBUD I live in a outskirts of Nottingham not in the city centre itself. Nottingham city centre is about 3 miles from me. So a fit person could walk it easily unfortunately we go in by car though there is a good bus service which runs very regularly about 8 to 10 minutes. So 6 buses in a hour I think is excellent though Sunday service it is two buses an hour. We have two places situated in the two shopping centres we have in our town (malls I think they are know overseas) that will allow you use of a wheelchair, manual or electric for a small deposit. It will not be long I think before I will use this service when I want to do a big shopping trip so that I can get about more. Though whilst I can still do it I will so I will not go without a fight

In Nottingham we have something called the galleries of justice my favourite museum in Nottingham. I think it is as the tour is excellent and it is the fasts two hours of your life as you are taken round what was the old crown court and prison of Nottingham. http://www.galleriesofjustice.org.uk/ With the tour guides staying in character (they where brilliant made you think what it must have been like) your entry ticket has a number on and a little later in the tour it pertains to a board and it shows you want "crime" you committed. Wow some of the crimes where so so small and the punishments so harsh. You had prison for stealing a loaf of bread so you must have been so hungry to even attempt to try to steal it.

Thanks for the recipe for another type of vegetable soup that is always nice to have soup recipes as they are filling and not many calories.

Sorry to hear that your neighbourhood has a thief in it. It is a horrid though that someone is being light fingered around you. We had a spate of that around here but when a family got evict across the road from me it all stopped. Our neighbourhood is much nicer since they went away from here. We had a break in to our shed and our house. This is when my charm bracelet was stolen this was so much sentimental value to me as many charms had been bought by my Nanna who is no longer with us. I have started another charm bracelet but it is not the same.

Right must go and get dressed still sitting in my nightwear here Take care ladies till next time

purpleorc

[Justwant2Bhealthy]

HI LADIES ~ we had a nice day today; lots of for most of the day ... it clouded over in the evening a bit though. Just spent the day at home taking it easy and did some hunting on the net for new healthy recipes for variety. Looking for some on low-sugar and lower cholesterol too; might as well do them both at the same time ...

HI PURPLE ~ Oh ... now I see why I thought you were not in the city proper; you are on the outskirts. We have lots of metropolitan cities like that here. Toronto (our provincial capital) is like that; it stretches out for miles and runs into other burroughs and cites too. That tour of your justice building sounds interesting and fun too.

Yah, will be praying that those who nab things will find a job real soon; they don't realize the trouble and upset that they cause their victims. All the neighbours in our area are taking some measures that we hope will make a difference ... and I will pray for Guardian Angels too!!!

HIYA VAL ~ hope everything is going well up there in Thompson these days! When are you planning on going back to school? Next fall?

HEY SPICY ~ hope you had a good weekend ...

Take good care ladies and have a MARVELLOUS MONDAY tomorrow ... ROSEBUD

[SpicyWoman]

Hello, Chickies-
Thanks for the shares-- I enjoy reading about your daily lives and how you stay on the plan. Motivates me.

I've been somewhat out of sorts lately. Happens from time to time. This is just one of those times, I suppose. Achy, mostly unable to do much of anything except rest. So that's what I'm doing. I do manage to go outdoors on my scooter and walk my dog. She's a god-send because I don't think I'd make the effort to even go out if she didn't need to go. I do have a fenced yard for her, but she loves to go with me walking. She is trained to walk along close to my scooter unless I let up on the leash. When I do that, she knows I am going to stay put and she can walk and do her chores. LOL She is somewhat lazy. When she has had enough, she climbs onto the floor of the scooter and rides with me.

Tomorrow, however, is a new day and I might just be feeling 100%. God never gives me more than I can handle.

Purple- I watched Masterpiece Mystery Sunday night and got my fix of Insp. Lewis! I am amazed at the scenery. I checked out the web pages you sent. Do you think Oxford is handicapp accessible? The show had a girl in a wheelchair, but everywhere I looked, I saw steps and stairs.

Rosie- Be careful with burglers in your neighborhood. We went through a spell of that a while back, but it seems to have stopped. About the same time as the family down the street moved away! I think their kids enjoyed "borrowing" things.

Good night, all
spicy

[Justwant2Bhealthy]

HI LADIES ~ we woke up to cloudy skies today, but the sun did try to come out here and there and that was nice. It was a bit warmer here too; well, in the 50's F but that is warm compared to the lower temps we have been having here lately; and it actually felt mild ...

We had a busy day; went up town to find a few things we needed and got lots of exercise in today -- my feet are a bit sore for it though, but I will rest tomorrow. I spent some time making pumpkin decos today; and I bought myself a huge pumpkin jack-0-lantern today for the front window. I told DH that I want to make the place look festively fallish; as the weather has been so odd.

Everything we picked up has a positive look to it; all with happy smiles and a fun aura about them, like I remember from our childhood days. I don't like all those goulish things some people put out today ... yuck. Recently, I read somewhere that November 1 st was All Saints Day and October 31st was originally Hallowed Saints Eve in preparation for that (like at Christmas); and was shortened down to Hallowed Eve, then Halloween later on.

My DH says that his church taught him that same thing. I wondered how the heck we went from celebrating Christian Saints to the strange things we see today. When we were kids, we always dressed up as fun things and it was a real fun day for the kids; almost like a celebration of childhood really. Too bad some folks had to ruin that for children (and some of us adults who are still young at heart). OK ... time to get off my soap box ...

This afternoon, we brought in the rest of our Christmas stuff as some were in danger of getting wet. I am going to go thru all the boxes and downsize, keeping only the stuff we really use each year; the rest will be donated to Goodwill. I wanted to start at this before all the snow piles up outdoors.

HI SPICY ~ sorry to hear that you've been under the weather (so2speak); but glad that you got out for a while with your furry friend on your scooter. I love the fall here (even if it is cooler this year) as there are no buggies and not too hot or wet right now; this is how fall is supposed to be, and we only have 13 or so days of this before the white stuff flies our way again.

We have noticed that in the fall, our bodies need to gradually get used to the cold -- that causes achey muscles for DH and I too. Once the dry cold comes, it doesn't feel so bad; and we have been putting on the heat and that helps a bit. I ordered a special heater for our bathroom today; it will be here in about a week. We don't have a window in our bathroom so it can be a bit cold and damp in there at times. This small heater can stay in there all the time and we can put it on to warm and dry it up before and after showers.

Anyways, ate well today (credit moi); got lots of walking in (kudos for that); and got lots of stuff to do this week to keep us busy. I just took a shower and came in to say HI before relaxing for the rest of the evening -- boy, I can sure ramble on sometimes! Take good care ladies, and I hope you have A TERRIFIC TUESDAY TOMORROW ... ROSEBUD

[purpleorc]

Hello fellow chicks

Was a little drained yesterday after I think I over did it at the weekend but back to my normal self today. Did I say normal well as normal as I am every going to be with my warped sense of humour .

Today is a miserable day with outbursts of rain . Lights needed in the house as it is that dark when normally at this time I would be using daylight to see indoors.

Well plans have changed this morning after the customer cancelled our pick up of a spiral staircase from Kent (south of where I live and many miles away I hastened to add so a long day ahead of me.) So now rescheduled for Friday so I have had to change my plans around for doing things. They say the customer is always right

I have returned from treatment at the centre today which went quickly as I was chatting an awful lot to different people. Though it did me the power of good I am sure as I feel good now but tired as normal after the oxygen.

I am making for tea chips (french fries I think you may know them as) but not so bad the version I make. I spray a baking tray with spray oil then line the chips up on the tray. Give them a little spray with oil season them with black pepper and a smidge of sea salt. I would use butternut squash instead of potatoes or sweet potatoes but my cupboard resembles old mother Hubbard's cupboard at the minute need to go shopping tomorrow They are nice alternatives to potatoes for making chips. You then bake them in the oven I use the idea from this site http://greenlitebites.com/2007/11/27...-potato-fries/ Although I miss out on the curry power for me as I have to be a little cautious with my tummy ulcer. I am serving these with a shop bought low fat cheese and potato burger. For my vegetables I am using broccoli. I have a jelly (jello) in the fridge with my name on a raspberry flavour with raspberries and bananas in. For DH I am putting some yoghurt on top he will think he has a dessert then rather than one of his daily portions of fruit you know I have to be inventive to get fruit into him. Anyone think it poisonous fruit in our house by the ways he avoids eating it like the plague

SPICY Dogs are a godsend to us I must admit. They give you a reason to go out when otherwise you wouldn't go. You make the effort as it for them. You made me smile when you said how your dog hops on the platform to hitch a ride. I have seen that happen around here where I live.

Where I live there are a very high percentage of elderly or disabled just the sort of people who use scooters to get about over longer distances. I think it looks so cute when they are riding on board as proud as punch with their owners.

Sorry to hear that you have been feeling out of sorts the last few days. Like you say god does not give you more than you can deal with. It is harder to do things some days more than others I find. I am grateful for the good days and take the bad days as my rest days so to speak.

I have been to Oxford a long while back when I was more able bodied so to speak. I did not unfortunately pay much attention to accessibility to places when I was there as I didn't have a need to. I have done a little research and I have found this page www.oxford.gov.uk/community/accessibility.cfm I don't know if this is of any use to you about getting out and about in Oxford.

I know that many places have steps although there is normally a ramped access to the building somewhere. Not all places have disabled toilets in though I hasten to add. We have something called the tourist information centre in most major places. They offer a whole host of information if you are thinking of visiting you could write maybe an email asking about access to things around there. http://www.visitoxford.org/thedms.as...1&campaign=731

Funnily enough I was in a tourist information board when I was on holiday as I wanted to know where I could park with my disabled blue badge. We have a system if you are disabled then you can apply for one of these which allows free parking (this web site tells you much better what one is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disabled_parking_permit) This is because in this town I had visited they had what was called "disc parking only" What an earth that was I hadn't a clue. So I dropped into the tourist board and they explained as I could park any where with my blue badge and not to worry. The disc parking meant you had to get a "disc" from the tourist information board for free and put on the disc as it was a time dial what time you had left the car. You then had two hours from the time you left your car then you must move your car. You can move it before just you can be liable to a parking ticket if you go over your allotted time.

In the town we parked there are traffic wardens they keep a check on cars to see that they are not going over their allotted time. The town was busy so it gave a fair way of giving others a chance to see the town. It was a small town and for us two hours was more than enough but we had three hours as a disabled badge gives you three hours unless otherwise stated.

ROSEBUD I am sure your home will look nice with the decorations plus pumpkin lanterns. Until reason years lanterns were not made here from them. Even now many homes including mind do not have them. I suppose I am from a generation that did not have any growing up as no one did. You tend to follow the trends and traditions that you grew up with so I suppose that is why I don't do it now.

I was watching a news article on television last week and there was an article written in the parish magazine. When I say parish magazine it is not a religious magazine it is the name often given to news letters about the village. It may tell of upcoming events and people can submit articles on local matters. This was of the "trick or treat" where some youngsters had vandalise property of those who hadn't given a treat to those trick or treating. It was saying that "trick and treating" should be stopped.

Trick or treating has only come in to our country in recent years and I as a child never did it nor did any of my friends. Unfortunately some local terrors spoil it for the millions of children who do it innocently law abiding not to mention supervised by an adult. I do understand how the older generation are fearful of things being done to their homes or cars etc. But parents need to know what their children are doing and supervise such activities.

I am just in the middle of watch a programme on "Sunday schools" and there importance in society. Although now there is only a tiny fraction of them running now as religion is on the decline in the UK. I did not go to Sunday School but my parents did. For many children it was the place to be on a Sunday not only did you get good stories from the bible, you could sing, play football or other games. The really big draw for many was the special activities such as going to the seaside. Although to go to the seaside or walk in the Sunday school parade you must attend on a very regular basis. Families were poor so they never went to the sea or countryside for example. So these were only time in many peoples life they would go to the sea so the memories where special and lasted a life time.

The strange reason they were established in the first place as children were being little hooligans on the Sunday as it was there only free day. In the rest of the week they went to work as child labour was common place amongst the working classes. So Sunday was the only day they could be "children" but they ran wild and amok at times. So a Sunday school got them off the streets still doing fun things. They even leant them to read and write in the infancy of the "Sunday school" although as schooling became compulsory for all this role of making children literate ceased. I am enjoying it listening to people memories as some of the people interviewed must be in their 80's if not 90's.

well I better start making tracks into the kitchen now I have been rambling on forever else we will never eat today a hot meal. Nice to have dropped by and caught up with you ladies. Take care till next time bye bye

purpleorc

[Justwant2Bhealthy]

HI LADIES ~ we had a mixed bag of weather today but it was nice, some and some and a tiny bit of or something like it for only a few minutes. We had to go up town again for some things we forgot: DH's mustard ... oh dear, we can't go without that becuz he puts it on EVERYTHING: sandwiches, hamburgers, and hotdogs, etc. So I also picked up a few other things and took advantage of the opportunity to get in some more walking.

In the afternoon, the was out more, so I was able to plant some more flower bulbs: put in three rows of varying sizes and kinds of crocuses and other wildcover flowers plus some more tulips and daffodils, and some other ones I can't remember all the names of. It should look pretty come next spring. I filled up one garden section; that leaves one more for veggies next year; and the last section will have taller perennial bushes and plants, which I have seeded, so we'll see if they come up or not. I still have some bulbs left, so I may plant some along the front of the house too.

PURPLE ~ glad you were able to get in your therapy today and still visit with us too. I think that's nice that you can meet and discuss MS with others who know what you are going thru and you can be such a help to them too. Hope your trip on Friday turns out well for you. Sounds like you are diversifying by delivering stairs now too.

So funny you making sweet potato fries, and I picked some up today as well for a dinner this week. I wanted to try them to see if I might like them; I probably will. Plan to have them with fish on Thursday. That cheese and potato burger sounds interesting too. I found some more chicken burgers at another store this week; they have 20 more calories in them but at 190 each that is still better than the beef ones that have 300 or more.

An ambulance just went by flashing its lights and going at a good speed so sent up a prayer for the patient and his/her family, and for the doctors to give them wisdom how to help them. They have been using our road a lot since some work is being done on some of the other roads, so I have been seeing them more lately.

This evening, I have just been taking it easy; seems walking and gardening wipe me out. DH was watching movies and I was searching for more recipes and found a couple worth trying. I like that Greenbites.com site too. Well, had my snack and tea, so will go put my sore legs up again for a bit to read and relax before going to bed.

Hope you ladies have a WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY tomorrow; and take good care of yourselves ... and that's an order ... ... ROSEBUD

[purpleorc]

Hi chicks

Been a warm day for the time of the year though no sun to speak of. Did the grocery shopping today at the supermarket. Make a combination of fresh and tinned fruit salad on my return which we had for tea very nice.

Once a week we buy french stick the smallest they do. once upon a time we would have ate the lot but now we leave some (feed it too our feathered friends) it is our treat to ourselves. Just opened a jar of pickled onions my mum did for tea to go with the bread. I must admit the pickled onions have been very moreish but I only have one. I know there wouldn't be a huge amount of calories it is not that it is to eke it out as far as possible as it is only a small jar .

Tomorrow we have the council men coming in the afternoon to sort out the kitchen. Finger third time lucky that we get things sorted out. Part of me is looking forward to it so that I have more of a usable kitchen but the other part is dreading it in case we still have big issues with it. It is the disappointment and stress that goes with it. Oh well let the battle commence I suppose I have made our sandwiches for tomorrow and for the trip on Friday today. This is with my kitchen going to be out of order for the best part of the afternoon. I thought it was wise to preprepared ahead of time. I didn't fancy cooking tea tomorrow night and then cracking on packing sandwiches up. As the day gets on I get tired so better doing things earlier. So glad I got that out of the way but oh boy could I do with an American style fridge right at the minute my fridge is a fridge/freezer model. So the fridge part is small in comparison with an American style fridge. I have my flax seed in there, box of fresh fruit salad, yoghurts, cheese, margarine, pan of soup to name a few items , Not to mention all my vegetables and fruit in there.

Today I had a trigeminal neuralgia attack this afternoon which reacted well to medication discovered at tea time I hadn't taken my dinner time medication so mystery solved to why I had an attack. There me at the time thinking the chiller section at the supermarket had been the trigger factor instead it is my own absent mindedness

ROSEBUD We bought some more vegetarian burgers today at the supermarket. These are cheese/onion/potato in a light bread crumb they are low fat and pan out at 177 calories per burger. Tomorrow another veggie day we are have spicy bean burger well DH is and I am just having a plain veggie one. The spicy ones are a little to spicy for me with my ulcer I like them but not wise for me to have them.

BIL has not diversified into spiral staircase he had won these apparently whether in a competition or a online auction not sure yet but hopefully will find out on Monday as we are having lunch with him on this day. It is simply ages since we had lunch together so will be nice to catch up. Don't even know where the staircase is going to when it gets installed

Yes I love the green bites site as she has been where we are going so many recipes to choose from. So a good range to try. Good thing is they don't look like "diet" foods as I put it. Good hearty food , even some desserts to dabble in as well. I want to make the recipe very soon the one called french toast. So a version of what I call eggy bread here in the UK. Though eggy bread is made use using a whisked egg and dipping your bread in a frying it in a frying pan (skillet I think you may know it as). Though this recipe has milk with the egg, cinnamon, and nutmeg

You spoke of the prayer you gave the ambulance passing your home. I live about 1 mile away if not less from our home so we frequently see them sometimes they venture pass our home. Though it is nothing unusual to see one when we go to the shops locally.

Also we see hundreds of learner drivers on our street as it is one of the test routes used by the test centre for the practical side of driving and getting your licence. You also must do a written part to your test so a two part thing. We get learner drivers with there instructors learning manoeuvres the examiner might want or we get the learner driver with the examiner. Either way some days it seems learner drivers and the cars they are in are like ants as there are so many of them. Oh for the day this route is not used as a test route but it is not happening anytime soon I don't think. I think for our test centre for Nottingham there are at least 7 routes the examiner may take you on for your test.

Time for me to make some drinking chocolate and think about going to bed so good night ladies and catch you soon

purpleorc

[Justwant2Bhealthy]

HI LADIES ~ just a quiet day at home today; weather was very dull ... gray and cloudy all day ... yuck. I practiced playing my organ for over an hour this AM as I missed yesterday from being so busy. My childhood teacher said to practice for 15 minutes a day or double that if you want to learn faster. I managed to figure out some nice instruments with some of my favorite songs today as well.

PURPLE ~ good idea to make up some food ahead of time; don't blame you there. I made whole wheat pasta and a veggie sauce with about 4 oz of sausage cut up into small pieces; very tastey indeed and DH loved it. It made 5 servings; 2 for another day as well or for some lunches; and one for NIKO. I like the whole wheat pasta: I find it is very filling, and DH commented the same.

Very likely your BIL is going to have those spiral stairs installed in a home somewhere. Yes, I could see that he may have bought them somewhere like ebay or another similar site or company. I like baby dills and picked up some sauerkraut this week to have with my franks. I like pickles too but have to watch the sweet ones, but the dills and other sour ones are very low calories and have little sugar if any.

Glad you figured out what triggered your face pain today. Sometimes, I have to take a tylenol or something when my legs are bothering me, but putting them up seems to help the most. I notice the cold bothers them now too. Am having my tea now and so I will go and put my legs up soon.

We moved the Christmas boxes into the spare room and I am working on getting rid of some more stuff; eventually, we'll get it all done. We have a lot more room in there and our shed and porch now, which is the way I want it to stay.

Take good care ladies and hope you have a great day tomorrow ... ROSEBUD

[Justwant2Bhealthy]

HI LADIES ~ woke up to a bunch of *****today; quite a bit, but then the came out and melted a lot of it but I see tonight that there is still some left. With the sun shining, it kinda looked pretty on the trees ...

A bunch of our winter birds showed up today looking for food: chickadees, junkos, and sparrows (we get Song sparrows, House sparrows, American sparrows, Field sparrows, but some larger ones came today that looked like Chipping sparrows: a bit bigger but very pretty).

Went shopping to pick up some meat for the freezer today; and got some good deals! Then did some laundry in the afternoon. So I got some walking in but my eating was so-so; munched out on some popcorn this afternoon, but not really big damage done I don't think; as the rest of the day was very good.

Anyways, time to put my feet up and rest a bit with a nice cuppa tea; take good care of yourselves ... ROSEBUD