Evening gals. I may not get in here in the morning so I wanted to update you on dr appt. My surgery is scheduled for the 13th. She is going to put me out for the procedure because I requested it. I told her I didn't really want to hear them discuss what they were finding. I would rather wait until the lab reports come back. At least I can go to Atlanta and not be uncomfortable. She said I could have bleeding up to two weeks afterward so with the fact she only does surgery on Tuesdays and is booked up we went with the 13th.

Jean: I am so sorry it is snowing at your house. It is upper 70's here today and we even cooked out tonight which was really nice. Jack is watching Mempis basketball in the NIT tournament so I thought I would post this evening. It is supposed to get cold here on Sunday but nice again tomorrow so I will take it when we can get it.

Maggie: Kelly posted a cute picture of her with a head lamp on. They were going into a cave and she looked like a mad doctor! They will pull back into port tomorrow morning so she will give me a call and we will just take the dog back to their house and drop him off sometime tomorrow afternoon. I don't think Fortune will miss Marty as he is too jealous of the attention I give Marty. I am glad I don't have two dogs as they would drive me totally bonkers!

Jack had an hour and a half therapy today and I sat in the waiting room and read a book. They worked him pretty hard so his knee is sore. He came out and it was all bright pink but he said they had iced it down so that was why it was so pink. He says he isn't sure it is helping any, but it isn't hurting it. He did get a surprise before he left work. He got nominated and voted in as employee of the month for April. He is really tickled about it as he argues with people a lot. He said he gets irritated when the foremen want to cut corners or don't make their people do the work properly and so he speaks up so he figured he would never make employee of the month. He razzed the guys that have got it in the past so he will have to put up with razzing next month I imagine.

Well girls, I am so very tired I am going to sit in the recliner and finish my book. I still haven't felt up to knitting yet. Have a good evening and good day tomorrow.
Faye

Good morning, ladies!. Another 75 degree day in the works. Hopefully it will dry up some of the water. My backyard is still squishy to walk on.

I just got back from my WW meeting and I'm down .6 this week. Slow as a turtle but steady. Last night was the movie lock in at the quilt shop and Glory and I stopped at the Crab Shack for our usual talapia sandwich and coleslaw. This afternoon we are going to a quilt show and British high tea at one of the local churchs. I'm quit looking forward to that but it probably won't be points friendly so I'm glad my WAPs reset today.

Faye. It sounds like you should be tip top by May 1. I know you'll be glad to have all that behind you. Congratulations to Jack!

Jean, around here all the houses are on slabs. Water table is too high for basements. Sorry about the snow. My daffodils are blooming and the tulips are getting ready.

Maggie. All the kids will be in love with you for providing hot dogs.

Have a great day!

Good morning to you all! It is raining and chilly here this morning. We are supposed to have a couple cooler days than back into the 60's. It was 73 here yesterday and beautiful. We had running around to do and took Marty back home last evening.

Thomas brought me my fridge magnet from Belize. It has a little map of Belize, some sand from their beach and a thermometer. Kelly and Tom brought me some little jars of jalapeno jelly and bottles of habanero hot sauce in three flavors in this darling little Mexican bag. I love to put hot sauce on my eggs and can now do some chicken wings with sauce on them. The professional pics they did this time are just adorable. Thomas had one taken when his parents weren't with him and he is standing in a tux with a black bowtie with white dots with his hand in his left pocket. I said he looked like 007 standing there all grown up. There is this cute one of the three of them in cruise clothing on the floor together and Tom's face is sun burnt. They all got sunburned even with sunblock, but they had a wonderful time.

Susan: Congrat on the loss ! Easy peasy is the way to go. We have only been to Joes Crab Shack (a chain restaurant here in town) once. I do like a nice talapia, but have never had it in a sandwich. I dream of one day taking a trip to Ireland, Scotland and Britain and having high tea in the hotel there in London. We had a British style tea at a missionary's convention several years ago and I enjoyed it. The church member putting it on was British and did a great job.

Jean: N Iowa won last night and I was so excited for them beating #1 ranked Kansas to boot. Jack said he bet Bob watched and I said I didn't think Bob was much of a sports watcher and he said he was sure he would have watched that game. My favorite though is the little St Mary's team. They play basketball together so well that I have never seen anything like it. I actually dislike basketball, but Jack love the tournament time so I kind of get drawn into it.

Maggie: I lovvvvvvveeeeee hot dogs, especially the natural casing kind. I grew up on them and still love them. They are not weight loss friendly little things and for me, one is just not enough. I am a mustard, relish, and onion gal. Of course, living close to Chicago and going there I know the Chicago dog. Did yours have celery salt? A true Chicago dog should be mustard on the bun, the hot dog, a spear of pickle, a pepper, celery salt and two chunks of tomato.

We trek out to the commissary today. I sure hope they aren't busy. I just want to get in and out and get back home. I have so much housecleaning to do. My house is so dirty it is going to lock itself up if I don't clean it. I tried a couple times to do my cleaning and Marty was so underfoot he even tripped me once and I pulled my back and shoulder a bit so I gave up.

I should go gals and maybe get me a bite of breakfast. You gals have a wonderful Sunday today! Faye

Good morning gals. Another wet and cold day today. Jack left for work and I went back to bed for a bit and the phone rang about 5 minutes later and he said his tire was flat on his car so we changed out the cars and he took the Mariner so I will have to do errands when he gets home I guess.

Susan: I decided not to waste space since you were the only one who posted after I posted the pic so I am going to post on it instead. I buy Eckrich ff hot dogs at the commissary when I can find them, but I try to just not have them except as a treat somewhere once in awhile as I would kind of binge on them I think. I really have to try and adjust my eating and work hard on limiting sugar and stuff, which will be very hard for me, but I gave up regular soda almost a year ago now so I can do it if I work at it. I have to eat more veggies than I do and more fiber too, but I really hate dry whole wheat breads and foods like that so I tend to buy it and let it get old. Anyway, I just have to work at it, one thing a little at a time until it becomes normal for me.

Jean: We will sunny warm up days starting again tomorrow and I am well ready for it. We are keeping our fingers crossed for N Iowa and St Mary's to go to the final four. I sat and watched hours of it with Jack yesterday but I really don't even like basketball. Glad your basement is drying out again. With that happening on and off do you have trouble with mildew at all? We went to the commissary first thing yesterday because I ended up having too much to get done on Saturday. It was really nice as we went right after they opened and it was nice and quiet and we zipped right through. The only thing was the guy put us in the express lane because it was raining hard and so they hadn't brought in but 3 checkers. Well express doesn't take your groceries out to your car we found out and it made Jack mad so he wouldn't tip the person because he had to take his own groceries out and unload them. I had even driven up under the port cochere they have so the person wouldn't get wet when they put them in. I got soaked going to the car though. Anyway, we now have groceries again. Tonight is lasagna night, but ww friendly not regular.

I thought you might like to see my sweet boy and his parents all dressed up on the ship adn the other one is just a fun pose but if you look close you will see all three got sunburned at the beack in Cozymel. I ask his mom what I could get him that wasn't candy for Easter since he gets so much and she said he wants a tie rack. I guess Nonny will be buying him a tie rack for Easter!.

Guess I better either go back to bed for an hour or so (I didn't get to sleep until 1 or so because I had a bad case of heartburn which I get every once in awhile) and I am still sleepy a bit then it is cleaning, cleaning, cleaning until I get some of it caught up. Have a good start to the week all! Faye

Good evening, ladies! We had another lovely day in the 70s but it's looking like rain and cooler weather next week.

I went to early church, had a 30 minute walk this afternoon and quilted the rest of the day. Nothing exciting, but still a nice day. I've added 500 more steps to my day this week.

Faye, T is getting so tall! What a nice picture. I hope the trip to the commissary wasn't too nerve racking. There are some Oscar Mayer all beef fat free hotdogs that are only 1 point and taste good. I put them on a light wheat bun for another point and I can have 2 for 4 points if I'm really hungry.

Jean, my laundry is on the second floor. We bought of townhouse before it was built and the builder was amendable to making a change. The upstairs was to have 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms and we thought that was really overkill so we had the 2 smaller bedrooms share a bath and the third we had made into the laundry. Just a few kitchen things to carry up and down the stairs and the main laundry where the dirty clothes are. My ironing board is set up permanently in my quilting room and I have another downstairs in case I want to iron fabric or press blocks, etc. while I'm watching tv. Since we did away with the first floor laundry room, we got a bigger kitchen.

Maggie, how was the pot luck today? I'll bet you didn't have any hotdogs to take home. I wonder who you could be making those houses for...anyone we know? Guess I better get quilting faster.

Have a good evening!

Good afternoon, ladies. A rainy day in the low 60s. No walk today. I'm having a lot of breathing difficulty today. I think I mentioned before that the doctor though it might be because when it rains it stirs up mold spores into the air and I'm allergic to mold which I have been for many years. If I don't start feeling better quickly, I don't think I'll be going to bible study tonight.

Jean, I wonder what the doctor will say about Jack's shoulder. I've had 4 friends have shoulder surgery in the last few months. My shoulder hurts if I sleep on the right side and my knees and hips but as soon as I get up, everything is okay so I'm not going to tell the doctor unless it gets worse. I just need to sleep on my back.

Faye, I'd probably drop over in a dead faint if anyone offered to take my groceries to the car. How is Jack's knee doing? T really is growing up when he asks for a tie rack.

Hi, Maggie.

Have a good day, I'm off to quilt a little.

Good morning to you all! It is cool this morning but sunny and supposed to warm right up.


Susan: Jack has another therapy appt with his knee today, but he says it isn't doing much to help. It hurt him so much on Sunday he actually pulled over in the Kmart parking lot and asked me to drive home from the commissary. He said it hurt a lot yesterday, but he is a real trooper and basically ignores the pain. The bad thing is he will have to get down on it to change out the tire on the grand marquis because I sure can't do it and I need the Mariner this week sometime. Hope your breathing is better today. I can truly not imagine what it must be like not to be able to draw deep breaths when you feel you need air.

Jean: Kelly says they bought t his tux for Christmas and he bought 5 pair of cuff links while on the cruise. I ask him if he was planning on putting a hole through his wrists so he could wear them because they don't go to church. They do several fancy charity events a year though so I imagine that is where he will use them. As for the tie rack, he taught himself to tie a bow tie so I imagine that he is going to want to buy different bow ties now. I may look and find him a cool one for Easter to go with the tie rack. My grandpa took one of the upstairs bedrooms and converted it into a laundry room when grandma got up in years as her washer and dryer were in the basement. He built the house for her in 1955 or so and put in a laundry shoot in the bathroom so she didn't ever have to carry laundry down the stairs it went straight to the basement.

I called and made my pre-admission appt this morning so I go on Monday and get my chest xray, ekg, and blood tests done. They always have trouble finding my veins so that will be fun. I just want the whole darn thing to be over with. Bless her heart, Kelly offered to keep Fortune for a couple days after my procedure so he wouldn't jump on my stomach or try and lay on it when I am sitting down. I think we will wait and see how it goes to see if I need them to do that.

I did get my downstairs cleaned and when I finish here will tackle the upstairs bathrooms. I imagine I will go with Jack to his appt so I need to get a move on. You ladies have a wonderful day! Faye