Afternoon gals. We got home around 2 pm. I have whatever it is that Jack has now and am totally miserable. I bought some breathe right menthol strips to wear to see if they would help unstop my nose and they seem to help a bit.

We went and got Fortchy and now are putting everything away back in its place.

Wellllllll, first off, our seats were right under the fancy pants private ones so we got to use the elevator, the nicer concessions and the wonderful bathrooms. On the down side, the Cubs pitching was dreadful, humiliating and embarrassing come to mind and on top of that is wa 90 degrees yesterday afternoon and we had to walk about 1/2 mile uphill to our car. They had the road blocked at the park so I couldn't just wait for Jack. I was about dead when I got to the car. Heat, fat, and uphill do not bode well together let me tell you. On top of that, we had to put up with all the drunks doing their hatchett chopping in our faces on the way out. We left at the bottom of the 7th when it started getting out of hand.

It wasn't the greatest trip we have ever had being sick and then the horrendous ball playing of our team, but what can you do?

I will post more later. Faye

Good Morning, Flowers! It is gloomy and windy, windy, windy in my neighborhood this morning. The wind was coming mostly from the east yesterday; I finally went outside and took down my wind catcher, that we bought in Maui, because it kept hitting the post -- it has a glass ball that I didn't want to get broken. I have lots of projects I could work on today; I know I have some out-of-date items in a cupboard that have gotten shoved to the back. I need to dig and pitch.

Maggie -- Ernie likes to watch the Animal Planet, Discovery, or Travel channels when there are birds flying around. He will try to catch them as they fly across the screen. I'll bet RM wondered where in the world the toy was hiding. We buy the I bonds so get back whatever we pay for them w/o having to wait for them to mature. After 30 years they no longer earn interest, but we figure by then the kids will be through school and on their own. If used for college tuition, they don't have to pay taxes when they cash them in. Bob thinks maybe he put them in the safe deposit box at the bank.

"Gma" -- I'm glad you are all home again! I had to at you calling your seats close to the "fancy pants" section. I'm sorry the game wasn't a good one and you had to hike so far to get to your car. 90 degrees is way too hot this early! I sure don't know why people drink to get drunk; doesn't sound like fun to me.

Susan -- I hope you are having a grand time!

I need to get dressed and make a plan of action for the day. I have bell practice at 5, and will be done with that until fall after we play on Sunday.

Have a wonderful day in spite of the crazy weather!

Jean -- from Iowa!

Morning gals! I feel like I have been rode hard and put away wet as the saying goes, but I have so much laundry to get through and drag to the laundromat.

Jack will be home late as his MRI is at 4 pm. We will probably just have sandwiches for dinner tonight I imagine.

I am going to vacuum the downstairs rugs then
I am going to shampoo both living and dining carpet tomorrow. Between Marty and Fortune they need it. They are both old dogs now and don't have as much control as they used to I think. Fortune throws up more than he used to now too. It is usually just bile from getting choked, but it still stains. Maybe sooner or later I will have the money to just rip it all out and replace it.

Jean: I noticed my wind catcher has two of the gongs on the ground so we must have had wind here while we were gone. I put it out to keep away the birds, but I noticed they have again dive bombed my deck so all that has to be cleaned soon too. I told Jack I think about 25% of people that go to the ballpark don't go for the game, but to get plastered. We had 6 guys next to us, nice guys, probably between 35-45 but they had started drinking before they even sat down. I talked to the one closest to me and I could smell it on his breath and it was 2 hours before game time! He offered me boiled peanuts, which I had never had, and I tried one and they are disgusting. Boiling them makes them mushy and no taste like wallpaper paste, UGH!

I have a horrble headache from this sinus, cold, allergy whatever and today is last day I can take anything anti inflammatory wise until my procedure is over. I guess I will survive and try cold paks or something. I will be glad to have it over with even if I have to show up to the hospital at 5:30 AM!

Well, I guess I should go get a shower and continue to wash those clothes. Have a great hump day all! Faye

Good evening, ladies! It sure has been hot and dry. Thunderstorms are in the forecast for tonight for which I will be thankful if it washes all the pollen off my car.

Glory and I arrived at the retreat site around 2 pm on Sunday and drove past the mail box where the room keys were left for us twice before we noticed it. By 6 there were 6 of us and we went to VA Diner for dinner - ham biscuits (VA country ham, of course, and waldorf salad, made with VA peanuts not walnuts and a peanut sauce, not mayonnaise. Normally there are people working all the time but because it was a holiday everyone was off and we couldn't get in to set up the room until the security guard came on site at 10 pm. We had so much fun and so much good food and I got another quilt top done (avocado and orange, anyone?) and I finished an applique block I had started before I got there. Our cars were parked under pine trees and didn't move from Sunday until we left on Wednesday. There was a cloud of pollen when we opened the doors and trunk and another when we closed them. We walked from our rooms to the conference center, ate way too much, and the best thing is when I got home last night and weighed myself, I was down a pound. Now if that wasn't a fluke, I'll be down at WW weigh in tomorrow. I have to go tomorrow because I'm spending the night with my friend in Moon and going to a quilting class on Friday. Tomorrow morning is Guild meeting then lunch then off to the Moon!

My house is looking like new but now I have a lot of furniture polishing to get done and other cleaning to complete the new look. I'm really glad I decided to go all white. It is so much brighter in here and now I can decorate with any color.

More on Sunday.

Good morning gals! I have been seriously under the weather with allergies. I can only imagine what poor Susan might be going through. I am having bad headaches still and some congestion but I am going with Jack to his dr appt today to find out what the MRI said.

Jean: Yikes, 24 degrees still! We are having incredible warm weahter here and I hope it continues. I am hoping the thunderstorm we had night before last might have washed away pollen on everything. I use my small chest freezer for boxed stuff like ww meals and such and the fridge freezer for my meats. It's nice to have enough room for everything now.

Susan: Sounds like you had a great time at the retreat. Our trash can has sap all over it and is icky sticky and everything is covered in yellow. I have been sneezing my head off. I feel like my head is a huge balloon. Congrats on you loss! WTG!

Maggie: Some of your emails deliver and some spam and I imagine I don't get some at all so who knows with regard to my email service. Sounds like your herbs are going to town now. I have no room in the house to put herb pots and outside the nutty squirrel would destroy them.

You gals have a nice day and weekend. Faye

Good morning to you all! I hope your Saturday has started out well. I plan on having breakfast then tackling the downstairs rugs I have never gotten to. I feel better today, thank goodness. I still have some head congestion but I noticed I am not "plugged up" like I have been. Funny though, the minute I am standing rather than sitting my head clears completely. I just don't want to have to go to the hospital all balloon headed on Tuesday.

Jean: SB is a restrictive diet and I couldn't stay on it, but then I tend to fight against programs where all foods aren't open to me. I think it is a good healthy diet and was developed by a doctor not some nut case wanting to make a buck. Gosh, are you guys not going to move into the warm weather or what? I had to laugh at Bob's discription of the poor birdies. Since birds don't have tongues (I don't think they do anyway) they will have to peck the ice instead of lick it until it melts!

Maggie: Jack has a torn maniscus (sp) and when we went to the dr yesterday they had made the appt for the wrong one ie the doctor that filled in for the originally dr so now he has to go again next Wednesday to see if this dr will recommend surgery to OJI. We are hoping he will because Dr Ferguson yesterday said the maniscus will not heal on its own and you either live with the pain or have it surgically repaired. He did say since Jack has been through all the other routes, ie Therapy and such that it is doubtful OJI will refuse to allow him to have surgery on it. Guess it takes 2 weeks to heal.

Sounds like Jack is starting breakfast so I need to hop on board. Have a wonderful Saturday all! Faye