SHAD~ I HOPE TOO THAT YOU DON'T NEED THE BIG MAN AND THAT THE WORK GOES SMOOTHLY. THANK GOD TFG ISN'T THERE! IMAGINE HIM ADDING HIS 2 CENTS TO THE PILE....THAT IS IF HE HAS ANY "SENSE"!!

HAPPY~ I AM SORRY THE DENTAL VISIT WAS SUCH A BUST. HOPE THE TEETH AND GUMS ARE FEELING BETTER TODAY AND NOT ACHING. VERY LIGHTLY SALTED WATER WILL HEAL THE GUMS IF SHE MISSED AND HIT THEM.

CEEJAY~ YOU REALLY ARE GOING STRONG!! HOPE YOUR WEEKEND IS JUST AS STRONG! GO CJ GO!

HOLLY~ THE BUSY BEE IS STILL RUNNING HEADLONG TO THE WEEK'S FINISH LIKE!

CARLA

We come we talk, we don’t talk, sometimes we just throw in the occasional dumb comment, or a joke and there ya go. We are the Worldly Chicks, hear us type!! ~ WELL SAID MRS MADCAT!! I EAT, SLEEP, S H I T AND TYOE...NOT NECESSARILY ALL IN THAT ORDER

RUTH~ GOING TO LOOK AT YOUR SITES LATER.

MY ONE EYE IS SO RAW ON ONE PART I STAYED HOME. GOING TO DO THE DROPS AND HOT COMPRESSES. THE REST IS HEALING SLOWLY BUT SURELY. JUST THIS ONE LOWER LID PART IS GIVING ME TROUBLE. JEN IS GOING TO THE STORE INSTEAD. I AM FOLLOWING THE ADVICE ABOUT FOODS THAT CAUSE ADRENALINE TO RISE ADDED TO THE ROSACEA LIST. THINK I MIGHT BE ON TO SOMETHING HERE. GOING TO REST UP FOR THE WEEKEND AND DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FOR 3 DAYS STARTING NOW. LOL LOTS OF TRAVEL SHOWS!
HAPPY FRIDAY AND HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND. I JUST MIGHT NOT BE BACK TILL MONDAY. I'LL SEE HOW IT GOES.

http://www.rideau-info.com/canal/ima...tmas-glow.html

RUTH~ THE MILL LINK DIDN'T WORK BUT I FOUND THIS GORGEOUS PIC AT CHRISTMAS TIME!! WHAT A LOVELY PICTURE!! I JUST MADE IT MY DESKTOP TO CHEER ME UP!

OK REALLY GOTTA GO THIS TIME!

Morning all,
Sort of bright Saturday here. It is supposed to be the best day of the weekend weatherwise. Just hope it stays sort of like this for the rest of the day. I've come into work to clear up some bits and pieces I didn't manage to get done yesterday and will go down and pick up the car and the friend in a couple of hours.

Happy - so sorry you are so far overdue with projects and things. It's a bit pain to have to work so hard for so little understanding. Sleep well and know that I am thinking of you while you are slaving away. Wasn't technology supposed to relieve us of some of the burdens of work? Would someone remind me again of how that works?

Mel - I had a quiet word with my new 'friend'. I'd had a chat with the Change Manager earlier in the day and found out a couple of bits and pieces of information I had not been privy to earlier. So I played on the fact that she has two projects on the go and both interact with each other and that she has a conflict of interest and that we needed to come up with a solution that will be of benefit to both projects and result in a harmonious union of the two of them. Jeez I can be diplomatic at times!
We have thrashed out a solution - now we have to make it work. And no, I need the tfg like I need another hole in the head.

Holly - I'm so happy that things have settled down for you at home. Somehow it doesn't seem to matter if things at work go awry or completely off the track if you can come home to peace, harmony and quiet. I don't know if you will ever get more than 30% out of him on the housework side because men just don't seem to see the dust bunnies under the couch or the pile of dishes that should be in the dishwasher. After all the bench is a very convenient place to put things down, that's why it is made so wide!!!!

Okay, time to get on with things. I'm off. Probably be in here again tomorrow so I'll no doubt see you then.

HELLO SHADDIE~ I AM GLAD THINGS ARE WORKING OUT. YES YOU ARE BEING QUITE THE DIPLOMAT AND I AM VERY PROUD OF YOU!! HOPEFULLY THINGS WILL ALL GO WELL AND YOUR WEEKEND WITH YOUR FRIEND WILL BE RELAXING AND LOTS OF FUN AND GOOD LAUGHS.

I HAVE MET A WOMAN, STAY AT HOME MOM, ON A XMAS THREAD I HAD STARTED TO ADVOCATE THE USE OF USING 3FC'S ACCESS TO AMAZON.COM SO THE 3FC WOULD GET CREDIT FOR THE SALES. HER HANDLE IS SHY MOMENT AND HER NAME IS RENNIE. NOT SURE IF SHE WILL COME BUT I HAVE GIVEN HER AN INVITE.

OK CHICKIES IT IS BEDTIME BUT I HAVE TO SAY THE EYES ARE BETTER ONLY AT NIGHT! WTF!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT MYSELF! RIGHT NOW WITH THE SKIN DRYING OUT I LOOK LIKE I HAVE THE MEASLES!! I TOLD JEN TODAY I AM NOT GOING OUT UNTIL IT CLEARS UP SOME MORE!!!!
YOU'RE SO VAIN.....LA LA LA

Hello everyone

Thought I would stop in and thank Melody for the invite. Thanks Melody. I have great kids, sometimes you know you have done something right. Usually when you least expect it.

GOOD MORNING WORLDLY CHICKS
HOPE EVERYONE IS GOING TO HAVE A NICE WEEKEND. MINE LOOKS DARK AND SOGGY.....A FOGGY DAY IN A NJ TOWN WELL JUST AS GOOD...THE SENIORS WILL ALL FALL ASLEEP AND MEL CAN HAVE A QUIET DAY
I AM TRYING SOMETHING NEW. USING THE COMPRESSES BEFORE I DO ANYTHING. CHANGING THE SCHEDULE THE DR GAVE ME JUST A WEE BIT. I CAN FEEL THE FALL COMING UPON US MORE AND MORE. MY BEDROOM IS SOOO DARK NOW IN THE MORNING. MAKES IT HARD TO GET OUT OF BED BET MY SISTER MISS HAPPY IS HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM.
HAPPY SATURDAY

RENNIE~ GOOD TO SEE YOU HERE. DON'T FORGET TO TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT YOURSELF UNLESS IT MAKES YOU UNCOMFORTABLE. SOMETIMES WE ARE A CHATTY BUNCH AND SOMETIMES THERE ARE LULLS. WE ARE FROM THE USA, CANADA, AUSTRALIA AND THERE ARE THOSE THAT POP IN FROM TIME TO TIME FROM ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. THIS YEAR WE HAVE BEEN PICKING PLACES TO TRAVEL THAT BEGIN WITH THE FIRST LETTER OF EACH MONTH. SO WE'RE CELEBRATING SEPTEMBER IN SPAIN. WE ARE ALSO CHALLENGING OURSELVES THIS MONTH TO MAKING SOME GOALS AND STICKING TO THEM. GUESS THIS IS ENOUGH INFO TO GET YOU STARTED!

Mornin'

Having my 2nd java.I am very happy to be home. happy sigh. I have appts booked to sign 4 new reps to my Avon team from the fair last night. Ran into some dear friends while there. Nice.

Today is about cleaning the house and organizing stuff and then shuffling kids to sleepovers and then going a bday party with more dear friends.
I am loving the cool, sunny fall days!!!

Might squeeze in some gardening.

Must says Mel's new boyfriend is a keeper!! Yummy.

Thanks Shad, my expectations were never really that high, common human kindness works. Good to see you are keeping everyone down under in line.

Not really a lot to tell about myself.

I am a Christian. Right now I don't work outside of the home. Would love to go back to work but with gas prices who can afford to make under 12 dollars an hour if they have to drive an hour to get to work. Something close to home would be great even if it doesn't pay much.

I have two children boy almost 21, has adhd, asberger and tourets. He is 21 going on 17, sometimes going on 13. They tell me he will hopefully catch up to his age in his late 20's. They didn't tell me the meds they were giveing me to stop labor ( he was two months early ) could cause all those problems. They no longer give woman those meds because of all the children who have problems, just like my sons, from the meds. I also have a girl almost 17, going on 40 lol. Have to say when I think I have done nothing good with my life, I look at them and know I have done something wonderfully.

I have just started on this journey to lose weight after years of being sick and meds packing the lbs on me. Was very happy the day the doc said everything ( for the time being ) was out of my system and I could TRY to lose weight. Seems everytime they give me a med for my lungs the lbs come along with it. I have done better than TRY, I am doing. Coming off very slowly but it is coming off. I am only averaging about a lb a week but that is 16lbs less to lose today than I had to lose a few weeks ago.

I was always naturally thin, never really thought much about it. Doesn't matter if I ate myself to this weight or medications put me at this weight. I can now get this weight off and keep it off. From what I have been told, and the posts I have read here on the site, diets don't work. People go back to the same eating habits they had before they started. I am not on a diet. I am changing the way I think about, look at and eat food.

I eat with the family when they are having my favorites, use a lunch plate instead of a dinner plate. When they aren't having my favorites I eat lean cuisines and lean pockets. Just dropping a lot of the fat out of my diet is helping. Portion sizes are my big problem. As I have gotten older I can't eat like I use to. The lean cuisines are really helping me get a good idea of what a real portion size is. As time goes by, I am eating less and less of the lean cuisines and more and more what the family is eating.

I saw someone talking about shopping. You know, trying to get a pair of shoes when the kids are doing their back to school shopping is terrible. All that pushing and shoving. If those darn kids would stay out of my way when I am trying to find a pair of shoes ( wear a size 2 in kids tennis shoes ) I wouldn't have pushed so much.

UPDATE
I am never again going to do my weigh in within the first couple of days when my dot is suppose to start. I know I weigh my most during those few days. Had my weigh in on tuesday. I hadn't lost anything, oh maybe 1/2lb but I don't count those. I stick with solid lb lose. Had to take my daughter to the doc today, we both have broncitus. Thought what the heck and she and I did another weigh in. I am down 2lbs

Quick pop in and Rennie.

Back from the touristy thing at the Church and out of that darn 1811 outfit! Those pioneers must have had tough skin! We had lots of visitors and the dogs did shifts really well although Doug and I were there for the duration. Lucy had about seven ginger cookies from crumbs! We ran out when it was Hershey's turn. People always want to give the dogs something! I'll remember to bring raw veggies next year.

I've just made a big batch of hummus and a veggie platter to take to the BD party tonight. Naturally I've tried it and will be breathing garlic on the world. I put some of my frozen red pepper puree in it and it's fabulous. Two years ago I bought a CRATE of red peppers, roasted them, peeled them and pureed them. They are just great in hummus or swirled in broccoli soup along with yogurt. I'm debating doing that again this year but have left it a bit late.

Next week is the IPM (International Ploughing Match) and the village is already busy with people coming in early. It's a huge deal with a tent city, entertainment, demonstrations and even some ploughing! About 30K to 50K peopel are expected. I won't be able to work it much as my damned knee can't handle all the walking over rough ground but will be doing some finance stuff online and also helping make 450 box lunches every morning! That's a heck of a lot of sandwiches at 4 slices of bread per lunch! Imagine peeling 450 boiled eggs.

Enough! I'm getting tired thinking of it. Time to change for dinner. It's at Doug and Claire's place - Shad's been there and knows how comfy these people are!

Hi, Rennie-- I am rather intermittent and currently on vacation in Maine.

DH and I have been in Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. I've seen both of my grown children... and we don't have to go home till next week. Wheeeeeeee.

The other 3FC thread I subscribe to has had so much depressing, sad or just plain bad news. From some of the perusing I've done here, I know this group hasn't been immune to that either.

All I can hope is that our hearts feel warmer as the weather gets colder.
DH and I visited "Lenny" in Scarborough, Me this afternoon.
1700 lbs of milk chocolate!

Wow Painter - all that chocolate on the hoof. Tell me, if you wanted to eat something like that, where would you start?

Just as a matter of interest where would anyone start? Please tell me.

Rennie, welcome to the nut house and wild life refuge centre. And I am only talking about me! I was debating the other day whether it was intro time again or not. We do it every so often - or at least I usually find something weird and wonderful to say about everyone. I won't try it just now since I am supposed to be working. So I will just have to talk about me.

I'm a Kiwi, (New Zealander) who lives in Australia to raise the iq over here. At present I'm living in Perth on the West Coast of the continent. Normally I live in tropical Queensland on the East Coast. I have 2 sons, 31 and 33. One lives in Queensland and the other in South Australia. One repairs crushing machinery and is doing an electrical apprenticeship and the other is in IT and currently changing his job to work in the (no) help desk at the University of SA where he will probably study for another degree at the same time. He holds a pilots licence and speaks Italian. Makes for an interesting resume! The other one is locally known as action man - his time off is spent jet skiing, climbing cliffs and jumping out of perfectly good aeroplanes (however he never tells me about it until he has landed). I work as a workplace trainer. I train in computer programs for large companies, mostly mines and resources. It gives me a good living (although I always whinge about the job when I am doing it) and I get to travel alot. I've just come back from a jaunt around the States and Canada and very nice it was too. I wouldn't mind finding some work over there, but then again I don't have a green card and probably wouldn't win the green card lottery if I applied 10,000,000 times.
Enough about me.

Ruth - do we get to see photos of the lady in the 1812 Overture - uh sorry, the 1811 outfit. Better not make you younger than you are. Glad that you had a good time at the Open Doors project and naturally enough Lucy would be right in there when the food was being handed out. That red pepper puree sounds so good. If they ever come down in price here, I might do the same. I love roasted red peppers - yum meeeeeeee.
450 lunch boxes!!!! 450 boiled egg!!! Is there enough hens in Delta to provide that many eggs (sorry Happy - aigs!)
I though Doug and Claire had a great place. Please pass on my regards and say g'day to the dog!!!! Lovely people. I'm sure you will be well fed.

Holly - enjoy the party. Glad the Avon is going so well. I've always found with my kids that if I let them know what I expect of them, then they are more likely to conform and be pleasant. Aren't DH's just big kids???

Gotta go and do some work. I'll be back tomorrow. Lemme see if I can attach a piccy of the wildflowers. Just a moment please.

Nah the pictures are too large apparently. I'll try again from webshots.

Okay, I have the photos on Webshots. Someone else will need to find the addy because when I do, you lot can't see them.
Also, one or two of them are sideways on. I can't rotate them unless I have webshots desktop on my computer and the system won't let me download it. But you can just lean over anyway.

SHAD, I WOULD START WITH THE ANTLERS!!! OMG LOOKING TOO DELICIOUS PAINTER'S MOOSE COULD WALK RIGHT INTO MY HOUSE....HERE MOOSEY MOOSEY!!!

PAINTER I LOVE THE PIC! MADE MY MORNING I CAN TELL YOU! YOU ARE JUST THE TRAVELING FOOL!!! HOPE THE TIME AWAY IS GREAT. ENJOY BOTH OF YOU!

HERE IS THE ADDRESS FOR SHAD'S PHOTOS:
http://community.webshots.com/user/j...ms/most-recent

I WILL GO AND TAKE A PEEK AT ALL THAT I HAVEN'T SEEN BEFORE!! YOU SOUND A BIT MORE RELAXED. MUST BE THE WEEKEND PHOTO SESSION HOPE YOU HAD A GREAT TIME!

RUTH~ YOU HAVE BEEN A BUSY BEE AS USUAL. I AM STILL LOVING THE PICTURE OF THE MILL AT CHRISTMAS. GOD WHAT BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY!!

HOLLY~ I THOUGHT YOU MIGHT LIKE MR. FRIDAY!!! SOUNDS LIKE THE HOLLY AVON EMPIRE IS STILL GROWING STRONG GOOD LUCK!

RENNIE~ I FEEL THE SAME WHEN I LOOK AT MY DAUGHTER SHE IS 39. WE ALL HAVE OUR BURDENS TO BEAR AND I AM SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR SON. IT WOULD BE NICE IF YOU COULD FIND SOMETHING CLOSE TO HOME FOR WORK. I'LL KEEP MY FINGERS CROSSED.

GUESS SHAD IS RIGHT ABOUT AN INTRO...I AM 60 YRS OLD, LIVE IN NEW JERSEY IN A HIGHRISE SENIOR CITIZEN/DISABLED BLDG. MY DAUGHTER, JENNIFER LIVES UPSTAIRS WITH HER BF RICHIE. WE BOTH HAVE A MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CALLED A CONGENITAL MYOPATHY AND I HAVE BEEN IN A MOTORIZED WHEELCHAIR SINCE 1990. LIVING ALONE IS A CHALLENGE OF SORTS BUT I LIKE IT THIS WAY. THERE ARE OFFICES DOWNSTAIRS AND I SOMETIMES WORK FOR THEM AND I AM THE EMERGENCY CONTACT PERSON FOR POLICE, AMBULANCE AND FIRE DEPT FOR THE 100 SENIORS WHO LIVE HERE. MY JOB IS A LONG STORY BUT I AM TRYING VERY HARD TO GET RETIRED! I AM SURE THE OTHERS WILL BE LAUGHING AT THIS POINT IF THEY ARE READING. SHAD WAS JUST ON VACATION IN THE USA AND STAYED WITH EACH OF US WHILE SHE WAS HERE. SO SHE GOT TO MEET US ALL AND SOME OF US FOR A SECOND TIME.
THE REST YOU'LL LEARN AS THE DAYS GO BY.

SUNDAY IS BRIGHT AND CLEAR. THE WEATHER IS NIPPY. MY OLD FRIEND MR. SCIATICA IS BACK AND WE HAD SO MUCH FUN ALL NIGHT IT'S A WONDER I GOT ANY SLEEP!! BUT I HAD TO LAUGH THIS MORNING. THIS MIGHT BE TOO MUCH INFO BUT...I TOOK DRUGS TO MAKE THE SINUS GO AWAY AND THE SCIATICA TOO AND THEN TOOK DRUGS TO GET THE BODY'S PLUMBING GOING AGAIN BECAUSE OF THE OTHER MEDS AND LAST NIGHT TOOK THE PAIN MEDS AGAIN...ANYONE SEE HUMOR IN THE CYCLE OF MEDS? I HAD TO LAUGH THIS MORNING IF ONLY TO KEEP FROM SMASHING SOMETHING
I WAS ALSO WONDERING WHERE SUZI HAS GONE OFF TO. I CAN'T REMEMBER WHEN SHE LAST POSTED. TO SAY NOTHING ABOUT TIG, TEEL AND LINUS.
I AM OFF TO BREAKFAST. THE GRANDSON IS BUSY WATCHING THOMAS TANK ON PBS.. SOMETIMES I REALLY THINK HE IS MORE HUMAN THAN BIRD. EVEN JEN IS SURPRISED.....BUT THEN SHE RARELY WATCHED KIDS PBS IF EVER WHEN SHE HAD HIM
HAPPY SUNDAY. ENJOY!

RENNIE~ I FORGOT TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS ON THE WEIGHTLOSS!! WOW YOU ARE OFF TO A GREAT START!

Morning chicks,

The fun continues. Back is all stiff and sore - woke up barely able to move yesterday. (Personally I think it's residual stress coming out one spot on my back )

Anyway if I want DH to help me with the grocery shopping, he insists we go early so I have just enough time to duck in here while pretending to drink my coffee.

I'll be back later. WELCOME RENNIE!!!!!! Always nice to have a new hen in the coop!