Good morning, ladies! 44 degrees and overcast. Depressing!
I don't know where the week has gone. I had quilt guild Tuesday night, applique Wednesday and Thursday nights and I was supposed to go to another bee today but called and cancelled that. I feel really depressed and weepy today so I'm not fit company for anyone let alone a group. If it keeps up over the weekend, I'll call the doc Monday and see if my meds need to be changed. We've been having a hard time getting just the right dose.
Faye, Fortune is going to get the Best Dressed Dog award this year!
Maggie, I've made the Cabbage in Caraway-Sour Cream Sauce and Lemon and Herb Stuffed Pork Chops out of the new WW cookbook. Both were excellent. Sandy is coming over Sunday and I'm going to make the Kentucky Hot Browns for lunch. Tonight I'm making a turkey breast tenderloin with stuffing and carrots.
Jean, I had to chuckle at you packing away your summer clothes. I'm thinking I'll be getting mine out by the middle of March. The robins are back and this was the first morning I heard birds singing when I went out to bring in the newspaper. We turn the clocks for Daylight Savings time March 11.
Good afternoon Magnolias. The temp here in the ♥-Land is currently 51º and feels like 52 for it is partly cloudy and expected to get down to 23º this night.
We just got back from eating breakfast out and I had beaters and dry toast, one sausage link and drank black coffee. I don’t think I spent an over amount of points there. We went there after my doctor appointment to get my prescriptions re-written for a year. Now in a few months it will be time for me to get some lab work done ~like the dreaded pap smear type thing. Anything else I don’t mind so much. Got to get it all done though, in May it will be. My lovely lady doctor said she always likes to have me come in for I am never sick and we have a good laugh session. When we get home from somewhere Beanie always greets us at the back gate with his tail wagging. Well Cecil has started accompanying him and sits there beside him so cute waiting at the gate when we drive the Jeep up and park it. Ole Ragg Mopp just comes as far as the edge of the covered patio knowing we will walk there and give him a nice scratch between the ears. He is a patient old dog and Beanie is an exuberant puppy.
In the mail I received a couple samples of Emergen-C. Packets of Vitamin C, Super Orange and a Bluberry-Acai Immune+ System support with vitamin D. They are Flavored fizzy drink mixes. They also sent me a dollar off coupon. I will try one of the packets this afternoon around 3 when I need a pick-me-up. They say “Variety is the fizz of life ~ see all flavors at myemergenc.com. “
Since I had to get up earlier than usual wouldn’t you know it that the dogs were both restless last night ~ something must have been out and about that bothered them because I would just get to sleep and then one or the other of them would let out a loud bark. Then I would just get back to sleep and on it went.
SUSAN Sorry you are feeling down in the dumps. Perhaps when they get your meds to the proper doses you will feel lots better. Thanks for the "heads up" on those recipes for I will certainly try them. There are so many in that book I plan on trying.
JEAN That is a good thing you are only up part of a pound after your wonderful time being gone to Hawaii. It will be gone in no time. Don't you just hate to clean when you get home from a nice vacation. I know I do and that is the last thing I think about.
LUG THOSE MILK JUGS
Before you pour your skim milk on your morning cereal, pump the milk jug five to 10 times. A full gallon of milk weighs almost 8.5 pounds.
WALK YOUR DOG TO LOSE WEIGHT
Grab a leash and hit the pavement with Fido. A study conducted by the University of Missouri Columbia showed dogs can help their owners lose weight. The study showed that people who walked dogs, walked longer. Walking is good for your dog also. If you don’t have a dog, borrow one.
Well Magnolias that is the last of the "handy weight loss helps" out of that little booklet. Hope everyone has a lovely afternoon. Type at y'all later.
Good Afternoon, Flowers! The sun is shining, the wind is blowing, and the snow is melting! I finished vacation laundry this morning and the luggage is waiting for "Mr. Tidy House" to put it away. I ran errands this afternoon and picked up a few groceries. I needed to pick up a couple gift shop bills to pay so ended up getting the weeks worth of $ to count. That's one less thing I'll have to do on Monday, so that's ok.
Susan -- I, too, am sorry you are feeling blue today. I know the gloomy weather is a downer in itself. What are Kentucky Hot Browns? Sounds interesting! We usually get a few robins in time for the last snow of the season, in March while it is still pretty cold. They look pretty confused, but they do eat birdseed. I can tell a big difference in it staying lighter later since we've been home. Is daylight savings time earlier this year? I wish they'd pick one time and leave it alone.
Maggie -- It's always nice to have a welcoming committee greet you when you come home. Enjoy your fizzy samples! I've never heard of them so let us know how you like them. I wish I could borrow a dog to walk! My upper arms were sore for a couple days and I finally figured out it was from carrying my heavier larger-than-usual purse and carry-on bag around the airports. I'm shopping for a carry-on with wheels next time!
I came upstairs to get my laptop and book so better get to counting $. Enjoy the rest of your day and evening!
Good Morning, Flowers! The sun is shining, NO wind (yet), and it's a chilly 17 degrees in my neighborhood this morning. I have laundry going and need to dust and vacuum today. The kids are coming tomorrow so will get rid of their Maui piles. Bob is making his Saturday rounds so I won't see him until lunch time.
Susan -- I thought of you this morning! There was a newspaper article about a new quilting store in Sioux City and all of the different classes they will be offering over the next few weeks. One that I remember is paper piecing, or at least I think that was the name. The picture showed the owner cutting a piece of ruffled fabric. I think that would be a challenge to work with.
We are supposed to warm up into the 40s today, so I am planning on an outside walk this afternoon. Hope you all have a nice day and enjoy!
It is a nice sun shiney day here in the heartland and I am staying inside and doing my exercises. We have been planning our "get away" for next month and we will be leaving on the first of March and returning on the 6th. Our plan is to wander around the country on our way down there and take our sweet time. Our animals will be taken care at the vets facilities while we are gone. Since they all three get along well together they won't be a problem to take care of. That time will get here sooner than we think since time is moving faster the older we get. Daylight savings time begins on the 11th and Spring begins on the 20th of March. March is a busy month.
JEAN Have you checked on the Eagles yet? One egg was laid yesterday. And it begins again this year. I don't think I will be taking so many pictures as I did last go-round. Did you bring back lots of stuff from Maui for the kids? It is fun to do that and share your vacation with them.
Gotta go ~ Will needs some things from down town. Type at y'all later.
Good morning, ladies! A bright sunny day and 41 degrees. We were supposed to have 1-2 inches of snow overnight, but it never happened. We had rain instead.
Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival begins on Wednesay and runs through Sunday so I'll be there everyday. I have 2 quilts in the show.
I was down 1.0 on Saturday. I looked up the goal weight for 5'3 and the highest is 141. I'm making 140 mine.
Jean, a Kentucky Hot Brown is an open-faced sandwich that has turkey breast, tomato, bacon on whole grain bread. Then it is topped with a cheese sauce and put under the broiler until the cheese browns a little. It's in the new WW cookbook "Best Darn Food Ever" available at your meeting for $9.95. I'm having it for lunch today.
Maggie, have you ever seen the cooking program "Pioneer Woman?" She's always cooking stuff over a campfire and I think of you. You'd probably like a lot of her stuff.
I'm off to go for my walk and then do some housework. Have a great day.
It is said to get to 50ºs here this day with scattered thunder storm happenings. No rain but thunder. This weigh day I stayed the same once again. This is what I have found through this weight loss era is that I lose down to new territory and then stay there for a few weeks then continue on down so I am not going to trip or get all upset over this and just keep track of what I eat. I am going to have to get a different system for the cats water for he gets food in it and it sullies it. He does get enough clean water in different places in the house though. I may just have his food in here up on that table and put his water on the floor and he can also get water in the dogs dish in the kitchen or out of the toilet which he likes to do. We had some chicken noodle soup for lunch and Will is going to grill a tri tip outside this afternoon and I’ll bake a couple of taters and toast some French bread. I will even make a salad. We can have tri tip sandwiches tomorrow. I’m tellin’ you that we are getting less bang for the buck around here for prices on everything have been going up little by little. I will be glad when we can start planting our garden. Our friend in Texas is planning to retire soon and he is planning on taking his tractor and getting some land prepared for us to plant a nice big garden when we retire there. We will talk to him more about that when we visit there next month. He has several cows still and we can buy one of them to butcher or buy one and add to his herd. When we lived on his place before he had several heads then and has always kept a few.
SUSAN on your weight loss and your plan for how low you want to get. I know you will reach that in no time. What a fun for you week you have planned. I hope your quilts are winners if that is a contest. I imagine your work is top notch. No I have never seen that program nor did I know it existed. Sounds interesting and right down my alley. Let me know how your lunch turned out for that recipe looks yummy for sure.
Have a nice afternoon Magnolias Type at y'all later.
Good Afternoon, Flowers! It's raining, windy, and a cold 34 degrees in my corner of the world . . . a crappy day with snow on the way tonight. I didn't even turn the computer on yesterday. We went to church and the kids came late morning. Jason and family stayed until 8 so it was time for bed by the time I picked up the kitchen and ran the dishwasher. I spent this morning at church -- 1 morning down and 9 to go. *sigh* I have card club tonight if the weather doesn't change for the worst beforehand.
Susan -- Was your office closed today that you are home? on losing another #. The sandwich sounds delicious! I have found that our WW site is very slow in getting new material. Heck, the receptionist is still using paper and pencil to do her bookkeeping. I know you will enjoy the Quilt Festival. I hope your quilts win a prize!
Maggie -- March is a good time to plan a trip to a warmer place. I did see the Eagle sitting on her nest with just one egg. The local tv station had her on the news this noon. I'm wondering if it is last years mother or last years offspring. on the maintain . . . better than a gain any day. Our gas price just jumped 11 cents overnight. They say it will be $4.00+ by summer. GRRRRR! When we got our first kitten, she was so tiny I was afraid she would drown if she fell in the toilet so we kept the lid down, and have continued to do so. Amanda has mentioned more than once how much she appreciates that Jason closes their lid also.
I need to fold some towels and decide what I'm wearing to "work" tomorrow. Enjoy the rest of your day and evening!
Good evening ladies. We got in around 3:30 this afternoon, but it has been a mad house here since and just quieted down a bit. Jack can't get into his email on his phone or online and our email service won't and doesn't help us. I told him he may just have to let me set him up a new account since nothing I have done is working. So he is grumpy about that. Fortune missed us so much he had blood in his urine while at Kelly's and threw up a lot so I felt bad for them having to take care of him that way. He is fine now that he is back with mom and pop! Then there was all the unloading, putting away, only the downstairs part of that is done, getting laundry going, I have one and a half loads done, etc, etc.
We had a great time together but I had trouble with my feet swelling this weekend so we didn't do much at the mall and I had something weighing on my mind all weekend.Thursday night when we got home from dinner and taking Fortune to Kelly's we picked up the mail out of the box and I found a referral to the dr that did my colon surgery. I have an appt on Thurs with him to decide about surgery on two hernias they found during the cat scan. My reg GP put in the request as she said she was concerned with what she saw on the cat scan. I can't believe I may have to go into the hospital again. I am still having some issues with the other stuff, but nothing serious so hoping it just the tail end of the d and c business and then it will stop soon so we don't have to do surgery on that too. I never expected to have to have any more surgery on my abdomen that's for sure, but it has to be looked at and can't be ignored even though they haven't bothered me. I will keep you informed of what he says. We had a rip roaring time at the murder mystery dinner though. They had the tables all screwed up so ended up putting Jack and I right next to the stage on the floor. The murder mystery was hilarious about an office party gone wrong. Part of the plot was flashbacks about each employee's former life. The IT guy used to be a soldier and they did this hilarious thing with him taking a couple guys from the audience and dressing them in cammouflage, also one of the girls used to be a ballerina and her "teacher" which was an old guy comes out in this black leotard and ballet shoes. I laughed til I cried with that one and they were so close to our table you could almost touch them. One part was about the ditsy blond receptionist who used to be some emergency room tech and she gets this huge guy out of the audience to play the ER doctor explaining to this kid and his mother about the operation he has to have. The guy in the audience played it to the nines and was side splitting funny. The actors/characters would come to the table and talk to you and complain about the office party and other employees and you were supposed to ask them questions and stuff to figure out who kills the boss. The food was yummy, except the cheesecake was warm and tasted like paste, ugh. We had salad, rotisserie chicken, new potatoes, fresh green beans, corn, mixed veggies, homemade yeast rolls and lasagna in an all you can eat buffet. I skipped the lasagna and had the chicken, green beans, potatoes and rolls and salad. Our tickets for this cost me $50 that included the dinner and the one in Branson, which was stupid and the food was disgusting cost me nearly a $100! I would love to go back and see their other one about this plane crash. The actors are really great and the whole thing was so enjoyable except finding a parking place is a total night mare and it is on the second floor of an old warehouse and there are like 30 stairs straight up. This old fat woman was huffing and puffing by the time I got up to the top and then was informed there was a ramp in back! I did buy a pair of dress shoes and a pair of ortho sandals to wear to the pool and walking all over the ship. I ended up having to order them though. The hotel was gorgeous, the pool was warm and fun and Jack and I got to use it all by ourselves, which was nice.
Sounds like you gals were busy beavers this weekend. I think I will get out of here and sit and read for just a bit then crash. I didn't get much sleep last night and I am pooped! Faye
Good Morning, Flowers! I am "home alone" in the church office. The pastor is gone for the day, the custodian is awol as he was yesterday, and the education director doesn't come in until 10. Guess I will spend the morning reading back magazines and marking some new bell music.
"Gma" -- Welcome home! You were missed while you were gone, but it sounds like you had a grand time. I hope that the hernia surgery is not a "necessary" but an optional for you. Think positive! I would be as frustrated as Jack when the cell phone email wouldn't work. I'm sure Fortune is glad to be back home and I'm sorry he was sick while you were gone. I meant to comment on his new sweater; he's so cute and I love the biscuit buttons you added.
I need to go through my bell music and mark some new. Enjoy the rest of your day and remember to smile!
Good morning, ladies. 42 degrees and overcast this day.
Nothing happening this day but work and going to the Y afterwards.
Faye, I had a hernia repaired back when it was open surgery. A hernia can strangulate any time and then there is the danger of gangrene. That's why they need to be fixed. I do believe they do it laproscopically now and you go home the same day. Your trip sounds like a lot of fun. I sure would have enjoyed the dinner theater. Poor Fortune missing Mom and Dad.
Jean, how do you mark bell music? Hope you have some company in the office by now.
Maggie, the Kentucky Hot Brown is a delicious sandwich. I'll bet your menfolk would love it.
Good morning gals! It is lovely and sunny though a bit cool still this morning. It sure makes you feel chipper when the sun is shining doesn't it? As soon as I get done here, I have to lug up a basket of clothes from the trip and put stuff away. All I got finished last night was stuff that was to be put away downstairs, a trip to the grocery store, some chinese for us for dinner since it was in the same shopping center and then back to finish washing the trip clothes. I am drying the last load, but want to get most of it put away then Jack can carry up the last load for me this afternoon and I can put it away.
Susan: I sure hope they can be repaired that way as I dread being completely cut open again. I am a dummy and should have known what it was as, but thought it was scar tissue build up next to the ostomy closing. Thanks for the info, and you are right. I went in and read all about it so I would know what questions to ask and such on Thursday since I had no one that I knew that had an abdominal type hernia. You "sammich" sounds yummy. My favorite is turkey with lett, tom, lgt miracle whip on bread or roll. In fact, that might be today's lunch!!!
Jean: I have more yarn to make him some more sweaters so he has a variety to wear next winter, but I need to finish up my sweater and wrap and quit messing around with other stuff until I do. I bet it was peaceful at the church. When I was a kid, probably about 13 or so, my brother had his Cub Scout meetings at a lutheran church. They met in the basement, but you had to go past the sanctuary before going downstairs. At the very front of the church up by the choir loft hung this huge lighted heart and it sort of pulsed from the light. Used to scare my sister and I too death because the whole sanctuary was dark save this heart looking like it was beating! I always thought of that whenever I was in the church at night alone doing the books.
My little guy is back to his normal clingy self. He is asleep on his pillow right now, but cuddled up with one or the other of us last night. We were both in the recliners last night as Jack didn't want to go to work with a backache this morning and because of this hernia thing (though I didn't know why I couldn't be comfortable in the bed until now,) I have been sleeping in the chair for awhile now. We need to look into getting a new mattress I guess. We had an adjustable one like the Select Comfort at the hotel, but Jack had it on firm and still woke up with a backache.
I guess I should scoot and get some work done. If I missed any of your posts where you posted losses, I appologize and know I am for you! Have a good day ladies!!! Faye
This day is said to get to 56ºs with a low of 31º. The wind is not expected to blow hard this day. It ended up blowing so hard yesterday that the BBQ wouldn’t have worked so we didn’t do that tri tip as planned but will do that this evening. I have it in the fridge with the Mad Will’s dry rub spice mix slathered all over it marinating. There is always something else to cook around here if one plan falls through so I don’t fret. Just ride with the tide and go with the flow. That’s me.
The dogs are at the groomer and I usually give them and Cecil a “good boy” treat when I come into my office in the morning. Cecil was waiting for me outside my bathroom door this morning and then followed me into my office and sat so cute waiting for his “good boy.” He sure misses his dogs when they are gone.
We are toying with the idea of changing the way we watch TV. Actually there isn’t much we do watch except news programs and the like and we can do that on our computers. There is a computer program that you buy for a onetime fee for life and get all the channels like we now have for the TV. We can use that huge TV for movies or hook up a small projector that we have to our computer and watch them on the wall or on our computer itself if we choose. Anyway we are thinking of quitting pouring the money down a preverbal rat hole and re-do how we get the news or watch base ball. Since prices are going up on everything we are looking for things to make more bang for our buck so to speak. We were completely without TV for 5 years and we don’t think we want to do that anytime soon again.
DONNA FAYE Like Susan said, they have ways to fix folks insides without making a huge cut down their middle anymore. Make two holes: one for the camera and one for the instrument to do the fixing. Hopefully they can use that method to fix you up. Your little pooch will be stilin’ for sure with all his choices of pretty sweaters to wear to keep his little body nice and cozy. I am glad he is over what was bothering him while you were gone. Sounds like you had a good get away.
SUSAN I am looking forward to making the "Cheddar-Rosemary Biscuits" stuffed with ham for a nice brunch. There are just so many yummy recipes in that book I am going to try. For sure I will make that sandwich you made for the fellows one day soon. Yummy, yummy ~ A love pat to the tummy.
JEAN All alone and just hanging out. Did you know that was how it was going to be, before you went down there to the church building to work this day? Has the pineapple you had sent to Bob’s office arrived yet? I love fresh pineapple. I cut it all up in spears and place it all in a plastic bag in the fridge and it is so yummy and juicy. Dole has big fields in Hawaii.
Susan -- I mark my bell music by circling my specific notes in pencil. Some gals use highlighters and different colors for different notes. That works ok until an odd bell gets added to your lineup. I usually just have 2 main bells -- E and F, along with the sharp and flat of each. My bells are bigger and I can't ring as many in a row as the little bell ringers. Sometimes I share a bell with the person on either side of me but not very often. Hope your day at work was a calm one!
"Gma" -- We have huge stained glass windows, depicting different Bible stories, on 3 walls of the sanctuary. I love to go in there when the sun is shining through them, as it is so peaceful. I am on a mission to get an eternal light placed in our sanctuary. Every church we have been in lately has one, except us. I am on the memorial committee and know there is undesignated money we could use. I wonder if that is what your red heart light was? We need a new bed also, but I'm waiting until we get new carpet. First I need to finish clearing out the spare bedrooms!
Maggie -- Bob would be lost without his tv so don't think we'll ever drop the cable. I get irritated because we have many duplicate channels and often there's nothing to watch on any of the channels if one isn't into sports or news. I knew the pastor would be gone today; Tuesdays are his usual day off but he had a meeting in Ames today. He left late yesterday afternoon to beat the bad weather that never happened. The custodian finally wandered in about 9. He is fairly new to the job and I don't know how he gets much done because he spends way too much time in the office! The pineapple has come and gone! We get 12 in a box and all were spoken for; they are Bob's treat for people in the office, a couple friends, a neighbor, and the kids. It's definitely better tasting that what we've bought in the store lately.
Good morning ladies. We had a storm tear through this morning early and it is cool now, but it is supposed to warm up today. I cannot wait for spring. I guess the closer to warm weather the closer to the cruise. Speaking of that, Jack called them customer service people last night to find out when we get our cruise documents since the cruise is all paid for and she gave us a $140 credit back to our credit card for living in Tennessee! That should just about pay for the clothing I want to buy still for the cruise.
My shoes came yesterday and I feel like an idiot. The company is from right here in Memphis!! I found that out when I looked at the return sheet since the flip flop shoes are not going to work for me. They are built up too much in the arch and with my horribly flat feet they hurt too much and walking around as much as I am going to have to, I don't think I want shoes that hurt. The other pair's heel is such that I wobble when I walk so they will go back too. They are pretty shoes, but if I have to walk all over the ship they have to be comfortable.
I have everything cleaned up and put away from trip now so house is back to normal. Fortune has been a bit sick, but I gave him some meds last night and he is back to normal. There isn't much I can do for him about his nervouse tummy and emotional upheavel when we have to travel without him. He is going to have to stay with Kelly or in a kennel when we go on the cruise. All I can do is fix it when we get back. I feel for the little guy as I always had terrible homesickness when I was a kid and got sick just like he does, but sometimes we just can't take him with us.
Maggie: You trip tip sounds pretty good. We are having pot roast, carrots and new potatoes for dinner. We are both back strong on WW now and so I plan on having some nice losses to report ongoing. I have had laproscopic surgery before as that is how they did my gall bladder so am hoping they can do this procedure the same way. I am just tired of facing in and out hospital procedures, you know? I still am not sure where the female thing is going to go, but I am hoping that it is now better.
Jean: I imagine that is what that heart was all about, but when you are kids you see things so differently. We are starting our remodel phase next year and will probably buy new fridge, stove and washer and buy the glass tiles for the backsplash while they still have them then later on, get more stuff to work on. It will be a long process, but it will all get done eventually.
I guess I should get out of here and get some chores done. I had my breakfast, yogurt and banana and took my meds. Have a great middle of the week and Faye
Finally Friendly Friday
GOOD AFTERNOON MAGNOLIAS 
out and I had beaters and dry toast, one sausage link and drank black coffee. I don’t think I spent an over amount of points there. We went there after my doctor appointment to get my prescriptions re-written for a year. Now in a few months it will be time for me to get some lab work done ~like the dreaded pap smear type thing. Anything else I don’t mind so much. Got to get it all done though, in May it will be. My lovely lady doctor said she always likes to have me come in for I am never sick and we have a good laugh session. When we get home from somewhere Beanie always greets us at the back gate with his tail wagging. Well Cecil has started accompanying him and sits there beside him so cute waiting at the gate when we drive the Jeep up and park it. Ole Ragg Mopp just comes as far as the edge of the covered patio knowing we will walk there and give him a nice scratch between the ears. He is a patient old dog and Beanie is an exuberant puppy.
Perhaps when they get your meds to the proper doses you will feel lots better. Thanks for the "heads up" on those recipes for I will certainly try them. There are so many in that book I plan on trying. 
Daylight savings time begins on the 11th and Spring begins on the 20th of March. March is a busy month.
on your weight loss and your plan for how low you want to get. I know you will reach that in no time. What a fun for you week you have planned. I hope your quilts are winners if that is a contest. I imagine your work is top notch. No I have never seen that program nor did I know it existed. Sounds interesting and right down my alley. Let me know how your lunch turned out for that recipe looks yummy for sure. 
on losing another #. The sandwich sounds delicious! I have found that our WW site is very slow in getting new material. Heck, the receptionist is still using paper and pencil to do her bookkeeping. 
I know you will enjoy the Quilt Festival. I hope your quilts win a prize!
Just ride with the tide and go with the flow. That’s me. 
of changing the way we watch TV. Actually there isn’t much we do watch except news programs and the like and we can do that on our computers. There is a computer 
I cut it all up in spears and place it all in a plastic bag in the fridge and it is so yummy and juicy. Dole has big fields in Hawaii.
