gma22 , 03-25-2012 12:17 PM
Good morning girls. I would have sworn I posted when Jean started a new thread, but I don't see it so it is out there zooming cyberspace I guess. I was really sick all night last night and didn't fall asleep until ten til 5 this morning. I got up and fed Fortune and slept fitfully until Jack came down at 8. I am finding I need more recoup time before going back into the bed. Since my stuff isn't healed totally I can't sleep anyway but on my back and everything I did absolutely didn't work so I gave up around 10:30 PM and came back downstairs to sleep. Mainly, my intestines were causing me fits and I had a horrible backache again. I think it is just the intestines trying to acclamate themselves again, but I didn't want to take a pain pill so I suffered all night. I gave up and took one this morning so I could make dog food and bag it up and then clean up the mess. My house is still a total pig pit, but I am going to start working on it bit by bit this week to get it back to normal.
I thought I would give you a peek at the dresses I bought. I have a shaper to wear with them to smooth me all out, but can't put it on until after all my healing is done and such so don't want to "model" them without it on as it looks so much nicer. Anyhow, the dresses are all long, the green, orange, black one, I have great big chunky tiger eye jewelry to wear with it and bright green sandals that match the green in the dress and I am going to wear a black short sleeved sweater with it, the black and white swirly hearts it is the sleeveless dress also not all of the pieces of clothing in the pic, I have white dress sandals, white short sleeved or black short sleeved crocheted sweater and black jewelry and black sandals, the blue dress I will wear the white sweater and I have to buy jewelry for it and probably will wear the white sandals with it and the solid navy dress I am wearing big silver jewelry, navy dress opened toed sandals/shoes, my knitted wrap. The Navy dress and probably the black and white one are for the formal nights.
Jean: Grilled pork chops sound yummy. We need to clean our grill and get it up and going for spring and summer. I love having meat and veggies grilled outside. I noticed that darn squirrel chewed holes in my deck umbrella so it is going to have to go to the garbage. Ahh well. We have had really warm almost hot weather here. Almost everyday it gets into the 80's already. My tree has started popping out leaves and it won't be long and everything will be covered in sticky sap again. One of the popular things to do here around trees is to build a half to foot tall brick circle around the tree and put in potting soil and plant flowers or hostus (sp) etc around the tree. The houses that do it look really pretty I think. Some just put stones or cedar chips in the brick circle and that looks nice too.
Maggie: Another thing to put in mac and cheese is cubed ham or finely diced turkey sausage. I am a real lover of homemade mac and cheese and I like the baked style. I watch a program from Britain on late at night called "Two Fat Ladies." Usually their stuff is kind of kooky, though I imagine Brits would love it, but I just love the two of them. They are older ladies that travel place to place on a motorcycle with a sidecar. Keep an eye out for it, it is on the cooking channel and if you are up late on Saturday nights watch it is sometime.
Well, I am going to sit and read or knit or something now that I have the dog food made. The meds make me sleepy of course, but I am going to fight taking a nap and turn in early I think. You all have a lovely Sunday. Faye
Good afternoon, ladies! 59 degrees and foggy still this afternoon.
Wednesday I had Applique Bee at the library, Thursday was Glory's birthday tea (we had so much fun), Friday was English Paper Piecing, yesterday was WW and then Sandy and I went to a play - Xanadu - last night. So I have been busy. Didn't even turn the computer on for 3 days!
Faye, your dress are lovely. I'm sorry you're still not back to exact. Two Fat Ladies is very old - they have both been dead for several years. It was made about 30 years ago.
Jean, Two Fat Ladies is on the Cooking Channel (not Food Network). My back yard is sans grass because of the pine trees. The front is better. I put decorative bricks around my Crepe Myrtle and planted Oxalys. It looks very nice.
Maggie, maybe you could get one of those children's size easy chairs for Cecil. One spoiled cat! I see the Pioneer Wife has a cookbook on the best seller list now.
I need to get busy and do some housework since I have been running so much! Have a wonderful day.