Tried a new Cookie recipe tonight and got a box off to my DS....they are a soft and chewy oatmeal choc chip cookie. DH does not care for them but will eat them! I ahve already eaten way to many................Mowing today and we have a skunk living in one of the buildings and digging up our lawn:eek: gonna call the animal control people to see they can help....I do not want sprayed!

Siwa..interesting on the zucchini, I have been picking mine while it is tiny so Id onot have to peel it. I have had more male than female blossoms though..wonder why?

Lizzie..your room sounds lovely and peaceful:D

A 62 year old jogger got hit and killed on one of our county roads and DH does not want me walking onour road anymore!

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The painting is done.......well...sort of. I have a few places I have to touch up and when I pulled the blue tape off it took a lot of the moulding paint with it so that has to be done again. If I ignore the patchy baseboard moulding then the area looks good. Rehung the pictures on the wall and they look nicer with a nice color background. Went to the farmer's mkt again yesterday so the coffers are full again. Not only the coffers but the refrig and counters too--LOL. I actually had to buy zucchini! I have at least a couple zuchs growing now. One of them is one that I pollinated so I guess I make a good bee.

I made hotel reservations in Russia, Netherlands and Belgium yesterday so we're all set. Getting really excited now!

CANDICE--Of course, you tried a new cookie recipe!! Did you have cool temps too? It's a little closer to normal now, (70's) but still cool nites. My caladium didn't exactly bite the dust but they don't look very happy. Normal temps are in the low 80's so who would have guessed?

Made another new recipe a WW trail mix..yum..but I ate it all!

Just a quick note to say that we survived Hurricane Charlie without too much damage. We couldn't evacuate since dogs are not allowed in shelters, and motels were full, so we just 'rode' it out at home, and it was very scary. We will need a new roof, as we lost a lot of shingles. But we are very blessed, as many more in our park had a great deal of damage to their homes. And further south in Punta Gorda, things were twice as bad. It came ashore there as a category 4, and that is bad. comparable to Andrew in south Fl. We were without power for 3 days, but we were able to save the stuff in our freezer. More later. Ann

ANN--I was wondering how things were with you and Charlie. Sounds like you were fortunate. Three days w/o power is a hardship but really not bad when you compare to others. I never thought about evacuating with animals. Who could leave them behind? Was it quite windy at your place? DH was tracking Charlie for days on the puter and weather channel so we saw all stages of it. It was quite the rainfall in Orlando too.

Nothing happening here. Lovely day yesterday and raining today. Just 3 weeks and 2 days til Russia.

Siwa: How exciting to be going to Russia. I hope you have a wonderful time.

About Charlie - it was very scary. I've never experienced anything like it, and don't want to every go through it again. The wind just howled. And it was very eerie when the eye passed over and yet we knew that it wasn't over yet. We didn't begin to have the problems that so many folks have had. There are still thousands without power. Ice and fresh food is becoming a difficulty for many, and also safe water. We take so much for granted, and it is hard to believe that there are many many people throughout the world that live their lives without the things we take for granted, like electricity, clean water, air conditioning, etc. We have raked up about 7 bags of leaves and small branches that were all over our yard. And picked up two bags and a box of shingles from many roofs, I'm sure, including ours. So many homes in our park really experienced a lot of damage. It is very disturbing to everyone, and it is having to pull together to make things work.

there are some crews of people now in the park to pick up all the scrap aluminum that has come off so many homes. Parts of our park just look like a war zone, but that can't begin to compare with what things are like in Punta Gorda. That community is about wiped out. Also Arcadia. There were pictures in our paper, and we keep seeing them on T.V. They are comparing this to Hurricane Andrew that did so much damage in South Florida.

Guess I've gone on enough. We just feel very blessed that we don't have many problems, and that there are few people who were hurt, none in our park. 'See' you later. Ann

Lizzie, that is just so scarey! I feel so bad for the people without homes, did you see the one lady that said she could not go through it again and is moving back penn! Boy this has been a bad weather year!

Been watching the olympics, some cuties on there:D Wish I was in that kinda shape;)

Two days at 18 pts now and I'm very shakey, trying to get a jumpstart again and get in the losing mode...too many cookies...and I have anooher new WW Cookie recipe to try!

CANDICE--I hate to break this to you but........you don't HAVE to try EVERY cookie recipe know to woman! LOL Sounds like you eat nothing but cookies. Wish I could do that and maintain 130#. I've not even seen that wt since high school!

ANN--All that you have described is just as we've been reading about and hearing on the news. Always makes one feel lucky.

Siwa..I love trying new recipes..and eating them but someitmes they are not worth making again. I always put a red star by the ones I like.....got lots of red stars now! :lol: I am trying to make it through another low pts day.............tha means no cookies!

Is anyone watching the olympics, it's a shame they do not have many spectators this year and with it being in the home of the olympics to boot! The mens swim relay team really had a great race and we took home the gold! The girls gymnastic team took the silver and the mens too.

Candice: Found a no-bake cookie recipe on the WW news letter. one point each. Only makes 16 tho' But they are good. I keep them in the freezer. I thought of you when I was making them.

Our park is beginning to get cleaned up from Charlie. but there is a lot of building to go through yet before we can get back to normal. The roofing guy came to give us his estimate today. I sure hope the insurance kicks in.

Where is everyone? Ann

ANN--Just a skeleton crew here these days--mostly Candice and sometimes me, Barb occasionally and that's about it.

Getting down to 45 degrees tonite! My caladium have already taken a hit. They're not happy even when covered. Just north of us had already had frost and a city in N MN had 27 a few nites ago. Is it really October and we just don't know it??!!

It's gonna get warmer next week Siwa! My tomatoes are getting cold!

Still eating well and walking........15,000 steps............

I made that recipe Lizzie! Choc PB??????????????? It is not very sweet is it? I used splenda in mine.

Candice: I decided that the next time, I would use the sugar as in the recipe, and also add some splenda, to see if that would sweeten it up a bit. I do rather like them tho' . so time will tell if the splenda will be the solution.

I can't believe that you gals are having frost already. does that mean another hard winter? Sure hope not. See y ou later. Ann

They make a nice healthy sanck I think:D

I did a tad bit of work outside and then walked the TM but could only do about 45 min and my hip started bothering me. I stretched it out and then got an old walk areobics tape out and did it another 30 minutes, hip still hurting......standing in place walking seems to bother it so I tried to just keep moving about the living room and finished the tape. (suppose to be 2 miles but my pedometer said only 1), anyway I'm at 17,000 steps and that is good!

I think I better up my pts with the activity I am doing....my WW pedometer says I have burned over 700 calories. What ya think?