Just a quick note to apologize. We were gone on vacation for four days, and as we were driving along I remembered I didn't pop in and tell you all we were going to be gone. I had it in my mind to do it as one of the last things, but it just flew out of my mind until we were down the road a piece. I am so sorry.
We had the two year old from next door wih us and I had to do all the packing and the loading of the car, because Dh is not allowed to lift. I was beginning to think staying home would have been a better idea, but we had promised the kids we would take this road trip way before DH had his shoulder injury.
I will stop back later his evening, have a lot of work to catch up with now, first day back to work.
I am really sorry that I am absent from the forum. I am busy at work, and tired when I get home. There are a lot of things going on right now. Hopefully I can find some time for me and get on the computer this weekend. My keyboard at work is failing and doesn't type some of the keys nor the cap key, otherwise I would sneak in a post on my lunch break. Thank you for your patience. I appreciate all of you.
Off to southern Oregon to attend a play (Twelfth Night) at the Shakespeare Festival. Hope you all have a good weekend!
Bluet, you're a saint to take a 2 year old on a road trip! Charlotte, I'm thinking of you and your DH. It's so tough to worry about a job, isn't it? And you certainly don't need the stress of that right now. Take some big, deep breaths and do a lot of praying, which I'm sure you are.
Well, it appears that everyone has abandoned the forum. I have had a very busy summer, and have not posted as much as I should, and I am sorry for that. I have always appreciated all of you as more than friends. I hope this finds you all well, with not too many tribulations in your life.
As you all know summer is my favorite time of the year, and it is hard for me to stay indoors, when I get home from work. Business has picked up of late and I am barely keeping my head above water at work. Most of my free time is taken up with babysitting the grandchildren. I don't think there will be a slack in the babysitting in the next few weeks. SIL next door's Mother is dying at the University Hospital in Madison and the kids are traveling back and forth to be with her.
Sheila I hope you had a nice time at your Shakespeare Comedy. You are very fortunate that your DH enjoys Shakespeare's plays. I would not be able to get my DH to go to a Shakespeare Play.
Charlotte, Sunny, Diane and Bonnie2 hope this little post finds you all well. Take care my dear friends.
I'm doing just fine. dear mil leaves for minn. tomorrow for 10 days then I will meet her in Minn. airpor to fly together to ariz.on the 9th.I'll be there with her till the 15th to get her settled in without Ed. She has been well while with us. It has gone pretty well I must say.I am not use to flying so I am not looking forward to flying by myself to meet her at Minneapolis airport, then on my own coming home to BIG Detroit airport.
Been keeping up with jazz. in July. taking Aug. off.
How are all of you doing? Bonnie2
Glad to hear that you are doing fine and that your summer with MIL went a smoothly as it did. What a good feeling, right! Yes, I am not so fond of airplane rides either, but it gets you where you want to go in no time at all. Sure hope it cools off in Arizona before you have to take your trip out there. What a wonderful thing you are doing for MIL.
We had cooler weather here today after a drought and a heat wave with record temperatures. Weatherman is promising some rain tomorrow, one can only hope. I think the rain is too late to save the corn though.
Good for you for sticking with your excercise program. I am not good at that exercise stuff. I wish I was, but I am a slacker in that area.
My Son-in-law's Mother died last night. It is so sad, she was only 67 years old. The next few days are going to be very difficult.
Hello to Sheila. Charlotte, Sunny and Diane, hope you are all doing ok.
Sorry I've been gone so much. I'm just really not feeling great these days. I got a treatment Tuesday, so been lying around a couple of days.
Bluet...so sorry for the loss of your SIL's mother. They will be in my prayers.
We're still having a hard time with my FIL's passing away. In time of grieving we're having to take care of financial matters for MIL, so she will have all the income we can get for her. Also, some of us stay near her at all times.
Bonnie-2...I love to fly! Have you flown before? I've only flown once, but I loved it. I really dreaded it, but I'd go again, anytime. I'll be praying for you.
Sheila...Hope you enjoyed the play.
Well...I waited long enough on my angels, etc, for my house. I brought them all in & fixed a shelf above my computer to put them on. I brought my pictures in that I had bought over the last couple of years, & put them up. We had bought a new table with 6 chairs, & kept it stored at the store where we bought it. DH went & got it Saturday & we set it up. Soooo....I'm "playing" house. I decided it had been long enough. DH will just have to work around them when the time comes. He said he'd just sheetrock one room at a time, & we could empty it & fix it up, before going to the next room. I'm going soon to yardsales, etc, to find some cheap curtains to hang. I have some expensive ones stored, but they cost too much to get dust on them. I can dust these things I have out.
Hi to everyone. Maybe things will get back to normal around here, soon. (whatever normal is for us)
Love you all.....
Charlotte
Charlotte, it is so hard to get over losing a loved one. You seem to be doing well though, if you feel up to sprucing things up around the house. It is certainly a positive note.
You made me smile with your statement "whatever is normal around here" Wow that is a statement. It is always something with us isn't it? So good to have this support group to help us through the low spots. Glad to hear you have had your treatment and are improving each day. Losing your FIL and needing your treatment was like a double wammy. But your faith is strong.
Gotta go, at work today. Going to have some busy days coming up. Had a busy weekend scheduled with my two other daughters requests for babysitting, before Elaine's passing, now the wake is on Friday evening and services and burial will be Saturday. Remember that commercial "Calgon Take Me Away"? That says it all.
Best wishes to all of you for a wonderful Thursday.
Bluet, how sad about your SIL's Mom--that's awfully young. It's wonderful that you're close enough to babysit when needed. Did you know her well?
Glad you're having some cooler temperatures. I look at the weather maps on the nightly news and cringe when I see the midwest. While we've been having warm temperatures (in the 90s lately), our humidity is fairly low out here.
Bonnie 2, good for you for keeping up with your Jazzercise. I find flying pretty nervewracking myself. Actually, the flying isn't so bad, but the wait around the airport drives me nuts. I wish I could just arrive at the airport, get on the plane, and get to my destination. I'm sure you'll do fine with flying by yourself. Look at it this way--it's a lot better than driving that distance!
Charlotte, I'm sorry you're feeling poorly--hopefully you'll perk up in a few days when the treatment starts to kick in. That's nice that you all stay near your MIL during this time.
My grandmother took her first flight at the age of 94. My mother was diagnosed with lung cancer and was unable to drive to California to visit Grandma so Grandma came to my mother. She did that twice a year until my mother died in 1996. While I don't know that she enjoyed it all that much, everyone treated her really well, and she had quite the distance to travel for her age. I often wonder if she was one of the oldest to ever experience her first flight.
Good for you for getting your angels set up. I bet that makes you feel better, and, who knows, with the angels there, the house building may go smoother?!
We had fun at the play. Shakespeare can be rather bawdy, and his comedies are quite funny, even when you can't understand what the actors are saying. Their body language really makes it, I think. On the way back home, we stopped at a small historic town and went to a museum and to look at an old home. We like going to county museums and looking around. It was darn hot, however--around 94 degrees--so we didn't stay long.
Spent the afternoon with my longtime friend who lives here in town. We met for lunch at noon, and she was the only person in the restaurant when I arrived. When we left two hours later, we were the only people there, and the restaurant had actually closed. Since we weren't done talking, we went to her house and chatted until 4:30 pm. Not our record, however. When I used to live here, we chatted for 8 hours straight one time.
I managed to lose 1.6 pounds last week. I have 10 lbs. to go before I get back to my lowest, which I hit last November. Hope to do that before I go back to Boise for a visit in early September, where I tend to like to hit my favorite restaurants.
Hi to Diane and SunnyD! Nice to see everyone posting again. It's hard during the summer, but post when you can, okay?
Sheila, what a very nice post. I like the part about, "post when we can", because we are all busy in the summer. You are sweet.
I new Elaine very well. We are complete opposites, so we did not hang out together. I always had a lot of compassion for her. She was a tiny little thing and she worked hard all her life at a factory job. She will be missed. She stopped every Thursday on her way home from work to visit her grandchildren and son and our daughter. SIL's Dad is going to be really lost without her.
They are taking the barley off the fields today and it ran into the evening, The harvestors needed a place to pull the big trucks in for the night so the barley wouldn't gather moisture and in case it would rain. So DH is out there in his arm sling moving machinery, just when his doctor told him yesterday not to do anything with that arm. "Don't screw this up" those were his exact words. So I am out there pacing like a neverous mother hen worrying that he is going to jerk that shoulder. Of course I don't know what I was going to do about it.
Sheila, I have never talked to anyone for 8 hours straight. That is remarkable. Well, I have to go it is past my bed time and I have a big day tomorrow. Take care everyone. Hi to SunnyD and Diane. Bye for now
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Hello My Dear Friends!!!
Joe has been off and will be going back to work on Tuesday.
We have been very busy with home & yard clean-up with a bit
of fun things to do in between... I will be back on Tuesday to
catch up with everyone! I do hope this note
finds you all well
Good Monday morning everyone. It's midnight, so, it's officically....AUGUST! ALREADY!
It's so good to hear from you SunnyD. I know everyone is busy with summer. I sure am. It's soooo hot! A lot of summer activities going on keeping us all busy. Hopefully, we can all post when we can, as Sheila says. Just be sure we stay in touch.
I have to make a confession.........I've gained more weight.
I seem to be eating myself to death, lately. My blood pressure is up so high, my dr is having me come by the office each week to have it checked. I've got to get hold of myself & do something, before I'm in trouble. Today, I'm starting a strict diet. I don't know if I have the will power, but I've got to try.
Our son turned 26 yesterday. He's still living with us.............anyway, I decided to have a family gathering at MIL's house for him. I thought it would give us a good memory of family being together, recently. It went very well. I think it help everyone to be together again, after FIL passing away. This time it was a happier occasion.......nothing large, just being together & of course, eating! We surprised him. He's never had a party & it was nice.
Our granddaughter had a car accident Thursday night, going home from work. She was driving her aunt's car. (her mom's twin) Thank God, she's ok, but the car is totalled. It was a very long night. She was disoriented afterward & didn't know where she was. She called her mom & told her she was somewhere out in an open field & didn't know where she was. That there was animals (she had hit a deer) & was afraid to get out of the car. Apparently, she was in shock....had went off the road into a fence & spun several times, tearing up the fence. It took the State & County Patrols over an hour to find her by talking to her on the cellphone. The next night, she passed out at work, & we spent all night at the ER with them running tests. They said she was ok....mostly bruised, dehydrated, etc. I think she had worried about her aunt's car, until it made her sick. Of course, our daughter was more worried about her, than the car.
Our little great-grandson will be born Wednesday. He is already over 8 lbs, so the dr is going to induce labor at midnight Tuesday. Pray that all goes well. OH NO!! I'm gonna be OLD & FAT TOO!!!!
Bluet...hope your DH didn't hurt his shoulder again. What are we going to do with these men?????????? I worry about my DH constantly, working on this house.
I seem to be rambling tonight. Guess I just need to go back to bed, & see if I can sleep.
Hello to Sheila (how's your dad?), Diane, Bonnie-2...hope you all have a good week. The Jone's are on vacation this week, so I'm working every day. Don't know how much posting I'll feel like doing.
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It looks like we all are so busy this summer but it was so good to hear from each of you. I have been running like a chicken with my head cut off taking care of these kiddos, but loving every minute of it.
Bluet sorry to hear about you sil's Mother, so sad.
I hope this finds the rest of you staying cool, boy it has been a hot one hasn't it? I am so ready for Fall.
I will check back later when I have more time to write...I think of you all often.
Diane, so good to hear from you. Can't wait to hear more about how the baby is doing. Hopefully, Bradley is still being the wonderful big brother and hasn't gotten tired of his sister. Hey, no fall, no fall!! We just started summer in July around here, although it's supposed to hit the century mark on Thursday, which I could do without.
Bluet, hope your DH didn't screw his arm up when he was moving the machinery. How is it doing now? Hope your SIL's Dad is doing okay, and isn't too depressed. My half-sister lost her husband in January, and you could tell how depressed she was, although she tried to hide it. Nothing interested her. Plus her family lived in the city, and she and her DH had moved quite a ways away from everyone after they retired and only had each other. I'm glad your SIL's Dad at least has family around.
SunnyD, looking forward to hearing about your fun things, and also what you've been doing in your yard, etc. We laid some landscape cloth down over the area where we had the junipers removed, and put bark dust down. We needed to keep the weeds down until we can figure out what we want to do in the yard. We're letting our lawn die, too, then we'll cover it with cardboard and lay down a bunch of compost and good dirt so we can start over again. We've worked on so many yards and ended up moving that it's a bit hard to start on yet another yard. Almost afraid if we do we'll have to move!
Charlotte, they say confession is good for the soul--hopefully for the waistline, too! We're here to support you in any way we can. We'll be for you, although you have several of those in your family already! Yup, we all know what we have to do to lose weight, but the problem is actually doing it. How are you doing so far today?
How nice of you to surprise your son with a party. Maybe pretty soon you can give him a housewarming party, too.
Oh, my, I'm so glad your granddaughter is okay. How scary for everyone, especially when she passed out at work the next day.
You're too young to be a great grandma!! Is his mother really small, and that's why they have to induce? So why are they inducing labor at midnight?
We had a nice weekend looking at historic homes with a friend, plus my son came down from the Seattle area to be the best man in his (biological) father's wedding. On Sunday, my DH turned 54 so we had his daughter, my son, and a friend over for dinner. I ate too much birthday cake. The rest of the meal I did great--no garlic bread, used whole wheat pasta for myself, but when that cake was cut, I just couldn't help myself. I froze the rest of the cake and told my DH he had to eat it quickly. So at least I didn't eat anymore after Sunday, but it's amazing what one off day can do.
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It is going to be another super hot day above 90* 10 days so far this summer, usually about 3-4.
I am getting around for the airline trip with mil next tues, am.I'll stay at ds mon. night & he'll take me early to detroit airport for my 7:00 flight.I'll be gone with her 6 days. Not sure if she has internet but we'll set something up,any ideas on free dialup or low priced & good ones gals?
I have had peas, beans, cukes,& green beans from my garden so far, the tomotoes aren't doing great this year with it being so dry.
hope all of you gals are having a great summer. Bonnie2
Charlotte, I'm thinking of you and your DH. It's so tough to worry about a job, isn't it? And you certainly don't need the stress of that right now. Take some big, deep breaths and do a lot of praying, which I'm sure you are.
We're here to support you in any way we can. We'll be 
for you, although you have several of those in your family already! Yup, we all know what we have to do to lose weight, but the problem is actually doing it. How are you doing so far today?
