Good morning gals. It is still very pleasant here. This is unusual for even Memphis. We are usually in the low 40's for this time of year. Maybe we will have an early spring and it will start warming the pool up! I know, it is only January, but the pool opens Memorial Day less than 5 months! It will be freezing, but it will be open.

Gloria: That is kind of funny about the knee. It is great he is getting around though. My dd's fil had knee surgery and still has to walk with a cane and that was back early last summer. I took my leaf blower and blew all those peanuts together and picked up what I could. Part of them went into the yard next door with the empty condo that is all trashy in back so I refused to go over there and clean them up. I had to go over there yesterday morning and nail back up one of the redwood fence slats that had blown off with the wind storm. The place is just nasty. It has used aluminum foil from bbqing, charcoal bags, broken chairs etc etc. I am about ready to complain to the association about it. It is an eye sore to me and the person who lives on the other side, but can't be seen from the street.

Jean: Graceland is purely tourist. It costs like $25 to tour the dumb house. You park across the street and ride a tour bus through the front gate, no WALKING ALLOWED. There is a pink hotel called the "Heartbreak Hotel" and a gift shop, one of his planes, some memorbilia and this tacky diner on the side you park. I used to work about 3 miles from there and Jack had lunch with me at the diner once. Talk about a greasy spoon! We see lots of Elvi in Vegas when we go. Even those that don't perform go there dressed like him. We saw one incredibly fat guy poured into a jumpsuit. I thought he looked so pathetic. It is usually quiet here as far as Elvis except for his birthday and his death date then they swarm here every year. The thing is, Graceland is in one of the WORST parts of town. The crime in that part of the city is awful. It is tacky all around it. It wasn't of course, when ELvis bought Graceland, but even all those years ago it was a low income neighborhood. Here is this big mansion with Piggly Wigglys, check cashing/title loan places, used car lots, chicken and rib joints and tacky convenience stores surrounding it. Oh, I wanted to tell you that Jack's foot is getting better with the ball exercises. He came home last night saying it hurt him a lot, but he says it was because the piece in his shoe to help it, slipped and he ended up walking on an edge of it. {{{OUCH}}}

Well, I need to get hopping and get the living room rug shampooed and the mopping done.

Have a great day girls!

Faye

Good morning gals! Except for my tootsies, which are bare and cold, it is pretty decent here this morning. We are going to be warming up to near 70 again. Weird weather this year for sure. At least the trash guys didn't drop a bazillion of those peanuts out on the road for me to pick up yesterday. They did a pretty good job of getting them all in the truck!

My phone rang yesterday and I checked the caller ID and saw it was my son so I picked it up and this strange man's voice said, "This is the Tennessee gambling commission and you need to return the $2300 you won. There is a problem with how you won it." He went on for awhile and I laughed and said, "Ok, so which of Jay's friends is this." He laughed and said, "Hi, mama." That boy. I didn't figure it out until right now that he said Tennessee and not only do we not have casinos in TN, they are not allowed! He should have said Mississippi! They had been in Boston last weekend and also visited Niagara Falls. My dil's father is in prison in Concord. He has been in prison a long time now and will get out in 2 years. They are trying to deport him (he is not an american citizen) but my son and dil are trying to keep him here as he desperately needs a heart transplant. Stupid man got caught transporting a semi full of some kind of drugs years ago in El Paso TX. I guess her mom and dad have been divorced since she was a little girl. When we went to the wedding, a lot of her dad's family came and were so very nice. Now here is the funny part, one of her dad's brothers is a police detective in Los Angeles! Boy, you want a good looking man! Whoooeeee! Her dad's family is Hispanic and this uncle makes Benjamin Bratt look positively UGLY!

Jean: Jack has up and down days with the foot being sore, but it is much much better. He does his roll the ball exercises every night. He says it doesn't start hurting until about 1 PM every day and that is better than it was. I figure in time it will get better. Good for you! Keep up the good work with the lbs off! I am going this weekend and getting my kitchen and fridge full of good stuff and getting rid of junk so we can lose weight again.

Well, I guess I better go. I have bills to pay, furniture to move, stuff to take off walls, the bathrooms to clean and chores to do. Tomorrow is furnace day and I sure dread that. The poor cat and dog are going to have to be locked up until they finish.

TTFN

Faye