Hi everybody! Hope all had a good day. Mine was very long...worked at the station, then went & cleaned church, while hubby cut the grass. Anyway I'm tired!!http://www.jeffpylenz.com/INCREDIMAI...RS/Groaner.gif

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to bluet!! So glad to have you. I have 11 grandchildren....so, how do you think I feel when they go home?.....http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung...smiley-081.gif...I do love them, & they're hardly all ever here at the same time.....I think my age is catching up with me!

Willow...yes, I'm a christian... I'm also old enough to have heard all kinds of language!
:lol: I just felt sorry for the child! I had to sit on my son, when he was 2...& hold him down, for the dr to sew his head up, where he fell. Yes, I wonder where the sedations & painkillers are..especially with all the money they collect from us!!
The bone marrow thing, though...the dr told me, when he was doing it the last time, that he could numb the site...but there wasn't any way of numbing the bone. He could have knocked me out, or something, though. Even over the head! AT the time, I would have been thankful!:dizzy: Oh, yeah, congrats on the weightloss! You've really got it going again!!http://www.gifanimations.com/Image/A...od/apple_1.gif

Sheila...congrats on the weightloss! http://www.gilly.0catch.com/emoticons/cheer.gif

Hello to Sue, Fatpuss & summer....take care!

I'll try to check in tomorrow...have a great weekend. http://www.funnygreetings.com/graphi...tes_lg_clr.gif

Hi Sheila, Willow, and Angel

Thank you for the warm welcome to the forum.

I know all about remodeling and plaster dust. My husband and I live in the original farm house that he grew up in. Our home is over 100 yuears old and we have done major remodeling to many parts of the house. Each time we are done with a new remodel, I always say "Never Again"! :^: , but that never stops us. Now that we have reached our 60's, I think we are most likely done with the remodling.

All our children are grown up and married and moved away from home, so it is just myself and my husband in this big house now.
We have three daughters and one son and six grandchildren, with another due shortly.

I live in Wisconsin, and we really do have three seasons here, with winter being the longest of course. I think Spring is my favorite season, when the weather starts to warm up and the flowers start to bloom. I have several perenial flower beds around my house and my hobby is working in them and having them look nice and discovering new perenials to try. Willow what are you trying to do with your rose bush? I have about 6 rose bushes in my flower beds. This was a good year for roses.

Where are you ladies posting you weight loss? I noticed that you mentioned it to one another. Have any of you gotten interested in Kathleen DesMaisons' Total Sugar Addiction Recovery Program?

Well gotta go, getting tired, hope I can sleep all night for a change.

Sincerely,

Bluet

Welcome Bluet, you have come to the right site for support. Don't feel guilty about how you feel when the grandkids leave, I don't have any grandkids yet but even when grown-up kids visit it's nice when they go just to get the place back in order and the old routine back. Having said that, son rang today to say he will be coming tomrrow with his friend for sunday dinner. He was only here last weekend so I guess he wants to see as much of the cat as he can before it gets more sick. Having said that, you wouldn't think he was sick! Son's friend is Hindu and vegetarian so I have been scouring cookbooks for veggie roast instead of roast beef. He is a lovely guy and wouldn't mind if I gave him the full dinner minus the meat but I have bought some quorn which I believe is a good meat substitute. Will let you know how it turns out. Sheila, it is brilliant that your daughter is in the Navy - I remember you saying she was interested in joining. Glad your 'boomerang son' is applying for jobs. It's not easy, don't know about you ladies but I still don't know what I want to do. Maybe when I grow up...that's another thing, anyone else like me who still feels like I haven't grown up yet? What's that about, I wonder. Angel, you could certainly get a job doing your wonderful graphics but I am sorry you are unable to take your Methotrexate. I believe it's a wonderful drug for arthritis but blood tests have to be done regularly for toxidity. I hope your pain isn't increased too much. Willow, I have heard Rosemary Clooney sing (didn't she die recently?) on the tv years ago. Nice voice. Rosemary Conley must have a website as there are clubs like WW all over the country but hers incorporate exercise at the meetings too. I will check it out. As for paternity tests on baby teeth, I was at the supermarket last week with DH and son and a little old lady pulled my husband to one side and said "isn't he the image of his mother?". He may be the only one husband would consider paternity on as daughter is the model of DH. Son is built like a barn door with shoulders like an ox and we often wondered where he came from ha ha. I don't even know whose teeth are whose in the bag. Sheila, YOU LOSER :dance: :cb: well done on the loss, brilliant for you.

Thank you for the welcome. :goodvibes. You know, this is so special, I have always wanted to be able to chat with someone from England. I have read sooooo many english novels in my life time. I imagine that living in the English Country Side would be ideal. I always thought I would come back in my second life as a beautiful sought after English Aristocrate with tons of money. Ha
wouldn't that be outrageous?

All silliness aside, I truly would like to visit Great Britain someday, it is one of my dreams. We just had a nephew and his wife go to England for a friends wedding. They just fell in love with the country side and the people there. They had the pleasure of staying at a cottage that the grooms parents rented for them.

Today is one of my grandsons birthdays and I baby sat for some of the grandchildren that were too small to go to the party. I am tired, didn't get done what I planned to do. But, enjoyed the kids.

We are having beautiful weather right now for September, hope it continues until April, and then we can start with Spring again.

GOOD EVENING, LADIES!
 

I just now sat down to eat my supper. I have been working in my kitchen all day, except for 2 trips to shop, one for about an hour and the other about a half hour. I'm :tired:
I started about 8:30 this morning, and didn't plan to do as much as I ended up doing, but, now that I did, I'm glad I did it.
I took things out of cupboards and drawers and cleaned and re-lined the drawers, threw away a bunch of stuff that was still good but not necessary. I mean, ... how many stirring spoons can one person need? I've still got about 6 that I kept. I went and bought new silverware holders, and I had so much of that, that I put enough for another household in a tupperware container for the kids to play with.
I took everything off the counter tops and couldn't believe I was hanging on to some of that stuff. :dizzy:
I have a couple little corners where "things" get shoved when I or anyone else is in a hurry, so I bought 2 little 4-shelf stands to put in there and put my coffee grinder and stuff like that on them. Looks cute! and neat!

I still haven't finished wiping up the floor in there. Just did the places that were back in corners before I put the stands up. I'll finish it later.
I did manage to vacuum my living room and bedroom too.

I don't know if I managed to wear off any calories or not because I didn't actually do anything STRENUOUS, but, at least I wasn't sitting all day.
I had to laugh this evening when I ran to get some fresh veggies, my shoes felt loose! I was laughing because I thought, "that would be just my luck! I'll lose weight in my feet!" :D

I ate pretty good today. Had an omelet with stirfry veggies and 97% fat free ham and a slice of FF cheese with 2 sl. whole wheat toast with ICBINB for breakfast.
Had spaghetti and meatballs for lunch.
And for supper a huge salad with an ounce each of deli low fat ham and turkey and a slice of ff cheese. Had lots of different veggies in it. So, .... I'm stuffed. Couldn't eat it all.

Puss, what is quorn? Is it a ground-up vegetable? I would be lost if I had to cook for someone who is a vegetarian. I really should learn how to cook those kinds of foods. You just never know when you're going to need to know that. That would be a good challenge for me when I retire. Go to school and learn that.
One time I was going to try a recipe using tofu, and that was the first and last time. It was the most God-awful tasting thing I've ever eaten. I think it was suppose to be spaghetti sauce, and it was terrible. I remember it had tomato in it, so it must have been. Also meat loaf. AACH! I just know that I had to have misinterpreted the instructions. There were big lumps of this whitish stuff in there, and it didn't taste anything like the rest of the ingredients, like I was told it would. :shrug:

I'm delighted that kitty is still doing good! I think :angel:'s are watching over him!

Charlotte, I hope you're feeling ok today. I gotta tell you I just love the lady with the rollers in her hair eating the yum yums! Adorable!

Bluet, it's nice to have a big house though when everybody comes home for the holidays, etc. I suppose it does get expensive to heat etc, though.
I closed off the bedrooms upstairs, and just use it for attic or storage space now.

What part of Wisconsin do you live in? I live in southeastern MN.
The rosebush I referred to is a climbing 7-sister rose bush, and it has canes about 20 feet long and it has gotten out of control. It's taking over everything, ... my clematis, my iris', tulips, rhododendrons, the electric meter, ...... :lol:
So, I'm going to cut off the canes to the top of the circle of fencing I planted it in, and then try to dig it up and re-plant it out behind the shed where it can fight with a blasted grape vine I haven't been able to get rid of in 30 years. I have dug down so deep trying to find the end of that root to that grape vine, and I think it goes all the way to **** because I can't get it. I chop it off way down in the ground, and it comes right back up. :dizzy:
Anyway, I'm not looking forward to fighting with those canes to that rose bush.

We don't actually have any other place that we post our weight losses, just here. I don't know if you know it or not, but they have journals for members here too. You can make them public or private. But, we just tell each other when we've had a loss. Sheila and I both go to Weight Watchers,(I just joined last week) and I have weigh-in on Thursdays.
I am always so happy to see someone have a loss. It makes you more determined to stick with it yourself, I think. And, even if someone should have a gain or stay the same, it's nice to know you've been around so they can vent and maybe help figure out the reason.
I've gotten to like these ladies so well by now, that I'd surely miss them terribly if anyone quit posting.

I've never heard of that Kathleen DesMaisons Program. Is it a low carb plan also? Is that what you're doing for weight loss?

I better get a move on again. Hello to Sue, Sheila and Summer!

See you all later! Have a good evening!

Hi to everyone. I am up really early to get the roast beef in the oven but it was still slightly frozen even though left out overnight in the kitchen. That's a sign that summer is over for us. I have the central heating on already and my electric blanket on at night but I did say I've always felt the cold more than the average. I look at films about arctic explorers and know I wouldn't have lasted a week! Bluet, what kind of novels have you read? I am a bookaholic - which is why I don't exercise, I suppose, a waste of good reading time. I don't live in the country but it's a one street shopping town and we get foxes, badgers and hedgehogs in the garden all the time. At the moment I am losing a battle with badgers who have a set across my road by the canal and keep digging my front lawn up searching for slugs and snails etc. They make a terrible mess. I have never been to the States but the Americans I have met and made friends with when living in the Middle East and Far East have been really nice and friendly. My uncle worked on Wall Stree for 40 years and retired to Florida about 10 years ago but misses New York. I was listening to the radio and the English reporter was re-entering the US after having to leave for a short while for visa requirements. The lady Customs official said "never mind, you won't have to do this once you get that little piece of paper". The reporter asked her what she meant and the lady explained she meant citizenship. The reporter explained that she didn't want US citizenship and said the official was open-mouthed and couldn't believe anyone would not want to be an American citizen. That's what the programme was about, US nationalism. I suppose the official is so used to many nationalities which would kill to get US citizenship that she couldn't understand this English reporter being happy with her British passport, ha ha. Whenever I see films about the Mid West it always looks idyllic - I always wanted to live on Walton's Mountain! Willow, sounds like you had a good clear out in your kitchen. Had to laugh about your 'sloppy shoes'. I have narrow feet to begin with and only consolation to gaining weight was I could fit regular shoes. Now I am back to skinny feet and having to pad regular shoes. Quorn is soya ground beef substitute and I had a taste of the finished thing and to be honest, it tastes just like stuffing - the sage and onion mix you stuff Christmas turkey with. Much rather have the beef, myself. Well, I got on the scales this morning - my proper weigh in day - and am now down to 146 which is the lowest I have been for years BUT, I was here a few weeks ago before putting the 3lb on so a real breakthrough will be when (if) I get to 145. I was planting tulip bulbs yesterday and kitty thought it was great - think I mentioned he's been using newly dug flower bed as a ready made toilet!! Haven't the heart to shout at him now he is ill. Hope everone has a lovely day, hi to all our friends here.

Hey, Fatpuss, I wanted to live on Walton's Mountain, too! Although I think it was supposed to represent an area in Virginia, I'm sure it was filmed on some place in California. Don't hit me, you other U.S. citizens, but every so often I think I would rather be Canadian. British Columbia only--too cold for me in most other places.

Quorn, huh. I eat vegetarian chili, fake sausage, and some other things with soy in it, but I don't know if I could eat something that's named "Quorn." Just sounds a touch strange. Not a big beef eater either, though. Give me a hunk of salmon or some other seafood and I'd be in hog heaven!

My friend had a neighbor who ended up with a badger in his garage. I've never seen one outside of the zoo, but they certainly have nasty claws, and I understand they can rip up a trap pretty easily. I don't think I'd like to see one on my lawn. My DH saw a coyote the other night. You wouldn't think there'd be coyotes in the middle of a fairly large city, but we've heard reports that they live here.

So glad your cat is doing better. Hey, I understand about big boys eating you out of house and home. My son better get a job soon because I can't afford to continue to feed all 6'5" of him!

Congrats to all you LOSERS out there! It's nice to see those scales going the right away again.

It rained last night--hallelujah! The ground just soaked it up. This week it's supposed to be cloudy and rainy and I don't mind a bit. I've been putting off some house chores because it's been too hot inside so this will be the perfect time to attend to those.

Speaking of pets, we've had this reoccurring problem of a cat peeing in the bathtub. We took the suspected culprit in and it wasn't him. Then we took the second cat in and she had a slight bladder infection so we treated her. The peeing stopped and then started again so we took her in again and she still had some bad cells so we treated her again. The peeing stopped, then started again so we took her in again, but she didn't have any problems. Then we thought it was behaviorial. My DH saw the third cat, the only cat we didn't have tested, tearing out of the bathtub the other day so we took her in, and she has a raging urinary tract infection with crystals so it was probably her all the time, poor cat. When you have three cats, you just don't know who is doing what unless you catch them in the act. I always have to laugh when the vet asks me if a particular animal is vomiting--we're always finding vomit and we have six pets so it could be any of them!

Planning on going to the Farmer's Market and stocking up on great veggies again today. Hope everyone has a relaxing Sunday.

Guess I better pop in and say hello before you all think I have left the planet. Just came home from GD's soccer game. The kids are only 6 years old and some of them play like little pros and the others don't have a clue. I felt sorry for them, it was so hot. They all have their insulated water bottles with them though, and the coaches constantly rotate the players.

Went out to dinner last night to a great seafood place. Had broiled scallops and boiled new red potatoes and a salad. And homemade bread that was delicious. I promised my DD I would make some bread while she is here. I have been wanting to try a round loaf on my pizza stone. I have no willpower when it comes to fresh bread and butter. Dinner tonight is chicken. Mine plain, DH's chicken and gravy on a biscuit. Haven't made that in years, so I was reminded. ;)

I smiled when I read your last post Sheila - I was born in P.E.I. Canada, and became a US citizen when I was 18 or 19. I am still a Canadian in my heart though.

I'm with Willow - tried tofu once and that was enough for me. I would rather eat a little less of the real thing. Like dressings, I have tried many lowfat, no fat, sugar free/fat free etc etc but I still prefer the original Hidden Valley Ranch. I just dip my fork in it when I eat a salad and get it on the side at a restaurant. I notice that many products with a reduced amount of fat have an incredible amount of sugar. There has to be a better balance somewhere.

Haven't exercised in three days.:shrug: :( No real excuse either, just a lazy spell I guess. Back on track in the morning.

Welcome Bluet! I have just scanned the posts and realized we have two new friends! Just the mention of remodeling and plaster dust makes us almost "kinfolk". I was looking through old photo albums one day and found three different pictures of myself standing on a ladder with a dustmask on and tearing out plaster and lathe. The funny thing was that one was in my house, one in my sister's house, and the third in my other sister's house. They got quite a kick out of them. My ripping and tearing days are through I hope.

Gotta get those biscuits in the oven. Take care all. Hope everyone had a great weekend. Sue

Hi Everyone,
Can I join the party? I'm not yet 50 (will be by the end of the month). You seem like a friendly, supportive group and I definitely need that.

A nice weekend, ....
 

I accomplished a lot this weekend, but not as much as I'd like to.
Today was laundry day, and I also went shopping for a new(bigger) tool box and a new drill.
I was going to put a bracket on my shed for a trash bag and when I went to use my drill, it didn't work, so, guess someone must have dropped it or something. Anyway, I went and bought a new one, and my tool box was getting too small for all my stuff, so I bought a bigger one and transferred everything to that one.
I got my bracket on and now I'm putting padlocks on 2 doors downstairs. People have figured out how to trip the locks on the knobs. I was just getting started on that when my sister from Michigan stopped in. So, when I'm done here, I'll go finish putting those on.

I'm eating my supper as I type this. grilled pollock Walleye, stirfry veggies with cooking spray, and oyster sauce, and 2 slices of whole wheat toast with ICBINB. Strawberries for dessert. And tea.

I started to tackle that rosebush, and I quit because I need to find some gloves that I can pull on those canes with and not have the thorns go through the gloves. What a mess!! I think I'm going to have to cut my clematis off of the lattice work because those blasted canes have intertwined with everything. I might even advertise for someone to come and dig it out for me. Maybe someone will want it free for taking it out.

I've got my clothes all ready for work tomorrow, so now all I have to do is get something ready for my lunch and I'm all set.

So, ... how was the roast, Puss? I already know it was delicious. :D

I don't have any HEAT on yet. I couldn't imagine. I still have my air conditioning on. It has been pretty warm here the last couple of days. My house is always too cold for other people. In the winter I close the vent in my bedroom and a lot of the time I crack the window that goes to the porch just a bit so the cool fresh air comes in my room. Then I put lots more covers on, .... till I wake up sweating.

Hedgehogs look so cute! Are they a nuisance? They look like miniature porcupines crossed with a mole.
I know that badgers can be vicious. They can gut another animal with one swipe of those claws. My Dad used to trap fox and stuff when I was a kid and every once in a while he'd get a badger in a trap. In those days they paid bounty on fox, racoon,beaver, all kinds of stuff.

That quorn sounds very good to me. If it tastes just like dressing, I want to try it because the dressing is one of my favorite parts of a thanksgiving meal.
Does it come already seasoned like that, or is it a dry thing that you have to add liquids and seasonings to? I wonder if the health food store here would have it. I need to check that out. I love sage and onion stuffing.

See? You got some exercise planting those bulbs and you had a loss today. Good job! I bet you'll be at 145 next week. It's going to go slower for you now because you're getting down close to where you should be. That's always the slowest part to lose. But, hang in there, you'll make it to your goal.

My former neighbors cats used to come and use my flower beds for their potty. That always made for some loud cussing on my part! Just what I wanted, to be happily pulling weeds and stick my fingers in a cat turd! :dizzy:

I had a couple rubber plants and they of course were in huge pots, and my cat started peeing in them! That's when we discovered she had a kidney disease.

One of my favorite authors is Torey Hayden. She didn't write enough books in my opinion. She was a special needs specialist teacher, and her books were about some of the children she worked with and once I started one, I couldn't put it down. You experienced every emotion there is while reading. I'd go from crying to laughing in a minute.
Then, I looked for years for the only book of hers that I hadn't read, and it was out of publication and everything. I wanted it so badly, and finally found it in a search for rare and out of date books, only to find that it was a fiction! I was soooo mad! I wanted it to be another of her true-life stories. She told them so well you were right there in her classrooms. So, I never did buy THE SUNFLOWER FOREST.

Sheila, I've never been to Canada, but, my relatives have been there on vacations, and I'd love to go some day. They say it's absolutely beautiful.
I do love the part of the country I live in though. It's bluff country, and it truly does seem like you're driving through a postcard. The town I live in is also on the mississippi river, and I've put in many hours in my life on this river.

Sue, I thought of you today when I was reading the fishing report. They say that the panfish are starting to head back into the back waters already and the bluegills and crappies are biting on jigs with waxies both with and without bobbers. Water temps dropped about 7 degrees and they figure that's why they're biting like crazy.

Your dinners last night and tonight both sound sooo good. I love new red potatoes with parsley.
If I started on homemade bread, I'd eat the whole loaf. Especially if it was still warm.
I don't have a pizza stone. Are they hard to get used to using? I hear that the crust gets done better, .. more evenly without drying out. True?
I KNOW those biscuits were good!

Hello Connie!! WELCOME! So glad you decided to join us. We love getting new members. Age doesn't really matter here. That's just the way the thread started out, and we've kept it. Anyone is welcome. But, now that you mention it, I guess we are all in our 50's but Bluet, and I'll be 60 in April.

These gals definitely are supportive and friendly.

Stick with us and you'll enjoy it as much as I do. Is there a certain plan that you're following, or are you following the sensible, balanced way of eating? There are so many different plans, and I guess each person has a different thing that works for them.
I just want to get healthy and of course I want to look better too.
I have a hundred pounds that I'd like to get rid of, but, I'm just going to eat healthy and stay as active as I can and see where it takes me.

I was on a mood thing a couple of weeks ago, and, like I said earlier, I don't know why I do that to myself, because I feel so much better when I'm being healthy.
So, yes, come on and join the party!

I need to go gat the rest of my work done and get to bed for work tomorrow.

Hello to Bluet, Charlotte and Summer! Hope your weekend was a good one!

Hi Everyone,

Well the weekend is over, time to reorganize my mind and think about heading out the door early for work tomorrow morning.
Puss, I read anything actually my favorite are romantic novels in the 1800's taking place in England, western romance novels, any books that have a good story line and history to them.

We live on Lake Michigan, 120 miles north of Milwaukee. I am still waiting to have a rose grow 20 foot canes on any rose that I have grown here in all of the 39 years we have lived in this house. And then mabe not, ;) I would not look forward to trimming it either.

Kathleen DesMaisons has written three books, Potates Not Prozac, The Sugar Addicts Total Recovery Program and Your Last Diet. She also has a support web site too. I have been following her program since April 23, 2003. Her program is about being sugar sensitive and getting steady on her program of breakfast every day with a protein and complex carb, three meals a day with protein and complex carbs and a complex carb three hours after your last meal and eventually, if you choose, giving up sugar and white flour completely. I have lost 20 pounds since I started her program, but now I am frustrated and on a plateau. I know I need to excercise everyday, but I am lazy about excercise.

Even though Wisconsin is nicknamed the Badger State, and we live in the country, I have yet to see a real badger. We have a Yellow Lab and a Chesapeake Bay Retriver, and they don't allow any preditors to hang around our farm. Even the farm cats hide from them. We have deer and raccoons though, those I have actually seen from time to time, they can do a lot of damage to the crops.

I picked up a summer cold, from one of the grand children, and am feeling a little punk, hope it does not hang on too long. Also, I did not get a darn thing done with the house cleaning or the storage room cleaning, so I am very very envious of the cupboard cleaning going on here. :s: Well, it won't get done next weekend either, because that weekend is totally booked too.

Take care you guys, I am really glad I found all of you out there in cyberspace. :D Thanks for reading my ramblings!!!
Talk to you later.

Bluet

http://www.coolgifs.de/welcome/a_t_we03.gif Connie! Glad to have you!

Hi bluet...You ask about posting our weight loss. If you want to post a journal-like deal, you can go to www.fitday.com ....or, what I did...is made a Homepage, & posted weightloss & pics. Your website clicks on at the bottom of your post! I'm a couple of weeks behind...need to catch up!

Willow...you must be some great cook! Every post has delicious sounding recipes! Too bad I don't live near you. :lol: How's your health doing now?

Fatpuss...I know you're enjoying your kitty's feeling better. I'm happy for you & hope it lasts. Thanks for thinking of me.

Sue....remember.... http://gilly.0catch.com/emoticons/yesyou.gif

Sheila....how's it going with your son? Is he working, or painting?

Hope all are doing well....take care... http://www.agifs.hpg.ig.com.br/criancas/criancas4.gif

WOW, this board even grows while I am sleeping. Welcome Connie. Glad you joined us. Dare I tell you I am a stamp addict too. I have been stamping for a couple years, but only went to a Stampin' Up open house three weeks ago. My checkbook was almost $100 lighter when I left. I gave the first card I made with the SU stamps to my sister, who promptly framed it. It was with Feathered Friends. I have to set my timer sometimes, or I would never come out of my stamp room. :dizzy:

Hello to Willow, Sheila, Fatpuss, Bluet, Angel-lover, and Summer too. Have a great day all. Be back soon. Sue

Couldn't resist passing this on, ....
 

Dear Dogs and Cats,

When I say to move, it means go someplace else, not switch positions with
each other so there are still two of you in the way.

The dishes with the paw print are yours and contain your food. The other
dishes are mine and contain my food. Please note, placing a paw print in
the middle of my plate and food does not stake a claim for it becoming your
food and dish, nor do I find that aesthetically pleasing in the slightest.

The stairway was not designed by NASCAR and is not a racetrack. Beating me
to the bottom is not the object. Tripping me doesn't help, because I fall
faster than you can run.

I cannot buy anything bigger than a king-size bed. I am very sorry about
this. Do not think I will continue to sleep on the couch to ensure your
comfort. Look at videos of dogs and cats sleeping, they can actually curl
up in a ball. It is not necessary to sleep perpendicular to each other
stretched out to the fullest extent possible. I also know that sticking
tails straight out and having tongues hanging out the other end to maximize
space used is nothing but sarcasm.

My compact discs are not miniature Frisbees.

For the last time, there is not a secret exit from the bathroom. If by some
miracle I beat you there and manage to get the door shut, it is not
necessary to claw, whine, try to turn the knob, or get your paw under the
edge and try to pull the door open. I must exit through the same door I
entered. In addition, I have been using bathrooms for years, canine or
feline attendance is not mandatory.

The proper order is kiss me, then go smell the other dog's butt. I cannot
stress this enough. It would be such a simple change for you.

To pacify you I have posted the following message on our front door...

Rules for Non-Pet Owners Who Visit and Like to Complain About Our Pets:

1. They live here. You don't.

2. If you don't want their hair on your clothes, stay off the furniture.

3. I like my pets a lot better than I like most people.

4. To you, it's an animal. To me, he/she is an adopted son/daughter who is
short, hairy, walks on all fours and doesn't speak clearly.

5. Dogs and cats are better than kids. They eat less, don't ask for money
all the time, are easier to train, usually come when called, never drive
your car, don't hang out with drug-using friends, don't smoke or drink,
don't worry about buying the latest fashions, don't wear your clothes, don't
need a gazillion dollars for college, and if they get pregnant, you can sell
the results.

Hi Folks!
 

How was your day?
I only slept a little over 3 hours last night, so I'm pretty tired tonight.

I lifted some weights this morning for about a half hour or so. Upper body. Easy does it at first. I can feel it a little tonight though.

I ate pretty good today, but I used some of my Flex Points. Had spaghetti and meatballs and some veggie-only soup for supper. My usual omelet with veggies and toast for break. and a sandwich and veggies and dip for lunch.

It was 94 degrees here today, so I didn't go out after I got home from work. In fact I got a phone call and sat on the phone for about 1 1/2 hours. I sure don't do that very often!

Bluet, congratulations on your 20-pound loss. That's great! I have heard that a plateau after about 20 to 25 pounds is normal, but if you stick with it you will eventually begin to lose again.
I know, ... it sure gets frustrating though. If you don't exercise much, you're probably right, and need to increase that a bit. They say that weight lifting is better than aerobics for weight loss because it builds muscle that uses the sugar that would have been stored as fat.
I'm gonna try it for a while. I have a couple books by Joyce Vedral, with photo's showing how to do each exercise with the weights.

Are your roses all tea's or do you have any climbing roses?
I decided today that when it gets cool enough, I'm going back out there and I'll try using a rake to pull the canes out of the other plants, trellis' and electric meter.

You must live near the border with UP Michigan. It's beautiful country up there. I had a relative in Manitowac, and have some in the UP too.

Charlotte, glad to see your post. Hope you're still feeling ok.
I'm doing pretty well too. Kind of a cough and sore throat the last couple of days, but nothing that I need to take anything for.
All I need right now is some sleep. :D

My sister wants me to ask all my kids to come home this coming weekend so she can see all of them. So, we'll see how many of them can get here. I have a feeling that I'm going to be doing some cooking this weekend.

Hi Sue! What is stamping, anyway? I've seen people post about it before but never knew for sure what they meant.
I don't get out much. ;)

Hello to Connie, Sheila, Summer, Puss, and anyone else out there.
Hope you're all having a good day!