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in reply to: June-The Official Start of Summer #40686
Hi Gail,
My bil father use to boil crawfish and they would have a big dinner. We never did eat them that I can remember. We do not live close to anywhere that you can get fresh lobster or anything else. That is one reason I would love to go to the east coast where you can get that fresh.
Well you will not believe that I ordered from Quacker. I ordered the tsv with the skort and the vest. I even got it in red. I am not sure that I will keep it when it gets here but I did order it. I am getting daring. The only two colors that will go with it though is blue and black. So do not know if I made a mistake or not. I will have to see if it covers my knees at all. I hope that it does.
We are lucky with our stove it is gas. So we can use that no matter if we have electric or not. We also have a large supply of paper plates. I really need to get some plastic silver ware so then we would not have that to wash either. We go buy bottled water to wash the pans in and that is always a pain. We also get some to drink. It also helps to keep those things that you can brush your teeth with that does not need water. They do not do as good a job as your tooth brush but at least it cleans your teeth. We have had it go out for a week and once a little over a week. It was nice though they gave away free bottled water at the fire stations so we would have water. They also let us take showers at the Civic Centere. That is a long drive though.
We have been getting enough rain to last most of the summer. That would be nice but probably by July we will be wanting rain really bad. We have gotten into this weather pattern and cannot seem to get out of it. It is cooler today though that is one good thing.
I got my doctors appointments mixed up the other day. I went to the back doctor and the girl at the desk tells me that my appointment was for today. That was aggravating. She said that she would try to work me in but they were pretty busy so told her I would come back today. When we got there they were paving the parking lot and there was no where to park. So had to drive around to find a space. I think some of the patients canceled their appointments because of the parking. I do not blame them.
A pool would really be nice. Ron will not get one either. The kids have offered to buy the pool (above ground) if he would let them put it in our yard. He still told them no. I am with you it would be nice to have one and you can go out especially when you are feeling sore and just float in the water. That really does help when your back is sore or anything else. Ron should understand he is starting to have back pain. He tries to do too much during the day and he is not as young as he use to be.
I hope that you get to go to New Mexico. I hear that it is really pretty there. My nephew lives there in Farmington N.M. His kids love it there. They use to live in California and he does not want to move back there. I just hope that you get to see Brent. I know that you are starting to miss him. It is hard when the kids move away. What has Piper been up to here lately? We have not heard a good Piper story for awhile. She is so cute and so full of life. You must be so proud of her. How are Kendal and Lachlan? Did they ever find out what was going on with Kendal? I am still praying for her.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good day.
ColleenHi Sue,
Glad to hear that you are feeling better.
ColleenHi Dianne,
That is a good picture of you and your kitty. She is just so pretty. I like the picture that you have next to the one of you and your kitty.
Your picnic sounds like a lot of fun. I am glad that you could do that with your neighbor. It was nice for both of you. Your lunch sounded really good. I forgot to make baked beans with our bbq. You made me hungry for them.
Sounds like you are having weather like we are having. We just have showers between the heat. It is not going to cool down here though. It is summer and it is going to stay hot. At least now that we have sun and rain the garden will do better. We need to plant an herb garden and get that growing. We have dill and mint already planted in the garden. It is so good to have around. I love the mint in my tea. It gives it a good taste. My grandma use to grow it at her house and my mom took a cutting and planted it at her house. She would take a cutting every time that she moved. So then she gave us some. So it has been in the family for a long time. Mint is a hearty plant.
I have never been on a cruise and probably never will go. The way I fall it would be my luck that I would fall over board. lol They would sail off and I would be there with the sharks.
Well that is about all from here have a good night.
ColleenHi Gail,
Your meal sounded really good that you had on Memorial day. We did not have any asparagus picked to put on the grill. I like my asparagus like that Ron not so much. I also like corn on the cob on the grill but he doesn’t so we just boil it. You know what sounds really good is a lobster and claim boil. With the potatoes and the corn and all laid out on the table for everyone to eat. That just looks so good. They showed a clam bake on the Chew today and that is what me think of it. We will have to go east one year so we can try that.
That is disappointing that the ex ball players do not come and play for free. It is going for such a good cause you would think with all the money they have made from playing sports that they could volunteer one day to play golf. If there are families that deserve this special Christmas it is the kids that the ONP sponsor. Will you and Greg do the Christmas party this year? I know you did not last year to give others a chance. I just wondered if you missed it so much that you decided to go back. You and Greg do a lot for that group. Staying home and reading a good book sound better then sitting in the sun watching the guys play golf. That was nice that Greg made it thru another game of golf.
I am glad that you went back and got the cherry outfit. You will really like it. I ended up cancelling the shorts that I had on back order. They probably would not come anyway so I just cancelled. I think about ordering the bright colors but it just scares me that I will not match them correctly and look terrible. So I guess that I will wait a little longer. You and Adele have a good sense of style. As you can tell I do not. lol
I ended up not going today. Our electric went off again. We are not sure if there was a storm and we slept thru it or what happened. When we called to report it they said that there was 15,000 other customers out also. They finally got it back on so we could do things again. You do not realize what you can and cannot do when the electric goes out. We do not have water when it goes out so if I sweep the floor in the kitchen cannot mop it because there is no water. It is just a pain. They never did say what happened. One good thing is we got those clocks that set themselves to the right time when the electric goes off. So we do not have to set all of our clocks.
Well that is about all from here have a good night.
ColleenHi Adele,
That will be a mess if Lowes does not get your splash board in on time. They should have it since it was ordered so long ago. They do not always do things the way they are supposed to and that is aggravating. I would stick to my guns and keep fighting for your back splash. You might get an even better deal if the do not deliver. I would not let them get away with it.
You are right the kids will have a good time at the birthday party. They will still miss you though. Aizen will want his cookies and he may want to be at your house late at night again.lol Hope that you found someone to help you with getting the kitchen ready. That is terrible about the plumber. They should have had that all worked out. They are not very dependable.
That is so funny about the cruise. Your poor mom and dad probably were worried about you. The captain must have laughed also. He was probably thinking that if there is a storm a helicopter could not come anyway. I hope that you had a good time for the rest of the cruise after the storm quieted down. I have never been on a cruise and probably never will go. I do like to hear about other people that have gone on one though.
You have quit a schedule for the week. Hope that it all works out like it is supposed to. That is nice to have a sprinkler. I would not worry about what the neighbors think of your lawn. You have the pretty trees and flowers and they do not. All they have is green grass that has to be cut all the time. The different color of grass is pretty in late summer. The brown and the pale green looks really nice. It shows that the seasons have changed and fall is around the corner.
You and Gail are so good with words. I like what both of you said to Barbara about his kids. It is true and I wish I could have thought of those things to say. They were the right words and not like mine. Just a bunch of jumbled words.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good week and hope everything goes as planned.
ColleenHi Barbara,
That was a large crowd for dinner. It must have been a lot of fun though.It is nice to meet new people. That was nice that there was a guy there that drives a truck and Jerry had someone to talk to. It is fun to have something like that happen unexpectedly. Ron would be like Jerry. He does not hear well and it is hard for him with large crowds. Guess they will have to learn to adjust.lol
We were by ourselves today also. It was not too bad. We bbqed and had a nice day. Sometimes it is nice to be by ourselves. I am not sure what the kids did today but they were busy and there is not much that we can do about that. I guess when we were young we were the same way with our parents. It just takes time to get use to it.
I am sorry to hear about Joey and Lisa. That must be a strange to have Joey move and Lisa in the house. I hope that she moves out so Joey can have his house back again. I am glad that you are being nice to her but you would be because you are such a nice person and always have been. She really needs to figure out what she wants and not keep leaving and coming back. Joey probably needed to get away for awhile and has found a nice place to stay for awhile. We will be praying for him and for you and Jerry. It is going to be hard with her there and Joey gone. Just hang in there my friend this will work itself out soon. It is hard to see one of our children hurting. It is a shame that they waited so long to figure all of this out. They were both hurting over staying together.
They have changed so much on qvc not it is hard to know what they will show. I am glad that they are doing more quacker shows though. They never use to have that many. Do you watch the Chics night in with Angel on Wednesday nights? I like to watch that show it just seems like they are just so relaxed and have such a good time. I like to see what quackatizers that they make also. They have some good ones that is for sure.
Going on that trip sounds like a good idea. You need to get away for awhile and Jerry’s mom will enjoy it also. It would be nice to be on the beach and just being lazy for a few days. I hope that you go for it and just have a good time.
Is your son still in the service or has her retired? My son-in -law is still in there and will be for a few more years. He is just starting out and hope that it gets better for them. They do not have the same insurance now that they use to have and that is a shame. They deserve it more then our congressmen and the president. They fight for this country and keep us safe and they deserve to have everything that they need. I get so angry so better quit talking about this subject. You are right we have to be thankful to them for all they do for us and keep us free.
I agree with Jerry. Go out and make some new memories. Go places and do things that you have not done for awhile. The trip is really a good idea. Hope that the three of you go and have a great time.
Well that is all from here. Have a good night.
ColleenHi Sue,
I am sorry to hear that you have been dizzy. I hope that you can figure out what is causing it and can do something to stop it. Just be careful not to get dizzy and fall. You sure do not want to do that. It is hard to age. You feel young on the inside but the body keeps telling us no you are not that young anymore.
Hope when you are retired that you can spend more time on here. It would be nice to have you on here chatting with us.
ColleenHi Adele,
I love the picture of you and Gary. You both look so happy. I bet you look like that just about all the time. You seem to be a happy person. Like your patriotic out fits also. If the kids do not go to a Catholic school don’t the parents decide when they think their children are ready to make their First Communion? I know that they did that here for awhile but do not know if they still do. It looked like a nice party and everyone was enjoying themselves. The girls were standing there with you and Gary. They knew where to stand next to the person that makes all the good cookies. I bet there was not many left when the party was over. May not have been any at all. They looked so good.
Ron did finally put the air conditioner in. All it took was a threat that I would call the kids to come over. So it is finally nice in here and not so hot that we are burning up. It just takes him awhile to figure these things out. We need to get the central air fixed and get rid of the widow unit. Men just do not think. It would save him so much work every year.
We just cut a bunch of worms out of our weeping willow tree. I do not like those things and get so aggravated when they get into our trees. We call them bag worms here and they can do a lot of damage to your trees if you do not catch them before they do. Now I will feel those things crawling all over me tonight. Hope that they do not kill our tree. It is just starting to really grow and do not want anything to happen to it. Those are the prettiest trees. We have three of them. One by the deck and one out in the woods and the third on the end of the cleared part of the land. My grandma use to have one when I was a kid and always loved that tree. She those and holly bushes. She had a green thumb and could get anything to grow.
Do you sometimes wonder if all the allergies come from doctors telling people not to feed their kids all this stuff until they get a certain age. Like peanut butter. They never told us not to feed our kids that and they none of them have a problem with nuts and now they cannot eat any until they get older and they did not build up a immunity to it as a young child. They were saying that people use so many antibiotics that our systems do not have the resistance that we use to have. In some ways I can see that. No one goes out with out their hand sanitizer. When you go into the store they have santizer hanging there so you can wipe off the cart handle before you use it. It is just something to think about. It just always makes me wonder.
It was nice that Ron and his bil did go to the yard sales. Ron does a lot with him. He will stay out as long as he can stand and then when he says or starts to look tired Ron will tell him it is time to go home. Makes it sound like it is his idea. I think that really helps his bil also. That way he does not feel like he is ruining it for Ron. Ron is a really good guy and I know that I complain about him sometimes but he really is a good man.
Sounds like you are having people in and out all week-end. That is always fun. Glad that Steph and her family are coming over and helping you with getting the kitchen cleared out. Take out sounds really good. We had bbq today and it was good. I made a salad that I got off of the Chics Night In. If you go to be creative there is a recipe for a fruit salad. They called it something else but it is the one they had on the last show. It has blueberries and strawberries in it. I changed the recipe a little because of not wanting to use anything with a lot of sugar. If you look up the recipe you will know what I mean. You do not put any sugar on the fruit and Ron thought that it was sweet enough for him.
It will be so nice to have them in to start on our kitchen. It is going to look so good when you get it done. Bet you are getting excited to have it done. Can’t wait to see the pictures.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night.
ColleenHi Gail,
I missed posting on here just one day and I am really far behind. I hope to get caught up with everyone. Your dinner at the french restaurant sounds really good. It is nice to go out with friends and also nice to go out to dinner with just the two of you. It is nice that you had a nice restaurant to go to. The new dinner theater will be really nice. You are right about going right away you never know how long they will stay open. Have you ever gone to a Mystery Dinner? Those are fun. You eat and after they give you a paper with a pencil to figure out who the guilty person is that is in the play. After they collected the answers the guilty person stepped out and they would say how many people got it right. It was a lot of fun. Would love to go to another one but they do not do that as often as they use to. I guess it is hard to get the people to be in the play.
I tried one set of those bands and you put them in the freezer and I agree with you they did not work.As soon as they warmed up that was it and it did not take them long. I got them when Ron was going to the race way with a buddy of his. They said that they did not work too well. You would think that they would improve by now. Oh well live and learn.
Gregs back must be getting bad if he could not finish a round of golf. It really makes it hard when that pain goes down the leg. Sometimes you just have to stop walking and rest for a second or two. I hope that something starts to help him with that. There is not telling what brings it on again. It could be the way he turned or the way he picked something up. There are just so many ways that you can start the pain in your back again. Maybe they will do therapy again and it will help him. They put these things on my back when I got to the back doctor they stimulate the stems in your back. I guess the stems to the nerves. It really does help a lot. I wonder if they have tried that on him yet. They put those on and put a heating pad on my back and that really feels good.
It was nice that you were there at Jenny’s while it was raining. Sometimes storms really scare me also. It is not as bad as it use to be but guess when you get older you figure you are going to die of something so if it is from a storm so be it. I am getting really cynical now. We are going to have storms here tonight and tomorrow. Of course it is going to storm tomorrow I have to drive to St. Louis to babysit Aliza.
I hope that Jenny and the kids had fun at the pool. That was nice that it was not really crowded. The kids had a lot more room to swim and play in the water. Sometimes the pools get so crowded around here it is hard to move.
Does Greg know who he will be teamed up with yet?That really sounds like a good time for him. Do the wives ever go and watch them play or do you just stay home where it is cool and comfortable? I am for staying home where it is cool and comfortable.
Did you do anything today? We did bbq and did not have anyone over. It was kind of nice just the two of us for once. Sometimes it is nice not to have to cook a big meal and just sit and enjoy the day. On the 4th we are going to Melissa’s for a bbq. They have a really good fireworks display at the base and they have been wanting us to come for a long time. So we decided this is the year. He will be going over seas again soon so we wanted to spend some time with them. They are so good about coming here for everything so it is time we all went to their place for once.
I agree with Adele. It is no surprise that you wore the butter fly outfit. You looked really cute I bet. You should go for it and get the red cherry out fit. That was cut and you will look good in red especially since you have light hair if I remember right. I have been going after a lot of things that I would not have worn since I have been on here with you ladies.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night.
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