[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: June-The Official Start of Summer #40674

Hi Christine,
We have a second Christine from the UK who is a long time poster here so it could get confusing. lol
I’m sorry to hear about your Dad. I hope that he has a total recovery. We are very good with praying for each other’s needs here so I will say prayers for his recovery and I’m sure the other ladies will too.
Sorry about your foot. All that soaking would get tiresome after a while. I see that you are young from your picture so it must be hard to manage if you are working. We are all older and retired and around the same age except for Christine who is somewhat younger. We will probably be boring for a young person to talk to.
Do you have a lot of Quacker clothes or are you a new Quacker. Once again it seems to be something that appeals to mostly older women-so you must be part of the new generation of Quackers. lol
I have been with Quacker from the very first time that they were on the air. That’s over 20 years. Lots of sequins and rhinestones have been bought.
Do you have any pets? We are great animal lovers here. We used to have dogs and cats but my husband became allergic to cats so now we have dogs and after having three who are all in my profile picture we only have one still living. He’s the black and white one and he just celebrated his 17th birthday last Saturday. Wow!
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: June-The Official Start of Summer #40672

Sue, I hope the power stays on. That is so frustrating.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: June-The Official Start of Summer #40670

Hi Barbara,
It’s practically a necessity to start a new topic each month since the discussions no longer have pages. After a month it’s a long scroll down to the bottom.
Once again, we are all here for each other when we need support getting through something in our lives. I am actually happy for Joey-hard as this all may be-since it will give him the opportunity to eventually meet someone who he will love and share his life with and maybe even add to the grand baby count! Right now focus on the happy event that is coming towards the end of the summer.
How far away do Neal and Sarah live now. Hopefully it is just a short drive. I’ll bet there will be some babysitting in your future.
Our friends have one of those food savers and he uses it all the time. He finds it to be very economical. He goes to Costco and buys a lot of things in bulk and packs and freezes them. They have a summer home up north and he buys all his meat for the summer and freezes it in the food saver bags and takes it up with them. I think you have to be very organized to plan all that out.
Sounds like you and Jerry are reading some good books. I have read some of those near death experience visions of heaven books. They are quite interesting and comforting. If you guys haven’t read it yet may I suggest Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand for a future read. It’s a good book that men and women seem to enjoy equally.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: June-The Official Start of Summer #40668

Hi Dianne,
I don’t like to post with my tablet either. I always hit the wrong letters.
Pretty flowers.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: What Books Are You Reading and Recommending Now? #40666

Hi Sue,
The movie is based on the book. It came out a few years ago and all the women on the Q Book Club thread raved about it. I wanted to read it before the movie came out and people started talking about it again as I already knew how it ended just by reading about it. It was a good book-I think the movie might be good too-the trailers look promising.

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: What Books Are You Reading and Recommending Now? #40649

I read Where They found Her by Kimberley McCreight. It’s about someone finding the body of a dead baby by a creek in a college town and the hunt to find out what happened. This is the second book I’ve read by this author and both have been good.
I read The Residence by Kate Anderson Brower. It’s a book about the families that have lived in the White House from The Kennedys until now. It was pretty interesting and told from the point of view of the people that worked there-chefs, maids, ushers, electricians. plumbers all the people who keep the house running.
I read The Sphinx by Robin Cook. He usually writes medical thrillers but this was about a woman who was an expert in hieroglyphics, and how she gets embroiled in some mystery and intrigue when she was over in Egypt. Of course you all remember that I wanted to be an archaeologist so this was right up my alley.
Then I read Me Before You by JoJo Moyes. Good book-get out your hankie.
I read the Wednesday Letters by Jason F Wright about the children that come home to bury their parents that just passed away and the secrets that they uncover in the process.
I just finished The Dog Who Knew Too Much by Spencer Quinn this morning. This is one of my favorite mystery series-this is the fourth book. The stories are told from the point of view of the dog Chet who works cases with his private eye owner Bernie. Great series.

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: June-The Official Start of Summer #40647

Hey Adele,
Just in case you didn’t realize it this is not the Christine from the UK. This is a different Christine who signed up recently and I asked if she would like to join us. So don’t start asking about Patch and Stewart or she will think you’re nuts. Of course after chatting with us for awhile she’ll figure that out on her own. lol You know I’m kidding-you’re the best. (just a little nutty)lol
Anyway, lets all give Christine a warm welcome!
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: June-The Official Start of Summer #40636

Hi Christine,
So glad that you took me up on the invitation to join us. Feel free to read everyone’s posts to each other and comment on whatever you see fit. We all do that. I don’t know what area of the country that you are from but right now we have Illinois, Missouri, Massachusetts, Tennessee and Oregon Represented. So we have the north south east and west chatting.
Do you have any plans for the summer that you want to share? We just have our normal trips to Kansas City and Northern Wisconsin planned right now. Last fall we went to Orlando to Disney with the kids and grandkids. I’m hoping this fall to take a trip to New Mexico to visit our son if he doesn’t come in this summer. Anyway, just chat about anything that you want to. We also have a place to chat about books. I was going to start a new discussion for recipes a few weeks back but there was some trouble with posting pictures and after they fixed it I sort of forgot about it. I will have to start that one up again soon.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: June-The Official Start of Summer #40602

Hi Colleen,
Have you ever had a crawfish boil-I’ll bet that you have. You could do that instead of a clambake. My parents used to do that when we would visit them in Louisiana as you could get fresh crawdads there. Wow! That was a long time ago. How does life just fly by?
I don’t think we will go to the Christmas party for ONP anymore. Greg does not want to do it as he wants to give other people the chance to go so I will go along with whatever he wants to do. It’s time to step back and let the next generation take over.
Colleen, you have plenty of style. You just like more conservative choices. But I wouldn’t worry about not being able to match the colors correctly. Fashion is a personal statement and you should be able to put whatever you want together. I have always liked bright colors and kind of boho things like fringe and embroidery. Plus at this point no one looks at what a fat old person is wearing anyway so I will just do what I please and if people want to snicker let them have at it. That’s what’s so liberating about being older is that you really don’t care what others think.
I know what you mean about not being able to do anything without electricity-no water-although each toilet has one flush-no heat or AC-no refrigerator or freezer-microwave-I have an electric oven so that doesn’t work-my cooktop is gas with an electronic ignition-no lights if it’s night. Electricity affects just about everything if you are without for any length of time. We had ours go off for just a minute when it rained yesterday but then it went right back on. At least the garden got a nice good soaking yesterday as the ground was pretty dry.
Gail

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