[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-March 2020 #108019

Hi Adele,
I hope Marissa gets her apartment set up son so the new little family can move in and get settled into a routine.
I also hope Amanda and her friend get their apartment. Then everyone will have a place to stay.
Wow-Steph and Jhonny really do run late. i would just have told the salesperson that I had a previous engagement and left. I figure your family should come before the salesperson-especially if they are cooking you dinner. lol
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-March 2020 #108017

Hi DD,
Wow-you were lucky to get that new TV. I hope you enjoy. The bigger screens are nice. Greg got me a new one for Christmas. I went from 42 to 52 and we gave my old one to Jenny. It still worked but sometimes it would have these very thin green lines going through the sides. it never really bothered me that much but it bothered Greg. lol My old one will be good for Jenny’s kids to have in their basement.
I’m glad Snowball is doing better. Here’s something I observed-my dogs with light fur would get hot spots-my dogs with darker fur wouldn’t. I don’t know if that’s coincidence or not. Sometimes it also can be an allergic reaction to something in their food too.
Rocky had eye surgery once and had to wear the Elizabethan collar for several weeks. He had if I remember it correctly a tear on his cornea. We tried the salve and it didn’t get better so they had to do surgery. Here’s the funny part. When they do the surgery they hold the eye shut with an actual button like you would have on a shirt. I had pictures of him with the button eye posted on here once. So anyway they are doing the surgery and all of a sudden they realize that they are out of the buttons that they use to hold the eye shut-so they have this elderly dog on the table who they are very careful about anesthetizing in the first place so they don’t want to take the time to send someone to WalMart for buttons so the other vet kept a spare pair of pants in the office and they took the button off his spare pants and sewed it on Rocky’s eye. So they all joked about how Chuck sacrificed his pants to save Rocky’s eyesight. And the surgery did work. His eye was absolutely fine after that. We were so grateful. But he had to wear the collar the whole time to keep him from scratching his eye with his paw. He got to take it off to eat and that was it. Everyone was glad when that was over.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-March 2020 #107970

So here’s something I was just thinking about.
Do any of you watch soaps?
I guess I am old school as I still watch General Hospital and Days of our Life. Years ago I also watched One Life to Live.
Maybe i watched more as I was home with the kids and did not work outside the home after they came along which was eight years after we married. Before then I was at work too. I think my Mom got me interested in Days. Over the years I have taken breaks from both of them and not watched but now i am back watching again. However, if you miss while you are on vacation or something it really doesn’t matter as stories seem to move slowly. I was just wondering as i don’t remember any of you ever mentioning a soap besides me.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-March 2020 #107964

Hi Sue,
Yes, those self check counters are very short-so it’s okay for a few items but not for a cartfull. It’s just too awkward.
I don’t buy coffee pods from keureg either. We get them from either Costco or amazon. We prefer the Kirkland breakfast blend from Costco. We are wimpy as we like the mild roast. lol,
Gardenman just wrote an interesting post this morning about how the three months of Dec., Jan, and Feb seem to be just as long as the other nine months of the year put together-and how the rest of the year seems to pass so quickly by comparison. I totally agreed with him.
I forgot-are you a Big Brother watcher? I think we watched during one of the early years when a guy from Rockford was on and then we lost interest.
I did get interested in the Amazing Race a few years back and found I really enjoyed seeing all the different countries that they would go to. I guess I am an armchair traveler. lol I read that they have stopped filming this years version because of the virus. I know the seasons that I watched they went to a lot of Asian countries.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-March 2020 #107962

Hi Colleen,
I will be praying for Christine. I often think that the health care that she has there is not very good.
It’s good to hear that Stephen does a good job at recruiting. When will they be moving? Are they still in Tennessee but now farther away from you?
Milk Day is the first Saturday in June and the princess contest will probably be sometime at the end of May. Piper’s first cousin Isla was going to be in the contest this year too but she can’t be now as the woman who was going to make her dress doesn’t have the time this year as she is caring for elderly parents. This should be an interesting experience.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-March 2020 #107960

Hi DD,
I was thinking about you as we hadn’t heard from you for awhile.
I hope that Critt will do better after his most recent visit to the hospital.
It seems like the coronavirus doesn’t make the younger people that sick-it seems like it hits people over 65 the hardest and now Greg and I are well into that category. I already worry about the regular flu every year as I am allergic to the vaccine and can’t get the shot. So I have to say I am extra vigilant about hand washing but there’s not much else that I can do.
I will self check if it’s just a couple of items but if I have a cartful I like to be checked out. Except with all the self check aisles now at Walmart there are less lines to have someone else check you out so now there is always a wait.
I did talk to Jenny last week when she asked my opinion. I told he what I thought but that I could not tell her what to do that she had to make that decision on her own. I offered to go to the vet with her and told her she must stay with the dog if she has her put to sleep. We have done this many times and always stayed with our pets. I hope that this week she will come to understand that most likely Callie will not get better and that her quality of life is very small. I think that because Mimi died at home without any decline she was thinking that would happen here too but I told her that is the exception-mostly we have to make the final decision for them. You have to be brave and do it for the pet.
On a lighter note I love the picture of the flowers painted on the snow.
We are having mild weather but I am in no way thinking about packing away the winter things just yet. We have been known to get snow in mid April.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-February 2020 #107949

Adele-the March page is up.

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-March 2020 #107909

Hi Colleen,
I will pray for Christine. The poor woman has had so many health problems.
When we went over to Jenny’s on Friday Callie was still alive. She has been trying to give her pedialite and stuff. Personally if it were me I think it’s time to put her down. She just looks so miserable to me and she isn’t eating and can barely walk and I just think it’s time. it actually makes me so sad to go over and see her like that. It just seems that Jenny can’t make the decision. I know it’s hard but at this point in time she’s not doing Callie any favors.
On a lighter note she thinks she did find a person to make Piper’s princess dress. The person is in Rockford. they have an appointment to see them next weekend.
I guess with Stephen being in the service Melissa will live where ever the army sends them. Hopefully sometime they’ll get sent closer.
Haven’t been doing much recently. We’re sticking around home more what with the worry about catching a virus and everything that is going on I’ve been trying to stay home and avoid some of the more crowded places. Although it probably doesn’t matter. I was in Wal Mart Monday and the guy checking me out was blowing his nose and sneezing. When I got home and we unpacked the groceries I told Greg that we should both wash our hands thoroughly as the guy was sick and obviously should not have been waiting on people. By the same token I refuse to go to the store and self check a cart full of groceries myself and pack all the stuff up. I am too old to be doing all that. Now all these stores want us to spend our money there and also do all the work of checking ourselves out. it’s getting to be nuts. I feel I deserve something as a senior citizen-and that’s to have my groceries checked and bagged by someone else. It’s bad enough I have to pump my own gas. I know. I am just an old foggie. lol
I hope we will hear some news from Barbara soon. I worry about her so much.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-February 2020 #107907

okay. It did finally post. Not all my pictures did though. I never know until I get her which ones will post. The March one didn’t post at all. Oh well.

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