[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-November 2019 #103359

Barbara,
Sorry for the double post-the first one disappeared so i wrote a new one and somehow both posted.

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-November 2019 #103357

Hi Barbara,
I don’t think young people watch soaps anymore. I remember sometimes Jenny would watch Days with me and there was another that she watch which was short lived and gone now and I can’t remember the name. But for the most part the young people don’t watch soaps. I think everything is so quick moving and changing for them that they don’t have the patience to watch a story that goes on for years and years. They seem to prefer watching different things on YouTube on their phones. You people watch a lot of stuff on their phones. I would rather see stuff on the larger TV screen but they don’t seem to mind watching even a movie on a phone or tablet.
I hope Buddy can make it for Christmas if he can’t make Thanksgiving.
I had several boxes of the Thomas Paccone ornaments but I stopped using them two years ago as if people were helping me undecorate they always complained on having to find the right spots for the ornaments in those boxes that they came in. So I finally gave in and stopped using them. I gave many of them to Adam for his tree last year. They were so pretty and brightly colored.

Hi Barbara,
Young people just don’t watch soaps anymore. Jenny used to watch Days with me years ago and she watch another short lived soap on her own-I can’t remember the name right now. I don’t think young people are willing to watch a show where the story line goes on for years and years. They like to watch things on You Tube. They will even watch movies on phones or tablets, while I much prefer to watch a movie on a large TV screen. Watching it on a small screen is like going backwards to me to when TV screens were little.
I hope Buddy gets to come for Christmas if he can’t make Thanksgiving. I’ll bet you are excited seeing Colin again.
I used to have several different boxes of the the Thomas Paccone ornaments. They were so pretty and colorful. But I retired them a couple of years ago after listening to years of complaints from other people (Greg) about what a pain in the butt it was to fit them back into the proper places in those wooden boxes when undecorating the tree. lol I gave quite a few of them to Adam last year for his Christmas tree.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-November 2019 #103355

Hi Colleen,
Yes, no one wants to wash and dry the good dishes and glassware by hand it’s easier to use paper and plastic. I even have winter dishes with snowmen that can be put into the dish washer and we don’t even use those for Christmas. You figure 50% of the people at our house for Christmas are little kids who could care less.
I don’t like to iron and I remember that my Mom didn’t either. Most of the clothes we wear are jeans and tee shirts that don’t need ironing anyway. If something comes out of the closet and is really wrinkled I will iron it before wearing it but I don’t iron on a regular basis. In fact I just sent for some spray stuff from the Q that you can spray on your clothes and it’s supposed to take the wrinkles out. Of course it wouldn’t work on bad wrinkles but just the stuff things sometimes get from being folded in a pile on a shelf.
I can remember always laughing at my SIL when she would say she was ironing her husband’s jeans. Who Irons jeans? They’re not supposed to have creases.
I think everyone has a chance to win the mirror ball this year as they are pretty equal now if you look at the scoring. I think it could be up for grabs depending on how everyone does on the last night. It will be interesting.
I’ll bet Aliza will love your Santa tree. it sounds so pretty. I will still put up two trees this year as we like the one in the front window for those driving by and the one in the corner of the family room for us to see when we are watching the TV in the evenings. It’s poor Greg who has to carry the boxes up and down from the basement. It’s such a short time between Thanksgiving and Christmas-I don’t know how everything will get done.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-November 2019 #103307

HI Everyone,
This message is to everyone and it will refer to stuff that everybody has said. I’m too lazy today to write individual stuff and i have a lot to say. lol When haven’t i had a lot to say. lol
I kind of feel like brussels sprouts are making a come back as people seem to be using them in a lot of stuff like slaws and such. We always had them at my grandmother’s at thanksgiving and then they seemed to have fallen by the wayside. I like them but no one else around here does so it would be a waste to make them but restaurants have started serving them sometimes.
Greg doesn’t like spinach either and I bought this pasta dish from Costco that had spinach in it and he complained. For cryin out loud when it is cooked in a casserole you can’t even taste it! Oh well-I won’t buy that again. It had a wine sauce too and he prefers a red sauce but I thought this would be a little bit lighter for us. I will scratch that one off my list.
I bought those individual rainbow cakes for Christmas too. I have had the saint claire sides and the David’s cookie dough before too and they are all good. They cookies are like homemade without all the work and that’s what I’m about now a days.
Speaking of that. Adele, don’t go making yourself all sore and tired washing all the glasses. Serve with red solo cups and if the girls don’t like that enough they will come and help next time. I find that the younger generation don’t seem to care about the pretty table as much as we did-so I am not going to go through all that work to not even have anyone care about it. I have learned to make it easy on myself. Regrettably though when I am gone there will be lots of pretty dishes and glassware that no one will want.
The Q is selling baby clothes and maternity clothes too but I doubt we will ever see any of that on air. I think the baby clothes that were so expensive were the barefoot dreams brand that also has all those expensive sweaters.
Colleen, I remember when Melissa was so sick after having Kaylee. I felt so bad because I think Lachlan was born around the same time. Thank goodness everything turned out well and everyone is healthy.
I’m so happy for Steph. This will make her feel so independent and she will be able to help out more and take the boys places. Tell her to ignore the people who make ignorant remarks-she knows that she didn’t have a DUI or anything and those people who ask those kinds of questions just lack manners and common sense.
It’s interesting that so many had mothers without licenses. My Mom always had a license ever since I can remember. Of course when you live out in the country and you work you need the license. Did the rest of you have stay at home moms?
You know I think the mac and cheese on the holiday table is more of a southern thing. However, I have started serving it at Christmas the last few years because the little ones like it.
Yeah for Oregon and NJ-the only states where it’s illegal to pump gas yourself! However, that’s a long way to go for me to fill up. lol
Yes, DD. I watch both Days and General Hospital. Have watched them on and off for forty years. We are hoping that Days doesn’t get cancelled but who knows. Soaps in general are a dying breed and they will all be gone eventually. Days films eight months ahead so they have episodes right now to last through the summer. We’ll see what might happen before they run out of film. The bad thing would be if it would just end without stories being tied up.
I must say I’m on team Adele with this one. I was hoping Hannah would go last night. She seems very phony to me. I don’t watch The Bachelor so I don’t know anything about what happened there. She also seems kind of whiny to me. Plus when Carrie Ann went to hug her she told her she didn’t want to be touched?! What was up with that? Usually when the couples do a contemporary dance it feels very emotional-and her’s didn’t. She doesn’t seem to be able to show her true self. If she stays in I’ll bet it’s because of her partner Alan. He’s very popular. Colleen, I don’t mind Allie. I guess she just must rub you the wrong way. lol Some people just do that and there’s no rhyme or reason to it-it’s just an emotional reaction. I felt very bad for James but maybe it was a blessing in disguise that he was let go as perhaps it would be better for his whole family if he was home with them right now instead of facing another another week of training-you could tell last night his heart wasn’t really in it-and even though his wife told him to go ahead perhaps he felt guilty doing it. It kind of put things into perspective-what’s a mirror ball trophy compared to losing a baby.
At this point I think I would like to see Kel win as he has improved so much and that’s what the program was originally about-but I wouldn’t mind if any of the other couples won-especially a pro who has never won before.
Okay, I’m done now.
DD-hugs to you. That calendar will be a treasure.
I hope Heather starts feeling her leg without the pain soon.
Hugs and prayers for everyone that needs them.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-November 2019 #103147

Greg and I had a busy day out shopping for a fireplace insert and then we made a trip to Costco. So I just wanted to catch you guys up on what is going on with Brent. He has a bunch of ulcers, an infection in his stomach and they biopsied a growth but we won’t know what that shows for ten days. So he has to give himself antibiotic shots every day and sees his doctor every three days to make sure the antibiotics aren’t messing with his heart and thyroid meds. Keep praying that the biopsy will be benign.
On a happy note my sister got a new dog after losing her dog last summer.
I am tired from all the shopping so I will write more another day.
Gail
Go Steph!

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-November 2019 #103061

Prayers for Steph to pass that driver’s test!

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-November 2019 #103059

Hi Adele,
I hope that Heather will be okay after her fall and I hope Tillie will come upstairs for dinner.
That’s exciting that she is going to get a home doctor for visits now. I wish we had something like that when my MIL lived here. It makes things so much easier for both the patient and the caregiver.
Greg doesn’t even like mac and cheese so I never serve it. I think you see it on Holiday tables more in the south. At least that’s what I’ve observed.
That’s funny that Amanda has an invisible boyfriend too.
Well the Quacker show today had three new things and I’ll bet that will be all for the Christmas season. Even Quacker is not like days of old at the Q anymore. However, I was glad to see the corduroy pants in short back in stock so i could get some more colors. I actually have a gray pair of them on today. They are nice and warm for going out in the winter and believe me around here it’s more like January than November weather wise. I read the report and Quarate which owns the Q keeps losing sales.
Also now Dean’s Foods is in chapter 13. A lot of people we know around here work for them. They say it’s going to be sold but I hope people don’t lose jobs. Adam works for them and so does one of his brothers-so I hope their jobs are not in jeopardy.
Brent is supposed to be going for that scope tomorrow so keep praying.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-November 2019 #103057

Hi Barbara,
That’s funny that it was doctor day for us all. I got good news he’s letting me do bloodwork less frequently-every four months instead of three so i like that. I love my rheumatologist-I hope I can keep him when we have to switch to medicare.
I know in immediate care they always make you wear a mask if you are coughing.
I also know that they are being a lot more careful with the opiods and pain meds now. I understand why but it’s a pain for those people that use them responsibly.
today was the first time that I actually used the parking spaces at the doctors for senior patients. I guess I just didn’t realize until now that I really am a senior. lol took me several years!
We have a pick up truck and you can buy a plow to put on the front of it-so he puts it on in the winter and takes it off in the summer. It’s pretty much a necessity out here with the long driveways and we also use it at out apartment building. There’s been some days that Greg has shoveled our whole road with it.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-November 2019 #103055

Hi Colleen,
I knew Melissa was coming for Christmas and not Thanksgiving-I just got my brain mixed up. I think with all the snow and cold that we are having I feel like it should be winter instead of still fall. Hopefully you can work around Mandy’s schedule for Thanksgiving.

I think that recipe was in an old crock pot cook book-hopefully it is still around here somewhere. It does take a bit more work than some crock pot stuff as you had to saute the onions on the stove first if I am remembering correctly.
I’m not sure what baby robe you saw on the Q site. Did you mean like a swaddling cloth-as I don’t think babies wear robes. Now I’m picturing a baby in a smoking jacket like Hugh Hefner. lol
I did get to the doctor’s successfully today. It was really windy and the snow was blowing over the road but I got there and back safely. I had to stop and get gas and I was wishing for the olden days when the man came out and pumped your gas for you. That would be the only reason to live in New Jersey. lol I know they used to still pump it for you in Oregon too but I think that may have changed now too. I remember Debbie telling us that she didn’t have to pump her own. May DD knows what the situation is now. I miss Debbie. I should email her and see how she is feeling nowadays. I can’t even remember the name of the disease that she had-maybe Barbara will remember.
Gail

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