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Post by emilyb on Aug 8, 2018 15:08:52 GMT
Good morning,
Where is everyone?
Hazy, hot & humid again today. Currently 81; the high will be 94 with thunderstorms later in the day.
This morning I had an early morning appointment for a haircut. Boy does my head feel so much better. I have some laundry to do so that should keep me busy for a while.
Hope everyone has a great day!
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Post by dayleg on Aug 8, 2018 15:20:13 GMT
Morning All!
I’m not usually the early bird here, but apparently everyone had some place else to be.
Lin how was your pie? Recipe sounded similar to the way mom used to make Lemon Merengue pie when we were kids – before pudding mix and premade graham cracker crust took over. It was always delicious.
Got a disturbing e mail last night. One of the organizers of our last high school reunion took his own life over the weekend. The messenger was his best friend since grade school and you could tell he was in shock with grief. We’ve had a suicide in the family and I can tell you it’s not something you get over easily. Guilt takes over- you wondered if you could have done something to alter events. The pain is terrible. I feel for his wife, children and his best friend. You think of suicide as a young person’s thing, but I guess there is no age limit to despair and isolation. Enough said about this – didn’t mean to make this so depressing.
Penny, hope you are enjoying being back at the shelter. Give those pups some extra snuggles for me.
Lin I love Louise Penny! I think one of you ladies suggested her a while back and I got hooked on them. I gave up audio books because they make me fall asleep. While I love being read to, the monotony and controlled reading voice just lulls me into a stupor- then I find I have to go back and listen again because I lost the point. I used to bring them along on long road trips in the car, but that was almost disastrous a couple of times.
Phyl hope you are feeling a bit better today. Did you do too much cleaning yesterday? The dust will still be there when you’re feeling better so don’t push it.
Well I have an uninterrupted day ahead of me. Going to work on the doll house. Yesterday’s afternoon storms put a stopper on everything, so didn’t get much done.
Everyone have a good day!
Dayle
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Post by decolady on Aug 8, 2018 15:41:46 GMT
Hello everyone,
We had a nice day yesterday in Carlsbad. Looked at 55+ communities. Did see one we liked but did not like the manufactured homes available. They are old and need major remodeling. So if we decide on having this place be a second home we will buy a new one and have old one removed. Not buying now. Waiting for prices to drop a little. The real estate bubble will burst as interest rates go up.
Did not spend the night. It's only 90 minutes from our home. Carlsbad is such a nice beach city. We really hope to buy in that city.
Today I plan ordering the eyeglasses. Hopefully nothing else happens to change my mind.
Going to be 99. Yuck. No outside gardening projects today. Today's project is vacuuming and dusting entire house.
Dayle- I am sorry to hear about your friend.
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Post by bettyj on Aug 8, 2018 16:32:50 GMT
Dayle, so sorry to hear about your friend. Have never had to deal with suicide but know it must be horrible for those involved.
Phyl, hope you're feeling ok today. Lin, wish you could ship me a piece of that lemon pie. No one in my family likes lemon except my DDIL and me. Maybe I'll make some lemon bars one day to share with her.
Took Ozzie for an extra long walk this morning. Pretty warm, our tongues were dragging by the time we got home. He's taking a nap now and I have to go to Wal mart. This afternoon we're going to DH brothers for a visit.
Lin, could you please start owls tonight, not sure when we'll get home.
bettyj
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Post by PeggySue on Aug 8, 2018 16:48:05 GMT
Good Afternoon
Dayle - Sorry about your friend
Sue - Glad your foot is doing better. Nice that hb & caregiver are doing errands for you.
Just checking in. Staying in out of the heat. You do the same Lin - Please.
Peggy Sue
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Post by conniej on Aug 8, 2018 18:11:07 GMT
79° here but wow the humidity is about 100%. someone got rain but we only got a few sprinkles. sun is trying to shine so it is bright out there. Took some veggies to DD and DSIL today along with a couple of peaches. These are Pa peaches and free stone. If I get more might just bake a peach cobbler.
I make my own piecrust and don't use box pudding for my lemon meringue pie. I like the clear look to the lemon filling the old fashioned way. Plus the lemon zest in it.
Oh Goodness, thought you had already ordered those glasses. Seems like it takes you a long time to make up your mind. I have a friend like that, she takes forever to buy something and then takes it back all the time. Nothing wrong with that, don't mean that there is. But kind of drives me crazy. LOL
Emily glad you got that haircut, I need to have my nails done and was going but my DD called me crying on her lunch break. . She is so stressed about this house. They do have someone looking at it Tomorrow. Keeping my fingers crossed, they know that DD and DSIL have been working on it a lot as they drive by often. I keep telling her not everyone is in market for the perfect house. Some like to do their own thing and some just don't have the money for a new home. DD is exhausted and when I dropped off the veggies DSIL said he is worried about her also. he is on afternoons and they don't see each other much when he is on this shift. Told DD if she gets sick that will be more money also, she is going to bed when she gets home. Told me she felt much better after we talked. Thank goodness. I was pretty worried there for awhile. Guess she had to get it all out.
Dayle, so sorry about your friend. That is tough news and feel bad for family and all the friends he left behind.
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Post by conniej on Aug 8, 2018 18:13:14 GMT
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Post by decolady on Aug 8, 2018 19:07:28 GMT
Connie- yes this is taking more time than I thought. Now hubby says they seem flimsy. Hate to pay $800 with lenses for flimsy. Does not seem flimsy to me.
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Post by geric on Aug 8, 2018 19:42:17 GMT
Finally here, and it is hot here. It hasn't been too bad up to now.
Started a crock pot Chicken Enchilada soup and didn't have the tomato sauce so had to go to Publix, just across the street. It's a Skinny Taste recipe and so good.
Dayle, so sorry about your friend. Had to be a shock.
Mar, I just wear inexpensive readers and have a pair of Costco purchased for far.
I bought a small key lime pie at Publix ysterday, so good for a little treat.
Hear the thunder, hope it rains to water my lawn, hope you all are having a good day.
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Post by retiredinaz on Aug 8, 2018 21:47:13 GMT
DH loves lemon and key lime. So anything with that wins. Have had to deal with suicide in both families...it sure does leave scars even if you understand why. Feel bad for your friend, Dayle.
the first guy who read for a Louise Penny is kind of hypnotic. Don’t know about the new one. I listen to Old sci fi CJ Cherryh Foreigner series books I know well, so I can drift off and not miss anything! It gives me something to focus on so I forget things ache or I can’t get comfortable.
Why is it hard to get to sleep , but no matter what position in the morning, you are so comfy?
around 11 last night, the storm that was nit predicted came down from the eastern mountains with dust in front and was loud for an hour, but nit much rain, but at least it broke the heat. Cloudy now ...normal weather and probably night storm again.
Had to clean a disgusting grunge of sticky dust off the two wooden front doors and polish after I got home from volunteer work.
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Post by phyl on Aug 8, 2018 22:05:26 GMT
hi callers, I am doing ok.gets a little sore now and then.hurt some when I first get up and then move around it gets better.wish we could just dig a hole to put in arthritis and degeneration and not have it anymore. wouldn't that be great??
dayle no I did not over do yesterday. mainly worked on this bedroom/computer room.
getting clutter off the desks. don did most of the dusting on furniture I would have had to gotten on the floor for, like the tv glasss shelves, and wood under the glass end tables.
he also vacumed the bathroom and kitchen floors for me. what a guy. he is a keeper.
today was go to the bank,meet delona at th ey. then lunch at rocky's. then the mall.we didn't thik we would be at the mall fo rlong. probably about 2 hours. spent most of the time in bath and body.
delona bought some men products for rudy.they are pashing out that one.took me for ever to find some just hand lotion travel size. they use to be 2ozs. 5.00 dollars for that size. now they are 1oz for 4.00.
don just came in and told me the neighbors beagle was chasing a rabbit.the dd could not get him.don chased him across the city fields almost to dave's house before he caught him.then carried him all the way back. was don was sweating. the 2 beagles are cute dogs.
ok girls here is another reson to know where our pets are. at the y I noticed sandy was having a hard time doing the moves.delona told me she fell over her dog and broke her neck.now she can't drive.they gave her a test and told her she can not remember enough.sandy thinks she can drive.I think it has to do with how she can turn her neck also. phyl
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