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Post by karen54171 on Oct 12, 2019 10:55:52 GMT
Whether you are regular poster or a lurker, we encourage you to talk with us. We do talk about books, but also about our lives, and Weight Watchers. We are women who are spread around the country, and eventually you will learn you we are, and what books we like to read. Don't be intimidated, just pop in and tell us who you are, and what you are reading now. We will make you feel right at home.
This is a thread we had on the WW 50 Year old board, so even though most of us have moved beyond our 50's, I am keeping it here. Some prefer to post on Facebook, but for those who may also like to post on something that resembles our old format, I decided to start this. Although we were brought together by our love of books, and we love to share our ideas about books and authors, our friendship has grown, and we know a lot about each others lives. We are spread across the country, and that adds a bit of interest as well, learning about other people's way of life through the "book" they write on the thread.
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Post by karen54171 on Oct 12, 2019 11:28:03 GMT
Good morning.
It is clear (that is what my weather bug said, as it is too dark to see otherwise) and 35, with a feel like temp of 31. Turned on the furnace when I got up. Going to be a very chilly weekend.
Pinky, glad you got your grass cut, before that nasty snow showed up. It looks to be a very long winter.
So very sad about that farmer out in your state. You can almost understand the stress he was under.
I kind of figured you would not be able to get at the old house this fall, you guys really had your hands full, this summer and now the little bit of fall you had.
Gareth, our weather was changing drastically right before our eyes yesterday. It truly was awful. Kind of glad that is all over.
Hope your weather is better today, altho I think you mentioned the weekend is going to be chilly.
I have not had time yet to dig into that money put into our account, but I think I will just leave it, since it is only such a small amount. It would be nice if they would have sent a letter giving us a heads up.
Carol, 57 degrees is cold for you, isn't it? My sister and her DH left town on Thursday, driving to McAllen. Last night they stayed at a Red Roof Inn, in Texarkana Arkansas. She told me they will drive today, to Victoria Tx then stop there for the night, then get to McAllen tomorrow. I am sure he is hoping for warm weather when they get there.
About newspapers: we used to, years ago get the paper every morning, then the price got a tad too high for my liking, so we quit. In the years since, the paper (we see it around town, like at the hospital) has gotten very thin, hardly anything to it. I have gotten used to over the years, while drinking my morning coffee, doing all my computer things, so it takes the place of the paper. I do read the obits online. I remember way back in the day, when the newspaper published all the rescue squad calls, and the births, along with the deaths. Of course the deaths are the only thing they publish these days.
I am at a stop right now with DB moving. He wants to move, but he is dragging his feet. (of course he does not feel well, and I am noticing other things going on with him). We all wanted him to go into a independent living community, with access to assisted living, but the good ones are full. He mentioned a 1 bedroom apartment, but those are hard to find also, as the good neighborhoods for apartments are mostly 2 bedroom. It is a challenge!
Anngie, Green Bay has a population of around 110,000. In my mind it is small town, as I was raised here, when it was truly a small town. So I guess it is not very small.
Lol, I don't think my brother is worried about clearing out his house. It seems he is focused on his health problems and letting me worry about the rest. I guess that is what a caregiver is for, right? We just may try to get him decent housing, and let the house sit, since it is paid off, till if and when he passes away, as people in the family think it is not worth saving, I really would hate to hurt his feelings by telling him it has to be torn down.
Took DB to get his port put in yesterday, so he is ready for all the lab work and chemo to come. Good thing too, since in his bad shape, he is a very hard poke.
DH is going this morning, with his DB. His DB is taking him out to breakfast, as he is worried about DH. That is nice, they will have time for some bonding. Then he will be out of my hair, so I can clean the apartment.
Am reading Gods in Alabama, and thinking of giving it up. The story line is really not to my taste. Has anyone read it? It was on hold for awhile, so I thought it was going to be good.
Have a nice Saturday, everyone.
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Post by gareth on Oct 12, 2019 12:00:09 GMT
30º when I got up. Feels like 20º Going to be another windy day with highs only in the 40's so I'll be walking indoors again. Our newspaper has always been delivered in the afternoon. It's went from being 7 days a week to no Sat paper. No paper anymore either on holidays. Ours has gotten thin too except for the Sun paper which by the way comes in the morning. They keep raising the price of the subscription too. I'd like to give the paper up but DH insists we keep it. Not sure why because anything we need to know is online. We have such a time not always getting our paper delivered so then I have to call in. I just had to call in too a few days ago that the carrier was throwing the paper on the driveway instead of putting it in the paper holder under our mailbox. Then if it's windy it blows all over the neighborhood. Yesterday the paper was in our mailbox. What's his aversion to the paper holder?! Better than on the driveway I guess.
Karen, just looked up Gods in Alabama. It has good reviews but doesn't sound like anything I'd want to read. I have read other of her books though that I've liked. I'm enjoying The Better Sister.
Gotta get to work...
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Post by pinky on Oct 12, 2019 16:14:54 GMT
It is gettting harder to see the grass poking through the snow as of this morning. Light snow still coming and then it is very windy so just plan miserable but I am still feeling thankful our snow is 2 inches at the most and will soon be quitting or so they say. We are on the edge of this snow so not near as much as to the north and west of our state. Our high today should be 33 degrees and 35 tomorrow and looks like up and down the rest of the week but shouldn't have any precip. Next Friday they are talking 60 degrees----hooray!!
We went for breakfast this morning with friends so getting a late start here and with a few chores. DGD is coming over in an hour and we are going to make some apple crisp. DS#1 has apple trees and he picked most of them a couple of days ago in prep for this weather so this will be fun. We will make 3---one for them, one for us and one for DS#2 family. DS#2 and his friend our laying some flooring in DS#2 basement today. His friend has to leave around noon so DDIL will help then. Guessing I may have other DGC this afternoon after their naps to keep them out of their hair. DS friend is a carpenter with his father so he came over to get them started and then they can go from there.
Anngie--we are in the far east of SD, only 12 miles from the Minnesota border. DD is NW of us about 150 miles away. She is not necessarily considered in the western part of SD but north central I suppose and yet still more on the eastern side of central. We are about smack dab in the middle of the state as far as north and south go but as I mentioned right next to MN.
Karen--yes this year has not been kind for anything really as far as farming or construction. I know construction has really been on hold and is frustrating for them as well as the farmers both in the case of buildings and roads. Your DB is so lucky to have you to help him out. Hope your DH enjoys his outing with his DB and you enjoy I'm sure your much needed alone time.
Gareth---Assuming the snow never found you!!
Not much else on the agenda for the weekend which is troubling to DH as he really wants to be harvesting and then with no plans it is just hard for him to sit still. There is an annual meatball dinner tomorrow in a neighboring towns church that we usually attend so will most likely do that after church.
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Post by RobinS811 on Oct 12, 2019 18:36:22 GMT
I was so crazy busy yesterday, then came home with a back ache and I must have been allergic to something yesterday because all of a sudden I felt like I was getting a terrible head cold. I needed to call back my ENT about my visit last week, and the PA told me to take Flonase. It seemed to have worked. I was starting to get dizzy too. Yesterday afternoon I said to the new secretary, "you only started yesterday, it feels like you have been here a week already". This morning I have been out doing errands, including Target, which took the longest. I can't believe it's already 2:20.
Karen, I keep forgetting that your DB is only 62, definitely too young for assisted living, so I really hope he can work something out. It is funny what you say about taking the car out to go 3 blocks. That was how I grew up. When are kids were very little, we were in the city (the city to us means Manhattan), I think my older one was 4. He sees people walking on the side walk and said, "They're exercising." I said that no, people walk places in the city. Now I realized my mother used to drive us to the train station that isn't even 1/4 mile away.
Carol, I sometimes say that we single handedly keep the NYC newspapers in business. We get the NY Times, Post, Daily News, Wall Street Journal, and the Long Island paper, Newsday, delivered. We have our reading method. I read Newsday in the morning, DH reads the Post. He reads the Daily News and Newsday after work. NY Times whenever, and Wall Street Journal usually at work. Newsday serves our 2 counties on Long Island, which have about 3 million people. I think it would be hard to survive as a daily, or near daily paper with 100,000. we have weekly papers for our smaller communities. Each one probably serves 20,000, but most people like to read them for very local news and events.
Gareth, now 30 is cold, that is real winter weather. It has not gotten cold here yet really, I think it was as low as 49 one morning, but the leaves have barely started to turn. This morning I went to Target, they have these small bushes in the parking lot that turn a beautiful shade of bright red at their peak. They were just barely turning.
Pinky, sorry you are now getting hit with snow. It must be really making for a difficult harvest for all. Are we going to see that at our supermarkets? How did your DH do with the cattle last week, or was it the week before?
Karen, as far as that social security. Did one of you start recently, and are you on Medicare? If that's the case, then they might be refunding you the medicare payment that you made privately. We had something like that when we first started, but was an odd amount, something like $587, but it could have been just what they decided to pay DH because he was entitled to collect before I did, and he was collecting on my record for now. He will switch to his own when he turns 70. He gets half of mine now, but will switch to his own later, which is 3 times as much, but in the meantimes we make the extra money. I just budgeted out what our social security will pay for now. I decided that I am going to buy out my car as soon as my DM's house sells, which will actually be at the time of my last lease payment. I have less than 20,000 miles on my Prius. It needs some minor body work, which it doesn't even have to have, at it would be a pity to turn in a car with such low miles, and they I won't have the payment. It is their top of the line gussied up one, so not a cheap car.
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Post by karen54171 on Oct 13, 2019 12:06:03 GMT
Good morning.
Cold at 38, with a chilly wind blowing. Rain showers around the area expected today.
Gareth, about newspapers, my DH was the same way, kept insisting we have it delivered. The weird thing was, he was not reading it. I finally just canceled it on my own. That has to be irritating where they end up putting your paper.....in the mail box is illegal.
I am not surprised that Gods in Alabama has good reviews, that explains why there was a hold on it for awhile. I am thinking of returning it. Thanks for the tip, I will look up that author, for other books.
Any plans for the day today? If you and your DH watch a football game, and it is the Eagles/Vikings, root for the Eagles (sorry Pinky!!). Lol, of course us Packer fans want the Vikes to loose.
Pinky, I saw our forecast just now, and us too are predicted to get 60 by the end of the week. Wow....this crazy weather year just keeps on.
Whenever I read that you go out for breakfast, I always wonder what you have. Breakfast is my down fall, while eating out. I tend to get the skillets, which of course are loaded with calories.
Too funny that your DH is troubled as he has time on his hands!!! I am sure he found something to do yesterday, as he does not sound like a man that sits around.
That meatball dinner today sounds yummy. You reminded me that I have baked lasagna in the freezer, thank you!!
Robin, that is great about the new secretary! There are just some people that can fit right in to a work place, then there are people that are hopeless.
DB could go into assisted living, if he really needed it, but it hasn't gotten to that point yet.
I have been on SS for a few years now, being on disability first. DH went on SS a couple years ago also, so everything should be fine with our accounts. I know we all are getting a very small raise in the new year, so I have no idea what this was for.
That is a lot of newspapers! But I found out last year, when we went to pack for the move, without newspapers you are left scrambling. So having some is a good thing.
Is your football team playing in town today? Packers don't play till tomorrow night, at home. So glad I don't have to run DB anywhere tomorrow, as he lives close to the stadium....I would not want to go over there on game day.
I cleaned the whole apartment yesterday. Also, as I was cleaning, I washed both beds; sheets and blankets. As I got going, what with steam cleaning the 3 rooms that have that fake wood flooring, I also washed all the rugs. I got everything done within 3 hours. When DH came home I was just finishing putting his bed back together.
Looks like I have to give up drinking wine. My acid reflux has been killing me, after 1 glass. I drink red wine, so I tried a glass of white wine, same reaction. That stinks, as I truly love wine, I love trying different wines, normally I just drink 1 glass, sometimes 2. But even that 1 glass has me in so much pain, that can't keep happening.
Thinking of going to the Y, to get some walking done on the treadmill. Then it will be time for the race, and of course we will be rooting for the Eagles football game, since they play the Vikings.
Have a good day everyone.
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Post by RobinS811 on Oct 13, 2019 14:04:28 GMT
Karen, it is a home game for us today, but 4:25. DS is flying home from Chicago as I type. He had a wedding to go to there. His flight is coming in early, but he is going to have breakfast at the airport, and I will get him around 11:30, then we have to pick up his friend who lives on the way too. I would be passing the airport on the way to the stadium anyway. DH will drive separately and meet us, then DS will drive my car home, because he forgot to leave me his car key, and I will drive home with DH. JEts are playing the Cowboys, which is a very popular game, so we sold extra tickets we have. DS & his friend will sit with us, we have 4 other tickets we sold. Also we always have extra parking passes in the best lot, so we make money on those each week.
It is lovely here, in the mid 50's when I woke up, will go to the mid 60's, but when the sun starts to go down during the game it will get cold, so I will bring a Jets hoodie DH has.
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Post by pinky on Oct 13, 2019 14:05:36 GMT
Robin---Guessing the poor crop year will eventually reflect in the supermarket as our area is not an alone area. This wet weather has affected a good chunk of the growing states. Our corn and soybean prices have been very low for over a year now so guessing they have had an abundance of grains stockpiled but will no start getting low. As far as the cattle we have sold two semi-loads now, 1 load almost 2 weeks ago which is probably the one I had mentioned and then one again just this past Thursday. This 2nd load the price has come up a bit but at this point we are only selling one load at a time in hopes of the market going up. When it gets where we like it better we may sell 2 or 3 loads at a time. When they get to the size they are now they need to be getting sold as that is what the buyers want in size. At the beginning of selling them off it is quite a project as the guys sort them off by eyeballing them and picking out the biggest ones.
Karen---I usually order bacon and eggs sometimes with toast and if I have scrambled eggs I say hold the toast. My very favorite is a denver sandwich which I have quite often as well, but I have to be really hungry as it is filling. The bread she uses for the toast on that is awesome. A couple of the ladies order loaded hashbrowns a lot and they are pretty good for hashbrowns as I am not a hashbrown lover unless they are really crispy and you can never count on that in a restaurant in my mind. DH did end up going to a farm auction for a couple of hours and then helped DS#1 move some stuff around in his shop and also helped DS#2 a bit with his flooring. Boy you really got your cleaning done in just the right amount of time for DH to come home to. I have had a little trouble with wine and acid reflux too. Usually if I take prilosec or zantac for several days it all passes and then I can drink it again for quite sometime before I have trouble again. I feel that something else has triggered mine and the wine just makes it worse.
I better get ready for church and then that meatball dinner is waiting!!!
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Post by pinky on Oct 13, 2019 14:11:34 GMT
I came back to comment on the Vikings/Eagles game that Karen mentioned to see that Robin had posted at the same time as I. Yes Karen we would normally cheer for the Vikings and I know how the Vikings and Packers fans get along---not good!!! We do have Packers fans in our area but there are few and are usually given a hard time by the Vikings fans. I am not a huge football fan so really do not get into it much or care. In regards to the Eagles however they would probably be on the top of my list to cheer for as Carson Wentz is their quarterback and is originally from North Dakota so it is fun to cheer for him as well as he is almost a local guy---LOL!!!!
Robin---enjoy the game, hope it will be a nice day for you there!
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Post by gareth on Oct 13, 2019 16:16:32 GMT
Here we go again losing my posts. I'll be typing away and poof it disappears. What's with that?! Trying again now for the third time. 37º when I walked. Not as windy as yesterday but still breezy enough. Not bad in protected areas. My face was cold and my hands numb even with wearing gloves by time I got back home. I thought of cutting my walk short a couple of times but kept going. 40's today warming into the 60's by the end of the week.
Karen, I'm not a sports fan so no, I never watch football. DH does though he's not a big football fan. He loves basketball. He prefers college over professional.
Robin, enjoy the game though I can't imagine sitting out in the cold for it. Guess if you're a fan you don't mind though.
Pinky, enjoy those meatballs!
Gotta go get chili in the crockpot. Perfect day for it. Every time now I make chili I remember making it last year when I mistakenly used black pepper instead of chili powder. Never want to make that mistake again!
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