Jane, don't jump right into the "clothing switch-out".  I tried that a few weeks back, and gave up.  I just left the winter things clean and folded on my bed, where I can pick up what the morning calls for.  We've been starting off in the 50's, It's 77 here now, and due to hit the 80's later in the week. The sun is shining and no rain scheduled till maybe Friday.  Here it's been shorts and tank top one day, sweats and 3 layers and next.  I have no idea when I will be able to take the extra blanket and quilt off the bed!

My daughter Debi is coming over tomorrow to help me do the Big Switch from Winter to Spring.  Then we will go out for ice cream sundaes.  I have been craving a butterscotch sundae.

Ah...yes, the big FALSE SWITCHEROO!  I moved a few things for today and tomorrow...dentist appt and then Cancer surgeon visit. 

Dentist appt went well...well, except for hit to the bank account. But...I paid it and am good now until middle of Oct.  No cavaties.

I went out for lunch and have enough for supper...so double win.

No,No,No, Patricia, I dont want to switch my 70 for your -10!  

Stay safe and healthy,

jane

Good morning from an Interior where winter refuses to let go. We are plus fifteen, and wind and snow, three inches so far, cover that ridged ice. Jane, I can send snow to cool off; let's trade. 

Seriously, I'm beginning to wonder if we're headed straight to fall, skipping summer entirely.

Hi Buddies...our weather is also winter 2 days..then back to summer..we don't have much Spring...Jane know you are enjoying the 70s.....Had to go for lab today...Dr appt next wk....hope all are well...stay safe..shootings are happening to often....

..My message above kinda messed up....Sorry...don't know what happened

Of course, we've had the temperature ups and downs, too - typical for our spring. At least I don't have to change wardrobes - maybe change short sleeves for long sleeves - but at least no heavy coats or "woolies".

I've gotten my tax forms - just to sign and get back to the CPA. She's filing electronically for me.  Yea!!!

Yesterday was one of great perfection.  Sunny skies and temps around 80°.  Debi came and switched all of my slacks for me.  Then we tackled the linen closet and got it all sorted to my satisfaction.  Then came the crowning joy for each of us:  we went down to City Dock here in Annapolis and ate ice cream cones while basking in the sunlight and watching all the other town lovers amble by.  I had a double dip of toffee truffle in a cake cone, and it was heavenly.  Debi & I adore Annapolis, as it has everything to perfection.  It was a sparkling hour of the perfect life!

Presently, in the Interior, or at least my portion of it, it's minus three and sunny. No cloud cover in winter means all the heat escapes, and we remain cold. Friday, we'll finally be back in the thirties, but nothing spectacular until the twentieth, when we finally make it into the plus forties. We are fully behind the eightball temperature-wise with the coldest weather I can recall for this time of year!

Darlene...all these shootings scare me to go out anywhere!

We have had 3 days of clear, sunny 80 degree!  Rain to come this weekend and then back down to 50s. 

I had good reports on the mammo, on doc's physical exam, and the dentist !

My Sis is coming next week to help thru the cataract surgeries.

Stay safe and healthy!

Jane

Jane, you know what I think about constantly now?  I see myself in the 6th grade.  I spent the later half of that and some of the following years living with my grandmother, because of World War II.  Every morning I was fed a hot breakfast and hustled into my outer garments, encouraged to remember my homework and anything else I needed to take, including my lunch, and all but pushed out the door. We had what we called "bookbags," which were like fabric briefcases.  We did not know from back packs.   I WALKED to school.  Our farm was just outside the city limits.  Every day I walked past the Welcome To sign, giving our town population, which was either 438 or 483.  I think.  I walked all the way down the sidewalk lining our Main Street to the other end of town, where our grade & high school were right next to each other, on the same piece of property.  Yep, I walked all by my only ALL the way through town.  I was what?  Eleven, I think.  I was never shot at, there or at school.  It had never even entered anyone's mind that might be a danger to me. I was safe in the hands of every resident who looked out of their window and saw me going by.  It never occurred to anyone that it might be easier on my little body if I were driven to school!  I walked quite a distance each day.

No one thought a thing about it!

Same here, MaryPage...

I walked to school for 12 yrs.  4 times a day.... 15 minutes home, 15 minutes to eat lunch, 15 minutes back to school.  Plus, ouf course, thé going down in the morning and coming home after school. 

Our 80 degrees is about to end says the weatherguessers.  Rain on the weekend and then 50s. 

I had plans to change my closet over to summer, but I get a reprieve.

Stay safe and healthy,

Jane

I also walked to and from unless the winter temperatures were below minus forty when I stayed in for lunch. It wasn't that there wasn't crime. Communication was not as widespread as now, and we had no idea what was happening nationally, let alone outside of our small town. Guns were also not as readily available as they are now. Nor was there a known precedent.

I think the copy-catism you are hinting at is an extemely important factor, Patricia; but we, and when I say "we" I mean my family, owned a gun.  Mebbe more; I don't know, and there is no one left to ask. I am the matriarch now. To think I was eleven at the time we speak of!  It was before WWII arrived on our scene, albeit my daddy was a West Pointer and, as an army officer, was on maneuvers all Over this country, as the Army knew what was coming at us.  He and Mama moved about on an average of every six weeks, and that would not do for my attending school.  So it was with great delight I was left with Grandma and my uncles.  LOVED it there! 

Most people were suffering from the Great Depression still, and owning a gun was not a high priority for them.  We were a tad more comfortable, and the uncles owned a shot gun.  The purpose of the gun was to shoot crows that were in our apple orchard.  As I say, more guns may have existed, but I have no memory of them.

The shot gun was kept in our front hallway.  In the umbrella stand, which was a tall, round blue & white porcelain container just to the right hand side of our front door.  The shot gun was surrounded by umbrellas and canes.  It, the gun, was always empty of any shot.  The shot was kept in a small commode over on the lefthand wall of that hallway.  In the top drawer, along with some other stuff.  Two open boxes.  One contained shot wrapped in (?) pinkish paper, while the other box of shot was wrapped in a sort of teal-colored paper.  I have no idea what this color thing stood for.

It never in Life occurred to me to touch the gun or the shot.
I have absolutely no memory of having been told not to.  I just knew somehow that that was not my stuff.

Yes, there was crime of every type possible all over this nation.  But it was rare.  I do not recall any in my home town.  We had, back then, a one man police force.  His name was Mr. Carbaugh, and he knew all of us kids by name and who our parents (grandmother, in my case) were. If he thought we hung out too long after school, he might admonish us to git along home.  So I guess we kids may well have been the highlight of his possible crime scenes from day to boring day!  (/color]

I grew up in the fifties when my father and several uncles transferred from WWII to Korea. Plus, in Alaska, as it still is, there were and are guns for hunting.


It isn't that crime was rare, but it wasn't a major topic of conversation, and recent news wasn't a possibility. Plus, as a child, we were shielded from unpleasantness.

We will have to agree to disagree.

Ah, but Patricia!  I was born in 1929.  I think of the fifties as the years I lived in a G.I. Bill cookie cutter house and had my first babies. 

The time I am speaking of is 1940.  We had the radio:  had had it all of MY lifetime, and we listened to the news constantly.  When I would be sick in bed with one thing or another, I would listen to hours and hours of soap box serial dramas called soap box operas.. 

The news shows we listened to were top notch.  Lowell Thomas was our favorite, but H.V. Kaltenborne was top-notch.  They had something I think was called ticker-tape that kept them on top of things.  Me, I never saw ticker-tape except in the movies.
 Oh, and in those days, we always got at least 15 minutes of newsreels at the movies.  It came with the price of the ticket.

I feel a sense of panic when I hear the price of houses and vehicles today.  I paid $1,650.00 for my first car: a 1950 Plymouth 2-door sedan.  A lovely shade of green.  I drove that car for 11 years!  We paid $12,500.00 for our first house.  It had 4 bedrooms, dining space in the kitchen, but no dining room, and was where I lived next door to my third, and last, husband, whom I married when I was 74.  My first two husbands were dead.  Oh, Bob & I lived next door to one another for seven years then, but we remained friends forever.

When my mother graduated from nursing school, she was paid $50 a month.  A lot of people were paid by the month in those days.
That works out to $12.50 a week.

Please..disregard...I figured out how to correct it....want do that again....thx anyway

Jane, couldn't find this from Senior Learn. Went to old bookmark and had to sign in again for some reason.

Anyway, Hello to everyone. I have read all the posts but couldn't reply my last visit. I hope everyone is well.

I walked to school and home also, unless I could beg a ride from a friend. Probably around a mile to the HS and a little less to grade school. I wouldn't have minded it so much if I hadn't had to care a load of books in my arms. This was before back packs.

Melanie is doing better. Last CT scan showed lots of necrotic tumor cells, so the oral chemo is apparently working. Her hair has grown back totally white all over her body, even her eyelashes. She had enough hair to color it and not have to wear a wig. That's progress.

I fell a couple weeks ago in the pouring rain while trying to get in my car that was too close to the curb! I sat down in about an inch or so of freezing water and mud. Of course, I couldn't stand up, so someone told the front office that they had seen me fall and they called the fire dept to come get me up! I wasn't hurt, but sure was a mess. I had been playing bridge and was going home to pick John up for dinner. Needless to say, I didn't go. I gave the car, dirty seat and all to him, told him to go eat and bring me a dinner home. Then I headed for a hot shower! Had to rinse out my slacks and underwear in the showier and then wring them out & put them in the washer. Boy, did that hot shower feel good! I was lucky not to have hurt anything but my pride.

I seem to keep busy between bridge twice a week, the newsletter, and household duties. I'm hoping to get to the nursery to get my annuals for my patio planter. My pansies are still blooming, but won't long as we keep having some days in the low 80's.

That's about all the news here.  Stay well and safe.  Sharon[/4]

Good morning; all is as usual here, the snow has diminished, and the ice is slowly disappearing, so that's a good thing.

Good morning Sharon; I hope you have no lingering effects from your fall.

Sharon, so sorry to hear about your traumatic ordeal.  Glad it all ended as well as it did.   Suspect some aches & pains will show up, but hope if they do that they won't amount to much.

Sharon, so glad you weren't hurt - but how messy and embarrassing. Glad it all ended well.

Temps here are doing their usual spring thing. We were in the 60s last weekend, 85! today, mid80s again tomorrow. Then back into the 60s over the upcoming weekend. Pretty much typical springtime weather in Tennessee. At least, there's no severe weather predicted for the week.

Happy April, Buddies!

Sharon...glad you weren't hurt in your fall.

Hi to Patricia, Maryz, Darlene, MaryPage, and others looking in.

My first eye is done and seems to be working great.  This is my distance eye, and I think the left one will be my closeup one.

Nothing else going on...drops, drops, drops.

Stay safe and healthy,

Jane

I had both distance AND reading lens put in each eye when I had my cataract surgeries.  Bi-focals.  I've known a lot of people who chose distance for both eyes, and then used reading glasses for reading, but I've not known anyone who got one for one eye and the other for the other.  Will be interested in hearing how that works out for you.

I have an issue with my eyes where the muscles move, that's similar to lazy eye. I had spinal meningitis in the hospital shortly after birth. Since they were in crisis mode with rampant polio, I was sent home early until severe fevers landed me back in that hospital.

My eyes, balance, and one or two other things directly resulted from that disease, and I had speech therapy, muscle therapy, and nine eye surgeries during my childhood. The eyes would be fine, then the muscles would relax, and they'd schedule another surgery. They've moved again, but the doctors agree it would be only cosmetic at this age.

The reason I bring this up is that I'm going to have cataracts and floaters removed this summer. I had no idea you could do that with your eyes, such as distance or bifocals.

I can see another information visit at my next exam to see what, if any, provisions they would take for my eyes.

We knew a fellow who had Lasix surgery, with one eye done for distance and once for closeup. It seemed to work fine for him. This was many years ago. I had regular lenses put in my eyes with cataract surgery. It was in the early 2000s, so not many options for the implants, and I still wear my glasses. When John had his done several years later, they were able to correct his astigmatism (his primary problem), so he only used the "dollar-store-readers". They were stashed all over the house - any place he might sit to read. I know there have been lots more advances since then. It'll be interesting to find out what Kate's having done (my 64 year old daughter).

   My eyes naturally has one far vision and the other close up.  The ophthalmologist said that that would work well for me witn the new lenses as I was used to it. 

Finally warming up here...hurrah...My sister and I went out this morning to get a few things and we're home now

Take care and stay safe,

jane

Annapolis has been named one of the 26 most beautiful towns in the nation by Travel & Leisure magazine.  I have not had the pleasure of reading that article, as the information was barely mentioned in our local paper; but I assume we were number 1.  I adore this town, and would just as soon such news does not draw people here to live, thus growing our numbers.
 The same magazine told their readers we are the sailing capital of the world.  Well, that's been told many times before.

Yesterday, my next door neighbor knocked on our door.  Chip answered, as I was not feeling well.  She had a handful of mail for me that had been mistakenly stuffed in her box. This building of condominium apartments (Mary Z. has visited me here) has 6 units: 2 on each of 3 floors.  I am in unit 101 on the second floor.

The ground floor features units T1 and T2.  T stands for Terrace, as these have patios instead of balcony decks.  My neighbor lives in Washington, D.C. and comes here just as a getaway.  Her home in D.C. is her principal residence, and she has a job there.

Sue had not been down since early January.  The 4 pieces of mail had all been dated between January 15th & 17th.  I had had to pay a late fee to my county water & sewer business when I got a late notice, to my great horror. Today was the day to file a complaint.

Don't you Hate those robot calls?  They don't give you Near enough options, and you feel as though you are going through a tortuous gauntlet.  I finally, FINALLY, got a human being.  But, sweet as she was (and no doubt hired for that!), she was not the person to receive that complaint, but only the one to write it down (type it up, actually) and send it on.

Life is not what it once was, Folks!  We are forced to deal with robots and vast incompetence. I remember the days when the postal service was a Great Service and everyone loved it!  Seriously.

Speaking of Life not being what it used to be, This is Just fpr Fun!

I went to my dentist today.  That is not the fun part of this story.
 But I've been going there like Forever and know them like old friends.  So the gal assistant & I were chatting away, and something came up, Oh, I remember: I had to have xrays and she put that ever so heavy lead cover over me tp prevent cancer and I started telling her all about the shoe stores in my childhood and how they all had xray machines and we kids used them over and over, maybe 10 times to a visit, just for fun.  She has had to take courses in xraying, but had Never Heard of This!  So she did something I never tend to think of, she Google-Imaged them, and was entranced.  She showed Doctor Johnson, and he had never heard of them, either!  How about you folks?

MaryPage, it sounds vaguely familiar to me, but that's all. I'll have to search online.

None of the online photos look familiar, so I guess I was thinking of something else, sorry.

MaryPage...I do remember those!  We'd wiggle our toes
and watch them move.  Every shoe store had one!

Weather has warmed up here.  I go tomorrow for a haircut. 
Thurs. my sis and I head back to Iowa City for the lens replacement on the left eye.  The right one has gone very well.

I'm looking forward to May and a sharp decrease in doc and dentist visits.

Remember the May Pole?

I heard tonight on national news that the allergy season is very bad.  I think I knew ''sneeze ». 'Sneeze » that!