Soda Shoppe April 1 , 2025

patricia19 · April 03, 2025, 12:56:44 PM

Good morning, meet and greets, morning routine, and feeding everyone is finished. I'm making only a few cups of coffee as I will be gone most of the day to do monthly shopping, bill paying, and a bit of food gathering.

I'll be going with a friend, so no bus catching or taxi taking, which will be nice in this weather. Not only that, but I'm sure the taxi pickup times will be an hour at least, so I'm happy to be spared that.

Today will be 45 and clear, but the rain returns on Saturday. Everything outside is black and gray, sheathed in ice.

Amy, why shouldn't the summer tires gain weight over the winter? I know I do.

MarsGal · April 03, 2025, 10:22:59 PM

Amy · April 04, 2025, 06:39:56 AM

+Good morning..

We are to enjoy the sun today! Rain took away a lot more snow,leaving puddles and small ponds in back yards. Tomorrow we will also see more rain.Good thing is, overnight they do disappear. Friends still do not have power on ,now maybe the 5th they will. This storm did a lot of damage!

Getting tires changed then home to do what needs to be done. Tried a new recipe for suppr and al;though it wasn't bad I won't make it again. Too salty from the cheese? soup?ranch dressing? but will finish it off.

Patricia, ok that does happen. If these tires gain much more I am in trouble of getting them into the van!Thank goodness for a dog ramp to roll them up into!

Jane, how is the Cooper? Hope you are getting nicer weather for your walks.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

RAMMEL · April 04, 2025, 09:04:50 AM

Wet overnight, but looks like the rain has moved on, Still cloudy. Looks like Jane will have a dry walk.

phyllis · April 04, 2025, 10:10:16 AM

Amy, I think you and Kyle personify our generation. If life hands you a lemon--make lemonade. And do it with a laugh because tears never solve anything.

In these troubling times I am trying very hard to keep calm and upbeat.

Take care, All.

patricia19 · April 04, 2025, 12:26:28 PM

Good morning, today is the same as yesterday, however, rain and ice return for the weekend. Those in the know, are forecasting two to three days of rain or snow until May. Long range forecast for May is warmer temperatures and sunny skies. I hope that's true!

I enjoyed yesterday, talked too much and spent too much and stayed out too long, but the day was fun!

I'm back on package detail for neighbors this weekend, but other than that, it'll be the kitchen and bathroom spring-clean.

Here's hoping everybody stays safe and that this horrible weather runs its course soon.

JaneS · April 04, 2025, 12:48:44 PM

Good Morning Everyfriend! OOPS! I think I should have said "Good Afternoon". I had a busy morning. 5 loads of laundry have made it through my washer and dryer and some are hanging in the doorways on hangers!

The birdies are chirping and I know they are laying eggs because I saw where one missed the nest. That's one little chirpie that won't make it into this world. I bet his mama will miss him!

Yesterday was a baking day. I did a dinner and aome breakfast eggs. The eggs were different from any I did before and I had one for breakfast. It was Good and it was easier to make than the other ones.

PATRICIA, it sounds like you had a good shopping day with friends yesterday! Yay for you!

AMY, sounds like your snow is finally melting. That's good! I'm in favor of SPRING!

All the rest of you, take care and enjoy the weather change! I sure am! I went out for a walk yesterday without a jacket! Now that's SPRING!

I better get my last load of clothes out of the washer, fold them and put them away. I was up at the usual time today even though Cooper didn't come. I wake up and I can't go back to sleep. Sounds like a good reason for a nap!

I wish you all a great day! Do whatever suits your fancy! Make it something or nothing...it's your choice!

JaneS · April 04, 2025, 08:26:55 PM

OK, Good Night to myself! I hope you are all having such an important day that you don't have time to look us up! I'll be back tomorrow and maybe there will be a picture of my newest Great Grandson posted by the time I come back. Good Night...Sweet Dreams!

RAMMEL · April 04, 2025, 08:43:15 PM

Goodnight. I've been popping in and out here. Just have nothing to say

BTW - Made Cowboy Stew tonight. We both like it.

Amy · April 04, 2025, 09:04:48 PM

Photo posted for Jane here..

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Amy · April 04, 2025, 09:19:13 PM

Well..... night time is here and I am hitting the sack. Productive day....got more than I thought I would done.
Tires changed then put away winter tire (have yet to find a safe spot where they don't gain weight)
Back yard cleaned up and all garbage taken to dump, laundry done and hung on the line.

Phyllis, that is the only way to take life. One friend said I was always smiling and she knows what is happening here. Told her that if you didn't smile you would cry and I don't have time for that! Besides if you smile, people are always wondering what you are up to.

Jane, oh my he is so huggable.What a sweetheart.

Patricia, more rain for us tomorrow.

Nite .

patricia19 · April 04, 2025, 10:18:24 PM

Amy, next fall, take those winter tires out for short runs. Hopefully, the exercise will have them lighter and leaner when next winter arrives...

BarbStAubrey · April 05, 2025, 12:03:21 AM

Spent the last couple of days trying to sort out my AC that is not working as it has or as I think it should... same problems I was having with the heat a month or so ago... trying to communicate what I hear and experience to the techs is like talking two different languages - What I say I'm experiencing to them is impossible and therefore I must be a crazy old lady - if I did not need the AC I'd chuck the whole thing but with outside humidity today at 80 and outside temp at 77 and this is still only April I can't afford to throw a hissy fit. It's a roll of the dice if I get a full night's sleep or not but here goes...

MarsGal · April 05, 2025, 06:03:35 AM

Jane, could that be Cooper all buckled up and ready for a ride? Great photo.

JaneS · April 05, 2025, 06:48:10 AM

Good Morning Everyfriend. AMY, thanks for posting the picture for me. You'd think I could learn how to do that!

MARS. COOPER is my granddaughter's doggie who stays with me 5 days a week while she's working. The picture is my latest Great Grandson, Isaac who lives in Texas. I've never seen him in person but my granddaughter is bringing him to Pennsylvania at the end of this month and I'm planning to hug him and kiss him and love him up as much as I can!

Today we were planning to hit the recycling center but it's raining. I don't know if Cathy will want to do that in the rain! I guess we'll see!

BARB, sometimes I think the young people all think we're crazy! We just have to let them know that what we say is the same thing they're saying. it just come out of a different time area! We're not dumb....just different!

I wish you all a great day! Do whatever suits your fancy!

Amy · April 05, 2025, 07:37:09 AM

Good morning.

Tis a morning I would have no problem staying beneath the covers but...mouths to feed and not those just in the house.

Raining here too Jane. light rain but weatherman says it is going to pour! Have laundry to fold/iron and may bake depends on the energy.

Jane, Isaac is so cute, once you get him in your arms you won't let go!!

Better get moving ..

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

CallieOK · April 05, 2025, 12:29:04 PM

Good Morning from a wet, gloomy and cold Oklahoma! SNOW is predicted overnight

Janie, Isaac is so cute!!!!! Love that wide-eyed grin!

Barb, could you have the AC guys come and figure out what the problem is? Might be worth the price of a house call - especially in your heat and humidity.

Having a lazy day and don't think I'll look for anything else besides library books to put on my Wish List.

Enjoy your day, Everyfriend

patricia19 · April 05, 2025, 01:22:28 PM

Good late morning, it's 40 degrees at 9:07 am, and we're expecting Amy's rain and later Callie's snow with an overnight temperature dip. Morning routine, meet and greets and feeding Farrah and myself is finished while I sit with a new cup of coffee.

I'm going with Ruthie at eleven to visit Claire, who's feeling somewhat housebound with our share of the horrible weather everyone's having. I'm hoping everyone stays both safe and sane during these wet and turbulent times.

Jane, Isaac is a wild eyed happy little boy and I know you can't wait to finally meet him. How's Cooper doing walking in the rain? I know some dogs love it and many others don't care for it at all. I once had a black lab, Henry, who absolutely hated rain and water. He was an anomaly for many reasons, but he loved playing with kids, and we'd hitch him to a snow sled, and he dragged us all over the place and seem to have as much fun doing it as we did.

Barb, I have the same trouble with maintenance. They want short simple answers and I tend to give analogies

JaneS · April 05, 2025, 02:35:38 PM

Thank you all for the compliments on Isaac! I don't know if I'll be able to give him back after I get to hug him.

PATRICIA, Cooper and I took a walk this morning and it started raining about a half block from home. That didn't bother him but when it started to thunder, he took off for home and pulled me most of the way. But he did take care of business while we were out. And he chose not to go out in the yard with me later. I coaxed him until he finally came out the door but he never went off the porch and it wasn't raining then. But it has rained most of the day.

Right now it's not raining so I'm going to make a run to the mailbox and otherwise, I won't have as many steps as I usually do on a nice day. Enjoy the rest of this one wherever you are and whatever the weather is! My supper is already cooking and I must admit, I'm getting hungry! I just might eat early!

BarbStAubrey · April 05, 2025, 02:38:46 PM

Callie they can't figure it out however, they do not want to admit it and so they look at Paul and with knowing glances they think it is me as this crazy old lady... Paul was just here and of course like going to the Doctor when you get to the office none of the symptoms are active - why in the wee hours of the morning this acts up I will have to figure out and learn all I can about air flow, furnaces, compressors and humidity etc.

I now have a thermometer nailed not taped but yep, nailed on the wall directly above the thermostat and would you believe since it is made in China they give it no never mind and only believe the thermostat which they installed - talk about focused to having a closed mind and I pay for this and I'm the one dealing with this lordy...

Well new issues may be in the forecast - just got a Tornado watch from Montgomery County Weather something or other for this afternoon - seems a huge cold front coming in dropping the very humid heat with us for about 2 weeks that was between 76 and 84 with humidity in the 80s to a 25 degree drop in probably less than an hour - yep going down to the very low 50s - well at least if the electricity goes out, which it probably will, I now have a Generator that should kick on - making a pot of coffee now and plan on sitting on my front porch and watching the show - got my blanket ready in case it does really get as cold and they are saying.

MarsGal · April 05, 2025, 04:47:00 PM

I know what you mean Barb. I was getting up around 4 or 4:30am to feed the cats. During the coldest mornings of the year I could smell gas, faint, but it was there. I would go down the basement, no smell. Go outside and come back in, no smell. It was sooo faint, and I could smell it just in the kitchen at the top of the basement stairs. It would disappear when as the temps warmed up.It took over three times of having a gas guy out to track it down to find the leak. Their fancy gas detectors didn't find it, but three is the charm so they say. The last guy did it the old fashioned way and smeared liquid soap over the pipe and fittings. Where the tiny leak was, the soap bubbled up. He said he was surprised I could smell it. Maybe you can record the sound and play it back to them the next time they come out?
https://www.wikihow.com/Record-Audio-on-a-Mobile-Phone

RAMMEL · April 05, 2025, 05:44:43 PM

So says the Plumber --- "No bubbles, no troubles."

so_P_bubble · April 06, 2025, 03:49:36 AM

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JaneS · April 06, 2025, 06:36:10 AM

Good Morning Everyfriend! It's still dark here and Cooper Doggie is waiting for me to say its light enough to go for our walk. I'm not in favor of walking in the rain but I do it for him. So when it's light, if it's raining, we'll still go. Then I come back, get a shower and get ready for church at 10.

I wish you all a pleasant day. Do whatever suits your fancy! And don't forget to share it with us! We're very interested!

Amy · April 06, 2025, 07:36:03 AM

Good morning..

Overcast today with a starting temp of 33°. A day of welcomed rest here.......aside from the normal duties it just may be a sew day.

Talked with a friend last night and they still don't have power. Crews from all over have been working non stop since last Sat to fix the outage.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

patricia19 · April 06, 2025, 01:01:01 PM

Good morning, somewhat cooler today in the thirties, with snow overnight and some snow for Monday and Tuesday. Temperatures will rise again on Wednesday and Thursday.

Coffee's on, Farrah's fed and morning routines all done. Hopefully, I'll get some other projects done today as well.

Claire was feeling better during our visit yesterday. She's still missing her small holding, and the routine she and her animals had. Coming from living on a small homestead to a city is different for her, having lived on a farm or homestead the majority of her life, and so far she hasn't found a routine that works. I think it'll be easier for her in warmer weather.

BarbStAubrey · April 06, 2025, 03:05:27 PM

Brrr still cold - front came through yesterday and had to put the heat back on - sun trying to peek through but not being very successful - heard from my younger sister trying to come to terms with death and what it will be like since the reason for the call is our cousin who is a year and a half younger than me is dying - to the doctor for a urinary track infection and found cancer - she has chosen not to do anything and is going into hospice since all this kicked off her heart issues - she never has done any email or used a computer ever and mailing for me is more difficult so I need to write to her daughter a note that she can read to her mother, my cousin.

My sister and I started talking about what we think is an afterlife - she thinks we go to some far distant planet - although I think of myself as a Christian - Catholic - since high school heaven seemed to me to be like a fairy-story - did not make sense after having seen by then many deaths and saw our body that is our earthy ID stays here on earth and our soul has no form - Later I learned our soul is energy however, what happens or where it goes I do not know because I became aware all we have to think things through or imagine is our earthly experience with our earthly brain and earthly thoughts and even earthly prayers.

There are a few throughout history that have experienced a connection, a sighting to what is not from this earth but always that connection is made with the outer being becoming something we/they can recognize from our earthly mind and body and so where our energy goes upon death is still for me a mystery.

I realize I'm not afraid of dying, I think it is like falling asleep but I am anxious about what happens afterwards - I don't think it will be bad but maybe I'm expecting to have the earthly ability to know and that isn't even in the picture --- hmm and so my brain goes on this Sunday...

JaneS · April 06, 2025, 07:59:23 PM

HMMMMMMMMMMM! Lots to think about tonight!

Good Night! Sweet Dreams! Good Thoughts! Sleep well!!

Amy · April 07, 2025, 07:00:42 AM

Good morning..

Tad chilly out there this morning with a starting temp of 20°.No sun in sight but snow may visit.

Same ol routin along with fridge cleaning...the excitement never stops!

Managed to start another quilt yesterday so may also work on that.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

JaneS · April 07, 2025, 08:30:32 AM

Good Morning, AMY and anyone else who show up this morning!

Cooper Doggie is here, he's had his breakfast and his walk and he went out in the yard and chased everything away and then came in. Now he's asleep in the other room.

I changed the bed and washed the sheets and they're ready for the dryer as soon as I finish here. I have a casserole to make and then....we shall see!

I wish you all a good day. It's going to rain here again but we made it for our walk with nothing coming down! Do as you please today!

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