Soda Shoppe August 1 , 2024

MarsGal · August 26, 2024, 01:47:59 PM

Jane, I am tucked in behind Bethany Village and the rehab hospital, not very far at all.

Patricia, if we had a dime for every one of those spam mails, we would be millionaires within weeks. Over the weekend, I got an e-mail that came from a friend of mine. Well, at least it was her email. It wouldn't open so I sent her an email back. Turns out it was a spam thing. Now I am busy changing passwords, etc. Apparently it is one of those things that hijacks your address books and sends itself along. Not sure what else it was up to, if anything, since it didn't open. I forwarded it to a barely used email address I have. What popped up there was marked Ad and looked like one one of those spam email headers purporting to sell you something. I didn't even open that one. It went directly to trash. Looks like you can't even trust email addressed from your friends anymore.

I've just finished lunch and am about to embark on my mission to fill the new bookshelf. I am in the middle of rearranging some of my books so that I use several of the shelves on my taller bookcases items the cats can't reach. Oscar recently discovered he can reach the upper shelves on my stepped shelf via the new TV console table. Stuff I have there is breakable, and he does like knocking thinks off the shelves and table tops. He seems to be reverting to kitty-hood. Sigh!

Hope everyone is doing well.

Amy · August 26, 2024, 02:01:21 PM

Patricia, you receiveth while I giveth..

It was the hub bearing in the front end, I went to get conformation and make an appointment but the owner said he would do it right then!! Nice to have service like that!!

Sure didn't get much done but tis ok....another day perhaps.

JaneS · August 26, 2024, 08:53:57 PM

Well, I got some stuff done today and some of it is still waiting. The cabbage is all taken care of at least it will be when I finish eating the casserole I made. I'm sure glad I cut that one in half or i'd end up eating it until Kingdom Come!

Cathy picked me up and we went to The Dollar Tree first and I got the 7 birthday cards that I need in September! Now I have to get them ready to send. I don't know how we got so many birthdays in one month!

It sounds like you've all been busy and also getting a lot of SPAM. I've been getting it on the computer and the telephone! We have to be smart to get ahead of them!

Now I'm ready for the haystack! My eyes don't want to stay open so I'm going to let them have their way. I don't have to be up early to meet Cooper. My grandaughter has the day off and he's going to be getting a haircut! I might see him for a few minutes but I won't have him for the day. I'll miss him!

Good Night Everyfriend! Sleep well and wake refreshed! Make tomorrow your own in every way and be sure to let us know how you did that. We're always curious!

JaneS · August 27, 2024, 06:34:44 AM

Good Morning Everyfriend!I'm up and had my breakfast...just finishing my coffee. And I see the daylight is upon us. I'll be out for my first walk of the day (without Cooper) in a few minutes. His Mommy is off today and he's home with her.

I wish you all a great day. Don't forget to stop by and say "HI" to all of us!

Amy · August 27, 2024, 06:43:27 AM

Good morning..

Back into fry weather this week..

Some of the leaves are already turing colour, heard that geese were also flying south, I think fall is soon here.

If the peaches are ready that will be my job for the day.

If that rooster keeps up his crowing,he will become a little horse (hoarse).

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

RAMMEL · August 27, 2024, 09:12:54 AM

Hi. --- everyone

patricia19 · August 27, 2024, 01:34:04 PM

God morning all, Morning routine finished, and I've time to see how all of you and the rest of the Internet are up to.

Hi Rick, and everyone!

MG, I remember years ago when I received one of those from Norm. Typical guy, he blamed it on his granddaughter using his computer. I've since implemented a number of features, chief among them is Ublock which stops all suspicious pages from opening until I've given the okay and even then, a couple of times it's insisted I think again.

I have two six - shelf wooden units, one is half filled with cookbooks and then older Martha Stewart and similar nonfiction titles. The other holds my fiction collection. Every time I've gotten rid of one, I've been upset later, so there they sit until I look through them again. While my Kindle holds enough books that Amazon sends me yearly Christmas cards...

Amy, you have more trouble with those vehicles that I'm glad I don't have that expense, although I spend enough, sometimes too much, supporting public transportation.

Jane, I wish I had your energy. I'm taking today and the next two off because today or one of the other two, maintenance and a fireman will be in checking all alarm, sprinkler and fire systems. At least I'll hear them coming as they go floor to floor. It just depends on whether they start at the top and work their way down, or at the bottom and work their way up. Sometimes I wish we had fewer inspections.

I hear the geese every night, Amy, and the ravens are letting everyone know they've returned from the mountains. One of our Athabaskan residents said he'd heard that the animals have already set up their dens.

It was an altogether too short summer.

patricia19 · August 27, 2024, 02:12:28 PM

From the Palmer, Alaska state fair;

"PALMER, Alaska (KTUU) - The 18th annual weighing of the state's largest pumpkin at the Alaska State Fair kicked off Monday with another winner from Anchorage grower Dale Marshall.

Marshall claimed the Giant Pumpkin crown for a record-extending seventh straight year with a gourd that weighed in at 2,035 pounds — not as heavy as his state record 2,147-pound pumpkin from 2022, but a hefty one nonetheless. Marshall said he never expected this year's pumpkin to be so big.

"I was kind of shocked. Actually, I had in my mind it was going to be 19 ( hundred pounds)," Marshall said. "So we probably went 225 pounds more than we thought we were going to, which is always exciting."'

MarsGal · August 27, 2024, 06:12:30 PM

Thanks, Patricia. I must look into UBlock. For whatever reason, the email I got would not open anything. My sister hasn't reported anything like it from me, and my other email address, when I forwarded it came up with an ad name which promptly got trashed without opening. The difference between the two browsers/email clients is what apparently made a difference. I know the spam ads were from what I forwarded, because I rarely get any mail one that one and the spam popped over there almost instantaneously.

I've been busy this afternoon, after a bit of reading and a nap, populating my new bookshelf with books from taller shelves. The tall shelves have cubbies that are higher than what the cats can get to, so the ones I have moved the books from will soon have some of the stuff I had boxed away because I didn't have a place for them before.

Oscar is pesting. How much you want to bet he wants something to eat. I put stuff out for the pair a half hour ago and he wouldn't eat it then.

patricia19 · August 27, 2024, 07:00:16 PM

Farrah's preferred meal plan is to save the daily cup of dry for overnight while dining on two tablespoons of wet food, preferably fish, four or five times daily.

Since she won't touch the leftover wet food after she's eaten, I put it back in the can so it doesn't go to waste, and it's there again for her highness's next meal.

JaneS · August 27, 2024, 08:29:18 PM

I just slept throuth about half of a Perry Mason show and decided it was time to hit the sack. I got a lot of stuff done today and tomorrow Cooper will be here at 5:45 a.m. Frankie has an early day tomorrow so Cooper gets an early day and I do too.

And I will be going out to lunch with my former working associates from the office of Pennsylvania House Furniture! We do it once a month and I missed the last two so I'm looking forward to tomorrow. Frankie only works until 2:30 so I might not get to say goodbye to Cooper for the day!

Don't know what I'll get into when I get home but I think Cathy will be over to help me make a change in my trash pickup program. The one I've been using has changed their policy and it's costing a lot more so we're looking at another one that has been around for a long time.

I guess I better finish off my day and hit the hay! I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow. I'll see you later. You take care of YOU!

JaneS · August 28, 2024, 06:19:03 AM

I'm up and attem! Cooper has arrived and had his breakfast and we're waiting for some morning light out there so we can take our walk! I do not go out there in the dark any more!

I see there's been no one here since I checked out last night so I'll just say Good Morning and be on my way.

GOOD MORNING, EVERYFRIEND!

Amy · August 28, 2024, 07:11:12 AM

Good morning...

May get more rain this morning, had a dandy storm last evening. Didn't last very long but let us know it was there. Don't have to water the garden for a few days now.

Need to lable 21 jars of pickled beets that were done yesterday and can peaches today...that is it!!

Jane,hope you had a good time out with your friends. I heard from David ,he was just heading out of Arkansas,said the temp was 100°. Told him noo to bring it back with him!

Patricia, I meant to comment on your Mom making your wedding dress......she must have been fantastic with the needle!! That is such an undertaking to do..labour of love for sure.

Rick, did you get any rain last night?

Better get the day started.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

RAMMEL · August 28, 2024, 08:08:40 AM

Sun just starting to peek out. Supposed to be a hot one today, with "feels like" over 100.
Computer acting up. All my Desktop icons are there, but blank. Will have to play with that.

so_P_bubble · August 28, 2024, 10:30:20 AM

Good luck, Rammel!

RAMMEL · August 28, 2024, 10:55:45 AM

No progress. Email also messed up, and some programs. But S&F obviously still works.

so_P_bubble · August 28, 2024, 11:16:40 AM

Is your S&F opening very slowly? Mine has been doing that for about the last 10 days. Sluggish to open but post OK.

patricia19 · August 28, 2024, 01:02:41 PM

Good morning, we're firmly in the camp of low forties to mid-sixties these days with no rain now but persistent cloudy skies.

My meet and greets, morning routine and feeding Farrah is done, And perhaps, in between random water shutoffs and sprinkler inspections, hope to get a few items done today. Tomorrow, I'm having lunch with some friends and that'll be nice.

Jane, perhaps you've trained your brain to use Perry Mason as a lullaby? Or simply, it's time to sleep when the TV is on? In any case, enjoy your day with Cooper and your lunch with old friends.

Rick, Bubble, I haven't had an issue, so far, with S&F but know my computer is sluggish when first turned on. I wouldn't want that excessive heat these days, I remember temps of 104 in the fifties, but wouldn't mind after all that rain, a few in the seventies.

Thanks, Amy, she sewed a lot as well as quilted, knitted, crocheted and embroidered. She sewed all of our clothes until we began to rebel as teens. She grew up in a farming family and always said it was expected. Even my uncle could sew and knit. And they all fixed fences and drove the tractor, and otherwise worked. They grew up in the twenties and thirties, and it wasn't an easy time.

RAMMEL · August 28, 2024, 01:29:57 PM

Quote from: so_P_bubble on August 28, 2024, 11:16:40 AMIs your S&F opening very slowly? Mine has been doing that for about the last 10 days. Sluggish to open but post OK.

I haven't noticed that.

Amy · August 28, 2024, 02:43:03 PM

Mine was slow this morning but so far everything is ok?

Just waiting on the last of the 24 jars of peaches in the canner.......then I can clean up the mess!!

Rick, I dislike the 100° weather.. prefer it around 70° to work in.

patricia19 · August 28, 2024, 03:05:29 PM

They came and did my fire/sprinkler inspection, luckily they started at the top and worked their way down. So, I'm good until the next one they come up with.

Amy, I do like peaches but hate the pits, so I normally buy canned. I do get them in my doctor's program but try to slice around the pit. I usually buy more oranges and apples because they seem to last longer. Kiwis are a new favorite.

JaneS · August 28, 2024, 07:22:25 PM

Hello Everyfriend! It's been a great day! Cooper came and went and my lunch with the ladies I used to work with was great. We talked and talked and talked and ...well I'm sure you understand that kind of visit! It's so nice of them to pick me up and see that I get to enjoy these gatherings.

When I got home Cathy came over and we did some more finance stuff for my house. She keeps me in line there. It's nice to have my personal accountant!

PATRICIA and AMY, my wedding dress and all the bridsmaids dresses were made by my Mother and Grandmother! So were both my sisters. That's one of the most special things in my life. I think I have a picture of me in my wedding dress. If I can find it, I try to remember to post it! I absolutely adored my dress and I had it around for years.

I hear thunder and I wasn't even aware that we were supposed to get some rain today! I guess we can use it. It's been in the 90s here most of the day! Makes it hard to breathe when you go outside. Cooper didn't want any long walks today and he didn't hang out in the yard today either!

Now I'm thinking that I just might consider this day finished! I've got all my eye drops and I'm ready to throw in the towel and throw on my jammies! Sounds like a good idea to me! I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy day tomorrow. Make it your own in every way and please don't forget to let us know how you did that!

JaneS · August 29, 2024, 06:30:57 AM

Good Morning Everyfriend! I'm up and attem!

Amy · August 29, 2024, 07:43:34 AM

Good morning.

I am up but I don't know about my attem! Today is put away all canning supplies and wash floors! First need to label and put away the peaches.

Love these cooler mornings......bet I won't be saying that come November!

Patricia, I don't even put the pits in the compost, takes too long to decompose.

Better stay the day.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

patricia19 · August 29, 2024, 01:24:24 PM

Good morning everyone, morning routine is finished, and coffee's perked. I'm going to try to get a few things done today before they have another water shut off. So far, it's water one and maintenance zero, as the water still takes far too long to heat. Once I timed it at fifteen minutes to pass lukewarm. Their water bill must be expensive

I'm planning on lunch out, so want everything done by then.

phyllis · August 29, 2024, 03:35:16 PM

I hope our current hot spell will be the last of this summer. It's been in the high 90s for several days and will last until next week. Many schools have had to release children early because the air conditioning units are failing. The maintenance people can't keep up with repairs.

I am staying in and keeping blinds closed and hoping my ac doesn't fail. Not doing much cooking but relying on catering company to bring us food that is easily heated in microwave or salads that can be eaten cold. If we want soup I am calling on Panera. I think our holiday meal will be catered this year, too.

Hang in there, EVERYONE. We'll be complaining about being cold all too soon. Take care, All.

JaneS · August 29, 2024, 09:14:18 PM

I'm heading for the haystack when I finish here. We had a hot one today. It rained all around us but never on us. It's supposed to hit here overnight. We shall see!

Cooper will be here a bit before 7 tomorrow and his Grammy is coming up from Maryland in the afternoon. Frankie is off this weekend so I expect a houseful!

Got a lot done today but not all the cleaning. The sweeper is still sitting out and I'm sure it will yell at me to get to work and finish up so it can go back and hide in the closet for a while.

AMY, I hope all your jars are put away and I hope David didn't bring any of the southwestern heat back home for you! I'm ready for Fall. My two favorite times of the year are Spring and Fall. I don't like the cold or the heat any more!

PHYLLIS, you do dinner right. Let someone else cook if you don't feel like it! It's the only think I still enjoy in the kitchen but I usually end up with too much!

Now I'm going to hit the haystack! I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow! And don't forget to share it with us! We miss you when you don't stop by.

Denver · August 29, 2024, 11:47:31 PM

PATRICIA, I apologize for not commenting on your nice post. We are NOT going to ANCHORAGE, but I looked at the weather you shared anyway.

We sail Sunday the 1st from Seattle to Ketchikan, with one day at sea. Endicott Arm and Daw Scenic, Juneau, Skagway, a day at sea then Victoria and back to Seattle. We are so excited. I have a friend on the ship this week and she will stay on and go with us again. She has been posting a lot of pictures.

We have been working at packing all week. Getting pretty close to getting done......I am so slow as I attempt to fold thing with these two non working shoulders‼️‼️

My best to you all.

Pleasant dreams🦋

JaneS · August 30, 2024, 06:33:53 AM

Good Morning to one and all!

JENNY, I wish you the trip of a lifetime! Alaska is the only state in the Union that I haven't been able to visit and I've given up the thought. I hang all over everything that PATRICIA posts and if anyone else posts I hang on that. I'll be watching for your account of your trip! It'll be nice having a friend along who has already done the trip. She'll probably be a part time guide!

I awaiting the arrival of Cooper for the day and as I predicted, the sweeper is hollering to get busy and get it's work finished so it can head back to the closet!

I wish Everyfriend a pleasant day. Make it your own in every way. And please don't forget to share it with us! We miss you when you don't stop by!

Amy · August 30, 2024, 07:48:33 AM

Good morning..

Overcast here this morning..temp of 42° at the moment. I didn't get it all done yesterday, jars are put away but the floors still need washing. Being a nice day with a bit of a breeze the grass was cut instead.

So today is housework.. oh fun

This is a holiday weekend here, lots of trafic and crowded streets and stores.

Phyllis, I think today will be the 15 bean or hand full bean soup in the IP

Jane, he said it was raining when he was there.likly a much needed rain too.

Jenny, enjoy your trip! We were in Skagway for a visit, hope you are allowed to wander into the shops.

Patricia, how long to the next inspection? Do they do it yearly?

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

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