donklan ,that was too funny...
 
Never underestimate critter..
Thank you for sharing

Merry Monday,

Rick, thank you for the link to the Cornell bird feeders.  I've seen all of the ones I saw there at my feeders.  Wish I could have a tray feeder but the squirrels would empty it faster than I could keep up with. 

Donklan, those critters are way too clever!!!!  I have a metal pole with four hooks for hanging feeders but only have feeders on three of them because squirrels figured out how to use a branch of the holly tree to "trampoline" onto the feeder on that side. Unfortunately I can't move the feeders farther away.  However, I do "grease" the pole with Vaseline to keep the squirrels from climbing it.  So funny to see them leap part way up and then slide down with tail spinning like a helicopter blade.    Of course, I get plenty of Glares at the window when that happens.

Saw the first daffodil bloom this morning.  More may pop out today and I'll probably bring them inside because - although it's supposed to be 75º today - it's to be 32º tomorrow and rain/ice/snow the rest of the week.  <Sigh>

Hope it's an Enjoyable Day for Everyfriend.

Cannot copy/paste because after the first time I paste it. I delete it and try to paste that one the only one that shows up is the first one. 

CNA Fran is a good one.

Will try again tomorrow.
Gloria

when that happen Gloria, you need to refresh the page or close SS and open it again.

I got through most of my list at the store today.  Cathy just waits patiently for me to finish.  I think Frankie is always in a hurry.  Or maybe she's just too young to be shopping with an old lady!

I have a bird feeder out too.  I got it for Christmas and so far no birds (or squirrels) have made use of it.  I don't know why! It's in a safe place and I've seen birds in the yard but they don't use the feeder. 

I didn't get any laundry done today but I did make some brownies!  They were umm-ummmm goooood! And I put the leftovers in the Hidey Hole!

Frankie had a good first day at the hospital.  She said everyone was really nice and they all helped her find her way through orientation and they all said to ask if she needed answers anytime.  The only thing she didn't like was lunch and they have to eat there.  She said the best thing about lunch was the company!

I'm off to the haystack.  I won't have to be getting up so early to meet Cooper.  She doesn't have to be there until 8 and it's right around the corner from here.  I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow.  And may God bless us, every one!

Good morning..

Not going to be a great day here.....calling for freezing rain. We were to head to the city but now will phone and cancel the appointments.

Jane, great that Frankie enjoyed her first day at work...it will get easier as she goes along. Thank you for the brownie, you're right they are deeelicious! 

Shirley what about lining your trug with a double layer of heavy plastics? Just make sure to staple it in at the top and make slits on the bottom to allow the water out.

Enjoy your day and stay safe..

BUBBLE  will try and see what happens Might have to shut down and restart. I hate the idea of sending an SOS to my grandson. Wonder if he is sorry my son sent him to my home with that old IBM when David needed a new one half way through his first year in college.

It is very foggy here this morning just got to 33. Calling for rain tonight. Snow is going pretty fast.

I will enjoy a fresh brownie with a glass of cold milk.

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Good Morning everyone. It Is 45º here this morning im centrial MO. the weather guesser is saying it is 29 and cloudy. and that is what it looks like now. this thing changed it's miend while i was typeing. Have a good day everyone, wow the grasshas went from nice greean to burnt brown in 24 to 48 hours.

Lloyd

Good Morning Everyfriend!  Well, if this morning is any indication, I've become a breakfast stop on the way to work for Frankie.  She said she was stopping at McDonalds to get breakfast on the way here and she'd be early so she had time to eat it.  We'll have to work on that!

Cooper has had his walk and he's all cuddled up on the pillow on the couch.  I have a load of towels in the dryer and when they're finished, they'll get put away.  I have the stuff out to make meat loaf and scalloped potatoes and baked beans for supper and depending when Frankie's second orientation day is over, we might have company for supper. 

Otherwise, I'm just going to play "catch-up" today..... some phone calls, some bill paying, a little TV, lunch and whatever else crops up.  It's supposed to start raining any time now and last for the rest of the afternoon and early evening.  Sounds like Spring weather to me....or am I a bit over anxious?

I wish you all a good day...better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow!

Forgot to say.... I guess my trip to OK this summer is on!  I bought a new coffee travel mug yesterday and Cindy has set a date for her arrival in Lewisburg.  Sounds like Christy (my Maryland daughter) is thinking about doing the trip with us and having a visit there, too.  I doubt if she'll stay as long as I'm staying!

Welcome to Two Day, a very rare day, indeed! 2-22-2022!

...and it's also a "Twosday"  (Tuesday) 

I just fixed the coffed pot so all I have to do is punch the button in the morning.  Frankie doesn't start until (I think she said) 11 tomorrow morning.  She said shell be early because she's bringing her lunch here and eating it before she goes to work.  That means she won't be home until a little after 8 tomorrow night.  I didn't make the meat loaf today but it's ready to bake tomorrow so she can have them for supper when she's finished.  She thought that was a good idea and she's planning to spend the night here.

I'm heading for the haystack pretty soon.  We did get the promised rain today but Cooper and I beat it with our walk and he didn't even ask to go out in the yard after it started!

I did get a bit of laundry washed, dried, folded and put away today and a couple other odd jobs done.  Tomorrow is another day!  I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow.  And may God bless us, every one!

It has been "one of those days".... busy-busy & nothing to show at the end of it. I did get one load of laundry done & put away, did get to the store for the things I didn't think of yesterday.  So bitter cold it was hard to breathe when I went to the store, at least the mask kept me from breathing that cold air straight into my lungs! Pollyanna always can find something good, right?

Jane, I'm really angry at the price of gas & hope it doesn't change your travel plans. I will think twice about driving to MO for overnight, that's for sure!  When I go I will stay  longer. The car does good on gas but can't sleep in it & no bathroom, kitchen or anything, and I hate to stay in motels, always have, even the best hotels. But I will drive to OK to have lunch with y'all & can be back home that night, in my own bed!  I wouldn't miss that for anything! Main problem is driving thru OK City, I recall it is a nightmare. BUT maybe Onstar in the car can help, if someone helps me program it in!  If you are making the plans, Callie, keep in mind I can get lost in a parking lot. 

Weather guessers down graded our chance for snow tomorrow night but that's okay, I didn't get the Sno-Nut aired up anyway!  We had a dusting of snow last night or early this morning but so cold & dry it just disappeared. Our "feels like" temps are to be 10-14 below zero the next few nights & earlier today one weather person said we won't get above freezing until Sat., so that will crank up the heat bills. Quite a hike this month already. Sad to see prices go up so much so fast!

Gloria, I feel for you with that setting or whatever the problem the computer is causing. I am so short on patience these days, doesn't take much to put me in a tailspin. Andy changed some little something on that air compressor & I don't know what is different but I can't get it to work. Right now they are all so busy I hate to call for help unless it's a REAL emergency.

Wishing all good dreams and a happier tomorrow.  Got Bless... 

Good windy morning here.

Wind is from the north and after that all day rain we have a skating rink everywhere.

House hold chores to do and will put a strawberry pie together.

Shirley, gas has also gone up here and is still going up. Food prices are in a race with it to see which one can empty your pocket book faster.If you have AAA it will map out a Tripic for you ,our CAA does that  and it will show areas under road construction to avoid.

Better get ready to me the day.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

I'm up and ?attem?  So far, I've gotten dressed, made my bed, punched the button on the coffee pot and I'm having my first cuppa for the day!

SHIRLEY, it doesn't sound like you were your usual capable self last night.  I hope today is a better day for you. 

My plan for today is "no plan at all".  I do have the meat loaf ready to bake and I'm going to make scalloped potatoes and baked beans to go with it.  And that's the end of the plans.  I'm sure something will come up.  If the weather stays nice, I might start some clean up outside.  I have to rig up a ride to the recycling center on Saturday.  I'm getting overloaded again.

I wish you all a good day...better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow!

My bold, size and color buttons don't seem to be working!

Well, they did that time!

well I was making a good size post thought I was posting it but cant fiendit to check it out. Have a good day.

Lloyd

Haha, Jane, WAY TO GO!

Amy, thank you, I totally forgot that my daughter gave me AAA for Christmas because I got tired of the other never taking a call. One time on the phone the lady at the switchboard (don't think that's what they call it anymore)... tried to transfer me to the help & we sat on the phone for nearly an hour without them picking up. She was mortified. BUT, I do have AAA now & didn't think about their help. For some reason the map part on the car has turned upside down, no longer showing the true north, etc. & even when I know where I'm going, it does a thing to my brain. But I will go prepared. My Garmin will talk to me & tell me what lane to be in IF I get the address programmed in right. Always that IF.

Lloyd, the radio weather man said we were 5° when I woke up & half an hour later was 4°, but both were "feels like" 15° BELOW zero... so mighty cold. Gotta cover mouth & nose when out and then the glasses steam up so bad I had to take them off & put on the dash to clear up before being able to drive yesterday.

Callie, I'm still thinking about you seeing a daffodil .... so far mine have not stuck their nose out of the ground, only the surprise lilies. I'm jealous.

Patricia, do you have the wind with your cold temps?  I know it's supposed to be dryer air so doesn't feel as cold, but the temps you've had this year sounds super cold to me!

Don, forgot to tell you how much I enjoyed the squirrel battle... I had seen that once before, not sure where or when, but had even more fun this time. One of my neighbors had a running battle with squirrels & he finally gave up & got them the little holder for an ear of corn with a seat on each side. He bought everything he could find to outsmart them but I do believe he was catering to them before he died.

My battle is with the little cow birds, don't know their real name. Such lazy birds to push eggs out of another's nest & then not come back to check on their kids until they are ready to fly. We had house finches that are so friendly but watched so many times as the cowbirds would push an egg out of the finch nest to lay their... for some reason those stinking little birds can count so have to get rid of one before laying theirs, to make sure the mama finch will set the eggs.

Better get a move on, going to make a cheese cake today that my sister made in the early '50s and my son-in-law went wild over it when I made it one time, said his mother made the same one. They will be here this week end & I want to surprise him, he is so good to my daughter, gotta love that.

Good Morning,

Shirley, I'm glad I brought that one daffodil in and put it in a bud vase because the entire yard/patio/flower beds are covered with sleet this morning!  Not snow - but sleet!!!  Our temperatures are similar to yours. Brrr!

I've seen cowbirds around here, too.  I know the other birds have nests in the trees behind the fence and they're probably hatching one egg that isn't their own. 

Re plans for meeting Janie this summer: you won't have to drive through OKC and I know some short cuts that GPS probably wouldn't suggest. I think you can do it. 

The past two days have been very productive but I'm feeling like a slug this morning.  Don't mind the cold temperatures but really dislike gloomy weather.

Hope it's an Enjoyable Day for Everyfriend.

Good morning; I was in the midst of a post here when my computer cut to a blue screen and announced it was restarting. I told Shirley that we hadn't changed weather conditions since Christmas, they weren't cold in a drier climate, and I was hearing our new routine of early morning snow equipment's motor's revving and backup alarms.

There's nothing new here; I've showered, had my morning call and text check-in fed myself and Farrah, and am finishing my first of many cups of coffee.

Good morning everyone, another gloomy start Cannot believe what the temperature says on the TV and on my PC 55. Darn looks like I lost the degree sign again. Crazy weather for the next few days f the guesser is right. Rain and snow and temperature falling through the 30's. Just heard we will get 12 inches of snow.
 
JANE  maybe the birds in your area want the best feed seeds there is around? I used to buy anything that was on sale in the market and all the birds ate it. One thing I laughed at was the woodpeckers at the suet block hanging from the eves at the kitchen window hanging upside down to get what they wanted on the bottom of the suet block.    

PATRICIA  there was 2 weddings yesterday here in R.I. One in Roger Williams park in Providence and one here in this town.

CALLIE   

LLOYD  cannot trust what those weather guessers say.

SHIRLEY  when anything does not work the way it should on a PC I wonder what I did now. Son #1 always tells me I cannot get into something I should not touch. One thing I never did and will not do is get into settings my grandson fixed. I am not tech savvy and know it. Odd my son always seems to get at the computer when he is her and ends up banging the keyboard or slamming the mouse down then he blames me for messing things up. He calls his son and tells him I need help. That seems to me to be too much like his father.

AMY  I know your son drives those big trucks and wondered if he was in the mess at the border.  I remember one winter when we had a skating rink in the back yard. Good thing we had a big yard. All the kids in the neighborhood were there. None of the ponds around were  safe but the back yard had a couple of inches of water that froze solid. Odd the way things turn out, a few nights before that my 3 and I made molasses taffy, Had fun pulling that long rope out and twisting  it. Already had wax paper squares to wrap around the pieces  when I cut  them. It was fun for the 3 of them and if the oldest one next door came over it was a riot. He wanted to help and then wondered why I told him to wash his hands and put soft butter on them. My 3 told him they did not want to eat the dirt off his hands and he would not sticky hands. I caught him putting  one in his mouth and I told my 3 oh oh took what he just did. we pointed at him and at him saying - oh oh he is on that list for sure, we all caught him. He could not open his mouth to say anything, his teeth were stuck in the piece of toffee in his mouth. Another boy on the other side of us came over then and looked at him and said "I know what you did. wait till ice skating time and find out what happens to you. They all got together at our house and got a bag with a handful of taffy to take but he only got a few pieces. One of others finally told him why, when I tell them something it was because I meant it  the others for disobeying the rules and sneaking a piece  before the work was all done  He learned fast after that. If I let them all do as they wanted in the house it would have been a disaster. At times I WISHED THEY FIND A OTHER PLACE TO HANG OUT BUT IN THE LONG RUN I KNEW WHERE THEY WERE.
Sorry for all the  caps, you I am not a touch typist, have to see what key I hit and still hit wrong ones.

CNA Fran just left, she is t he best worker, even better then Yvette. She rather work than sit and talk or drive to the store every day.

Started this about 8:30 this morning and now it is 1:45. Hope I do better tomorrow.
Have a good rest of the day. Will go see what I have to make my supper. I know I have some of my baked beans and some of Mike's 15 bean soup and a coupe ot small pizzas and some other meals. Will have to see what tempts me later. Cut the tip of my right thumb and trying not to use it.
Have a good rest of the day, Stay healthy and safe. GOD bless.

Welllll, doggies (who said that?) Have a problem with the cheese cake. Anyone ever make the one that uses Milnot instead of canned milk? Has a box of lemon jello in & Philly cr cheese, plus-plus..... After going to 4 or 5 stores I called one north of the city & asked if they had it & a kind checker took pity & checked. Ever since Covid the stores won't check to see if they have something in stock, expect you to use their "shoppers" if you don't want to come look. Anyway, problem is I refrigerated overnight like the recipe said but my Milnot did not reach peaks... and I nearly wore out my 2 mixers! Said Original but did not find an expiration date. I gave up since had the crust make, jello & all other ingredients ready so poured it together & dumped into the cake pan with graham cracker crust. I can always dump it without anybody seeing. We'll see what tomorrow brings. I've gotta trim my hair & shower, #2 son will be here before long & I have things to do. Anyone want to take bets whether this'll be eaten or thrown away?

Gloria, I was the mother that had all the kids in our yard, too. One mother that never kept track of her kids call me "sargent of the guard of the neighborhood".... her kids were at my house all the time.    

Shirley, Jed Clampett said that.

Today was a good day!  The temp got into the mid 50s and the sun was shining.  When Cooper and I went for our first walk, it felt like Spring out there. 

I got a lot done today but most of it doesn't show and the stuff that does, shouldn't.  I tied up all the stuff to go to recycling on Saturday and it's lined up in the hall waiting for my son to come pick it up.  I don't want to put it back where it came from because I'll just have to get it out again!

Frankie picked up Cooper on her way home from work a little after 8.  I had a meat loaf, scalloped potato and baked bean dinner packed up for her to take with her just in case she didn't feel like sticking around to eat it.  She took it and a little later, she texted me to say it was great and it really hit the spot so I know she had at least one good meal today!   So did I! and it WAS good!

Now I'm going to post this and see if my sizing, bold and color worked.  I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow.  And may God bless us, every one!

Hahaha, shows you what classic TV I watch, Patricia.  Thanks!

Ah, Jane, that sounds so good to me. 3 of my fav foods that I have not fixed in ages.

Long past my bedtime, got to reading a book & will be sorry tomorrow. Talking to myself so, Good night, Shirley... Sweet dreams and God Bless.

Good morning..

Temp is starting out at -13° this morning..calling for snow tomorrow..

Baking today,may meet up with friends if they come into town later on.

Jane we had scalloped potatoes as well plus pork chops and corn. Left over scalloped potatoes for tonight then into a pot of potato soup it goes.

Gloria, no son wasn't involved in that mess but he did along with many others get stuck waiting to cross over. What were you trying to cut when you nipped your thumb?Fran also sounds like a keeper  for you.


Phyllis, all is well there?

Patricia,that was  one of the shows that I enjoyed. Granny and her possum pie!

Enjoy your day and stay safe..

Good Morning Everyfriend!  I can enjoy "The Beverly Hillbillies" all over again.  They're showing it on one of the DISH channels again right now.

My only plan for today is to have a shower and get dressed before Cooper and Frankie arrive at about 11.  She's still doing orientation this week and (I think) will be assigned a regular job next week! So her hours are all mixed up and she's doing a lot of moving around in the hospital so she'll know her way when she has to.  It's making her very tired.  And she's heads for home as fast as she can when the day is over!

The temp is back down in the mid 20s today and it's saying we'll be getting snow beginning around 10 tonight and lasting into tomorrow!  What's with this crazy weather!  One day it feels like Spring and the next day it's the dead of winter!

I wish you all a good day...better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow!