June--Yes I do remember Gert and Berge.  Sadly they have both passed away.

Sandy--Thanks for the link to the cams.

Janie--Good for you getting the curtains hemmed.  I've used those self-threading needles for years.  Sorry I neglected to tell you about them.

Hi Angelface.

    Happy Birthday, Lloyd!    

Nothing like a few days at the Lake... Truman Lake is where I go in MO, Corp of Engineer campground called Long Shoal... between Warsaw & Clinton.

Busy day here..... & still need to make a trip to the store.  JaneS, I think my new sewing machine came with a packet of self threading needles.... haha, but I still don't know how they work.  Expecting to have more time to play with it during winter.

Good morning, Patricia, mid afternoon here (I am reading late).....

Good afternoon Shirley, it is 1:43 here.

On an interesting note,

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/08/26/the_bizarre_true_story_behind_the_this_is_a_work_of_fiction_disclaimer.html?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits



"Virtually every film in modern memory ends with some variation of the same disclaimer: “This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.” The cut-and-paste legal rider must be the most boring thing in every movie that features it. Who knew its origins were so lurid?
For that bit of boilerplate, we can indirectly thank none other than Grigori Rasputin, the famously hard-to-assassinate Russian mystic and intimate of the last, doomed Romanovs. It all started when an exiled Russian prince sued MGM in 1933 over the studio’s Rasputin biopic, claiming that the American production did not accurately depict Rasputin’s murder. And the prince ought to have known, having murdered him."

Okay, someone educated a dumb old Texas boy and tell me how "self" threading needles work.  The have little arms and hands and tiny little fingers that will fit through the eye of a needle........

Shirley--Take a few minutes and you'll figure out how those needles work.

angelface--Thanks for the link.

halkel--Correct.

Janie, don't rush out and buy a bunch of the self threading needles. Even those these work, and I still have fairly good eyesight, it is not as if the thread jumps up and threads itself. From what I can see, there is a minute slice taken from the top of the needle and you have to hold the thread tight to pull it into that slice I wrap the thread around my left index finger grasp the needle tightly with my left hand fingers then with my right hand holding the thread tight I pull it down into that slice where it goes into the eye of the needle. This sounds difficult, and it is, but it is the only way I can thread a needle now.

Bis, I'm glad you verified how I feel about the self-threading.

Hal, would that it were that simple.

I had the tastiest lunch today..hot turkey sandwich with mash. potatoes and gravy, a nice big green salad, juice, coffee and cherry cobbler. I brought half of the huge sandwich home for supper. along with the dessert. At 6:30 we are having a hymn sing along with our Chaplain leading us..he has a great voice. I am only familiar with a few of the hymns, they use different music than we use in the Episcopal church, but he is easy to follow.

We had another beautiful day here in Stanton, nice cool cloudy mornings and warm sunny afternoons. My kind of weather, but rainy days are still my favorite.

Haha, Joan, that would mean I need to take them out of the package first!      This has been the worst summer in memory (& memory is slightly askew this year, too), with the humidity + heat, an RV that has been non-stop phone calls to remedy the lack of quality control + human screw ups (not mine this time!) and lots of family goings on.  I'm all for running away from home but still need that d**n refrigerator door put back on in the RV~.  Next week end all will be here for Baby Kate's Baptism..... this time I am not cooking.  The others really do their share, we just eat all the time.   

June, my long time friend here sings in the choir, Espiscopal church & was talking about learning new songs all the time ... so I made the comment that, "Unless they sing the old songs, I don't join in, they can just entertain me".   It surprised her that I felt like that, but I think a lot of people like to sing the old songs they knew growing up.   I am another that loves a rainy day.... and will find any excuse to get out in it! 

Patricia, I've been a history nut about the Russian Revolution since my 3rd grade history teacher told about being at the palace and seeing the blood stains where the royal family was shot.  I did high school & college term papers on Rasputin (I did my husband's papers in college).  It was interesting when the young Anastasia was supposed to have survived... and always will wonder if the DNA was switched to show she did not have a claim to the Russian money.  Wasn't until years later when my brother was doing our genealogy line & showed we had the same grandfather as Queen Elizabeth (11 grandfathers back), that the anemia many of our family has is a mild form of what the little czar had.... I found the line showing all the royals in different countries that had to deal with it over all the centuries.  Life is interesting... not enough years to do everything.    I'll post & go check your link.  Thanks!

Time for that Sat night shower but think I'll spray for mosquitoes & check the river... looked like it is up when I drove across the bridge earlier today.  WE didn't get that much rain but think it poured "up river". 

Shirley.  Now when D and A came in and the bones of the Russian Royal family were found buried in the Forest in Russia. Then the Used the D and A from Philip. Queen Elizabeth s Husband to prove that they were the family. He is a true relative to them.  I hadn't heard of Elizabeth being of that side. I know that they are back in the German Royals  Even prior to Victoria marrying Prince Albert the German.  I am Proud of the Royals but what a mix up they are. Surprising that some of lived to a long age. All so interbred.
We could not even marry 3rd cousins but some Royals were almost step Sisters and brother. Same fathers or Same mothers.  History is so interesting though.

Had a good day today and now I'm off to Dreamland.  Good Night Everyfriend.  And may God bless us, every one![/color]

Tisie, I'm back from the Hymn singing. It was fun. I knew most of the songs this time and a couple of them I just quietly followed along with the music and the others that sang loudly. Our Chaplain gave a brief outline of the various writers, and that made it extra interesting.

I have had my dessert that I passed up
earlier,cherry cobbler with a bit of ice cream and some coffee. I'll probably stay awake half the the night, but my old friend will phone me to make sure I get to church on time.

Janie, Sweet dreams and I am so glad you had a good day. You earn your right , for sure.

So, it is time to get ready for bed, after I write my check for Church, and I will be reading till sleep over comes. God Bless my friends, sleep peacefully and wake joyfully. I love you all. June

145 and counting......also at  bottom of article is an article on oldest woman in Britain.

'Longest living human' says he is ready for death at 145

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/27/longest-lived-human-says-he-is-ready-for-death-at-145/

Nite, nite, Sweetdreams and God Bless.

HALKEL....
...I will be lucky if I survive HALF of his age.....

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