Amy--Good luck with the yard sale.

Good morning, Callie.  Oh yes--that w--- gets demerits.  It's nice that you can put Miss Emily up in your B & B.  Your planned crockpot meal sounds good.

Well, I had a taker for my set of English Bone China.  My next down the line granddaughter wants it but not until she gets a house.  I told her she better get a house soon because I'm not getting any younger.  But I have put her name on them and took a picture to send her with the table set with a place setting and the gold flatware that it was bought to match.  That entailed polishing a table setting of the flatware because it's been stored so long.  And when I sent the picture, I suggested that she might want to put her dibs on the flatware too since they go together.  She did that.  And now I started to polish it all but I think I'm going to tell her that a brand new bottle of polish is also part of her inheritance and she can polish the rest herself.

NOW the doggies get their baths!

No news from June yet! 

Welcome Livy!

Good Morning Everyone!

Gloria, Moth Balls can be had at: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=moth+balls&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Amoth+balls

I had never thought about moth balls to keep critters at bay, cheap and easy way to get rid of and keep things from under foot.

Jackie, like Larry said seems we are always reading about ham to small children.
Two were shot here in San Antonio a day or so back, one died the other in serious condition.  The both were not the targets but the damage in shootings involving punks settling things with guns.

Joanie, your food for thought sure made me think.  I also lifted it and sent it on its way to others I know will read and think about.  Thanks.

Janie, I hope your spirits are up today.  Of course polishing flatware, I really don't think will to uplifiting,   

Sandy, we have been avering over two inches of rain a day, as measured in my el cheapo rain gauge, but the only problem I have is that a rain soak gate wont open, which means to move anything out of the back yard I have to use the backdoor to the garage or patio door.  Some areas are having flooding problems but so far no major problems.  Wife had to use frontage roads yesterday to take granddaughter to airport and then granddaughter had her flight cancelled and had to take a later flight, but understand it was from mechanical problems, she didn't get in to Newark until midnight and and had to get a very expensive cab to her home.  She was suppose to have landed at LaGuardia (sp) at noon yesterday, which is not far from where she lives.

Well guess I need to make some medical appointments and start that blasted merry-go-round again.  Sheeesh, I had all that junk they always want.  Blood, xrays and sundry other things.

More rain forecast for today and tomorrow and hopefully we get some settled weather after that.  Not fussing, excess is re-charging aquifer and it is higher now than for a long time.  Of course the powers to be and environmentalist are screaming we need to keep all the regulations in effect.

Lloyd tried calling you yesterday and saw where you had tried.  phone tag.

Everyone have a good day.

Janie--Lucky granddaughter to get your china and flatware.  When I was getting ready to move here, I asked my kids if they wanted the china, crystal, sterling flatware etc.  Linda wanted the flatware, and the rest went in the estate sale.

halkel--More tests?  For the same malady or something different?  Glad you haven't had much damage from all the rain TX has been getting.

I started my official cardio therapy at the hospital, although most of what I do there is what I do at home on a daily basis.  I'm up to a mile a day on the treadmill in under 30 minutes.  My kinesiologist asked me how fast I could go on the treadmill, and when I told her 2.2 miles per hour she said that must be an incorrect reading because it was too fast for my condition. So when I started and got it up to 2.2 she couldn`t believe it, but she believes it now.

Amy when I saw your comment about laundry blowing in the wind I realised that it`s been years since I saw such a sight. A London city bylaw forbids outdoor clotheslines. I guess they prefer we use energy instead of nature`s way.

Hal we just had trial end yesterday for a mother who stabbed her 8 year old daughter several times because she thought the devil possessed her. The mother was found not guilty because of insanity. After several surgeries the child survived. I wonder what emotional scars she will carry

Thanks Hal for checking in
and letting us know that you all are safe,
in spite of all the rain ..

Good luck with your up coming tests.

Never fun.


Sandy

Joanie, I've been asking them for about 10 years if anyone wants my china.  I ordered it MANY years ago when my husband and I were in London and it has appreciated in value a great deal since then.  No one seemed to care much about it but it turns out, no one wants to say they want anything of mine until they are sure I'm finished using it.  I threatened to sell it on EBay and Courtney said a resounding "NO, YOU CAN'T DO THAT!"  And she admitted that she really wants it.  But she's living in a small apartment with not much storage space.  I'm going to get a plastic tub, write her name all over it and pack it up for her.  There will be no doubt where it is supposed to go if I'm not here to say so.  And since I chose it to go with the gold flatware that I received for wedding presents, she gets that, too.  She's delighted!

Dryer just buzzed.  Back later.  Save my seat!

Radioman--Good for you.  You must be very diligent about doing the rehab at home and at the hospital.

Hi Sandy.

Janie--Most all of my china, crystal, sterling flatware etc. were wedding gifts.  Over the years I filled in a few things I was missing.  Still--flatware was all that was wanted.  I hear the couch calling, but have a couple things to do before I answer.

Been on our afternoon tv news, still no further as to what happened but, the sad thing is, the house is right next door to a Methodist Church hall, same church I was toying on going to...

Yes it is terrible when we hear of these tragedies involving innocent children, especially when it happens near to, or on your doorstep....
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Been trying to book hairdressers, been toying between two, just had to phone and check parking distance to shop door.... ....opticians, again I have whittled it down to a choice of two, my eyes are now due for their annual testing, annual now since my MS diagnoses...... and pet groomers,..... and now been looking online for a local seamstress without much luck....Still awaiting Insurance company to complete carpet work in our bathroom,.... someone from Insurance spoke to R this morning, told him how much claim he will receive depending on whether he takes cash or whether they do the carpeting....R also waiting on decorators who said thy would be doing our outside work on our parkhome this month, we haven't heard from him giving us a date....Well I got a grooming date appointment, with a different groomer from the one who came to our rescue, not sure I've done right, we shall see, but Toby's not due for another 4 or 5 weeks.....And the seamstress, just looking to find someone who does alterations, taking up hems, as I got rid of my sewing machine before we moved, wish I had brought it with me now, but no sense in buying a basic one as the cheaper and basic ones often lack the integrated needle threader, would not be able to do that manually....got a very long light quilted dressing gown to take up, and a couple of too long jersey skirts, dont want to go cutting the dressing gown about myself by trying to sew the hem by hand.....as that was expensive, wouldn't want to mess that up.....
All these places just happen to be in the heart of busy Dorchester, which would entail a fare bit of walking to.....Still waiting for one seamstress place to get back to me....
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Still not heard anything about how Junedrabek is doing, nor no sign of Sun showing in....and Fran is another one who hasn't shown up in our new forum...not forgetting Kelly who has still gone AWOL....

My first husband had quite an extensive vegetable garden when we lived in New Jersey.  We found we were feeding the rabbits, so tried all sorts of ways to deter them.  One solution that was suggested to us was moth balls.  So one evening after work we spread mothballs profusely all over the garden. 

The next morning we woke to the sound of grackles hollering.  To our surprise, a couple dozen of the birds had removed the mothballs from the garden and were cavorting in the back yard playing with them - tossing and catching and then holding in the beak and grooming with them.

  Good morning from a partly cloudy/partly sunny day from the Interior. We are expected to get into the middle seventies today with the warmer weather still just a fond wish. But the upside is, no new fires from lightening, humans or otherwise. We do have sixty fires going, however, they were from 2015, just buried deep in the underbrush and forest leaves over the winter.

Farrah evidently enjoys her turkey with giblets breakfast this morning. She's finished all of it and licking her chops! 

Good morning and welcome, Livy!

Jeanne, those Grackles must have been quite a surprise after all your work! Did you finally find a garden solution?

Yes, we did finally find a solution, but no one would believe it.  A friend had returned from the west where the big jackrabbits were the problem.  He told us they were kept at bay with gallon jugs of water.  Didn't sound reasonable, but all we needed was to find a restaurant (or my husband's choice, a bar) where we could get an empty gallon glass jar.  Hotel/restaurant size mayonnaise or bar size pickled eggs....   We filled it with plain water and placed it in the middle of the garden - believe it or not,  no more rabbits. 

It would be a problem to find a glass jar today - they're all plastic and not clear so I don't think they'd work.  But for anyone pestered by rabbits it might still be worth a try.

Now I use the mothballs on my 30 ft gutter that runs along the porch. Birds want to build their nest every April in about 3 areas of it. When first I put them in the use to just pick them up and throw them out. This spring I put some pieces of Chicken wire up over them. Birds have given up on me now. All are gone.  Now I get mine at the Dollar Tree.

I never buy the salad in the bags. Never know how long been in there. Easier if you are adding anyway to just buy a lettuce fresh. I just buy the Boston as they are small. Add what I want to it.  Soon the Tomatoes and things will be from Illinois farmers so will start eating more salads then.

Vanilla-Jackie--It sure is a chore to find all new services when you move, I know.

Jeanne Lee--So much for the mothballs.  They turned out to be toys for the grackles.  I checked and Amazon has one gallon clear glass jars.

JeanneP--I find a head of lettuce goes bad before I can eat it all.

There is a "use by" date on the salad I get and as I've said, it is a small size so I can finish it in a week. 

Today is Dot's birthday, so Tom, Terry and I took her out for lunch.  It is a much more satisfying gift than to buy something she doesn't need.  She enjoyed it.

Mary Ann

Jeanne thanks for telling me, us, about the garden solution. We have snowshoe hares here as well as regular type rabbits, but the biggest issue is moose who love gardens! People build eight-foot fences outside of town and they still jump over them. In town, they use various means, usually not that helpful. How do you chase a 1200 pound or heavier moose out of your lettuce?

MaryAnn, I'm glad that Dot and the rest of the family enjoyed her birthday luncheon! I have one scheduled today with friends, but I think they expect me to pay for my own, darn! I slept until ten, just an hour ago but I was awake almost twenty-four hours yesterday, finally got to sleep around one am and was awakened by the fire alarm going at two forty-five am! I just had one of those nights.

I think I'd let that moose have all the lettuce he wants.   

for all my golfing friends.
    You guys have watched golf tournaments on TV and have seen the special visual effect that traces the flight of the golf ball.

    This little GIF demonstrates why amateur golfers don't use Pro Tracer.

https://i.imgur.com/agTDLSr.gifv

and

ABSOLUTE LAWS OF GOLF


  *LAW 1:  No matter how bad your last shot was, you should have Inner Peace knowing that a worst one is yet to come. This law does not expire on the 18th hole, since it has the supernatural tendency to extend over the course of a tournament, a summer and, eventually, a lifetime.*

*LAW 2:  Your best round of golf will be followed almost immediately by your worst round ever. The probability of the latter increases with the number of people you tell about the former.*
*LAW 3:  Brand new golf balls are water-magnetic.  Though this cannot be proven in the lab, it is a known fact that the more expensive the golf ball, the greater its attraction to water. Expensive clubs have been known to be partly made with this most unusual natural alloy also.*

*LAW 4:  Golf balls never bounce off of trees back into play.  If one does, the tree is breaking a law of the universe and should be cut down.*

*LAW 5:  The higher a golfer's handicap, the more qualified he deems himself as an instructor.*

*LAW 6:  A golfer hitting into your group will always be bigger than anyone in your group. Likewise, a group you accidentally hit into will consist of a football player, a professional wrestler, a convicted murderer and an IRS agent -- or some similar combination.*

*LAW 7:  All Drivers are demon-possessed.  Your Mother in Law does not come close.*

*LAW 8:  Golf balls from the same "sleeve" tend to follow one another, particularly out of bounds or into the water.  See LAW 3.
*LAW 9:  The last three holes of a round will automatically adjust your score to what it really should be.*

*LAW 10:  Golf should be given up at least twice per month.*

*LAW 11:  All vows taken on a golf course shall be valid only until sunset.*

*LAW 12:  Since bad shots come in groups of three, your fourth consecutive bad shot is really the beginning of the next group of three.*

*LAW 13:  If it isn't broke, try changing your grip.
*LAW 14:  It's surprisingly easy to hole a 50-foot putt when you lie 8.*

*LAW 15:  Counting on your opponent to inform you when he breaks a rule is like expecting him to make fun of his own haircut. *

*LAW 16:  Nonchalant putts count the same as chalant putts.*

*LAW 17:  It's not a gimme if you're still 4 feet away.
*LAW 18:  The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the centre of a very large tree.*

*LAW 19:  You can hit a 2-acre fairway 10% of the time, and a 2-inch branch 90% of the time.*

*LAW 20:  Every Time a golfer makes a birdie, he must subsequently make a double or triple bogey to restore the fundamental equilibrium of the universe.*

*LAW  21:  If you want to hit a 7-iron as far as Tiger Woods does, simply try to use it to lay up just short of a water hazard.*
*LAW 22:  There are two things you can learn by stopping your backswing at the top and checking the position of your hands: how many hands you have, and which one is wearing the glove.
*LAW 23:  A ball you can see in the rough from 50 yards away is not yours.*
*LAW 24:  Don't buy a putter until you've had a chance to throw it.*

JEANNE LEE - Hope you're the right Lady to direct this inquiry towards:  Once again I have spent a long time trying to access S&F, but no luck.  When I turn on the machine and click on the SeniorsandFriends site which I have on my computer, I am NOT able to access the site.  I usually try to read the comments in the SENIORS AND FRIENDS site first and then go along to BOSSOM BUDDIES.   I CANNOT access the sites, so then have spent a long time trying to access other sites.  No Luck!

I haven't read that anyone else has had these problems, but for me it has happened regularaly and continues to do so.  What am I NOT understanding? 

Many thanks for your assistance.  Sure wish I didn't have to bother you continually!

I've had a new experience today and I did NOT like it one little bit!

I made muffins with a streusel topping and some of the topping spilled in the oven.  I was in another part of the house and didn't realize it until I smelled something burning.  There was no fire but, of course, when I opened the oven door, the smoke alarm went off.
Now you have to realize that this is the very first time in all the years I've had smoke alarms that one has ever gone off - EVER!  I did have sense enough to shut the oven door and turn the oven off.
That kind of noise sends me into a panic attack, anyway, and, since I had never had to deal with the problem, I did not realize it would go off by itself when the smoke cleared.  When I couldn't find any way to do it manually, I called 911 and the very patient lady - after determining there was no fire - calmly had me open the outside door and windows and turn on the ceiling fans.  Sure enough, in a few minutes, all was quiet again.   I apologized for it not being a real emergency and she was so kind to say "it happens all the time".

Fortunately, the muffins were done enough to finish baking after I turned off the oven,  so I didn't have to start over.

I have damp soapy rags softening the sugary mess on the bottom of the oven, so -while it's working - I think I'll go around to the dairy store and get some ice cream. 

Thanks for listening..   

Mary Ann--Happy Birthday to Dot.

angelface--I am with Jeanne Lee..let them have the lettuce.

halkel--For your golfing friends..thank you.

Molly--Obviously I am not Jeanne Lee, but how did you now get to the SS?

Callie--Oh my--a baking alarm.

Callie, my bed broke!  When I get finished crying, I'll try to figure out what to do.  I don't think there's a 911 for beds.

  Jane were you jumping on your bed??

Jane,  here, have a muffin.   

No, Amy, I don't jump on the bed since I was 6 and my daddy told me to stop. 

Thanks, Callie, I always eat when I'm upset and that did the trick.

I don't think I can fix this with super glue or masking tape.  Those are my "go to" fixes.

Thanks Callie and Jane - I haven't laughed so hard in ages.  Good luck to both of you.

Mary Ann

I'm HOME , and does it feel great !!!!! I made an error as to why I went into the hospital. I was not lack of Potassium, but lack of Sodium. So, I was treated for that by an I.V. however, on the second day they also found my potassium was too low also, so that was treated by pills. Have dietary info to follow, one pill was discarded. I'm tired, naturally. So will catch up to you all later. Your prayers are so welcome, I know they helped in getting me healed up and they are very welcome at all times. And our Chaplain here at Rowntree Gardens came to see me at the hospital, and said a very healing prayer. I feel SO thankful to you all. June

Hooray!  June's back!  Thank you God!

I wonder if He fixes beds!  Naw!  Probably just people!

June, I was so happy to see you home, I kept coming in here to check to see if any messages from you.  Take care.