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Marilyne · October 23, 2024, 12:44:05 PM

Hi Pat, I hope Mary Page will see your message? It's been quite a while since she's posted here in B&T. Hoping that she is feeling well, and that we'll soon hear from her.

Jackie, I'm worried about you, and still expecting to hear something from you too? Let us know if you've moved to the care home, and where it's located, and if you're doing okay?

Vanilla-Jackie · October 23, 2024, 01:41:39 PM

Marilyne..
..just released a few hours ago from another two week hospital stay, ( taken in told had a fever ) had a few falls where ambulance came to get me up, this was during he short time afyter i was released on the previous two week hospital stay, then banged my the back of my head, had to be X-Rayed...Thank you for missing me and caring enough about asking about me...
Had to insert a PIC line ( half hour procedure ) to administer a drug three times a day, as they had many issues in the end inserting a canula...Anyway they have got rid of my Venous Leg Ulcer, had two bacteriors in it, they had got rid od one bacterior and the only drug that worked for the second bacterior was by the PIC line...The Venous Leg Ulcer took four months to get rid of that oozing yellow-green foul smelling fluid that oozed from the bandages over my leg and foot onto the floor as i walked..
Then of course due to a knock a couple of weeks ago on the other leg cellulitus set in, that too has been dealt with..
Walking is still very unsteady, part due also to my multiple scclerosis, now awaiting my care package, i have a care package where someone will come in three times a day seven days a week...also awaiting medications to be home delivered by my pharmacy from the hospital...i have the care package in place, and the hospital discharge papers...

RAMMEL · October 23, 2024, 04:08:02 PM

Jackie - It's good to see you back. Hoping all continues to get better. Don't rush things. Take all the help you need, or can get.

Marilyne · October 24, 2024, 12:28:56 AM

Jackie, So good to hear from you. Sounds like you're getting excellent treatment for all of your health issues. Just hoping that you will now begin healing, and will soon feel better. I'm familiar with the PIC line, and how it looks and works. My daughter had one in her arm, for an infection that wouldn't heal. This was a long time ago, so I don't remember much except that it did cure the infection. Good that you will have someone who will come three times a day to help you. Keep us posted on how you're feeling. I'll be thinking about you, and hoping for the best!

Marilyne · November 02, 2024, 01:06:22 PM

Hoping all Bait & Tackle readers are doing okay this weekend? Last night we had our first "rain" in six months! If you can call .01 (one one-hundredth of an inch) rain. Barely dampened the driveway and the decks, and now Mister Sun is smiling down on us once again!
I don't think that small amount of moisture will go far in helping to stave off more wild fires.

Jackie, hoping you're feeling better every day, and that your leg infection is gone. The PIC line is a nuisance, but works well. Keep us posted on when you think you'll be moving to the care home?

Callie, I just saw your new message in Library~Bookshelf. I think we were both posting at the same time. I'll get back with a few comments later on today I hope.

Jackie - Good to see your message there too, and also your book recommendation.

We haven't heard from Mary Page, in any of the folders that she posts in . . . Library, Bosom Buddies and here? I'm hoping that she is doing well, and if she's not, that someone will let us know? Patricia, has been missing also, so hope she is okay? She stays in contact with Mary Page, so maybe she will let us know when she returns?

Amy · November 03, 2024, 05:41:28 AM

How very kind of you, Patricia. I am still alive, but hardly kicking. Feeling my age big time. Please remember me to everyone, & I will try to remember how to do Senior Net. I am fallen back to just e-mails to family these days.

love & thanks with many memories & good wishes

MaryPage

Marilyne · November 03, 2024, 02:45:38 PM

Thanks to Patricia, and Amy for letting us know about Mary Page. It was good to see her message here, and to know that she is doing well. Patricia, hope you are okay, and will soon be returning to S&F.

I'm struggling through this first day of the time change, but usually get used to it fairly quickly. If I ruled the World, I would declare Standard Time year around - the natural way things are meant to be. I know I'm in the minority, and that most people prefer DST. It was voted in as permanent a few years ago, so I don't know why we're still going through this twice a year clock change?

MarsGal · November 03, 2024, 05:10:52 PM

I thought so too, Marilyne. When that didn't happen, I thought it was meant for this year, then forgot about it. If I think of it tomorrow I will look it up.

MaryPage · November 04, 2024, 04:53:16 PM

Here I am, & thank you, Patricia & Amy. Trying to remember stuff here. Of Course, I feel Patricia is a personal friend, as well as a Senior Net friend. Not easy for me to communicate these days. Love you all a whole bunch. though.

patricia19 · November 04, 2024, 10:30:56 PM

MaryPage, I'm just getting online myself and so glad to see you back online as well.

Marilyne · November 04, 2024, 11:12:17 PM

Mary Page - So good to see you posting again. I'll be looking forward to your next message.

Patricia - Glad to see you back online again. Thank you for contacting Mary Page for us.

MaryPage · November 20, 2024, 01:03:00 PM

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Marilyne · November 20, 2024, 01:39:27 PM

Mary Page . . . Good to see your post! Yes, things have slowed down here in Bait and Tackle, as well as in most of the other discussions. Seems like the messages come in waves . . . a whole lot at once, and then it slows down to just a scattered few.
Hoping you're feeling well, and that you return often?

BarbStAubrey · November 20, 2024, 03:55:28 PM

Ah so --- not sure of her name here on Seniors & Friends but frybabe on Seniorlearn told me to check out Norm's Bait and Tackle - well...

many Norm's Bait and Tackle locations all over the nation that sell real Bait - Lordy - Had to re-register since it has been years since I posted with Seniors & Friends.

So glad to see your posts MaryPage - hope you are having a good day...

First cold night last night - never did check the temp but the cold woke me and I had to get up, put some socks on and a shirt that was easy to grab and even put the heat on for a bit only to have to shut it of 10 minutes later - never did like the heat on at night and in winter I typically let the house get into the high 60s before the heat comes on but last night there was a cold wind that penetrated through the windows in my north facing bedroom and so, where the rest of the house was OK my face and head was freezing till I also finally grabbed a Tshirt and draped it over my head then pulled a second blanket up --- once I get into the new weather season I'm OK but, like the time change, it takes me a day or two... Sun is out today and the forecast is for a warmer tomorrow - it will be a gradual warming with temps in the 70s during the day till finally back in the 80s next week...

I know, I know sounds like complaining because in your area those are summer temps however, we do have weeks of triple digit in summer - not a day or even a week but weeks of furnace like heat...

Yesterday, with my grocery delivery I ordered 3 containers of herbs to plant - went out to do just that and decided to bring them in and wait a few days... Once they root they will be fine unless we drop, as we probably will, into the 60s or even below then all the hanging plants get brought into the garage where I have a heat light helping them - still need to plant some trees in the back but, like some of you, we too have experienced little rain since the deluge last summer and so I've decided to wait till early Spring.

Marilyne · November 21, 2024, 12:20:28 PM

Barb - Good morning to you, and to anyone else who looks in today. Hoping last night was warmer, and that you were more comfortable? Like you, I can't sleep if I'm cold, so I ordered something from Amazon, called Bed Buddy that you heat in the microwave. Works for pain of all kinds, as well as just warmth.

I sometimes read the messages in Senior Learn, so I feel like I know you, even though I've never posted there. I remember that you live in Texas? The long periods of triple digit weather in the Summer would be hard to take as you get older. There are a couple of other members here in S&F from Texas. Tomereader (Joanne) posts here in this folder, as well as in Library~Bookshelf. It think she lives near Dallas?

It was supposed to rain here yesterday, but so far, only strong winds with temps in the 50's and 60's. We haven't had a real rain storm in six months, so it's extremely dry here. Over two inches fell in Napa, and Santa Rosa - both cities about 100 miles North of here. Still predicting rain here, so hope it arrives later today?

BarbStAubrey · November 21, 2024, 03:36:33 PM

Tra la - OK I think I've finally put it together - now to remember here you are Marilyne here and not frybabe.

Actually I can adjust to the high heat easier - my house has 6 inch wall space rather than the typical 4 and even a few of the inside walls have insulation so that it is not difficult to keep my house at 78 during the day which is my choice and 76 or even 75 during the night - it is the cold wind that batters the windows and french doors facing the back - the windows are all double pane but no matter how much insulation the wind find cracks around the door jam and where the doors meet. However, just that cold wind blowing on the windows is enough to make them like ice cubes and the wind creeps into the attic so that penetrating the air ducts unless the heat is turned on the cold blows through the ceiling registers - Does not help that I just do not like being cold... ah so - Part of why I chose to stay in Texas when I moved two years ago rather than move near my daughter in the mountains of NC where she even gets snow... sheesh...

Thanks for the tip on a Bed Buddy - need to look into it - I did fine last night repeating my routine with the second quilt and a shirt over my nightclothes and socks on my feet and a Tshirt draped over my head, this well wrapped mummy slept

And yes, (tomereader) Joanne lives as I recall just south of Dallas about a 4 hour run north from where I am located just north of Houston in Magnolia actually only 2 streets outside of the Woodlands - I notice it is far more humid here than in Austin, which is in what is called the Hill Country about 2 hours and 45 minutes from here to Austin. Lots of tall pine trees here that are never seen in the Hill Country. And really different is whenever there is a serious rain storm it is accompanied with a fog that comes and goes - sometimes thick - it settles in among the tall trees and over the rooftops of two story homes then as it fills in and drops if the rain had temporarily stopped it becomes a fine mist - brings to mind poems I've read with the wording cats paws describing weather.

Kicking myself today - found several books for my Kindle on Amazon that I ordered yesterday and then learned today, that had been advertised but did not sink in that by ordering them today I could have received double points. Shoot!

and to add insult to injury the one book was at a higher price than I typically am willing to pay but it was a Christmas story that I thought would be a start to revving up a lighter spirit then I've been carrying of late. Ah so... not the first time I missed an opportunity and this one is hardly a blip in life's experiences.

Ok here it is nearly 2:30 and I have not eaten - need to fix myself something so that I can still eat supper before it is pushed back and delaying bedtime - looks like some decent TV tonight on PBS - look forward to Poirot and repeats of Midsummer Murders although tonight I think Midsummer... replaced with Sister Boniface

Marilyne · November 21, 2024, 05:55:28 PM

Barb - Frybabe's name is MarsGal here in Seniors & Friends! I'm Marilyne, and always have been since the days of Senior Net. In SN, I posted mainly in the the Books and Literature folders, as well as in Arts and Entertainment. Remember Joan Grimes? She was head of A&E, and was a good friend of mine at the time. Now no longer with us.

I ordered a couple of books from Amazon in recent days, and one arrived this afternoon, which I plan to start reading right away. A Facebook friend of mine wrote it, so I'm anxious to read it and give her some positive feedback.
It's called:
"Another Place, Another Time", A Time Travel Adventure by DL Casselbury

MarsGal - I'll mention it in Library, when I finish reading it . . . sounds like a story you'd like.

BarbStAubrey · November 21, 2024, 06:43:47 PM

ahh thanks Marilyne for clearing me up... I thought when you mentioned Napa and Santa Rosa something was not clicking because MarsGal (frybabe) is from Pa and although Pennsylvania has wine those two names did not sit right. I need to find that old photo I have of the rather large group of us that met in Detroit those many years ago - I need to see if I can place names to my memory - Golly it is hard to take in as a reality that all this time has passed and some of us have passed on.

That was my story living in Austin - except for a dear nextdoor neighbor everyone I knew had passed. Not so much to relive the past it is just comfortable to speak with someone who you knew and had been part of your life. She never said but I often think of my grandmother and wonder how she felt living 99 years - since before electric lights much less airoplanes and then men rocketing to the moon but more, no contact for years with anyone she knew as a young women. Some change I can see just happens and you do not think beyond progress or comparisons to the past however, I'm finding the change is stark between some of the younger generations compared to even my and my daughter's experiences in life and so I wonder if that was my Grandmother's experience as well.

Marilyne where in California do you live - if Napa and Santa Rosa are north I'm guessing San Francisco - if so I am putting it together and remembering - I should just go over and look at some of the early book discussions that Jane has been able to preserve for us on SeniorLearn

Well off to make my salad and turn on the TV

MarsGal · November 21, 2024, 07:20:21 PM

My trip to the Mavis Tire store was not in vain. I was not my imagination, the valve on one of my tires was leaking. I still need to go back for the annual auto inspection required by the state. My follow-up appointment to the eye doctor was cancelled and rescheduled for next month.

While at Mavis I met two VietNam Vets, Marines. Interesting conversation about the Nam war, and their delight that their candidate won the election. And, it turns turns out, one of the vets expressed similar concerns about what is head of government is up to in his final months in office. Nice to know I am not likely imagining things, and I am also not alone in thinking we as a country are in for some very bumpy times. I hope I am wrong. My sister and I don't see eye-to-eye on politics. Her stance is that she can't do anything about it, therefore she will just be watchful and keep quiet, unless of course, it directly affects her. Well, that does keep arguments to a minimum. Maybe I'll go check our politics forum.

Current temp this evening is 42⁰ with some rain. I don't think it will get cold enough here to get any snow tonight. Maybe we will get some sleet tomorrow. Right now the weather forecast says 39^o for most of the day.

Oscar is here looking for more attention. I suspect he notice I had gone out earlier without him knowing it until I got home again. I think we will settle onto the sofa and watch some TV.

Marilyne · Reply #23659 - Re: Norms Bait and Tackle

MarsGal, Yes, it's difficult to talk about politics with family members who have opposing views, so most of us choose not to. On the other hand, there's so much going on here in the US, and in other countries, that it's hard NOT to say anything. Your brief talk with the two Vietnam vets, sounds like a good thing. The forgotten soldiers.

Reminds me of a novel that I recommended in Library~Bookshelf this past Summer: The Women, by Kristin Hannah. It was an excellent story, that followed a young nurse through her two terms of duty as an army nurse in Vietnam. Told the story of the War from a woman's perspective. I don't remember now if I was the only one in Library who read it, or what others had to say? Fiction of course, with the usual love stories intertwined, but the War itself and the aftermath, was well written and based on fact.

Barb, you were close, on guessing where I live. Not San Francisco, but about 40 miles South/East, in the San Jose area, in what is now called "Silicon Valley", or "Tech City". You mentioned living in Austin, which is referred to here, as "Silicon Valley Texas". Grandson Jake, is moving to Austin after the first of the year, to work in one of the tech companies there. Can't recall which one?

CallieOK · Reply #23660 - Re: Norms Bait and Tackle

Marilyne, I read "The Women" and wished Kristen Hannah had ended it differently. I "missed" Viet Nam; we were living in the Colorado mountains and didn't know anyone who fought there. Didn't realize about women not recognized as being stationed there!
Wonder who "they" thought took care of wounded soldiers?

I have five books and one magazine on my e-mail borrowed list. Am trying to read them but keep having things coming at me and tend to doze off when I do have time to read.
Won't be with family for Thanksgiving so maybe I can stay awake long enough finish at least a few of them.

BarbStAubrey · Reply #23661 - Re: Norms Bait and Tackle

Always a challenge to be alone for one of the holidays - other holidays no problem but Thanksgiving and Christmas - Sounds like you Callie are going to use Thanksgiving to 'pig out' on reading - will you order in a meal or just fix what is in your frig? Reminds me of Agatha Christi's Poirot, who attempts to enjoy Christmas by dressing in his best, having his two chocolates he purchased special for the day and sit by a window reading till of course there is a call about a murder - However I loved seeing that shot of him dressed in his best sitting in a chair by the window perfectly content with a slight smile reading with his two chocolate bon bons in a small dish on the end table.

My challenge is Christmas - alone for the past few years - got to the point where I did not want to decorate it seems such a time waster just for me and did not know what to do with myself - Yes, they all call - daughter in NC where I used to go each year but can't do that trip any longer and her boys fly in, one from Philly and the other from Seattle - My Son drives up to Lubbock to be with their boys with Cooper driving down from Denver - I realize it is not so much just being alone as not being able to give by contributing to make the day for others - even decorating was really to make the day special for family and visitors - Physically beyond helping out at any community kitchen plus no longer driving. I just need to think this through - Anyone who is alone on one of these holidays have any ideas?

Marilyne · Reply #23662 - Re: Norms Bait and Tackle

No shopping or cooking for me this Thanksgiving. We're taking both daughters and one granddaughter, out to a local restaurant for dinner. The girls could prepare dinner here, as they did last year, (with me lurking in the background, wishing I could still do the whole thing). Now I can no longer even lift the turkey, much less prepare it, and all the things that make up a nice TG dinner. Son and his wife will be going out of town to celebrate the holiday with her sister, so we won't see them, or the other grandchildren.
I'm wishing things could be like in the past, when we had a dozen+ people at the table, and a couple of card table set up nearby for the kids . . . but times change, and family members go their separate ways.

Callie - sorry you'll be alone this year. I know you'd like to see the new great-grandson, as well as all the others. Will Miss Ellen be flying home for Thanksgiving, or will she wait for Christmas?
You said you didn't like the ending to "The Women"? I must have thought it was okay, but don't remember exact details, and I no longer have the book to give it a second look. My DIL gave it to me for Mother's Day, and then borrowed it to read. She has three sisters, all readers, so it's probably somewhere in her family?

Barb - You'll be alone for both TG and Christmas, which will be difficult. It might cheer things up to decorate a small artificial tree - or better than that, to buy one that's already decorated and delivered to you. I know that can get pricey, but you won't be spending on food for your big family, so indulge yourself!

Mars - I read on SS, that your sister is having a TG gathering, and that you'll be going there? That sounds like fun, and close enough that you won't have to drive far.

So glad that there's always television, for those who are alone. A good variety of holiday shows to enjoy. I think there's of couple of tree lighting ceremonies, as well as variety shows, talk, and many channels showing Christmas movies. TCM is my favorite, with all of the oldies from the past.

CallieOK · Reply #23663 - Re: Norms Bait and Tackle

Good Morning,

Marilyne, I wish the ending of "The Women" had been happier - but was probably more realistic.

I haven't been with "extended" families in several years for Thanksgiving. My choice! I like one but there are too many in-laws who don't know me and aren't interested in doing so. The other family only talks to each other. So I choose to spend the day "leisurely".
Miss Ellen doesn't try to come home for Thanksgiving but usually spends a week at Christmas. She has a group of friends who get together for Thanksgiving dinner. This year, she's working a shift at Loft before their dinner so she won't have to work on Black Friday. She said they usually deflate the Macy's Parade balloons in front of that Loft so store wasn't open on the holiday. However, this year, they've changed things around so....who knows?

A couple of years after my husband died in 1993, my church began having a Community Dinner and, since one son was married and the other one had moved out of state, I began working that. It was a lot of fun and I was surprised by the number of people I knew who didn't have families and attended.
Then other churches began to get involved and, eventually, the dinner was moved to the ballroom of the local college - which was too big for me.
Son also moved back and we usually went to other family's gathering in a town about 30 miles from here - until that son got married to a girl from the same town. I continued to drive the 30 miles and tried to split time between families until that became too confusing and I decided to decline both.
This year, #2son/wife flew to Cancun for Thanksgiving and other son/wife, who are the parents of 3 Grands, two of who are married, will be dealing with their own split families.

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