It's a quiet day here so far.  Tom is at lunch and I am about to fix myself some brunch.  Nothing going on, really. 

Larry, it is good to hear from you, just keep on resting to conserve your strength.  We need you here.

I've been chasing ships and missing them today.  The story of my day, so far.

Hugs to everyone who needs them.

Mary Ann

Happy Tuesday, EVERYFRIEND!  Today is my Daddy's 95th Birthday!  I really wanted to be there with him today, but we can not be in two places at one time, and he understands this and encouraged me to not come back after just having been there, and I will go see him as soon as I can.  Truth is, I thought sure my brother would go down and see him....but he did not🤬🤬

LARRY, take it easy and rest yourself up for your next good day!  I saw that the practice rounds were cancelled due to weather yesterday and from what I have seen they probably are again today.  We have all kinds of weather alerts for tomorrow here....they are saying it could be another "bomb Cyclone"....yikes!🤬🤬

JACKIE..... by now I just know you are feeling so much better after the new haircut!  Funny how it can really give us a boost!  Hope you are enjoying your MS Group right now.  Thank you for your nice comments and thoughts about a move....I fel certain it is not going to happen, but I have to admit I would love to have a nice new home!  🥰🥰 I see your getting to the shop was quite the challenge for you, but now you know of you go before that time you CAN be dropped off right in front! 

JOY, your nice words to JACKIE are so sweet and heartfelt. 

MARYANN....enjoy your ship viewing today.

Enjoy your day.

Jenny

Terry's widow (Jan) just called to invite me for supper tonight.  I have no idea if it will be at her home or out.  Jan's folks are not well and a nephew usually stays with them when she works.  Both are in the early stages of Alz's; her dad is in very poor physical health and I think his memory may be a bit better than Jan's mother's.  Jan says you can give her mother instructions and she'll complete them and five minutes later she has no idea what to do. 

Jenny, your father is a bit older than I am - I'll celebrate #95 soon.  It never occurred to me that I would live so long.  The family is planning something, but I know no details.  Only that I'll be there.   Yes, it would be nice if you could be with your dad to celebrate, but you know your priorities and you are much needed at home now.  I hope Michele has a good week after her outing yesterday.

Ships come and go and I see some and I miss more.  Many of the Duluth (and area) ships seem to be leaving tonight or late afternoon.  Aside from being with Jan tonight, that is when I watch what little TV I watch.  I can miss TV to be with family.

Jackie, I will get my hair cut next week and I know how you feel.  I have a standing appointment every five weeks and by the fifth week - I'm ready!  I can't wear my hair long and never have been able to wear it long because of a couple of cowlicks at the back of my neck.  I have almost no neck and I think I'd look awful. 

When I was about 12-13 years old, I tried to let my hair grow.  It did not look nice and my mother told me to either get it cut or get an end curl.  I chose the end curl and it took so well the ends were frizzed.  I could hardly wait until the frizz grew out and I never had another permanent.

Mary Ann

Mary Ann - thanks for posting the link to the Marine City webcam. I do like the cams that slowly move across the area that I'm interested in watching.  I have a cam like that of the NYC Harbor, that I really enjoyed watching.  The harbor there is so busy, that the scene changes every time it sweeps across.  The Marine City cam is of course, not that busy, but I'm sure that activity will pick up as we head into the coming months.  I hope you have a nice time at Jan's tonight.   

Jenny - Happy 95th Birthday, to your Dad!  I'm glad that he's doing better than he was when you last visited.  Also, it's good to hear that you were pleased with what Michele's doctor had to say about her new treatment. It sounds promising!

Time for me to go to the grocery store and find something interesting for tonight's dinner.  I'm in the mood for some cake or some sort of sweet treat for dessert, so I plan to go to a market here, that has a fresh bakery. They sometimes have a lemon cake that is delicious!

Mary Ann, I watched a YouTube thing yesterday evening that showed 13 1000 foot tankers. The Paul was one of them. On the video, it stated that Paul is the largest and is dubbed "The Queen of the Lakes" (or something close to that).

I was having adventures with a ground hog yesterday and this morning. The little guy decided to take up housekeeping under my porch. I would not have minded if he was at the bottom of the back yard, but he picked the porch. I called a local local guy who is PA Game Commission licensed to trap the critters. He was there in 20 minutes, set out three traps, gave me all kinds of instructions verbally and on paper, and off he went. An hour and a half later I called him back to come get his traps and the groundhog. When he picked up the trap, the groundhog slide out. The trap was broken and he hadn't noticed it. He located two holes at the bottom of the yard and set kill traps this time, since once a groundhog has an encounter with a trap it won't enter one again. This morning there was one dead groundhog. In PA, a groundhog is one of those wild critters that once trapped must be euthanized due to it being a rabies carrier, so the little guy was dead one way or the other. Now I have to fill in the holes as best I can with rocks dirt and such, tamping it down, so that another groundhog will not move in. The porch is another story. Right now there are concrete blocks up against the openings. I will have to add hardware cloth or other sturdy barrier to my shopping list, and dig down 12 inches to place the barrier deep enough to discourage diggers. I need to set some of my irises and daffodils anyway, plus some major weeding that didn't get done with all the rain we had last year. I found out that groundhogs are another critter that will get up into the engine and chew wires. I scared him away from my car yesterday.

Speaking of cars, I must take my Toyota in for a recall fix on Friday. Thursday is the day I take George for his Endoscopy.

That is all the excitement I want for the week.

MarsGal, I did not realize there were at least 13 ships that were 1000 feet or longer on the Great Lakes.  And you had enough excitement today to last a while.  Early in my life at this condo complex, a woodchuck took up residence along the foundation of a neighbor's unit.  My next-door neighbor was very resourceful and ever helpful - old school, you know.  He took his wife's vacuum cleaner hose, backed his car up to the unit where the woodchuck was, attached the hose to his car's exhaust and started the car.  As I recall, he did not kill the woodchuck but it did leave and did not return.  Another neighbor shot a couple of them.

My nephew's widow picked me up and we went for supper at Noodles.  I had not been there before, in fact, I wasn't aware of it being there.  I had a small Mediterranean salad and some mac and cheese as a side.  Noodles is a place where you place your order then they bring it to you when it's put together.  It wasn't terribly busy there and I might want to try something else, but I'd go there again.  I'm not sure I would suggest going there with Tom because foods are mostly pasta and Tom feels he shouldn't eat too much pasta.  I'll tell him about it, anyway.

When we got back here, Jan cut my toenails and pulled some hairs on my chin.  I don't have the patience to pull the hairs and I'm more likely to shave them off with my dad's old safety razor that is approaching 100 years old!

Jan left in time for me to see most of "Finding Your Roots" which is always interesting. 

Mary Ann

Mary Ann, I hope I could see videos of big ships into or out of Duluth in this season?  What kind of software do you use? 

Quote from: angelface555 on March 31, 2019, 07:09:11 PM Quote from Patricia
From March 31st; a video showing all 13 1000 ft. ships;

Duluth Cam is now on YouTube, re: American Century, 03-26-2019 through several cams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scxdbgjDZEc

And from 2013, (1968), Arthur M. Anderson departure.

And;  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilfwWdbtbD8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9rkoBtAmKk

And;  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilfwWdbtbD8  All 13 1000 ft.Ships of the Great Lakes.

https://harborlookout.com/ships#0

http://www.duluthharborcam.com/p/canal-park-cams.html

Sato, the above link is to the schedule of the ships arrival and departure.  The time given is CST, which I believe is 12 hours from you.

Also, the post just ahead of mine from Angelface has several links to videos.  I have one more link to post, but I want to post this first or I will lose everything. 

The second link is to the Duluth Canal itself and from there you can follow the ships to the Harbor.

Patricia, you don't expect me to remember a post from a week ago, do you?  Ha!

Mary Ann

Mars Gal. Now that just happened to my long post I was doing in The Medical Forum. Wonder if your was at the same time. I willgo and copy it and see the time on the short one I left after.
Will be back...

Here I am back. Once in awhile I go back to one of the other forums to copy something. Ht on NEW but put me back to 2016 posting . Drives me crazy.
MarsGal.
The post I put into the Medical Forum.
                   
Well I just wrote the longest post in here giving all my news on Tech Problems. Just ready to hit post and the page just quivered and vanished. This is the third time this has happened to me past few weeks on S and F.  Will do it again tomorrow if not busy. How I hate that to happen as I don't get in a whole lot anymore for other than reading the postings. Seem like they give you so much time and if doing long ones they just cut you off.

Mary Ann, angelface555, thank you so much for your quick responses to my request. I enjoyed them all. 
It's been Spring now here.

Last evening I watched Whitefish Bay travel past the webcam at Marine City. I looked up info on it and found that it is a Trillium-class self-unloading lake freighter with five holds and was commissioned in 2013.

MarsGal, I just got up and don't want to check things yet, but I wonder if the Whitefish Bay being commissioned in 2013 means it was built about the same time.  If so, that ship is relatively new.  I have seen where some of the ships are renamed. 

Sato, I hope you enjoy watching the ships on the Great Lakes.  They work at all times during the day and night, so even with our time differences, you should be able to see ships.  There is no regular schedule and even when a time is shown, the ship doesn't always come or go at that time.

Mary Ann

Hi Everyone.  Finally a sunny and totally cloudless day for the first major even of the Master's Tournament.  However, the weather is looking iffy towards the weekend.  Scott and the girls will be here late this afternoon and Scott will make the Taco Pie for our dinner.  One of my good coffee drinking friends stopped by yesterday afternoon and we had a nice visit.  I have read all of the postings since yesterday. I am still feeling very tired this morning so am just going to check in again for today and hope tomorrow will be better.

MarsGal, I looked up the Whitefish Bay and found two of them.  One flies the flag of Canada and was built in 2013 so that probably is the ship you saw.  It's destination is Milwaukee.

The other Whitefish Bay flies the US flag and I couldn't find any information about it.  It seems odd that there would be two ships with the same name, even from different countries and it could be that US ship is out of service; I just couldn't find any info about it.

I am sure the ship you saw was the one from Canada, so it is quite new.

Hi Larry.  Take it easy - and I know you will.

Mary Ann

Good morning to the early birds - MarsGal, Mary Ann and Larry!  I've looked at a couple of the cams, while sitting here drinking my first cup of coffee.  Nothing happening yet, but I'll be here all day, so hope to catch some action at Marine City, or any of the others.

MaryAnn - Sounds like you had a nice dinner at Noodles last night.  I can see that pasta of any kind wouldn't be good for Tom, if he's serious about losing weight. If he likes all pasta dishes as much as I do, then I can imagine how hard it is for him.  I have read that in Italy, people stick to what is called the Mediterranean Diet,(sp?) and they are mostly slim and healthy. It includes fresh veggies, salads, lots of fish, but also pasta and bread at most meals?   That was sure nice of Jan, to come over afterwards, and help you with some thing that are difficult now, like the toenails.  I can relate!

Larry - A short message from you, is good to see every morning. Taco pie sounds delicious.  I plan to Google it, and see what it consists of?  I probably won't make it, but AJ or Sandy might?         

Taco Pie does sound good. I assume it is baked a little bit in the oven?

I just made a quick taco salad a few days back. I didn't use a recipe, just took a lb. of lean ground beef, a can of black beans, French's Buffalo Ketchup, some cumin and chili powder, and then decided to add about a 1/4 cup of corn to it this time. When that was done simmering, I spooned it over tortilla chips and shredded lettuce, and topped it with chopped tomato and onion (didn't have any green pepper), shredded Mexican cheese (I was out of Cheddar), and a dollop of sour cream.

Yes, Mary Ann, it was the Canadian Steamship Lines one. I saw on Wikipedia that it has three other siblings in the Trillium lake freighter sub-class. The shipyard that build them is in China.

It is warm and sunny here in Northwest Florida—-a beautiful day.  I've seen a female Bluebird making several trips into one of the bird houses with Mr. Bluebird sitting up on the fence close by.  So hopefully we will be having some little bluebirds again this year.  I sat out on the back porch watching and the bluebirds don't seem to mind me being there.

We need to get to the grocery store today and I want to make a quick trip to the library.  Hope the weather is good for the Masters.  That's my favorite golf tournament and that area is beautiful this time of the year.

The days seem to fly by.  Hope everyone is having a good day.

P.S.  Patricia, I notice that my Christmas Cactus is looking better.  I think the iron must have been what it needed.  Guess I'll be keeping it a while longer. 😀

I'm sorry, but Taco Pie does not appeal to me at all as I don't care for the seasoning.  You lost me when you mentioned black beans.  There is some in our refrigerator now and Tom does eat them; I do not!  Corn is something else I don't eat except corn on the cob and popped corn. 

My Mediterranean Salad had corkscrew pasta and cut up tomatoes and I don't remember what else because I couldn't tell!  Oh, I saw a couple pieces of cucumber and I don't care for them either.  The seasoning was a bit spicy but I managed.  I really am not a picky eater and do try new things, but I do have my dislikes and many more foods that I either like or tolerate.

A young Shan is staring at me from the Random Image.  The caption is Shan2.jpg.

Tom is gone for the day.  I ran out of my eye medicine and my optometrist has told me she will give me a bottle when/if I run out.  if Tom gets home tonight in time, he can pick it up from their office across the road or he can pick it up tomorrow when he is finished teaching.  This is when I wish I was still driving as I would not have to depend on others for so much.

Mary Ann

Jean. Now did you see that female Bluebird give a sexy wink at the Male sitting on the fence. I sure he will pop in to see her once he sees you are not watching. Must be fun being a bird or any animal this time of year.
Still no action around here.]
Was 70s yesterday and Furnace back running to day. Sure make a change in my personality. Felt years younger yesterday and out all day. Today I took a nap. Change bed and took all the laundry to them.  Tomorrow I will take all my throw rugs and do them myself. Wish could have them do everything but rugs so heavy would cost a fortune. I do have them do all the heavy drapes and that really does. Getting sort of hard for me to take down and have to get some handyman to put back up. Have so many windows. Time for carpet clean again also.
Mary Ann. I did just buy a new car but have to go take my drivers test . Have to do it every year here after 82.  I feel my time of not driving is getting close. I really only need in my area. Have every thing withing 4 mile area but have to take it in the city. After 70 years driving I hate to think about it.

Jeanne, until Tom came here in 2013, I drove, but very little.  However, since it was only me, I had to do my own driving.  When Tom came, he had a car of his own until he let Annie borrow it for her job.  At that time, Tom took over my car since he still needed one and he had to get to work.  I drove almost never after that because Tom would take me wherever I needed to go.  I think I drove my last in 2016 when I was 92 and I sold my car before the insurance was due.  I let Tom know when I have made an appointment and he sees that I get there.  He did ask that I make my appointments on Tuesdays and he tries to keep those days free for me.  It has worked out well so far.  I realize you do not have family close. 

Mary Ann

Hi Everyone. We have an overcast but dry morning and it is suppose to be a very nice day for the beginning day of the Master's Tournament. There are tens of thousands of people here than have come from other places to see it. I will be watching on TV but probably not too much until the last afternoons and the weekend.  We have a special friend coming to visit us from out of town and she is bringing us dinner today.  She won't be here until after 3 pm and will likely stay for only a couple of hours, but that is enough as visiting like that really tires me any more.  I really enjoy it but it has a cost.  Scott and the girls were here yesterday evening and Scott plans on coming back out today.  I decided I would try once more to get into the shower after which I had to lay back down for awhile.  By the time I got to my office this morning I couldn't hold my head up.  Once again I have read all of the postings but going to just check in again today.

Everyone must still be asleep this morning as I made the last post at 7:35 pm last night.

We woke to a white world this morning, but it won't last as our temperature is already 35 degrees.  Tom has gone to teach at one of the Forest Hills schools.  I think he said he had 5th and 6th grades today and those are the grades he prefers. 

It's nice to walk into a clean living room although I have to laugh at some of the results.  I have a wooden sleigh my dad had made when he was teaching Occupational Therapy at a rest home and I had put Christmas family pictures in it for storage.  Robin had put the sleigh in front of a family picture.  Another picture was placed sideways on a cabinet.  I don't say anything because it is very easy for me to rearrange them if I don't like how she does it.  At least things were dusted. 

There are few ships in operation today as everything seems to be arriving or leaving tomorrow. 

Breakfast time.

Larry, you posted while I was typing and I am glad to see someone else is up, especially Larry.  How nice of your friend to bring a meal for you.  You have the nicest, most generous friends.  I know if the shoe were on the other foot, you would be delivering food to others.

Mary Ann

Good morning. Just marking my place and will try to get back later.

A pretty sunny morning, but chilly enough to have to turn the heat up.

Larry, I will repeat what I said on the other board..... I am just so sorry that you are still not feeling so well.  Sure wish I could wave my magic wane in your direction to make you feel better.  I know you will enjoy watching the golf over the week end.

Hope everyone will have a good day.

Joy

Good morning from the Interior where we're the same.

Richard is DEAD, he died suddenly this morning at home sometime after dropping toby off at the groomers and returning home for the hour or two before going back to collect him..All people have now left, the neighbours, the ambulance crews who worked tirelessly on trying to get him back to life, the police and the coroners, the people who came to take him away, I dont know where the last eight plus hours have gone, the home is now silent and empty...

Just having my morning coffee <Kona),  Finally had the beans ground yesterday so going to enjoy this cup of coffee, been  way too long.  LOL

OH Jackie !!!   I am sitting here having cold chills.   What a shock !   Oh,  I am so sorry that you are having to deal with this very tragic situation.   I am sending you lots more cyber hugs (((((((((((((((((((((((((hugs))))))))))))))))))))).  Oh, I just can't imagine what you are going through right now.  I hope your neighbors will be there for you.  Did Richard have any family ?   Please try to stay strong, as you slowly try bring yourself together.  I am afraid this is going to hit you very hard later.  Oh,  I still am having a hard time reading this.   Take care.

Sending you lots of love and caring thoughts. 

Joy

Jackie, what a shock.  I feel terrible for you.  It's a shame some of us here are not able to be there for you because I realize you have no family nearby.

Please keep us posted as to what you will do - now and later.

Mary Ann