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Soda Shoppe for August 15, 2019

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    Guard within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
 -George Sand


so_P_bubble

    Sotheby's Auction, London :
The bidding was proceeding furiously and strong when the Head Auctioneer suddenly announced, 'A gentleman in this room has lost a wallet containing ten thousand pounds. If returned, he will pay a reward of two thousand pounds.

There was a moment's silence in the auction house and from the back of the room came a shout, 'Two thousand five hundred.'


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    From a   Seniornet member of old

New to the group

If you were feeling low, with lots on your mind,
And getting through each day was an aweful grind.
So you join a group, then you wondered why,
Doubts are in your mind, and you feel so shy.
So you just read the mails for a little while,
Then some of them they make you smile.

You feel more comfortable day by day,
Then your first mail goes winging on its way.
Just  those few little words that will conspire,
To uplift your feelings just a little bit higher.
After a while what this may do,
Is make you realize the group has grown on you.

Though the night be dark and the days are long,
The stars now shine, and birds sing their song.
Flowers of friendship, see how they have grown,
Now you can reap what you have sown.
You could say that this is a fairy tale,
See what has sprung from that first little  mail.

Richard
21 Dec 03


Amy

Good morning everyone.

Another lovely morning here, geese were flying about and I listened to them for a while, then the loon flew over and said it was time to get up!!

Will label my jars and put them away today then take the van back in for repairs.I did start a cancer quilt so maybe I can work on that too later on today.

Bubble , thank you for the new start page. Had a good laugh at the auction joke!

Better get going here.

Enjoy your day everyone.
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. -Will Rogers

Gloria

Good morning everyone, 63° another good night for sleeping and I did pretty good last night, a whole 6 hours of it. Still not enough for me, I am so used to at least 7 hours but mostly 8 hours of sleep it is hard getting used to less.

PHYLLIS  now you did it. Love seeing your posts but chocolate lava cake first thing in the morning will have me longing for a big slice of chocolate cake-any kind as long as it is chocolate. My fault for not posting in the evenings anymore. Right now we are getting some nice warm days with lower humidity. We had August weather in July and now feels more like July temperatures. Even Mother Nature is all messed up these days. That must have scare you when David passed out. I know if it happened to one of mine in front of me I would pull one of the emergency cords we have. I would be in a state of panic.

SHIRLEY  one morning before leaving for work I opened the freezer to take something out for supper and put a half gallon or ice cream on top while looking. When I god home from work I saw the wind steak down the side of the fridge wondering what that was. Was a sticky mess to clean up and did not feel much like making supper after cleaning that sticky yuck up. The melatonin I have is 6 mg. She talked to the pharmacist about it and he said if one doesn't help to take a second one. I am Leary of taking that second one.

JANE  my CNA said they had 3 mg and the 5 mg and the druggist suggested the 5. I had not called me doc about it. Maybe I should. The first one I took did nothing for me but I was dragging my feet the next day. If a sleeping pill can keep me awake all night and make my sluggish the next day maybe they just do not work for me.

JOY  always good too see you show up. Nothing interesting here in my life either.

BUBBLE  hope you enjoy the zucchini relish, it really is better than any you can buy. If jars seal right they will keep a long time.
Love your graphics and the way you framed them. If you remember I always loved the frames. At times I would get the frame made and then look for a graphic to do with it. New to the Group reminds me of when I first joined SN and Bis Busy Nest. I hardly said a few words, now I talk  too much about nothing. Thank you for the new page.

AMY  hope your trip with the van does not take too long.

Have a good day.

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JaneS

Good Morning Everyfriend!  I've been up for a bit and the doggies are all taken care of until they decide it's time for a walk.

GLORIA, how is that possible that my Melatonin is 500 mg. and yours is only 5mg?  That's a HUGE difference!  This one was suggested to me by a Nurse Practitioner.  I'm thoroughly confused!

I didn't get going early enough to get the zucchini bread in the Hidey Hole for breakfast snacking. But it's on my list for today.  Of course, that doesn't really mean that it will get done.  I can always say, "Oh What the heck!  I'll do it tomorrow!" 

I'm off to get dressed ad collect the trash because going to the dumpster is on my list for today, too. 

BUBBLE, please accept my thanks for the new place.  I always love your offerings in our behalf.

I hope you all have a lovely day!
Make it your own in every way!

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phyllis

#9
Another cloudy morning but supposedly the main part of the rain and storms will be to the East of us.  I have to do the grocery shopping so hope the weather will hold off for awhile.

It was nice to get out and get my hair cut yesterday.  So glad to get it off the back of my neck.

I'm really tempted by the Zucchini relish but, as I said before, I'm the only relish eater in the house so probably won't make it.  David likes my homemade Cucumber Pickles but he is not a relish eater.  However, I think the Lava Cake is going to be a regular thing.  Gloria and I agree that "anything that is chocolate" is something I am interested in.

Mary Ann, did you watch the Pictin Castle leave Algonac early this morning?  What a beautiful ship!  I enjoyed having it to watch on the close-up live camera for the last several days.  And, after doing a little reference searching, I learned it is a barque type of rigged sailing ship.  It's always fun to learn something new.

Good morning, Jane. 

I must get my breakfast and get a move on.  I hope I can get the shopping done before the rain comes.  Take extra care, Everyone.
phyllis
Cary,NC

Shirley

I'm here every day but this morning will cut it short. I am really tired & thinking nap... been up since before 5:00 am, got the pool vac done & yesterday got the entry hall cleaned out & put that stuff back in the RV. Time to rest, this is starting to feel like WORK and Joan isn't here to remind us that gets demerits!

Thank you, Bubble, for the new start. Beautiful graphics! Got to tell you I had a surprise when I enlarged that photo of Aviv in the canoe... and I thought was Illy... only that is NOT Illy, is it?  ::)  :-[  It is really Aviv (since his face is hidden?) Still think it is a great photo. On this laptop, it has the touch screen so I enlarged as much as it could...  ;)  How is Don liking his new digs now? Bet he knows everyone & they all know him. Tell him I waved "HI" from Kansas, please?

Thanks, Jane & Gloria, about the Melatonin.... I have a feeling she has already investigated it, her Dr suggested taking a Benadryl, she tried & works for her. I had such a bad reaction with a tiny speck of benadryl in an allergy prescription the pharmacist told me to never take anything with it in... ever! I don't have trouble sleeping, it's just getting to bed on time I have a problem with.

Amy, you are the going-est girl I ever knew.  :thumbup:

Phyll, was wondering how many years has it been since you LIVED in Kansas?  It is humid this year, more like MO than KS. I am listening to hammering all around me, new roof on the house next door & down the street. Guess mine will come in 2 more weeks. Such a normal thing in KS.... Last time this area all got beat up was 2006. I was afraid of more hail this week & have not even been on a trip with the new roof on the RV. Still have to take a heavy duty vac out to clean some of the wood chips the guys putting the new roof on missed, in the shower. I had forgotten that nearly everyone I knew had flat tires from the nails in the streets (in 2006).. will have to watch.

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Yes Shirley, it is Aviv. You reminded me that I received more photos. I need to post them!

Mary Ann

Phyllis, yes, I watched the Picton Castle leave this morning, however, it was on rewind.  I had gotten up around 3 am to see if there was any preparation activity (actually got up for a different reason!) and watched for a while, did other computing and went back to bed.  I got up again at 8 am and the ship was gone, but I backtracked about three hours and watched until it left.  It is a good looking ship and I don't have many opportunities to see such a ship.  I read if a person were to be on all phases of their training, it would cost over $43,000.  I'll continue to be an armchair sailor. 

Tom and I will pick up Dot for lunch today at a deli in Cannonsburg, about 10 miles from here.  It is a popular place but we'll go about 1 pm and it should not be too busy then.  Their sandwiches are whatever you want in them and are so large, I eat half of one and bring the other half home for another meal.  I know Dot will do the same.

Mary Ann

JaneS

Well, I didn't get the Pina Colada Bread in the Hide Hole in time for breakfast but it's there now. That recipe makes 3 big loaves.  There's no way I'll be able to eat it all.  HELP!  And it sure did make a lot of dirty dishes.  Of course, I shredded that HUGE zucchini that my neighbor gave me and I have enough in the freeze to make two more recipes.  So the next time I won't have the food processor to wash and put away.  I think I'll take a loaf of bread over to the gal who gave me the zucchini.  That'll teach her!

I took time out for lunch and doggie walking and now I have to gather the trash, take it to the dumpster and head for WM to get stuff like bread, milk and eggs.  Some other stuff, too.

Enjoy the rest of your day and HELP ME EAT THIS BREAD!

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Amy

#14
Today was rather a productive day, managed to get the van fixed (fingers crossed.) Plus I learnt that topping up the gas to the next dollar is not a good thing as well as undercoating the vehicle as this caused my problem!! Live and learn. :) I did get the flowered watered and deadheaded plus picked beans, enough to share with our neighbour. too.  Managed to finish off the camp quilt and can more on to another. So all in all a good day, have the sprinkler on the garden so had better go check plus this pup wants to play Frisbee!! 
Jane ,thank you for the treat in the hidey hole, now I want to make it!
Phyliss, oh my I am going to try your lava cakes!! I/we love anything chocolate!!

Shirley, I think you are also one as you never stay in one spot long. Can't say as I blame you either ,go when you get a chance. Plus you have a lot of outside work to do.

Gloria, was in and out in no time plus it was lower than they quoted. Got to like that part!
Better go see if the veggies are still in the garden and not floating away.
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. -Will Rogers

mycheal

 Although dosage guidelines vary, here are some general things to keep in mind: The most effective dose is usually between 0.3 mg and 5 mg. THIS ON Melatonin

JaneS

#16
OK, so I'm some kind of an idiot.   I got out my magnifying glass and it says "500 mcg" on my melatonin bottle.  I'm not sure what that means.  I don't think I've ever seen "mcg" on a pill bottle before but the dr. must know because she okd it. I won't talk about medications or illnesses or remedies any more.

Now I'm off to bed and tomorrow is another day. I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow.


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Denver

The days are passing much too quickly for me.

My brother is still in the hospital.  They are giving him some physical therapy as he is having a hard time getting up and moving around with the pain in the incision.  Not sure of they will release him to go home tomorrow or not. 

AMY, I do hope the van is repaired and Good to go for a good long time.

MARY ANN, I hope you all enjoyed the lunch out with Dot and Tom. 

JANE, I just enjoyed a piece of the delicious Pina Colada Bread....it is yummy.  Thank you for sharing.

PHYLLIS, a hair cut always makes me feel so much better even though I fight it with tooth and nail to go and get it cut🤪. How frightening to have your David pass out in front of you.  Sure glad it was nothing too serious.

Pleasant dreams to all.

Jenny

🦋 Jenny
"Love many, trust few; learn to paddle your own canoe"

Amy

Good morning everyone

Another beautiful day here. Nothing on the agenda today other than general work about the house. Need to find a pattern the next quilt to work on.

Jenny, prayers for your brother. Thinking of Michele and prayers for her.

Better get a move on here

Enjoy your day everyone.
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. -Will Rogers

Gloria

Good morning everyone, foggy this morning, don't get that often here but lets me know the humidity is jumping up again. Oh well, it is still August.

JANE  I don't get it, a big jump from 5 mg to 500 mg. Of course my CNA got it at CVS and I distrust those stores. For a short time I got my meds there and I was short on at least one every month. The 5 mg is not doing much good for me. My son brought me half a zucchini bread he made and he added blueberries in it, different and very tasty. Since he retired he has done a lot of cooking and now he is baking. Love it, my other son is a cook but never did baking.

PHYLLIS  like you when the hair starts hitting my neck I have to get a haircut. Especially  in the summer months. Hope you got your groceries and home before any rain drops fell on you.

SHIRLEY  glad I don't live where it is as windy or gets so much damaging hail. When we get hail it is always small and not much of it.

AMY  what is the problem with having a full gas tank  and undercoating a car? Doesn't the undercoating help keep the salt from the roads in winter from rotting from underneath? That is what I was told years ago but don't hear much about undercoating cars anymore.

JANE  you talk about meds all you want, I got to thinking CVS was not putting every thing in what they sell that they should.

JENNY  hope things improve fro your brother. How is Michele doing? Hope the doctors got rid of the monster by now.

Have a good day.

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CallieOK

#20
Good Morning,

Not sure if I've "checked in" on the new page.  I'm not actively involved in a lot of the events going on around me but, of course, I have to keep up (or so I think  ;)}.

Miss Ellen was home for a week - mainly to be in a BFF's wedding but also to visit with relatives from the other side of the family who were making their annual visit.
She dropped in between two wedding events that were closer to me than to her parents' house and made a special trip to visit another day.

Have been keeping up with Miss Emily via text because she's heading into Finals for this trimester and also getting a new apartment-mate.  Bit of a gap between the former one leaving and the new one arriving, so Mom has gone to be with her during the interim. 

Haven't seen Sir Carson but know he "survived" his construction management intern assignment out in the OK panhandle (about a 4 hour drive across wide open prairie country).  He called to chat while driving home for the weekend and had nothing good to say about the distance between "snack/potty stops" along the way.  He is back at school and has moved into a house with two roomies for the next phase of his college studies.

#2 son/dil spent a few days in Denver for a "Blues" concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater.  They drove to the top of Mt. Evans one day.  Mt. Evans is a "fourteener", meaning it's more than 14,000 feet above sea level.
Pix are fantastic and include several of wild animals along the roadside.

Dil finally got Netflix working on my t.v. and I've enjoyed being able to watch movies that way instead of on my Tablet.  Have also finished several library e-books.

I'm back at war with a skinny squirrel, who discovered he/she can leap from a planter onto the squirrel baffle and grab hold of the feeder in time to keep from being knocked off.  :tickedoff:  Planter is too heavy for me to move so I've "greased"  the baffle and the pole above it with petroleum jelly and hope I'm watching when he/she slides and goes Kerplunk.  :nahna:

Gloria,  so sorry you've had a bad experience with CVS.  Mine is very helpful with my meds.  Refills are taken care of automatically and they even call the doctor for permission without my having to ask.  I really like their automated notice when a prescription is ready for pick-up, too. 

Jenny, you have a lot on your plate between helping with Grands and concern about relatives' health issues.  Gentle hugs and Good Thoughts to you.

Amy/Jane and Other Relish Enthusiasts:  I found Amy's recipe for the Zucchini Relish in the Recipes folder.  Gave all my canning equipment to dil years ago but will share the recipe with her when she returns from Kansas.  Sounds like something she would like - in addition to the jellies and salsas she cans all summer long.

Pantry is beginning to look like Mother Hubbard's Cupboard.  Guess I need to do something about that.

Wishing Everyfriend Everywhere an Enjoyable Day.

Amy

Callie, you can do half the recipe and you don't need to put it in a canner as long as your jars ,lids and sealing rings are hot.

OK where is Miss Jane......she is MIA!!
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. -Will Rogers

mycheal

MY apologies, I just wanted to inform as not to be taking too much of anything...
mcg and mg two different things and I as well have never seen mcg on anything I take..AGAIN MY APOLOGIES

Shirley

Mycheal & all that offered information about the melatonin, I did pass it along to my daughter who explained she had already tried & it didn't work for her. Now that she is retired I don't think she has a problem, she works as hard at being retired as she did working. She walks the parks in St.Louis area where she lives & gets in between 10,000 & 20,000 steps a day (and that is NOT an exaggeration.) Both of her brothers decided not to compete with her... and I don't get a fraction of those steps. I tell them that I wear a Fitbit to know how much sleep I get (or don't).  :thumbup:

I did get some spaghetti put in the freezer for a couple meals out camping. Got to defrost that freezer, it is beyond needing care, hate that job. I'm sure I'll find stuff in there way out of date so the critters down by the river will have some good meals.

The wind is blowing like it could brew up some storms tonight. Not quite up to anything else going wrong this week. It has been a roller coaster few weeks. With all that has gone wrong, in every case "it could have been worse!"

Don't supposed Lloyd & Nancy have already gotten to Jane's house? Wishing all sweet dreams and God Bless.

CallieOK

Amy, it isn't the canning itself....it's the peeling and chopping and mixing and sterilizing and..and..and... Much easier to let dil do it and share!!  ;D

Shirley, the news picture of a tornado around Salina was horrible.  Miss Em's Mom drove to K.C. yesterday and I was afraid she would run into it; thank goodness, she didn't.  Em said if there were any storms around her....she slept through them.
Weather gurus keep saying we "may" get storms but none have come down this far....yet.  The ones we have had recently have been in the wee hours and didn't bother me. 

Two hummingbirds fussed at me when I took down the feeder this evening. Thought maybe they'd apologize when I put it back all clean and full of freshly made syrup.  Nope - they just started their usual chase-each-other-off routine.
I enjoyed watching a mama cardinal and her "teen-age daughter" at the seed feeder.  Youngster was doing well getting her own seeds but she didn't mind a bit when Mama gave her one.

I love watching my critters!

Sleep well, Everyfriend and have pleasant dreams.

Amy

Good morning everyone..

Foggy out there this morning. We are off to a wee hamlet to the market for a garlic festival, should be a lot of fun! My friend is a regular there with her quilts and he is woodwork.

Shirley, that is a job I am procrastination on and will soon have to bit the bullet and just do it!! I am sure crow will be getting some freezer burnt meat. Gosh crow must have read my thoughts he is out there hollering now.....and he brought company!!

Callie, I understand , smart lady! I wish we had cardinals here, I have only seen one and the was a long time ago in out lilac bush. Hope the storms don't visit your way.

Phyliss, I made your rice pudding in the IP yesterday and it turn out great...

Better get going here, want to start laundry and hang it out before we go.

Enjoy your day everyone.   
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. -Will Rogers

Gloria

Good morning everyone, at last it is, had a whole 7 hours uninterrupted sleep. Makes me feel alive this morning. Maybe tonight I will get 8 hours? Maybe the melatonin is starting to get into my system? The half hour before bed time did not work so last night I took one at 7:30 and was asleep a little after 10.
67° now and humidity climbing once again. Looks like we will be back up to 90 on Monday if the guessers are right. Well it is August and that has always been the hot month here but so far it was July with the heat waves.

CALLIE  your squirrel sounds like the one that tried to jump up  to the flower box I used as a bird feeder. Kept trying and would fall back onto the awning over the downstairs window. Finally made it and I would knock on the window and it would run. After it would get back up and keep an eye looking in the window. When it saw me coming it jumped down. The CVS here is the second one I had problems with. The first one was where I lived before. I always loved watching the Cardinals when they were at my feeder. They were more entertaining than any of the others for they way they cared for each other.

AMY  do not see many birds here. When I first moved here the maintenance man's wife hung a hummingbird feeder off the porch and we all loved watching them. Witch made her stop because she said they messed all over. Then she also cleaned out the bird bath in front of the other  side of the porch, witch stopped that, too, made a mess. Now the bird bath is dry and no more birds to see. Any time the residents here enjoy something she puts a stop to it. The chairs on the porch were arranged for carrying on conversations, now she wants them all in a row like pictures you see of resorts. Makes it hard to talk with each other.

JANE  where are you? Are we going to send out a search party for you?

Have a good day.

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JaneS

Good (I hope) Morning!  Today has to be a better day than the past week has been.

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so_P_bubble


Denver

A good Saturday morning HELLO to EVERYFRIEND💐

My greeting is about the only positive thing I have to say today......

Sadly, I got a bit of news from Dr. Dave yesterday and unfortunately Michele does have more tumors growing on her brain.  We are of course all devastated to hear this news.  She was not to find out the report from the MRI until next Monday at her chemo appointment, however she and Dave went to her radiation oncologist yesterday to discuss the radiation she will start two weeks after her last chemo, and this doctor already had the report. Michele was quite upset.....she was so hopeful that this MRI would be clean!  They will not find out the total report until Monday at her second to last chemo, so Dave said he had no details to add.  Thank you all for all of your support and prayers. 

Today is Matthew's Birthday Party at Dave and Michele's home.  His bday is the 22nd but he has his first football game that night, Michele will be down and out after chemo on Monday, so this is the best day.  Life goes on.....

BUBBLE, thank you for your beautiful graphic......so pretty. 

JANE, wishes for a HAPPY day for you💞

ACTUALLY HAPPY WISHES for. Wonderful day to EVERYFRIEND

Jenny
🦋 Jenny
"Love many, trust few; learn to paddle your own canoe"