The snow has now turned to rain..not a welcomed sight for sure. Doves landed for a fill up before tucking themselves into the pine braches..out of rain and into warmth.

Shirley, those gum balls look deadly if stepped upon. Looks  like they have hard spines/prickles on them???

I was talking to my cousin, who grew up outside Oklahoma City before moving to Colorado Springs, about gumballs. Her folks used them around the garden to protect the young plants from pests. She also said they were suitable for wound care but didn't remember the hows and whys.

I spent the morning scrubbing down the doors and walls of my bathroom after cleaning it. Alan was airlifted to the hospital last night as his flu became pneumonia. Dora followed with a neighbor who had a truck able to traverse the slick roads, and he, his wife, and sons would look after the place and animals while they were gone.

Alan's in his late eighties, so this is concerning, and since I cannot do anything, I tackled the painted walls and doors of my bathroom but still feel frustrated.

Patricia, thank you for the information on gum balls. I can see where they would protect young plants!

I am sorry to read about your friend, he is in the best place to be cared for and his health monitored.Happy to read their good friends will take care of the place and Dora has no worries while she is away. Nice to have friends .

Patricia, you got me curious and this is what I came up with.

https://www.hobbyfarms.com/sweet-gum-tree-sap-fruit-medicinal/

Before Shirley and you talked about the sweetgum tree, I had never heard of it!

Thanks for that link. I read, saved, and sent it to my sister and cousin.

I'm sure my community and friends are much like your circle, ready to step in when needed.

I admit to not wanting the other families and Alan wanting to sell at this time to have to sell, but I would love to be able to see everyone more often.

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I read link about the sweet gum trees and I know ours didn't take many years before the little balls showed up. Cas was looking out the window over the sink where the tree is planted & got all excited when he saw the first spikey ball at the top. We have two trees across the street in different yards (another house between) and both of their yards are covered with the little balls so guess all sweet gums produce them. My yard is covered with little trees every spring & I used to take a sharp knife & wiggle the dirt around & pull the plants up & then into a clay pot to transplant when they got bigger. Couldn't count how many I gave away.

Thanks for the tip & card, Bubble, sure looks like my Tom! 

I looked up the sweet gum trees when you first mentioned them because I knew I'd seen some at a place I was and now I think it might have been near Cindy's place in Texas or maybe when she lived in Maryland. 

I spent the day doing paper work today.  All my bills are taken care of for this month and my bank account is up to date.  I do hate that job.  I like to spend the money but I don't like to account for it!  I don't know how I managed to give birth to, and raise two accountants!  And two others who are very good at math!

Now I'm heading for the haystack.  No Cooper tonight so I'll have the whole bed to myself!  I kind of miss the snugglers!  I wish you all a peaceful night and a happy tomorrow and may God bless us, every one.

OOPS!  Forgot to say "HELLO, PHYLLIS!  I missed you!

Good Morning to ME and to anyone else who shows up today.  I'm on an early schedule this morning.  My DIL is taking me with her to WM to do my shopping and she an early bird.  She's picking me up around 9 so I have to get on the ball, get my shower and get dressed and ready to go.  I like going early!

I wish you all a good day...better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow!  ENJOY!

Good morning

Sitting at 0° here and I hope we get snow,not rain.
Friends didn't make it here yesterday but will later today. I am going to make raisin bread and hope to have it done in time to send some home with them.

Jane, it is nice to have the whole bed to be able to strecth your legs but also nice to have a cuddle bunny in bed with you. Both these lay at the bottom of the bed so my legs are curled it seems up to my chin. If one leaves then I get to strech out.

Patricia, hope Allen is feeling better today..

Better get crackin'

Enjoy your day and stay safe..

edited to say GOOD MORNING JANE.
you snuck in while I was typing...enjoy your day out!!!

Quote from: Shirley on January 08, 2023, 01:40:57 PM



For right now I ran across something I copied quite a while ago, do not recall from who/whom (big deal about that long ago & don't recall that verdict, either), even if I copied from here or got e-mail, but this lady has been my hero ever since. She comes from the same area of France my gr-Grandmother did so maybe I am   related to her.
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Jeanne Louise Calment had the longest confirmed human lifespan on record: 122 years and 164 days. It seems that fate strongly approved of the way Madame Calment lived her life. She  was born in Arles, France, on February 21, 1875. (My grandmother was born in New Orleans in 1871).  When the Eiffel Tower was built, she was 14 year old. It was at this time that she met Vincent van Gogh. "He was dirty, badly dressed and disagreeable," she recalled in an interview given in 1988.

When she was 85, she took up fencing, and she was still riding on her bike when she reached 100. At the age of 114, she starred in a film about her life; at age 115 she had an operation  on her hip, and at age 117 she gave up smoking, having started at the age of 21 in 1896. Apparently, she didn't give it up for health reasons, but because she didn't like having to ask someone to help her light a cigarette once she was nearly blind.

In 1965, Jeanne was 90 years old and had no heirs. She signed a deal to sell her apartment to a 47-year-old lawyer called André-François Raffray. He agreed to pay her a monthly sum  of 2,500 francs on the condition that he would inherit her apartment after she died. However, Raffray not only ended up paying Jeanne for 30 years, but died before she did at the age of 77. His widow was legally obliged to continue paying Madam Calment until  the end of her days.

Jeanne retained sharp mental faculties. When she was asked on her 120th birthday what kind of future she expected to have, she replied, "A very short one."

French nun Sister André, the world's oldest known person, died on Tuesday in the southern city of Toulon, France, her spokesperson announced. She was 118. Born as Lucile Randon on February 11, 1904, Sister André dedicated most of her life to religious service and was the oldest nun to ever live, according to the Guinness World Records.

Good Morning everyone, well I do read but do not alwayse post as i should, dont whip me I will try to do better I promace. we are @ 37º and light rain now @ 6:37 AM.  . I want to fiend someone close to us here at Latouer MO. that has furtial duck and turckey eggs. Our grand deaughter and famley has a smll inkebeater. they are home schooling there childern and have alreadey hatche chicken eggs. so i would like as I said like to get duck and turkey eggs andhatch the m also. I know two brothers that have a fairely large barn that has blowen mostely down on one of there farms, I am going to go see them and see if I can acuire it from them and take it down. and erecit some sheads here on this plae, I also want to build a large greean house here. and build cattle pins in one end of it an extend out side with them, for cattle and the goats.they already have miniture goats (regerstead ones) goats milk is suposed to be heallther for you. they already have a shop to do work in. ther Is a store buildeing not too far from here that is colapsed and not in oo repair. I would like to go see if I can purchase it and a few acers, there Is already a grean house by it. I hink if i can that would be a good place to re build it and put liveing quiaters in , and do my wood worke and sell some of it,along with mom and pops grocerys.me and my pipe dreams.

Lloyd

Phewwwwwww Lloyd ,you tuckered me out on all you want to build!! I sure hope you have a lot of help come time to build all this.

Raisin bread is cooling, put some in the hidy hole...your choice of milk,tea or coffee too.
We did have a short snow fall , that's ok. but on Thur Fri and Sun we have an 80% chance of more snow.........ain't that just peachy!! Oh well, one more day closer to Spring.

Good morning, I was up late last night, and into the morning, so I slept very late. It's minus nineteen and with no clouds for a long time,  there's nothing to hold the heat in. That's okay for me, as I have plans to tackle the kitchen today.

Lloyd, you have ambitious plans; how does Nancy feel about the plans?

Amy, I wish I could say he was feeling better, but it's going to be a while. He has help with his breathing and medication now, at least.

Well, Bubble, your post prompted me to Google my old lady (Jeanne Louise Calment) and the tale is really true about her (I thought maybe I had fallen for fiction). Found much more to read about her on Google, interesting life she led, as well as the one you posted about. Sadly, I truly did think I might beat the record but not as I am now. Still a good life with no regrets.

Lloyd, all those things we used to do are not OUR real world today, but the desire to do them is still in our head. I completely understand so am now trying to find someone that will love all these things we worked so hard for, difficult job.

Youngest son comes by for a visit on Wednesdays so I got out some old letters & papers for him to look out. All these things must be saved for the next generation and I want to make sure they will go to the right person. Have the original passports that came from France in 1855, have some old land grants, letters from my father's cousin from during World War I... some letters from my gr-mother's cousin that lived in Nebraska, her father was captain of a river boat & was fairly well known in the old days. Lots of things saved from Dad's side but a few from Mother's as well.  And I also have old cameras (35mm) & the original digital cameras that no longer are used. How sad, nobody interested in any of the cameras with the phone cameras that work so well.  Such is life.

Christy arrived around 4 o'clock and we've been chatting ever since.  Memories and new stuff both.  She's just went to bed and I'm hot on her heels.  Cooper will be arriving in the morning around 6:45 and it's going to be a full day.  If I don't make it here, don't worry.  We have a a lot planned! 

I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow and may God bless us, every one!

Have Fun.

 patricia19 she dose not want to spend the Money it takes to do things. I tell her she cant take it with her when God calles her number. and If she goes first I have enough penchen to feed me. and If I goe first and the $$$ we have in edward jones and her social scuearty will do a good job for her, and in the off chance it wont the childern and or grands will take care of her. she has some money and her social secuatry will do a good job. Good night and sweet dreams.

Lloyd

Good Morning everyone. well we are @ 35º and cloudy with light rain this morning. I hope you all have a good day just like you like it.

Lloyd

Good morning...

Calling for snow today but hope it stays away till I nip into town to pay a bill that came yesterday. Friends didn't make it  had too many things on the go so will come later today.

I waited and waited but neither Jane or Patricia showed up to purge with me so I will buckle under and get it done!!

Jane enjoy your time with Christy..I would imagine many stories will be told.

Enjoy your day and stay safe..

Christy is taking me and my list to WM.  Then she's having lunch and a visit with a friend she's had since elementary school.  Have a good day Everyfriend!

Good morning; we're back at the sixes again today, except today's six is a minus when the others were all pluses. The following forecasted snow will be in February, although all the expected January snows went elsewhere.

Lloyd, I have enough money to do what needs to be done rather than what I would like to have done. Each time I get a little ahead, something else crops up with its hand out!

Amy, Alan's doctor, will see if he can breathe independently in the next few days. Dora will be getting supplemental oxygen, they're setting it up today, and she will move temporarily into guest quarters attached to the hospital for patients' families.

I don't think I would be able to de-clutter with friends as my style is to get everything out, clean the entire room, and then blitz through what's trashed, stays, or gets donated. If I had company, I would do more socializing than cleaning.

Jane, I know you're having a good time today! Enjoy your time with Cooper.

Shirley, mom, and dad didn't have much to leave to us as most was sold for medical bills and care during the mid-nineties. I'm sure it would be several times more expensive now.

Patricia, that is encouraging news on Allan, good that Dora is close by to keep an eye on also. Not as nice as home but a safe place to be in. Something else always crops up and has its hands out.

Almost to scared to say it but the snow has held off for now. I saw to the south of us they are getting rain.....just rain not freezing..yet. Noticed the birds are in hiding, not coming out for the seed.

Going flood fishing

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/man-catches-large-snook-fish-from-aftermath-puddle-of-hurricane-ian/vi-AA16mfV3

Good morning..
We did get a mixed bag of weather yesterday, rain,snow then ice pellets but nothig really to worry about. More snow on the way today they say. Not enough snow out there to warrant a dance.

Friends stopped yesterday and we exchanged goodies. We now have a huge bag of fresh garlic about 5-6 lbs of it!! I think I will try planting some come Spring.

Not sure what will happen today,nothing planned and will take the day  as it comes.

Patricia, I had to look up the species  and found that snook is very tasty fish ,what a great catch for that man!

Jane, does your WM still sell fabric by the bolt? Ours used to but doesn't now.

Better get going ,day is moving faster than I am.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

well good morning everyone. I had a post made and the grimelians got it. I was telling you all I met sam wattalin two times.the firs time I was interduced to him, and was over a year later  he came in same reastrant wehre we were interduced,and he looked over at me and said good morning Lloyd, I will get me a egg macmuffien and join you at your tabble if you have room. i was the onley at the tabble at the timme. he also had a good scince of hoummer. that is all I going to say this time.

Lloyd

good mid morning. well i slept in late this morning. well i met sam waltton two times,i was at the Mcdallenoeds reasterant next doore to ticen feead in spring dale arkensaw,at that time i was buying and selling grain. to a man there and no matter where i had bought and weaide he made me re way at the loca ticen feeds. we were setting there eating and weaighting for tiens to open, and sam waltton came up in front in a old chivey truck with the feinders having splits in them flopping like bird wings in the weind. when sam came in Mike got his attion and said sam come over here i want to interduce youn to.  sam said ok mike I will get me a egg mcmoffen and join you all t your table. we were interduced  then. and it was over a year later i was at same place and sam came in and looked over and said Lloyd I will get a egg mcuffen and join you at your table if you have roome. he had a memeroy out of this wourld.

Lloyd

Good night and sweet dreams. we went next door to the grand childrens house and had a great feed with them. she realey put on the dog so as to speak,I am going to go and lay back in my easey chear and try to  fiend a good Moovie to fal asleep with. Hope to see you all tomorow in good health and sperits.

Lloyd

Good morning..

Cloudy,no snow and 22°. We arer getting off lucky dispite what the weather man has been calling for....that's  ok

Working around home after  picking up meds for Kyle.

Better get going.

Enjoy your day and stay safe

Good Morning Everyfriend!  I have a minute or two while Christy is on the phone with her husband.  Cooper and I just got back from our morning walk and I'm having a little breakfast and seconds on the coffee.  I'm off to the showers when I'm finished here.

AMY, I don't know if our WM still sells bolts of material.  I haven't tried to do that for a long time.  In fact, I had Christy go through the material that I have stashed around and take whatever she wants.  I think my sewing days are over.  I can't see what I'm doing when I'm doing it!  Darn eyes!  Of course, I can find out if you're looking for something to send David to pick up for you!

LLOYD, I've also met Sam Walton face-to-face!  He visited our store and he made his way around and introduced himself to each employee!  It thought that was pretty special!  Then when I visited the first WM store they said that I had just missed him.  I told them to tell him that one of their best workers in the Lewisburg, PA store said "Hello"!

Now I'm off to the showers!  I wish you all a good day...better than yesterday but but not as good as tomorrow!