LARRY, I'm not sure how they figured it out but this Saturday is what always was the Fourth of July Celebration.  I'm not sure why it's being done early every year but it is.  I don't go very often and since Bethany's birthday falls near it, I usually escape to my sister's and avoid the traffic.

Lloyd, once more you have escaped with your life. What is is going to take for you to realize you need to retire. Are you daring or testing to see how much you can get away with ??

Amy, so good to see your posts, thank you. You and your hubby are being prayed for and hopefully you will get your beloved back home again soon ! Do rest as much as you can, you have to conserve your strength for when he comes home.

Bis you are a fairly new resident of Ala. but so far how does the rain storm compare with the ones you had in Fla. ? We continue dry in So. Ca. I read that Hemet is in the 100's at this time, and we are still in the high 70's now but very humid..58 %. I sleep with just a sheet as covering.

Hal, I hope your P.T. was refreshing. I sure miss being able to have a good swim.

This has been an active day…no nap at all. We had a group of Hula dancers entertain us today. we residents that wanted to join in could, so I stayed on the sidelines with my cart in front of me…brakes on..and was able to participate. One of the pros came and complimented me for following the gyrations, which was nice, but I was not looking for recognition, just wanted to dance. They were all older women, dressed beautifully and dance beautifully too. Then I just spent a lot of the afternoon wandering the grounds and enjoying the sun, and gabbing with those I met.

Time to think about preparing a light supper. Had a great lunch downstairs, so will just have a salad at home tonight.

My Gary finished the last chapter of the book of Daniel at Bible study today. Next Wed. he and Dori will leave for a relaxing five weeks driving to Idaho to visit their Pastor son and family, and then relaxing doing their own thing for a couple of days. It is the first time in their married life they are taking time for a long vacation, and I am so happy for them. They are such GOOD kids.

Have a peaceful night dear hearts. I love you all so very much. June

June D you have Nancy on your side. but as i said if you set down and do nothing you die i have seen it too many times, and most of the time i enjoy
most of you folks.
I am sighing off early tonight,I have had a easy day and have put honey on my wounds and warped them.they have had air since 7: AM this morning. I have a appointment at V A in the morning at main V A in KC MO. I am while there going to see the same day care saw Bones and show it to him. we filled the antibiotic's with a$4.00 script. so should be fine now. hope to see you all tomorrow when I get home. my appointment is at 8:30 AM with a 1 & 1/2 hour drive in heavy rush hour traffic. good Night and sweet dreams.

Lloyd

Hi late Friday evening. All is well but want to get up in the morning and work on my new installation of Windows 10 on the new hard drive Scott installed for me this evening. We did get Windows 10 installed on it and it should get the updates installed during the night. So I likely won't post again until Friday.

Only two posting since I posted this morning. Certainly a quiet day here in the Soda Shoppe.

June, sounds like it is time for Gary and Dori to enjoy a long vacation and hope they have a great time.

Lloyd, hope the traffic isn't too bad in the morning..I know where the VA hospital is unless they have built a new one in the last 50 years as worked on an audit project there right after I first started to work.

Good night Everyfriend and may God bless us, every one!

Lloyd, that is nonsense you are speaking. It is working with the machinery that is harming you. There is much you can do to keep busy just standing on your own two feet. My heart goes out to Nancy. Have you thought about spading up some ground with a spade and planting a nice garden, taking care of your cattle like you father probably did without riding on a huge machine, but on his own two feet. Your body would feel a great deal more satisfaction by doing thing the old fashioned way. That's all I'm going to say.

Larry, thank you for your kind words for my kids. The give so much of themselves to others year after year..Gary as Pastor of his church, and Dori as working side by side with him, plus she has taken on a volunteer job, counseling un-wed mothers.

Time for me to get myself to bed. I didn't intend to hammer away at Lloyd, but he has to start using good sense in my way of thinking.

Good Morning Everyfriend! 

JUNE, you are one special lady!  Not only to you caution LLOYD about not doing the things that are causing him harm.  You present him with an alternate plan for doing some of the the things that bring him pleasure in a way that won't bring him harm and will still give him the exercise we all need.

LLOYD, listen to JUNE.  She one smart lady!

AMY, if you're looking in...drive carefully!  Our prayers are with you!

I'm going to try to figure out how to be two places at the same time this weekend...or at least part of it.  I seem to have made two separate plans for this Saturday.  And they are not close together. 

I hope you all have a lovely day doing exactly what you wish to do!

Waving madly at you Janie,here I am!!!

Good morning everyone..

The stairs were mastered yesterday, physio wants to keep him a couple more days and would like to have a therapist work with him here when he gets home.

Day by day there is an improvement so soon I hope he will be home.

Looks like I had better cut the grass again tonight, after I leave my van at the garage to get a rotor and a shimmy in my front end fixed......sheesh sounds like I am falling apart!

Better scoot....enjoy your day everyone..

Just read about your latest mishap Lloyd, mate, you sure do stick your neck out !,  we have a storm brewing out in the Channel at the moment and at last, the temp has started come down so by tomorrow things should be back to normal ! and I hope to be back in touch with you again via SKYPE, already, I can hear the rumble of thunder in the distance and the air smells a lot fresher ! so I had best shut everything off before the storm hits us, all being well ?, i'll speak with you tomorrow, so get Nancy to lock you inside for a few days and keep out of trouble !.  Cheers.    Roley. 
PS.  It's here ! I think its called 'Rain'  at least, it will make the farmers happy !..

Good morning everyone, hope everyone is fine and dandy this fine morning. Sun is shining the sky a bright blue and my PC says 68°.

JANE  all the markets have meat counters and everything is wrapped. They still have the Deli counters where they slice lunch meat and cheese but it is unwrapped meat I miss, where they would show you both sides of a cut of meat or if you want a special cut they would cut it fresh for you. Those are the things I miss.

LARRY  my daughter's closest neighbors have an area where a copter can land in case of an real emergency, he is a retired naval officer and she is a retired nurse. I do worry about them being so far out.

JUNE  wonderful the Gary and Dori can finally have a long vacation.

LLOYD  good luck at the VA today.

AMY  Prayers that you bring your DH home soon. Now car trouble too? Not needed for you.

GLORIA, all the markets I mentioned are the type you miss.  This is farm country and the markets abound.  You can tell them what you want and they'll cut it exactly as you want it cut and then wrap it in butchers' paper.    We have super markets with the prewrapped meats but I'm talking about markets that cut it while you wait.  Good, local, farm grown meat.  They can tell you which farmer they got it from.

I'm off to see if Paula can find my ears!  I know they're in there somewhere but I'm not sure where.

Good Morning Everyone!

Hope everyone has a great day.  Dentist apmt later today.  Got to have one filled, very last tooth on top right.  Wouldn't you know.  Suspect she will take some impressions of the tooth I want capped. 

JaneS, I like good lean beef with just a little fat for taste (flavor).  Some beef is so fatty I cant stand it.  But then others like it that way.

Good Morning all, It is cloudy right now at 9:30 a.m. and the humidity is 87. I believe the sun will break out a bit later.But like this cloudiness. Gentle on the eyes and body.

Janie, Thank you for agreeing with me. I just hate to see our Lloyd destroy himself so early in life.

Amy, I am giggling over your rotor and front end shimmy. I have that problem too whenever the music plays. Let the grass wait another day girl, it will still be there tomorrow.

roley, I wish you could share some of your rain showers with us in lower California. We are drying up more and more as the years go by.

Gloria, I think my kids are like your daughter and husband..they can't play because they keep so busy with work, so I am extra happy they are taking this time out.

Jane, how well I remember how our markets were when I was a kid. Our butcher even made the hot dogs himself, and even in Ca., up to a few years ago I could ask the butcher to cube some round steak for me. Now it is all pre-packaged. If I were 20 years younger I would move to your state.

Hal, you are fortunate to have teeth that can be repaired. I can count four vacancies in my mouth now, plus four wisdom teeth that moved out years ago. Plus four root canals. I have supported several dentists down through the years.

We are still celebrating Hawaii Luau and there will be a special luncheon today, and then a big musical program in the main  Courtyard at 12:30. I hope to attend our balance and mobility class later this afternoon, and that will be it for me today.

Checking in to see how everyone is doing.   Lloyd, hope you are home from your VA visit.... and that they helped patch you up after your last boo-boos.  I think Nancy has it right, you are an accident waiting to happen!  Behave yourself for a few days now.

Amy, happy to see your hubby is doing better and hope car and you hold together so you can get him home.  I think you are due a peaceful year, how about you?  Hugs...........

Gloria, right now I do not envy your kids in that heat.  Sorry they didn't get a better first summer to live "out in the boonies".  They are probably so happy with the new life they haven't even noticed.  Great they are in good health and living their dream.

We are expecting storms tomorrow, so far are missing the rain and my yard looks brown already.  So much to do around here and all I have done is sleep today.  Can't remember ever a spell like this... eat and over whelming sleep hits & I find a spot to lay down.  And so it goes.  Tomorrow is a busy day so may need to prop the eye lids open.  I vote for winter, snow & the whole she-bang!

Tisie. I am worn out. Our Luau was splendid, and the food was delectable, and the Hawaiian dancers fabulous.  A truly full day and this old girl is pooped. Of course I did some swaying and wiggling along with others, which means a light supper and an early to bed.

Tomorrow is housekeeper visit. It seems like she was just here, but another whole week has passed. Some times the day seems so long, but alas, the week is so short.

well it is time for me to bid you all good night.over a 1/2 day at V A .
not my sort of day. not what I wanted to here . that old dock told me bottom line is I am just getting Old. I knew that but never wanted to here it from a doctor. I am not going into details. oh well just another day. at least i never done any thing to get more hurt. you all have the rest of it great. hope to see you all tomorrow.

Lloyd

"Just getting old" LLOYD?  Well, welcome to the club!  We're all doing that but what the heck?  If we weren't doing that, we wouldn't even be here to talk about it.

I'm off to bed.  Tomorrow is another busy day.  I have to finish getting ready to travel for the weekend and for the cleaning dynamo on Monday.  I couldn't take the stinky dogs to my sister's so they both had baths today.  That wears me out!  Paula found my ears and all the other errands got done.  Now tomorrow, all I have to do is pack it all up.  Amazing how much it takes to move one old lady and two dogs for a weekend.

Good Night Everyfriend and may God bless us, every one!  Sleep peacefully and wake happy!

Good Night Janie. I am smiling ear to ear over your reply to our friend Lloyd. How true it is...thanks be to God we are getting old.

And Lloyd, I pray you are going to KEEP getting old. I love the years God has given me and each new day is a real gift. Be joyful now Lloyd, and grateful that you will keep getting older and older. Life is GOOD.

Good night all of you dear hearts. Rejoice !!!!!

Well June, guess not all my teeth can be repaired.  Maggie, my dentist started working on the tooth and then stopped and said I have to take an xray of the tooth, it looks like it is all mushy inside it.  So one of her tech's covered me in lead and took a picture of the tooth.  Maggie came in with the results and pointed out that a filling wasn't going to fix it, possibly a root canal, if not, then I would have to have an extraction.  She was going to send it over to a specialist to see if he thought he could save it.  So what started out as a 100 buck filling is looking more like several hundred whatever is decided.   And even more expense on down the line for a cap (crown) but she was trying to cheer me up by telling me that it wouldn't be anything fancy since the tooth is the last one back and doesn't show.

Anyhow, I am tired so I am off to bed.

Nite, nite, God Bless and Sweet dreams.

Good morning everyone...

Liquid sunshine here this morning..

Well it was two steps forward and 10 back yesterday but I hope today will be a better day. Dr said he is to stay another couple of days.

Managed to get the grass cut last night and should have trimmed but thought I would do it today...maybe the rain will stop when I get back home???

Enjoy your day everyone....and stay safe please. Lloyd are you listening

Good morning Everyfriend!  I'm beginning to feel like I close up in here and then open up in the morning.  I'm sure glad I'm not responsible for the keys because I tend to lose things like keys, glasses, shoes, notes, and whatever else is necessary to begoing anywhere or doing anything.

You stay safe, too, Amy.  Drive carefully on those wet roads.

I'll be off to Wally World and I hope I get an easy checkout because I sure don't want to come home tired.  I have to pack and put whatever I can in the car today.  The big stuff got done yesterday.  Today will be the "putzing" and the trying to remember if I did or packed certain things. 

We're supposed to get more thurnderstorms today and I hope the doggies are too frightened while I'm not home.  I worry about that.  I pretty sure they take refuge under my desk and that's the safest place for them. 

I hope you all have a lovely day.  Enjoy doing whatever it is you choose to do.

Good Morning  Amy &  JaneS and everyone else that appear. we missed so far the promise of the rain last night. it is over cast but dose not look very promising so far. I was hoping it would give me a good excuse to be lazy and take it easy today. doesn't be very promising so far. Have a great day.
well see no comment's about putting honey on wounds .but was told to me by a retired Nurse friend , i tried it and shows remarkable results in healing so far.
I hope everyone has a great day just as you like it.

Lloyd

Good Friday morning Everyfriend.

Amy--A good morning to you.  We have had a week of rain--along with tornado, flash floods and strong winds.

Good morning, Janie.  I do hope your day at WM is easy so you are not exhausted when starting your travel/visit weekend.

Lloyd--Good morning.  I never heard of putting honey on wounds.

Good morning on this kind of gray morning.  I think we are going to get some of the remnants of the hurricane from down south,

Joan, it is always so good to see a message from you.  I do hope that you are getting settled in your new place.  I am sure it will take a little while to find out all the new things around you now.   From what you have told us, it sounds like it is a nice place. I know your family are all so glad that you are near by .

Jane,  safe travels to you on your weekend getaway,  And, hope your morning will go by quickly with all pleasant customers,  Our local Walmart has just started the same on-line and pick-up service that Larry has talked about.  I am going to try it and see how it goes.  If it works out, it will be a big help for me.  My son or daughter-in-law have to go right by my place to get there, so they will be able to pick up my order,.  I sure am hoping it will go smoothly, 

Amy, hope your husband continues to improve and gets back home soon. 

Hope everyone wlll have a great day and a good week end.

Joy

Bis  good morning. well that is what is great about S & F we post an read and can check for real. if you or anyone want they can check it out for there self.
I did and so far great results. a friend of ours had accented with a chainsaw cut
through his boot top a deep bad cut right above the ankle . his grand mother is a registrar nurse ,she told him to do that. honey is totally pure and seals out air and germs. more Later going to go eat and go to work now Have a great day.

Lloyd

I think Amy first told us about honey on wounds.  I believe she used it on her dog.  I have to run! 

Good Morning Everyone!

See everyone is up and moving.   I think the coffee is about ready and I hear the patio calling, so will get the paper and my coffee and hope some of you can join me.

Lloyd I believe Jane is right Amy did tell us about the honey.

well that Amy Is not only a good friend she is smart also. and it is better to here it twice than not at all. i have ate and am going to the shop and try to fix my fuel transfer pump. then put some running boards on my truck it is too tall from the ground for us old short legged people. we are still missing the rain so far. Have a great day.

Lloyd

I haven't posted in this forum..but wondering why u would use honey on a wound and not antibiotic cream....CC

Hi everyone. Our cooler days seem to be over as we are headed to 94 degrees this afternoon and no rain possibility at least until this evening. 

Yesterday was a very full day but I did get my desktop computer back in good shape.  There are just a few more things I need to do like set up a new checkbook program.  I don't need anything elaborate as use it only to reconcile the bank statement and keep track of a running uncommitted funds totals in the bank. 

I rested about 90 minutes yesterday but no nap so was very tired last night and got a good 9 hours of sleep.  However, I am feeling the effects of such a busy day and I won't push it today and will try to get more rest.  I got up and got ready for the day about 7:30 this morning and then decided I could lay back down for an hour or so and read my email, my morning readings and then read through all of the postings here in the discussions before finally getting up. 

I plan to stay in all day today.  I do need to make Pat some more sausage muffins and grate a couple of pounds of cheese.  I also told her I would fix some coleslaw to go with our fish or dinner this evening. 

I see I was tired when I last posted and said it ws Friday evening when in reality it was late Wednesday evening.  Another of those pesky senior moments.

June, I have come to believe that Pastors have one of the harder jobs to do as there are so many demands on their time and most of the congregation is probably unaware of most of it.  A Pastor's spouse's role is also a difficult one as so many others make demands on the Pastor's time.

JaneS, hope your trip preparations are about done and that you will have a great weekend with your sister as you and your dogs have a weekend trip. 

Amy, sorry to read that your husbands has taken several steps backward in his recovery.  I expect he was looking forward to coming home in a couple of days and now a further delay.

Roley, glad you were getting some rain yesterday and having some cooler weather. 

Gloria, I was glad to read that your daughter and SIL do have some medical care close by and helicopter service if needed in an emergency. 

Hal, I think one reason I always hate going to the dentist is what you experienced, i.e., going in for something and being told it is something else that will be a lot more expensive.  Like you I don't like a lot of fat on meat and usually cut it all away. 

June, it sounds like you enjoyed a very festive and busy day yesterday.

Shirley, it sure doesn't take much severe heat to dry out and brown our lawns.  The rain we have had has given me a very nice green lawn but expect I will need to water it on Monday if we get no more rain today or over the weekend.  We have sandy/clay type soil and it dries out quickly. 

Lloyd, it sounds like your VA doctor told you what you already know.  Glad you stayed safe yesterday and please do the same today.  Glad the honey treatment for the injuries has helped and is working. 

Jane, you and a couple others do a great job in getting us started each day and ending the day as well.  I am a morning person but usually not very early do I start posting.  I hope you have an easy checkout today. 

Joan, I have been watching the weather reports for down your way.  Sure glad that tropical storm didn't turn into a hurricane.

Joy, I hope you really like the Walmart online grocery ordering.  The pick up is very easy and a person can stay in their car if they wish.  I hope you don't get too much rain today.  We had some of the outer bands of that storm give us rains for a couple of days and clouded skies.  I think it will be sunny today.