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MaryPage

Well, Marilyn, I am trying a font here that most folks can read, while hoping it works for you.  I sure don't want to leave you out!

I forgot to tell y'all that Bella has an internship for this summer:  "The Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia— more specifically, I will be working with the Discovery Unit of the Juvenile Section."

I watch ABC World News with David Muir at 6:30 each weeknight, followed by NBC with Lester Holt. Both of these networks have been all over the specialty formulas being flown in from Europe by our military planes.  They are on at six and six-thirty on weekends.

Hey, does anyone besides me remember when we did not have an AIR FORCE?  I remember clearly that the Army Air Corps, so famous in World War Two, became the Air Force in 1947.  The old Army Air Corps had the loveliest song.  We sang it all through that war.  "Off we go, into the wild blue yonder ____"  It became the new Air Force's song.  Way back when my dad spent 4 years teaching physics at his alma mater, West Point, and I was five when we moved up there and just a couple weeks away from nine when we left, there was no such thing as an Air Force Academy.  They just did not exist.  The only football game that mattered all year was the Army-Navy game.  Well, that is still true to an ancient crone like me who remembers how things were.


Cottoncandy

Hi Buddies...back from graduation activities....had a great time with family...still hot here but the weather guessers are predicting rain today and tomorrow...let's hope...Jane glad you enjoyed your trip with family...Hi to all looking in...Gods blessings to all

jane

The baby formula arrival was on my national news...and it landing in Indiana had something to do with Gerber.
 Maybe they're handling the distribution...I don't know. 

Still quite cool today, and I'm so tired I can hardly navigate.  But, I got my haircut and to the grocery store and two loads of sheets finished.  The rest will have to wait until tomorrow. 

MaryPage...Congrats to Belle!  She's going to set the world on its collective ear!!

Marilyn...agree with you about the poor dog. 

Sharon...good to see your post and this weather up and down is hard on our bodies, for sure.

Darlene...glad you also had a good visit and graduation.  I think school is out here on Thursday and graduation is Saturday.

Patricia...when we visited AK in late May/early June it was a year when it was exceedingly hot...but the flowers in Fairbanks, I believe it was...hanging baskets, were beautiful. 

Alpiner..hope all is going well for you in CA.

Maryz...hope they've got the AC fixed at your place.

Hi, Rick!

jane


Tomereader1

I'm with you Jane. This up and down weather is killing me.  I had to sleep in a sweat shirt last night, and today had to turn the AC back on.  My sinuses are going crazy, eyes watery, itching, nose running, ear giving me problems, and a headache right behind my eye sockets.  MaryPage, I also love the Army-Navy Game, but never know who to root for: My dad served in the Army and Navy. When I got old enough, I wanted so badly to go into the Navy, but at only 5'0" and 85 lbs. there was no way back in those days.

diglady

 Good morning ladies. Re: Baby formula. The minute Biden announced he was getting formula from overseas it was on all the news CBS, NBC, ABC, here. I don't know about Fox as I don't watch it. The shipment was followed from take-off to landing. Drs. here too saying don't make the formula! I too, raised my child on homemade formula.

MaryPage

I am pretty well satisfied now that it is because of the nasties on Social Media that doctors are warning against kitchen made formula.  We followed doctor issued recipes and honestly thrived.  All dimples and happy smiles.  With no formulas for sale ANYwhere, it was make it in the kitchen or breast feed.  The wealthy hired "wet nurses," as I believe they were called.  I am still feeling astonishment at the fact that today's generations do not seem to have considered that once upon a time, for hundreds and thousands of years, there were no manufactured formulas for sale.  Period.

Marilyn

MaryPage thank you so much. Congratulations to Bella that job is quite an accomplishment.

Jane Gilbert has come to terms about putting Angel to sleep, He is making the appointment for tomorrow. Spe had 5 seizures in 24hrs she had one here before he picked her up.

I git brand n w riees on my car yesterday. I am going to be a lot more careful not hit anymore curbs and blow out anymore tires. 

 Today is Keith's birthday he is 76. I don't have anythnpg planne
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jane

Tome....your symptoms absolutely match my own...and it's miserable.  Pollen counts here are very high...beautiful flowering everything. 

MaryPage...I guess with all the "experts" out there who will be tinkering with the basic home formula to make it "sugar free, and every other "free", the docs fear poor babes will be short changed on nutrients. 

Marilyn...I'm happy to hear poor doggo won't suffer anymore and that you have new tires on your car. 

I'm still the Laundry Queen...that'll keep me busy for today.   ::)

jane


MaryPage

I seem to recall being told by a doctor or nurse or somebody back there in the Dark Ages that the reason for the sugar in Karo syrup was to keep the babies from being constipated.  Well, mine never were.  Wowzer, the stuff that came from those teensey little backsides!

And so it went. Kids were well-exercised little rowdies and healthy as ponies.  The fad of the day was to keep them well full of Fresh Air.  They literally got thrown out into it morning, noon and later.  Bedtime came almost immediately after supper.  Baths and bed.  Storytime, not TV time.  No phones containing computer games to ruin eyesight with. 

I guess the changes in the child rearing of the generations will always change the tunes we march to.  History tells us the Aristocrats used to send their male children to be raised by Other families.  The mothers must have suffered terribly, if indeed they knew their children at all well.  After all, they had no hands on experience, it would seem.

patricia19

#11589
MaryPage a lot has changed from those days. In medieval times, children were seen and not heard literally; they were raised by servants and rarely saw or knew their parents. Girls were betrothed at birth and married by twelve.

And sending a male child away was to promote alliances in dangerous times. But what I find incomprehensible was the practice in aristocratic circles of making a bag, filling it with hollowed-out moss, inserting the swaddled baby, and hanging it on a hook/nail to be left there until it was time for the wet nurse.

jane



Yikes on the poor baby hanging in a bag on a hook.  I think many of us found Diana  to be a wonderful change from Queen Elizabeth shaking hands with Charles and Anne after being away for 6 months {?} on some world tour.  Diana greeted her boys kneeling and with a huge smile and open arms after being away. 

It's a dreary, 50s and rain morning here.  Many of you will understand aching joints and no desire to do anything.  So, reading with a hot cup of tea and my fire going. 

Take care and stay safe,

jane

Cottoncandy

Good morning....sad news ....I'm sure some of y'all have heard it on the news...active shooter at a elementary school in  Uvalde...19 children killed 3 adults/teachers shot..one died.....shooter who was 18 shot and killed by police...he also shot his grandmother before running to the school ..and roomful of 4th graders...40 miles from where I live...breaks my heart..please add the school and families to your prayers..fr

maryz

Darlene, I think we're all still to much in shock to comment.
"When someone you love dies, you never quite get over it.  You just learn how to go on without them. But always keep them safely tucked in your heart."

jane

Darlene and Maryz....I can't get those little ones out of my mind.  One teacher's husband died of a heart attack too after the shooting.  So many families in such pain. 


jane

patricia19

His slain wife was found with a slain child in her arms. However, I'm told guns had nothing to do with it.

RAMMEL

Are you not twisting that a bit?
It's the WINDMILLS

          THIMK

patricia19

#11596
In no way. "On Tuesday morning, when an 18-year-old gunman wearing body armor entered her classroom with a gun, Irma gave her life trying to save the children she loved like her own.

"She died a hero trying to protect her students," says Martinez, adding one of the 19 children killed in Tuesday's shooting was found dead in her arms. "She was a mom to them as well."

One of several news links

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/husband-of-texas-teacher-killed-protecting-her-students-dies-2-days-later-broken-heart/ar-AAXLqji


RAMMEL

#11597
""She died a hero trying to protect her students," says Martinez, adding one of the 19 children killed in Tuesday's shooting was found dead in her arms. "She was a mom to them as well.""
Very true, but I still say it was the fault of the shooter, not the NRA or the gun.  If the crazies can't legally get a gun they will get one illegally. If that's not doable there will be other means used. As one time long ago, gasoline, or a pressure cooker bomb (Neither of which has anything to do with the NRA.

The root cause must be addressed.
It's the WINDMILLS

          THIMK

so_P_bubble

Rammel, probably the craziest would find a mean even without a purchased gun. But it the sell of guns was limited, then the less crazy, the impulsive daring youth, would not be so tempted? Using an ax would be more difficult...

jane

Why not background checks or age restrictions or type of gun to keep the hot headed/crazy ones from arms?  Rittenhouse, the one in Sandy Hook, this one in Uvalde, the one in the church in CA, and all the others? 

MaryPage

We endured horrendous rationing during World War II.  There was not only rationing, there was a lack of items you wanted and needed.  You did without.

Alcohol is regulated, for all the good it does.  Drugs are outlawed, presumably to keep the would-be druggies alive.  Other drugs are by prescription only, which is regulation.  You have to prove yourself and your capabilities in order to drive a vehicle.  Or a boat, down here in the boat capital.  Seat belts are mandatory.

We have laws all around and about us in our daily lives.  These are to protect the populace as a whole.

Why, oh why, do we have to take a huge chance in the matter of who purchases firearms that are meant for the purpose of slaughtering human beings?  It is totally without sense, and the 2nd amendment refers to local groups, and not to individual men with murder in their souls.

I shrink away from the notion of shooting a gun, but that makes me somewhat of a sissy.  I am not against guns per se, however.  My dearest darling Cousin Mary, a dumpling of a woman, about 40 years my senior, with merry blue eyes and a round little figure, lived up in Jay, New York.  That is almost Canada.  She would take a gun and climb up into the mountain behind her house and shoot herself a deer when she was out of meat.  Yes, she would!  Guns are not our national problem and disgrace:  our care as to in whose hands they are allowed is our national problem.  I can have the good sense to keep my hands off of guns.  Cousin Mary was an expert trained from her tender years.  Which of us was qualified to utilize one of these instruments of death?

It's the Gun Lobby, Folks.  We all know it.  We have always known it.  I was told, and so were you, at an early age: "Look for the money." 

And that, my Dear Friends, is what this is all about.

RAMMEL

Yes, properly done checks.  But we should also be concerned with the underlying conditions of people with those unusual tendencies.

I have been involved with two trials. juries involving an accelerant (gasoline) being used to harm people. Both incidents were mass, not individual.
It's the WINDMILLS

          THIMK

jane

I think we'd probably all agree that we have way too many mentally ill [at least by my definition of what I think is sane] running around.  Little ones who injure animals was often the first sign that something was amiss.  Now it seems to be passed off as a "phase."  Yes, it sure is...one indicating need for help.  However, that help is almost impossible to get. 

My great niece is a psychologist who works with preschoolers.  It's months and months before she can get a child she refers into a psychiatrist for help.
 I've heard of parents who lock their bedroom door because of fear of their preschooler.  Folks, that's not a normal child!

The 2nd amendment was when the gun was a musket and referred to a "well-regulated" militia.  "well-regulated" doesn't sound a like a teenager with an AR15 or whatever. 

I've got to stop reading any more of this for a bit.  I'm not able to take much more.

Hope your weekend is a pleasant one.

And remember all the servicemen and women who gave their lives so our sake.


jane

SharonE

I wrote a really long post and then it vanished. I'll have to come back later to try to redo it. Sharon

MaryPage

Oh Sharon, I just hate it when it does that!

jane

Morning on Memorial Day.  It's a hot, windy day here and storms predicted for tonight and tomorrow.  I'm not going up for the Memorial Day tribute at the cemetery.  I used to go when Raymond was alive and part of it as part of the American Legion.

Nothing planned here for this week...I may make an online grocery order, but that's it. 

Take care and stay safe,

jane

Cottoncandy

Hi everyone....hope all are having a good memorial day...very quite here...still hot temps...it's been a do nothing day for me...guess we are allowed that occasionally...Hi to Jane..Sharon..Mary Rick and all looking in....be safe

SharonE

Hi Gals, I'll try again. As for the horrific school shooting, I can hardly think about it either as a teacher or a mother. So scary. I think there is absolutely no reeason for automatic assault weapons to be available to anyone other than law enforcement or military. I don't understand why the Congress won't pass a laws forbidding it. Background checks should be a must in all cases. Mental Health problems must be addressed in both schools and work places.  Okay, that's my vent for today.

I washed up all our sweaters Friday and put them away + the cords.I still have to take the wool stuff to the cleaners. I did regular laundry Sat.  Took a long walk down to the lower lake yesterday afternoon. Saw our blue heron for the first time in a long time and fed the turtles. We have a humongous # in our lake. When anyone sits on the bench overlooking the lake they swarm to that end and beg for food. The fish vie with them for the treats. I walked over a mile which is good for me.

Today and yesterday, I sorted through my files of cards, thank you's and memorabilia I've saved from the kids. I'm taking it all with me to hand out to the kids when we go to Indianapolis the 10th. Can 't wait to see everyone.

Marilyn, I'm glad Gilbert finally decided to put his dog down. When they are suffering, it is the final act of love.

Jane, I'm glad you had a nice visit in WI. Your visit to the cemetery was probably hard, but certainly appropriate today. For some reason, they didn't have any memorial day service here. They usually do.

My newsletter for June has a patriotic theme and includes childhood memories of D-Day from one of our residents. I'm almost finished with this issue.

Mary, I don't blame you skipping the birthday party outside in 90 degree weather. Hope your AC is working now.

Mary Page, enjoy your lovely view of the water and boats. I bet there are a lot out today.

Hi Darlene, Alpiner, and all the others I haven't mentioned.

Have a good evening and week. Sharon

jane


Darlene...indeed you are entitled to a "do nothing day"....I take a lot of them.   8)

Sharon...I can't even watch the news about Uvalde.  I have a great niece working as a 6th grade math teacher, and I'm SO glad school is out or about to be.  100% agree with you on what needs to happen.  I remember when teaching a kid who threatened to kill the girls who had lockers next to his.  He was taken to juvenile detention...and then the judge sentenced him to come back to school...and we had to make accommodations for him...locker on the other side of the square where the lockers were, etc.  HIS mother was livid that his locker had to be moved.  He was a very aggressive "the world revolves around me and what I want" teen guy. 

Hurrah for you walking over a mile.  I haven't gotten back up to that yet.  I did a short one this morning since it's much cooler out there now.  Still strong winds here and high pollen count.
 

I did a run to one grocery store this morning for a 5# bag of ice.  We do not have an icemaker in our fridge because there is no basement under our kitchen and afraid the line would freeze. 

Between 2:00 and 3:00 I'm to pick up my curbside order at WalMart. 

Take care and stay safe and healthy,

jane


patricia19

Good morning, just waving hi and nothing to report except we hit 80 finally yesterday!