well I am going home for a few days. KU will cal me when they can make room for Me. then I will go there. Is closer for family to come bring Nancy to see me. Have a good day everyone.

Lloyd

Lloyd, you will likely feel better at home and sleep better also........now this is a big one for you......behave yourself......no chopping wood, chasing cows, ripping tires off of tractors......just take it easy ...please..

well I am home see you all Later.

Lloyd

Haha, Amy, did you notice Lloyd didn't stick around long for sisterly advice? I was going to say the same thing.

Shirley, it doesn't hurt to give it to him in stereo..

Ok girls at least I checked back in to Bid you all good Night and sweet dreams. and I am a bit early because I Have to un Pack my breathing Machine
and set it up. and it will be nice to sleep beside My sweat heart  tonight.
hope to see you all tomorrow. It is not over, I declined to go to Cloumba to that VA for surgery, Good night.

Lloyd

And here I am to add my voice to the chorus of "Take it easy and don't overdo, LLOYD!  We all want you here!  Let us know when you are going back to the hospital for surgery so we can step up our prayers on your behalf.

And I'm on my way to bed so I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow! And may God bless us, every one!

Good morning everyone..

Making this quick as we have to be on the road soon. We did get a bit more snow over night but will deal with it when we get back.

Atta girl Jane, Lloyd knows we care about him but we also know he   um.. misbehaves so if we all remind him...sisterly love as Shirley calls it he will know we need him.

I had better move it and get ready for the city.

Hope Phyliss and Joy pop in..

Enjoy your day everyone..

Good morning everyone. 29 now. Now I cannot get the degree to work. What next with this male machine We got the snow at noon yesterday for all of 5 minutes. Wonder what  the younger generations would do if they woke in the morning to at least an 8 inch snow over night with no forecast of it. They might act like is meant a day off work or school?  Our next snow will be Friday at least 3 inches, heck that is nothing.

BUBBLE  I pray you are feeling a bit better toay.

CALLIE  I have ordered groceries from PeaPod here and was delivered right into my kitchen. Been happy with every thing every time. It is run by a large market chain Stop & Shop. It sure helps when I cannot get out to the market.

JANE  did you add some white‪ vingar to the water you are soaking the pot in? I have done that in a pan I  burned.If it was bad I put baking soda in befor adding the vinegar. Makes the scrubbing easier.

LLOYD  better at home than waiting in a hospital. Hope it is not a long wait for a long wait for a bed. Just none of your chores and take it slow and easy.

AMY  we all have the same advice to LLOYD. We want him around for years to come. Have a safe trip on the roads this morning.

Have a good day.

well good Morning everyone. I slept better Last night.but did not go to sleep right off, mined would not stop wandering, but when it finely did had a good sleep. catch you all later.

Lloyd

Good Morning Everyfriend!  I slept better last night, too thanks to a Melatonin after my first wake up around 2 a.m.  It actually took the alarm to wake me this morning.  And I can feel it in my bones.

My friend is picking me up around 11 and we're going to go see the new Little Women movie today.  And afterward, she's taking me to Bob Evans for a a meal to celebrate my retirement.  Isn't that nice of her! 

Gotta go!  The boinger is going off and Mickie's been telling me for 10 minutes that she thinks it's time for breakfast. 

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

Callie, can't help you with Shipt but I have used Instacart and it was a good experience.  The shopper had to make a substitution to my list but called me first for my OK.  Everything else was what I had ordered and brought right to the door in timely fashion.

Lloyd, I'm sure you would like to get the heart procedure over and done with but it is good that you can be at home while you are waiting for an  opening at the hospital you prefer.  Take care of yourself.

Jane, I've never personally had the burn notice come on but have read on-line of many who have.  Don't worry about it too much or let it put you off.  Just be sure to scrape all of the bits off of the bottom of the pan before you pressurize.  I usually just use a wooden spoon and scrape everything I can when I add the liquid before pressurizing.  My favorite thing to make in the IP is spaghetti and meatballs and since I brown the meatballs first on Saute I make sure to add just a bit of water and scrape clean before adding the pasta and sauce and the rest of the water and then pressurizing.

Try this link for some ideas:  https://instantpot.com/instant-pots-overheat-burn-protection/

Quiet day here with some sun and not too cold.

We came home from the movies in snow!  it's coming down pretty good buy not laying on the main roads.  And since I have nowhere that I have to go tomorrow, I'm not worried about the snow.  And my friend who was driving did a lot of years as a home care nurse in Michigan and she said this was nothing compared to what she drove in duing those years. 

PHYLLIS, thanks for the link to find out about the BURN on my IP. It's very much like the one another friend sent me by email.  And it's all cleaned up now and ready to go again.  And the rice pudding was good enough to quell my doubts.  But it's nice to have the little info bits for the next time. 

The movie was the recent remake of LITTLE WOMEN and it was very good!  Quite true to the original story but not done the same.  I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Now I'm going to go in and see if there are any zzzzs left on the sofa or if Mickie used them all up while I was gone.  I'm beginning to love retirement!

All in all a great day...both appointments went well and we use a gift certificate for lunch at the Chinese buffet. Picked up chicken for our friend and dog food for next door. We both were having visions of having to shovel the snow in the driveway but the neighbour had cleaned it for us.Love our neighbours!

Going to put my feet up and see what is on tv...

Hey, Bubble, how are you today?  Do I need to send BenGay or Vicks rub?  My goodness, back in the early '50s I had Mother send me a tube of Ben Gay for my chest cold, when we lived in England, since nothing else ever worked. I just did a Google & it doesn't mention the "aroma that opens the nasal passages" like it was used for back in the old days! Sorry, hope you are doing okay without it. Hugs & hope you have plenty of Kleenex handy!

Good evening.  It was a busy day here of taking down all of our Christmas decorations.  We got rid of a lot of things and managed to get all of the needed stuff in one fairly large box.  I bought some green/red containers to store these things in but they just did not fit well, so back to the box.  We cleaned up, meaning vacuuming all of the sparkling stuff up, dusting etc.  Then I ran out of steam, so I will finish tomorrow by getting the regular things brought back out to the rooms.  It sure looks bare in here tonight!

AMY, glad your appointments went well and it appears you got a lot accomplished today.  Good job!

LLOYD, I am glad you are home, but I know it must be stressful to be waiting for the word to go to the hospital where your surgery will take place.  I just hope you will take it easy as you wait! 

BUBBLE, I hope you are starting to feel much better as well.
 
JANE, happy you enjoyed the movie today....I have heard very good things about the new movie, LITTLE WOMEN. 

PHYLLIS, I have looked at your info on the burning things in the Instant Pot.

Have a good evening, EVERYFRIEND. I am not in the best of spirits tonight.....the upsetting news about the attack on our military bases in Iraq.

Jenny

I'm off to Dreamland.  I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow.  And may God bless us, every one!

well good Morning everyone. I took my pill and went to sleep Farley soon, but only slept 2:30 AM would not be hard to go back to sleep now. I am going to go see about getting a good movie on you tube on the TV. that may do the trick. see you all later.

Lloyd

Good morning everyone...

We had a light dusting of snow overnight....not a lot to worry about though. May need to do the trails out back but will see when it gets light out.

Lloyd, my husband had the same rest you did I hope you both can catch some zzz's later in the day.

Jenny, one of my jobs is to purge and get rid of things we don't use or need.Not looking forward to the job .

Shirley, here it is Buckley's Mixture. My goodness one spoonful and you will get better just so you don't have to have another! It does clear everything out though.

Gloria, snow may be heading your way today. We all need to keep an eye on Lloyd ,he needs to get better.

My git up and go has gone away, the trip to the city tired me out and there is another one on Fri!

Enjoy your day everyone.

Good morning everyone, had a covering of snow last night, just about enough that I know it snowed.  That I did not hear on the weather last night. 29 darn this computer and acting up. Don't know why the degree signs don't show up at times.

JANE  hope the new Little Women was as good as the original. You still set your alarm clock every night? Now as JOAN would have said, read her book, we are retired no more alarms.

AMY  the light dusting of snow we had is already melting in the beautiful sunshine we have at last. Good setting for the Blue Jays.

My right eye is acting up again. Will be glad when my CNA ges here to put drops in. Have a good day.

Good Morning Everyfriend!  I had another restless night and I wouldn't have needed the alarm clock because my phone had a bad road alert and that was enough to wake the dead!  And, for the record, there was supposed to be two different workmen coming today and the one arrives early.  I didn't want to get caught in my jammies with my hair all "anyhow" when he got here.  That's why I set the alarm.  However, he hasn't showed up yet.  He comes over a small mountain and I know for a fact it can be nice on one side and miserable on the other side.

Mickie opted to run wile in the snow and eat snow globs.  She weewee-d outside but chose to do her job inside today.  I guess she was confused. 

My driveway is all cleaned off from the first deposit of snow and there's now a dusting of new snow on it.  They are saying that the slushy stuff on the roads from last night has frozen and the new snow is hiding it.  When we took our walk this morning, there were lumps of frozen slush everywhere.  Not nice walking!

I'm glad I don't have to go anywhere.  I'll just stay home and pay bills and make baked bean in my IP.  How does that sound?

I hope you are all having a good day and LLOYD, I hope you are behaving!  If you could see me, you'd see that I'm shaking my finger at you and telling you to resist the urge to do ANYTHING that takes effort.  It'll wait!

I might vacuum today if I feel like it.  That remains to be seen! 

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

Actually, I made baked beans in my IP today and they were so good I ate 2 bowls of them for lunch!  My confidence has returned!  I have a quart and a pint left over for making with other meals.  Tomorrow, I'm going to make elk meat loaf patties to go with the beans and maybe saute some cauliflower and broccoli.  Sounds like a good meal to me.

The fellows showed up and did the inspection of the wiring and plumbing and then the two that did the work stayed to fix a leak in my bathroom and adjust the sprayer in my kitchen sink.  We got to talking and I think I might have adopted a couple of young fellows to help me out occasionally.  They both gave me their cards and told me to keep them in my phone contacts and that they are around town a lot and available to help out if I need them.  And they both told me not to hesitate to call for anything...even if it's just move something heavy.  Nice guys!

I hope everyfriend's day is going well.  No one's been in here since I was here this morning so now when you do come in, you'll be exposed to two entries from me.  Sorry about that, but that's life!

Good Afternoon, Janie - and all those who are reading and not posting 

I have chicken breasts from the freezer and a package of Stovetop stuffing mix (combined with cream of chicken soup and broth) in the slow cooker.  Don't really care if it gets done for dinner tonight but hope it does.

Eye is almost back to normal but now a south wind is blowing in cedar pollen from Texas!  Wind is supposed to turn to the north by Friday so...."back atcha, Texas!!!! 

Son took me to get "big groceries" last night (felt very decadent doing that after dark  ) but I drove myself to get hair done this morning.  I'll hold off on trying Shipt or something similar.  Would rather Do It Myself.
All is well.

Janie, isn't it nice when you find "handymen" (oops - handyWORKERS) who are willing to help when needed?  I found one several years ago through a friend and, while he will no longer work for her because she got so bossy, he has always been willing to come when I needed any kind of work done.  The only thing he isn't licensed to do is plumbing.  However, I began using a local heating/plumbing/a.c. company when the grandfather of the current owner was in charge - and they'll even come on Sunday afternoons if it's an emergency.

"The girls" saw Little Women while we were in Wisconsin and I loved it. I thought the rewrite of the script to emphasize women's independence was well done and stayed true to the story.

Nothing on the agenda until the middle of next week.  If eye behaves, maybe I'll get started on some family history writing I've been going to do as a January project for....umm....ahh...."ever so long". 

Hoping Everyfriend Everywhere is having an Enjoyable Day.
 

well we spent the day at hospitals. they Have decide they are not going to any heart surgery on me,just let god have his way. but they have changed my Meds. and are going to try to fix me with meds., they also have put me on insulin. that is most likely best. going to go get it over with now. seeyou all later.

Lloyd

Are you diabetic, Lloyd?

good Morning everyone. yes to the diabetic. Janes you are retired so take some of your Owen advice and take it ease. I feel like I left something but can not think of it so later. i am going back to bed again for some more ZZZ's so later on.

Lloyd

Good morning everyone..

Goodness the temp dropped fast and it is now -18° F ..tis winter!! Meeting with friends this morning, then pick up a few things at the grocery store and home.

Jane, sounds like a good pair to have hardworking and trustworthy....can't beat that. Baked beans in the IP take so little time compared to doing them in the oven and you don't have to soak them.

Gloria, the temp dipped down further than what I had thought...as Joanie would say a day for the geemagotchies..

Lloyd ,I hope that means it is not as bad as Drs. thought. Just take things easy, enjoy your life with Nancy and the family.

Callie, your chicken in the c/p sounds tasty too!

Bubble, good to see you back, hope this means you are feeling much better. Don't over do it though.....

Enjoy your day everyone.

Cold today yet the weather guessers are calling for rain on Fri Sat..hope they make that Sat as we have a trip on Fri..

Good Morning Everyfriend!  It's SUPER cold here, too this morning!  When I got up at 7 it was only 14 degrees and for this area, that's COLD!

I'm happy to saythat I slept the whole way through the night.  I went to be a little after 11  (I think) and I actually slept right through the 6:30 alarm to wake up a little after 7.  It's gonna be a good day!

And before GLORIA asks me again why I'm setting the alarm, the second set of workmen are supposed to be coming back today and they didn't say when.  And once again, I don't want to get caught in my jammies with my hair all "anyhow"!

I got the meat out of the freezer to make the meat loaf today.  It's going to be made with Wyoming Elk from my SIL's last hunting trip out west.  It sure does make good meat loaf!  I like it when he goes hunting.  I reap two benefits.  My daughter from Maryland visits us up here in PA while he's gone and then I get some fresh meat when he gets back!  It's a win/win situation for me!

I hope all who were ill are better and all who are well, stay that way.

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

It is a bright sunny morning here and not too cold.  Just seasonally chilly.

I got out of the house to have my hair cut yesterday.  First time I had been outside since last November.  Felt good and strange at the same time.  David asked if I wanted to stop and have an early dinner but I was ready to come home.  Doesn't take too long for me to wear down.  I hope that I can build up some more stamina as time goes on.

Lloyd, I'm glad that you don't have to go through heart surgery.  Listen to the doctors and do what they say and.....take it easy.

Talk to you all later.