Good morning everyone, noisy day here, landscapers are here and they do make a lot of noise with mowers and trimmers and blowers. The start at 7am on the dot. Looks like we are in for soupy humidity for a couple more days with thunderstorms in the forecast both days. Oh well it is summer in southern New England.
When my daughter and I were on Skype yesterday my oldest grandson texted her that he could see smoke and some flames from a fire. and he sent her an email of what he could see. She told him to start packing. Just before we signed off he texted her again to say he drove in that area and  could see the firefighters and trucks there and they got it out. Thank God. Someone closer must have called them right away and they got it before it could really get going. He has worked hard to save to buy his own home and now he is working for all the material to fix it up the way he wants it.

JANE  I did not mention it yesterday but I have added Jim to my prayers. I remember when you asked before when he was bad and those prayers were answered. They will be again  this time.

LARRY  like you I do not think I will head outside for fresh air and a walk today. When I went out yesterday it was like walking into a steam room.  The area where my daughter and SIL now live is off the grid. Everyone there is self sufficient. They have 2 generators and now realize they need a bigger more powerful one. They have the big gas cylinders that he gets filled every time the go into town. Neighbors have been talking about getting the huge tanks installed. If several go into it together the price goes down. Then the gas company would go out to fill them all on the same time. That is what they did with the wells. Several got together and had them drilled at the same time. Saved the driller the trouble of coming out there many different times. Saved all of them several hundred dollars. Would have taken hi more than an hour to get out there. One of the men who live there told my SIL to let him know when he is ready to put up the solar panels. That is what he used to do before he retired. That is another thing they love out there, neighbors always willing to help one another.

JUNE  like you I keep asking if I can drop one of my meds. When I see her in a couple of weeks I am going to ask about the pain pills. I have had the same one for 4 years now and they do not work like they used to. I go for my bloodwork next week and hope the cholesterol is good, I would like getting rid of that one.

GLORIA de  yesterday I know it had rained overnight because every thing was wet. Did not know till I saw the local weather that is was quite a storm. Some areas had over 11/2 inches of rain. I slept through it.

JEANNE LEE  one of my neighbors up on this floor gave me a couple of the Meals on Wheels dinners she got to show me what they were like. First one was chicken in gravy and mixed vegetable. The chicken was those pressed cubes and it was gray in color and so was the gravy, The other was meatloaf and mashed potatoes. I tried to eat both of them but the taste and smell turned my stomach.

MARY ANN  I shut my AC off in the morning when I get up and open the bedroom window for a couple of hours to get a bit of fresh air in. In this humid weather I have the AC running about 21 or 22 hours at a time. Hate to think what my next electric bill will be.

JANE  hope thing settle down for you soon. I know you love and worry about family and friends and you need all the prayers you can get. You and the rest of the regulars here in the SS are always in my prayers.

LLOYD hope you find those cucumbers.

AMY  do you ever have a day where you just rest and do no work at all? Bet you would not know what to do if you did have a day like that.

HAL  I could go for another cup of coffee if you have any left.

LARRY  that link did not work for me I do have a google account but I got error 404 not found in this server.

Just looked out and it is raining again.

Gloria, always some coffee on.

Janie, prayers have been said dear one. God be with you.

lloyd, Good News…you have a heart. In more ways than one. You have a heart for those in need besides the one that keeps you breathing.

Hal, your message to Janie is one we can all use. Thank you my friend.

Larry, I am a stubborn old woman, but sometimes it pays off.

Gloria, I find my computer is very good at telling me what my medications consist of and much more good information on them. That is why I got my metoprolol reduced in the amount I was taking. and they had me on two B.P. meeds at the same time of day, no wonder I would feel weak and short of breath. I would LOVE to share your rain.

Time to get dressed and get downstairs for 10 o'clock Bible study.

Larry, your  to the rainbow photo not working, so if you can email me the picture I'll be glad to post a link in all the topics  where you've included it.

Meals on Wheels is "OK".  Here in my county it is a small portion of meat (chicken, pork, ground beef, fish, mac & cheese, baked egg) potatoes (white baked, white mashed, sweet potato pieces) or rice, and a vegetable.  It also includes a 1/2 pint of milk and about 1/2 up of fruit or pudding or a couple of cookies.  What you get and the quality of it depends on what state and what county is involved - some places better than others.  No payment is required although $2 a meal is suggested.

Our storm this morning did not produce much thunder and/or lightning but a fair amount of water.  Anyway, I don't have to water my outside plants. 

It just occurred to me that I let the cat out on the deck and he's still there - about a half hour later.  I'll try to remember to rescue him.  He's been very good when he scoots out the front door and after a few minutes I open the door and he comes right in.

Tom had to let a friend's dog out earlier, so I went with him and we ate lunch at Russ's, a very conservative restaurant.  One thing I like about the place is that I can order a sandwich and it's a sandwich without all of the fancy extras that make the sandwich so big that I can't get it in my mouth.  Also, fries are .99 extra and i usually ask for NO fries and some restaurants bring them anyway then they have to throw them away.  If I don't order them I don't get them!  Tom had a delicious looking salad.  Because of my shoulder, I have a hard time eating food at a table so usually order a sandwich. 

The sun is trying to shine.  Now I'll let the cat inside.

Mary Ann

Mary Ann:  What is wrong with your shoulder?  My cousin & husband were just here visiting and they drove back to Minnesota where he will now have a shoulder transplant.  I cannot imagine the recovery time and the surgery.  I do hope you can alleviate the pain some other way.  By the way, he had an accident at work (working at age 78) when the lights were turned off early and he walked into a hazard. 

It is the same temp outside as inside but someone is mowing grass and we shut the door.  Rain would be welcome.  The last fire started by two hikers in an area and the hikers are gone. One brother to me is a volunteer fireman and he was really busy last year even though he doesn't always man a hose but they worked hours just to save one house. 

Jane:  Prayers for Jim.  Hugs for you too.

Don bought a dry package of vegetable soup mix and I have that going in a crock pot adding  fresh veggies and  a half pound of cooked ground turkey. 

I didn't realize meals-on-wheels was free - what a great way for participants to get some nutrition, especially since it is difficult to shop and the prices keep going up and up.  Shame on the MOW's where they are tasteless and awful -  someone could change that quickly and they should. 

Carol, I don't know what the situation is with free or payments for Meals on Wheels in other areas.  That's what it is in my county.  And the quality and taste situation also varies from place to place.  It may very well be more tasteful here than I know, if my taste is failing.  Also, they need to keep things somewhat low sodium since they are dealing with people under doctors' care and sodium content can be very important.

Carol, I have arthritis in my right shoulder along with rotator cuff problem.  I am 93 years old and I had it checked when I was 90 and the orthopedic surgeon said at the time that because of my age, he did not recommend surgery.  I cannot reach things on the second shelf of a cupboard with my right arm; I can get there with my left arm if the object is at the front of the shelf.  I have to use my left arm to put anything in the microwave and getting it out is worse, but I brave it.  I have heard of shoulder replacement, but I'm not about to have surgery at my age.  I take a pain pill - Arthritis 650 - that was recommended by my PCP and that helps. Thanks for asking. 

Gloria Z had shoulder surgery a few years ago and I think she is not back to normal yet, maybe never will be.   I'll live with the ailment, but it is a great inconvenience.  The pain is not unbearable, but is always noticeable.  I think the recovery time is many years.

Mary Ann

Good evening everyone. well it will be three or four working days before I well be able to get the results of the test, but only side effects I Seam to have is  a worse headache. I seam to go to bed with a headache and and wake up with one also. and yes we was able to locate the person that took the cumbers home for us not knowing who they belonged to. and they greasily gave them back. he new me and had gave them to his daughter and his wife told us where she lived we went to her house.said she had used three of them. she said she had used three of them and would be glad to pay for then .I said no and she could have some more but she would take no more. Nancy so far has made five pint's of relish. she chops cucumbers peppers celery onions and mixes them together with other spices. it is yummy. well I am off to dream Land hope to see you all tomorrow.

Lloyd

Good morning everyone.

Lovely cool overcast morning with a temp of 52° .....nice for sleeping ..and no humidity!!

We are off to the city to get a Holder monitor put on hubby..will do a few things  while there and head home.

Gloria, wonder what it would be like to have nothing to do?


Mary Ann my hubby asked if he could have surgery on his shoulders and the Dr. said it would be like sewing up butter . So no surgery.

Jane, I do hope you have head good news about Jim. Prayers going your way for all.

Jeanne Lee my friend used to get Meals on Wheels and he ended up calling them Trash For Cash as you couldn't tell what it was on the plate! He did have a way with words.

Lloyd, I bet the house smelled nice with those pickles being made.

Better get a move on here

Enjoy your day everyone.

Good Morning Everyfriend!  The news of Jim is good.  After they drained all the excess water and found a large inflammation, they were able to cauterize it and his condition improved to such a point that they sent him home.  I'm not sure that was a good idea but we shall see.

Here on the home front, I've developed my own emergence.  I was scheduled to have two teeth removed in August.  Well, last night that became a bit of an emergence.  One of the lost it's crown and part of the tooth last night.  I have to call the dentist as soon as they're in this morning an see what can be done. 

I heard my mother say often, "If it isn't one thing, it's another!"  I guess this is "another".  At least it's something that I can deal with. 

I hope you all have a good day today.  We're expecting a bit of rain this afternoon.  But maybe if it all comes down in buckets, the humidity will be lower when it's finished. 

Little late ,but good morning to everyone.
I had a bad night last night, no more stress test for me.I will just let god have his way with me any time. bet I was up at least 20 times . I can get enough stress on my own in the shop and lot more fun. I have a appointment to get new hearing aids and new phone device so i can talk hands free through my hearing aids. Hope you all have a great day doing what you like. this darn win 10 did up dates on its own last night I more than likely not be able to fiend anything again now.

Lloyd

Hi everyone. We had a very rainy evening last night with a lot of lightning and thunder.  Today we are to be sunny all day with little to any chance of rain.  We had an enjoyable evening with Scott and Jennifer and Scott fixed his Taco Pie and I had put together the salad earlier in the day. Today I will pick up my friend and we will go to coffee.  After I take him home I plan on stopping at Walmart to pick up medicine for Pat.  I do not plan on attending the Wisdom group as just don't have the energy.  I expect the rest of the day to be quiet. 

I should know better than link from my Google Photo Account.  I just put it up on my Facebook account so let's try this link:  https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156388695259377&set=a.10150171369334377.354327.776879376&type=3

JaneS, just remember that the "what IS" will also pass.  Nice to see your good news concerning your brother.  Sorry to read about your tooth problem.

Gloria, this is likely the day our lawn people will be here and there is noise in  almost all day long with three visits to each yard tomorrow to mow trim and blow off the grass from the cement areas.  So glad you had good news on the fire situation with your grandson.  It is very frightening out that way or where ever those wild fires are burning.    It sounds like getting the big propane tanks would be a good thing.  My folks used one on the farm for a long time. It sounds like they have great neighbors. 

June, nothing wrong with being stubborn.  After all it is your life and your right to live it the way you want and as you are able.

Jeanne, thanks for the offer to post and I may take you up on it if my posting to Facebook doesn't work for others.  I am glad you find your Meals on Wheels edible. 

Mary Ann, the big rain we had last evening allowed me to turn off my sprinkler system, which would have  watered the yard today.  I have only had to use the sprinkler system two or three days this year, which sure saves on the water bill.  Russ's sounds like a good place to eat.  I always try to order something other than fries as don't need to be eating friend food.  We have two or three in our Sunday School class who had shoulder surgery and they have had to have it redone as it didn't work the first time. 

Lloyd, glad you located your cucumbers. Hope your headache has lessened.  Sorry you had a bad night last night.  Hope you can get some needed rest today. 

Amy, at least wearing a Holder monitor is painless.  For how long does he have to wear it? 

The more I hear about shoulder surgery, the more convinced I am that I won't have it done.  Of course, the doctor said he wouldn't recommend it at my age (90 at the time).  I love Amy's description of the surgery - "like sewing up butter". 

Jane, I hope you can get your tooth taken care of immediately.  I'm glad your BIL is better. 

Our temperature is only 74-75 but the humidity is bad.  We never did get the storms that were predicted (so, what else is new?) and the rain measured about a half inch.  So much for storms.  Today looks bright, but oh, the humidity.

Larry, you maybe should take up Jeanne Lee's offer to fix your link.  Those on Google and/or Facebook can see your scene, others cannot.

Mary Ann

I'm NOT on facebook and I'll never go back on.  I got hacked and that was pretty scary.  So put me down as one who can't view your...whatever it is.

I have an appt. on Monday at 7:30 to have the rest of my tooth and one other one extracted.  I'm keeping my mouth closed to air, avoiding extremely cold and extremely hot liquids and trying to do all my chewing on the other side.  I don't want it to get painful before I see the dentist.

I made egg salad yesterday.  I must have known I'd be looking for soft food to eat today.  Oh well...

Good morning everyone. we sure got rain yesterday along with the thunderstorms. Some trees down and flooding. Once again this area of the state did not get the worse of it. Cut my daughter off on skype becase the thunder started rolling in. Hope we get to chat this afternoon.

MARY ANN  like you with my shoulders I cannot even cut us meat in my plate. No strength in either one anymore. There is a cookout here later this month but I did not sign up. I would not want to try to cut the chicken up so I can eat it so will pass this year. I have arthritis in left shoulder and that limints what I can do.

CAROL  I had surgery to replace my right shoulder and the recovery was not bad. Of course there was PT after and that was done at home. The 2 PY's I had were great and they made every thing fun. I almost had the left one done till my insurance dropped the group and I could not afford what I would have had to pay. Of course there are a lot of things that I can no longer do with my right arm.

JANE  I have a piece of tooth coming up from the last tooth that was extracted and a lunp on the gum near it, one reason I have not yet made an appointment for dentures. I will wait till I see the dentist in a couple of weeks.

LARRY  have to sign into Facebook and I cannot do that. I know my daughter and SIL love where they now live and looks like all the neighbors do, too. They all have 40 acres so no one is that close together like in San Diego.

Here is Larry's photo. I copied and reposted in the S&F photo forum.

https://www.seniorsandfriends.org/index.php?topic=11.msg92245#msg92245

I don't want to wake up today, so I'll go sleep some more. See you later. June

Thanks, Patricia, for opening Larry's link here too; I was going to suggest people go to Norm's Bait & Tackle where you did it too.  I'm happy we have so many talented people here who can help others. 

Jane, I'm not on Facebook or Google so that keeps me out of a lot of places - out of some trouble, too, I'll bet. 

With my shoulders, I can reach OK with my left hand and arm, but I am not as confident with that arm as my right.  The biggest problem I have is taking things from the microwave.  I can put things in by putting the food dish in, then putting on a cover, but when I want to take it out, I need two hands.  I get it started with my left hand, then reach up as far as I can with my right hand and I manage OK.  Since I don't do the cooking, I don't get into too much trouble that way. 

It is hard to cut meat for me too, Gloria, and when I go out to eat, I try to get a sandwich but if I get a meal, I usually eat half of it, then bring the rest home.  At home, I eat mostly in the computer room using my lap as a table so I finish the meal here.  Necessity is the mother of invention, isn't it???

Jane, I have two eggs boiled so I may make some egg salad too. 

Mary Ann

Mary Ann, you do so well with keeping up on interesting posts, and I am so proud of you how you keep "doing" in spite of that darn shoulder problem. You are an inspiration ! I am taking the day off..still in my nightgown and intend to stay that way.. I just need a day off......completely off.

My Dori and Gary are on their way home from 2 1/2 weeks in McCall Idaho visiting the young family members, they plan to stop in Las Vegas to meet up with their oldest son and family who are on their way to McCall to visit with the same young family...they are such a close family unit, I am so Blessed to have them.

I'm going to look in my pantry for something simple to eat, and just keep being lazy for the day.

Good afternoon, been kinda busy, bible study this morning and getting ready to go to PT.  Did a load of washing and dried it, folded it and put it away.

Janie, I am waiting on oral surgeon to call me, been waiting all week.  I only have one, bless your heart you got two to endure.  Will he put you to sleep?  Since that guy hurt me so bad the last time I one removed, I am really hanky about shots to deaden the tooth.

Maybe some rain in the next ew days.   Hope....hope

The day went well here, Holder monitor is on for 48 hours then we take it back on Mon. Temperature is only 72° at the moment, going to be great sleeping weather for tonight.

Amy I pretty sure out thermometer is lying but it says it is cooling down some it is currently @ 92º . very light wind but it burn's your skin right on the spot as soon as you step out in it. I have been busy helping Nancy. I am doing the chopping the peppers and onions and she is putting the spices and such in them and cooking them. the peppers we are freezing for what ever? she may want. we bought 1/2 bushel of peaches (seams they are short every where this year) we gave $25.00 for them. we bought them at the Amish store they were selling  for $30.00 at the auction. I am going to try to get Nancy to go back to the Auction tomorrow and try to buy some more of them. have to take care of my sweet teeth you know. we ran out of what we canned last year quit a while back, do not want to do that this year. I know you can buy them commercially  canned. but are good  but not as good.

Lloyd

I forgot to tell you all with all the canning we did today, Nancy worked in and made some stuffed peppers and a baked potato . she comes with a good surprise ever now and again. Have a great rest of the day.

Lloyd

Hal, I wish you could have the dentist I had when I had a tooth extracted.  It hardly hurt when she gave me the shot to deaden the area and while I could tell what she and her assistant were doing, I felt nothing.  I didn't even have pain after the numbness wore off.  My dentist did not do this; he sent me to an oral surgeon.  Both offices happen to be across the road from my condo complex.

June, we do what we have to do if we can.  I don't do much, but I do try to do what I can.  I've started getting ready for the day later than I used to and I think both the computer and TV are responsible.  It used to be there were a lot of posts to read on the computer and that took time, so I'd get up about 5 am, read some, go back to bed, get up again and get ready for the day before I finished computing.  Now, I may get up between 7 and 8:30 am, compute what little is there and maybe around 10:30 to 11:30 I'll get dressed.  My new schedule plays hob with any early appointments I have.  And there's nothing I want to watch on TV to take up my time. 

Mary Ann

Mary Ann, my day starts early due to the meds I take. The girl comes in at six a.m., takes my blood pressure, gives me the thyroid pill which had to be taken at least a half hour before eating, then she puts the nitro patch on my leg, and off she goes. Some mornings I doze off till seven o'clock otherwise I do my leg massages and exercises which takes about half an hour, then I'm up for coffee and computer. Today is just felt so blah, I didn't even get out of my nightgown, which is a rare thing for me.

Tomorrow my housekeeper arrives at seven, changes all the linen, then she will return later to scrub the bathroom and do the deep cleaning, so I will be up and dressed early.

Nothing newsworthy from my area. Weather is fair to hot, no rain, just same old same old. I should not complain, but I do. I pray all is going well with our Bis. Her last post sounded like her complete healing is going to take more time, so I know prayers will continue for her.

Have a good night my dear friends. Much Love and prayers. June

A good late Thursday not got HELLO to EVERYFRIEND. 

I have not been in here for a couple of days.  We have been looking at homes for sale non stop.  By the time we get home and have a bite to eat, I am ready to drop. 

I am sorry to read about dental problems n here....I have a few f my own and am avoiding going as right now I am not in pain....if I go, I know I will then be hurting. 

I hope EVERYFRIEND is having a good night of rest and are looking forward to a good night of rest. 

Jenny

Good morning everyone..

Looking like more rain here. Son and daughter in love are coming this afternoon with their new addition ,I hope all dogs get along. Skye is so laid back and I think all will be fine.

Jane so glad to hear the good news about Jim. I hope you are pain free until you can get to your dentist!!

Lloyd, your Misses spoils you...... and rightly so, nice that you lend a hand to help with the cutting up of the vegetables.

I had better get a move on need to prepare a dessert for supper tonight. Have a pork loin waiting for the crockpot and just need the rest of the fixings...scalloped potatoes or mashed ...hmmm..

Enjoy your day everyone..

Amy thanks, I think we over done it with the cucumbers. will be good this winter and to give to children and folks at Christmas time. we got a nice 1/2" rain last evening. But it is relay steamy and muggy out there today. two boxes of  Christmas to go and all done with the produce except for the peaches still a bit greenish. after the eagle fly's we may go back next week and try to buy more peaches. got to take care of my sweet teeth you know. Have a great day see you all later.

Lloyd

Good Morning Everyfriend!  Rainy here again today.  Had a nice visit with my granddaughter and her husband yesterday.  They are here from Texas for a friend's wedding this Saturday but we all went out for supper last night and then played cards when we got back.  It was fun!

I'll be off to Wally World this morning for my shift.  Wish me smiles.  I'm going to need them on a rainy day and a Friday at that.  Busy day!

Yesterday wasn't busy and we spent a lot of time waiting at the end of our lane for customers.  There was a young boy on one side of me an a young girl on the other side and a customer would come with a full cartload and ask "Who should I take?"  I would answer indicate the kids on each side and say, "Well, do you want youth?" and then I'd indicate myself and say, "Or do you want experience?"  Most of them opted for experience.  And I don't think the broad smile hurt either.

Amy, if I have a choice in the matter, I'll take scalloped potatoes.  I'm not a big fan of mashed but I suppose they'd go better with what's in the crock pot.  Whatever you choose, I'm sure it will be good.

I better be getting myself around.  I need to get ready to go.  Enjoy your day Everyfriend, whatever it brings!