Good Morning!  Great Thanksgiving Day!  All four of my kids were there and 4 grands!  I loved every minute of it!

I hope you all had a good day!  Have another one today on me!

Good morning from a warming out of the minuses Interior! Today we have nine degrees and will be warming into the early twenties.

Yesterday was very close to Jane's if you substitute nine long-time friends for kids and seven guests for grands! We spent the entire time eating, reminiscing, playing poker and rummy, eating more, reminiscing, laughing through a few tears, and eating great food and snacks. Everyone stayed to help clean up, wrap up leftovers for those wanting, and generally re-establishing why we were a group initially.

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. 

Good morning...

I hit the floor running , friend called and could we meet in town to exchange goodies. Now back home I can start to work...oh boy!

Patricia, sounds like a fantastic group of friends you have. Nice to get together to reminisce and enjoy each others company. Maybe plan more of these when weather permits.

Put strawberry pie ,brownies and cinnamon rolls in the hidey hole..

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

Good morning at ten fifty and 15 degrees in the Interior! I woke up at seven but after chores, meet and greets, and trying to placate Farrah because we're out of treats and I'm too lazy to get more. I decided to have a little me time before rejoining the world.

Although some might argue that I have a surfeit of "me time", I need scheduling except I've tried all the planners, stickers, schedules, suggestions, and Pinterest ideas only to abandon them all.

What works is a simple yellow legal pad or lately one of those teachers' black, spiral bound, planners with the big blocks for days of the week. Especially if a bill or important event is coming up that you need to track.

It was one of our Thanksgiving day conversations while the guys were in the basement watching some game on TV. None of us seem to understand or want or use the popular plans or ideas for scheduling our lives. I'm the only one who has a digital grocery list that works simultaneously on my devices. Most use paper calendars or whiteboards in their kitchens and take paper lists to the grocery store. None are on social media.

So far today has been interesting. Meeting up with our friends and I thought I was the only one exchanging items I found out I was wrong. She gave me a fabic panel of Australia /New Zealand animals to put into a quilt, not knowing I had given her a box of fabric containing  fabic to go along with it. Long story short she is returning the pieces that will work with this panel. On the way home I had to brake hard for three turkeys that decided the other side of the road looked better. All is well, they made it and I didn't have to clean turkeys

Patricia, I can have a schedule  planned and it can go out the window in the blink of an eye.  I do keep a calendar with items that need doing/calling or picked up.

Amy, you and your friend reminded me of that O Henry story, The Gift of the Magi.

I know what you mean about flying out the window or in my case, an acute case of laziness.

I prefer the simplicity of only listing an amount or an identifying name in the corresponding date block.

A friend jots the amount coming in on a calendar date and then marks and subtracts the important re-occurring outgoing amounts on the calendar on the date they become due.

Another does the same in a small 5" notebook or some a small 5"-8" day planner, only a name or amount.

Those who are into multiple planners, Pinterest, or other ways to track your life probably don't follow through either. I can see those types following every incoming "cool" or new trend, making others richer.

I see keeping a work listing of meetings, consultations, and items required for your job. But, not all the extras.

Good morning..

Won't see any sun but rain and or snow later on. A day of rest here,will do essentials and sew.

Jane, miss your posts but know you are enjoying your family there.

Patricia, on the farm I used a calendar to keep track of births be it calves,lambs or colts.One ewe Grannie I really had to watch dates as she would always give me 3 lambs but couldn't deliver on her own. I would get the first one give it to her to look after, get the other two,wrap them in towels and head to the house (warmer) After a bit I would take the two back and by then she could habndle two more.

Better get on with the day.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

Good Morning!  I'm up and two daughters are still sleeping!  Cindy's flight back to OK is early tomorrow morning so my two daughters will be heading out sometime today.  Christy has a morning with her daughter planned and I think Cindy will be seeing a friend later this morning.  I'm not sure about that!  I know we are planning lunch together...all three of us and I think it's their plan to leave in the early afternoon!

I've missed all of you but I've truly enjoyed having the kids and grandkids around!  I'll try to be back later and chat.  I wish you all a great day....better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow!

Almost forgot...Cindy and I are rooting out my Christmas tree and ornaments sometime today!

I won't be back until it looks like there is an interest in this post box!

Good Morning all! Wish I had seen this at Halloween. A little poem with a point.

Good morning...

Someone must have lost their snow cuz it ended up here!! Not much mind you and no need I don't think to remove it...hope sun puts the run on it.

Need to stop at the pharmacy and have a chat with them this morning then the day is mine. Yesterday the neighbour decide to whack at the big  chunks of the cherry tree he had cut down. With the help of the frost in them they did cut not so bad. I piled 3 wheelbarrow loads and now tis all done and put away.

MG, sending this on ,thank you!!

Better get ready to met the day.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

Jane, - Don't leave, or hide. The posts are thin enough. I've had a "health" problem and am not using my right arm if avoidable. I look in every day, multiple times. I'm sure there are others doing the same. Having spent so many years in the "Speak when spoken too" mode, I find it difficult to change. Something to do with teaching old dogs.
Winter has arrived here. Finally got some killing frost temp's. 26°the other night. - Die Ragweed.

Snow did need cleaning up, dislike the hard chunks at the end of the driveway so gave them a ride on the shovel. Snow has stopped for now but more later this evening.

Rick, sorry you are dealing with health problems and hope they are soon over with. I think too that a lot of folks are getting over Thanksgiving and just need to get back into the "groove" of posting.  When I get a moment I too sit and look in ,not always posting. Don't forget the other one we were taught as kids..... if it is not yours ,don't touch.

"if it is not yours ,don't touch" --- That was something we could not get across to our younger son when he was small. He had to fiddle with everything. Grew up to be an expert do it yourselfer. I miss him now.

MaryPage, then and now. The now being at Thanksgiving.

Just Checking in!  I love the pictures, PATRICIA!!

Good Night Everyfriend!

Goodnight.

Good Morning Everyfriend!  Snow flurries are predicted for this morning!  I hope it doesn't get in the way of Frankie getting to work and Cooper coming here.  Flurries are not so bad!

Good morning..

We did get snow overnight,maybe 2 " light and fluffy not that heavy "stuff".

Not sure how the day is going to pan out ,all depends on what the neighbour is doing.Will know by 8 this morning if all goes well.

Better get the day started.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

    Good Morning  ---  Bright, sunny, and cold.

I don't check in very often except to just read. I don't sleep well sometimes and just don't feel like typing. Sorry if that upsets someone but that's the way it is in my life these days. Well I'm expecting a Workman to come this morning to repair my kitchen oven. I will let David Deal with him. It is a cold morning here and I am hugging the recliner with furry blanket over me. Take care everybody.

Nice to see you, PHYLLIS....you too RICK and AMY!  I cleaned out the fridge and made a pot of soup in the crock pot with leftovers and a jar of home-canned chicken broth.  I'll let you know how it turns out!  I hope it's edible!

Time for lunch and then a walk with the Cooper-Snoop!  Enjoy your day!

Get  those dog walks in early. Gonna get cold  later.

Good morning, I've seen to my chores and fed Farrah and myself while doing my morning meet and greets. It's interesting to see that even the ones uninclined to continue our morning check-ins have started doing them again.

Jane, I have nothing new to report and even less from yesterday which was tiring but a few items were checked off my list. I still have one more turkey to cook, a 20-pounder so I'll do that today, then try to find as many different ways to have turkey as I can find.

The local stores ran a spend so much get a turkey free campaign this year so everyone has an extra turkey if they hadn't managed to donate one.

According to the news, our snowpack levels are 63% of normal, and the Interior is drier than parts closer to a coast and a maritime climate. Presently we're experiencing some wind and icy roads with warnings for folks to be careful. Temperatures are expected to drop into the minuses for December so no real snow is expected until March when it warms up again.

Cooper went home and I'm on my own again.  The "Fridge Special" in the crock pot was delicious!  I'll probably never have it again because granddaughter Courtney brought stuff from her Uncle and Aunt's Thanksgiving and There was nothing familiar.  When she went bach home to Westchester, she said she was just going to leave it.  So some of it's in the pot.

I'm slowly getting decorated.  It's not as much fun as it used to be but once it's done, I'll enjoy it!  I have WAAAAAAAAY to many decorations for this little house.  I have to decide what's important.  I seem to have about a dozen knitted Christmas Stockings.  You don't suppose Santa would fill ALL of them if I hung them up, do you?

Better keep moving.  Nice to see all of you.  PATRICIA, try to stay warm!  RICK, you stay warm too.  I know it's cold where you are because it's cold where I am and your not that far away!  PHYLLIS, I'd think it might be a bit warmer where you are because you're South but I guess the mountains hold the cold air.  Keep that blanket wrapped around you!  AMY, keep the snow on your side of the border!  We were supposed to have flurries twice today but I sure didn't see any!  Enjoy the rest of your day, Everyfriend!  Make it your own in every way

Goodnight anyone.

Good Morning to anyone who peeks in!

Good morning.
I am off and running again today. Taking my friend in to the hospital, then after the procedure home again.

Yesterday was a busy day, our neighbour took us to pick up a new to us vehicle, now I need to leanr about the bells and whistles on this on.

Must admit I am really looking forward to Thur as I can stay home!!

Enjoy your day and stay safe..

It is nice of all of you to send me some cold weather but you really don't have to go to the trouble.
 Woke up to temp in the 20's this morning. Just to the north of us it was in the teens.  Brrr!  Please don't take the trouble to send snow. 

A very nice guy from the appliance repair  came out and fixed the  oven yesterday.  I thanked him and he returned the thanks and then he wanted some money!  I could have skipped that part but since it was cheaper than a new stove I decided to pay him.    Now, I guess I'll have to cook on it. 

Take care,  all.