Lloyd--Yes, you told us about the bee sting.  Luckily you didn't swell up like a toad, but a sore head is bad enough.

OK Bis thanks. some I am getting better at remembering,But still have those senior moments hours at a time.Have a great day. 

Lloyd

Good morning, Joan and all .

Joan, I will have to pass on the bagels this morning.  I find them way too "chewy" and have a hard time eating them.  So, I had  a piece of peach cobbler that I made yesterday.  Warmed it up in the microwave and had some watermelon along with it.

Yes, my area is experiencing the current "heat wave".  As I mentioned the other day,  I will take the hot summer over the cold winter.
I know everyone doesn't share my same feelings.  And, I understand why it bothers some.  I know it must be very difficult for the ones that have to work outside in the heat all day. 

I was able to sit out last evening and it was just beautiful.  Another friend and I were the last ones to come in around 10.  There were some others out earlier and it is always nice to just sit and enjoy the company.  We all try to solve the world's problems, but we just don't seem to be able to do that.

Have a great Saturday and hopefully, if you are in the hot area,  you will be able to stay cool .

Continued good thoughts go out to Larry. 

Joy

I don't like the HOT summer or the COLD winter.  If I had my druthers it would be SPRING all year round.  I like the cool nights for sleeping and the days warm enough not to need a wrap but after that...

I don't mind Autumn either but I prefer not to have the leaves fall.  If I could have them all fall in a pile so I don't have to rake, I wouldn't mind but you know how that goes. 

I'm finally off to the store for some essentials and then back to wash the doggies.  Don't tell them or Mickie will hide.  Annie doesn't seem to mind but Mickie really doesn't like baths.

Hi everyone.  It is already 86 degrees and headed to the high 90's this afternoon.  I have no plans for today other than to try to stay inside.  I have already done the watering outside and also completed the morning chores inside that I do each day like emptying the dish washer, opening the blinds, taking my medicine and getting my breakfast.

I appreciate all your expression of concern for me and do appreciate your keeping me in your prayers.  I did quite a bit of reading on the treatments and the side-effects are certainly not pleasant.  Since I don't know what the path ahead will be I am not going to waste my time worrying about something that may well not happen.  I looked it up last night and it has been almost 12 years since I had the seeding done for the cancer and these have been good years.  I am grateful to still be around. 

Joan, you are right in that I didn't intend to include the paragraph with my comments addressed to Ruth Ann.  I had copied what I had written that I wanted to share in Norm's B&T discussion and here in the Soda Shoppe and when I got here I forgot to delete that paragraph.  Hopefully what I said to her may be of help to someone else.  What a great "Food for Thought" for today. 

Amy, Joan and JaneS, I also didn't get much sleep after about 3:30 this morning. 

Lloyd, glad you are staying inside as much as you possibly can.  We raised chickens on the farm and I can remember when it was so hot in NW Missouri that the chicks had their beaks open due to the heat.

Patricia, hiring new employees was never one of my favorite duties but went with a couple of the positions I held. 

Shirley, what a day for your A/C to go on the fritz.  I hope they get it fixed today.  I hope your well hasn't gone dry. Maybe it just lost its prime.  I disagree with you completely that your problems are not important.  In fact I know that they have given you more grief than my health issues. 

Joy, I wouldn't have objected if the peach I had for breakfast had been surrounded by a nice crust of a cobbler.  I understand the enjoyment of just sitting and visiting with your friends.  I have been asked several times what do we find to talk about.  I answer that most of us don't remember what we talked about last week or before so hearing stories and life experiences or discussing world problems is basically new each time. 

Lloyd--I forget things, too.

Good morning, Joy.  It's nice that folks where you live sit out and socialize when weather permits.  Speaking of peach cobbler, my neighbor made some the other day and brought me a big serving.  It sure was good.

Janie--When you find that place that is Spring year around, let me know.  I'll move there.

Good morning, Larry.  Apparently there were several "friends" who didn't sleep well last night.  Hope you can take a nap today. 

JaneS
But think of the beauty God puts in his art work in the cooler of the leaves  and the nut-rants he puts back in the soil for next years beauty.

Lloyd

Good morning everyone. Once again the thunderstorms missed us but hit in other parts. One house was struck in Providence. Will be into the soupy weather here today. Another day to stay inside. I really feel bad for anyone who has to work outside in this weather. 

JOAN  at least for a few days it cooled off in the evenings.

LARRY  good luck today.

JEANNE P  I get those calls about a Windows problem often and always tell them I don't have a computer. I get the free trip, IRS and several others. They are very annoying.

JANE guess a few are taken in by those scams so they keep trying to find another one that falls for it. I seldom answer my phone, wait for the machine to pick up the calls,  if TV is on I get the number and name an the bottom of the screen.

SHIRLEY  hang in there. Remember the saying-- it's always darker before the dawn. Things have to start getting better for you.

JOAN  a plain toasted bagel with cream cheese would be good this AM. Love the Chuckles. Food for Thought makes me thankful nothing like what that child went through happened to me. Good quote and so true. Thank you for all today's goodies.

LLOYD  watch out for bees when you are out today.

JOY  have you ever toasted a bagel? That is the only way I will eat them. Not that chewy then.

Good morning, Gloria.  It was a bit cooler here early this morning, but now the sun is beating down and temp rapidly rising.  I really don't care for bagels, but know many folks love them.  My sister goes to the bagel store and buys a dozen at a time--and eats them all in two or three days.

Good Morning Everyone!

Janie, falling leaves can be a pain, but you know you don't have to rake them, just use your lawn mower and mulch them and leave them to rot and like Lloyd said nourish and fertilize the yard.  That is exactly what I do, always have.  It only takes a short while for them to disappear. 

Joy, it must be hot for you to complain and not want to go out to work on some project.

Gloria, go ahead and rub it in about all you "bad" weather and rain.  I will get even.

Joanie, ah, peach cobbler, I could eat it everyday, well maybe throw in some banana pudding on an occasional day.

Larry, I suspect you are much like me.  I too had a prostate operation many years ago (23) and now they suspect it is showing back up.  What ever the Good Lord decides is okay with me.  I had a friend that had lung cancer and it moved into the bone and he ended up with radiation not as a curative but as a procedure to ease the pain. As we age so many things go on with the body, that we have no control over, that I can understand people just wanting to be left alone and let nature do its thing.  My daughter is an RN and I can remember when she first went onto the floor in acute care at a hospital and would come home upset at doctors dragging out the inevitable and she said causing more grief for the patient and family.  I too went through a similar thing with my Mother and Father.  Doctors wanting to perform procedures that would not save/cure just probe that: as one put it, help us to manage better if they survive.  That was after telling the family there was no hope.  I have to see my gut doctor next week and I plan on telling him I want off three meds that he prescribed, a couple that supposedly slows down the thinking process.  I don't need assistance in that area.....

We just got a phone call from some friends that the husbands Mother just died.
She had Alzheimer's disease for sometime.  And she was a Catholic but they refused to perform a funeral service because she hadn't been to church in some time. So much for compassion. Another denomination is conducting a service.

Lloyd sometime when we are talking remind me to tell you of my fight with Bumble Bees.  Quite comical really.

Well I need to balance my check book and get busy with my daily do nothing chores, I never get caught up.

For all of you that have illness and stress to deal with you remain in my prayers.

Talk to you all later.

Tisie, I hope you have someone that can fight the fight for you in regards to that lemon of an RV.  I think I would drive to the dealership everyday and just go in to the owner/manager and just look him in the eye and let him know you have him in your thoughts.  I just know Kansas has to have someone that can help you.   Seems like you have lawyer, cant he direct you.

My front door has a peep hole and my side and back doors have windows overlooking them so I don't answer the door if it is someone I don't recognize.  My neighbors and friends always call before they come to my house.  Same with the phone...if I recognize the caller ID that shows on all my phones and on the TV screen I will answer.  Otherwise, they can leave a message and I'll call them back.  If they don't leave a message than I don't care to hear from them.

Hot here....very!  But, most of you are going through the same discomfort so I won't belabor the point.     But, it is hard to sleep comfortably or to move around and hard to just breathe.  My asthma has been as bad this year as I have ever had it. Joan, I understand a little bit about what you have to go through with using breathing aids like oxygen.  My inhaler helps but doesn't do a complete job and I can't use it too often....2 sprays just once or twice a day.  And just trying to get a good, deep breath wears me down.  So, I have been really lazy for the past several days.  Thank goodness for books and my love of reading!

Hal, some areas where the leaves really pile up quickly David will rake but mostly we just mow and mulch them into the grass.  In hot climates it not only re-nourishes the soil but it cools the grass roots and keeps it from burning out so quickly.  I am seriously considering mulching most of my front yard with shredded pine bark and a few low shrubs arranged to look attractive.  No mowing at all!  That is what many of my neighbors have done.  But, the downside is that you have to hire someone to deliver and spread the mulch.   

Hal, I'm pretty sure you have to have a lawn mower to mow up the leaves.  I don't own one.  So far, the people who mow my grass have supplied the mower.  And I don't think the area is big enough to accommodate the leaves that accumulate there.  The wind blows them in from every direction and they hang on my fence and accumulate in the corners. 

I'll just take Spring when the stay on the trees!

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Hal, I'm pretty sure you have to have a lawn mower to mow up the leaves.  I don't own one.  So far, the people who mow my grass have supplied the mower.  And I don't think the area is big enough to accommodate the leaves that accumulate there.  The wind blows them in from every direction and they hang on my fence and accumulate in the corners. 

I'll just take Spring when the stay on the trees!

a regular lawn mower will do the job and when mulched you would be surprised how little of them there are.  Pick one up and crushed it in you hand.

I no longer own a lawn mower, but my lawn guy comes over and does the leaves and I have those big Oak leaves and thick as hair on a dogs back.

Good evening.....Its hot here too, very draining weather......I took a short walk down slope, through our small wooded area, through the alleyway then back, just getting uphill is a struggle...I have to stop - start, straighten my body then grab hold of Rs shirt sleeve for balance...
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Halkel, re, your choosing of coming off three lots of medications....I too am very reluctant to go on medications, my MS Consultant is wanting me to start on a trial but I am not sure...medications may do what they are supposed to do, but their will always be side affects...the meds he is prescribing for me might mess up my brain, my thinking and my senses...( I have already looked the two choices up. ) so far my mind is still functioning and very alert...and I want to keep it this way....
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Talking of lawn mowers, our back garden grass seems to grow much quicker here, much to R's non-amusement...too fast for him...

Good Morning,

I've been reading but not posting.  No particular reason - just nothing to add to the conversational threads, I guess.

My sympathies to each of you experiencing health issues.

Oklahoma is included in the Heat Alert area but this kind of weather isn't unusual in July/August.  As I remember, we didn't pay that much attention until the weather gurus began explaining every detail and "suggesting" we would be uncomfortable.
Growing up, we didn't have a/c but our house had windows placed so as to allow a good cross-breeze. After we got a big attic fan, I remember feeling chilly in the middle of the night and pulling up an extra cover.
Houses certainly aren't built that way any more!

I don't deliberately go out in the heat but I don't  mind it as long as I'm not directly in the sun.  I love to be outside in the long summer twilights after the sun goes down. 

When #2 granddaughter was playing League softball,  her mother made neck coolers for the team.  These are fabric tubes with a small spoonful of some of kind of crystals put in them.  When soaked in water, the crystals swell and become icy cold.  She sewed seams to keep the crystals in the middle of the tube so that area can be placed on the back of the neck, leaving streamers to tie the cooler in place.  The coolness lasts for hours!

After I remembered I had some, I've really made use of one to go out and do my bit of "pot gardening".

July has mostly been taking care of regular medical appointments.   From all reports,  I'm "good to go" for a while.  Just wish the things that "can't be cured so must be endured" would get that message!!!!

And that's it from my little corner of the world.

Wishing Everyfriend Everywhere a lovely day.

HAL - I just read your post about the person who passed, but her Catholic Church would NOT perform the Last Rights or Funeral Service because she had not attended Church for some time.  I've absolutely never heard of that kind of abandonment in a Catholic Church.  To me that is not only a lack of respect for the deceased, but also a very negative attitude expressed by the denomination itself.  In all the areas in the USA where I've lived, there has always been Priests who visit hospitals, Nursing Homes, Retirement communities on a regular basis.
And often on special Holidays, they encourage members of their Congregations to gather together and visit those who are not able to attend Services any longer, but would be delighted to receive an occasional visit.

Good Morning my dear Loves, I am so glad to have you in my life. I have had a so-so couple of days, and today is not so great either. Took my shower and shampoo and got so tired out and dizzy, I had to lay down to slather on the lotion that is essential after a good scrub down. I have no plans for this day, will take it as it comes.

We will have sack lunches delivered to our rooms today which will be a treat to have since I don't feel up to going down for meals. The kitchen and waiters are going to have a treat today……a picnic just for themselves during the lunch hours. First time ever to have this happen, and I am so very delighted with management for doing this for them. They give us so much day after day after day, they certainly deserve a time out of their always busy day. And it should be a good lesson for some residents that feel they deserve everything there is to get. It's surprising how selfish some elderly people can get.

Larry, dear friend, my prayers are with you for a complete healing. You are such a kind and giving person, and you have faced enough tragedy in your life. Our last years should be the best ones..peace and fair health. God be with you, your optimistic attitude proves your faith.

Your are all such a good and loyal group of caring friends, and I am so glad to know you, and I look forward to the time we will all arrive on the other side, and rejoice in what awaits us. Have a GREAT day.

Junedrabek, quoting....." Your are all such a good and loyal group of caring friends, and I am so glad to know you, and I look forward to the time we will all arrive on the other side, and rejoice in what awaits us....."

I will take you up on that, we will ditch our cyber bus,..... no more playing pick -  ups,.... that wont be needed anymore....no more over the pond hopping, or is that flying?....

Link.....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHq5gRjuB_M

halkel--One of the good things about FL is that there is never any leaves to rake.  I am Catholic and never heard of the church refusing to have a funeral Mass/burial for one of their own.  Maybe the family should contact the Bishop.

Phyllis--My front door and my phones are like yours.  I don't have to open the door if I don't recognize the person and if phone announcement is not someone I know or want to talk to, I just let it go to the answering machine.  Did your doctor ever mention using a nebulizer?

Janie--When my children were growing up in NY they loved leaf raking time.  We all got out and raked, made big piles and they jumped in them.  When they were too old for that they didn't want any part of raking leaves.

Vanilla-Jackie--I take so many meds already, I don't want to hear about adding more.

Callie--Those neck coolers sound very helpful.  Why didn't I know about those all those years our son was playing baseball?

Molly--As I said above, I've never heard of the Catholic Church refusing services to a baptized Catholic.

June--That's a nice gesture to honor the workers with a picnic of their own and provide residents with bag lunches.  Those residents who complain ought to have to go hungry at lunch time.

Joanie, Molly, I never heard of any church refusing to conduct the funeral service even if they weren't a member.  I am not sure about the Mother, but the son and daughter-in-law are both devout Catholic's, so I don't know what is going on.  And I really don't feel it is my place to get involved. 

Finally got the checkbook in balance, I have got to start doing it more often, made so many dumb mistakes, all because I had put it off for so long.  Anyhow, hooray,  I still had money left in the bank.....

Joan, I have used a nebulizer on occasion but my dr. has never suggested that I use one regularly.  She feels that the inhaler is just as effective when I need it and I can carry it with me wherever I go.  I have my annual check-up in about a month and I'm going to ask her about it again.

I just finished putting up 5 pints of cucumber "icebox" pickles and I made a big jar of peanut butter, too.  I have a bag full of yellow and zucchini squash to do something about.  My neighbor's husband has a huge garden out at their other house in the country and she shares tons of veggies with me every summer.  I return the favor with bread and homemade applesauce.  My neighbor on the other side brought back a baker's dozen of beautiful peaches from their mountain home in the Smokies and I froze most of those minus a few that I sliced over vanilla ice cream.  I have wonderful neighbors!

Our delivered lunch arrived. a very thick sandwich of turkey and cheese. Small packs of mayo and mustard for those that use it, a nice big lettuce leaf and two slices of tomato. All served separately. a small bag of potato chips, two big cookies and a bottle of water. The snack bars always have coffee, tea, creamer and sugar, and some type of coffee cake. So we are well cared for. I'm sort of wondering if this is a practice test in case of power failure or other disaster. A good solid idea whatever the reason, and a nice gesture for the servers and cooks.

I too have never heard of any church refusing a funeral service. I think even prisons have Chaplains for the dying. Maybe not at all times, but in an emergency.Somebody made a big goof they will have to answer for.

Callie, I wonder if this high heat we are having in certain states is an unusual thing of nature or if it could be a repeat of what has happened in the past in various areas. Now Ca. and Fl. didn't have their normal winter coolness...no rain, too much sun.

Halkel, shame on that Catholic Church for not allowing this ladies funeral service to take place in their church.....There could have been 1,001 legitimate reasons why she couldn't, or never attended her church on a regular basis, her illness being one.......The fact is, this church WAS her church....she should have been respected for that....

Last summer, there was a similar case with a Baptist church in Atlanta. A woman who had not only been a member all her life, eighty plus years, was refused a burial for the same reasons and her sons sued and many folks left that church in sympathy.

I suspect it all comes down to paying dues regularly.

I've never heard of a church refusing a funeral either but when I was a regular member of the local Catholic church and raising my children there because my husband would not go anywhere else, I asked that prayers be said when my grandmother passed away.  The Priest refused because my grandmother had not been a member of the Catholic Church.  It didn't matter that she was a devout Christian who had lived her life as Jesus would have wished.  They would not even say a prayer for her.  To this priest's credit, he did promise to personally pray for her but would not include her in the church's prayers.  I was quite disturbed by this.  And I think this might have changed recently but it was very hard for me to accept.

I finished all the curtains.  I was just doing the final stitching on the last panel when Cathy stopped by to see if I was feeling better after my cold or whatever it was.  She took them with her and now the upstairs is finished.  The last time I was there, I counted and there arr 9 windows and 2 doors with windows in them downstairs.  I haven't heard anything at all about curtains for those windows. 

I'm going over to my son's for a cookout pretty soon.  I'm thinking that, as hot as it is, the cookout might be brought inside to eat.  Guess I better get ready.  Enjoy your day Everyfriend.  Keep COOL!

halkel--I don't know what is going on, but like you I wouldn't want to get involved in another's religious events.

Phyllis--I have to use the nebulizer 7 times a day.  I have two inhalers--one to be used 4x a day and the other twice a day--plus the oxygen 24/7.  What great neighbors to give you fruit and veggies.

June--That was a nice bag lunch they provided today.

Vanilla-Jackie--On Monday the Eucharistic Minister from my church comes, and I am going to ask him about refusal to have a funeral.

Angelface--It's a darned shamed that sacrament of burial in one's own church comes down to $$.

Janie--I don't blame you for being upset because the Catholic Church wouldn't offer prayer when your grandmother died.  Great you got the curtains done.  Enjoy the cookout.

Well, as a life long Catholic that married a non-Catholic and had a father that was not Catholic, I bounce all the opinions around why people do things & will add my 2¢. 

When my husband died we honored his wishes to have no services and had his body cremated as he wished.  The Priest where I go to church came to visit a few days later so I mentioned that our family & extended family planned to gather one Sunday,  go to Mass and back to my house for breakfast/brunch, as a closure for US.  He asked if he could suggest the people say a prayer after the sermon for Cas, and I thought the family would appreciate it.  We filled several pews, a few lumps in our throats as we said a prayer for my husband and then had a great meal after with our whole "blended" family.  One ex-son in law with his wife & their 2 grown sons had no qualms about sharing the day with us (his 2 oldest kids are my oldest grandchildren). Nobody even thought about whether my husband was Catholic or not, not in church when we all said a prayer for him or at home, where it did not matter at all.

So it makes me sad to hear negative things about any religion that teaches love.  Churches are made up of people that can have a different view of what is right & wrong, but if they don't teach LOVE and forgivness, they don't count as a religion in my estimation. Not Christian, at least, since HE came to earth to offer forgiveness for all of us, no other reason. 

Janie, I say, "Shame on that Priest or any other so narrow minded!"  I would have guessed in Hal's case it was family that judged her not worthy if she hadn't been to church for a while.... sometimes family members get pompous about their own self worth & critical of anyone that doesn't get into that "holier & thou" mode. 

End of my sermon!   

FYI:  The AC is running it's little heart out to get rid of the humidity from having doors open... got a new perspective of what to pay my son for his "service calls".... How about $300 just for the trip & the part was under warranty, didn't take the AC guy 20 min to replace the part. 

Son pulled the submersible pump (for sprinkler system & fill the pool), pump is worn out so have to shop for the new, as like this as possible.  Looks like between $500-$1000 & I insisted my son take $500 for his labor today & to put it back in.  I think I am getting off cheap on labor!  He gave me a hard time but I am boss & he finally put the money in his pocket. 

The next problem was the ceiling fan over the family room table.  I never turn the fan on but use the 5 lights under it often.... both came on this morning (house was SO HOT) & hour or so later I noticed it wasn't running.  Bummer, it can't be repaired so will have to find a new light fixture.  We found this one in KC & brought it with us... don't find brass like it has anymore.          

Okay, early Sat night bath & wash hair.... not that I need it!      Sweet dreams to all & God Bless~

I am falling asleep in my chair, time to say Good Night. I wish you Peace, Prayers, Love and hugs. June.

Shirley, Molly and others.  I am now not so sure they were refused a service.  I am now being told they couldn't get the date they wanted.  Now I am going to leave it at that.  Like many of you, it just doesn't make sense about the refusal.  But I have gotten different stories and I should have just kept things to myself, but the first version was the refusal one, now others are coming up.

I am tired, have been even before supper tonight and lost my appetite, so I off to bed.

nite, God Bless and Sweet Dreams

Shirley, many people now days are skipping the traditional funeral and just going for a memorial at a church after burial with just the family present.  I see nothing wrong with it and kinda like the idea.  Some call it a celebration of life.

We call it a Celebration of Life in my church...The Episcopal Church.  This is the church in which I grew up and where I returned when my children were all grown and my husband decided he wanted a different wife and a different church.  I'm home again!

Shirley, I like your idea of honoring your husband and if you don't mind, I'm going to make it part of my wishes.  I think I'd like being neighbors with you!  But I think I said that before. 

And now I'm off to Dreamland.  Good night Everyfriend!  May God's love protect and keep you through the coming night and all those that follow.