Good morning, Gloria.  With all those flowers, I'm sure your building looks lovely.  I know you are not looking forward to that "tropical humidity". Why not take one of each kind of mini muffin?

Good morning halkel.  Glad you're feeling pretty good today after your procedure.

Larry--Good morning.  My favorite way to have an egg is poached.  I'll eat "over easy"  if served, but never scrambled.  Another  "whatever floats your boat".

Good morning, Mary Ann.  You like your eggs just like I do--poached, runny yolk and on toast.  Maybe the salad dressing you speak of is raspberry vinaigrette.  If I order a salad in a restaurant, that's usually what I get.

Sandy--Good morning.  Apparently there is no law/code here about shower/grab bars.  My house was build with none, and I had to have them put in.

I've had a brief respite!  I went to work and the clock told me I wasn't scheduled.  Seems I read the calendar wrong and I thought today was Wednesday.  So I picked up my prescription and I came home!  Now whatever shall I do with this unexpected time off?

Larry - Good Morning.  I smiled at your comment my teaching the Chinese fellow in my class at the University of Maryland!  When he came to Maryland, he was on a Sabbatical leave from his home University in China and had served several years as a Chairman before his venture to Maryland.  I'm sure glad that he returned to the Chairman's post in China.  He and his wife became very good friends when they returned to the USA for a second visit during a Summer.

I'm off to the Dr's this morning and hope that he will be able to help with my very painful toe and swollen left leg.  Sure hope the toe is NOT broken.  Wish me luck!

The law I was referring to has
to do with handicap apartments.

Safety bars have to be safe...
or they are useless.     
Only handicap apartments have
to have secured safety bars.     In our
housing for the elderly,  every apartment,
handicap or not,  have secure safety bars
in all apartments.

One does not have to be old or handicap to
take a lethal fall in a tub or shower.     I wish
my apartment had a walk in shower ..  I hate
having to step into a tub,  and I am always
very very careful when I do. 

Tubs for the elderly are a pet peeve of mine....
(for what ever that is worth!      )

Have a safe day everyone!

Sandy

Sandy, the suction grab bars are things that have to be monitored by the user.  I rely mostly on the metal bar bolted to the back of my fiberglass shower stall.  Some people with older tubs that do not have bolted bars may opt to use the suction type.  I watch very carefully when I get out of the tub/shower.  I rely on the bolted bar when getting out of the tub, but my arms are only so long (and not very long).  I PUSH on the suction bar and do NOT pull.  Yes, bars bolted in are preferable, but not always possible to install  I have only one bolted bar.

Mary Ann

Janie--Woo-hoo, an unexpected day off.

Sandy--Thanks for the explanation.  I misunderstood.

Mary Ann--I know you're very careful when you shower.

Good morning from another rainy day in the Interior. This is getting so old! And it is to continue through the first of June. I woke up in the night and this morning with a backache and sore legs that are unsteady with my arthritis. Yes, Jackie, these are indeed the iron ages and we are rusting.

Gloria, thanks, I love the flower too and guess I'll have to do an online search.

Janie, I'm sorry you're sick with a spring cold.

Thanks Molly for your comments on my prediction for British ways after reading so many British published books and journals.You went far further than I did as I've only had the regular four or so years, and I focused on history for the majority of it.

Sandy and MaryAnn, I understand what you mean about the tub. I have little to none, depth perception and am unsteady now. So those three bolted in bars are quite probably a lifesaver for me.

At least Farrah has decided the living room is the place to be and the under the bed has evolved to my dirty clothes basket.She is still skittish in the mornings but getting slowly better. At the Organic Co-Op, yesterday, I purchased some canned organic cat food for her, chicken and liver formula. She loved it, but its to be a special treat at those prices!

I had gone looking as a fellow here mentioned that he always fed the skittish dropped off at the farm, cats'  duck and they were suddenly his best friends! He said a skunk used to come and eat with the barn cats and was his buddy also. This was in Iowa.

angelface--You get continuous rain, it seems, and we get none.  They say it will rain all during the coming holiday weekend.  Now that Farrah is not so skittish, I'm sure she's a great companion.

I am running late. Enjoyed reading all your posts and I will reply later. Have meds to pick up at our clinic and Music bingo to attend in 40 minutes, so I had better get dressed and scoooooot...........

Hi June.  Enjoy the musical bingo.

Good afternoon, on this very hot day. They are giving warnings for people with breathing problems not to go outside between 11 and 6. I do not even feel up to going out.

Gloria, I am trying to get someone to help get the AC uncovered  the man i ask yesterday, must have forgot. I hate askng him even, as he has had two open heart surgies, and has to go back in the hospital again.   I sure do not want him to get sick, because he is helping me.
He does bring my mail and paper in everyday and puts the garbarge out, in other words he is my handy man.  I do not know what I will do when he is in the hospital 4 days.

Joan, would you believe I am 92 and never had a poached egg

I think my yard has become a jungle with all the rain we have had, this morning my neighbor went to pick up a stick, it turned and looked at her.  It was a 3ft. ribbon snake.

Chia & Jackie I have a walk in shower, with a chari no arms. My trouble with a shower, I get dizzy when I close my eyes and wash my hair. I do have two screwed in grab bars.

Oldiesmann thanks for emoticion, they are fun. Also thanks Donklan, for those hits. I did know some of them, when I wrote for our park paper. My column was called This and That Plus Facts.

Beverly, my iron frying pan belonged to my MIL, from Ala. my husband use it also to make his corn brean, and southern dressing.

Larry your picnic sounded like fun.

Hi June and all my other friends.  Missing Sun and Kelly

Linedancer--I, too, dislike hot and humid.  It's hard on us with breathing problems.  Never had a poached egg?  Try one.  Yikes.  You would have heard me scream for miles if I picked up a snake thinking it was a stick.

I instantly fell in love with this garden furniture several weeks ago, two matching armchairs and coffee table.... so just got around to placing an order, done it over the phone, no call centre just straight through to the family run business.... I phoned to make sure I was getting this with the blue covers, as online the function wouldn't allow me to click on the blue so I had to check that colour was available........Told It will arrive next week, will get confirmation e-mail when it is due to arrive......I am sure it will look stunning on our blue decking....cant wait for it to arrive......Oh and with free delivery thrown in...Link....


https://www.bridgman.co.uk/shop/2-oxford-lounge-armchairs-and-oxford-side-table

Vanilla-Jackie--That furniture is really lovely.  I am sure you are anxious for it to arrive.

Joan as comfy as the white metal bench in my avatar with seat cover is, the bench was left behind by previous owners but, underneath my cover, ( thankfully I had the sense to bring it along from my previous home ) it is very very rusty....you couldn't sit on it without the cover....

MaryAnn

I never thought about that breaking up the cast Iron Tub.  I know someone up the street who took his out last year. Will check how he did it.  Only thing is with mine it is so close to the built in cabinet and sink, Would have to move it to get the tub out.  It is way to big anyway. I have seen some nice small ones.  I would like just a shower stall put in if could get the tub out.

Angel.

I still spell the English way. Talk that way also.  Over the years I have had people tell me I am a bad speller.  I was assistant to a man who had been a University Professor for 25 years.  He would ask me to just take care of some letter writing for him. Usually to Politicians who he never wanted his secretary to type up.  He was always saying that I spelled things wrong. On one trip back to UK I got him a Dictionary  just to show him that we spoke and spelled English the way it should be. Do his own letters if he didn't like the way I did them. We sure had a lot of arguments.  Yet after I left the company after 6 years he would not speak to me again for doing that.

However now I am a terrible speller in both ways.  Seems I want to spell the way I talk. With a Northern Accent that is my trouble

Jackie.  I can't believe the price of things in the UK anymore.  I have friends that tell me what they pay for things. Specially Electronics.  I feel because if the Power was the same there as here I could sent them for half the cost.  But doesn't work . Have tried ways. They blow up.

What I always wanted to bring back was the type of furniture  my aunt had her cottage . Much smaller that mine.  She had a 200 years cottage. The whole village was old and nothing could be changed in it.   She had what was called Country Cottage sets.  Lounge and 2 matching chairs. Part wood. Part printed material.  Had Welsh Dresser I loved. I can still kick my self for not buying her cottage when she passed 4 years ago.  What were bought for a few hundred pounds when they bought now sell in the hundreds of thousands.
I would have spent half the year there.

Back again, Thanks Bis, musical Bingo was fun, I won a bunch of tickets to be used at our Garden Shop once a month. Then I came home long enough to put away my meds from the clinic, then back down for lunch and good company, and now here.

Janie, I hope you are feeling better, and I'm glad you did not have to go to work.

Gloria de, I do worry about you living alone, and your good helper not being well. I hope you wear a life line, or something similar, so if you need help all you have to do is push a button. I feel so secure in where I am living now, plus they furnish all the tenants with the life line necklace.

I am almost falling asleep in my chair, and I have another program coming up at 2:30. Balance and Mobility, and I sure don't want to miss that. It is so rewarding, not just as an individual need and help, but to see the efforts that others put into it to help themselves. We have wheel chair folks that actively participate, and they are an inspiration. So I shall make myself stay awake.

JeanneP, your English dictionary only proves that the spellings are right for the English (and maybe Canadians).  My American dictionary shows the right way for Americans to spell.  Yours is right for you; mine is right for me.  I notice you use the British spellings and I am sure if I lived in England, I'd use the American version.  We have cut out many unnecessary letters. 

Mary Ann

Vanilla-Jackie--Soon you'll have that lovely new furniture.

JeanneP--My daughter goes to London on business several times a year and always mentions how expensive things are there.

June--Good for you winning some tickets at Musical Bingo.  You've been busy today.

MaryAnn.  You are so right. What we are use to is what to stay with.  I know that I am to old now to change any of my ways doing anything. Just stay up with the new Technology if it is something I like to do.  Listen to the politicians but don't buy most of what they say.

JoanFl.  Each time when I go back to UK I wonder how they pay the prices. But one thing I notice. They make a lot more salaries now. I remember what I made when there . Suppose it balances out.

HAL  I am a slow starter every morning lately.

LARRY  it was 80° at 10am today. Hazy sky today.

JOAN  if I took one of each muffin this morning I would not eat anything else the rest of the day. Even with  a boiled egg I like the yolk runny but the white cooked. With toast that runny yolk is the best part.

JANE with the day off I hope you got some rest.

PATRICIA  what flower?  The marigolds I mentioned this morning or something I sent? I have been getting and answering way to many emails to remember all of the.  Hmm, they say the mind  is the first to go? Not me my back was the first and the dampness today let me know it. My doctor wants me to cut back to 2 pain pills a day.  No can do.

GLORIA de  they had that warning here for 2 days now. On days like this no one has to tell me to stay in.

JOAN  you and me both. That is the one thing that scares me terribly. If one is on a TV program I am watching I shut the TV off. Cannot even say the name without goosebumps.

JACKIE  beautiful chairs.

Can hardly keep my eyes open so will say good night and head for bed even it is earl.

My suction cup grab bar fell off the tub today!  I'll wet the suction cups and put it back where it will stay for several months. 

Mary Ann

Quote from: Mary Ann on May 26, 2016, 08:47:39 PM
My suction cup grab bar fell off the tub today!  I'll wet the suction cups and put it back where it will stay for several months. 

Mary Ann

I am very sorry to hear that.
I wish that you would throw it away.

Sandy

Bis, yes, it has been another busy day. I stayed on after our Balance and Mobility class and attended the new Wii Bowling some of our people participated in. I was just a cheer leader, as I didn't want to take a chance on losing my balance. Maybe later on I will give it a practice test, but I won't commit to it yet. After that was over I picked up my mail, and came home and put on my P.J's and fixed some left-overs for my supper and will go to an early bed as soon as the sun goes down.

Sandy, I agree..get rid of the suction cup bars, they can be killers.If you start to slip and grab for one, just your weight could pull them off the wall, and the bar would go down with the person.

My Dr. put me on a diarrhetic, which I will start using tomorrow. My blood pressure was way up again, so she hopes this pill will help lower it. I have no experience with a diarrhetic, I hope I will not have to start wearing diapers. Any tips from anyone out there ?

Hello Everyfriend!  I did get an antibiotic from the dr. and I feel at least 60 percent better than I did yesterday. 

Now I'm going to hit the hay and try to saw some logs for a bit.  Maybe I'll have enough for a nice log bench tomorrow.

Good Night Everyfriend!  Sleep peacefully and may God Bless Us Every One!

Good Night dear friends, and goodnight to you dear Janie. I am so glad you are feeling better. God is Good, and I know He blesses your daughter and the work she does.

I pray you all have a very, very Good night and a happy health tomorrow. I wish you all God's best Blessings..I send you my Prayers, Hugs and Love. June

Jane, I also got an antibiotic today, doctor thinks I'm fighting 2 different things with the headaches & sore throat... but hopefully take care of both with one fix.  Been a few years since I've had an antibiotic & the allergies have worked their way into infected sinus infections for years. I don't think I abuse "pills" taking no more than I do. If they didn't pump so many antibiotics into cattle, chickens & everything else we eat, maybe we would not have to worry about the diseases becoming resistant to what we need to take ourselves.  Guess that is an old theory not going to be considered. 

Still watching radar, think we are supposed to be storm free MAYBE Sat. but no real end in sight.  Better see if Tom & Tiger want back in, they had a snack about an hour ago & usually like to go snoop after that.  Before the storms started a few days ago they were staying out all night & I was getting nice sleep.  Only 3-5 hours the last few days.  Last night was my fault with head hurting.  Fitbit told me I didn't go to sleep until 3:00 am (I think that's right, been a long day). 

Mary Ann & others that enjoy testing yourself with a number of subjects... especially English language, I found the link to "Free Rice" on the old computer.  Not sure this will work, it wants to give MY login & not just the link. I'll work on that tomorrow... link didn't work, sorry.

http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1379

That should work, had to log off to get the link.  It's a free site (as far as I know, used to play it a lot. Tonight I answered 100 questions without error... and did more than half again that many before I could remember my online name & password.   

Jeanne P, they say the English language is one of the hardest languages to learn....have to say that is true.....all I can say is thank heavens for spell-checker....

You made me laugh when you said you send electrical appliance's to your English friends because they are cheaper, and you thought the power was the same, only to find out that they, " blow up....." Jeanne, are they still friends with you?....

Jeanne, I can imagine how you could kick yourself now over not buying your Aunts wonderful and quaint Idyllic cottage, sounds the dream cottage I always strived for....well I have my cottage, that is the style of this parkhome, called a Wessex Cottage, only this cottage inside is modern and spacious, no wood burners or Aga's or Ranges here, nor no check gingham
materials, curtains, table - clothes.......Of course  thatch cottage would be my ideal dream.....complete with wood burner, cottage style kitchen where I could make jams and chutneys, just a pipe dream....
...............................................
As for the new garden furniture, yes rather expensive but we do have a certain amount set back for items for the home, and so far we haven't reached it..... We left our old dark metal garden round table and four chairs behind, and stone-concrete bench........The one thing still left to buy, and R is leaving the choosing down to me, and I have to admit I just haven't a clue what ceiling lighting to go for, what will suit our living room, what type of lighting will go with our new table lamp, our style of furniture, etc etc.....I am quite embarrassed as its been two months now but...at the moment we just have two bulbs dangling up there, previous owners took their chandeliers with them...this is where I am completely coming unstuck, it is driving me crazy looking at various styles, do we want chandeliers? a flush ceiling light, a pendant,? we need two sets of ceiling lights for the living room...I don't even know if I want modern, or something with character.... as for table lamp I immediately fell in love with " Jenny Warrall...." lamps, they were classed as the new modern antique of the day......I went with the pink Rhododendron, and matching shade, size large, and I have to say, it is massive..........Link....


http://www.candleandblue.co.uk/Lighting/Jenny-Worrall-Table-Lamps


http://www.cowshedinteriors.com/collections/jenny-worrall-lamps