Good morning, Gloria.  Glad you reported on your experience with Schwan.  I am going to try them.  I got an email the other day that select Walmarts (mine is one) now have online ordering of groceries, minimum order of $30, order ready one hour after placement.  The only trouble with that is that they don't deliver like my Publix/Shipt does.  You go and pick your order up and they load in the car.  So--I won't be using that service. 

Hi everyone on this Friday morning.  Once again we will be in the low 80's this afternoon.  I really had an most enjoyable day yesterday as  wasn't rushed about anything.  I didn't have to leave coffee at a specific time yesterday, which was enjoyable.  Today may be very similar as the only thing on the schedule is a 10:45 appointment for Pat with the eye doctor.  We then plan on eating our main meal of the day out at lunchtime.  That will be it for today.  Last evening we watched the news and Wheel of Fortune and then turned off the TV and we both listened to our recorded books for the evening. 

I am pretty certain the new home across the street was closed yesterday as the real estate sign has been moved out of the yard and late yesterday afternoon I saw a couple of vehicles across the street with things being unloaded from the back of one of the vehicles.  The outside lights were left on all night, which hadn't happened before.  I look forward to meeting our new neighbors. 

Jackie, have you seen the Queen in person before?  she is pretty amazing to still be so active at her age and carrying on the many duties of her office. 

Amy, we are like Joan in having no need for snow tires here in South Carolina although have lived many places where they were a winter necessity. 

June, that low sodium could well explain why you were not feeling well at all.  I had the same problem several years ago that put me in the hospital overnight to build my sodium count back up.  I am sure glad they take such good care of you in your new home place.  I see you enjoyed your first day of visiting with those needing someone to visit them and have already made a new friend. 

Gloria, I hope you will enjoy all of the Schwan's frozen dinners and food items you get.  I will have to look at the dinners they have as when I glanced at the page a little bit ago didn't really scroll through all of their choices. 

JaneS, I assure you my "putzing" yesterday didn't include cleaning out the refrigerator other than discarding some fresh vegetables that were past their prime, chopped up some fresh onions and put in a tight sealed jar and shredded two pounds of cheese but that was easy as have a little appliance that does a great job of shredding it as long as it isn't too soft.  I did fix dinner last evening and the rest of the day was mainly just taking it easy. 

Shirley, I hope you have a great family reunion and trip to Missouri.

Good morning, Larry.   We had many years of needing snow tires when we lived in Central NY.  Then when we lived in Arkansas, where there wasn't much snow, we bought all season tires.  I know you are anxious to meet your new neighbors. 

Good morning....Rather dreary out this morning however, the sun is to shine here today and it will be in the upper 70's! 

Thank you for our goodies today, JOAN.

AMY, I hope your plan for the snow to melt will happen as planned and getting the snow tires on the van will go smoothly. 

We are having such warm weather here making us wonder just what to expect regarding our coming winter.  Yesterday it was 100 degrees in Phoenix!  The weather in general is rather CrAzY! 

LARRY, how exciting fir the new owners of the home across the street.  I hope they enjoy many years of happiness there. 

What did you do today, JACKIE.  I hope it was a good day for you.

I can not believe it is nearly Halloween!  Where has this year gone?

Have a wonderful day EVERYFRIEND!

Jenny

Jenny--We don't get any Halloweeners here since it's a gated community.  I do miss giving treats to the cute small folks.  I still have 3 immediate family birthdays before I can even think about shopping for Christmas.

Good Morning all. I seem to be running late this morning. Slept till almost seven, then my housekeeper arrived, to change the linens and chat a bit. She will return to scour up my bathroom. I am fairly clean in my day to day living, so all this could be done every two weeks instead of weekly, but rules are rules, so I abide.

Jenny, I don't have any forward plans on my visits to the Care facility, I will take it day by day. I would like to eventually cover the complete list of people I was given, so that is what I will do..one at a time, unless someone needs visits more than others..it's all up to the Lord's guidance. I cannot push myself either, I want enough of me to go around.

Gloria, both you and I slept yesterday afternoon away. I am feeling sleepy already, and it is still morning. I'll have to drink up one of my Ensure drinks and hope that will rouse me up, and then get out and do some walking in the fresh air. We are having a "mostly cloudy" day today, so I'll dress warmly. And I had better get a move on before I doze off here on the computer.

June--That's so very sweet of you to visit those who have nobody to visit them.

Uh-Oh! 

FBI re-opening the Hillary email investigation......look for an Obama pardon.

Hello Everyfriend! 

JUNE, you are such a sweetheart to give your time and your heart to those who need it.  I'm sure you will earn a few stars in your crown for doing that.

I don't see how anyone, no matter how they are registered, can take sides in this years election.  I've bitten my tongue to avoid speaking so many times that I think it is about 6 inches shorter.  I get indignant at some remark and I'm all ready to voice my opinion, not of the candidate but of the opinionated person who is speaking that I have to take a deep breath and tell myself, "It's politics and is it worth losing a friend?" So I keep my peace.  When someone says, "You can't possibly think about voting for him/her", I just keep my peace and say nothing.  If they pressure me, I tell them very politely, "My vote is my business."

There's a nasty senatorial campaign in PA and that's another one that's going to be difficult.

I hope you are all having a lovely day.  The sun is shining in PA, the birds are singing, I'm not watching politics on TV and I've had my lunch.  Altogether, it's a nice day.  I hope yours is, too.

Good afternoon,  Joan and all the Friday friends.

Joan,  I have been "putzing around" like Jane was.  Don't consider it work, but it is time consuming.  Going through a pile of magazines and catalogs scratching my name off so that I can put them in the recycling bin.  And, going through a pile of junk mail, tearing my address labels off and shredding them.  The rest go into the recycling bin.  A  very boring job, but a necessary one.

Gloria, I hope that you will like the Schwan's chicken pies.  I think they are good.  They do make a stop at my place every two weeks, but I don't order every week.  Maybe once a month or even every two months.  I place my order over the internet or you can call it in.  They don't have any kind of requirements as to how much you order, or how often you order.  Once in a while, the delivery man will call me when he is in the building, just to see if I want anything.  Some people here don't get anything until the actual day they come.  You do take a chance at them not having exactly what you want. They seem to be very accommodating.

Joan, I order some groceries from Walmart and they will deliver them to me.  I don't think my closest store has the pick-up plan.  I would still have a problem getting someone to pick it up for me.  I have also ordered groceries from the Amazon Prime Pantry.  if you spend $50, I think, it is free delivery.  Some of their things are larger sizes.  One time I didn't pay any attention to what size I was ordering and I wound up for a gallon of salsa.  I thought it was a good price so I just ordered it, not even paying any attention to how much was in it.  I did share some of it with my son.

I do get most of my paper products from Amazon, tho.  Saves me from having to lug toilet paper and paper towels in with my groceries.  I also get  shampoo and things like that from Amazon, also.  I pay for the Prime, so might as well make use of the free delivery.   Some groceries stores down in the Baltimore area have grocery delivery, but not up near me yet.  I would probably take advantage of that service.  I can't get any fresh produce or dairy products from any of the ones around me yet. 

Need to get finished with my straightening up.

Hal, do you think that maybe the FBI is starting to catch onto what a lot of the public comments have suggested? 

Have a wonderful afternoon.

Joy

Not to start another pointless debate, but don't you feel that the millions of taxpayer money, needlessly spent in the previous eight investigations showing no cause were enough? I am not a Hillary fan, but I am a fan of having politicians pay for their own political grandstanding. Often our Social Security is tapped for nothing more than schoolyard power plays.

halkel--We'll see.

Janie--Like you I bite my tongue, and say that's personal.

Joy--I do the same as you with my Amazon Prime.

angelface--Sorry, but I don't get into the workings of politics/government.

It sure is quiet here in the SS.  I am going to go watch TV.

Dear husband has had the ordeal of working on my laptop for five days (on and off) and it is back about 80%.  Whew.  Only 2 years young - these annoying things!

Schwans has a hockey arena in Minnesota and one grandson will be playing there - at times.  Tonight, we hope to get the televised game and have that set up nicely - thanks to Don again. 

We keep on donating stuff from the house, another trunk filled today for Sal. Army.  then, we had a bagel at Panera and I got to learn how to use a new kiosk type of ordering - for fast service.  Slow service is alright with us - we bring our books & sip our coffee. 

Lloyd:  Be careful on putting up ceiling sheetrock, that is heavy stuff. 

Amy:  Hugs to you and hubby as you begin a medical procedure for him.  There is better news on recovery every day.

Record setting heat here today, since they began keeping records that is....  Dinosaurs walked the hills and valleys and they keep finding evidence so it was not a winter place during their lives.  Not to start any argument but a science show tells us that there were many climate changes eons ago - before man walked earth.  But - scientists don't always know everything.

A world series game is on tonight, I think - but hockey with the kids playing comes first.  I like to watch baseball but Don doesn't care - I did play baseball with two younger brothers a lot.  That was how I babysat them.   

I'm so happy to be back online.  take care everyone. 

   

Time escapes me. I did go down for an early lunch at 11 o'clock, then on to the adjacent Lounge for a Hoedown program, which was wonderful. A young couple, married 12 years, and still in love, performed music and and dancing and singing for us. The place was jam-packed and we all went home happy and tired. I lay down for a short nap, which turned into close to two hours. My mind is still blurry...perhaps that is a natural state when one gets close to 92 years of age. Que Sera......

Carol, welcome home...it is good to have you back on line. I am really fortunate with my computer. My present iMac is 9 years old and still giving me daily service. It has minor act-ups now and then, and is a bit slow in starting up, but then so am I, so we are patient with one another.
Hope yours will behave for you now.

Joan, I was reacting to Hal's post and am just so tired of politicians using my money, social security to play their games. To me, that is not politics, but economics. Let them play with their own money. But enough said. I'll shut up now.

June:  You are doing so well.  We have a friend who just turned 93 this week - Betty is from northern Minnesota. An auntie of mine is 102 and she likes to watch baseball - she is in assistance but still bright & articulate.  I so admire all of you.   

She/he whom is without fault please stand up ! Innocent until proven guilty .............

Good evening. 

Good to see your post Carol.  I have been wondering if you and Don were still here in CO?  We still have not managed to get together.  Hope we can do something before you head south.  Guess you do not want to be in too big of rush as the temps are still on the higher side. Good that Don was able to get your computer going.   

JOAN, we have the same situation here...gated senior community and in 12 years we have never had any little ones come here to trick or treat.  Since Dave's Family has been here we go to their house and pass out treats while they go out as a family to have fun with friends.  Works well for us. 

JANE, biting the tongue is happing to me as well....seems that many wants to freely pass out there opinions! 

Hope you all enjoy a nice evening!

Jenny

good Night everyone. sweet dreams. good day but only touched the surface on honey do's .

Lloyd

Good Saturday morning, Everyfriend.   There's assorted cereals and fruit  of your choice to accompany your coffee or tea. I wish everyone a good day!!





Old is When

You signed up for an exercise class and was told to wear loose-fitting clothing. If I HAD any loose-fitting clothing, I wouldn't have signed up in the first place!

When I was young we used to go "skinny dipping," now I just "chunky dunk."

Wouldn't it be nice if whenever we messed up our life we could simply press 'Ctrl-Alt-Delete' and start all over?

Stress is when you wake up screaming and then you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet.

My husband says I never listen to him. At least I think that's what he said.

If raising children was going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor!

Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells remain FOREVER.


Nobody Needs Your Religion
(By Stan Buckley)


Nobody needs your religion. It's true. Nobody needs your religion. Nobody. And they never have. The people of Jesus' day did not need any more religion. There was plenty around but it wasn't what they needed. The blind and the deaf and the sinful and the leprous and the demon-possessed and the crippled and the prostitutes and the swindlers - the outcasts of society - did not need man's religion.

Becoming religious would not have given them sight or hearing or forgiveness or clean bodies or sanity or working legs or a new life or a second chance. If they had only become religious, they would have been merely blind people who were religious, deaf people who were religious, sinful people who were religious, leprous people who were religious, demon-possessed people who were religious, crippled people who were religious, prostitutes who were religious, swindlers who were religious.

They didn't need religion. They needed Jesus. They needed His presence and His power and His love. They needed Him. And when they experienced Him, everything changed.

How often today do we Christ-followers offer our religion to a hurting and hopeless world? We offer them our organization and our morals and our culture and our way of doing things. We offer them our traditions and our songs and our styles. We offer them our denominations and our organizational charts and our complexities and our list of religious things to do and to not do. And some of them accept our offer. But at the end of the day they are still blind and deaf and sinful and leprous and demon-possessed and crippled.

What if, instead of offering our religion, we offered them Jesus? What if we introduced them to the One who could give them sight and hearing and forgiveness? What if we introduced them to the One who could give them the abundant life today and eternal life that begins now and goes forever? It seems that the offer of Jesus would be so much more valuable, infinitely more valuable, than the offer of our religion: you know, our rules made by men; our organizations; our stones tied around the necks of lost and hopeless people.

And what if they embraced Jesus and after that we still refused to entangle them in our religion? What if, instead of trying to turn them into good religious people, we just kept teaching them about Jesus? What if we helped them to become not better religious people but better disciples of this Jesus?

What if this Jesus was the primary topic of conversation in our churches and our small groups and our Bible studies and all of our religious gatherings, both formal and informal? What if we talked more about this Jesus than we talked about our religion, our organizations, our denominations, our structures, our power struggles, who we are for and who we are against, and all the other things that, if we were finally honest, we would admit take up the vast majority of our time and our energy and our conversations, but have little or nothing to do with Jesus?

It's true. Nobody needs your religion. But they sure could use your Jesus.



“I have had the privilege of preaching the gospel on every continent in most of the countries of the world. And I have found that when I present the simple message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ with authority, quoting the very Word of God - He takes that message and drives it supernaturally into the human heart."

- Billy Graham

Good Morning Everyfriend...and a special Good Morning to you, Joanie.  I'm up a bit early this morning because I was semi awake and realized that I'd been having some of those weird dreams that seem to haunt the early hours of the morning.  I decided to get up so they would not have a place to go.  It think they make me more tired that does a lack of sleep. 

It's cold this morning...33º when I got up.  It's supposed to get up into the low 50s later today but I'm pretty sure we had freezing temps over nite.

The only item on my agenda today is a trip to the Amish store and that will be in the company of my daughter.  She's going to pick me up and we'll go together.  If the time is right when we finish, we might have lunch.  She's going to let me know this morning when she can go.  My day is open wide!

Good morning everyone

Woke up to the sound of liquid sunshine..and it is taking away the snow!!

Laundry day today then maybe a trip to the dump is all that is planned  plus some sewing 

Joan, thank you for breakfast

Enjoy your day everyone.

Good Morning Bis and JaneS you two are all I see ? Hal came on line when I was on Skype (well I seen  you come on line but no answer.) Oh well maybe Later. hope everyone Has  a great day.

Lloyd

Good Morning AMY you suck in while I was posting. Have a great day.

Lloyd

Good morning, Janie.  Bummer when you have those kind of dreams.  Enjoy your time with your daughter, and lunch,  too, if the timing is right.  It sounds like warm clothes are needed there.

Amy--Good morning.  At least you don't have to shovel liquid snow.

Good morning, Lloyd.  Maybe halkel isn't ready to visit yet.

Maby Bis hope he is doing better seen where he has been under the weather (No Fun)

Lloyd

You're right, Lloyd.  It's no fun not to feel well.

Good Morning Everyone!

Lloyd I turn on the puter and then go do other things while it is loading up.  I saw where you tried calling.  I will try getting back with you later this morning, if you haven't decided to head to your shop.

Not too much planned here today.  clean the leaves off the patio and watch some football and that is about it.

Janie, wonder why the bad dreams.  I think all of us suffer from them sometimes.  I know I do and I used to blame sleeping pills and I quit them but still have them sometimes. 

Joanie, enjoyed your "food" for the soul this morning.  They are once again telling us that we have rain in the forecast.  But as usual not a high percentage chance. 

All my trees still have their leaves.  Guess they will come down when we have a blue norther come blasting through.

Coffee is ready, who wants a cup.

Hi everyone on a beautiful Saturday morning here in North Augusta.  We will once again be in the low 80's this afternoon.  Pat got up before I did this morning and prepared her own breakfast for the first time in almost 3 months.  It was a pleasant change.  I thought I was coming down with a cold last night as had a very stuffy head on one side but it seems to be back to normal this morning. 

Yesterday morning turned into something of a mess when we got downtown for Pat's eye appointment the main street and numerous side streets around where the office was located had been blocked off to get ready for the Halloween festival and parade that is held each year downtown.  We like to never have found a way to get to the parking area for the medical office.  I finally found a way but had to deal with a lot of detoured traffic and narrow alleys.  We were late getting there but she was seen right away.  I was lucky that while I let Pat off at the door someone pulled out of a parking space just ahead of me as there were no other spots in the parking lot.  When we got through it was another struggle to get back to a side street where we could get "out of town".  From there we went to Ruby Tuesday's, which is not in the downtown area, and had a nice lunch.  The rest of the day was enjoyable and restful. 

Nothing on tap today other than to watch some football.    I brought down her old computer for her to use from upstairs as her new one is totally unreliable.  I am in a quandary as to what to do but when I am sure it is not working right again, which is an intermittent problem, I will contact the warranty department of COSTCO again and see where that leads.

Joy, we buy a lot of things, including paper products, through the Amazon Prime and other online places. I know we will eventually buy groceries online, even if I have to drive to Walmart or the grocery store to pick them up. 

June, to be able to use the same computer for nice years in this day and age is really something.  I have lost track of how many computers, both desktop and lap top I have bought in the last nine years. 

Hal, our trees also haven't shed many leaves yet.