Norms Bait and Tackle

Mary Ann · October 04, 2019, 09:57:41 AM

Where is everyone? The last post was mine 23 1/2 hours ago (10:30 am).

I had another "lost" day yesterday and slept a lot. Tom's friend, who cleans for us, had a tooth implant Monday, so did not come on Tuesday, her regular day. I would not have wanted her on Tuesday because of my nose job. So she came yesterday. She did some things and I don't know when she left because I was asleep. I also didn't pay her but that doesn't bother her.

Tom had Bible study this morning and will teach around noon. Then he'll have a meeting after that. I keep telling him to slow down - sure!

The trash is out and will be picked up about noon.

I hope someone will follow me in here today. I don't like being the only poster. Norm wouldn't like it either.

Mary Ann

PS - I always look at Grand Haven before I sign off here. Today I see either smoke or clouds across the lake and I can't tell you where it is. You've heard the song, "On a clear day you can see forever", well on a clear day you can see across Lake Michigan to the Chicago and Milwaukee areas.. It isn't the angle shown in the site, but you have to be looking directly across the lake. I haven't been there at the right time. Just a bit of trivia for you.[/b][/size][/color]

Sandy · October 04, 2019, 10:20:37 AM

Good Morning MaryAnn
and everyone else.

It is cooler here then it has been. They removed
my AC yesterday, so hopefully the hotter humid
weather will cease to exist here in
Portland Maine!!

Hard to believe that Summer is over and
another long Winter is on the way.

Other wise I am just super and next week
I go to see about getting my cataracts
removed. I will be glad when that is
over.

Have a good day, Everyone.
Sandy

Mary Ann · October 04, 2019, 10:28:59 AM

Sandy, best wishes for your cataract surgery. Norm and I both had ours done in 1999 and I'll say it was a "piece of cake" but everyone has a different reaction to the surgery. It really is not a difficult surgery and does not take long.

We always hear about the wooly caterpillars for winter prodictions. My cat comes to be petted and scratched every morning and I swear his fur coat is a lot thicker than usual. I don't know if he's predicting a bad winter or not. His fur is nice and thick.

Mary Ann

Marilyne · October 04, 2019, 10:40:00 AM

Sandy - good to see you checking in this morning. It's been a while since we've heard from you. You'll be able to see so much better, after your cataract surgery. Makes a big difference in quality of life. Hope everything else is okay in your life, and that you will update us on your darling little Gr-granddaughter. Also, come see us in the Television folder. You usually have some good suggestions for us TV watchers.

Mary Ann - Good to see you this morning, and like you, I'm hoping we don't have to "hold down the fort" today all by ourselves, as we did yesterday. Beverly and Jenny left messages in the morning, but then it was just the two of us for the remainder of the day? Hope we have more of our S&F friends showing up today.

MarsGal - Let us know how George is doing this morning? Out of the hospital I hope, and now recuperating?

Beverly · October 04, 2019, 10:52:08 AM

Good morning Mary Ann! I'm here with bells on!

It's up to 81 already but the days and nights are cooling. By mid-October/November our weather should be very nice.

The neighborhood garage sale is Saturday the 12th and I have a lot of stuff I should put out. I'm trying to clear out un-necessary stuff.

Tuesday Chape's youngest sister from near the Clearwater, FL area and her husband will be here for a couple of days. Ginny's birthday is Wednesday. She was only six when we got married.

Marilyn - I don't like the new format on Ancestry either. Whenever something is going well, someone has to change it! I have never been good at accepting change. It takes me awhile. It's expensive here to get the Encore channel. We have to take the whole movie package. We aren't big movie watchers so Chape settles for INSP which has old western movies and series, as well as The Waltons and Little House on the Prairie, etc. As it is, he pays a lot for a sports channel so he can get the Brooklyn Nets basketball. He also watches football (NY Giants) and baseball (Boston Red Sox). You can see why I've learned to "tune out" things around me!

Time to get a few things done. I fizzle out by afternoon.

CallieOK · October 04, 2019, 11:09:10 AM

Good Morning,

The thermostat reading was two degrees below the setting when I got up this morning and still hasn't come up. However, I'm not going to turn on the heat...yet!!

I've been doing "household projects" in the mornings and reading in the afternoons. Some of the t.v. dramas ( ? ) I like have begun their Fall seasons and I've gotten interested in the auditions for The Voice. Not so much for Dancing With The Stars this season - too much strutting and posing in skimpy outfits for my taste.
Also have to keep up with my OU Sooners and All My Children's OSU Cowboys football.

It's finally cool enough and just cloudy enough for me to to clean out the bird feeders and restock suet and seeds plus begin cleaning out a planter or two. That's my Project du Jour; remains to be seen how far I'll get with it.

And that's what's going on in my world.

FlaJean · October 04, 2019, 11:49:36 AM

It should be cooling down soon but today will be another hot one.

Our hummingbirds have all gone south, but we really enjoyed them while they were here. We should be getting an influx of new birds soon. Last year we had a lot of different birds that were here in Northwest Florida for the winter.

Beverly, I hope your daughter is feeling much better now. With all the advances in technology it is a shame that they can't make cancer medicine that includes an ingredient that will alleviate the nausea.

Hi to everyone and thinking of you Jackie.

Joy · October 04, 2019, 12:15:07 PM

Just stopping by to let you know that I am still "kicking". It has been a very "lost" morning. I did sleep pretty well, but when I woke up a little before 7, I was still so sleepy. So, went back to bed and slept until almost 9. And, I am still not fully awake. I was reading a good book, and I wanted to finish it. So, I read for a little while and fell asleep again. Finally, did manage to get myself awake and went and got a little something to eat. I am slowly coming back to almost "normal" whatever that is.

Then, when I got on here a little while ago, I had a message from my son that he had to put his horse down this morning. So, that didn't make me feel much better. He had had this horse for a long time, and it had gotten so, it could hardly walk anymore. So he was pretty upset and that upset me.

So, I need to get settled down and try to get on with the day.

So, to all the friends here, hope you all have an enjoyable day.

Joy

Mary Ann · October 04, 2019, 12:26:56 PM

I've had an interesting "ship" morning. Three tugs went north, pushing barges, then a ship came from the north, then another tug and barge going north, with a ship going south. I don't know the time span, but they all came one right after the other, no long wait for the next one. Paul is headed south and should be at Port Huron soon, but the ship won't be there for a while, maybe 15-20 minutes. All of this interfered with my getting dressed and I'm debating whether I want to wait longer.

Callie, my thermometer reads 73 degrees and I know my thermostat is set there too. The furnace is quite quiet so I am not sure if it is on or not - and I think it is. I am very comfortable regardless if it is on or not.

Beverly, we don't have yard sales here now, we have had them and I imagine we'll have one again, but nothing is planned.

I wonder if others have the same problem I have with opening trash bags. I get a small 4-gallon bag for my bathroom wastebasket and it comes folded in four layers. I look for the bottom, then go to what I think is the top and no luck. I go all around the edges to find the opening, sometimes twice. Today was one of those "two" days.

I thought with the time I took that Paul would be arriving but the ship is still way out in Lake Huron. If I leave, the ship will come in and I'll be too late when I get back.

Marilyn and Beverly, I have so much on Ancestry I don't dare leave. I also don't care for Heritage, where I have a lot of info, just not as much as on Ancestry. It seems they have us trapped once we get on.

Joy, I'm sorry to hear about your son's horse. It is always hard to put down a pet, a family member really. And I've had days like your lost day myself, even this week.

Jean, at least you've had some hummingbirds. I don't think I saw one this year. On the other hand, I haven't had any fragrant flowers nearby for me to see them. I think they don't like geraniums much, not a pleasant smell.

I think I'll wait for Paul, then get something to eat.

Mary Ann

Marilyne · October 04, 2019, 01:24:21 PM

Good to see so many of you posting this morning! Mary Ann and I were getting tired of talking to each other!

Joy - So sad about your son's horse. Horses become beloved members of the family, just like dogs and cats. I can understand that your son is very depressed today. It will take a while for him to feel better again.

Jean - Our weather has cooled down considerably this week, especially over night - has dropped to the low 40's. However, today, the prediction is for highs in the low 80's,and will continue through the weekend. Our daughter and granddaughter will be here for three days, so it should be comfortable. The hummingbirds have left our area as well. They usually stick around because they like our Bottle Brush, in the backyard, but it's still flowering and they are nowhere in sight.

Callie - I guess I've lost all interest in DWTS. I tuned in for one episode a couple of weeks ago, and found the show to be extremely annoying. I used to like it, but found myself being way too critical of those in charge! Everything seems phony and too contrived this season. I think the show has "jumped the shark", as the saying goes.

Beverly - Good to see you back again today. I am one who likes to hold a garage sale . .. because I have so much stuff to get rid of! As I've mentioned before, I used to have space in a couple of antique shops here, and when I left, we had to pack everything up and bring it home to our basement. Over the years, we've sold a lot on eBay, Craigs List and other venues, but a garage/yard sale, is the best for moving lots of items in one day. However, the problem now is that it's too much work, and too exhausting for AJ and I to get everything organized and ready for the onslaught of people who come. Even when our kids help us, it's just too overwhelming.

MarsGal - I hope we hear from you soon, that George is okay?

Patricia - We haven't heard from you for a while either?

Jackie - Hope that you're feeling a little better today?

Jenny - We didn't hear from you yesterday? I hope everything is running smoothly, and the Michele will be feeling good this weekend?

angelface555 · October 04, 2019, 01:31:44 PM

Good morning, another dreary rainy day in the Interior. We've had snow clouds over the hills, and in the subdivisions in the upper elevations, there have been 2-3 inches of snow, but none lasting.

Farrah has taken to napping behind me if I read on the couch again, which is nice. She is affectionate a lot more lately and back to playing with her toys. She's bored with no more birds in her window on the world.

Yesterday I went to the wedding of one of my daughter's first boyfriends. It was a surreal occasion, very emotional for me, more so than I was expecting.

Today I'm going to try some more PSP tutorials as I've joined a new group. Also, I've finished up all my classes and for now have no plans for new ones. I just finished a final exam on the dissimilarities between psychopaths and sociopaths. Did you know there are degrees to how sociopathic one can be? And more properly termed antisocialist behaviors?

While both lack empathy, only psychopaths have no conscience.

angelface555 · October 04, 2019, 02:11:12 PM

"NORWAY IS RIFE WITH FJORDS—DEEP, canyon-like inlets carved by glaciers that add some 10,000 miles to the country's convoluted coastline—and at one time those fjords were rife with Vikings. Vikings settled many of these sheltered waterways, and some of those places evolved into modern towns and cities such as Eidfjord, Stavanger, and Trondheim, once the capital of the Viking world. Since many Vikings lived along fjords, it stands to reason many of them died there, too. Now, about 50 miles west of Trondheim, at the end of the Vinje Fjord, archaeologists have found a large Viking cemetery with the remains of at least 20 burial mounds, among them one special one—what was once a mound covering a house containing a burial. So much for the old vision of a Viking funeral ship set ablaze and sent out to sea.

"We have no evidence for waterborne Viking funeral pyres in Scandinavia. I honestly do not know where this conception derives from, and it should be regarded as a modern myth," says Raymoud Sauvage of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, the lead archaeologist on the site. "Normal burial practice was that people were buried on land, in burial mounds."

The graveyard is in the modern town of Vinjeøra, abutting a Viking-era farm, and it also boasts several boat burials, in which the deceased were interred inside wooden vessels. (Perhaps these land-based boat burials and separate evidence of land-based funeral pyres had something to do with the old Viking funeral myth.) The site was identified during surveys in advance of the expansion of a local highway. The mounds themselves, and the grave in the house, had long been sheared off by centuries of farming and plowing, but the remains of a ditch around the house make it clear that there was once a mound on top of it."

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Mary Ann · October 04, 2019, 03:06:30 PM

Patricia, Norm and I often wondered if we had Viking ancestors. Our German family ends in Germany and I have found nothing earlier. My DNA suggests Norway and Sweden ancestors but I can't find anything that jibes with what info I have. I love the Norwegian scenic pictures. My grandmother Tock had a friend who was born in Trondheim Norway and came to the US when she was 12 years old. She stayed with us a lot when my grandmother was with us. We loved her! I think she liked us too because she visited us several times after Grandma died. She lived in Grantsburg, Wisconsin.

In lieu of anything else to do, Kendrick spends a lot of time near me. Sometimes I will look up and see he is sleeping about six feet from me. Right now, he is at the foot of my bed. It is hard to make my bed when he is there, but I'm not going to disturb him.

I don't know if I mentioned James and Tom are going to try to get together to work on something (postpone from the other day) and their family is coming her today and all of us are going to McD's for supper where the twins can play. I can watch because Mother and Dad will be here to watch and Mother will take them home soon after. I am sure they will either talk up a storm with each other or with Alicia. But the best bet is that they will fall asleep. They still ride backward on the back seat of their car.

Mary Ann

MarsGal · October 04, 2019, 05:28:27 PM

Just a brief note to let you know that George is back home now. I've been out all day, mostly sitting in the hospital waiting for them to discharge him. After feeding his cats, I got over there about 10:30am. The gal came in taking lunch orders, so of course he decided to hang out there until lunch, which was supposed to be served in about 11am. He got his at 12:45pm. While he was eating another gal came in and said they would be discharging him and that the gal with the paperwork would be in "soon". Well they didn't show up until 3pm. I hadn't had a thing to eat or drink since this morning, a situation I remedied as soon as I got back home at about 4:35pm. They couldn't find anything major wrong with him, BTW, just some internal hemorrhoids and diverticulitis. Whatever caused the bleeding stopped on its own.

It is Oscar's turn, tomorrow, to get his annual checkup and shots.

I think I will go relax now and see if there is anything left to watch on the river this afternoon.

Marilyne · October 04, 2019, 06:09:37 PM

MARSGAL - No wonder George went to the hospital in an ambulance! That much bleeding must have really scared him. Good to hear that they couldn't find anything wrong, and that he is okay! You're probably tired out, from just sitting and waiting most of the day, so take it easy until you have to take Oscar to the vet tomorrow.

My daughter and granddaughter are here, so I probably won't be posting as much as usual. (which is probably too much anyway! ha ha) We got a bunch of interesting food from Costco, so we have plenty to eat tonight, and tomorrow night we plan to go out for dinner. Hope you all will have a nice weekend!

Mary Ann · October 04, 2019, 08:55:30 PM

MarsGal, I am glad to hear that George is home - and I'm sure you are happy he is home too. Next, poor Oscar.

Marilyn, enjoy your time with your daughter and granddaughter.

We just spent an enjoyable evening with James' family. Tom bought a recliner at a nearby thrift shop and he said it fits him well. He needed James to get it into the lower level. Alicia came first and later James and the girls arrived. After James and Tom got the chair settled, we all went to Cheers restaurant. We were lucky as they put us in a side room, all to ourselves. Also a good thing because the girls ran around the room. The girls are very good when out, possibly because they have each other. It was obvious they were getting tired at the end, but it was about 8 pm, so why not!

Toward the end of eating, I had to blow my nose and my bandage came off. It doesn't bother me, but where the doctor operated, there is an indentation and it is red from blood, however, it is not bleeding. I tried to put the bandaid back on, but it did not stay, in fact, fell on the floor. Alicia said she had something in her car, but I felt I could get home (less than a mile) OK. I now have a new bandaid on it and I hope it will stay all night. If not, I have more bandaids and more Vaseline.

Both girls colored at the restaurant and both used their left hands. It will be interesting to see if they continue; Tom's grandmother was a lefty and Tom is also a lefty. Tom is really ambidextrous, but writes and eats left-handed.

Mary Ann

Denver · October 04, 2019, 09:57:19 PM

I posted here earlier this morning, but clearly I must have forgotten to hit post as my post is not here🙀😩🤪

MARILYNE, I remember distinctly now our discussing your parent living in the same complex we lived in in Lake Oswego. Happy the girls arrived and you all are settled in for the night. Enjoy your visit.

MARY ANN, the evening with the family sounded nice. Will be interesting to see if the twins both will be lefties! They sure sound cute to watch. Nice Tom got a comfy chair to sit in.

MARSGAL, what a long day for you, just waiting. No food....but sure happy you got George home. I hope the rest of your day has been better for you.

AMY, I am so thankful to read the news that Kyle is clear of any cancer🙏🙏. Prayers answered❣️ Go to bed and sleep well knowing your prayers have been answered.

Yes, CALLIE, we have been watching the news about the fires. They are so frightening. I saw the picture of Miss Emily on Face Book. Sweet. None of our family are in Vail right now, but the fires are very concerning.

I wish you all a nice evening.

Jenny

Beverly · October 05, 2019, 12:23:08 AM

Just stopping in to say Good Night!

Wow, Jenny! I don't like flying and if I'd been on that plane I'm afraid I'd have a breakdown! So glad everything turned out okay and your family is back home safe and sound.

Jean - They do give Donna a strong anti-nausea drug along with the chemo. She still has some nausea but no vomiting so far. Mostly she has extreme fatigue and body aches.

I'm guessing Donna's feeling better because she's been doing research on Ancestry and has added to our family tree. I do a lot of searching but she's the one who is working on our family tree.

Mary Ann - What a joy to be able to watch the twins play. How old are they now?

MarsGal - Glad George's problems weren't more serious. He did the wisest thing by calling the ambulance. Always better to be safe than sorry.

Marilyne - I may not join the garage sale next week. My energy level is so low and I don't know how I'll feel from day to day. Chape agrees with me as he's my main helper! It is a lot of work.

Joy - What a sad way to start the day for both you and your son. Anything that affects our children affects us. Even at this age!

Patricia - I have PSP 10 now but only use it for photos. Years ago I enjoyed being creative with it but kind of lost interest. I find it's the best way to edit my pictures. I've tried some of the others.

It's after midnight already. I didn't intend to stay on here so long.

Good night all.

angelface555 · October 05, 2019, 01:01:17 AM

I've been getting back into PSP, and this evening, I received a backhanded compliment from a member of my new tut groups.

"I admire your strength and resolve, living in Alaska!! I could never. I have to have
all the sunshine I can get, or I get depressed....horrible!!!"

I did restrain myself actually and thanked her for the compliment.

CallieOK · October 05, 2019, 11:12:08 AM

Good Morning. Cloudy and back to muggy in central Oklahoma

Jenny, Oh my! What a "homecoming" for your family! So glad they were able to land safely. I don't even want to think about what something like that would do to my blood pressure!!!!

Patricia, for your reply to the person who obviously knows nothing about Alaska! Maybe thinking about the long stretches of darkness?

Beverly, would you please tell me how you make the tuna salad for the sandwich you mentioned a while back that had tuna salad and sliced pineapple on an English muffin? Sounds delicious and I have the ingredients - just not sure what to put in the tuna salad.

So happy for all those who posted positive health reports.

OU and OSU games are on t.v. at the same time. Guess I'll have to see if I remember how to do a split screen so I can watch both at the same time.

Enjoy your day, Everyfriend.

angelface555 · October 05, 2019, 11:24:46 AM

"People Who Hear Voices in Their Head Can Also Pick Up on Hidden Speech

Kendra Pierre-Louis, Popular Science

The secret to both might lie in how our brains experience the world."

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angelface555 · October 05, 2019, 11:52:04 AM

Morning Callie, I had just written a small post to you and then zigged when I should have zagged. $:-\$

It's more likely that she had the wrong information about Alaska that was never corrected. Many people believe we are either a foreign nation or a US colony. Or she considers the rumor that it is winter here and frozen like Antarctic twelve months of the year. And some insist that the area around Anchorage is the way all of the state is.

I have local friends from Israel and Ukraine as well as longtime online friends like Bubble and others from Sudan, Australia, Norway, and New Zealand. What we all share is incorrect ingrained beliefs about where we live. Then there are Alaskan Natives, Indians, Eskimos, and Aleuts among others who share the same frustrations where they live!

Jenny, I would have been a puddle on the floor if what happened to Brian and Cathy had occurred to me! I'm one who is fine flying except if there is turbulence, even if I understand the reasons for it.

I feel for all who have or had cancer. I know with my own, how scary it was, and not being able to control it.

I, too, always enjoy hearing about the twins. They must be close or just past two, MaryAnn?

so_P_bubble · October 05, 2019, 11:52:37 AM

Angel, do you hear voices?

CallieOK · October 05, 2019, 12:12:46 PM

Patricia, A lot of Alaska reminded me of the high mountains of Colorado where we lived for 15 years. Description of weather was "11 months of winter and 1 month of very late Fall".

Mary Ann · October 05, 2019, 12:36:55 PM

Patricia, the twins will be three in February. They are talking a bit some of which you can understand, some you cannot. At Christmastime I had pictures of each family put together on an 8x10 sheet and sent that out. Tom has one made for me in photo paper and I have it on a table in the living room. The girls saw the picture and were able to point out various menbers of the family, including "kitty". There were other family members who they have not met or do not remember but they knew Mommy and Daddy, Grandpa, themselves and me. I can't understand everything they say, but I can make out some of their conversation. Their mother can understand nearly everything.

It's a shame that Norm's grands will all live in distant areas and have little contact with each other. There are two at Holland, two at Eaton Rapids, both Michigan, and two in California. Some of us are going to Portland MI (mid-point) to meet the newest baby who will be born Oct 14; we're going in mid-November when the boy will be a month old.

For those on Facebook, I know both James and Alicia post pictures of the girls there. I don't know how to post pictures and probably never will, but if you want to see pictures of them, look for them. They're darling girls, both redheads.

More than anyone wanted to know.

Mary Ann

Marilyne · October 05, 2019, 01:07:52 PM

Mary Ann - I never tire of hearing a bout Johanna and Eleanor, so keep talking about them! I have no babies or toddlers in the family anymore, so I love to see the pictures and hear the latest.

Jenny - the same applies to you. Love to see the picture of little Jonah! His sweet little face reminds me of the original baby picture on the Gerber Baby Food ads.

Callie - I love that description - "eleven months of Winter, and one month of late Fall"! Oh yes, today is college Football Day! AJ will be TV bound all day long and into the evening. Rooting for LSU!

Patricia - I was shocked to find out recently, that a surprisingly large number of Millennials and the now adult children of Millennial's, do not know that Alaska is a State! Those who even have an opinion, think it's a territory, like Puerto Rico. I know that they have stopped teaching geography in most public schools, but still . . . they must know there are 50 states!!

I'll try to get back in later to say hello to the rest of all of our regular B&T posters. It's keeping me busy, having Shelley and Claire here until tomorrow, so not doing my usual long-winded posts! We plan to visit a few antique shops today, and will then go out to lunch somewhere. The weather is beautiful for a change. Sunny, blue skies, and so far, no wildfires!

angelface555 · October 05, 2019, 01:19:23 PM

MaryAnn, one of my friends has one-year-old identical twin great-grandsons who have their own twin speak. They're adorable!

Callie, That area in Colorado sounds like the city of Barrow and along that Northern coastline. Last summer we had three months of temperatures in the eighties and nineties. There are four separate temperate and geothermal areas of the state. "Alaska is the largest state in the United States by total area at 663,268 square miles (1,717,856 km 2), over twice the size of Texas, the next largest state. Alaska is larger than all but 18 sovereign countries."

Marilyne, the youngest grandchild in my family is 28 and there are no great-grandchildren. It's people of our generation as well that will argue with you about Alaska's statehood!

Bubble, I did at one time shortly after my daughter's death. During that traumatic time, I would be thinking and be interrupted by another voice insulting me. Imagine two speakers in your head, each in your voice at the same time. You may imagine what I was thinking. At the time I was in a therapy group of parents who had lost their adult children in sudden death. I was also diagnosed with PTSD.

I brought it up in group only to find I was not alone, others had experienced it too as it was fairly common. It was explained to me, in such events, we bury feelings and emotions we cannot process or accept. However, nothing stays buried and will surface in dreams or in my cases voices until we work out, understand and accept what we are feeling. I was burying a lot of anger and this is how it was coming out. Once I understood, the second angry voice disappeared.

But the link I posted was about other people, were able to pick up speech patterns others totally missed until they were told to listen for them. From the article, "The theory called predictive processing or predictive coding posits that a lot of our experience of the outside world is more about what we expect we happen rather than what is actually happening. It may explain, for example, why we tend to see shapes in clouds and Rorschach blots. We experience what we expect to experience, and we only change those predictions or expectations once we have enough evidence forcing our hand.

"And there's an idea," adds Alderson-Day, "that the people who hear voices might have brains that are a bit more primed to look for meaningful patterns in the environment around it particularly in unusual or ambiguous situations."

Mary Ann · October 05, 2019, 03:09:27 PM

There is a freighter outside the Grand Haven channel, 0 knots. The Algoma Buffalo. It is a big one.

Mary Ann

Mary Ann · October 05, 2019, 06:15:44 PM

I tried to change the font etc but I see I didn't - it was the Algoma Buffalo and is a big one. It is still there. I don't know what it is carrying.

Mary Ann

MarsGal · October 06, 2019, 05:47:26 AM

Mary Ann, destination of Algoma Buffalo is Grand Haven. Looks like it is still stopped this morning (5:30am EST).

Oscar is still a cat, according to the vet. We came home with a bottle of Dasuquin for him. I decided to try that over the baby aspirin because, unlike the aspirin that just treats the pain, this should help the joints themselves. We shall see.

George sounded in good spirits when I called him yesterday, so things are pretty much back to normal.

My next door neighbor put up (with help from relatives) her Halloween decorations over the last weekend. One of her newest additions is a large inflatable, lighted serpent which is now on the porch roof. It took them about 2 and a half days to get all the decorations up. Last year the decorations attracted quite a bit of attention from the neighborhood. Lots of people came by to see it and some took pictures. Even drivers pulled over or slowed down to see it all.

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