Rick, Kyle goes in on Mon to get cortisone shots in his shoulders. They don't last long but do give him a bit of relief. When he inquired the orthopedic  surgeon said it would be like sewing up butter so no surgery..

So I too will be waiting to see how Jenny makes out.

Jenny...thank you for my belated Birthday wishes...
...All the best on your EMG result..

Jackie, sorry for the belated birthday wishes, but happy birthday and good wishes to last all year.

Jenny, I sure hope the time is here to get that shoulder properly taken care of so it can heal.

Marilyne, you haven't mentioned your hand lately.  I'm hoping it has healed and is much better.

A little overcast here.  The azaleas in front have finished blooming but the miniature azaleas and rhododendrons by the garage are now in full bloom—-white rhododendrons and bright red azaleas.  The pansies have been blooming all winter and still going strong.  They are in pots close to the front porch so they haven't been bothered by the cold weather.

Have a good day everyone.

FlaJean...better late than never, quoting my late father... thank you..

Another weekend is almost upon us.  This will be the last week in March, and next Friday will be April First - daughter Sandy's birthday.    Then I think Easter, will arrive a few weeks after that? 

Usually weekends are spent watching some of the movies I've recorded, or series that we are following.  About half way through the new season of "Mrs Maisel", and enjoying it very much.,  I especially like the 1950's dresses and hats, and the authentic decor in the kitchens!  I'm a collector of dinnerware, kitchenware, china  and  Pyrex, from that era, so I really get a kick out of the set decorations in that show! 

Mary Page - This week I started watching, "The Gilded Age", and I'm loving it!   Trying hard not to binge watch, so I can savor each episode to the fullest.  Wow, talk about set decorations, and clothes!  Love the story,  the manners, the actors, and the whole look of the production!  Thank you for recommending it. 

Good Friday morning HELLO to all.

Thank you to ALL who commented and wished me the best on my EMG test.   The test went well.  We liked the doctor and feel she was thorough.  The news was not great, but could have been worse.  There is damage to the nerves n my shoulder...duh‼️ She attributed mainly to the original fall and he fact that they had such a hard time getting my dislocated shoulder back into the socket.  That being said, the two surgeries did their part as Errol.  The damage is only in my shoulder not my neck or my lower arm.  She thinks I have every hope that it will repair itself to some degree but it will take as much as a couple of yeas 🤪🤪🤪 The doc called my shoulder "frozen" but Dr. Dave does not agree with this as this is a orthopedic issue and the fact that my PT can rotate my arm every direction without a hitch, he thinks I need to hold off on this opinion from her and wait to see what my orthopedic surgeon says after he has seen the report. I felt a little down after we got home, but this morning I am ready to tear up the world to get this shoulder working again. 

RICK, I am sorry that you also have issues with lifting your arm, as many of us do.  Gloria is one for sure.

AMY, cortisone shots were mentioned yesterday as well as another surgery procedure.  I am putting this in my surgeons hands and see what he suggests😩😩 How often does Kyle get the cortisone shots? I got one in my so called good shoulder that was causing me so much pain and it did the trick, but I am noticing a bit more pain as time goes on.  I had the shot the end of November.  So just 4 months ago.

Seems it never rains but it pours‼️ My dermatologist called yesterday to say the second biopsy was good, but their is some kind f cancer concern so I go back to him next week for @ scrape an$ burn procedure.  I had this done a couple of months ago on another spot, so I know all about it.  Gurrr, as this will keep me from my swimming AGAIN for another couple f weeks😩😩

I wish you ALL a good day and a good weekend.

Jenny

Jenny, it has been some time since Kyle has had the shots. Usually they don't last too long with him but one can only hope and pray they do this time. You are doing great with having them work for 4 months!!

Does anyone remember Carolyn Stirling, who lived in New Zealand?  I liked her so very much, and have yearned to know what happened to her. The last time I heard from her (by email) was in 2018.  Anyone?

MaryPage, the last time I posted with her on Facebook was probably early 2020 when she talked about Brook's graduation. I left Facebook that year so am not aware of what she's doing now.

Thank you, Patricia.  Brooke was still in college (uni, as they call it) and Grace in her last year of High School when I last heard from Carolyn.  I have never done Facebook or any other social media except SeniorNet, followed by Seniors & Friends.  I know Carolyn used to post in Soda Shoppe, and I never did; so we lost our way of contact here; but were keeping personal contact.  Then, whoosh, I had so much going on at once, I left Seniors & Friends so as to have time to get my own life sorted. I feel sad to find I have lost the thread of Carolyn's voice and the news of her family members.

In as much as Patricia"knows" Facebook. Maybe she could locate her and swap email addresses to get you two  together again. I'm another one who does not do the "Social Media" sites. Started to do Facebook once and was inundated with emails to accept or deny "Friends" that I didn't even know.

MaryPage, I'm sorry you lost track of Carolyn. When I was there in 2020, she was rarely posting due to long-standing medical issues.

Carolyn is still posting on Facebook.

Mom if you would like I can send her
your email address and tell her that you
would like to connect with her.   

Sandy 

Thank you, Sandy.

Hi everybody! I hope everyone is doing well.

I remember Carolyn. We had several posting from Australia at one time, but isn't Carolyn in New Zealand? Or am I remembering someone else from the Senior nets.

My contractor was over yesterday to see what I want done in the Kitchen. Basically I need new cabinets, flooring and two of the windows replaced. Beyond that, we discussed extra cabinets and counter space, shorting one window to accommodate that. He is going to put in more outlets. He wants to redo all four walls by covering them with drywall without removing the plaster. I wonder how well that will work out. I always thought you would have to pull down the plaster walls first.

I'd like to get out and do some work on redoing my flower bed around the porch, but every time it gets warm enough, it rains again. Today is sunny but only 45^o right now. My daffodils are in full bloom, most of them made it through the porch work last year.

Marilyne, I am so pleased to hear you are enjoying The Gilded Age.  I just flat out love it to bit5, and am missing it.  There will be another season.

Fortunately I, as a matter of conscience because they are the channels I love the most, keep memberships going in two of our three local PBS channels.  Now this entitles me to their free streaming app and I have a bunch of stuff lined up to watch.  Currently I am loving Seaside Hotel.  It is a Danish delight, with subtitles.  Denmark has a bunch of their finest doing it, and it is truly top notch TV. 

Jenny, I'm wanting you WELL.  Pulling my magic wand out and waving it frantically towards the West and your direction.

Thanks for the comments and concern re Carolyn Stirling.  Sandy Darling, she HAS my email address; but thank you.  And yes, she does live in New Zealand.  Well, news will come about her, or it will not.  We had many years of contact, and that was a Joy.

Could not get in here most of yesterday.  Went to bed like that, but all seems restored this afternoon.  I have tons of chores on my list, so need to go.  As Lowell Thomas used to say, back when there were no computers and no TV, "So Long until tomorrow."  Do you remember the words "So Long?"  I never hear them anymore.  They will probably not appear in historical novels written about my childhood days and World War Two, etc., because the authors do not know what our expressions were.  I wish they did, in order to get a fully authentic feeling from them.  Instead, they put the slang of today in the mouths of their characters, and leave me outraged and yelling at my books:  "But we never SAID that!!!!  It was not in use back then!!!!

How fierce I am, indeed, to take on words written in a book, of all things.

Mary Page, I only have one "Gilded Age" episode left to watch - then we'll have to wait a long time for Season #2.  I'm enjoying the story very much, and loving the clothes and the decor in the various homes and rooms.  Being as I'm always interested in china, crystal and table settings, I really savor the gorgeous china patterns!  The women's dresses are beautiful, and never have I seen one worn more than once.  It must be an expensive series to produce, and will likely get an Emmy Award this year for set decorations, costume designs, and of course the actors!

Like you, I am  annoyed by movies and TV shows that are set in the 1940's or 50's, because today's screenwriters never get the dialogue right . . .  in the way people talked, and the slang expressions that were used back then.    If you want an authentic depiction of life back in those decades, you have to watch the old movies playing on TCM. (Turner Classic Movies).   I really enjoy them so much, and get a kick out of the slang expressions - especially in the 1940's War movies.    I like to watch,  "They Were Expendable", whenever it rolls around on that channel - just so can hear Donna Reed, and others, saying the word swell.  "This was a swell party" - thank you for inviting me".  When was the last time you heard anyone say, "I had a swell time"??  Probably at least 50 years ago!     

Yes, Marilyne, it is the lushness of The Gilded Age that I am loving.  And most especially the gowns.  And no, I have never been able to detect one worn twice.

Gosh, and Golly too, I sure do remember "swell."  We used it ALL the time! 

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It's presently a beautiful sunny day here in Northwest Florida, but the weatherman says the rain and storms will be heading our way this afternoon.

No birds nesting in the birdhouse, but one is sitting on her nest above the back porch post.  Think it might be a finch but haven't been able to get a good look.

Larry took down the bird feeders because the grackles and crows were getting to be too much.  They were coming in and eating all the food.  Also the neighbor across the street feeds several wild cats and they had killed several of the birds in our yard.

I'm hoping they eventually show The Gilded Age on PBS.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful day.

Well, gee Ms. Golly, I've had a swell time!

Patricia, there was a write-up in the paper a few days ago about a new mini-series on TV.  I was not interested at all in the main theme, which was extreme camping, but, because of you and your love of your humongous state, wanted to catch the 1st of the series because it takes place in Alaska.

The name of the series is something like Mud, Sweat & Beards; and nothing, NO THING, about it appealed to me except the fact that it takes place in Alaska.  It is on the USA channel.  Because you don't do TV, I thought you might like to hear about it.

First, I need to confess I am NOT a camper.  Never have been.  I enjoyed the camps I was sent off to in my childhood summers, but always yearned for the comforts of home.  As an adult, I flat out refused to budge rather than join some of my friends and neighbors on their camping weekends.  I still, after all these many years, cannot figure out the call to their inner beings.

This series is really over the top.  Two large men stay in the clothes they arrive in for days & days.  I forget how many, but it was a LOT.  I cannot imagine the stink without shuddering.

They have to build themselves a shelter, and find all of their own food.  The latter finds them killing a large porcupine.  Ugh!  The fishing I tolerated much better, but cooking those fish with their heads on was a definite turnoff.

Ok, enough of the unpleasant stuff.  Alaska!

I did not find any pleasure in the lakes or forests in this particular area.  The lakes were bare of surrounding tall trees, and the woods had no pretty or familiar trees.  But the mountains were to die for!  I adored them, and have a million or so questions about them, and hope to learn more about them: starting perhaps with their name and location in your state.

End of report.  Just a fleeting thought of the actual camping duo makes me feel like chucking up my breakfast!

Oh MaryPage, where do I start? first off, I believe them killing a porcupine is illegal and immoral done for television ratings. I have to believe that was somehow staged. Second, this state is basically covered by a primordial forest broken up here and there by large mountain ranges.

Mount Denali, 100 miles from me, is the largest mountain outside of Everest and Everest is only higher because it's situated already on the border of Nepal and Tibet. Side by side on flat ground, Denali would be taller. Denali, Mts, Hayes, Deborah, and Foraker would all be taller.

There are over 10,000 lakes, sorry Minnesota, we've more than double your 144,000, along with numerous rivers, glaciers, streams, creeks, hot springs, and ponds. Alaska has mountains and volcanoes and some of the most active fault lines. We are situated among the "ring of fire" that Includes Japan and Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Philippines, Chile, Canada, Guatemala, Russia, Peru, Solomon Islands, Mexico, and Antarctica.

The state is divided into four separate climatic and geographical areas.  The S.E. is in the same rainforest climate as Washington and Oregon; Ketchican Alaska holds the record for the most US rainfall, sorry Seattle. The west side of the state is composed of treeless, windy plains, the north of  arctic tundra, and the Interior is rivers, lakes, mountains, and of course, forests.  You would be hard-pressed to notice a difference outside of human-placed restrictions between Alaska and Canada's British Columbia and Yukon territories.

The state has 6,640 miles of coastline. It is bordered on three sides: the Bering Sea, Chukchi Sea, Pacific, and the Arctic Ocean. We have a huge military presence because we are separated from Russia's Siberia at two points, one in the Bering Sea by 53 miles and one only 3 miles between two Islands, Big and little Diomedes, one claimed by Alaska and the other by Russia.

And lastly, staying in your clothes and other things you mentioned sounds like a copy of the old show Survivor. Is that still on? I grew up on the Interior's rivers, and my folks camped most of the area and traveled through others, and I don't recall any folks, "extreme camping." It sounds gross.

Well, I think it IS gross.  They don't bring a scrap of food.  They did show the living porcupine, and then the dead one, and then them chawing down on some cooked pieces. I think they really did kill that porcupine.  Sorry I did not hear the name of the place they went.

I do not like, and have never followed, any of the real-life survivor type shows; so I cannot compare this in any way.  As stated, I only watched it to get some idea of the topography.

And I count myself fortunate we don't have a smell it button on our TVs.  At least, not yet, we don't!

I loves my creature comforts, I do.  No Wilderness adventuring for me!

Oh my, killing and then chowing down on a porcupine.....staying in the same clothes for days.....nope, I am not in any way interested in that TV Show😩‼️‼️  That being said, I too, would enjoy the view of the beautiful mountains. 

PATRICIA, I have never had the pleasure of visiting Alaska, but I sure am intrigued by the details you tell about your state and I still hope someday to visit. 

MARILYN and MARYPAGE, I will be looking to find The Guilded Age.  It sounds very intriguing to me.  I love watching the beauty of the past years......the dresses, china and furniture. 

I AM DOING SWELL......yes, what a wonderful word, and no, I have not heard it in a very long time.

MARYPAGE, I certainly appreciate you waving your magic wand my direction 🥰🥰. I want so badly to put this shoulder issue far behind me‼️‼️

I had problems getting in here and when I did there were warnings not to go further as it was a unsafe area.....or something like that.  I certainly did not want any problems so gave up and tried again another day. 

Terrible storms to the southeast......my son is in Charlotte NC and he said there were tornadoe warnings there most of the day.  They even let the schools out early.  Also talked to my SIL in Panama City FL and they had tornado warnings there as well.  I hope all of you are safe. 

Jenny

Gee Willikers, it sure is swell to see everyone. 

One of the things I liked about living in the Colorado mountains (Hi, Jenny!) was that we could go out all day and roam around the mountains - and then go home, have a nice hot bath and sleep in our own beds. 
Hubby and I agreed that, if we tried to take a trip in an RV....the second day out, one of us would be traveling alone.

Patricia, Alaska reminded me somewhat of Colorado - particularly the baskets of flowers hanging along the streets in Anchorage.    Friend and I went there on a tour in June, 2004. We cruised from Seattle up the Inside Passage to Skagway and then were on a coach (bus with a restroom  ) along the Klondike Highway to Fairbanks. That was the summer of the horrible fires and smoke haze was really bad in Fairbanks.  In fact, residents were being advised to stay indoors the day we left for Denali and Anchorage.  We flew home from there.  It was a great trip.

All well in central Oklahoma - except the weather keeps bouncing from near freezing temperatures to feels-like-mid-summer.  Trees are in full bloom  but neighbors who garden have yet to put out a single plant.

There are 5 pairs of cardinals coming to my feeder but I have yet to see any finches or other summer birds.  Usually put out hummingbird feeder about now but am wondering if I should wait.

Ooops-  missing the beginning of a tv "soap opera" that is ending the series.

TTYL


 

Jenny,  I was wondering did you say
that your son who's wife died has
moved to a different area?   

How are he and the children doing?

Life must be so difficult for them
and their family, including you
and your husband. 

May you all find peace, sooner 
or later ...

Hugs
Sandy 

I started this Gosh, Golly, Gee Whiz and Swell, nonsense a few days ago, so decided to put an official end to it with this song.  From the 1956 movie musical, "High Society" . . . Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, singing, What a Swell Party This Is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kq1JQUhwVQ

Had my 6 month checkup with my Doc.  I am still impressed with her after about 20+ years! She sits down, asks how you're doing, and as I launch into my just getting older spiel, and start listing my complaints, she types them into her laptop, and proceeds with "what else---anything else"?

My blood pressure was great, and the problem with my ear (vertigo), she says
"definitely not wax".  She gave me name of ENT to check and see if there's water behind the ear drum.  She did ask if I wanted a prescription to help me sleep.  She knows that I have an aversion to anything "drug-like", so we discussed one, at its lowest milligram, and I am to start by cutting it in half or fourths to see what, if any, contraindications there are.  I told her that even a 10 mg melatonin will give me a next-day "hangover"; i.e. fuzzy headed, feel like I'm walking in fog and quicksand.  On top of that, it doesn't really help with the sleep, maybe an extra 2 hours.  She was very quick to point out that sleeplessness can create other problems, as sleep is when your body does its "natural repair".  I think my 2 hrs naps in the afternoon must be repairing some things!  LOL!

The Prodigal Senior, here, hoping to be welcomed back! 

I've kept up with all your messages. It's been five months since I lost Chape. Being alone after 65 of my 83 years has been a challenge. Feeling sick much of the time doesn't help. I've been in and out of the ER and hospital several times because of low blood sodium and swallowing problems. My children have been a blessing. Children and grandchildren have been here many times.

Granddaughter, Brynn, flew down here twice with the twins, and Shea came with baby Keani. What a joy they are!

In January our children organized a Memorial Service here in The Villages for their Dad. It was wonderful, and more friends and neighbors attended than I ever expected. I wish we had recorded the "speeches" family members gave.

Hi Bev. Glad to hear from you again. I hope things continue to improve.

Not much going on here this week, just cool/cold and damp, dark and dreary weather, but it sure better that what Duluth and Sault St. Marie have been getting lately. Lots of snow squalls with low visibility. Soo Locks seem okay today, but Duluth has another snow storm with very low visibility, just now. That is not stopping the cargo ships, but I did notice that they are all hugging the coast and not venturing out into the lake. CG Hollyhock is continuing ice cutting duty while USCGC Spar is getting, I assume, getting provisioned, new crew and orientation since she has arrived. She replaces USCGC Alder which is being refitted, etc. and will eventually be sent out to the San Francisco area.

Just heard some thunder.