Quote from: Sandy on April 19, 2016, 10:48:28 AM
Good Morning Everyone from the cloudy
but warm,  Rocky Coast of Maine. 

I went over this morning to Time Warner with my cable box in hand,   and came home with it
still in hand.   

But,  they dropped my cable bill $75.  That was enough for me to reconsider dropping
it completely.   

My son Paul was with me and he thought that I had made the right choice.    If
I decide in a couple of months to get drop it again and save even more,   I will do so. 

The key the man said is to go over to they yearly are renegotiate ...     

How about that!!!! 
Sandy

You know why everything is negotiable, Sandy? Because you threatened to dump them.

I was going to say that once you dropped them, they would be calling you to start up with them again at a lower price.

Isn't it wonderful how they don't care unless you are no longer their customer?

Bottom line, they're all crooks.

W.Joan, tell Roxanne if she has to cough or sneeze to hug a pillow tight to her chest, that will ease any chest pain. They may have already told her that in the hospital.

Thanks June, I told her and she said the Hospital told her that too.  They gave her a rolled up blanket and she is still on oxygen but she sounds 100 percent better.  Seems she had Pneumonia to make matters worse but is doing well..

Joan, it sounds like Roxanne's body ganged up on her!  But I am so glad she has been able to find help and declare a ceasefire. 

Still partly cloudy here but tomorrow is expected to be sunny so I plan to both, go up to the University to try a few photos of the Alaska Range, including Denali as well as going to the wildlife sanctuary where the swans, ducks and geese have returned. I have a Nikon SLR so I hope for some nice photos.

The issues are that the mountains are usually clouded over, 20,237' Denali is tall enough to make its own weather as is Mt. Hunter and MT. Deborah so its a luck of the draw to get good photos locally. Anchorage and the S. E. portion of the state are very different as they sit at the range's feet instead of viewing them from a distance of 100 miles.

And the wildlife sanctuary is just so large in acreage that I haven't been the past couple of years due to my bad knees. But I am determined to go and see what I can do.

Patricia, when Jim and I were in Alaska in 2006 (was it that long ago?) Denali was under a cloud.  Jim took a helicopter ride and it was still clouded over, so we did not see it.  Close but no cigar!

Tom and I just returned from lunch at Subway.  I get one with nearly everything except cucumbers.  Tom orders it so I don't really know what is in it, but it tastes good. 

We're kind of overcast today but the temperature is 50 degrees now - sweater weather and I like it that way.

This morning I let the cat out on the deck, then went about my business and forgot about him.  I finally did remember where he was, let him in and he was very glad to get inside.

Mary Ann

Well now, the pneumonia explains why Roxanne reacted as she did.  I could not relate it to just the broken rib.  All is explained and clear.  May she have a very speedy and full recovery.

Hi WesternJoan
Glad to her Roxanne is feeling a bit better and you are as well.

kelly

Thanks Kelly

MaryPage,  yes, I wondered about that also.  Seems they did not know right away until X-rays showed it.  Glad she is being taken care of, 

Good news about Roxanne, Joan.

This morning I played bocce-golf and didn't accomplish much the rest of the day. I have been looking for my high school yearbook.........This is the 60th anniversary of my graduating class. My hometown's Facebook page wants the group picture of the class to post on FB. I know I have it SOMEWHERE! There were 25 in my class and only 16 of us are left. Many of us went to school together since the first grade and several of us still stay in touch.

Good night all!

Good morning Everyone

And enjoy you day

Kelly

Beverly, it's been 75 years since I graduated from high school.  At our ages (90s) it seems we are dwindling fast.  We had 255 in our class and I think there is an obit every week of someone from our class or those on either side.  Scary.  I hope you find your yearbook.  I have most of the yearbooks from the time my dad started teaching at our high school; he was the yearbook advisor and I've kept the books since he died.  The school had an ample supply but our high school since has been closed and assigned to another school group.  Sad.

Mary Ann

Hi everyone on this Wednesday morning.  Nothing too stressful on the agenda for today.  Pat and plan on going to the nursery for some plants and perhaps a quick stop at COSTCO for a couple of items.  Then this evening we have our Wednesday night dinner and tonight it is Shepard's Pie as the main dish.  We are coming down to the last few weeks of these dinners before the summer break.  We do look forward to some time with Scott.

Sandy, that was quite a drop in your cable bill. 

Joan, no wonder Roxanne needed oxygen as the pneumonia was affecting her lungs.  Sure glad she is feeling better and you are feeling better about the situation.   

Good morning Larry

kelly

Larry, thanks, mother and daughter are doing much better.     Being 2 states away didn't help the situation.

It was good to hear, Joan about mother and daughter! I graduated in 1969 and have never gone to a reunion. They always seem to have many high priced events spread out over a three day  weekend and I never had the time, money or inclination. We had almost 400 in our graduating class, almost sixty percent boys and over two thirds never came home from Vietnam so the reunions are almost all female oriented.

Angel, I graduated in 1951 and also never went to a class reunion.

I graduated om 1941 and we lost several to WW II.  I attended one reunion before the 50th, then we had them every five years until our 70th, our last.  I went to them because the reunions were held at a golf course near here.  Other than the 50th when we had a three-day affair all were dinners at the golf course.  We did not have expensive additions to the reunions, although things did cost - such as breakfast on Sunday morning.  I think the Friday night "get acquainted" affair was free, maybe even paid for by the school. 

Tom, Terry, Dot and I had lunch together today; Jan is ill.  Terry said she has the same thing Tom has had.  They have not been in the same room for a week. 

Mary Ann

I just got back from the University and the wildlife sanctuary. My knees surprisingly seem to be okay but my feet hurt and feel flattened. I walked altogether 6 miles today but only the University was up and downhills although on pavement. The sanctuary was in moss and tussocks but the rougher parts had boardwalk.

I'll do photos tonight or tomorrow. I did err in that they were having a day for the Girls and Boys Clubs so you know there was no wildlife in the back acreage showing. The public areas total ten acres, back trails and public viewing while the remainder, around 2700 acres, are private for breeding and other happenings.

Here, Joan and MaryAnn;  for reunions, they have a get together lunch at the country club, dinner on one of the river paddle boats and a following cocktail hour on Sunday. So that is Friday, Saturday and Sunday, different clothes, expenses and extras. I was born in July 1951.

Good morning everyone

Kelly

Such a young one you are, Patricia but a well organized one.  The sanctuary sounds a great place for nature. Is there lots of water there all year round?

That was my first reaction, as well:  "My, but she is young!"

Well, ANYthing or one is younger than I.  I find it is all relative.

Today is go to the dentist day, tra la!  There is just about nothing I hate as much as going to the dentist, with the possible exception of ironing, but I bribe myself into looking at it brightly by taking myself to a scrumptious breakfast afterwards at The Main Ingredient.  Anything goes!

So I am off to fill this days appointment.  Then home to an old lady nap.  Later comes that tedious job of refilling all those little plastic compartments for my daily pills for the next week.  Ain't Life exciting!

Hi everyone on a clear and beautiful morning.  Today will involve my normal Thursday morning activities except I will not be picking up the fellow to take to coffee as he told me last night he has other plans for today.  I have two or three small errands to take care of beside coffee and going to the Wisdom group at Church.  Scott joined us for dinner at Church and then came out but didn't stay more than an hour as he wasn't feeling good.  His doctor put him on some new medicine and he thinks it may explain why his muscles are aching.  He was going to stop by the pharmacy on his way home and talk witht he pharmacist about it.

Patricia, I graduated for high school is 1959 and think I have only attended two of the reunions.  The last was my 40th since graduating.  The high school was moved to another town the year after I graduated and as far as I know they have stopped having the reunions now. Our reunion was just a Saturday afternoon with a meal and a program.  I did enjoy seeing my old classmates.  We only had six in my graduating class.  That was a long walk you had yesterday--good for you but sound like all but your feet had a good time.

MaryPage, I have to agree with you on the dentist but I just keep in mind that it won't last too long and hopefully that will be it for 6 months.  I don't mind the ironing as Pat does it but I do know how to iron as did it growing up.  Hope your reward breakfast was very tasty.

I went to two reunions...
The fifth one,  I was in red hot pants and
white boots,  and the fifteenth,  I was nine
months pregnant. 

Oh how the mighty have falling ...
Ha ha
Sandy

Good morning.........I didn't start the day well. I still have remnants of the sinus/allergy headache that started around 5 a.m.

Larry - I thought Chape's graduating class of 15 was small! You have that beat with only six. My town had a population of 2000 and we also had students from some of the smaller surrounding towns. The school is a three story building (built of marble quarried in town) with grades 1-12. My father graduated from there, also, and we had some of the same teachers.

Like most of you, I've always hated going to the dentist. I'm in the long process now of doing  an implant. The tooth is out, the implant is in, and soon I'll have the temporary "flipper" to fill in the vacant space. Since it's a front tooth I avoid smiling in public at all costs!  I won't be getting the permanent crown for 3 to 6 months.

I'm younger than some of you, but at 78 I'm pushing 80!  All my children are old enough to live here in The Villages.

We are having the most beautiful weather. I wish it could be like this all the time.

Hope everyone has a great day.

I never went to any of my reunions.  My school at 3000 students was bigger than some of your towns .  Our class started with about 1000 students and 800 or so graduated.  With that many kids, you only knew a small fraction  of them.  There was only about 200 or so at the last reunion five years ago.

Mary

MaryTX, I can't imagine a class of 1000 students.  We had 255 and there are less than 40 still living.  Our entire school had only 1500 students and that included the 7th and 8th grades as we had no middle school in our part of town.

I think Norm's class was about the same size.  He graduated in 1947.

Mary Ann

I graduated from High School in 1947.  It was a private, all girls school, and we were the largest class ever to graduate.  There were sixteen of us.  I went to our 50th reunion in 1997.  There were only 10 of us left then, and now we are down to 4, and one is deep into dementia and the other two are not as well as I am!  And hey, I'm not all that good!  C'est la vie!

Our high school was one of two, the other being Catholic. When I started school, I went to Main which was the only school in town other than the Catholic private schools. When I was beginning fourth grade, they built a new high school for grades 9th through 12th.

So I went to Main for kindergarten through eighth grade and then on to Lathrop. The town was only about twenty thousand in population and only two military bases back then. Now there is a school for elementary or junior high in each neighborhood it seems and there are three high schools for freshman through seniors, not counting the ones on bases.

There are many alternatives as well today. We have church run schools, charter schools, home schooled and probably others I'm not aware of.

I feel young in my mind, Bubble and MaryPage, but the creaks, groans and pains of my body do not agree! I do plan to getting out more as I am losing weight and need the exercise and do not know how many of my pains and arthritis are due to my weight or actual issues. I am now only 36 pounds to goal having lost 27.

The sanctuary lies next to the Chena river however many of the ponds are only there until about the end of June. Others the size of lakes are there only if there is adequate snow fall during the previous winter. It is a land of mystery, having both permafrost and land types going back to the stone age. I am so glad that dairy farmer Charlie Creamer saw the beauty of the land and deeded it to the town as an animal sanctuary rather then selling it for a profit or development.

Some of the animals have been stopping off there to breed or to rest before going further north for centuries and some of them would have no other place to go. The sanctuary plows the ground and plants barley and other grain for the birds and uses no herbicides but depends on volunteer manual labor to stay organic if you will. So many of the bird population returns to Alaska each summer from all over the world and the majority come through Creamer's Field, the sanctuary.

New Zealand has a yearly festival for the return of the Godwits, a small bird each year. They return there after spending the summer here at the sanctuary and Monarch butterflies make a three year journey to and from the sanctuary so it is important, not just to us.

Its a magical place and Fairbanks has grown up and surrounded it so its still being there untouched is a miracle to Charlie and his dreams and forethought.

Patricia, the sanctuary sounds like a place I'd like to visit, however, I wouldn't be able to walk around.  I too am young in mind, but my body aches and pains tell me otherwise.  Congratulations on losing weight. 

Mary Ann