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RAMMEL · August 28, 2022, 11:32:06 AM

Lloyd usually posts in "Soda Shop".

MarsGal · August 28, 2022, 11:51:53 AM

Just noticed that Rammel, after I posted the last message. I don't generally check in on either site, but Shout Box comes up automatically at the top of my page.

I've been gradually putting my kitchen back together. Rickie (one of the guys who remodeled my kitchen) came by on Friday to hang my kitchen rods for me. I now have an extendable window washer pole so I can wash or dust the windows without climbing all over things to get to the tops of them. I haven't tried it out yet. Oscar and Shan love the kitchen floor, and they both figured out the pet door fairly quickly.

It looks like a new dehumidifier for the basement is in order, but I am putting it off for a few days. Meanwhile I am trying to coax the thing I have now to work more than a few minutes (or inches of water in the bucket) at a time. I suspect all the dust and such that rained down on the basement from the underside of the kitchen flooring clogged something up. Even the humidifier was coated, and the filter clogged. It wasn't even sitting under the kitchen floor but sits more or less in the center of the basement.

RAMMEL · August 28, 2022, 12:18:24 PM

MarsGal,
You can get rid of "Shout Box" if you want.
Way up at the top, under the coffee pot there are two little boxes with a + or - in them. The one on the right will get rid of the Shout Box if you click on it. The left box adds or removes a panel on the left side of the page. Try them - you can turn them on and off with no problems.

Marilyne · August 28, 2022, 12:21:39 PM

A Sunday Good Morning to all who post here It's been a nice weekend here, and hope you all had a good one too. Older daughter Shelley, and granddaughter Claire arrived on Friday, and just now left to drive back home. So nice to see them, and also a long visit yesterday from Grandson Danny, and new baby Casey!
He's three months old, and is an adorable bundle of smiles, chubby cheeks, big blue eyes, and a bald head! His hair is just starting to show. We took lots of pictures, so hope some will be good enough to post.

Beverly - I did get a text from Jean this morning. Just a few words to tell me that she is, "still hanging in there". (Her words exactly). As I said before, she has a Hospice nurse who comes over every day, but Larry, is her main caregiver.

Junee - Good to see you here. I'll bet you're looking forward to your
Spring, and then followed by Summer, when to rest of us are complaining about the freezing cold weather. This morning it seems to have cooled down here. There is a brisk wind blowing, from the direction of the ocean, so it feels damp and has that nice salty smell! A good change from the endless dry days in the 90's.

Jackie - I remember that you also had a couple of bouts with cellulitis! Seems to me it took your doctors a long time to respond, but they finally sent someone to diagnose your problem, and start you on meds? I don't remember if you were hospitalized, or not?

I have a nice lazy day ahead. Shelley, did most of the cooking and clean-up while she was here, so we have plenty of leftovers to eat today, and probably tomorrow too.

Hope we hear from others who haven't posted here in a while, like Mary Page, Callie, Jenny and Tomereader-Joanne..

Vanilla-Jackie · August 28, 2022, 12:25:09 PM

MarsGal..
...yes i did but not sure Lloyd intended to post it in shoutbox, Lloyd tends to lose his way, so i copied and pasted it into Soda Shoppe, where i believe he was wanting it to be..

Marilyne..
..no, unlike Rammel, i was not hospitalised...
Marilyne, please pass onto FlaJean my regards on her health issue and hope that she is able to make a future posting to us in our N's B & T, she is missed...

Sandy · August 28, 2022, 11:35:17 PM

Good evening Everyone!!

Beverly I also have one of my
daughters who is "baby sitting" me.

And I have no complaints. I feel fortunate
to Have her (Kelly)

I am grateful for all the help that I
can get as I know that you must be also..

Good Night all

Sandy

Beverly · September 01, 2022, 10:34:45 PM

Was hoping to find somebody home! Hope everyone is okay.

I made a cauliflower soup today (new recipe) but probably won't make it again. Maybe with a little less cheese? I seldom have the energy to cook but this sounded good.

I had a tree service here yesterday to give me an estimate on taking out a Sylvester palm. It's diseased. Sorry to see it go because I really liked it.

Granddaughter Erin stops by at least every other day. Donna and Mike text every day about their hiking progress. I've always liked my creature comforts too much to do something like backpacking and hiking The Long Trail. It's rough terrain and sleeping outside in hammocks or wood shelters isn't my idea of fun!

Good night all!

MaryPage · September 01, 2022, 10:56:43 PM

I'm with you, Beverly! Love to walk or hike, but must be home by bedtime. I am not one for creature discomforts, and do not care to be outside from dusk on. That's when the mosquitoes come out to feast on us! No, thank you!

Marilyne · September 02, 2022, 11:26:26 AM

Good Morning everyone. Another hot one today, in preparation for the heatwave that is scheduled to arrive tomorrow. Supposed to go well over 100 degrees for three days, and we're being told to prepare for "rolling blackouts". Right now at 8:15 AM, it's a cool and foggy 60, so hard to believe it will get so hot?

Beverly, I admire Donna and Mike, for sticking with the long trail! It must be extremely difficult to hike, wearing a heavy backpack, plus sleeping and cooking outside. I'm with you and Mary Page . . . I would never have considered such a hike, even when I was young and strong.

If you haven't already read the book, Wild, by Cheryl Strayed, it's really an excellent true story of a woman who hiked the Pacific Crest Trail by herself. The PC Trail starts in the High Sierra mountains, in California, and goes all the way through CA, Oregon and ends up in Washington, near Seattle. The book was also made into a movie starring Reese Witherspoon. The movie focused on the drama . . . of which there was plenty. The book is really better because it explains the reasons, the preparation, the loneliness, and the fears of the author.

CallieOK · September 02, 2022, 11:48:19 AM

Good Morning,

This is the first day all week when I don't have to be somewhere or someone is coming to my house at a certain time. I plan on having a "leisurely" day!

Re: hiking, etc. One thing we really liked about living in the Colorado mountains was being able to go "exploring" from "dawn 'til dark" and then go home and sleep in our own beds. Hubby had an old Jeep and, when we were taking guests out to see the scenery, he loved to find the narrowest part of a trail and then turn around.

The best physical activity I do is Sit Still.

Nothing new to report about The Grands. Each of them is busy pursuing their careers. There are two "Significant Others" now, both of whom fit into the family very well. Remains to be seen if anything permanent happens - whatever that means these days!

Two e-books that were on Hold have appeared in my Loan List this morning. There goes my day!

Enjoy your day, Everyfriend.

MaryPage · September 02, 2022, 03:59:43 PM

Callie, I am having a day off to myself; and I find it rather nice. Not that I don't adore my family, but time to just do whatever strikes my fancy is very cool.

I cannot help but think on the beginning years of my life as compared with today. September meant going back to school (never, EVer went back in August!) and sometimes in my brand new pleated wool skirt with cord jacket. And penny loafers, of course. Or mebbe saddle shoes. Anyone who does not remember cool Septembers or know what penny loafers or saddle shoes are has missed out on some lovely times here in America, The Beautiful!

Beverly · September 02, 2022, 10:53:23 PM

Marilyne - I've posted a picture of the shelter they stayed in last night. Some nights they sleep in their hammocks outside. There is no cooking on the trail (no fires allowed). The food they carry is not the tastiest! Dried and high in nutrition. I haven't read the book "The Wild" and can't imagine such an adventure! With those temperatures I hope your A/C keeps running.

Callie - I agree. I like my "days off" but wouldn't like being left totally alone. My family knows this and they have hit a "happy medium". Today Erin took me grocery shopping. I needed to get out of the house for awhile!

MaryPage - School always started two days after Labor Day for us. The Rutland State Fair began on Labor Day and Childrens' Day at the fair was on Tuesday. And yes, saddle shoes and penny loafers!

MarsGal · September 03, 2022, 07:52:39 AM

MaryPage, the memories, oh my. My mom was good at making pleats. Aside from pleated curtains and such, she sewed several pleated skirts, including kilts complete with waist buckle and pin. Sue and I bought the material when we were in Edinburgh. She bought a Royal Stewart Dress pattern, and I bought an Ancient Gunn (or working as the shop clerk called it) pattern. I loved that kilt. There was enough material leftover for Mom to sew a waistcoat to go with it. Any yes, I remember the penny loafers and saddle shoes. Visions of me at the jr. high school sponsored "hops" wearing my saddle shoes.

Marilyne · September 03, 2022, 10:55:26 AM

Like the rest of you, our Summer vacation ended on Labor Day, and we started back to school a couple of days later. It's always still hot weather here in CA in September, so I usually had a couple of new short sleeve cotton dresses for "back to school". My grandmother made all my clothes, and she was an excellent seamstress, so I was always happy with the results. Yes, the trip to the shoe store for new school shoes was a highlight. Either saddle shoes or penny loafers. Remember those foot X-ray machines?! All kids loved those things, but now frowned upon and remembered as being dangerous! Well, we're still here, so I guess they didn't harm us over the long haul.

My Mother almost always took a picture of my brother and me, all dressed up and ready to go, on the first day of school. Usually a few neighbor kids as well. One thing I notice is that there was no such thing as a backpack in those days? School books stayed at school. We had notebooks or binders of various sizes that we carried back and forth for homework assignments.

CallieOK · September 03, 2022, 11:56:28 AM

Same here re: when school started and wearing saddle shoes and penny loafers. We put a penny in the "slot" on those. "Heads" meant we had a boyfriend; "tails" meant we didn't. We always wore white socks - otherwise, we were considered "tacky".
I remember the foot x-rays, too.

We could wear jeans to school and my friends/I often coordinated days when we wore jeans rolled up to just below the knee and an untucked white shirt. We tied a small scarf in the open neckline.
I was a volunteer at the Oklahoma History Center several years ago. There was a 50's party and several of us turned up wearing that very same outfit. None of us had grown up in the same town so, apparently, the style was popular in a lot of places.

No individual pictures but it's easy to pick me out of the First Grade class group picture . Friend standing next to me knew I was scared of loud noises and told me the camera would make one when the man got under the hood and snapped the picture. I immediately put my fingers in my ears and was 'recorded for posterity'. Of course, that picture showed up at class reunions and friend (who became -and still is- a BFF) and I always had a good laugh about it.

phyllis · September 03, 2022, 12:33:36 PM

Rolled up jeans for me, too, Callie, but never to school. They were purely for casual wear. I "borrowed" a white shirt from one of my brothers. Saddle shoes were mandatory and they had to be dirty. My dad was a little upset when I bought brand new saddle shoes and immediately took them outside and rubbed dirt all over them. In our town it was un-cool to wear clean, white, new looking saddles. I may be eligible for a prize of some sort.....I still have a pair of penny loafers in my closet and put them on from time to time. In our town we put the penny with Old Abe's head up if we had a "steady", Abe's head turned upside down if we didn't.

MaryPage · September 03, 2022, 06:11:41 PM

Your poor Daddy!

We were not allowed to wear jeans or slacks to school. Seriously. I graduated High School in 1947; so you see, my public school schooling was in the nineteen forties. I remember being amazed when my children were in High School and I went to pick one up one day for something special, I forget what, and as the kids came pouring out of the school (we were always in lines and quiet as mice in my day), I was speechless because the girls all looked as though they were in uniform: blue denim jeans, white shirts, and long hair parted in the middle. In the forties, we strove to wear differing hairstyles and pretty frocks. Yes, we called them "frocks." Oh, and I, too, owned a kilt. Royal Stewart, it was. Black & green, mainly. Some aunt sent it to me from Scotland before the war hit us in Hawaii. I was in Virginia at that time, but Pearl Harbor was and remains in Hawaii. I think.

Vanilla-Jackie · September 03, 2022, 06:51:34 PM

We too was was not allowed to wear trousers, we had a secondary school ( 1962 - age 11 onwards ) uniform which was not compulsory to wear but the higher grade classes always wore them, grey skirt, white blouse with collar, orange cardigan or jumper, then there were two choices of a summer dress, one check, the other floral...Of course nowadays you see many school girls wearing trousers, or skirts too short showing their knickers...We had a rule that our skirt was an inch or two below the knee, if not our headmistress would measure it then be sent home to change....not that i knew of that ever happening..

Do you remember Trews? i remember wearing a pair of wool" tartan " trousers when out playing as a young child, cant remember the colour but i think a green check...

Yes we too called them frocks not dresses...

CallieOK · September 03, 2022, 08:44:04 PM

Jackie, is there a difference between a cardigan and a jumper? English characters in books I read often wear jumpers and they sound like what we call a cardigan sweater...one that buttons insread of being pulled over the head.

MaryPage · September 03, 2022, 09:39:57 PM

Another thing, I never had a backpack when I was in school. Maybe there is a reason why everyone has one now, but I am not familiar with it. I cannot remember any of my children having them, either. I will have to ask them.

MaryPage · September 03, 2022, 09:50:18 PM

And finally (I hope this is finally), we had no cell phones, Smart phones, or personal phones of Any kind. Most homes in my small town had no phone, period.

We had no computers and no Google. I was more fortunate than most because I had a set of World Book and a set of Encyclopedia Britannica. Also, I got to the library in Winchester quite often: usually once a week. The school library was the only one in our town. I realize now advantages I did not take much note of back then.

Vanilla-Jackie · September 04, 2022, 01:10:13 AM

Callie...
...we call a cardigan that has buttons from top to bottom, you can wear it done up or unbutton and wear loose over a dress, a blouse, a shirt etc...A jumper is a one piece, no buttons...

Mary Page...
...we could not take anything into school, classrooms, including a calculator, otherwise it would be confiscated till the end of the schools day, and we would face a trip to the headmistress-headmasters office...Yes all our sums-our arithmetic had to be done on our fingers and using our brains...Oh, and we had school leather satchels to carry our school books and pencil case in....
And no child not even those in the 5th year ( ages 15 ) were allowed to wear any make-up in school, not even eye mascara, nor nail polish....

MarsGal · September 04, 2022, 08:23:47 AM

I always thought of a jumper as a sleeveless dress, or pinafore which you generally wear over a shirt or blouse. I wore a really nice corduroy one Mom made. She did a lot of sowing when we were young, from upholstery and curtains, clothes and doll clothes to quilts when we were a little older. Sue and I still have our quilts which are about 50 years old give or take a year or two.

I woke up this morning to almost constant threat warnings from my anti-virus. It seems, on investigation, it arrived with the latest Microsoft security update and has to do with Google Chrome apps/programs. It is apparently a bogus error message which Microsoft will have to fix.

Beverly · September 04, 2022, 10:14:56 PM

MarsGal - I think you should win a prize! Look at the number of your post. #22222

Beverly · September 04, 2022, 11:05:53 PM

Jackie - It looks like cardigan and jumper have nearly the same meaning as ours. Jumpers here are sleeveless, dress length, usually have a scooped neckline and worn over a blouse.

MaryPage - We never had a phone. If it came with a "bill" we didn't have it! Money was very short but I never considered us poor. When we needed to use a phone, we were welcome to use our next door neighbor's. Wonderful lady who was sort of an extra grandmother. The library was my favorite place! It was just down the street from the school. Still is!

Marilyne - In high school we had to buy our books. The ones we needed for homework we carried home in our arms. The rest were left in our lockers. None of my children ever had a backpack but all my grandchildren had them.

Phyllis - So glad to see you posting here. We wore the rolled up jeans but called them "dungarees". And high white bobby socks.

Callie - We wore those small silk neck scarves with blouses or a pullover sweater. I can just see you plugging your ears! What a cute memory for you!

Donna and Mike finished hiking today. Mike twisted his knee and it started swelling overnight. Most hikers are younger (Donna is 64, Mike is 68) but they really love doing it.

Vanilla-Jackie · September 05, 2022, 01:29:55 AM

What we call jumpers ( a one piece ) and cardigans ( buttons from top to bottom ) come to hip or waist length, usually long sleeved, are knitted, wool is the norm...Think you call them a pullover sweater..

MarsGal · September 06, 2022, 07:01:36 AM

Sue and I met a friend of hers for lunch at a Red Lobster yesterday. That must have been the most horrible lunch I ever ate dining out. The only thing good about it were the biscuits and a glass of beer. I tried their "fried" Brussel sprouts. Yuck. The mashed potatoes not only tasted strange, but they gave me the smallest portion I ever got from any Red Lobster, the Irish Coffee was very weak, and I'd swear there wasn't any alcohol in it. The fried breaded flounder (yes, flounder) was tasteless. Maybe it was my taste buds yesterday; maybe it was just that bad. I do not generally have an alcoholic beverage, nor do I often order fried fish. The flounder was an odd choice to fry I think, but it had absolutely no seasoning in the breading. I felt adventurous in my choice and lost out this time. Oh, I did bring home a piece of Lemon cake, but I haven't eaten it yet. After that fiasco, my tummy was less then interested in eating anything much for dinner. I settled on a bowl of ice cream.

It rained all day yesterday and is continuing on today and tomorrow. Flood watch has been issued. The good news is that the plants and grass need it; the bad news is that I will need to mow the lawn later this week. Weather is going to be a bit cooler, though, in the high 70s and low 80's.

Speaking of the weather, it seems the weather is getting unbelievably bad all over the world this summer. Droughts everywhere and flooding areas not used to getting so much rain. Looks like hurricane weather is finally getting off to a start.

I watched a video last night of the 6.6 earthquake that occurred in China yesterday. It was interested in several ways: not everyone evacuated their buildings but instead opted to video from their apartments, watched the water sloshing about in several aquariums including one really big one that a guy was bracing so it wouldn't crash over, watched landslides cascading off steep mountains into very narrow valleys, and one idiot who drove along a road with a steep drop at the side and only a foot or so from the edge of where the bank had given away - brave or crazy.

RAMMEL · September 06, 2022, 10:39:34 AM

Quote from: MarsGal on September 06, 2022, 07:01:36 AMI settled on a bowl of ice cream.

An excellent choice

Sasha · September 06, 2022, 07:31:34 PM

Ah, yes, dungarees ... with the zipper on the side.

MaryPage · September 06, 2022, 10:13:09 PM

I have made it a point during my 93 years to make certain the zipper is ALWAYS on the side, and never in front. Well, actually, I confess to being into pull up slacks with no buttons or zippers, now.

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