Got up early and started on the work outdoors. It was all done last Saturday but had even more leaves on it this week.  As it was cleanup day in the area and nice day I thought would be people out. But no. Think I was the only one. There were people who own Condo Building and such all out doing the area. Worked out good for me as about 6 men and some women doing Maintenance. I asked if they would hold off mowing until I raked my leaves over to the front land. They told me to just let them take care of all mine for me as they had big mowers. Power blowers lots of Equipment. Got all my bushes and yard and so all I had to do was sweep porch. Looks so nice.  Will cry tomorrow when I see leaves on again. Trees still full.  Maybe these I will let stay for the winter. Mulch the grass.

Larry, obviously Pat's chiropractic treatments along with her exercises have done her some good since the doctor has cut down on the visits. 

This morning Terry and Jan came here to help me go through some boxes of stuff that I've had in the storage room since I moved here 35 years ago.  Everything hasn't been there that long, but some have.  I could not reach to top shelves so Jan brought the boxes to me and I decided what to keep and what not to keep.  I didn't look in the storage room, but Jan said we were only 1/4 through the boxes.  We expect to have enough room now that we can put some things in there from the family room.  I appreciated their work (Tom got in on the act too) so I took everyone out to eat.  It was well worth it

Mary Ann

When Tom moved here three years ago, we sent a lot to Goodwill, as we did today.  I felt then I kind of lost control of things.  At Christmastime I could not find some favorite figurines and I was devastated.  I felt they had gone to Goodwill.  Today in opening the boxes, there were my figurines.  I was overjoyed!  They will be on display this year.

Mary Ann

MarsGal, I remember frybabe from the old SeniorNet! I had posted a recent November fifth photo of Gene and Nadia Thomas along with Adrienne on the gatherings forum and it is nice to be able to look back.

Larry, I've been convinced it wouldn't be good to buy a bread machine. The loaves I do buy are whole grain and have the sticker from the Whole Grains Council. I detest white bread and white bread trying to disguise itself as whole grains or wheat.

Farrah has become what she always should have been. A healthy, active, playful cat. While she will never be affectionate, more like MaryAnn's Kendrick, she lets me know she enjoys my company. When I return home or am in the bathroom, she will loudly purr and rub herself around my legs. She has never been a lap sitter or bed sleeper as Sarah was.

MaryAnn, I plan to pay to have the walls and cupboards washed after November sixteenth before I start cleaning everything and putting back what I don't give away. Laundry costs alone will be prohibited.There is too much here that  I don't use and have just carted around with me to waste this opportunity.

A couple of old tables are going across the street to the garbage bins as I'm sure no one here will want them. They are spraying on the second and first floors now.I had given away many items in the past and as I've mentioned, brought home stuff as well. This time I want to get rid of everything I've carried around and never actually used.

With this year's new carpet and painting in the public areas, new fluorescents in the hallways and common rooms, spraying of the five floors, new carbon dioxide and fire alarms wired in and the updates to the HAVAC air filtration systems, this has been quite a year. However, nothing compared to putting in all new 196 wood and concrete balconies four years ago according to what I've heard.

Furbee <named Coco> learned a new word and he did NOT learn it from me.  Gonna have to tell Dan to watch his mouth here.  LOL

Hi everyone.  I awoke to a surprising forecast of 80% chance of rain this morning and a high temperature of 47.  It appears we had at least a trace of rain last night.  We had a wonderful visit with our two good friends from where we used to live.  It is a 2 1/2 hour drive each way and they were only able to stay a little over 2 hours but we used every minute of it in good conversation.  It seemed they had no sooner arrived than it was time for them to head home as they didn't want to drive after dark. I was sure glad we decided to eat in rather than go out.  Today is Sunday School and church and nothing else planned for the day. 

MarsGal, thanks for the information on your participation on the old SeniorNet discussions.  I also see your postings in the Library discussion the on Seniorlearn website.  I like your forward looking attitude.

JeanneP, what a kind gesture of the Maintenance people to help with your yard.  It sounds like you have a large yard. 

Mary Ann, it is always nice to find something we think we have permanently lose like those favorite figurines. Certainly nice of your family to help you with those boxes and nice to create some more storage space. 

Patricia, I don't share your dislike for white bread as that is what I was raised on and have eaten all of my life.  Glad Farrah is now a healthy and active playful cat.  You obviously get the credit. I know you will be glad when the spraying is done on Wednesday and you can begin to get your apartment back in order with everything spic and span.  That balcony project sounds like it would have been overwhelming.  Glad that was done before you moved there. 

Joan, it sounds like you need to switch Coco off when Dan visits you. 

Good Morning Everyone,
from the cool and cloudy rocky
coast of Maine.

Have a great day,  Everyone!

Larry, you may be right.  LOL

Joan, is a Furby anything like the long-limbed monkey my niece had some years back? This monkey had recorded speech that reacted to circumstances. For example, if turned upside down, he would ask who did that and please put him back right side up. And if he was left alone for a bit, he would ask, "Hey! Where'd everybody go?" before switching off.

Angel, doesn't sound like my pet at all.  Sorry/

For those who aren't familiar with Furbys, click on this link.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furby

Entertaining and interactive little creatures!

Joan - That would be a great pet for me.......don't have to put them in a kennel when you travel. 

Joan, I'm not a great communicator at best. What I meant was that the toy monkey reacted verbally to events around it which I assumed your Furby did.

Thanks, Beverly, I'm going to check out your link. I just remember something about a movie?

From Beverly's link, I found an example of my niece's toy monkey. This is it's description accurately.

"Furby Friends
Novel Furbies were also released, including an interactive Furby-like "Gizmo", from the film Gremlins, a Furby-like "Interactive Yoda" based on the Star Wars character, and a Furby-like "Interactive E.T." from the movie of the same name. Another "friend of Furby", called "Shelby", is similar to Furby, but looks like a clam, has vast improvements in memory, and has a different personality; it was released in 2001 and can communicate with the original Furbies and Furby Babies. They also have sensors that can sense loud sounds, can sense being upside down (they say things like "Shiver me timbers" and "Walk the plank" when you leave them upside-down for an extended period of time), and they laugh when you "tickle" them (their antennae â€" or "tennies", as they like to call them). They also purr when you "pet" them. You can feed them by sticking your finger in their mouth. Similarly, Shelbies do not have their own names, unlike the classic Furbies. Shelbies are also capable of knowing if it is talking to a Furby or another Shelby, saying phrases such as "Where's Furby?"â€"though they cannot differentiate between a Furby and a Furby Babyâ€"they just assume it is a Furby. In addition to English, Shelbies also know some Furbish words and also have their own unique language called Shelbish."

For those of you who remember Adrienne in San Francisco and Gene and Nadia from Western Australia, here is a photo from November fifth, 2016 when they visited Adrienne. Shirley Thomas had passed sometime earlier.


http://www.seniorsandfriends.org/index.php?topic=234.msg60044#msg60044

Adrienne and I used to go to lunch with Jaywalker back when we were in Senior Net.  Fun times.

Adrienne is a wonderful, thoughtful person. I remember being off the old site for a month with no explanation or contact info and she called the police here to see if I was okay! At one time Rae also called my work when I was off again due to computer issues. So many really nice folks from here and the old SeniorNet!

I was able to see and hear so many of the bashes because Adrienne was nice enough to film and photograph them and send out copies for just a nominal shipping and handling fee. For someone new to social sites and several thousand miles away, it was an incredible way to share and experience SeniorNet.

Both Tom and I went outside to view the Supermoon tonight.  I know tomorrow night is supposed to be THE night, and I will try to remember to look then too but I don't know how I will be able to tell the difference between the two views.  Except for the shadow of the garage on my sidewalk, it was very light in my front yard.

Mary Ann

Hi everyone.  We had a very chilly and rainy Sunday.  I think we had about 1/2 inch of welcome rain.  It was our annual Youth Sunday at church and our youth did a marvelous job in the service with beautiful singing of the Praise Band, a very cleaver Biblical skit called McChurch, and then two young ladies gave great testimonials during the sermon time.  The service was in our fellowship hall where the contemporary services are held and it was packed with probably 500 people in attendance. 

Today I need to make some more sausage muffins for Pat and will attend my noon Monday meeting.  Beyond that I plan on a fairly quiet and restful day.  I just started to make the muffins and discovered the sausage hadn't been thawed out as I thought so will have to wait probably until this afternoon to make them.   

Patricia, that was a good picture of Adrienne.  I was able to meet her at the Atlanta Bash in 1998 and she is a lovely lady who loves animals and people.  I never met the Thomas family.  It was sure nice of Adrienne to share her pictures and film of the Bashes with you.   

Mary Ann - We could see the moon from a living room window, but also went outside, in order to get the full effect.  It was beautiful, and was so bright that it almost hurt my eyes to look at it!  Daughter is coming over tonight, so I'll go outside with her, and enjoy it all over again!

Good Afternoon Everyone,  from the Sunny and Cool,  rocky
coast of Maine.   

Today I contacted my Life Alert so I could disconnect my service from cable.     My Life Alert box is now cellular,  and I only
have to plug it into a wall socket
(Like a radio....  one plug only)

As soon as that is up and working,  I
am going to go and switch my phone
information to my new smart phone... 
Then  I can take my cable tv box
back to the Time Warner Store and
get rid of everything,  except internet.   

Yahoo!!

Slowly I am weaning myself off being
cable dependent.   
(And if that shouldn't work out for me,
I can hook it all back up again, in the future !!)   

By the time I looked up at the
moon, it was too high in the sky
to get the full spectacular view
of it.     

Good to know.   Maybe tonight I will
go to the seventh floor atrium and see
what it looks like from there.   

Wishing everyone a great day.
Sandy

MaryAnn, some time back we discussed a photo from my PSP lessons showing South Haven. Here is a link to S&F's PSP forum, showing the original photo and my lesson's changes.

http://www.seniorsandfriends.org/index.php?topic=79.msg60771#msg60771

Patricia, thinking I was here in Norm's B&T, I wrote about your South Haven pictures in another folder and now I don't where! 

I just went out to see the Supermoon, saw it and I think it doesn't look as large as it did last night.  The angle was different and I am sure that made a difference.

Coming back into the house, I had to argue with Kendrick about me getting back in and him not getting out!  What a cat!  It is hard to convince him that he's an indoor cat and indoor cats don't go outside.

Mary Ann

Hi everyone.  It is a sunny morning but a bit obscured by some smoke in the air from the wild fires here in the Southeastern part of the USA.  I did get to see the moon last evening as the sky was clear.  I did not leave the house yesterday as decided I wasn't up to attending my normal Monday noon meeting.  I have started the new medicine and have to wonder if I was experiencing a bit of side-effect.  I seem to be fine today.  Pat has a 10:30 appointment at the dentist office to get her teeth cleaned and checked.  It is about a 25 minute drive for us.  There is a new store recently opened that sells pecans and fine foods right on the same street as the dentist and she wants to make a stop there as well.  I wouldn't be surprised if we decided to eat our main meal for the day while we are out. 

Yesterday Pat placed her first online grocery order at Walmart and I will pick it up between four and five this afternoon.  I plan on chopping up some fresh peppers to have in the refrigerator and to grate some cheddar  cheese.  While I was resting yesterday afternoon Pat decided to fry up the sausage needed for her sausage rolls as could sit in a chair while it was frying.  When done she went to put it in the refrigerator and hit a shelf edge which knocked the dish out of her hand and spilled the sausage all over the floor.  So I didn't get the muffins made yesterday but may do so this evening after picking up some more sausage in our Walmart order.  Needless to say it made a real mess on our hardwood floor that is in the kitchen so when I got up I had to scrub it.  The housekeeper will be here on Friday and will give it another good scrub although I think I got it all up with the special hardwood cleaner we use on these floors. 

Sandy, glad you were able to convert your Life Alert to cellular.  It sounds like you are making good progress eliminating your cable system. 

Patricia, nice work on the photographs.  You are very talented.

Mary Ann, you know that Kendrick just wanted to see the Supermoon. 
 

Good morning, it is raining and quite cool. At 11:30 I go one more time to try and pick up my hearing aid.

MaryAnn, they say it is good for seniors to have a pet, if there is no one else to talk to you have them.  I say: Good Morning to Taffy, and she meows back

Patricia, talking about cats, I got quite a wake up call this morning, went to set down to eat my breakfast and there was a dead mouse.eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew  I guess it was suppose to be a present.

Larry, Kendrick is always looking for an opening at the door to see if he can sneak out - Supermoon or not.  He comes in to visit me while I am sleeping a couple times during the night and early this morning he saw he wasn't getting much reaction from me, so he jumped over me and went to sleep a foot away.  I wish he'd do that more often.

Gloria D, I do talk to Kendrick and I talk to him as if he understands what I am saying.  He is learning that NO means he can't go outdoor and I try to say that only at the door so he will associate NO with the door and not being able to go out.  I do try to put him out on the deck soon after he hears NO.  I realize the deck is nothing like outdoors, but that is all he gets.  Kendrick did catch a mouse in my computer room one day; it was a baby mouse, pretty grey, and when I could get at it, the mouse was dead.  I took a napkin and picked it and put it outside.  I don't know what the cat was going to do with it, but he never had a chance.

Mary Ann

Mary Ann and Gloria de - I talk to Winnie all the time, and he answers me with a meow or a quick foot rub.  I've always "conversed" with the pets, (dogs, cats, hamsters), that we've had over the years.  Winnie has caught both rats and gophers in our back yard.  Fortunately he is not interested in birds.  He watches them when they come to the bird-bath for a drink or a shower, but from a distance. I do think that his eyesight is mostly gone now, but his hearing is still very good. 

Larry, the lady that cleans my apt. once a  month for me works for Walmart and that is her job.  She takes orders for pick up.She enjoys it she says.

Good Afternoon Everyone,
from the overcast but seasonally
warmer,  rocky coast of Maine. 

Still in the process of cutting
the cord with cable,  so I use
it less and less everyday,  so when
the cutoff time arrives,  I will
mostly be used to living with
out it.      (Old habits sure
are hard to break) 

All is well here...  Larry,  I
am sorry to hear that Pat
dropped the sausage...
I probably would have washed
it off and scrambled it up and
cooked it some more,  and
used it.   
(No chance of catching the
plague from my kitchen floor!
(giggle)   But I suppose
that I am alone in that regards!

Have a great day,  Everyone!
Sandy

Larry - That's when a dog really comes in handy! LOL  He would have made short work of that sausage!

I can relate to dropping and spilling things all over the kitchen - in fact, all over the house!  I can't seem to get a good grip on anything, due to arthritis in both hands.  They will no longer close tightly enough around the item to hold to just about anything.  So of course I'm extremely careful in the kitchen . . . and if I drop the soap in the shower, I have to step around it until I finish, and then get my grabber to pick it up.  Can't bend over that far, or I risk popping out a disc in my spine, and then going through another bout of sciatica.  Such fun growing old!

Hi everyone.  It is a beautiful sunny and cool morning here in South Carolina.  However, I will stay inside as much as I can today as we are in a code red weather alert due to the smoke from the wild fires.  So far this morning it isn't too bad but yesterday afternoon it was very obvious. 

Pat got a clear report from the dentist yesterday, which was indeed good news.  We checked out the pecan store but didn't buy any as they wanted $16/pound and Pat felt that was just too expensive as there are other alternatives.  Yesterday afternoon I went to Walmart and picked up our first online grocery order.  It went very well and that is sure the way to shop.  We just called 15 minutes before I expected to be there and then when I was parked in one of the designated spots along the side of the store I called to advise I was there.  A very nice young lady brought out the groceries and showed me each it.  The order was filled as requested and there was only one items they didn't have in stock in their meat department.  Later we went to Ruby Tuesday's for our evening meal.  They have a new and revised menu with our favorites still available. 

This morning I got up early and after getting showered and dressed I went to the kitchen and fixed Pat's sausage muffins.  This evening is our Wednesday night dinner at church and this is the Thanksgiving traditional meal and Veterans from the spinal unit at the local VA hospital will be our guests.  Scott plans to get there 30 minutes early to help them get settled at the tables.  He will then come out to spend some time with us.  I just had a video call from my coffee drinking friends at McDonald's and got to see and speak to a number of them.  That was a pleasant surprise. 

deAngel, I bet Taffy was very proud of herself bringing you the mouse.  However, glad you saw it before you sat down.  Hope you are hearing better now with the new hearing aid.

Mary Ann, cats are pretty smart and can learn as Kendrick is proving to you.  Kendrick was just proudly bringing you a present as well. 

Marilyne, does Winnie chatter when he sees birds?  The cat we had would do that.  Pat also has a time holding on to things and doesn't really have arthritis in her hands but mainly in her back.  We have those grabbers all over the house and they are handy.

Joan, I was very pleased with the Walmart online grocery shopping and know we will be doing more of it in the future.  So much better than trying to get around in the store and it allows Pat to do the shopping from her easy chair. 

Sandy, glad you can enjoy some nice fall weather before the cold sets in.  It sounds like you are making good progress in cutting the cable.

Good Afternoon Everyone...

I went off with Kelly this AM  did some
shopping and had lunch...   Good day.   

I got my new digital Life Alert and
set it up today.     What a relief to have be able to just plug it in and it works...    My desk top is getting clearer and clearer.   

Next to go is the cable tv and phone...
Wow ....     (Now if I just have the
courage!)   I will do this at the
beginning of December.

Over cast but cool here on the rocky
coast of Maine. 

Have a good day,  everyone!
Sandy