That is super, Callie. Post a pix when you get one, please.

Callie -  Good news is always welcome here ,  and the arrival of Cooper David, is especially good!  I'm sure the entire family is excited, and for good reason!  Hope you have a chance to see him soon.

The name David, is prominent in my family also.  My father was David Edwin, but always went by his middle name, and was called Eddie.  My brother was David Edwin, Jr,  and went by David.  One of his sons has David as a middle name.  We planned to name our son, Bradley David, but instead went with Allyn, which is my husband's name.    I like to see names stay within the family.  My youngest daughter is called Sandy, but her real first name is Mary . . . named after great-grandmothers on both sides.   

Me, too!  One of my brothers is David, and he has a son David.  My 2nd husband was David.

Merry Monday!

Cooper spent most of the third evening he has been in this world underground in his maternal grandparents' storm shelter!

The tornado that went through the other side of the suburb in which they live was a BIG, long-lasting one.  News this morning said it began in the Texas panhandle and fizzled out east of OKC - a 202 mile path!!!

Fortunately, all of my family who lives in that suburb are fine (hope Mary Page's granddaughter and family are, too) and I haven't heard of any damage to their houses. My area wasn't affected.

Today is sunny and supposed to be in the 90's.

Off to find something useful to do.

Callie -  Glad the new baby,  and everyone else in your family is safe from the recent tornadoes.  Thank Heaven for storm shelters!  Hoping you will soon have a chance to meet Cooper. 

Mary Page - Good to see you checking in, and hope we hear from you again soon. 

Haven't heard a bad word, so feel all must be well.  Thankyou for your hopeful words.  Scary stuff, Callie.  Much relieved you are not among the casulties.

We are on Page #783 at the moment, except me.  I am still on page #781 and have never learned to change to the higher number so that I may start off there.  Always had someone to do it for me, and now I don't.
If any of you can instruct me how to move on, please do!

At the bottom of the last post there is a line of numbers ( PAGES ).  Just click on the next higher one.

The page numbers are also at the top - if that's easier.

Thank you, Rammel.
I appreciate your response enormously, but am not certain it solves my problem, as what you describe is what I have been doing.
(I confess I did not previously know about the numbers also being up at the top.)  But the thing is, someone used to know how to make the latest page number the one this (or any other forum being entered) defaults to automatically.  As I do not know how to do that trick, I have to click on the latest page number every time I come in, as it no longer holds in place for me.  Do I make any sense at all?  I feel mebbe I do not!

Am feeling a humongous sense of pride in great granddaughter Bella, who has had two graduations this month at the University of Maryland: a BA in two different fields of study.  And she has had a dozen special awards!  Woo hoo!  Annabelle is 21, and will work a gap year before going to law school.  She graduated way up in her classes.

https://studentaffairs.umd.edu/directory/annabelle-grant

Am equally puffed up over 11 year-old great grandson (I have 28 great grandchildren) Mateo, who attends a public school for gifted children in St. Louis, Missouri.  He graduated today at the head of his 5th grade class (have you ever heard of "graduating" from the fifth grade? Neither have I.)  He gave the class speech, and Judith, my granddaughter, sent me a video.  I love being included in that way.  Mateo will go on to the Middle School for the gifted next year.  I really believe all public school systems should have this type of school available.  Mateo, whose father is half Filipino, was sent home with a note to his parents when he was in pre-kindergarten to alert them that he should take the test for the gifted, and so he did.  I think that is how they recruit the little smarties.  His two-year younger brother got the same note and did the same thing.

Quote from: MaryPage on May 22, 2024, 09:17:26 PMBut the thing is, someone used to know how to make the latest page number the one this (or any other forum being entered) defaults to automatically.  As I do not know how to do that trick, I have to click on the latest page number every time I come in, as it no longer holds in place for me.  Do I make any sense at all?  I feel mebbe I do not!

I understand what you are saying, and looking to do. However, if there is a way/trick to do that, I'm unaware of how to do it also. I usually read all of the new posts, advancing to the next page if necessary. When I come back to a folder, I come to the first UNREAD post.  If that is what you want to do, do this - Do you have a column down the left side of your window? If so, left click and hold either "Show Unread", or "Show Replies", and drag it up to your Bookmarks line and "drop" it there.  Then use that shortcut/Bookmark to get to unread items in S&F (Seniors and Friends).

MaryPage, I remember Bella from her trip abroad and cannot believe how much she still looks like that young girl.

And of course, Mateo, one of my favorites from your emails. He was such a little one, not even in school then. Has he changed much since then or stayed close to back then as Bella seemingly has?

Oh, Patricia;  Mateo, I am told, is going through the usual High School pain-in-the-neck phase.  I would not know about this, as they live in St. Louis, MO, and I do not have to live that with them.  I have to say I am, as the Brits say, gobsmacked to discover smart little kids not only achieve earlier than most, but go through the usual behavior phases at a faster clip; or so it would seem.  I make no claim to book knowledge of these things.

As for my Mateo, I predict the most splendid human being possible once he is safely into his manhood.  This is the kid who, 5 years ago at my 90th party with over eighty kin of my own blood crammed on Debi's waterfront deck for a photo, jumped up from where his parents and brother sat on a front corner of said deck and rushed over to me exclaiming he would join ME because he did not want me to be alone!  I, of course, was in the center of that crowd at the time!  Such sweetness!

I am again in your debt, Rammel, and I thank you for all that stuff I lacked knowledge of.
Yes, I do have that window, and will follow your instructions.
You are THE BEST!

TY          Hope it works for you.

Thank you MaryPage. It's a tribute to you and your family stories that we can follow along with and care for these little ones who are suddenly not so little after all.

Hi Everyone from the very warm (in the 80's)
rocky coast of Maine. 

All is well here in Portland, as we enter into the warmer

My AC is going in soon bur not soon enough for me. 
I shan't complain as life is still good for  me and
in spit of my limited vision,  I am back to overdosing on
Gelli prints and Collage.    Still just at
the learning stage of course... 

I love having fun with learning new arts and crafts....
until the next one comes along that interests me ...

"fun for the feeble minded"  I call it.
Me, being the most feeble minded of all, of course!!

Hi to MaryPage.  I hope that you are happy staying with
one of your Grand Daughters...  I think that it is easier for
the gals to take care of the gals,  when possible....

I am very lucky to have my two daughters, Kelly and Erin,
living close by to help me, when help is needed. 

Hi to All...    Have a good weekend ...  (I prefer week days,
of course, although I do like to watch the PGA (Golf)!

Best wishes,  Sandy

Sandy, Gelli printing sounds like fun. I never heard of it, but when I checked it out it turns out to be a form of monoprinting, called hectograph, which is centuries old.

For anyone who, like me, never heard of jelly printing, here is a history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hectograph You know what? I do vaguely remember seeing some information when I was much, much younger, on how to make a print using Jello. Might have been an ad campaign to sell more Jello? I don't think I ever tried it. Named after Gelli Arts, the current iteration is a plate made of a soft form of silicone. So, what is old is new again, and more durable than jelly.
 

Sandy -  So good to see your message!  Sounds like you're doing well, and enjoying your arts and crafts hobby.  Gelli  printing is a new one on me too!  Sounds like fun.  If you do any prints, take some pictures so we can see what it looks like?

Mars -  I haven't yet looked at your Wikipedia link on Gelli, but will check it out after I finish here.  I'm enjoying looking at the Pier23 cam you posted and I found an even better one at Pier39!  The Sea Lion platforms there,  were loaded yesterday.   I'll enclose the link in my next post. 

MaryPage -  I enjoyed reading about Mateo and Bella, and well remember in the past, when you were keeping us informed about Bella's fabulous trip!   I like being brought up-to-date on both of them, as well as others in your family.
I hope you're feeling better, since you moved in with your daughter?

We used to use a Hectograph a lot when we were grade school age.   There was a rectangular pan about half an inch deep and a little bigger than a sheet of typing paper for the jelly, which I think was just Jello.  You had a sheet like carbon paper with the ink on it, and you typed using it like carbon paper. The ink would stick to the paper underneath the carbon, and you would then lay that face down on the jelly, letting the ink sink in. You could then put blank paper on the jelly and the ink would stick to it. you could get maybe half a dozen copies before they got too pale.
You would then melt the jelly on the stove, stir it, and let it set to use again with a different typing.
We would do things like a neighborhood newspaper with it, which people either enjoyed or pretended to.

Pat,  the Hectograph and the jelly and the whole process, sounds like something I would have loved doing, during those grade school years.  I think it must have been an East Coast thing, because I've  never heard of it until now?  I also used to love to write the Neighborhood Newspaper!  I'd talk a friend into helping me, and we'd write the news, complete with illustrations, on lined notebook paper.  That was the fun part, but making the copies by hand was mighty tedious.  Usually only three or four houses on our street got a newspaper delivery.

Humongous storms here last night.  We were terrorized, but not hit;  at least, not in our little corner of this isle.  We don't have our paper or our local tv news as yet.  Science says we are in for a bumpy ride ahead: a rough summer. My heart hurts for those losing their safe home spots to piles of rubbish.  At the same time, I am forced to hope it won't be our own.

Mary Page,  Sorry to hear that you had such a night of extreme weather!  Was it wind and rain, or something else?  I wish these destructive tornadoes throughout the Midwest would just STOP!  Seeing blocks of houses, totally destroyed looks so shocking and hopeless.  What are all these families going to do, and where will they live?  It's hard to wrap my mind around such total destruction.

Believe me, our earthquakes here in California, are nothing, compared to tornadoes.  Of course we haven't had a BIG one here in about 30 years.  Lots of little ones that don't do any real damage, but they're always predicting a big one to come on the San Andreas Fault.  (Which just happens to go right through my town.)         

Oh Marilyne, how terribly scary for you! 

We do not usually have as strong a storm as we had last night, but we did NOT get the tornados that our region is beginning now to get more and more of.  It was just unusually strong lightning and thunder and stuff such as that.  I was afraid of our getting worse, because we are very close to Washington, D.C., and that had been strongly mentioned in our weather forecast as being in the track of some northward bound tornados.  I am a strong believer in the truth of climate change brought about by global warming, and my natural inclination to panic is front and center these days. 

Today, I took a special folder from my files and sat down to read Bob's e-mails to me for the first time in years.  The saddest thing was in discovering how terribly much of what he wrote I have now totally forgotten;  I refer here not only to his writings of his love for me, but of events and people and such.  My memory problem grows ever deeper, and I find that downright heartbreaking in many instances.

On the other hand, I have a fun thing to tell you.  By some mistake, I found an email from Norm & Dot in the middle of that pile, which was a mistake on my part, as I had no intention of including it.  Well, it was a welcome delight to hear from old Norm once more, so I am glad that happened![/color][/size][/font][/i]

Mary Page...
" Norm came back to you that day, "  this was not a mistake, this was meant to happen, do treasure that moment...

Hi, Jackie!  Yes, he did!
The email was sent September 1, 2007.  Long time passed.  We had been around for a while, here in Senior Net, as I have always called it.  We were starting to dwindle at a discouraging rate.
My Bob died in 2006, and I was wrapped in my memories.  Somewhere along the way, they disappeared.  But they still display some most welcome pictures & sounds when a thing or a word brings them back for a bit.  Which reminds me, can anyone besides me remember when motion pictures did not have any sound?