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I just spent a scintillating morning going over Supreme Court decisions. Coming up for air ….
And relooking at all of the photos that Iris took! I can imagine being in a hot air balloon (and loving it), but I can't imagine being in a hot air balloon and having my view be of a herd of antelope. What a fantastic experience.
Iris, your breakfast looks almost like a "full English", all that's missing is the tomato.
And while I like the idea of the "loo with a view", that loo looks awfully exposed.
HB - thinking positive thoughts about your mom. We're in a similar boat with my s.o.'s mom. She'll be 89 in a couple of weeks, and there's a potential diagnosis out there, but will it impact her? Hard to know. Doesn't make it any easier though.
My eyes perked right up at the thought of home made pizza dough.
Re corn fritters, apple fritters, any kind of fritters. They're a no can do for me. Not because they taste bad or have a funny texture, but because right after high school I worked in a donut shop. It cured me of all things donut. I'm still scarred. 😄
jfkoc - Yay on the Ansel Adams tour! I bet it really was wonderful.
Zetta - I'm glad you're still going to yoga. I think you go for much the same reason I go to the gym - I'm trying to preserve what I have for as long as possible.
I hear you about the weather. I like hot weather but when it gets over 100, I melt. 107 degrees is way too much.
Lorita - I remember Gunsmoke and Wagon Train, although Wagon Train is really dim for me. My grandfather loved, loved, loved westerns, and he always watched Bonanza and The Guns of Will Sonnett. This may be heresy, but I remember David Canary not from Bonanza, but from All My Children. Same with Dack Rambo from The Guns of Will Sonnett. He registered for me back then, but I remember him mostly from All My Children.
I'm having a much more productive day than I did the other day - thankfully. Plus, while I'm working, I have a load of laundry going that sounds like it's just about done.
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Judith, I have a couple of step stools very similar to yours-' a two step and a three step that open up and have something to hold onto. I was looking for a little stool you just step up onto.. I just need six more inches of height to open and hold the shutters.
I think it's about eleven years. I know Charles was in the hospital and I was staying there and coming home to feed. I didn't have my tablet so hadn't posted for a while. I came home and when I took Barclee outside Mike was coming out of the barn. You had found him and told him I had said he had let a cow and deformed calf go to sleep. The names I used he didn't recognize but knew who I was from what he had done so came to check on me. Sandy has also been our friend for that long.
.There have been thunderstorms and rain west of us but has fallen apart. It is cloudy and cooler right now..
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Hi again, I just watched a one hour show on tv that I enjoyed so much. It was about the Everly Brothers and their music. It took me back to my teenage years. I remembered when I was sixteen walking around the fairgrounds with a friend and they were playing songs by the Everly Brothers. Their music was so good. Do you all remember them?
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In my mind I think I can do a lot, but in actuality I have trouble getting things done. I can accomplish tasks but my stamina runs out early. Today I washed my car by hand and I paid my July bills at the post office and I stopped at the market for bread. Those small tasks wiped me out. I only had toast for dinner, I was so tired. I'm ready for bed now. Good night.
Iris
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Good morning
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Good morning
Homemade pizza and fritters sound like a nice meal.
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Morning, I love Apple fritters. There was a tiny wide place in the road I used to go through on my way to work that had a little store with a bakery that had the best apple fritters. I would stop and get one and eat it on my way to work. Also had delicious doughnuts that I would get when one of the staff had a birthday. I haven't had a fritter since I retired 30 years ago.
Iris, I'm the same way. I feel like doing big jobs but get it about half finished before I get tired and have to stop. Don't you get awfully tired on your trips?
Rain north of us but doubt we will get any so it will be another hot day. When I was in town the other day there was a truck selling wstermelons. Would really like to get.a good, sweet one but will have to wait until I have a refrigerator. The one I bought last year was $12. And wasn't good and sweet. I remember daddy raised and sold truckloads of melons for 50 cents each. Times have changed, sadly. Enjoy your day..
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Good morning 😄 Porch Friends.
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We just have to break the big jobs into little jobs. Like if a case of cat food is on the doorstep, we might open the case and carry the cans in several at a time in a cloth bag instead of lifting the entire case.
I remember buying really good watermelons at roadside stands in the Missouri bootheel for 25 cents each. That was back when gas was 15 cents a gallon and bread was 20 cents a loaf, and a man who earned $100 a week had a really good job.
We're expecting rain this afternoon. I'm going to go out and try to get some good Amish tomatoes before it starts TTYL.
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Happy Saturday. Warm and cloudy here today.
All this talk of fritters. Yikes. I can take them or leave them unless we're talking conk or oysters— then I'm all in.
Lorita—I suspect it'll take a village to keep you from self-harm you're so used to being self-sufficient. Y100#ou remind me of my great-grandmother; her doctor told her to stay off ladders at 90, so she painted and papered her kitchen standing on the table and countertops. She was real proud of herself, I might add.
Judith— Alas, nobody around here seems to have extra tomatoes anymore. My sources dried up— one moved to Seattle and the other obtained a son-in-law who is really into cooking. He cans 100 lbs each year for his own use. On the other hand, there are folks I avoid during zucchini season.
Lady Z— That fall sounds really painful. I'm glad your doc is encouraging you to stick with the yoga as I feel like I get a lot out of it, and you probably do too. A good instructor can help adapt poses to protect tissues in healing.
Eaglemom— It seems if your DH's pain can be controlled by injections and Tylenol, surgery with anesthesia is a can you can kick down the road. It might be different if he were younger and needed it repaired.
Iris— I run out of steam, too. The worst is when I devote a day to shopping hitting Costco, the farm store and the regular store and need to go out to eat because I'm too tired to cook.
Gothic G— It's so hard to consider health decisions for another person. In my situation, it's complicated by mom having no understanding of all things medical (DH regularly muses that it's amazing I lived to adulthood) and thinking of herself as middle-aged (while referring to my long-suffering DH as "older" and "fragile"). SMH.
We watched those soaps in high school, too. Were you also a Dark Shadows devotee?
Carl— Breaking things down into smaller bites is what I'm doing. Mom likes Kolsch and has me buy her a case every couple of months. Glass bottles are heavy, so the owner carries them to my car and we carry them in 2 six-packs at a time. I'm fortunate that DS can do my heavy lifting at home.
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I'm off to a slow start. I would have slept late, but my "new" neighbors are having their roof replaced and the crew started at 7am— on a Saturday— which is a violation of township and HOA rules. It's no skin off my nose, but some of the other neighbors are younger and have small kids. It's off this is being done on a Saturday. There's a township ordinance that the roof decking has to be inspected by the fire marshal because an area builder used improper roofing that led to some fires spreading. I'm guessing he didn't pull permits; the local roofers know this. And FTR, his home was built by the offending builder. He's a weird dude. There's something about that house— every person who has owned it was a raging odd-ball. These current folks haven't registered their cars in PA; they still have NJ tags after 2 years. The guy they bought from was 65 and moved in with only a recliner, bed, guitars, and card table; the staging pictures were really something. He sold in 6 months having bought and sold a house in mom's neighborhood in under 4 months because the place was filled with old people.
I think I'll take mom out shopping for a couple hours. She has eye injections on Monday and her scan downtown on Tuesday, so I need to catch up around here first.
Have a good day.
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There was flooding in the streets in Tulsa this morning -- having to rescue people We didn't have any but the ground is damp, from yesterday, I guess.
I have done that - breaking the cases of pet food but just don't take the time, so I hurt. Costochondritis is really hurtling today, not so much in the front but in the back. It begins in mid sternum. then through to an silver dollar sized spot in my back. Have had this for years. It used to hurt down my left arm to the wrist. Really scary. Didn't help it this morning. Went out to fill a water tank and cut saplings that were hanging over the path. So, I hurt.
I saw the little barn swallow this morning. I think she had just left her nest to sit on the porch banister for a minute. She is really pretty, mostly black or dark color.
Have any.of you all ever made Babka? They were making it on one of the cooking shows this morning. Lots of work but I bet it is delicious. I order chocolate brioche that is probably a bit similar. They were also making cobblers. The cobblers my family made had a bottom and top crust. The quick cobblers I make is easier. The batter is on bottom with fruit on top but when baked it has fruit below and crust on top. Really good and easy. With all this food talk, I need something sweet.
This morning our local news said that one in four people in Oklahoma is on Sooner Care, which is Medicaid. Sarah was and there is no way on earth they could have paid for her medical care without it. Scary stuff going on right now.
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In our way to Decatur, AL with 10# of homemade potato salad for a graduation party in honor of SIL’s granddaughter. Of course SIL has her husband do all the meat/veggies and she’ll make a plate of deviled eggs 🤣 I’m also bringing 2 gallons of sweet tea because she thought 2 gallons was “plenty” for 24 people 🤪😂
It’s hot, hazy but sunny with pockets of rain this afternoon. Hopefully all the “littles” can frolic in the pool. 😘
Here’s the Tennessee River today, y’all have a good day and stay safe
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I believe one out of three people are on Medicaid here in California.
Lorita, when I go on trips, everything is done for me. All I have to do is get dressed and come down for breakfast. Cooking, cleaning, driving and everything else is done by someone else. All I have to do is partake. When I do get back to the hotel, after dinner and my shower, I am ready for bed. And I sleep well away from home. I think this is what assisted living must be like.
This morning I am going to a pre-trip meeting for my next trip.
Iris
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JJeriLynn, do you make German potato salad or the kind where the potatoes are mashed? That was a lot of potatoes to peel. The Tennessee River looks as full as the Arkansas. Very pretty. I like to look at water but do not care to be in it. I have never learned how to swim.
Iris, do you know where you'd be going on the next trip? Is it a club of some kind you belong to that takes these trips? Do you all have a voice in where you go?
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That may be what assisted living is like or it may be what Heaven is like. Sounds wonderful. I haven't spent a night away from home since 2018. I need to make plans to fix that.
I bought tomatoes, watermelon, and cantelope at the fruit stand, and some staples at the supermarket. I carried it in a little at a time and I'll eat it a little at a time. I love summer.
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Carl, all of that sounds wonderful. What kind of watermelon?.My very favorite is the orange ones. Hard to find. Years ago someone in this area raised them and I happened to see his truck and got one. They only last about a week, he said. The truck I saw last week only had red meated ones. But, if he still there Tuesday, I may get one. .Hopefully, someone may have cantalopes. I had much rather buy from a farmer than a store. Enjoy your.bounty!
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I bought a striped seedless watermelon, not real large, for $4. The seeded variety have better flavor, but I haven't seen any of those yet and my son is coming for Independence Day, so I grabbed it. The cantaloupe smells really good. I could smell them from six feet away, which means they ripened on the vine and is my signal to buy some whether that was what I went for or no.
My mother used to work with a woman who brought cantaloupe in her lunch every day, and the lunch group teased her about it. One day at lunch, someone asked the woman whether she was scheduled to work the next day. She responded: "Oh, no, I can't work tomorrow. I'm out of cantaloupe." 😆
Lorita, I'd be tempted to plant some watermelon if I lived where you do. They don't do well here in the hills. I tried it once and they weren't fit to eat.
I guess you've heard the story about the moonshiners who injected some white lightning into a watermelon when the preacher was coming to dinner. The preacher took seconds and was seen slipping seeds into his pocket. 😆
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That's so funny, Carl, he thought he'd raise some of those melons. Melons of all kind do grow well here. I guess daddy, Charles and I have raised most kinds. They like a sandy soil which is where daddy had his melons- most of the land is loamy except where he planted. There's a town south of here that's called the watermelon capital of the world. Can't recall the name. Really nowhere for me to plant them now. The whole place is in pasture now except for the ysrd, parking area and a paddock west of the house. A!so don't have a tiller now.
Darwin planted watermelons and cantalopes last year. Melons didn't make and the cantalopes were really small but sweet. He's not doing that this year. I used to take half a cantaloupe to work for lunch and would put ice cream or cottage in the center. I love raw xucchini, too. Once I took a whole one for lunch and sat at a long table with other employees. I guess when I started eating it they felt sorry for me and kept offering me part of their lunch, which I declined but it was sweet of them to offer. Now I'm really hungry for cantalope. I am almost afraid to buy the ones shipped in because of all the problems in the past, rather have locally grown.
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My father told me about the year his father planted a field of watermelon during the Great Depression, when wheat was selling for 5 cents a bushel. This was in Texas and they had a good crop, but the price was so low that it would cost more to truck them to town than they would bring. So, they rotted in the field while people went hungry in the cities. Hard times.
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Carl, daddy only planted and sold watermelons one time. I wasn't more than six or seven but I remember he sold a semi load for fifty. Cents each. Also remember they would weigh one every so. often. I sat on one that weighed 80 lbs. We made the hills the night before and got up and planted the seeds before daylight. Not sure, but May 1 comes to mind as the date, probably not because that would be late. At Any rate daddy said they had to be p!anted before sunrise . It was probably 15-20 acres of them. That's a lot of.hills. Makes me tired to think about it.
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The sun's down, it's 72 degrees with a breeze. The western sky is still blue, and the band of clouds above is tinted peach by the remains of the sun. Fireflies are flitting about my back yard, looking for love with their little lights while the trees and shrubs sway. What a beautiful evening!
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Lorita - I know of the Everly Brothers, but I'd be hard pressed to name one of their songs. But they hard great harmonies, right?
About stamina and balance (step stools) — I still have a lot of stamina, thanks to the gym, but I'm not what I used to be. When we made our big Costco run a month or so ago, we bought so much stuff. I was hauling everything to the back room to organize it all …. trip after trip after trip. Way sooner than I thought I ran out of steam. I'm like, what is this? It's called getting old, GG. Like Iris, in my head I can do much more. In real life, not so much.
Same with step stools. My balance is … better, but I've never been known for my great balance. I stay away from step stools. I'm short enough that a step stool isn't really going to help me much anyway, so why take the risk of falling?
HB - Guilty as charged as to being a big Dark Shadows fan. Peggy and I were those kids who'd run home from school to make sure we didn't miss a minute of it. Team Peggy (M & D) turns out were also big fans (we're all of a certain age). When Peggy passed away, I gave M Peggy's plastic replica of Josette's music box. He was thrilled, especially since it still plays. I have one of my own. 🙂 Yep, we're silly people.
JeriLynn - Ha! two gallons of anything isn't enough for 24 people! Good you brought more.
Iris - Are Medi-Cal and Medicaid the same thing?
Carl - Now I want cantaloupe. It sounds really good - and really refreshing when it's hot. Looking forward to watermelon too.
About 10 years ago I was at a friend's wedding and when it got to be early evening the fireflies came out! I'd never seen them before. At first I didn't know what I was seeing, and then I realized what they were. I was so excited.
I'm glad you're enjoying a beautiful evening.
As for here - the sun hasn't gone down yet. It won't go down until around 9:10. Long days this time of year.
I got all of my cleaning done today, so tonight and tomorrow are completely free. We're supposed to get a lot of sun tomorrow, so I think I'm going to suggest going to the Seattle arboretum. It's really pretty and I like strolling through all of the paths.
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Carl, your evening sounds so peaceful. We used to catch lightnin' bugs and put them In a jar with holes in n the !id, to watch them light up.
GG a couple of the Everly Brothers songs were Dream and Wake Up !little Susie. Their harmony was/is unmatched. You are probably a little young for them -The Beatles and the British Invasion began in 1962 so they were most popular in the late 50s.
Time to go to sleep. Good night, sleep tight.
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GG, yes MediCal is California's version of Medicaid.
Lorita, my next trip will be The Best of Scandinavia. We will visit Sweden, Norway and Denmark. It is a travel club called Circle of Friends. The owner started out doing day trips around southern CA, then branched out to northern CA, Nevada, Utah and Arizona. Just a few years age she branched out more to other states and overseas. She has offered Christmas in Vermont, in Nashville and in Montreal. But I don't want to visit snow country.
Last year I went to New Orleans, to Texas and Oklahoma, to Oregon and Northern CA, and to London and Paris.
In September I will be traveling to Kentucky. She plans her trips based on where people have an interest in going. Next year I have signed up for Mt. Rushmore, Switzerland and New York. She has a trip to Cuba, but I am not interested. She also has a trip to Baja California to see where the whales migrate to have their young, which I am considering.
In between there are still day trips. Next week there will be two trips to the Hollywood Bowl to see Earth Wind and Fire and to see fireworks.
I went to my friend's annual barbecue this afternoon. She was one of the first people that I met when I moved to California in 1975. So we have been friends for fifty years!
We lived in the same apartment complex when we were young adults (a swinging singles apartment complex), and then in the same condo complex as middle aged adults, until she married and moved to a house. I'm still in the same condo complex. I'm going to stay here until I can't stay. This is because I live on the second floor and there are stairs.
I heard a joke at the bbq. A man worked as a teller at a bank. A woman came in and said, "I want to check my balance." So he pushed her over!
Good night.
Iris
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Morning,
The Grad Party was actually delightful. A mixture of old folks (us) young parents with toddlers and babies, young folks in love about to get married and the Graduate about to launch to college. I held babies while their Mama(s) ate and then did some kitchen clean up. I'm glad I took the tea. There was none left to bring back home, lol. SIL is somewhat fragile emotionally and I was glad to see her have a good time.
We leave a week from today to go camping with SIL and BIL at Desoto Falls near Ft. Payne, AL. Then in August we are planning a trip to the Outer Banks in North Carolina, then Hiawassee, GA in September, then Port Aransas, TX at the beach in Feb. THEN, a LONG trip west to Oregon is in the works. I could just stay on the road, DH not so much.
After church today we plan to stop at the barn in Huntland to retrieve the big flat top grill. I'm trying to fashion an outdoor kitchen out of what we already have, though DH is balking at a fridge on the patio even though we have a spare fridge in the barn too. My thoughts are that sure would save lots of tracking in/out from the pool by the teenagers thus saving me sweeping and mopping time. We'll see.
DH has pickled 10 jars of bread/butter pickles so far and there's a load of cucumbers and squash on the patio waiting to be addressed. I bought the canner @Mint recommended and he loves it so thank you Mint! We've also decided we will need to bring another chest freezer from the barn. You know we keep
"extra" and have the grands come "shop" the pantry and freezer all year long.We didn't plant any watermelon or cantaloupe. We did last year and nothing made. We plan to haul in some manure this fall to add to all this red clay dirt. I think this dirt is just not right for melons.
OK, it's 5 am. I gotta get up from here and get busy. Y'all have a good day.
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Morning, GG, in Oklahoma Medicaid is known as Sooner Care. Looks like big cuts coming on that.
Iris, you have gone so !any places with so many more to come. What a group that must be. I bet everyone has a good time.
Already hot here. Stormy just came in and his hair wss very warm. The Swallow is on her nest. I worry she will get too hot but any south breeze will help her.
JeriLynn, sounds like everyone had as good time with lots of good food to enjoy. Mother used to make bread and butter pickles, really all kinds and they were so good. She made a chunky sweet pickle that was almost translucent and so crisp. We tried making them once but they weren't as good as hers. We found some in WM that were almost as good but none are ever as good as mothers were, are they.
Better stop and get Sheena inside. Be careful in the heat, everyone.
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Morning . Lorita you are correct, its hot already. Madison loves being outside, but isn't a fan of the heat! So she sits by the door, I let her out, she looks around & immediately wants back in. Then we do it again!
Not much on our schedule for today, however DH wants to play Monopoly!!! So there is that.
Iris your trips sound great. Keep taking pictures so we can all enjoy them!
Let's be careful everyone.
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horrendous nite in the Hosp Had spell yesterday getting out of bed,,,dizzy/nauseous. Too code to a strkes I called 911. Never slept a wink 2 Ct scans…followed by an MRI AT 2a. Consensus is a had vertigo attack and a really bad UTI. No symptms at all. Will be going home late today!
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Judith, that's just awful! Glad it wasn't anything more serious.
LOL, Iris, sounds like a fun party.
Lorita, I remember the Everly Brothers quite well. A boy in 8th grade liked to tease me, so when he was in puppy love with a girl named Cathy "Cathy's Clown" gave me a ready-made opportunity to repay him.
I took DS to brunch this morning and stopped by the cemetery so he could grieve in his way. I don't want to visit that often but it helps him.
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JeriLynn, I read you need sandy soil for watermelon. I know from experience that they don't like red clay. I'll bet a raised bed with a mix of sand and compost would grow them, but I've never tried it.
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