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Good Morning, All! 

Okay.  I am wondering how long the word 'All' has been beside where the pages are?  At the bottom of the posts, it is written Pages...1,2 All.  I clicked All and it starts at the first posts and ends at the last post.  Neat.  Please don't tell me it has always been there....

Janet ~ What a scare for Beth and for you and Darrel.  I am just so happy that Beth didn't hurt anything other than her pride. 

Larry ~ Sorry that Pat has a cold.  Bed rest!  Hot soup!  Two aspirins!  That should do it!

Pat ~ Here's hoping all your days are above normal!  You deserve 'up' days!

Marilyn ~ I wish I had Curves near me.  I would like to start walking but not out here in the country and the nearest town/big building where I could walk is 7.5 miles away.  Don't want to drive that every day just to walk. 

Carol ~ How is that kitchen coming along?  Is it possible to post a photo of the finished product?

Ruth Ann ~ I remember when my boss would be away and it seemed that I got so much more done when I wasn't interrupted by the boss!  Makes the day go so much faster, too.

Jane ~ The 'worry' scriptures in Matthew are some of the very first scriptures that I really took to heart.  We can't do anything about yesterday or tomorrow.  And today will take care of itself.  We all worry but some of us worry more than others. 

Nita ~ Those gift cards are wonderful, aren't they?  At least if you don't get what you want, you only have yourself to blame.  We all have received gifts that when you open them, you think, why would so and so think I would want this?  I know I have but I smile and accept the gift as if it were the best thing I could ever receive.  And sometimes, I realize, it was!

Ruth ~ I remember fresh cow milk.  Mom always put our own use milk in Ball canning jars in the refrigerator.  We always had cereal or oatmeal for breakfast.  I would get the jar out of the fridge and pour it on my cereal and it was CREAM!  Yuck!  Or I would pour milk on my cereal and it was still warm from the cow.  I still can't drink milk today!  And I can't stomach any milk other than skim milk.  Oops!  I like do like ice cream, whipped cream, milk shakes, all those things but no milk to drink! 

While I was still in bed this morning, I heard a droning noise.  Then I realized it was a tractor somewhere.  When I got up, the corn field west of me has been picked!  Now I can see the houses west of me.  When I went for the mail yesterday, the farmer was picking corner south of me about a half a mile.  Soon all the corn will be picked and we won't have the fear of cars not stopping when they should at crossroads. 

It is raining and cloudy today.  A little warmer but still only 41°F.  I am taking Nancy and Walter to Indiana University this afternoon.  Nancy called me yesterday and asked if I could come down an hour early...she wants us to go to the new steak house in Greenfield for lunch.  That will be a treat!  We have all grown to be such great friends.

Morning all,

    Such wonderful thoughts, it surely is in God's good time!

     Everyone leads such interesting lives and always has so much to do. Hope all is well with everyone now.

     Well, the news is in, I have multiple tears in the rotator cuff in the right shoulder. Now I have to see an orthopedist. So no work for now and no picking up Michael    So we wait and see some more but at least we know what the problem is.

     As for Michael, his anti-seizure med has been increased and no more seizures. God is so Good!!!

Well, everyone have a great day in the Lord and take care. Thanks for being here!

<><Jeannine

Etta sue, I think that "all" just appeared here yesterday, or maybe the day before.  For sure, it hasn't always been there!

I must wade into (pardon the pun) the cows' milk issue!  I learned to milk cows at the ripe old age of four, sitting on a rusty, beat-up bucket beside a cow in the corral (not even in the barn) and milking, holding the milk bucket between my knees.  I loved milk then, and still like it today---but NEVER warm, only icy cold!  Warm milk is yucky, but cats don't think so.  It was always fun to squirt the milk to the waiting cats, who would stand up on their hind legs and drink it as fast as they could, straight from the cow!  Funny to watch.  For many years, we separated the milk and sold only the cream, then later, Dad decided to improve to a Grade A dairy, and he installedc milking machines, improved the milk barn so it was easy to clean, and installed a huge (500 gallon) milk cooling tank.  The milk tanker truck came from Amarillo, about 150 miles to the south, to pick up the milk.  So I know a lot about the dairy business.  Don't ask me if I liked it! 

Well, really, I never minded the work, except for the getting out of bed at 4 AM daily.  It was the confinement of it that chafed at us girls.  We couldn't go to a lot of school things, especially if it involved being away overnight, because those cows had to be milked!!  By the time I was in high school, we were milking from 75 to 85 cows, morning and evening.  I remember when we had that awful land-locked hurricane in 1956, our power was out, the barns were completely covered by snow, and we had to milk all those cows by HAND!   I remember when I finished milking about 25 or so and went into the house, my hands were so swollen I couldn't pick up my hairbrush.  We only managed to get them milked once a day until the power came back on--believe me, that was plenty!!  I was the only milk maid left at home at that time, so some of the guys had to help!!

TMI??  Sorry.  But thanks for the memories! 

I just called Beth and she is sore today, but otherwise okay.  The thing I hate the most is, that anytime she gets shaken up, it activates the neurofibromas into more active growth.     But she is in God's hands, and He knows and cares.

Jeanine, you posted while I was typing, hello!  I'm so glad Michael's seizures are now under control, but sorry about your shoulder.  I hope you get the right help for it and find relief soon!

After I came back from working out I took a quick shower and went on to my Tai Chi class. Since I came home I have cooked a healthy dish of Macaroni, Tuna, Meta Greens, Garlic, Olive Oil and Parmesan Cheese. I went to take some to Mimi and she has gone to work.

Carol how is your kitchen coming along?

Janet I am so sorry to hear that Beth bruised herself and that the Neurofibromas will start to grow again. That girl has been through enough.

They are having a Thanksgiving dinner today at the Arcata Senior Center, I called to see if I could get on the list but there was no more room. When we had the one here at the local center, 60 extra people showed up than were on the list and the food had to be  cut short for everyone to make it go around.

Etta Sue it is 48° here and it is supposed to start raining again soon and it sure looks like it now.

Hi Jane, Nita, Larry, Pat, Kevin, and Jeanine.

Y-all take care now ya hear.

Laters

I re-read the message of patience.  Sometimes it is good to go over things a day later and find a new perspective. 

Pat:  Have not mentioned it before but I really like your new picture.  It looks like you are almost peering around a corner, cute. 

Janet:  Oh, good grief on reading about Beth's shocking fall.  It will be dicey at times when you have ice on the ramps as well but there is one good thing and that is you have lots of sunshine in your state so winter is more tolerable than if you lived way up north. 

Marilyn:  What a busy gal - I should do Tai Chi as it would be good to lower blood pressure.  The kitchen is coming - we had countertops delivered today.  Yahoo....

Etta Sue:  I will try to do so when this get finished - I mean send a picture.  Thinking of the crossroads & a cousin lost her oldest son just a few years ago at one of those high corn crossroads - he was the one in ag. school preparing to run their huge farm & a really good church-going family.  In Minnesota.

Jeannine:  Your injury sounds very painful.   Take care.

Well, we are running down to the Boulder area to watch one of the grands sing in a choir concert tonight - he has a solo part.   Haven't had time to eat yet today & it is 1:30 P.M. - had to exchange the wrong toy I had picked up.  Daughter had a colonoscopy this morning & all of that is well.

A good friend (who had a heart transplant five years ago) now has breast cancer for the 2nd. time.  It is hard not to scream, Why Why Why?  She is in great spirits and begins radiation treatments. 

Carol

Thanks for the comments about my new piccie!  Needed a change!

Please go to our Photos section.  Some nice ones by Muddy_Sneakers and Kevin today!

They are all being categorized into sections like "Landscapes / Travel" "Pets", "Wildlife", "People / Family / Friends", etc.

So if you can't find your old piccies, if they weren't broken links, I've moved them and am still moving them into the various categories.

See you there!

Etta Sue, I just added the "All" button! 

PAT!!  You look so pretty.  I love your new picture.  Did you find a way to set  the aging clock back?  You are beautiful.  Inside and out.

Jeannine, I'm so sorry about your shoulder.  Please take care of it.  It's going to be hard for you to obey doctor's order and no lifting....not even Michael.  Good news about the meds that are stopping seizures for him.  Yes, God is so good.

At the moment I'm watching a storm come in, and listening to God speak in His creation.    He's still teaching me about having a listening heart.

Janet, so you were a milk maid!  You surely know enough to know that you don't want to do it again. Right?  haha  Probably at the time, you just did what you had to do, because that's what your family did.  There's so much hard work on a farm or ranch.  That tells me a bit about why you are industrious now.   My sister's family has a ranch, and all of her kids are such hard workers, and bright as can be.  They work hard at home and at school.  They know HOW to work and the value of it.   

I'm still doing my PSP lessons.  I started at the beginning and am just now into layering.  I want to know how it all works and not just follow a tutorial somewhere.   It's fun.

Carol, I know it's fun watching your kitchen come together.

Etta Sue, if I lived where you do, I'd probably be at the window all the time.  Always something going on in a field or somewhere.   

ok, I'm heading to town.  I might even go to Walmart.  I don't like to go there as it's always so crowded.   I've been holding off on some things I need (probably want)so have to go sooner or later or pay the higher price elsewhere. 

Blessings, nita

Hi everyone.  Just a brief stop as need to leave for choir in about 2 minutes.  We have had a terribly rainy day here and I had to go to Atlanta for a doctor's appointment and to meet our daughter briefly.  I stayed off the Interstate except for maybe 4 miles each way and didn't have any problem.  However, I was gone from 7:30 this morning until after 5 pm, with a brief time at noon when I ate lunch and left again.  I have choir tonight.

I also grew up on a dairy farm and I do not drink milk.  It needs to be in ice cream for me.

Good postings.  I had also noted the new "all"command and am happy to see it.

Till tomorrow.

Hello eveyone: 

Those of us that grew up on a farm not liking milk, why is that.  My hubby although he spent much time on a farm but could always go home (in town)  loves milk.  Just this evening he was saying how milk does have a different taste depending on the breed of animal.

Larry:  Honey pear jam I have not heard of. Honey I like very much but pears no way.

Janet: So sorry to hear that Beth had a fall. I sure hope that she is well very soon.

We are to get rain starting sometime this evening and it is to  continue for a few days.

Yes, milk's taste does change according to the breed. And, I can detect faint changes in the taste of different brands of milk purchased at the grocery.

One of the parishioners in my dad's church worked at a huge dairy farm, so we always had the really rich guernsey cow milk. Certainly was good, and I loved to shake the jar of cream until it turned to butter, then turn it into my great grandmother's butter mold, let it get cold and then put that cute little round molded piece of butter with a buttercup carved in the top onto a saucer! It makes cakes and cookies much better, too.

Oh, well. That wonderful time of childhood is beyond most of us here, now, so we need to live in the here and now. However, aren't memories really special - we can pull them out and remember great little snippets of the past as we have need to do so.

Y'all have a good evening.

Ruth Ann

Larry, so we have something else in common, both being raised on dairy farms!  How about that?  I think all of my siblings still like milk, as do I.  Our neighbors used to come and buy raw milk by the gallons from us.  That was before the laws got so strict about pasteurization.

Ruth Ann, it is fun to recall the happy days (and even the not-so-happy ones) of childhood from the dim past, isn't it?    It sure is good to see you here more often!

Carol, that was a terrible loss for the family of the boy killed in a vehicle accident.  Sometimes it seems we lose the best and the brightest.  Our family has lost several young people in accidents, and it's such a terrible blow from which to recover.  Bet that new kitchen is going to be beautiful!

Pat, I really, really like that new piccie!  Now I need a new one.  I've gotten lots younger, too! 

Time to go look at some photos!

You guys are so funny about my piccie.

That picture was taken on the stairs in Sue Walsh's house at a Pampered Chef party.  I just cropped me out, added a couple of teeth and even changed one eye!  HAHAHAHAHA

Well I'm gone a couple weeks and someone moves the furniture!
I had a great and restful vacation. Now I'm back on the job in cloudy and rainy Michigan
I think my motto during our stay in Sedona was "It's only digital!" I could not believe I took 500 photos with my camera in a week, and that's not including the photos my wife took with her film camera. Boy did I pay when I got prints.
I'm going to try to upload a few sometime when I can get access to a fast internet connection.

Hi everyone.  Just back from morning coffee and a quick stop at the grocery store for 3 items.  The rain has stopped but it is chilly here today.

My day will be pretty well occupied with attending two funerals, one at 11 am and another at 4 pm.  The one this morning is a man in our church who has been very ill for a long time.  The other is a dear friend and the wife of one of our original coffee buddies.  He passed away several years ago and then about three weeks ago his wife had a knee replacement and did fine but then her heart failed her.  She had come home two days ago but as they were taking her out of the ambulance she started having breathing problems and her daughter wanted her to go back to the hospital but she refused and then died about 3:30 yesterday morning.  She had been the secretary for our senior's group at the senior center ever since it started almost 11 years ago and was 87 years old, but you would never have known it.  We will miss her as she was a wonderful Christian lady, who I am told was a student of the Bible.

This afternoon at 2 pm I have Calvin Cove so it will be another busy day. 

Pat is sick with a bad cold and has now gone back to bed as she just isn't feeling good. 

Pat you don't have to doctor your photo as we all love you just as you are.    However, I also like your new photo.  It is nice to change them once-in-a-while.

Smokeythedog, I don't think I envy you in having to work up 500 photos.  That could be very time consuming.

Janet, I agree with you on remembering the good and the bad as all of these experiences are what makes us what we are and have shaped our lives.  I can remember when I was growing up I would read a story about people having problems and I thought all of that just fiction and then I grew up and reality hit.  I am sure we all can relate to that as adults.  However, if there were not valleys in life how would we ever appreciate the peaks. 

Ruth Ann, I remember some that homemade butter.  It was delicious and then oleo came along.  I prefer real butter and have to believe it is more healthy for us than the plastic stuff we call oleo.

Ruth, I don't believe pear honey has any honey in it but is a mixture of pears and pineapple.  My mother used to can it and we could enjoy it all winter along with the strawberry preserves she made.

Guess I had better move on as it will soon be time to leave for the first funeral.  See you all tomorrow.

Good morning!  I'm off to spend the day helping Diane move, and to eat lunch with Abby at school

See you when I get home!

Good Morning.  Not much new here to talk about.  Last night I went to the gallery and commented on some of the new pics. There are sure some great ones in there.

Janet don't work to hard.

Pat I like your photo too.

Larry I will pray that Pat gets better very quickly.

Where are you AL?

TTYL

Welcome home, Smokey!  Looking forward to seeing those photos!

Thanks Marilyn.


Larry, what a day you're going to have!  I've had a few of those and they aren't pleasant--attending two funerals in one day.

Marilyn said, "Where are you, Al?"  Well, I shall answer that question quite succinctly - I am HERE.  I seem to have contracted a cold, however, so now I'm praying and working toward enough relief from that so that we can successfully accomplish our trip to Davis, CA next Wed. through Mon. morning, including three preaching occasions.  So - all you brothers/sisters - please pray to that end.  I'll be going this AM to Long's drugstore to talk to the pharmacist about something that could successfully unplug my nasal passages at night (so I can sleep) and during the day long enough to preach, etc.

Hello all! I am up and around a bit today, I had to be due to a Dr's appointment so I thought I would stop by here. He said that everything is looking good but I still need to stay in bed  I will be so happy when I have this one so I can get back to running and biking and taking care of Danny and the new one. We have been trying to come up with names but haven't totally decided on anything yet. Well Jacob is getting mad that I am still up and around so I guess I must be off. Hope everyone has a good day and I shall be back around eventually. Lots of Love until I do.
Trisha

I have been doing some filing and shredding a job that must be done then later on I will be going back on line to do our banking.

Trisha: Do get all the rest that is needed brighter days are ahead.

Pat:   Did you use the photo program to make the photo changes re-the beautiful you.

oops the phone is ringing. 

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Pat:   Did you use the photo program to make the photo changes re-the beautiful you.

Hi Ruth...  Yes, just opened it in Paint Shop Pro and did what needed doing.

Oh, the drive back from Bloomington yesterday wasn't fun at all.  Lots of rain and the reflections were a thousand feet long!  Double whammey! 

Today is still rain and my sump pump is doing its job.  Funny to hear it turn on and off.  I will get used to it. 

Back to milking.  I never learned to milk...at least, Mom and Dad didn't think I could.  Ivalou and Kaye Don told me if I learned to milk, I would have to help every morning and evening.  So I didn't learn...   Remember they were nine and seven years older than me.  They were watching out for their little sister.     The most cows we ever had was 10 and we did have an electric milker but it must not have worked right because it wasn't used for very long...back to the two hands working.  I remember Kaye Don giving the line up of cats milk.  I thought that was so funny.  And all the cows were named....Betsy, Ruth, Snicklefritz, Brownie, Friday, Saturday, etc.  And the milk was carried to the Milk House, where their was a trough we filled with cold water to keep the milk cans of milk cool until the milk man came.  When it was told for us to sell Grade A milk, we would have to get a cooler, that's when we stopped having dairy cows...1960.  We didn't have enough cows to make that profitable.  But lots of memories being raised on a farm...lots of them. 

Ivalou and I just got back from having lunch, going to the bank and shopping at Dollar General.  Tonight Kitty, her sister-in-law, Cherie, Judy, a friend and I are going to Eiteljorg Museum in downtown Indianapolis to listen to a photography seminar by photographer Rick Sammon.  Should be very interesting.  I am driving so pray that it quits raining!!

Good morning! 

I'll be fairly busy for the next few days, but then things will settle for a while.

This morning, I had to turn on the living room heater for the first time this year.

This is part of what I enjoyed with my coffee this morning...not a donut, but really sweet!

Every priest goes to work at the altar each day, offers the same old sacrifices year in, year out, and never makes a dent in the sin problem.  As a priest, Christ made a single sacrifice for sins, and that was it! Then he sat down right beside God and waited for his enemies to cave in.  It was a perfect sacrifice by a perfect person to perfect some very imperfect people. By that single offering, he did everything that needed to be done for everyone who takes part in the purifying process... from Hebrews 10

Gripped,
Kevin

Hi; I dropped in for my tea and not a china cup in sight! It is now 9:45pm my time so I will go and make my own toast and tea and then probably of to bed.

Goodnight or goodday or goodmorning to you all.

God bless

Colin

Don had to take a nap as his feet are hurting from new orthotics.  Plus, it is quite wearing just to have someone coming & going & working in the kitchen - he is making progress. 

Colin:  I have Lemon Zinger tea today - you can have some too.

Larry:  Pat's cold seems to be a tough one and I hope that she mends quickly.  Tell her the quilting group is waiting.   

Cannot lamet about cooking a meal in a little microwave until this kitchen is finished.  What if I had to rub two sticks together to make a fire?  We'd be eating raw food.

Carol

Carol  on the  Rubbing together of two sticks. I am experimenting again tonight, I have put a pineapple ring and some coconut in my little Magic Bullet thing then poured it over a chicken breast that is not baking in my toaster oven i hope it turns out good.

Howdy!  I'm just back from Diane's and now must leave for a meeting.

Nita, thank you for your kind words about me. 

Carol, I don't think I could make a fire by rubbing two sticks together, either!  So I am really thankful that we have easier ways to do things now, even though our lives tend to be too busy and complicated.  Hope your hubby's feet feel better soon, not fun when your dogs are barking. 

Colin has a terrific sense of humor, he is a fun person to be around, I'll wager.

Pat, you should have been here the past few days.  Talk about TUMBLEWEEDS!!  They have really been rolling along, and some are half the size of my car!  Not fun when they hit your car and scratch the paint!  I will go out tomolrrow and snap a few photos of them in the fences, etc. so you can see them.  Scratchy old things!

I gotta git!