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Church was great.  Sunday School was great.  And food at O'Charley's was great! 

Now to go to the Baby Shower and have a great time and more great food. 

As for search engines, I use www.dogpile.com.  It uses Yahoo, Google, Bing and Ask.  It's never failed me to find what I am searching for except a Sudoku game that I think I download from the web.  Loved it and can't find it.  I miss it since Windows was re-installed on here. 

I think I will be glad when this afternoon is over and I can relax.

Hi everyone.  It looks like we will have a week of beautiful weather, cool at night but up in the low 70s during the day.

We met our son and daughter-in-law at the Cracker Barrel in Madison, GA, which is about half way for each of us, just around an hours drive.  We had a lovely lunch and spent about 90 minutes visiting.  I had not seen them for at least a year.  Our son has lost over 50 pounds and looks great.  He wants to lose another 20 pounds.  He has a pretty large build, much bigger than I am, so this should put him at a good weight.  Unfortunately, our daughter-in-law is not feeling very good as she has walking pneumonia but is taking an antibiotic.  I think she was feeling better after a good meal and certainly looked better than when we arrived.  This was our Thanksgiving meal with them.

I didn't have a chance to rest during the afternoon and was pretty tired so went to bed very early.  I had shortness of breath all day yesterday and it continues today, but perhaps not as bad.  Fortunately I am not experiencing chest pain, for which I am very thankful. The only thing I plan to do today is attend my regular Monday men's luncheon.

Etta Sue, thanks for the devotional for this week.  The Dogpile search engine has been around for a long time and is a good one.  Hope you had fun at the baby shower.

Jeanne, you had us beat on the lower temperature.  Where I live is about 1100 feet above sea level.

It was a relief when the baby shower was over and I could sit and relax after 10 days of laptopping and crocheting!  I just about have the laptop the way I want it.  Need to save a few more items from the desktop and then all I have to do is go through all the un-named videos and re-name them.  That can be done a few at a time! 

Tonight is Photo Guild.  I need to find their website and see if I can download some of my photos for their annual Christmas CD.  I lost them in the re-installing. 

That's about it.  Not much news since last evening.

I was awake at 4:50 AM and really dragging. 

Etta Sue:  Congrats on finishing your crocheting. 

We had a good weekend with Darrel's family, celebrating his mother's 98th birthday.  Got home last night, am a little tired.

I have read all the posts!

  Where is everybody?

I got called in to work again, but at least they called last night, not at the VERY last minute.  So, see you later!

Right here, Janet.  Being thankful I didn't need to go out for anything yesterday and waiting today for the temperatures to rise, the sun to shine and the snow to melt away. 

We've had a lot of snow....that has melted away.  I'm here in body.....

I just remembered to ask you all to send me all your neat Power Point Slide shows.  I lost all that I had received in the last two years...since getting the laptop.  I am especially asking for the one about a mountain in China...real curvy mountain path!  Starts with a 't'. My email address is in my profile.   

Nothing exciting today.  Staying home and watching TV and laptopping!  It is nice and sunny but I will wait until tomorrow to venture out!  Kind of nice to have nothing to do. 

Ever since I got this laptop back, my cursor will jump around.  I will be typing away and it jumps back to the middle of a sentence or something.  Really have to keep an eye on it!  Grrr!  Always something!

Etta Sue:  I have a cursed cursor as well - jittery.  We sent for a new one. 

Sleepy and it is probably from a long walk in the wind.  We can see the storm front coming & temp is dropping.  We are invited to neighbors house tonight for dinner & then we two gals will go to our quilt meeting while the guys play cribbage.  So much is just so social at the meeting and it just nice to be with everyone.  Some do knitting because we can't always haul our big projects and I don't like what I am doing right now. 

Planning the food for Thanksgiving and that is because the store is a long drive from where we stay at the cabin.  Oldest son will smoke a turkey at his place and bring it over so that frees the oven. 

Janet:  Are you getting some of our tumbleweeds?  They get pretty big here and are so annoying on the highway.  Hang on, the wind is coming your way. 

Carol, we raise some big tumbleweeds here, too!  So we really don't need yours, but thanks anyway.    Yes, I heard it is to be colder and very windy here tomorrow.  Ugh.  What we really need is some moisture.

I worked really hard today; wound up working over 9 hours!  So I took a nap when I got home, had been awake since 4 AM.

Guess what Beth asked me to cook and bring to her?  Macaroni and tomatoes!    Sure surprised me!  But I can surely do that for her.

What's with that missile fired off California???  And that cruise ship stranded 200 miles off shore?  Imagine 5000 people, and no working toilets!    Bad.

Sorry about all of you who have snow.  We had temps in the high 70s today.

How about a new challenge?  We're looking for photos of butterflies, birds and beasts, HERE.

Great challenge, Jeanne!  Looking forward to that for sure.

I am not blaming the computer fix-it people but my cursor didn't act up before fixing.  I don't keep the laptop crystal clean but I did notice that it was quit dirty when I got it back.  And I still have a label on it and it is really worn now!  Wonder how they treat other peoples things?  I popped a button off to clean under it and a laptops buttons are not as easy to put back on as a regular keyboard so I don't know what the solution is.  But I think it is dirty under the buttons.

I am all ready to go to the doctor today for myself.  A 6-month checkup after blood work last week.  Then for a half a salad at Wendy's and then swimming.  Want to get my swim in for the week. 

It was 49 and windy this morning at 7:30 when I went for my chiropractic appointment, but has warmed up some now.  Still windy, though.

Etta Sue, sorry about your laptop troubles.  Since the laptop is all I have now, I sure hope it doesn't start acting up! 

The new challenge sounds like fun.

I'm glad I stayed with a tower!

Janet - if you're beginning to enjoy the coffee, I'm glad.  What's Darrell think of it?

Hi everyone.  It has been a busy day with coffee, Bible study and then having lunch with the group after a time at the donut shop.  I also went to Kohl's before lunch and purchased an eBook reader that they had on sale for a very good price, which if I keep it will be Pat's Christmas gift to me.  However, right now I can't get online with it.  I think there is a software update so will check that out.  Tonight I have choir practice and know after that will be exhausted as already feel tired.  I did rest awhile this afternoon.

Etta Sue, I think I know what your problem with the jumping cursor is.  When they redid your computer they turned the touch pad backon (if was probably off if you use a mouse instead of the built-in touchpad.  I had the same problem for a long time and then discovered this was the problem.  You may have a function key or software setting that will disable the touchpad and that would solve the problem perhaps.  Another thing you can do is use an old credit card or even a piece of cardboard about the size of a credit card and tape it over the touch pad.  It is very easy while tryping to let your thumb hit the touch pad and make the cursor jump around.  I hope that works for you.  On this laptop I don't have a problem with it due to the size of placement of the touchpad.

I have read all the messages but am behind so will stop for today.

Al, Darrel doesn't drink coffee--he's a tea drinker!

Busy day today, but nothing on the calendar for tomorrow, and I'm happy about that!

Beth called and asked me to make her some macaroni and tomatoes and bring to her, so I did.  Glad she asked for something easy! 

Well I don't have any cold-process tea! I love tea, though.  My favorites are among the green teas.

Hi everyone.  We are predicted to have another beautiful day.  At noon I will attend my retiree's luncheon.  It takes me about an hour to get there and an hour back but we meet only every two months.  I have had to miss the last two or three of these get togethers, which I really enjoy attending.

Pat has her special Bible Study class this morning.  Think that is about it for us today.  Yesterday I was able to buy a Pandigital ebook reader for just over $100.  I am sure it isn't as nice as the iPod but doesn't break the bank either.  It has an app tied to the Barnes & Noble bookstore and I was able to download samples of several books they have for sale, including the new George Bush book.  I was surprised at the extend of the same as it must be all of the first chapter.  This device has a 7" screen and weights a pound.  It has a browser and e-mail and a number of other apps and apparently you can make the operating system (Android) work a lot of other apps but that is for another day.  There is enough to learn about at the moment with what came with it.  I will check it out for several days and if I don't care for it will be able to return it to Kohl's.  We had a 30% off coupon and there was a $15 mail-in rebate that came with it.  It is also an mp3 player and has a pictures app. 

Janet, hope Beth enjoyed her special dish that you made.  I thought you were going to say macaroni and cheese. 

Good morning  !!

I am off for the day to my daughter's; helping around her house (she has four children) and then to lunch and some other necessary duties in town.

We will remember to take at least two minutes at 11:00 A.M. for our troops and those who fought to give us the freedoms we enjoy today!!

I took off the space bar button and used a soft brush to clean there.  The cursor seems better now.  And the function key that Toshiba has doesn't seem to work now!!!  So I don't know how to turn off the touch pad without using the function key and f9.  Grrr!  Wish I had used the Toshiba recovery DVD!!

Today is our class lunch at a restaurant fairly near me.  An elegant restaurant.  Cloth napkins!  Hope we have a good showing.

Larry, macaroni and cheese is what I thought she was going to ask for, too! 

May God bless all the veterans today, along with all the current service people.  The have suffered/are suffering so much for us, to continue our freedoms; and I just hope people appreciate all they have done and are still doing.

Aren't you glad you aren't on that Carnival Cruise Ship??  Ugh.  Bet they think again before booking another trip on Carnival!!  They are saying it might take up to 5 hours just to unload all the people off the ship!

I've just spent an hour watching the ceremony at Arlington. 

There were 17 classmates and spouses yesterday at the Class of 1960 luncheon.  That's the most for us since having the guys and gals together. 

Plans for today are getting outside and doing some pre-winter yard work.  I want to cut down butterfly bushes and hibiscus.  Then rake leaves out of my rock landscaping.  Then mulch the leaves with the mower.  I will be tired tonight!

Hi everyone.  Today was a beautiful day to live in Georgia.  After coffee and walking at the gym, Pat and I went to the county Senior Center and I participated in a two year audit of the financial records of the computer learning center.  Then we went to Atlanta and had lunch with our daughter at the Mellow Mushroom Pizza place.  I think that may be the best pizza I have ever eaten.  We visited with her an hour or so and then came home and I took a nice nap. 

Etta Sue, did you see what I suggested about covering up the touch pad on the laptop as that might well solve our problem.  I used that on a computer for a long time and it really worked.

RuthV, it sounds like you had a busy day yesterday. 

Jeanne, it is a shame that our President managed to be out of the country on Veteran's Day but understand he did visit with some soldiers in South Korea. 

Janet, it was interesting to see some of the folks on the cruise ship discuss their experience.  At least they got their money back for this cruise plus being given another.  It sounds like they all survived but sure they will not soon forget the experience.

I just baked a loaf of bread for a neighbor & her incapacitated hubby and they are not home so I left a message.  I also baked two loaves of banana cranberry bread the bottoms stuck on them so they are ugly but tasty.  Tomorrow, two neighbors are coming for biscuits and sausage gravy - they are southern so they love it when Don makes that breakfast.  Then, we will take youngest son out for birthday late lunch (with his wife). 

We bought another new mouse for this laptop and it isn't accepted either.  This is just pitiful.  Oh, I downloaded the latest book from George W. Bush from the library and transferred it to my iPod.  Love techie stuff when it works.  Free from the library. 

Larry:  Would love to try your pizza place.  Make mine veggie or mushroom - Don likes pepperoni.  Yep, it is a shame - and these are the oddest of times.  Here, it has been freezing cold and I think we are about to get more snow.  There is a food drive for Scouts to pick up tomorrow.  The downtown Rescue Mission is way short on turkeys this year, I mean over 3,000 short.  Our church had something going where they help the homeless get into an apartment & set them up so a lot of effort is going into that - my neighbor said she bought presents to wrap that the children can give each parent a gift.  No doubt it may be the first time that these children have given their parents any gift.