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You can see all the photos that I took yesterday HERE

Marilyn you could alsoput them in CP for those who aren't members of S&F.  HERE

Got part of my lawns done........about a third I think, and the tractor is burning oil I think, So I am shut down till John gets home!

PHOTOS HERE These are on CP

Thanks, Marilyn.  That may make it easier for some folks.  The pictures are wonderful.  I just wish I could have been part of all of it.   

I wish you could have, too, Jeanne .... 

Thanks Marilyn  They are great!..

   Hi to all.  Boy this storm is really getting things in the states in a big scare and it looks it could do a lot of damage.

Larry:  Hope you and pat are well and it sounds like you are very busy. It is nice that you are able to help your daughter.

Etta Sue:  You are still a very person I don't know how you manage to keep up I know this past week looking after the grand kids has been very tiring but we love them so much

Janet.  You also sound that you are busy also please look after yourself and take time to rest.

Heather:  Nice to see the clip about your dad and he looks good.  When you see him give him my regards.

Judy B.   How are you doing?  Hope all is well and Noreen and I are keeping busy as I think you know.  God bless  Sis.

To all others may the Lord give you all a wonderful weekend and many Blessings. 

                                    Gordon and Noreen.

Hi everyone.  I got up early today for a Saturday as woke up and started thinking about some things I wanted to get accomplished today.  So I decided to get up and get with it.  Other than coffee and a morning meeting the day should be pretty clear.  I sure have our friends in the Carolina's and up the East Coast in my thoughts today.  It is going to be a rough weekend for many people. 

Etta Sue, hope it wasn't too hot at the stadium and that your team won the baseball game.  It has been several years since I attended a Braves game and have no plans to do so in the future.  There was just too many stairs and walking involved.  That trip was with a church group and that was enjoyable.

Carol, Hope you enjoyed the air show.  I have never attended one in person. 

Janet, hope you came up with the right technique.  Don't settle for less than what you want since it would be a continual source of frustration for you.  However, this too shall pass and just become a bad memory.  Sure hope you don't injure your shoulder with all this work on the walls.

Marilyn, I looked at the fine photos you took of the visit with Pat, Paul, Jane and Paul's family.  It looked like you all were having a great time.

Judy, do you tell John in advance what repair projects are waiting for him when he gets home? 

Gord, as always good to see your posting.  Even though it is very tiring it is wonderful that you can spend this time with your grandchildren.  That is something I never had the privilege of doing.

I am up early today again, as I was so wiped out last evening I kept falling asleep trying to watch Perry Stone on CBN, so just gave it up and went to bed.  I had had my shower and it relaxed me, plus the fact I had done a hard day's work.  The dog also wanted to get up!

Ah, yes.....grandkids.  They are such a joy, aren't they?  Larry, I am so sorry you missed out on spending time with yours.  I tell people that being a Grandma is the best job I have ever had!    Gord, thanks for your caring words, and just enjoy those kids every chance you get; they grow up far too quickly!

Marilyn, what lovely pictures!  I so wish I could meet with everyone on CP.  It is amazing what a bond we form with our computer friends, then when we meet them in person, it feels as if we have known them for life!  When I miss a get-together like this, I always console myself with thinking that when we all get to heaven, we will have eternity to visit and enjoy our friends, along with doing meaningful work.

Our carpenteer came back from lunch with more paint, tried again, no go.  He saw the tears rolling down my face and felt so bad.  I gave him a hug and told him it isn't his fault.  I had gone to look at some walls at an exercise place, so he went to see them (lovely Venetian look) and said, "Don't be excited, we will get it right.  We ARE going to get the look you want!"  I told him I wasn't excited, I was disappointed and that I don't want to keep making him do it over and over.  I'm not making him, he is very anxious to please, and tries so hard!  Then he decided he was going to drive back to Garden City--60 miles away--again, to get the exact materials used on the wall I liked.  Then he was talking and piddling around here until I looked at him and said, "Well, Sweet Thing, if you're going to Garden, get going!"  He was a bit startled, I think!  He said to his helper, "Did you hear her?  I guess I better go!"  This was all done in a congenial manner, of course.  He called around six last evening and said he has the materials and will be here this morning to try again.

I so want to get the living room back in order as all this chaos is really wearing on Darrel.  He wanders around like a lost kid, not knowing what to do with himself.  We decided to paint the wood trim in living room white, which didn't set well with Darrel.  He said, "After all that work I did to stain and finish it, you're going to paint it?"  So I reminded him that it was I who stained and finished every board!  Anyway, after we talked a bit, he came to agreement.  The white does look better and brightens up the room.  It was almost physically painful to me to paint that woodwork, though, because I do love the wood colors and the grain in wood.  I did a lot of painting yesterday, but it is something I enjoy and am good at.  I can cut a fine line without even using tape.  That comes from years of practice!  I am glad I am not doing ceilings, though, as that really hurts my neck.  Yes, yes, I know....TMI again....sorry.

MAYBE today these walls will be finished and the flooring can be laid.  Then the last part will be the crown molding......and I have to figure out new window treatments, too.  And that's just one room.  Oops, sorry, I am rattling on again.

Happy Saturday, folks!

Janet you amaxe me.  You are staying so positive through these trials.  Bless you.

Larry Usually John tells me what he wants to do, and we work around that.

Im being nagged.  Got to run.  Talk later.

Janet, I'm glad you got a good night's sleep, but the price was pretty high.  Don't let all this work and frustration wear you down to where you'll get sick.  Darrel and Beth both need you well - not to mention how all of us here on CP need you!  As far as I'm concerned, you never give us TMI.   

Marilyn - I truly thank you for posting the pix.  Oh how I would like to have been there!  Well, we will all meet one day, and that shall not be taken away from us!

Thank you all for the nice comments on the pictures. Anyway good morning from the overcast foggy coast of Oregon. I am sure this will a burn off around noon and the  sun will shine. We are keeping a close eye on the path of the hurricane as we both have family in North Carolina So far everyone seems to be OK. We called Keith's sister last evening and we could hear the wind right through the phone.

Well I guess I better go get dressed, and get another  .

Al I will see you next weekend and we will take some pictures for our friends here.

The game was great.  At first kind of boring and HOT!  Temperature wise!  Huge crowd!  Washington Nationals scored three runs.  Reds got a run.  Then another.  Then another.  Tied three all.  7th inning...tied.  8th inning....tied.  9th inning...still tied.  Over time.  Washington didn't score.  Bottom of the inning...Reds got two men on base and two outs.  The guy hit a homer!!!  Score--Reds...6, Nationals...3.  Great game!! 

I didn't get home until 1:20am and was still hyped up so caught up online.  I went to bed sometime after 2am!! 

I got up this morning before 9am.  Dressed and went to Lapel for breakfast and then Dollar General.  Went for Club Crackers.  Paid my bill.  Got in the car and remembered Club Crackers.  So I went back in and got them!! 

Tomorrow we are having a church picnic at 5:30pm so I am taking Candy Crackers! 

What great pictures of Paul, Pat, Jane and Marilyn!!  Where was Nita? 
Wish I could have been there.  Looks like a lot of fun was had by all and the food?  Well, it sounded delicious.  Even smelling that chocolate fudge would have been great! 

Janet, don't know if I could handle my house being re-done or not.  I think I would spend my time at Ivalou's and let the carpenters do their job! My body wouldn't handle the work and I could not stand by and watch if I were there. 

The guys have gone to lunch, so here is another update.    Lon bought two gallons of the special paint to do the Venetian finish, to the tune of $59.95 per gallon---and the color was awful!  Really a dark plumish purple, which dried to a really battleship grey-purple.  We both hated it.  So then he started peeling the paint we have applied on the wall over the past few days off, in big hunks, now we have a really ugly big space.  Next, he applied the dry wall mud again, now that is drying-again!- and then we will prime-again!--and paint, yet again!    But we have figured out a place to use that high priced stuff, in the bathroom.  It closely matches some of the onyx stuff for shower and vanity top, and with the addition of some pinks somewhere, maybe a border, it will work.  Boy, that stuff is slick once it dries and you burnish it.  Have you seen it?  Lovely, but just the color wasn't right.  I told him if we have to choose a color again, I am going with him!

This afternoon, if everything dries soon enough, we will do a rag rolling technique on this wall and call it good.  I am tried of messing with it!

The helper got all but one wall in our bedroom primed this morning, the wall behind the big headboard of our bed, which is a bear to move.   And I got a coat of white on the windows and doors and casings in the L.R.  Little by little........but I can see no flooring will be laid today!

I need to find something to eat before they come back.  Later.

Etta Sue, May I have some candy crackers for a snack?  Thanks.  

Janet, with the travelling, I'm not up to date with your decorating but it sure sounds as if you've been through a lot.

It was so good to meet up with Jane and Marilyn.  I must go and see your pics, Marilyn.  They are probably the same as mine. 

All the photos I've been posting on Facebook have been taken with my Galaxy tablet.  I sure hope that you've seen them everyone.

No hurricanes here - we do get wind that high though thankfully, it isn't too often. Our winds can come in at category 1 and things go flying.   Hot again.

Janet:  Have you read or heard about the reservoir in the east side of our state and that it will be drained by Kansas.  No negotiations - these deals about water rights were made years ago by shall we say not too nice lawyers.  It is a sad situation.  Sorry about your problems with paint.  It will be over soon & they will be on their way. 

Marilyn:  Super nice pictures of super nice people!!!  Thanks for sharing.  Wouldn't it be fun for all to get together at one time? 

Larry:  I missed the post about your missing a meeting with son.  Sorry for that lost time.  Maybe it can all come about really soon.  Love airplanes - we stood on a hill and watched an air force jet swoop and loop and I wish that I could have been in the back seat.  Fantastic flying. 

Waiting for Don to walk in here.  He choked on a piece of toast and coughed so hard that he was exhausted.  I was in the basement and did not hear him - he has been napping.  Yesterday, the drive was another thing that tired him much too much. 

Hi Pat!!!! I need to learn more of this iPad.  It came with no instructions, of course.  Keep driving safely!  I hope your home is safe in Virginia. 

Carol, I know that Kansas and Colorado have been fighting over water rights for years.  Kansas farmers said Colorado blocked any water from coming down the Arkansas river to Kansas...and they had a court fight about it, which Kansas won.  But as to draining the John Martin Reservoir, I surely hope that doesn't happen.  All I know about it is what I hear here, so may not all be so.

Whew!  Today that wall is as done as it's going to be!  Not what I wanted, but I am not doing it another time.  Darrel is satisfied with it, so that's good enough.

Monday, the plans are to get the bedroom painting finished, and the wood flooring down in the living room.  I am hoping the crown molding will be done too, then we can settle back into one room, at least!  Lon has promised his grandpa to come install a shower, so he will be gone for a few days.  Thus, the hoping for really good progress on Monday!!

I have been painting, helping paint, cleaning rollers and brushes, etc. all day, and I am tired.  So a shower and early to bed sounds good.  Busy tomorrow with church and Beth's birthday party.

Hi, friends,

All this talk about painting and scraping and re-painting must have made me tired in advance, so before I came to CP today, I had a huge long nap! 

Now, it's time to wash dishes, etc. ad infinitum...

Y'all have a good rest of the day.

Ruth Ann

Paul and I had a wonderful visit to the Portland Rose Gardens.  What wonderful roses!  Then we went up to the top of Mount Tibor (highest point in Portland) to watch the sunset.

Hi everyone.  I feel fortunate that we are experiencing quiet, if hot, weather here in Georgia and escaped the effects of Irene.  I had a busy morning yesterday and after attending a meeting I went to Walmart for Pat.  This is not a good thing to do on Saturday as there are so many people there.  I even had to wait in line about 10 minutes or so to check out.  Among other things she wanted some strawberries and they had sold out.  So I went to a local produce market close  by and they had also sold out earlier in the day.  Finally, after stopping by the Post Office I stopped at Krogers and they did have strawberries.  That was it for the day.  Other than attending church today I don't think anything else is on the schedule.  Pat is still not feeling well and having a lot of trouble walking.  She is still using the cane.  She seems to feel better for a little while and then it comes right back.  I don't know about today.

Janet, you are sure right about our friends that we make on the Internet.  It sounds like you are going to have a beautiful room when it is finished.  I sure hope yesterday was the charm in getting the walls as you want them (I see that you have finished them).  I never did like to paint but guess I didn't do enough of it to develop any skill.  We recently had our shutters painted and Pat picked out a color she liked from the paint chips and when it was applied she didn't like it.  I think it is growing on us however as doesn't seem as bad anymore and goes better with our new shingles.

Marilyn, hope your family in NC went through the storm without loss.  This has sure been a slow moving storm and done so much damage and New York is getting the brunt of it today.

Etta Sue, you sound like me in going to shop for something and get out of the store without the item I went in to get.  I also stopped at Dollar General yesterday.  There is one I go by a couple of times a week.  I stocked up on birthday cards for my great grandchildren.

Carol, as it ended up we didn't miss the meeting with our son as he called the evening before and said he would be able to come and meet with us.  So we enjoyed a nice time together.  On your iPad, when you need to know how to do something do a Google search and you will likely find a YouTube video demonstrating just what you need to know.  It is amazing how often this is the case.  If not a video at least some step-by-step instructions.  The water rights issue sounds like what has happened between Georgia, Florida and Alabama over the water in the hugh Lake Lanier that provides the water for Atlanta and a lot of the surrounding area.  A judge ruled a couple of years ago that Atlanta wasn't to be allowed to use any of the water.  Fortunately that was overturned after a couple of years but the battle continues.

Pat, I bet you both got some beautiful pictures at the rose gardens and also of the sunset.

Not much news today since yesterday was a lazy day with just preparing Candy Crackers for our picnic this evening. 

I am still not caught up on my missed sleep even though I had a hard time getting to sleep last evening.  I may have to take a nap this afternoon before the picnic. 

I am ready for church and Ivalou is driving.

A new week is beginning and it's time to move.

Don is embroiled in Hurricane Irene and her effects, but he has left us a wonderful devotional HERE.