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Hi everyone.  It is a little warmer here today with no wind.  My day yesterday had a couple of unexpected turns that I knew would soon have to be dealt with.  First I took my car to the tire place to have the pressure checked and found that one of my front tires was coming apart.  Since they were soon going to have to be replaced for wear I went ahead and had them put on two new tires, which didn't take very long. 

Last evening as Pat and I were eating out my front tooth, which I have been treating very tenderly for several months, finally broke.  So today I saw the dentist thinking it would be pulled but he convinced me that a crown should be done rather than pull itcan pull it. I already had the "flipper" made to wear as a replacement and hope I can adjust to it but he gave me most of that money back on today's bill except for the lab fees when the device was made.   I had to have a root canal and the crown workup and was in the dental chair for over 3 hours but survived it well.  I know this was the right decision to make. 

This evening I have a business meeting to attend where I am the treasurer and have a new budget to present for this year.  So it is another very full day.

Judy, hope you are feeling better today and sure glad you are not a dog!

Carol, is Don a diabetic?  Our insurance agent told us retaking the AARP class wouldn't help on the insurance premium as we were already getting the maximum discounts.  Those were two long sessions in the last class we attended.

Geoff, sounds like you are in the midst of summer where you are and we are going into the worst part of winter here.

Etta Sue, I can imagine how distressed Kitty would have been.  Glad she found the rings. 

I have been busy getting my house ready for company today. A friend from S&F is arriving a day early so i have to get the house vacuumed and the kitchen floor swept and mopped. I also did two loads of laundry and took Happy to Coquille (a 40 mile round trip) to the Vet. Yesterday was a busy day also and I was so tired and in so much pain by the time  I was trough with all hat I had to do. we opened a can of soup and had soup with wheat thins and cheese for supper. Tonight we are having spaghetti and broccoli on the side.

Etta Sue glad kitty found her rings.

Janet where are you?

Etta Sue:  That fluffy little animal had golden balls in front and they sure look like the chocolate candy wrapped - I forget the name.

Marilyn:  Whew - people arriving a day early puts you into the fast mode.  Enjoy  the visit.

Larry:  We dropped AARP insurance when we found another plan with more benefits and much less cost.  Yes, AARP has a great system & we were satisfied but not with the percentage they pay for lobbying.  Yes, Don has the beginning of diabetes but his numbers are normal range with meds so all is going well except he has had a few weak spells even after eating correctly.  Much to learn.  I am quite dreading travel & having to carry food and so forth.  Sorry about three hours for you in the dreaded chair. 

Could not think of why I was so tired and could it be I walked three miles this morning?  This is lower altitude so I should be in better condition.  We went to a huge shopping center that had three stores for my sewing supplies & information on classes but when will there be enough time.  Quilt group meets tomorrow morning and I will finally get there this year and see what they are doing - if own sewing or group projects.  So much to do - so little time. 

Found my little book "Grace for the Moment" by Max Lucado - it is just perfect by the bedtime.

Oh, my goodness, if I reply to each message tonight, I'll never  be able to get up on time tomorrow...

So, I'll just report in.  Today was one for taking someone to the doctor, then I slipped in a little "beauty sleep." (Well, that's what we call it, but somewhere along the line, be beauty part ran off to the Land of Nod, methinks  ) Then, my sweet DIL is in town and wanted to meet for dinner. What a nice day it has been!!

Much love to all,
Ruth Ann

Hi everyone.  Well sometimes our days don't turn out as we anticipate and yesterday was one like that for me. I had a good nights sleep and seem to be recovered from that marathon 3 hours plus in the dental chair yesterday.  So far no problem with the temporary and was cautioned not to bite anything, including a sandwich with the temporary tooth.  My meeting last night turned out to be longer than usual but went well.  I now have to get the books set up for 2012, which will be my last year as treasurer of this organization.  Should have a quiet day to. The head of the Senior Golden Games is coming over at 5 pm so I can help him make up a flyer about the up coming games.

Marilyn, hope you have a lovely visit with our mutual friend.  She posted on another discussion board that she would be stopping in your area.  Hope you are feeling better today as know back pain is tough to endure.

Carol, I agree with you on AARP and dropped them quite a few years ago as felt they lost their focus and had become too partisan.   Regarding diabetes, my father was able to control his with diet until he was hospitalized toward the end of his life and then had to start taking insulin.  My mother watched over his diet very carefully and he was good to exercise control in that regard as well.

Ruth Ann, glad you had such a nice day yesterday.

Larry, Sandy arrived just after dark last evening. She is out and about this morning  to meet with Jane, then Nita this afternoon. She didn't sleep well last night after that long drive down the coast yesterday so I suggested she come back here to stay for another night before she continues down the coast to San Francisco. So today is a relaxed day for me I got it all done yesterday.

I went to the gym this morning and I think I will take in the yoga class today, I haven't gone for about 1½ years until last Thursday. Maybe I can stretch out  some of the back pain. There are some great yoga  exercises for back pain. It has moved up my back to between my shoulder blades  must below the base of my neck. I hurts when I move my head.

We had 4 of us at Crochet Angels last night.  They are all jazzed about making Chemo Wraps.  One had one already started.  One started one last night.  And one finished a hat and will start a Chemo Wrap as soon as I get her some yarn from the volunteer at the hospital.  Me?  I started another one and will finish the Blue Chemo Wrap when I have about 2 hours to spare.

Tony came to see me this morning.....how?  On his cycle!!!  It was 28° when he drove in.  His first ride of 2012!  I guess I did raise a dummy after all...

Tony and I got free text messaging on our Droids.  I see Larry has TextPlus also.  And Kitty and I have been texting back and forth!  Will see how that is working since she just has regular texting.  Maybe replying to me!  Anyway, I am going to her house and then we are going to Anderson to a couple of stores...she said the new Hobby Lobby!  Didn't know there was a new one! 

Gotta get something to eat! 

Etta Sue, I want to go to the new Hobby Lobby with you!!

Marilyn, here I am!  I haven't been getting my email notifications, and since I depend on them, I got behind in here.  Sorry.

Lots happening in my life!  I learned they are making my book in hard cover as well as paper back, and I ordered books today!!  So much to learn about marketing books!  And I took some money I have been saving and opened a special account just for my book, at the bank.  I wanted to be able to keep close tabs on how I am doing with sales.

So, would each of you who has asked for a book please send me an email with your address, and tell me if you want the paperback or hard back book?  The paperback is $14.99 plus postage of $2.41 and tax; and the hardback will be $25.00 plus tax and postage.  They told me the hardback looks "really classy" so I am anxious to see the real thing!  They said I will have the books in 15 working days, maybe sooner.  Do I  sound excited?  I am!! 

Curtis has built me a website, and I will be telling you about it after I check it out.

Sorry I got so far behind, will try not to let that happen again.

I am up late again.  As usual.
Janet, I sent you an email requesting one of your books.  Can hardly wait to read it!

Jeanne, you mentioned Wilton recently.  Is that the town where you live?  I grew up in another Wilton, the one in southwest Arkansas.  Very small town...the city limits sign said 319 residents!

We have been dealing with troubles in our furnace.  Why do these things happen in winter?  Recently, a city employee was out in our alley buzzing around, and I went to the window to see what was going on out there.  A fork lift thingy with a canopy on top, was really making tracks fast out there, back and forth, whipping around etc.  I was hoping he would not hit our fence, but he did worse, he hit and ruined our gas meter.  Two days of frustration and we had gas and heat again.  We could not go elsewhere on account of Earl's oxygen converter.  We used electric space heaters to get by. The city will have to pay for the original repairs....the person on the forklift was removing our old dumpster and putting in a new one.  He deserved to get fired over that dumb stunt!

But the furnace has been acting up ever since, have had repairmen out here twice this week to work on it.  It sure can get cold in this house! 

Our state is 100 years old today!  No one pays much attention to our state, and many do not know where it is.   The last page of the New Mexico Magazine always has "One of our 50 is missing" meaning a story of someone somewhere not knowing where it is, or even that it is one of the states.   

In fact one of the articles several years ago said a New Mexican had ordered something from another state and got the notice back, "We do not ship outside the U.S."

We were in VA one summer for a week, and I went to a beauty shop there to get my hair done.  The girl asked where I was from, and I told her.  Her reply:   "New Mexico...hmmm, that is the other side of California, isn't it?"   I told her "No, that is the Pacific Ocean."

Hi everyone.  We are looking forward to a nice warm day here today and the next couple of days.  Yesterday was a beautiful day here.  I had a nice quiet day yesterday other than to prepare a flyer on the Senior Golden Games late yesterday afternoon.  Today should also be quiet and have a few projects I want to work on here in my office but other than coffee should be able to stay home.

Marilyn, glad you have the opportunity to visit with Sandy.  Sure hope the gym helps your back.  Pat thinks she is having a lot of arthritic pain in her neck and upper back, just what she needs is some more pain on top of the fibromyalgia and trying to get over respiratory problems.

Etta Sue, I take it you don't think much of Tony riding his motorcycle when it was so cold.  My son uses a motorcycle to get to his work if it isn't raining or too cold.  I do have TextFree but also have unlimited texting on my phone plan so can be texted using my home number without additional cost.  I have kept the TextFree program as have one friend who doesn't have texting on his phone.  However, I don't really do many text messages.

Janet, I am excited for you with the book and will be e-mailing you shortly with my address and the information.  Would orders done through your website be easier for you than individual requests?

Janice, carelessness on the workman's part has created a lot of problems for you that just weren't necessary.  Hope the furnace problem is fixed quickly.  I know where New Mexico is and have been in your State when I came through it on the train many, many years ago and I think we stayed overnight with friends of my grandmothers.  It is really sad that our own people don't at least know where our 50 states are located.

Thanks so much, Larry and Janice, for the book orders.  I will be sending those just as soon as they arrive here!

Larry, I don't know yet if the website would be easier.  Curtis is going to set it up with PayPal, and I will have to learn how that works.  I have used it for paying on other sites, just don't know how it works from the other end!    Glad you had a slower day yesterday.  Mine was anything BUT slow!  Whew!

Janice, that dork with the forklift should be fired and should have to pay for the service calls on your furnace and the extra on your electric bill!    I have heard similar dumb remarks about New Mexico, too, and am always amazed how people can grow up and not learn more about their homeland.  I love New Mexico; it is so beautiful!  At least parts of it are, like everywhere else, it has the not so lovely parts as well.  I guess that is to make us appreciate the beauty when we find it.

This morning I will go to Pat's and put color on her hair, and she will style mine.  And the rest of the day will be busy, as well.  I am wanting to do more toward getting the house back in order, stuff like getting my paintings hung up again and the rest of the kitchen stuff put away.  Lots left to do around here!  But my kitchen is SO beautiful!!

I wish you all a joyful, peaceful day.

Hello Etta Sue I would like to know more about your crochet angels please.  I Know I don't live near by but it does sound interesting.  I would like to say I love this site.  My health is, well lets just say I am blessed beyond belief everyday.  At the moment I am not even able to drive and I am only 43.  I am blessed to have a wonderful God fearing Husband and 2 wonderful children.  I would like to ask for prayer for myself I know that sounds selfish, but I see a Cardiologist this coming Tuesday, ENT Dr. the next Tuesday and then my Nerologist on the 26 of Jan,  I don't want to be a burdine for any of you. So please if I am please let me know.  Etta Sue please send me more info.  With prayers Marlo

Marlo, there is no way you could possibly be a burden on this site!  I am adding you to my prayer list, that the Lord will give wisdom and insight to your doctors and His strength and peace to you.  Please keep posting here and let us know how your doctor visits turn out - as well as any other things that are going on in your life.

Janice, the Wilton I mentioned is another small a few miles from me, on the other side of a mountain.  The Adirondack Northway has an exit there, with a very popular truck stop just off the exit and Bonsey mentioned some time go that he sometimes stops there.  We agreed that the next time he's in this area he'll let me know so we can get together.

Janet, I wish I could say "Put me on the list", but I'm afraid my budget won't stretch enough.  You do have my prayers and best wishes, though, for all kinds of success.

Thank you Jeanne Lee and I am a firm believer in prayer and that the Lord is still in the Healing business. 

Janet,  What is the List?

Everyone remember I love ya, but Jesus loves ya MORE!!!

Marlo I want to echo what Jeanne wrote to you ... in fact I'll just quote her verbatum.

Quote from: Jeanne Lee on January 06, 2012, 09:32:27 AM
Marlo, there is no way you could possibly be a burden on this site!  I am adding you to my prayer list, that the Lord will give wisdom and insight to your doctors and His strength and peace to you.  Please keep posting here and let us know how your doctor visits turn out - as well as any other things that are going on in your life.

I also want to insert another quote from Jeanne ....

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Janet, I wish I could say "Put me on the list", but I'm afraid my budget won't stretch enough.  You do have my prayers and best wishes, though, for all kinds of success.

Janet, go ahead and put her on your list, and send me the bill.  I think she should definitely have a copy of your book, and I want to see that she gets it.  So there!

Jane, "thanks" just doesn't say it!  You could never know the surprise I got to see your wonderful offer - and I need you to send me a tissue to dry my eyes.    My stubborn pride wants to say "Oh, no.  I can't accept that." And then there's a whisper in my ear "Let her reap the blessings."  So, dear, dear Jane, I will do just that. 

This has started me remembering that first year of SeniorNet when we all met and began our wonderful cyber family - very tentatively at first, and then closer and closer until now in this wonderful site that Pat has provided we are truly brothers and sisters in Christ.

Marlo ~ I attend a small Christian church.  A few months ago a young woman mentioned about wanting to start a crochet group.  So we call ourselves 'Crochet Angels--busy hands working for God'.  In a town near us is a home for abused women.  For Christmas our Crochet Angels group made 39 items for the home...hats, scarves, mittens, etc.  Some in the group had never held a crochet hook...some had but it had been a long time.  So since I have crocheted for 50 years, I am the one critiquing their work and furnish them patterns to go by.  Since the new year we have started making Chemo Wraps...26-32" wide by 46-60" long!  Then we donate them to the local hospital for chemo patients to wrap around their shoulders while receiving chemo.  The chemo liquid is room temperature and your body is a lot warmer so the chemo makes the patient chill until the body warms it up.  The patient chooses their wrap and it is theirs.  So, sadly to say, there will always be a need for Chemo Wraps! 

Janet ~ I sent you a PM on here.  I don't have your email address!  What?  I was surprised that I didn't but probably lost it in my email list last year when I had Windows re-installed.  I will check on FB to see if your email address is there.  I don't use Pay Pal so will send you a check.  Can't wait!!

Kitty got a guard on her wedding rings and the new Hobby Lobby looks like any other Hobby Lobby...just in a new place where the old Walmart was.  They closed the old one...about a mile north of this one.  Anderson used to be a General Motors town....Delco Remy and Guide Lamp.  Since they both closed years ago, Anderson is becoming a ghost town.  Everything has moved south on a highway which makes it easier for me.  Sears is closing this month.  So it was probably a good move for Hobby Lobby to move where there are other stores open for business instead of empty shells. 

Kitty loaned me her Bread Machine.  Now to go to the store and get a bread mix to see how I like it! 

And I am ashamed to say it but I didn't get out of bed until almost 11am today!!  The bed was warm and the room was cool.  I didn't want to get out of a warm bed and dress in a cool room.

Then while drinking my coffee and here at the laptop, Ivalou came over.  She seldom comes over here.  It was nice.  Loved it but the living room looks a mess with yarn in bags here and there!  Busy mess that I am working to diminish! 

Bright and sunny today with temperature to get to 50°!  Looks like summer out there!  May have to put on cooler clothes!!

Etta Sue, unless someone has chosen not to "publish" his/her email, you can get it by clicking on the little envelope under a person's name - or look up the person's profile and find it there. 

Hi, friends, a friend and I went to the grocery (me for a little list that had developed and she went for a prescription). What a gorgeous day here in Nashville!

I'm certainly enjoying listening to nice classical music as I sit here at the computer.

Y'all have a wonderful day.

Love to all,
Ruth Ann

By the way, Marlo, it's so good to have you with us!

Jeanne Lee...  

What can I say but wow I feel I have found a family. 


Etta Sue is the a particular stitch that you use?  And I am willing to help if you just let me know where I would need to send them when they are done.  I have a Ministry called Sisters in Christ and I crochet what I call prayer lap blankets.  I still don't think anyone in the community other that the individuals that pass them out for me know where they come from.  What I do is I know that there are a lot of Teachers in the system that are struggling and I know the principal at my sons middle school.  They have a prayer group.  I get her a blanket she places it in the cubby hole at school and know one knows where it comes from.  There is a not with a scripture of encouragement from the word of God.  He gets the credit know one else.  I also do flower arrangements when my hands will not allow me to crochet.  I have pictures and as soon as I can get into the gallery I will post some. 

Janet I would like to know a little more about your book.  I might want to be on that list. 

Thank each of you for you kindness and loving words.  Marlo

This just came to me so I thought I would add it :


Don't worry what people think,  Worry about what God Knows!!!

SO true , SO true

Hi Marlo it is good to see you here. I will  also pray for you  the same as Jeanne and Jane are praying Amen to that.

Jane may I borrow your book after you finish reading it.

Janet my budget is tight too so I don't think I can afford to buy  the book, as much as i do want to read Beth's story and how Neurofibromatosis has effected/affected her life. I always mix that up.

I am going to be staying off the computer for a couple of days  except to check in and to read what everyone has been doing, I need to get rid of the pain in my shoulder and back. I don't know that cause but it won't hurt to test and see if it is the computer and work I do with the mouse when creating images.

I have Asked for healing from Jehovah Jireh as he is the God who heals me.

Hi Marlo!

I'm so glad that you found your way to our "Coffee Shop" on CP!!!  But I'm sorry that you aren't well.  Definitely, I will remember you in prayer as you undergo the tests that are in your future.

Hope you're feeling better soon, Marilyn.

Well, it's time to put me to bed. 

"Nitey-nite, all"

Ruth Ann

Wow!  More nice surprises for me when I turned my computer on tonight!

Thanks for the book orders, the kind words and encouragement, and Marlo, it is so nice to have you with us.  I also will pray for you, knowing God is still in the healing business, and He always hears our prayers.

My book is called Rising Above:  Facing the Dragon of Neurofibromatosis.  It is the story of my daughter Beth's life, her struggle with Neurofibromatosis and how it changed her life; her wonderful spirit and attitude while going through many trials, and how God has been our constant source and strength through the years.  She asked me to write it, and God allowed me the privilege.  It is being published by Tate Publishing.  I just ordered the first batch of books and am anxiously awaiting their arrival.  Our prayer is the book will be an encouragement to anyone going through tough times, also will educate people about that condition.

Jane, aren't you a wonderful friend?  What a blessing, for you to order a book for dear Jeanne.  Thank you!

Marilyn, I'm sorry you aren't feeling well.  Hope you get well really soon!

K-State is playing Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl--and not doing well.    I was hoping they would win.  We went down to the kids' and watched the first half, then decided to come home and watch whatever was left. We had too much good food again.  I need to begin another fast.

 :)Good evening to all on C.P.    It has been a while since I have been on site and have missed it but I have gone over some on the last posts and am up to date on some.  It is good to here some of the good news but also sad to her of sickness but we know that the Lord will look after all of us.

We have had a very busy Christmas and the New Year was a bit quieter which was good most of our children and there children were here at our place and we were up north at our sons also so that kept us going.  Noreen gets so tired so easy and her back continues to give a lot of pain.  So please continue to pray for her.

Marlo and Larry Welcome to C.P. and it is nice to see that you feel part of the C.P. family where do you live and we hope that we all can pray for you .  May the Lord give you the strength that you need .
Larry and Pat.  Hope that you and Pat are well.  How is your son and daughter?

Pat.  I like your new picture. How is the eye doing and how is Paul? Love ya Sis.

Well I have to meet a young man tomorrow his name is Corey and you could pray for him as he needs encouragement to go to church and also meet with young Christian s of his own age.

Well I must get to sleep so good night to all  Our love in Christ.  Gordon and Noreen   .

Hi everyone.  Enjoyed a fairly quiet day at home yesterday.  I got an email from the president of our Senior Golden Games saying a link on the website wasn't working.  I checked it it our the folder containing the files needed for that link had disappeared from our server.  So I am in the process of recreating the thirty some individual files to be able to restore that link.  It was the rules for the games.  I did have the hard copies from which I created the files originally.  It will take several more hours of work to put things back like they were. 

Today we had planned to visit with our daughter in Atlanta but she isn't feeling up to having us visit and going out to lunch so will try to get there sometime next week.  The weather is beautiful here and was up to about 60 degrees yesterday or higher.

Janet, Paypal works easily and effectively.  I think you will like it.  We use it anytime we can when ordering from an internet site.  Sure glad you are pleased with your kitchen.

Marlo, thanks for posting.  Sorry to read of your bad health and you certainly aren't burdening us as we all need a place where we can talk about the things that are important to us, like our health. (I see others have already assured you that you are not be a burden).  Many of us on this site also have health issues that are written about from time to time.  It sounds like you have a very positive attitude and that is so important to our health.  My daughter is also 46, soon to be 47, and has many, many serious health issues.  We support each other by our caring on CP so please join us as often as you can.

Etta Sue, hope you like the homemade bread.  Nothing wrong with arising late if that is what you wanted to do.  After all you are retired and get to set your own schedule.

Pat, that is sure a nice picture of you next to your postings.  I like the mountain in the background.  Is that the mountain where the new house is located in Virginia?

Gord, you have been missed.  It does take awhile to recover from all the activities of the holiday, especially when we have guests in our home.  Pat hasn't been feeling very good the last few days but perhaps was feeling a little better yesterday.  She is fighting a respiratory problem along with the normal pains of the fibromyalgia and now the arthritis that seems to be setting in involving her knees and neck.  Hope your meeting with Corey goes well.

Hi, friends, in a daily online devotional message received this morning, the following paragraph really struck home with me.  Possibly it will be of help to you as well.

In our quiet seclusion with the Lord, we emerge with strong, enduring courage to face the challenges and to submit to the Lord, making us more perfectly into his image.
Wait for the Lord!

May our Lord be with us every one as we go about our duties today.

Love to y'all,
Ruth Ann