I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

suzieq60

Hi Otter - I was thinking draino would be caustic enough to work

BTW - it's after lunch here now - just hung out the washing and can relax and read or something - a nap might be nice.

Sue

crazy4carrots

Oh wow, what's with this weather?  Otter, frost in Alabama already?  Heck, it hasn't got below 40 in Niagara.  Guess we live in the banana belt...but where are the banana trees?  Should have brought back a couple from Bermuda!

Just watched a documentary on Gadhafi.  I've changed my earlier opinion -- not just a crazy lout, but a truly evil psychopath, devoid of any human compassion or sense of morality.  Perhaps better compared to Adolph Hitler.

Susie, we're fortunate to have strong banking regulations in Canada too and all remained solvent.  There is much to be said in favour of regulatory oversight -- financial, environmental, judicial.

I note that it is now October 22, thus the Rev. Camping's prediction for the end of the world on October 21 is.....again.....wrong.  Whew! 

Ang7

HL~

The leaves are also very helpful when the kiddos are "bored." 

"Why don't we have a leaf blower?"

"Now, what fun would that be?  Raking is so enjoyable."

kad2kar

Any Strange People-----is there a type of doctor for comorbidity or you just get lucky with a bunch of different drs that actually give a fat fluff about you?  oh Good night Good Morning. Just a babble now back to my corner of the BCO B&G.    kad2kar

suzieq60

I forgot - Linda mentioning bananas reminded me - the price finally came down to $6 a kilo, so I bought a great big bunch. I swear we have been ripped off for ages. They still should be less, but $6 was better than $13.

crazy4carrots

Susie -- WOW!  Even $6 a kilo is outrageous!  Some of our markets charge 49 cents a pound.  Aren't there any areas in Aussieland that have the climate to grow bananas?

Kad -- a "fat fluff"?  What a delightful expression! Gotta remember the l and the double f in that one!

Ang -- we use a leaf sucker-upper here! and "raking is so enjoyable" -- NOT! 

suzieq60

We grow them here in Queensland up North - the excuse is they all got wiped out by the cyclone in January. They also grow them a couple of hours south of here too and they weren't wiped out - they've been ripping us off. I've been getting them at the markets all along for $5. They should be down to $3 soon I hope.

I forgot we are going away next Friday up north to Port Douglas - we fly to Cairns on Friday and come back Monday. Going to a 90th birthday party for a lady who was DH's client for over 30 years. Poppy won't be happy to visit the vet again so soon, but I'm looking forward to it. Trouble is they have had heaps of rain up there, so we might get wet DH wants to go snorkelling on the Barrier Reef again - I did love it last time we went but I'm not a good swimmer, so I just float around on the surface using a noodle.

1Athena1

susie: Interesting to read about your banking situation. Most countries are more regulated than we are. In fact, lax regulation and profligate lending are directly associated with the level of  crisis in each country. It is no coincidence that the US and the heavily leveraged Iceland were amongst the most affected, and that countries very hard hit by a US-like housing bubble (Ireland, Greece and to a lesser extent Spain) are feeling the pinch.

BarbaraA

Yay! It's the weekend! DH's band was awesome last night. They had another guitar player sit in and a female vocalist who is killer. Tonight they play too far away for me to want to go, as if I did, I would end up going to bed at 4AM. Not happening. That would wreck my Sunday.

Countdown is one week!!!

1Athena1

Oh, 'morning Barbara - may I please take one of BCOs lighter skillets and playfully bang you over the head with it? 125 lbs a problem?? Believe me, I'm a woman too, I am (proudly) vain too but this is NOT a problem! Men like women with some meat on them, remember. It's those damned dresses that are to blame, not your figure. 

Athena, Whose Official Version About Not Weighing 125 lbs is that Muscle Weighs a Lot! 

BarbaraA

B wwwaaahhhhh!! That's my story and I am sticking to it!!

-Barbara the svelte, sexy 125 pounder

PS on my way to find a 125 pound bathing suit since my others don't fit.

sewingnut

As for the weight discussions, as my husband so gleefully tells me...... "The bigger the cushion, the better the pushin".....

bluedahlia

LOL sewing nut!

Otter, I am easily amused so I NEED those garbage websites.  Some day, I will get a life, but not today!  hehehehehehehe!

BarbaraA

Sewingnut, that is exactly what my DH says. His words are a bit different: 'I need something to hold onto without getting poked.'

crazy4carrots

Barbara -- As I understand it, protruding hip bones can do some damage

1Athena1

Lol!

Anonymous

E - Maybe this year for Halloween I'll dress up as a big ol' BISCUIT!

Anonymous

Barbara - happy almost cruise. I can't remember the last time I could see the numbers 125 on my bathroom scale.

SewingNut - YOU GET THE PRIZE for the best chuckle producing LAUGH OUT LOUD of the day ( probably the week).

HL - can you order the Meanawy in bulk, tho I don't know what they're saying, seems they just can't stay away.  Maybe it's our politics they secretly envy.  Oh, Blue, you have patience enough for all of us.  Guess we should be grateful little horses aren't trampling us anymore.

HL - you really are HEROIC with your healing - just amazing.  Inspiring, really.

Athena, I was beginning to wonder where you were - good to know you are well.

Pickle - didn't remember you were in Canada when I suggested WF, and TJ's - I'll try to find a place on the website that has a list of all those gluten free products.  Really does make a difference. Tho' I've heard from friends on Aromasin, that they are having more problems than on Arimidex, and probably switching back.  Know it's a different approach than Arimidex/Femera, but can't remember the difference.  

OTTER - Frost in Alabama?  Really.  We had a slight one a few weeks ago, probably ok for another week ( western MA) - but darn it is so , so , so wet, eveything is moldy.

Moths found their way into a suitcase I had filled with my favorite old ( from London) shawls, blankets, wrecked HAVOC.  Had to throw so much away.  Had it "sealed" and filled with cedar chips, lavendar from Container Store.  May be able to salvage pieces of one blanket to make some winter hats, but SO SAD.  Can't use mothballs, the smell is so toxic.  What do others use to keep moths away??

Susie - bananas are $1.39 for 4 lbs. at local Costco.  About to slice them, and lots of apples, to try that dehydrator I bought last week.  Also have a "mandolin" - plan to use my heaviest garden gloves & hope it isn't as scary as it looks

1Athena1

Very sad Sunflowers - it is heartbreaking to lose objects filled with wonderful memories. I lost some Daumier prints I bought at the "bouqinists" along the Seine to heavy rain.

Off to thank the Gods of technology settings.

Lovely weather here, BTW - 46 degrees and slightly overcast (hey, there's a vote for everything, remember). 

suzieq60

Morning girls!!! Up early because Miss Poppy decided she wanted to go out and was tearing around upstairs on the wooden floor and scratching the carpet in our room. Good way to get the message out

Our price is $2.70 per lb - crikey. Australia does not import bananas, so that's why we are at the mercy of the local growers. You can't tell me it would take 11 months for the plantations to recover - especially in a tropical climate. I personally like the ones I get from the markets - they are grown only half an hour north of here. They are only small producers though.

Barb - you are skinny according to my conversion to kilos!!! Just buy new dresses - hey why are you wearing dresses for a cruise - shorts would be better. I never wear dresses anymore.

Sue

Anonymous

Susie - ah, well the good ole USA imports, companies owned by USA by working in "lesser developed countries" - shudder to think what the people who grow & pick them are paid by the companies. 

Dresses - are those the things we used to wear when we wore "pantyhose"?????

suzieq60

That's why I don't wear them anymore Actually while we were away, DH asked me why I don't wear skirts at all. I did have a couple of lovely summer skirts I wore to work but since I lost some weight from the bc thing they are too big - I should try and take them in - I did like them.

rosemary-b

The wedding was wonderful even though it involved a last minute trip to the rental place because I forgot tablecloths of all things. The baby was baptized right after the wedding. Everything was tasteful and simple.

I will probably not download pictures until tomorrow but only have ones of the reception, not the wedding.

rosemary-b

Meanaway, not to be confused with menaway, which is a totally different product, comes in spray cans  pellets and 5 gallon drums depending on the amount and location of meanness. What do we need, a couple of drums, or would pellets do?

suzieq60

DH suggested I take a pic of our flowering trees seeing they look so pretty, so I'm sharing them with you. The purple one is a Jacaranda and the red one is an Illawarra Flame Tree. You can also see our red/orange bouganvillia near the palm tree and the jasmine which grows over an arch.

1Athena1

That is gorgeous - I am amazed at how the light plays off the trees too. Was it Noon when you took the picture? I had never seen such a shadowless effect caught so well on camera. 

suzieq60

Hi Athena - the first one I took was really dark so I ditched it - it was 12:49pm according to the date stamp on the camera card.

I got a phone call today from a cousin (on my mother's side) who I spoke to on the phone a few months ago - I had to call her to get info about cancer in the family for the gentecist - she is an 11 year bc survivor. She and her husband are here in Brisbane, so I went out to where they are staying (with another cousin). I have not seen these cousins in 48 years!!!! I was 11 at the time and we went to stay with them in Victoria. Very interesting to meet them after so long. The male cousin whose house she is staying at has lived there for ten years only 7 kilometres away from me, but I never knew where. My Mother's family is quite disfunctional and there has been no contact for most of those 48 years. They'll be here for another month or so, so I expect to catch up with them again before they leave.

Happy Sunday girls!!!

Sue

suzieq60

Just did a google on MRI and whether it picks up cancer in the lymph nodes - apparently it can. So, nothing was reported on my MRI or US. I'll still go ahead with the US this week just to be sure. Also looked up thyroid cancer and over 95% of goitres are benign - so here's hoping on that one too.

Time for bed - see you in the morning our time.

Sue

BarbaraA

{{Susie}} Here's to no nodes!

Rosemary, looking forward to wedding pix!

Athena, our weather is fab also. Lows in the 50's and highs around 80. Love this!

kira1234

susieq58,  what a beautiful tree. I didn't know the Jacaranda tress bloomed at this time of the year. I learned the MRI can pick up lymph nodes from mine last year. Susie here's to no nodes.

It is so beautiful today. My DH and I are going to a local part, and take a walk. I haven't really waled except on the treadmill since all this stuff began. So looking forward to this fall and winter season.

Had my GS birthday at chucky cheese yesterday. Boy I hate that place, way to noisy for me.