For Older People with Sense

purple32

So very sorry to hear about marybe.

SoCalLisa

I add my big welcome to Namian..we have know each other for many years!

QCA

Welcome to you, Naniam!  I'm Kathy, and I'm shown as QCA since that was my job for 30+ years, quality control analyst in DSS.  Glad to be retired now.  I have one 3 year old grandson and another on the way.

We're glad to have you join us.  We're both serious and silly, whatever's your pleasure, and I know you'll like it here.

Kathy

Naniam

Thanks ladies - appreciate the warm welcome.   See that we all do love those grandchildren. 

Yes, Lisa, we have known each other for years - always glad to see your smiling face. 

QCA

My goodness, Naniam, just noticed you're from Hickory.  I'm in Monroe and we went through Hickory Sunday on the way back from Boone.  Nice to see another Tarheel!

Kathy

macatacmv

welcome naniam!

Chrissy, you changed the top pic! I wish I was there now, instead of nebulizing. And it is nice to see your smiling face again.

well, I am going to try a different pulmonary specialist next week. I saw the "old" one, one more time and I need someone that is willing to do some work to get to the bottom of this.  

Hey, I feel like I am getting to know you guys better, too. With you listing grandchildren and how you got your names, etc.... I don't have any GKs yet, had my own kids later in life and they are following the same pattern.

My avatar came from a hot air balloon trip I took with my DD in Nov between screening mammo and diagnosis. I got the call back and knew I had some stuff to get through, so kept my plans to take a trip to CO. It was so beautiful and peaceful up there, even if it was freezing. I remember Marybe asked me about it the first time I "met" her. So I told her the story of how it was during the time that the Today show was doing a "where in the world is Matt Lauer?"  They were also doing a web promo about where was "flat Matt". The woman who co owned the balloon ride printed out a picture of Matt and cut it out and glued it to a big Popsicle stick, made him a scarf and hat and we took him with us on the ride. They took lots of pictures and sent them in to the show website. Our picture with Matt actually made it onto the website a few days later. LOL I'll see if I can post it here at some point. 

Marybe was just so special that way in taking an interest in everyone. She is a great example to follow. 

Leah, hoping you are on the road to recovery!

hugs for all!!!!! 

Elisimo

Welcome Naniam!  I go by Elisimo which is a misspelling of my sewing machine's name.  Never could spell worth a flip!  Most here know me as Amy Jo or AJ.  I have 7 grandchildren: 2 boys ages 12 and 1; 5 girls ages 13, 10, 7, 5, and 8 months.  My oldest DD has the 2 boys and the middle girl and they live in Japan. My youngest DD has the other 4 girls and lives in Oklahoma.  I live in Raleigh, NC so not that far away.  I keep trying to get with QAC so maybe the 3 of us can meet up somewhere between all of us.  Or if you can travel you are welcome to come stay here at my house if you are ever in Raleigh for any reason. I have plenty of room and DH and I would love the company.

Elisimo

Oooops! hit Submit too soon.

Leah - how are you doing since your surgery?

I also miss Marybe sooooo much.  Still no word to express the loss I feel.  She was one special friend and I enjoyed her visits, phone calls, cookies, and posts.  Always so encouraging and supportive of everyone.  She definately left us that knew her a lot to live up to.

{{{{{{{{{{HUGS to ALL}}}}}}}}}} 

chrissyb

Hi Nan and a big yes from me, you are most welcome to come sit with us and hang out. We're a great group of girls and love all the company.



Yes I think Marybe will be on all our minds for a long long time. She was extremely special...........I just loved her get up and go attitude. She was partly responsible for me taking the bull by the horns and organizing my trip last year. OMG! Was that just last year? So much has happened in the mean time.

Love all you girls, you may be thousands of miles away but you all feel like sisters to me.



Oh now I've gone and got all soppy I'll sigh off for today.........lol.



Love n hugs girls! Chrissy

Naniam

AmyJo, have a stepson and stepgrand that live in Cary.  Not sure if we will be there end of Sept. or not. 

Kathy, we were also in the mountains over the weekend.  We had a home around Newland for about 12 years that was our get away.  I left the medical world and bought a pizza, sub and salad shop several years prior to that and we never got away from it; never a real vacation after we bought it.  So, we got the house in the mountains and traveled up every weekend and just last spring sold the restaurant and spent the summer in the mountains.  That fall we discovered my mets.  The house is now on the market and has been for a month. I can't keep up two houses and I always worked in the yard too.  Has been bittersweet.   We have had one showing - so many houses in the mountains for sell now.  I am afraid we will still own the house next year this time.  If you were in Boone you traveled 321 probably out of Boone.  Not sure if you took 321 then into Gastonia but you were very close to my exchange if you did.  I live off I-40; not far from 321 exit. 

Look forward to our getting together at some point - is up to us to make it happen. 

Was hoping there might be a note on Leah; hope she is resting comfortably. 

Marybe reminds me so much of how the death of Alaska Deb affected so many.  Knew Marybe was having problems with her heart and she was going to have to change chemo's but never expected the sudden change in her health or loosing her.  She is one that could zip around after chemo as if she had just been to a tea.

Time for lights out - thanks again for the warm welcome.  Will take me awhile to learn names; few I know. 

Dilly

Welcome Naniam - this is a great group.  I'm Lost Creek - which is a place in the mountains where my heart is at home.  One of these days I'll learn to post pix and ya'll will see why.  It's peaceful there.  I'm also another Kathryn.  I have seven grandkids ranging from 10 to 23 (4 girls, 3 boys) and one great-granddaughter! Unfortunately they all live on the other side of the country and I don't see much of them. 

I've been busy this summer -- DH is doing a major construction project - so yard and garden and household stuff all fall to me and I'm either working or falling asleep in my chair.  But, I've filled the freezer with veggies and berries (over 40# of blackberries & raspberries) and have managed to keep the lawn mowed sporadically.  When I planted flowers, I thought of Marybe - I bet she'd love the cosmos which have grown to over 9' tall!! That's right, nine feet!  And my dwarf marigolds have hit the 3' mark.  Miracle-gro!  Anyway, I often thought of Marybe as I was working outside...

Naniam you mentioned hiway 321.  Although I live in CA, my "roots" go to NC and the Salisbury/Mocksville area.  A few years ago I wrote a book about one of the ancestors and we drove out to NC/TN/VA/KY.  We stayed a few days at Banner Elk - and spent some time at Boone. (my ancestors). Hwy 321 and 421 are a couple of my favorite drives now.  It sure is pretty. We hope to get back there, perhaps in 2014 when there is a big reunion planned near the Cumberland Gap.

That's about it for me - I have a ton of work today and I have to admit I'm glad the garden is slowing down.  Biggest thrill besides berries is that we got our first peaches from trees we planted in '09, and they are ambrosia, heavenly.  At our elevation, peaches are iffy, so our 37 peaches this year have been photographed, admired, watched over, and once ripe, we are very careful to split equally!  That's MY peach half!!!

SoCalLisa

3jaysmom

marybe with her George, and dear sydney.. they're all together now...

barbe1958

Thanks for the pic 3jays, still choking me up.....

Welcome Naniam, don't I know you from a couple of years ago?? The name seems familiar.... My avatar is for my name Barbara and the year I was born 1958. I have 3 grandsons. Zach turns two on Sunday, Fynnigan (yep!) turns two on the 25th of September, and George will be two in March. I'm waiting for a pink one now....not that anyone is pregnant, but I hope to get the word around Christmas as only two of them are going to keep going. My DD is stopping at Zach, which surprised me. 

SoCalLisa

It is strange that my tennis partner and I are the same age...we were both born in 1942..she had three children, as did I..she has 3 GREAT grandkids and I have 2

grandkids..5 an d 10 years old!

Go figure

Elisimo

Naniam - You are right it is up to us to make it happen so whenever you come to Cary just call and I will jump at a chance to meet you somewhere for breakfast, lunch. dinner or whatever.  Has your stepgran ever been to Pullen Park?  That is where my grands like to go when they come.  You did not say how old you stepgran is.   I am looking forward to meeting you.  We will make this happen!

chabba

Lisa, I too was born in 1942, but I was never able to make the prerequisite for having grandchildren. 

Isabella4

Naniam, welcome to our group. Nice to see you here.

Chabba..you were asking me how many dogs I have. Well, I scared myself. Haven't bothered counting them for a couple of years at least. Just go on, treating them as family, they're always there! Well, what scared me was, when I actually DID count I have 67 dogs...67 ! If I'd have guessed I'd have said around 40ish....but this is silly ! Mainly Cavalier King Charles, and mini sausage dogs, 2 Rottweilers, 2 Alsations, 2 sheepdogs and 8 rescue dogs i've taken in over the last few years. No wonder people in the village say they can sometimes hear them barking at teatime ! The village is over 2 miles away. I hardly notice the noise, it doesn't bother me at all. I really DO NOT fancy bathing all 67 of them. They will all get 3 or 4 baths a year, in rotation, but to do them all at once... HA HA.  We are setting about them next week, as a matter of urgency. Doubt if I will be able to bend and bath, but will be able to dry and comb. I think myself and 2 girls will take all week to do them properly.

I have used Frontline on all dogs who live with me in the house, so don't feel 'itchy' now that's done ! It looks to have been immediately effective. The dogs who don't live in the house have very few lice at all, I can only see 3 that are affected, but everyone will be bathed, and Frontlined. I think the problem has come in with a dog I bought from my gypsy friend. He turned up one day with a Cavalier, wanting to know did I want her. I don't know where she'd come from, or what conditions she'd been in, I took her in straight away, not knowing what would happen to her if I didn't take her. I don't think gypsies look at dogs in the same light we do ! 

It's well after midnight here, so I am off to bed, tomorrow I am going to see a new baby, my great niece. She will be a week old , and belongs to my nephew...who I haven't seen for about 10 years. He 'found' me on FB a few months ago, and we have been chatting since...tomorrow I get to see him. Last time I saw him he was 12. No-one had told him that I had bc...my brother just stopped contacting me when he was told I had cancer....and had not told his children at all.

Isabella.

chabba

Isabella,  have a wonderful reunion with your nephew and enjoy the great niece!

Glad you are still in touch with your Gypsy friends. Enjoyed your stories about them and especially the wedding last summer so much.

Gingerbrew

Well you are a dog breeder, so that is different.   Maybe you could get some sort of tax break if you were also a pet rescue?  I love my dogs, two of them but if I bred dogs I would likely have a few dozen myself. 

I hope the lice retreat quickly for you.

We take one dog to the groomer becxause he is too fancy for me to cut, a big red poodle. I do trim up the little dog but he is a blend of poodle, schnauzer, beagle, bichon, and chihuahua. White wild hair, 16 pounds, runs like lightening and thinks he is the boss of all dogs and cats.

I hope you have a nice time visiting your new grandneice.

Our DGD and family will be here soon, sne is 2 now.

Hugs Ginger 

3jaysmom

oh!!Isabella, i'm so happy youre going to see your nephew and his baby.. maybe you'll have to skip a generation for now, but its your family!!!and babies!!yeah..

  i haven't kept up real well, going thru my pics for marybe starts a whole new slew of crying..

  anyway, i thought the girls had said we'd post all our pictures on the In Memory of thread, but so far, no one else has.. just me.. so, all of you, if you have pics, lets do that shower of pics.. let everyone know.. thanks, 3jays

3jaysmom

marybe and Barb A in obx ..freezing3jays

QCA

Wow, Isabella, that's a LOT OF DOGS!!!  We've always had only one at a time.  We got our current dog, already named Bud, from a rescue individual and he was so frightened at first that he wouldn't even go through a doorway when the door was slightly ajar.  Now, he rather rules the roost.  He's a bagel, a beagle/basset mix, which DH says is just a fancy way of saying hound, and he's 4 now.

DS and DGS came over today and they and DH went into DH's studio, which is a separate building from the house.  DH forgot to close the door all the way last night and a little garter snake found its way in.  They'd told DGS not to tell me about it, so when I went down there of course the first thing DGS said, all excited,  was "Me-ma, 'nake, 'nake, we found a 'nake!"  So much for trying to swear a 3 year old to secrecy.

purple32

They are gorgeous, Alyson.

My grandaughter is what keeps me going sometimes.  Precious.

barbe1958

3jays, I've met Barb A and she was shorter than me (I'm only 5'4.75"). For some reason, I thought Marybe was tall!!!!

chabba

barbe, Marybe's force of character gave her stature as does yours and BarbA's.  I think we all stand tall when we face the trials any of us here have been through.

barbe1958

I think you are right chabba!!

chabba

Marybe faced more than so many of us and thus stood taller. 

I may have started out at 5'10" but she was taller and you are taller than I now no mater what the tape measure may say. 

3jaysmom

hjey gals.. a week today we lost ourdear one, a part of my heart will remain with me always...

  I didn't notice till yesterday, told my hubs he had to go to the barber, and shave.. he said monday. he hasn't shaved for a week for marybe.. and yes, i came in the room, and all the mirrors were covered..

 it breaks my heart, but i can't go to the service on the 16th.. she'll know we're with her, though.. does anyone have any photos to post on the thread for memory of marybe by the moderators? it would be nice if we can all go there that sat..just sayin.. 3jays

Dilly

It's so hard to lose a dear friend. Marybe was an angel while she was alive. Truly one in a million.

Right now, my thoughts are with Leah - if I hadn't seen her post yesterday on Marybe's thread, I would be more worried. Her surgery was last Wednesday and she'd said she would have her DH post on her "not your ususal stage IV surgery" thread, but no one has posted there since the 4th or 5th. 

Leah, we'll be glad to hear you have successfully weathered this surgery and are well on the recovery road.

Canning tomatoes here.