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  • macatacmv
    macatacmv Member Posts: 1,386
    edited December 2016

    barbe, I, too, am saddened by your news. I pray you find treatments that work and have a wonderful quality of life as you deal with these new developments.

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  • macatacmv
    macatacmv Member Posts: 1,386
    edited December 2016

    so this is how my day goes. I decide I need to change the candles on my mantle to white instead of blue for the holiday. I take the blue ones out, get the white ones out of their resting place. Spend the next half an hour searching for where I put the white ones down, start doing the dishes in my sink, decide to put some ornaments on my tree, finally remember the mantle search some more for the white candles, find one, put it up. Decide to go out and pick some bitter sweet for the red berries (which involves suiting up into my winter apparel), come back in fix a cup of tea and when I sit down with the tea, spy the white candles! Finally put them in and then take this picture for all of you, but mostly for Barbe!


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    my beautiful fireplace!
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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited December 2016

    Too funny- I don't see the white candles though!!!! And it's just a stunning fireplace.

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited December 2016

    OH!!! I see one on the right. My phone screen is small...

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  • macatacmv
    macatacmv Member Posts: 1,386
    edited December 2016

    so, of course I want to post more pics, but my phone and computer are not communicating. I had to give up for now. I'm already driving myself crazy. Maybe tomorrow

    If y'all remember the story about the fireplace. I had a good friend design and build it, but he was taking too long for the contractor's wife that was "helping" with design options. So she fired him before he could finish it. It was suppose to go further up the wall, but now I am happy with the outcome. It makes me happy! 

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  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 6,503
    edited December 2016

    the fireplace is gorgeous!!!

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  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 16,818
    edited December 2016

    Hi girls!

    Damn Barbe! that sure is shitty news and I sincerely hope your new treatment works well for you will very few if any side effects.

    Nancy! So lovely to see you!! Lol, your day sounds really familiar..........maybe because I seem to have many days like that myself. I wander around, start one thing and all of a sudden I am doing something else because I wasn't sure of what I was doing in the first place.........I seem to find myself with half a dozen things on the go before I get back to the original.

    I love, love, love your fire place! It is stunning!!! Yes, I remember well the kerfuffle that went on when it was being built but it couldn't have ended up being any better. I see the white candle!!

    We are going to my second DD's for Christmas this year again........can't say I'm sorry as it means way less work and prep for me and way less exhaustion after. My responsibility this year is the Ham and baste, the leg of lamb...roasted and cold, the home made fruit mince pies and the plum pudding ice cream.........it's too hot for the steamed kind. That's it, that's my lot. .I will get the ice cream and the mince pies done this week and into the freezer as it is my youngest grandson's 18th Birthday next week and I have his cake to bake as well........I just hope the weather stays on the cooler side as my kitchen will be very hot with the oven going.

    Love n hugs to all. Chrissy

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  • Kattysmith
    Kattysmith Member Posts: 738
    edited December 2016

    I am a rock / stone fiend, and that fireplace is spectacular!!! Yes, I, too, seem to spend most of my days chasing my tail and bumping into walls.

    May your holidays be happy and filled with peace!

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  • macatacmv
    macatacmv Member Posts: 1,386
    edited December 2016

    Chrissy, so good to hear your cheerful voice, once again! oh my gosh, that's what you call less prep? And baking a cake for a party in-between! You are a wonder woman!

    We started a new tradition at Thanksgiving. We combine my family and my DD's BF's family. It makes us about 10 all together. I supply the house, dishes and utensils. ha ha ha. BF's grandma is a great cook and supplies most of the food. My DD helps me make some food I can eat (I am on a very restrictive diet). My kind of division of labor.

    katty, I don't think I have met you before. Thanks. Yes the fireplace is wonderful. My kids don't want me playing with fire anymore so I have an electric log insert. I just push a button and instant fake fire!

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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited December 2016

    Those inserts are very realistic looking and warm to boot. Way way less messy too.

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  • lilyrose53
    lilyrose53 Member Posts: 216
    edited February 2017

    Hi Ladies!

    I was meaning to get back here to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! LOL I'm a bit late as usual. We were away over the holidays visiting family.

    Barbe, I'm so sorry to hear your news. I will be saying special prayers for you.

    I saw my BS this week for my regular check. I had my 6 month mammo and they saw something they didn't like. He did an ultrasound and assured me it was nothing to worry over. I have some scar tissue and skin thickening from surgery and rads. sigh of relief. He also wished me well as I have now hit my three year mark since being diagnosed. Yay! I am to have another mammo in six months and if still all clear I will go to yearly. (keeping fingers crossed)! Life has been busy as I am still babysitting for my now 19 month old GD. She never stops! I forgot how exhausting a toddler can be. But she's fun!

    I hope you are all doing well and that 2017 is a good year for all!

    Hugs, lilyrose

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  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 16,818
    edited February 2017

    Hi Lilyrose, great news from your BS! It's a great feeling as you move through the years and they tell you they dont need to see you as often.

    Hope you had a Merry Christmas and a great New Year as well. Mine was lovely as we went down to the city to oyr second DD. She had most everything organized all I had to do was make the plum pudding ice cream and bring the ham ready for the oven. Our Christmas is always hot and this last one was no different......lol.......42 degrees C but thank goodness my DD is a personal trainer with her own studio which is air conditioned so we set up in there. Being in the cool was really great!

    As lovely as the little ones are you are soooo right when you say they are exhausting! Thank goodness mine are all grown up (21, 20, 19, 18).....I do miss the babies they were though, but each age has their own challenge.

    I've been madly sewing. My youngest nieces (10 and 7) rang me just before Christmas with the request for a quilt that doubles as a quilt cover with puctures of their sleepy toys on them. I have the top of one almost complete but still sooooo much to do for both and they need to be finished by the third week of March as that is when I am going to visit.

    Hoping everyone is well and living life to the full.

    Love n hugs. Chrissy


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  • macatacmv
    macatacmv Member Posts: 1,386
    edited February 2017

    oh so nice to see some "activity" on this thread.

    I always worry when it goes quiet!

    Chrissy you are as busy as ever. Would love to see a picture of the quilts. Do you machine stitch or do them by hand? Maybe a combo?

    Lilyrose, it is so great to "see" you! I admire your energy to keep up with a 19 month old. What precious memories, you are creating!

    I'm hanging in there. Survived the blizzard of 2017. It amuses me how every storm is the storm of the year or century or....... It was just a darn Nor'easter with snow! It is beautiful today, cold but very pretty!

    I am still going thru my Lyme treatment. It is slow going. I have another appt with the specialist next week. Just added more doc appts onto my schedule.

    I am doing a very restricted diet. No sugar, yeast, dairy and gluten. After I had to go on a nebulizer treatment from that bout of asthmatic bronchitis last month, I got a bad case of thrush. yucky to say the least!

    Hope all are well and just busy.

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  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 16,818
    edited February 2017

    Nancy you asked about the quilts well here is the first ready for quilting. I was just doing the sandwich.

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    As for the quilting, I have only ever done stitch in the ditch and hand quilting but Aly is coming for a visit and has promised to machine quilt them for me while she is here. I'm hoping I'll learn a lot from her.

    The colors are what my niece picked and are perfect for her. I wasnt sure to begin with but I'm happy with it now.

    The second is now in the process so I'll post a pich once it is to the same stage.

    Hope everyone is well.

    Love n hugs. Chrissy

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  • macatacmv
    macatacmv Member Posts: 1,386
    edited February 2017

    oh Chrissy, it is beautiful! So much love put into every stitch! I really like the color combo, too. One of a kind. I'm so glad Aly is coming for a visit and to have a project to work on together, very special.

    I'm a machine woman myself. I think I was just in such a hurry in my earlier life. Everything had to be done quickly. Now I have slowed down, considerably.

    My DD BF left me a shirt to repair the other weekend. It just needed some buttonhole repair. Well, I patched the holes and then sat down to the machine and attached the buttonholer. I have put in hundreds of buttonholes, probably. Well, I couldn't get that thing to work, to save my soul. It is a setting issue. I can't remember what combo of stitch length, width works the best. I got so frustrated, then really angry, then really sad! My brain just doesn't work the way it used to. I tried watching U Tube videos, but had to eventually give up and take the dog for a walk on the beach.

    That is why I can't work in my shop anymore. Why I am afraid to drive a car. Anyhoo, there are things I can do.

    Next week I go up to Boston, to the Dean Center (a new section of the Spaulding Rehabilitation hospital) just for Lyme patients. Hopefully with my med regime and some rehabilitation, I will get some more of my life back!

    When does Aly get there, Chrissy? Don't stress yourself out too much trying to hit the deadline.

    I, too, hope everyone is well! We do get busy with our "real" lives. But I still have such a warmth in my soul from the women I met here on this thread.

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  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 16,818
    edited February 2017

    Nancy, Aly arrives on the 17th March and will stay with me for five days before we head off on a road trip to Canberra where we will be meeting up with Aussie BC girls for a weekend get together. After the weekend I'll drop Aly off at her cousins before she heads back to New Zealand and I will go and deliver the quilts to my nieces and stay a few days before driving home again.

    It's a long trip and we will need to stay overnight on the way but I'm looking forward to showing Aly a different face of Aus than she has previously seen as we will be heading inland before heading east.

    I dont know much about the effects of lyme disease although I do know it comes from ticks. It sounds really awful that it sapped your confidence so I sure hope the rehab can help you get it back.

    I hear you on forgetting what setting for certain things that is why my instruction book for my machine has been printed out and kept in the bottom drawer of my sewing cabinet just in case I need to refer to it........as I did when doing....you guessed it...button holes......lol. The back of the quilts have been made so a duve can be placed inside and of course needed button holes so the bottom could be fastened.

    Let us know how you get on with your rehab. Goid luck !

    Love n hugs. Chrissy

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  • cliff
    cliff Member Posts: 290
    edited February 2017

    fellow oldies, please tell your partner, or whoever comes over a lot to watch for changes in behavior, I had a bout of kidney failure a while ago, accompanied with "brain fog" like walking around with no particular place to go, confusion. with all the medications I take, it is a wonder I even have kidneys.

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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited February 2017

    Cliff, You're right. And if older people start acting a bit crazy, get them checked for a UTI immediately. I don't know why it works that way, but it's often the first symptom. I hope you have no lasting effects from the bout of kidney failure. Is it working OK now?

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  • cliff
    cliff Member Posts: 290
    edited February 2017

    yes, they just rearranged my meds, now 3 Lasix and one metalozone diuretic per day, get a lot of exercise running to the john.

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  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 16,818
    edited February 2017

    Wow Cliff, that's scary stuff! Glad you are sorted now and that your meds have been reorganized.

    Hey Wren, how are you going?

    Heading to the city in a few minutes to spend the day with my two sisters and then having dinner with a BC sister before heading home. It's going to be a long day and a late night.

    Love n hugs all. Chrissy

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  • Alyson
    Alyson Member Posts: 4,308
    edited March 2017

    At Chrissie's sitting chatting. This was the view earlier from the bedroom window. image

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  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 6,503
    edited March 2017

    beautiful view. Post pictures of the 2 of you! Pleas

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  • Alyson
    Alyson Member Posts: 4,308
    edited March 2017

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    Well here's Chris.

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  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 16,818
    edited March 2017

    Aly posting a pic of me......tit for tat.....lol.

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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited March 2017

    You both look like you're having a good time. Enjoy.

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  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 6,503
    edited March 2017

    Love the pictures

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited March 2017

    image50 years ago today 😎 No I didn't wear my uniform ☺

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  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 16,818
    edited March 2017

    Happy Anniversary Lisa!! Congrats on 50 years!!

    You look absolutely beautiful in your wedding photo.

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  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 6,503
    edited March 2017

    Happy 50th anniversary!

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  • Gingerbrew
    Gingerbrew Member Posts: 2,859
    edited May 2017

    Happy Fiftieth Lisa!

    Barbie how are you doing? Hope ypu are NED real soon.

    Hi Chrissie and Ally and all!

    Ginger

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