For Older People with Sense

    Snow in Colorado!...glad it is there and not here.  I still have lots of flowers blooming, although today I had the guy who came to do yard work deadhead a lot of plants.  We are getting an earlier start on the leaves this year thank goodness, because I hate to be out there raking leaves in the summer just because my husband is a lazy ass and says Oh I will do it later and they never get raked.  

You have to at least put those pretty wooden German ornaments out, AmyJo, even if you don't do a tree.  

 GingerB, Yep, it was me who kept my tree up..... I know people were probably whispering about me, but thought you know it took me so long to put this up and now it's already Feb. and with the way months fly by for me, I am just going to keep it up.....and what do you know, it's almost that time again.  So I am thinking this was one of the smarter things I have done.   Will your dogs bother the Xmas decorations?   I did find a few ornaments on the floor last year and one that had fringe got chewed up and I am sure it was Hope, the one we adopted last Oct.   Then it was no doubt new to her, but now it's just like another piece of furniture.  Probably the week of Thanksgiving, I will start decorating the mantel and the archways and maybe will even get some outside lights up this year.  Christmas decortations make me happy.   

last year; we did get all the hoopla out, and some never got down, either, Marybe.. we left the garland around the din/liv rm area up. i've dusted it, and like that i can sit in the glow at night. i'm going to down grade it, and only do two walls, front and back this year, and im hoping to do it in grapevine, with crystsls,, enuff for christmas, but more yr round.. i love all things christmas, but am seriously downsizing this year.. truth be told, we don't see the grands for the season(so far) i'm hoping it'll change this year; but we're just keeping the "kidsy" stuff . by the time they get older; i'll be too crippled to do much...

   we're giving our big tree to a friend, this season. its a gorgeous, and was $$$$$ ; but im not up to it anymore. last yr. I bought a smaller tree, rewired it all, and i love it!!! nearer to the seson, i'll post a pic. it sits on a table, so no worries about the dogs that way..

   Ginger, the hanging thing, i did for yrs when my kids were young.. in a bay window.. it was lovely stable, and the dogs (big ones then ) couldn't get into it... i wonder what Isabella does with her sausage dogs???

   i hope you being back on merans your'e feeling better, Ginger. i missed "seeing" you!

  hi and bye to all.. lots of good wishes................3jays

Good Morning Ladies:  While my boyfriend was away on business this week, I got all the flowers planted and the fall wreaths up on the doors.  Better to do it when he is away because he doesn't like me to do it, and I don't like having him bend over and get on ladders because of his balance problems with his MS.  He will still fuss at me because I got up on a ladder with my vertigo, but oh well.  We're so blessed to have our families here in Florida..even the ones that live in Vail are coming with the new baby for this Xmas so we'll have everyone together...time for a family photo!  OMG...can't even imagine what that would entail with our group!

I usually put the tree up just before Thanksgiving with the lights, but don't decorate it until first week or so in December.  I'll have fun this year with my 2 year old GD who will help (?) me with the unbreakable ornaments down low.  A tradition in my family...when my kids were young they always helped decorate the tree.  They fought so much over the ornaments that I had to give them each their own section with their own ornaments and that solved the problem.  I didn't dare touch them after they were in place because they knew immediately if they had been moved!  The grandchildren never seemed all that interested, but I have two little ones now, so I'll give it a try with them.  It makes for great memories! 

Monday is my doctor's app't and hopefully the biopsy if he can find the area on the US.  After two months of waiting I would like to bring this to a conclusion.

Have a great day...sending everyone lots of positive energy! 

Here's another Martha fan!  Those spray-painted pumpkins are a great idea.  She also taught me how to make home made marshmallows.  (Nothing like a good marshmallow now and then.  I even have some chocolate ones!)

Had a cortisone shot for my back pain.  It was supposed to get worse, then better but I skipped the worse part and it's actually somewhat better.  I've decided exercises are for the birds.  Gotta go have a truffle.

Dragon 

ohh, the pumpkins sound like a great idea.. off to the dollar store tommorrow!!! im having at least my middle son for thsnksgiving, and hope to do it at the Grsnds house with them. we find our little house doesn't work with them. they have a park across the street, a bigger table, and all their toys there. we'll cook, ad just tranfer everything there.. i hope it works out, but if not, the 3 of us here wil be wonderful he's so much like my son now, clean and sober sure makes a big difference!!!

  Marybe, gonna look for your tv thread.. do you guys know aht channel the "ringer " is on? i haven't seen it once, but want to catch up; if i can.....3jays

Congratulations Hauntie.  Celebrate!!!

Well done Hauntie.

Dragon I ask the same question often. Have discussed this with doctors and they have no answer.

Anyway despite now having severe pain from sciatica we had such a great night last night.It is wonderful to look at the world through the eyes of a child. We took GD to a fireworks display. Tonight is our fireworks night - Guy Fawkes Night. ( Most people don't realise it is celebrated because Guy Fawkes did not succeed with his plot - they were a very small group of crazy students who didn't have public support at all) It was great she was fascinated by the bonfire( it was difficult to explain what the Guys were and why they were burning them). She was entranced by the firework as they exploded over head laughing and exclaiming as each one burst into colour. It is one of the best displays I have seen for a while.We went out because DH was helping with the tractor rides. The historical group had two old tractors which they used to tow an old wagon and a sheep trailor. The children both young and old had a great time riding on them.

We had GD over night - it was 10.30 when we got back and she was fast asleep. When she came in to bed at 6.00 the first thing she said was that she had seen the fireworks.

Must go and get her home as I have a very busy morning and her Granny needs a coffee.

Hope your day has been great

Big hugs

Hauntie....CONGRATULATIONS...here's to another 17 years.

3jays...enjoy your Thanksgiving with your boys, wherever. I can 'feel' your excitement. Make the best of every minute with them. I am envious of you !!!!! I had a message on FB from my DSs wife last week inviting me to go for Christmas....stay a night, or two, maybe ?? What in the h*ll she thinks I am going to do with all my animals, just leave them alone..no-one to feed them. Dogs, cats, sheep, cows, plus nearly 2,000 hens. I suppose they'll all be able to feed themselves, roll their own bales of hay out, turn the taps on to get their water, let themselves in and out, collect and pack their own eggs ??? AND she is a farmers' daughter !!!!  I do have a part time helper now, but she wants time with her family at Christmas. I'd much rather I'd had a 'phone call from DS, it would mean more to me than any silly message on FB. It will be 3 years this Chrismas since I have seen my son, and 2 of my G/children.

Off to bed now, thinking about my DS upsets me beyond words. One day when his children leave home, move a long way off, then don't come and see him he will understand.

Isabella.

Hi, Ladies!

I have been absentee for a while, but have lurked just a little.  I have been working a lot (11 hrs yesterday, 10 the day before, and most days between 8.5 to 10hrs.) I had a bladder infection, I had to get my papsmear and a CA125 test.  Have been helping youngest with her homework every night. My back has been hurting again and my knees are making a creaking noise when I walk.  I guess I am just tired. It seems like I am on the verge of tears all of the time and I don't know why.  I cry almost every night after the kids go to bed. I fall to sleep on the couch every night.

Please tell me this is just because I am tired! 

Marthah:  Love your hair!  There is a lady in my church who had cancer many years ago and lost her hair to chemo.  She too shaved her head and when it came back, it looked very much like yours does. She liked the freedom of having it so short, that now she gets it cut, in kinda of a butch cut and she loves it.  I think it fits her very well.  Her DH is bald, and they look so cute together.  Who knows, you might just be a trend setter.

Halloween around here -- I took my kids trick or treating and they got plenty of candy.  Since I go out with them, I leave a large bowl of candy on my front porch with instructions to take 1 or 2 pieces.  It is usually almost gone when we get home and this year was no exception.  I did my best to walk around to all of the houses with my youngest. I stood in the street and let her go up to each door.  My older daughter went with her girlfriends in the same neighborhood.  In that neighborhood, my church sponsors a big event called "Light the Night". It is hosted at a church members house in the neighborhood.  They have music, hot cider, coffee, donuts, candy and prizes. Also a big bounce house, a puppet show and so on.  It is really a nice event.  We ended at that house.  By the time I got home, my joints hurt so bad and I had to use a cane to walk, but I made it.  My kids had fun and we fell into bed!

Phyllis

Phyllis, I see your cane and raise you a walker!! I've used my cane for enough years that it started to  affect my wrist!!! Makes sense, as I put a LOT of weight on my cane, I don't just use it to keep people out of my path. Anyway, at a visit to an orthopaedic surgeon, it was suggested I'd be better with a walker. What a differece!!! Your weight is evenly distributed. I got one where the seat lifts up so I can walk right in the middle of the handles, not push it in front of me. I got it for $40 at a used medical supply place. New was $350!!! I never liked the feeling of pushing the walker in front of me, picturing me doing a face-plant in the sidewalk! Because I can walk between the bars, I feel SO much safer! It also has a basket for shopping and my purse. Perfect!! I put neon smiley stickers all over it so people wouldn't feel sorry for me.....ehheheeheheh