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Gma, that sounds so good and much improved from earlier!  Now do not over do the dang garden stuff~~

Don't think you need to contemplate too much gardening this weekend, though looks like the rain is supposed to start tapering off again.  Looks like we here in the PNW are going to get more nice weather next week.  Sometimes I enjoy just sitting in the sun, soaking up the warmth.  Very therapeutic.  And conducive of napping.  

Yes Ducky - that made perfect sense.

My nephew came home from the hospital this week. His leg
still looks awful, but he is doing much better. They administer antibiotics
daily through his PIC line. He also has a home nurse that changes his wrap
every few days. The doctor said it can take up to a month to heal. The new meds
seem to be working - his WBC is down. I made him homemade sauce/gravy which
should last him the whole week.

GMA, love that picture of you and your grandchildren!!! They
are adorable!! I'm so glad you get to see them often. My boys left for
Wisconsin on Wednesday and they arrived today. I miss them terribly! I've got
my girls - ages 6 and 12 coming on Tuesday to spend the night. I want to take
them to the water park on Wednesday. Hopefully my body will cooperate! I'm
keeping an eye out to see if this acupuncture works for you. If it works for
you, I may just get up the nerve to try it myself. I'm really pulling for you!!

FK having senior moments? Or, is it Ducky? I have them often
and I'm not even a senior!! My son's birthday was today and I actually thought
he was older than he is. He turned 24 today, and I thought he was turning 25! Now
that's pretty bad!! I'm such a dork!!

Monis, I am a former sun worshiper. When I was a kid in
Rockaway, we used baby oil and iodine mixed together to tan. Who knew????
Everyone did it. It was like basting a turkey.

Hope you all are doing well. It was a crazy week for me and I'm glad it's the weekend.

So u see slow it's Ducky with the Sr.moments,not me

U went to Rockaway Beach? 

Well so did I

But that was way before ur time...u see I am a senior..

mom never let me add the iodine to baby oil....maybe that is why I never got really dark~~

I know lots who still do the tanning bit but honestly, most have many more wrinkles!!  got enough of them so do not need help!

FK, I was born in Rockaway. I moved when I was 14 to California.

Ducky, not only did we add iodine to our baby oil, but we also used that silver contraption (see below).

I stopped worshiping the sun in my 30's. Like FK, I now hate the summer and the heat.

Wren, I've always tanned very easily. It's the Italian skin. My daughter is very white and burns very easily.

proud, you should be glad your mother didn't allow it! My mom encouraged it and used it herself. Back in those days, they didn't know any better.

YES! I remember.....we NEVER wore car seats!! I can remember me and my nephew bumping heads when we turned a corner too sharp in my sisters car. We would hold on for dear life! When I rode on the bus as a kid, we would sit on the back of the bus seats with the windows wide open. Ignorance sure was bliss back in those days!

I had my first baby in 1957........about that time they had this thing they called a "car seat".......when my son was old enough to be in one........we bought it..............

It was a plastic seat with metal sides that had hinges so it could be closed..........it had 2 hooks on the back that went over the back of the front seat of your car .......in the middle........back then the seats in the car wnet straight across in the front.......you would put this seat in the middle, over the back of the seat........NOW THE  BEST PART........in the  middle of this car seat, was a steering wheel, which had a big screw that held the wheel to the front of the car seat...............LOL.........if you stopped too fast, and did not put your arm across the kid, they would have the imprint of the "screw" in their forehead for a week....................oh, and did I mention.......no kid every stayed in the damn seat..........they jumped out, climbed across the seat to the back of the car, run around back there, and then when they were ready got back in the car seat for another few minutes they would jump into the front seat again, and climb back into it.....LOL........................Talk about safety..............

When I tell this story people (younger people of today) roll on the floor laughing...................I wonder sometimes how our kids lived to the age they are now..........LOL

How many ladies remember feeding your baby the bottle.....in the front seat of the car............when there was no such thing as a "seat belt", or an "air bag"........................we were not bad parent's...............its just those things did not exist........remember I am 79, and my oldest is going to be 57 next month...........

Slow......and this was his car bed that stayed in the back...........I swear we were nuts.......today we would be locked up, or reported to Child Services......

And yes, the kids today are strapped in so tight it is ridiculous....I get uncomfortable just looking at them........LOL.........I actually owned one of these things.

Yea, had one of those too........LOL...........

wow

The good old days

I had everything u mentioned

And that contraption with the silver foil

My mom used to sit on the stoop with that stupid tin foil thing all day

No wonder she was wrinkled like a prune

I'm babysitting now,they r quiet for the moment

Rock away,damn my GF drowned there way before ur time but after that we never went back.She was around 12 yrs.old..I remember it like it was yesterday

The rip tides in Rockaway were brutal when I was a kid. We lost many people.

You were asking for name ideas for a new thread. That was for you and FK - not me! Just throwing it out there I'm not sure how much conversation it would provoke. I know I could talk for hours on old things from the past.

hahahaha. I think I'll leave the thread starting to you guys! I'm lucky I can keep up with this thread!!

Good Morning!

Today my two girls come over and they are spending the night! I'm so excited. I get them for one night and my sister gets them for two. I guess that's fair considering they are her grandchildren!

GMA, haven't seen you here for a few days. I hope you're doing well and not in too much pain. Thinking of you!

Ducky, FK, Monis, Wren, Proud and anyone else lurking, I hope you have a good day today!!

Edited to Add: Oooops, just realized that Alyson hasn't been around either.....hope you're doing good too!!! Maybe you're still traveling???

Also, GG! I know you're around though because I saw you on the game threads!!