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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited December 2015

    Ditto.

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  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 16,818
    edited December 2015

    Merry Christmas all you beautiful ladies!!

    It is Christmas morning here in Australia and it is promising to be another hot day so Christmas Dinner will be had inside in the air conditioning.

    We are spending a few days with our youngest daughter and later today our other daughter and grandchildren will be here as well.

    Hoping you all have a most wonderful day and a very safe holiday season.

    Love n hugs. Chrissy

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  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 6,503
    edited December 2015

    Lisa...gorgeous poinsettia.

    Chrissy....Have a great time with your daughters and grandchildren. Wishing a most wonderful Christmas. Winter weather in Denver...Saturday is going to be frigid, only 18 F!!! and we might even get snow...the mountains are getting snow though!!

    Wishing everyone a most wonderful Christmas....


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  • QCA
    QCA Member Posts: 1,539
    edited December 2015

    Merry Christmas to all of you from North Carolina!

    Kathy

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited December 2015

    The whole gang showed up. Merry Christmas.

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  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 16,818
    edited December 2015

    Oh wow Lisa! What a fabulous family! So glad you had a family filled Christmas as they are simply the best!

    Love n hugs. Chrissy

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  • Leah_S
    Leah_S Member Posts: 8,458
    edited December 2015

    I hope all who celebrate Christmas had a most wonderful day!

    Leah

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited December 2015

    I have another new camera. One lens only...65X OPTICAL ZOOM and WiFi. So here are a couple of pics from my

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    first walk.

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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited December 2015

    Lisa, Wow! Those are incredible. I can't believe how sharp they are. You're going to have a lot of fun with this.

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited December 2015

    I'm hoping so, Wren

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  • gardengumby
    gardengumby Member Posts: 7,305
    edited December 2015

    You surely are a wonderful photographer. :) I love looking at your pictures.

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  • ChiSandy
    ChiSandy Member Posts: 12,133
    edited December 2015

    Lisa, those are magnificent! But don’t give the equipment all the credit--you have a great eye!

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  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 16,818
    edited December 2015

    Wow! Love the clarity of those pics LIsa!!! Gorgeous!!

    Well, what a year!! For some a great one for others not so good but overall a year to remember. For myself it has been a very busy one and one with a lot of emotional ups and downs.........here's hoping the New Year brings with it only good things for all of us.

    Today is the day I make the Dutch traditional New Year fare.........apple flappen and olle bolen. The first is an apple fritter covered in powdered sugar and the second is a yeast based soft dough with black currents and deep fried then covered with powdered sugar. My hubby loves them (he is Dutch) and would eat them every day but making them once a years is quite enough........lol. Thank goodness the kids are not at home or I would have to make a whole heap more as I used to! Tonight will be a quiet one for hubby and I although I'm sure we will hear the celebrations that will be happening throughout our small town........thank goodness our little dog is deaf so she will not be panicked by the sound of the fire works being set off.

    Wishing all you lovely ladies a wonderful, safe, healthy and prosperous New Year! May all your hopes be bought to fruition in 2016!

    Love n hugs to all! Chrissy

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  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 6,503
    edited December 2015

    Chrissy, the apple flappen sounds yummy....Recipe please! We have NO plans for NYE...but that's how we like it. DS will be out with friends as usual, and DD#2 is in NY and NJ visiting friends!!! When I asked her tonight what she was doing tomorrow night, she had a great answer.....so funny coming from a 17 year old!! She will be with her girl friends in NJ. She's back east till the 4th. Thinking of making pizza for DH and me tomorrow night....My New Years Day tradition is chicken wings and potato knishes so that is what we will have for Shabbat dinner.

    Here's wishes for only good things in 2016. DD#1 and I both have milestone birthdays (yes after cancer every b'day is a milestone), I will be twice as old as her!! and DD#2 graduates from high school....Now here's to good health in 2016. Karen

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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited December 2015

    We're invited to a party at a friend's. We've been before and the people are very nice. I will have my usual problem of people remembering me and me not remembering them. I wish people would wear name tags. I have trouble remembering people I met last week, let alone a year ago.

    It's our wedding anniversary. In retrospect, it's not a good day to choose. Going out is always crowded and extremely expensive. The day before would have been a better choice. We usually get something for the house. I think it will be a new microwave. I wish it was new furniture, but that's just too much money at this time.

    Wishing everyone enough in the coming year.

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  • ChiSandy
    ChiSandy Member Posts: 12,133
    edited December 2015

    Every year my friends and I toast the New Year with a remark that it has to be better than the old one. Well, I can’t help but think G-d is saying “you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.” We made that toast last year--and were presented with a year during which DH was nearly killed by a botched routine diagnostic procedure, I got bc, a dear friend went into end-stage COPD and then broke her hip, the mother of another close friend learned she had Stage IV pancreatic cancer, and her own mother’s non-small-cell lung cancer came out of remission. So this year I’m just going to say “Happy New Year,” without comment on the relative merits of the incoming and outgoing years.

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  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 6,503
    edited December 2015

    I'm doing what I love to do best on New Year's Eve- staying home....its just another night of the week. I'm making pizza and salad for dinner. DD#2 is in NY/NJ visiting friends. DS is here, but he always goes out with friends.

    Wishes for only good things in 2016!!!

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

    New Years Day here, it's hot so I'm just relaxing in the air conditioning watching netflix. Just a very quiet New Years Eve for us, hubby didn't even see in the New Year but that's okay. .....lol.....he is an early to bed early to rise sort of guy. The sweet treats I made yesterday are almost all gone......not surprising as they are DH's favorites.

    Stay safe and enjoy what ever you are doing.

    Love n hugs. Chrissy

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

    Nice sunny New Year's Day here. Very cold, but cheerful with the sun. We went to a party last night that was like attending a banquet/feast. I have never seen so much awesome food. My scale says I indulged. We came home before midnight and watched the local fireworks on TV with our sparkling cranberry-apple juice. I'm so used to going to bed at 10:30, I was asleep by 12:15.

    The best sweet treat at the party was "Victoria Brittle" which was the man's great aunt's recipe. It's a lot like peanut brittle, but made with almonds and chocolate added toward the end. I'm really glad it's not available to buy in a store.

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited January 2016

    For the past 30 years we have spent New Year’s Eve with another couple. We have dinner and play bridge and toast in the New Year quietly. Every year we switch houses. My turn this year. Too muchwork but a fun way to get together. Happy New Year ladies.

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  • ChiSandy
    ChiSandy Member Posts: 12,133
    edited January 2016

    The three of us hosted dinner for 8 of our friends at our local wine-centric restaurant. I nursed a single flute of cava and a couple ounces of Pinot Noir--a far cry from past NYEs when I would have an aperitif and a different wine for each of four courses. We bought a couple of bottles for the table and took some of it home. I had shrimp/mango seviche (with my annual ration of home-fried tortilla chips), lobster bisque, grilled escolar over Tuscan white beans and dark chocolate mousse torte. Other guests had stuffed mushrooms, fritto misto, salads, salmon, steak, creme brulee and cheesecake. 5 of us made it back to my place, where though I’d chilled 3 bottles of bubbly (Perrier-Jouet ’99 and Thienot champagnes, Mumm’s Napa DVX 2006), we didn’t even finish the P-J. Everyone was exhausted and left by 12:45. Only reason I was up past 3 am was because I was online. Feeling a little better, but my lungs are still full of crud. No problem breathing, though. It’s just that the sound of my lungs annoys me--it even worked its way into a dream. Still can’t cough up much of what’s rattling around. Am on an antibiotic and Medrol, plus bronchodilator and Mucinex, so I guess I just need to be a "patient patient.” Son didn’t get home from his comedy collective gig till past dawn, so he’s still sleeping it off. Today makes four years smoke-free for him. I am so proud!

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited January 2016

    Wren - I think you have See's Candy in WA? Unfortunately they have a WONDERFUL thing called Victoria Toffee that sounds something like the Victoria Brittle you've described. Yummy. I buy some once a year only. At the same time I buy their Peanut Brittle.

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited January 2016

    Loving Sees Candy

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  • ChiSandy
    ChiSandy Member Posts: 12,133
    edited January 2016

    See's chocolate suckers are da BOMB!

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

    Wren that brittle sounds delicious! Any chance of getting the recipe and sharing?

    I took a good look on the mirror this morning and it's quite obvious to my eyes that I have over indulged this holiday season. .....ugh!!!! Sigh......guess I'll be back on the good food diet rather than the scrumptious food diet come Monday.

    Love n hugs all! Chrissy

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

    Oh you bad people, recommending See's! Yes, I know right where a store is. Chrissy, I don't know the man well enough to ask for the recipe. He was describing making it and it sounded like any brittle recipe, plus added almonds (lots) and the chocolate is added as it cools but can still be stirred in. He also used awesome chocolate. And I think he melted the chocolate first. The chocolate was an added note, not the main taste.

    I'll see everyone on the good food diet too. Why did I not cancel my PCP appt for Mon. They will weigh me for the permanent record. Ugh!

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited January 2016

    I sent my mother a two pound box. The chocolates were hand picked by me...she will be 96 next Friday. She was complaining that she just ate too many and would get fat...I told her who cares...she said she wanted to be able to fit in her clothes..lol

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

    Thanks Wren, I think I'll do some experimenting as it sounds just too good.

    Lisa, that is so funny about your mom and the chocolates.

    Heafong back to the city tonight as I have my annual mamo and bone scan tomorrow........and the round about begins for 2016.

    Take care lovelies!

    Love n hugs. Chrissy

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

    Happy New Year, everyone!

    I've been busy getting the "old" house cleared out. We thought we'd have it ready by the new year. HA ha!! another thing I have to let go of. It will happen when it happens. I managed to hurt my right shoulder, I've been getting some PT and it is feeling better, but not up to 100%, but then never am I. lol

    I managed to grab the hot handle of a skillet that I had put into the oven with my chicken and brussel sprouts tonight. ouch!! I am such a space shot! Got a nice blister on my thumb.

    Chrissy, how did your scans turn out?

    Love the pics, Lisa. Still having trouble with your arm?

    I have my 6 month check up pelvic ultrasound this Tuesday. And I have been to my new PCP. He is on the mainland, but I think I like him. He has some good ideas about changing some of my meds. I'll go in for a physical in Feb and we'll take it from there.

    My DD made some really good peppermint bark for Christmas. Speaking of candy and bad diet choices.

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited January 2016

    Surgery again on Monday ...two screws meant to be permanent ..one is loose and one is backing out and hitting my muscles, nerves, etc...must be removed..it is out patient so hope all goes well..

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