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What are U doing today? (Ongoing thread)
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Mar 12, 2017 10:02AM
We live in a suburb and don't know anyone around us who favors DST. Now because we go to church quite early and were so pleased we didn't have to drive there in the dark these last two weeks and going to be back in the dark again. When I had an Irish setter she too hated the time change as she just couldn't get going that earlier hour. Seemed confused. Aren't we all?
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Jim wrote: "It's cold this morning. Down to 20 & I forgot to cover the peonies last night. We went out to dinner & a movie, saw "Logan". It was pretty good, but we didn't get home until after 10pm. Late for me..."It's cold here too. It was down near zero.
About the time change, I never thought about it's effect on animal schedules. The poor innocent creatures.
About adult coloring books, I'd rather play Funtrivia. :)
Jim wrote: "Linda, my wife & daughter like the adult coloring books. Marg bought them both horse ones for Xmas. I got Marg a watercolor pencil set to use with hers, but I think she prefers a set of markers. Th..."Good that Marge found horse coloring books. I have one with Owls (I'm a birder) and then another book which is called Relaxation. Fun to use many different colors, or just shades of colors.
Early happy birthday wishes to you, Jim. Enjoy your traditional birthday dinner.
We may go to the local pub next weekend for corned beef and cabbage.
Nina wrote: "Cold here today and had a smattering of snow yesterday and no sign of it today. Bunch of huge bluejays at the feeder this morning. Water frozen in the bird bath so I'll take some hot kettle water o..."Agree - "too late" are two very sad words. We did ask questions of our family history but so much was even unknown to the adults. Now, with the internet and ancestry websites you can dig to find out history. I had wanted to know what kind of job my grandfather had but no one really knew and later on just forgot.
Yes, if you are writing memoirs there isn't time to do adult coloring. However, if you get in a slump with writing, the "trance" you can get into by coloring may ignite the brain .... Know what I'm trying to say?
How long have you been writing the memoirs of your parents?
My husband enjoys navy bean soup. I'm not fond of that soup so for me he makes lentil soup. Do you like lentil soup?
I'm off on Mondays. Going for an acupuncture session. Many people sleep but I just sort of doze off. Afraid of snoring! Only $20 for an hour. Cold day. Snow is coming. Keep hoping it will change course.
I hope we'll have corned beef & cabbage. While we have one of the former in the freezer, Marg couldn't find either at the store yesterday. I'm going to drop by a different store on my way home tonight & try again.I like lentil soup, but probably only eat it once a year, generally when I'm sick. I like to put a dollop of vinegar in it.
My twice paternal grandfather wrote a history of our family back in the 1930s in one of those marble notebooks. I have it & transferred it to various electronic formats: Family Tree Maker (genealogy software) & several places online. One is my old website here:
http://www.wysiwygwood.com/myfam.html
where I even made the names searchable. Click on the "Several Family Groups" link & you'll find the entire, unedited version including his letter to my grandfather.
While I treasure this genealogy, what I appreciate even more are the items I have from my paternal grandmother's father because we were very much alike. He was a fiddler with wood, gardens, & most anything that came to hand. One cousin has a desk he made, probably the nicest, most complex piece we still have, but I have all the rest. I also have his pocket knife, hammer, & an oil portrait of him.
One is a goat cart made of a bent brass rail. Another is a carving of 2 birds, but I also have very prosaic items like a shelf (5' wide x 40" tall) & a footstool he made & signed to my grandfather (his son-in-law). I have a caned seat chair that's only good for decoration (too delicate), but still neat looking.
The best is the high chair he made for his kids. My grandmother sat in it & she was born in 1898. Her kids used it & I believe all of her grandkids (including me, although I don't recall) did at one time or another, too. We didn't have it when my kids were of age, but my grandson sat in it. You can see a bit of it here:
https://www.goodreads.com/photo/user/...
It's still as solid as the day he made it well over a century ago. How cool is that?!!!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JIM!
Linda wrote: "I'm off on Mondays. Going for an acupuncture session. Many people sleep but I just sort of doze off. Afraid of snoring! Only $20 for an hour. Cold day. Snow is coming. Keep hoping it will change ..."
Linda, does acupuncture actually work? I've tried reading about it, but the explanations are never very easy to believe.
Jim, that high chair made by your grandfather is amazing. You obviously inherited some of his genes!
Thanks, Joy. I wish I'd met great grandpa Kranz, but he died a decade before I was born when he was 80.
The one time I had acupuncture I was sick for twenty four hours with flu like symptoms/like miserable. It works for some people I guess but my problem pain in the hip was slightly better and for my husband it was no good at all/might have made him worse.
I love the picture of the baby in the one hundred year old high chair and from the photos I have seen of you Jim I think the baby favors you. Before I was born my grandfather had his own corner grocery store and was a butcher and we have his knives with the wooden handles and they must be around one hundred years old and I have his pipe. He lived with us when I was a young teen and his bedroom was a few steps down from the upstairs landing as it was over our attached garage. I used to sit on those steps often when I came home from school and he'd sing to me. Old fashioned songs like, "My Kentucky Home" "Jingle Bells," etc.
Linda, yes I do like lentil soup but navy bean is my favorite. Joy, do you ever eat Navy Bean soup and cornbread. Great protein combo from what I understand. And Joy and Linda are you in blizzard conditions?
Jim, Hope you find the right birthday dinner ingredients. All of our grocery stores here are featuring corn beef and cabbage this week. Have a Happy one in any case.
Linda before tackling my parents memoirs I finished last fall my own memoirs for my descendants and that took me three years to do over one hundred pages of written narrative and then two books with pictures and documents etc. Huge undertaking. Then for Christmas presents I had a picture album printed of mostly grandchildren's pictures and great grandchildren pictures. They loved it. The memoirs to have printed was about one thousand dollars and the picture album was eight hundred. I have also done at least five genealogical albums of ancestors and several garden journals and a picture cookbook of family recipes and essays and pictures to give to each of my children and turned out several others wanted copies. So I guess I am a writer at heart.
Nina wrote: "Linda, yes I do like lentil soup but navy bean is my favorite. Joy, do you ever eat Navy Bean soup and cornbread. Great protein combo from what I understand. And Joy and Linda are you in blizzard c..."No, Nina, I've never had that soup. As for the weather, we are expecting snow very soon. Nothing yet.
I did get the cornbeef & cabbage on the way home tonight. Plenty of cabbage, but they only had a few cornbeefs left. I bought the biggest one they had. I LOVE eating it for leftovers in sandwiches. It always tastes far better that way than buying it in slices. Must be the cooking with the cabbage & red potatoes.
Jim wrote: "I did get the cornbeef & cabbage on the way home tonight. Plenty of cabbage, but they only had a few cornbeefs left. I bought the biggest one they had. I LOVE eating it for leftovers in sandwiches...."Eddie used to like to make corned beef and cabbage. I should remind him that St. Patty's days is near. I keep forgetting. :)
Leftover corned beef is great for Reuben sandwiches. Makes me hungry to think of it.
This month's book selection for my book club is "Everybody's Fool," and so far I am not impressed. Have any of you read it? It is by Richard Russo
Nina wrote: "This month's book selection for my book club is "Everybody's Fool," and so far I am not impressed. Have any of you read it? It is by Richard Russo"Nina, I've heard about the book, Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo and I've wondered about it. Russo's book, Nobody's Fool was so good that I'd be afraid of being disappointed. Let us know what you think.
Joy, First of all thanks for posting as I did receive this message as you can see. I didn't read "Nobody's Fool," and I can't remember for sure if I read "Empire Falls," but when one of my book friends recommended this book, "Everybody's Fool," I had doubts as to it's merit being the sequel to a book I hadn't read. She assured me it could stand on it's own. As far as I'm concerned it couldn't. I just didn't like any part of it and wondered why and then read the amazon reviews of it and it seemed no one else liked it either and their complaints were mostly that it didn't hold a candle to the first book, Nobody's Fool and some said the Everybody's book spent too much time explaining what had happened in Nobody's book and none of the character's made sense if you hadn't read it first. So I was certainly not the only one and I am taking it back to the library tomorrow. I believe that you liked Nobody's Fool as all the reviewers I read praised it and wished they hadn't even looked at the Everybody..Guess you should steer clear.
Are you in a blizzard condition? Also here's an update on my son in law's condition. He is still in the hospital but improving and now they are waiting to see if the puncture in the lung enlarges. If so they must put some kind of tube in the lung. We hope this isn't needed. He is so lucky my daughter found him as he could have died before the 911 arrived.
Nina wrote: "Joy, First of all thanks for posting as I did receive this message as you can see. I didn't read "Nobody's Fool," and I can't remember for sure if I read "Empire Falls," but when one of my book fri..."Nina, after reading your post, I definitely WILL steer clear of Everybody's Fool!
Nina wrote: "Are you in a blizzard condition? Also here's an update on my son in law's condition. He is still in the hospital but improving and now they are waiting to see if the puncture in the lung enlarges. ..."Nina, we've had at least a foot of snow and it's still coming down. Our son downstate has had TWO feet of snow! Can't believe it's almost spring!
Hope your son in law will be OK.
Nina wrote: "Linda before tackling my parents memoirs I finished last fall my own memoirs for my descendants and that took me three years to do over one hundred pages of written narrative and then two books wit..."Nina, an immense undertaking. Worth the time and effort since your family appreciated the outcome.
I'm impressed! :)
My husband went out yesterday late afternoon and cleared the snow from our 300 foot driveway and the upper driveway/walkway areas. This morning everything is covered again - like nothing was cleared yesterday. I didn't go to work yesterday due to a sinus headache. Office did close early around 11am. First time ever to close before 3pm!!
Not sure what time I'll get in this morning. Takes a few hours to clear the snow ...
Oh, last night we watched Netflix shows. Made some hot chocolate and home made gluten free raisin cookies! Raisin because we didn't have any chocolate chips.
Nina wrote: "This month's book selection for my book club is "Everybody's Fool," and so far I am not impressed. Have any of you read it? It is by Richard Russo"No, I haven't read this book.
Nina wrote: "Are you in a blizzard condition? Also here's an update on my son in law's condition. He is still in the hospital but improving and now they are waiting to see if the puncture in the lung enlarges. ..."Let's keep our fingers crossed.
Jim wrote: "I did get the cornbeef & cabbage on the way home tonight. Plenty of cabbage, but they only had a few cornbeefs left. I bought the biggest one they had. I LOVE eating it for leftovers in sandwiches...."We ate leftover sandwiches yesterday. Then for dinner, ate the leftover carrots, potatoes and cabbage with Kabasi! Delicious.
Nina wrote: "The one time I had acupuncture I was sick for twenty four hours with flu like symptoms/like miserable. It works for some people I guess but my problem pain in the hip was slightly better and for my..."Relaxes me.
I do understand about having side effects. Years ago, when seeing a chiropractor for pain in lower hip and he wasn't having good results - had his acupuncturist put the needles in my leg. Many needles.
Next morning, I had to call the chiropractor as I had difficulty walking. Went back to the office and don't recall what he had to do - probably hand manipulation.
We called our worker to clear the snow today. I can't believe we have so much snow when spring is around the corner.
Years ago I had Reuben casserole at a friend's home and it was delicious and have no idea if it was this recipe. Decided against buying a corn beef brisket at Aldi's this morning as they were between $11;00 -$14:00 and I just guess I haven't bought one for several years and that goes against my grain to pay that for an ordinary New England dinner.
Nina wrote: "Years ago I had Reuben casserole at a friend's home and it was delicious and have no idea if it was this recipe. Decided against buying a corn beef brisket at Aldi's this morning as they were betwe..."Yes, I found the corn beef seemed higher than usual. Maybe they'll have a sale!
Nina, we had about 30 inches of snow. Probably more than Joy because we are up a mountain.
Hubby and I took the Subaru out for a spin today. First time in snow. Rides well. Very comfortable car. For 3 months we receive Sirius XM radio for free. Listened to some good jazz stations.
Drove to the Village to the Lake (about 2 miles from our house). Lake covered in snow. Pretty.
Jim wrote: "I hope we'll have corned beef & cabbage. While we have one of the former in the freezer, Marg couldn't find either at the store yesterday. I'm going to drop by a different store on my way home toni..."Colin has such beautiful blue eyes!
Joy H. wrote: "Linda wrote: "I'm off on Mondays. Going for an acupuncture session. Many people sleep but I just sort of doze off. Afraid of snoring! Only $20 for an hour. Cold day. Snow is coming. Keep hoping it..."
I find acupuncture very relaxing. Low lit room. Comfy reclining chair and you can ask for a blanket. Seascape type music.
Not sure if it helped my sinuses or not but I certainly was relaxed.
We had a little over a foot of snow altogether, I think. Our driveway has been cleared as well as a space for the dog in the yard.
Thanks, Linda.Nina, I know what you mean about the price of corned beef. It is expensive now, but everything is & I think it gets worse as we age. I bought a can of polyurethane at the hardware store yesterday & the small can was $9! Seemed to me it had been just $3 or $4 a couple of years ago.
It is the sign of the times I guess. But, unlike a steak dinner corned beef and cabbage was considered a cheap dinner in the old days.
Off to work today. Roads are cleared. Looking forward to the weekend when we can take a ride in our new Subaru!
Good luck with your new Subaru, Linda!
Linda, did you sing Jingle Bells as you rode in your new car through the snow. Hard to imagine as we're back into the sixties and seventies and predicting possible eighty by Sunday. Here, I wish it would snow or at least rain.
Happy Saint Patrick's Day to all!What color is your car, Linda?
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