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Georgiagranny said:
@hollydolly Yes. You'll be 70, but I'm still old enough to have been your babysitter.

@hawkdon, this morning I'll have three link sausages, hash browns, two eggs scrambled with green chilies and cheese and biscuits and sausage gravy. If you'll cook it, I'll come over and clean up the kitchen.

Showered, tidied up, made bed, etc... Now what?
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I understand Gigi...but it doesn't make me young...
 

hollydolly said:
Sorry Trila.. I hate to say this about my fellow countryman, but he was very annoying.. what the heck was he laughing at..must have been a private joke between him and someone else.. either that or he's a 5 year old in mans' clothing...

Anyway good you're in a good mood now..lol
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Don't forget....I was still half asleep! 😅
 

Pepper said:
I'm old enough that I could have walked, without parental supervision, @hollydolly to kindergarten, if she had been lucky enough to be the baby sister/brother my mother promised me and never delivered, no pun intended.
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there's a lot of people on here much younger than me...I wish I was them...

I joined this forum when I was in my 50's..incredible how fast this time has gone..

BTW pepper.I aways had to walk myself to school even from a tiny tot... even in the depth of winter.. and then I'd have to take my younger siblings to school... never once apart from the first day of registration ..did my parents ever take me to school...
 
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Dreary day here for Wednesday, February 12, Abraham Lincoln's birthday. Talk about an admirable US President with a strong moral plumb line. ❤️

Rain off and on today - mostly off - with a fairly heavy storm arriving around midnight and continuing through Friday morning. Hoping the burn areas won't be hit too hard, but suspecting they will.

Book club tonight for me. About six of us spend the evening talking about books, movies, and all manner of other things while eating dinner together. It's always an enjoyable evening.

Hope everyone has a great day.
 
hollydolly said:
Do you get the chice to pay at the kiosk?..I almost always do now, for that very reason above ..I hate paying at pump, because it very rarely reads the loyalty card ..so I just take into the shop
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That's an option.

However: (a.) you have to prepay some guess and drive off without a full tank or go back to get change, (b.) it was 5 AM and I was dressed like a hobo because I just wanted to run out quickly to do this before the snow began and then go back to bed. Weird night, awakened by a phone call.

Dumb thing is, many hours later the snow hasn't even begun.
 
A trip to the convenience store this morning, a few provisions that we are getting low on. I should have made a note on the shopping list but my wife will only know that I forgot if she reads this post. There are any number of convenience stores open at six am, our cupboard was restocked before the lady awoke. Treating her to breakfast in bed rewarded me with a smile as bright as the morning sunrise.

Finished my own breakfast, showered, shaved, dressed and had the car out of the garage, all in under forty minutes. We were off to Salisbury today. Salisbury is a medieval cathedral city in the southern English county of Wiltshire. It’s 9 miles south of the iconic prehistoric stone circle at Stonehenge, which stands on the grassland of Salisbury Plain.

The city’s ornate 13th-century cathedral has a spire that's a couple of feet over 400 foot high. It has a working, 14th-century clock, and an original copy of the Magna Carta, known as the Great Charter, a key document from 1215 A.D. Magna Carta was issued in June 1215 and was the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law. It sought to prevent the king from exploiting his power, and placed limits of royal authority by establishing law as a power in itself.

We were there to visit Franklins.
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It's my wife's favourite store. The lady needs notions, that's a collective noun in dressmaking terms, meaning needles thread and the myriad of things that dressmakers need. I dropped her off at the shop and then went to park the car. Don't you just hate those convoluted, pay at the machine, contraptions? They are never easy to understand, a degree in quantum physics might help, but for your's truly it's the profanities that get me through once more.

When we finally got out of Franklins I took her for coffee and some fondant fancy. Whilst enjoying our hot drink she showed me the pattern that she had bought, along with all the other odds and ends. Then she told me the price of said pattern.
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£18:50 What! I nearly choked on my coffee. That's about $22:40 in Uncle Sam's Shekels. Ah well as the lady contributes fifty percent of our monthly income who am I to argue. We arrived home as darkness fell. The cottage pie from yesterday was on the menu again. It's been a busy day.
 
Lizzie00 said:
I just started cutting back my liriope also. I don’t have a back problem but standing & leaning over far enough to cut from the bottom with a hedge trimmer takes a toll. I’m about over it lol. I used to sit on the ground & trim them back with a handheld manual clipper as i scooted along on the ground. It just takes so long to do them that way since i’ve got sooo many of them & they grow so large here in the south.

Do you use a power trimmer of some sort to cut yours back?
(What i’m really hoping of course is that you’ve figured out a quick & easy way to handle this chore & that you’ll make my day & tell me alllll about it.)😉
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Liriope is pretty but it does need to be cut back every year. I have a Sun Joe cordless grass trimmer (see Amazon). It is so easy after years of using hand clippers. I have area large enough that I use the weed trimmer on that.
 
Jules said:
Since there was discussion about hair today I’ll relate my uninteresting tale (bad pun). When I was trying on clothes at the store, every time I pulled a shirt over my head my hair stood on end. The static electricity was uncontrollable. Nothing helped. The only good thing was that the stores weren’t busy and I didn’t run into anyone I knew.
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Wet your hands and pass them over your hair. Or carry a dryer paper.
 
horseless carriage said:
A trip to the convenience store this morning, a few provisions that we are getting low on. I should have made a note on the shopping list but my wife will only know that I forgot if she reads this post. There are any number of convenience stores open at six am, our cupboard was restocked before the lady awoke. Treating her to breakfast in bed rewarded me with a smile as bright as the morning sunrise.

Finished my own breakfast, showered, shaved, dressed and had the car out of the garage, all in under forty minutes. We were off to Salisbury today. Salisbury is a medieval cathedral city in the southern English county of Wiltshire. It’s 9 miles south of the iconic prehistoric stone circle at Stonehenge, which stands on the grassland of Salisbury Plain.

The city’s ornate 13th-century cathedral has a spire that's a couple of feet over 400 foot high. It has a working, 14th-century clock, and an original copy of the Magna Carta, known as the Great Charter, a key document from 1215 A.D. Magna Carta was issued in June 1215 and was the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law. It sought to prevent the king from exploiting his power, and placed limits of royal authority by establishing law as a power in itself.

We were there to visit Franklins.
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It's my wife's favourite store. The lady needs notions, that's a collective noun in dressmaking terms, meaning needles thread and the myriad of things that dressmakers need. I dropped her off at the shop and then went to park the car. Don't you just hate those convoluted, pay at the machine, contraptions? They are never easy to understand, a degree in quantum physics might help, but for your's truly it's the profanities that get me through once more.

When we finally got out of Franklins I took her for coffee and some fondant fancy. Whilst enjoying our hot drink she showed me the pattern that she had bought, along with all the other odds and ends. Then she told me the price of said pattern.
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£18:50 What! I nearly choked on my coffee. That's about $22:40 in Uncle Sam's Shekels. Ah well as the lady contributes fifty percent of our monthly income who am I to argue. We arrived home as darkness fell. The cottage pie from yesterday was on the menu again. It's been a busy day.
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£18.50 for a pattern..OMG !!:eek:
 
horseless carriage said:
A trip to the convenience store this morning, a few provisions that we are getting low on. I should have made a note on the shopping list but my wife will only know that I forgot if she reads this post. There are any number of convenience stores open at six am, our cupboard was restocked before the lady awoke. Treating her to breakfast in bed rewarded me with a smile as bright as the morning sunrise.

Finished my own breakfast, showered, shaved, dressed and had the car out of the garage, all in under forty minutes. We were off to Salisbury today. Salisbury is a medieval cathedral city in the southern English county of Wiltshire. It’s 9 miles south of the iconic prehistoric stone circle at Stonehenge, which stands on the grassland of Salisbury Plain.

The city’s ornate 13th-century cathedral has a spire that's a couple of feet over 400 foot high. It has a working, 14th-century clock, and an original copy of the Magna Carta, known as the Great Charter, a key document from 1215 A.D. Magna Carta was issued in June 1215 and was the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law. It sought to prevent the king from exploiting his power, and placed limits of royal authority by establishing law as a power in itself.

We were there to visit Franklins.
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It's my wife's favourite store. The lady needs notions, that's a collective noun in dressmaking terms, meaning needles thread and the myriad of things that dressmakers need. I dropped her off at the shop and then went to park the car. Don't you just hate those convoluted, pay at the machine, contraptions? They are never easy to understand, a degree in quantum physics might help, but for your's truly it's the profanities that get me through once more.

When we finally got out of Franklins I took her for coffee and some fondant fancy. Whilst enjoying our hot drink she showed me the pattern that she had bought, along with all the other odds and ends. Then she told me the price of said pattern.
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£18:50 What! I nearly choked on my coffee. That's about $22:40 in Uncle Sam's Shekels. Ah well as the lady contributes fifty percent of our monthly income who am I to argue. We arrived home as darkness fell. The cottage pie from yesterday was on the menu again. It's been a busy day.
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I love that pattern! I would wear that for a special occasion.
 
horseless carriage said:
A trip to the convenience store this morning, a few provisions that we are getting low on. I should have made a note on the shopping list but my wife will only know that I forgot if she reads this post. There are any number of convenience stores open at six am, our cupboard was restocked before the lady awoke. Treating her to breakfast in bed rewarded me with a smile as bright as the morning sunrise.

Finished my own breakfast, showered, shaved, dressed and had the car out of the garage, all in under forty minutes. We were off to Salisbury today. Salisbury is a medieval cathedral city in the southern English county of Wiltshire. It’s 9 miles south of the iconic prehistoric stone circle at Stonehenge, which stands on the grassland of Salisbury Plain.

The city’s ornate 13th-century cathedral has a spire that's a couple of feet over 400 foot high. It has a working, 14th-century clock, and an original copy of the Magna Carta, known as the Great Charter, a key document from 1215 A.D. Magna Carta was issued in June 1215 and was the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law. It sought to prevent the king from exploiting his power, and placed limits of royal authority by establishing law as a power in itself.

We were there to visit Franklins.
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It's my wife's favourite store. The lady needs notions, that's a collective noun in dressmaking terms, meaning needles thread and the myriad of things that dressmakers need. I dropped her off at the shop and then went to park the car. Don't you just hate those convoluted, pay at the machine, contraptions? They are never easy to understand, a degree in quantum physics might help, but for your's truly it's the profanities that get me through once more.

When we finally got out of Franklins I took her for coffee and some fondant fancy. Whilst enjoying our hot drink she showed me the pattern that she had bought, along with all the other odds and ends. Then she told me the price of said pattern.
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£18:50 What! I nearly choked on my coffee. That's about $22:40 in Uncle Sam's Shekels. Ah well as the lady contributes fifty percent of our monthly income who am I to argue. We arrived home as darkness fell. The cottage pie from yesterday was on the menu again. It's been a busy day.
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I like that pattern. I seldom make clothes for myself but, would be tempted to make that. Paper patterns are expensive now especially as a lot of patterns are .pdf only and you have to have them printed off. You can, of course, print them at home but it's a hassle setting everything up.

I always think it is the preparation and the small things which take the time rather than the actual sewing.
 
hollydolly said:
£18.50 for a pattern..OMG !!:eek:
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My wife simply said that Vogue patterns are expensive. Later, a brief check online, I found Vogue patterns on sale in a New York store priced around the twenty to twenty-five dollar mark. That's more or less the UK price. To my thinking it doesn't justify the cost, but my wife is happy to pay so as I said, the lady contributes half our income, I don't begrudge her. Vogue though are corporate charlatans.
 
horseless carriage said:
My wife simply said that Vogue patterns are expensive. Later, a brief check online, I found Vogue patterns on sale in a New York store priced around the twenty to twenty-five dollar mark. That's more or less the UK price. To my thinking it doesn't justify the cost, but my wife is happy to pay so as I said, the lady contributes half our income, I don't begrudge her. Vogue though are corporate charlatans.
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I agree entirely HC... however this is Mrs HC's very talented hobby, so as you say, let her enjoy.....
 
The noisy fans that have buffeted my ears for 10 days (since a pipe broke in the condo next door and soaked some of my place) are finally gone, and the drywall passed the moisture reader score (the carpet had already passed last week).

All the work of putting things back in their places wore me out, but the silver lining of the water intrusion event is that my bedroom closet is now all organized and tidy, and the heavy items (desk, bed) in the bedroom have sliders under their feet, so if I get the urge to rearrange furniture I can. I suppose it also gets rid of my excuse not to vacuum under or behind furniture, darn it all.
 
Well, today it's been cold. No new snow, but the hi-lo thermometer displayed a low, for the last 24 hours, of -20C (-4F). True, we are in a fairly warm region of Canada.

I've stayed mostly indoors, except to get firewood from the shed and to chase a tom-turkey. It's not good for turkeys to get accustomed to being inside our fencing, as they will eat young plants in our gardens in spring. Neighbors came by briefly, wearing cleats (yak-tracks) attached to their shoes... walking on some icy sections on the road coming to our place.

Other than that, I was on the phone working out details of our river conservation/restoration group's revised financial accounting.

Tonight we'll be having pizza for supper, actually the second half of a large pizza I made yesterday.

Keep well & happy everyone.☺️
 

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