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Okay, I give up, I'm 84 yrs old, and got no business doing
some things, including trying to put a toilet riser and new
toilet seat on it today, barely had the stamina to get the arms
put on the riser and the new seat out of the damn box....gawd
I hate being so helpless...will have to get someone to do the
rest durn it,..........:cry:😫
 
hawkdon said:
Okay, I give up, I'm 84 yrs old, and got no business doing
some things, including trying to put a toilet riser and new
toilet seat on it today, barely had the stamina to get the arms
put on the riser and the new seat out of the damn box....gawd
I hate being so helpless...will have to get someone to do the
rest durn it,..........:cry:😫
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Don't feel so bad Don. You still have a lot of Moxie! 🌹
 

hollydolly said:
did you know that there's a Portsmouth , Hampshire ( not new)... here in the South of England... nowhere near as pretty as NH US. I have no doubt ... but our Portsmouth is a Naval City..
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So is Portsmouth, NH…. Well, kind of.. they have a shipyard there where the ships/ submarines get overhauled. We lived there for 1.5 yrs in the early 80’s while in the Navy.
 
Well I've just hung the big pictures that I framed yesterday.
It's not easy here.. My walls are solid brick, masonry walls.. so I have to have hooks that will go into the solid concrete and brick... but I also have one hollow cavity wall.. and it's the wall we built to separate 2 rooms, and until recently that wall has always been bare of pictures instead it held lightweight things ( Easter Bonnets) stuck on with Command strips.

Anyway, I decided I wanted one of the pictures to go on that wall.. so I've just spent a bit of a time searching out suitable fixings from the Barn, and then hammering them in. This wasn't as straightforward as it sounds because the wall is behind the bed-head, the bed cannot be moved out of the way , so it meant precariously standing on the mattress with a claw hammer and fixings, , and praying it wouldn't throw me off , like it did 4 years ago, and broke my collar bone... so to say I was nervous is putting it mildly..

Anyway...It's done, and I hope it stays up there.. it looks good anyway... :D🥰
 
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So is Portsmouth, NH…. Well, kind of.. they have a shipyard there where the ships/ submarines get overhauled. We lived there for 1.5 yrs in the early 80’s while in the Navy.
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what a co-incidence.. we were there in the Navy in the mid- 70's..:D It was the first home we had when we got married and lived on the peninsula opposite Portsmouth city.. where the majority of naval Married Quarters were situated. To get to Portsmouth we would take the Ferry.. a 20 minute trip

Portsmouth is also a Historical dockyard and among others has Horatio Nelsons' Famous ship HMS Victory permanently docked there as a Tourist attraction

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I woke this morning at about 5 am and discovered a bloke in my garden:eek:

The odd thing is he was wearing one football boot on one foot ...a cricket pad on the other leg, a boxing glove on one hand... and holding a tennis racket in the other.., Very strange :oops:

.... so I yelled at him Oi , You.... what's your F 'in game. ??












:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
hollydolly said:
I woke this morning at about 5 am and discovered a bloke in my garden:eek:

The odd thing is he was wearing one football boot on one foot ...a cricket pad on the other leg, a boxing glove on one hand... and holding a tennis racket in the other.., Very strange :oops:

.... so I yelled at him Oi , You.... what's your F 'in game. ??
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Sounds like an opening scene in Shaun of the Dead.
 
hawkdon said:
Okay, I give up, I'm 84 yrs old, and got no business doing
some things, including trying to put a toilet riser and new
toilet seat on it today, barely had the stamina to get the arms
put on the riser and the new seat out of the damn box....gawd
I hate being so helpless...will have to get someone to do the
rest durn it,..........:cry:😫
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If you could see all the things I can't do you wouldn't feel so bad. I am helpless at times:):ROFLMAO:
 
TGS went home last night so it's just DH & me today. I ran into an old chum a few weeks ago and she invited me to a week-after-Mother's-Day luncheon at the church I used to attend. I haven't seen some of these women in a very long time - five to ten years, some longer than that.

She told me not to bother bringing anything because there'll be plenty of food, but even in her grave Mom would be aghast if one of her children arrived at this type of event empty-handed. Biscotti is finishing off now in the oven.

Apparently a lot of women will be sporting fancy spring hats, but other than baseball caps, a few visors, and a couple of decidedly plain straw sunhats, I'm a hatless creature. Heck, I rarely wear the ones I own. Never got into the habit.
 
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hawkdon said:
what is moxie??? btw, got a freiend coming by to finish
the job...!!!;)
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@hawkdon , "moxie" was an old time euphemism for nerve, or courage. It came from an old fashioned carbonated drink called Moxie, that tasted so awful, you had to have a lot of courage to drink it. I tasted it as a child... horrible stuff.

Moxie is a brand of carbonated beverage that is among the first mass-produced soft drinks in the United States. It was created around 1876 by Augustin Thompson as a patent medicine called "Moxie Nerve Food"[2] and was produced in Lowell, Massachusetts.[3] The sweet soda is similar to root beer, but with a bitter aftertaste.[4] It is flavored with gentian root extract, an extremely bitter substance commonly used in herbal medicine.

It continues to be regionally popular today, particularly in New England states.[6] It was previously produced by the Moxie Beverage Company of Bedford, New Hampshire, until Moxie was purchased by The Coca-Cola Company in 2018.

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@RadishRose, I never knew that's where the word "moxie" originated. Had figured it for Yiddish because it's used so much more in the Northeast US than in CA, which also true of Yiddish. Both "moxie" and Yiddish are far more part of the general Northeast vernacular (regardless of the religion of the person speaking).
 

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