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I gotta change clocks, too. There's one over the kitchen door that requires jumping through hoops, an executive order and a note from my mother to change so that one never changes! It's just too much trouble.

There's just one that's not digital, mainly decorative, but requires a step ladder to reach. Ugh.

The coffee pot? OMG! An engineering degree needed to get that one changed so that it both shows the time and is auto-set to start coffee in the morning.

The TV and phone are automatic. Yay.

Can we puhleez just stay on standard time forevermore?
 

Georgiagranny said:
@horseless carriage Of course you should post about your social life, your comings and goings, and post pix to go along with it all!
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Thank you for that, and just for you, as you are from Georgia, my wife and I have spent many a happy hour in your State. I had a schoolfriend who went into hospital administration after leaving school/college. She saw a job advert for a post in Savannah, went for it and was hired. Later she met a surgeon who had lost his wife to cancer, she married her surgeon although he was about twenty years her senior.

We couldn't get to their wedding but we have visited them almost every year up until I had a hip replacement about five years ago. They both passed away, within a year of each other, just before the Covid outbreak. We haven't been to the US since, we haven't been to mainland Europe either, too much going on here at home.
 
Georgiagranny said:
I gotta change clocks, too. There's one over the kitchen door that requires jumping through hoops, an executive order and a note from my mother to change so that one never changes! It's just too much trouble.

There's just one that's not digital, mainly decorative, but requires a step ladder to reach. Ugh.

The coffee pot? OMG! An engineering degree needed to get that one changed so that it both shows the time and is auto-set to start coffee in the morning.

The TV and phone are automatic. Yay.

Can we puhleez just stay on standard time forevermore?
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I don't worry about the time unless I have a appointment somewhere. Not often so I set the alarm for those days. Other that that I don't look at the clock. I know your are still out there in the grind of things, and thank you for baking my bread and rolls!!
 

Blessed said:
I love to hear about all the adventures you have and see the pictures as well!!
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katlupe said:
I am not exactly housebound but don't go many places. I really enjoy seeing what you and others are doing. Especially since you are in another country. Keep posting!
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Thank you both, you have made my Sunday, much appreciated. It's felt like a long weekend, I have been doing the house-husbandly chores while my lady has been working in her cabin doing a dress alteration for a dear friend of ours. The dress fabric is organza and it's caused no end of difficulties. A regular supply of hot drinks has done little to help.
 
After virtually a week of lovely Autumnal weather, it's miserable today. Not raining now, but everything is damp and cold. I had planned to run the mower over the grass to lift and mulch the leaves, but they're just a soggy layer on the ground. I'll have to wait till things dry up.
Making a pot of tomato and vege soup for lunch - all homegrown ingredients, and doing a roast chicken with broad beans and potatoes (again from our garden) for dinner.
 
Super wet agin... hasn't stopped raining since Friday ... and more forecast for tomorrow and Tuesday.. this is a picture of one of the vintage cars on it's way to the annual London to Brighton Car Race..

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No plans for me today aside from the usual chores..
 
I decided to do some laundry, shampoo and blue my hair, vacuum and clean up some spots on the carpet. We'll see how much gets done without rushing into anything...

DD and DSIL are supposed to be back tonight. Don't know what time. Sure seems weird for them not to be here. It's not like we're together 24/7 because I live alone in my little hovel and usually only see them in passing except when DD takes me and picks me up from work, but it makes a difference knowing that they're right across the hall.

DGD is home and doesn't drive. So far she's only gone to the Square with a friend on Friday and had a friend over to visit for supper last night. Feel like I should ask her if she wants to go shopping or something just to get out because while she can't drive, I can.

Guess I'll get started on the list...
 
hollydolly said:
Super wet agin... hasn't stopped raining since Friday ... and more forecast for tomorrow and Tuesday.. this is a picture of one of the vintage cars on it's way to the annual London to Brighton Car Race..

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No plans for me today aside from the usual chores..
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Hundreds of vintage car enthusiasts battled driving rain, not to mention quite a few breakdowns, during the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run today. Of the 449 competitors who set out from London's Hyde Park in torrential rain and bitter cold at 8:00 am, 77 cars never made their final destination. But coping with mishaps, technical difficulties and the elements was all part of the fun for those testing the collection of rare and wonderful pre-1905 built vehicles against the 63 mile route.
 
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My son has to work today a half day and since the Marathon is running today, he's coming here after work as he lives on the route and will be blocked from driving home. We will have lunch and go supermarket shopping. It will be fun to have him all to myself!
 
horseless carriage said:
Hundreds of vintage car enthusiasts battled driving rain, not to mention quite a few breakdowns, during the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run today. Of the 449 competitors who set out from London's Hyde Park in torrential rain and bitter cold at 8:00 am, 77 cars never made their final destination. But coping with mishaps, technical difficulties and the elements was all part of the fun for those testing the collection of rare and wonderful pre-1905 built vehicles against the 63 mile route.
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Torrential rain and bitter cold are fun? What's up with that? It's a very strange notion of "fun" but that's JMO...
 
horseless carriage said:
Thank you both, you have made my Sunday, much appreciated. It's felt like a long weekend, I have been doing the house-husbandly chores while my lady has been working in her cabin doing a dress alteration for a dear friend of ours. The dress fabric is organza and it's caused no end of difficulties. A regular supply of hot drinks has done little to help.
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I hope all turned out well with the dress. I haven't made anything in quite a while but I am planning to go through my patterns and make a few things over the winter months. I like the sound of a sewing cabin :)
 
Trish said:
I like the sound of a sewing cabin :)
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It was a gift, I had a carpenter construct and build it. You could say that it's a thank you on behalf of all those she has helped, how she loves it. My good lady spent her working life as a paramedic in the ambulance service. So many times she would go quiet and say: "Just leave me alone for awhile, I will come for a cuddle when I need you." That was her way of saying that she had attended a distressing incident. But it wasn't all bad. You will probably like this.

Coming out of a hospital on one occasion a lady approached my wife and said, "Is your name Christina, but you are known as Tina?" Puzzled my wife said a cautious, "Yes."
"You won't recognise me," the lady said, "my face wasn't the business end when you delivered my baby in the back of the ambulance." "I remember," my wife said, "we had just pulled into the hospital when you went into labour, your baby put in an appearance before we could get you into the hospital."
"This is my baby," the lady said, pointing towards the pushchair. "She's beautiful," my wife said. "Thank you," the mother replied, "her name is Christina to be known as Tina." There were hugs and tears and baby cuddles all round. It took my wife all day to get her feet back on the ground.
 
horseless carriage said:
Our Christmas dance party tickets have arrived, well actually I collected them. Last year they were posted only never to be seen again. We shall gather with our friends on the 22nd of December, dressed, like others, in vintage finery. Following that on the 31st, there will be a New Year's dance party similarly themed.

Finding my way around Senior Forums has been a learning curve, when I read of those who are housebound it makes me wonder about whether to post about our social life. The feelings of others is something I must remember, still being much of a novice on forum etiquette.

There was a time when we filled our calendar with social events, all worked around my wife's shift pattern. Alas age has caught up with us, but we can still dance the less energetic dances, having said that, the jive is irresistible, even though it will be aches and pains the next day, despite the soothing hot bath before going to bed.
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Please continue to post about the things you are doing. That is one of the things I love about SF. Hearing about other's lives and seeing the photos of other places. Love the pictures from England, Australia, etc. as well. Everyone here plays a valuable part and I would hate it if we all became bland and careful.
 
DebraMae said:
Please continue to post about the things you are doing. That is one of the things I love about SF. Hearing about other's lives and seeing the photos of other places. Love the pictures from England, Australia, etc. as well. Everyone here plays a valuable part and I would hate it if we all became bland and careful.
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We have to be a little bit careful because there are Rules to the forum... and no one wants to fall foul of those.. however I totally agree with you. ..and @horseless carriage is one of our very nicest posters, always a complete Gentleman...
 
It was daylight at 7 am! Yaaaaaay!

Congratulate me. Clocks changed, even the one on the coffee pot. Bed made. Litter box cleaned. Hair shampooed. Gonna dry my hair and blue it, then start on laundry and haul out the vacuum.

Don't want to plan too far in advance of the above...
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Bland? Who me?
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Certainly not you, HC! You are what's referred to as dapper!
 

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