FINALLY  got back, it's been a busy week !

CAROL love the quilts, so pretty and they will be well loved THANK YOU

So much happened last week, I read but don't have time to comment separately. I hope you are all doing well
And those who are unwell get better soon ((((hugs))))

I have been sewing, 2 full days, then out for dinner a lot, YIKES no idea where my week went.

It's cold, but slightly warmer today, Julie has come back safely - they flew Qatar Air and could have been caught up in the flight disruptions, but luckily the services resumed a couple days before they were leaving. 

I didn't know travel insurance doesn't cover acts of war, YIKES!! Must have cost some people quite a lot of money. 

I was sorry to hear about the death of Julian McMahon, he was young, 56!

SANDRA hope the appointment goes well next week.

Better get moving, I have dinner with Sarah tonight, hopefully W will get home in time, Pete will come and her son Jack, he's only 16, and possibly Georgie (from our sewing group)  and her husband will also come, will be an early dinner everyone (except us LOL ) has work tomorrow

I’ll never travel without a travel agent and travel insurance. We were on day 2 of an Alaska cruise when Joseph died. Called my travel agent, who booked our flights home and handled the travel insurance. I gave her a generous gift card when we got back, she went above and beyond.

Texas Roadhouse for lunch with F and C today. 

I took a 7 lb turkey breast out of the freezer yesterday, figure Wednesday or Thursday to make it in the crockpot. 

Finished the last of this batch of table runners, and divided up a charm pack for coasters. Now I have to figure out how to put the accufeed on! 

Tomorrow at 10 I have a mammogram, then post office, library and maybe lunch.

My a/c isn't working. I have called and left two messages. I'm going to leave a 3rd one when I get off here. It's 79 in here now, but it's going to be 92 today. It's not bad if you're sitting under the ceiling fan.

I finally bought a "new to me" car. It's 14 years newer than what I have. It's a 2021 Honda CRV Touring. It has more miles on it than I wanted, 89k, but I don't drive that much to put a lot of miles on it. The good thing is I have $8k left that I didn't spend, so that will be saved to go toward flooring. We looked for a long time for a Toyota Venza, but they were too expensive. Greg wanted to fly to Florida to get one and I told him no way was he doing that. It's white and tan interior, the colors I wanted.

I left my Highlander at Greg's house and he is changing the spark plugs and the coils, vacuumed and cleaned the interior. He's also taking it to Costco to get the tires rotated and balanced. My low pressure light won't go out. I want to sell it asap because I have no place to park it. 

I was able to pick my big yellow bell pepper this morning. I checked it every day to make sure no worms were on the plant. This is the biggest one I've ever grown.





 

Last edited by DownSouth (7/06/2025 10:03 am)

TWO-HEADED HEADLINE...
SMOKERS ARE PRODUCTIVE, BUT DEATH CUTS EFFICIENCY.

ITS 90 HERE RIGHT NOW.  I AM GLAD TO STAY INDOORS TODAY.

I DID MY LAPS AND WORKED THE JIGSAW FOR AN HOUR.  ITS MY DAY OF REST BUT I HAVE A SAUCY BEEF NOODLE CASSY IN THE OVEN.  ITS WORKING OUT WELL.  MY SON WILL SHOP FOR ME TOMORROW SO HE CAN HAVE SOME FOR LUNCH AND TO TAKE HOME.  I WILL ALSO SHARE WITH A COUPLE OF FOLKS HERE.  MICHELLE GAVE ME A LOVELY CENTER CUT PORK CHOP YESTERDAY WHICH I CAN BAKE TOMORROW FOR A CHANGE OF PACE. 

DEVONNE......HOORAY FOR YOU THAT YOU GOT YOUR CAR.  IT SHOULD LAST YOU FOR YEARS.  GOOD, TOO, THAT YOU HAVE MONEY LEFT OVER FOR FLOORS. I HOPE YOU SELL YOUR OLD ONE FOR A GOOD PRICE AND QUICKLY.
NICE PEPPER.  ENJOY YOUR GARDEN.
I HOPE YOUR AIR GETS WORKING SOON. 

JANET......ITS NICE TO KNOW YOU SAVED THE FROG AND LET HIM GO FREE.

BJ.....I HAVE A BUSY WEEK, TOO.  MONDAY MY SON SHOPS.  TUESDAY I MEET ABOUT MY NEW LEASE AND BRING MY MEDICAL BILLS SO THEY CAN GIVE ME A LOWER RENT THAN NORMAL, AND THEN ON WED. I SEE MY HEART DR.   WE OLD GALS JUST KEEP ON TRUCKING.

THAT'S IT LADIES.  SLOW DAY.  I WILL WATCH TV FOR THE AFTERNOON AFTER I DELIVER SOME CASSY HERE.  I STILL HAVE LOTS OF DRY GOODS AND CANNED GOODS STORED SO CAN KEEP MAKING THE BIG CASSEROLES FOR AWHILE YET.

HUGS FOR YOU ALL.  QB S 

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Prayers needed.  Catastrophic flooding in the Texas Hill Country has killed at least 68 people with dozens more missing.  The Hill Country is west of San Antonio, about 200 miles from Houston. Many of the missing are young girls who were attending a camp.  The Guadalupe Rive rose 26 feet in 45 minutes during the night.  So many were asleep and couldn't be evacuated in time.  Nearly 1,000 have been rescued.  Please pray for the rescue teams and the families.  It's truly heartbreaking. 

I've had such difficulties reaching this site, and when i funally did and logged on, i got booted out right away!  I'm sure it's due to connectivity issues in my area.

Carol, Texas has been in my prayers, and will remain there! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Such devastation! Such a tragedy!  My heart goes out to all those who lost loved ones, as well as those who lost their lives!  How scared they must have been!  It's truly heartbreaking!

I better run for now, but you all remain in my thoughts and prayers.

The contractor finished with his party of the deck, and hubby is doing the rails to match our front porch.  It is going to be beautiful!  Well, it is beautiful already, but it will be great to have the rails done!  It's a large deck, and I stay away from the edges and the stairs! 😄  Th

CAROL such a terrible thing to happen I am so so sorry, the prayers of many here in Oz are with you ((((hugs))))

DEVONNE great news for you! Sounds like a great deal, enjoy your 'new' car !

SANDRA a lovely meal for you and your boy to enjoy, I had a yum dinner of tuna/pasta, made with sour cream, it was delish, and plenty for another day.

INDY sounds like a good time with the family, so good to hear that Andrew is doing so well.

JANET hope you are feeling better now (((hugs)))

STRINGS good to see you visiting us, it does take a while to catch up!

I had yoga today, also the bank, that was fun, I wanted to make our major credit card into a proper joint one, instead of him as the primary card holder and me as the extra - NOPE, so applied for one of mine attached to the accounts, a snooty little 25 yr old male gave me a lecture on password sharing with my husband, and NOT being able to access his account, so I politely said I would not access it on my phone ( I omitted to tell him it's on the iPad LOL ) and also told him that as my husband was  more prone to be caught on a scam that it was up to the bank to make sure their servers were protected, as I would not be able to do all his banking any more, honestly, we have been married for over 50 yrs, and the banking/finances are always done by me, I wanted to point out to him that one of his parents may be better suited to banking and technology, and would most likely share their passwords - without telling him - but I kept my mouth shut and got the credit card LOL  !!!

Got my mammogram done. Appointment was 9:55, by 10:30 we were at the library! When you come in using a cane or walker, they now have you sit for the procedure, which was great. 

Diane is married over 50, so much older than I thought she was. 

The lives lost in Texas put me in a rage, for obvious reasons. 

Today is Steph’s birthday, my baby is 42! Yikes! It’s also their anniversary, I think 11 years. 

We stopped at the local deli and got cold cuts, and had sandwiches when we got home. Quick and easy on a hot day. 

Please pray for Molly. I can't stop crying. She hasn't been out of my bedroom all day and she has never done that. She's been on her mat all day. She drinks water 7-8 times a day and she hasn't been to her water bowl in the kitchen. She's only been outside once for nature call. I'm taking her water to the bedroom to see if she will drink.

She's the sweetest little girl you could ever ask for. I'm just heartbroken and hope she is better tomorrow. 



 

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DEVONNE I am so sorry to hear about Molly, I know how much you love her, they invade our hearts, Hope she is better in the morning, but Cushings sometimes hits them fast ((((hugs)))
Prayers and love for you.

Such awful flooding in Texas, we had similar recently, the water came from nowhere and rose so fast, warnings were there but too late it was so quick arriving and the rain was relentless. We were lucky with not much loss of human life, but livestock was washed away, they couldn't get them to high ground quick enough.

SANDRA hope you had a nice visit with Matt, and heard about his latest trip! So good to hear you can have someone do the heavier chores. 

Holly have you done any quilting on the long arm, or just happy playing with the new machine, I have been making blocks, now the quilt is finished and with Julie I have time to catch up. 

I had training this morning, it was so cold the metal weights were hurting my hands, one of the girls told me about some cheap yoga gloves, so got them today while I was out AND ran into Chalon and Chloe, they were getting some lunch and I was getting Chinese take away to have tonight. I've been worried about her, we heard from another teacher that she was having a separation from her husband, I think it's more of a time out, she didn't say anything today, and I hope they will reconcile their differences. Gary hasn't said anything either, so it's not official, he always tells me everything with the girls.

I also had my nails done and (probably stupidly) had my eyebrows plucked and coloured, they are  a bit red tonight, she did it with 'threading', they roll thin threads and pull the hair out, actually less painful than waxing, so that wasn't it, I think it's the dye. Serves me right LOL 

Megan is away with friends, they are having a girls couple days, only 1 1/2  hours from home in a lovely beach house.
Their new caravan is ready this week, still haven't sold the other, but someone is coming on the weekend, fingers crossed.