WHATS HAPPENING SATURDAY.

Will it never warm up. That was what we were saying a few weeks ago and sounds like we are saying it some more now. I cant believe how much damage it is going to do before it is over with. I have straw around and on all my tenders and this afternoon I put black plastic pots over that with a rock on top of them to keep them from flying away. I hope all of it is enough. But with temps down into the teens it may not be. Spent all day in the house didn't do a lot of work but was inside anyway lol I did get the kitchen cleaned from top to bottom and 3 pans of 3cheese enchiladas made up. Our niece and boyfriend and two little girls are coming out tomorrow. I am running to town early in the morning and picking up some plastic eggs and some cute little gifts for the 6 year old and a stuffed bunny for the baby. Also have to get my B-12 prescription filled again. I can tell im really needing it. My son who has the part in the play in Branson (The Promise) Is still staying with us until his car gets fixed. The mechanic doesn't seem to be in any big hurry. He is driving our truck back and forth to Branson daily , it is easier than if he was staying at his home. He said he is anxious to get his car back tho and get back home. Which I don't blame him. He said the opening day of the play went off really well. If you haven't seen The Promise in Branson you need to go see it . Wonderful story of the life of Christ. Tammy: Sugar has lost like 30 pounds in a month. Pretty good weight loss I would say. But what a way to do it. She said she is feeling better. I sure hope so. I hate to see her so sick. Yeah the tip about rinseing off the frost before the sun hits it really works unless it is more than frost. If it is frozen it doesn't work lol Girl keep up the good work with the liquid protein diet. You will make it I just know it. Charlotte: This is great that you posted on my daily. I appreciate it. I have climbing roses and clematis planted together on the back fence. They really go well together and intertwined they really make a statement. This is the third year for both of them I hope they don't get frozen out . I really don't know if the clematis will come back and bloom again if they freeze or not. Hopefully we will see. I may be going to buy new ones after this week end. I have way to many of them and they are too big to cover in anyway. Your Dad is a gardener? Or use to be? I don't know if you ever get too old to enjoy flowers but I sure hope not. Janet:So did they call you in to have the epidurals today? I hope you can wait till next week for them and the pain doesn't get too intense. What you doing girl bribing old men and making them get out of bed. LOL. That is so nice of you to watch after him while Melissa and Terry are gone. How is Terry did they get home tonight? I guess they did because I saw on Outlook that Melissa has sent me something. Yeah looks like all the kids will be hunting easter eggs inside Sunday. No way will little ones want to go out in this cold even for easter eggs.Or at least the parents wont. I am going to go get some plastic ones for my nieces little girl in the morning and hide them in the house for her. I have a bunch of little trinkets and toys that I am putting in them. She got her ears pierced last month and I bought her some new earrings to put in one of them. She is only 6 going on 16. What questions kids can ask I bet you get your share of them all the time from that little one of yours don't you? Chante: What a lovely picture. Thanks for putting it up. It makes it so much easier to fix a name with a face . I wish everyone would get one up . I know it isn't easy for some to do but there are people on here that will do it for them if they want. Welcome to my daily post . Hope you come back every day if possible. You know no one likes pictures of yourself but really that is a good picture. Im going to get to bed early tonight I think. I have been tired and sleepy all day today. Joe snored and made racket most of the night last night,. I think the requip that the doctor put me on is working , my legs aren't jumping like they were all the time. LOVE AND JOY AND PEACE ABOUNDS JAN

Good Morning Everyone...... Looks like a cool Easter Sunday for us all..... I hope you all have a great Easter weekend spite the cooler weather!!!!!! I wanted to say !!!!!THANKS!!!!! to everyone that has been cheering me on about my weight loss on the liquid diet....I didn't do it all liquid like they told me too cause it was so darn hard...but this month I am going to get at it a little harder.....I need that other 23lbs off so I can get my date set!!! It is so wonderful how up lifting, thoughtful, caring and thoughtful all of you are on the board!!! It means alot to me!!! Jan.....I hope all your pretty flowers are going to be ok thru all this cooler weather, frost and freezings! I am soooo glad Sugar is doing better....Tell her I said way to go on the 30lbs!!!! I hope she will be back on her feet soon and can put all this behind her.....I know she is going to do great! Janet....How's things going your way???? How's Mel & Terry doing??? Is her hand doing ok??? Is she going to have to see a doctor over it??? The two of you are on my mind all the time....I would love to live closer to you two nuts lol lol lol.....I know yall are a blast together!! Glad to see I'm not a lonely angelet lol lol....Who is that is my sister angelets???? Be cool if we could be doing it at the same time.... Looks like we have had several drop in that has not been on in a bit....Hey Guys it's great to hear from you!!!! I have been trying to keep notes but there is so many newbies lately & so many gearing up for surgery soon that it's hard to keep track of everyone lol lol.... Susan.....We will meet eventually....get ready for a big ole hug girl!!!!!! Well gotta run for now and get my post done....Yall take care and have a great weekend......Hugs and Love .....Tammy H.

Dear Jan and OH Peeps (all my COLD MO FAMILY~) Wow-where do I start-probably by saying I HATE THIS WEATHER and am MORE than ready for summer this year ecspically since I am soooo much colder than ever before. When all the post ops told me how cold I would be-all I could think-is you dont understand-it could be 50 out and I will sweat-well, NOW I know what you all meant, and I sure cant wait for warmth to come and STAY for more than 2 weeks- I sure have been praying for your plants-Jan and all the rest of you. I am so wishing you didnt do all that work for it to be ruined-the only thing I am going to lose are pears and cherries-but its not the first time a late freeze killed them off. My tulips never did bloom-so it wouldnt have made a difference... Yesterday seems like a fog to me. I did NOT get called in for the shot...which is prob a good thing since Aunt Flo hasnt been very nice to me (usually happens for 2 days where I dont want to leave my house) I went to Bobs in the morning and guess what? I was walking up his front stairs-yep....my tennis shoe caught the side of one step and I fell-right across the step-on my right knee...which is the knee I have had all the surgeries on and hurts....so-didnt want to tell Mel and Terry-knew it would stress them out (as it did me-lol) I had a black and blue streak across the top of my knee where I hit the lip of the step. I stayed off it most of the day with the heating pad-so really only felt a little back pain!! I was praying they would get home from Springfield, because I didnt know where I was going to get the strength to go back over-dont get me wrong-I would have....but they called me about 10 minutes before I was going to leave to go over for the evening...Thank you, God...Terry did okay and was able to leave-I was very happy to hear about that!! I was a little disappointed with myself as I forgot to put Mels elephant ears in the garage that she had on the back porch. I made sure the ones hanging in the front yard got put up-and all 3 of us stood on the back porch-do you think I saw them? Holy crap-I sure hope they didnt die. I would feel so awful. So-we had drama between my 2 daughters (sisters and fighting) and then my oldests fiance. When the 3 of them got off work-my husband told them ALL to come over and we were having a talk-every time they work together etc-I get called and they are whining and complaining and we have just had enough. We sat ALL 3 of them down, explained HOW its going to be-and that enough is enough. My oldest is quitting in a little more than a month to move to Columbia-so I am not sure if the younger one will still switch jobs or not. Time will tell-but until then, they are to be strictly professional and not call mom saying she did this, he did that. They left about midnight-and Jon sat up and starting vomitting. He was so sick all night. Think he ate too much yesterday as he is pretty much himself except not eating like he normally does. We went through 5 blankets, 2 pillows and 2 outfits. I was up at 1:30 loading the washer (while I am gagging-yuck) and putting on new bedding etc. Thank goodness when I bought the bunk beds from Mel, they came with the bedding-or I would have run out of blankets last night! My knee feels better today. I am going to have to boil a lot of eggs for the kids to color and get ready for the Easter Bunny-Jon is REALLY into this year-and I hope he stays feeling better so he can enjoy it since he has been waiting for soooo long and is so excited. I am making dinner tomorrow-and hoping I can eat. I havent been doing so hot in that department this week-its been mostly shakes, yogurt and cheese. Not complaining...I am alive and doing much better than last year weight wise-of course, my scale doesnt move when Aunt Flo visits-so dont expect any new numbers until next week sometime. Had to coorespond dinner time as 3 of my kids all have different schedules tomorrow....Yikes. On a brighter note-Mike bought me a new body for my truck and its plain (he paints them from his slot car days) and he told me to pick how I wanted it painted. At first, said I wanted everyone to know a girl owned it-but I am just having decals on the back window that say Bad *ss toys arent just for boys...and told him to do the rest. We got the outline of our track done on the front part of the property-just have to get the hills and dirt done-and then he got his runway done on the back part of the property for his airplane landing-probably will take a bit longer due to this stinkin weather. I had a major WOW moment yesterday, but a little embaressing-I was cold and put on the only pair of sweats I still have (pre-op no less) and my big ol sweatshirt that now goes to my knees...(yay) well-they didnt fall down once-but twice-I could NOT keep them up! I had to retire them...which is okay-and my hubby said he remembered when they were too tight on me-and would make my legs swell around my ankles. I guess its time to take my measurements again as I think I have lost inches. The jeans I got are getting a bit baggy in the butt and thigh area-so I think even with no pounds-I lost inches-am excited to check that out. Tammy Ammy-your fellow angelettes are Krissy B-she is having surgery on 5/2-then I have Chante A-surgery is 5/9-both with Dr. De La Torre (I hope I spelled that right) and I believe both in St. Louis where Sugar went. Then I have you and Susan T-both pending dates of course-but we will get there. When I get my bedroom done (not to brag, but my bedroom is the sz of a garage) so I have decided to re-do the way the furniture is-and I am putting my office in it-with some of those dividers up-and I am going to put my angel calender on the wall etc-and have an area just for my angelettes. I sure hope our Sugar gets to being herself soon. She is on my mind a bunch. Would love to pop over and give her a hug-but sent her one in the mail. I hope she knows how much she is truly loved and prayed for here. Has anyone heard from Sherr or Andrew? I know Julia is home and recovering-I hope that is going smoothly for her-I know she will be back on when she is up to it-but where are Sherr and Andrew? ANYONE? Well, I need to get off here-I need to go and see if I can locate the wheelchair in the Morton building for Terry since the DME place may take a month or more to get his for him-so I know there is one out there-just gotta go try and find it. I pray ALL of you have a wonderful and Blessed Easter-and if you are driving, that you have safe travels. All of you, pre-op and post op and all newbies will be in my prayers. Take care everyone. Love ya, Janet

Howdy~Ho Everyone: Well we made it home last night around 5pm. Got Terry all settled into the house. Unpacked everything went to Wal Greens to pick up his scripts, stopped and got soemthing or supper. Straighten our room and got things ready for Terry in it. Went out to the garage and got his thing for the bed. I dont know what it is called but it fit between the box springs and matteris. And the blankets go over it so they dont lay on his leg. We got it years ago for my great granny and when he broke his foot the first time we got it from g-ma to use for him. He didnt sleep good last night. I dont think anyone in the house did. If Terry wasnt up then Dad was or he was cooking something on the stove. Or burning something is like it. Then this morning he is out side trying to dig up dandlions. Came inside and told Terry & I that he thought he Fran (his deceased wife) was out there with him. FREAKED ME OUT!!!! I was going to run some errands and do something in Joplin today. But I dont think I can now. I dont know what he will do while I am gone. And Terry definaley cant get outside to keep a check on him. Dad has a bad hip and cant hardly move around. He was out there without a coat on at least I go him to put one on. Terry is upset that if something happens he cant do anything. I gave Terry his pain meds so hopefully he will sleep peacefully for a few hours. And I can get dad back inside and mellow out for awhile. Well I just wanted to get on here and say Thanks for all the prayers!!!! I appricate each and everyone of them. Please keep us in your prayers as we really need them here. I hope everyone has a blessed Easter. I am going to try and go to church Sunday we will see how dad is in the morning. God Bless Mel