Happy Monday Family

 Good morning,
I just saw the surgeons and we all agree that my leg looks better. They are reluctant to drain it because of the danger of infection and I am on Coumadin. Hopefully I can get discharged soon. 

I appreciate all the prayers. I believe I would not have improved as much without them. 

Love,
Trish

Good mornin', ya'll.
Trish I sure hope that leg is totally better soon! I know it has been a 'pain'!!
Another day of waking up to frost on everything! So glad there is no snow. Our son will be driving through that as they come home today. They took his truck with the 4 wheeler in the back. The folks they visit up there in WV are way out in the boonies. I don't expect we will see them today, they won't be home til way late. And tomorrow is work and school for them, so the dogs will be here til tomorrow afternoon. I will need to go up to their house today and get some more dry dog food. DIL didn't bring enough. I have plenty of the canned she mixes with it. Someone in the neighborhood has a white cat. It is having a wonderful time baiting these dogs!
Our daughter let me know she is having a Super Bowl party the day after I arrive there. She is choosing the menu from my cookbook and will have bought all the groceries. She says she will help me cook. Even as a little girl, she never helped me cook or bake. Our sons, yes! Her, nope, not interested. My boys can both cook up a storm, she is just beginning! I am so proud of her!
Our 'water guy' comes today. We get 5 gallon bottles for our dispenser. Our son brings his empties down and he gets his delivered here, too. Have to put the dogs out just as soon as I seen him pull up.
Everyone have a fantabulous day!

Grammylew,

your daughter sounds like my daughter.  While she and my son were growing up, she never had an intereste in any domestic chore.  My son, on the other hand, cooked with me and always wanted to create his own dishes from my recipes.  Today, he is quite the cook and my daugther at 33 is just learning.  She will call and say, mama, how do you make brown gravy and I will tell her.  Today, she called and wanted me to tell her how to make homemade biscuits.  I said, use the recipe in the back of the Betty Crocker book (mine from the 60s--my first item in my hope chest) and she says, I did but they taste awful.  So, on the phone, I tell her and I say after she mixes the crisco with the flour, how does the flour look and she says, well, it looks like flour mixed with crisco.  I said, didn't you cut it in…she tossed it started over.  Oh well at least she is now trying.  

And, good for you that your daughter wants to save all of your recipes and skills.  It's always a comforting thought--that having my recipes and techniques and even my old bowls and pots that she and my son have taken, but it is also a little bitter sweet that someday all they will have are my old recipes and pots and bowls.  Geeze. 

I have my Gramma's "fudge pots". That's what she always called them. I remember helping her make panuche and divinity and chocolate fudge in those pots. I also have a couple of her aprons. When I use those items I swear I am channeling Gramma Bea! I hope one of my kids decides they want those things. I regret that I never got Gramma to write down her recipes for those fudges. I think they are the only things I watched her make that she measured stuff. But she made the best fudges in the world!

Good morning all and I hope you all have a good Martin Luther King day.  Today, granddaughter and I are downloading games and stories on her new leappad that we got her for Christmas.  She loves it and it is a remarkable learning toy.  This evening, DH and I are heading over to hear one of my students from a few semesters back.  He is doing a presentation on civil rights and civil disobedience.  He dropped by my office and told me that he is presenting and asked if I would like to come and hear him and of course I always love it when my students, past or present, participate in organizations and are asked to present.  So, I said, sure I would love to.  Then he said, well good cause I am giving you a shout out and you have been given a distinguised place on the front row.  I said, then I need to dress up.  He said, yep, you need to wear one of those really nice pairs of shoes and a fancy outfit.  Great.  Black tie--I hate black tie.  

So, that's most of my day and evening.  Maybe I will drop back in later.  Hope you all have a great day. 

Good morning, my OFF sistas!

Let the countdown begin!  My husband will finally be home in just 48 more hours.  Lots to do between now and then.

Hope you all are having a good Monday.  A good 3 day weekend for some of you, I know. 

Love you all!

 Good morning Trish and everyone...

Trish...glad your leg is getting better!!

I have to go play with Grace....she knows now....it is hard not to cry all the time but I am doing my best. She is pretty cuddly and clingy as I knew she would be. I am making these last few days fun filled as I can.

Thank you all for all the encouragement and caring so much. I love you all!!

Prayers for those in need. Have a great day all you terrific ladies!!

Love and hugs to all....connie d

Hello Trish and all OFF,

      Trish: I'm so glad you knee is looking better.
       Connie: I love you and will pray for you today and for the future as well. 
     
     Not much going on here. So enjoyed the Giant's game. They were the only ones I was cheering for that won. So sorry to see the Saints and Broncos go home.
  
    My emails all disappeared along with my address book. I don't even know where to start. Also I tried to go into my Email through my cox.net. It said that my ID and password are invalid. I put it in three times and know it was corrected.

    Take care and be good to yourself.   Mag

Hi Trish and my OFF family:

Glad your leg is healing and you may be able to go home.

Not much happening here. Did A1 again last night ... a little boring because I sat there with not much to do most of the night waiting for stories. I'm used to being busier. See, there's a designer who lays out the pages and then the editors who edits the stories and writes the headlines. I'm used to doing both. But oh well, it's OK, I get paid regardless.

It's in the 50s today, warmer than the past few days. No holiday for me, back to work again. Talked with my brother Gary on Skype; he seems to think his unemployment has been reinstated. I hope so; he's really worried. I just wish he'd get a job, but at 59, he's at a disadvantage. There is discrimination out there, even though it's not overt. Nobody says, "I'm not going to hire you because you're old," but it happens. He wants a job, he doesn't want to sit around at home all day.

Well, that's all for me. Have a good day.

Good Afternoon Trish and OFF-

Trish glad that you leg appears to be healing and that the surgeons are being cautious about not cutting into it to drain the hematoma.  I'll continue to send you positive vibes.

Connie I'll also be sending you positive vibes that your move goes well.  Happy that you are taking positive steps for your health and well being first.  Grace will be sad but at least she'll have a happy, healthy grandmother to rely upon.

Vickie glad the countdown has begun.  Hope everything works out with Butch's Dubai flight and a short trip to Shreveport to pick him up.

This morning I bailed out of bed, drove for my Rice Krispie appointment and then explored Baytown Texas.  Rice Krispie is my chiropractic appointment as he snaps, krackles and pops me.  It's only been a week but I am noticing improvement already.  I explored Baytown as I was searching for Han**** Fabrics.  The community building here does not have base cabinets in the kitchen.  They asked me to sew some "curtains" to cover under the counter.  They had purchased some fabric but it was just too dull in the opinion of us volunteers so I went searching for new fabric this morning.  Found some stuff at Hobby Lobby that will do and it's in the washing machine for a prewash as I type this.

Later today I'll go to water fitness.  Tomorrow back to work.

Eileen, glad they're letting you do A1 again.  I am so happy that you're in a more pleasant work environment.

So ladies, positive vibes to all of you who need them.  Have a great day everyone.

Cindi