11/04/09 Cookin' Seniors Chat

• Good Morning!!

• Big Birthday hugs to a great gal!! Happy Birthday to our own Cilla!! Have a wonderful day and know we all love you!

• Thought for the Day-Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. –Benjamin Franklin

• Today is National Candy Day. The PMCA, a national association of candy manufacturers, knows nothing about this, so. . . let's also note that this is Good Nutrition Month. The opposing forces battle it out on this day. Feel the strife!

• Special hugs and prayers for Cats, Anne, Sherry and Odell, Betty, Gat and Jeanette, Grace, Cilla, Mabel, Merle and Sally and Colleen.

• And Don’t Forget the basket!! Keep it full of extra hugs and prayers for all that need them!!

• Remember the group prayer! “Heavenly Father, we ask that you watch over and care for all Cookin’ Seniors and those they love as they go about their day!!”

• Waves and hugs to all!!

• Zora

• Boy Oh Boy!! It was like Old Home Day on here yesterday.  Randi, Helen, and Leisa.  Now if we could just get Jeanie, Darlene, Doreen, Sherry, DonnaD, Lois, Lynne, Grace and Sally back we would really be a busy bunch.

• Sandi-Hugs to you and DH!!

• Brenda-How is the headache?

• Cilla-Did you find your Dad’s clothes??

• Helen-LOL I have 3 computers and a 4^th one in the barn that worked when Bob put it out there.   With Bob on the computer as much as he is one is his and then I have my cousin that died computer plus my laptop.

• Randi-Good luck with the dinner and the art show!!

• Tippy-Glad you don’t do it every week but do have others that share the load!!  All this talk about pies has me hungry for mincemeat pies.  Guess I will go the bakery way this time since I can not roll anything with this finger.

• Waves and hugs to all!!

• Zora

Good morning everyone, thanks for the good wishes and prayers for DS MIL she had her op yesterday and will spend a couple days in ITU, then all being well should be home in a week, so please continue to pray for her.

Nancy b sorry to hear your friend is depressed, hope she gets some help with it.

Sandy sending ((HUGS)) to you and Dh.

Cilla happy birthday hope you have a lovely day, did you find dads clothes, this does happen in these homes i know it should not but it does, I have a friend whose dh is in a home and she said his clothes just disappear.

Zora have I said thanks for all you do for each and everyone of us, we would be lost without you.

Happy Birthday, Cilla! Have a wonderful day of celebration! Do you have your father's name in all his clothes? It's especially important if he's in a home where all the laundry is done together, or the girls won't know where to return them.

My logs are finally starting to burn well in the stove. Sometimes there's not enough pull in the sky and they don't burn as well. I'm not sure if you know what I mean. I'm translating an expression my DH uses. I'm sleeping on the couch again with my legs elevated on pillows. Have to work a shift tomorrow so my feet have to behave. There is a lovely warmth coming from the stove. Wood heat is sooooooooo much nicer than natural gas. Don't like the dust it creates (ash), but I guess that comes with it.

Wishing you all a great day!   JP

Cilla, have a wonderful birthday as we all think of you today. 

It is too early to have news yet, but I expect a lazy day as I did a lot (for me) yesterday.  Nancy B

Good Morning Everyone,

Cilla, I'm wishing you a BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!       Hope everything goes smooth for you today and you can really enjoy yourself!   

Good luck with finding your dad's clothes.    The first time Floyd was in the nursing home, I brought alll his clothes home and washed them myself, the next time, I decided they were charging so much money per day, they might just as well do his laundry and a lot of things went missing, never to be found again.  

JP hope your feet are feeling better this morning.    

Sandy, how is your DH today?

We have a new town supervisor today,  the one responsible for us getting our senior center was voted out,  I hope this doesn't effect our Senior Center.    Someone was trying to build a new assisted living center, which we desperately need as there is none around here, the new supervisor was against this, so guess that will not happen now.    

Nothing planned for today, the back yard is filled with leaves again, so that will keep me out of michief, I'll be so glad when they have all fallen and are carted away!!!! 

May you all have a great day,

Mabel 

• Good morning!
• Happy happy Cilla!  Wishing you a day filled with sunshine, friends, family and NO hiccups!
• I'll send hugs and prayers to the rest of you, yesterday was a day that shouldn't have been and today is starting out just the same.  Nothing serious just everything I touch turns to poop instead of gold.  Will be back when I'm fit to live with.
• You are loved!!

groovygrammy:

only problem with a CT depends on how far in I have to go.

This was a "first" for me and they only scanned my head. (wonder if they saw anything,

groovygrammy:

Better to see them on the side of the road with someone else than behind you.

I agree whole heartily.

Good afternoon from a cool & cloudy Indiana, it's only 47 out there, DH still out in the fields, hauling corn........will be glad when it's all done.

A special Happy Birthday to our Cilla........hope you have the best day ever.

Beverly......yes, it's me that makes so much fudge, have 18 lb. in the freezer, that should make quite a few goodie trays........my SIL's love it.  Of course DH has to snitch a few pieces.  Now in the process of making cookies.

Just got finished cleaning our bedrood & have a load of jeans in the dryer, have to do checkbook stuff & get to the bank, will be picking up Jacob also.

Cilla.......had the same thing with the clothes when Mom was in a nursing home, got so tired of them losing things, I finally just started doing the laundry for her.  They managed to break a brand new pair of glasses also........grrrr!

Hope everyone is having a great day.

Pennybrown

Good morning CS -

A Big Happy Birthday, Cilla - hope your day is great!

Zora.....one in the barn?  LOL

Beverly, I surely will let you know how easy it is to adapt to the vision keyboard.  If you want an even more clear picture of it, email me & I'll send you the one my #3 sent to me.  Ienlarged it (with mouse wheel(  to match the size of my keyboard. My addy is on the list Zora sent to us. 

- H -

Loosing things, not keeping mom clean enough etc are just some of the reasons my sisters moved mom from Yuma to Phx. The real underlying problem is that these nursing homes don't want to pay the help what they are worth. The hire minimally educationed people and give them minimun training and put them in charge of other people's lives. The gals in Yuma would come in and speak spanish in front of mom. Yes, mom did speak a little spanish, but how rude! Cilla, you should make an inventory. My sister did when they moved her, and sis filed it with the administrator too. It worked. Nothing was lost.

Oh dear, I just saw a thing on the MSN home page about making it illegal to own more than four cats. Cats and I are in trouble.

Love to all...........................Rosie, "Mamma said there would be days like this.....days like this".

R.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, dear CILLA. Special wishes for a special lady.

ZORA, keep on protecting that owie finger. Soon you'll be tapping the 'puter keys, lickety-split.

MARGARET E, prayers continue for DS's MIL. Things sound good, so far. You had craft night a while ago, I'm getting ready for the one at church on Friday. Most of the young women are working in their scrapbooks. I usually make cards or take some needlework.

JP, I sure wish those tootsies would get completely better. Must be hard when you have to be up and down at work.

NANCY B, one busy day calls for two of rest.

MABEL, praying that new supervisor knows how much the senior activities are needed. How old is he? Just tell him, hey bud, someday you will be in these shoes----think about it.

Sending ROSIE a can of spray paint to change that icky stuff into a shining experience.

BEVERLY, never had a CT or MRI. And, having claustrophobia not anxious to ever need one. Suppose you have to wait for the results, now.

BRENDA, watching "Jethro and Ducky" goes on in this house, too. But, I like all the characters on that show.

PENNY, is the fudge all one kind? Or are there some other flavors besides chocolate? Lucky friends and neighbors you have when the holiday comes around.

HELEN, that's a great keyboard to get----and let us know how well it works for you.

LEISA, no elk here, but we love it. Only a freezer full of venison. In fact, backstrap steaks for dinner, tonight.

CILLA, clothes problem when my mom was in rehab, too. Even tho' I marked everything, the new robes and tops would disappear. I kept an inventory like BEVERLY and got reimbursed for the missing items. Plus, to make sure she was being well taken care of, we visited at different times each day. And, sometimes it was me and sometimes Russell.

Hey, TIPPY, any snow in your neck of the woods? A Grannie in Tigerton had big flakes today. We had rain with a few flakes, but nothing on the ground but moisture.

Did quilting at church this morning, now it's on to Target, Michaels and the food store.

Hugs and prayers for all CS.

Nancy Z.