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Morning everybody. I just love pictures of churches and falls. Have a happy hump day!

Morning All.

Mornin', glad to see I'm not up alone.

Hello summerday!

This is two link from Suomi;

http://www.domnik.net/helsinki/en/

http://www.domnik.net/helsinki/seaid/

Heck no Margaret, I'm always here. Call any time!

Lorelei: Didn't see your post until late last night, so thought I'd better wait until today to respond. My husband just mentioned yesterday how he'd like to be UP for the Aura Jamboree. We've missed the last couple due to weddings. Did you know we used to make the bean soup there? Got to be too much work hauling the bean pot up in the back of our minivan for a short weekend. Then Gary had to start the soup at about 5:30 a.m. He always said that if anyone found a beanpot (55 gal.) up there that could be left up there, he'd do it again. I'll let you know closer to the date if we are going.

Marsha,
The bean soup has been one of the highlights of the whole jamboree for our family. That is the first thing we do when we get there, after we find a shade tree to play under. Small world. Hope to see you there.

It is a foggy day here in the CC. It is supposed to burn off as the day gets older. Have a great day everyone.

Morning All.
-Lorelei- Just looked at the Bridge Cam and Holy Wah is it ever FOGGY. Careful driving around the CC this AM!!! Enjoy the day everyone.

You said a mouthful Randall, there were no cars passing others on the road this morning. We were all single file and in no hurry.

Good Morning all,
Sorry I haven't posted in a while but I have been watching. My brothers wife, Judy passed only after 4 days of being sick. I must tell of the great thing they did for me. On my 50th birthday, I came home from work and there were 50 pink flamingos in the front yard, Also a big sign, "She's Fifty" What a HOOT!!! I will never forget her and of course my brother Gar who is a VERY SPECIAL BROTHER. Everyone have a good week.

Ilovelucy2, I'm so sorry for your loss. We'll all be thinking about you here on your website of friends. Happy Birthday by the way. What a great gift. You take good care of them now.

Sympathy to you, Ilovelucy2. It is so hard when a young one dies. Tomorrow I go to a funeral of a good friend who was a young 58. It's the price of getting older, I guess, we lose more and more people. But I have a really hard time with losing the young ones.

This must be the day for finding out about people dying, just recieved an e-mail from a friend that the son of one of my friends died and will be laid out tomorrow. He was in his early thirties. I love Lucy2 sorry about your sisrer in law. Hope everyone is doing well, the roofers are roofing and making a lot of noise. Jimmie the fat white cat is rubbing my legs and it is overcast in Berkley. Orders today are to clean the kitchen and put a bed in the lavender/lylock room. Just had a fried hot dog [Omaha Steak] and baked beans. Am trying to impress by saying we have [Omaha Steak hotdogs] don't know how much they are but I thing they are expensive. I don't know about the rest of you but the landscaping in the front yard has grown so much in the last week with the rain that I will have to trim it today also. Oh how hard it is to be retired.

Good morning everyone :)

ILoveLucy2, Great to see you back with us. Sorry to hear that your sister-in-law passed away.
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Maija, Sorry to hear of the passing of your friend. I will admit that is one of my fears as I get older...losing my friends.
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maija,May I offer my sympathy in the passing of your friend.

sorry for your loses everyone. That's what friends are for, support and being there. Death is part of life but when it hits close, we support the survivors.God bless all the families.

My sympathies to all that have lost loved ones recently. Don't really know which is worse, having someone die so suddenly or watching someone you love die a terminal death? Both are heartbreaking. It definitely is good to know that people are there for you. It must be awful for people who are elderly to see all of their friends gone before them. I know my inlaws in their 80's are going through that. All they have is their memories of them.
There's a nice breeze nice today. Kind of cloudy. Hubby is cutting the grass AGAIN. Needs cutting almost every two days. Oh well,he loves being outdoors. He's not a Mikie, won't make dinner or do housework.

Hey folks, this was to be just the hump day in summer school, but gosh, hugs all around folks. Hope all is on healing those heart aches and please know someone here in TX is thinking about you.

My grandaughter Meghan is now taking horse back riding, and the instructor said she is a natural, I am the richest man in the world with kids, and grandkids as my wealth. She can post with only being told how to do it. I don't know what post means but it must be good since I was called to be told about it. She is nine. My grandson Jake is playing tee ball with one boy and the rest girls on his team,the two boys spend the game being intense ball players while the girls are doing somersaults in out field and picking dandelions. We never had a real ball game since there were so few kids our age to play sometimes only two or three on each team, and we had to use a tennis ball since there wasn't any room in the backyard where we played. Miss the other kids and my youth. Cotton, I spent so much money on the new kitchen that I was bound and determined it would be used. Made a cassarole tonight that consisted of pork medalians on top of rice and mushroom soup. Used a lot of garlick and pepper. I thought it was delicious, but Precious isn't home to eat yet. She wants the twin bed set up in the lilac room for Meghan since her nephew is getting married and my daughter and her family will be in town, Meghan wants to spend some time here and away from Manistee.

I've found a secret about friends. Cultivate friendships with younger folks, your kids's age and even your grandkids age. These are treasures and as your acquaintises leave you'll still have them to enjoy. And they will be there when you pass. I so enjoy the youthful point of views. ...Now for recipe time. Mikie my recently deceased bro-in-law taught me how to fix a fabulous pork lion. Saute MANY onion slices in electric skillet, make it piled high as they cook down quite a lot. Mean time slice your pork loin in about 1/2" slices, When the onions are tender and almost carme(ly) remove from pan and quickly saute the meat. Cover with the onions. Serve over hot cooked rice. Yummmmmmmm. This is a specialty from his home in North Carolina!

Mikie, I only wish that my daughter had a grandfather like you. My dad is passed and never got to see her. He would have spoiled her rotten. My husband's father doesn't care about her. She does have an uncle that spoils her but it would be nice if she had a grandfather that cared. I hope that your grandchildren know how fortunate they truly are.

Mikie, keep that grandaughter interested in horses! Our daughter showed our horses from the time she was 8 until 19. She was undefeated in 4 events for 7 years, she did all the training herself and I did the grooming, and dad drove the truck and trailer. She showed in western and english pleasure, showmanship, halter. She went to state level many times. The posting is a term in english pleasure where the rider is in tune and balance to the horse's movement in the trotting gait. An excellent lifestyle to grow up learning responsibilty, courtesy, dicipline, and self respect, and respect for others. Nothing more exciting to watch her take a 1200 lb. horse and come out with the Grands and Reserves! Her horses are now retired ad enjoying pasture life here at home, but Michelle still visits them often to cuddle with.

Maija, Sorry about your friend too. I know that I think about losing friends as I'm getting older. My parents have lost so many friends and relatives and it's been so hard on them. My dad has lost 8 brothers and sisters and both parents. That's got to be awful. Plus he's lost nieces and nephews. He's not feeling at all well either, and I know he's thinking it won't be long for him and it's just making him so sad. It makes me sad too. Some day they'll be gone and it'll be awful to not have them to call every day just to see how they're doing. I guess it's just a sad feeling kind of day. I so dread the thought of that day coming, and that of friends also. And Ms. Katie, you're right. Become friends to your children's friends and your grandchildren's friends. I have "friends" at work who are only in their early 20's. I love them dearly. I'm going to be a cake server at one of their weddings, and I know she considers me a friend too. Who cares how old you are or how old they are? You can never have too many friends, no matter what their ages.

And Mikie, Pennie is so right about you. I've often told my hubby that you seem like such a wonderful family man. How lucky your family is to have you. My son grew up with only one set of grandparents as he was estranged from his dad and so therefore never saw his grandparents. How they miss out. Grandparents mean the world to kids and they to us. My parents have doted on all of my boys as I dote on my grandchildren. I'm a lot like you in that regard. Family comes first and if my grandkids call and invite me to something, I'm there. Some people think that's ridiculous, but we won't be around forever and we have to leave them with great memories.

I had only my Dad's father for my Gramp.He was very strict. We sat on the couch prim & proper & did not say a word. We never touched anything.We never put fingerprints on his walls, never locked the bathroom door when we went in there. But then there was the other side of him that I loved walking with him on his way from work. He'd tease me & my sister about his giving us a "whisker rub", cuz we'd giggle & wiggle away. He'd have us as a "lookout" when he was snitching his cigarette while Gram was in the kitchen. Boy, did he get in trouble if he got caught!! We thought it was funny! Mikie you remember Uncle Ransom!

Cotton, Your Gramps picked up a snake once and snapped it's head off by using it like a whip. I watched him do this and decided if he could do it so could I. Picked up the snake tried to whip it and it curled around my arm hissing at me.Shook it off my arm and have never touched one since. I also was a lookout for his smoking as was my brother John. Your granpa was a World War One soldier and he had been gassed in France, that is why his breathing was so labored. When he died I went to his funeral, I had a new Chrysler convertable, after the funeral Precious my mom and dad and I went for a ride to the mountain drive. Had the top down and this idiot in front of us stopped to watch the bears by the side of the road. Precious my mom and my dad started yelling and I kept blowing the horn while this idiot kept giving us the finger. Ran the top up and the horn blowing attracted the bear to our car. Finally pushed the car in front of us up the mountain away from the bear. I would still love to see this guy and give him a piece of my mind. Ok now that I have vented, Andrea, the Irish dancer has a choir performance tomorrow night and she just told me. She said she waited until tonight to tell me so I wouldn't forget. Last week I forgot to pick her up from her lesson. She has a cell phone that her other grandpa gave her and pays for. She just said to me did you forget something? I took off and picked her up. After picking her up I took her to Tim Horton for her bagel and cream cheese and hot chocalate. The guy at the window knows us since this is our regular Tuesday and Thursday schedule. I made a trellis today out of stainless steel tubing today and set it up on the pathway to the backyard.Just finished it when Tim my grandson climbed to the top of it. I hope I can get my grandmothers rose to climb it as easly as Tim did.

Cotton, One time on the fourth we were in front of the house in Hubbell uncle Rans was smoking when aunt Lu came outside, he handed the cigerette to me and said you shouldn't be smoking, whats wrong with you put that thing out. Lu said Rans he is only nine years old he isn't a smoker stop blaming him. Mikie you don't smoke do you? Now being a good Catholic school boy, I said been smoking since I was six, not realizing she would tell my parents. Boy did I catch it when I got home. Never smoked in my entire life, didn't want to be in trouble like Uncle Rans.

I know how hard it is to lose a loved one. We are doing the RELAY FOR LIFE for the American Cancer Society tomorrow and it breaks my heart to see the survivor walk, especially with the little ones. My husband is a survivor of prostate cancer bur we hve lost several close to us with cancer. on another subject anyone know anything about Meneres Disease? it has to do with tinnitus of the ear and vertigo. I was just diagnosed with it after several visits to the emergency room. they say that nothing can be done. HELP!

Suzanne, I too suffer from ringing in the ears,and vertigo, I have found that not rising fast and haveing the radio or t.v. on helps to distract the noise in my ears. I also sleep with a fan on so there is some white noise all night long. I worked in factories for years and that is what they atribute my problem to. Believe or not after awhile you don't notice the noise and the dizziness usually is only for a few seconds. You will learn to live with it.