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| BEARS TO BE DONATED TO THE PATIENTS @ CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ON VALENTINE'S DAY |
A beautiful bright morning that turned into rain in the afternoon then high winds by supper time. The doors are moving in the suction for gosh sake. The fireplace chimney is very noisy. Well, we are all most half way through winter so bear with it, I guess.
While doing the washing, I paid two bills and allocated some debits in Quicken. I kept real busy while Bob looked up and made the memorial donations for our camping friend.
It was soon lunch time and after while I kept the wash going, we watched a couple more episodes of DOWNTON ABBEY. We have 4 more to go in season 2. Ya just get so engrossed. The doorbell ran and Bob put the TV on pause. It was our son, David. We had a brief visit with him and heard about his weekend at the Orvis sponsored fishing gathering with movies. He won a brand new pole worth lots of money.
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| DAVID SHARED HIS NEW FLY TYPING EQUIPMENT. MY FISHERMEN ARE SERIOUS! |
Betsy came in from work and laughed at us as we were still watching Downton Abbey. Since nothing was ready for supper; she went in the kitchen and made a turkey sandwich. We did take a break to eat.
During supper I noticed that the light blew out in our microwave. Bob looked at it quickly and told me it never had a light. Yes it did, how do you think I could see to clean it....yada. yada, yada. Okay Bob. Later he discovered the light and the bulb is all melted, he is afraid to touch it. (I wonder if that's what was burning in the kitchen a couple weeks ago when I stayed up all night) He pulled the microwave file from the warranty file to check it out. The manual was printed in 1984, it's old but we couldn't have had it that long.
When he came in from his office (he has a table in front of heater and TV in the garage) he told me that he found the instruction book to our microwave for the motor home. I have been looking for that for 3 years, whoda thought to look in the file drawer in the house.
TUESDAY:
I did it again, I had a good book and couldn't stop reading last night. So I didn't get up to early this morning. It was noon by the time I was ready to go downtown for a couple errands. I went to the bank, the dry cleaners and Wal*Mart. It was nasty cold, my hands were freezing putting the bags in the truck. Spring please hurry.
Once back home, my friend Mo stopped to pick up her "fix it" projects. She didn't have time for a cup of java. After her departure, we watched some more of Downton Abbey. I think we are finished with Season 2 now.
When Betsy came home, she asked if we had heard the news. No, what news? We must have had the TV to loud as I missed a text coming in from Annalynn. She was accepted at Univ. of Rochester in the Epidemiology Program for her PHD. I mentioned that she had interviews a week or so back; actually she was interviewed by 10 different people and it was a long day for her. (Like 8-8:00) We are so proud of her. The entire family sent her a text of Congratulations. Now she wants to wait and hear from the other schools that she sent applications to before accepting. She made our day.Bob is watching his stories before the President comes on. I dislike him so much that I don't care to watch. We will probably acquire Season 3 of Downton Abbey for the rest of the evening.
WEDNESDAY:
The first day of lent, I have already been told-"fish now." Hay, we are over 72 years of age and it doesn't apply to us now. But Bob likes fish so I'm sunk! I refuse to cook it in the house, it stinks! Shrimp isn't too bad but it has to be battered and fried. The best part of it is, we order out and I don't have to cook!
I went to Lockport for a hair appointment today, Bob went fishing with his pals. Still no fish on!
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| ICE CHUNKS ON THE WATER |
About a week ago, Debbie and I was searching for a dress on line that I might like for Annalynn's wedding. Deb found one that I liked better than the ones I had discovered. I ordered it and it came last week.
After my haircut I went to Deb's for coffee and to show her the dress. Annalynn had returned from work by then so she saw it too. They both liked it! Hooray! The shopping is over! Amen!
Back at home, I showed Bob the Rindo milk bottle that was posted on Face Book. Someone who is a friend of our Florida relatives posted it on Face Book. This is one of the 1/2 pint bottles that was used to bottle Orange Drink by Bob's Dad. He had a dairy bottling plant in Albion, Pa., for many years. Once Bob had his licenses, he peddled milk to houses and schools. Ya, the dark ages! They also made cottage cheese, buttermilk, creams, ice cream and butter. Bob still holds the aka of "Milkman."  |
| RINDO'S ALBION, PA.
Bob is now searching on E-Bay to see if he can find the listing and who may have posted it.
Time now to watch some more of Downton Abbey.
THURSDAY:
 FRIDAY: Back to the microwave; Bob decided that we needed a new one. He was pretty sure the megathron was burned up as it cooked on one side more than the other. He wasn't going to monkey with it. We went to Sears and Home Depot and settled on the one at Sears. Microwave/Convection for the counter top are in short supply; when this new one wears out we will probably be limited to one that must be installed which for us would mean a complete kitchen redo. I wanted one exactly like the one in our motor home which has convection. Since it's 10 years old, it wasn't to be found. Sears did have one model on display with convection, and it was offered with $100.00 off. That is now ours. Now the kids won't have to run out to the motor home to fetch the ham for Christmas dinner. My house oven is small and is usually full with the veggies. While at Sears, I picked out a dishwasher. They have a sale coming up March 10th. Now I have to convince the household that I really need a new one. I've already pulled the warranty file and can prove that ours is 18 years old come April 22. NOTHING is made to last that long now! The saleslady said 10-15 years is good. Bob painted the rusted racks a year of so ago, that should help persuade the cause. And there will go another slush fund. SATURDAY: We all chased the "dust bunnies" around. It has been a while since our house cleaning was done. Spending all that time watching Downton Abbey, I felt like I wasted a week. But it was so good, we have seen all of season 3 now. Bob is now working on income tax again. His last needed print out came in the mail today. I'm working on the computer to finish up a letter. We want to watch a "trailer" of the castle that was used to make Downton Abbey yet tonight. It's snowing hard tonight, the ground is covered. It's pretty because it's nice and clean but who needs it? SUNDAY: Still snowing. We had about 4" this morning when we got up. Bob and I went thru closets and threw out some old things. He didn't feel to good so we quit sorting and watched a movie. I have been waiting since October for the movie "Alex Cross" to be on Netflex. Last night we spotted it, so this afternoon we watched it. It was adapted from a James Patterson book which I have read and I didn't think it stuck to the story. I'm glad we didn't pay to see it at the movies. Betsy made a delicious chicken parm dinner for us. Nothing to exciting here so guess I'll post now. I hope this cold weather doesn't last to long. I don't like it cold; day and night. |
GOLDEN GRAM
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