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desertwillow
True Blue Farmgirl

272 Posts

Betty
Inyokern California
USA
272 Posts

Posted - Aug 15 2011 : 09:14:33 AM

One of hubby's granddaughters is working on her doctorate in forensic phsycology. She lives in Manhattan, NY now instead of KS. It's a small world Nancy. This heat is below normal for us. It's normal for it to be above 110 for July and August. We got a swamp cooler this year and it has made a difference. Our electric bill for those months has always run us above $500 a month, each month and now we stay cool and the bill for July was $208. I've started drying clothes on the line to conserve electricity. All the sunshine is free and the air is so dry things dry as I hang them. I still dry towels (I like them soft) and permapress stuff in the dryer but it's kind of nice hanging clothes on the line again. Inyokern is called the sunshine captol of the US as we usually get 350 of sun a year. I like that nostalgia. I remember those days well. Our first tv was only a 7 inch black and white and snowy. Remember when there was only one tv in the house and it was usually in the hallway and if you were upstairs you'd have to run down to answer it?
Well, I'd better get going and get to town. I don't have to work today so can take advantage and run some errands before it gets hot. Everyone around here does that whether it's going to town, 15 miles away, or working in the garden. You do it early before it gets too hot. Have a good day everyone.....

LadyInRed
True Blue Farmgirl

6740 Posts

PeggyAnn
Vancouver WA
USA
6740 Posts

Posted - Aug 15 2011 : 12:15:03 PM

Marsha...loved the Nostalgia! I remembered every one of those things...and just for a couple of minutes I did step back in time
and enjoyed the Good Ol' Days.

Betty...I think you meant the phone was in the hall way and you had to run down stairs to answer it...not the TV. lol I like Hot
weather Betty...but hot for me is in the 90's. You my dear have Scorcher weather.

CJ...Big Big Farmgirl Hugs. I am sure that you are very physically and emotionally spent! So Very Hard I am sure! I am
going a week from today to Spokane to see my little sister who is dying (just 56) and my first MIL who is dying. They are
only a 1/4 th of a mile from each other...but it is going to be a very hard week on me emotionally too. But I do not have
the added burden of caring for them like you have had since 2006.

Nancy...that is so cool that your youngest g-daughter wants to go into criminal forensics. Maybe she will be able to use
her love for art in that same line of work. Maybe she will even become a criminal sketch-artist. You just never know...
the two desires could work hand in hand.

Well, I walked the dogs this morning...then came home and cut my hair. I was trying to save $ by doing it myself. It looks
really good from the front but the back I about butchered it. Let's just say that I won't need a hair cut for a very
loooonnnnnggggg time! lol

Off to do something less scary than cutting my own hair. Have a Great days lovely ladies.

Quote for today: Remember this - very little is needed to make a Happy Life.

blessings,
peggy

Farmgirl #1326
http://ladyinredsite.blogspot.com

"I'm only as strong as the caffeine I drink, the hair-spray I use and the Girlfriends that I have."

When I was a lonely wallflower, Jesus asked me to dance. Then he asked me to be joyous, to be passionate, and to Be His!

Edited by - LadyInRed on Aug 15 2011 12:17:23 PM

darlystippie
True Blue Farmgirl

410 Posts

Darlys
Cupertino CA
USA
410 Posts

Posted - Aug 15 2011 : 7:38:16 PM

I wrote a nice long message on Sunday and (I KNOW better!) I got sidetracked and e-mailed the lemon bar recipe to Judy or maybe it was Nancy (I forget - somebody got the recipe e-mailed to them) -- and anyway, ooops --- you know what happened! Pouf.

CJ .... hugs and prayers are on their way to you. I hope you are taking good care of yourself, too. Your aporn industry sounds like a happy diversion. I hope that's true.

And, Peg, my gosh girlfriend ... I am so sorry about your sister and former-MIL and prayers and hugs are on the way to you, too. Oh, and I'm sure your hair is very, very cute.

Betty -- glad you are home safe, sane and sound. I haven't had a chance to check out the pictures yet but will by tomorrow.

Hey -- you sisters who are finally getting a break in the weather .... enjoy! Ahhhhhh.

Lordy, lordy - nostagia: I remember everything except the Fort Apache play set. But I'll toss in my Bobbsey Twin books instead.

Nancy - Are you going to show up in San Francisco one day soon? If so, y' gotta give me a shout .... (if we are in town) I'm about an hour away from downtown SF. Your granddaughter sounds like a really focussed, talented and smart girl.

Peg - you asked about the Oakhurst house. It's actually a second home as opposed to a vacation home - we are there almost every weekend getting it ready for our retirement move next year sometime (And Nancy, I checked out every possibility and you were right - what I was describing would be considered a lanai. It could be considered a sunroom except there are no glass windows just a bank of screen windows the entire length of the balcony . (A veranda, it turns out - is actually wide open on all sides except, of course, where it is attached to the house.)

Tomorrow I plan on spending some time helping the Methodist ladies (the Trinity Methodist congregation and our St. John's Lutheran congregation share the same church facility) set up for their rummage sale on Saturday.

Wednesday morning - I'll be picking up at SFO, and spending a bit of time, with a grandson who spent the summer in Bejing. He graduates from Berkeley in December and is pursuing a career in International Relations. He is multi-lingual ... Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese, Spanish, French - and, of course, thank goodness, English. I think he has the biggest brain of the bunch and our family is a big bunch.

We are off to Huntington Beach Thursday to visit my MIL who is 91 - and still living alone (in a retirement community). We will return on Tuesday. So, I may or may not be able to connect for a few days.

Meanwhile, I am preparing publicity and tweaking volunteer schedules and assigning work areas. The first weekend in November I will be spearheading an annual Junque Sale which encompasses about 20 area churches and is held at St. John's. The proceeds go to benefit FISH (the grassroots emergency relief organization) with their food bank. We will raise about $10,000 - (far cry from that first sale when we raised about $250 and thought we were hot stuff.) Last week I received a certificate from our Congressional Rep - Anna Eschoo - for Outstanding Volunteer Service to the Community. Someone was sure sweet to put my name in. Recognition for thousands of hours of labor over the years is sort of like a pat on the back - and nice. My real life job when I worked for The Church was as a volunteer recruiter and organizer. I did that for about 15 years. As a community volunteer organizer and publicist - this year makes 34.

Isn't it nice that wine and chocolate are both now considered Health Food?

Here's to your health, sisters!

Sister #3284 - on her Tippie Toes - oxox, Darlys

That is the best ... to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

darlystippie
True Blue Farmgirl

410 Posts

Darlys
Cupertino CA
USA
410 Posts

Posted - Aug 15 2011 : 7:45:46 PM

P.S.
Nancy -- there is a thingy on MJFarm's FAQs that talks about posting pictures. Maybe that will give you the info you need. (I just had my son - former Apple Genius - post my quilt photo). I'm really looking forward to seeing those dolls!

Sister #3284 - on her Tippie Toes - oxox, Darlys

That is the best ... to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

camiesmommy
True Blue Farmgirl

113 Posts

Anne Jeannette
Stagecoach NV
USA
113 Posts

Posted - Aug 16 2011 : 12:17:54 AM

Hi girls. Haven't been on for a couple of weeks. My two daughters will be visiting at seperate times over the next couple of months. Finished one dishdrainer quilt and two dish cloths; am still working on the second set.

Have been baking up a storm, trying to use up my zucchini (doesn't include what I've frozen - lol). It's the only produce I've produced this year. At this rate, I won't have to bake all winter. Good thing we have a big freezer.

Loved the nostalgia Marsha. Guess we're showing our age

I actually will still bend over the pick up pennies. It all ads up.

Chocolate anything....I want some.

A.J.

Work is love made visible. ~ Kahlil Gibran

desertwillow
True Blue Farmgirl

272 Posts

Betty
Inyokern California
USA
272 Posts

Posted - Aug 16 2011 : 12:27:31 PM

I use photo bucket to upload my photos and it's quite easy. I got the instructions from the forum here on the main menu.