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19395. arkymalarky - 5/12/2006 12:11:39 AM Judith and I are similar here, which is why I asked about her. They really got hit hard in TX before it got to us. 19396. Magoseph - 5/12/2006 6:38:24 PM An unusual Mother's Day gift from younger son!
19397. judithathome - 5/12/2006 10:14:37 PM do you remember when we drove to where I work and I pointed out my friend's house--a large brick/siding two-story?
That must have been the night we had 200mph winds north east of us...three people died, a teenage boy and an 80 year old couple. It happened in a little town called Anna.
We lost electricity but that was all.
Arky, I am so glad your friend's son was okay...the house can be repaired, after all. It was such a beautiful place but I'm sure she considers herself lucky since the son was unharmed. 19398. arkymalarky - 5/13/2006 1:29:33 AM I think it was that night, and then we had another wave the next morning which is what put the school under a warning and knocked out their electricity. On my commute that morning I noticed more trees down as I got closer, but didn't even see her house on the way by because of how far off the road it is and where the tree hit.
This is working up to be a whale of a tornado season in our stretch of the alley. I'm glad your area and mine avoided that round.
She is very grateful, because often when they hit after dark those winds come up and a tree is down before anyone wakes up. They're all still stunned and overwhelmed about how to approach fixing it, but I think it won't be as bad as it would have had it hit across the whole house rather than one section. 19399. arkymalarky - 5/13/2006 1:32:42 AM That looks wonderful, Mags. A great way to enjoy a relaxing weekend. 19400. Ulgine Barrows - 5/13/2006 5:14:14 AM Looks like I would want my son to make me pancakes & tell me about his life instead of giving great gifts......
but I'm onery like that. 19401. Magoseph - 5/13/2006 12:59:04 PM The gifts surprised me, Arky--I gather that the fiancée had some input in the selection.
Ulgine, if he could make pancakes for me, then he would be living with me. I wouldn't want that for him. 19402. wonkers2 - 5/13/2006 1:44:33 PM Wise mother. 19403. wonkers2 - 5/13/2006 1:49:01 PM He's my fiance, he's my son. Prudence says "Sick!" 19404. Ulgine Barrows - 5/14/2006 8:38:40 AM 19401. Magoseph...if he could make pancakes for me, then he would be living with me
That's retarded. My husband is going over to his mom's place later today to make pancakes. Yet, he lives here.
And I'm OK with my decay. 19405. judithathome - 5/14/2006 3:50:59 PM Jeez, Ulgine...it's not retarded at all. Mago's son lives in another state.
Don't be so judgemental...no one expects your son, aged under 10 years, to buy you brandy and chocolates.
One day he might and I doubt you'll turn it down. 19406. PelleNilsson - 5/14/2006 4:49:06 PM Sacrilege alert! Grand Marnier is NOT a brandy. 19407. judithathome - 5/14/2006 6:15:10 PM I know that but one IS ALLOWED to make a gift of brandy and chocolates, is one not? I wasn't calling Grand Marnier a brandy, Pelle...I was commenting on a gift Ulgine's son might one day give to her; not precisely the same as the one Mago's son gave her. I might have suggested beer and pretzels, even...or Courvoisier and beluga cavair.
19408. PelleNilsson - 5/14/2006 6:24:41 PM Yes, Judith, but I strongly suspect that the real reason you wrote 'brandy' is that, like me, you have difficulties with the spelling of 'liqueur' (I looked it up just now). 19409. judithathome - 5/14/2006 9:04:00 PM Ha! That would be correct. You sly dog. 19410. judithathome - 5/14/2006 9:04:29 PM I gave it my best, though. 19411. Macnas - 5/15/2006 8:31:49 AM Grand Marnier, I have bad and hazy memories of that sticky orange booze. 19412. wonkers2 - 5/15/2006 3:10:46 PM Just returned from my first experience with a chiropractor or kinesiologist as he calls himself. Up to now I've been a skeptic. But he appeared to make sense about the cause of my low back pain--right leg shorter than left which tilts lower back out of line. Solution a heel lift for my right shoe. Anybody opinions on chiropractic for back pain? 19413. Adam Selene - 5/15/2006 3:19:12 PM The only complaint's I've heard are from "official" doctors. Gee... fill in your own punch line. 19414. Magoseph - 5/15/2006 3:19:15 PM That's very interesting, Wonks, something I should look into soon, for myself, I mean.
Mac, Flexy tasted the liqueur and deemed it execrable. Its only quality is that the content of alcohol is only 40%, he said. Some forty years ago, Flexy stopped drinking and since then, he believes that having a couple of drinks too many leads to perdition.
Yesterday, he was given a Mimosa and although he had to know there was Champagne in it, we were surprised that he drank it down and asked for more. We came back from the brunch at my son’s and his wife’s place loaded up with enough food to last a week. I never heard a pip out of Flexy on the way back home, a 22 miles trip usually scary for him. He was sound asleep and upon waking up, told me how well I drove this time. I think that I’ll take a thermos bottle with spiked orange juice every time we get out of town.
Today, he has his primary doctor check-up and Thursday the left eye’s surgery followed by another check-up Friday. Flexy has a friend who underwent the same procedures, both eyes having heavy cataracts. This man had all kinds of troubles during and after the surgeries. I was present when he said that most of his problems came from having a nervous wife at his side, a judgment I found harsh at first, considering that she is a wonderful woman. However, you know, she agreed with him and told me that her fears made him tense and nervous at the same time and this state of affair did not help his recovery.
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