Is your family going out for dinner, tonight? Could we join you? Or would lunch tomorrow be better? Or not at all, which is OK, too! Lu, how are you, been awhile since we have heard from you! We know you are extra busy, hope all is well. Butrfly Lady, how's the weather? How did Trax make out over the St. Paddys celebration? Is Maddy being a good girl for you? Have a good week-end all!!!!
Robert asks Bev: did you post Lane’s wrestling results on FaceBook? Tell us non-FBers, pls. We have no doubt that Lane sparkled.
It’s exciting to think of Jenn being in the Miss Wheelchair Iowa contest. Go for it, dear niece! No matter how it turns out, you’ll always be a winner in our book.
re Feb. 7 “Beauty Shop.” Sheryl, pls describe the chasing game. Inquiring minds want to know. = )
more Feb. 7. Diane & Jenn, that Bombeck quote is rich. One of my favorite Erma lines refers to her gynecologist: “I have cookie sheets older than he is.”
re Feb. 9, Wendy’s & Sheryl’s adventures with regular dish soap: Our new daughter Shari did the same thing. …Have you blog participants tried those “power paks” of dishwasher detergent? They’re shaped like little pillows & completely mess-free. Robert’s daughter Valerie recommended ’em to me. Just the ticket! I’ll never go back to the powdery, hard to measure, easily spilled kind.
re the Waverly refridge problem, also Feb. 9: In May 2010 our refridge was acting mighty strange. The thermometer said 40° but ice was forming, yes, in the refrigerator section. In the meantime water was dripping down from the freezer. It took the Sears man a while to fix it but he didn’t seem to think it anything unusual.
It amuses me that RKV is so Type A about certain home-maintenance tasks, such as replacing furnace filters. But he ignores things that we’re told are musts, such as vacuuming the refridge grille & draining the water heater every so often. (Me? I blithely ignore all of those! Are you guys good about them? Tell me you aren’t.)
Hey gang! Guess who got a hole in 1? Yrs truly, playing back yard golf w/ Peter. Admittedly, I had to hit the ball only about 9 ft. Hearing my brag, Maryann modestly told us she’d had several holes in 1 during P.E. golf classes. —During their yoga section she was teacher’s aide because Miss Cliff recognized right away that M was a natural. Also M has proved that you don’t have to be tall to shine at volleyball. She’s an apple who fell far from the tree!
Yes, dear family, we must always be there for each other. —Though living out here in no-man’s land, I can mostly do so in spirit only. Early 1966, still in Puerto Rico, Robt asked me: shall we move to New York (where I had a job offer) or CA? I picked the latter, since I wanted a master’s from UCLA. Which by the way I never got. Settling so far from Iowa was just one of a xillion mistakes I’ve made.
re Mar. 12: Sheryl, when you’re overwhelmed, do you ever glance at Ed & wish you were a cat? That happened to me repeatedly in L.A., when we had our first kitty. Snowed under with job, raising Leslie, & looking after our dear neighbor Evelyn, I’d look at Chuggy & want so much to magically change into a pampered feline.
My life now, compared to pre-retirement, is easy but still stressful. Some mornings I taxi 4 kids to our neighborhood elementary: Peter & another 4th grader, plus a girl & boy in 5th & K. The older ones sometimes walk home. I still get distress calls from Maryann fairly often. Love to all
Diane, We (especially Tyler) enjoyed having dinner last night with you and D and J!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats on seeing your first robin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Lucille! "The Chasing Game"...pretty simple really...when the kids don't want to get their hair combed, I tell them that I'm gonna get them, and they start running. After a couple of minutes of running around, I catch them, and the hair gets combed. As for the dishwasher gelpacs, I use them all the time...great invention! And, no, I've never wished I were a cat...especially Eddie. He catches mice, and that grosses me out!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is your family going out for dinner, tonight? Could we join you? Or would lunch tomorrow be better? Or not at all, which is OK, too! Lu, how are you, been awhile since we have heard from you! We know you are extra busy, hope all is well. Butrfly Lady, how's the weather? How did Trax make out over the St. Paddys celebration? Is Maddy being a good girl for you? Have a good week-end all!!!!
ReplyDeleteI just saw my first ROBIN of Spring in our back yard, YEAH!!!! I love exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteRobert asks Bev: did you post Lane’s wrestling results on FaceBook? Tell us non-FBers, pls. We have no doubt that Lane sparkled.
ReplyDeleteIt’s exciting to think of Jenn being in the Miss Wheelchair Iowa contest. Go for it, dear niece! No matter how it turns out, you’ll always be a winner in our book.
re Feb. 7 “Beauty Shop.” Sheryl, pls describe the chasing game. Inquiring minds want to know. = )
more Feb. 7. Diane & Jenn, that Bombeck quote is rich. One of my favorite Erma lines refers to her gynecologist: “I have cookie sheets older than he is.”
re Feb. 9, Wendy’s & Sheryl’s adventures with regular dish soap: Our new daughter Shari did the same thing. …Have you blog participants tried those “power paks” of dishwasher detergent? They’re shaped like little pillows & completely mess-free. Robert’s daughter Valerie recommended ’em to me. Just the ticket! I’ll never go back to the powdery, hard to measure, easily spilled kind.
re the Waverly refridge problem, also Feb. 9: In May 2010 our refridge was acting mighty strange. The thermometer said 40° but ice was forming, yes, in the refrigerator section. In the meantime water was dripping down from the freezer. It took the Sears man a while to fix it but he didn’t seem to think it anything unusual.
It amuses me that RKV is so Type A about certain home-maintenance tasks, such as replacing furnace filters. But he ignores things that we’re told are musts, such as vacuuming the refridge grille & draining the water heater every so often. (Me? I blithely ignore all of those! Are you guys good about them? Tell me you aren’t.)
Hey gang! Guess who got a hole in 1? Yrs truly, playing back yard golf w/ Peter. Admittedly, I had to hit the ball only about 9 ft. Hearing my brag, Maryann modestly told us she’d had several holes in 1 during P.E. golf classes. —During their yoga section she was teacher’s aide because Miss Cliff recognized right away that M was a natural. Also M has proved that you don’t have to be tall to shine at volleyball. She’s an apple who fell far from the tree!
Yes, dear family, we must always be there for each other. —Though living out here in no-man’s land, I can mostly do so in spirit only. Early 1966, still in Puerto Rico, Robt asked me: shall we move to New York (where I had a job offer) or CA? I picked the latter, since I wanted a master’s from UCLA. Which by the way I never got. Settling so far from Iowa was just one of a xillion mistakes I’ve made.
re Mar. 12: Sheryl, when you’re overwhelmed, do you ever glance at Ed & wish you were a cat? That happened to me repeatedly in L.A., when we had our first kitty. Snowed under with job, raising Leslie, & looking after our dear neighbor Evelyn, I’d look at Chuggy & want so much to magically change into a pampered feline.
My life now, compared to pre-retirement, is easy but still stressful. Some mornings I taxi 4 kids to our neighborhood elementary: Peter & another 4th grader, plus a girl & boy in 5th & K. The older ones sometimes walk home. I still get distress calls from Maryann fairly often. Love to all
Diane, We (especially Tyler) enjoyed having dinner last night with you and D and J!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on seeing your first robin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Lucille! "The Chasing Game"...pretty simple really...when the kids don't want to get their hair combed, I tell them that I'm gonna get them, and they start running. After a couple of minutes of running around, I catch them, and the hair gets combed. As for the dishwasher gelpacs, I use them all the time...great invention!
ReplyDeleteAnd, no, I've never wished I were a cat...especially Eddie. He catches mice, and that grosses me out!!!!!!!!!!!!!