Something About Nothing............ #14

[Charade67]

Hi everyone. Sorry I left you in the dark last night. Yesterday was quite a day. I woke up at 4:00 with an upset stomach. Didn't get back to sleep until around 7:00. Woke up again at 8:00 and decided to text my boss and tell her I wasn't feeling well and would come in later if I felt better. Went back to sleep and woke up again around 9:30. I was feeling better, so decided to go in to work. It was a very busy day and I ended up staying until 5:00 (usually get off at 3). I was so tired yesterday evening that I fell asleep while trying to watch TV. Thanks Lynne for posting a cute light.

Salon day for me, Schumi. My hair is getting long, but I like it for now. Happy to be on the routine salon schedule now. And eek, both my Dsis and little one prefer my white hair. Um, not ready for that yet. Yeah, I am old, still somewhat shocked to be old enough to have a soon to be 23 year old, and a niece and nephew in their late 30’s. But white hair, um no. So will be nicely blonde once again later today.

I'm not ready for white hair either. I probably have a head full of it now. You may recall that my hair is very dark brown, so that white really stands out.

I did have Covid test here locally and I was negative.

Great news!

Yes, thanks. The good news from dd's uni last night is that they only had 18 new cases over the weekend. It looks to be slowing now that they've gone all online.

It's good to hear the cases are slowing. The latest report from B's school is 90 cases. Mostly students, but some faculty/staff.

Tomorrow we are having a large tree cut down
That will be my excitement for the week.
No more spiny burrs to deal with then

Yea it’s a tall $2900 tree job.

My tree is now gone!

Woot..

Glad to see you used a tree service. It is expensive, but totally worth it I think. I have a bad story about someone who tried to cut down a tree himself.

Nope no white hair for me.......I have some grey according to my stylist, but too much considering I`m 52......mum didn`t go grey till she was in her late 50`s, she had beautiful hair.

I think my mom started to go gray in her 20's. I started seeing a few gray hairs in high school. The women on my mom's side of the family often get thick, dark hair, but the downside is that we start going gray at an early age.

After my trip this month, we have to have a new roof done.
Even with tree damage to the roof, it was close to time for a new roof.

All part of being a home owner having to keep up with essential things.

Ah, the joys of home ownership. I think our next big project is new indoor paint and flooring.

Same thing for us with Krystals and the other chains in town.

I haven't had a Krystal burger in ages.

I can't believe it's already Tuesday night. We went made a quick trip this past weekend to see the kids and grandbaby. We had planned to go camping,but the weather was going to be horrible, so we decided to head out and see the kids. It was a great weekend with them. We even got to go out for a meal by ourselves to a great local restaurant as a late anniversary celebration. It was a nice treat to go out for a meal. The granddaughter is growing like a weed and will probably start crawling in the next week or two. She is such a hoot to watch her scoot around in her walker and be a little terror and touch everything!!!! lol

Sounds like a great family getaway. Happy belated anniversary.

Any serious swimmers here? I am looking for a good place to buy prescription goggles that won't break the bank. B has asked for a pair for her birthday. She has started taking advantage of the athletic facilities on campus, especially the pool.

The sun has gone down, so I guess it is time to turn on the light. My husband picked this one out. I didn't understand it, but many of you should.

 

[Lynne G]

Glad you are feeling better, Charade. Yeah, after little one’s university said closed 2 weeks, quickly then said, all online for rest of term. And, if kids got out of dorms within the week, could get money back. Only those that cannot get home, dorms are now closed for at least this term. Within a week of those back to campus, virus numbers more then doubled. Mayor told kids not to party. Yeah, right. College kids. No matter, little one was in no mood to be on campus this semester. Then, to make matters worse, three weeks into the term, and one of her professors quit, so she lost a class, and she had to scramble and ask another professor to join her class, then clear it with the registrar’s office, that she changed classes. What a term she is having. And while she may go out Black Friday, no relaxing that weekend, as her first finals are Cyber Monday. No last two weeks of class and week to study, and no week long Thanksgiving break, like she had last year. Two day break this year. And term over the week after Thanksgiving. Guess she is lucky, as now will have almost all the month of December off, back the week after New Year’s Day. Otherwise, she would have had finals the week before Christmas, and a much shorter break.

Steaks were delicious, made home fries and bought cold slaw. Done dinner. Yum. Was told, I did not make enough potatoes. Oh well. I did use up the couple of potatoes we had left, and did not get into the new bag. Eh, will make more this weekend.

Julie, nice to have family visiting. Good reason to enjoy meals and the company. Hope you are having a restful sleep.

 

[macraven]

That’s a nice light charade!
Sweet your husband helped out tonight.

You must be dedicated to your job as not many would go to work if they had been sick most of the night.

Lynne, your daughter is gonna have such a short school term this semester.
Blink and it’s going to be school break.

back later homies and I’ll try to catch up on what I missed here today.

 

[Lynne G]

Oh Charade, when little one was young, and still in glasses, got her prescription goggles at Sam’s Club’s Optical. Don’t know if they still do that. I’d see if any of the optical stores or online ones have such. I will say, little one hated them. Happily just wears regular goggles with her contacts in, now a days.

Ooh, will be needing that soon enough. Getting close to my bedtime.

Have a great night, homies. Good Night .

 

[macraven]

It’s going on to midnight and I’m hungry !

Hope we have bacon in the morning!

One thing I don't like about being on est, is the news comes on at 11:00.
It’s now 79 degrees and will be 90 again tomorrow.

Our temps should start dropping soon to the 80’s.
Hope it does so I can help Mr Mac work on reseeding the front yard where the tree was removed.

Hope all the homies have sweet dreams tonight
See you at breakfast in the morning.

 

[DisneyLifePapioNe]

 

[Lynne G]

Eek, what was DisneyLife doing at that early morning and being so happy? Er, rather not know that. I was happily sleeping until about an hour later than the time of your post.

Ah yes, the time of the week, every one is thirsty, including the weather. Did wake up around 2 this morning, yeah, that’s rain. Went back to sleep. Rainy Thursday, with Flood Warnings given. Tea for me.
So,



Haha.

Ah yes,


And for me, why do you need a long weekend after having a three day one last week? Why yes? I need it. And so, three better days are indeed coming. Very short week. Check.

Ah, another dark, before sunrise work day has already begun. Early riding homie. Yep.

Hope Mac’s midnight snack was tasty, and still sleeping, with Mr.Mac feeling those cats their breakfast.

DisneyLife, hope you are sleeping late today. Hope your kids are doing well with school. Both my kids put their later first class on Tuesday and Thursday, so they don’t have to get up early every school day. Slackers. LoL

Ah yes, with no Schumi or Julie saying their lush breakfast meals, boring mine will be told.

To remedy the no milk situation, did a quick grocery run. Score, the little grocery store that carries a favorite dairy line of milk, had the size I wanted. And, coleslaw, as looked good, and goes well with steak, Ooh, Tastykakes are on sale. So are fancy chocolate covered pretzels. So more than milk was had. Thus, not only will my boring cereal be eaten, but a tandycake may supplement it.

Thus, have that totally perfect Thirsty Thursday, homies.

Time for breakfast. Good Morning everyone.

 

[Realfoodfans]

Just sat down Lynne so apologies no morning greetings!

Thursday and Friday Em is also going to work school Breakfast Club so as her school is in the Peak District she will have to leave us very early. We are down to 2 cars between us so I am the one walking to primary school and Grandpa taking car to drop J at high school.

L was a little shocked at walking both ways but we had a fun chat and story on the way and the walk was no problem.

As I am going to meet my friend for brunch tomorrow and hairdresser appointment I came home today and got dinner in the slow cooker then we both set to with some cleaning and laundry. Grocery shopping arrived too.

Nearly 1pm now so a sit down with large cups of tea and cold bbq chicken - then Kev is taking Louie out and I want to wash down the front porch. It gets very dusty quickly as the driveway is another area of the house renovation that was not done.

 

[macraven]

Good morning homiest!

two more days until the weekend begins.

(not that it helps me as everyday is a weekend)
Lol

you all will get to that period some day.

no rain today but usual weather
Weekend here looks like rain.

I heard Julie is gonna take us with her for brunch tomorrow.

hope the food is delicious!

 

[Lynne G]

Good Afternoon, Julie. No apologies needed. Life goes on, and sometimes I don’t check the Dis. Yeah, from Elementary to Senior High, my kids were walkers. We live that close to the schools, from almost 2 miles, to almost a mile. Our Junior High is the furthest away. And yay, lush food, hair fabulous, enjoy your brunch tomorrow. Sounds nice to catch up with a friend over a meal.

Ah breakfast was over, looking for more food. Off to search.

Hi Mac. Hope you are doing well. Sharing the rain, I see. Though right now, the sun is shining. See we are still in Summer, and do that ah so nice out, ooh getting cloudy and windy, yeah, here comes the pouring rain in the afternoon. Then 20 or so minutes later, sun out like nothing happened, including not lowering the temps. Though as with all cold fronts arriving, our next two days will be in the 70’s. Will feel cool to us. We have had a hot Summer. Rainy one too.

Why yes, I am joining Julie. Refreshing the tea in my cup. Tea drinker I am.

 

[mckennarose]

Morning all,

We got some sad news last night. My daughter's boyfriend has a friend who lives in Pittsburgh but originally from our area. This poor kid took his own life yesterday. My dd's boyfriend had tried to help him a few months ago, going to Pittsburgh and working with his parents to get him help, which he did get committed at the time. But once he got out he didn't continue with help. DD's boyfriend and their friend-group are devastated. I feel sick to my stomach about it. He was only 24.

Good news from dd's university is that their cases only increased by 18 between Monday and Wednesday. They have 206 listed as "recovered", meaning finished isolation and 80 currently having it in isolation. @Lynne G and @Charade67, it's interesting to hear what your schools are doing now too. I saw in today's paper that Uni of Scranton is now getting hit hard and will have to make decisions in the next two days on how to contain it. They have over 200 in isolation from exposure, and an additional 64 new cases. I don't know what their actual count is.

Gloomy looking outside, but warm. It rained during the night. Feeling blah today anyway, so the weather fits.

 

[Lynne G]

Oh my goodness, sending sympathy and prayers and comfort to DD’s friend’s family. Way too many young people being lost. Sad news, McK.

Yes, McK, is interesting how different colleges and universities deal with the virus. For little one’s size of school, I assume there would be no way to totally stop the virus from spreading. There are so many kids (30,000) not just staying in and around the school, but almost as many commute.

Hehe, found those chocolate pretzels.

 

[macraven]

My local schools are doing ok and not much issues with grade schools
Hope it stays that way.

I know there are some hard hit areas and it’s a concern for all.
Virus can spread quickly if peeps forget cdc recommendations.

Pass some of those chocolate pretzels Lynn down my way!

 

[Charade67]

Good morning everyone. I am at work and the phones aren’t working. I can neither make nor receive calls. I am waiting for the phone company to call me back on my boss’ cell.

You must be dedicated to your job as not many would go to work if they had been sick most of the night.

I wouldn’t say dedicated. I just wanted to make sure my paycheck wasn’t too small this week.

And for me, why do you need a long weekend after having a three day one last week?

We always need a long weekend.

L was a little shocked at walking both ways but we had a fun chat and story on the way and the walk was no problem.

I have only once ever lived in a place where walking to school was an option. Our last house was behind B’s middle school. She could have walked, but the area was so rocky and overgrown. I didn’t think it was safe. I always drove her to school since I was on my way to work at that time anyway.

We got some sad news last night. My daughter's boyfriend has a friend who lives in Pittsburgh but originally from our area. This poor kid took his own life yesterday. My dd's boyfriend had tried to help him a few months ago, going to Pittsburgh and working with his parents to get him help, which he did get committed at the time. But once he got out he didn't continue with help. DD's boyfriend and their friend-group are devastated. I feel sick to my stomach about it. He was only 24.

Oh how awful. Prayers for the family and friends of this young man.

Hehe, found those chocolate pretzels.

Send some this way please

I fear this is going to be a very long day.

 

[Lynne G]

Ack, hope the work phones do work again, Charade. Yep, look forward to my 3 day weekends.

 

[Robo56]

Good morning Sans family



Quick drop in.

Love your pictures, they are indeed stunning trees.....and I need that purple hat in the first image!!!!! I absolutely love that! Your sisters creation is magnificent too.

Morning Schumi Almost didn’t decorate for Halloween, but couldn’t pass up celebrating one of my favorite holidays.

Here’s the witches hat my sister made for me yesterday



It goes with my tree.

oh wow I love your decorations! You may have read previously the GC will not be here for Halloween so we have booked to go down to Devon for a few days. Not going to do our usual decorations but you’ve inspired me to do the hallway! Glad the memorial went well for you all.

Thank you......glad to be an inspiration to getting you decorating. It just seems to make things more cheerful and helps to change the vibe in the home......the trees and lights just make me smile.

I let my hair go silver about 18 months ago. Wash with purple shampoo and never had so many comments on how many others like it. Total strangers comment on the colour.

You are brave. Probably healthier too not using the dyes. Someday I will just go gray too.

Robo, awesome trees and wreaths. So colorful. Nice memorial. Happy that sister came. Yep, your countdown is ticking away too.

Older sister and younger sister coming by today to make more wreaths. It’s so nice to hang with my sisters. We are all getting older and the time spent with them is treasured for sure.

Good bye tree and no more spiny balls to pick up each day!
thanks Schumi for showing my pic for me

The dreaded gum trees.......they are a mess to deal with. We have two in our back yard.

And I will be excited, if we get a free day time walk through of some of the HHN houses. Hope those rumors are true during my stay.

First I heard of this....were did you get information that they might do day walk throughs of houses? That would be awesome.

Nice surprise nephew & his wife coming up from London at the weekend so coming here for tea and cakes on Saturday afternoon. He is my only one and much loved. We miss him being so far away.

Sounds like a lovely gathering of family. Enjoy your visits.

and will make a Victoria sponge

What is a Victoria sponge?

I'm not ready for white hair either. I probably have a head full of it now. You may recall that my hair is very dark brown, so that white really stands out.

Yep.....my gray sticks out with my dark brown hair too.

Great news!

I was relieved.

We got some sad news last night. My daughter's boyfriend has a friend who lives in Pittsburgh but originally from our area. This poor kid took his own life yesterday. My dd's boyfriend had tried to help him a few months ago, going to Pittsburgh and working with his parents to get him help, which he did get committed at the time. But once he got out he didn't continue with help. DD's boyfriend and their friend-group are devastated. I feel sick to my stomach about it. He was only 24.

So devastating for his family. Prayers for his family and your daughter, her boyfriend and their group of friends.



Count downs for all those going to Universal.........fingers and toes crossed no hiccups in any travel plans.

Need to get scootin the girls will be here shortly.

Have a wonderful Thursday everyone.

 

[Lynne G]

Yay! Sister time be had by Robo. Enjoy the great crafting you are doing. Totally enjoy Halloween decor.

 

[Charade67]

Here’s the witches hat my sister made for me yesterday

Cute hat!

Comcast says they are working on an outage in our area and they expect it to be resolved by 12:30. I think I will take an early lunch.

 

[macraven]

Robo you have talented sisters.

The hat looks like it was professional done, like in big $ at the specialty stores

 

[DisneyLifePapioNe]

Eek, what was DisneyLife doing at that early morning and being so happy? Er, rather not know that. I was happily sleeping until about an hour later than the time of your post.

Ah yes, the time of the week, every one is thirsty, including the weather. Did wake up around 2 this morning, yeah, that’s rain. Went back to sleep. Rainy Thursday, with Flood Warnings given. Tea for me.
So,

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Ah yes,
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And for me, why do you need a long weekend after having a three day one last week? Why yes? I need it. And so, three better days are indeed coming. Very short week. Check.

Ah, another dark, before sunrise work day has already begun. Early riding homie. Yep.

Hope Mac’s midnight snack was tasty, and still sleeping, with Mr.Mac feeling those cats their breakfast.

DisneyLife, hope you are sleeping late today. Hope your kids are doing well with school. Both my kids put their later first class on Tuesday and Thursday, so they don’t have to get up early every school day. Slackers. LoL

Ah yes, with no Schumi or Julie saying their lush breakfast meals, boring mine will be told.

To remedy the no milk situation, did a quick grocery run. Score, the little grocery store that carries a favorite dairy line of milk, had the size I wanted. And, coleslaw, as looked good, and goes well with steak, Ooh, Tastykakes are on sale. So are fancy chocolate covered pretzels. So more than milk was had. Thus, not only will my boring cereal be eaten, but a tandycake may supplement it.

Thus, have that totally perfect Thirsty Thursday, homies.

Time for breakfast. Good Morning everyone.

Only the youngest is in school now 6th grade!!!

The 2 oldest both grads with no college currently.

BLT’s for lunch coming up!!!





Mck that is very sad news.......sorry to hear that.