Hi Y'all,
Wow, y'all are just so great!
It really does help to know we'll have a lot of visiting to do, if we have to get out of town! I can't even begin to express my appreciation of everyone's offers to put us up. Hopefully this time around we won't need to take y'all up on it!!!
The lastest updates on Dean are looking better for us & our Texas friends too! Not so great for Jamaica & Mexico though. This is going to be a really bad storm for where ever it hits.
Predicted to be a Category 4 hitting Jamaica & a Cat 5 hitting Mexico.
Kathy we really are going to have to plan a road trip to visit all of our GREAT DIS-girlfriends!!! Wendie's lobstahs are calling me! (With teensy weensy little screeches!
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I want you all to head in our direction, but I hope that the trip will be for a vacation and not because you have to get out of Dodge!
I have been trying to reach a friend in Jamaica and I can't get through. He is not right on the shore. I hope that the reason his VM is full is because he took his family and headed towards the mountains. We have another friend who lives on the shore and there is no way to reach him. I am very worried. When I brought the men back to their house today one of their coworkers had just gotten off the phone from home. He said his wife said that the shy was very dark and there was a lot of thunder and lightening. He was very worried for his family. Please pray, these men are far from home and they have left their wives and children behind.
Nancy 
What a awful day you had. That is a very hard thing to do.
It was a bad day. Buddy said he remembered having to take his Trixie and he never forgot how that felt. She just kept looking at him with her beautiful brown eyes.
Please disregard all the dirty dishes in the background.
Sweetie, in my house dirty dishes in the background of anything are part of the decor
Ross' play went great yesterday..it was to cold and windy to eat outside at the bistro last night, so we went to the local blues club instead...which worked out well..between the margarita's and the music, conversation was simple and small which made it easier with the inlaws,lol. Though the women is quite annoying, as she can't handle one small rum and coke and gets obnoxious, not funny...but the conversation was kept off of money and grandma...maybe cause Kris was there too??? After we went over for a bit and Kris visited with his grandmother....the dementia is so bad...with Kris' grandfather we dealt with alzheimers.....this is so different, yet so similiar too...just plain sad either way.................
Congrats to Ross! I'm glad that it went well
I feel so badly for your family situation. Alzheimer's is one of the worst nightmares. If you talk to any of the seniors they are really not afraid of anything....but this disease. It robs a person of everything that they are and returns only panic and uncertainty. Thankfully GM has you both, your visits really do make a difference, even if you aren't able to see it.
ALSO, I know a secret about the upcoming trip that Laura does not know! Obviously I can't tell you about it here, since she reads and posts here, but now she knows there is a secret! But I am NOT telling!
(unless you pm me, and you are not Laura!)
Now you know that you can tell us, we'll keep that little secret
I've never heard of bluegill. Where did you fish? Bluefish is an ocean fish common here in the Northeast in the summer. Its taste can be fairly strong, as it is an oily fish, but the one Liam brought home was so fresh, the taste was mild and really good. Even Liam ate some. My family is hoping he goes out and catches another one...or even better, a striped bass. YUM. And my mom did give me a bag full of plastic gloves for any future fish guttings.
Bluefish is really strong most of the time. I have not cooked it in years but when I used to cook it I soaked it in milk first and that seemed to remove that "fishy" taste.
I buy doubles sometimes cause I like the presents so much I keep one set for Me
Well today we did well and are done for a week. I am not sure how it happened but we had a gazillion people there. Not really, but Buddy cannot turn down anyone looking for work so we had three women and one of their sons along with the regular crew. We got done earlier that expected but Buddy hung around because their ride did not show up and I had to take people in the opposite direction. Erica helped me make chicken salad again and we put in on Bollillo rolls. I brought Little Debbies for a sweet after. Dan brought his big cooler filled with all kinds of soft drinks along with the water so it was kind of picnic like.
Tonight Marisa picked up fried chicken with mashed potatoes and potato salad. The only thing I "made" was cucumbers and tomatoes
. Tomorrow I will get back in the groove. I was sick of standing over a stove with only chicken salad or egg salad to show for it!
My NOLA friends I am so glad that you are not in the path. Stay safe!
. They spent every day for the past ten years together and he was lost without her.
To give you an idea, I've known for SIX WEEKS so far without telling you! 
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