Puzzle

This is my puzzle ...I was working on music sheets at the piano. I shuffled them a bit, reorganized and did remove some from the area...but now no matter how many times I retrace my steps, check each area in question....there is one sheet missing. I have looked inside the top of my piano...where the hammers are and I've pried open the bottom section. So rather than be frustrated...I redid the sheet,with a defiant air, I'm sure ..and right now I have a trap set. I put the finished sheet in the same place where I last saw the other one....and I'm waiting for the paper thief

Me or Dorie

Edie's been filling me in on the characteristics of introverts( me) and extroverts. Today as I greeted an acquaintance on the sidewalk in town, she stopped to share that she and her husband had just been talking about me the other night...saying what a nice woman I was....(and that they didn't see me out around much. Imagine! I had a surge of elation or whatever..but now I'm thinking that he must have me mixed up with Dorie..(extrovert)....but they did say Garry's wife..Hmmm

Being Erica

I don't watch this program now but what I got from it was the conclusion that things aren't always as they seem...when you're looking back and thinking about what you did or didn't do. I also tuned into Wayne Dwyer in the middle of the night once and heard the same admonition...if you don't know for sure ..then don't be having negative conclusions. Try having a positive assumption. Neither one of them may be right but at least you won't be messing up your mind with negativity. I should have a scripture verse at my finger tips for that.

This being said I got a thank you card ...for being me I guess????? I'm not even sure of the sender's last name....but I was warmed by it...and puzzled...hmmm

Cooking

Think it's got something to do with school starting. I tore open a brand new package of loose leaf and revamped my binder of recipes.From there I got a tiny urge to do something different in the culinary area. I don't know how it's going to work..but here's what I did off the top of my head as they say. My Evelyn recipe would read...Brown the steak (debatable description) on both sides and put in a pan ....Take the pan to the sink and run some water in on top of it. Squeeze about 5 squirts out of the ketcup bottle....3 squirts out of the mustard bottle....2 slurps out of the maple syrup jug and put in the over about an hour an a half before supper/dinner. We'll see.

Anybody know any other recipes this easy :o)

Changing times

Just think I'd better write something on here before I forget how to do it.....and to see if my readers are still around. On Juanice's urging I'll share my happy thought of the day. Coming down the hallway in our house the sun shone from one end to the other and I had a great feeling of thankfulness that it wasn't a hospital corridor I was seeing.

Can anyone tell me how to stir up a enjoyment ...tolerance even...of cooking? Even a cook book for a new bride would be my speed.

Gloves

Is anybody still out there? I'm just back from a jaunt to Springhill...on a warm sunny afternoon. I parked at Foodland and walked to the Bank...and there on the sidewalk was a lady's white glove. That brought back my memories of High School Graduations (right across the street at the old theatre) when we had to wear white glove with our white dresses.Or was that just Edie's class? I remember that Edie forgot hers which meant her whole class would have to take theirs off. The class was lining up.The ceremony was minutes away.In desperation she sent me to stand at the door of the theatre and stop the first lady I saw with white gloves. Then I had to ask this perfect stranger if I could borrow them.Hmm Why is is that so many memories of my youth are not pleasant ones?

For whatever reason I am going through a stage of having all my things in order....be it the program on Altzheimers that I saw the other night or the idea of someone having to make sense of my stuff if I'm not here...Here are my sheet sets appropriately labelled. And by the way ..who would ever throw out a tube of toothpaste that had even enough for just a couple of brushings?
Remember when we were kids and we got to use baking soda if the bathroom shelf ran out of tooth paste?

I have to try and get this straight.(this is the grandson who can't believe he's ever going to like girls)... Connor came in from playing to report that the teeter totter board had hit him in the groin area. He said "Now I don't think my wife will be able to have babies". I asked him if the impact made him bend over and cry and he replied that it hadn't. So I told him I thought his wife would be able to have babies. And he said "Well, I'm happy that my wife will be able to have babies but I'm not happy that I'm gonna have a wife"

Cooking cookie

This is a poor portrayal of Mom's utensils...but who can remember Mom cooking one cookie only at the beginning of her baking session.? Would probably make a good object lesson of some kind. She just came to my mind yesterday as I had altered the recipe (hmmm) and needed to find out if it were going to flatten too much. Flatten ...that brings to mind the mouse/mole I found under the mat when I was cleaning...Poor little thing squashed flatter than a pancake as they say.

Love

Do you ever feel a bubble of love come from within...the strongest emotion humans can experience.? Maybe it doesn't last very long...My wise message today it that I believe it's the tiniest little preview of Heaven that we have.Imagine it multiplied a zillion times. I'm trusting there we will be saturated with love, light, and music. Love you guys and Jill.

Diet

Anyone over ...let's say 60 maybe...that doesn't know that there are 44 calories in an orange and 60 in an egg...? And how come? Because we grew up when diets were the in thing....and girdles and garters.

Upkeep

Dorie and I really apppreciate getting the hand me downs of nieces who go for fine quality bras....but we're having a hard time handling the upkeep of these items which involves hand washing with Zero every second day.It's the most disciplined part of our life ....or it would be if we did it..Hmmm

Monumental Day

Thought this was going to be hard to do ...just straight foward stuff. Then I got Craig to check it over....feeling very thankful to have a son to keep me on track. Groan...what comes next?

Choices

Things aren't always as they seem. You should have seen the syrup Garry put on his porridge.Hmm I was feeling quite righteous about my breakfast (there's a waffle under there) until I found out I'd cleaned up real whipped cream. Anyway a visit to Cora's was a very special time out while on our visit to Moncton.

Jeans and pain

I think I did two things in one shot. I absolutely proved to mayself that low rise jeans (just a hint below the waistline )was a big mistake. Thankfully they were on sale and can be worn in some instances. But what a relief to get back into those appropriate for a 65 year old.

The other thing...Dr. Oz suggested we all let ourselves experience abit of pain....so we can get used to it.I'm not sure if this is simply putting up with something without getting it lined up the way you want it..I should listen to that program again.

These words are fluff compared to the disasters in the world..hmm

How to?

Did my devotions today....and meanwhile the other half of my brain was making out a grocery list, writing down songs for the choir, listening for the clothes to finish the cyle ,planning a trip to the bank and figuring out how to sponge wash my winter jacket. What is the answer ?

Fresh picture

Edie says that if I'm, not going to do much blogging I should put a different picture on to replace the dirty dish cloth and the wooden spoon that the mice chewed.Hmmm

We've been celebrating Mom's 97th birthday for a few days and will continue today.. What do you call it when things are happy and sad at the same time...bittersweet maybe.

Mice

I've probably lost my audience due to inactivity so I feel like I'm just writing to empty space. Since November my extra time is centered around hugging my latest grandchild but I don't post pictures of children on my site so you can't see those 2 little girls.
And you can't really see the mice that I've declared war on but here's a pic of how troublesome they can be. .My last victim was caught by only one foot/leg and he took off with the trap. Hmm Craig found him amidst my "garbage" and set him loose on the other side of the road. Next day we found his little frozen body.Sympathy creeps in strange places doesn't it?

"One of the things nobody tells you about aging is that it's a nice change from being young."

I think it's a good place to be in life. 43 years of marriage under your belt and candles by the bathtub.

Secrets

Just needing help with cooking. There must be something between buying prepared food and cooking up an old fashioned dinner from scratch. I just read about a 3 minute fruit cobbler that involved 3 graham wafers stacked, topped with a quarter cup of apple sauce...microwaved and Cool Whip added to finish up. hmmm That's a start. I'm thinking there's a way to freeze dollops of mashed potatoes so at meal time it's a cinch to add that to your plate. (think you add an egg or something) I'd start a cookbook for Seniors if the light ever came on for me.
Found an interesting guy at Foodland yesterday. He was deliberating over how many tomatoes to buy to do for one meal. Maybe his name was Sheldon. He wanted his food to come out even. His aim was to have no leftovers sitting around spoiling. ..I said "So you can't think about tomorow?" and he replied .."No...it's steak and pototoes tomorrow".
Anyway back to the kitchen....groan.