Darlyne, send Jan an email to go to the bottom of one of these messages where it says to contact webmaster. She can contact Jenny, and maybe get a new password or at least find out how to get one or locate her old one.
It has been so many years since I have been back there, I’m sure many changes have taken place, Jackie. I believe it may be 20 years – doesn’t seem possible, but I don’t think I have been back since right after my mother died. If you ever see Gloria Selnes say hello to her from me.
I now have a new password, thanks to you .
I just finished reading a book by Barbara Delinsky called “The Secret Between Us”. It is a story about a young daughter driving with her mother on a permit on a stormy night. A pedestrian is hit and the mother decides to say she was driving in order to protect her daughter. The book has an interesting look at family dynamics. Makes me wonder how I would have acted under the same circumstances, especially since Mother had to make a quick decision about her role and there was no turning back. I would recommend it – more so than a lot of Delinsky’s that I have read.
i also have trouble with hearing. i can hear pretty good one on one, but if more than one person speaks at one time i can not understand what they saying. to listen television, i have the gadget T.V.EARS. It works fine and i bought it at Radio Shack. Without my hearing aid i am lost and they are soo expensive. you all have a happy holiday my friends. jenny C.
Hi Darlyne: I haven’t been on GGOBIT for quite awhile because they won’t accept my password. I have used about four different ones and I always get the same message.
I wonder why – any ideas? I keep trying.
Wanted to tell you all about a hearing device I have used for my television that works wonders for me. You can even turn your audio control to “mute” and use the headphones to adjust sound. It is called “T V Listener” and you can find it by typing it in your search engine. The headset looks like a pair of earmuffs and there is an attachment you put on top of the t.v.. I had one for about
4 years and finally it wore out and I bought another. I believe is about $49 now – $10 higher than the first one I bought, but well worth it. Would you mind printing this in
GGOBIT for the others to see? Merry Christmas, everyone.
Jan in Idaho
I finally caught up with you all today, my sister and I drove to St Paul, for my grandaughter’s school Christmas Program, she attends a church school, so it had real Christmas messages. But Leah and I got caught in a small snow storm in the cities, a 30 minute drive from her son’s to my daughter’s too 2 hours and 45 min. Average speed about 5 miles an hour, bumper to bumper traffic, but thankfully all drove slowly, but we did see cars and wreckers here and there. Apparently some chose to drive faster, and it was slippery.
I’m writing Christmas cards, our middle son in law made labels for me a couple of years ago, but I haven’t tried to do it yet, just sending cards back to those we receive from, and I do have a printed letter, I’d much rather get them than just a name. Other wise, I wish I could know what’s in the books you are reading without turning the pages, maybe things will slow down after Christmas, I have resigned from our church council as of Dec 31st. I’ve heard about the Barb Kings. book and the Glass Castle author’s new book—maybe next year. I like your synopsises of books though, almost as good as reading them. Jacky
Jo your granddaughter is wise getting into the medical field. I hear that it is the place to go for jobs and something can always be found.
Happy anniversary everyone,in January. I will be heading for WI next week and will be there until after the New Year. My daughter lives in a rural area and sometimes INTERNET access is sketchy. I will keep my fingers crosses. I am reading Jeanette Walls Half broke Horses and enjoying it immensely. It is the story of her Grandmother who is the narrator. It starts out when they are living in a hut in West Texas. Walls wrote The Glass Castle.
I’m glad to hear some folks are settled. I have several pieces I plan to give to my daughter or my granddaughter but gdaughter has to have a job and then an apartment before she gets them. It’s been a year since she’s been here in CO and nothing on the horizon yet. She’s going to school for a position in the medical field and the classes are only like five or six weeks long. I don’t know what kind of a job she’d get with that small amt of training but apparently it’s a viable course of instruction. I can only say – do it quick. I’m tired of the crowdedness I have and I’m sure her Mom would like the stuff out of their house.
Pardon me while I vent!
Jo
PS. And yes, this is the g’daughter who is driving me all over the place, so I daren’t complain but to myself. 
Once again my sense of time has proved to be way off-track! Somehow years now slip by as quickly as months used to. Now that I’m pretty well settled in my new home, I’m beginning to take some time to read again. Have a lot to catch up on. It is so nice to come here and find familiar voices in the midst of a lot of change. Your situation sounds similar to mine, Jo. People seem friendly in general but so far have had little personal contact but it hasn’t been all that long. Hope to find some workable volunteer situation.
Candace
Say folks, do you realize that, come January, we will have had our 5th year in GGOBIT? In January we will be starting our 6th year.
How about that – who would have thought it when some of us left AOL. Friends remain friends, no matter what.
It has been a pleasure to meet all of you and to have stayed friends and correspondents for so long is wonderful.
Jo
Trouble with conversations and the TV do indeed bode well for hearing loss. I am fine one on one, or two on one but any more than perhaps 3 and forget conversation for me. My daughter and son-in-law both speak very softly so I’m just glad to have a ride to and from the hockey games. Visiting their house is generally better but not always.
As for closed captioning, what a blessing THAT is and yes, mine is on permanently. The Brits are very hard to understand. Emma Thompson said, while making that movie with Travolta and the presidency, that when she went back to her home, her face ached from using so much of it to speak in the American way. The Brits keep their words in their mouths and they don’t express much with their faces when talking.
I have a speaker phone, which I use most of the time so that I can wear my hearing aids. If that doesn’t work all that well, I take out the hearing aid and pick up the receiver. The phone also has a volume control which I use, too. I seldom use my cell phone, which I carry only for emergencies, since even tho’ it has a volume control, it still doesn’t get loud (or clear) enough to be of much benefit.
I would suggest a visit to an audiologist, get your hearing tested and go from there. Another clue, by the way, is – when you’re outside, can you hear the birds? If your answer is no, get your hearing tested.
Best of luck to all,
Jo
PS: Jerry, your msg had just been “saved”, not “published”. I published it for you.
Barbara Kingsolver has written a new novel which is as much history as fiction. It’s called “The Lacuna” and I’m enjoying it tremendously. Most of you know and love Ms. Kingsolver and have read her great novels. “Lacuna” is quite a big book and is about a boy who is half Mexican and half American. He grows up on an island off Mexz
Candace, I have trouble hearing some tv programs, especially the British ones and the actors seem to talk faster than they used to, or maybe it is just me. I use the closed captions when that happens.
Jerry, I didn’t know Kingslaver had a new book out and I sure will look for it, Right now there are many holds on the copies the library had. After the holidays I will put a hold on it. She is one of my favorite authors.
I started a post about this post but lost it somehow. Now I’ve lost the thread of what I was about this book so all I’ll say is I’m reading and enjoying it immensely. Barbara Kingsolver, in my estimation can do no wrong.
Huggz all,
Jerry
Jo, I’ve begun to have trouble hearing conversations on TV. In your experience, is this an early indicator of hearing loss? One friend’s voice is difficult to hear on the phone because her manner of speaking ranges in pitch more than some. I don’t have a problem hearing her in person but on the phone it is difficult to follow the variations in her pitch and cadence. When I don’t catch something said, until recently I’ve thought was not me–writing this, it may be denial. Drat!
Candace
Anything with butter and sugar is usually good, but the potato in the lefsa really makes it good.
Sounds rather good, actually.
Lefsa is a thin soft flat bread like a tortilla only made with mashed potatoes ,flour,and salt, I think. I never made it.just ate it. It is rolled out much bigger than a tortilla and it is eaten traditionally with butter, sugar and Cinnamon. I liked it with just butter. My sister ate it with turkey and cranberry sauce, rolled up of course.
What’s lefsa?
It is cold cold cold here in CO – imagine that! This morning, inside temp was 70 and the outside temp was 10. We in the midst now of a heat wave, the temp has jumped to 15. We had more snow Saturday; reached 8 inches of which I got 4. I am somewhat protected which is nice, BUT I’ve had snow on my balcony now for 3 weeks. The leftovers from the previous occasion was replenished. sigh.
I’ve been engrossed in Facebook’s popular FarmTown, FarmVille, Island Paradise, and an aquarium which name I don’t recall.
I’ve found that although the people here are very friendly, they don’t let newcomers in very easily. And, of course, my hearing which has worsened somewhat, contributes to my isolation…when they talk and I don’t hear them, it’s rather hard to communicate. I’m reading The Promise of Lumby and if you want a nice peaceful easy read and a good feeling for the characters, I can recommend the Lumby series. The first one, Lumby Lines, tells how and what Lumby was and is now. Each book is an entity unto itself, but they do follow each other.
And I’ve been rereading – for maybe the umpteenth time – the books by David Eddings; the first series of five is the Belgariad and the second series, also of five, is the Mallorean, finished off with Belgareth and then finally Polgara. He did write another about how he wrote what he wrote and fills in blanks for the reader. The series is science fantasy and has characters you’ll like, a good story line, and humor. The first book is Pawn of Prophecy.
Tomorrow my granddaughter Jenna will take me to Ft. Collins, up the road about 20 minutes and the county seat of Larimer Co., where I will have a trigger finger fixed. I’ll make an appt to have a second one worked on while I’m there…hopefully that can come this month also. The repair surgery is a breeze but oh boy! getting the local anesthetic (probably novacaine) into the hand hurts like a son-of-a-gun. I am looking forward to getting it fixed, but definitely NOT excited about the novacaine. Ah well – life’s little ups and downs.
Hope you are all warm, well fed and snug, not to mention healthy. No winter colds or flu or anything like that is necessary.
Jo
I have been on the library list for The Help “forever”. There are still about 40 ahead of me, so I may die before my name comes up. But myTBR list is quite full–most recent is Jeannette Walls’ new one—-Half Broke Horses. Her Glass Castle was GREAT, but I heard this one is not as good. Anybody read it?
JOY
Author is Kathryn Stockett.
A wonderful book!
Who was the author of The Help?
It was nice reading about everyone’s Thanksgiving. I also had a good day. Not too much family here, though. They will all be coming in for Christmas.
Jerry, last night I finished this book “The Help” that you recommended. What a good book! Thank you so much for telling me about it. I was able to download it onto my Kindle app on my iphone and read on it every free moment. There were a few times in the middle that I wasn’t sure I could continue. I dreaded what might happen to these courageous women; but it all turned out well in the end. As a matter of fact, a VERY satisfying ending.
Thanks again for telling me about it.
Hugs all around. Judith
Reading what you all did for Thanksgiving. I’m rather like Jerry – I may never eat again. The only leftover I got was the water the potatoes were cooked in; it is wonderful for soup. However, I won’t complain – they are the ones with all the company and I’m just me!!!!!!! LOL