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I agree, Darlyne, let’s do keep her. She’s right handy.

Thanks Julie. You are good to have around.

It may have been innocuous–but since no one has identified the poster, better to be safe than sorry. If I was wrong about this, the original poster can identify her/himself and try again without the password issue.

I don’t respond to those posts either. I would never give my password out that anyone can see.

I don’t know that poster either and I NEVER EVER respond to somthing like that — it usually ends up to be trouble.

Isn’t it lovely how our daughters (usually) and sons (sometimes) keep track of us!!! If we twitch instead of stitch, they want to know why. Bless ‘em.

Done w/computerizing today – giving hands a good rest.

Ciao all.
Jo

However, my Facebook account was hijacked and I had to reset my password, etc. I should have know when my daughter asked me what I was doing up at 1:07 AM? I’m never up at 1:07 AM.

Be on guard!

Hi, folks,

I wonder if anyone knows the person who posted the link. Please don’t give your password out. I am pretty sure this is a malicious spam but will wait a bit to delete it. In the meantime, don’t give any information, please!

Julie (Darlyne’s other daughter)

New block showed some messages but above said password was necessary. I put mine in and nothing happened. I clicked new message and it worked–so far.

Candace

About your husband’s illness, (glad he’s better) and your heat. Hearing over 100, makes me not mind our “cool” winters as much. Just wish they were shorter, and Jo, here’s a smile, I think. : )

And I do have another “mouse” story, a friend phoned last night to report on her husband, who is hospital with a new knee and let out a blood curdling yell!!!! A mouse ran under the sofa she was sitting near talking to me. She called this am to tell me the trap she set up—-worked. But i won’t go into any more details! Jacky

Gee whiz, Georgianna, I forgot that the machine made the smiley faces. If you can’t figure it out, holler.

is a colon, dash and right paren for smile, left paren for frown, a la or but I like the semi-colon better.

Do you wear glasses? I also like to add a < for a worry frown <:-( and a > for anger >:-(

It’s fun to play with all the different marks. ;-p a pipe :-0 surprise!!!

anyhow, I’m glad your hubby is back home and hope he gets it all together so you can quit worrying.

Jo

I was just getting ready to tell my mouse story. Oh, well.

My husband was taken to the hospital on Aug. 28. We had no idea what was wrong – just knew he truly wasn’t well. Discovered a lot of gall stones. He had laproscopic surgery on Aug. 31 and then a few days later went to a rehab facility. Came home on Sept.11. Life was and has been hectic. I think he feels better except he ate something that didn’t agree with him on Friday.

I noticed you mentioned weather. Our temps have been 100 degrees plus and today I think it is supposed to reach 110. I love fall and would really like to enjoy it. We visited our son in MN one year about this time of year and it was heavenly. I am grateful for A?C and have tried to inside. I put out trash cans before 7 this morning just so I would have to stay outside in the heat. I will run to the mailbox in a bit.

I must get busy but I love this group and appreciate all of you so very much.
Georgianna

PS I wanted to put a smiley face after Oh well. but I don’t know how. Can you help me?

Well, blow me down. phoning would be ever so much easier.

It’s a lot easier to just call them, toll free, if you are still unfamiliar with how to do it on the Kindle screen. They are very nice, understanding and will take care of it for you in a very short time.

I ordered wrong once too, Jenny, but found the place to cancel whatever it was I had ordered. I know you have to go to “My Account” to do that, but why pay for something you did wrong or don’t want.

“My Account” and then tell ‘em, you have an account (!) then go to “My Orders” or some such a wording.

Good luck. And isn’t reading great!

i love that kindle, but it is a little difficult to learn how to use it for me  twice now  i have ordered books and have been charged for because i used the wrong line.  but its ok, thats how  i learn.  but  i got hooked on reading again  and sit till midnight reading, then have trouble falling asleep.  its much cooler here this morning  feels almost too cool for me.  jenny

I watched that movie again last night with my Grandson. I had just seen it but wanted him to.
Sense I have seen it many times I figured I would do other stuff but ended up watching it all. I loved Robert Duvalle’s singing. I think he is an amazing actor.

Kindle is really quite easy to use once you get brave and try it. Getting more familiar with the site is really the key – as with everything else we do.

And I LOVE that I order a book and two minutes maximum, there it is.

Did I say Lew Wallace’s BEN HUR wasn’t wordy? Wash my mouth out (with ice cream please) cuz I lied. I speed read thru that too; the story is engrossing even if I DID see the movie and know how it comes out…

Was it Saltieri who said Mozart wrote too many notes? That works for authors too, substituting words for notes.

Have a good Sunday.

Jo

I got a compilation of Thomas Hardy Books (4) for $1.00 on my KIndle yesterday.

Thanks    pa  jo for letting me know how about getting books from  amazon,  i shall  order some.  i hope your windows are clean, mine needs a washing too, but so far  i am just waiting.  at the moment my screendoor to the patio is off the track and needs fixing,. the maintanace man was her once, but did not do a good job, it is still not working        JENNY from ALA

It started shortly after I got up at 6, and has been dripping ever since, would be more dreary, but a high friend and her husband came for lunch. They only live 50 miles away, but we don’t see them very often.

Darlyne, you would know Bonnie Jones who married an Alvarado guy names Pokzywinski, no spell check for that! It fun to go over old memories with someone who shares times past. Our kids are about the same age, but they have 7, and many, many grands and greats. We have only 8 grandchildren, no greats yet. Its a good day for reading, and our MN Twins have the night off. I’m a “fair weather” fan, so this year I’m watching. They will be in the playoffs.

And i won’t mention those small 4 legged animals again, but I do check my traps with trepidation. Snow will keep them out! Jacky

yes ma’am, Jenny, we hear and obey – no more mice talk friends unless you refer to the electronic kind. I don’t like the little beasties either.

Nothing to say – folks just came around to wash windows, a twice-a-year event. Can’t see that it mnade looking at the view much better.

You can get all the old basic books, Jenny. I got three Jules Verne books, the two Lew Wallace wrote (Ben Hur and The Prince of India; Billy Boyle: A World War II nystery. And so many many of the old favorites. I am thoroughly enjoying Ben Hur. Much better written than the two Verne books I read. Wallace describes but he doesn’t write in a two-page long sentence such as Verne wrote. I suppose that was the thing when Verne was writing but oh boy is it tedious to read. I found myself skipping a LOT to get back to his story.

I believe that some of Jane Austen’s books are also free. The best thing I can tell you is just go to amazon.com, click on the Kindle store and go from there. If you aren’t on the free books section, some place you can type in free books and it will take you there.

Good luck.

ONce upon a time, actually when I still lived at home, we were in a fairly old frame house, near an open field. Mice were a big problem. Mom used D-con, and one or more of the mice got into the walls and died, and you talk about smell. Barf. Awful, and just went on seemed like forever (I guess till the carcass totally dried up). I used to go into the back yard, with my BB gun, and watch them travel into our storeroom where we kept our dog food, and as they passed the opening in the framework, Pow. I think I killed over a dozen in one day. Living near an open field was certainly not conducive to a mouse-less environment!! LOL

Our leaves started turning in July. In fact I think we lost many fairly new trees because of lack of water and heat. We have had seven months of above normal temperatures,

Jacky, De-con works because if the mouse got in, he can get out. i have never had a problem. Besides they are so small they would probably just dry up without notice.

I am reading Lowboy. It is our library book group pick about a mentally ill young man who escapes to the NY subway and hides and thinks he has to save the world. I am just getting into it but it is getting interesting. (I can’t spell Schizophrenia) which is what he has. The spell check just spelled it. Yay! I am also listening to a book called the Girls of Murder City. It is the book that the show Chicago was made from. I loved that show. I hadn’t realized it was the for runner of that show but when listening, thought, “this is familiar”. I then read the cover.

I caught 3, one at a time. with peanut butter on a reg trap, complained to our neighbor, who is a carpenter (named Carpenter) and he filled some cracks in our block foundation with a gold foam. I thought the problem was fixed, just said so to my husband yesterday, checked the traps this am and there was another small mouse. So I may try your D con, Darlyne. I worry that with a poisin they will die and smell if they can’t get out again. I wish I had a cat, but Clive doesn’t like pets, and they are kind of a problem when you travel.

Anyway, I did get some new traps that you hardly have to touch any thing in getting rid of the body. I feel they are so filthy.

I got two Ted Dekker books from our library and bought The Girl Who Played With Fire, by Stieg Larrson. I found the second half of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo interesting, the first half was rather dull. Maybe we’ve talked about this Swedish author who died rather young.

Sugar Beet harvest is started, a friend’s son got his left hand in a wood splitter, was flown to Minneapolis for surgery, a blood vessel moved from his wrist to his hand to get a blood supply to the fingers that have pins in them now. Our son and many neighbors are going to dig and harvest his beets this weekend. He has a wife and two little girls, and I’;m sure is relieved and thankful and hopefully will heal quicker without the worry of farm work not getting done.

Our tree leaves are turning gold and rust, we don’t have red leaves here in the Red River Valley, but they are pretty, anyway, I like our seasons, just wish our winters were a few weeks shorter.

Happy Birthday, Jo, they seem to come faster every year, I’ll be 3/4 of a century in Nov and husband will be one year short of 80 in Dec.

Jacky