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Well, y’know it wouldn’t be so irritating if they were consistent. I think that’s what bothers me the most. My daughter says I ‘get pissy’ and I really do. I have to take off my shoes, they take my cane, true they do offer to help me but they are no help cuz they don’t know what I want. So yeah, I DO ‘get pissy.’

Change the subject cuz my bp rises!

Pretty today – 62 deg when my feet finallyt hit the floor. Will be nice, I’ve been cold most of the day the last two weeks or so. Good thing I’m not too breakable!

Take care, y’all.

I always get patted down when going through security because of my pacemaker and fake knees. The last time they searched my suitcase because of an unusual tooth paste. When he was looking at it. I told him it was under six ounces. Otherwise I think he would have kept it as they usually don’t accept toothpaste unless it is that little tube. On Southwest I had to put away my knitting on take off and landing but not on other airlines. They also put my purse in the overhead and other airlines don’t do that. I haven’t flown Southwest for a while so maybe they have changed.

I don’t fly often, although I’ve gone twice this year, so frequent flyer miles are a bit of a dream. I do enjoy traveling – had a really itchy foot at one time. Now I’m happy to stay at home. One reason is that the TSA folks just irritate me no end. Most of them are very polite but every now an again . . . . .

And the rules – don’t carry over from one airport to the other. Leaving Denver, I didn’t have to take off my shoes. Leaving Seattle, taken ‘em off. One airport says yes, another says no. Consistency is NOT a key factor with that organization.

Temp outside is 68, warmest it’s been in a week or more. Daughter Suzanne said they turned on their furnace but the daughter Debbie didn’t – she spends her days too warm. She figures it’s menopause but won’t take anything for it so everyone else is cold while she’s opening doors and windows!

Had a lovely Mother’s Day at daughter D house. Her daughter Missy flew up from San Diego for the weekend so the whole family went there. Daughter S, husband Paul and her daughter Jenna came, Paul’s sister, BIL and g’son came AND a longtime friend of Debbie and his wife and two kids came also. It was a VERY full house. But it was fun.
Also noisy.

So – time to get off this infernal machine and do something good. I’ve been reading a book of Agatha Christie’s mystery stories, mostly short stories.

Keep warm or cool, as the case may be. But have good days.
Jo

This book by Amy Walden (it may be Waldren) was my library group pick. It is a novel about the submissions for the 9/11 memorial. The jury had a hard time deciding because one of the best was submitted by an American citizen who was a Muslim. There was much truth to this book, and much racial tension. I found the book boring and only read half of it and gave up. Some thought it a great book and some agreed with me. I did go beyond the 50 page rule because of the book group but only because of that.

We finally have some sun and it is warming up again. Guess I will go for a walk. Bridge here tonight.

Problems have kept me off a good bit of the time. It hasn’t been the same since the lightning strike months ago and connected now wirelessly.

Jo, it sounds like you need to look into frequent flier miles to spend time with Ikey. Finally have had enough rain to replenish my rainwater storage which at one point was down to about a gallon. Now I have five big containers full. It isn’t enough yet to lift watering restrictions or the lake levels to normal but it is a welcome respite. The high 90 temps in April make today’s damp 80 feel downright chilly.

Candace

what happened to everyone? Lots of posts until I did one and Jacky is the only one who has posted. Did everyone have an attack of something?

No news but boy, I miss Master Ikey and his welcoming smile every morning.

We made a fast trip to Kansas City for our oldest grand daughter’s Master’s degree ceremony. History and Religion. I’m on Facebook now, and am slowly getting used to it. It cuts into my reading time, but since several family members who live away from us, are on it, I enjoy it.

I’m almost through readiing A Woman’s Place, by Lynn Austin. The story of 4 women working in a defense plant during the second world war, and the real beginning of gals in the work place. Also Ravi Zacaria’s Deliver Us From Evil. I listen to him on the radio early week day mornings.

No flood in Oslo this spring, its been so delightful! Jacky

Holy cow, folks, it’s 45 deg out there! This is May already, Mother Nature. And it’s rainy also, but that’s allowed since we here in town had minimal snowfall. Wasn’t true in many other places however.

I’m back from Washington State, granddaughters and g’g'son Ikey, who charmed his gramma from the get-go. I’d walk into the family room area right off the kitchen, he’d look up and see that yeah, it was me and grin all over his face. What a way to be greeted in the morning.

We had a great time, went out to eat a lot, Pike Place Market to see the guys throw the fish and also the original Starbucks (I wasn’t disappointed), a tulip farm and everything was in bloom (tulip festival going full-bore), winery with absolutely superb wines and ditto for the brewery we visited. I am more than willing to go back again!

And I didn’t read but maybe three words!

Should have read this before I posted.

Jo’s daughter found out that there was no problem with that email so we are forgetting about it.

I don’t know if this is still true but her daughter, D. G. Fulford co authored a book with Phyllis and she works (ed) for the Los Angeles Daily News and her brother Bob Greene worked for the Chicago Tribune. They could probably be reached through an e-mail to that news organization.

I would like to get a flat screen but am putting it off because I have a large old fashioned entertainment center with an area too small for a big TV. It would mean getting rid or it and a ton of stuff in the center. I am basically lazy so am putting off getting a new TV. I am not a big TV watcher, The only sit com I watch is The Big Bang Theory.

The biggest news is that I am the proud owner of a 37″ flat screen TV and I love it. Takes some getting used to but that’s OK. My other one was having problems with color and both daughter and SIL thought a new TV was in order. Got it at SAM’s for some $325, not a bad price at all. Recommend flat screen TVs, yes I do.

My daughter found that there was no problem about the Wede email and so I have not bothered her family about it and we can also not worry about it.

Time speeds by so fast, it is unbelievable. I HATE when it all catches up me! ;(

thanks for that blurb about Smiley’s book “A Private Life.” He sounds like a real deadbeat. I’ll take your recommendation.

I LOVE Rutherford’s books, Jerry. SARUM was marvelous as was LONDON. Wasn’t the Russia book titled TREES? I have a couple of them on my Kindle but can’t remember which ones off the top of my head. It has holes (my head that is) and I think my brains are leaking out.

I’m trying to remember the name of that book about the man who joined a wolf pack. He didn’t exactly join it; he worked for the Canadian version of the US Department of the Interior and was asked to see about the wolf situation. He found a pack of wolves and so moved quite close to them including part of their trail. He made no other overt moves and they accepted him. Farley Mowat – that’s his name and if I don’t think about it, maybe I can come up with the name of the book. I read it twice and discovered new things the second time around.

I’m getting ready to fly to Seattle to visit my g’daughters/mothers to son Isaac, born in July. He has HUGE blue eyes and a really risque smile, the little flirt. I can’t wait to see him and them. I leave Sunday and come back a week from Sunday.

Hope all is well with all of you and the weather isn’t causing you problems. I’m afraid the summer will be hotter than usual since we had the early spring. Bah.

Take care all,
Jo

I think this is J Picoult’s latest. It is about a man who leaves his family for two years and ;joins a wolf pack for two years. That he is able to is a little unbelievable but the main character is based on a real person although I don’t know if he joined a wold pack like that. The facts about wolves I found very interesting. There is the usual family angst and a big part about if the plug should be pulled when the man is in a bad car accident. I did enjoy this book.

Glad you’re back, Jo. You were missed. Spring is here in Oslo, too. First year in 5, that we are not an island, the fields are drying and Trees are faintly lime green. Jacky

I’m deep in the middle of this tome, “New York” by Edward Rutherford and am totally enrapt with it. The author writes a lot like James Michener, whom I have always loved. Some of you will remember Rutherford as the author of great books; “Sarum”, “London” and one about Russia. He can fulfill all of your needs for history and fiction.
Huggz all,
Jerry

I just finished listening to A private Life by her. It is a bout a young girl who married a captain in the navy. Takes place in MO in post civil war and goes to the start of WW11.He was supposed to be a brilliant astronomic but turned out to be a nut as far as I was concerned. She was disappointed in him. They end up in Northern California and are there when her Japanese friends are taken away, Her husband turns them in. I wouldn’t recommend this book.

Jo has turned up! I can well believe she can’t believe it has been so long since she last checked in here. It is so hard to believe how much faster time goes by the older I get–am I the only one? Not long ago I told someone I moved from Houston “almost two years ago.” Wrong! It is almost three years.

Glad I have not received the WedeWede email. I’ll go back through old notes and see if I can find an address for her daughter. I think I did have it at one time.

Candace

It is good to see you here Jo.
I did get the
Wede e-mail and couldn’t make sense of it so deleted it. It could have been a virus but it hasn’t affected my computer.

I have read a few of the Jesus shoes stories but put it down as I have so much other to read. Right now I am reading Lone Wolf by J Picoult and finding it a page turner although a little over the top about the Father and the wolves. It is fiction. I also have read part of a new Jane Hamilton novel and will probably finish it but now can’t even remember the name of it or what its about.

It is a nice day here and I have been to the post office, the bank and the grocery store and will soon be off for a bridge game.

Don’t tell me everybody keeled over from shock!!!!!!!

Can anyone tell me when I posted in here last? I went back to November so far – has it been THAT long? You all may fire me from my position as veep if you wish, I have been mightily remiss in my duties. Of course, you can cut my ‘pay’ in half too!

I did think I’d check into the short Story book “Jesus Shoes.”

First of all let me apologize for being absent so long. Got the news a few months ago that my brother had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and of course I wanted to go visit him/them. He and wife Margaret have their house in the woods up for sale and have gone to GA to be with youngest duaghter Cindy, SIL Patrick and g’daughter Shannon. good thing – his health has taken a downturn.

So I’ve visited him, gone to the hockey games and such family things as have gone on.

I’ll catch up with all the posts later, however. Sufficie to say all is well here and spring has sprung.

Now for Judith’s strange email.

She saw it was an ad for something and quickly deleted it and rebooted her computer. She didn’t read it but happen to see the word ‘narrative’ so she’s hoping she didn’t ignore someone but wasn’t about to take the chance since she could tell it was an ad.

Have any of YOU all gotten anything like this; I have not. At any rate, I don’t have a good address for any of them. Maybe I’ll look at her books and see if anything was there. But in the meantime, if you have, please let me know. I’ll follow up on this one, for sure.

A quickie here and more later.

Judith got a strange email subject Wede Wede.

She thought about for a bit, then clicked on it and it was an ad which she deleted and rebooted.

Do ANY of you have a good email address for her family members?

My downfall again this weekend. Had to download a hew book “Mark Twain’s Other Woman” by Laura Skandera Trombley. It goes into how carefully he constructed the image he wished to project and the autobiography he required to be published only after he had been dead 100 years. Another one of those author interviews I didn’t expect to be particularly interesting–as usual I was wrong. Another not available on Kindle that I really wanted goes back to Nixon and his initiatives in women’s rights. I did not realize much of that. It is “A Simple Matter of Justice” by Lee Scout.

Candace