tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959918163454225829.post830812506550285111..comments2024-03-28T12:35:28.021-04:00Comments on Blue House Journal: Coffee Chat: And It Most Surely Isn't Spring!terricheneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06865436021565986224noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959918163454225829.post-28905506069080862092015-02-26T22:35:31.768-05:002015-02-26T22:35:31.768-05:00I have decided we must be on the same wave lengths...I have decided we must be on the same wave lengths. I just posted on my Facebook page last night and asked for a good tried and true cinnamon roll recipe. I'm excited to say I got 3. Now to choose which one to make. I also told my husband Monday evening that Spring was officially on the way because I had seen several flocks of geese headed North. I'm trying to talk him into getting rid of cable and home phone and just keeping internet. I'm waiting to see what the new plans are they are supposed to be offering soon for individual services. I called about canceling my phone last year and it was only going to save $20 a month AND slow my internet speed which is slow enough as it is. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959918163454225829.post-37308601220988569852015-02-26T14:19:54.592-05:002015-02-26T14:19:54.592-05:00I meant to add a comment about TV. We got rid of ...I meant to add a comment about TV. We got rid of cable and find that between being able to get PBS on the computer, the cheapest Netflix rate and a monthly $4.99 subscription to acorn TV, we have more to watch than we have time for. If you like British mysteries and dramas, Acorn really is something you might consider. They have a one month free try-out, so you could see if you would use it.<br />Mablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13889546378268171918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959918163454225829.post-32864461365234663502015-02-26T14:17:28.622-05:002015-02-26T14:17:28.622-05:00I, too, find the hour at dusk very unsettling. Lo...I, too, find the hour at dusk very unsettling. Lonely is more accurate.<br /><br />To me, skunk smells like lemon. I actually like the odor.<br /><br />I live in Alaska and hope that your reader who likes the Alaska-based shows realizes that every single one is made up. In fact, the cast of one of them was charged for filing for the yearly Alaska dividend program for residents when they are not residents, just actors who go up for the made up situations and settings. The number of programs should be dropping, though, since the state is about to end its subsidy program that made it cheap to film in our state.<br /><br />How wonderful that your granddaughter wants you to write to her! Real letters, not texts or emails...Mablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13889546378268171918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959918163454225829.post-54002151292948638582015-02-26T13:03:32.982-05:002015-02-26T13:03:32.982-05:00We were having supper with our grandchildren last ...We were having supper with our grandchildren last night. They grow up too fast don't they. their parents think they don't but we sure see it! Just look at your pretty granddaughter! A young lady already! Aren't they just the most precious thing. One of ours is off flying right now clear across the country back to work. Now they have lives separate from their family. The words home and family are two of the most special words in a language. They belong together. Your family makes a your home. Your home is where your family is. It all equals love. SarahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959918163454225829.post-69697896744801502592015-02-25T15:10:28.086-05:002015-02-25T15:10:28.086-05:00I agree with Sparky, get rid of the ugly and scrat...I agree with Sparky, get rid of the ugly and scratchy clothes ... Since u asked. 😜<br /><br />Pretty daffs and lovely granddaughter. What a sweet thing to enjoy writing letters to her. Very cool that she suggested it!<br /><br />A light musky skunk scent - I enjoy, but a full out assault - run for cover. Or I should say, at least for us, run and close the windows. Makes eyes and throat burn!<br /><br />I kept reading pretty instead of petty. Just shook my head not understanding. Haha, laugh is on me.<br /><br />Long ago I decided to invest in DVDs that we could watch over and over instead of Netflix or cable or directTV, etc. We have a nice library we've built up cover the years. Some friends are moving back to our area and we have lots of movie nights planned. Every so often I still find a good show to buy and add to our collection. Our experience has been that when we use a hotel there is hardly anything on to watch ... It reinforces my decision.<br /><br />PamAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959918163454225829.post-9026752275865884712015-02-25T11:10:46.485-05:002015-02-25T11:10:46.485-05:00I can not believe how grown up your granddaughter ...I can not believe how grown up your granddaughter is, I remember you visiting her when they lived nearby. How time flies. Bless the world with the ugly and scratchy clothes. Live is too short and you will feel so much better to let some one else have them to love.sparky136https://www.blogger.com/profile/00336851749882623160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959918163454225829.post-36562942745138212952015-02-25T08:54:20.148-05:002015-02-25T08:54:20.148-05:00aww your grand daughter is beautiful! I am sure t...aww your grand daughter is beautiful! I am sure that it is hard to live so far away, but I'm glad that you are able to keep in touch with letters and such. <br />Sorry about the hassle with the health insurance. Hope that it works out ok for you.<br />I hadn't heard of Donna Erickson, so I googled. She has a website called Donnasday.com although it only works for me in ie. She has a facebook page too. Hope you can find your recipe; it sounds good.<br />We dropped directv several years ago when we started babystepping, and we don't really miss it. We can pick up local channels. When we travel, we channel surf, but there really isn't anything that we miss. Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16710629007170091862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959918163454225829.post-28132636618329985082015-02-24T23:10:12.423-05:002015-02-24T23:10:12.423-05:00I hope that you keep feeling better every day. I ...I hope that you keep feeling better every day. I know just what you meant when you wrote of a change of mood in late afternoon or early evening. During the time I was having some health challenges recently I began having some type of mild anxiety set in in late afternoon, early evening. Thankfully that all stopped as my health challenges resolved. I am so glad we are in our final week of February.<br /><br />Your granddaughter is lovely in her pretty dress.<br /><br />I enjoy seeing the pictures of your beautiful big daffodils.<br /><br />As I read about that skunk you saw recently, and how you don't mind skunk smell too much (in the distance), I thought about how here at our house last week late night, all of a sudden my husband and I were rendered near breathless by what we assumed must have been a skunk run over on a nearby busy road. Really, it was a breathtaking experience. I had to use my asthma inhaler.<br /><br />The last time that happened, a year or so ago, my husband wasn't home, and when the fumes first started they were so strong that I didn't recognize the odor as skunk. I thought there had been a toxic chemical spill nearby. I was about ready to call the fire department to report it, when it became recognizable as skunk. When my husband arrived home, he told me about the very big skunk he saw dead at the side of a nearby busy road. How embarrassing it would have been had I called the fire department! <br /><br />I possibly should have just left off with the big pretty daffodils in your yard. If I recall, they have a faint but very nice scent.susie @ persimmon moon cottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01653330247272673990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959918163454225829.post-18521343845264424242015-02-24T19:55:30.956-05:002015-02-24T19:55:30.956-05:00I saw two Women's days from the 50s at an anti...I saw two Women's days from the 50s at an antique store the other day. both cost too much for my budget. Then today I saw several for sale and th price was right! Amazing. I haven't seen any 50s women's magazines for years and then tow times I did! I did get to get the ones that were cheaper. I just got home so have not sat down and enjoyed them yet. I would so love to find many more and different ones. Back in the 40s there were so very many different ones for homemakers. I know you love them too. The boxes of magazines contained some newer paperbacks and another person dug into the box and was so excited to find they were so old. From 1968! ..so old :( ! :) To each his own. I was as happy fining my 50s magazine. I saw one from 1970 and actually remembered that issue. I was amazed it was from 70. It seemed like yesterday I had had that in my hand! :0 <br /> You like the same two HGYV shows I do. Have you noticed how Fixer upper never puts actual pictures on the walls..just objects? Do the people actually get those furnishings or are they just to show us the house then the person puts their own things in the home? Seldom do they mention anything was actually originally the owners. When other shows take apart a house they throw out the cabinets and the flooring and such. I can hear these two shows people saying Stop!! I want that!! That can be used!!! Especially Rehab Addiction !! <br /> I want shows that show me how to do things and learn about things. Not shows that just talk and gossip and show me homes I cannot ever afford. and redoes that are too hard to do ourselves.<br /> We have a few things around here we are giving away They are still good too. The memories associated with them are not though. So out they need to go!! <br /> I don't know why people seem to think you want to know personal things about them. Even strangers. Get so tact please. And bathroom humor at the restaurant table is not funny to me either. Sometimes ai wonder if we are not the only ones who think that. You hear it all over anymore. :-((((<br /> I am so looking forward to Aldi coming here soon!!! I am telling everyone to try it! No one so far has even hear of it. I would not have either except women on blogs have talked about how much Aldi has helped their budgets. Thanks for being one of the ones that informed me! Sarah<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959918163454225829.post-81586448729673191622015-02-24T19:34:10.724-05:002015-02-24T19:34:10.724-05:00Our cable bill has actually this month doubled wha...Our cable bill has actually this month doubled what it started out being. doubled! This is crazy. I have a paper where I list the shows we like to watch. A couple are over for the year. We like PBS and the other channels where reality shows are real people living real lives. Not just people acting up with other people and being what I see as ugly to each other. The different Alaskan shows with families are some of our favorites. Looking at the list though there is only like one or 2 shows a day and some days nothing. Yet we are paying for everything on the stations. Plus stations where we cannot even speak that language or don't do home shopping and such. Plus cable has the same shows on HD and regular channels do that counts as 2 channels..but the same shows. Something is weird about all of this...but we are still paying and have not said no. I am thankful we do not have all the pay movie channels and such at least. No wonder we don't have time for this or that. The tv is on. Even though we love only a few shows the tv stays on too often anyway. :( No one is at fault 'cept us for that. <br /> What happened to the 'affordable" in affordable health care? My sister signed up for it last year. The cost she was told ended up being higher when the insurance actually started. That and the deductibles ar so high!! this year the same insurance is even more expensive and the deductible even higher. To see any specialist she has to use her deductible first!! Or she has to pay 100% for the specialist. Why? We were so blessed to just be able to continue with our old coverage just switching to the senior care part of it. Yes we pay more than we did as before the insurance was a better policy through my husband's work. The blood tests and some other things we used to pay 0 for is now $30 or $40 and so on. It cold be so much worse though. We have a friend who cannot afford any health care and even this year did not sign up. She needs to see a doctor and thankfully we do know of a free clinic that is still in business. <br /> Your mention of the idea that if you made mar $ you had to report it etc. Of course you would but I never thought of a penalty etc. wow. It is like signing up for welfare and they have to know everything about you, Everything it seems. All insurance wants to be Big Brother though but still this seemed kind of extra. I guess that it is the government that is connected to it makes it sound scarier! :) but then Medicare is part of the government too and so all our information is out there for them to see too. Some people still want to see all this repealed. But can it? It has already gone into business and how could you pull it back now? I hope they can make it less complicated and more coverage at a better price though. But then we are talking about the government and since when did they go around trying to save money! lol Your chat was as always a good one and this is not the only thing I wanted to comment on but ended up doing so!! Sorry! SarahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959918163454225829.post-73499121110664979202015-02-24T19:04:32.486-05:002015-02-24T19:04:32.486-05:00I'm sorry you have had such a hard time arrang...I'm sorry you have had such a hard time arranging your insurance coverage. I live in Maryland, and this year signing up was a breeze. I don't know if Georgia has its own marketplace or not, but I would imagine that some states that are against the ACA would try to make it difficult for people to navigate in order to make the ACA unpopular. Politics can be an ugly game.<br />I can also understand why you were cautioned about making more money than you estimated. The subsidy is basically a tax credit, and if you make more money than predicted, you will end up paying more taxes than you counted on, which could mean you are stuck with a tax bill. Further, it sounds to me like a lot of the hassle you got came from the insurance company, not the government. I kept my regular insurance company, and it has been smooth sailing. I hope everything works out for you. Personally, I cannot imagine living without insurance.PatsyLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959918163454225829.post-46863844363285724712015-02-24T16:51:46.169-05:002015-02-24T16:51:46.169-05:00You are such a tease!! Putting up that picture of ...You are such a tease!! Putting up that picture of the daffodils while it was 10 below zero with 26 below windchill here this morning. That only got the kids a 2 hour delay in start time for school. I thought I have always been silly for being so melancholy about the dusk of evening in the winter as being so lonesome, especially if you are coming through the country. Glad it is not just me. I loved the HGTV show with Matt and Sherrie. I always felt I could move right into any of the rooms they redid. Your granddaughter is such a pretty girl. How wonderful that they want to write real letters to Gramma. A chance to drop some "pearls of wisdom" into their lives.<br />Glad you are feeling better. Gramma D.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com