Maw's Office Ramble

[maw]

Good morning all!! Grab a hot cuppa and come on by and chat. Think I must have post cruise depression sitting in. I just feel so detchd from everything. What I really want to do is climb in my chair and nap. House looks like a tornado went thru and I really could care less-coruse if I have company I may hide and not open the door. I am heading to shower and getting ready to head to the pool maybe that will wake me up some.

Think we brought home the drizzly rain from Alaska. At least it has slowed paw down and he is resting up

Seem to be missing a few of the regulars around here hope that is because you are off cruising and not ill. Sounds like a lot of you are busy canning and getting ready for next year. Just call me a grasshopper. My mom used to can so much -green beans,crn, peas, tomatoes, black berries, peaches apple sauce, jellies and jams. When we lived down on the farm she even canned chickens as we did not have fridge or freezer(no electricty.) Mom did most of this on a big wood stove which added to the het from canner. I can remember seeing her without a dry stitch on. Mother made all her own bread too. Oh to have a slice of that warm bread with butter and even more sinfully with sugar on it. There was usualy a big pot of veggie soup or beans cooking on the stove. Oops there goes the diet again.

What is happening in your corner of the sandbox?

 

[JANPEP]

Good Morning Maw & @ddict friend's,
I seem to have that same feeling Maw, disconnected. It take's everything I have just to move, I did make it out to Wlly World yesterday to get some thing's that we needed, like cat treat's & do a coupld of other little errand's. I think I'am still just exhausted & I havn't been sleeping real well.
That's good that you are going back to the pool today, like you said maybe that will make you feel better.
No plan's for the day here, everyone else is working & it's still the HHH with high dewpoint's. They say the humidity will go down tomorrow after we have some rain later today & tonight. Sure wish we would get some of that rain that they were getting up in Alaska.
Take care

 

[tango55]

Good morning Maw and Jan. I know what you mean about the blah's - I have it and I didn't just come back from a cruise! Glad you had a good time on my Star Princess though, she was one of my favourite ships.

Nothing much on tap today - same old, same old. Good thing we only have a week to go til we move out of our motorhome, into an actual apartment again! It's starting to get to me finally.

Gotta go get ready for work - everyone have a great day!

Terry

 

[reggae]

Good morning...

We are in for a hot day here today. It will be 90 degrees and humid, and then rain for the weekend. We do need some rain though.

My tomatoes are coming in finally. I'm getting a few red ones each day. Next year, I will get them in earlier and in a different spot.

I can appreciate your mother's hard work with the canning, Maw...I used to can a lot, but now I just freeze most things. But I did make some Strawberry-Rhubarb jam this year. I plan to make more of that next year when I get the Michigan strawberries again.

Today, we are going for lunch for my sister's birthday (too many sisters!).....We are going to a Japanese restaurant where everyone sits around the grille and they cook in front of you. They have a great shrimp stir-fry, that I plan to get. I think there will be about 16 of us counting the kids, so it will be nice seeing everyone. It's right near Costco, so I will be making a stop there too.

Have a good weekend!

 

[Donna - dsw]

Morning Everyone!

I have been so busy this week - - plus for some reason the web site is giving me hard times at work. It keeps locking up and throwing me out saying something about Adobe Flash player. Hope it doesn't keep me from checking the site from work.

Got another big weekend and the club - - Tonight is the "Barnyard" where they raffle off meats for the Labor Day Holiday - -these people love this and I run the raffle. Then tomorrow night we are having horse races - - just like the cruise lines does. We bought the kiddie horses and got the guys to be jockies. We dressed the horses up and and I am a booking agent. You can place a 2, 5 or 10 dollar bet on your horse. We have table set up to roll the three big lighted dice. I hope it is fun and everyone enjoys. There are only a handful of us that have really seen the horse races on a cruise ship - - so we are hoping the club catches on.

Then - Jim and I have decided to take the 3 grand kids in Florida on a short cruise. Just a 4 day Bahama - but trying to get prices and all that arranged for a 10/17 sail date is keeping me busy for sure! lol

Hope you all have a great day - - take care and enjoy!

 

[nieciez]

Good morning Maw and ramble gang. TGIF to all of you. Maw and Jan....I've been too busy to get the PCBs LOL. Things have been crazy here at work and now on top of everything else it is invoice time again =eek I guess that is a good thing, being too busy to be sad about the cruise being over.

Found out that my parents are coming down this weekend as my sister Leslie is visiting my niece. So I gotta make sure the guest room is neat. That is where I stage the cruise stuff so I am sure there are things that will need to be picked up tonight. tThey wont be arriving till around 10 tonight.

Not much else new....busy still so I gotta run. Y'all have a good day.

 

[Hooked]

Hi ladies.

We're going to find a sandbar to anchor the boat and scrub the algae and whatever else has grown on the sides and bottom of the boat. It's gonna be in the high 80s and the water temperature is about 76 degrees so it should be a fun time. Think I'll take my snorkel fins and mask and blow up a couple of tubes to float around in too.

 

[korinalacount]

Morning,Maw did I read that right,your Mom canned without clothing on?!? Sounds interesting! Well seems I plugged up the sink yesterday in kitchen,John played with the snake last night and still plugged,I dont want to call roto ruter if I dont have to so I am going to play some with it today.

Denise say hi to your parents,how is your Dad doing these days?

Got to run and work on that sink!

 

[Cruise cutie]

:wave Good morning Maw..:daisy..

Know what you mean about your Momma dripping in sweat over a HOT stove,as she had no AC, and probably had her house dress for kitchen work on, grabbing towels to dry her wet hands etc..the steam just crawls in my kitchen with all the work.. my canning days I am in short sleeve tops, and shorts, .I am contemplating doing pickles this year ...we.shall see if the locals have a good amount to put up.. a farm near my job has veggies I buy..and their cukes are wonderful..
it's cool again, (STILL )..no rain so I have laundry to churn,and hang out to dry!!..make some Friday Food for the gang at work.. and just relax a bit till I am then of to my 3-11PM take care gang..:daisy..Joanne

 

[H2O babe]

Morning all. I had lots of work on the agenda for today but after reading Hook's post I think I'll just leave it all behind and go spend the day with them! Sounds much better than what I'm supposed to be doing.

I know how you feel Maw - I spend 12-14 months getting built up for a cruise and when we arrive home it's like I become some other person! And I've about given up on trying to have the house not look like a tornado came through - seems I'm the only one trying to keep it up and I just can't do everything anymore. So........the house looking fabulous is the first thing I let go. I'm a much nicer person for my family to be around when I got over the thoughts that my house needed to look like a magazine picture.

Off to continue with the freezing of the veggies. Today I hope to get most of the carrots done and another batch of green beans. I froze the rest of my lug of peaches early this a.m.

Have a great day addicts.

Korina - I took Maw's comment (seeing her without a dry stitch on) to mean that her mom's clothes were always soaking wet with perspiration because of the heat! Now you have me wondering!!!

 

[RosieRosie]

Good morning Maw and the rest of the ramble gang. The humidity is high today, but I got in my morning walk - and met quite a few neighbors walking their dogs. I've been really tired lately and think I'm fighting off a cold that 3 other people in my office have been suffering with. Last night we decided to go out for dinner - I used a google search and found a new Thai restaurant nearby - great spring rolls, great pad thai and a really nice waitress - we'll be going back! My sister is taking me out for lunch today so it should be a nice day. Two weeks until we leave for vacation - I can't wait. We're taking a land cruise to Georgia and have decided to drive. I hope everyone has a great weekend!

 

[popcorn]

Good morning. I think the older we get the harder it is to overcome the travel changes. Perhaps if we were able to do it more often, we would be more used to all the changes in times!

It feels like a real fall day here this morning! A bit of fog even! But it is supposed to be a nice day. We need it after the drenching that we got yesterday!

dd Kim is having a lot of tests for her chrones and the tumor they discovered on her fallopian tube and she had a bad argument with the radiologist and had to have a second dose of the barium. Yuck!

Time for breakfast.

Liz

 

[Cyndi]

Good morning Maw and Gang,
Well it has been drop dead beautiful around here, cool for this time of year in Old Virginia, usually August is unbearable. So I am not complaining.
I have been busy making travel plans for the last couple of days,,, now we are set so I can get on with other things, coarse in the mean time I have power washed the deck and planted two trees, and today is Costco day,,, not sure I want to do much canning this year, but maybe I will make some salsa if the tomatoes are looking good at Costco…. hemmmm,,, so on to the showers and catch ya later… have a great weekend everyone.
Maw don't let the PCDs get to you,,, you have two more cruises, coming just think of that, it is the best way to get them gone:wave

 

[audrey]

GOOD MORNING MAW AND GANG

i know what you mean about the bluer's after a cruise I always have it but this is the first time I don't any booked to look forward to. Well next year I will make up for it.
dd was here for her morning visit but only stayed for a little while and was off to work. We are hoping to take a cruise next May with the boys but she has to come up with the deposit for it yet I hope by Jan or Fed.
Not much happening around here this morning just doing laundry and picking up the house. Need to get to the store number two grandson only has half day school today so II have to make him lunch today.
Weather is holding up not too hot which I enjoy I still have windows open this morning and you can open them in evening to sleep.
Everyone have a nice day and keep cool and safe.

 

[Tobyn]

Good morning fellow @ddicts! ! ! ! Another beautiful day has dawned. Nice, bright, and sunny. We have the Culligan man coming to service the water softner and under-sink RO unit. We need to get a new dishwasher for out rental unit. It apparently quit working recently. So I guess that is my weekend project.

Have a great day everyone, and stay safe! ! !