Margo-Congratulations on your first grandchild -soon-to-be. So sad to hear about your bird....I love when they can talk to you that is so cool. We get so attached to our pets and it is hard when we lose them. Hugs coming your way. Thanks for all the happy anniversaries...I remember when Eddie asked me to marry him and I said no way. I hate needles and told him no blood tests for me. He said he knew we could go to SC and not have to get blood tests so that is what we did. Jeanne-lets pray the treatments get scheduled soon. Keep us updated. Glad you received the daylily and hope you see tons of blooms. WE have had so much rain it is unreal. I don't know if my bearded irises can withstand all this rain, they are bad to get bacterial soft-rot with too much rain. Sue G - I received the daylilies and will ship out your Freda James Daylily Monday. Thanks A Halloween anniversary sounds interesting. Eddie always says everyone celebrates our anniversary with all the fireworks. Shirley

Just heard from the principal - form letter he has to send out, no ramifications, he just wanted to make sure we were aware in case we were keeping DS home from school if/when he just was too tired or vague "didn't feel well." Said he might have to contact me again and discuss the "problem" if DS misses school regularly (he gave example of a couple of days each week!) for the rest of the school year, but if he gets sick again and he has to be out 3 days next month, no problem, just call in each day like we've been doing, no dr's note required, no summer school, nothing. He said the average number of sick days (roughly, off the top of his head) in his school was 5! With the flu and the stomach bug going around this year, I find it hard to believe that was it, though like I said it's been a rough year (not just for DH - some schools around here closed in October since over 30% of the students had the flu).

Original "built in place" cupboards from 1964 Extremely small, completely dysfunctional Couldn't put anything on the shelves in the cupboards taller than 7 inches nor wider than 10 inches Cupboards wouldn't close as they had 57 coats of paint on the doors, including the hinges Only 4 small drawers without glides - just wood bottoms sliding on wood frames which created never ending sawdust on the things in the drawer below and on the floor The dishwasher wouldn't open fully as it bumped into the cabinets on the other side and was kiddy corner with the sink so you had to reach OVER the sort-of-open door to get things out of the sink and then try and get them into the dishwasher without being able to slide the dishwasher racks out "Lazy Susan" was really, really lazy - wouldn't turn at all Once the coffee maker, toaster and tiny microwave was put on the counter ('cause there was no where else to put them) there was 24 inches of prep and clean-up space left Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera................! We wanted to wait to renovate the kitchen till we had more money saved as we are renovating the entire house but after a year of trying to "live with it" it was either renovate or do each other in.

Wow, nice! We go to a Jamaican restaurant that's just a short drive away. They were pleasantly surprised to receive an unexpected Michelin Guide "Recommended" for 2015, in fact. We're going on Thursday nite for the goat curry. Their salt cod fritters are divine.............! And of course, the housemade rum cake with its wallop of Jamaican rum!