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[Josephine]

In here please

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[Nursepair]

Thanks Jo, so glad you are back online again. What would we do without you?

[JenniferG]

Ofcourse now no one has anything to say! that's odd for this group. We need new pix, come on newbies.

[JenniferG]

Beach wants to play not nice. Wow Doug do you look like MOM. (I think that's how it works...).

[doug]

I figured I'd post somthing to start the comments off...
I do favor my mothers Germanic/Polish side of the family..

[sewell44@bellsouth.net]

OK guys.
I just had my daughter post pictures on the new pics thread. They are all under her photobucket account. I'll see if I can get her to help again. I don't know her password or I would try to figure it out.
It will be better than yesterday when I begged her to trim the toenail daggers on my right foot.

My husband would more than likely cause extensive damage or I would have him do it.

JUdy

[beachcomber]

Awwww.... just joshin' ya Doug. You indeed take after your mom in appearance---- and in temperament too from what you have said! You are both lucky to have each other and such a great relationship. May you have many many more years together.



Beach wants to play not nice. Wow Doug do you look like MOM. (I think that's how it works...).

[sunshine]

I have tried but I can't do it you see on top of having a new hip I am blonde!!! Got photos into the bucket but that is where they live forever.

[Josephine]

If you click on the Direct Link on each photograph and send them to me in a pm, I'll get them in for you. And I'll do it in your post above this so you can edit and add a comment or two.

[doug]

Beach, I knew you were kidding...and that's exactly why I haven't told my mom how to get on this forum!!!.

[Skeet]

Aw, Doug, we were hoping she'd join and share many stories about you! You do look a lot alike - boxers (dogs, not undies) and all!

[doug]

Uh huh, like how she used to take me to get allergy shots but I didn't have allergies. I was just stoned?

[sewell44@bellsouth.net]

OK That is a great story!!!
Judy

[JenniferG]

Beach I knew you were kidding too. ( but if you call his mom and I try the neighbors, maybe we can hook her up...)

[Skeet]

Maybe you have the same allergies I have, Doug. I'm allergic to "grass" ;)

[1jt@atime]

Oh Skeet, Skeet, Skeet......that was a good one.

[Skeet]

Yep, not all my brain cells were destroyed!

[doug]

Sorry I haven't been on the last couple of days. We got hit by lightening and it blew out the DSL. No other damage. Scared the heck out of all of us though.
In fact, I think it woke up some brain cells.

[beachcomber]

It hit your house literally? Wow! Sounds scary. We rarely have thunder and lightning in our area of Oregon (but they do in the mountains and high desert in central and eastern Oregon. It starts a lot of wildfires every year).
It is a beautiful day here today. Not so hot (mid 80s instead of 90s) with 70s due for the next couple of days. I love summer here! Low humidity and a nice little breeze. Perfect.

[doug]

I believe it hit the telephone pole and ran in through the line. Other than a couple of plugs, being blown, I haven't found anything else damaged.
We had a direct hit on our first house. It left a beautiful pattern down the wallpaper in one of the rooms. Blew out a t.v., microwave, and all of the wall plugs...It is very scary. You can feel the charge in the air. Also, I believe the dogs can tell it's coming. They suddenly cowered down.

[Nursepair]

Yipes, you got hit? Glad you were all OK.

We were at our Founders Day in town Staurday when a black cloud suddenly came over and the thunder and lightening started and the torrential rain. Boxes and all kind of things were floating down our closed off main street. Then the wind started, it had been humid all day, it was real tornado weather. Then there was one almighty crack of thunder and a flash, think it was a thunderbolt, and evrything stopped. We were sheltering in a doorway of a store.

We heard later a tornado had hit Orangeville, but we haven't heard where yet. Apparently about 20 years ago the house we live in now had it's roof taken off with a tornado. When my mum was here last month we had tornado warnings so took her down to our basement just in case.

Jo, do you remember the hurricane of 1987 in the UK? That was scary, not a thing that happens often there.

[doug]

here it is.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/16/newsid_2533000/2533219.stm

Second site.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/bbcweather/forecasters/michael_fish_1987storm.shtml

[Nursepair]

Thanks for the websites Doug. I remember waking up in the early hours that morning hearing loud noises and the wind. I woke Kevin (snoring as usual) and he said not to worry it was just my sisters metal garbage can fallen over and rolling around and he went back to sleep. I got up and went downstairs. Saw my sisters kitchen light on (we lived next door) and went over for a cup of tea (the English cure all). It turnes out it was the Kent Peg Tiles falling off our roof.

A place in Kent called Seven Oaks after it's seven trees, should now really be called one Oak. Many of the orchards in Kent (the garden of England) were devastated too. Kew gardens were also hit really hard. We took a walk with the kids later that day and saw trees down everywhere. Our friends little girl had been trapped in her bedroom by a large tree. She was rescued and and luckily suffered no injuries. Wow, I can't believe I can recall all those details so clearly, usually I have CRAFT disease (Can't Remember a F****** Thing.)

[Josephine]

I remember it well! Also the famous bit by Michael Fish (quoted out of context, apparently) that "Earlier on today apparently a lady rang the BBC and said she heard that there was a hurricane on the way. Well don't worry if you're watching, there isn't."

Also about 3 weeks after that, my sister and I decided to take a cheap weekend trip to Jersey and found the place totally flattened! What a wonderful trip that was - not!

[doug]

Having lived in Florida most of my life I'm well familiar with the first viewing when you "emerge" after a hurricane.
I was in Miami the morning of hurricane Andrew. 150 mph sustained winds. It looked like an atom bomb went off.

[westexas]

I was in Hurricane Alicia in Houston, Texas. We lived on the good side of the Hurricane so we just got the terrible winds. The wealthiest part of Houston is where the biggest part hit. I just remember the howling and rain.
But, I do have to admit...The day before the storm I went and bought all this frozen food, came home and put it in the freezer...Did not get any bottled water, did have a portable radio though...My husband came home and said, "Why the &*^% did you buy all that frozen food?" I said in my blonde Texas way, "So we would have plenty of food if we get stuck in the house." He just gave me this empty stare and said, "What is the first thing that goes out during a storm?" I said, "Well of course the electricity." ENOUGH said......The electricity was zapped and stayed off for 14 hours.....Remember, I am a West Texas gal.......

[doug]

I'm afraid that I have to side with your husband on this one!! 14 hours isn't bad though. My parents were without electricity for almost three months. I made five 1000 mile trips back and forth to take supplies to them and help with clean up. No windows left in the house. Front doors which normally swing out were blown in. We had water from the attic dripping from the light fixtures. Add to that, there was looting going on and constant gun fire during the night. You couldn't call the police. No phone lines. Few cell phones back then. BUT, in the end it all worked out.

[westexas]

Where were your parents from you and did they take a lot of stuff out of the house before it hit? I cannot even imagine the flooding that occurs. I just dread when and if Galveston gets a direct hit or Matagorda Bay and Corpus Christi.....Scary....

[JenniferG]

Lots of chat, no new pictures!

[doug]

They were in South Miami. My sister lived in Homestead The eye of the hurricane went over them..They didn't remove anything prior to the hit. We've been through a number of hurricanes or tropical storms but never, ever anything like that. In south Florida, flooding generally isn't an issue more than a few miles inland.
Here in Tallahassee, with the hills and all of the trees, anything more than a Cat 1 would devastate the area. We have long tree lined canopy roads. Big sub divisions would become isolated.

[*gmac*]

I was in Hurricane Alicia in Houston, Texas. We lived on the good side of the Hurricane so we just got the terrible winds. The wealthiest part of Houston is where the biggest part hit. I just remember the howling and rain.
But, I do have to admit...The day before the storm I went and bought all this frozen food, came home and put it in the freezer...Did not get any bottled water, did have a portable radio though...My husband came home and said, "Why the &*^% did you buy all that frozen food?" I said in my blonde Texas way, "So we would have plenty of food if we get stuck in the house." He just gave me this empty stare and said, "What is the first thing that goes out during a storm?" I said, "Well of course the electricity." ENOUGH said......The electricity was zapped and stayed off for 14 hours.....Remember, I am a West Texas gal.......

Usually in the spring time every year I get the bug to look around for generators. Nothing fancy but big enough to keep some of the things in our house going. About 4? years ago the power went out in Michigan and a few other states for few days. I remember one night we drove around looking to see how everyone else was surviving. Ended up at Meijer's where they were practically giving their meat away to keep it from spoiling. Lived off the BBQ grill for a couple days.
-Gary

[doug]

I've got two generators. One for the refrigerator/freezer, and one small one that runs for 8 hours w/o a refill. That's for fans while we sleep.

[sewell44@bellsouth.net]

With all this hurricane talk , I need to put in my 2 cents. I grew up in Rhode Island, I remember a lot of tropical storms, power outages for days, trees down, water up.
I llived in Atlanta area for 10 years, the first with tornado warnings or watches in the middle of the night.
I am back in So Cal with the unknown threat of earthquakes. I thought they would be the lesser evil, then I experienced my first one 20 years ago. Talk about scarey. I always do the wrong thing and try to run for safety. I was in toys"r"us when an aftershock hit once, I just looked up at the high shelves packed with big boxes, grabbed my toddler and ran!!!
Oh we have fires and flash floods too!!

So I pick hurricanes as the least scarey!!!!

Judy

[sunshine]

Well i have to put in my two cents here. All these years in Fla and last year I thought the fondue pot is perfect for a storm duh....I have had it like 25 years I am blonde too Lol. So I went and bought lots of sterno and a a few camping things for coopking with the sterno also cause no more gas grill in a condo. I had put bags of ice together to put in the cooler when the electric went. The bags seemed to really keep my freezer cooler much longer then without, it was almost empty of course so I put the milk and butter and perishable stuff up there to keep cold cause the fridge was hot. I tell everyone if we get a sunami here in Fl I will push my aero bed over the bacony with my food emergency bag and drift off into the everglades and then to Texas where my ex is! Got to laugh about it cause it gets to spookey now with tornadoes now. I know I wouldn't last in Ca with earthquakes. uhah nooope

[JenniferG]

Ok Turtle lady. Love your pix. Especially the one with the dog and that slightly drug induced buzzed look you've got. Classic. Question on the hospital shot though. Didn't anyone tell you that the rubber strips go on the bottom of your feet? LOL

[Turtlelady53]

Actually, those goofy socks had rubber strips on BOTH sides. Go figure. It sure made them easier to get on with those crazy contraptions they give you, because it didn't matter which way was up or down.

The picture with the dog was right after I arrived home, and immediately climbed a set of stairs. I was reading all the material they gave me at the hospital, and Scooter, my rat terrier, decided HE was much more important!

I am now at 5 weeks, and the scars look really well; will have to send another pic soon. I have to look at those pictures to see just how far I've come though.

[Skeet]

Your incisions look fantastic at 2 days, just a bit swollen. And I had that exact same thought on the rubber strips, Jen. What would we do without our animals who love us so much and are so happy to see us, don't complain when we whine and cry, and listen to us anytime.

Cute "baby".

[Skeet]

I made it through the 7.1 earthquake in the Bay Area. It scared me to death! Saw the Cypress expressway collapsed. All too real and very depressing. Moved to Oregon to get away from that. Found out they have earthquakes here, too, just not as strong. About all we get are the occasional ice storm or wind storm. I can live with those.

[sewell44@bellsouth.net]

Skeet,
I had just left San Francisco after spending a week with my 2 youngest. It happened the next day. Glad I went on the BART, something I will never do again
Judy
Oregon sounds wonderful

[sewell44@bellsouth.net]

About the hospital socks. Mine only had sticky on one side and every time I went to stand up the sticky was on the top. I had not been given a reacher in the hospital so it was impossible to turn them. I may have to send in a suggestion to the hospital.
Of course they are the only socks that will go on with the sock tool!!
Judy

[Pattipoo]

LOVE the pictures of Beach and Skeeter!!!!!
Wish I could have been with you gals!!

[westexas]

O.K. I finally got the guts to post my hip scar...Pretty scary as you can tell....YIPES......Patty

Loved the pics of Skeet and Beachcomber....

[Skeet]

Hip scars look way nicer than knee scars... and less visible to the general public!! Thanks for sharing!

[westexas]

But Skeet,
Nothin Like A Little Undie Showin....lol.......

[Nursepair]

Found the pics of Beach and Skeet after all. It must have been so good to finally get to know one another in the flesh. I am truly jealous. You both look well and happy. Thanks for posting them!! (((((((((HUGS))))))))) Sue

[Skeet]

Your wedding attire selections are impeccable. How lovely you look! I'd love to see a larger version of the first picture, still. Just gorgeous - you and the dresses!

[Jamie]

I agree, Patti....you and the dresses are gorgeous!!! You'll knock 'em dead! Hope you have a great time.

[JenniferG]

Skeet and Jamie were the good girls growing up. Bunch of us broke the rule and commented on the pix site. but you ladies probably saw that too. have a good night ladies.Thanks for being leaders not followers.lol

[1jt@atime]

What???? You mean enough time hasn't passed? Still can't break that no posting rule on the picture thread? :D Darn! tHINK i got CAUGHT!

Great dresses Patti!

[beachcomber]

Patti--
The dresses are just perfect for the two kinds of weddings. And you look FABULOUS! So nice to see you and hear from you again. I have missed your smiling self!

[westexas]

Patti,
Darling pics. You look like a YOUNG model...Patty

[Pattipoo]

You guys are TOO sweet!! I'll have to go on a starvation diet the two weeks before the cruise.....a lima bean will show up in the champagne colored dress! What was I thinking????

[beachcomber]

Patti- She is beautiful! Just like her mama!

I will pray for good weather for her special weekend. Be sure to post pictures from the wedding!

Beach

[Skeet]

Patti, your daughter looks so much like you and you are both so beautiful! She's going to be a gorgeous bride! We're praying for good weather. Please post wedding pics when you have them! God bless you!

[Josephine]

hubba hubba!...

[doug]

That's just a whole familly of cute.

[Skeet]

Has Zeke gone metro on us? Looks like he has a little black purse??

[doug]

Whew, scared me for a moment. I had to go back and look at the picture again. Not a purse. It's one of those rubber stretch bands with a handle on each end. Scotty uses it for some of his stretching exercises.
Zeke was actually asleep in that position. His eyes popped open when I was sneaking up on him to take the picture.

[Skeet]

What a relief. Zeke continues to be all "man", so to speak. He was actually just buffing up before his nap...

[Josephine]

Patti - sweet pic! (I tidied it up for you, btw!)

[Skeet]

One down, one to go, Patti! Looks like the weather held up nicely. Hope all came off as planned. You all look so happy!! Thanks for sharing your happy moment with us.

[doug]

Hey Patti, You're half there.
It was a picture that brings a smile...Thanks.

[westexas]

Doug and Patti,
Great pics....One is beautiful in her gown and the other is a little hunk in his outfit......Patty

[beachcomber]

Patti--- thanks for sharing! You and Mike(that *is* your hubby's name, right?) look so proud and happy. I love the casual setting..... being a "beachgirl" myself!

[Nursepair]

Patti, wow !! Your outfits are all fantastic, you have quite the figure there. That diet back in the spring must have worked!! Your daughter looks beautiful and so happy too.
Won't be long until the other one now, December is just around the corner eh? When you getting that other knee done? Hope the other one is still going as strong as it was? Good to see you are still around. (((((HUGS)))))) Sue

[Linda2]

Toodie is toocutie for for words!

[doug]

I can see someone is going to be in total control....Just make a space on the bed.

[Jamie]

Thanks, Linda2....we think she's pretty wonderful.

Doug....it's too late....she rules! And I agree on the bed problem that is yet to come when she figures out how to get up there.

[Skeet]

She is absolutely adorable. She must warm your heart and lift your spirit constantly. You are so blessed, and so is she!

[Nursepair]

Oh Jamie, she is gorgeous!! She is lucky yo have such woderful "parents"!!

[Jamie]

She's settled in now enough to get into LOTS of things she's not supposed to. We are constantly running after her to distract her from chewing something, trying to sneak upstairs (she's figured out our cardboard box blockade), or pulling something down from a table or chair she can stretch to reach. No more relaxed days for us!!!

[doug]

Cool pictures. And look at you'll wearing coats already.

[Nursepair]

Cool pictures. And look at you'll wearing coats already.

Tell me about it, it was suddenly cold and damp that evening, I had my long johns on too (not a pretty thought eh? ) My hubby kept saying as I was changing, "OOOOH darling you look so sexy!!!!" I didn't care though, at least I was warm. It is supposed to get to 22 C this Thanks Giving weekend!! Back in my shorts I hope.

[JenniferG]

How pretty she is Jamie. One of my cats was all white and I'm sure he knew it. It showed in his attitude. "I'm spotless, you better keep it that way, hmf!"
Speaking of cats, Skeet, love the family. They are pretty too. That's their room right!? I miss having a kitty.
And Sue, you just look like you are loving life. What a blessing.

[doug]

Skeet, None of them look to happy at being woke up....I like that wall color. Can't show my wife or I'll end up painting.....The single household chore I hate the most.

[Nursepair]

Those cats do look annoyed Skeet, they do rule the roost usually though don't they?

Jenn, thanks, I am really enjoying life again with my new knee. (Just need to get the rest of the body sorted now...lol..... ) IWe usually do though. we know too many people whose lives were cut off in their prime. Life's just too short not to have fun while you can eh? We love to have family and friends around us most of the time.

[Skeet]

Yes, the cats were peeved at me for disturbing them. They all lounge on our bed from the time we let them in each morning until we throw them out at night. Or they are curled up on our laps. These new kitties are love hogs.

Thanks for the comment on the wall color, Doug. I carried on until my hubby painted that wall for me. The other three are a gold-beige color. Needed something more sexy in there. I love it! Have the same color on one of the kitchen walls.

[Josephine]

I just went and hung out a big basket of laundry. TomTom came and sat beside me all the time I was doing it and then, when I came in, he did too! He's such a sweety!

[patfinch]

Just in case y'all dont know, the pics Jo helped me post the other day are taken on my 50th birthday party....Me and hubby Les in 'surprise taxi ' a stretch white chrysler limo complete with champagne organised by youngest daughter Katy, seen later with me with Dark hair..shes 18 in 2 weeks and she is going around Wigan nightclubs in a pink limo with her mates dressed as playboy bunnies, what a way to have your first LEGAL DRINK? Think I may jumjp in with them...lololol
The other pic is of my eldest daughter Cheryl and her long suffering boyfriend Ian who organised the surprise party apparently they have been at it ( party organising lol ) all year.......boy did they do a fantastic job.......we even had fireworks,which have been reported in the local rag this week as UFO's......!!!!!!! I know...they were Chinese lanterns which burned with an orange glow travelling in the night sky for 15-20 mins.....some folk mistook them for aliens and reported them to local paper and cops......ha ha ha......
The other pics is me and my eldest ..Mark, the father of my gorgeous grandson Korben..who is 2 next week...I have been trying to get him have his hair cut and a shave for ages, but he has his own reasons for looking like a leprechaun....lololl
Enjoy xxxxxxxx Pat xxxxx

[Nursepair]

Doug, Doug, Doug, 49F is warm me old mate!! Shorts weather here!! Positively balmy!!
Minus 40C is cold. Actually I judge the coldness by my nose hairs, when you breathe in and you feel them freeze (anything after minus 20C usually), then it's cold. Isn't that right Marrianne?

[doug]

Sooooo, what you're telling me is that if I ever end up in minus 40c weather, I better not try and pee outside?? I mean if nose hairs freeze well then... just sayin'

[Nursepair]

Too right you don't Doug! You might get a nasty case of frost bite on the vitals!!

We have had snow flurries here for a few days, minus 4C during the day and minus 10C at night. It is supposed to be warm Friday though (16C) so at least the Trick or Treaters will be more comfortable. Think I will get back in my 3/4 pants!! I have a problem getting back to wearing long pants and long johns after the summer!!

[Josephine]

Bit of England had a freak storm last night unremitting lightening and thunder and 12" of hail and snow/sleet fell overnight! Many homes flooded, rescue services worked throughout the night.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7700167.stm

[doug]

That was a bad one..I was surprised to see that they used Feet as a measure and then the metric in parenthesis..I thought it was metric only over there.

[Josephine]

As always, us Brits cannot just make make up our minds! http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b286/flagady15/smilies/heehee.gif

[doug]

My son can do both....It drives me nuts when he measures something and tells it to me in mm'. I'm just to old to re learn that.

[Josephine]

Actually, I was forced to when all the screws and drills started coming in mm instead of fractions. It was a shame because I had a way of teaching new nurses how to figure out that a 3/32" drill was actually smaller than a 1/8" or a 5/32" smaller than a 3/16"!!

Also, though the head sizes of hemi(half) hips as used for fractures have been changed from inches to mms, they still go in the same jumps as they did when they were 1½", 1-5/8", 1¾", 2¼" and 2½"! Very confusing!