Category: Friends and/or family

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The New Video Chat Lights

My sister has been talking up the video chats to me, that so many people are using and enjoying, saying that I should start looking into getting on to a few video chat rooms, just to be able to socialize a bit. I have been blowing her off with every excuse that I can think of, most of them were true though. I am super busy around here taking care of everything that needs to be done all on my own. At the end of the day I’m pretty beat and not in the mood to go anywhere except to the kitchen, the living room and then to bed.

Since I do spend so much alone time, it certainly does get lonely. The holidays are always the worst so I think I just might check into some of the sites that my big sis has been telling me about. But first I want to look into the video chat lights that are out that helps make your video image look more pleasing. I need all the help that I can get. I’m just a farmer, not at all fancy like and haven’t worn anything but jeans in well over 6 years! Just stating a fact.

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Webhosting Options For Blogging

My 12 year old niece is pestering me to help her get her own blog up and running. She is always checking this blog when she has time on her laptop and really likes the idea of having a blog, so I’ve been spending a little bit of time here and there with her on this issue.  We have both been reading up on the web hosting sites that are available out there for folks like us. We don’t need anything fancy or frilly, but when it comes to webhosting it pays to do your homework a bit before diving in.

One article that we both read was regarding the Top Five Affordable Registrars, I was glad to see that Go Daddy and Yahoo were on their list as those are the two that I tend to lean towards to. Both are affordable, well known, well established and dependable, which are all good points to go on. I really had no idea that there were so many out there these days, things have gotten a bit more complicated than I remember, but we are still researching and will come to a decision by the end of next week. Then I’ll be busy teaching her all the ins and outs of blogging, sigh……..

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Lazy Susans

This year I am hoping that my sister will really love the 24 inch kidney lazy susan that I found out she was eyeballing back a few months ago. Last month I managed to find and order the one that she was all excited about online at a really decent price, so that is one gift that I was able to place a check mark beside on my long list of presents that need to be bought, wrapped and ready for the family Christmas get-to-together that has been at my sisters house ever since our parents passed away.

It is a bitter sweet day for all of us, but as long as we are together we seem to get through it. It’s a lot of work for my sister each year, but I think she really enjoys it all after all is said and done and hopefully this lazy susan will be put to good use for all of the holidays from here on out.

kidney shaped lazy susan
kidney shaped lazy susan
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Mom’s New Vintage Style Claw Food Bath Tub

My grandmother has been wanting to re-do her upstairs bathroom for many years, up until we finally took some time to sit and look around on the Internet to figure out exactly what style she was aiming for. We have come to the conclusion that she wants a Vintage style bathroom. For as long as I can remember she has only taken baths. She would put some bubble bath in the bath water, light some candles, set her cell phone and her cup of hot tea on the shelves and kick back with a good book for sometimes up to over an hour. We new not to bother her while she was soaking in the bathtub and if you needed to use the facilities while she was in there you were better off to go upstairs and use the bathroom up there and just let her be until she determined when it was time to come out and join the real world.

We came across some affordable claw foot bath tubs that immediately caught her eye, and she was sold right off the bat! Today her bathroom is completely done with her new tub set up, and she couldn’t be any happier with her choice. Now she can lay back in her tub and relax in her Vintage style bathing room til her heart’s content, she deserves it, let their be no doubt about that.

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A Ford Man

There is something about a New Ford that just excites me, my father was always a Ford man, he was proud to announce to anyone who would care to listen that he had only bought Ford vehicles all his life and I have followed in his footsteps as far as I’m concerned. The Ford Dealership and Maintenance Shop in town knows the family very well, we have been receiving Christmas Cards from them for as long as I can remember and am on a first name basis with the majority of employees that have worked there through out the years.

You can keep your Chevy thank you very much. I’ll just keep on buying and driving Fords and make my father proud of me while he watches me from up above, along side of my dear mother who didn’t care kind of vehicle it was as long as it got her to the grocery store and back as well as to church every Wednesday evening and Sunday morning.

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Beach Weather

Well I’m glad that we all survived the Super Storm Hurricane Sandy and that my sister and her family were able to enjoy the beach house rentals destin fl that they had been planning for long and were threatened to have to call off because of the weather. I know that New York and New Jersey were hit the worst, what a mess that have to clean up.

So far sis tells me that the weather is fine down in Florida and the kids really wished that I had come along, but there is no way I could leave the farm for that long.

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Online Relationships

We have all heard the horror stories by people, or about people that have found someone on the Internet, and things went sour. To be honest, meeting some one anywhere can be disastrous and can lead to problems, and more people are turning to the Internet for companionship and possible love interests.

My sister has been after me, for some time, to sign up at some of the singles sites, she seems to think that I need a wife to help with the running of the farm and the house, and is always emailing me with information regarding online chat rooms and dating sites.

I’ve spent the last few evenings checking out some of the sites that she has been talking about, so far I like what I read at Great Expectations, which offers a safe and secure online dating community with over 30 years in the making, that in it’s self says something about their company. Right now I’m still a bit gun shy, but it’s nice to know that there are some dating sites that might interesting to check out when the time comes.

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Happy Birthday Sis!

Today my sister claims to have celebrated her last birthday, as she has no interest in turning 60 next year. This has been a wacky year for birthdays. A lot of turning points are being approached and I guess it is sinking in that we are all getting older and there isn’t a darned thing that we can do about it.

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Mesothelioma Issues

I have to say that I don’t know all the much about the much talked about this Mesothelioma Disease that a good amount of people are having to deal with these days. I do know that there seems to be a lot of commercials for Mesothelioma Attorney practices advertising their Mesothelioma Lawyer services for people to take advantage of.

I just recently found out that a neighbor has been in contact with one of these practices. It seems that he was in the Navy back in the Vietnam days and spent some time on a submarine, which is where he contacted this disease. He has been experiencing symptoms for years and had no idea what the cause of these symptoms was until just a few years back. I’m glad that he found out about this condition and is taking action and could possibly get some money to help with the situation. Our Vets deserve all that they can get for what they did for us and our country.

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The Labor Day Rains

It looks like I’ll be cooking dinner for 3 tonight since my sister and her son will be stopping by on their way home from work to pick up the two airpots that were left here last weekend from our Labor Day family picnic. The rains came so quickly that we really scrambled to get everything covered up and back inside as fast as we could and the kitchen just turned into a nightmare of wet, cold food and people.

At least the rains waited until the end of the day. For the most part it was a good time. The next time we will all be getting together will be in November for Thanksgiving which is coming quicker than any of us really want it to get here, because after Thanksgiving comes Christmas and I don’t know anyone looking forward to all that goes along with Christmas.