Chapter 15



Nov 11, 2000

FLORIDA

i personally think write in would be a good idea with someone standing by to help those who are illiterate make their mark i saw a print of the florida and if that is really the way they are shame on someone that is not a vote it is a puzzle could it be because bushes brother is governor there if bush does get it we seniors will have to appeal to the congress not to let him give our social security away



Nov 11, 2000

FLORIDA

if they are all the same it shoukld be the law that they have an interpreter there or if it came to write in votes which isn't possible here it is all pounch in there should be someone to help those who could not read or write make their mark




Nov 10, 2000

QUESTION

what happened to my sig does anyone know thanks



Nov 10, 2000

QUESTION

i have a question that may sound foolish to some of you who know more than i do is there any population on the florida keys



Nov 10, 2000

QUESTION

thank's glo she did in honor of veterans day which i had forgotten though when i was growing up we stood and faced the east on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month and saluted it was the end of world war one the war that was fought to end wars only then we called it armistice day it didn't end them either



Nov 10, 2000

QUESTION

remember however the election finally turns out this too shall pass




Nov 13, 2000

ANTICS OF A SQUIRREL

squirrels are fun to watch my father in law had BOARD IN THE BACK YARD HE WOULD NAIL EARS OF CORN TO IT one squirrel got so tame it would eat out of his hand today we had chicken livers and i found out our dog hally likes them better than i do she turned up her nose at the first piece but after she found out they had gravy on them it was fine she helped me clean my plate i guess no one saw us anyway neither of us got scolded i sit right at the edge of the dining room because they won't let her cross the boundry the dining room is right next to the lobby




Nov 13, 2000

JUICY/COFFIE

i don't like coffee of any kind and if i ever do drink it the weaker the better at home i would take half a spoonful of coffee two spoonfuls of sugar that wasn't too bad if i had it with eggs bacon toast orange juice and oatmeal otherwise i let my husband drink it




Nov 13, 2000

Chemo

chemo is bad so is radiation it made vickie so sick but they could only give her one series they said any more would distroy too much brain tissue at the very end the dr said he could do one more thing put in a shunt to keep the pressure from building up so fast i said what will that do for her he said it will give her a few more weeks of misery at least he was honest i said no




Nov 13, 2000

WHEN DO YOU START TO ......

my husband was the one who really liked to decorate for christmas we had a fake tree that we would set on the coffee table in front of the window we would put the lights balls and tinsel on about the fifteenth i was a great one for tinsel so it got on the floors so what to me it was not a christmas tree without a lot of tinsel when i was little at home i used to lie under the tree and pull the tinsel isicle strips off we had some bulbs my grandmother had had a santas going down the chimney as yellew bird and as real little bell on top there was a form that held five lights in the form of a star they were always yellow the first thing my father would string out the lights on the floor and test them to make sure they all lit christmas even dad and i would go to town to buy my mothers present when the girls were little i had a cardboard nativity scene i would put together every christmas and put under the tree here i have a tree about a foot high with tiny lights it stays in it's box till a couple of days before christmas i'm not sure where it will sit this year now i have the enertainment center i guess can clear the books of the top shelf of the bookcase



Nov 13, 2000

WHEN DO YOU START TO ......

i like it to stay up at lest till after new years after all i won't get to see it again for a year



Nov 13, 2000

WHEN DO YOU START TO ......

mary lynn how prescious where did you find the winking kitty
Graphics by Mary Lynn Lee





Nov 13, 2000

DON'T GROW OLD

i will never be too old to ride the merry go round if someone would take me there and put me on it as for growing old you know the only alternative to that all you have to do is die young and not many of us would chose that route




Nov 15, 2000

WAFFlES

my spell check hAS TROUBLE WHEN I RUN WORDS TOGETHER IT DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THINGS LIKE 10TH EITHER and i have to spell them out




Nov 15, 2000

Problems posting

i had a lot of trouble yesterday when i punched reply the page to reply on wouldn't come up




Nov 15, 2000

PIES

i baked a lemon pie once for a church pot luck but i needed to serve straws with it



Nov 15, 2000

PIES

when i could cook i did better with cakes when i was five my grandmother taught me to read a recipe and measure the ingredients sift the flour mix in the liquid and beat it until the time i made the instant box mix angel food and forgot to put the flour in it turned out more like baked merang




Nov 16, 2000

BOOKS

i have two bookcases full and two shelves on my entertainment center pretty full i wouldn't know what library to call but i gave my daughter a list for christmas the one time i got to go to the book store last year i wanted one but he said it was out of print and they couldn't get it and that was w.e.b. griffins badge of honor it goes all the way from the lieutenants to the aviators my husband and i read them together because he could explain all the acronyms i told my fdaughter i wanted books three and four of harry potter i hope she can find them for me




Nov 16, 2000

SEX in the STREETS

when i was growing up i was explained to very clearly at home what was right and what was wrong of course there was no t.v. to blame anything on but even now on the internet i have seen some pretty raunchy things worse than someone having bra painted on and now the kids know if they do get pregnant all they have to do is go have it cut or sucked out there will be no consequences no new life to be responsible for




Nov 16, 2000

Christmas Jukebox

great list fay of course they did leave out a few (we three kings) (good king wenselas) and ( white christmas) but it was great anyway our acca pella choir used to sing the carol of the bells every christmas it was all boys about 60 of them the singers from the high school have been here the last several years they are pretty good of course i realize they don't have 2000 students to pick from my favorite was a group of seven giirls they called the stephen foster singers they wore formals like they wore in the 1850's all seven colors of the rainbow a couple of them wore black ribbons around their necks with a cameo in the middle they were the seven best girl singers in the school which left me out i did pretty well with the clairnet our trio got a first in the state but the cornet troupe had gotten a first at the regional the year before but when my time came it was 1941 no out of state travel the band was 100 the orchestra about 80 and they both got state firsts one girl here who visited me because she was doing a paper on the schools then and now said your school would have been classed a 4A. no one said we were but maybe they divided them diferent then




Nov 16, 2000

WEB TV

my daughter got me mine last christmas i don't know where but it is just a plain sanyo classic plus who knows i know i can't send pictures of course i could do a lot more things if only knew how




Nov 17, 2000

PARYERS

at least you can move your arm and i assume walk be thankful for that a stroke took my whole left side at once can't use my left hand and arm or walk without a one handed walker threy made me and the therapist going along with me with gait belt




Nov 19, 2000

DR. SUESS IN FLORIDA

sorry all but i have been scared to death bush will get it that he will get in and give away our social security and i will be out in the cold i do not like a 300 vote majority out of millions that is an insult they say there was a time where a candidate carried all but two states but they were new england states and back in those times not many people would admit voting for a republican anyway i would be ashamed to win by 900 votes out of so many million I AM BUSH




Nov 19, 2000

PARYERS

hazel it hurts but keep moving them as much as you can concentratimg on opening and seperating them at least every four or five minutes it helps some to soak them in hot water if you don't they will contract into a fist and you won't even be able to open your hand besides in a few years it will quit hurting so bad mine aren't bad at all if i do them myself one at a time but if the therapist takes my hand and tries to open my hand all at once it's still uncomfortable but when it first happened i coudn't stand anyone to touch my thumb now i really wish i had done what the therapist had said at first and kept opening them and seperating them now they have to pry my hand open to wash the palm i didn't realise how much i depended on my left hand to do things till i lost it can you train the hand mine stays in my lap i like spagetti but if i try too eat it i look like i've been in a spagetti fight



Nov 19, 2000

PARYERS

i would appreciate it if you would pray for me at the same time the bible says where two or more agree together on the same thing the father will grant it




Nov 19, 2000

Automated School Phone

that sounds about right when my girls went we had a break with the bus it would pass us turn the corner go about a mile up the road to pick up a family there then come back if they weren't ready the first time they had about five minutes till it came back but one time mary stalled around and wasn't ready when it came back then got really upset because i wouldn't take her



Nov 19, 2000

Automated School Phone

when i went to school there was no worry about busses the only ones that had the luxury were kids that lived in a suburb about 8 miles away the rest of us walked regardless of the weather as i remember we did have one saving grace you didn't hear them say the wind chill is so and so if it was 20 below it was 20 below period one time it was so cold my dad walked me to grade school when we got there there there was a little boy too little to get the door open my dad let him in then went up and bawled out the principal for not having boys from the higher grades watching the doors believe me after that they did of course dad and the principal had grown up in the same neighborhood i think even went to the saME GRADE SCHOOL so that's not as bad as it sounds




Nov 20, 2000

BIG HUGS TO ALL

hi mary it is hard for me to type hugs with one hand but just use you imagination and know they are there take it easy and get your strength back
0000 and xxx
donna




Nov 19, 2000

Here's my Turkey"

just think this is one election that will be going into the history books and if bush does get it it is certainly not a mandate by the people well just wait a few years and we will be able to vote for hillery i will bet on it




Nov 22, 2000

DID YA SEE BUFFALO THIS AM?!!

pam that's a lot of snow to get all at once we haven't had any yet as a matter of fact it's warming up a little if alls ok and the creek don;'t riise i'll see my kids at christmas they come and take me to his sisters in Columbia for christmas dinner last year when my son in law came in i said is Mar with you he said yes Mary my sister he laughs about that he said my mother is Mary my sister is Mary and my wife is Mary i guess the name isn't that unusual i have seen buffalo there is a town about 20 miles north of here that has a small herd



Nov 22, 2000

DID YA SEE BUFFALO THIS AM?!!

Pam at least it isn't a little bit of snow with ice underneath and them out driving on it my kids always come from indianapolis on christmas and if any of the roads are bad i worry about them




Nov 23, 2000

A PRAYER

god thank you for the food and remember those who have none thank you for our freedom and remember those who have no freedom thank you for our comfortable homes comfort those who have no homes thank you for letting us be born into circumstances that led us to know you let your holy spirt touch and each those who do not thank you for all of your blessings and bring those blessings to those who do not know them thou light of the world let your ligt shine in the dark places the brightest of blessings to you all




Nov 25, 2000

RIGHT OR LEFT

i am strictly right handed but i did not realise how much i used my left hand till lost it try to eat something like spagetti with nothing but one hand and no way to hold a piece of bread in your left hand when finish i look like i have been in a spagetti fight or try using the phone and writing something down i can't even open one of my pen now because i don't have any top teeth to help me hold it or even opening a straw or buttering a piece of bread My husband on the other hand was naturally left handed but his grandmother hit his hand with a ruler if she saw him using it so it turned him so the only things he did with his left hand was shoot and play golf



Nov 25, 2000

RIGHT OR LEFT

i told how my husbnds grandmothrer used to hit his hand if she caught him using his left hand i don't know if people do that so much any more but in medicine the word for left is sinister i doubt she knew that though if a dr. writes an order for a person to have drops in his left eye the order will read O.S. as i'm sure the nurses in this group know



Nov 25, 2000

RIGHT OR LEFT

i read a book by v.c.andrews she said in the cajun society if a person is left handed it meant she had healing powers



Nov 25, 2000

RIGHT OR LEFT

i lost the use of my left side because the stroke destroyed the right side of my brain one side controls the other i shouild count my blessings though i could have lost my power of speech i can't talk as well as i did though i found that out when the chaplin that comes every two weeks had me read some bible passages my tongue gets twisted when i try to talk aloud when i first fell i knew i couldn't call my husband because my mouth felt like it was full of mush he was only in the kitchen but i knew i couldn't make him hear me i thought oh well sooner or later he will come in when he did he said what's the matter i said i think i've had a stroke you'd bettrer call 911 so that's what he did i remember them putting me in the ambulance but that's the last i remembered for a month




Nov 24, 2000

CHRISTMAS SONG

it would be hard for me to pick any one christmas song i like them all my very favorites are We Three Kings_Good King Wenselas and the drummer boy-What child is this- hark the herald angels sing




Nov 25, 2000

Good Morning All

i am waiting for christmas now doesn't seem all that long since last christmas got a few more presents i want to get as soon as i get to wal mart which should be the first tuesday in december then on christmas my daughter and sonin law will come and take me to his sisters in Columbia for christmas dinner maybe my grandaughter can come too




Nov 24, 2000

GENEALOGY

i know some of my genealogy traces back to the indians and i have also heard that is one of the hardest things to trace my father has a sister who lives in salt lake city and belongs to the morman church and i have heard that that is a good place to start but i never knew her




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