Hey evening time here……flu bug is bad everywhere……hiding as much as I can…….hope everyone is well……….very warm winter this year and very little rain in the desert………stay well everyone…….

Hi Everyone:wave: freezing here too:lol:

Steve
Sharon….that’s great news about your friend Julia….will definitely be adding her to my morning coffee chats with God….I too have kidney issues resulting from the Acromegaly. We have to monitor the levels every other month (Creatinine, Bun and GFR)…..right now my functions are holding at about 75% as of last month’s test. I suspect that’s dropped some, hence the gout flareup (uric acid buildup)….we tend to forget just how intricately intertwined our systems are and how easily we can damage them and what the ripple effect is. Hopefully, the chance to be in her studio with you and her other friends will be the spark she needs to keep fighting. Positive support is a God send for those dealing with life altering/ending conditions…..it has worked for me. I don’t know where I would be if I hadn’t tied in to a couple of Acromegaly support groups online. My best thoughts to Julia, you and her other friends.

What beautiful sentiments…as she lost her son and husband in the last 3 years. I think she may be dying of a broken heart!!! I respect her views!
I have had some wonderful memories with her. We have the same views and still carry the same liberal card. I guess you would know that we do not support the idiot in the white house.
I will pass on your thoughts to Julia, and friends, and then I will go and feed my needy poddle, Monet, and my cat Smokey!!!

Hope your leg gets better soon!

I know abit of what that is like as last Christmas I broke my Tibula, Fibula, and Coxyic sp? in my back. In four casts for four months and it was horrid, came out of my studio and tripped over Monet.. actually saw that and dove over him and that is what happened to me. OMG

Don’t dive over your poodle!!! LOL:wink2:

:wave:all…
Yes indeed Annie. The wonderful thing too is that they were told that they would ‘need help’ to conceive. Well they didn’t!
She has a good partner and family. Her dad is High Commisioner of Nuie.
Very happy for them. We have two other women MP’s with babies.
Will provide me with lots more cartoon material too as the old tuatara takes over while she is on maternity leave lol

Watching Hidden Figures tonight. Excellent movie. Have to say that i am shocked at the segregation of that time.

I awoke early too.

Looking forward to your next painting, Doug.

Sharon, what a sacrifice for a pet. Makes one reconsider having a pet in later years, as breaking a fall with a roll is for the younger set.

Annie mind-sweeping for cats.
Bill

Good morning all from a brilliant blue sky in beautiful Herefordshire. Cold wind but above freezing and great to see the winter sunshine.
I seem to have joined the ‘old crocks’ brigade having almost lost the use of my legs and control of my fingers since Christmas. Been diagnosed with Chronic Inflammatory De- myenilating Polyneuropathy. What a mouthful! Basically damage to the sheathing of the peripheral nerve system. Apparently treatable – thank God.
Life has been one round of Hospital visits and tests but, as many of you will have experienced, the family have come up trumps. My wife, daughter ( a doctor) and son-in-lawe have been wonderful to me. Very frustrating that I find it very difficult to put brush to paper at the moment but I’ll get there. There are many worse off than me.

So enough of this – the sun is still shining in an almost completely blue sky. Time to put on some music and dream up my next watercolour ‘masterpiece’ … surprising how good they are in my imagination!!

So glad I don’t live in Melbourne just now – playing tennis in 40 deg plus’ ? Happens every year. Isn’t there anywhere cooler they could stage the Australian Open? And talking of you lovely Aussies what happened in the cricket 2nd ODI in Brisbane? Seems us Poms aren’t so bad after all! And with that thought I’ll leave you. Have a good day in ‘unseasonably mild’ Arizona,
boiling Melbourne, windy and chilly Scotland …….. wherever you are..

Mike :thumbsup:

Good Morning!!

It’s interesting, yesterday at -4C felt colder than the -15C we had, it was a damp cold and the wind was unpleasant too.

Today’s forecast is for -1C, some sunshine and of course the wind.

Son and DIL are going to Niagara Falls for a special dinner where every single dish is made with some ice wine in it. They are going with friends and staying over night so I am picking up Ava from school and she will sleep over at her cousins house.

There is a reason why I received Louise Penny’s book so quickly, I accidentally ordered a french version of one of her books:confused: :confused: :rolleyes: So I am on the library waiting list again for the Glass Houses.

Grandson Ethan called last night, he is trying to learn German, and called so he could practice “speaking” it. He is a mere beginner but doing well at it.

:grouphug: Anita:grouphug: I feel for you.

((((((Ellen))))))) yes, not a good start to the new year, I hope everyone improves healthwise.

(((((((Mike))))))))) Where on earth did that suddenly come from??? Hopefully the medication helps quickly and properly. Wonderful that your family is so supportive and that you enjoy living where you do.

Sharon, as a friend you are in a bit of a dilemma, you want your friend to live but you also don’t want her to suffer, physically and emotionally. That was one heck of a fall for you, I hope all all the broken bones back to normal again:crossfingers:

Steve, hopefully your foot is even better today.

Geoff, on an average, how many caravans go on these outings??? Sorry about yet another poor night.

Doug, good to hear that you and Ruth are cold free again.

Rick, glad you dropped in.

Annie, playing in that heat is inhuman, I really don’t know how they can survive that.

Lulu, I think that is the first time ever that I heard of a prime minister going on maternity leave, who’ll be looking after the country’s affairs?? Annie, that’s not multitasking, that’s resting:lol:

to ALL!!

Uschi

For Newbies, Demos, Learning Zone

Dang I spent a half hour, typing directly in this window since I was on a ‘real’ computer….only to post and have the computer say it was no longer connected to the internet!!

Only thing I guess that is worth repeating that on Herbdoc.com (Dr. Schulze) there is a package of many supplements (herbs etc) designed to detox, boost immunity, improve nutrition, and cleanse. It is called the INCURABLES program and a LOT of people with incurable diseases have actually overcome them applying this, healthy eating, de-stressing, etc. They have a code good till the 21st LIVE2018 that gives you a 15 percent discount. I finally commited to doing it. It is so expensive that I really MUST do it and not let it go to waste. It might help others whose Drs. have no real cure, only things to manage symptoms.

Nancy I was once told, when working in downtown Dallas during an icy cold winter that it was colder there than Anchorage by folks who lived there. The tall buildings act as a canyon funneling winds.

Darla I finished the scarf, need to get it in the mail!
have a great day everyone!