The Old Folks Home

[Krazikatlady64]

@Krazikatlady64 Welcome to the old folks home. Lots going on here. We may be old but we aren't sitting around letting life pass us by! So glad you could join us here at the home.

We had an inch of snow yesterday and a good coat of ice on it so I have to head out and see if I can pick my nets up before the next winter storm hits tomorrow and Saturday. The chickens have to stay in but gee, they have a nice warm coop and a generous dusting of scratch grain in their bedding to keep them occupied so they are far from suffering.

Thank you for the warm welcome! My Mother In Law used to crochet. I have some of her beautiful items. Quilting seems like it would fit me better, but I have never found the time. If you don't mind, I'll just sit a while.

 

[microchick]

I had a mammogram technician tell me once that the people who really suffer with mammograms are men. She said well endowed women have a much easier time with it than the ladies who are members of the fried egg society. She said she had to give a mammogram to a man who had found a lump and the poor guy was almost in tears.

OUCH is all I can say.

@CapricornFarm for having the reduction surgery. Yes, I could stand that myself but after seeing one done on the Learning Channel once that was enough for me to 'embrace my bazooms' so to speak.

I always found it discerning when friends told me they had ran into a male classmate and asked them if they remembered me. Oh sure, they said, she had a great rack!

 

[microchick]

Thank you for the warm welcome! My Mother In Law used to crochet. I have some of her beautiful items. Quilting seems like it would fit me better, but I have never found the time. If you don't mind, I'll just sit a while.

My mom crocheted and I do basic stuff. She was amazing and could watch TV and crochet without looking at her hands. I still have a lot of her work. Pineapple doilies, table cloths, hand crocheted lace. I never had the patience to learn it but quilting I love.

 

[CapricornFarm]

So do I Cap. Do you remember the quilt I was working on with a farm motif, embroidered squares and farm print cloth? I decided that the easiest way for me to do it was to adopt a 'quilt as you go' plan with it. So I'm hand quilting it in strips and it's working out very nicely doing it that way. I'm using a fish scale pattern on the embroidered squares and just outlining the farm print material.

Like you I find quilting relaxing and it's something I can do sitting with my feet up and doesn't causes me pain until the next day when my hands are talking trash to me.

@Krazikatlady64 Welcome to the old folks home. Lots going on here. We may be old but we aren't sitting around letting life pass us by! So glad you could join us here at the home.

We had an inch of snow yesterday and a good coat of ice on it so I have to head out and see if I can pick my nets up before the next winter storm hits tomorrow and Saturday. The chickens have to stay in but gee, they have a nice warm coop and a generous dusting of scratch grain in their bedding to keep them occupied so they are far from suffering.

Cap are you working on any quilts at the moment? I almost have the one done where I put a new top on the old comforter. Thing turned into a monster.

I have a vague memory of some embroidery, but my mind isn't what it used to be. I am working on a manger scene for a friend of mine. And I got a new diamond painting to work on.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Thank you for the warm welcome! My Mother In Law used to crochet. I have some of her beautiful items. Quilting seems like it would fit me better, but I have never found the time. If you don't mind, I'll just sit a while.

Sure , pull up a rocker and grab a drink.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I had a mammogram technician tell me once that the people who really suffer with mammograms are men. She said well endowed women have a much easier time with it than the ladies who are members of the fried egg society. She said she had to give a mammogram to a man who had found a lump and the poor guy was almost in tears.

OUCH is all I can say.

@CapricornFarm for having the reduction surgery. Yes, I could stand that myself but after seeing one done on the Learning Channel once that was enough for me to 'embrace my bazooms' so to speak.

I always found it discerning when friends told me they had ran into a male classmate and asked them if they remembered me. Oh sure, they said, she had a great rack!

I had the surgery because my back always hurt. It wasn't the worst surgery I ever had. I had a very experienced surgeon , and he did a great job. Have not had to wear a bra since! It's great.

 

[microchick]

No bra? Oh whow, only in my dreams. I remember reading an article that said if while not wearing a bra, you can put a pencil under your breasts and hold it with the weight of your breast, you are big breasted....I just laughed. Pencil? More like a Louisville slugger.

 

[bruceha2000]

Driving too fast is a constant problem here!

Pretty much everywhere. I think the only place I've driven (through in this case) where people stuck to the speed limit was Kansas. Maybe they have a lot of patrols.

We need to cut that umbilical cord with China.

Good luck. We lost that battle years ago when all the manufacturers moved to China because it was cheaper to make stuff there and ship it all the way back than to make it here. Unless you can convince people to make that stuff in the USA ... AND get people to pay whatever the (reasonable) higher price is, there will be little manufacturing here.

The first time I realized I was saying it I knew I'd become a Missourian!

I didn't realize Missouri was far enough south to be in "y'all" territory.

I remember reading an article that said if while not wearing a bra, you can put a pencil under your breasts and hold it with the weight of your breast, you are big breasted

Or have seen many years

 

[bruceha2000]

For my original favorite logging wench (she knows who she is)

After lots of pulling and backing and resetting and (repeat a lot) an 8' section of this blow-over about 200' before it got to the tractor, the following day my sister-in-law (new logging wench) and I dealt with 32" sections. Me pulling the sled, her pushing it. Together we could barely lift the logs onto the sled.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Thank you for the warm welcome! My Mother In Law used to crochet. I have some of her beautiful items. Quilting seems like it would fit me better, but I have never found the time. If you don't mind, I'll just sit a while.

Pull up a loveseat or chair whatever trips your trigger