Sudokuaholics Anonymous 5

Hi mary! Footy is better than sudoku! Shame on you!!!!!!!!

No not just yet -soon

It was our wedding aniversary 7th June 37 years

Hi Suzy congrats for a TOPP Hi Lee went to lunch with craft ladies very nice Hawkins is lovely

Sorry Mary!!! Didn't mean to steal your TOPP!

Hi Lee!

We just had our 18th anniversary...

When I was young and single I had plans.... married around 30, first child around 32, second at 34. I would know the person I married at least 2 years before we got engaged, we would be engaged at least a year before we married....

Was I naive or what???

I was engaged after 6 months, married 12 months after that. Now that sounds like I got that part right, until you take into account the fact we were living in different countries for those 12 months!! Married at 26 - 4 years ahead of schedule - first child at 29 - 3 years ahead of schedule - 2nd at 32 - when I was supposed to be having my first.

I was also going to be a working mother!!!! ho ho ho

Dinner is ready... back later

Mary glad you enjoyed Hawkins, it is nice there.
Won't be long now until the game starts, have you got your jersey on. Hi, Suzy, fancy stealing Mary;s TOPP she was trying hard for that

Lee, good to see you back. Hope you are feeling better.

Mary, Happy Anniversary to you and Mr Mary (Vic) for the 7th

Suzy we all had plans, mine to only have 2 children, had 3 ,all boys, 2nd time had twins, nice surprise though.Thought they'd all leave home at 18 they did, but then 2 came back. Now I've been married for 38 years and I still have 2 boys (sorry men) at home 3 including my husband . 1 son is 34 & the other 30 - I.m still dreaming of a house with only my husband & me

Hi Gail, yeah I'm not feeling too bad now, had a cold that wouldn't go away. Looks like Mary's gone off to watch the footie.

Lee!!! Oh no!!! Kick em out!!! Some days I'm ready to kick mine out - and they are only 15 and almost 12....

The buffalo wings and homemade ranch dressing were yummo!!!

Suzy , at least when I come home from work with all adults in the house, dinner is ready to sit down & eat , I don't have to cook much anymore. & if hubby & I go away at weekends someone is always here to feed & walk the dogs. Has its ups as well as downs

Lee, the 2 kids part was the only part that did match my plans!!

I'll give you that Lee, but the cost???? d2 knocked on the door at midnight the other night cause hubby and I were making too much noise....

I didn't cook much until this year. Hubby is the cook in our family. But this year he is going to TAFE 3 nights a week. Needless to say, the ds are learning to cook....

at least at 34 & 30 they pay their own way.They have to contribute to power etc. They both have mobiles so don't use the house phone much & if they stay out out at night I don't worry too much, they're big enough to look after themselves

That's a definite plus Lee. Kids are soo expensive.

Suzy they sure are. Well gotta go now, brought some work home with me & I need to do it . Will talk with you another time BYE

Bye Lee

Hi Zusy, see all is ok in your world?????

Did I miss everyone? It is not that late in sudokuland.

My not so lovely cats woke me at dawn, when the sky was first becoming light. Time to HUNT! Get Up Mom, let us OUT! Baby Kitty , who is larger than Momma kitty, actually says OOOUT! and will not take no for an naswer. If I am asleeep, she comes to my bedside table and asks nicely, progressing to more insistant, and the other morning I woke to kitty leaning as far as she coule over the bed, her head level with my ear, and Screeching right in my ear! BTW, her name is Screech, always been that vocal and insistant hehe.

I got up and let her out! she has us trained!

I think I shall take my second cup of coffee and go to the back porch. It is still cool enough to be out a while. I hope it stays cooler this morning, need to get the weed eater and trim around the steps and ramp into the shop. I do not like walking through tall grass, too many ticks about this year.

Pardon my manners, I forgot to say Good Maen Sudokuland!

and I forget the



there we go, coffee is made, come have a cup. Tea and choccie upon request, just ask the magic pot!

Hi MizT hope you have a cool morning. At least you know the pecking order in your household, hehe!, Bella basset does the same to me at light but gets her squeeky toy or just makes a hell of a racket stomping over the floorboards.

Hi Broni and MizT, I know how demanding cats can be. Our's woke me at 4.30am this morning to go out.

Hi girls
I just rung CynB.
They arrived here in Port about 4pm this arvo.
Have been to have a lovely meal at a restaurant called the Stunned Mullet. It is their 20th
wedding anniversary today.
I am meeting them tomorrow about 11am.
Thank heavens i recommended a nice motel for them lol

HI Elise and June and Broni! Anyone still about?

I enjoyed the second cup on the porch. Enjoying all my " exotic' house plants i am growing in containers. did I tell you, a friend who works in a shop was asked to get rid of plants that did not sell over Mother's Day? She brought them to me. I made a nice dish garden in a wooden flower pot hubby made for me, octagonal, wide and not too deep. I hope they " take" to thier new home!

Appears I missed everyone once again, DRATS! Elise, hope you enjoy meeting CynB and hubby. I have always enjoyed meeting cyber friends, not a bad experience yet. Photos are required, you know!

I am here. Cannot get the 'Hard' puzzle done lol
The dish garden sounds nice.

Oh yes, know photos are required lol
I love taking photos lol
Very quiet here tonight.

MizTricia1 I have just looked at your page for the first time.
That quilt is magnificent.
My sister in law does quilting.
She also works at a Spotlight store which sells sewing fabrics etc. and she is in charge of the quilt fabric dept.
I will have to show her this.
What a magnificent effort by lots of people.

YES, Broni, I have learned, Dogs have masters, cats have staff. I am the official opener of the magic see through sliding wall! They KNOW it has something to do with that long black handle they can just barely reach, and if I am not soon enough opening the door, Miss Insistant will stretch to the max and be pawing at the handle, trying to open it herself!

I am also in charge of food and water, and if they have anything umcomfortable, like a tick or a wound they come to me. Dad is for cuddles and loving, and a comfy sleeping boddy. They try to position themselves to be the one that resides in his chair!

Miss Insistant comes to me and talks till I figure out what it is she wants. Mama kitty will sit patiently beside whatever is amiss, an empty water bowl, food bowl or the door, and send vibes, till I notice her.

Elise, that is one magnificent quilt. It has won several ribbons in various local quilt shows. It went the rounds of some of the quilting friends to be displayed at thier guild shows. I think it helped all of us who wanted to DO SOMETHING after the 9/11 tragedy, very theraputic.

Yes its wonderful.
Has it found a permanent home yet?
It needs one.

Elise, I forgot to say, I have visited your photo gallery, and the beach photos are wonderful! I love the ocean, a lake and any body of water bigger than a mud puddle! In a pinch, a mid puddle will do, if it is a large one!

I think my spots now can be directly attributed to the time I spent in and on the water before I married. And the time I sat at the pool watching youngsters swim, my mommie tan. We were lucky enough to have a membership in a community pool and went daily, untill my girls were old enough to go alone.

Yes we are lucky to live here, the beaches
are wonderful.
I must go to bed now.
Looking forward to meeting CynB tomorrow.
I will report in tomorrow night about it lol

Unfortunately no permenant home. It has been offered to several places, including the airlines that lost planes that day. they do not want to remind people abut the loss of planes. Offered it to some of the new York firehouses, but there were so very many memorial quilts made all over the country, so no takers. so each year, we would send it to another quilt show or 2 or 3, untill postage got so very high. It is now to "old" to be entered in the judging, but it can be displayed. It has wonderful workmanship, the lady who did the putting together of the quilt is a professional quiltmaker, doing the patchwork for a shop in Amish country, famous for quilts.

Good night Elise, and nice to get to chat with you! May we do this again soon.