The REO Lounge - Part III
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Good morning REOvillians.
Kay, thanks for keeping us informed on Cappy and Carol. While I understand it won't necessarily be good news, we are all aware of the gravity of the situation and Cappy's sacrifices for his sister. It is the NOT hearing from him that worries me most.
DH got his black wrinkle and LOVES it. I got my VV blue/purple and haven't quite fallen in love with the side switch. I seem to always have my regular old grand in my hand! When I can pry DH's out of his hand, I will update the pictures for you all.
Have a great week everyone!
Kay, thanks for keeping us informed on Cappy and Carol. While I understand it won't necessarily be good news, we are all aware of the gravity of the situation and Cappy's sacrifices for his sister. It is the NOT hearing from him that worries me most.
DH got his black wrinkle and LOVES it. I got my VV blue/purple and haven't quite fallen in love with the side switch. I seem to always have my regular old grand in my hand! When I can pry DH's out of his hand, I will update the pictures for you all.
Have a great week everyone!
I am well, so far...just knee deep in page building. Trying to get caught up after taking a day off.
How are you? 
Morning everyone.
That breakfast looks so good rhapsodies.
I was (once) a head chef at a local catering deli and sit down. I can appreciate!
That biscuit with spinach? and the poached egg with holindaise sauce looks amazing.
So does that waffle right about now. I'm thinking about making a big breakfast today
maybe my mum would like something. she is hard to cook for though, she is gluten free.
Hope everyone had a good mothers day.
So great to see you, Plumes! Head chefs are such rock stars, as I've said before in this thread. Stick around and you'll meet some other Reonauts with serious skills in the kitchen (of the professional, formerly professional, and personal varieties). You really sound like a great son, as I've picked up about you elsewhere, as well. I need to be gluten free, too, and you're right that we can be pretty tricky to cook for.
Well, I just got happy news!! One of the gals (that's the only term they use for themselves) from (great) Aunt Rose's cribbage crew will soon be a new Reonaut! She's 81 (three years younger than Rose when she stole my Grand and kicked a 60 year habit), and she has COPD, but she fell madly in love with Rose's Grand and will soon have her very own. These are some proudly, self-proclaimed stubborn broads. What a testament to Rob's stupendous cigarette slaying devices!
I like the word "tricky." But it's gotten much easier in just past few years to find gluten free foods at restaurants and markets. DD was diagnosed with a relatively rare disease and life threatening that involves gluten intolerance (not celiac); most usually seen in those over 70 years but being seen more often now in 40 somethings like DD. When I was there past August I was really impressed with how strictly she follows absolutely "no gluten" and yet maintains a rich and varied diet. DH just returned from a visit and was also extremely impressed. DD grew up "foodie," where much of our family life and best memories are those in kitchen and she is married to an executive chef. He just opened a Premier Restaurant in Nashville. About Silo Restaurant | Farm to Fork Dining | Nashville TN Needless to say, their lives, in many ways, revolve around cooking and sampling foods around the world (occasionally quite literally). It simply takes educating oneself and following through. Agreed is that the hardest part for most people is giving up favorite foods. They have very busy schedules, DD with her own demanding career, and both actively participating in the lives of their two young children (and feeding them). All of the four eat at least one meal away from home daily, most usually two meals away from home. Grandson, high functioning Asperger's, started life as a major challenge rejecting 90% of the most common foods that most people like.
Last year I spent most of the year eating gluten free to see if it would help with my life long, life style controlling IBS. It was much easier for me to eat gluten free as I rarely ate many grain products throughout my life. (And DH, the "carb/sugar nazi" has basically kept most grain products out of our house for the past ten years so I had life-style preparation before starting gluten-free.) I saw, over the past year, more and more grocery sections for gluten free products and more and more prepared products labeled as such. And despite popular belief there are many recipes for fabulous dishes and desserts that are gluten free.
As it turns out it appears gluten does not affect my digestive system either way but one thing that did become apparent is bringing more grains into my diet does help some. (I went from a diet of basically no bread to one with at least a daily serving of gluten free bread.) But............. DH had an abrupt change in lower GI last year. Tests have revealed nothing. He even treated himself for tropical diseases, as he's on Mexico border weekly....... no success, and has spent the last six months eliminating, for weeks at a time, common foods in his diet. The only thing he has isolated, for sure is Aspartame/Equal does cause issues. But that is not the only cause.
So we are about to embark on totally gluten free once again to see if it helps his system. (He hasn't had specific testing for gluten intolerance. It probably will become obvious, within a couple of weeks if gluten is causing problems.) Keep in mind the disease DD has, until past few years, was primarily seen in people over 70. We are hoping his "cure" is as simple as eliminating gluten from his diet.
Okay.... off soap box now.
Becky, what wonderful news about the gals. DH had just turned 75 a few days before he gave up the stinkies and started vaping. Well............ he did continue having an occasional coffin nail but about one year vaping he just didn't want them any more.
Hugs and love, Feisty Alice
I never have Mondays. I only have Saturdays and Sundays.
Me to, Sashie, me too...and ain't it grand?!
I never have Mondays. I only have Saturdays and Sundays.
I usually work Fri, Sat and Sun. So Fridays are my Mondays, Saturdays are my Wednesdays, and Sundays are my Fridays. Followed by a 4 day "weekend".
However, I have to admit though that since I've started feeling better, I'm beginning to become a bit restless and am looking forward to going back to work. Weird one, aren't I?
I am well, so far...just knee deep in page building. Trying to get caught up after taking a day off.
Im ready for a nap
Thank you for the update. Please don't worry about bringing anyone down. We are here to listen. I know this is really hard for you, too, seeing your very good friend suffer through this ordeal. I'm so thankful that you are "here" for Ray and you know you are helping him cope with this.
Love, Alice
Continued prayers for Carol and her family.
And a RANT!!
My bank cleared my echeck for Rob within 24hrs, last Wednesday. But they have not moved the $ to Rob!!! This is the longest I have ever waited for anything! 9 months of pregnancy went faster than this, lol.
And a RANT!!
My bank cleared my echeck for Rob within 24hrs, last Wednesday. But they have not moved the $ to Rob!!! This is the longest I have ever waited
for anything! 9 months of pregnancy went faster than this, lol.
Continued prayers for Carol and her family.
And a RANT!!
My bank cleared my echeck for Rob within 24hrs, last Wednesday. But they have not moved the $ to Rob!!! This is the longest I have ever waited
That's nuts! I have never heard of that happening.
Good morning, Reonuts.
THANK GOD IT'S MONDAY!
Yes, yes, I know, this is contra to the feelings of others but it has been a very tiring week and an even longer and exhausting weekend. A fun weekend to say the least but a tiring one none the less. A casual observer may deduce that I'm getting too old to keep up this pace but I refuse to believe it... no matter how much credible evidence is presented. (I place it all in the same category of the silly notion that the world isn't really flat. Hell, that's where all of you live.)
Wanted to just lay around on the couch today and take a twelve-hour nap prior to going to bed tonight but I have been giving the order by my daughter to get a haircut. Apparently a team of Sasquatch hunters has been spotted on the mountain surreptitiously taking pictures of me and making plaster casts of my footprints.
Not being one to let the downside of a situation dominate my day I shall turn my hair coifing sojourn into a positive, pleasurable experience. Just by chance, pure chance mind you, the hair salon I frequent is located directly next door to a pizza parlor owned by a very good friend of mine. It would be inconsiderate of me not to stop in, exchange pleasant banter and help improve his financial status. I of course will bestow upon him a tip that will undoubtably improve his life... NEVER STAND UP IN A CANOE.
Oh, one of the security guys at the club approached me Saturday night to talk about vaping, yet again. (he's ex-military and like many of us started smoking during the times he was ordered to 'hurry up and wait'.
Rather than confuse him with all of the variables involved in vaping and baffle him with my brilliance on the subject I have charged up the battery on one of my old e-Go- T batteries, found a charger and put together several bottles of juice in different mg levels. I give it to him at the club Wednesday night and give him a short tutorial before I begin my night of cavorting with the ladies. (I look at this act of altruism my singular gift to society and can now dedicate the rest of my life to hedonism and debauchery. It's good to have goals in life.)
I wish Cappy and Carol as much peace as possible during this sad time and a pleasant and productive day for everyone else.
Jack
THANK GOD IT'S MONDAY!
Yes, yes, I know, this is contra to the feelings of others but it has been a very tiring week and an even longer and exhausting weekend. A fun weekend to say the least but a tiring one none the less. A casual observer may deduce that I'm getting too old to keep up this pace but I refuse to believe it... no matter how much credible evidence is presented. (I place it all in the same category of the silly notion that the world isn't really flat. Hell, that's where all of you live.)
Wanted to just lay around on the couch today and take a twelve-hour nap prior to going to bed tonight but I have been giving the order by my daughter to get a haircut. Apparently a team of Sasquatch hunters has been spotted on the mountain surreptitiously taking pictures of me and making plaster casts of my footprints.
Not being one to let the downside of a situation dominate my day I shall turn my hair coifing sojourn into a positive, pleasurable experience. Just by chance, pure chance mind you, the hair salon I frequent is located directly next door to a pizza parlor owned by a very good friend of mine. It would be inconsiderate of me not to stop in, exchange pleasant banter and help improve his financial status. I of course will bestow upon him a tip that will undoubtably improve his life... NEVER STAND UP IN A CANOE.
Oh, one of the security guys at the club approached me Saturday night to talk about vaping, yet again. (he's ex-military and like many of us started smoking during the times he was ordered to 'hurry up and wait'.
Rather than confuse him with all of the variables involved in vaping and baffle him with my brilliance on the subject I have charged up the battery on one of my old e-Go- T batteries, found a charger and put together several bottles of juice in different mg levels. I give it to him at the club Wednesday night and give him a short tutorial before I begin my night of cavorting with the ladies. (I look at this act of altruism my singular gift to society and can now dedicate the rest of my life to hedonism and debauchery. It's good to have goals in life.)
I wish Cappy and Carol as much peace as possible during this sad time and a pleasant and productive day for everyone else.
Jack
Continued prayers for Carol and her family.
And a RANT!!
My bank cleared my echeck for Rob within 24hrs, last Wednesday. But they have not moved the $ to Rob!!! This is the longest I have ever waited
I'm not liking your situation but liking your sharing. Bummer. Hope it's resolved soon.
Good Day Fine REO Folk.
Been up since 0700 working. Nap sounds great but DH handed me the dreaded "list" as he was leaving for work. He'll be happy if I accomplish just one thing. This damn cold sweats and hot and rash and itchy not going away. I don't really feel bad just annoyingly uncomfortable. I think I'm going to coil up a fresh RM2 and start a clean REO that doesn't have any of the fabulous Butterscotch that Ratman gave me in it. Wouldn't be the first time a flavor caused an intolerance reaction. DH wanted to go to The Oasis Sat night and I begged off. Unheard of behavior for me especially the promise of getting some of my beloved (full of sugar and gluten) beer-ritas and live band. My face and mouth itching and sore on tongue that wouldn't heal started before I got the itchies from seed ticks crawling on me and biting. Our seed ticks are not known to carry Rockey Mountain Spotted Fever. Reason I have them is I forgot to put the killing/repelling drop on dogs and they bring them in and to me when they get on sofa. Putting drops on in a few minutes and all the ticks will be dead shortly. It only takes one to make me itch. So we aren't overrun with them by any means. I think part of my reaction may be "mental." But then again I only get this reaction to the seed ticks and a bite from a specific little fly that lives out here whose bite hurts like hell....... and from some food flavorants and food dyes, and fabric dyes, and fragrances, and....... what a mess I am.
Stay well or get better. Find and give some happy.
Feisty Alice
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Jack ain't fibbing about his hair. Last weekend was the first time I had seen him without a cowboy hat on. I asked him if all "that" is his real hair.
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Got a visit from the mailman about an hour ago ,,
The copper vain Grand looks nice, the picture doesn't look right the copper is much darker.
The RM2 was easy to set up, wrapped a 1.7 coil slid some cotton through it and haven't put it down yet.
Keep wanting to use my trigger finger from using the VV but I'm getting use to it.
I think this calls for a banana dance ?
The copper vain Grand looks nice, the picture doesn't look right the copper is much darker.
The RM2 was easy to set up, wrapped a 1.7 coil slid some cotton through it and haven't put it down yet.
Keep wanting to use my trigger finger from using the VV but I'm getting use to it.
I think this calls for a banana dance ?
Good evening everyone, hope you all had a good day, I had a terrible day, I'm sick of the sight of urinals, & toilets, every job I was given today, was to unblock them, or stop them from leaking, so I'm glad to be relaxing in the house, with a reo, stuck in my MIT, & a killer on top
Frank
Frank
My neither, I broke down and called them. First gentleman I spoke with barely spoke English. He put me on hold for 8 minutes, then hung up on me. 2nd attempt at calling back, I was told to give it another 48 hours. WTFudge man!!That's nuts! I have never heard of that happening.
Hope you washed ur hands, lol just teasing .... Enjoy resting with ur Reo!!
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