Good Saturday afternoon everyone. Looks like we're starting the groove for winter weather with day temps in the 50s and night temps in the 30s and 40s. Prayers for Ruthie and a swift return to full health. Well done Hagatha

Have a great Saturday everyone

Good Morning everyone! Wide Awake Double Dark Brew is ready!

Connie I will keep Ruthie in my prayers too. Hagatha how did Willow's claw clipping go? Draclvr you are so good to keep those birds fed!

Hope you all have a peaceful Sunday!

Gerry

Good morning everyone!

On to the second cup of WADDB already.

Outdoors foggy without much sunshine.

Happy Sunday Gameboomers!

Good morning, Danish, Donuts, and Bagels in the Break Room. Thank you for the prayers for Ruthie. It looks like Lynda will be in rehab a little longer than Dec.1. Her progress is taking longer because of the stroke she had before the fall. I'm being extra careful, I do not want to join the fall club. My balance is definitely not what it used to be. Enjoy the day and hug someone.

Good morning everyone. We enjoyed a cool 50 F walk in the park this morning. Finished my second cup of WADDB and enjoying a bagel now. Looking forward to a day of rest after chores are done.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...everywhere I go

Have a wonderful day everyone

Good morning all

Got my 2 mile walk in this chilly morning

Going on the 4th day of turkey. Starting to look like one, gobble gobble

And yes soot.....it's beginning to cost a lot like Christmas

Have a pleasant day

Good morning everyone.

It's an absolutely beautiful morning. I'm on my first cup of coffee, just contemplating where to have my walk today. My gutters were supposed to be cleaned this morning but I see that the the appointment has been cancelled.

My Ember heated mug finally died so I bought a different kind, and it's a vast improvement, less tippy, for a start, and a much longer charge for those people who like to drink their coffee slowly as I do. It's funny how much I love these heated mugs. They come under the category of "small luxuries you had no idea you needed so much."

Yes, it's beginning to sound a lot like Christmas. Jingle Bells in the stores.

Good Sunday morning. VERY cold here - well below freezing. The wind is blowing which makes it even colder.

I remember when I posted about that Ember mug I got from my son, hagatha! That was a couple of years ago. Mine is still going strong! I remember we both agreed it's some of those "small luxuries you had no idea you needed so much!"

Seems like a good day to make soup. I have half a head of cabbage I need to use up, so I'm thinking a cabbage soup with white beans will be just the ticket.

Happy Sunday! I don't know exactly how much snow we got but it's around 7 to 8 inches from what I see. I think that's about double what we had for all of last winter combined.

I admit to having to drink my coffee much faster than I'd like to but I still don't believe in buying an expensive mug that requires an app. Just me. I should replace my microwave someday though so I can reheat the coffee if need be, like I used to. I've gotten pretty used to being without a microwave for the last year or two (however long it's been now) but am planning a replacement one of these days.

Enjoy your soup, Drac.

Connie, be careful but don't overcompensate either. Sometimes that's worse, at least for me. Better if Lynda stays put until she's really ready to be home I guess. Does she have somebody to help her out at home?

Orion, good to see you here in the break room.

Have a good day all!

LOL! I totally agree with you about the mug, oldbroad! I would have never considered such a frivolous thing for myself. There is an app, but I've never used it. I just put the mug on the charger every night. It's a silly thing which I would hate to be without!

Hm. I wonder if hagatha was using the app. I saw this earlier today https://www.reddit.com/r/Embermug/comments/1haouqd/longterm_ember_mug_review_never_buy_a_product/

Hmmm... I wonder too. I have never even used the app.

Re: the Ember app -- I tried to use it once and my mug refused to heat at all, so I reset it and never tried again. My mugs just stopped charging ( I had two of them). I even bought a new charging station to see if it was that, but it was the mugs themselves. The new mugs I bought don't have a silly app -- they charge very quickly and the heat controls are right on the mug itself. Also much cheaper and heavier. Plus they have a 17 ounce size, which is great for tea. I bought a couple of extras for Christmas presents.

Sounds good, hagatha. Who knows, maybe I'll cave in some day and try one. Something cheap though just to test it out.

Good Morning everyone and Welcome to December 1st! Wide Awake Double dark brew is ready!

Christmas will be here before you know it! I've been lucky so far no snow yet but it is expected to be here tomorrow morning.

Enjoying my first cup of WADDB while I wait for you all to join me!

Have a Great Monday!

Gerry

Good morning Gerry. Enjoy your coffee. I am just heading off to

Good morning everyone

New week, new month, new coffee.

No Ember cup for me but I have a few of those isolated steel cups (Stanely cup style). Good enough for me and both cordless and app-less.
Big win.

Happy Monday GameBoomers!

Good morning, Danish, Donuts and Bagels in the Break Room. Oldbroad, Lynda has someone to stay with her when she gets home, but Ruthie doesn't. Meeting at the Eagles tonight. Enjoy the day and hug someone.

Good morning everyone...enjoying WADDB and bagels before I start my day. We have a little mug hot plate to keep a cup of coffee or cocoa hot. Keeping Ruthie and Lynda in my prayers.

Time to take a look at the five and ten, it's glistening once again

Have a great week everyone

Good Monday morning and welcome to December! Got out my winter tablecloth for the dining room table and my little Norwegian nisse stuffies. They used to be mythical gnomes that lived in barns in the country and protected the farm. Now they live in the houses around Christmas and protect against evil spirits! I will put up my little skinny Christmas tree later. I don't do much decorating for us out here in the country.

Getting together my menu and ingredients for the shopping list for the Ranch volunteer brunch next Saturday. Haven't got a final head count yet, but it should be around 30ish people. Heading to Aldi to do the shopping tomorrow.

Good morning,

I'm off for a walk with a friend this morning. We're trying a new trail so I've got my AllTrails app set up and ready to go. It's quite chilly and it will be a brisk walk. There's a pub near the trailhead so we might go there for lunch.

I joined Facebook about six months ago as a way to find people I'd gotten out of touch with. I finally located one of the women who I grew up with in Toronto and had a nice back and forth messaging with her. Yesterday I got a call from her sister, Julie, who was my best friend growing up but who I lost touch with when she moved away. She's a chef on Sint Maarten. We hadn't been in touch for 40 years! And her sister lives in Australia. People to visit if I can get myself moving.

FB isn't good for much, but I rely on it to keep up with my family who live far away. I am a new Great-Auntie up in Iowa!

Too danged cold for me to take my walk down to the woods! And now it's snowing again.

Just counted 19 Northern Cardinals sitting on the shrub and the deck railing waiting for a turn at the bird feeder!

Happy Monday all. I think I'm going to do even more nothing today than usual.

Last Thursday I managed to talk AT&T (via online chat) to give me a $50 credit towards the installation fee of something they forced me to do. Yesterday I completed a paper application that I finally managed to get for some senior exemptions on my property tax bill which increased by $1400, even though our mayor here said there would be no increases. Fingers crossed it makes it through the mail.

No Christmas decorations or shopping for us. No FaceBook either. And no Cardinals

Enjoy your day everybody!

Draclvr, we don't have Cardinals here but we used to see them in our backyard in Toronto. They are beautiful birds.

Our walk today ended up being very wet and we were soaked after 2 hours of walking, but we did see two Pileated Woodpeckers in there. Once again I'm glad I had my AllTrails because we did get lost at one point.

Oldbroad I hope you get those exemptions on your property tax. As well as senior exemptions here, we can defer property tax until we sell our home, at which point we pay it with interest. It saves me thousands of dollars every year. The theory is that my property's value will increase by more than that over the years. Who knows? I can't see house prices continuing to rise but somehow they still do.

Good morning everyone!

Emergency kits with instant coffee and knäckebröd are available in the break room.

Over here a few degrees above freezing. Mrs. Sun is hiding behind the clouds.
A perfect day for tinkering with the solitaire game project.

Happy Tuesday Gameboomers!