Sudokuaholics Anonymous 9A

I might as well take this TOPP.

Happy Birthday Heidi, but I think for me the greetings are a little early. Enjoy the first of your birthday celebration.
Hope IH is doing something nice for you.

Hello there everyone.
Happy Birthday Heidi,have a fantastic 2 days of celebration.
Tami..so glad that your Dad is getting the treatment needed,and I hope he recovers quickly.
Theresa..lovely to see you back,get better.
Bean..hoping your foot will soon be as good as new.It is taking a long while!!
Great that June can pop in from Egypt and having lots of fun.
Hi Brenda, and of course everyone else.

Hello, Everybody!

2U!
2U!
dear Heidi!
2U!

Have a WONGERFUL day!
And yummy cake!
And lots of lovely flowers!
And maybe a baby canary or two!

Hello, Heidi, Broni, Brenda, Susan, Theresa, Vici and Nola!

It's nice to see you posting, Susan! Hope all's well!

Theresa, we have missed you. So sorry to hear you've been under the weather and facing deadlines at the same time! Feel better soon!

Nola, I hope all is going well with your studies/papers! We're always glad to see you when you can pop in!

Brenda, I hope you're having a quiet, peaceful day to yourself!

We have snow today. (And straight through to tomorrow, they're predicting.) About 6 inches have accumulated since midnight or so, and they don't think it will end before noon tomorrow. I hope it stays north of Heidi and MizT!

Hi Julie.
Yes,very extremes in the weather everywhere.We have had so much rain with still more to come.Hope you can stay warm,and I bet it looks so pretty.
I'm studying on line this morning starting at 8.30.
I had to take the day off work as I couldn't arrange a swap with anyone.So now I will have the afternoon to relax a bit,before an early on Thursday.

Nope... we're getting the snow, too. Everything outside is white and wintry.

Happy Birthday Heidi! I hope you are having a wonderful day and didn't get a new rake...

My birthday is actually tomorrow here. We're going to be sorting and weighing last years calves. There are 8 heifers that I'm keeping, and the guy buying the others needs their weights to figure the price. This should be a fun thing to do in the cold and snow.

Theresa, sorry to hear you have been so busy and unwell. Cyber hugs winging your way!

Nola, I hope your connection is better for this online class. And what a wonderful treat - an afternoon off!

Julie, hubby liked the lasagna so much he had seconds, even with the ketchup in it... hehe. His eyes and mouth were so wide when he saw me do that. How are your exercise classes going? If you are keeping up with it you deserve a MizT Medal. (I find her efforts to stick to her diet and exercise plan amazingly incredible so have invented a medal in her name.)

vdV does fly bys, what does eaa do? Hmm, she tosses a lot of raw meat: growl offs? Shoot ins? Stop and goes?

Nola, I think it's nice that you can have a somewhat relaxing afternoon! Would it have been better if you could have swapped days with someone?

Heidi, when you say "we're" going to be sorting and weighing last year's calves, does the we mean you, you and Robert, you and the buyer, or you and IH? Since it's snowing, we'll hope IH doesn't buy you a new shovel for your birthday!

Suzy, too bad we couldn't see your hubby's face when you "adjusted" the lasagna's flavor! The good thing is that he LIKED it! The difficult thing is that it may be hard to duplicate the recipe for another go in the future.

I like your idea of a MizT medal, though I certainly don't deserve it! Let's talk after I've lost about 50 or so pounds and no longer have pain in my knees.

Hmmm, yes, we do need a name for eaa's quick visits - "grab-a-TOPPs", "TOPP-ins", can't think of anything particularly clever. I bet she could offer a few more clever suggestions to go with yours!

Have a great day all and I'll catch you another time.Bye

Tami's school day is probably finished. I wonder if Bernie is still in the hospital and she has gone to visit him. Sending more hugs and positive vibes for Bernie, Bobbi, Tami and family!

Bye, Nola! Keep up the good work with your course!

Ugh Heidi! I agree - doing what has to be done can be 'fun' ....

Julie, I don't know anyone who doesn't want to lose some weight. My personal philosophy is that if it isn't affecting your health, it's fine. Unfortunately the cases where our health isn't affected are extremely rare!!!! So far hubby has always fallen into that category - low cholesterol, normal blood pressure, all that stuff, even though he is very overweight. The affects are just starting to show now though.

Nola, I hope you have a productive class and a relaxing afternoon.

Good Morning All.
Happy two day Birthday Heidi and another topp.
I see it is also Lee's Birthday today, have not seen her or Mary from Manly in a long time.
Brenda by this time you are probably picking Hubby up from the station.
Hi Susan, missed ya!
Vici, must check out your page for the pics, need to resize lots myself yet.
Nola, not long before your online class begins, have a relaxing afternoon.
Theresa, have you caught up on the 8 pages yet? Hope you are feeling better.
Julie, hope you don't get snowed in.
Zusy, would have loved to have seen hubbys expression.
Where is MizT?

Broni... Lee was on Easy earlier.

Suzy... "WE" means IH, Robert and myself. There's enough work for 3 or 4 people. First we have to move the calves to the other side of the property. Then we need to pen them up, move them into the working facilities and chute, catch each individually and weigh them. ( and record the weights) Then we need to sort them into 2 directions. The heifers I'm keeping need to go back to the pasture they're in now, and the ones for sale go into the concrete feedlot next to our load-out ramp.

Heidi and Vici, that was Lee from DC not from Cleveland Qld Aust hehe!

Still have a few pages to read; boy you miss a lot when you miss a few days. I spent today napping and then helping my grandkids and daughter bake a cake for their dad's birthday tomorrow. My daughter is 33 ... I can't believe it ... where have the years gone? It's so nice to have friends on this site who understand. Well, off to make some supper and feed the kitties, dishes, etc (all that gninaelc prac!)

BTW, sorry about weather problems. Ice can be very bad. In '98 we had an ice storm that knocked out our hydro for 8 days and we lost a lot of trees on our property. We have a fireplace, but after four days of being totally cold and sick of eating beans, I moved into a shelter set up for the storm. I remember it was so nice to be able to shower and eat hot meals that didn't include beans. My thoughts to all affected by the storm!

It IS the wrong Lee.

Have a good evening Theresa, noice to see you back.
Heidi, you crack me up!

Happy Birthday Heidi

Just popping in for a break from throwing away food. Yep, I'm going through the yrtnap and looking for expired stuff. WAY too much of it - I will have to be better organised in future...

Happy Birthday to Theresa's SIL!!! (Did I get that right?)

Heidi, I think I've said this before - farming is too much work for me!

Broni, are you in airconditioning or the pool today?

It is miserable outside. The temperature is falling rapidly, everything has frozen over, and the wind is blowing the snow into drifts. I need to go outside after making supper and do a cow check. We were supposed to have a Cattlemen's meeting tonight, but for the first time ever, it was cancelled due to bad weather.

Heidi, that is something that I can't even imagine. I have never even had ice on my windshield in the morning. Some things are beyond my comprehension, though I know they sound bad.

News story of the day (haven't done that in a while have I?): Banana versus Kit Kat

I lauged out loud.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8504607.stm

Just stopping in for a minute. Dad is doing well. Until they get his oxygen levels up, he is staying put. He has COPD from smoking for about 65 years and it is taking its toll now. Mom is holding up well.

Heidi. Hope you have a great day. Will try to call you on Skype with the boys tomorrow. They would enjoy singing happy birthday to you.

Theresa, glad you are feeling better.

Don't remember anything else I have read. I am going to sleep. It is past my bedtime and I don't want to fall alseep on my keyboard.

That should have been fall asleep. Maybe I invented a new word. What does "alseep" mean?

It means that you're typing half asleep.

Well have just cooked and peeled the prawns for prawn cocktails tonight, going over to my friends house(where I keep my boat) for dinner tonight to learn more about this travel matrix I have joined. Off to make the mayonnaise now for the seafood sauce.

Off to bed soon. It's gotten REALLY cold here..... 12℉ / -11.1℃, and still falling.
IH was complaining about working the calves tomorrow. I reminded him that it'll actually be easier on all of us because the deep mud will be frozen. I HATE being mired up to my knees in cold mud, trying to move quickly to get cattle to move the way I want them to, and having my boots sucked off.

I need to do my final cow check of the night, before going to bed. I use a million candlepower flashlight to see them clearly.

I hope you worked up the courage to go out and are now tucked up warm in bed Heidi...

Happy Birthday Heidi ♥