Sudokuaholics Anonymous 8

ONE MORE?

TV in every room here!

Congrats MizT!

we kept one from Heidi, gee, it was getting to be a complete run away! She has more TOPPS than all others combined!

Well MizT, nice chatting with you. I need to get some ffuts done and get ready to go. Have a great day!

Thanks for the chat, and helping turn the page. Now I must get some stuff done today, it is Monday and things seem to always need doing on Monday.

Suzy, it is just one guitar being sold. Richard still has a Fender Stratocaster, a classical guitar, an accoustic 6 string and there is also an electric base guitar hanging around

I still haven't been able to sleep. I now feel drugged. Kinda like a bad reaction. I just had a couple of 'scrips refilled.... I wonder if there was a problem?

Poor Heidi, your health issues aren't getting much better are they and at this time of year it will be a big problem for you.

Is anyone else having a problem with the grid lines on the puzzles? On my screen one of the vertical lines is missing and it makes doing the puzzles so difficult.

Nope... no problem there.

looks like it was a resolution problem on my new netbook, I have fixed it now.

I have always been a Marx Brothers fan, particularly of Harpo. I recently read his autobiography "Harpo Speaks", and loved it. Harpo's eldest son, Bill, wrote a follow up book... "Son Of Harpo Speaks". I ordered a copy on the internet, but didn't realize exactly who I ordered it from. It was Bill Marx himself, who wrote a nice note to me in the front. I got the book today. You may not see quite as much of me here until I finish it.

Morning all.
Brenda, did you make the porcelain doll you sold? I was into making dolls for a while. Then decided it was expensive and there was a limit to the number of dolls I wanted to have. Still have some that I have not been dressed.

Enjoy your book Heidi, hope you soon feel better.
MizT, I had a cat (when I was still a school girl) who liked to ride in the basket on the front of my push bike. Favourite food was peanuts so that is what we called him. He lived for 23 years. Must have been the diet!

Sorry about your Pastor Stella. I am sure it will be a lovely service for a very special person.

Good morning all.Everyone had been very chatty,I had to read 5-6 pages to catch up.
Broni..hope you wake without much pain after a good nights sleep.
Susan..glad your house is back in order.
Heidi..I like Harpo too.Enjoy your book.
Tricia...your kitties are very entertaining.
Stella..your pastor sounded like a real gentleman.

Loved your cats name June,23 yrs is a ripe old age to live to.
Had cats over the years but Greg not fussy about them.We have Renaes boarding with us,she is sitting on the window sill as she can hear the birds waking up chirping outside.Let me out,she is saying.

Morning all!
MizT, I loved your kitty in the snow story, it made me smile.

Stella, your pastor sounds wonderful.

Brenda, that's even worse than our place! The guitars I mean.

We had a cat that used to chase the sprinkler around.

Good Morning SA8, hope you are all well.
Thank you for all your kind thoughts and helpful advice. I did wake in the middle of the night and take another pain killer Zusy but am feeling a lot brighter today, the antibiotics must be working as the wound is already healing around the stitches, just feel like someone has hit me in the jaw.
Heidi, hope you feel better soon.
Stella, your pastor must have really enjoyed his life.
Morning Nola, June, MizT and Brenda.
Judy, and may all the Victorians stay safe and get rain.

My cat (Peanuts) used to like to play with the water comming out of the hose too Suzy. We also had an outside bathroom and if you were running a bath he sometimes got in to play with the water. We were very short of water so it meant you got in after the cat!

Bella just sticks her long snout in my pool and blows bubbles.

Morning rush is over and I have an empty house!

It's amazing how we can accept some things when we are short of water that we possibly wouldn't otherwise... I'm guessing it never hurt anyone though June. I wonder why we are so paranoid about germs now?

I love the idea of Bella blowing bubbles! Broni, feeling like you've been hit in the jaw can't be a good feeling... sending soothing warm towels...

The young, spritely lawn mower decided that the grass was greener on the other side of the fence - under the neighbours clothes line in fact. He is now safely locked in the house yard and we will try to find out how he got out this afternoon before we put him back in the paddock tonight...

Glad you are feeling a bit better Broni!!

A different slant on an old theme.
Gotta Be Over 40 to Understand!

Mum used to cut chicken, slice eggs and spread butter on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't get food poisoning.

My Mum used to defrost mince-meat on the kitchen sink AND I used to eat a bite raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper, in a brown paper bag, not in icepack coolers, but I can't remember anybody getting e.coli.

Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.

The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.

We all played sport, and also did PE... and risked permanent injury with a pair of Dunlop runners (only worn in the gym or the sports ground) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built-in light reflectors.. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened, because they tell us how much safer we are now....

Flunking sport was not an option.... even for stupid kids! There were not many fat kids.

Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the National Anthem and got free school milk for strong bones and teeth, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention. We must have had horribly damaged psyches.

What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything, and she could even give you an aspirin for a headache or fever.

I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself. I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.

Oh yeah..and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!

We played 'king of the castle' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mum pulled out the 48-cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our hair ruffled and got told to get back out there! Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mum calls the Solicitor to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.

We didn't misbehave at the mate's house either, because if we did, we got our bum smacked there, and then we got bum belted again when we got home. I recall Danny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front veranda, just before he fell off. Little did his Mum know that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a sissy.

It was a neighbourhood run amuck.

To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a "dysfunctional family". How could we possibl

To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a "dysfunctional family". How could we possibly have known that we needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes? We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we ever survive?

LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA, AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T---- SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED. I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING

Pass this to someone (over age 40, of course), and brighten their day by helping them to remember that life's most simple pleasures are very often the best!

I have a pekenese dog that also thinks the grass is greener on the other side.I have to go with her outside as we have a greyhound breeder and racer behind us,and dont want her to be their main course.

Stella, I think that is lovely that you are remembering your pastor. May he rest in peace. He sounds like he was a good man.

I love it Broni - feel kind of silly for throwing away the bottle of mercurochrome I'd forgotten we had when I found it this morning...

Nola, we have greyhounds next door too - I wonder why they didn't bark at the horse? Though maybe I'm so used to them barking it didn't register?

Morning Gail! Thinking of all of you Victorians today. I'm hoping that the work the fire fighters have done trying to prepare for today makes all of the worries a storm in a tea cup.

D#3 is out of the shower and so it must be my turn. The wind has only just started to pick up, and there was even a few drops of wet stuff falling from the sky (could anyone tell me what it is?)! Typical, it was my watering day!
We (D#3 and I, her school is shut today and possibly tomorrow as well) are going to spend the day in Frankston, catch a movie maybe, and have lunch with D#1 who works down there. Hopefully, there will be no trees down over the roads when we come home this arvo.
Catch you later.

Have a great day Gail. Enjoy the movie and lunch!

To you Aussies, what do you think Marc Hunter would sound like 30 years on?

Hubby and I have been looking for a show to go to to celebrate our anniversary. Dragon are one of the bands performing at a fund raiser for the fire affected Victorians, this weekend I think. Might not be so great for hubby as he probably isn't familiar with their music... thinking...

everybody..
Gail we have had a COUPLE of drops of wet stuff ... checked the BOM and all the major precipitation events are skirting my area!!
Broni...commiserations...glad you are improving!
Stella... I can't exactly say enjoy the funeral but it will be good to pay respect to such a man. Love Ian's persistence... anything to get out of school!
Great kitten antics Tricia
June...hang in there with those boxes...commiserations coming your way as well LOL
Suzy... love it...grass is always greener on the other side...unless you live in Victoria...NO grass!
Susan...ghastly mess...glad you are getting on top of it

Good morning lovely SA8 people.
A big SA8 to our Judy.
Gail - again, stay safe! Find a movie full of escapism and humour that may ease the stress of the past weeks and enjoy!

I'm taking a break from reading to say hello before trying to nap.
Still need to read posts.

So Heidi is popping in incognito to steal the TOPPS.

I am about to go to bowls but time for a couple of posts.

or try and CP