CalicoKitty

Four square is an indoor game? Not growing up in my house!

Name the poor kid Ruth, and let the other kids come up with the nicknames. How sad would that be.

I bought a microwave eye mask on Amazon, and it works well.

RE: unwanted callers. I use NOMOROBO, and get virtually no calls anymore. It is an app that is supported by most phone carriers. You can put it on your cell phone, too, but I haven't tried it yet. But it is amazing on the land line.

The McDonalds in Moscow, Russia are amazing. Very clean, and beautiful architecture and decorating . And, more importantly, clean bathrooms. I visited two of them and was very impressed. They were beautiful buildings.

I have a friend from Norway who grew up in a port city where the cruise ships stopped, and she would see all the retired American tourists around her town. When she came to the US she was shocked to find that all American women did not have blue hair and did not wear "cat-eye" shaped glasses.

When I was teaching Kindergarten, I always put any notes to go home on the back rather than the front. The chances were better that the notes would actually get home if the children couldn't play with them. These kids look rather young to be able to play the "guess who I am" game where the name is on the back.

I may not be remembering correctly, but I seem to think that Joy was to "get" Josie, but Josie was too early and too small.

This year Ash Wednesday is Valentines Day, and Easter is April 1 (April Fool's Day). Funny how it falls some years. And I will be in church for Ash Wednesday, not Valentines Day.

I think I also remember that Jill had been doing frequent prenatal checks on her mom. She said she had "heard" a heartbeat the day before they found out about the demise. The doctor had said the demise had happened several days (a couple of weeks??) before. I'm not sure what Jill had been hearing, but apparently it wasn't a fetal heartbeat. Another reason why she has no business in the baby delivery business.

People have the same attitude here. It is extremely unusual for us to get any rain in the summer. If we happen to get the odd shower, you see people wearing winter coats and carrying umbrellas, even for a few sprinkles. Because---it's raining, so it must be cold outside. Very odd.

I emailed Previously TV about this same thing yesterday. They said there is a "bug" and they are trying to fix it. I just checked, and it is still not listed under "#" in the forums, at least on my computer.

This sums up what some people forget.

@Marshmallow Mollie - I'm descended from son Giles.

Our ancestors knew each other on the Mayflower: Stephen Bradford, William Brewster, Stephen Hopkins and John Howland are my Mayflower families. I'm also descended from William the Conquerer and Alfred the Great. It does make reading history more interesting.

In my county in California, you must have GFI plugs by any sink, or any other water area. It did look to me like the plug in this picture is GFI.

When I was growing up, it was common to "have all the kids have it at once". My parents friends would send their kids to play with friends who had chicken pox so they would "get it over with". Not uncommon at all. This was before vaccines were available.

That is a cute picture of Sammy, but my heart hurts to see that baby on that filthy carpet. Maybe I'm too "dirt conscience", but I don't ever wear shoes in my house. In fact, shoes stay in the garage, and never even come in the house. I don't even want to think what is in that shag carpet, or what made the black stains. Sam deserves a blanket or mat to crawl on, I think. Or at least a clean carpet.

We had a frequent flyer mom in our NICU...twins, singleton, twins, singleton, twins. Oldest were 5 with the last were born.

Felt nothing here near Lodi. Head about it on the news this morning, though.

Our Anglican church and Christmas Eve and Christmas day services. I think it just depends on those in charge.

Thank you. I wish this had gone according to plan the first time. My best thoughts for your successful surgery!

Question: Does anyone have experience with a knee replacement revision? I have been in constant pain since my replacement in 2011, and my comp carrier denied me going to an ortho doc because it "was not medically necessary". I finally have a great comp doc, who managed to get a visit to an ortho approved, and, lo and behold, my hardware has come lose. I am scheduled for a revision in April. I'm concerned because the hospital stay is longer than it was for my original surgery, so I'm wondering if there are any other inherent problems I need to know about. I'm NOT looking forward to the post-op pain and procedures, but I am really looking forward to being able to walk and go shopping again.

Thank you.

The only picture I can see is the one @Lunera sent. All the others are just a large gray area. Well, I could see the wedding topper picture, but not the picture just posted--something about the Silos. Not sure what is going on. I'm reading on my computer, not my ipad or phone.