BetyBee

Thank you so much! We downloaded Tubi and have plenty more Columbos to watch!

We finished The Conspirators the other night and I do believe that's the last of the Amazon Prime Columbo episodes. Apparently they don't have the reboot from the late 80s. I've really enjoyed watching Columbo, usually while we eat dinner. I may look for those later episodes at the library. I may have to change my avatar! 😢

@shapeshifter- I'm an eczema sufferer too. You have my sympathy! I relocate spiders or if it's a pretty big one, I ask my husband to! I do think sometimes I'm just delaying their death. I mean they must have come inside for a reason. I just talked to a dear old co-worker/friend (well, she's not old, but I got old enough to retire). Anyway, she informed me that a drama queen co-worker resigned and I'm curious as to why because drama girl had a pretty meteoric rise at our company. Friend said it's a long story and she'll call me on Saturday. Something to look forward to! I didn't really dislike the young woman, but she was pretty hard to take sometimes. To be honest, I hope it was a dramatic departure. I think she has a lot of emotional issues 😢

Happy Anniversary, @ChiCricket! 55 years is quite an accomplishment! 🥰

My elderly neighbor had the fire department put a box with a key to her unit in it. Only police and fire dept had access. I think it was free. She was falling and injuring herself a lot and then would be away for months for rehab. I always checked on her lights being on in the morning (I get up early) and that they were off at night. We talked on the phone or in person. However, soon after she had that key thing installed, she had another injury (pelvic, I think). I collected her mail for a while and stayed in touch with her daughter. She's in assisted living now and her condo has been vacant for months. I've sent her cards, but no response. Her daughter didn't respond when I asked how her mother was doing. I think that my poor neighbor, who was determined to stay in her home, did not get her wish. 😢

That has to be so frustrating!

My oldest sis kept those kinds of things in a bin (actually 2 bins!) marked "Archive". We couldn't quite let those things go and we might want to look at them from time to time. My hilarious younger sis joked that oldest sister's kids will be furious when she passes, because there will be so much cr*p to go through!

I'm going to my late Mom's (passed in December) house to meet with my siblings and to see if there are any mementos any of us want before the rest gets donated or thrown out and the house goes on the market. It's not a house I grew up in, so I have no attachment to the actual house. It's sad though. Mom lived there for 40 years. 😢

Last night's viewing was "Identity Crisis" with Patrick McGoohan. Very good in some ways, but the two scenes that did not hold up to the test of time were when Patrick McGoohan gave his giant panda to a young teen-aged girl and when Columbo (unkempt and wearing a rumpled raincoat) struck up a conversation with two little girls at a picnic table. The dialogue in both scenes was positively creepy and I'm sure that wasn't the intention! 😳

We've been watching on Prime and are really enjoying Columbo. I pair it (like fine wine!) with the Scottish guys who have a podcast called The Columbo Podcast. They're charming and informative. Last night we watched the Forgotten Lady with Janet Leigh. I told my husband to watch for a small role for Jamie Lee Curtis, because I had read here that she had a role, but I guess that's in another episode with Janet Leigh. We are really enjoying this mostly well written show. I never thought about Peter Falk, but now he's my avatar! It's so fun to see old actors and young ones that I know from other shows and movies. I think the discourse here is very informative too!

I really like ginger tea. It settles my stomach. However, I got distracted today and put EmergenC in my hot water when I meant to put in a ginger tea bag. Boy, did it bubble up! It didn't taste too bad either. Senior moment, I guess!

I'm another Counting On refugee. I've been lurking here. Seems like a nice bunch here! I'm retired and have kids and grandkids. I spent the last weekend visiting my grands in WI. Today was a trip to the dermatologist. I suffer from eczema from time to time and am currently in a stress related flare up. The doc is great. He listens, which I appreciate. We treated ourselves to lunch at Portillo's (popular Chicago area restaurant - I hear there's a few in AZ now). The stress is from losing my Mom in December and some disagreements about her estate. I think it will all work out and boy, do I hope the eczema subsides! I don't look too cute right now!

I only watched for a couple of minutes. Deanna and Amy are doing that child no favors with encouraging his imaginings as real, imo. What Dax experienced didn't feel like an actual near death experience to me. It was more like a fantastical story that a small child might tell. He's grown past it, but I think Deanna & Amy keep bringing it up. It's weird! I think Deanna is still heartbroken at losing her Mom so suddenly. I wish she would seek counseling, rather than messing with Dax's reality!

How old is Heidi? I think she's in the 20-21 age bracket. She could stay on her parent's insurance, at least until the first couple of blessings come along. Then Tim may have to get a real job with benefits!

I have learned so much from the lovely Small Talkers here. I've received support in hard times and encouragement when needed. And I've gained a lot of valuable information from the very smart people who post here. I've made a couple of real friends through messaging. I think the plan is definitely to shut us down. I don't understand what the new owners are looking for - a smaller group of posters who post only positive things about the shows the management will allow discussion on, perhaps? I hope we all meet up elsewhere. I'll miss so many of you! Best of luck to one and all! ♥️

If I was Bobye, I'd choose the kids over Jim. No contest!

@Jeeves- sounds like you are about to save some money by cutting the cable! I envy you. We're forced by our association dues to pay for Comcast cable. Internet is a separate bill, so it's not a good deal, but many of my neighbors keep voting "no change" when we are asked if we'd like to switch to setting up our own. We don't watch cable and most of what we watch is streaming. I'm sick of it! HOAs are not known for promoting freedom, lol. Sounds like you have a good plan in place to give them one last chance!

I have a sil who speculates endlessly on what others should name their kids & pets. I just adopt a wait and see. I'm expecting to find this girl child's name to be cringeworthy. We'll see!

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The arrows must get tired of pretending to be excited about yet another blessing.

I hope the baby is doing well and that the delay is just about a replacement name for the one that was leaked, as @3 is enough mentioned. And if the leaked name really was Denver, the new name might be an improvement!

It sounds as if Jill herself wasn't sick. If she was viciously sick, her performance would have been her pathetically croaking in hopes of a bigger grift!

There are some videos about this on YT. I hope you can get rid of it That sounds super annoying!

I don't know. It could be the number of Duggars (girls and boys) and their numerous pregnancies that make it seem like an unusually high number of miscarriages. There were 4 girls in my family of 7 kids. All four girls had 3 pregnancies. Unfortunately, two of my sisters had full term stillbirths (different causes). People found it important to comment to us how odd that was. Mom attributed it to the number of daughters and pregnancies. I tend to think Mom was right. Also, we didn't need to be told that these were unusual and unfortunate outcomes as we were sadly aware. My MIL actually told me that my sister was fortunate that her baby died at birth, rather than at age 5 when you "really love them". I'm not criticizing your post, @floridamom - I'm talking about in real life comments!

Maybe even a Josie look-a-like, one of her little sisters. Sounds Biblical!