Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
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Di, I enjoyed reading about your dogs.
Mimi, have you thought about adding Peggy to your act.?
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Sandra....in Ketchikan we usually walk around town back to Creekside (LOOK for salmon in the "creek"), where Dolly's house is, I plan to buy a reversible coat with hood (fleece on one side/nylon on other for $20) a shop at Creekside as the one I have is well used and too big since "C" altered my large chest. We also buy canned salmon at a shop that has all different flavors of smoked salmon. One time we took a lift up to the top to a "hotel" had some relics up there, last year and took a hike down and around...very muddy.
Last year we went to the discovery center...really interesting!
Okay....when we got off the ship last year there on top of telephone pole was a huge Eagle watching everyone get off the ship....also when we went whale watching in Juneau there are lost of eagles that hang out by the marinas.
There are eagles nested across the street from my house too.....usually I only see them in the winter/early spring and when they are nest making and making babies.....they chase all the other birds away.
Red Onion Saloon /Brothel Museum, Skagway
Red dog saloon in Juneau another brothel (you can google these places)
getting scared I will lose this.
Hugs Di
Sandra I found out the restaurant in you hotel CLOSES at 1:30, I let GG and Wren know too.
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Lola, Welcome, please feel free to share your feelings here. So sorry that you are going through this again. Big hug to you.
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Morning gals!
Di, it is so fun reading about your adventures in Alaska! And you live in the Pacific NW? I would LOVE that climate....
THIS must be the place!
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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it
through one door, I'll go through another door--or I'll
make a door. Something terrific will come
no matter how dark the present.
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How exciting the cruise and the ports all sound. Sure makes a person maybe want to stow-away you know. Well, it is just too hot here to do anything but stay inside -- so all my work today inside should get done. There are always on-going projects here. I guess if I were to stow away -- to anywhere, I'll have to wait for better weather.
No eating on the deck or sitting for long and won't be using the porch seing in the yard. We had the frame ( needed some serious horing up ) sitting around for a couple of years and Dh finally got around to it this yr. Hmm, must be my bad attitude as I'm thinking he did that to get out of doing something else that he wanted to take care of even less. Sigh !!! Hush my mouth....the non-complainer, complains.
Blessings
Jackie
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I hope the cruise vacationers have a wonderful time! I think they will. Waiting to hear all about the trip.
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I'm with Carole ... will be waiting to hear about the trip. Have fun ... all travelers!
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Another week and a day...before we get on the ship!
I think the Alaska Jewelry merchant are the same from the Caribbean and Mexican cruise shops....we never even step inside the door ....they all have MY name:
Oh they put a mannequin with a fur jock strap by the door to "entice" one into the store
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Di,
Too funny--- I love it.
Jackie
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my eagle pic from Ketchikan, Alaska (another time):
My Neighborhood eagle:
Near her/his nest (up at the top of the tree but not visible) tree across the street from my house
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a goofy crane sitting on top of the nesting tree before the eagle made their nest there
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Di, the eagles are so majestic, and the crane is so cute perched atop that tree ... great pics.
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Thanks
Sally!I just love the whales....no matter if it is in Mexico or Alaska or in between....if you want to hear an old lady squeal...show me a whale.
There was a time before I ever saw a whale, other than a book, when I was a child they said whales would soon be extinct....I was sad and dreamed I could see them before they were all gone.....so I still go C-R-A-Z-Y when I spot them now. THERE SHE BLOWS! eeeeeeeeeeeeekkkkk
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Keep it posted! Looking forward to hearing about the trip!!0 -
Chevy
Yep that is the red onion.
Here is Dolly's....is that you Chevy, in the doorway....or is that Cammi?
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welcome Lola, but sorry u'r back to the place u'r in. Please share any and everything u want with us. This is a wonderful group of ladies who care and can laugh too.
OK I'm so far behind I can't stand it. But I love the pics. wonderful and can't wait to hear about this trip, u have a lot to share with all of us--so take pics and just enjoy every minute. So we can too.
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Hi all, and welcome to all the new faces.
Just got home today from a two week trip to Iowa to visit my 89 year old mom who still lives in her own home, doing pretty good. Physical condition is probably better than mental.
Glad to be home. Lots to do, now have a DGD to get to school every day by 7:45. Oh Boy
Will do are best.
Very exhausted, will post more later. Hugs
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Mommarch, happy to hear that you are home safe.
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I just can't wait for out vicarious trip to Alaska. The preview travel log has created frenzie of stowaways. We want the juice details along with itinerary stuff. Like who partied all night and what wonders did you see in the gift shop. Stuff we won't see on public tv travelogues. I better sleep. I need to be bright and sunny for a sweet 5 year old girls birthday arty tomorrow.
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Today is the first anniversary of my first breast cancer surgery.
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Morning gals! How fun Di!!!!
Cammi, she talked about us, and you completely missed it! She was being ..... what IS that word???? I mean she was assuming that WE, mind you, are one and the same...or that we think alike, and are just plain.... nuts. Ha, ha!
Di, is that really legal? I mean can they DO that? Like in Vegas? I mean is it a Brothel?
Oh well, guess that's better than a parking-lot somewhere at dusk where you can watch the fire-fly's....... Oh wait.... It was "Watch the Ducks" I was told.
And I LOVE Whales! I've never seen one... they aren't abundant here in Denver.... but I love watching those shows on TV....
Still trying to get our house in tip-top shape for DD from Orlando coming to visit! Gotta clean "their" room upstairs, which became a "put everything upstairs that we don't use.... and then when I am 77, just try and get UP there, not to mention DOWN without calling a Priest room"
We just don't use it too often, other than storing "stuff!" So since it is cooler lately, it will be perfect to clean & reminisce.... Ha!
I have to clean, and get stuff out of there.... things I never use, or remember... or want...
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We bought our house in 1964... and the girls had the upstairs little room.... sleeping on bunk-beds... Until the oldest one fell out of the top bunk one night and we thought the roof fell in!
She didn't get hurt, but it sure woke her up in a hurry! Not to mention the REST of us! We had a floor furnace, and a vent that went up to their room, and we could hear all the giggling that those 2 did every night!
But then we became "modern" and had to put in a REAL furnace....
So that little room upstairs is going to get cleaned and "ready for company!"
Actually we moved IN in 1964, but couldn't buy it until about 1975... This house was built in 1886.... but no, I wasn't here then....
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Chevy, your house looks so welcoming ... I bet the DDs kept it full of kids as they were growing up. Do I see Virginia creeper that has changed to orange already? The brown trim on your white house is a delightful combination.
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The essence of compassion is accepting others as unique individuals,without believing that they are less good for not being carbon copies of ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie0 -
Chevy, I love your house!!!! It reminds me of a home in a novel or two! Lovely.0 -
Chevy, I love, love your house!! It's charming and lots like an English cottage.0 -
Oops - that was meant to be "looks" like an English cottage:-).0 -
Mommarch, glad to hear your home and recovering from your two wks. in Iowa. I think you likely just missed the really humid weather. I know it is hot in Texas as well, but that ( for the most part I think ) is just plain old heat and not the well moisturized stuff we are having here right now.
Mimi -- you hit the nail squarely on the head. We want all the juicy good stuff about that cruise -- not the "canned for everyone's consumption " stuff that would be put in a travel brochure. Tall orders for you travelers -- but I know you can do it.
Sandra --
Isn't it great to celebrate the milestone of doing something that looked so imposing and daunting when you first heard those three dreadful words. You have faced a lot of challenges with all the extra surgeries and repair needed from your infection complications and yet you have just handled it all. Well done. I have said so very often -- it is amazing what you can do when you have no choice. The thing is -- later on, when you look back even you can be a bit amazed at yourself. That is a good thing --- finding the strength inside you never totally realized was there.
Chevy, every time I see a picture of your house, I want to go get it and bring it home and stick it right in the middle of my yard. It looks just like the houses pictured in story books and you just know if you get near you'll smell some fresh cookies or bread being baked. It just evokes all sorts of warm and fuzzy thoughts about all the good memories you have ever had. Well, its a little large and a long way to come to drag a house back here with me....so your safe -- but you can never post that picture to much.
Hot, and muggy here.....yucky, yucky, yucky -- but in a few days the weather should break. I would imagine it will bring a start to Fall, but I'm ok as long as we get some better weather out of it. The heat and humidity are somewhat late. Hope you are have weather you can tolerate. If it is hot where you are.....be careful outside.
Blessings,
Jackie
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We've had humidity in Texas. It makes 100 feel like it's 110 or higher. We could use some relly saturating humidity in the form of rain.
Chevy - lovely house. What's the colorful vine(?) on your fence?
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