Additional Seating

Hello Sisters,

I wanted you to see our new additional seating in preparation for Lizzie and Susie's upcoming visit. I will make sure the toilet seat is in place before you come so you don't sink if you happen to be the last to find a seat.

Of course you know I am joking....don't you?? I know at times I am pretty bizarre, but I haven't quite gotten that crazy - yet. By the time we finish the bathroom project I might be there.

For months Earl has talked about remodeling the bathroom in the hall. I don't know if it was the email with flight information or he thought it was time, but off to Lowe's we went yesterdat and purchased a new toilet and tiles for the floor.

The project officially started today with removing the vanity and old toilet. This stuff has been there for 35 + years so there were some glitches in removal. What a mess it is now. Let's hope the rest of it will go better than ripping it out.

I was going to show you what the bathroom looks like, but for some reason the pictures won't come up and I am too tired to try to figure it out.

Will keep you informed of the progress.

Good night sisters.

Lizzie's New Ride

Ok - here's my new ride! Susie and I are going to come to NC on it and if Diane can make the same dates, we'll add a side car! Of course it will only take about 2 weeks to get there. I haven't even been on it yet - just once to sit on it and see how it fits. It'll be fun, I know - but I am just a tiny bit nervous. I'm going to find some very bright scooter attire - something that makes everyone see me.

Well, I do believe the dates that we are aiming for are Oct 16 and return on Monday Oct 19. Check your calendar Di. Hope you can come but I know your life is much busier than ours right now - well, maybe I shouldn't speak for Susie. And now that I say that, maybe I shouldn't speak for me either! HAHAHAHA.

Dan is so close to being finished with the deck. He has worked his behind off all summer and it finally is usable again. We hope to have a New Deck/Halloween party in October to celebrate. When it gets cold and he has to come indoors, he'll start on the new floor - another H U G E project. He really loves doing this stuff. For me, I'm really tired of it but as each project gets finished I get a little more excited about what's it going to look like - then when it's all said and done I hope we will sell it and buy a cute little bungalow that reqiures no work - then we can travel to keep him from getting too bored!


Diane - I would love to meet for lunch when you go to the doc - we'll play it by ear since you aren't sure what all you have to do there. I can really go any time I wish so if it's later, that's ok too.

Talk to me sisters.

Later,

Lizzie

Road Trip

Really, I should say "Air Trip" but that wouldn't be as cool! I'm thinking about coming to see you Lori - some time in October. Thought I'd fly in Friday late afternoon and come home on Monday afternoon. Susie and Diane - flights are really cheap right now on Southwest, if you want to join me. When would be good Lori?? I can't do it on the 3rd or 17th. Let me know. If October doesn't work, then I could come early November (when it is still warm).

Life just keeps plugging along - work, house projects, etc.

Lori - people (especially older people) just don't get jokes about dead people, their ashes, their cemetery plot, etc. It's just not proper - most are so darn uptight, don't you think? We'll just have to keep them amongst us 'unproper' girls!

Gotta get my big butt in gear - work is calling. Speaking of work, my boss is a little needy right now - he's super busy, super stressed so he picks on me in little annoying ways. Men!

Love to one and all!
Lizzie

Strange Sisters

When I went to Mah Jongg today I told my friends about the box that I thought was Mom. Well, a few of them looked at me like I had two heads. I guess they would have to know Mom and us sisters to know I meant no disrespect to Mom. I didn't even try to explain the twisted sisters relationship. I doubt they would have gotten it.

Yesterday I volunteered at the Tryon Palace and it was extremely busy with tourists from all over the country. I always ask everyone who comes upstairs where I walk them through the servants quarters and make my feeble attempt at spinning, where they are from. There was one old fella (93) who was from Warren Ohio. I told him I was from Columbus and that got him started. Very interesting and spry too. Those steps are pretty darn steep for me, let alone someone his age.

Well, I have been on Facebook playing Scrabble with a few people. My favorite so far is my sister Susie. Thanks for playing with me little sister. I am trying to limit myself to Scrabble playing just a little time in the morning and at night before I go to bed. There is one guy that invited me to play and I don't know how he found me because I only invite people who are on Facebook, but I agreed to play him. I won the first game, but the current one he is at least 100 points ahead of me and using words I have never heard of. He must have found his dictionary. I have not and will not look words up. I am only as smart as I am. Wasn't that an intelligent statement?

Barb and I's story is going nowhere and it is my fault - sort of. She introduced these names that have turned me off. But....I am going to close and at least add a couple made up paragraphs to appease her. It is one more thing I can cross off.

Love you girls and hope to hear something from youse girls.

The Power of Suggestion

Well, Sisters, it is a rainy day here in the Carolinas and since I haven't added much to the blog recently I thought I would jabber about what little I can think about.

The other day Earl went to the Post Office and came home with a square box from Diane and he said "I think maybe Diane sent you Agnes to take care of for awhile". Without even thinking it through I thought "Oh my gosh, maybe she did". It was the same size box Mom's ashes reside in and it had a little weight to it like Mom's box probably does. And....one time Diane ask me if I wanted to take Mom home with me when Earl and I had driven up. So I had my mind going and I carefully opened the box. Well, of course she didn't send me Mom. It was something I had neglected to bring home the last time I visited. Earl and I laughed and laughed at me thinking Mom was sent through the mail even though it was Priority Mail. Just one more thing Earl can hold up against my fuzzy thinking and tell others about with some embellishment.

How weird to be writing this blog and you called, Lizzie. It was so good talking to you. It sounds as if you have been are a wild whirlwind with all the activity.

Susie, that is an awful, awful, scary picture of the smoker. I bet you threw your cigarettes away after posting that picture. That one, or one very similar to that one, was taped to the ceiling over the examination table at my gynecologist where I used to go with the saying "Isn't she attractive?""Quit smoking before this happens to you".

That is about it for me right now. Take care girlies and write soon.

I'm Here!

I'm here...

just the same as usual!

Where are you girlies?