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Hi gals, still at my GF's house... Oh Phyl the HWYS here were horrible... I HATe the 400 series roads... you call them INTERSTATES.... and the ones in Toronto are 8 - 16 lanes wide.... with every ahole out there driving too damn fast.... O.k. I know I am an OLD LADY driver ( just early by a few years) so going home, I am doing the back roads... the 2 lane type.... it will take me longer but I'll arrive without a MIGRAIN.... More drama with the Jazz gigs... we are booked ALL weeknd 3 days in a row... then the sat night gig was cancelled MANAGEMENT changes at the rest.... yada yada yada... well, now its all straightened out as of this am. 6 -9 p.m. Sat night 2 July and also the 30th July too. more to follow, C

Hi Girls, here I am at my GF house... drive here was a nightmare... Dropped offf the Welsh friends at the airport and then continued another hour to my GF's house.. It is beautiful.. and she is doing Very well... albeit thin... wish I could donate her some of my blubber!!! LOL We are having a nice visit, going to the casino soon... didn't have the heart to say NO... what the FLICK its only money and you only live once.!! Phyl, I understand you Unfriending on FB... I totally get it.. Karla; try to enjoy your Mother time... remember she is just a flawed human like the rest of us :-) Denise: I had to laugh t your DRUNK post... I know this is hard... just take it a day aty a time... it will all get sorted out soon... And I pray that YOU get what YOU want out of the whole mess.

MOrning Ldies; oooh I am just getting on under the wire!! WOke up this a.m with a phone call from my GF Jan ( the one with Brst Cancer) had a nice long chat... she is in between Chemo and her Radiation starting... and I am going to go see her Sat evening when the Welsh friends leave. I have to take them to the airport anyways around 6 p.m., so instead of coming home... I'll just carry on south for about another Hour and be at Janice's house... Will stay for a couple days.. then be back home intime for gigs on the long weekend. She (JANICE) is sounding stronger than she has the last couple of phone calls... and I feel so bad that I never got there all winter when she was going thru the worst of it. This is good.... Another mutual friend of ours was 5 yrs cancer free, it came back just recently and she had to have a mastectomy this time... so there's 2 very close to home... God, ladies count your blessings today and everyday. Life is short.... LOVE YOU ALL & DONT EVER FORGET IT!!! now gotta gfo cll my MOM

Hey Linda; Company is having a blast, driving all over hells half acre... they are in Niagra right now, and home with us tomoorw until Sat night when they fly fome to Wales... Its been fun... they are great people. WW, well, I weighed at home, and I think I am still down 1-2 lbs. so thats not too bad... BETTER than a gain for sure.. Next week, I'm back at regular meetings etc...

well thats about all the news I have... just finished watching a funy movie with Wynona Rider and Vince ??? big tall guy, kind of Italian lookings... really good

well thats about all the news I have... just finished watching a funy movie with Wynona Rider and Vince ??? big tall guy, kind of Italian lookings... really good

Good Morning Girls (wherever you are) Well, my Welsh company got back to WB from OttaWa safe and sound... but their butts were sore from so much driving!!! (I did warn them) I had made a nice meal of some favorites for Aly to try.... Vegetarian Lasagne, My Aunt Flo Beans, CORNBREAD, Banana Bread, and Rhubarb compote for over Icecream (or just by itself in a cup) They LOVED the meal, so it was worth the effort!! This a.m. they took off again for Niagra Falls for 2 days, and it is only 3 1/2 hours away so that won`t be too bad. Plus the FALLS is totally worth it. They`ve booked the Maid of the Mist Boat tour, plus a Helicopter ride over the Falls and Gorge, plus they are going down into caves under the FALLs for that vantage point too. I think they may go to the Butterfly conservatory too... well worth the look there... Then they come back to W.B. on Wed. and we decide what to do the last 3 days of their trip.... Plans were A: camping, B: trip up north to my sisters Camp to see the Northern Lights.... but now the weather looks crappy for those days!!! Argh.... may just end up sitting around Wasaga Beach and staring at one another!!!! Need some rainy day suggestions!!!! Janet: I agree on the wine thing... Women`s bodies just can`t handle too much... after 2 nights of partying, I need 4 days of TEA, water, and Coffee!!! I am getting old, just can`t take long term partying anymore

HI Girls; Phyl; hugs on the valve issues and echocardiogram... my Mom's had that several times... gives really good accurate results. SO I am glad your specialist is so thorough. LInda; How's the hip recovery? Did you start physio? I am laime, and can't remember if you told me already. sheesh!! Janet: Went to the gig last night, and sang about 1/2 the songs that I usually do.. they guys played more instrumental BLUES tunes inbetween, so that worked out well.. and today... I am JUST not opening my mouth... having a Quiet non-talking day. Denise: Still saying prayers for gettiny you what you want most... A NEW JOB.... Karla; I'm cookingh up a storm today, the Welsh friends took my car and droave to Ottawa for a few days... nice and quiet catch up day for me.. Make a vegetarian Lasagne for tomorrow nights supper, Stewed some |Rhubarb to have over yogurt for dessert. and MADE a Banana Bread for Steve when he gets home tomorrow... He has never had Banana bread? can you imagine? and they don't know what RHUBARB tastes like either... so I am making some Canadian foods for them to try... Tonight, Petie and I are having bbq steak and sauteed veggies for supper.... ummmm can't wait... should have bought some CORN oon the cob to go with it. Love you all, Candice

Hey girls, I am here, still alive.... albiet very tired. ANd I've just about lost my voice.... gig tonight, don't know If I'll be able to sing or not... too much talking and laughing with my travelers from Wales... They are a hoot, both of them have LONG legs so have done tons of walking in Toronto.. took them there to see the BIG city.. Parking is very expensive so we walked a lot... and ******* FAST.... went to the Bata Shoe museum, Indian Lunch, Went to the theatre saw Billie Elliot ( it is fabulous) went to the CN Tower ( 3rd tallest building in the world) ate lunch up top the revolving restaurant... very cool. THen did the AGO Art Gallery of Ontario... drank way too much wine... food was pretty good... Didn't get to WW weight in but I did WEIGH myself this a.m. and down 3 lbs... Its unofficial... but I'll take the #.... This a.m. Steve and Aly (Whelsh folks) left in my car to drive to Ottawa for a couple of days, then they drive back her SUnday aft. MONday they leave for Niagra Falls (3 days) then I think I have them convince to go camping up to Tobermory for 2 days then we take them back to the Airport 9 p.m. flight back to the U.K. It has been a whirlwind!!! Denise; sorry to hear Ronny is sick!... that is a drag for sure, and condolances on his Aunts passing... I am sending prayers that you get a different job too. Janet: if bad luck comes in threes then NOW you can relax. I am sorry for all the funerals you have to go too. HUGS!!! Congrats on closing your Bro's estate!! What a load of worry is off your head now! Phyl; good work on the physical fitness changes, you can do it... you rock!!! chuckled when I read Earl woulnd go for weigh in because of the 5 lbs... I am going to WW next Tue to WI for real.... we can do this!! Linda; Hope you are home safe and sound now... DD will make the right decisions... HOpefully she sees things more your way now. Karla; Oh huney.... bummer about your Masters work being on that computer... maybe it can be re-read by some techy guy? Did you ask around? Is your weather getting any better around there? Kerri: Where ARE YOU?? Stephanie? Hugs to everyone, I'll post more tomorrow ..... cause I won't be talking Ha,ha,ha,.....

Have a great day everyone.... guess what? I havn't even jumped on the scale yet!!! Gonna hold out until TUES.... besides I always get a dif number at home than at WI... and that is always depressing, so not going to fall iinto that trap again. House is all clean, and ready for inspection!

HUGS on the school stuff, hopefully your misery will be over soon... I hate that when the best person for the job dosn't get it...grrrrr Karla; whoop, whoop on the last day of school!!! Wow, that has to feel awesome! Are you gonna teach summer school this year? or just stay at the Nursery...? How is the bladder? no more leaks? My sis got hers done this past winter in Mexico... they treated her like a queen, and now she says "oh, I wish I'd done it years ago".... its made such a big difference to her. Janet; congrats on the new baby... how cool for you! There will be NO babies iin my future I am afraid!! Career daughter!!! ARGH!! My w/i day is TUES. So I've been T, W, Th... 3 whole days of being accountable...yeah! Although yesterday, I think I finally had my withdrawal cum-upance... I was mad at Mark and had a really bad headache most of the afternoon, then we had a gig to do... they FORGOT to make out our cheque... so no pay!! (they'll mail it later) Woke up this a.m. with the same headache... so now I am drinking my coffee with skim milk and coffeemate... do you know I have to count that damn drink for 2 pts....!! even though its all sugar free. oh well, you can eat well on 29 pts... I have not dug into my BONUS pts, nor do I eat my activity pts either... but I know this week when my company comes from England, we will be drinking... so I'll use my bonus pts towards that! PHYL": how you doing girl since your back shot? I hope it is helping with the pain... do you have swimming classes in WA? I know how much you loved it... LInda; where are you girl?

Great news on the 2 oz of steak and the nice gettogether!! Girlie evening are always fun!.. Hope the river calms down and stays where it is supposed to!!! Yeh, it rained here today too... Very hot this a.m. 90ish, then HUGE thundershowers... now it is cooling off again... I had just turned my AC on for the first time today !!!! Probably tomorrow, I'll turn it off agian... Vaccumming and cleaning today, tomorrow and Friday... my Welsh friends arrive on Sat.

I joined WW today.... I am a lifetime member anyways... so I'll track pts and go weight in once per week, I am NOT going to step on my scalae at home...

Hugs everybody

OH Phyl your antics on the scooter had me laughing... Janet you are right about the eating, it isn't even FUN anymore, nothing tastes as good as it should.... so its tirme to quit. No, I havn't spoken to Bryan about 'their' issues, as he does not know that DD told me anything... SO I just emailed HIM and HER and told them the CAMPER was available for a camping trip... perhaps if they get on the road together in a little adventure... they can have some quiet time to talk. 2 yrs ago we were all in France together and had such a fine time... They were REALLY happy then... I hope they can get baack to that. Petie is away for a couple of days, so I just finished watching 2 movies... the first one was o.k. Summer in Genoa... which was nice cause I remembered being on all the same streets in January.. Genoa is such a beautiful quaint city... but the plot was lacking. 2nd movie was with Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher...he is such a babe!!!! OMG.... it had me LOL many times.. so that is a GOOD movie.

Oh I forgot about the MAPLE trees, ya they are messy little bastards, I've had to clean out my Eavstroughs TWICE already, I sweep and the crap off the trees is out there again... This is just the budding season, then come the freeking KEYS, ACORNS from the Oaks!!!! But you are coming in the FALL right to RAKE for me.... remember you promissed KARLA!!!!

Ya, I know the ROundup is scarry... but we all just have to get used to PICKING our dandelions out of our lawns from now on... I am STILL fighting with Peter. I don't want him using WEED and FEED either... I figure ANYTHING that you put on the lawn is not good, your little doggies run around in it constantly, their little paws absorb the chemicals and their TINY livers can't detox them quick enought.. Lawn stuff just isn't safe... So my lawn is full of weeds (we just mow them, its still green) plus I get so little sunlight in my yard, mostly I grow MOSS really well, plus some 'walk upons' thyme, irish moss, creeping Jenny( it does very well in my acidic soil) ALSO, I've given up on fancy varieties of stuff... If a plant does not like an ACID environment then I don't bother with it... oh yeah, and draught tollerant would be good too... What I grow WELL, is Hostas, Heukera (SP?), Iris's, Poppies, Bachelor Buttons, Bleeding Hearts, Sedam(any kind), Astilbe.... thats about it....oh and roses do so-so...OH yeas, and Peonies do well in my yard too... I just transplanted a ROSE OF SHARON... I dug it up from my Mom's old house 8 yrs ago, and had it in a not too sunny location... WEll, this yr - I figured I'd better nurture it some more, cause it may outlast my Mother....So I dug it up and put it in a really sunny spot and gave it lots of Bone Meal.... Now the dog is attracted to it!!! So gotta keep Bridget from rolling in the dirt over there... Nice, nice afternoon here... sat out and read for a long time...make myself some BAJEAN Rum punch...... Oh LInda, I may have an good substiture for Bacardi's Long Island Iced Tea!!!! My GF from Barbados gave me the recipe a few yrs ago.... YUMMMMMM

Hi girls; here's the Scoop on Round UP.... One specific inert ingredient, polyethoxylated tallowamine, or POEA, was more deadly to human embryonic, placental and umbilical cord cells than the herbicide itself — a finding the researchers call “astonishing.” “This clearly confirms that the [inert ingredients] in Roundup formulations are not inert,” wrote the study authors from France’s University of Caen. “Moreover, the proprietary mixtures available on the market could cause cell damage and even death [at the] residual levels” found on Roundup-treated crops, such as soybeans, alfalfa and corn, or lawns and gardens. Think about it: Roundup has been around since the early 1970s. And if 100 million pounds of Roundup are used per year, that’s about forty billion pounds of Roundup we’ve been exposed to since its inception. And if you didn’t know this, prepare to cry. Monsanto is not only the world’s leading producer of weed-killer that also kills human cells—they’re also the leading producer of genetically engineered seeds (GMOs), which means somewhere between 70 and 100 percent market share for a variety of crops—namely corn and soy—which makes up the diet of factory-farmed cows and chickens, which are then eaten by humans. Pretty scary indeed, wonder why the cancer rates are soaring! I currently have 2 friends battling Breast Cancer and several with prostate cancer... LInda; have a great time with Mindi, the Eastern Med sounds wonderful, would that include the Holy Land as well.... sounds like a wonderful trip.

Round UP??? Why are you still using that? It has been outlawed for use in Canada... very bad for the environment. Surely you sell something else at the Nursery... have a look

Ha,ha, Karla! Yes you can take Mark home with your.... You'd get along fine...he's a HANDY man, actually a cert. Brick Layer and CHef! Just not a very motivated guy, sweet dispostion... but YOU'd Be supporting him $$$$$ he has No money of his own... Well DD had a nice long CHAT with her Dad on Thurs. and today on the phone she sounded good (happy) Hope it lasts... who knows... we have to bow out for the time being.. they are getting counseling and that is all good news!!! Janet; yup I've been worried about DD but honestly I cannot blame my sugar choices on that, I was struggling before that... trying to get back on the band wagon after the TRIP, now I have company coming in 1 week, so I'll not be following good rules then either.. But, once they are gone, I'm going back to WW... where I have to get weighed weekly... that's the plan. How's the Ranch situation, any more news?? Denise, I'm, slowly getting my pictures up on FACEBOOK, so its nice re-seeing everything we saw... I wanna come BACK!!!! Loved La.

Well, I am just about ready to hit the straw... more pics loading up on facebook... I can't beleive its taken me this long to organize my trip pictures.... sheesh

o.k. I should be posting more often... sorry girls to let you all down... mi bad!!! Been too busy thinking about my own problems... or rather DD and DSIL problems.. I just wrote her a nice long letter .... so we'll see if it makes her think at all.. She is sometimes just too damn cerebral for her own good... Three gigs we had this week, and got another booking this afternoon for the Barrie Jazz Festival... so that should be good exposure. Also, I've been doing a LOT of reading. A book called NORTH and SOUTH (part 1 of 3 books) I just love it!!! It gives me a lot of pre-Civil war history so that I can understand better what I saw on our trip... the guy is a very good writer, and its hard to put down... Peter says, its been made into a movie, why don;t you just WATCH it... nope... wouldn't be nearly as good.. I think Patrick Swazye was in the movie.. I don't know for sure? Our friends come from WALES next week, so we'll be busy, busy for 2 weeks with them... so if I am not around its because they are keeping my busy..... OR.... my daughter has slaughtered me for giving unsolicited advise!!!! LOL Love you all, C

Karla; thank you for your words of support... I especially love the part :" What ever the problems are, you are half of it and guess what that half goes with you! " that is SO true. I just sent my daughter a long letter... I hope she accepts it in the heart felt way it was written.. but if she chooses to take offense at least Ill know that I gave her some things to consider and think about.

Hey girls, I am feeling less DOWN today, got 2 new gigs today.... at a real restaurant!!! In Collingwood... soo I was excited about that... gives me validation.. But, there was some bad news yesturday, I didn'\t post it last night... cause I was really upset. I went to visit and have lunch with my DD yesterday,, and she tells me that theya re having marital issues... seeing a counselor... etc... Which is good news, but from HER tone of voice, I think she has already given up on the marriage... This just makes me nuts (marriage #2) and THIS husband is a doll. Peter and I just love him like a son... I seriously, seriously want to SLAP my daughter until she smartens up.... But all I can do is pray that she comes to her senses and that they continue to work on it. Its just sickening, and I feel so powerless!!! so that's why I have been quiet... I know its THEIR lives, I just hate the thought of her making a rash decsion.

I'M here, just in a bummer mood... can't get myself psyched up to day about our gig... Dreary, dreary rain weather here... GOsh I am sick of it!!! Plus, I am having a hard time getting back on the band wagon, may join WW next week.... no tuf love please, I know what to do, just cant seem to get started.... I'll get there. Linda, I may call you... perhaps we can plug away at it together. cbl ladies, when I'm in a better mood.