GOOD SUNDAY ----It Rained POURED all night

Lovely Sunday here in Labrador, unlike most of Atlantic Canada which is getting the last little bit of Huricane Ophelia. I'll be knitting this afternoon, and we have auditions tonight, so I'm in for another busy day. I may take my knitting to auditions with me, as I won't be reading. I have already been assigned to be the stage manager of this production. I may also drop by school for a bit to do some photocopying for tomorrow. Oh, and I have a Sunday School meeting this evening as well. Hope everyone has a great day, and that you manage to get some crafting done.

Katherine

Beautiful and sunny here in Ontario! :o) I hope to make some banana bread and a couple of other goodies today, if I can work up the energy and ambition to do so... I have all the ingredients in the house. Matthew is going to barbeque (possibly for the last time this year, unless the great weather sticks around for a few more weeks) hamburgers for either lunch or supper today.

I *may* go in the pool for a few minutes this afternoon to ease the pain in my shoulders and back. I went in yesterday after having two days off due to the rain, and the water was quite nippy. Still managed to stay in for 25 minutes though. From now on (since the water is cooler now) I will likely get into a hot shower immediately after coming in from the pool, to thaw out and warm up quicker. ;o)

I have some paperwork set out in front of me to work on a bit from time to time throughout the day as long as my back allows me to sit at the computer. Some of it is for my lawyer, and some for my doctor.

I picked up my knitting needles the other day (first time since the warm weather set in last spring) and was working on a *simple* stitch square, but I kept messing it up and became very frustrated that I couldn't concentrate enough to do it even with the TV turned off. I ended up ripping it out three times and finally just gave up in frustration. :o( I haven't tried crocheting yet since the weather has cooled up a bit... I really hope the same thing doesn't happen. It was bad enough when I had to put it down after doing one row because of pain, but to not be able to concentrate enough to do simple stitches... that's very annoying!

Good morning everyone.

Today has been a very close start here for me but at least the weather is pretty good. We are still enjoying some nice weather. Today should be around 25C and htat's great for September.

Hopefully I will be able to get a litle bit of crocheting done today.

Take care Darlene in Toronto

Good sunny morning everyone,

The wind is blowing, but the sun is shining,not like the gloomy wet day yesterday. Just going to be a nice relaxing day before going to dinner then home to do some crocheting. I hope everyone has a great day and week.

Hugs,

Nora

Katherine, that sounds like a very busy day for you. What are the folks in your town going to do when you'r off to Montreal, I am sure they are going to miss you a bunch.

Today we are having a neighbourhoodwatch potluck pick-nick, with about 100 people attending. Our local caterer, Cliff opens his lovely gardens for us to use. He supplies the setting as well as hotdogs and corn. He is one of those people I have great admiration for. Cliff ran with his wife Barbara a very successful bed and breakfast, plus they had a large furniture store. Cliff is a real entrepreneur, with lots of guts. Some years ago, the two of them went to Toronto to a furniture show. A drunk driver swipted them of the sidewalk they were standing on, killing his wife and making Cliff a paraplegic. He recovered enough, to turn around, create memorial gardens for his wife, and from his wheelchair he now runs a catering business. He works out everyday in his basement and stays tuned into whatever happens around him, including the neighbourhood. We are all invited to take walks on his acreage and share the gardens he created. With all the misery in the world it is nice to know there are people like Cliff around.

Have a great day everyone, with lots of sunshine and good food to eat. Tomorrow we will be wise again....LOL

"Mirjam Bruck-Cohen" skrev i melding news: snipped-for-privacy@ar.news.verio.net...

Rain here too!! I have been off since yesterday morning to celebrate a friends 60 years day. She celebrated at her home place, 2,5 hours drive+ferry from here, and the party was in the house where she and her friends used to go to dance when they where young!

We were 85 people: Family, friends from childhood and friends from where she lives now. And people came from the district around here, and around her home place. But some came from other parts of the country, and had go far by plain to come here. Here mother, nearly 93yo was there too!!!

We slept "everywhere", "we" ("grown up friends") were 9 people from here, by her sisters';

4 in a caravan, 2 in a "camping car", and 7 by the neighbours. You should have seen that happy "breakfast party" this morning before we left!

On such a nice party weekend you don't get too much sleep, so I am going early to bed tonight!

PS. we had made her a song, and had to perform a bit, AND her knitting was in the show! LOL!

AUD ;-))

Hot and sunny here outside of Phoenix. Starting to *cool* off a bit, by which I mean the air conditioning didn't come on constantly until after 11.00 a.m. LOL. I need to do a little yard work, but haven't been feeling too well. It will wait for me.....

That adjudicator really stinks, what she did to you Gem. So what if you crochet a bit or read on the newsgroup. What difference does that make? The disability office out here is horrid too. When I had all the surgery on my legs several years ago (they had to break and reposition my leg bones, amputated part of my knee and moved my patellas over 1.5 inches) I had full leg casts on both legs from my hips to my ankles and when I applied for temporary *help* I was told that as long as I had ONE arm and hand that still worked that I was able to work. I wasn't able to drive with 2 full leg casts on, I had a lot of trouble even fitting into a vehicle. And how was I to walk to the bus stop and climb up into a bus? Not to mention, who in the heck would want to hire me looking like that???? P.S> I was a single parent too, not that they cared. They also weren't fazed that I've always had a good job and have paid tens of thousands of dollars into

*their system* over the almost 30 years that I've worked. I was only applying for short term disability (6 months until I got my casts off). I knew a quadraphlegic who was paralysed from the neck down and he was denied disability 3 times. He finally had to get a lawyer to win his disability suit and now the lawyer takes 30 percent of his check every month. I'm sure we can all tell stories about the *others* that we DO see on disability and wonder how *they* qualified. I don't get it. Good luck to you. Now that I've depressed myself thinking about all this, I have the desire to get out in the yard with the chain saw. Grrrr. Marie and the cats - going out after the tree limbs

Els, What a heart-warming story! I hope you had a wonderful day!

Katherine

Good grief, Gem! What are you supposed to do? Sit in the dark with unwashed hair, chewing your nails???? That should be in Reader's Digest "That's Ridiculous!"

Katherine

Nice Sunday here in Virginia. Unfortunately still warm --rather hot at

82 degrees-- for what should be now Autumn. It is pretty typical here though. Still hot and the beach trees say it is Autumn and dumping their leaves ! I made my cranberry/apricot cardamon bread today and still a little left ! Help yourself ! I decided why only have the good stuff at the holidays ! I am still knitting linen lace and it may be awhile yet as I have almost 2000 yds of it to do. I am expecting it to be a rather nice large piece by the time I am done. Wrap it around me in October and November and enough to go on the head when necessary. *triangle leaf lace shawl* It will start cooling off by the end of this month so soon. We went to an awful jazz concert last night that was super fun. There was so much in town going this weekend * everyone wakes up when it is Autumn* that not even filled with folks. There are literally 8 ( all good ) things to pick from in the weekend of oct. 8. That is my sweet hubby's birthday and he gets to choose. On any given normal weekend any of those things would be wonderful to do. I am rambling. Back to knitting with some music. What a nice Sunday evening. L, barbara

I ate way to much and all the wrong things and lost at Dutch shuffle board. Mirjam sjoelbak.....LOL Yes it was a great day, how did your auditions go

Els

All of the female characters are cast, but we need some more men. Time to start digging! Oh, and we went out to eat afterwards, and I ate things I shouldn't have eaten, too.

Katherine

Thank you Mirjam - I kind of missed Sunday this week - so I do hope you all have a good week and that your Sunday was good too God Bless Gwen

Good grief! That's outrageous what they did to you, and your quadraphlegic friend. I get around with a cane (wearing at least one of my wrist splints most of the time), only occasionally (four times this summer... I counted) without needing the cane for support or balance. I cannot imagine being in a full cast like that, or even worse like your friend and not have the use of any limbs at all, and being turned down.

I guess the adjudicator thinks... if I am able to sit at a computer (which often is only for about 15 to 20 minutes at a time), go to the grocery store (for bread and milk once a week when I'm on my own... Matthew comes with me to get the bigger shopping done), Post Office (God forbid I should drive less than 5 minutes, get out of the van to check the mail for about another

5 minutes, and drive back another 5 minutes), dare to pick up my crochet hook for *maybe* one row if I can manage that much, stand at the sink doing dishes once or twice a week for no longer than 20 minutes at a time before I have to lie down and rest my back, sweep the floors once a week with frequent breaks to rest my back...... then I am independant and can therefore go out to work. Sure... who is going to hire me and allow me to lie down to rest my back often throughout the day?

Ah well.... I was just looking at the new package of Disability Forms, and they have changed things on it quite a bit. They are asking for much more information now than they did with them the last time... which is good to stop anyone from trying to cheat the system, but it sure looks complicated now. :o/

LOL Should we pity the poor trees?

Peace! Gem

OHHHHHH ELSJE i have a Sjoelbak ,, is the English name Shuffle board? I taught my children to play .. mirjam

Mine is always wide enough to include you all ,, GWEN .....

a great hug mirjam

I wondered the same thing, Katherine. However, if I could sit and chew my nails (considering how hard and strong they are), the adjudicator might figure there is some kind of job that I could do from that as well. Maybe helping beavers build their dams? LOL

I know it's ridiculous! My own doctor said (when I showed him the letter denying me Disability), "They have approved other people with Fibromyalgia, why did they turn YOU down? I don't get that at all." Neither does anyone else I know get that! Maybe she didn't like the way I looked or something... or she had a bee up her butt that week, considering that most people who had their hearings with her that week were turned down. Either way, since she obviously has a reputation of being one of the worst ones to face... you'd think that the Tribunal would either tell her off, or replace her. But then... I guess the government wants someone to turn people down so it doesn't cost them anything to pay Disability, even though most applicants actually need and deserve it. *shrug*

The thing that annoys me (aside from the obvious assumption that she made that I am not disabled at all) the most about it all is..... even if I reapply and am approved this time, I will not get the back-pay from when I applied last year because this is a whole new application and they will go from the new date on it. The *only* way I have a chance of getting the back-pay (which adds up to between $6,000 and $8,000 owing to me, and we desperately need that right now) is for my lawyers to request a review of the decision and hope and pray that whoever does the review will reverse the decision. :o/

Peace! Gem

but did we have fun or what.....LOL

Els

Otto made our sjoelbak, when our kids were old enough to have birthday parties. We would put the sjoelbak on top of our retaining wall, on the grass, and the kids had a ball. The wall was just high enough so the kids were at the right level to slide the stones. The stuff we have in common in the group is amazing....LOL

Els