[Miss Marple]

An early good morning ping to all of you! I am up for a bit and thought I would make sure I got the thread started, since I have to babysit today and might not have been able to get it done later.

I hope everyone made it through the bad weather ok.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

You're up early, B&G. ;^)

[lysie]

Good morning. Happy to see you have power. I'm going to check yesterday's thread for posts I missed.

Thanks for starting the thread.

[gulfcoast6]

A GOOD AND WONDERFUL A.M. TO ONE AND ALL FROM THE CLOUDY MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST, USA!!!!

AND the hours slip away, won't be long before closing time is here for my 'in town house'. Now to start looking for more property to invest in, the ground is better than stocks cause it is not made anymore. I know that 'country land' is hot, hot, hot here. I just bought almost 2 acres for oldest daughter, gotta see she is set in life as well as my 'here' daughter. SIL is looking to build her a modest little house as he wants to start to build houses.
I am sorry, I do not mean to sound like I am bragging or anything, goodness knows. I am not like that but am just proud that I am now in the position to take care of my girls.

I had one heck of a time getting into FR this morning, would not connect me to it, problems at the old home front?

Just walked out and cut some roses for the house, I got 6 bushes that have died, plum dead, to the core, no hope for them, didn't take when I planted them. So much for 'bargains' huh? I will wait until it cools down some and replace them. I like the tea roses myself.

One more day of punishment for GD for not cleaning her room, bike will have to wait until tomorrow, don't see why myself but, can't interfere you know. BUT old PawPaw will be presenting her case for a new bike all day, might work huh?

Oh boy, coffee is ready, need my starter to get me going, with the price of coffee I might have to start making it out of grits, ummmmmm, grits coffee, might be on to something.

I will run for now and catch up on the news, in other words get the latest on this old world going to hell in a hand basket. Hang in there W, we here at FR are praying for you and we know that right out weighs wrong every time. Toby

[Peach]

Good morning, early birds.

[AFPhys]

Just saying hi all.

I'm not dead or anything like that. Just off FR for a bit. Following news, USSC developments, Prez, etc.

Working on establishing online bill banking stuff nowadays. I'll be happy when I've settled on arrangements. Narrowed down to two: USAA and local bank First Niagara. I now realize that I'm going to have to go online with my present bank HSBC most likely to get everything transferred synchronously, too. I'm beginning to believe I could actually end up saving quite a bit of moola per year by the time I'm done with this process.

The heat here in Central NY has been very unusual - quite a shock after not being over 90F for almost two years.

I'll be on FR later today.