The***OFFICIAL***Weekend Singles' Thread-(December 22-25, 2006)Christmas Stories ~ Christmas Weekend

December 22, 2006 | DollyCali and Snugs

[DollyCali]

Thanks.. she is healthy actually. Like me (or me, like her) we have back/orthopedic problems & sinus/allergy primarily...and we both have a hearing loss

she has a very sharp mind still & so despite being bed ridden she is still "there"

[snugs]

Thank you for that - strange really the only time I really thought about her was when I got myself the Christmas morning cup of coffee.

A tradition we had for a few years on Christmas morning whilst preparing the dinner was to have a freshly made filter coffee, sometimes one of those individual ones and then later from the coffee maker.

Dad bought me a coffee maker for my birthday and although I have used the filter feature many times I had not used the espresso and frothy milk bit. I did that for the first time on Christmas Day and toasted mum, she would have loved this machine.

I suppose because of her illness - dementia I lost the real mum a long time ago I only really think of her when doing or eating certain things, the day to day mum went a long time ago.

My Christmas morning cup of coffee

My coffee maker

[snugs]

Thanks look forward to it sound exotic

[DollyCali]

This is a pix of snugs parents (from a thread I did on her).. there is actually an error here. She died in the wee hours of Christmas Day. but due to the 5 hour time difference, I keep thinking it was Chritmas Eve.

I will correct this pix for the thread (easy to do...now that I know the info correctly)

Snugs thread:

Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....03-29-06....SNUGS! - an English Cheney Chick

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1605544/posts

[mware]

Christmas, oh my word that had to be hard, very hard.

[snugs]

I can imagine that would be the case

[mware]

Strange how certain smells and sounds can trigger memories. A bowl of porridge in the morning reminds me of my mom.

Did you just see on DRUDGE Prince Harry looks like he will be going to Iraq.

Good for him I say. Glad he did not have strings pulled to skirt the assignment.

[mware]

My word snugs that is quite a contraption you got for making coffee.

[DollyCali]

toaster pix in email.. I have so many pix left to use...

[DollyCali]

Martha from what I heard, it was almost the other way around. Many in "high" places I heard wanted to give him a cushy post but he insisted he do his duty & go to war.

Perhaps Eleanor has more info that we do.. of course we KNOW how accurate the media is in it's reporting, esp on the war.

[mware]

It looks like Harry got some of another Prince Harry's genes.

[ilovew]

That's what I heard too.

[snugs]

Its a 3 in 1 machine. The left hand side is a conventional filter machine and the right hand side makes espresso and also have steam facility so that you can make frothy cappuccino from the espresso coffee.

[snugs]

I think it was a foregone conclusion once he joined up he would go to either Iraq or Afghanistan. I am sure his unit knew once he joined them they would get one of the 2 postings.

Royals have a military tradition including participating in actual conflict.

Prince Andrew flew a helicopter during the Falklands War

[rzeznikj at stout]

in briefly. trying (still) to install a new hard drive...

For those who might not know, President Ford has passed away...

[snugs]

Thanks for the sad news will catch up on details tomorrow
Eleanor

[rzeznikj at stout]

yep, no problem.

caught it just as i was logging on earlier...

[rzeznikj at stout]

finally got it working (for the most part).

there's a couple of kinks to work out--but now there'll be a tri-boot setup...

[defconw]

Gosh what wonderful pictures. A great history lesson really. Sorry about your mom and on Christmas, so sad. Christmas is never the same again.

[DollyCali]

fixed it (see post 424).It will be corrected on the thread also...