The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

MySmallWorldof4

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That's a good one! I turned over a new leaf this morning. I'm happy the sun is shining and we will be the the low 60's. I'll take it. Things have turned the corner, SIL is accepting the situation.....I can finally stop worrying about the family. I'm looking this afternoon, at the new menu's rolled out for Pandora. We have 44 days until we leave. Now I can finally get excited. Hubby forgot to get fast passes for Pandora. We will see how long the waits are...Thanks again for everyone on here supporting the family. xoxo
Yippee for you!! We will be leaving in 42 days. Dh has an AP and I signed him up for a preview. We weren't lucky enough to know anyone with a DVC membership going that time of year. :( I am hoping they will let the rest of us in:D(most likely not), or maybe they will just soft open it for everyone. :) Have fun menu browsing. I find that my favorite part of planning. :)
 

donaldtoo

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Sympathy like, a warm hug and some hot chocolate. Stay inside until June!

Or, a Hot Toddy...! ;)

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betty rose

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7. I have not attended MVMCP, I have not done Hoop Dee Doo, I can't have Dole Whip, I have not done MNSSHP, I have not been on a cruise, I have not been during Food and Wine festival, I can't eat the kitchen sink sundae, and I have not done rope drop, which should surprise no one here. Unless we count rope drop at Blizzard Beach, the one and only time.
Sounds good enough to me. I'm not a fan of early hours.
 

Goofyernmost

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I definitely agree @betty rose! They put in that bad word "snow" in for tonight and tomorrow. I am hoping they mean just the higher mountains.
I always feel that I should remind people about living in the northern part of the country. Snow this time of year is not all that strange. It has been happening for years and years. On April 8, 2000 my youngest daughter got married. It was a late morning wedding and during it the temperature was in the upper 70's. It was actually uncomfortable in the church. We left and went to the reception in a local hotel events room. By the time it wound down, which was surprisingly early, at about 6:30 pm we were greeted with a 3 inch accumulation of snow on the ground. It continued through the night and by morning it had made it to 8 inches of snow on ice covered roads. All flights were cancelled causing them to miss the departure of their Caribbean Cruise and we had to do emergency connections to the ships first port of call. What a mess, but, again not uncommon for the first half of April in the great white north. Thus just one of the many reasons that I now live way south of there.
 

betty rose

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Oh, I get all that.
Back in the day they were called service stations. Everything from filling your tank, to the many things you mentioned, and even minor to major car repairs. And, they usually had a Coke machine, and a gumball machine, and maybe a snack machine, or a combination thereof. Obviously, nothing like gas/convenience stores today.
It's obvious I don't have a problem pumping my own gas, inspecting our vehicles, or doing many of the maintenance and repair tasks I can still reasonably do.
Others don't even care about how a car works, and don't have any interest in taking care of any of those things themselves, and that's just fine, too.
These days, repair shops specialize in the repair aspect, gas/convenience stores are a place to make a quick stop to gas up and get ice for your beer, pop, etc., and then some.
As far as checkin' the tires and under the hood, all those quick oil change places do a "27 point" inspection, or some such thing, when you bring your car in.
As we all know, good or bad, times change. ;)

Here's a brief article I found that covers a bit of it all...

http://calexis.com/blog/2015/01/18/whatever-happened-to-the-service-station/
Our station, had a huge cooler filled with all kinds of soda. I usually got to pick a soda. I loved the Big Red, I still do.
 

betty rose

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Yippee for you!! We will be leaving in 42 days. Dh has an AP and I signed him up for a preview. We weren't lucky enough to know anyone with a DVC membership going that time of year. :( I am hoping they will let the rest of us in:D(most likely not), or maybe they will just soft open it for everyone. :) Have fun menu browsing. I find that my favorite part of planning. :)
Yup, I ride less and eat more.:hungry:
 

betty rose

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Just popping in again. We had the funeral yesterday. It went well and it was really great to hear stories about my dad...the major thing was about my dad's gift giving. My dad wasn't really good at showing emotion, so his way of letting you know he cared about you was to give you something and sometimes he just decided you needed something and he was going to be the one to give it to you, whether it was kitchen knives or a lighted drawing board (for a 3 year old). One person didn't really even know who he was...she was at the feed store and he overheard her name or something...his neighbor's son had just gotten married and it was his wife and he decided she needed a pink....paddle rattle? That's what it sounded like she said, but I don't know what that is and I might not have heard right. But she was leaving and the sales clerk came running out after her and said she must be dad's friend, he had insisted she have this. She didn't even know him yet. And another said she had a skunk problem and her husband wanted her to shoot them, but she's small and the gun he had was too big...several years later, my dad shows up with a gun and ammunition for her to shoot the skunks. And there were SO many stories involving ice cream that we served ice cream after the funeral. We had asked people for stories for the guy doing his eulogy and so many involved ice cream that we decided we needed to send him off in style.

So... @figmentfan423 if you remember, I told you my dad had a thing about buying knives...and he had given me about 40 or so and I gave them to friends and family. I gave you the last ones I had that I wasn't using. I was so happy they went to a good home and weren't just sitting in a box somewhere. Well, my dad's friend found 3 boxes of knives in the house last week and my brother and his husband went out on Monday to clean some stuff out and this is what THEY found...so this is MINUS the 3 boxes his friend found, so this is about 2/3 of the knives found so far...perhaps you can understand why I wanted so badly to get rid of the ones I had and I wasn't worried about getting more if I needed them (everything NOT in the car is knives):
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It sounds like your dad was a very generous person. I may need a knife or two to carve up the groundhogs!
 

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