Sudokuaholics Anonymous 8

Love the family history stuff. Judy, so great that you can do that. I've been wanting to do it for years. A relative said that there is a saint in one of the branches. I'd love to find out if that is true. It's hard for me since I am first generation US.(born 3 months after my family moved here from Ireland) All of the records are in Ireland.

Hi Stella, Brenda,Gail Broni, Bean, Suzy, MizT (I see is about) and anyone else who is around.

Broni/possum, echo, echo... good luck with the tests!

Hi June, have you had a chance to relax yet?

Good evening June and Suzy! Hope you're having a nice and relaxing evening!

Broni, lets hope this set of tests finds the answer....

Stella, Ancestry.com now has so much available but you have to pay to get the info. My sister has been getting lots through them. Things that I could access for free a few years ago have now been taken over by them. There is also a lot available through the Latter-day Saints Church.
Hubby has a couple of Irish but mine just about all come from UK.

I emailed 5 photos to my niece yesterday and they never got sent. I think they are too big, 27mb. I'll have to check with my cable company to see if there is a limit. I always thought cable could handle anything, I guess not!

Hmmm, relaxing? Maybe....

Have a great day/evening everyone... off to sit with hubby again...

I have the room ready for my visitor. Not sure about the vegetarian meals though!
I got a couple of Andre Rieu DVD's for Mother's Day so watched one of them today.(I was going to use the sliddy thing at the same time but relaxed instead)

Stella, I use yahoo and I think they have a 10MB limit per email. I've never stretched it out to that though, always shrink them first. Not so good if the receiver wants to print them.

Maybe that's why I can never get a photo small enough to submit for a puzzle. Although my old camera wasn't as big and I couldn't get them submitted then either.

I was sending photos the other day and they got rejected because of size. Was trying to send two at a time and had to go back to one and when it was gone , then I sent the next one!

June, who is your visitor? It's better to relax while enjoying your Mother's Day gift!

Sending one at a time would take a VERY long time! I'll have to burn a disc for my niece and give it to her when I see her again.

Dino will be staying here for about two weeks. She has some work to do in Sydney.

Tell Dino I said Hi! Hope you have a lovely visit!

New avatars and smilies STILL haven't been approved!
Off to meet the finch breeder.

Heidi Hope you get lots of information from the breeder so that you can soon have success with your breeding pairs.

June I know what you mean about having to do vegetarian meals. It's easy when you have to do it all the time but when guests come I can never think of suitable meals.

Google for vego recipes June.

Broni, meant to say earlier, I echo everyone else's hopes for you that the answers be found this time. Keeping you in my thoughts.

Sending massaging vibes Stella.

Thanks Gail! Have a great night!

Gail, I do not want to change our diet as Ken would have a fit. Just need to adapt with plenty of vegies.for all of us. I will wait and see what the preferences are, rather than do too much beforehand. I have tried google and Buddhist sites.

Rosacea discussion:
a good website is www.rosacea.org, site of the National Rosacea Society

Suzanne, I am taking an oral antibiotic, doxycyclin, and using another antibiotic in a gel form to apply to my face, Metrogel. The oral is generic and I think very cheap.

I was concerned about taking antibiotic for so long, especially when I found out rosacea is not bacteria caused. further research says this particular antibiotic is probably acting as an anti-inflamatory (drugs can do more than one thing, think aspirin for pain, fevor, inflamation, blood thinner, etc) They also say this antibiotic is not prone to cause resistant bacteria, another of my concerns. This med has long been used for acne.

I found out many things can trigger a flare of rosacea, and one of mine is heat. I can just wash my face with warm water, or get in shower and not even wash face, and I am beet red.

They also think rosacea might be an autoimmune disorder, why am I not surprised?

'ELLO! Just off to grab a cup of coffee and got sidetracked catching up on reading.
June - Dino for 2 weeks - what a joy! You are so generous with the Sydney B & B.
I eat lots of salads, but I can imagine that may not be the seasonal food right now with winter descending! It's always such an easy veggie meal.

Good Morning MzT! - off to get that coffee...

June is the hostess with the most-ess!

HEIDI, I do hope you "overpopulate" soon, baby birds would be sooo neat! How far are you traveling today to meet this finch breeder?

HI KATHI, good to see you back again. Hello to AIMEE also and welcome.

Loving the ancestor stories. I have a couple from Hubbies side to tell, but later.

Stella, I also vote for a mini storage unit for you, would be so much easier, and just for the summer.

Broni/possum, neat trick! I will wager you cannot do that again!

BEAN, large amount of travelers checks? I would be digging furiously though those boxes! Travelers checks here do not expire. I found some and used them after 10 years. BEAN, mine were in an old purse! Have you looked there? Only $200 worth, but was a nice windfall.

HI VICI, I did not put the cyber pot on yet, here you go!



Broni, wishing you good results from this set of tests. Just some tiny easily fixed something that will cure all your ailments.

For whoever asked: "Putting up squash" is a term often used in the South meaning to preserve fresh foodstuffs in some way for later eating. I was blanching and freezing mine. "Blanching" is to bring vegetables to a certain hot temp to kill bacteria, then quickly cooling to stop the process before veggies are cooked, so veggies are "fresh" tasting when thawed and cooked later.

Judy: Thanks for the info!! I will see what I can find. I know my grandfather (on mom's side) came thru Ellis Island, so that should be a good place to start.
Cyn: I know about the LDS church's geneology (spelling??) database...my friend Janet is a member of the church & her husband is an elder there, going to lunch with her next week...will ask her for guidance.
Got my coffee, hubby still in bed, He got home after 1 a.m. (works till midnight), going to let him sleep in. After all, he let me sleep the other morning, it's only fair, right??

OOPS, I forgot my manners!! GOOD MORNING/Evening SA8ers...
MizT: Thanks for the rosacea information, my skin reacts the same way yours does to the warm/hot. Same thing with the eczema, cool showers are best (not when its cold out though,Brrrrr)...
I know I missed some folks, about a page behind in the reading.
Hubby's awake, TTFN!!

Going to sign off for now, have ffuts to do around the house, including the washy/spinny thing, etc.
TTFN

I'm back! I have 3 cure baby finches. Two are white breasted, and one purple breasted. One of the white breasted is yellow headed and the other 2 are red headed. I don't know the genders yet. They're only 3 months old. We had a great discussion on nutrition improving fertility and health, and he told me all about what and how he feeds.

It was nearly 5 hours between posts!!!!

Just popping in to say hello and it looks like no one is around, so I will give my best wishes to everyone who visits for a wonderful MAEN! I hope you are all doing well in your little piece of our world and that you are living life to its fullest. Take care and be well!

Peace,
Aimee :)

I'm off doing puzzles while relaxing after driving 2 hours (each way) through pouring rain, then having to get my truck jump- started when I tried to come back home.

Pleased the trip was worth it Heidi. If you could make a living from breeding the finches it would be easier than all the other things you do.
Greetings to you Aimee.
Finished the puzzles so back to bed!

Good morning all.
I really hope they find something this time in your tests Broni and it is all good news.
Heidi...good luck with breeding the finches now you have more info.What a "buggar"about the truck.

The truck is running just fine now. It just had a dead battery. I had accidentally left the headlights on. My fault, not the trucks.

The guy I met (Tim) told me that his finches more than pay for themselves. He has over 40 of them!!!