Sudokuaholics Anonymous 7

I think perhaps I can change something around here... let's see....

Yes..I did....I just got my second Topps, so I am no longer on the bottom rung of the Topps records..... Things may be looking up...

Woo Hoo Mamacita! Lucky I'm not here or I would have stolen that from you!!

I just got some good news! IH won't be back until tomorrow!!! He left early this morning (with my trailer hitch and 2 trailers of mine)(someone else was using one), and was only supposed to be gone for a few hours. So I get a nice, quiet night.
Now I need to go feed cows.

4 hours to go.

Empty house?

So what do I do now? Have the nap I really want, or clean up the decorating mess? Or go shopping...

Hi everyone. Hope everyone is having a wonderful day/night. For those of you looking for rayray, try googling his full name. You might find out some info that way.

Good Morning SA7, hope you are all well. You lot have been chatting up a storm while I have been away.
I have Rayrays address but looks like he has a private number and unfortunately none of us have contact details of his friends, so all I can assume is that he is in hospital and being looked after.
The work on the boat is progressing well and I can barely move without some part of my body protesting.

Thank you MizT for my new avatar.

Broni, MizT is awesome at finding avatars.

Yes she is Tami, off to throw this body under a hot shower so I can move again.

BEAN, doing a Tricia? As in checking in on sudokuland in the middle of the night?

It took me a bit to see what was amended about the TOPPS list. ZERO BEAN, tooo funny girl, but one way to get you on the list. Heidi did say she would happily give you her one topps, thought that was mighty nice of her hehehe.

HEIDI selling one of husbands goats? too cute! Will you tell him? Maybe not until he asks?

Mama, of course you are not competitive or anything, just joining in the fun here on the page, with avatars and smilies and decorations all festive!

TAMI, BRONI, I have a source of avatars unique to me, will not find anyone shopping the same web site for them hehe. I use Print Shop, a card making program, it is old but had a lot of graphics in it and I can manipuate them however I want to make avatars and smilies. Mine are not copy protected, I just have to remember to do a save as to get to JPG format, so it is easy to do and I have fun looking for things. More graphics than I can ever see and use, I am always finding something new on there. so many I have to use a search to find what I want, like Christmas Tree, or Candles or Bells. It is a lot of fun and I get great pleasure making avatars to give away!!

Well, I am going now to upload some photos to my page. I had a request to show my presents I had wrapped, and while at it, I took some photos of my tree and of the "smells like Christmas" greenery arrangement. I will be back soon and let you know when they are up on page.

Photos are uploaded for your viewing pleasure. this is my house at christmas and my presents all wrapped, some photos are better than others. but I tried!

Well finally caught up with all the posts, was going back to the boat today to finish off the sanding but think I will have a day at home and do that on Wednesday when the body feels a bit better. Enough ffuts around here to keep me busy for the day.
Once request I would like to make so we never have this dilemma again like with Rayray, can everyone please get a close friend who can contact at least one of us in case of an emergency, I really hate this not knowing what is happening.
Cyn, did you have your family gathering yesterday? If so I hope all went well.

Lovely photo's MizT, must get off my butt and get this body moving before I am frozen to the seat.

Broni, I wasn't able to find anything out about Rayray either. Hopefully he will soon be back in touch with you.

Thanks for trying Brenda, with all the positive vibes from this site hopefully he will be back with us soon.

I also hope that rayray is doing well. I tried to google him with no luck.

Have to go and check up on my cookies. My kids talked me into baking for them.

Broni, did you get Rayray's address from CP? Perhaps you could contact Gath and explain the situation. I don't know if he could help but it's worth a try. For future reference, there are a number of members who have my email address, mobile number and / or address.

Heidi, LOOOOOVE the revenge tactic!
Does someone have a trusted English contact who could mail a overnight delivery card to Rayray to see if he responds? Someone could be checking his mail if he isn't there.

Great minds think alike Susan, Zusy suggested to send a card to him also. Good idea to have someone send it from the UK, perhaps Brenda would not mind? Yes I did get his address from CP, and it looks like he has an unlisted number. All the people I have contacted do not have contact details of his friends.

Ew gremlins in the system, just got timed out but my post did go thru. I will contact Brenda and ask her.

I agree it is a good idea to contact Gath. Maybe he would contact Rayray and let him know of everyone's concern.

It's funny you should say that Broni. She said the same thing to me yesterday. I often find myself nodding as I read Suzy's posts. We seem to think in the same way often. We even have matching lounge suites. Now if only I could match her mathematical / scientific brain. I'm off to Mum's now.

Wow did you see on Easy that Linda (grass-hopper) had a really bad car accident, she is OK but a few broken bones, she was so lucky to survive as her motor even broke in half. Makes you realise how lucky we are.

Coffee break

Susan did I say I love your S?

Broni, I collect nutcrackers - love 'em to bits!

I think Gail has my mobile number from one of the get togethers at her place.

MizT, loved your photos.

Broni, hope your aches and pains ease before Wednesday when you get back at it.

Off to send a message to grasshopper, then up to the school again. Ally is so tired she is dizzy. She's resisting coming home.

I won the 2 females! That gives me 4 pairs of Red Golden pheasants!
I have repeatedly tried to Google Rayray's full name, with no success. To me that only means no obit.
I need to read the rest of this page.

Good afternoon lovely SA7 people. Just jumping in here without reading previous pages - will have to go back to read about Rayray - I remember that someone said he was ill and now he seems to have disappeared.
It is a good idea to have at least one person who can contact our sudoku friends if anything goes wrong. My daughter knows where my contacts list is and would do that for me.
Heidi - congrats on winning the 2 females - more to add to the ever growing menagerie.

MizT... I sent you contact info for me in case. You seem to be good at collecting email addresses and stuff.

Yes, Broni, we had our family gathering/reunion yesterday and it was great. My grandughters have all grown so much. Hayley (8) now wears glasses, is an avid reader, loves music (incl, Abba - WooHoo) and music movies. She remembered us well. Emily (7), who didn't think she remembered us, did when she saw us and kept running up to me and hugging me saying 'MY Nanny', Chloe (3 on Thursday) took all of 2 minutes to take to us (but not to the over-exuberant dog) and was an absolute blonde dynamo delight. It was wonderful!

FANTASTIC CynB!!!! This sounds like the best Holiday season EVER!

Will post photos soon. I downloaded them this morning before my big computer decided to disconnect itself from the internet, so working from my laptop at the moment.

Cyn that is absolutely completely entirely utterly altogether wonderful!

MY Cyn!

Hi, Everyone!

Bean, I hope the burn on your arm is better! Please take care of yourself.

Becky, toy shopping sounds like fun! We did ours online this year, so I'm looking forward to seeing the real objects.

Susan, I hope the C party was fun!

The only down side was learning that our lovely Emily had been diagnosed with Epilepsy 18 months ago. She has to take tablets morning and evening and her diet is strict. My son and his wife are on top of it but I feel behind the eight-ball until I learn more about it. Google will be overworked and I need to have a longer talk to son and DIL without the party-style interruptions we had yesterday when they told us.

Thanks Heidi and Suzy!