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I use Splenda in my coffee in the morning and also on my cereal.  We get several kinds of jams & jellies that are made with Splenda.  Even some bottled juices are made with no sugar added, and they add Splenda instead.

I've had drinks with splenda, they're nice, but getting stuff with splenda instead of sugar, in is like trying to find rocking horse droppings where I live. The only time I'vefound things like that is in pound shops, where they have spot items that never get repeated, none of the big supermarkets carry them.

Rain again today!  Went grocery shopping this morning and did some errands.  Nothing exciting happening today.

Lots of good things out there for you to eat, Summicron.  Check the internet, library, etc.  Have known many folks with the problem and they do fine.  I thought it was impossible to give up coffee....now have learned to like tea.  Love coffee and spent most of my life drinking pots of the stuff.....also many foods no longer on my menue.  Hang in there, you will do fine

Here is a little trivia for the season:

                                         PUMPKIN LEGEND

The carved jack-o'-lantern dates back to medieval Ireland. Its legend involves an Irishman named Jack who was too stingy to go to heaven and too mischievous to go to hell. Jack had to wander Earth until Judgment Day with a lantern made from a hollowed-out turnip with a live coal inside. Children started making these lanterns on Halloween; in the New World, they switched from turnips to pumpkins.

                       

Colin, is that true?

When is Janet returning?  I miss her. 
Al, I hope you are feeling better.  We both have to deal with a lot of pain....at least that is one way of knowing we are still alive.  I read your reply about Universalism (?) and it was good.  So much confusion out there....

Pleasant Day/Evening and God Bless.

Liz

I'd like to read that on universalism, can youtell me where it is. I was going to go to bed but messages keep popping up all over the place.

A big thanks to you all for all the encouragement, hang in, well I'll try, just don't mention having pasta for meals, its the most gross stuff ever invented, that and tuna, besides I do like tea Liz, and without sugar, sugar to me ruins tea. I guess I can start by taking my medication regularly, which I am with a little help.

     Good evening to all.  I do hope that you are all doing O.K.


Summicron:  I can tell you that it is the hardest thing to give up eating the things that you enjoy so much like desert's and of course bread.  I was brought up with having bread all the time up in Scotland and when my mum was able to make some desert's they sure did not last very long around 4 men .  We will all pray for you that you will have the strength to try the best you can to cut back.  Have a great weekend   Gord.

Etta Sue:   That must be hard not getting enough sleep and then being busy so look after yourself and don't overdo it.


Pat:  How are you and Paul doing hope all is well.  Talk to us.  Love ya big sis.


To all others may the give you a wonderful weekend.  My wife and I were up at my lodest son's and his wifes place to look after our granddaughter and we had so much fun and she never slows down.  We were able to take her out by ourselves for the first time and she was so good and on the way hom she fell asleep so you can tell that we are enjoying our grandchildren.  Goon Night.       Gord and Noreen

Al I read all the rhetoric about the Universalism, I like the way you gently  replied to  what had been posted. altho I think maybe  a less subtle approach maybe have been more effective. Maybe, maybe not it's hard to tell, but your ending said it all. Thank you.

Thanks to all of you who read the reply to "Universalism."  Pray for that confused man.  If God hadn't moved us by His Spirit, we'd all be there.

Summicron - Look in "Manna For The Soul," Missionary Corner.

Hi everyone.  It is still chilly here in Georgia but not raining and is suppose to clear up and warm up into the 60s later this afternoon.

Today is our son's 45th birthday.  We will be talking with him later today.

We will leave for a meeting shortly and then this afternoon we will take our daughter home to her apartment.  The trunk is full of groceries so she shouldn't have to shop for a couple of weeks.  She will be coming back out after the first of the month as the chiropractor has a free appointment day each year and it will be on Nov. 3rd.  She had a treatment yesterday and got along fine with it with no pain in her heart surgery area.  These treatments help her feel better for a couple of days.

Jeannine, another very caring poem--thanks for sharing it with us.

Summicron, I also love bread and deserts but have found that I can self-discipline myself and have seen the results in weight reduction.  I am not diabetic so do enjoy a few pieces of hard candy on most days. 

Marilyn, that meal makes one wonder why they even bothered.  Sorry it wasn't good.

Carol, I bet your son wasn't sorry you mixed up the dates of your get together.

Good Morning.  Partly sunny/partly cloudy in central Indiana and cold...not cool...cold.  Only 42° right now with a breeze that makes it feel colder. 

Today I have to call the ladies for Euchre Tuesday.  Then I am making Crockpot Macaroni and Cheese and an electric skillet of fried potatoes with onions...if my SIL brings the potatoes.  Kaye Don and Barb are having a fish fry for the family tonight before they leave for Florida around the first of November.  It will be fun and good!! 

Kitty got home from St. Louis yesterday and called to see if I wanted go out to eat last evening.  When we do that, we know it will be Mexican.  So she saw a new Mexican restaurant south of us on the way home from S.L. so we went there.  Didn't go in.  It looked like a Taco Bell type restaurant so we went west of there and ate.  Very good.  When we got back to her house, I went in.  She is remodeling two bathrooms and wanted help in deciding which jacuzzi tub and tiles that will be on the floor, walls and tubs sides.  I asked her if she had thought of black grout?  That would break up the monotony of light stuff!  Besides the grout is what is hard to keep clean! 

That's it.  Sunny right now with dark clouds in the west. 

My neighbor Mimi took me to dinner last night, we went right up the street to Carmela's for Mexican, I had a dish that I had never tried before a Huarache it is a tortilla on a plate with black beans, shredded beef, cilantro, cactus. her special sauce and  shredded jack cheese on top. Mmm Mmm it sure was good, What I brought home in my doggy bag I had for breakfast.

Gilbert, Sarah and I may be going to the Holistic Health Fair today, if they decided to go with me, I am going regardless. Nothing else on my agenda today.

Well, hey there, all y'all ...

I'm back from a full week of stress and annoyance.  I've done more waiting for phone calls to be returned and appointments that ended up cancelled .... Oh, well, God is teaching me patience with a capital P...

I am very tired but happy to be back home in my own little nest on the south coast of Oregon.  I'd appreciate it if all y'all would pray for situations in California beyond my control but totally in the Lord's hands.

I'll be back as soon as I get some rest ..... Later.....

Praying Jane

Hi everyone.  Jane, glad to see you are safely home but sorry to read of your frustrations while away. 

I am ready for church this morning.  The choir is singing a beautiful anthem this morning with a wonderful message.  I am sure we will go out to lunch after church, probably with our group of church friends.

Yesterday afternoon I took our daughter back to her apartment.  It was so much easier in getting in her groceries and other items we were taking back to her apartment without the steps and the long corridor that we faced with her old apartment.  I was able to find a grocery type cart and put things in it and pushed it.  It took two trips as she had groceries for 2 weeks and some other things.  She is pretty well settled into her little apartment. 

Etta Sue and Marilyn, your meals at the Mexican restaurants sounds good.  About a week ago we ate at one of the Mexican restaurants close by and always enjoy it.  That is the only time I eat the chips and salsa. 

Hope this is a nice day for everyone.  It looks like it will be one here and it was certainly nice yesterday.  It was made better when Georgia University beat LSU in football.

.Good Morning I went to the Holistic Health Fair with Gilbert and the kids,I had the tickets and invited  them to go. We got lots of new information and the Natural Food Store in Eureka had many baskets full of nutritional samples, from creams to vitamin supplements for kids and adults.

Then later I went to the potluck at the church down the street where I am going again today (my old church).

Welcome home Jane, I am so sorry to heat that you had such a troublesome time while you were away. I do pray that you eventually got everything settled  for now.
Will you have to make another trip soon? I am praying for you sister.

Jane ~ It is frustrating when your time is limited and others take their own sweet time in helping you get things done.  Did you get anything accomplished that you headed out to do? 

Church was great as always.  Great message about God and our church not being 'ours' but 'his'.  We are wanting to build on and I think that we all needed that message.  Then Sunday School was about God telling Abram to go and set up a new area and promising him many descendants.  He took Sarai and his nephew, Lot....Lot because Abram was already 75 years old and no children so Lot could have the descendants. 

Later 5 of us ladies went out to eat.  When I got home I went to Lapel to the bank for money and the Dollar General for milk.  Now I am comfy at home for the rest of the day. 

Larry ~ Do you have Chili's there?  They have the best chips and salsa than anywhere.  And they are bottomless.  As many chips and salsa that you can eat for one price.  Sometimes Kitty and I go there just for chips, salsa and diet Pepsi's!!!  Yum!!

I finally got 8 to play Euchre.  Of the original 8, only 4 were playing so I had to get four subs!!  Glad I don't have to have them here for at least 8 more months.  Three of them head to Florida for the winter so I am saying...forget it during the winter months!! 

Time to kick back and watch some TV and maybe, just maybe a nap or two!!

Going to church it was calm and cool outside.  When we came out of church about the same.  But when we came out of the restaurant, it was windy.  We are suppose to have 60mph winds the rest of the day!!  Whew!!  I am glad I am staying inside...I could blow away!!  ha!

Jane, when you get rested up, call me.  Or if you don't, I'll call you. lol

It's warm here today.  Warm outside, but cold in my house.  I get the afternoon sun and that warms it up some, but not today.  I think I need to sit outside.  I'll have to battle with spiderwebs to get a spot.

Larry, I'm glad your daughter has the new apartment that is easier to navigate.

Marilyn, sounds like you came home with all kinds of neat "stuff".  It was great that Gilbert and the kids could go with you.

Etta Sue, I have to say that Mexican is my favorite food and chips and salsa....well, lets just say I overdo when they are around.

Gotta go do some more vacuuming.  I thought when we took the carpet out that it might help the dust, but it seems to be everywhere.  Coming out of the walls, I guess.   

Nita, it's our electric personalities that attract the dust and make it stick to everything!  You vacuum it up, take the bag out, and, in the order of things, it gets back into the air, sneaks through our windows and doors, and redeposits on the electrically charged things again.  See?  It's all your fault.

I always thought that I didn't dust enough.  Sneaky old dust anyway.

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