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And I'll bet you have them abundantly. We were about 200 miles north of our old home and we'd get them faster than Louisiana. Good luck with your pup.

Yahoo.com blocked me. When I'd call I would get oriental people who would not talk to me except quote me a price to get back in. Changed my email address with gmail.com. That has been months ago. Spent many hours and minutes trying to get back into a place I had been in for years that now would let me in only if they charged me (I think) $12 a month. No reasoning for change, no warning, nothing done wrong or different. I am usually at the whim of a voice that tells me I can speak in complete sentences. It finally understood "I want to speak to a human" and after much waiting, their lines were all busy I was told, then I got the oriental voices that find it just as challenging to speak to a lifelong Louisiana accent, and an old one at that. I am not computer savvy as you are. When we used to change programs at work I would have our "teacher" write a list beginning with #1: Turn machine on. I had about 10 things numbered to use as a map for me and then it was so simple they used it to train all to use that program. Right now, if they give me seven numbers to memorize for five minutes I have to write them all down because I hate numbers and will forget the first or last three. I want to tell them I am that 1% still living at my age, but they would not understand that. Still remember telling Brianna I was born in 1942 and facts hit her in the face, "Mammaw, you were born in the dust bowl time." No, that was before me, but I am stuck in her mind with the invention of fire and the wheel.

I get the case in Thursday. Then I will play with it. Will charge it up first. Don't see a place for that ??Sims?? card. Back in the box. I will call Lively when I feel "lively" enough.

My mom blamed my bad teeth on her not taking calcium when she was pregnant with me. I would have an excuse to leave school and walk the couple of blocks to small town America dentist. When I was 19, after marriage, I had to go to an oral surgeon who noted all my roots to my teeth were eaten away by tumors, non-malignant. Back in 1961, we didn't have things like we have now, but I got a good fitting upper plate and many years later a bottom plate. Don't regret a minute of it. Did go to bed many a night with those nasty tasting toothache packs between my jaw and hurt tooth. A friend took us daily through her "screwed in" teeth and that poor girl had a hard time. The cost was prohibitive and of course no guarantee. Still, you wore a fixed "plate" to hide the screws. My cousin thinks it is the smartest thing she has ever done, no problems. So, two sides to it all. I think when the soreness goes away, you will be very happy with no more teeth problems. Good luck with it all.

Not dentists anymore, cataract removals.

It is getting close/past time for mine. Have not been to doc but such a coward.

Oh, I just looked at it and picked it up and put it back down. I've got running to do tomorrow, so it will be Monday. Until then, my other works fine.. It is supposed to be simple, it is kind of a smart phone, called a smart phone, but a not too smart phone. That is the way I understand it. So, maybe it will be easy for me. I just feel Gwen would get in touch with us if she was able to. I'm worried.

I got my "senior smart phone" in and took a day to get up the nerve to open it. Now I have opened it, even picked it up, but put it back in box. Will play with it tomorrow.

I like reading yours too Dee. I like to imagine where you live from the way you describe it, and Kay's, the way she describes it, and I miss hearing from Gwen so much that if I knew any way to contact anyone she knew, I would do it. Also with Kevin's being in Canada. And, I'm supposed to remember "I Praise Him" 's name, but I miss his "Shalome's."

That is so funny/sad at same time. This is exactly the response to everything. What part of the 20th century were they born in? Not ours.

The same with Billy. We spent our time in AR walking the back roads and then suddenly it was impossible and for me to enjoy all the things we did, he would have to be here. You cannot call Amazon. You can work with it somehow, think it is bottom of page "help" and eventually they will call you. I have the same problem. You get an artificial man who tells you that you can tell him anything and he will understand. I wonder if he understands "go to hell" which finally you tell him another impossibility. I wonder if he understands that. I've been dealing with them too. When your call comes in, you find you understand the dummy man better than the nationality they have sent you to. I did get one sweet girl (both were sweet), but one did not understand "redneck deep south great grandmother" dialect and I could not understand her English as a 2nd language dialect. I tried. She tried speaking slow, but voice was high and either I need a few classes in her foreign English class or she needs more in mine. I do admire them for learning English to do a job, but I just want to talk to someone #1, and #2, I just want to converse where we both know what the other is saying. Still better than the humanoid man's voice that says I can "tell him anything." If you hit the right "help" place, they will call you back.

Your little hands take so much trauma. Mine shake so I have had to quit peeling potatoes. Have not hurt them yet, and yes, I'm going to "knock on wood" right now (but not with any force).

We didn't have an A/C until 1967, when my daughter was born. Even then, it as the RR depot's that they had given my dad. But, we, as a family were all born in June, July, and August. I remember the window fans put against the screen window and waking up to damp sheets, and they felt so good. (Before 1967). The oldest generations built their houses high up, there was a porch overhead for all us kids to play under (and snakes). The ceilings were high and I do not remember screens on those big open windows. My great-great grandmother one night took her kids, built a big fire outside and all slept around it. Wild cats and other varmints roamed those back creek bottom woods. My grandmother left us her "Memories" in book form. (Typed papers in folders.) They didn't realize if they were having a climate change heat wave or not.

That is such good news Kevin, almost as good as this Louisiana state of bayous, creeks, rivers, lakes, and Sahara Desert #2. We are actually getting rain. Of course when we get the tail end of all those hurricanes that are scheduled, we just might all be under water. I guess you all are getting your autumn cool spells. It is still so hot here I shower and "glisten" all day. You said "touch wood" and I wonder if that is the same as our "knock on wood?"

I have not got mine yet, but my fingers shake, so I would imagine I'm not going to have fun. Right now I have to roll over to my contacts on my flip phone, hopefully, a small bit smarter one I will be able to just reach them without all the different motions. We'll see.

I have used a flip phone for as long as I have had a cell phone. Jitterbug, I think. I have looked at their "smart" phones for the past couple of years and I ordered one today. I would say "pray for me" but not sure God is in favor of me and "smart" in the same thought. If you looked it up, you would see any simpleton could work it. It is 'FOR SENIORS" but I think I'm past even "senior." They do not have the fancy prices the fancy smart phones have, but my Jitterbug has been jitterbugging along for a long time.

It said it was bad because the water from the Gulf was so warm. I can only imagine. It is 92 here today, and that is a cold wave. We have broke the record for number of triple digit days and up to 112 in some places. If I got outside you could see the heat in the air. Y'all were smart to keep high up, but we can't stop the electricity from going down. Here, a few miles from where I live, they grew soybeans and corn. There is an energy company coming in paying the farmers more than they could make off the crops to use all that land and put up some kind of energy panels, acres and acres of them. The Hallmark looking little villages will be taken over by this company. I remember my grandmother writing about them growing crops and the federal government paid them to plow them under. Made no sense to her and it doesn't me either. Guess we have to hope China has a bumper crop of corn and soybeans. Of course produce will go up in price, but perhaps people that had to do without electricity during our last storms in Louisiana might have utilities to be available sooner. A lot I do not understand. Stay safe Marty.

It is even 88 here at noon, we have been triple digits for a month. We had a small rain, but Marty is the one who is going to get the weather if she lives Gulf-side of the hurricane that is supposed to hit Florida. I had not read today where it is. Enjoy that coolness ladies and I hope they control the fires up north and in Canada. We have even had a few in this water state of ours.

That is good news Kevin. Our California coast and further inland, they are having a terrible time. On top of the heat, a hurricane (named Hilary, of course), has even caused an earthquake. And then there is Maui. We just try to stay inside and hope the A/C keeps working. Stay safe USA. Strange situations.

We keep hitting record highs here. No rain. Nontypical weather everywhere. The East Coast and New England states got the floods and that was not typical. Maui. One of my prayer warriors wrote a prayer for rain. I still have my mustard seed faith, but that can move mountains. No mountains in Louisiana. Could use the rain. My sister cannot breathe in either. Two A/C in 500+ square foot apartment. Needs a dehumidifier, but would have to order one. Getting so hard for her to breathe, and then I remember how my aunt died with emphysema. Admits she feels better when not smoking, but apartment is full of cigarette smoke. Sometimes you can only help yourself, sounds selfish, but you have to want to before you can do it.

It is 1:55 p.m. and I have to go to the "big city." It is 101 degrees and will get hotter. So I have to quit putting it off. I hope everyone is safe.

Said our heat will feel like 112 tomorrow but will be in lower triple digits. In a water state like Louisiana, we have still had some breakout fires along the Texas line, but still in a portion that a river and huge lake are in that location also. I would imagine Kay may have gone to her daughter's. Y'all stay inside.

I'm such a coward. Do not know how I went through having them all pulled. (Yes, I had Billy with me, and he was my backbone.) The idea of having the screw in's really put me in a state of zombyism. The doctor actually walked out on me. At the time I had not had a ruptured colon. That makes it where I can only take antibiotics by needle. The idea of a screw holding in what amounts to a denture covering the screwed in teeth, $9,000 cost (I think they are a lot less now) and the fact that there was no guarantee whatsoever that my body would possibly have ejected them, I would lose them anyhow made up my mind. My friend gave us a day-by-day adventure with her screwed in teeth, and it was a total nightmare. Yet, I have heard a couple of people say they could not do without them. You wear a false teeth holder, and personally, I do prefer dentures. At 81, I doubt I'm trying to impress anyone anyhow. I'm so glad it was easier on you this time and hope the next time will be even easier.

Hope this one is better on you. Let us hear from you.

I begged my sister to find someone, husband, companion, partner, just mostly anything to help her. She was beautiful but too smart for a man. (So she thought). I had Billy during horrid times, and he would have made a good nurse. Never minded taking care of me, but I should have noticed his decline. Gov. Abbott in Texas was quoted as saying 3/4 of Texas was on fire. If this is not hell, for me, it certainly is for some people. And the news covers Biden's son and Trump's number of indictments, and I don't understand politics at all, but I do think Biden's son is not important enough to interrupt my soap opera "The Young and the Restless." Dumb ox's.