Thursday, January 30, 2014

January 30th

           You know I am Garth Brooks' biggest fan.  I guess he has a few more fans ... this is what I just read on Yahoo.....January 30, 2014  Garth brooks sold almost a quarter of a million tickets in just 90 minutes this morning, completely selling out three dates in Croke Park.  The total of 240,000 tickets means just under one admission was sold for every 25 people in Ireland, including the North.
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          Phil Collins, Dick Cheney, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Christian Bale and Aunt Betsy
were born on this day.
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          It warmed up a bit, sun was out, and I had a great time with my daughters driving around this afternoon looking at big old two story houses with big porches in the old "original town" area of Amarillo.  There are not that many here.  I love old houses with big porches.
        My oldest daughter brought Thai food for our lunch before we went for out.  Oh, this is too funny --- on the way to the an antique store my daughter wanted to visit we saw an estate sale sign.  Well, I love estate sales, garage sales etc. so we stopped.  My daughter was hoping to find a lamp and I can usually find some kind of treasure but we left with nothing.  We looked through things in two bedrooms, the living room and then we got to the kitchen.  This is the funny part ...  The people holding the estate sale had a shelf of things --- all with what we thought was quite a high price, considering --- and the shelf contained a 1/4 of a bottle of dish soap, a liquid hand soap container with a smidgen in the bottom, a half empty bottle of PineSol, a sandwich bag with some matches in it.  An entire shelf of cleaning products and kitchen items like that, mostly used up.  My daughters thought that was a hoot.  When we got in the car they said we should have looked in the fridge ... probably would have found an almost empty container of milk and maybe an egg or two priced to sell!!!  They promised me when I go they will throw away or take home any dabs of liquid hand soap and dish washing soap I have.
        We had planned to do some other things but that was enough to just wear me out.  I just got my strength back from that nasty flu and now I have caught a cold, sore throat, ear ache, general crud and have the biggest fever blister ever on my lip.  I look like I have been in a boxing ring and lost! 
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There's a trick to driving on ice... and apparently, nobody knows it!
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Amarillo-Panhandle Humane Society's photo.

************************************************************Get Lucky! 7K & Triple 7K's photo.

10 comments:

  1. I am sorry to hear that you still feel under the weather. Under the weather of this winter is quite the uncomfortable place to be. Come on, groundhog! Bring us an early spring.

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    1. Amen! I am sure ready for spring! Hope you have a wonderful weekend. :)

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  2. How fun to be with your girls. Sounds like you know how to have a good time together. Do you know that Garth Brooks lives about 80 miles from me in Owasso, OK? My friend who lives there will see him or Teresa out and about in town on occasion.

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    1. My daughters are my best friends! I did know that Garth Brooks lives in Owasso but I didn't know you lived close to him. I knew you were in OK just not sure what part. Hope you and Slim have a wonderful weekend.

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  3. Happy birthday! It sounds like you had a great day out with your daughters.
    I hope whatever crud has gotten hold of you will let go soon.

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    1. Thank you, Jeanie. It was a pretty good birthday considering I had the crud. I tell ya, I have been sick with one thing or another since mid-Dec and it is really getting old. Hope you have a good weekend.

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  4. Ha, I'm with you and hope my next of kin does a better job of clearing out the garbage before any sale.
    Belated Happy Birthday. So sorry one of your gifts was a nasty cold. Enough is enough.

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    1. Thank you for the birthday greeting. A nasty cold was not on my list of things I wanted to do. Good grief, I am ready to be healthy!

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  5. I too love estate sales! (And garage sales and resale stores.) Sometimes I stand and cry, wonder why no family member wanted the cook book with hand-written recipes tucked in and notes written on the pages throughout. I sometimes buy them, give thanks for the rich cooking life that lived within.

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    1. Oh my goodness! I would just stand there and bawl at a sale with such a cook book in the mix.

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