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Here are a couple of ideas for retirement. New England is good, but it is extremely cold during the winter months. We do get some snow and that includes blizzards. However, the taxes are high in both Ct. and Ma.. That being said, since you and your hubby enjoy hiking, I will recommend a look at New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. Though these States do get snow, lately, it has been scarce. There are many hiking trails in these areas and tons to see and do.
States I would look at today include Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia. Alabama comes to mind as well. For the most part I do enjoy Florida. It’s the summers that I have trouble with. High temps with high humidity and the chance of hurricanes are difficult to endure. The best advice I can give is to visit these States and ask tons of questions. If I decide to make a change the States I would look at would include Virginia, West Virginia. North Carolina. and Georgia. Good luck with your decision.
Good day on the Gulf Coast of Florida. 😎🎈I have had a long day already and it’s only
12:30 p.m. here in OZ.My day began at 3:00 a.m. when I could not sleep due to the procedure I had this
morning. My nerves were raw I have been fighting this since 2019 that’s when I was
first diagnosed and today I am 100% back to normal. 😎Oodie it’s been a long road and I nearly collapsed in the chair when they gave me
the news. I still need to see the Oncologist next week to go over everything and I pray
I get off the medicine. 😎🎈I will ring the bell.We will do something special no worries there. 😎
My Mom will be so happy. 😘💕
I know your hands are full just want to say thank you since you have been with me during
this whole journey. Well I am done with this road. 😎🎈
Good day on the Gulf Coast of Florida. 💕😎🎈Here is to a joyful day.
Oz is still in the 20’s and I am fine with that I am doing a bit of everything.
I know you may not have snow there in Florida but I know in the North where your other
homes are they will have a lot during this season. 🎈😎💕I hope you have had some rest last night. Oodie one step at a time if you are able to
visit your husband I hope he is still on some solid foods. 💕🎈I am in and out today OZ will be frozen all week tis the season. 🎈
Good Evening and thank you for your kind words. I am so glad you like them.
Those take a lot of work but so worth it. 💕😎🎈I am just celebrating the season we need some joy in this world. 🎈
Oodie don’t overdo anything I am so glad you may have some help. YAY!
I always repost some of my images that I know people find interesting so I will do
this again I may find a new one we shall see what I find on the Web. 😎Oodie relax and enjoy your evening. I am nice and toasty in a Hoodie with zipper I brought
here on HSN hubs is wearing one too and they fit us perfect. 💕😘I can’t wait for your husband to be blown away by all you do and have done to make his
coming home possible. 😘💕
I’m Your Man
Song by Wham! ‧Call me good
Call me bad
Call me anything you want to, baby
But I know that you’re sad
And I know I’ll make you happy
With the one thing that you never had
Baby, I’m your man (do do do that)
Don’t you know that?
Baby, I’m your man (do do do that)
You bet
If you’re gonna do it, do it right (right, do it with me)
If you’re gonna do it, do it right (right, do it with me)
If you’re gonna do it, do it right (right, do it with me)
If you’re gonna do it, do it right (right, do it with me)
So good, you’re divine
Wanna take you, wanna make you
But they tell me it’s a crime, oh
Everybody knows where the good people go
But where we’re going baby
Ain’t no such word as no
Baby, I’m your man (do do do that)
Don’t you know who I am?
Baby, I’m your man (do do do that) (you know)
You bet
If you’re gonna do it, do it right (right, do it with me) (come on baby)
If you’re gonna do it, do it right (right, do it with me) (ooh, take me home)
If you’re gonna do it, do it right (right, do it with me) (please don’t leave me here)
If you’re gonna do it, do it right
To do it on my own
First class information
Sense your inspiration
And with some stimulation (oh)
We can do it right, oh
So, why waste time with the other guys
When you can have mine?
I ain’t askin’ for no sacrifice
Baby, your friends do not need to know
I’ve got a real nice place to go, listen
I don’t need you to care
I don’t need you to understand, yeah
All I want is for you to be there
And when I’m turned on, if you want me
I’m your man (I’m your man)
If you’re gonna do it, do it right (right, do it with me)
If you’re gonna do it, do it right (right, do it with me)
If you’re gonna do it, do it right (right, do it with me)
If you’re gonna do it, do it right (right, do it with me)
Do it with me, now listen
If you’re gonna do it, you know what I say? (Do it with me)
If you’re gonna do it, don’t throw it away (do it with me)
Don’t throw it baby, don’t throw it
Because
I’ll be your boy, I’ll be your man
I’ll be the one who understands
I’ll be your first, I’ll be your last
I’ll be the only one you ask
I’ll be your friend, I’ll be your toy
I’ll be the one who brings you joy
I’ll be your hope, I’ll be your pearl
I’ll take you halfway ’round the world
I’ll make you rich, I’ll make you poor
Just don’t use the door
If you’re gonna do it, do it right (right, do it with me)
If you’re gonna do it, do it right (right, do it with me)
If you’re gonna do it, do it right (right, do it with me)
If you’re gonna do it, do it right (right, do it with me)
Good day on the Gulf Coast of Florida. 😎🎈Oodie I hope your day goes well.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and hubby. Enjoy your meal tomorrow I hope it is
delicious. 💕🎈What’s important is the time you spend together.
I am doing this and that today. LOL!
Oodie let me know how things are going. Thank you for sharing the other day your
thoughts on your beloved cousin. 💕 Please be careful out there so many people
are traveling. Oodie it was so funny your comment on Poppy I will have a turkey leg for him. 💕🎈😎-
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Good evening in S. California. Enjoy Thanksgiving with your family wise of you to
do what you did last year especially with a cold.I am just making a little something for a small gathering of family. I am making my
great sweet potato pie and I have a chocolate French Silk Pie. I have people rolling
on the floor crying they are so full. LOL! 😎🎈
I had some beauty treatments today and my skin is so soft. I am all about the eyes
so had them thread my eyebrows. 😎Still have the high cheek bones and I am going
to just have a little fun with the family. 💕Happy Thanksgiving and take care of that cold.
Good morning in S. California. 🎈😎Hope your cold is clearing up.
My Niece who is the teacher and just got her second Master’s is leaving for Amsterdam
on Wednesday. My niece is traveling with her best friend who is a stewardess for a major
airline and her husband is a pilot for a major airline. I told be sure to visit the Anne Frank
House it seems every person I know have a strong emotional experience and that is
on my bucket list. 😎I have a lot going on in the family but I want to wish your family a Happy Thanksgiving
Week. 🎈💕
NATIONAL HOMEMADE BREAD DAY
On November 17th, homes will fill with warm, comforting aromas reminding us to slow down and enjoy National Homemade Bread Day.
Yeast bread calls for us to slow down. We need to spend time with each other as we work the dough and let it rest and rise before baking. Quick breads allow a special treat to share and enjoy with coffee or tea. Other homemade breads, such as donuts, pretzels, muffins, and biscuits, add variety to our everyday meals. And making them with friends and family brings joy and an opportunity to exchange recipes.
Those who make homemade bread commit to using good ingredients and investing in the time. They make it not only because they love the flavor, but because they know the people they love to do also. Homemade bread enriches the flavors of our meals and the flavors of our conversations, too.
Bread is full of symbolism around the world, across cultures and religions. In our lives, bread is valuable. We consider our livelihood to be our daily bread. We are making it, breaking it, consuming it as part of our faith. Bread can be exciting if it’s sliced or boring if it’s white. There’s a bonus bread, too. However, it seems a bit messy if it’s buttered on both sides. Then again, when we roll in the dough, it’s messy, too. Bake it, and it becomes heavy bread, but it means the same thing.
Good day in the ‘burgh. 😎🎈I am up and walking today. Hey Game Day. 🎈😎
One of my sister’s said do not call me during the Game I am like I don’t think so. LOL!All good family fun. 💕
Enjoy the day sending hugs to your mom and sister.
Here is to you and Jake enjoy this Sunday. 💕😎
Sheba, It’s great that you are so accomplished and yes, you should be proud of your hard work and success. And I’m proud of you too! Kudos. Your career sounds fun and exciting and yes involved lots of hard work.
The women I saw walking on the stoney hard sidewalk in their very spikey heels and walking at a snails pace looked in a bit of pain and I don’t think they cared. Each had a Channel bag as well. It was so fun for me to see the sidewalk/train fashion.You and Oodie were talking about Heidi’s latest items (and without me 🙂 Just kidding). I saw that huge Greek Key set and wow. At 1st I thought it was multiple necklaces stacked but oh no. Maybe Oodie will get it.
I wore Heidi’s snake earrings (love) to two concerts and they worked great for me.
Sadly, my luck was not as good with the gold plated Rarities earrings (with the turq set in it).
One earring broke at the connector after the 3rd wear. I really like them but was quoted about $70. to fix it, so hubs will try to drill and wire something up for me. For the price the joint should have been made stronger. So yah, my last Rarities purchase. But I do love em.
Good Evening well done and moving forward. This gives your husband to work hard on
during PT and to get home. 🎈I know you are tired so just rest and relax. I love how everything sounds and the fact
it does not take forever is wonderful.
Welcome to the new Thread. 🎈😎Oodie if you like the Chiefs you too are part of
Chiefs Kingdom that’s just the local name we call ourselves. 🎈😎Enjoy your evening I am feeding a Possum who thinks he is a cat. 😎💕
Good Evening, or should I say good morning. I finally saw hubs after 3 days of email to and from the bathroom remodelers. After I cooled down enough I drove to see hubs. To say I am livid is an understatement. But after my tirade going through all that happened this week hubby’s expression made me laugh and hit the floor. I’m still laughing. I cannot say the 8 lettered word here but it starts with a B and ends with T. His other line was, “he must be a young kid not to call you after stating you didn’t want to work with him any longer to let you know that the items were ordered and now you need to pay a restock fee. Hubs wants to meet this person and I will try to see if he can make it to the rehab since there is no way for hubs to be home. Anyways, we have an appointment for Monday afternoon. This should be very interesting…….hmmm……….
There has been a big change in hubby. More pep. More sass. More himself. He is finally getting the food and vitamins he needs. Some of the dementia I have seen for almost a year is slowly going in another direction. Even the nurses and aids are noticing the change. I’m not sure if it’s medication or the slow weaning away from the puree foods. He is asking for pizza and not just any pizza. He wants either Hawaiian or Chicken Cordon Bleu. It’s so nice to see his humorous side again.
I hope you enjoyed the moon and the sisters tonight. We are having a showery event and this has been going on all day. We will also be cooling off beginning Monday. Temps during the day will be in the low 60s and nighttime in the 40s. However, like before, it will only last a few days and then it will be back to reality of 80s and 70s. The 40s here may be a warming trend for you, but for me it will feel more like the 20s. On this note I will say goodnight and sweet dreams to you three.
Good day on the Gulf Coast of Florida. 🎈😎 Oodie I did respond to your post from
last night. 😎All good here in OZ.I hope you are feeling better I am still working on a Fall Project and hope to be finished
by the end of the week. Things always need to be done and get done. This is life. 😎
Take your time today and enjoy your shopping. I did not know your cable was not
hooked up. I enjoyed Robert Redford Day on TCM. I watched the Sting last night and him
and Paul Newman were the best back in the day. 😎🎈So much is going on in news I don’t have the Telly on. I went for a nice long walk this morning
with Poppy and it is a true Fall Day. The leaves are falling into beautiful colors. We have the
Sun. 😎This is the type of day I long for during the dog days of summer. LOL! 🎈Let me know how things go for you today.
April 17, 2018. Southwest Flight 1380 was climbing toward cruise altitude when passengers heard a sound no one ever wants to hear on an airplane—a massive explosion that shook the entire aircraft.
The left engine had catastrophically failed. Metal shrapnel tore through the fuselage like bullets. One piece shattered a window. At 32,000 feet, where the air is too thin to breathe, the cabin instantly decompressed.
Oxygen masks dropped. People screamed. A passenger was partially pulled toward the broken window by the violent suction. Chaos doesn’t even begin to describe it.
In the cockpit, Captain Tammie Jo Shults heard the explosion, felt the plane shudder, and watched her instruments light up with warnings. One engine gone. Fuselage damaged. Cabin pressure lost. 149 souls depending on her next move.
She didn’t panic. She went to work.
“Southwest 1380, we have part of the aircraft missing,” she radioed calmly to air traffic control, her voice as steady as if she were ordering coffee. “We’re going down.”
But here’s what most people don’t know: this wasn’t the first time Tammie Jo Shults had faced death in the sky.
Before she was a commercial pilot, she was Lt. Commander Shults—one of the first female fighter pilots in the United States Navy. She flew F/A-18 Hornets as an aggressor pilot, training other naval aviators in combat tactics. The military told her she couldn’t fly combat missions because of the Combat Exclusion Policy. So she became so skilled that combat pilots trained against her.
She’d spent years making split-second decisions at supersonic speeds. Years staying calm when instinct screamed at you to panic.
And on that April morning, every hour of that training kicked in.
She manually controlled the crippled 737, fighting asymmetric thrust from the single working engine. She communicated with air traffic control. She coordinated with her first officer. She executed a rapid emergency descent—dropping altitude fast enough to reach breathable air, but controlled enough not to tear the damaged plane apart.
Twenty-two minutes after the explosion, she landed the aircraft in Philadelphia. Smooth. Controlled. As if she’d practiced it a thousand times.
Passengers later said she walked through the cabin afterward, calm and composed, checking on every single person. “Nerves of steel” was the phrase they kept using.
One passenger, Jennifer Riordan, had been critically injured by the window failure. She died later at the hospital—the only fatality. It was a tragedy. But 148 other people walked off that plane alive because of Shults’ skill, training, and unshakeable composure under pressure.
Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenbergger—the pilot who famously landed US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River in 2009—called to praise her handling of the emergency. When Sully calls to say you did good, you really did good.
Southwest Airlines commended her. Aviation experts analyzed the flight data and said her decisions were textbook perfect. Passengers wrote letters calling her their hero.
But here’s the detail that gives you chills:
Tammie Jo Shults wasn’t even supposed to be flying that day.
She’d swapped shifts with her husband, also a Southwest pilot, to accommodate their schedules. A routine trade. The kind pilots do all the time.
Which means 149 people boarded a plane that morning with no idea that the woman in the cockpit had been specifically, almost impossibly, prepared for exactly what was about to happen.
You can call it luck. You can call it fate. Or you can call it what it actually was: decades of competence, training, and grit meeting the one moment where all of it mattered most.
Tammie Jo Shults didn’t ask to be a hero that day. She just showed up, did her job with extraordinary skill, and brought almost everyone home.
She proved what she’d been proving her entire career—that competence doesn’t care about gender, that the best person for the job is simply the best person for the job, and that sometimes the person standing between disaster and survival is someone who refused to accept the word “can’t.”
She broke barriers in the Navy. She saved 148 lives in Philadelphia. And she did both the same way: by being so good at what she does that no one could argue with the results.
Sometimes heroes don’t wear capes. Sometimes they wear pilot wings and speak in calm, measured tones while manually landing a crippled aircraft.
And sometimes, they’re exactly where they need to be—even when they weren’t supposed to be there at all. -
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