Friday is here finally……………..my Mom has been retired for quite a long time BUT she still gets excited about Fridays. This is a fun Hop too – our two co-hosts give us four sentences and we put our own words in the blanks. Easy peasy! Mom is in charge of doing the fill-ins today. Just a little treat I give her once in a while. Nice aren’t I ???? TAKE IT AWAY MOM (her words are in RED).
1. I rarely go out to eat, I do my own cooking instead. (P.S. I love to go out to eat – we just don’t seem to do it that often AND I love to cook!)
2. My spring to do list includes trimming shrubs and and finding a new lawn service.
3. If I were invisible for a day, I would probably play tricks on people and drive them crazy wondering WHAT was going on – that would be interesting!
4. When I was young, I smoked cigarettes because everybody did BUT I quit almost 40 years ago.
OK Mom – That #3 has me worried and I’m sure if Dad knew you’d said that he would be worried too! HAHAHA As for the yard work – don’t worry – I’ll be outside with you to keep you company. You know how I love to be outside!!!
That’s it for filling in this week…………see you next Friday.
Hugs, Teddy
TWO Spoiled Cats 
wow, 40 years ago? that is amazing! we don’t go out for eating, it feels still odd somehow… seems this virus-time changed more than we know…
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It’s almost HARD to go back to our pre-Covid behaviors but eating out was a treat for us – something we rarely do – and while it’s just a “little” thing we find that now we really have an amazing amount of enjoyment sitting in a pretty restaurant, dressed up, having a cocktail and fabulous meal together……sigh. Yes – 40 years since I smoked a cigarette and the weird thing is I just didn’t miss it at all when I stopped!
Hugs, Pam
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We could use a lawn (and snow) service here too…though right now tat kind of work tough tedious and heavy keeps me in shape!
You have a fun and mischievous streak in you, Pam!! LOL! Playing tricks…LOL!
I bet you felt a lot healthier after you ceased smoking.
Have a nice weekend!
Later today I am going to a women’s conference sponsored by our church about conquering the fears we face. Will be gone overnight…leaving the pups in the able care of their daddy! These are given annually, but this is the first one I have been to in years since it mostly fell on weekends wen I was having to work.
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That women’s conference will be perfect for these days and times. Hope you enjoy it. We had two really good lawn care companies in the past five years and during Covid both went out of business. Very sad – so I’m looking at a bigger company this time around…..we just can’t do the “heavy” projects any longer by ourselves. As for smoking – I never was a heavy smoker fortunately – maybe two or three cigarettes a day. Mostly it was a social thing. But I had a hospital stay that was the perfect excuse to stop – and I never looked back.
Hugs, Pam
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Gosh I was a heavy smoker. I may not have finished the cigarettes, but I sure smoked plenty of half cigarettes. One day, I left the behind when I went to work on my midnight shift I knew, especially since OT loomed, that I wouldn’t have another for at least 14 hours, when I got home, but I left them there in a drawer with the lighter and I never turned back. Not once. There is more detail to that..but that’s how it went.
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Similar deal for me too – never looked back. I had found out I had cervical CA and when I heard the word CANCER I threw my cigarettes away in the doctor’s trash can! LOL GOOD FOR US GIRLFRIEND!
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Ain’t worth smoking. I gained weight that’s stll there, but better to moan about weight gain than be gone from the earth, What would Katie do without me
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Katie needs you like Teddy needs me. They are so like children – needy, loving, precious.
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They really truly are. You described it perfectly.
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Was that ‘but’ or was that ‘butt’? Mama loves to cook, too. Wish we could cook together. Today it’s chicken enchiladas, guacamole and mama’s salsa…we can get Mexian food in our little village, haha.
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My Mom loves Mexican food but my Dad doesn’t….he’s a party pooper….Mom used to sneak to the Mexican food restaurant and get tacos while she was out shopping….!!! Tee Hee
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It would be fun to be invisible sometimes!
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It sure would!
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I do my own cooking too. It still doesn’t feel right eating out, but we have done so very occasionally. We go on a cruise next month so all my meals will be cooked for me!
I also gave up smoking years ago. I worked in a factory for a short time and the woman I worked with was a chain smoker. I soon found I was smoking more and more every day. I left that job in 1973 and vowed I would never have another cigarette. I did have a lapse after a few months but discovered I really didn’t like them any more.
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Proud of you.
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I’m SOOO excited you have another cruise coming up!!! Wish David and I were going with you. LOL Good for you giving up smoking too – hard to even remember those days but I really never EVER missed it once I quit.
Hugs, Pam
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I don’t love cooking but I much prefer eating at home. We go out sometimes because my wife likes it but I always cringe when I see the bill.
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If you don’t go out constantly those occasional restaurant bills are sometimes worth it just to be out of the kitchen and feeling special even if it’s just for an hour or two!
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It certainly is nice to go out sometimes but I personally don’t care how fancy the restaurant is. My favorite is a little place on the beach that we sometimes go to for breakfast. For $20 we can eat breakfast eight steps from the Gulf.
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Sounds ideal! I remember a few spots like that when I lived in Clearwater years ago.
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There are a few. This place is in pass-a-grill. https://paradisegrille.com/
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Nice!
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Mom loves cooking but also loves eating out with her friends. We’re happy to say she never smoked.
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The crowd my Mom hung out with WAY BACK WHEN smoked so she smoked….never much so it was easy to give it up!
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Teddy you and Dad better mind your P’s and Q’s should mom become invisible she will be flitting about making your heads swim. I thoroughly enjoy cooking too and planning menus
Hugs Cecilia
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Cats can see stuff humans can’t so if Mom thinks she can be invisible to a CAT – she’s nuts!!
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Thank you for participating in the fill-ins, great answers. I am glad you stopped smoking years ago. Good luck finding a new lawn service. Have a great weekend. XO
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Thanks on the lawn service good luck…….we have our fingers crossed the people coming on the 24th to give us an estimate will be reasonable!
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Mom needs to find us one that does better than she has been getting. Our yard is all hills and dales. Too much for her. And trimming…except for pruning occasionally…also too much.
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We have a guy coming on the 24th to give us an estimate….he’s NOT from a small business – he’s from a BIG business – the nursery about five miles from us in fact. Wish us luck!
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I wish I loved to cook – then we’d eat at home more. Happy Friday!
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I do love to cook but I also love to go out once in a while. We make a “thing” of it – get dressed up and do it up nice….like a date! 🙂
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Mom is so surprised your mom smoked. Happy she stopped so long ago. She had a similar answer to #3 as our Misty May had! Our folks don’t eat out much either. They did lots more often when they were younger. It is just so expensive now, even to go out for lunch. XOCK, angel Lily Olivia, angel Mauricio, Misty May, angel Giulietta, angel Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth, Calista Jo, Cooper Murphy, Sawyer & Kizmet
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Yeah Mom smoked but not much – usually a social thing…..she found it easy to quit! My Mom and Dad LOVE to get dressed up and go out to dinner – do the drinks before dinner, nice dinner, dessert/cappuccino after thing once in a while just because they enjoy talking across the table like back when they were dating. Isn’t that cute? LOL Actually it’s just that they LOVE going out to dinner as a treat once in a while and since it’s only RARELY they dress up and pretend it’s a special occasion. Yes it’s expensive but it’s a nice break and they feel special.
Hugs, Teddy
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We love to do that kind of eating out. We have missed our date night dinners since the plague stopped everything normal. Special dinners keep things fresh and fun!!!!
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Exactly! These days we need all the fun we can find! 🙂
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Very interesting about you playing tricks on people… Ida never guessed! The whole eating out thing AND mask wearing is a big conundrum! Do we eat out? Do we eat at home? I hate that at five oh clock we can’t look at each other and say, “let’s go out to dinner” without a care in the world. I am so glad you quit smoking! Hugs to you and Teddy Boop!
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Howdy! Well I’ve never played tricks on anyone except David BUT it would be kind of fun if I was invisible!! Tee Hee…….we went through all the not eating out/ordering for pickup thing for well over a year but with the changes restaurants have made – at least here – with distancing tables, outside tents with tables, etc., we have been going out once in a great while now. It’s like having a date – getting dressed up and going out pumps you up and makes you smile and makes you remember what fun it is to be waited on. LOL Yeah I quit smoking so long ago but it was pretty easy to do – I never smoked that much….maybe a pack a week or less – it was more of a social thing. I do NOT miss it – I can distinctly remember washing everything in my apartment to get rid of the smell after I quit – I’d never noticed it before then!!!!!!
Hugs back to you from me and the Booper!
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Teddy, I’m sure your Mom appreciates all your snoopervising with the lawn work!
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I hope she does – I just like walking along with her!
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Finding a good lawn service is important. We use the young man who grew up next door, he’s been doing our lawn since he was old enough to push a mower and he’s consciencious and very good.
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That’s WONDERFUL…..! Someone who “knows” your lawn does a good job for sure.
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Hee, hee…I can just picture the shenanigans of invisibility. Have an excellent weekend enjoying some outdoor time.
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That’s exactly what I was thinking…..and just for one day – otherwise I’m happy to be visible!
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Kind of like April Fool’s Day, eh? LOL
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HAHAHAHAHA!
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Glad you were able to quit smoking. Those are great fill ins. Have a nice weekend. It’s raining today. At least we did not get the snow so far.
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We’re heading to 75 today and were in the 70s yesterday – hoping it STAYS this way!!
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I’m glad you quit smoking, Teddy’s mom! ~Ernie
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I’m very glad I did too! ❤
Hugs, Pam
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Those were good answers. We like to go out to eat but we don’t do it much either!
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Maybe it makes it more special when it’s not all the time…………
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It would be fun to be invisible for a day. Good answers.
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Yes – just one day though – I like being visible most of the time! 🙂
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I am glad you quit smoking. Thirty years ago people weren’t as aware of the problems with smoking that they are now.
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Very true…..I hardly ever see someone lighting up a cigarette these days!
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Your mama must’ve been really cool when she was young, because all the cool kids smoked cigarettes.
Love and licks,
Cupcake
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Well let’s say she may have THOUGHT she was cool…..and when you’re young you sometimes think you SHOULD be cool but it didn’t take her long to find out all the REALLY cool kids didn’t smoke cigarettes!
Hugs, Teddy
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MOL..answer three was terrific, Pam, Granny could join you…MOL…Extra Pawkisses🐾😽💞
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Since you do your own cooking, do you get to keep the tips?
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Yeah but the guy who lives here that I make all these fabulous meals for is not a heavy tipper.
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