Royal Caribbean Cruisers -- How Are Things Where You Are? (was "Routine" ​ 😁 ​day in lockdown... how was yours?)

[Luckynana]

4 hours ago, NHProud said:

Thank you Greg for your advice . Glad that it is mostly behind you and hope it is all happy cruising for you on the Bella sailing .

 

They did a nerve block so that’s why he was able to go home so soon. We watched the needle go in on the sonogram. 

 

3 hours ago, Jimbo said:

 

Forecast today : Strong storms today. Damaging winds, large hail and possibly a tornado with some storms. Have a plan and be prepared.

Stay safe, Jim!

2 hours ago, Jimbo said:

I wonder if we will know ahead of time which Locks we  are going through before the cruise and how they decide what ships go through which Locks, New or Old?

What ship will you be on for the Canal cruise?

2 hours ago, Sunshine3601 said:

I still have my autographed yearbook from HS and may have one from Junior High.    We did not have them elementary school.    

I have my 4 HS autographed yearbooks...I was in a small girls HS, and we all bought the yearbooks each year.  

1 hour ago, lenquixote66 said:

Occasionally I am in doctors offices where in the waiting room they play tv stations that show old shows.I often wonder why I liked those shows because they are so bad.

We didn't know better then;  that's what was on, so that's what we watched!  LOL!

[DaniDanielle]

Just now, Jimbo said:

Guess you remember Green Stamps then?

I have a book of my mother-in-laws up in my room.  I should cash them in🤪

[jagsfan]

5 hours ago, Sea Dog said:

 

 

Thinking of you guys. Glad everything went well. The pain does come unfortunately.

 

 

 

You nailed it. Great information. I am amazed how many people do not realize they can get their local channels for free.

 

 

 

Thanks Bob. I'm looking forward to getting stronger with my new knee and doing more.

 

It will come. I promise!

[DaniDanielle]

We just talked to friends of ours who just came back from a Mississippi River cruise.  Both have covid!  

[jagsfan]

A question for anyone who has done  escorted land tours. Our DD and SIL booked a 10 tour of Peru, including internal flights. Nice trip. 
Today they were notified it was canceled for lack of enough participants. 
It’s Trafalgar, which they used in the Balkans. 
She asked if I know any tour company she can try. 
I said Globus  and Collette, which I haven’t used. 
I did Kenya with Abercrombie and Kent and thought they were great. 
Any other recommendations?

[Jimbo]

1 minute ago, jagsfan said:

A question for anyone who has done  escorted land tours. Our DD and SIL booked a 10 tour of Peru, including internal flights. Nice trip. 
Today they were notified it was canceled for lack of enough participants. 
It’s Trafalgar, which they used in the Balkans. 
She asked if I know any tour company she can try. 
I said Globus  and Collette, which I haven’t used. 
I did Kenya with Abercrombie and Kent and thought they were great. 
Any other recommendations?

Does  Tauck Tours do anything there?

[Bailey & Sophie]

9 minutes ago, jagsfan said:

A question for anyone who has done  escorted land tours. Our DD and SIL booked a 10 tour of Peru, including internal flights. Nice trip. 
Today they were notified it was canceled for lack of enough participants. 
It’s Trafalgar, which they used in the Balkans. 
She asked if I know any tour company she can try. 
I said Globus  and Collette, which I haven’t used. 
I did Kenya with Abercrombie and Kent and thought they were great. 
Any other recommendations?

 

AAA does escorted land tours. I haven't been on one but a co-worker went on a wine tour. She said it was fabulous.

We looked into a 12-day escorted Cuba tour before all Cuba was canceled. They do go through another company..Alexander and ... something.

 

Found it...Alexander and Roberts

Edited May 6, 2022 by Bailey & Sophie
Adding info

[lenquixote66]

18 minutes ago, Jimbo said:

Guess you remember Green Stamps then? Think they ended in early 80's

 

 

Yes,I do

[jagsfan]

4 hours ago, George C said:

My jury duty in New York City was very interesting, one guy was selling another guy a pound of grass. They meet each other at a drug rehab 😁. When the buyer asked to weigh the drugs the seller pulled out a gun, they wrestled for the gun and the seller was shot several times , luckily for him nothing hit any vital organs. This transaction was in the sellers car who also had a German shepherd in the back seat. This took place in a KFC parking lot. We voted not guilty, another interesting thing was the pound of grass was never found. Trail lasted almost two weeks.

Was the defendant the buyer? Because he shot the seller?

Or was the seller the defendant because he threatened the buyer with the gun?

[lenquixote66]

19 minutes ago, Luckynana said:

 

Stay safe, Jim!

What ship will you be on for the Canal cruise?

I have my 4 HS autographed yearbooks...I was in a small girls HS, and we all bought the yearbooks each year.  

We didn't know better then;  that's what was on, so that's what we watched!  LOL!

There was not much of a choice.It was watch TV or listen to the radio.

[Keksie]

21 minutes ago, Jimbo said:

Guess you remember Green Stamps then? Think they ended in early 80's

 

 

I still have the cooler I got with Green Stamps.  We do have a Yeti but this one is bigger.

[Sunshine3601]

23 minutes ago, Jimbo said:

Guess you remember Green Stamps then? Think they ended in early 80's

 

 

I remember them as a kid but don't remember how you earned a green stamp.     

[Keksie]

2 minutes ago, Sunshine3601 said:

I remember them as a kid but don't remember how you earned a green stamp.     

The grocery store gave them out with purchases.  

[lenquixote66]

27 minutes ago, DaniDanielle said:

I have a book of my mother-in-laws up in my room.  I should cash them in🤪

I remember people using them but I never did .

[jagsfan]

1 hour ago, John&LaLa said:

 

I have a really detailed encyclopedia in my hand right now. Crazy

I call it my Swiss Army Phone. 
It’s a pocket miracle. 

[Lionesss]

Hearing the talk  about hoarders I can truly relate. We inherited the MIL. And Uncle

4,000 foot ranch duplex with full basement. 
The 4 empty bedrooms from people had clutter to the ceiling . You could not open the doors. Their individual bedrooms were bad but you could open door. 
 

The full basement had complete clutter with mini pathways. 
 

The attic stored tons of suitcases Christmas decorations. 

This would be a great drinking story so I’ll save it for later. 
 

But what I wanted to share is something I saved that a recent thread poster made me chuckle. 
 

So if anyone has any S & H green stamp books I’ll add them to the 39 I found.  Besides. I also found more stamps to go in books. 
 

Wonder if there worth anything. 
 

See below. 

 

 

[Luckynana]

1 hour ago, HBE4 said:

Just to tack on to what I wrote about old TV shows, don't get me wrong, there are some really good old TV shows. The Honeymooners and I Love Lucy are classics that I never tire of watching. The Carol Burnett show is timeless. 

The Honeymooners is my most favorite of all of the old classic shows.  I Love Lucy comes in second!

1 hour ago, DaniDanielle said:

I have encyclopedias up the attic.  Too much work getting all the stuff I saved out of the attic.  We have regular stairs but still such a bother.  I told Charlie we need to rent a dumpster than we can toss things out the attic window!

We lived in our last home for 42 years.  It was a beautiful, huge home that was over a hundred years old, with a full, walk-around attic.  We all know what you do with an attic!  Baby carriage, dolls, toys, all seem to gather up there...books, too!  We also had a basement.  (Jim misses having a basement)  Anyhow, when we moved 5 years ago, the purging had to be done, and we did rent a dumpster.  

[jagsfan]

24 minutes ago, Bailey & Sophie said:

 

AAA does escorted land tours. I haven't been on one but a co-worker went on a wine tour. She said it was fabulous.

We looked into a 12-day escorted Cuba tour before all Cuba was canceled. They do go through another company..Alexander and ... something.

 

Found it...Alexander and Roberts

Thanks. I’ll pass both names on. 

[jagsfan]

32 minutes ago, Jimbo said:

Does  Tauck Tours do anything there?

Why didn’t I think of Tauck? They’re excellent. Thanks 

[John&LaLa]

7 hours ago, bobmacliberty said:

For those truly interested in cutting the cord with your cable company and NOT replacing it with monthly fees from a bunch of online services, ABC/CBS/NBC/PBS/FOX/CW/etc. are still broadcast over the air (OTA) for free.  You can install an HDTV antenna that plugs into the back of your TV and pick up these signals, depending on how far away the signal is being broadcast and how well your antenna can see the signal.  There's a good website called Antenna Web that lets you enter your location, and it will show you the broadcasting stations near you, and the type of antenna needed to receive their signal: 

Antenna Web: AntennaWeb - Antenna Signal Prediction

 

If you live close to where the signal is being broadcast, you can probably get away with a relatively small indoor antenna.  If you live further away, you may need an outdoor antenna.  In the early days of HDTV, I mounted one of those clothes drying rack looking antennas in my attic in Cincinnati (Time Warner Cable was not offering HDTV to my house at the time).  It was a highly directional antenna, meaning that it could pick up signals from far away, but couldn't find signals too well left or right of where the antenna was pointed.  The other option is an omnidirectional antenna that can find signals in any direction, but can't find them as far away.  All of the Cincinnati broadcasters at the time were in the same general area so I could point my antenna in one place and receive all of them.

 

After the initial cost of buying and installing antenna(s) and running cables to your TVs, this is truly free.  @Sea Dog may know better, but I believe that these TV stations are required by the FCC to continue to broadcast their signal for free for some period of time.   One of the disadvantages of this approach though is no DVR.  There are 3rd party boxes that you can buy from companies like Tivo (remember them?) and Channel Master that you plug an antenna into and will give you DVR functionality.  Some have only a one time purchase price, and some also have an annual fee.  If you can survive with just the TV stations that broadcast an OTA signal, this is a very workable solution.  We can't survive that way though. 

 

Pretty much all we get is Fox to the east

 

This just confirms it

[lenquixote66]

32 minutes ago, DaniDanielle said:

I have a book of my mother-in-laws up in my room.  I should cash them in🤪

I 

 

2 minutes ago, Lionesss said:

Hearing the talk  about hoarders I can truly relate. We inherited the MIL. And Uncle

4,000 foot ranch duplex with full basement. 
The 4 empty bedrooms from people had clutter to the ceiling . You could not open the doors. Their individual bedrooms were bad but you could open door. 
 

The full basement had complete clutter with mini pathways. 
 

The attic stored tons of suitcases Christmas decorations. 

This would be a great drinking story so I’ll save it for later. 
 

But what I wanted to share is something I saved that a recent thread poster made me chuckle. 
 

So if anyone has any S & H green stamp books I’ll add them to the 39 I found.  Besides. I also found more stamps to go in books. 
 

Wonder if there worth anything. 
 

See below. 

 

 

 

34 minutes ago, DaniDanielle said:

We just talked to friends of ours who just came back from a Mississippi River cruise.  Both have covid!  

Sorry to hear that.I am hearing about a lot lately.The nephew of one of my son in laws is an MD and he has Covid now for the fourth time.He is a Pediatrician and is likely exposed to many who have it.

[John&LaLa]

48 minutes ago, Jimbo said:

Guess you remember Green Stamps then? Think they ended in early 80's

 

 

 

You can still redeem them😉

 

Learned that on my handheld Encyclopedia

[Luckynana]

9 minutes ago, Lionesss said:

Hearing the talk  about hoarders I can truly relate. We inherited the MIL. And Uncle

4,000 foot ranch duplex with full basement. 
The 4 empty bedrooms from people had clutter to the ceiling . You could not open the doors. Their individual bedrooms were bad but you could open door. 

The full basement had complete clutter with mini pathways. 

OMG!!!!  How horrible!!  We had a neighbor who was a Hoarder.  We had no idea, until Jim and another neighbor was asked to check out a leak at our elderly neighbors home.  Jim said you could barely walk through the pathways of clutter.  Sad.

[lenquixote66]

11 minutes ago, Luckynana said:

The Honeymooners is my most favorite of all of the old classic shows.  I Love Lucy comes in second!

We lived in our last home for 42 years.  It was a beautiful, huge home that was over a hundred years old, with a full, walk-around attic.  We all know what you do with an attic!  Baby carriage, dolls, toys, all seem to gather up there...books, too!  We also had a basement.  (Jim misses having a basement)  Anyhow, when we moved 5 years ago, the purging had to be done, and we did rent a dumpster.  

Our home in Brooklyn that we lived in 20 years had a full attic that people on the block used theirs as bedrooms and a basement with a full bathroom,a bar and a huge entertainment area,I miss that .We have the largest house in our Condo complex but no basement and an attic only for storage that we do not use .We got rid of a lot of stuff when we moved.

[John&LaLa]

50 minutes ago, DaniDanielle said:

I have a book of my mother-in-laws up in my room.  I should cash them in🤪

 

https://www.wikihow.com/Redeem-S%26H-Green-Stamps