Marie Coyle

@MarieCoyle (47805)

Joined myLot 5 years ago

Quirky. Love my family and friends. Book lover and coffee drinker, history buff, I enjoy nature, gardening, animals, and I love to cook.

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Bookish Bookworm: Me?!?

Shavkat @Shavkat (140877) • Philippines 18h

I can be both in terms of gaining knowledge and tend to read more than I used to in my younger years. Despite being as busy as a bee, I still try to read novels and collect them. In my family, I am the only one who collects them....

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Marie Coyle I dearly live to read, and I have a long time collection of books I cherish. Reading is my favorite hobby!!

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It would have been fifty!

Amber @AmbiePam (102145) • United States 29 Aug

Today would have been my mom and dad’s 50th wedding anniversary (they married very young). She died a few months before their 40th anniversary. Thirty-one of those years were good, with nine a total nightmare due to her dementia....

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Marie Coyle I am glad they did have the 31 good years together. It was tragic how it all ended, but you have good memories of her and of them being happy, which means so much.

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The shelves here are self-destructing

NJ Chicaa @NJChicaa (124451) • United States 29 Aug

A couple of years ago the shelf in the lower cabinet where I keep my cookware, colanders, etc. "fell". Whatever was holding it up somehow failed and the shelf wound up literally just resting on top of whatever bowls, pots, etc. I...

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Marie Coyle I moved here 12 years ago, the place was brand new. I didn't overload my shelves. But I can tell you that they now make cabinets and shelves with these stupid little plastic pin things to hold the shelve up. They break very easily, and whoever came up with...

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I am really grateful to be included on friend's Costco membership I will have to tell him

snowy @snowy22315 (195182) • United States 21h

I am also glad that the guy I bought my tires from apparently is a member too, and got the tires there. I was able to get my tires inflated, rotated and balanced all for free today. If you took it to a shop at least in this area,...

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Marie Coyle I love Costco. I think it's better than Sam's. I used to belong to Sam's as there was no Costco--when all the kids were home, it was more for neccessity than anything, we really plowed through the groceries with a houseful of teenagers!! A few years ago, when...

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Auction Morning

Eva James @wolfgirl569 (121554) • Marion, Ohio 29 Aug

I will be putting the dogs out soon and then getting dressed. It's going to be a comfortable day here. We have pretty sunshine this morning. Hoping for some fun stuff at the auction today. The snack guy was there Tuesday but...

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Marie Coyle I hope you find lots of bargains and have a nice time. If I am not home when you deliver my watermelon, just please leave it on the porch!!

29 Aug

Shoot me if I buy one more plastic container

NJ Chicaa @NJChicaa (124451) • United States 29 Aug

The head of maintenance showed up here about an hour ago to check out the shelf situation. He thinks it is just a matter of putting new clips in whatever that means. He told me I had to empty the cabinet. Fine. OMFG I found so...

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Marie Coyle If you have any mom-friends that work and/or take food to work, or whatever, share with them. When I used to pack a lunch I used them daily, and my kids often used them. Keep what you need and share the rest!

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Should I be worried?

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (50314) • St. Catharines, Ontario 29 Aug

I used to get all sorts of spam email showing up in my 'regular' email. I'd always mark it as spam, then delete it. Sometimes there'd be a dozen or more of them. But for the last week or two, I haven't received any, and I'm...

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Marie Coyle One thing I don't think I would ever miss is spam email! But I do know what you mean. Check your junk mail, to be sure nothing you want to see is in there. Sometimes, that's where it goes.

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Good morning myLot

NJ Chicaa @NJChicaa (124451) • United States 29 Aug

Hello everyone. I hope your day is off to a good start. It is 61 degrees F and sunny here at the Jersey Shore. The high for today is 80. This is so not August weather. It is crazy. I woke up around 6am which is nuts because I was...

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Marie Coyle Doctor appointment for son later, and his infusion, etc. That will put us in the city area of the huge U of I first home football game, with thousands of extra people everywhere not having a clue where they are driving..normally, traffic doesn't bother me that...

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Sending mylotters a smile

rebelann1949 @rebelann (114514) • El Paso, Texas 29 Aug

I just had to share Roscoe's happy face. I get to see this everyday and often he simply does the same to Tuffy, his kitty. I was wondering, are any of you old enough to remember this tune? I love it, it's really beautiful yet I...

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Marie Coyle Roscoe is absolutely adorable. The tune to the song is familiar, but it's in another language so I can't understand the words. I don't know why it is--I just listened to several songs and they were in English...but I think it's a happy tune.

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Wooooo small class sizes!

NJ Chicaa @NJChicaa (124451) • United States 28 Aug

We finally are able to get into our class rosters and the grading program today. I was floored to see that 3 of my CP classes have fewer than 15 students. One of them has 22. The Honors section has 28. I've never seen such small...

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Marie Coyle I am glad to hear this. So many classes here, especially high school, are so very large. Never enough teachers, so they pack the kids in there. Sad.

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Everything Picked

Eva James @wolfgirl569 (121554) • Marion, Ohio 28 Aug

And most of the plants have been pulled. I still have my sweet pepper plants to pull. Then I will just flowers. It's kind of nice to be done with those. But that means the summer is going to be ending . It drizzled...

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Marie Coyle I generally don't pull my tomatoes until the first frost, they are still producing, and we dearly love tomatoes. The carrots are there until frost as well. But I bet you are tired of them, for sure.

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Technology IS Great When It's Working

MARILYN @Marilynda1225 (86018) • United States 28 Aug

Happy Thursday Everyone! another beautiful day and it looks like it's going to be nice right through the weekend. Yay! Last evening we put in a grocery order with Walmart for a delivery this afternoon. I realized this morning...

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Marie Coyle I haven't had a landline phone in years and years, and I honestly don't miss having one at all. Like you said, all I really got on there was spam calls the last year. The only reason I kept it then was that I lived out in the country and at that time, there...

28 Aug

Where Was FourWallsdo?: Illinois

Four Walls @FourWalls (78241) • United States 28 Aug

Yes, I’m late. Two hours at the VA will do that to you. Nothing serious, scheduled podiatry and physical therapy. You shouldn’t have to wait for today’s song on the list of places I went on my recent trip. One of my favorite...

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Marie Coyle My family has always loved Dan's music. My son here with me says ''we grew up listening to him'' and he is right, along with many others we enjoyed. I thought it was special that ''Leader Of The Band'' was written about his father.

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This salad is overloaded with carrots

snowy @snowy22315 (195182) • United States 28 Aug

I am eating a packaged Asian salad. This is my second time eating it. I don't recall there being a lot of carrots in the first go round, but this portion is literally loaded with carrots. They must have all sunk to the bottom. I...

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Marie Coyle I have had a few of those packaged salads, but they are often way more pricey than I want to pay. My favorite salad is built on a base of fresh chopped Romaine lettuce--I just buy the heads of lettuce in the package or loose if they are available. Tomatoes are...

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Semi Busy Today

Eva James @wolfgirl569 (121554) • Marion, Ohio 27 Aug

I got a few things finished. And will finish a few more tomorrow. For today we got 2 more quarts of tomato juice. That was the last of the ripe tomatoes. I also processed 3 more pints of sauerkraut. The last of the wood is moved...

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Marie Coyle Sounds like a lot of things to keep you busy. It's always amazing to me how much sugar a person can go through baking and making jellies, etc. It goes fast.

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Potato Storing

celticeagle @celticeagle (179066) • Boise, Idaho 27 Aug

My eye always goes to articles about potatoes. I love them so. But this one I thought was rather interesting. It says that storing potatoes in a plastic bag is a no-no. It causes them to root and mold sooner. Keeping them in a...

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Marie Coyle I never, ever store potatoes in a plastic bag. They will not last very long in the bag. When I buy them, I take them out of the bag and look at each potato while I am setting it out on a towel. They sit on the towel for several hours and then I look at each...

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Off To School They Go!!

Baconstripsxxx @BACONSTRIPSXXX (15760) • Torrington, Connecticut 27 Aug

Today is my twins First day of HighSchool and my son starts 7th grade. It was a bit stressful doing school supplies shopping and clothes shopping but we got it done. My twin daughters were excited and decided to twin it on their...

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Marie Coyle Your children are beautiful. I hope they have a good year of school. I agree where does the time go.,, It's like time has wings and it really does just fly!

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Hubbies Present

Eva James @wolfgirl569 (121554) • Marion, Ohio 27 Aug

He finally has it set up. Except for the rain gauge. The outside sensor says it should not get wet. Seriously!!! It's supposed to be outside. I put it in a ziplock baggie and hooked that to the window. I will try to find...

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Marie Coyle A friend of mine has one of those, he keeps it inside? Maybe there are different kinds. Not to get it wet if it is supposed to be outside makes no sense at all. I dearly love fried green tomatoes. I usually make them once at the end of summer.

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Where Was FourWallsdo?: East St. Louis Toodle-Oo

Four Walls @FourWalls (78241) • United States 27 Aug

How about that, in one day we’ve made it across the state of Missouri! That’s easy when you’re doing a music list…not so easy when you’re driving it. To be fair, it’s only about 250 miles, so it’s not that bad. Not a...

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Marie Coyle Of all of the cities and towns I can think of anywhere in the Midwest, East St. Louis is, to me, the worst of the worst. It is so very sad. No one would go there now to hear anyone sing or perform, I don't think--not without armed guards, seriously. It's scary...

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