Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (166734)

United States • Age 72

Joined myLot 19 years ago

I work with special children in a school setting. Hubby is retired, I am not. I spend a lot of time online and I love myLot.

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Heather Echola's Activity

Wythenshawe Christmas.

Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14098) • Ireland 13 Dec

We took our granddaughter to Wythenshawe Hall today for a Victorian Christmassy thing - I hated it but everyone else enjoyed it so I just shut up and smiled. I just want to strangle people who dress up as elves and assume everyone...

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Heather Echola I do not mind real people dressed up as much as I mind animatronic devices that move, play carols and other wise frolic. I would have found the radiator as well.

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Good morning.

Kayla Tsukino @kaylachan (81249) • Daytona Beach, Florida 13 Dec

It looks like we're off to Walmart, again. George wants a cd player he can keep in the grage and plug in. Which is fine by me. He needs some more of his yogurt, and he's also asked me for and is drinking some of his shake. So he's...

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Heather Echola I need to get out my Christmas CD's. I have either one or two players plugged in. It is good he is taking in some nutrition. What are you doing for you? Take care of yourself.

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That was and this is

Lenore Plassman @sallypup (67107) • Centralia, Washington 13 Dec

Morning snnshine is pouring in through the front window. My computer is trying to tell me what to write. It's just another Saturday. Usual do it list: laundry and dishes and tidy this, that and the other thing. I am grateful...

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Heather Echola I would take a share of the sunshine. Yes, it sounds like a weekend of blessings. You are both blessings to one another.

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Grrrrr

Eva James @wolfgirl569 (126393) • Marion, Ohio 13 Dec

I am using my phone right now because my tablet keeps restarting on me. I hate typing on this smaller screen. But it stays on at least. I will charge my my old fire tablet soon. Nothing much planned for the day. Just my games...

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Heather Echola It is annoying when things we rely on do not work. I hope you get it figured out.

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Good Morning - 13 December

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (319534) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 13 Dec

It's a very cold morning. Right now it's -4F and feels like -22F. I have two heavy shirts on and two pairs of socks. When I put Missy out just now, I added a hoody and a ear warmer. It's not going to get any warmer before Sunday...

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Heather Echola We went to do laundry and get a few groceries. Then went out to a nice lunch.

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Wow! That Was Quick!

DE @DaddyEvil (163550) • United States 13 Dec

This morning the forecast for my area said we'd have thick fog and 32F/0C slowly warming up to 40F/4C this afternoon. Now the forecast is saying cloudy and rainy today. *sigh* Pretty and I were talking about going shopping this...

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Heather Echola Yes, it is the season for gloomy, damp, colder weather. I still need to take out trash.

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New caves discovered on Kangaroo Island

Judy Evans @JudyEv (367189) • Rockingham, Australia 13 Dec

Back in 2019, Kangaroo Island off South Australia’s coast was devastated by bushfire. The thick vegetation became a raging inferno after a lightning strike. It burnt through almost half the island, ravaging 200,000 hectares and...

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Heather Echola So some good even came out of the tragic fire. The Phoenix sounds beautiful and awe inspiring.

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Expensive Day

Eva James @wolfgirl569 (126393) • Marion, Ohio 12 Dec

But I got lots of goodies. A huge box of Oreo cookie snack packs, 8 dozen eggs, 20 of my dinosaur eggs, 5 boxes of balls with gummies and a toy in them. 3 boxes of cereal, 5 bags of marshmallows, a box of slim jims, and a pair of...

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Heather Echola She is not pretending, she knows she is the best. It sounds like you had a good day.

13 Dec

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We were going to Wichita, to eat at Cracker Barrel, but

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (166734) • United States 13 Dec

So we went to Newton for groceries and laundry. We had agreed we would go to Wichita to eat at Cracker Barrel for lunch. We like going there at least once in the Christmas season. However, Bob got a bit turned around. We both...

december 2025

the barn

lunch

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Week of soup

Lena Kovadlo @lovebuglena (48404) • Staten Island, New York 11 Dec

Monday evening I made cabbage soup with cremini mushrooms for dinner. I had a huge bowl of it. It was pretty good. It was even better Tuesday and Wednesday. I’m gonna have it today again and probably on Friday as well. This is...

cabbage soup

dinner

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Heather Echola @lovebuglena I put my extra in containers in the freezer so we can have it several times.

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Week of soup

Lena Kovadlo @lovebuglena (48404) • Staten Island, New York 11 Dec

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Heather Echola Soup is an economical way to stretch your food budget, and it sounds like yours was very good.

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Well this is a first at work

NJ Chicaa @NJChicaa (125578) • United States 11 Dec

. . . at least that I have experienced. I was on bathroom duty this afternoon as usual. A paraprofessional brought a student with Down syndrome and explained to him that he had to show me his ID to scan and then leave it on the...

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Heather Echola I think you took all the right steps to follow up. See why I prefer not to work high school?

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Remember Mistletoe?

celticeagle @celticeagle (183099) • Boise, Idaho 10 Dec

When I was younger we could buy bouquets of these in stores. I wonder if a person can even find plastic ones nowadays. I am reading that some can be found at florists, farmers markets, or specialty online shops. There are growing...

mistletoe

kiss

parasite

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Heather Echola When I was in college, 45 years ago, my dad shot some down out of a tree and sent it to me to share with friends on campus.

11 Dec

Which sounds better?

Amber @AmbiePam (108018) • United States 11 Dec

So, one of these is going to my 87 year old aunt who looks and acts around 65. She still has her own garden, still does the Tulsa Run every year, and lives by herself (her husband died 10 years ago). Since I still can’t quite find...

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Heather Echola Both of the collections have at least one hot feature. I was leaning towards the pizza one.

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What’s on your plate for lunch?

Amber @AmbiePam (108018) • United States 11 Dec

Well, I don’t eat a ton of frozen food, how could I turn down 18g of pot roast protein? Also, I love Dolly Parton. I’ve never seen someone keep their popularity fresh throughout their life. I mean, a year ago, she performed during...

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Heather Echola I see that you think it is pretty good. I will have to try it sometime. For lunch I had a mandarin orange, a Nature Valley wafer bar, a small serving of the last of my chicken and stuffing casserole. I do not really like to take the time at work to fix a full...

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Soup is simmering

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (166734) • United States 11 Dec

When we visited my brother at Thanksgiving the night before we had soup for supper. It was potatoes, onions, cabbage and smoked sausage. I have been meaning to make some ever since. I even bought some cabbage. Bob shredded the...

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cabbage soup

supper

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Desk time

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (166734) • United States 9 Dec

I need to write out some bills and also some Christmas cards. Not much time to do myLot today. Even though Pedro got me up a half hour early. I also need to put on shoes and pack my lunch for work. Good morning to all in myLot...

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paperwork

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I ate a persimmon yesterday

snowy @snowy22315 (199995) • United States 8 Dec

I don't think I have ever eaten a persimmon in my life. I was curious to see what it tasted like, and it was very good. It seemed to me to taste like a cross between a pear and an apple. I really liked it. I know sometimes they...

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Heather Echola Holiday time we used to forage for them in the woods at my grandparents. They were nothing like the ones in the grocery store, though. They were very puckery until they got mushy.

9 Dec

Bug reported, I called the exterminator

Go Ask Alice / Admin @GoAskAlice (5857) 8 Dec

That pesky photo bug - there must be a nest/colony of them somewhere in the code.

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Heather Echola Santa should put coal in his (the bug,s) stocking. You, however,deserve milk and cookies.

9 Dec

Wheee! A Christmas Gig! What songs would you most like to hear?

The Horse @TheHorse (232980) • Walnut Creek, California 8 Dec

My surviving bros and I will be rehearsing Christmas songs today for a gig we have at the Quilters Guild. We will do some "sing-along" songs, like "Rudolph," but we will also do some more "serious" songs like "O Holy Night."...

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Heather Echola I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day--written by Longfellow in the wake of some personal tragedies. Again, this is one of your serious ones, very traditional as well.

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