Marie Coyle

@MarieCoyle (37102)

Joined myLot 4 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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Expensive food does not necessarily mean good food.

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (37102) 10 Nov

A neighbor close by decided she would get big time into a strict Keto diet. She asked me about it, but I told her it didn't interest me as it was just too much meat, etc. She jumped in, went out and bought a ton of stuff, and...

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I didn't start the day out on a good note.

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (37102) 7 Nov

Yesterday was hectic here. I wasn't feeling my best, and neither was my son. The phone rang constantly and the weather was dreary. A good friend lost her brother. Oh, there were other things, like a migraine that kept rearing...

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My Sunday was a good day.

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (37102) 4 Nov

The day started with me feeling exhausted. It was a long, long week. We had a bit of rain and some winds, but nothing like Amber had to go through with the tornado outbreak, for that, I was thankful. My daughter called and said...

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My neighbor really needs help so badly, what to do?

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (37102) 2 Nov

I am sure some of you may remember I have a 90-year-old neighbor, Dale. His wife died of esophageal cancer 2 years ago. He has one daughter, an instructor at our university, who says he killed her mother. This is ridiculous,...

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The last of the garden flowers for this year.

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (37102) 31 Oct

It usually happens that the zinnias are the very last flowers to give up the ghost, and they are definitely giving it up today. These are the very last--for some reason the pink ones are the only ones who survived past the freeze...

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US voters, are you voting early?

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (37102) 29 Oct

Please note--I am not asking who you are voting for! I was curious as to how many people have voted early, or plan to, this week. I did vote early. My reasoning in it was a bit strange but...it was better than not voting at all....

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Would you go to a party for free pizza to pre-plan your funeral?

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (37102) 28 Oct

Evidently, this is a ''thing'' now. I got this card in the mail. It's not the first one I've received, but it's the latest one. I stopped and thought it over. And thought some more, so I did a google search on it. Evidently it...

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I am so tired of senseless violence.

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (37102) 27 Oct

I know, I know...it happens. It's happened for years, but not to the extent we are currently experiencing. Right before dark, there was a shooting not far from where I live, about 3 blocks, actually. I heard the shots, I was...

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Why is it that so many men just cannot do this one simple task?

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (37102) 26 Oct

What is it, you say... Well, it's a hard one, for sure. If you really work at training the guy, you MIGHT occasionally have some success. However, I have come to the conclusion that most men are simply clueless--they have NO idea...

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Some days, it's just hard to shake off the bad stuff, isn't it?

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (37102) 24 Oct

Did you ever wake up to a really terrible day? I didn't sleep very much. My son hasn't been well at all, and I feel like we are living life on the edge, at least this week. No, he isn't dying (well, in a way, we all die a little...

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Walmart worker found in walk-in oven.

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (37102) 23 Oct

This is just an unbelievable story. A 19 year old woman was found dead in Walmart's walk in oven, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She worked there, they do not know yet if she was somehow trapped, if it were intentional or not, or if...

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Were you named after somone? Are you a namesake?

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (37102) 22 Oct

When a baby is named after someone, it's called a namesake, at least it is here in the US. Wikipedia has this to say to define it~~ ''When namesake refers to something or someone who is named after something or someone else, the...

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Do you sort your loads of laundry?

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (37102) 18 Oct

I was taught to sort the laundry when I was a little girl. We never washed lights and darks together, and reds were so wicked--usually they got washed by themselves. We read how to care for certain clothing by reading the tag. To...

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Down the rabbit hole...oh, the things we can find there.

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (37102) 17 Oct

Not sure how that works, but it does happen to me. If it's something I have misplaced at home (usually my glasses) I can always find them. If it's information from the internet, it can be a deep and dark rabbit hole, leading me...

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I broke down and just did it.

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (37102) 16 Oct

I couldn't stand it anymore. It just got cold in here...too cold. I am wearing warm sweats and a shirt and a hoodie, and I am still cold. I turned the furnace on, at least for a little while. It seems so stupid to do it, because...

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I have been asked to bake a memory.

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (37102) 11 Oct

By my oldest daughter. When I was small, my Dad's mother lived with us. She was a great cook and a baker, she cooked a lot differently than my other grandmother did, but both of them produced delicious food, I have no...

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My daughter and her family evacuated.

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (37102) 8 Oct

I talked of this yesterday. They only evacuated one other time, about 6 years ago, when there was a big surge predicted. They lived in a different house then, and were in a zone that always flooded. They bought a different home...

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It's been one of those days...

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (37102) 7 Oct

Of worry, of course. The son isn't doing very well today. He has an appointment tomorrow with his PCP, I wanted to take him to the ER this morning but he won't go. Long story, but he just isn't well today. Then there's the...

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Gifts people have that they can share, and often don't.

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (37102) 6 Oct

Hear me out, please. I will try to make my point quickly. No, I don't mean that your average person is standing there with a gift wrapped package to hand to the nearest person. (Darn! I wish!) I mean a gift...something that...

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Not a good start to the day, can I get a do-over?

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (37102) 2 Oct

One of my very good friends called, they took her husband to the hospital as his son found him very ill on the floor when he stopped to visit. She was with her daughter, who was having a baby, in Arkansas (we are in Illinois). She...

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