I will take the rain any time heaving the choice over drought,at least the grass growers . Nancy is going to grand daughters Granulation from collage today.too far away too much ridding so I am not going. they are having a Dinner tomorrow and she said that will be good enough.

Lloyd

Hi Joan
Not bright here and the rain is raining 

Kelly

Good morning Amy

Hope you have better weather today than the Isle Of Man

Kelly

Good Morning Lloyd

I hope you have been able to seat since you returned home.

Kelly

Jane, have faith....the sun is finally shining brightly here this morning and it should work its way on up to you soon.

Kelly
I am getting around , not speeding but around , i get down and up slowly so don't get too light headed.

Lloyd

Hallelujah!  The doggies are clean!  I decided to do them right before I took my shower this morning.  So, not only are THEY clean, so am I and so is the bathtub!  I did it all in one fell swoop!  WHEW!  Now I can relax and enjoy lunch with my sister and her family!

Still raining, Phyll!  Not a sign of the sun.  That Sunshine Pump is really kaput!  They need to get my dad on it.  Bet he could fix it.  If he can't they need the Master Planner!

Lloyd--Congratulations to your granddaughter.

Kelly--Local forecasters here say no more rain for at least a week.

Good morning, Phyllis.

Janie--Everybody in your house is now squeaky clean.  Sure wish that sunshine pump up there would get fixed.

Jane S, well-done on you in getting your fur friends spruced up and clean...long gone are the days I can bath my dogs, I couldn't do it if I tried.....Our Toby is booked for the 16th, he is way overdue his pet grooming session but I booked an app with a local groomer who R had met one of her clients when out and about our parkhomes site, said how groomed his dog looked, and where did you take it.....Poor Toby will have gone 11-12 weeks, 3 weeks longer than usual, he is now looking on the scruffy side, cant wait to get him done, then same morning we have to take our Benji to the vets for another top-up booster, just hope we have time before collecting our Toby, as of yet we have no clue as to how long new groomer will take....Oh and new groomer although we havent met her, we were told she has Cocker Spaniels of her own...

Good Morning everyone! Another one of those partly sunny or partly cloudy days, depending on your outlook!

Happy Birthday Joy, enjoy!

Hi everyone.  It is another beautiful day and it is headed to a sunny 83 degrees.  I have been out already this morning as went down to the cafe where I have coffee and got a Western omelet for breakfast for us.  Pat really likes the butter biscuits that are included and it also comes with grits.  We split the omelet and I got the bowl of grits and she had the biscuit.  I plan on trying to get to COSTCO later this morning for a couple of things and to get the car filled with gas.  Nothing else on the schedule for today.

Kelly, thanks for your greeting.  Hope you had a good day yesterday and am having a good day today. 

Gloria, when I set up my office in this new house I fixed my computer desk so there is plenty of space behind it to reach the back of the computers and printers.  I no longer need get down on the floor to work with the wires. 

Happy Birthday Joy.  I agree with your comment that birthdays are very special.

Well need to get out and water my flowers and other plantings for the day.  Hope all have a good day.

A good Saturday morning to  EVERYFRIEND.  It is a very dreary looking day. 

Special HAPPY BIRTHDAY wishes to you, JOY.  I hope you enjoy a nice day and best of health this coming year. 

The workmen arrived at 7AM, so with any luck all that pounding they are doing out there will have Us sealed up before the rains begin. 

Enjoy the time with your family today, JANE.  YIPPEE, you got the doggies all spiffed up this morning.

JACKIE, I hope the new groomer will be nice and do a good job with your Toby Dog.  It is good that you found someone that also has a Cocker. 

Thank you for our goodies today, JOAN. 

Have a fun day fabric shopping with your DILove, AMY.

Congrats to your college graduate, LLOYD.


I wish you all a good day.

Jenny

Jenny, hope your workers didn't start pounding at 7am....

Yes it was pure luck we met someone who told us his groomer has Cocker's of her own, so she should have Toby looking the way a proper Cocker should look...I shall be putting my trust in her....

Vanilla-Jackie--That was good that "R" met up with somebody who knew a good dog groomer.

angelface--Good morning.  No doubt about it here--the sun is brightly shining.

Good morning, Larry.  That breakfast you went to get for you and Pat sounds good. 

Jenny--Good morning.  Sure hope those workmen finish before it rains.  I think after the inferior work they did the first time, I'd be out there watching their every move.

Today May 7 is my oldest sons birthday...I practiced my texting to him by wishing my first born a Happy Birthday when I received his reply"  Thankyou Divine Receptacle"..Needless to say I got a big kick from his answer....

First things first.  Happy Birthday Joy.  May it truly be a special day for you.

Good Morning Everyone!

Boy, talk about being busy, sounds like all of you have been busy. 
Janie, good girl, finally got those dogs taken care of.    Doesn't it feel good to have a job done that you have dreaded?  Bathing isn't so bad, it is the cleaning up afterwards that always got me.  I no longer do it, groomers get the job.

Amy, leave the checkbook at home.  You know how you are when you go into a fabric shop. 

Amy and Don, boy that is some fire you have going in Canada.  Poor people losing their homes and I saw in paper this morning that they expect the fire to double in size today and said that without rain they will never get it contained.
Wonder how it started.

Joanie, I already had a couple of waffles this morning (frozen) so I think I will pass on the DD.  But thank you anyhow.

Larry, this old computer desk I have is heavy, heavy and I have it piled so high with a TV, my gateway for UVerse other "stuff" that I have just given up on every having my cables anywhere except behind it and on the floor.  Plug and play was great (is great) if you are young and agile (under 75) but age certainly ruins the theory.....

Everyone have a great day.  Kevin, stay dry.

Hi Hal
Just been for a walk, showery weather though!

Kelly

JOY  Happy Birthday, hope I is a special day for you to enjoy.

Good morning everyone, I know I missed being here last night but got through half my email. Deleted a lot without reading them. Felt like I had been away for months instead of weeks. Felt like I had been away for years though. I really missed the SS most though.

KELLY  Moghrey Mie. Hope you are having a sunny day. Still gloomy here.

PHYLLIS  I don't remember ever seeing hail like that here, brief times with pea size hail but not often. We do get sleet in the winter but that is small but can make everything icy. Glad you got your hunting and gathering finished for another week. I think I would get by for almost a month with my full freezer and the other foods I have. If I had an appetite it wouldn't last that long.

JOAN  I still have the heat on here. That dampness must have penetrated the walls and settled in my bones.

JACKIE  I learned that zig zag from my SIL on a trip to the San Diego Wild Animal Park. It is in the mountains and lot of hills to go up and down. We got to one and I sat on a bench at the bottom of it. We had already walked what seemed like miles already. He is not a fast walker and he kept saying it would be easy to go up, “just follow me” so I did. Went up that hill easy by going from one side of the wide path to the other slowly going up. I would have gone straight up and that would have been hard.

JUNE  there is one lady here who falls out of bed every night. Her children bought the rails for both sides of a double bed and she would still somehow fall out. Some wondered if she got out in her sleep by climbing over the rails. Never hurt herself.

JANE  like you I am so tired of the leaky sky. We did have a tiny patch of blue show up yesterday but the clouds hid it fast and started leaking again. Today makes 7 days of it.

ANGELFACE  I will be waiting for an email from you.  I know what I have to do for my printer to work, just get the disk out to reinstall it. The external is another thing. What comes up on the screen is I need a new driver. With all the other things I have had to do I have not looked into that yet.

JUNE  glad you enjoyed Gary and Dori's visit.

AMY  about time you took the time out for you to rest. I really get tired just reading about all you do. You are like the pioneer women of years ago, always working hard.

JENNY sad that companies/workers no longer stay on the job and do things right the first time.

HAL  oh wow you do need those computer glasses. I have a pair of those too and would be lost without them. I sure am happy to get together with my daughter every day again. First day we were on Skype over 2 hours. We always find so many things to talk about.
JOAN  oh a lemon DD will be so good this morning. That is comfort food for me and with this weather comfort food is what is needed. LOL with chuckles. So true. Cannot get out of the parking lot fast enough. I do remember those days. Food for Thought is to true for many people. I think everyone remembers  in our working years how much we looked forward to Saturdays. Thank you for all today's goodies.

AMY  hope you find that just perfect material for a new quilt you have in mind.

JANE  hope you get to wash your fur babies today.

LARRY  I was not thinking ahead or much when I moved in here. I would have had the desk and PC on the other side of the room and set it up like I had it before. To do it now I would have to get Cox here and also someone to move the desk and every thing.

Gloria, I feel I have heard that before, going zig zag....our slope going up is straight in the centre but rough, but slopey to the sides...R has a way of pushing me to the sides, I have to keep telling him that the middle is the straighter, of course if a car comes along I then have to maneuver myself to the side which is part on uneven gravel path....oh and there is nothing for me to grab onto just some barbed wire and some wooden poles....usually by the time to make my way down, I am at my most unsteadiest, just thankful I do get down....as I told him, one day he will have to go to fetch the car to get me down....

Chia--Good morning.  Happy Birthday to your son.  He has a good sense of humor.

halkel--Good morning.  Since you had a waffle, you could have a DD for dessert.

Good morning, Gloria.  My a/c has been running continually since the first of March and will do so until late fall.  I did look forward to weekends in my working years, but now--not so much.

A new trivia quiz has been posted.

http://www.seniorsandfriends.org/index.php?topic=95.msg14941#msg14941

I wish you all a good morning and a very happy day.

And to our Joy, a very very Happy Birthday !




We have an overcast morning again, but the sun will get out of bed later on. Everyone sounds "chipper" this morning and I am happy about that. At two o'clock we are having a Kentucky Derby Party in our  Courtyard..I have no idea what that will be, but I  will attend and let you know later. At 6:30 George Rossi will entertain us. Again, I will have to let you know what he does...probably singing.

I may hang a few more pictures today. One of my presents was new pictures of my Grandchildren and their children, so I will find an arrangement of those four pictures. People will be on a short wall and paintings will go on the longer wall across the way. My East wall is all windows, the west wall mirrored double closet and front door. I am so content.

I'm back from my little visit with my sister and her family and you'll never guess...I drove into sunshine on the way home!  I think they might have got the pump working and plugged up the holes.  I'll keep it a while and then send some of it on to you, Gloria!

angelface--Those that are interested will follow the link.

June--I intend to watch the Derby, but your party sounds even better.  Let us know what George Rossi does.  How nice to get pictures of family for Mother's day.

Janie--Hurrah for some sunshine in your area.

Well, we enlightened the fabric store ....some.. then we went to the town my daughter in love lives to deliver a rain barrel  plus give her a hand to help start the new lawn mower. The 3 of us had lunch out at a wee restaurant there...

Gloria, I don't do near the work I used to, on the farm I did chores, put hay down, cleaned the barn milked a cow for the house and did the hayin.  Plus I helped cut wood but have since sold my chainsaw  This is a piece of cake now..

Jane ,bet those furbabies feel better now, These girls will race about the house after a bath and just love to snuggle up to you before they are dry. Which reminds me I have nails to do this weekend, I did the neighbours dog yesterday when he was over.

Hal, I had a gift certificate to use and I told my dil to go put her name in on a draw and while she was away I paid for her stuff too.Her Mothers Day gift
Watching the videos on the fire make ones heart so sad, they have lost everything. I can't imagine the number of animals that have perished in the fires. too. I pray for rain.

Too full to think about supper ...

Amy--You really covered some ground today.  How nice of you to pay for your daughter-in-love's stuff as a Mother's Day gift.

Radioman - Don:  Congratulations on your newest great grandchild! 

Amy:  The pictures in CA are so sad - I do hope there are enough firefighters to stop this catastrophe.  Losing homes, businesses, it has to be so hard to believe.  Last year, my brother was a volunteer fireman in the Okanogan area of Washington so they had days of peril too.  May is early for this to begin. I was raised in the city but stayed on relatives farms several summers and learned how to drive a tractor, ride a horse to get the mail and bake and cook forever all day long. 

We will be on the road home by Monday and do hope to stay out of the way of these dust storms that have been closing at least one interstate for hours at a time.  If we drive through those areas early in the morning it should be alright.  Pictures of the visibility are downright frightful.  I will miss seeing quail.  They are now used to us and not as skittish. 

Happy Birthday, JOY

Carol--Those fires in Canada are almost beyond comprehension.  Safe travels as you head home, and I hope you don't encounter dust storms or any other obstacles.

Hi Gloria
Faster mie there with you now.

Kelly

My list is getting shorter!  It's beginning to look like I might finish it.  I'm already get more things done than I'm adding to it.  Just the cleaning to do and a few groceries to pick up.  And I promised Kiran a supper at McD.  That's Monday!  Then I have to pack my suitcase but most of the stuff is laid out on the bed in the spare room.  I'm sure there's more there than I plan to take so I have to sort.

Lloyd, I don't remember if I said my Congratulations to your granddaughter on her graduation.  I do wish her well!

And I just finished the paper work for my doggie sitter.  I'll email it to her tomorrow and if she has any questions, she'll call me.  It's so nice to have someone you know and trust to love your doggies when you go away. 

I'm going to put together a breakfast casserole before I go to bed tonight.  I'll be able to have it for breakfast for the next four days and then freeze some for when I come back.  And the eggs won't spoil while I'm gone.  I think that's the last of what has to be used up before I go.

Tomorrow, I'm cleaning.  My grandmother would NOT be shocked at doing that on Sunday.  She used to say, "The better the day, the better the deed."  If it needed doing and it was Sunday, do it!  I'm also going to brunch at my daughter's.  My SIL does the cooking and the cleanup for Mother's Day!

I hope you all have an easy and a pleasant evening!