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jane · March 17, 2022, 01:47:01 PM

'Tis a wet and dreary St. Pat's Day here.

I went to my accountant and went through my paperwork with her. She'll text me when it's all ready to file. I kiddingly asked if I was solvent enough to eat out today...and she said I was! So, I even went and got a new battery for the big flashlight I keep in my bedroom in case of an electricity outage AND did lunch out.[Brought home enough for supper, too] WoooHooo...SPLURGE time. Seriously, I'm so thankful I don't have to try to get a job somewhere...or skimp to the point of heat or eat. Ray and I were always thrifty...thank heavens!

Now to catch up with my checkbook bookkeeping and enjoy a quiet afternoon in front of the fire.

I keep reading that the coronavirus is making another surge some places. I guess we just learn to live with it.

If you enjoy watching big boats...I've become fascinated with sysman on YouTube and his following of the superyachts of the oligarchs out of Russia. He's following them as they move about. I had no idea such incredibly large and luxurious yachts existed...and sometimes these dudes own 2 of them! I've ALSO seen notice that a lot of private jets are leaving Moscow for Dubai. Hmmmm...rats leaving a sinking ship, maybe???

jane

maryz · March 17, 2022, 02:53:51 PM

Sorry I've been AWOL for a while. No problems, just lazy.

Marilyn, I do love getting my mani/pedi. That's just my one splurge, so I keep going with it. The gel polish has really seemed to strengthen my nails - for the first time in my life. Of course, I don't DO anything to hurt them, like dishwashing or gardening or cleaning, etc.

Patricia, comfort is definitely the standard around here!

We had the pink magnolias, daffodils, and other stuff starting to bloom when our cute little snow storm hit last weekend. All gone now, but temps near 70, and trees are starting to green out. Unfortunately that also includes the Bradford pears - lovely but SO allergenic. This is a terrible area for tree pollen allergies.

This was my family birthday week...Granddaughters on Monday and Tuesday, then me on Wednesday (86). Margaret and Jean let me take them out to lunch (Thai and other Asian - yum!). And then there was a birthday party here. I'm not a party fan, but the chef made me an amazing cake - actually cupcakes with pink-swirled icing, arranged like a flamingo on the tray. It was very good cake and icing, and really special, just for me.

Good luck to everybody's team in March Madness (but naturally mostly for Tennessee).

SharonE · March 17, 2022, 04:06:03 PM

Hi Gals, Haven't been in for a while. Been wasting time trying to figure out the new computer and format for the newsletter, as well as cooking for Bunny. She finished her medicine yesterday, so it should show us if she is going to be okay after we go a few days.

We've had a lot of rain here and cold last weekend, but is sunny and about 70 today. I went with John and shopped for groceries and then went to the library. I still can't fine your favorite author, Jane, or Mary Page's John Baxter. I guess I will have to request them and see if they are in the system somewhere. It is a state of the art library, so should have them.

Like everyone else the bouncing temps and dampness have played havoc with my muscles and joints, but I've still been trying to get at least a short walk in everyday with Bunny. Got in a mile one day with shopping added on. Whoo Hoo. Guess who was wiped that night.

I see the neurologist Monday for the first time since my brain procedure, so that should be interesting.

Mary, sounds like you had a wonderful birthday! Nice to have a special day just for you. Feb and Mar are big birthday months for our family too. As you saw on FB, we're pulling for the Hoosiers!

Hi to everyone. Hope you are all safe, well, and warm.

HAPPY ST PATRICK'S DAY!!

Sharon

Marilyn · March 17, 2022, 04:33:27 PM

`Patricia I am in jeans and T shirts un less I am going someplace or to church. I rarely put on a dress anymore un;less it is one I can wear with leggings. I do have two long nice dresses that I can wear legging under anf n o one would even know. LOL

MaryPage · March 17, 2022, 05:44:38 PM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARY!!!!

patricia19 · March 17, 2022, 05:57:20 PM

Marilyn, I'm 5'6" and have a 26" inseam. I haven't worn a dress since they dismissed the school dress code in the mid-sixties! Even my weddings saw me in satin pants!

Marilyn · March 18, 2022, 02:28:40 PM

Patricia I am 5'8" and have a 34" inseam. Long Legged LOL

patricia19 · March 18, 2022, 03:19:54 PM

Marilyn, oh, how I wish that was me!

jane · March 20, 2022, 02:28:37 PM

Sunday afternoon greetings! I'm just back from a nice walk outside where it's in the high 50s.

Not much scheduled for this week...haircut tomorrow and dentist on Tuesday.

I did a facetime with Wisconsin-Minn family this morning. The little one was really energetic...dancing all over the place and he's begun talking.

jane

patricia19 · March 21, 2022, 12:59:38 PM

Good morning from an Interior that is not having spring weather. While the snow has a softer look and is slowly diminishing, it was minus 22 when I got up this morning. It's warmed up to a minus 19, almost two hours later, and heading to a high of plus 17. A forecast of severe cold is given until Wednesday, the 23rd when it is expected to slowly warm. If this is spring, it's the oddest and worse I've seen in my years here.

I've had my coffee and my morning round of check-in calls and texts, and nothing looming except for general chores and vacuuming. These 24 months of the shutdown have gotten to me and yet we had another week of over 100 new covid cases. It's split here with the number of non-mask wearers slowly increasing yet none seem to connect the steady case rise to the lack of precautions. I guess I can't expect humanity to go against type.

MaryPage · March 21, 2022, 07:59:25 PM

I am sure every single one of you saw and heard it, but Just In Case!

The adorable little Ukrainian girl who sang the song from "Frozen" for the people in the bomb shelter has escaped to Poland, and there she sang before a HUGE audience for a fund raiser. She sang the Ukrainian national anthem, all by herself up there on the stage and a cappella. I wanted to cry. One little tiny snaggle-toothed girl, representing all of the Ukrainian nation and its people with their hopes. She stood up there and spat squarely in Poo-tins eye. She perfectly epitomized the spirit of that nation! You can Google it in video if you missed it. Grab a Kleenex first.

Cottoncandy · March 22, 2022, 02:57:30 PM

Hi Buddies...think I'm way behind on posting...all is well with me...the wind is blowing like crazy....so have missed walking...I have to go see an ENT..on Friday...I have a hole in my ear drum...see if it can be patched or the implant done...needless to say can't hear good out of it...hope every one is doing well hot summers not to far away.....take care

jane · March 22, 2022, 05:35:18 PM

MaryPage...the little girl is something wonderful.

Darlene...how was your visit with your daughter?

Patricia...almost zero masks here, too.

Cold, wet dreary day here. I had dental appt for check and cleaning. Need to go back to have an old filling replaced. I also picked up my copy of my taxes and signed for them to efile them today.

I also stopped for a sandwich for lunch at a local diner.

Nothing new here,,,rain to continue through tomorrow.

Jane

maryz · March 22, 2022, 06:44:54 PM

Nothing going on here. Just waiting for the severe weather to roar through overnight.

Darlene, glad you didn't have any damage.

Stay well, enjoy the oncoming spring (except for the allergies, of course), Buddies!

MaryPage · March 22, 2022, 08:39:56 PM

Oh, Mary; I am already experiencing my annual tree allergies. Actually, I have been fairly blessed there. Many of my own children inherited bad sinus situations from the Other Side of their family: infected sinuses, stopped up & painful heads, etc. Two or three of them have had to have Extremely painful surgery on their noses.

Me? Never!

My nose starts running when the first, tiniest bloom starts blooming, or even earlier. It runs freely, like a fully opened faucet. I use an unconscionable amount of Kleenex.

No matter. The pears are showing their precious white decorations Everywhere! So pretty sprinkled all through the small forest between me and the bay. The ones planted throughout our planned community are lovely, too. The forsythia are flourishing, the daffodils are showy, and all the other bulbs are either waving blooms or about to. I do love Springtime in this part of our country. It never gets tiresome or fails to delight. I will go on letting the soggy Kleenex pile up in my wastebaskets, while my heart applauds Nature's grand show, which never grows old.

jane · March 23, 2022, 03:10:30 PM

Another cold, wet day...and to be for the rest of the week...and maybe even snow. Ugh!

Jane

SharonE · March 24, 2022, 01:44:27 PM

Hi Gals, Decided it was about time for me to check in. Mary Page, I love all the spring flowering trees and flowers too, but like you, my nose runs constantly in the morning, although I take Zyrtec daily. I saw a red bud in bloom today and forsythia as well.

We've had a lot of rain and up and down temps but not too low. 70's today.

My, Marilyn, you are long-legged. I used to wear a 30" inseam but I'm down to a 28 or 29. I guess I've just shrunk that much.

I have a call in to a new Rheumatologist that my primary Dr recommended. We'll see if she can come up with something to ease my pain.

I saw the neurologist Monday, and he wants me to change my heart pill to a similar one that is better for my tremor in my left hand. Unfortunately, I couldn't get an appt with the cardio until May 18!

I've been working on the newsletter of course and am making headway. I'm still butting heads with the gal across the street who is the photographer and wants to run things but not actually edit the paper! Grrr! I think she thought I would just be her hands and she would make all the decisions, but it doesn't work that way as she is finding out. It's taking a lot of time.

patricia19 · March 25, 2022, 04:02:54 PM

We're, my borough, considered low!! The first time out of high for Covid since March 2020!

Only 84 new cases and no deaths since ten in January/February.

This is wonderful news!

However, I'll still be wearing masks.

maryz · March 25, 2022, 07:03:08 PM

Great news, Patricia. Keep up the masking.

Sharon, sorry you're having problems with your co-editor(?). I know how frustrating that must be.

jane, I sympathize with your weather. We're due to be near freezing Sunday and Monday mornings, and then in the 80s! on Tuesday and Wednesday. Like we've been saying, "weather whiplash".

I had an appointment with the cardiologist this morning and actually saw him, rather than the PA or NP as usual (like Marilyn). I'm happy with all of them, though. He says I'm doing fine, but did tweak my meds some - changed dosage on one, made a substitution with another. Again, return in a month.

Nothing much else going on. Hugs and Happy Weekend to all the Buddies!

jane · March 25, 2022, 07:45:05 PM

Lots of rain this week...and then snow flurries yesterday....and WINDY...up to 50 mph gusts. An inside day for sure.
No energy to do anything and joints not happy with the whiplash.

Good news, Patricia!

Sharon...so hard to work with someone who wants to be in charge...but have YOU do all the work.

Mary...so right about weather whiplash.

The only sign of spring I've seen here are teeny tiny green buds on the lilac bushes. But with 20 degree temps for the rest of the weekend and into next week, it doesn't look promising.

jane

jane · March 26, 2022, 10:43:34 AM

Brrrrr...another cold, windy day with snow flurries. Another good day for the recliner in front of the fire!

Jane

patricia19 · March 26, 2022, 01:44:33 PM

Our snow is softening and very, very, slowly melting, and everything is looking very gray, brown, and dirty out there. Our daily high temperatures have finally reached the forties, with the lows in the late teens. It doesn't look to change until the first week in May.

I'm sorry you're feeling out of sorts and achy Jane! Time to make a cuppa and rest along with a good book or two.

maryz · March 26, 2022, 03:32:38 PM

Sorry about the creakies, jane.

And Patricia, that gray, slushy snow that hangs on is the yucky stuff.

Forgot to mention that I got my second shingles shot yesterday (try saying that ten times fast). So far my only reaction has been a sore arm - although I've just waked from my second nap of the day.

MaryPage · March 27, 2022, 01:24:25 PM

I have to laugh, Mary; otherwise, I'll need to cry! Which I can't do, as my tear ducts stopped working back in 1990. Long ago and Far Away. Remember that song?

Being way too judgmental in my younger days, I was convinced anyone who took a NAP, other than an old person or a baby or small child, or sick person, and so forth, Anyone was a good-for-nothing slut.

Now my reading the newspaper can take me from early morning, when it comes, to late night to finish, all down to my napping habit, despite my deep resentment of that. And TV shows I Really want to watch can be mostly missed because I fall asleep despite my best intentions.

I kind of figure that all of these naps my age group are prone to are getting us ready for that inevitable longest nap of all!

patricia19 · March 27, 2022, 02:54:56 PM

Good morning from a warm, no clouds or snow in sight, Interior. They're forecasting a cool April with a bit of sleet here and there which, if so, will continue our very unusual winter, spring, and hopefully not summer.

They came by yesterday afternoon, putting in our new balcony screens. They surprised me by coming from the right and going up and down instead of a floor or a side at a time. I hope this means the end of construction for a very long time. Other than that, no news.

diglady · March 27, 2022, 06:43:25 PM

MARY PAGE, This is for you:

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=jerome+kern+long+ago+and+far+away&view=detail&mid=DECB3DA15565D55968E6DECB3DA15565D55968E6&FORM=VIRE

My favorite song since I was a wee one!

MaryPage · March 27, 2022, 10:31:26 PM

That was Beautiful! Thank you so.

Back when that song was popular, my favorite tune was Daybreak. Sinatra used to sing it. I, of course, had a record of it. We paid twenty-five cents for records in those days!

Now, I find my "favorite" is any song from the thirties or forties I happen to hear again. I was born in 1929 and graduated from High School in 1947, so those are the years of "my music," as I call it.

That was a great favorite of all of the girls who had a sweetheart away at war.

SharonE · March 28, 2022, 10:09:11 AM

Our weather is about the same as Mary's except not quite as severe. No tornados, but same up and down temps.

Newspaper is coming along. I'm running out of space, so going to have to cut an article and put it off till next month and listen to Jean b****.

Bunny is really strange. She stopped eating my prepared food, so we went back to the Kidney food that she wouldn't touch 3 weeks ago and she is gobbling it up. I put a whole casserole of stuff I'd fixed in the freezer, pending her next change of heart. She seems OK except sleeping a lot more and walking a lot slower on her walks.

Darlene, I'm sorry to hear of your perforated ear drum. How did it happen? My mother had one caused by an ear infection or something as a child. She did have it repaired in her 60's but it didn't help her hearing much. She could, however, wear a hearing aid in it. Good luck with yours.

Patricia, the dirty, brown slush is the thing I hate most about snow. Sounds like you will have decent weather coming though.

Mary Page, I find I fall asleep during the evening news if I'm not careful, but naps are the body's way of repairing itself.

Jane, I saw where your first air flight was from Paris to NYC. How did that come about?

Not a lot planned today. John's going out to play bridge. When he comes back, I may go work on the newsletter some more.
Sharon

Cottoncandy · March 28, 2022, 11:17:27 AM

Good morning all...Sharon I went to An ENT...who told me I did not have a hole in my eardrum...he said probably wax buildup...so next trip to the hearing aide office I will pass that information on...I started to walk this morning and got a cramp in my leg calf so had to do a shirt walk....don't know what caused it...not swollen are bruised...just hurts to walk on it so have it elevated and ice pack...we are having wild fires all around us...prayers for rain...hi to all reading ..have a great day

Cottoncandy · March 28, 2022, 11:18:14 AM

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