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   We all have choices, even when we don't recognize them, and  those choices have consequences, not just for ourselves, but for others. We must assume responsibility for those consequences.
- Sheridan, B5:"Rising Star"

   When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means  the most to us, we often find that it is the one who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, has chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen

   
New to the Game

I tried out watching football –
I was ensconsed in a chair for hours.
Even ignored dinner call,
When the team went into the showers.

Hell, I just couldn't believe my eyes –
Some gal walked right in to interview.
Well, you can just imagine my surprise –
Didn't seem to daunt the TV crew.

She barged right in and shoved her mike
Into some big naked guy's face.
Poor guy stood there kind of shy-like,
Hands covering that sensitive place.

The team milled around like she wasn't there –
Now isn't that the dangedest thing?
Two dozen men standing ballicky bare,
And her wearing a wedding ring.

Soon, the old coach had had enough,
And he told the reporter to go.
The brazen woman called his bluff,
By simply telling the old coach, "No!"

Equal rights were hers she said –
She had the same privileges as men.
Well, the coach was seeing red,
Shouting, "I'm not telling you again!"

"But, coach," she pled, "can't you even see
That this attitude isn't fair?
I've earned my journalism degree.
How about if I, too, go bare?"

And, with that, she began to undress
Right there in front of the team.
How far she got I can only guess,
For then I woke from the dream.

RJM (from old SN)

Good morning everyone, it did rain yesterday and still raining this morning. Welcome MAY with more rain. It is a warm  52 now.Still saying on local weather it will be close to 70 over the weekend.

JANE  sorry you could not make it to your Chiropractor yesterday. Glad you and Cathy turned around and went home. No doctors are open around here except for emergencies. Hope you slept as good as I did last night. I think I fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.

TOMEREADER  I have a hard time making up my double bed. Last time I did it alone took me all afternoon, had to keep sitting down to rest. Now I help my CNA do it, easier for both of us, no walking around back and forth.

SHIRLEY  like you I am so tired of hearing about the virus. That is about all that is on the news these days. Nothing else happening in this country or the  world.

BUBBLE  thank you for tne new May page. Love the Mother's love. so true. Great graphics and smart "words of wisdom" but New to the Game  had me laughing at the end. Thank you.

Have a good day everyone and stay safe and dry with all this rain.

 Gloria glad you have a good C N A to help you And she dose. she is a true friend. lucky you. we all need good friend's. i do not remember who is older you or me, no mater because we are too far apart to be psychical help to each other.
so all i can do is pray that she is close when you need her help and she or some one  at least is with in shouting distance when you need the help. I am 82 years young as they say last august twenty seventh, and I do not have the get up and go i used to have. but ever now and then like yesterday, i went to shop and started taking the old engine off the lawn mower. one bolt is not co operating and too much oil and gas close to use torch. i do not need another burn.my skin is thin enough now from the last one. well after day light I am going back and hope I have better luck today than i did yesterday. have a good day everyone.

Lloyd

Good morning everyone...
Cloudy this morning..we had rain most of the day yesterday. Taking garbage to the dump this morning, then pick a few groceries for my friend. Then home to sew.

Made 9 doz peanut butter cookies and put some along with cold milk in the hidey hole.

Bubble ,thank you for the new start page.. words of wisdom are priceless and I also chuckled at New To The Game.

Gloria, I think everyone is getting tired of hearing nothing but Covid-19. Makes me wonder what other news they are trying to hide.

Lloyd, put some Liquid Wrench on the bolt and let it set for a bit.

Jane, better home safe and sound than to be caught out in a flood. So far no road closures here .

Callie, hope everything is alright your way.

Better get moving..

Enjoy your day everyone.
 

Good Morning Everyfriend!  The rain has stopped and it's 52º and cloudy out right now.  It's supposed to make it to the mid 60s today and I can take that!

Right now, I have to go see to Mickie's needs.  The boinger has gone off and she's ready for breakfast and then a walk. 

I loved the offerings this morning, too, BUBBLE and I, too giggled at the football story!  I almost forgot May brings Mother's Day!

I better get off my chair and get moving!  Things to do today.  But to paraphrase PHYLLIS, they'll get done...or they won't! 

Enjoy your day Everyfriend!

Cloudy but no rain.  We had enough yesterday, I think.

I did do a LITTLE vacuuming and managed to make a couple of those annoying spiders disappear.  Where DO they come from?  Like you, Gloria, and the rest of you who mentioned it, it doesn't take much to wear me out and, besides vacuuming, making the bed is one of them.  David puts the bottom sheet on for me because I just can't manage shoving the mattress around but I do the remaining covers by just walking back and forth with a lot of resting in between.

I must make a grocery list and pick a time to go pick them up so I'll just say....

Make it a good day, Everyone.

AMY thanks but I did already done that. Just got back from shopping and got a new throttle cable for the mower. going to eat noon meal and go to shop without taking a nap.  I think i can get a pair of vice gripes on the head of the bolt and get it out. I still have a little patience left. and I appreciate the advice. have a good rest of the day.

Lloyd

back with another bit of info. Nancy favorite collier is purple or Lavender. we have lot of then growing around the house and shop yards. she has a vace full on the dining room table with a couple yellows in that bouquet. as we came home she said look at those beautiful iris's over by the shop. you can get some of them . I told her you already have a nice bunch on the dining room table. she said I know but bigger would be better,
I cant win for loosing.

Lloyd

It's been a pleasantly busy week for me.
On Monday, I did a few necessary domestic duties and arranged appointments for next week - one of which is a hair cut!  :cheer:
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On Tuesday, #1 son came over and trimmed the shrubs in the back yard. We had a nice visit afterwards. The knockout roses are beginning to pop out and the hostas are getting huge.

On Wednesday, Miss Ellen came to vacuum (no housecleaner for the past month)We visited for almost 3 hours after she was done.
 She said three of her friends who were performing on cruise ships are stuck on board.  The ships are anchored in the Bahamas but they're not allowed to dock.  She said they could dock in the USA long enough to allow passengers to leave but crew members had to stay. Other countries are managing to get their crew members home but Americans had not been allowed to leave.

Yesterday was such a lovely day that I spent a long time reading on the patio.

This morning, a neighbor and I sat in our driveways and watched a fly-over by several planes from a state Airbase.  Their route was north to south over OKC hospitals - honoring the medical workers.  None of them came directly over us but we were able to follow them for quite a distance. There were four huge cargo planes and a group of 5 jets in formation.

Now the monthly bills are whispering,  "Turn around, Callie, and Get Busy."  Oh well,  if I must...  :( 

Wishing Everyfriend Everywhere an Enjoyable Day.

X

I know I was here several times today & thought I left a post (the mind is going). Nobody left a basket with flower like a long ago neighbor. I would take them an Easter basket with colored hard boiled eggs & candy & he would return the basket on May Day with a big blossom from the snow ball bush. He would hang it on the door, ring the bell & rush off. Was fun doing things for each other in those days.

Bubble, thank you for the graphics & funnies.... don't know if we would exist without your taking care of us. You always have such gorgeous graphics and don't know where you come up the the funnies, but you are good & worth every penny you get paid!  ;) Seriously, you are needed and appreciated!  :smitten:  :thumbup:

It was in the 80s today, still at 86 & feels almost sticky hot. Time to start whining about summer.  ::) 

Callie, I have columbine blooming all over the yard. All pinkish except one patch by the front porch that showed up bright red & white last year. This year one plant is red but the rest has toned down to the pinkish but slightly redder than the other, in that corner. I used to have that ultramarine blue & also white.

I have some white iris blooming and some purple about ready to open, blue cornflowers & a bright yellow something??? The lily of the valley are blooming but not many and not as big as usual. I have not been watering so nothing looking as healthy as it should. Whatever wants to grow in my yard just grows... mostly weeds instead of grass. The front part by the street was a mass of wild violets like on the hill going down to the river. The couple nest door had their whole front yard killed off & replanted last year, looks beautiful but it doesn't last but a few years & the weeds from the land going down to the river move in and I'm not going to worry about keeping them out. I have a trusty little dandelion picker & pick a bag full nearly every day until I give up. Have a yard on the other side of me that you could not put one foot down without stepping on one, they don't try to spray or do anything about them. Hopeless case.  So, that's my world today.

Gloria, has Regina mentioned the flowers blooming out there?  I would love to drive through to see them one spring. Online they look amazing.  We used to go to TX during bluebonnet season & that is a sight. What is it about seeing blue flowers as far as you can see??? Not the norm for a Missouri gal. I love the natural, never want to travel & see the man made creations. 

Wishing all a peaceful sleep. Maybe we will soon get back to a more normal life. It's going on 9:00 pm and I haven't had supper yet. Cats got fed & we walked down to the river to feed the fish. Happy dreams!  Shirley

It's been a busy day around here.  Lots of walks with Mickie and people out on their porches to talk to as I go by.  Things hollering for attention inside....bills to pay, floors to sweep, recipes to try, papers to read, dust bunnies to collect....Lots of it got done but some didn't!  Tomorrow is another day!

SHIRLEY, Cindy and I did the Bluebonnet Trail one year when I was in Texas.  It was absolutely amazing!  So many flowers and we got out lots of places and walked the paths and took lots of pictures.  Maybe we'll do it one more time before I crumble up and blow away!

I'm off to Dreamland.  I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy, healthy tomorrow. And may God bless us, every one.

Thank you all, thanks Shirley, for your appreciation. I do try.
Corona restrictions is starting to tell on me plus a gastric ailment last week, so that I was not much present. But You are all managing quite well!
Soon Mothers Day and again it will be a quiet celebration I suppose. Oh well, hopefully next year we can enjoy more.
Have a great week end.

Good morning everyone, already 51 so hope it does get to 70 today. If it does I will be out on the porch most of the day.

LLOYD  glad you did not use the torch yesterday, you do not need another burn or any accident.

AMY  I heard on the TV yesterday that it will be 2 years before we conquer this virus. I sure hope that news was wrong.

JANE  hope we see some sunshine today for a change and no rain for awhile.

PHYLLIS  my CNA will be going to the market for me on Monday and I hope it is not raining. Lately every time she goes it is raining.

CALLIE  ARE MORE PLACES OPEN THERE NOW? The governor here does not want to open anything yet but yester day mentioned opening a few parks but under strict rules.

SHIRLEY  it will be some time before we see the Iris bloom here, the leaves are getting tall but that is it now. They have several differ ent colors planted in fron ot the building. The flowering bushes are starting to bloom. Like you I prefer natural and nature to man made things. Most fllowers have gone by already where my daughter is. My SIL has been taking pictures of all the different flowers and looking up the name of all of them.

JANE  getting outside and walking Mickie was more fun than chasing dust bunnies.

BUBBLE  I know I am tired of being cooped up in here. Now the manager wants no visitors. #2 son comes here every Saturday and has since I moved here. At least she has not stopped the CNA's from coming in here. They are needed by the ones who have them. Hope you are feeling better now.

Have a good day everyone and stay safe.

Good Morning everyone. Looks Like you all beat me up and at it. that is ok still love you all and like the 7,5 hours good sleep i got last night, I got the engine ready to lift off , but am going to weight for some help or rig something to hoist the old one off, i don't seam to have enough strength to pick it up straight away. have a great day as you all like it.

Lloyd

Good Morning Everyfrind!  The sun is trying peek through today and the temp is already 46º heading for a high of 69!  My kind of Spring day!  Mickie and I will enjoy the walks today!

Cathy has taken to doing her grocery shopping and mine, too, on Saturday morning.  She goes early so she's one of the first in the store.  I have to email her my list Friday night and if I think of something I forgot, I can text her and she'll add it.  She's probably there now. She was getting ready to go when we said our "good mornings" at around 7. 

BUBBLE, I'm so sorry you weren't feeling well.  I hope you're better now and that you'll be able to stay that way!

GLORIA, you're absolutely right about preferring walks with Mickie over chasing dust bunnies!  Being outside is good for both of us.

Amy, thanks for the cookies and milk in the Hidey Hole.  They sure hit the spot!

It's almost time for the boinger and breakfast so I'll wish you all a good day.  Make it your own in every way.  And don't forget to share it with all of us.

Good sunny morning everyone..

We may be in for rain later on in the day but right now it is lovely out. I had thought of starting the garden tiller but will see how the day goes. Usually it takes 3-4 pulls and off it goes, sure hope that is what will happen if I do decide to start it.

Jane you will get a chuckle out of this. Lately I have been mixing Babes pill in her food but today all the food was ate and there on the bottom of her dish sat the broken pill. Ok, get out the cheese slice, wrap up the pieces in it...she loves cheese. Chopped it for a bit then spit out the pills!! Finally after wrapping it in another cheese slice she downed . Guess today she just didn't want that pill. :2funny:

Gloria, I heard that also and here in the province they are starting to open a few things but will rules to follow. I still don't understand why they deem booze and pot necessities as they were never closed ????

Better scoot..

Enjoy your day everyone ...stay safe.

The sun is shining so that makes the morning cheerful.

Missing Amy this morning.  Hope she is OK.

Next week will be all my food deliveries.  David will pick up the weekly groceries on Monday.  Papa Spud's, a "farm to fork" service, will deliver a box of fresh vegs. on Tues., and Schwan's will bring a freezer order on Thurs.  I will have no excuse to not put something on the table at meal times so I won't be able to slack off, will I?   ::)

All is fine here.  Take care, Everyone.

AMY, that's one smart doggie you have there! 

Quick note this morning, Bubble, since I also had that "gastric upset" nearly 2 weeks ago, I am wondering if it was "our version" of the virus. I've never had anything quite like it before and still feeling effects, coffee & spicy foods don't set well. I am used to eating anything that I like without any problem so this does not feel normal to me. I keep hearing about new symptoms of the virus so I'd love to have the test for antibodies. Seems we don't have any of those tests available here. Hope you are better. I am, but left over "*itchy little ole lady" symptoms.  :-[

Amy, love how good the pup is with that pill. These cats are just about as good at spitting out the little round salmon bones if I miss some when mashing up. I buy the cans of people salmon with skin & bones, but they can lick off those little round bones & spit back into their dishes so since I'm sure they have a value to their diet, I mash. One time I didn't & found a whole bunch, clean as a whistle laying in the bottom of each bowl!

Phyllis, we don't have anything like your farm to fork deliveries but on "normal" Sat mornings we do have a Farmer's Market to shop at. Doubt if it will be open soon, but it isn't just local, some vendors drive south to buy produce & re-sell, but still usually fresher than the stores get. This virus had changed our world!

Time spent sitting back and thinking about all those memories we made years ago.... but I am tired of being confined so will be eager to roll when we get the okay! Some of my best memories are of driving past those horse farms in Kentucky, the fields of Texas bluebonnets, dogwood & redbud blooming in fields across Missouri, mountains and lakes, Monument Valley.... I love to ride/drive and it has been a while. I even enjoy driving through the Flint Hills of Kansas, especially during the colorful sunrises or sunsets. I picture the wagon trains rolling across those flat lands and almost groan at the "gullies", the struggles to get across them. We drove along the coast highway from Washington state south into CA... gorgeous views. What were some of your favorite trips?

Good morning.  Way too early for anything exciting to mention.  I did go down to put out mail when I first got up. Still need to get some breakfast.  Hope everyone is still coping with all these restrictions.

Have a safe day.

Joy 

I used to love driving around the country side, stopping on a high promontory and watch birds soaring or the calming back and forth waves on the beach below. But not anymore.  I lost the urge and became almost sedentary. :(
I even lost interest in painting, knitting and even writing! Is that old age weighing me down?

Good morning everyone. Yesterday was a great day to be outside but I was the only one out there. Everyone is so afraid of getting the virus by just going outside. Being cooped up inside is not healthy either. I will not be talking with my daughter today. Their church is opening today for the first time since this thing took over the world. They have not been since my SIL had his surgery on March 1st. He is doing great and feeling like his old self again.

LLOYD  I do not have the strength to lift up a half gallon of milk anymore, I think that is horrible when I think of what I used to do.

JANE  you are lucky to have your daughter so close to shop for you. Yvette does my shopping for me but if she cannot find something on my list she calls and asks if something else would be OK and I keep telling her NO Substitutes. I wish people in here would realize the fresh air would be good for them.

AMY  first thank you for the cookies and milk. One of my favorite things, especially home made cookies. I do like dunking the cookies, yummy. Just like the places that do nails instead of something more important. Of course some cannot live without booze or pot. Yuck to both of them. One of my nieces had to wrap a pill in ham for her dog to get the pill down.

PHYLLIS  I stopped Schwans as my freezer is too small to have much in it. I do miss thier mac &  cheese though. Best I ever had.

SHIRLEY  I heard on TV that there is now tests to buy to check at home for the virus. I doubt that would not be as good as the ones that the government uses. Can you call your  doctor and ask about the test? That is what people have to do here. We have a farmers market  in walking distance but their prices are very high. There is a farm I like and my son will go there for me when they are open. The owner always asks him how I am doing. Nice that she remembers me. My favorite trips were to Ca. to visit my daughter and family but the one when they tooo Arizona was the best. I sure fell in love with that state with mountains, desert and forests and Sedona and the
Grand Canyon and other places there.

JOY  I still try to get outside for fresh air every day but with all the rain I stay inside. These restrictions are starting to get to me. Now in the lobby there is a binder with pages for everyone wo comes into the building has to sign in. Guess so that if anyone here gets the virus they can check the book and see who went to see that person.

BUBBLE I used to love going to the shore after a storm at sea and watch the big waves rolling in. It is calming. When my inlaws had their summer place on  the ocean in Maine I fell asleep at night listening to the waves. I know what it is like to lose interest in things always enjoyed before. Now all I want to do is read.

Have a good day everyone, stay safe and healthy.

Good Morning Everyfriend!  I'm sorry I wasn't around much yesterday!  I just got wrapped up in other things.  I did some weeding but it takes time.  I can't support myself on one hand and pull weeds with the other.  I tried bending over and that was ok for short periods.  Getting down on my knees was ok too for short periods and sitting on the ground worked for a while but getting up with only one arm for support was hard.  But I'm making some progress and that's what's important.

My son was over yesterday and mowed, trimmed and took all the weeds I'd pulled and all the trimmings with him.  He took my trash to his apartment house dumpster, too.

SHIRLEY, I've had some really beautiful drives in my day.  Driving west with my Girl Scouts brought many vistas to view.  The ones in Wyoming were gorgeous!  You never knew what was coming up next.  And all the drives from my house to my daughter's in Texas brought new views but one in particular was special.  There was a police block on one of the roads directing traffic off the interstate to a detour and the detour took us over some 2 lane back roads in Alabama which I would have missed without the detour. Then Cindy and I did the Bluebonnet Trail in the blooming season and that was a real treat!  I also had the joy of travelling some back roads in Washington state when I did a business trip to that area and one of the PA House Furniture dealers I visited thought I needed to see the country around his area.  He showed it to me in spades!  And I loved it.  Then another dealer over the border in Canada, not to be outdone, showed me his area.

But one that I remember well is the trip up the mountain to Hitler's Lair in Germany.  It was called The Eagle's Nest for very good reason.  The trip was up a road that circled a mountain and you could see forever!  I'm sure he and his cronies didn't appreciate that ride as much as I did!  There were lots more but not enough space to write them down.

However, some of the roads right around my home go over mountains and along rivers and creeks and have some of the best scenery in the world.  And I can still do some of those rides and I will never tire of them.  PA is a good place to live!

Right now, the temp is 54º and it's supposed to get into the mid 70s today.  Spring has Sprung!  Let's enjoy it!

Good morning everyone..

Beautiful sunny morning here with birds singing their song. Something was bothering the geese last night ,three times they put up a ruckus along with the loons. The one that woke me was the sound of a loon so close I thought he was taking a short cut through my bedroom window.

Yesterday was productive, the garden is now tilled. The dance was shaky but soon  leveled out. I see I missed some onions last fall and they are starting to grow! On to the front garden where I cleaned out some of the suckers from the trees, there is a lot more to do but tomorrow ....maybe :)

Friends stopping a the house to pick up some items  is all that is on the agenda.

Neighbour called and this time he came over with all of his Mom's yarn, needles and patterns. One pattern that interested me was one for Newfie mitts and they sure look warm. Bags and a tote brimming. Told him what I didn't use it will go to another lady that knits items for the humane society. Nothing will get wasted.

Jane, you had a great day and hope you are not feeling the effects too much today. Our gardening centres are now open with curb side pick up so I may be able to get a few tomato plants. Pumpkin seeds have been planted in pots in the house to get an early start :thumbup: .

Gloria, I don't blame you for enjoying the nice weather outside. Babe ate her breakfast and all pills disappeared.....now why would she leave them the other day??

Better scoot.

Enjoy your day everyone ,stay safe.

Gloria, I've visited the coast all the way around the US and still shiver, almost sick at my stomach as I watch the waves and "unending" water. Not sure why unless that trip across the water to England left me with that lonesome feeling, knowing I couldn't go home for 3 years. Love the scenery and shells but the whole time I breathe like I can't get enough air.

We have severe storms moving into the city, really hot when I woke up but this is spring in Kansas! Guess I'd better dress in case weather gets worse, had my breakfast & cats fed, all inside so can sleep easy if I go back to bed. That sounds like a good idea!

Oops, Amy & Janie snuck in.... morning girls, will be back later, bed is calling. Normally I would be on my way to church, maybe soon? 

well I had a good sized post ready to post and hit something wrong and away it went poof away. well we had two of our granddaughters over and ate noon meal with us.yesterday they brought Lawnmowers over and mowed our yard.awhile back I got the R V  stuck in the yard down at the shop. and spinning is forward and backwards broke the rear end. make's a ta rabble Noyce now. so to the garage it will go now. one grand daughter Is president of the Bank she works at. she is sharp at fixing things on computers. she keeps the bank's up and running her self so dose not have to call in outside help. Our laptop would take the picture to the big screen T V but would not take the sound to TV so could not control the sound there. you guessed it she fixed in a few min. works great now.sound just like the person talking is, not a ecakoa.Have a great rest of the day.

Lloyd

Well, I came in the Soda Shoppe and said "Hello" and all I heard was an echo!  I see LLOYD has been around but that was way back in the early afternoon.  I unplugged the coffee pot and turned the heat off under the teakettle and washed up a couple of dishes and now I'm going to go to bed.

I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy, healthy tomorrow. And may God bless us, every one....wherever we are!

well I checked in to see what is going on. but i do not see of much going on.
well it is ok to take it easy on the lord's, as long as we keep him in our heart's. and goodwill for fellow beings. Nancy has already gone to bed, I am going to bid you all good night and sweet dreams,go take my shot and last pills for the day, and join her see how close she will let snuggle with out hollering at me. Hope to see you all tomorrow. good night.

Lloyd

Good morning everyone, another morning waking early. Hope it does not warm up too much, need to get a new AC this year. I would die with the heat up here when the sun hits. In winter I appreciate the way it warms up but not now. With all the time I was outside this week end I did not see anyone.  53 apartments and I was the only one outside. Wonder if they are afraid of the fresh air.

AMY  great feeling when the ground is soft enough to till it for planting time.  Years ago I looked forward to planting seeds and my tomato plants. Never had enough tomatoes and I canned hundreds of quarts of them.

SHIRLEY  I always loved the ocean but never wanted to be out  on it in a ship miles from land. My #1son and DIL go on a cruise every year, I had a chance to go but passed it up.

LLOYD  looks like you better stay away from machines, they either hurt you or they break down somehow.

JANE  I did sleep good last night and woke early once again. Hope you had a restful sleep, too.

Wow where was everyone yesterday? Like others implied, I hear an echo in here this morning.

Have a good day and stay safe.

Gloria you beat me up again. No matter so i get to see and visit with you. I do seam to have a lot of problems, but it is better to have them than set on the couch all the time. seams as though I was thought in Sunday school class that god would not give you more burdens than you can bare with out helping you through when you come to him and ask for help. a simple prayer has always helped me through. it is 53º and clear now but is supposed to just get to 61º and rain after noon. I think if Nancy wants to go with me we will go to Sam's club and get some things we do not thing we can't do with out. if she dose not I may go to shop and make a recipe box or two. think they would sell good. Have a good day and hope to see more of you all today here. we are not allowed to travel. I wounder how long we have to put up with things like they are now, and where did common good since go also freedom of religion go. have a great day.  Lloyd

I'm up and attem this morning.  The temp was already 52º when I got up and heading for the low 60s today.  I have some one-handed weeding to do today to get ready for daughter Christy' visit for the weekend.  She loves gardening and that's what she always gives me for a combination birthday/mother's day gift.  But I usually try to get as many of the winter's accumulation of weeds out of the way as I can before she comes.  This year is not going to be so good but she knows that already.

GLORIA, I was outside as much as possible yesterday but I have a really good excuse for going out...well, two good excuses if I count the weeds.  I take Mickie for a walk whenever I think about it or whenever she reminds me of it.  It's good for me and it's good for her to be outside and to getting some exercise.

LLOYD, I hope you and Nancy can agree on what's to be done today!  We can't run out of the things that keep us going!

I guess I better go get dressed because it's almost time for breakfast (dog and people) and right after that, Mickie tells me in no uncertain terms that it's time for her first walk of the day!

I wish you all a lovely day!
Make it your own in every way!

And don't forget to share it with all your friends in the Soda Shoppe!

I'm here on a sometimes cloudy and sometimes sunny morning.  It is supposed to be cooler today, I think.  The air conditioning has been running for the last two days.

I didn't do much yesterday.  It was not a good day for me.  I spent most of the afternoon and evening in the recliner.  But, I slept pretty good so I am hoping for a better day today.

Laundry day, as usual, and David will pick up groceries.

Take care, All.

Good morning everyone..
I am up but not att'em ,guess att'em will follow. I hope.

 Friends came yesterday to pick up their things and left us with two wrought iron plant hangers he had made. That was a nice surprise and will soon have plants hanging from them!

Not a lot on for today other than picking up dog food and sewing.

Jane, we have misty rain here this morning so no gardening here. Would love to come and help you with yours.

Gloria,I think this year we will see a lot of people canning.  I know I need to do more of one pickle as my neighbour and my friends have already put their order in :))

Lloyd, hope you have a great day.

Stay safe everyone and enjoy your day.

Good Evening Everyone!

No one has  posted in here since
a little before 8 AM this morning..

I am doing fine.   The weather here
today was warmer and sunny, but
I am not too sure just how long
that will last.

Hurrah for MAY... one of my favorite
months here in the North East with
a hot summer not too far off,  it
is nice to enjoy sweater weather
that we are having now.. (until the
rains come!) .. 

Tomorrow I get my food delivered after
staying up and ordering it last night at
Midnight.   So I only have to
wait two days for it to be
ready for my daughter Kelly to
pick up and bring to me. 

I feel very very fortunate and sure
hope that I can get by without
catching the dreaded Covid_19
flu.    We are all trying
real hard here not to get it...
but sometimes reality interferes
and some of us have to suffer
the consequences .....

Fingers crossed that we all
survive this. 

Have a good day and night.

Sandy

Boy!  It sure was a slow day in here, today! I hope everyfriend was off having a good day and that they will be here tomorrow to tell us all about it!

I didn't do much today.  Mickie and I had several walks together and I pulled a few more weeds.  This morning, I took down some stuff that would be in the way when the guys come to start on the floors again.  That took about an hour using only one hand.  There's more to take down but it's just not the same when I can't use both hands. 

I'm hoping to get more moving done tomorrow but time will tell.  Right now, I'm off to Dreamland.  I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy, healthy tomorrow.  And may God bless us, every one!

Good morning everyone. Sandy and JaneS looks like you two were the most here yesterday. Jane please do not over do it get someone to boss an do your heavy work. you do not need to have a back set, and if you cant get anyone else get the  flor people to do it and give them a couple more $$. our motor home is down in the meantime or we would come out there i would and do it for you while you and Nancy visited. I have contacted a good mechanic through his daughter but have not got a answer yet, if he don't come through I have a friend that maybe can get to help me and we two can get it fixed. but i hope the first choice comes through. i and he are too old and weak to be pulling on the wrenches and lifting on the parts.another choice is get a wrecker to pull it to Caterpillar and get them to fix it. they work on them. have a great day.

Lloyd

Good Morning Everyfriend!  It's only 39º here right now and heading for 58 later today.  The sun is up but it's cloudy

LLOYD, whatever I don't get moved, the floor guys will move and they don't complain and they don't ask for extra.  I just like to move some of the decorations and fragile stuff myself.  And I like to make their job as easy as possible. 

Mickie and I are sitting here waiting for the boinger so we can have breakfast and then take our morning walk. I'm not sure what will follow that but I'm sure something will rear it's had and beg for notice.  Of course, there are always the weeds!

I hope you all have a lovely day!
Make it your own in every way!

And PLEASE, come in and share it with all of us!

Good morning everyone...

A sunny day but chilly 23° F and the weather guesser mention that "s" word!! I thought of an "s" word  for her too. Wash your mouth with soap!! We are so wanting warmer weather to make leaves pop out, grass to grow and to get out and play in the dirt.

Have no plans for the day, know of things to be done now  they may or may not get done. If it warms up and the wind dies down I can work outside getting the one flower bed cleaned up. We shall see..

Enjoy your day everyone, stay safe.

Good morning everyone. 44 this morning and to be only 60 today. After 2 days in the low 70's that felt cool this morning. At least I got my 8 hours sleep last night and the sun is shining.

LLOYD  for the first time in almost 2 months the church my daughter and her husband go to was open Sunday. She said it felt good to go and not watch on Facebook and see the others there. I bet you could sell those recipe boxes you make. They sound beautiful.

JANE  like you I try to go outside every day. Even if I only walk aroung the parking lot and not much to see there at least I do get out and get some of the best exercise there is for me. 

PHYLLIS  my CNA went for groceries yesterday. I don't know how she does it with the way the stores are these days. I have not been in a market in quite awhile and that was way before this darn virus changed every thing. Seems like this state had more deaths from it yesterday than any before but most are from nursing homes. Wonder if normal causes are now being blamed on the virus.

AMY  my "att'em" left me and now is just do nothing days. With the coming of home freezers I did a lot of freezing food, faster than canning. Bad thing there is if power goes out and you lose every thing. I expect we will have more cpld days before we get the heat back for a few months. We have rain in the forecast for late tomorrow.

Had my coffee and it is about time I go get my breakfast. My tummy is saying Feed Me so better do just that.

Have a good day and stay safe.

Speaking of tenacity during this pandemic....

https://kimsmithdesigns.com/2020/04/11/the-tenacity-of-trees/

Amazing Trees!  Makes me want to see them in person!!

Where there is a will, there is a way for life. Thank you for sharing these photos of tenacious trees!!

Hello everyone,

I am back here after a long time away, but it is lovely to recognise so many names and faces.

I am still here in Scotland, though presently living on Deeside (NE Scotland) whereas I normally now reside in Edinburgh. My husband works in Aberdeen and I came up to our house here before our lockdown started - it is much more peaceful and much less populated than the city.

It is a fine sunny day here (though nothing like the temperatures some of you are having - I think it is around 12C [53 Farenheit]). I boldly decided it was high time to plant out my bedding plants (mostly marigolds and geraniums, as all of our garden centres are closed and these were all they had at the supermarket). AFTER I had done it (of course) I looked at the weather forecast and see we are getting sleet on Sunday. It's been mild as mild for weeks - typical. I just hope my plants survive.

Since I've been up here I've been working on our little garden a lot, and have also planted some perennials and shrubs - peiris, clematis, hebe, miniature rhododendron, sedums, scabious, verbenas, nepeta, periwinkle, that sort of thing. I am trying to garden for wildlife - I have a lot of bird feeders out, though they tend to get stripped by crows. Lately I have seen a heron in the stream at the end of the garden several times, he (?she) is beautiful. Now I am trying to persuade my husband that we should build a pond.

From what I read on here, our lockdown is a lot stricter than many of yours. We are only supposed to go out for groceries, medical appointments (or vets) and for daily exercise - they even say that exercise should not be for more than one hour a day, although thankfully in this rural area there are plenty of quiet walks and no-one is checking up on you. My daughters are in Edinburgh and say it is hard there to find a path that isn't crowded. One of them has started to walk along the shore instead. We are not supposed to drive to start a walk, it has to be from our own front door - which is easy for me, but must be very hard for people in the city. We are not allowed to have anyone visiting our home who does not already live there (so it is just me, my husband and our one remaining Siamese cat in this house).

The only shops open are food stores, some DIY stores (though we are told we are only to buy 'essential' items from them - eg to repair a broken pipe, not to redo our kitchens - however, when you walk around residential areas you see every man in sight painting, sanding, or repairing something!  I know that is not essential but I do think it is a good use of their time, and also probably helps to keep them sane), plus pharmacies and some banks. Our branch post office is inside the Spar shop in the village so that is open too, but on very reduced hours. The post office is very busy, and is now limiting people to posting a maximum of 3 parcels in one go - I understand why, but at the same time it is hardly surprising that everyone is posting more when they can't visit. My own mother is 92 and lives in very sheltered housing - the residents are not allowed to leave the premises at all (it's called 'shielding' here) as they are such high risk, so although they are well fed by the housekeeper, I am constantly sending Mum things like toothpaste, books, biscuits, dried fruit, home made cakes and so on - and now she is asking me to send stuff to many of her elderly friends too. I don't mind as I am not really making any other contribution. Our shops seem to be pretty well stocked after a period of shortages caused largely by panic buying - but you can see why people did it as if anyone in your household shows any symptoms everyone in the house is grounded for fourteen days, no going out at all. Also, at the outset, the government said we should all do our shopping online, but it very quickly became apparent that our supermarkets were woefully inadequate for the task, they could not possibly deliver to everyone and now they are actually saying that we have to shop in store unless we are classed as vulnerable. So we go to a large supermarket once every two weeks, and in between I rely on the two very small grocery stores in the village - but really they do have all we need, even if it is not always EXACTLY what we want.

Like many of you, I am so fed up with this thing, but feel I should not complain as there are so many people so much worse off. My son is a member of the ambulance service in Aviemore (Highlands). Fortunately it has not been so bad over there, he says the worst thing is having to wear all the protective gear. He has also had to stay away from home quite a few nights when cover has been needed in other villages. The Health Service arrange for him to stay in local hotels - including one really lovely one (because it was the only one whose owner was prepared to open up again) with 5* meals, but of course he would prefer to be at home. His wife is 'furloughed' from her own job so when he is home they are doing a lot of work on their new garden. They are both extremely outdoorsy people who would normally use every spare minute for surfing, kayaking, swimming, running, ski-ing - now they are diverting their energies into their vegetable beds!

There is no sign of our lockdown ending at present, or of our schools re-opening. My elder daughter normally works in a central London school and she is very worried at the thought of having to return to London and travel by tube, so really I hope they don't restart till the autumn. She is working from home and almost all of the curriculum is being delivered remotely.

Apart from gardening I am mostly reading, reviewing and writing. A friend who is a publisher sends me her new releases, which are always beautifully produced, for review, and I am also reviewing my own choice of books on my blog. Even if no-one reads it I get a kick out of writing it. I have taken part in some reading challenges set up by other bloggers, which are also fun - recent ones include Reading Ireland Month, and the '1920 Club' (in which we all chose any book published in 1920, read it and reviewed it, and one blogger collated all the responses. In 6 months time we will do a '1956 Club'.)

My walks are usually either along the banks of the Dee or along a path built on the old Deeside railway line, which was closed many years ago. If I go out around 7pm the evening birdsong is just wonderful.

I had better stop for now, thank you for having me back!

Rosemary

Rosemary, nice to see you back!  This virus has changed our lives like we never imagined so guess we will all have to learn to live with it, right?

I goofed, had checked in here & went over to Norm's Bait place & posted in there. Thought I was still here. I will tell you the important part but if you want to read the "jabber" you can hop over there.

Had e-mail from Jenny that she is also locked out so I gave her the run down about Safari & using Chrome.... at least what I could remember.  :crazy2:   

Love the link to the trees, Don, thank you. Couple years ago I had one growing in the grout of the brick pillars at the start of the walk to the porch. I know I took a photo of it before cutting it out, but no clue what SD card it might be on. I was afraid it would break the grout loose.

We have mulberries, elm & redbud trees that grow like weeds, can't keep them cut down or killed off so a constant struggle. I do love trees & have quite a few different types down along my bank of the river, ash, catalpa, elm, sycamore, various types of willow & even several baby maples. I have wisteria growing to the top & hanging down on elm with lots more starts on the ground, and tiger lilies growing almost the entire width of our bank. One of these days I will take photos to show what I'm talking about all the time.

Have a busy day & would love a nap but no time today. Getting eyes rechecked for a better fit for glasses. Am frustrated with needing glasses, spoiled & I know it!

Hello Everyfriend!  And welcome back, ROSEMARY!  Stop by often and let us know what you're doing.

I'm on my way to Dreamland!  I have to go for xrays tomorrow and I can go any time from 8 a.m. on so Cathy is picking me up about 7:45 so we can be the first ones there. 

I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy, healthy tomorrow.  And may God bless us, every one!

Rosemary I hope to see you back often, I enjoyed your commits. we went down to the Amish greenhouse today and bought lot of flowers an a few garden plants. Nancy Is in the mood to plant and beautify the Place. sure hope we do not get kicked out and not be able to enjoy them. i also hope to get our RV fixed so when things get straightened out we can travel some before we got too unable to. good night and sweet dreams. I am off to take my shot and night time meds.

Lloyd

Good morning everyone, short night again. Came in and first thing I got side tracked with Donklan's link.

DONKLAN  I loved all those trees and their determination to grow. I will watch it again, thanks.

JANE  I feel the same about those trees, amazing aren't they?

ROSEMARY  it has been years since you posted here. Welcome back. Hope you continue posting again. I know we are all getting tired of being told to stay home and wearing a mask to go out of our doors. I am lucky I have a CNA-Certified Nursing Assitant -who comes 2 hours a day during the week. She does my grocery shopping for me.

SHIRLEY  guess I will miss your jabber in Norms, I am lucky I can sit long enough to get here every day.

JANE  only medical things here are only if an emergency unless one has the symptoms of the virus. The governor has told everyone to wear a mask outside or they will be fined.

LLOYD  the good Lord willing you and Nancy will spend the rest of your lives in your home.

AMY  hello when you wake up.

Have a good day and stay safe.

Good Morning Everyfriend!  I'm up and moving and I have to be ready to leave here at 7:45 a.m.

GLORIA, I guess they consider a broken arm and emergency.  This is for a follow up of the xrays that were done the morning that I actually broke my arm.  The Orthopedist will then look at the xrays and I have a tele-visit with him on Friday morning!  And we go from there!

Now I have to "put an egg in my boot and beat it" or I won't be ready when Cathy gets here and we want to be in the office before others begin to come in. 

I wish you all a good day!
Make it your own in every way!

And don't forget to share it with all of us!

Good morning everyone...

Looks like a great day out there. We need to go for grass seed and some manure today. Kyle has a phone call coming from his RA Dr so we will stick around and go after that.

Jane, hope the xray shows improvement on your arm. Now are you going to make scrambled eggs or an omelet with those beaten eggs?

Gloria, here I am. Slow moving today but up :)

Lloyd, Gloria is right. Hope you and Nancy spend the rest of your time in your home.

Joy, Phyllis and Callie, hope all is well in your area.

Sandy good you can order your food and have Kelly deliver it.

Better get a wiggle on.

Enjoy your day everyone and stay safe!

Rosemary, it is so good to see you back here after such a long time.  And. interesting to read of how Scotland is dealing with Covid-19.  It sounds pretty much the same as here though the U.S. goes by the rules of each state or community, it seems.  Some are more restrictive than others.  Personally, I've chosen to stay at home exclusively and have almost everything we need either delivered or picked up at curb (kerb) side.  It is working pretty well so far.  I have discovered that we can "make do" with a lot of things that perhaps we once thought we couldn't tolerate.

donklan, I enjoyed "Tenacious Trees".  Trees are one of my favorite things and I rarely make a decision to have one cut down.  As usual, human beings can  always learn a lesson from nature.

Rainy last night but sun is shining today.  It is cooler so the heat is back on and feels good.  My fresh veggies were delivered from Papa Spud's yesterday and I'm very satisfied with everything.  The fresh blueberries are delicious.  The sugar snap peas are small but look good and are so fresh.  The only thing wrong with them is they have to be strung.  Oh, well....life is never perfect.

Take care, All.

good Morning everyone. 52º and sunny now @9:41 A M I havent been up long, but had a good sleep 7.5 hours just late going to bed.  supposed to get to 59º at noon and higher at 4 P M.hope you all have a good day just as you like it. as far as our living in our house, is going to court as soon as they open up the courts again. ( sad but the person causing the problem was a thought to be a good friend. when I was abel to work hard long hours, was doing demodulation and salvage. I gave him all of the lumber for the total house studs boxing and sheeting for the walls and roof.and helped him put it up and on. and the bricks and same with them, it is a all brick covered home. if you measure a square foot there are 8.5 bricks in it. at that time i was selling bricks to ride a way brick co in Tulsa oakl. for 15cents each you do the math adds up to lots of $$$. hurts my heart big time. for the turnaround, with him and the trying to claim equipment over there I loaned to him not gave him.I am leaving it to god to sway the truth with the court's. have a great day.

Lloyd

Good Morning from sunny, mild central Oklahoma,

Rosemary,  as I posted on the "Welcome" page, it's nice to see you here as well as on SeniorLearn.

It looks like it's snowing in my back yard because of the "cotton" floating off the cottonwood trees along the creek behind the fence.  It really scatters when birds fly onto the ground under the feeders. I hadn't thought about their wings flapping making so much "breeze".
 I'd noticed some thrushes pecking around in the flower beds and flying off with bits of mulch - probably nest building. Haven't seen any taking away the "cotton" but it would surely make a soft lining for a nest.

I had a "medical maintenance" appointment yesterday. Miss Emily was my "chauffeurette" and we had planned to do a few errands and pick up lunch on the way home.  However, I was in and out so quickly and errands didn't take that long, so we weren't ready to eat.  She isn't the chatterbox her sister is so we visited a bit and then she went on home.

Then I went for a hair cut.  So nice to have the shaggy dog look gone.

That was the busiest day I've had in almost 6 weeks so the most effort I plan to put out today is to get some desk work done.

Wishing Everyfriend Everywhere an Enjoyable Day.

Good Afternoon everyone!

Another isolated day from
the Covid_19 pandemic.. 

Yikes!  There seems to be more
people out and about in
the streets here as I watch them
from my Window to the world. 

Everyone who wishes to take a bus
ride must have a face mask on
or they cant ride.  And we can not
use the elevators here unless we are
wearing face masks.

Every day I wake up
hardly believing that we
are all suffering through
this,  with no solution any
time in the near future. 

Crazy as it seems,  this is our
reality. 

Callie.... you seem to be able to get
out and about now.  hopefully the virus
is not as bad in Oklahoma as it is
here on the East Coast. 

We have been lucky here in Maine,
so far, not too many infected,  but
everyone is still affected by this
curse.. 

I need to get back to my
usual postitive attitude..
which I am sure that everyone
will appreciate.. 

Have a good week,
Everyone and stay safe.

Sandy
 :smitten:

Hello Everyfriend!  It's been a strange day!  I was up and out earlier than I've been up and out since I retired!  The xrays today were a lot easier than the ones they took the day I broke my arm.  By lunch time, there was an email from Geisinger Health Services saying that I had a new report in my file.  I went in to see it and it was a two page report on the xrays.  In two pages, I understood one word....HEALING!  I suppose that's good but I'll wait until the Tele-visit with the Orthopedist on Friday morning and see what he has to say. 

I'm trying to get my last two rooms and my two bathrooms ready for the floor guys and that's not an easy job with only one useful arm.  I've decided that I have too much "stuff" in this house and a lot of it has to go.  I'm going to have to get very firm about getting rid of "stuff". 

AMY, if there's an egg in my boot, it's a good bet that it's scrambled.  But I'm pretty sure it's not edible.  Have you looked inside your boots lately?

Tonight is going to be an early one for me.  I don't know why I'm so tired tonight.  I sure haven't done enough to warrant it.  But my eyelids are drooping already!

So I'll wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy, healthy tomorrow.  And may God bless us, every one!

well I let time slip away from me. so i well just say good night and sweet dreams.hope to see you all tomorrow.

Lloyd

for Shirley

https://www.seniorsandfriends.org/index.php?topic=11.msg176188#msg176188 (https://www.seniorsandfriends.org/index.php?topic=11.msg176188#msg176188)

Good Morning Everyfriend!  I'm up. Mickie's been out for her first one and had her pill.  I've had my first cup of coffee and we're waiting for the boinger.

It was cold over night (down in the mid 30s and supposed to be sunny and in the mid to high 50s today but overnight tonight is going below freezing.  What kind of weather is this?

Today is laundry and cooking.  I have about 3 medium loads of laundry and I want to make a meatloaf sometime today in time for supper. Haven't figured out the rest of the menu but there's still time!

I hope you all have a good day!
Make it your own in every way!

And PLEASE...share it with the rest of us!

Good morning everyone, slept later this morning, good. 5 is better than 3 am, right? Cold 38 this morning, have the heat turned up and will be warmer soon I hope. Those few warm days we had sure felt good.

JANE  at times I wonder if our governor is being over careful but maybe not. Really better to be safe than sorry. From what I hear on the news it seems like some of "those in the know" -those who are so smart-say this can be around for a couple of years. Living closed up like we are now I sure can understand why some are demanding everything open up again.

AMY  I would like to see you get a
"wiggle on" :) :)

PHYLLIS  since I am one who never minded staying home this is really not bothering me too much but miss seeing the other tenants either  sitting in the lobby or on the porch, but now they seem afraid to go out of their apartments. I like sugar smap peas and bet yours are yummy.

LLOYD  onoly 38 this morning. I knew the warm days we had would not last. That good friend just used you to get what he wanted. He is one mean man.

CALLIE  all my appointments were cancelled when this mess started. If I need anything I can call and talk to them on the phone. So far so good with me.

SANDY  this town is not as bad as other places in the state and I am glad I live in this country town.

BUBBLE  thankd for the link to Shirley's photos.

SHIRLEY  your house is huge for one person. If that pool was in my back yard I would be in it on every haot day. A shame no one uses it at all. Sure a lot of brass to cut. Would not like doing it with one of those old push lawnmowers.

Have a good day and stay safe.

Good morning everyone..

Beautiful morning here. We are going to go to a restaurant to pick up some fish and chips for us and orders for friends this morning. The restaurant only does curb side pick up and is about 1  hr drive. Their fish  is well worth the drive...a special treat .
I will sew a bit more then off we go.

Gloria, some days mu wiggle is more of a woggle  :)) 

Shirley, your home is lovely.lot of up keep for sure but well worth it. I would also be in that pool every day.

Jane, we had your pork chops last night and wow wre they tender, no knife needed for those.

Better get ready to meet the day.

Enjoy your day everyone.. 

  :hb3: HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOY :hb3:

 :hb2: May you have a wonderful birthday. :hb2: 

Sunny but coolish this morning.  The heat is running and feels good.

Nice house, Shirley.  Brings back memories of "home" to me.

Not many businesses opening here as yet.  Nothing to officially open until tomorrow but I think people are being cautious.....understandably.  New Covid 19 cases are still being reported every day.

Take care, All. 

Well I thought I typed a post but it just disappeared... so I am trying again.

Here in NE Scotland it's been a sunny day so far. I will try to post a picture of the marigolds I potted up yesterday, but don't hold your breath, I am hopeless at all things technical.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXWV84qU0AINquj?format=jpg&name=900x900

Today I tried to construct my new bird bath - it only has 4 parts and the instructions are clear enough, but could I do it?  What do you think? It will have to wait for my husband to emerge from what he is now calling his 'den' - actually the spare bedroom, where he is working from home.

Amy - I hope you enjoy your fish & chips. Our chippie here in Culter re-opened this week (take-outs only). I have not had any, but it is known to be excellent, so I hope people support it. This morning I made spring green soup for later, also some lemon and ginger scones.

Today I have also been up to the vet to collect Gracie's medication. As well as her antacid the vet has put her on a laxative - I just hope the results are gradual!  I have reminded her where her litter tray is - though like most cats she is fastidious, so fingers crossed.  I was a bit worried about bringing the old lady up here when I left Edinburgh, as we have been with the same vet there for many years and the staff are wonderful. I have been so lucky, as there is a vet right here on the main road, and they have been immensely helpful. They are trying to avoid face-to-face consultations just now, unless it is really urgent, but they have been able to discuss things by phone, and to make sure Gracie has her pills. I tried putting them in her food (they are teeny) but she sussed that out straight away so now I have to take my life in my hands and push one into her mouth every evening. So far I have managed, I give her a treat snack immediately afterwards and she soon forgets about the assault I have made on her dignity...

Last night we watched a Bake Off special - it was from January, and was the cast of Derry Girls, one of our favourite series. The 'normal' Great British Bake Off is a hard fought contest with many heats with members of the public taking part, but these celebrity ones are much more laid back and absolutely hilarious. It was just what we needed. Other celebrity ones have featured people like John Lithgow, who was absolutely lovely - most of the celebrity shows are in support of a charity called Stand Up to Cancer, and they encourage people to hold their own baking events and raise more donations. Of course no-one can host anything at the moment, but I imagine time will come again.

I have just finished reading a book set in 1945 - The Village by Marghanita Laski - and have moved on to A Cornish Summer by Catherine Alliott. So far it is all about people with huge mansions overlooking the sea, and names like Hugo and Belinda. Escapism can be a good thing sometimes!  One of my daughters actually had a job au pairing for a couple called Hugo and Jenny - they were working in Brussels. She had a wonderful time with them. The first night she was there they brought out a bottle of champagne and Hugo decapitated it with his ceremonial sword - Anna had certainly never seen anything like that before!

We are going to Home Bargains later as I read somewhere that one way to keep the crows from stripping all the fat balls I put into the feeders for the small birds is to buy two hanging basket frames and fix them together to form a sphere around the feeder - then the small birds can get in and the big ones can't. I know all birds need to eat, but these crows are going through the fat snacks so fast I can hardly keep up with them. Home Bargains is one of the few non-food shops that has remained open. I read just now that more stores are going to be allowed to open up next week, but still not garden centres, which seems to me to be ridiculous, as the places are stuffed full of plants that will just die soon, and there is no reason wht garden centres can't operate with the same rules as supermarkets. They let B & Q (huge hardware store) stay open throughout, and they have a big gardening section. Oh well, it can't last forever, and I must say I am becoming more inventive about what I need for the garden. The new dwarf rhododendron that we bought specified a particular kind of pine mulch, which of course I did not have, so I collected lots of beech husks when out on my walk and put those, plus some little pine cones, round it - showed a very mature-savvy friend online and he said that was exactly what it needed. Hoorah - my gardening has always been very much trial and error (mostly error...)

So now I will go & have a late lunch.

I hope everyone is having a good day,

Rosemary

My internet is off & on this morning so tried to post earlier & wouldn't "fly", I copied & will try again about hour & half later. Good to see you, Rosemary.

Thank you all for the comments about the house (and dratted pool), my internet is going off & on every few seconds this morning so will cut this short. In spite of the size, it is cheaper to live here than move, so here I stay until I can't keep up. It is a lot of work for one person, but the river makes up for the extra work. Told my husband when he found this house that "this is that cabin by a creek" that we had looked for when we lived in the Kansas City area. I'm glad this one has running water & indoor plumbing and even electricity, phones & wi-fi (part time). We all have an image in our mind of what people talk about so now you know what my world looks like, thanks to Bubble!

 :smitten:  Happy Birthday, Joy!  :thumbup:

Quote from: Gloria on May 07, 2020, 06:49:57 AM
SANDY  this town is not as
bad as other places in the
state and I am glad I live
in this country town.

Gloria

Burrillville,  Rhode Island  looks like a
nice area of the county with access to
Boston Hartford Providence Cape Cod  etc.. 
Very centralized but tucked away... 
It seems very nice

Sandy

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOY! MAY YOU HAVE MANY MORE TO COME!!! :congrats:  :happybday:

Happy Birthday, Joy!

:nanadance:  :bravo:  :cheer:  :hello: Jenny!!!

It's a lovely cool morning in central Oklahoma.

Rosemary,  I have The Derry Girls in My List on Netflex...along with several other shows/series I have good intentions of watching.  However, there's an old saying about the road paved with good intentions!

Shirley,  I enjoyed seeing your path to the river and your beautiful yard.  Hubby and I had a silent responsibility "agreement"; he stayed out of my kitchen and I stayed out of his yard. Worked well for both of us and we both enjoyed the work the other one did.  :) 

Now time for the noon news. The virus statistics are getting boring but I would like to know if the prediction for rain/hail/wind in the wee hours has changed.

CUL8R....

Is light rain hewr and is supposed to do some shaking the patoe bin and hard rain and some wend and kep it up tomorrow here. good night and sweet dreams everyone. hope to see you all tomorrow.

Lloyd

I'm off to Dreamland!  I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy, healthy tomorrow!  And may God bless us, every one!

Good morning everyone..
Looks like we had a bit of snow and will get more today.. The drive was lovely yesterday, we were able to go into the restaurant to place and pick up our order to bring back home. Met our  friend in town and gave them their order. Fish was delicious!! I still have one piece left that will be for a meal for both of us as it is over 12 inches long.

Today is play catch up on things that didn't get done and deliver some masks.

Jenny, that is so frustrating when you can't get in here. Glad you have it all fixed  now. Dr called and told my friend no treatment  that the virus was a worse worry then her cancer.

Rosemary, I love fish..good fish well done. I want the wiggle cooked out of it too!

Phyllis, we still have the fire going, may let it go out during the day but it is on morning and again in the evening.

Better git!

Enjoy your day everyone.

Good morning everyone, wow I woke at  6:30 this morning, was light out and not dark. I could see where I was going without turning a light on. Nice.

We are in for rain later and maybe even snow mixed in with it.

JOY  Happy Belated Birthday.

A few places are set to open tomorrow but if people don't follow the rules the governor will close them again. Some restaurants can open if they have outside seating, or take out, no one inside.

SANDY  we used to be a quiet  town and most people knew each other, several different villages in town  and so quiet and peaceful. Then people from cities bought land and moved here and wanted what they had in cities. It has changed so much but still a small town but in area it is a good size. We used to go walking through the woods explor ing and find old cellar holes and tind fragments of crockery and even arrow heads. Now every thing is private property. Depending on  traffic we are about half an hour from Providence, a little over an hour to Boston, longer to Hartford and depending on the season it can take up to 2 1/2 hours to get to the Cape. In summer it seems everyone  is heading there but in winter it is not that long. Have not been out there in years now. We are close to the Mass. border and also the Conn. border where the 3 states come together.

SHIRLEY  I hope you have closed off part of that big house you have so you do not have too keep up with the whole house. Heck I cannot keep up with the 3 rooms I have without help.

ROSEMARY  your Marigolds showed up great. I had to laugh because I used to start seeds in cans like that to get an early start and then plant them outside when it warmed up. I started tomato seeds like that and when it got warm enough I had healthy plants to put out.

AMY  I cannot picture you as anything but wiggling, you are always so busy, oh I do remember those days. Now I fell like I am just a lazy person but just cannot do much of anything.

Guess I better go have my breakfast, want to peel some apples for an apple crisp, I cannot put it in the oven so if every thing s ready CNA can do that and take it out when it is baked.

Have a good day and stay safe.

This is reported to be the coolest spring we have had in 20 years and I believe it.  The weather forecast is calling for a frost this weekend.  The heat pump is still going strong and feels good.

Rosemary, I confess to some envy of your gardening.  I am no longer able to do that and my garden has mostly turned to weeds and out-of-control English ivy, wild strawberry, Virginia Creeper and other unknown things.  The ferns keep fighting for survival.  I don't worry about it too much except to ask my son to keep the house from being enveloped.  I wasn't a very good gardener but enjoyed being out of doors.  My approach to gardening was to plant something and then intone the mantra over it...."Now GROW, dammit!"  Sometimes it worked.

I'm glad to see all of our group are back from wherever that place is that we go when our computers aren't working.  I always think we are "out there" somewhere floating around in space trying so hard to find our way back.  It's always such a relief when everyone comes home again.

Take care, All.

:snowball:  :snowball:  :snowball:

I take hubby each morning out for a Timmies....and on our way into town noticed vehicles heading south with a good inch of snow on them :eek:   We said to each other must be folks from way up north only to find out as we came closer to town it was there!!!

Phoned my friend who lives north of us to say no crushed pineapple in the store only to find out they had 2-3 inches of snow........told her not to share please.

If someone sees Spring tell her to get her hinney up here!!

Good Morning Everyfriend!  It sounds like we're all having the same kind of weather.  Ours is predicted to be below freezing overnight and rain all day today turning to snow overnight.  I'm going out and try to cover the plants that are already in bud and the ones that are just peeking their noses out.  Christy was supposed to come to start the gardening tomorrow.  I wonder how weeds feel when you pull them out of the snow?

My visit with the orthopedic dr this morning via computer was pretty good.  My understanding of "healing" in the report I got yesterday was true.  He enlarged on that and said that it looks to be healing well and I can do whatever I want or feel like I can with that arm.  No restrictions.  Just continue all the exercise and keep doing whatever I've been doing.  Sounds good to me!

AMY, that place you go for fish dinners sounds like a winner!  It also sounds like a local place and not part of a large chain.  Sometimes, the locals are the best.

I have to go out and try to cover my rhododendrons and a couple other things before the freezing weather sets in.  The rhodos have buds on them and I don't want them to freeze.  My dogwood trees are budding too but they're way to big to cover.  I hope they're hardy!

I guess I better get started with the covering because I'm sure it will take me longer than usual.  That "no restrictions" thing sure doesn't mean I'm back to normal yet.  I can do lots of stuff.  It just takes time!  But my mantra sets in...."Where there's a will, there's a way".  I can do it!

You all have a wonderful day!
Make it your own in every way!

And don't forget to share!

:thumbup: Yea, Janie, on the healing... :thumbup: 

Bummer you & Amy (& others) going to freeze & get snow. We are way into spring.

I've been on the phone with 3 Cox people already this morning, same old problem of off & on... but like last time, the phones work but not internet. I am out of patience with being confined and NO INTERNET? :tickedoff:   It is instant on & off so very irritating. A tech will come tomorrow to check outside (as if that will help!) but no inside jobs yet. I may sleep until that time. Don't worry if I can't get in here, internet & not my fault.  :tissue:

Good afternoon everyone - our weather has gone off too, and is now cloudy and damp, with heavy rain forecast. I might need to bring those marigolds into my new mini greenhouse tonight I think. My dwarf rhododendron is also about to flower and i don't have any garden fleece. but I will try using bubble wrap. Must try to remember to do it before dinner, I don't want to be wandering about out there in my dressing gown in the dark (though it wouldn't be the first time...)

Today we went early to B & Q for hardware supplies, and I was able to pick up a few plants and gardening things.  Then I had to queue for Asda - I got a lot of groceries there that our local shops do not have, but I was still jolly glad to get out again, I think I am becoming paranoid.  So glad to get back to the house and hear nothing but the birds and the river (and my husband now sanding something down - I don't know what he would do at the moment if he hadn't found all this DIY to catch up on...)

My mother emailed me to ask me to send her a number of things, which I can and will do, but one of them was yoghurt!! I'm not sure what she was thinking of, as it would need not only to survive the postal service but then would be quarantined by their housekeeper for another 3 days. So she will have to get someone else to buy her that. I am making her a parcel with fudge, biscuits, dried fruit, toothpaste, and other stuff she requested.

Callie, just make sure you have the subtitles on for Derry Girls. We struggle to understand what they are saying sometimes, and I have an Irish best friend and a daughter-in-law who comes from Ballymena! But with the subtitles it is brilliant.

Amy, we used to love Tim Horton's when we lived in Newfoundland - we had never had muffins like those before, so delicious. The other thing my husband was talking about the other day was taters - I don't know if they are just a Newfie thing?  He was wondering what seasoning they use to make them taste as they do.

Phyllis - I wouldn't worry about your garden, the big thing here now is to garden for wildlife and let at least part of your plot 'run wild', with lots of undergrowth for the birds and insects to enjoy. Ivy is especially good for them. I would like to do that myself but my husband would never be able to stand it! I do have a little pile of twigs that I make him leave in place, as these are meant to provide overwintering shelter for insects. And I am still working on that idea for a pond.

Gloria - your town sounds to me like the one in Murder She Wrote! Is it anything like that at all? You do look a lot like Jessica in your photo.

I have just missed a call from one of my daughters, so i had better get off here now for a while.

Have a good day everyone,

Rosemary

GOOD MORNING, EVERYFRIEND 💐

So happy to be here and welcome back to everyone that made it back in also! 

JANE, so happy to read the good report from your orthopedic doctor.  Sounds like you have done everything right and you are healing well🥰

So nice to see your newsy post, ROSEMARY.  Happy to see you joining in here with us.

SHIRLEY, I am sad you are having problems with your internet.....so frustrating and just not nice to have to deal with this.  We have our issues with our cable company as well, and blame a lot of it on the internet is just stretched to its limit with every one working from home.

WOW, AMY.....that is a load of snow for this time of the year!  Sure glad you did not get that at your house.  I have heard that some cancer treatments have been cancelled.  This virus is a scary thing🙏  Your fish take out sure sounded yummy.....glad the got the "wiggle" out of it for you 🤣🤣🤣

PHYLLIS, it is good to see you....boy did I miss our group.....

GLORIA, it is sad to remember what our areas were like back in the day, and now see what they have become.  Your community still seems very quaint.  Enjoy the Apple Crisp when it is done and the visit from your special friend, your CNA💞💞

BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISHES 🎂 JOY 🎉   How exciting to know that you will be able to be with your youngest son on Mother's Day 💗

I got on my iPad to look at the outdoor cameras to see if the grass watered out front and saw my youngest son scurrying up to the door with a beautiful flower arrangement and a gift..... this was around 7:15 AM.  I was SO excited to see him and watched him come and go, but it made me sad to know that he was RIGHT HERE and I did not get to see him in person😢😢

It is another beautiful day, so I am going to get outside and get me some Vitimin C🌞🌞🌞

Enjoy your day 💗
Jenny

SHIRLEY we have had strong wend all day and has been coat weather all day out side here. I got some work done in the shop and am shot, not used to steady work now days. good night and sweet dreams for you all.

Lloyd

I'm off to Dreamland.  I got the plants covered.  If we don't get high wind with the snow, they should be Ok.

I made barbecued hamburger for supper over my very old recipe which for some reason just happened to turn up on my desk one day.  It's pretty much the way I remembered making it all these years and it was pretty good.

I hope you all had it good day and I hope your computers all behave from now on.  I need to get a new keyboard.  I think all those years of having Kiran after school and having her eat her snacks while she played games on the computer have begun to show up on the keybard.  But that's not going to happen until I can go look at them in person.

Things are beginning to open in my town and the dog groomers have been allowed to open but the "people groomers" aren't so my hair just keeps growing.  I finally figured out what my hair looks like.  It lookes like Grandpa Walton's on The Walton's show except I have a little more in the font.

I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy, healthy tmorrow. And may God bless us, every one!

GOOD NIGHT.....
SWEET DREAMS TO EVERYFRIEND🥰

For Amy

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Good Morning Everyfriend!  I have to get moving this morning so I'm ready in case Christy shows up to do any gardening.  And I have to make dog food before I can feed
Mickie Snickers!  Have a great day!

Good morning everyone..

Woke to a winter wonderland out there and a nice sunny day. Laundry will soon be blowing on the line.
 
 We need to take the garbage to the dump later on. We can't take our lawn rakings as there is a no burn ban in place.

Should bake bread as we are down to the last loaf..plus I need to pick chicken apart for the dogs food.  Wonder what it would be like if we didn't have all these things to do??? I can also sew too:)

Jenny ,good morning.. can't remember if I had sweet dreams or not but had two bed partners that when they dream their feet go like they are running..

Jane, yes it is a Mom and Pop place and thank goodness one can order half portions. I ordered a salad one time and there was enough for 4 meals!!! Now I just order a side salad which is still huge.

Rosemary, taters are at all Tims, I will see if I can find out the spice on them for you. Right now there is only drive through but when it opens up I will ask the girls.

Gloria, did you get this snow?? One has to admit when looking out at it ,it is so pretty gracing the trees....soon the sun will melt it away.

Better get the laundry on the line.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

Your snow is beautiful, Amy, a long way from what goes on here. BUT, it did get pretty chilly last night. I had turned off the furnace so inside the house got down to 62. Tom & Callie spent the night out and rushed inside when I got up, each looking for a furnace vent to sit on. Gave up & turned the furnace back on for them. They aren't asking to go back out after breakfast!

Wishing all a good week end and Happy Mother's Day to all MOTHERS!

The outside thermometer said it was 42 here when I got up so it is a chilly, windy morning here, too.  But, the sun is shining brightly and that helps.

Nothing planned today but I might try to make up some pie crust. I am terrible at it but I keep trying.   Of course, I probably could easily find something else to do.  ;)

Make it a good day, everyone.

Good morning everyone, weather guessers were wrong again. We did get r ain late yester day but no snow and already the walkways are dry and it is quite windy and 34 but feels like 25. Not a day to go out. I have the heat turned up again. #1 son called late yester day after noon and said he was bringing me supper. Hi ad ordered for takeout from a place we had eaten at before for Mothers Day. I got half a chicken, French Fries, pasta and a salad and a couple of biscuits.  I still hsve a lot of the chicken and never touched the pasta or the salad. Enough for 2 more meals for me and my small apetite.

PHYLLIS  I liked planting flowers and also my vegetable garden. Gave me a good excuse to get out of the house and still be doing something. 

AMY  I hd a feeling it would get cold here now aftter the few spring days we had. We had nicer days in mid winter than we have today.

JANE  looks like you had the same forecasrt we had. We did not get any snow but it  is cold. I will not be going outside today. Glad the restrictions are over but don't push it too much to begin using the arm.

SHIRLEY  a few weeks ago Cox went out here, TV, internet and phone, too. I do have to get a new cell phone.

ROSEMARY  I have not been away from my home since New Year's day and not I just as soon stay here until til virus goes away.  I have heard so many things on the news about how long it will last and some of it scares me. This town in no where near the ocean. I live in the state of Rhode Island and it is the smallest state in the USA.  This town is as far fron the shore as can be had here. Wish I did look like Angela Lansbury (Jessica). She is nice and tall and I am now under  5 feet  tall, shrinking in old age.

JENNY  you were missed while you were cut out from here. This is really the only place I go every day.
My CNA  is more like a friend as we have a lot of fun together. She has a wonderful sense of humor. The aoole crisp turned out good like it always does. Added some frozen cranberries to it and made it even better. Even where this building I live in was once nothing but a low hill full of trees. More people in this town and one market that I will  never go into because it is dirty and produce is half rotten. I thought it was D that we get from the sun.

JANE  MY HAIR IS STARTING TO LOOK LIKE PHYLLIS DILLARS oops that darn caps lock.When I get up in the morning my hair is stading out from my hear in all directions.

AMY  we did not get any snow, it started raining about 4  yesterday and it is dry now and cloudy and windy.

Have a good day and stay safe.

Hello everyone, from a wet and chilly Scotland.

The weather has really gone off now here too - I went out for my walk at lunchtime to avoid the rain that the BBC had forecast for 3pm - and needless to say it started to pour before 2pm and I was soaked. It was still nice to see the rain though.

My husband has chosen today to paint all the inside wood of the windows (he's already done all the outsides) so we have had practically every window open all day and I am freezing. I just hope we can close them before bedtime. Yesterday he took the blinds down in our bedroom, and although he had reinstated the curtains by the time we went to bed, he had not put the blinds back up. I knew the early morning light (we have very long hours of daylight up here in summer, and very long dark nights in winter) would wake me up, so i decided to sleep in the back bedroom where he had not been able to get the blinds of the fittings for some reason. He said he would stay in the main room  as 'nothing wakes me up' - but when I got up this morning he said the sunlight had in fact woken him up at 4.30am!  Those blinds are still not back up so I may be spending another night in the other room (where I slept very well..)

The forecast for tonight is terrible - heavy rain and strong winds, much lower temperatures. We brought my new mini greenhouse in from the balcony to the sitting room, where it is standing on a doormat, and I rescued the other bedding plants that I had not yet got into the ground - they had been waiting on the garden table but I have 'locked them down' :) in the greenhouse for tonight. Every year I am daft enough to think a few sunny warm days mean summer - after all the years I have lived up here I really should know better.

Wow Gloria, your supper delivery sounds great!  I do think American restaurants serve much larger portions than we are used to here, though ours are getting bigger. My mother eats like a bird these days, though thank God she is fit and healthy at 92. It seems to me that older people seem to go one way or the other - they eat much less or they never stop eating. My late mother-in-law was obsessed with food until the few weeks before she died, she was very overweight, which did not help her mobility problems, but I suppose food had become one of her only interests in life, as she could no longer see well enough to read or to paint.

I had some good news from my younger daughter Madeleine today, as she had received her end of year results for her art course, and managed to get an A in both the dissertation and the practical art. i was so pleased for her, especially as they all had to adapt their ideas at the last minute so that whatever they did could be sent to their tutors electronically. Madeleine had planned to do most of her work in ceramics and print making this term, and she ended up having to do other things that could be done at home - though I am sure the tutors have been very understanding, it is a great department at Dundee. Thank goodness M still has one more year to go, as the poor students who graduate this year have not been able to hold their end of year show or anything.

I am really enjoying the book I picked up last night, Class by Jenny Colgan. It is just the sort of escapism I needed!

Phyllis, is pie crust the same as pastry?  If so, I am HOPELESS at it. I do a lot of baking and can turn out a decent cake or scone, but pastry is something that has eluded me for years. My elder daughter Anna has no trouble with it but doesn't seem to be able to work out what I am doing wrong/ I have shed bitter tears over dough that just falls to pieces when I try to roll it out. The last time this happened I was so desperate that I just flung all the bits of dough into the food processor and turned it on - and hey presto, out came perfect pastry that was easy to roll. I did think that, as we are always told to handle pastry as little as possible, not re-roll it, etc it might be really tough and horrible, but by some miracle it was fine. If I have to make it again I will just put the ingredients straight into the processor and not even try doing it by hand. Sometimes I simply buy Jus-Rol, I used to feel guilty as that is something my mother would never have done, but now I think, what the hell, I'm not going to waste my time crying over pastry.

Amy - thanks, I will look forward to hearing the secret of those taters!

I am going to have to stop now as I have been roasting a chicken and it is ready.

I hope everyone is having or has had a good day (it is already 8.30pm here).

Best wishes, Rosemary

Rosemary:  I would love your scone. 

Jenny:  We had most of the family here, they arrived this morning and we all sat outdoors spaced appropriately  Great visit and we met a new girlfriend to one of the grands.  We wore our masks too. 

We and the family and friends follow all the rules but sad to hear that too many are mucking up state orders by doing their own thing. 

 

TO All Mom's, Happy Mothers day, to my Mom, there's no question that you are the reason I am who I am and will be forever.

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Good night and Happy mothers day tomorrow to all of you; good night and sweet dreams.

Lloyd

Good Morning Everyfriend and HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL THE MOTHERS!

I realized on my way to bed last night, that I hadn't checked in for most of the day or out for the night but I see you've all been busy.

Speaking of pie crust....all my life I've said that if it didn't matter and no one else would be eating it, I made great pie crust but if I had to take it somewhere or people were coming to my house to eat it it was terrible.  My older sister got my grandfather, the baker's, touch.  Hers is "never-fail" good!  I've resorted to buying it, too and I don't apologize for doing so.  At least it's edible!

Rosemary, I have to tell you a story about my sister and I making pies when we were still in high school.  I was trying to roll mine and it kept breaking.  My father (who was also a good cook) came into the kitchen and commented that it looked like I had a problem.  I said, "I'm trying to roll this pie crust but it keeps breaking."  My father said, "Looks like it might be too short."  (meaning too much shortening in it).  I answered, "It is!  But I don't know how to make it longer!"  He laughed so hard he shook!  Then he told me what I needed to do and it worked!  But I still have lots of problems with pie crust (or pastry as you call it)

Christy came to do some gardening yesterday but we both decided that it was too cold so we did some heavy visiting and then she went to the WM Garden Center to get some stuff we needed and then to spend some quality time with Frankie (her daughter).  They will both be back today to weed and plant.  So I don't know if I'll get back in before bedtime. 

CAROL, sounds like you had a nice family visit and got to meet a new "friend".  How nice!

I guess I better post this before the boinger goes off and announces breakfast and the start of activities around here.

I wish you all a lovely day!
Make it your own in every way!

And don't forget to share it with all of us!

Good morning everyone...

Chilly here....no new snow but still chilly. Had a phone call to wish happy Mother's day before my first cup of tea!. Yesterday the wind blew the laundry straight out and it dried in no time despite snowing at times. Got a lot of little jobs done yesterday ,ones that I had kept putting off...you know the tomorrow job. :)
Today is a day of rest..would like to just play in the sewing room.
My Mom taught me to make pastry...hers was always perfect.....don't remember any fails and she ,thankfully taught me how to do the same. Our problem now is the pie is too big for us to eat it up so friends help out.My pumpkin recipe (Mom's) makes two pies so again thankfully the neighbour helps out.

Jane have fun gardening today with Cristy and Frankie..

Mycheal, thank you. Your Mom did an amazing job at raising a fine gentleman  like you.

Better get ready to go out...pup is already wearing his collar to go.

Enjoy your day everyone..Happy Mother's Day.  Stay safe

My mother was wonderful at making pie crust (pastry) but it just didn't come down to me in the genes.  I came across a site yesterday selling kitchen towels and one of them had the saying on it, "OMG! My mother was right about everything!"  It made me laugh really hard.  Is there anyone of us who as teenagers would have ever believed that we would come to realize that?

Nice card, Gloria.  Thank you.  And try to stay warm.  Just think...in a few weeks we will be wishing for cooler weather again.   ::)

Well done to your daughter, Rosemary.  It is hard for the young people to deal with this upside-down world that we are all facing now.  Is Madeline at the College of Art at the Univ. of Dundee?

Nice to see you here, mycheal.  That doesn't happen often enough.

Take care, All.   

good morning every one , especially you mothers. following is a link if you all might like to hear our preacher preach on line live. he will be on line at 9:20 AM C T S time. 47º and bright sun here this morning.calling for high of 58º today. have a great day.            ( www.ncc.burg.com )

Lloyd

Phyllis, I wished for cooler weather & GOT IT! Had to turn the furnace back on. Everything leafed out, amazing how green it got so fast, but windy this morning. Need to trim my hair & shower, was too tired last night to trust myself with the razor blade to trim hair. These trims can turn into a sheering sometimes.  :o

My internet is still off & on so no fun. Will do something Monday! Lots of "do somethings" for next week. Gloria, couldn't get the card to come in... darn Cox! Will try again later. I have to do that with a post, save it on WordPad until I catch Cox at the right moment (or mood)!

Callie cat is laying in front of the "toe warmer-vent" by the sink & I am at least 30' away & her snoring is so loud I'm surprised she can sleep with all that noise!

Gloria, thank you for the lovely card......many ways to say Mom.

Lloyd tried your link and this one will take you to the service...thank you for sharing..

http://www.nccburg.com/watch-live

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

Good morning everyone, wow did I sleep great. Almost 9 hours.Making up for not sleeping at all Friday night. 38 now and still too windy even with all the sunshine for me to go outside again.

ROSEMARY  overweight I am not. At my highest I was 150 pounds but now holding at 80. My doctor worries but I feel OK and this was what I weighed untill after I had my 3 babies and stayed about 110 pounds. I eat little now and only because I know I have to. Put something sweet and unhealthy in front of me and I can eat that. Great for your daughter M. I have heard here that some students in colleges are sueing for money back because they cannot enjoy campas life. I no longer make piecrust, cannot roll it out, and I always preferred making pies instead of cakes.

CAROL  sad how some think they do not have to follow rules. Our governor let some places open Saturday but if the rules aren't followed she will close them again. Restaurants can serve if they have outside seating or it is still takeout.

JANE  like you I buy the piecrust if I want a pie but not flaky like home made. My Mom used lard in her dough, first time I made a pie with no recipe except on a bot tle of Mazzola oil and it came out great that is how I always made them. My daughter does not make pies or much desserts. Both my DILs make theirs with shortning. I did come back in late yesterday and posted my JL Mothers day greeting not knowing how I would be this morning, looks like no one saw it.

AMY  I never had a problem with too much pie, my family loved them and now when I do get one made I share with a few of my neighbors.

PHYLLIS  thanks. Yes our Moms were smarter than we thought they were when we were teens and thought we knew it all. Glad you like the JL card. I thought it fit in here with people from all over posting.

SHIRLEY  i HAVE HAD  trouble with my email being very slow since Cox updated andd we got a new box. Then of course Google had to update too and made email worse. I was so used to things the way they were that now I don't enjoy my PC as much anymore. Will not ask my grandson to come and check it out. He has been working from home a few years already and now his wife is, too. My son and DIL are no longer baby sitting my great grandson either. He loves attention and with his parents working at home he keeps bothering them.

AMY  thanks, glad you like the JL greeting.

Have a great day and stay safe.

Oh dear, I just wrote and (I thought) posted my message for today - and hey presto, it has totally disappeared.

Haven't got time to write it all again (you may well be relieved to know...)

Today we have sunshine and snow, one after the other. I am glad I brought my mini greenhouse inside, and that I brought my unplanted bedding plants in with it. My husband is still insisting on painting the insides of all the window frames though, so we have open windows to 'enjoy'....think I will go for a walk soon!

Our First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has just announced that our lockdown will continue, though we can now go out for exercise more than once a day. Some people are complaining, but I think she is right - we need to try to get rid of this thing, if we go back to everything too soon it will just surge again.

Our Mothering Sunday in the UK is in March, I always tell my children not to waste their money on all the nonsense in the shops - a card or a call is much more valuable to me.

Phyllis - yes, Madeleine is at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee, and it has been part of the University of Dundee for some time now. She started off at Goldsmiths in London, which is quite prestigious, but she was very unahppy there, and the teaching was almost non-existent. She changed to Dundee and her experience there has been so different - excellent tuition, lots of support, and she has also found it a lot easier to make friends.

I loved all the stories about making pastry - and I know, if I make a cake for home it usually turns out well, but if it is for a gift or a bake sale it's more often a disaster.

Going to get my walk done now - hope everyone has a good day (and I hope this message does actually work...)

Rosemary

Good morning.  Still a few minutes of morning left.

Gloria, thanks for sharing the JL card.  it was beautiful !!!

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers, grandmothers, and all the others. 

It is still chilly, but the sun is shining !  And, that really helps.

I hope everyone will have a wonderful special day !!

Joy

we went to oldest daughter's for a good feed today and good visit. I made several call's  to the mothers we know. time now to wish you all good night and sweet dreams. hope to see you all tomorrow.

Lloyd

Sorry, I just lost my long post and I'm too tired to do it over.  I'll try again tomorrow.  Good Night my friends!

Quote from: JaneS on May 10, 2020, 10:21:49 PMSorry, I just lost my long post and I'm too tired to do it over.  I'll try again tomorrow.  Good Night my friends!

Should be saved as a draft. Click "Reply" and there should be a bar that says "Show drafts" below "Attachments and other options". On the far right of that bar, there's an arrow button. Click that, then click the subject of the most recent one and it will load it for you :)

I am sad to see that I must not have posted my quick Mother's Day greeting to you all early this morning.  It was done and I thought sure I posted it....I am sorry😢

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to EVERYFRIEND.......I hope you all enjoyed your day.  I spoke/FaceTimed with 3 of my son's and their families and to my Dad and Diane?  Dr. Dave and Family came over and we sat on the patio social distanced from one another.....this is the first time Michele or the kids have been out of their home and away by car in over two months, other tha; Michele going for chemo. They all said how strange it felt.  It was WONDERFUL🥰🥰🥰🥰

CAROL, your family visit sounded delightful.....nice to meet the girlfriend of one of the grandsons.  Did you happen to see on the News tonight about the coffee shop in Castle Rock that opened up today in spite of the orders?  It was PACKED like sardines in the place, sitting at tables and standing around with nary a face mask in sight! It made me sick and then MAD as heck....that is why I am so afraid of them opening up all of the eating establishments! 

GLORIA, I thank you for your wonderful Jacquielawson card.  They are always very appreciated by me. 

JANE, how nice you got to visit with Christy and Frankie and that they were able to plant in your garden. 

Telephone call so I best post this NOW.

Have a wonderful evening.

Jenny

Good morning everyone, as usual I woke in the middle of the night again. Always happend after I  night when I got my 8 hours sleep. Oh well, gives me time to slowly wake  up, enjoy my coffee and breakfast and not rush before Yvette gets here.

ROSEMARY  you are not the first one whose post went into cyber space and disappeared. I think it has happened to everyone. They are sta rting slowly to open things here and I hope it is safe to do it. In the hospitals they say the new cases are going down from this darn virus.

JOY  since I payed for membership in JL I might as well use my money's worth. I do love the greetings she and her staff create.

LLOYD  glad you enjoyed Mothers day aand I sure hope Nancy did. It was a day for her and all Moms.

JANE  sorry the gremlins stole your post.

MICHAEL  will have to save your latest hint and try to remember to use it next time I loe a post. Thank you.

JENNY  glad Michele was able to get ay from the house for other than a medical procedure. I have not been any place since New Year's day. As long as I can get outside for fresh air and some walking at times I am OK. If I had to stay in here and not get out at all I would flip my wig.

AMY  beat you today.

Have a good day and stay safe.

 Good Morning everyone. Gloria I do not know who is the coppie cat. but we seam to be doing about same. I woke up at a little after 3:00 A M this morning and am still tired but could not get back to sleep so here I am. have a good day. I suppose I will as usual drop off watching T V today. see you all later.

Lloyd

Good morning everyone..

Rain and or snow could be in the forecast today. Need to get back into the sewing area and tidy up.....then back to sewing.

Not wanting to stop yesterday I put two tv dinners in for supper. Now I remember why I haven't bought them in 10 -15 years..guess we are just spoiled.

Gloria, yes you sure did beat me in. Enjoy your time with your CNA

Jenny, nice that  Michele felt well enough to be out and enjoy the day! Sounds like you had a wonderful Mother's day.

Lloyd, good morning to you and Nancy

Enjoy your day everyone ,stay safe.

Good morning.  Nice sun shining in my windows this morning even though it is a little chilly at the beginning of the day.

I had a good long chat with my son and dil in Virginia yesterday.  We had so much to talk about.   Unfortunately, after that the vertigo decided to come back and I spent the rest of the day in bed.  It is better this morning and I'm hoping it will stay away today. 

Nothing planned for today except for laundry and regular household chores.  If the "dizzies" stay away I'll fix the steak dinner that I planned for yesterday.  I wouldn't want that to go to waste.

Take care, All, and MAKE it a good day.

Good afternoon everyone

Phyllis, I do hope your vertigo has gone. Last year there was some kind of virus (not THAT virus...) going around here that made one very dizzy - I had it and it was so frightening, as at the time I didn't realise that anyone else had it, so I really started to think I was having a stroke or something. I remember walking through a shopping centre and feeling that i needed to hold on to the handrail to stop myself falling over. It would go away for a few days then come back again; eventually it did stop. I then discovered that quite a few of my friends (no-one I had actually been in contact with) had had it too, some much worse than me. My daughter's work colleague had had to stay in bed. Another friend had been worried, like me, that she had something really serious. It certainly gave me a lot more sympathy for people who have chronic vertigo. I do hope you are feeling better.

I'm glad to say my husband has at last stopped his window painting for a while - yesterday, with the snow and sleet outside and all the windows wide open, it was like the Arctic in the house. Today it is still cold but sunnier, I have only been up to the Co-Op and post office so far, will have a proper walk later.

I finished the book I was reading, Class, the one set in a boarding school in Cornwall, I really enjoyed it. Now I must move on to one of the books sent to me by the publisher. My son also sent me a book (we have been choosing books for one another), it is called Lion and seems to be a true story about a poor Indian boy who got lost on a train, ended up living on the streets of Calcutta, then eventually lived in Tasmania as an upper-middle class Australian. Books like this are really much more my son's kind of thing than mine, but we are trying to increase one another's reading experiences!

Last night I watched the next episode of The Great British Sewing Bee - this week it was children's clothes, and they had to make little smocked dresses of the kind Princess Charlotte wears. I used to have them for my daughters (not that I made them, there was a company called Heskia that specialised in them, they were so gorgeous). They also had to make a food item out of a sleeping bag - the winner of that round made a bunch of grapes, which was very impressive. It's a good fun show and takes your mind off the world for a while.

The UK Prime Minister made a speech last night about partially lifting the lockdown. The Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish governments have chosen to stay with the stricter measures for now, and I myself am happy about this. I have a lot of faith in our Scottish First Minister, and it would be awful to see a resurgence of this bug. However, I do appreciate that many people are suffering huge financial issues because their businesses or jobs are affected. So anyway, for now we here in Scotland carry on in lockdown, but we are now permitted to go out for exercise as frequently as we wish, which should be a help to people cooped up in small flats with children. For me, in this weather one walk is enough - yesterday I experienced sunshine, sleet, hail and snow in the course of my single 2 hour walk through the countryside.

Just noticed it is already past 4pm - where did those hours go? (Actually a good part of them went in phone calls to the agent who manages my mother's old flat for her, as her tenant had locked himself out and wanted to get the locks changed - luckily the agent is good and told him he was not to do that unless there were no spare keys anywhere, and we discovered that an old friend of Mum's living near the flat still had some.  This took at least 6 calls!)

Have a good day everyone,

Rosemary

OK, I'm going to try this again and hopefully, it won't go off into space and leave me speechless.

The guys are here working on my floors and I'm doing laundry....basically, the bedding and the bath mats.  And I'm trying to stay out of the way. 

yesterday, Christy worked all morning and half of the afternoon in my yard.  Frankie joined her when she got home from work.  We have two very large bags of weeds and another bucke sitting beside the bags.  There is fresh mulch on most of it and she got some things ready for the next time when her husband is coming to do some of the extras.  She's also getting more mulch and maybe will get it down today before the rains come.  I have tomato plants and pepper plants!  Also some very nice flowers.  And my dogwood trees are in leaf and the flowers are budding.  Christy does this yard work for a combination Bday/Mothers Day present for me and I love it!  It's easy to see that she enjoys gardening and she knows what she's doing.  She inherited that from her farmer Grandfather.  Also, her husband is retired from supervising parks and recreation area for whatever county in Maryland Frederick is in.

My local son will be by to pick up the bags of weeds and get rid of them for us.  The local place isn't open yet but he knows someone who knows a place he can take them.

I cleaned out the fridge this morning and stripped my bed.  By the time they finish the floor in my bedroom, I'll have the fresh bedding all ready to go back on the bed.  And I have a bag of "chicken feed" ready for Christy to take home with her.  They also raise chickens and she frequently brings me eggs.  So I save whatever the chickens will eat until she comes up and then they get it.  And that's pretty much anything that people don't want any more.

I guess I'll go over and try to post this.  If I missed commenting on anyones activities, I'll try to add that when I post this.  I'm typing it off line and I'm going to try to copy and paste.

Good Morning my friends.  I already know one thing that I forgot from my lost post but first I want to tell Oldiesman that I did try what he said but I must be too dumb.  Nothing showed up after "show drafts".  Or if it did, I didn't see it.

Rosemary, what I forgot was that I wanted to tell you how much I'm enjoying the Scottish info.  I have a Scottish background and it's always been my dream to visit Scotland and see all the places I've read about.  I have a Grandson-in-law who got his Master's Degree from Edinboro University and my granddaughter had the pleasure of visiting him while he was there.  I was so envious.

My sister is heavy into geneology and she traced our Donalson ancestors all the way back to the Lords of the Isles and Clan Donald.  We have MacDonalds and Donaldsons in our ancestry also.  This is why I dream of visiting Scotland and why I enjoy your posts so much.

I wish everyone a lovely day!
Make it your own in every way! 

AND SHARE!

It is too quiet here.  We really miss seeing family and I do have to give thanks for our Saturday outdoor with space in between meeting.  I did get to pet the new very sweet dog grandson's friend brought along.  They drove two hours just to sit outdoors with us.  We are overwhelmed with gratitude.  All the flowers are taken care of and they stayed outside overnight since there was no frost. 

Gloria:  Many thanks for the beautiful card you posted.  Always so perfect. 

Jenny:  I am so glad to read Michele shared the day with you two.  Yes, I saw the herd of people charging into a store - I don't believe we can get rid of this plague until everyone cooperates.

Phyllis:  Sorry about your vertigo. I hope you find something to relieve those issues.

It seems super quiet today after all the visiting - it is always a little sad when everyone leaves.  We still meet once a week over the internet and that is a big help for us.  This too shall pass.     
Phyllis:

Merry Monday,

Sound as if it was a nice Mother's Day for all - except for Phyllis' vertigo. Hope that's settled down and you can enjoy your steak dinner.

My Mother's Day was a real treat because I spent it at son's house with All My Children (and Grands). The best part was lively group conversations with real people in person. Second best part was eating food Somebody Else had fixed. :smitten:

Have been doing the usual Monday Domestic Duties today.  Dryer is "yoo-hooing" so I'm off to take care of that.

Hoping Everyfriend is having an Enjoyable Day.

A good Monday HELLO to ALL.

I am not moving all that quickly today.....just savoring my loving thoughts from my family and friends.  I loved reading how everyone enjoyed their Mother's Day. 

PHYLLIS, I am sorry to read that the darn vertigo came and ruined your day.  I hope you and David can enjoy the nice steak dinner today!

JANE, the gift of doing your yard for you sure makes me smile!  I have hinted on past Mother's Days that I would love a hanging basket of outdoor flowers or the like instead of floral arrangements that are so pretty and loved, but only last a few days.....obviously no one paid attention to me.... so maybe I can try to slip that in again to the conversation and they will pay more attention for next year😘. When I read the instructions of how we might be able to recover our lost messages, I was SO HAPPY, but sadly, it did not work for you😢😢

CALLIE, being with the entire family is WONDERFUL... and yes, a big bonus that you get to eat delicious food prepared by someone else.  I am happy for you🥰

AMY, I had to chuckle at your comment about TV Dinners.......yes, we are VERY spoiled these days.  I would think they might have improved over the years, but it does sound like it! Hahah.  My hubby was willing to fix me anything, or go pick up anything I wanted for dinner yesterday, but I chose a nice ham sandwich on a loaf of fresh baked bread from Kneaders, a sandwich shop and my home made potato salad for our meal.  The topping on the cake was a big l glass of chocolate milk to go with it.  I was one happy girl! 

I must tell the story about the bread....we went to pick up a pizza at a Dominos and ate it in our car as we watched planes coming and going from a local airport..... On the way back home I went through a drive through at Kneader's to see if they had a loaf of their delicious Rye Bread?  The lady was so sweet....she told me they are not making the rye bread right now because they can not get the flour.  After we chatted a bit she asked me to drive through the pick up window anyway as she had some for me.  She gave me a loaf of their white bread....so, so sweet of her.  It looked amazing and I sure did not want it to go to waste, hence the reason I wanted a sandwich made with it.  It was delicious....so soft, but firm and WONDERFUL!  Now I will be buying their white bread on occasion as well. 

I sent our Shirley a email a bit ago, as I just heard they have opened up camping in the State of Colorado, and she will be so happy to see this.  She and her boys have reservations here soon and they were worried they might have to canceL them!

OK, I have to go get busy and cut up some chicken to get ready for the freezer and for dinner tonight.

Have a great day, EVERYFRIEND. 

Jenny

JENNY, with all that's going on here, I forgot to mention how pleased I was to read of your visit with your family...including Michele.  It made me smile to read that she felt well enough to go visiting!

And CALLIE, your visit with "All YOUR Children" sounds delightful!  What fun you must have had!

Now, I'm off to Dreamland and I'm sure ready for it.  I had guys in my house right up to early supper time so no nap today!  But they are so nice and so helpful that I can't complain and the floors are looking great!

I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy, healthful tomorrow.  And may God bless us, every one!

Rosemary I enjoy all post's I like to be friendly, I always say I am a lover not a fighter. but your post relay set good. I wonder where our common since went. as i grew up we used to just wanted to be a friend and help. seams like somany people want to hook and crook. if I was at least twenty years younger I would go to Alaska in the part where you can still homestead and get away from the rat race. ( but too old to cut the mustered anymore). so will do the best i can. Have a good day everyone,

Lloyd

Good morning everyone..

To the south of us they did get snow yesterday ,but none here :)
Today is starting off cold but no new snow or rain it looks like.

Have a multitude of things that I would like to get done.just hope I can accomplish some before the day is through.


Enjoy your day everyone and stay safe!

well I am back I do not reamber good any more,but some times a good thought comes back,like now. someone was talking about cut flowers not lasting long. here is a formula  following that will make them last much lounger. ( take a quart of warm water (test on your arm as for baby formula for temperature) put two t spoons of sugar in and three or four drops of bleach in it. cut about 1/4" off of the end of steam @ a 45 degree angle. put the flour's in it and change and repeat ever 4 or 5 days. they will last lot longer worth the effort. ENJOY.

Lloyd

Good morning everyone, a sunny cool one . We had a fast moving Tstorm yesterday, some hail in it too. Rain coming down so hard and fast I could not see out my windows. At least it stopped so I did get on Skype for my daily chat. The screens and windows were running with water. 41 now and hope it warms up.

LLOYD  last night I slept good and woke at  6:30 to daylight. Hope you slept better, too.

AMY  I always enjoy the 2 hours my CNA is here. We do laugh a lot and enjoy each others company. If I make my own TV dinners and freeze I can eat them but cannot eat the ones from the markets. Too many preservatives in them and they burn my throat. If I could eat them my freezer would be full of them since I cannot cook anymore.

PHYLLIS  sory that vertigo  paid you a visit again. Prayers that you felt good enough to coohe steaek dinner. At the ptice of a good steak these days cannot afford to throw it away.

ROSEMARY  I can go outside here where I live and walk around the parking lot to get fresh air and exercise. I try to do that every day if it is not too cold or raining. Of course with a mask on.

JANE  I always type on Notepad and copy/paste in the post box and still have lost a post. I should keeep the  note pad up till I know it posted. Bad habit to delete after I copy it. If I did not comment on what others post I would have nothing to write about in here.

CAROL  I try to post a JL greeting in here for all holidays but at times I have forgotten. I do love her greetings and there are so many to pick from.

CALLIE  this was the first Mothers day I spent alone. I did see both sons, one Friday and the other Saturday but no hugs. Neither one wants to get too close to me because they both go into stores where I am home all the time. I also had a Skype chat with my daughter.

JENNY  glad you got a loaf of fresh bread even if it wasn't the rye you wanted. Oh boy will Shirley be happy at least one campground in open.

LLOYD  when we had nosey neighbors I used to say I wanted 100 acres withour house in the middle of it for privacy. My daughter now has 40 acres in Arizona and loves the privacy after living in San Diego over 40 years.

AMY  by now I imagine you want no snow till Christmas Eve.

Have a good day every one and stay safe.

QuoteAt the ptice of a good steak these days cannot afford to throw it away.

Amen to that, Gloria!  I was still feeling a little "puny" (as my Dad used to say) but I wasn't going to waste that steak so I fixed it last night and just had a nice fresh salad with it.  It was good and though my stomach didn't want more than a little bit of it, I still enjoyed it.

Thank you, everyone, for your well wishes.  Meniere's Disease is something that no one seems to have an answer for....at least, no doctor that I've talked to has been able to give me an answer.  Tried many meds. and "fixes" and nothing seems to work.  It is what it is.  Mother's Day here was a beautiful day ....no storms in sight...no obvious trigger that could bring on an episode but one came anyway.  Oh, well, it is over for now and I appreciate your kind thoughts.  I'm doing OK today.

My grocery order "picker" just called and everything is ready for pickup later on this morning.  I can't believe it but he said I will be getting toilet paper!  I feel like it is Christmas!  I have requested it every time I've made out an order and have not received any but was lucky this time.  The only glitch is he said the only available was a pkg. of 48 rolls!!   :o   I don't know where I'll store all that but I'll find a place!  It's a good thing TP doesn't spoil.   ;D

Take care, All

Well, Gloria, guess I'll have to wash my mouth out with soap for all the griping I have done about Cox... and it took me buying & installing a new router to fix the problem. Not a single tech help suggested it might be the router, can you believe??? Not jumping off & on now. Andy had to reset every device that connected, including my trac iPhone (it uses wi-fi when home). He told me last night if I could get the new one so he could install before 11:00 am, was the only time he had free until next week. He keeps booked solid from time he gets up until well after midnight... nothing like being retired, huh? I insist he take money for MY jobs & it does count up to buy him lots of fun stuff. He just got a 3D printer. Anyway, got to register the new one, it didn't come with "lifetime" warranty like the old one, so will go online to register the new & see if they want to buy back the other (both Netgear). Hope this is the end of this problem for a while.

Got to get a new battery in the RV before I can take it to the people that put the new roof on it last fall.... has a place that looks like not sealed down & don't need it to leak! Had plenty rain to test it this week!

Phyllis, hope you are better & stay that way, no fun having the dizzies.  I bought a big box of paper towels & Puffs when at Sam's Club a few weeks ago. Been using up the Puffs with allergy drippy nose. My daughter sent a huge box of Charmin, actually had it routed here from Amazon as she gets the monthly shipping of paper stuff. Also routed me a 3 pack of Clorox wipes that I prefer over all other sanitizers. I will put one tub of them plus a roll of TP in a tote for use in the "outhouse" when camping. The wipes work in seconds while the sprays take 10 min.to sanitize. I will be prepared to do whatever it takes to be out camping.

Jenny, the boys are so happy to get the good news about camping. They are hoping the fire restrictions will be lifted, they go across the road & drag back downed trees to have a fire every night. Andy's son plans to come out the last part of our week & wouldn't be surprised if they decide to stay a few extra days if they can catch one of the sites NOT reservable. Youngest son will have to be back since he is still working, home or office. Thanks for the news.

I told my friend here in town that I don't often brag, but I've found something I can do better than anyone.... NOTHING!  I think it must be because being the last of 5 kids, I was taken by our mother to all those cooking schools & different groups she belonged to and sat without moving... do you remember those wooden chairs that fold up if you move???  Well, I sat still & learned how to entertain myself in my head. Still works even when wi-fi out & we are confined.

I'd better get a move on, have laundry to do but going to Sam's Club & see if they have any meat, want to make a pot of taco soup & their Angus hamburger is the best, also have a stack of bird books & birthday card for a great grand so will deliver that as I go. I am ready for a nap since I got up early-early to get that router, only one Walmart had it in stock.

Hope everyone has a Happy DAY.... the cats are seriously unhappy with winter back & rain to boot.... And this is the end and not a single "no connection" notice the whole time!  Hope saying won't jinx it....... :o

Good evening everyone,

I am so glad everyone enjoyed their Mothers' Days.  Denver, I entirely agree about cut flowers - i say this every year before my birthday, Mothers' Day, etc and no-one can be listening, as I am still sent floral arrangements. I don't want to sound ungrateful, but especially with having house cats, flowers are a bit of a nuisance to be honest.  I much prefer plants that I can put into the garden - or if not that, then some body lotion or soap, as I always enjoy the 'treat' element in having slightly fancier ones than my usual supermarket versions. Of course I always say lots of thank yous for the flowers anyway - it's the thought that counts - but cut flowers are extremely expensive here, and I am always sorry when my hard up children have spent so much on them.

Jane - how interesting that you have such a long Scottish ancestry. It sounds like your family came mainly from the west coast, I hope you are one day able to visit Scotland - I have a guest room in my house in Edinburgh!

Well today Scotland is alternately sunny and showery. I have been to the post office to send off another 'treat' package to my mother, but I have also finally given up waiting for her to ask their housekeepers if she can add things to their online food order, and emailed the Regional Manager myself. She is fantastic, so helpful, and needless to say she had the things my mother wanted ordered right away. I think Mum was pleased, even though she had told me not to ask - but I really can't be sending yoghurt through the post!

I also found out that although her local computer shop is closed, the owner is still doing repairs - he asks people to drop their equipment off at pre-arranged times. They leave it in the storm porch of the shop, so no contact - he then has a look at it and hopefully fixes it, then kindly delivers it back to your home. It is only 5 minutes drive from my mother's sheltered housing, but of course she is not allowed out and I just knew she would not ask the staff, so again I contacted them myself, and of course they were more than happy to pop it down there in their cars, so now I just have to fix a time. She is really lost without her computer, especially when their TV reception is currently so poor.

In between all of this I have read most of my new book, The Unreliable Death of Lady Grange by Sue Lawrence. It is the one about the lady who is kidnapped and kept prisoner first on the remote Hebridean Monach Islands, then on St Kilda. It is an excellent read, very well written and of course based on a real event. Lord Grange wants to get rid of his wife Rachel partly because he wants to marry his mistress, but mainly because Rachel has found out about his support for the Jacobite (Catholic) cause. He is supposed to be a pillar of Edinburgh society and of the Kirk (Presbyterian Church), so if people found out his secret affiliations he would be ruined. I wasn't sure I'd like the book but I am racing through it. I just cannot imagine how dreadful it would be for an Edinburgh lady to have to live on these remote islands almost 300 years ago - the life there was so basic, the islanders living on a very poor and limited diet based on oats, which were often rotten, and seabirds. If there are big storms they can wash all the topsoil away so that even the oat crop fails. And the native language is Gaelic, which of course Rachel does not speak, so she is isolated.

Phyllis - I am glad you finally got toilet paper!  There was a lot of panic buying of that right at the start of this, goodness knows why. We needed some a week or so before the lockdown, and found the supermarket only had packs of 24. I was dithering about whether to look elsewhere, as I would never normally buy that many, but my husband said 'oh just buy it' - and he was proved right when there was none in the shops for weeks. They have it back in stock now everywhere, but we have been well supplied and still have some left. Really the only issue here now is baking supplies, goodness only knows how long it will take them to sort this inability to stock flour. But I have plenty from my wholefoods shop so i am not complaining. 

Jenny - that bread sounds wonderful, I think you chose the perfect meal. Sometimes the simple things are the best, aren't they? I often enjoy a boiled egg and some Marmite toast.

Lloyd - I love your posts, they are so friendly.  I also would like to live somewhere remote, but unfortunately my husband travels a lot for work (or at least he did) and my youngest daughter still stays at home when she is not at university, and she usually gets jobs in Edinburgh during her holidays. One day I hope I will be living in the countryside with a bigger garden - though I keep telling my husband it had better happen before I am past looking after it...  Alaska sounds amazing - the nearest I get to it is reading the Kate Shugak books by Dana Stabenow. Kate is a native Aluet private investigator who lives off-grid with her half Husky, half wolf dog Mutt. Like most mystery books, I enjoy these as much for the details of life in Alaska as as I enjoy them for their plots. Stabenow is a great writer and a native of Alaska herself.

My Mum has just told me that one of the other residents of her house decided, against all orders, to go out to the shops. He was only discovered because they had an unannounced fire alarm practice (which two of the ladies who were actually in their rooms didn't even notice!) As a result he is now confined to his room for seven days. I know it must be extremely frustrating not to be allowed to have your usual outings, but doing something like that puts all of the residents (and the staff) at risk, not just himself - plus, he has been in hospital several times over the past year with severe chest infections, so he is extremely vulnerable. And they are lucky to have a lovely walled garden that they can walk in, or sit out in, whenever they wish. The staff are all so nice and helpful too. I am very relieved that my mother seems willing to comply with everything, as she is normally quite active and goes to the library, the shops, and for walks - but I think she sees the sense in staying put, and I do try to make sure she has everything she needs. The children and I call her as often as we can too.

And now I must get out for my own walk before dinner. The days fly by. I hope everyone is having a good one today.

Rosemary

Good morning EVERYFRIEND🌞🌞
It is a beautiful sun shinny day....

I just saw this on Face Book and thought you might enjoy seeing it. 

WATCH: Graceful Giant Oceanic Manta Ray 💚👀 spotted off Pensacola Beach yesterday!! ~ https://30a.com/stingrays-in-the-gulf-of-mexico

 I got a air fryer for Mother's Day and I cooked fried chicken in it last night.  It was very easy to do and we really enjoyed it.  The clean up was very easy.  I am quite pleased with it.  I look forward to more adventures with it.  Normally people start out with French fries, but I jumped right in and gave it a good whirl.

A food truck is coming to our community tonight.  It is a pierogies  truck.  We have not decided for sure, but I think we are going to place our order and have some.  The fancy plate is $16. 6 pork perogies, cabbage roll, kraut and a kielbasa .....Bob is getting this
and I am going to get cheese and onion pierogies and a kielbasa, for $10. There is going to also be a Kona Ice Truck.  That is nothing I care about and I wonder how many of the old folks in here will be? Next week the food truck will be BBQ.  I bet that will be a huge success as everyone seem to love BBQ. 

SHIRLEY, I knew you would be so happy to read the news about camping opening up🥰🥰

ROSEMARY, your posts are so interesting and I am very happy to have you here in our group💐

PHYLLIS, sorry you really did not enjoy your steak dinner that much.  Puny is a word I know well from my growing up years and still  today.  It kind of sums up the feeling pretty well.  I hope the vertigo is much less today and you can recoup a bit!  Nice to have TP availability back in Our lives, isn't it.  I heard that Costco here is starting to have a pretty good selection of things in their store now, except beef and it is pretty scarce. 

AMY,  of course you have multiple things to get done.....you busy, busy girl😘

JANE, it really was great to have Michele here....she said it felt funny to be out and about, but she sure enjoyed it.  Tomorrow she has chemo again and will find out the results of her MRI🙏🙏🙏🙏

LLOYD, if I buy cut flowers I always do exactly what you say to do, but a floral arrangement is not that easy to do.  After a couple of days when things start looking a bit spent, then I take them out, cut the stems off and do up you mix.  Thank you for the idea as many might not know about this. 

Have a good day....I am off to get me some sun😘

Jenn

I have an online meeting over ZOOM with the quilting group tonight.  It went well last month and it keeps us off the crazy streets. 

Is anyone else having really different dreams?  My dream was all about the year I was stranded in the state of New York and I spent a night in a hotel before catching the return flight - it was Christmas Eve and so I was prepared to be lonesome.  A wonderful family (they were Italian) invited me for dinner and I went to their midnight mass.  They were so sweet - I could never thank them enough. Have not thought about that night for years. 

Otherwise, we are strictly sticking to the rules - no one is coming in the house.  Only shop in store when hardly anyone is there or else put up with online pick-up groceries.

Jenny:  We have a wonderful Sourdough loaf from Kneader's.  Also, I highly recommend the Chocolate Croissant from Panera.  It helps everyone's mood.  :)   

 

Good Evening,

It's been a "normal" Tuesday.  :thumbup:  I'd almost forgotten what it's like to get my hair done, do an errand, and have a spic and span house because the housekeeper came. 

I wore a mask while away from the house and housekeeper wore one while she was working.
 I'm still not going to the big grocery stores.  The parking lot of the one near me is always full.  I was almost the only one in Walgreen's this morning.  They had paper towels and toilet paper but a limit of 2 packages per customer. Very few boxes of tissue (Kleenex, etc.), though - and the same limit.  No hand sanitizer or Lysol spray, etc. available.

Carol, There are four bright yellow goldfinches at my feeder almost every day - and I think their mates are there, too, although I've only caught a glimpse of the yellow feathers on the brown coats of one.  Doesn't seem fair for the females to look so drab - until I remember that would be a protective look while setting on the nest waiting for eggs to hatch.

Today is damp and dreary so the bright yellow birds and red cardinals were a happy note.

Jenny,  I had forgotten to mention how special it is that Michelle was able to participate in the family gathering for Mother's Day.
The food trucks sound really interesting.  I've seen pictures of them in larger neighborhoods but not in smaller gated ones like mine.

Rosemary,  how great that the place where your Mother lives will get the things she needs that can't be mailed. After a friend suggested it, I began using fruit flavored yogurt on my morning cereal instead of milk.  We have a local dairy store that sells its own yogurt and their strawberry, blueberry, black cherry and peach flavored ones are delicious.  I'm now completely spoiled!

Shirley,  I'm not sure what a "router" is - but I needed a new "box" from Cox for my t.v. recently.  So far, it's okay but I'd just as soon click the number to change channels instead of giving vocal directions. Clicking the number is doable but the station is in a list that appears and I have to work the arrows to pick the one I want.
Where did your daughter find Clorox wipes?  Son hasn't been able to get me any so I've been making my own - using directions that were in the paper.  Guess they're okay but I'd like to have the real ones.

Off to mute the news until the weather comes on.  I'd like to challenge all the stations to spend an entire broadcast without mentioning the virus. However, then they wouldn't have anything to talk about, would they?  Oh, well....

Enjoy your Evening, Everyfriend.
 

Hello Everyfriend!  I'll be off to bed in a few minutes. I'm exhausted!  I knew the guys were coming to work on the floors this morning but I forgot I also had an appointment with the kinesiologist today.  Cathy called and asked if I wanted her to come a little earlier this morning so I could get a showe before we go to Debra's this afternoon.  She meant early before she went to work for the morning.  She came and I made it before the guys got here!  I tried to move things ahead of their work all morning and then left right after lunch and didn't get home until they were gone for the day.

The trip to Debra's was worth every minute of it but exhausting!  Since the orthopedic dr. said "no restrictions" she did some work on the healing arm and gave me some more exercised to do. Since I came home, al I've done is feed Mickie and me, go for a walk and a whole lot of NOTHING! 

Now I'm going to bed and I hope, to sleep until I have to get up and ready for the guys again tomorrow.  Another "one of those days" coming up. 

It sounds like you've all been busy today and I'm not taking time to comment because my eyes are drooping.  Just keep up the good vibes!

I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy, healthy tomorrow.  And may God bless us, every one!

 Gloria  where dose your daughter Live in Arizona? our youngest son and his wife  live on the reservation, used to Live at lachie right out side of Page.he also Has a small parcel of land right out of Page, about 5 acres. right between to two lanes of the main highway just west of Flagstaff he Owens about five acres there also. H he has already got retirement pincushions from two defferant jobs vested and he is working on a third one. hope his health holds when he retires to enjoy life. good night and sweet dreams. see you all tomorrow.

Lloyd

Good morning everyone.Looks like we broke another temperature  record last night, got down to 33, record was 35. Been a cold May this year . Wonder where the global warming has gone?

PHYLLIS  wow around here we are lucky to get a  4 pack of TP. My son was telling me last week that a store he went in was selling single rolls-no paper around them for $1.50 a roll. Like they opened a big package and selling each roll alone.Talk about taking advantage of people. 

SHIRLEY  righ now the Cox workers cannot go into homes and would talk you through things. I would not be able to even move things to get to the plug to unplug it. Wow a 3D printer, those are fascinating and quite expensive I think. Sunday is supposed to be in the 70's but now they are saying it will rain Sunday. Nothing like spoiling a warm day.

ROSEMARY  looks like you like reading as much as I do. We have a library in this building but right now the door is locked so cannot get any books out. So glad I have my computer, at least I can keep my old brain working with it. I enjoy your posts.

JENNY  I would love some pierogies, just the potatoes and cheese. My MIL  taught me how to make them years ago and we made some with the cabbage and even blueberry filling that we dusted with powdered sugar for a dessert. Lo  of work and dirty pans  but so worh it. Both of my sons make then a couple of times a year and always bring me some.  Wish  hey had  a food  truck and different ones come here. Maybe I would eat better since it  is hard for me to cook anything. My CNA does cook for me at noon  when she gets here and most times I warm it in mid afternoon. Even cicken is hard to fine here. Markets are limiting how many packages a person can buy  of any meat.

CAROL  I don't ever remember a dream or if I did dream.  I like the Bear Claws from Panera. The son of my next door neighbor owns a couple of those and at times he brings her some of the food and she has shared it with me. In the fall when my son gives me more apples than I can eat I give her some. Cannot beat a just picked apple.

CALLIE  watching the news these days makes me wonder what is happening in the world besides the virus, that is all they talk about. Getting old by now. At least I do pay attention to the weather.

JANE  glad you made it to Debra's and feel better even is worn out. I am beginning to feel like a hermit being closed up here but at least I can go  outside for fresh air and some exercise. I would rather walk where there is something to see besides cars. 

LLOYD  my daughter lives outside of Kingman, about an hour  away, Off the grid in the mountains. Has 40 acres and peace and quiet. They both like it that way.   

Have a good day and stay safe.

Good morning everyone.
Yesterday went well.....all but the weather which it gave us..snow..hail then snow again :tickedoff:  Can't plant seeds until the ground warms up! We did get a surprise....neighbour phoned and said Floyd is coming over...not to come in but just to talk. He she had made a lemon pie and sent it over..and it was delicious!
Today is do a quick shop as this weekend is the long weekend and although people are told to stay put we all know they won't. Then home to tidy up and sew.

Better scoot and get ready to go out..

Enjoy your day everyone and stay safe.

It is 50º and cloudy here now and high of 67º is what it is supposed to be, supposed to have thunder storms this afternoon. supposed to have rain through Sunday.I guess the old saying is correct. rain on ester Sunday rain seven Sunday's in a row. we have a good start here. Have a good day.

Lloyd

I forgot to tell you all Nancy has the feeder out for the humming Birds and they are back at least two of them. so fun to set here and watch them. the feeder she has has 6 or 7 feeder spots. one of them comes to eat and another gets on the other side eating for a bit then one gets up and dive booms the other and off they go, just like kids wrestling. i spend a lot of time watching them. and they are not afraid of us when it is warm enough I set out on the deck and watch them. some times they fly very close like letting they know they are there.

Lloyd

A cloudy and cool morning here but no rain, no snow, no hail, and no wind!  I'm happy.

Rosemary, I couldn't find the Sue Lawrence book at my online library.  I would love to read it.  We never saw St. Kilda but did spend a wonderful week on Lewis and Harris at a little hotel in Stornoway.  We drove all over the island.  Strange and beautiful.  Loved every bit of it but will always remember the stark and mysterious beauty of the Standing Stones at Calanish.  I enjoyed the Scottish people there very much and it was the first time I actually heard Gaelic being spoken.   

Of course, our big library is still closed.  I'm gratefully reading all the eBooks that I can download but it is hard to get many of them because the waiting lines are so long.  I did manage to snag Louise Penney's latest Armand Gamash book.  I'm not enjoying her books as much as I once did, I'm sorry to say. 

Lloyd, I always loved the hummingbirds even though they are cantankerous little things.  One day I was watering the garden with the hose on light spray and a hummingbird came quite close to me flying in and out of the spray several times just taking a little shower bath.  He/She didn't seem to mind that I was there at all.  It was a lovely experience.  We can no longer put up the hummingbird feeder. The ants became such a mess to clean out of it everyday.  Tried several different things to discourage them but nothing ever worked to keep the feeder clear so we gave up.

It is a "free" day so I'll see what mischief I can get into.  Take care, All.

Good Morning Everyfriend!  I've been up and moving most of the morning since about 6 a.m.  I'm going to be wiped out again tonight.  But the floors are beautiful!

I have stuff gathered together to make what I think will be a pretty good supper from a recipe I got on line.  I'll let you know how it turns out. 

All of a sudden it got quiet!  They must have taken lunch break. 

I'm getting some other stuff done that has been yelling for attention.  I just can't stand that screeching in my ears so I'm trying to quiet them down.  Isn't it amazing how "stuff" keeps hollering for attention?  And it never takes in mind that you might have other stuff to do or you might be too tired to attend to their needs.  And it keeps GROWING and taking up more and more space!

PHYLLIS, it sounds like you're feeling better.  I'm so glad!
SHIRLEY, the bad weather is what you get for bragging about having Spring!

EVERYONE!  I read everything but my memory is gone.  I blame it on the "screeching stuff".  I have to have something to blame it on.  I'm not that old....yet!

Enjoy the rest of your day and make it your own in every way!

Good afternoon all, I hope everyone is having a good day?

I was dashing about the garden at 8pm last night trying to cover up the tender plants, as we were forecast snow and sub-zero temperatures. Woke up this morning to brilliant sunshine, and although it is cold there was no frost, and there has been no snow. Better to be safe than sorry I suppose.

Phyllis, I doubt of that book would be available in your online library yet, as it was only published on 19th March. In fact I have just now checked our library online catalogue and they don't even seem to have a hard copy yet - so maybe it will come through in due course?  I finished it this morning and very much enjoyed it right through to the end. You might enjoy another of Sue Lawrence's books that I have read - Down to the Sea - which is set in Newhaven, just along the coast from us at Leith, in Edinburgh (though at the time of part of the story (1890) Newhaven was a separate village and few of its inhabitants would ever have gone into the city)

I have now started Ghost Trees by Bob Gilbert, which is about the nature and wildlife of the inner city - specifically Poplar, which is part of the old London East End. If anybody watches Call the Midwife, that is where it is set. The author moved there from North London when his wife was ordained as an Anglican priest and assigned to a parish there. It is very interesting, as Gilbert sees so much wildlife - plants, birds, mammals - flourishing there, in the most unexpected places, and he traces the history of the area, its land use, industries, and people, so he talks about everything from the docks to eel catching, the Bryant and May match factory (who knew there was a deformity called 'possyjaw', caused by the potassium then used in the manufacture of matches?), and the long tradition of boxing, with many East End families being involved in it for generations. He is especially interested in trees, and in the chapter I have just finished he walks almost every road and housing estate in the area, looking for the original Poplar tree.

I am so glad you were able to visit Lewis and Harris. I have not yet been to them myself, I would love to. St Kilda is a very long and weather-dependent boat trip from Skye - much as I'd like to see the archipelago I am not sure I could face the journey. As regards Lewis and Harris, have you read Alistair McIntosh's Poacher's Pilgrimage? McIntosh was born there, and a few years ago he went back to walk the entire length of the island. His book is about that walk, but also brings in his thoughts about current affairs, God, spirituality, his childhood.... He was brought up in the Free Presbyterian Church that dominates Lewis, but is now a Quaker, activist and peace worker and lives in Glasgow. I saw him talk about his book at the Fringe, and it was a wonderful experience; he ended by reading Sorley MacLean's poem Hallaig, which is about the Isle of Raasay (where Maclean grew up) and particularly about one of the villages destroyed by the Clearances. Seamus Heaney memorably translated the poem from Gaelic into English. It was so moving. Last year my husband and I finally went to Skye and took the boat to Raasay. We did the long cliff top walk to Hallaig, seeing sea eagles along the way. It was so quiet that we could hear two men on a fishing boat talking far down below on the water. I am so thrilled that I was able to see the remains of the village.

I was also interested in what you said about Louise Penney, as I too enjoyed the first few Gamache books but found the later ones increasingly irritating. I think it was all those Very. Short. Sentences. I know she uses them for effect but she overuses them so much that they just become annoying. I haven't read any more for a while, though my mother still likes them. Penney is an immensely popular writer so I have to be careful what I say about her!

Gloria - it must be so frustrating having a locked library. I feel the same every time I walk up to the main road and see our branch library here locked up. As it has big floor to ceiling windows you can see all the books locked up inside, and although i have more than enough to read here, I of course immediately want the ones I can see through those windows! I just don't know when they will be able to reopen.  Of course they do have ebooks; I'm not that keen on them but I would still read one rather than have nothing to read. The main problem, I find, is that they only have newish books, not the 1950s novels that I love.

Do you get the programme Last Tango in Halifax in the US? It is massively popular here. I remembered last night that I had missed the last episode of the series that ended recently, so I found it on i-Player. It was lovely.  It's about a couple who, in their youth, were friendly but each married someone else. They meet up again in their later years and get married. They both have complicated extended families, and very different views on some things. The husband is played by Derek Jacobi, one of the best UK actors there is. The Yorkshire countryside is also beautiful.

Lloyd - the first time I ever saw a hummingbird was at Berkeley in the early 1980s. My friend was doing a Masters there and I was staying with her. I walked up into the Botanic Gardens one morning. They were so beautiful, and I sat down on a bench then realised a hummingbird was right inside one of the big flowers a few feet away. I was transfixed - we don't have these birds in the UK.  I am having a lot of problems with feeding the birds here at the moment, as we have a rat who has taken to coming up from the brook to hoover up the bits of seed that the birds drop. We don't really mind, it never comes anywhere near the house (the feeders are right at the end of the garden) but one of our neighbours is going nuts about it and keeps complaining. I really do think some people should just stay in the city, as I have no idea why people who seem to have no interest in nature whatsoever want to live out here with the garden (to which they do nothing), the river and the woodlands which I love so much. SO last night my husband was out there trying to fill in the various rat entrance holes with gravel and sand (my sharp sand for planting out shrubs...) and I was sweeping up the seed. I really don't want to stop feeding the birds altogether, I get so much enjoyment from their visits, so I have moved the feeders so that they now overhang the actual water rather than the garden, but I will have to stop putting seed on the bird table for a while. The last thing we want to do is put down poison that may affect other animals. I think with the river right at the end of the gardens it is almost inevitable that there will be rats around.

I think that's enough complaining from me!

Hope you all have a good day,

Rosemary

Here at the residence we are in total lockdown. We can walk around the perimeter of the grounds but dare not cross the line that marks the border between our property and the outside world. One of our residents walked across the street to a variety store and was spotted by one of the staff.  The end result was that he was put into a 14-day  quarantine  and is confined to his room for that period. There have been several episodes like this, so they mean business in enforcing this quarantine. It seems a bit extreme at first, but if you take into account that our facility has not had a single incident of virus attacks then perhaps they are doing something right.

well I can see both sides of the coin so as to speak. we go to town as we like and need to get what we need. Our sons wife's mother died with the virus, but she was in a hospital. If you want to get sick go to doctor or hospital. when we go we ware mask's when we get out of the car.you see lot of folk's here, man and or woman with out any thing on to protect them selves. so I think if god wants one self with him he will make it happen. time to wish you all good night and sweet dreams. I am going to go give my self my shot and take my night time pills and go to bed see you all in the morning,

Lloyd

Good evening.  I attempted to post a couple of times today, but got interrupted😩

We enjoyed the dinners last night.  Bob really liked the cabbage roll and of course I did not order the meal that included one😢  I had a bite of his and I have to say it was very good.  He also shared one of his pork pierogies and it was good.  I think it was a big hit with the community so I expect these food trucks will continue.  We already know next week is a BBQ Truck.

Michele had chemo today.  Each one becomes increasingly harder for her to do.  She puts up a strong attitude, and she is dedicated to beating this darn cancer, but it does get her down and she dreads the remaining ones 😢. Who wouldn't?  This was her 31st one😢😢 The initial report on the MRI was quite positive however it will now be reviewed in a conference of her oncologist on this coming Friday. 

Have a good evening.

Jenny

I'm tired and ready to sleep tonight.  I spent the late afternoon and early evening putting things back in place only stopping for supper and a walk with Mickie.  Then I got interested in a movie.  It was one of my all time favorites...."Quigley Down Under" starring Tom Selleck.  It was good as usual!  But it wasn't over until 11:30 and now I'm off to bed.

I wish you all a peaceful nights sleep and a happy, healthy tomorrow.  And may God bless us, every one!

Good morning everyone.

So far a nice day but they are calling for rain later on. I hope to get some gardening done when it warms up today but we shall see. Lots to do inside if I don't get out. Need to make a delivery today and that is it. We did get to the grocery store yesterday ,no problem or line up just in and out!

Lloyd, we also wear our masks when out...rather be safe than sorry out there.

Jane I bet your floors look so nice and hope you can rest today.

Jenny, happy to read the MRI was positive and hope Michelle will soon be done  the chemo. I know it is a difficult time for all.

Don, great to see you here!!! Miss reading your posts.

Rosemary, we haven't put any plants out here yet. When the weather decided to stop playing hide and seek with the warmer weather  we will put the garden in.

Better scoot...enjoy your day everyone..

Good morning everyone. Another good night for sleeping for me, wow 2 in a row. There was frost on the cars this morning. This is mid May, supposed to be warming up now.

AMY  that lemon pie, did it have the merengue on top? Yummy.

LLOYD  I had forgotten the old saying about rain on Easter and then 7 Sundays of rain. We used to have a humming bird feeder in the front of the building and we all enjoyed seeing them Then the manager made the lady who out it up take it down saying they made a mess. Anything we enjoy she takes away from us.

PHYLLIS  enjoy your free day yesterday? Nice doing just what you want to and not what you have to.

JANE  if I did not comment to everyone who  posts I would have nothing to write about.

ROSEMARY  the last place I lived I had a bird feeder at a kitchen window and I loved wathing the different birds especially the beautiful red Cardinals and blue jays. Here in the front of this buidin all I see is the parking lot and the cars, not the place for birds. Miss them.

DON  so far here we have no cases either. We have to wear a mask when we walk out the door  of our apartments. Better to be safe that get that darn virus.

JENNY  Michele sure is a fighter, bless her. Our Lord is really trying her but too much.

JANE  I remember seeing Quigley Down Under. It was a good movie and Tom Slelick did a good job in it.

AMY  around here no one p;ants in their gardens till afer May 30. Seldom have a frost or freeze after that but with the odd weather this year who know what it wil be like.

Have a good day and stay safe.

Good afternoon everyone,

It is a lovely sunny day here and the forecast is for warmer temperatures, so i have put the bedding plants back out on the garden table, but they may well have to come in again. Also moved the mini greenhouse back onto the balcony (or rather, got David to do it...) - and I might sow some more seeds in peat pots later on - my borage seeds arrived in the post a few days ago.

I am over half way through Ghost Trees, which is very good, with lots of interesting stories about London's local history as well as wildlife and nature observations. One that really opened my eyes was that, in the first world war, the British army was very worried about running out of acetone, which was used in ammunition, as most of it was normally imported from America and mainland Europe. A research chemist at Manchester University had discovered a way of distilling it from starch - but at the time grain was also in short supply and needed for food. Then this scientist discovered that you could use conkers from the horse chestnut trees - and that is what they did, with school and youth groups being sent out to collect as many conkers as they could. The factory that used them (it was normally a Nicholson's gin factory) was right there in Poplar.

At the end of the war, the Prime Minister, Lloyd George, asked what honour they could bestow on the chemist for having made such an important contribution. The scientist, who was Jewish, said he wanted no honour, but instead hoped for 'the repatriation of the Jews to the sacred land they had made famous'. Lloyd George introduced the man to his Foreign Secretary, Lord Balfour. In 1917 the famous (or possibly infamous, depending on which way you look at it) Balfour Declaration was signed, and this led to the foundation, in 1948, of the modern state of Israel. The first president of the state was Chaim Weizmann - that very same research scientist. Isn't it amazing what you can learn from a book about trees?

Radioman - my mother's sheltered housing has exactly the same rules - house or garden and that is all; one of the residents was caught going to the shops (of all places - they have everything provided for them, all meals cooked, and the staff will happily order extra items for their rooms as they know they can't shop for themselves at the moment) and he is currently having to stay in his room too. They just cannot risk anything being passed on to the other residents - or the staff for that matter.  I do understand that it must be so frustrating though.

At the moment we are not required to wear masks. Our First Minister has said that they 'may be' a good idea in crowded shops or on public transport, but that it is really important not to rely on them to protect yourself, they are more to protect others if you should cough or sneeze. She still says the really vital things are social distancing and hand washing. We hardly go to the shops - I do use the two very small local stores, but they are generally quiet and I am in and out asap. We do a fortnightly trip to Aldi and Home Bargains, and as we go late in the evening they are usually pretty quiet, but I still stick to the 2 meters rule as much as I possibly can. They have strict controls on how many people are in the store at one time.

What a pain it all is, we all long for it to be over. The only comfort I can think of is that even the notorious post World War One influenza did end eventually, and they had much less medical knowledge and research than we do. And in the meantime I know I am so lucky to have our little garden, the countryside to walk in, and lots of books.

We watched the next Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer last night, it was very funny. One of the participants was Nick Hewer, who apparently used to be a judge on The Apprentice and is now the presenter of Countdown. He was the worst baker anyone had ever seen, but he was so funny and willing to have a go. I don't think he had ever baked before in all his 76 years. Pru Leith (one of the judges) said his Devil's Food Cake looked more like a cow pat, and to be honest she was right. Watching him try to make choux pastry was hilarious, but he was such a good sport.

Well I think my washing machine is sadly calling, so I will stop for now.

Have a good day all,

Rosemary

Good Morning Everyfriend!  I'm really sorry not to be regular in her but things are happening and needing attention.

AMY, no rest today!  The boys are back doing the finishing touches and another guy showed up to do some electrical work.  And after they go, I have things to clean and things to put back in their natural place and everything gets washed first so it takes forever. 

While they're here, I'm spending time on the computer and spending a lot of my hard saved cash on things like area rugs and door mats.  And waiting for deliveries and putting them in place.  I must say all this extra activity is making me sleep better.  Or maybe I'm sleeping better because they tuned the mattress over when they put it back on the bed.  Whatever it is, I'm grateful for the extra winks.

We planted some little plants on Sunday and because the weather won't stay warm overnight, I've been going out every night and covering them just in case there's a dip.  That's one more thing on the agenda but the veggies will be worth it!

ROSEMARY and RADIOMAN, it sounds like the two places that you either have contact with because of your mother or that you live in, are extremely vigilant and that's good!  Some places in the US are being investigated for negligence and that's NOT good!

I made the recipe that I mentioned a while back and it was really good.  It called for Kielbasa and I didn't have any but I had a nice stick of Elk bologna from my SIL and I used that.  UMMMMMM!

You all have a lovely day and come back and share the details!  We're interested!  (Or are we NOSY?)  Either way, we wanna know what you're up to!

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I thought I'd left a post today but don't see one. Had a pretty good day, programmed phone numbers into my new set of phones. THAT is a big job! Next is to figure why my carpet cleaner didn't squirt water last time I tried to use it, nearly 7 years ago or more. I wore out a Hoover, no, two Hoover carpet cleaners, then bought a Bissel with heater for water, for pet hair, etc.... used it once on that blasted kitchen carpet. Then had the open heart surgery & by the time I tried it again a few months later, it didn't work (or I forgot how to operate). 5 months after my surgery Cas died & within a month I had that kitchen carpet torn out & hardwood floors put down. Put up with that carpet for 28+ years & hated it but Cas couldn't stand the thought of the mess, and it was a mess. But once it was out I had no intention cleaning any other carpet in the house until now.

Old Ms Callie cat hid out in that master bedroom/bathroom & can't find where, the smell was worse in a sweeper that gets used on the grass carpet around the pool, guess I didn't clean it good last time (YUCK), but want to go over each section of the carpet after I wash down the white woodwork. No spots so not sure why the smell, but want to use it as a guest room so gotta clean it. Besides, I need to move more! So tomorrow I will give it a try, was worn out dragging it up from the storage room in the basement. Big plans! I was going to buy a black light to show up any cat leavings, but son said he had one & somehow we never think about it when together... always other problems. Anyway, I'm fired up...haha.. that a slight exaggeration!  Ever see a snail in a hurry?  High hopes, remember that song? Time to feed cats last meal of the day, guess I'll keep them inside tonight, supposed to have big storms after midnight. Hope this ambition lasts through the night.  ::)

Sweet dreams, God Bless. As June would say, "Give your worries to God, he will be awake all night anyway"....

Shirley -
Re" "Next is to figure why my carpet cleaner didn't squirt water last time I tried to use it".
If you can find where it squirts from you could try putting a warm wet cloth over the opening (nozzle).  There might be some dried old detergent/chemical from a prior use blocking it. Give it chance to soften residue.

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