21st May

[Mick]

hiya all how are we doing today then? hope all is good ...as you can see another terrible day here !!!

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been a busy old day for me ,plated up 60 bedding plants,cut the grass ,collected a new gas bottle for the van weeded the front garden watered the garden ,so time to rest .

hiya pie how are you doing? well done on the cravings ..you are doing great .yep slugs eat marigolds big time ..thanks for that site ,Ill have a look later .glad the foster parents are happy with the dog .keep it up and well done

hiya Lav ,how are you doing ,?all good ..?weather over here is hot again ,Nope all the flowers in the garden are fenced off ..and all the ones that are in arent poisonous to rabbits ..the rabbits have the run of the whole lawn ,The place I collected the gas bottle from this morning ,he had about 30 Brahma hens ,,they are mahoosive!!and the feathers over their feet make them look as if they have big paws .he had 2 cockerels as well.apparently people wont part with them ,this guy bought a lot but had to travel over 200 miles to pick them up .hope you are having a good day

hiya ppqp ,teegee slo and everyone else hope all is good with yall,,,,,(said in a Scottish American accent !!)

[Slo]

I posted earlier today, but the site wouldn’t accept it. I’ll try again…

Just took a marvelous bike ride! The weather is as nice here today as it is by you, Mick.
Sounds like it’s time for a supervised living situation for Julie’s dad, and glad that her mind is turned that way now; and a nice place has been found. How long is the waiting list though?

I am enjoying the scented blossoms too, TG. The lilacs are out here!
I started taking vitamin B12 & folate now, as well as thiamine. It seems to be helping with my energy. I also bought Udo’s 3-6-9 oil, in case I have a fatty acid imbalance or deficiency.

I very much enjoyed my visit with Young Daughter, and Boyd was in cat heaven with his girl back in his life!

Let me stop and see if this will post. Testing 1-2-3…

[Slo]

Bodacious scallops and homemade potato salad sounds divine, Pie. I saw some of Secession when I had HBO, and it’s a good series.

I got to see the movie, “A Man Called Otto” starring Tom Hanks recently, and it was excellent! Better than the book!

My grandson Andy is crawling flawlessly now at 6 months old, and he is so happy to be mobile! He learned how to sit & crawl at pretty much the same time. Such a giant boy he is too: bigger than Huxley, who is 10 months old. I get to travel to see him in a couple weeks.

What did your son make you for dinner, PQ? Hope your Internet will be solid with a new router.

Lav, that’s good advice. I think Beckett does need very regular meal and bedtimes to help keep him balanced. Well, maybe he did survive all the insults surrounding his birth neurologically intact. Maybe it’s his other health woes that bother him, like the endless eczema, or all the sinusitis and endless colds. Those should be getting better now that his tonsils & adenoids are out. Or, maybe he’s just a quirky kid.

[Slo]

Yesterday I traveled to my mother’s new apartment in her new city in order to see my cousin’s 10-year-old son’s swim meet. He has joined the sport that my daughters were so involved in! This enabled me to visit with Young Aunt & Uncle (the grandparents of the swimmer), Cousin and her HB & kids, and my nephew who just graduated from med school and his lovely Austrian girlfriend -before they move away for his residency.
I caught wind of this gathering thanks to helping my mother move. Otherwise she never would have let me know they were all coming to our state and getting together! Not even the swim connection would have prompted her to include me! She just all distressed that Little Sister & her family couldn’t be there, since they’re traveling for their children’s sports. Like, so what? I’m glad they’re traveling: they’re up by D1’s house, so they got to meet my newest grandson Cooper, and Beckett got to have his first sleepover, with my little sister’s 5 y/o son!

On Friday evening I got to be a sub again for my neighbor’s church group’s monthly card game, so I got to play Hand & Foot for 3-4 hours! You’re right, PQ; it is a form of Canasta.

Happy Sunday to all!

[Lavande]

Good evening friends,

It was a nice day here but we mostly missed it preparing for the carpet cleaners coming Tuesday morning. I am sick to death tired of moving furniture, packing boxes, etc. Lol
The wall to wall carpeting in the basement family room has never been cleaned so I figured it was time haha. It will be nice when it’s all done.

Pie, you are doing great in your quit, good for you! You must be feeling somewhat better & improved now.
I was put on HRT early, around 44 I think because my hormones had disappeared & the symptoms were awful. 20 some years later they told me I had to get off due to the increased risk of cancer. So for the last 4 or 5 years I’ve just been suffering with the hot flashes. They have been worse since having covid in February. I just wish it would all stop!!!

Mick, looks like you had another successful day
My dog doesn’t generally mess with any of my garden beds but the cats sure do, ugh. I’m trying to teach them to stay the heck out of my gardens, wish me luck haha! I’ve never had any Brahma hens. I don’t think I have enough energy left to deal with those big birds.

Slo, you’ve had a busy few days & are out enjoying your bike riding again, nice.
I did a ton of reading when my son was very young & the one thing all the books agreed on was the importance of consistency for these kids. He’s still fairly methodical in his day to day living, organized & never spastic haha! I paid for several years to have him work with a clinical psychologist to get his thinking organized, made school so much easier for him after that. All kids are different, you just need to figure out what it is they need. Glad you managed to get some extended family time too

Hello to PQ & Cyn, hope you are both doing well.

Have a nice night all.
Lav

[treegirl]

Mae all -

Sorry to miss yesterday, but I did go back and get a quick "catch-up"...

Mick, so glad to hear that Julie's research has turned up a good place for her dad - excellent! And maybe going home for a while now will just give him and you all some time to get his move all settled. Your scenery is so stunning, and I loved the quiet morning that you described. Hopefully things will call down a bit for you soon - although you'll just spend more time in the garden, it sounds like!

Pie - kudos to you! Great to hear your happiness, and I'm loving those menu items. Your energy will return, no worries... and congrats on the successful placement of the pup - sounds great.

Lav, poor thing - I hope that tomorrow (today?) goes well with all the carpet stuff, and you can get things put back now once and for all! YES Covid definitely has given me huge sweats... it's the gift that just keeps giving, darn it.

PPQ - hoping you are well, and fending off the xmas people for the moment!

SLO - wow, what a lot of family you handle... I am exhausted just reading your post... so glad that the cat had happiness with your daughter. Take care on all those drives!

I just pressed "send" on today's assignment - this week and next are the course for being a doula to help families and their animal companions at the end of life. Pretty heart-wrenching stuff, talking about when and whether to help clients with the decision to euthanize, etc. All pretty close to home for me, but the thought of being able to help people and their pets is such a wonderful thing - I hope I'll be successful and able to bring some gentleness into those times for folks. We'll see. Right now my brain is shutting down, so... nite nite!

[Mick]

hiya everyone ,and hows life in the fastlane today?hope all is good .we are waiting for a thunderstorm ,and then we are scheduled for some real hot weather.it was 25 degrees earlier on .the weather is supposed to be really warm ...good ..we are away with the van this weekend coming ,not too far .

hiya teegee how are you doing?hope all is well with you...I know ,as most of us here do,that horrible feeling of putting pets to sleep...Yes the mornings are superb ..this morning ,I watched lapwings flying around in the field ..at one stage they were on the endangered list .best of luck with your assignments .

hiya Slo ,how are you doing? hope all is well ..sounds like you have had a busy time with the family ,as long as you enjoy it thats the main thing .how is your mum doing in her new apartment?


hiya Lav ,how are you doing?hope all is good .have the carpet cleaners been yet?time to put it all back again .Yes had a pretty good day yesterday ,and today has been good too.get a couple of brahmans and put them in the garden ,that may discourage the cats ...have you got your plants in the ground yet?

hiya ppqp and pie hope you are both ok?

A woman gets on a bus with her baby. The bus driver says: “Ugh, that’s the ugliest baby I’ve ever seen!” The woman walks to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a man next to her: “The driver just insulted me!” The man says: “You go up there and tell him off. Go on, I’ll hold your monkey for you.”

I said to the Gym instructor “Can you teach me to do the splits?” He said, “How flexible are you?” I said, “I can’t make Tuesdays.”

Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one – and let the other one off.

Doc, I can’t stop singing the ‘Green Green Grass of Home’. He said: “That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome.” “Is it common?” I asked. “It’s not unusual” he replied.

I’m on a whiskey diet. I’ve lost three days already.

My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We’ll see about that.

A priest, a rabbi and a vicar walk into a bar. The barman says, “Is this some kind of joke?”

A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. “But why?” they asked, as they moved off. “because,” he said “I can’t stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer.”

I was having dinner with Garry Kasporov (world chess champion) and there was a check tablecloth. It took him two hours to pass me the salt.
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[porqoui]

MAE ALL....

Just checking in while I have internet. We are still struggling with making it stable. If we can't fix it we'll buy a new router on payday. Everyone sounds like they're doing good, keep it up. It's been extremely hot here around 30C but the smoke did clear out yesterday. Supposed to start getting some rain so that will help with the fires. Son came home for the weekend but has now gone back up north.

Sorry for not posting to you all individually but wanted to check in and let you all is good with me. Have a great day all...PPQP

[Pie]

Hi everyone,

The monthly house cleaners are coming tomorrow, so I’m doing some organizing while listening to AF podcasts. It’s a good day.

[Mick]

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