So Anderson Cooper's big interview came.....and went, with me following asleep and upon awakening I thought I must have missed the most interesting parts! However, I think I fell asleep because it was one huge bore!!!
Huge sympathy hugs to dear JACKIE, whose pets receive the most wonderful gift life can give,
a totally non-judgemental love!
SANDY, repeat wishes for all your family's well being! You have the loveliest group of fine young people, making excellent contributions to society!
PATSY, I have shared your conjectures regarding the why and wherefore of our man in the WH and more people have answered enthusiastically that you have finally explained to us the logical reason for the foolishness !
LIN, busy as ever! Keep it up and you'll keep young, t!
at least in heart.
BARBIE, your enthusiasm knows no bounds! How wonderful your attitude has always been! And may JAKE continue to mend successfully! Has your problem disappeared? Have a splendid year!
We watched "I Tonya" after dinner tonight. What a sad state of affairs in her upbringing and the abuse she endured all her life from those who should have been supportive!
Have I mentioned my disappointment in the stone crabs? I found them to be utterly tasteless an loaded with tiny shards of shell.
Well beyond what should be my best bedtime so I'm off as we have early lectures I'd like to attend!
Buzz
.....................Always Believe Something Wonderful is About to Happen!.............................

Hello, time to run away to Trader Joe’s soon. Once again Mah Jongg has been cancelled due to lack of players. I have other things to do so that is fine. But I will miss playing.

The outcome yesterday was that the valve went off, work done, valve turned back on and there was no dramatic issue but it is now leaking. That means a very expensive service call if I pursue it. Right now I am just watching and waiting. Sometimes these tiny leaks magically lime over after a period of time. I have many other things that are hardly working so I will put this one the list of potential disasters. Haaaa.

I also received a bunch of nasty looking legal documents yesterday pertaining to my that commission check that I mentioned. They want all sorts of notarized documents and sworn documents. I called the attorney who handled my dad’s estate to be sure I would not be in any hot water by not completing any of this stuff. Or if they thought I should. They said let it go and let the company turn over the tiny bit of money to the state as unclaimed. The time, trouble and potential expense is not worth it.

I did one more look over the church paperwork and made one small discovery. One envelope full of junk pertains to a different committee, I have sorted that out and will return it to the church after Easter. All the remaining stuff has no order to it that I can see. Gulp.

Well still cold and wet so will grab the winter coat before heading out.

Patsy, I hope you are feeling better today.

Buzz, and I hope you are able to get to the early lectures. I stayed up reading an M.C. Beaton book last night. Yawn! Seemed like a good idea at the time.

Jackie, I hope you are well and that George is being a comfort to you.

Sandy, any photos of yesterday with the boys? Hope you had a good time.

Anne, listening to news of the mystery train? That got my attention this morning.

Hugs.

Lin

I shopped early this morning and stocked up with fruit and salad although we are told more cold weather is on its way but with just a month to the cruise I need to watch what I'm eating so that once onboard I can relax and enjoy all that is displayed in the food department!

Thank you for all the comforting words about Boris but really, you are all animal lovers so I know you would have followed the same path. Making the decision is the difficult bit and ensuring any pet's quality of life rather than spinning things out from a selfish standpoint isn't so bad although emotional, certainly with my vets that are kind, supportive and oh so gentle. Brady did as I thought last night and tried to bring a mouse into the cottage to play with as it was raining outside. A towel flicked at his backside soon had him back in the wet!!

The sun is out every now and then so I'm doing much as Anne did yesterday, gathering the remnants of winter into bags and hopefully giving the garden a maintained look even if it hasn't been for months!

Jackie

Ah! SANDY, thank you, interesting!
I've just read a news flash. Some space equipment is hurtling to earth but we needn't worry. Mmm, staying indoors until after lunch, lol.
Anne.

Iy! Post disappeared! Such an enthusiastic one, too. I was ruminating on what a miracle it is that we have all met here on MFP,...such a terrific group of friends and genuinely caring for one another's families, quirks and everything in between! I feel as if I know you all and even stranger, knew you all at some other life/place, since I feel you are all so familiar to me! I recall in the beginning , it was not always so, since I had difficulty trying to understand where you were all coming from! Forums were a pretty new concept for me, and mostly I felt a bit strange!
So PATSY, how many year ago did those 2 flower children get hitched, causing their parents such consternation over two hippies getting in over their heads! Ain't love grand; it actually lasted! And flourished, and I think is much richer today than when you were a couple of college kids! Beautiful, and Mazel Tov! (I'll gladly translate if you never heard that expression!).
JACKIE, as sad as we are for you regarding sweet Boris, I know you neatly accept life's realities and the fact that we shall all eventually join Boris, wherever he maybe! You do seem like one with nature, and your wisdom stems from that association, I think! I join everyone else who is getting excited about the closeness of your cruise date! Wish I could curl up in your suitcase and join!
SANDY, with the gorgeous genes (inherited by your progeny!), you will be in Florida at a beautiful time, if nothing changes! Today is a perfect 76 degrees, and fresh and delicious!
I just wish it would be closer than 460 miles from Boca!
LIN, didn't anyone at least ask if it was convenient for you to take on such a task at your church? Of course, knowing you, you never have refused, so forget I asked! And they know you can be counted on to do a great job Good luck, dear!
ANNE, you do sound so serene! It's wonderful you have reached the kind of contentment you describe. As to the hair color question: when my Mom died and I became matriarch of my family, I looked in the mirror at my short poodle-type haircut, which was a beautiful auburn
(my original color was black!) and thought what a relief it would be to stop coloring it! So I told my hairdresser to give me a buzz cut short enough to get rid of all color, and I'd take it from there! It turned out it was still mostly black with a couple of pure white streaks up front where a glass double door had fallen from storage onto my forehead years before! The rest of it made me look like a Marine!!! But my hair grows quickly, and soon it was naturally speckled, and I'm satisfied I no longer have to worry about roots, so I've never colored it again! In those days, my face was thin with high cheekbones, so a brush cut looked fine!
Today's 1st meeting was an introduction to our ACTS Portal, of which I have been a charter member since it started about a year ago. I was part of the group that helped form the website, and unbeknownst to me, someone had questioned me way back concerning why I was interested, and a photographer must have videotaped it, because there I was, onscreen, at this introductory meeting today, explaining why I was interested in helping form our website that would be shared with about 33 other "campuses", and I have enjoyed it beyond the frustrations involved in learning how to fix flaws, of which there were plenty! Now, we can order meals from the bistro, chat with communities from Alabama to Florida and north to Ohio , Maryland, and I think one is being built in New Joisey! We can move interchangeably amongst all of the Communities without paying the price of buying in again! And the introduction to the Portal is that video of yours truly saying sublimely ridiculous nonsense! Oh dear! Would you believe I'm dozing off here AGAIN!!! At 5:35 P.M.
Buzz
......................Always Believe Something Wonderful is About to Happen!.......................

We didn't have a pleasant walk this morning George and me because a cold wind and driving rain hit us just as we got out of my car! We were alone so I had thought it a good idea to get to the moors for a good run for George but even he turned round halfway and headed back to the car. The rain has now cleared so I will put a warm jacket on and spend an hour in the greenhouse planting on 6 cherry tomato plants and 50 onions!

Patsy ~ I love your wonderful memories of a hippy wedding and all that came afterwards which must give you a warm feeling when you look back. Carrot cake and champagne sounds a perfect celebration meal!

Tomorrow I have an appointment at the eye hospital in Plymouth to check if cataracts can be removed, not before the cruise of course but in the next few months. A friend will drive me there as I won't be able to drive home with drops in my eyes. If I don't check in you'll know my vision is too fuzzy!!

Happy Wednesday.
Jackie

I wonder if the fish on the heraldic shield are religious symbols? Fish being the early Christian symbol. But maybe nothing so interesting, Yorkshire and Northumbria are bordered by the sea.
Everyone so far seem to be having an interesting day, but not me. Jilly's suddenly in season and confined to the back yard for the next 2-3 weeks unless Mike or Mark are around to help me with walks. Send those records around here for sorting LIN, I've time on my hands!
Anne.

Hi SANDY. No intrusion. My friend Janice's little dog has bladder leakage BECAUSE of spaying. She leaks all the time. The vet tells me It occasionally happens apparently. However, we chose not to have Jilly spayed because we have never ever had a female dog spayed going back to my grandads time. We just want to keep her as Nature intended. I'm glad nobody spayed me when I was young, lol. Seriously though, it's no bother. Female dogs keep themselves clean and it just means more time spent in the garden than walks. Not so bad with it being spring and planting/gardening time almost upon us. The main problem appears to be maybe cancer in old age, but then, most elderly cats and dogs get cancer then regardless. Just personal choice in the end. I know these days I'm a rarity!
Anne.

Oops, I forgot my accountant is coming Friday morning and I haven't sorted out my figures yet, other than having stuck them in the proper folder of my accordian file . Perhaps I can do it now, though I'm hosting dinner for tonight's speaker, against whom there have been lies and threats against her talking because she discusses current events as they are, and not as some people prefer to see them! I may attempt speaking reasonably concerning having certain residents request another person in addition to tonight's talker so we may be exposed to their preferences as well! Also, I have agreed to make "Certificates of Appreciation" for people who donate to different causes here (all worthy, like a Samaritan Fund, Staff Scholarship Fund, Unexpected Medical Fund for Staff, Bereavement Donations, etc) and since it's been done by our wonderful secretary in the past, there is need for help. Her husband died last week, and now it was discovered she has Cancer of her lymph glands. We are all heartbroken and I feel I want to help however possible. Marty has been like the pillar of strength here, for everyone and every problem, and we all adore her and are very concerned! Of course we don't know yet if she will return to Edgewater eventually, but no one wants to even talk about that!
ANNE, with all those fish, it's not in my genes!!! I'm trying so hard to learn to like fish, but not really succeeding too well! But thank you for the research! My Dad was born in Jerusalem and my Mom's family was from Riga, so I cannot imagine their forebears found time to dally in Northumbria. I'm just glad they finally found one another in New Hampshire, where my Dad picked Mom up from a fall from the horse that bucked! They both said it was love at first sight!
JACKIE, within a week of my cataract surgery I was seeing better than my entire life! I got Crystalenses, which have an indiscernible hinge that adjusts to distance, reading, driving, and everything in between! They were well worth the difference! And I think everyone will note what a difference new lenses make regarding colors we haven't realized were tremendously changed through the years! Between the 2 surgeries, I recall looking at white cabinets with each eye closed. The new eye was pure white. The one awaiting surgery was yellow!
PATSY, so how many years has it been?
LIN, Honey bun, YOU should charge THEM for sharing your time and knowledge; never mind paying to join! You have SO much to offer!
SANDY, win, win, win! I hope you get the entire pot!
Buzz
............................Always Believe Something Wonderful is About to Happen......................

Ooh, I do love a love story with a happy ending.
THE HAPPIEST OF CONGRATULATIONS TO PATSY AND JOHN, AND MANY MORE YEARS OF BLISS FOR YOU.
HUGS FROM ANNE.

Hello again. I just got home from an entertaining class at REI entitled Bigfoot Basics. The guy is a hoot! He taught the zombie survival class I went to what, a year ago? Tonight he was giving basics on items to pack and how to act when going hiking. I always learn something. And I used my dividend to purchase a nice shirt.

When I got home today, I made a pot of soup and baked a couple of sweet potatoes. I got my tax bundle from the preparer today as well. It is reviewed and ready to mail out. Yippee. I did forget to include one expense item but it was small. I am surprised she did not ask me if I had expense in that line item. Oops.

Still giggling from the bad but amusing jokes from the class.

Hugs.

Lin

Hello everybody! Another dreary rainy day, but I'm sort of glad because little Bean doesn't want to go out any more than I do! She is a tiny dog SANDY so no bother at all, she likes the sofa, but it is covered in a sheet and towels on top of that. I had to wash the towels today but really hardly worth it. Just from sleeping because during the day she keeps clean being awake. She may get spayed down the road if she ends up with one of the sons, them being involved with work, but for me being around most of the time, it's no bother. I read somewhere that everything slows down as the dogs age. We will see! She is under 10 lbs I think. Next vet visit we will find out. We have coyotes here as well, PATSY, but they aren't out hunting during the day.

Golly, I would have been married 62 years if he "hadn't found another and poof he had gone", lol. Actually I'm rather glad he poofed and was gone. A very handsome man but he had a wicked temper. His mom told me he was born in a temper! Mike tells me nothing's changed! We were 17 when we met and followed PATSY and JOHNS path but unlike them it wasn't to be in our middle age. Anyway, I wish him all the best because he must have found ME very trying with the pair of us being opposites.

And that's about it from yours truly I'm afraid, "nuffing" going on at all to excite everybody,
Anne and the indisposed one.

Where does time go? I checked this group today and I had 103 unread messages. Wow.

We were very busy as we had the five granddaughters for 4 Days. They are 17, 12, 8, 5, and 20 months. Thank goodness for the two older girls as they were so much help with the little ones. Elizabeth put the baby’s bed (a playpen) in her room and put her to bed every night and put her down for a nap in the day. We had so much fun but sure were tired at the end.

Tomorrow we are heading up to where I grew up for the weekend. My Aunt Suzie is celebrating her 200th birthday on Saturday. She does pretty good, has trouble with her vision, but still loves to laugh. A girl after my own heart.

So right now I am doing laundry and getting organized.

Happy Easter.

Jeri

Yes I saw that. I am not certain of what may be impacted but the horse is out of the barn already. Sigh.

Lin