Happy Saturday to one and all. This morning I was going to meet Sheila to walk our dogs but it was cold and generally miserable so I phoned her to say George and Betty would not be happy on the moors and she agreed, her little Rosie, who suffers with arthritis, would suffer. We agreed to keep in touch and wait for more settled weather. Thinking the rain was easing, I took my pooches out about 9.30 and within 10 minutes we were caught in a torrential downpour! Back home, everybody towelled off and fire lit so not much of interest achieved but we are warm and relaxed!

That’s great Sandy, you are feeling100% again.

Barbie, I’m sure my winter feels longer than normal because we have endured record amounts of rain. Something that keeps us all shut up as if we are back in lockdown! Several seeds in pots are hesitating to show themselves in my greenhouse but I’m hoping once it finally warms up they will burst forth.

Lin, I do remember such teapots, back in the 80’s I’m sure. Probably owned one myself for a while seeing as a cat was involved!

7pm here and I’ve enjoyed a meatball and homemade tomato sauce meal with a glass of red wine so hearing Betty snore in front of the stove, think I will now relax with a cup of tea and choc ice!

Take care everyone.
Jackie 🥰

Hi, it was a very cold and windy day. Overnight we may have a freeze warning, colder than just frost. People in the area with planted gardens are scrambling to protect anything that could be killed by this dip in temperature.

Another quiet day here. I did a bit of cooking. I have been trying to cut out the cover die for my current project. It is slow going. 🙃

A tiny package was delivered and when I went outdoors to pick it up, surprise, it was gone. Since it was windy, I hurried to walk around a bit (without my coat) and saw it had blown quite a distance. I didn’t take time to put on a coat, I just hurried to hustle over there to pick it up before it went further. Brrrrr.

Anne, best wishes on your seedling sitting. I hope all remain healthy. And speaking of healthy, I hope Jilly is okay. Enjoy your time with Michael tomorrow.

Sandy, what a nice visit! Time for them to go home once again. I am sure they will be back soon.

Jackie, I hope you are getting a good night’s sleep. When will we all get some settled spring weather? I think we are more than ready.

Be safe everyone.

Lin🙋🏼‍♀️
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Happy Earth Day

Sandy, so happy you are feeling 100 percent….Saturday Mass and dinner….its been years since I did that.
Jackie, glad you got dried out and warm
Anne, I did wash today also
Lin, I luv the Globe teapot
Barbie, such a weakling I am, I wouldn't go out in 59 temp.
I had a very lazy day with my roomie gone. Actually, my sweet granddaughter texted amazing pictures from todays activities. They did a spa, lunch and the ocean and then a patio feed at Leilani’s. Lori texted me they are spoiling her. I have got this old and never lived alone…my parents died young,boarding school, an aunt and uncle, my husband, and my children! So today besides my laundry and cleaning out a purse, I read and read and did crosswords. I did get up every hour to walk indoors. I am a converted believer of movement to soothe the old achy bones. And yesterday my back felt like it was getting worse, bur today it is much better. Just indoors and ten minutes at a time. What a difference. Tis now seven pm, or gone seven I think my DI said, and I only have 20 minutes left in my DI Janssen book and after that, I will watch a Hallmark movie😲
Hope you all have a great Sunday.
Joy

Joy, When I worked in the yard I was wearing long pants with fleece leggings and wool socks. Also a turtleneck, sweatshirt. fleece jacket, outdoor jacket, wool scarf and wool hat. I prefer temps in the high 60's and low 70's but I was eager to work on my project. Today it is drizzly so I'll stay in and work on my indoor projects.

Barbie

Jilly didn’t get her nails clipped. Mike is almost 6ft and Jilly is about 12 inches tall but if Michael can get out of trying to cut Jill’s claws he will. I think she is destined for the vet who is much braver. The vet who is ginger haired and short terrorizes the little thing enough to stop her wriggling.

Anyway, she managed two long walks and is now stretched out next to me in dreamland. Meanwhile the two Ms are in their holiday hotel texting me that it’s sunny and hot in Florida. Here it looks like rain and is decidedly chilly. I’ve decided I’m NOT a lumberjack and I’m NOT alright! Fed up of wearing thick woolly clothes. Well at least the winter boots are put away.

I haven’t killed Mary Jo’s seedlings…..yet. The geranium I brought inside last fall has a flower bud. Yeah. It’s in blissful ignorance that it ain’t geranium weather outside.

Yours grumpily, Anne.☔️💦💦

Lin….but nobody leaves me alone. Even now with my roomie Lori in San Diego, her sister Debbie is over all the time. Even my son in Georgia called to check on me😲
I guess when you have six children, there is always someone. But I still always have the tv on for “company”.

I’m a merry divorcee as well Joy. I wasn’t very merry at first having just arrived in Canada after a 20 year marriage but I did manage to find a job in an English speaking aircraft engine factory after being discarded for a younger model. When the firm sent the research team to Ontario because of anti English mutterings in Quebec me and the boys travelled to Ontario in a rusty old car which gave up the ghost on arrival at an apartment with flames shooting through the floorboards. My 14 year old and 17 year old enrolled themselves in the local high school whilst mom got on a bus to find the new office. We have lived happily here most of the time ever since. We are all from Yorkshire in England or that was our birthplace.
I never remarried either being somewhat shell shocked at the time, and if I’m honest, apart from my dad, grandad, sons, grandsons and other family members I am somewhat wary of anything that grows a beard.

What saved me in the job market was the fact I could touch type numbers accurately so we started off pretty broke but I worked myself up the ladder a bit and with Mike and Mark both working part time whilst at university we somehow made it to today. Good girl friends were the key in those early years with me and my long time pal Flo travelling all over the place in her old car. Happy memories!

Well I’ve twittered on quite a bit and having consumed a banana, a boiled egg and two Ryvitas must get on. (I suppose! Mark is in Florida so I haven’t got two beady eyes checking up on me.)

Anne.

Happy Monday morning to all…..Deb is picking me up to do a couple of errands today before we go to the airport to pick Lori up from her pampering weekend in San Diego.
Anne, I see you also pulled yourself up and did what you had to do. You were wary of the boys and I had this “talent”…..put me in a room with 100 men….all of them good guys except one…..yep I will pick him. So after trying dating, decided it wasnt for me!
Jackie, a walk on the moors, just luv the thought of it. But dont look at the mirror….worse is looking in the magnifying glass (i was looking at eyebrows in need) and it was pretty scary. Triple chins, creepy skin.
Sandy, hope all good news from your tests.
Have a great week start all.
Joy

Lin, yes we had a good day. Picked up Lori from the airport about 5:30 and went straight to dinner. My grandson is in town visiting some old friends from college so we called him to meet us at the restaurant. Had the biggest wedge salad, with lots of blue cheese crumbles, which I luv. But it put me over my sodium goal…🙁
We had a great visit at dinner tho. Now home and Lori unpacking. Im about to settle into my DI series…a body has been found 😲
Hope you enjoyed working on your cards.
Joy

Good evening sneakers. Wow, no rain today although we’ve still got a freezing wind blowing about but it was ideal for drying the laundry that went through an overnight cycle. It was an early walk because I had a hair appointment later and as I was getting George and Betty out of my car in the usual car park, Sheila arrived with Rosie. We hadn’t made an arrangement to meet, it was a coincidence but we took a gentle route, mostly for Rosie’s sake and chatted for nearly an hour. She told me she had talked to Heather as she drove on to the moors, saying, there you are, I promised I would continue to walk. Heather had persuaded Sheila years ago to walk and gradually increase the distance and back then it seemed to save her from seizing up completely.
My hair was too long for the past couple of weeks, especially in the constant wind, so this time it was cut slightly shorter and I’m pleased with it.
I did some grocery shopping on my way home and while I was in the store, received a phone call from an ex neighbour, phoning to see how I was but I showed him on the video that I was in the middle of the store so would phone him when I got home. I’ve tried a couple of times but he doesn’t pick up so I will try again tomorrow.
I can’t remember the last time I was needing to heat the property in late April but the fire was lit just after 4 pm so my cottage is cosy!

Jeri, I read Tuesdays with Morrie a few years ago and remember thoroughly enjoying it. It could have been sad but instead was uplifting.

Sandy, that’s good if your hip isn’t needing a replacement but being tall, I’m well aware how our backs can give us years of strife! One of my relatively new hips is painful again after just 4 years but I think that’s probably down to our damp weather and sitting too much. My exercise bike is still here if I want to exercise more but this morning I already walked over 6,000 steps so that’s more than enough for me!

Hmm Lin? I’ve been trying to work out if that’s an elephant on the teapot’s lid or blue flowers! 🤔. Surely not the elephant. Poly tunnels are a great idea if one has the space and I’ll be interested to see how long the neighbours’ will be.

Joy, I do agree, mirrors are best avoided these days but during my hour in my hairdresser’s chair, I couldn’t avoid seeing those wrinkles and when did my neck suddenly show signs of belonging to a Christmas Turkey?

I hope everyone I missed today is well and keeping warm but do need to ask Patsy what she knows about a hole that has appeared in the seabed just off the Oregon coast. It might be old news but still sounded scary!

A late cup of tea and an early trip to bed because I’ve not been getting enough hours sleep.

Jackie 🥱😴

Jackie, with all those steps, I am inspired. I did two ten minute treadmills today and hoping to do another one in order to get my 30 minutes in. Glad you are happy with the haircut. And, I hope you are comfy in bed and not reading this til tomorrow. 🥰
Anne, can you tell me where you are again…its finally spring weather here and I am not cold. My old bones cannot take cold weather anymore. Glad you are prepared to be warm and cozy today.
Joy