What a hard thing to do, hagatha. Take your time making any decisions about such an important part of your lives together. You may find it has a lot of life in it for you yet!

Draclvr, the water around here is quite dangerous, so much so that there are no boat rentals here in spite of the area being a salmon fishing mecca. While I'm comfortable handling the boat and I know the water well, I'm not competent to manage in an emergency, or if the weather changes abruptly. And the boat is very expensive to moor and maintain, never mind the cost of fuel. It's $100 just to go out for a few hours.. I'm coming around to the idea that my using the boat is just a pipe dream, a lovely thought but not practical. Oddly, there is nobody here that would be willing to give a few lessons. I've enquired at every marina in town. Anyway, we'll see what transpires over the next little while.

That does sound daunting.

I was wondering about the boat hagatha, as you had mentioned something about taking lessons. Drac's advice about taking your time makes sense to me. I paid the mortgage and condo fees on my sister's condo for over 2 years after she passed because I really didn't want to sell it but finally came to the conclusion that it was not feasible for me to try to keep it. I still do wish I could have figured out a way though.

Good morning, Danish, Donuts, and Bagels in the Break Room.

Good evening everyone

Chamomile tea, Peppermint tea and heavy cream for those who want to indulge in the Break Room for a good night's sleep

Have a wonderful evening

Good morning Everyone ☺️ Enjoy your breakfast, coffee ☕ or tea 🍵 have a lovely day 🌼
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Hello Taintedfury ... thank you and have a wonderful day down under

Good evening Boomers. Anyone have exciting plans for the long weekend?

doing cooking class tomorrow.

What are you cooking tomorrow, family?

No exiting plans for the weekend. I've finally got most of the financial stuff sorted and now have a regular monthly payment set up.

My friend went back to Vancouver this morning. I enjoy the company -- he's like family -- but I find it difficult to have someone around all the time. Fortunately he and my neighbours have become good friends, so he spent a lot of time with them, too.

Now I have peace and quiet, and a suddenly bold Dude, who for the very first time walked straight up to Willow and gave her a good cuff for no apparent reason other than a fair comeuppance for all the times she's been a jerk. I guess having her nails clipped did the trick. She was so astonished she hissed at him with her ears back, and she never does that. After that she seemed to admit that it were a fair cop, and settled back down quite happily. I think it's a good step, since he's been playing underdog since I got him.

Good morning everyone

Thai/Vietnamese Iced Coffee, Scottish Breakfast tea and bottled Fiji water in the Break Room.

It's Friday! T.G.I.F.

Have a wonderful day

Good morning, Danish, Donuts, and Bagels in the Break Room. Going to Tampa tomorrow with Robert for the Rod Steward concert. We will spend the night there and find something fun to do on Sunday.

Hi Soot will do much appreciated

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Connie, that sounds like a wonderful weekend! And wow! A Rod Stewart concert... I am so jealous!!

Sitting here with my black coffee, doing my daily Wordle and listening to the hundreds of hummingbirds. They should be leaving for the migration soon. I will not miss putting out 7 quarts of sugar water every day, but I will miss their chittering. Someone in the next town over has an albino hummingbird! It's made such a stir, they were on the news. My friend Tammi Elbert is a professional photographer and she got a bunch of photos and a video of "Gary!" If you are on Facebook, go to Tammi's page to see them... https://www.facebook.com/TElbertImages

Early this morning I sat out on the deck with the cats watching a humpback slowly make its way up the channel. I'm trying to get morning sun on my face, as that's supposed to help with sleep issues.

We won't be feeding a lot of hummingbirds this year. Two of my neighbours will be in Mexico for three months, and there's no way I can monitor ten feeders -- I'd be at it all day. I might put out two of the heated feeders in the locations where the cats can't get at them, and there's one spot next door I can see from my balcony, so I could look after that one too, but it will be nothing like the ten feeders we've had out for all these years. Hopefully it won't be a terribly cold winter.

Drac ... 7 quarts each day ... holy mackeral

Oh my Connie, a Rod Stewart concert sounds like fun ... have a good time

Hagatha, that's neat you have hummingbirds in the winter ... I wish we were your neighbors then no 'problem-O' with helping you with your feeders!

Hey TaintedFury ... it's good to see you

Have a great day everyone

we made sloppy joes and french fries, next week meat loaf, mashed potatoes, green beans, corn muffin.

Yummy!

Good morning, Danish, Donuts, and Bagels in the Break Room. We will be leaving for Tampa shortly. Have a Wonderful holiday weekend everyone.

Good morning everyone. Looking foward to a day of football.

Good morning everyone 😎

New Orleans Chicory Blend, Scottish breakfast tea and bottled Fiji water in the Break Room

Have a great day everyone

I'll try some of that New Orleans Chicory Blend, soot! Still chittering hummingbirds outside my window!

Bottled up my first hot pepper fermentation yesterday. Got 9 little 6 ounce bottles of hot sauce and even figured out how to use the little shrink wraps for the tops! Today I'm going to put a 2-hour cold smoke on a batch before I ferment it with garlic. Got tons of peppers, so gotta find SOMETHING to do with all of them!

Yes indeed SpaceQuestFan it's kick-off day for college football

Have fun Connie and stay safe.

Do you keep your hot sauce and peppers Drac or give them away

Happy Saturday everyone