Good Morning everyone and Welcome to the start of a new week! Wide Awake Double Dark Brew is ready!

Sounds like you had a stressful day yesterday soot...hope all is well today with the printer and flower pots! I've had issues with squirrels ripping up flowers hanging on my deck in the past too. Connie that is great news on all you raised for Steve. Draclvr how do you keep up with all those spring chores??

Wishing everyone a good start to the week!

Gerry

Good morning everyone.

New day, new week but not much left of March.
Are you ready for the April's fools thingies tomorrow?

Always tricky. I am at least ready for the WADDB. Adding some emergency use knäckebröd in the Break room.

Happy Monday GameBoomers!

Good morning, Danish, Donuts and Bagels in the Break Room. Joint meeting at the Eagles tonight. Enjoy the day and hug someone.

Good Monday morning! Back to sweatshirt weather here.

Gerry, I'm still being a total slacker! I will wait until a couple of warmer days to start cleaning up all the perennial beds and fertilizing them. Hubby would normally have a lot of spring onions and radishes planted, but he wasn't able to do it this year because of the knee surgery. I did get my tomato and pepper seeds started yesterday, but it will be mid-may before put those out in the garden.

Connie, that is amazing that you were able to raise such a huge sum for your friend. My little home town did it for my sister's husband when he underwent a stem cell transplant. They had to be away from their home at the hospital in Omaha for 3 months. The money raised let my sister leave work and still pay the mortgage and other bills. Small communities are wonderful.

Good morning everyone.

Finally, a lovely day. I don't how long it will last with out changeable weather, but I'm planning a walk.

My garden looks pretty good right now. The star Magnolia is in bloom and the shrubs are in leaf, giving a good display of reds and greens. The landscaper got most of the weeds out of my gravel parking area, but there's a significant weed factory in there and if it looks like we're having two good days I might get the vinegar out and give it a spray.

Connie, it's so great that your community did that. When John and I had to be in Vancouver for his spinal surgery we were so fortunate to have a friend who was willing to have me and Willow stay with him while John was in the hospital (for three months). Otherwise I honestly don't know what we would have done. Now your friend doesn't have to worry about those practicalities and can focus on the health issues.

Good moanday moaning everyone. Yesterday was not stressful Gerry just busy ... seems like most days are busy ; ) I'm ready for WADDB, knäckebröd and bagels too Fogfighter. Glad you have nice weather for a walk Hagatha...I was able to get a walk in this morning before the rain started. Congrats on getting your tomatos and peppers started Draclvr. Wishing you all a great day.

Good Monday afternoon all. I hope you each enjoy your day. I'm hoping not to hear bad news from my friend who lives in Valparaiso, where there was extremely bad weather yesterday. My brother brought me home something from Culver's today. I haven't looked yet to see what it is. Every Monday for the last two months or so he's been bringing home some sort of fast food. That's it.

Heard from my friend. A lot of downed trees in her area, one right across the street and one that landed on her fence. She sent me 3 different pictures of 3 different trees. She lost power for 6 hours. Other than that, all is good, thankfully! I heard that they had 80 mile per hour winds but haven't seen mention of a tornado. She said it all happened within about 3 minutes but there were no tornado sirens or anything.

Good Morning everyone! Wide Awake Double Dark Brew is ready!

I have a busy day ahead. My daughter and hubby are coming for a weekend visit...I need to get things ready...my daughter has Celiac disease so I have to get special gluten free food for her...I even have a separate toaster for her to use so there is no cross contamination.

I hope the weather is better for everyone today. Enjoy your day!

Gerry

Good morning everyone.

Emergecy kits of instant coffee and knäckebröd are available in the break room while we wait for the real stuff.
And that's totally true. Just go and check for yourself.

Happy new Tuesday and happy new month GameBoomers!

Good morning, Danish, Donuts and Bagels in the Break Room. Lunch and Netflix with a friend today. Enjoy the day and hug someone.

Good morning Connie Fogfighter Gerry Draclvr and all who follow. Enjoying WADDB knäckebröd and bagels before I'm off to get groceries. We are very familiar with the gluten free environment Gerry...have a fun visit. Have a wonderful day everyone.

Good Tuesday afternoon! Sunny and chilly here and getting ready for more severe storms tomorrow. They will be scattered, so I hope we don't get any of it.

Just got back from a quick grocery run in town. Wish I could go outside and start working, but it's still just too windy and cold! I'm a wuss!

I was just thinking about you and your garden produce, Draclvr

A very, very long time ago, my late Husband and I used to grow quite a nice variety of food stuff - but on a much smaller scale than your epic quantities !!

We did fruit .... such as .... strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, rhubarb, eating apples and cooking apples.

And a few veg .... like .... potatoes, carrots, onions, spring onions and tomatoes.
[A big greenhouse full of tomatoes becaus we both liked them A LOT (and I still do) ]

Can't do any serious gardening nowadays, because of health issues, but I have a gardener to keep all my flowers, bushes and shrubs and trees etc in trim 👍

Good Morning Fogfighter, connie, soot, Draclvr, Mad, hagatha, and everyone! Wide Awake Double Dark Brew is ready!

Draclvr hope you weathered the storms and stay safe.

Enjoy Your Day!

Gerry

Good morning, Danish, Donuts and Bagels in the Break Room. Music Bingo at the Eagles tonight. Afternoon/ evening storms have been the order of the day here. Enjoy the day and hug someone.

Good morning all.

Woke up feeling under the weather. I've been having trouble sleeping over the past couple of months and it's starting to wear me down. On the plus side, being retired means it doesn't matter, because I have few responsibilities.

I booked a July trip to Toronto last week. It's my one and only nephew's wedding. I booked myself and my mother into a posh hotel; it's close to the Toronto train station, which means she can get there on her own from Hamilton. She's 93 and still in pretty good shape and insisted on taking the train over my suggestion to take a limo. It'll be fun. We can hang out and eat in nice restaurants for a few days. It'll be nice to get away, even for just a little while.

Good Wednesday morning! Just sitting here with my 2nd cup of WADDB waiting for the storms to roll in. Epic winds came up in the middle of the night again. Thank goodness, we left that heavy patio furniture OFF the pool deck! There have already been two tornados on the ground about 100 miles west of us. As the storms move east towards us, we hope they lose some of their strength. We could use the rain, but not the hail and tornados!

Good Hump 🐪 Day morning Draclvr, Hagatha, Connie, Gerry, Mad and all who follow ; ) We are on track to set a record high temperature this afternoon...and we just entered April ... oh my. Hope the bad storms miss you Draclvr...we can use the rain too. Hope you get to feeling better today Hagatha. Enjoying WADDB and bagels this morning.

Have a great day everyone

Good morning, everyone. The weather is just wacko! It's 27 degrees here this morning and next week we are looking at being in the 80s.

Gerry, I hope you have a pleasant time with your daughter and son-in-law.

Mad, that sounds lovely, all of the fruits and vegetables that you and your husband grew. How nice that you have a gardener to help you keep things tidy now.

Happy Wednesday all!

Hope you get to feeling and sleeping better, hagatha.

Gerry, I hope you have a wonderful time with your daughter.

Drac, glad you found a good place for your patio furniture.

We are also expecting the severe weather here. We're in a Category 3 of 5 for this afternoon/evening. It has been raining lightly all morning with some thunder.

May we all stay safe!

Good morning everyone; Wednesday is my favorite day for TV. From 4pm to 10:30, I start with the Amazing Race, followed by the three Chicago's: Med, Fire & PD. Then Survivor. Have a safe day everyone.

"Mad, that sounds lovely, all of the fruits and vegetables that you and your husband grew. How nice that you have a gardener to help you keep things tidy now". wave

It was lovely, Marian, thank you.

I also have really happy memories as a very young child of going to stay with my paternal grandparents . [In the early 1940's when I was maybe 2 or 3 years old.]
They lived right out in the wilds in a stone "long-house" style property. All on one level and each room leading into the next !!
With a "stained glass" windowed porch stuck on the first end.
No services except a cold water tap and THAT was right at the end of the house in the laundry room 👀 but there was a huge fireplace range for cooking and heating - and lots of oil lamps everywhere.
The "toilet" was a shack, on a path down past the orchard, which housed plank style accomodation over a "hole"
And there were twin sheep dogs - who were my pals and who looked after me.
But the MOST fantastic part was the FULL orchard, with every soft fruit imaginable and pear, apple and plum trees etc. etc..
Plus ducks and hens. Horses in an adjoining field, cows in the next field along and a huge bull in the field next to that

That sounds like something straight out of a storybook, Mad. Happy memories indeed!

Mad, that all sounds wonderful. I have very little memories of my childhood, certainly not that vivid or from that young.

I have vivid memories of several parts of my really young childhood. Good AND bad !!