HAPPY NEW WEEK AND HAPPY NEW MONTH!
Last week's Chat thread is HERE.
Thursday, March 5, is the Full Moon.
Also,
On March 6, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will arrive at the dwarf planet Ceres. Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
The Dawn space probe will spend several months observing Ceres and sending back the first close-up images of a dwarf planet in our solar system. You can watch the spacecraft's arrival at Ceres on a special broadcast of the Slooh Observatory:
U.K.: Friday 6 March at 6:00 p.m.Eastern U.S.: 6 March at 1:00 p.m.California: 6 March at 10:00 a.m.
Scientists have already detected mysterious bright spots on Ceres and are anxious to discover what they are. INFO
Everyone have a great week!
Brenda - Thanks for the thought - however, the day isn't until 17 March.
Starling well impressed as photo on phone to here...
Wish I could do that:-(
Clare - Thanks for the thought - however, the day isn't until 17 March.
I rarely post myself, but I am an avid reader of all the news on here.
Annette, Lindybird, HeatherB –Sorry you have followed others into an early birthday mention. However, my birthday isn't until 17 March.
Nevertheless, thanks to all for the good wishes, especially while I suffered from the cold. I have just about recovered now.
So I am almost ready for better weather to let me start properly in the garden.
Cheers for now.
OH so sorry EE. I have your birthday as today. I now realise how I made the mistake. I know there is a week between yourself and OG. !!!!!
EDIT. I can't get anything right at the moment LOL OG is two weeks younger than you !!!!!!!!
Good visit to new dentist this morning – I liked her straight away, and that helps. She is a good listener and very thoughtful. I have three more appointments so far, but they aren’t until April. We had an incident whilst there: the owner (dental therapist) got locked in the loo when the bolt broke, and OH had to break out the lock, damaging the door, to get him out, with much hilarity for all – luckily no other patients there at the time! Weather was dry and sunny, although there was snow on some of the hills (about 300 feet and above, by my estimation) – nothing on the roads and no precipitation all day here, until about 5pm, with a wet night forecast.
George – it was good to read a post from you, and hear about your plans for the time with your Son. Pleased you found some interesting things to watch on the television at the weekend. Glad your SiL now has her operation date; I hope she will not be getting over-anxious while she waits; it must be on her mind a lot of the time. I hope installation went smoothly and that you will soon get used to the new one, but then you will be away enjoying meals out and cooked for you! Wishing you safe journeys and a good time.
Clare – enjoy the new car, but I am sorry you haven’t heard any more about jobs yet.
Annette – more rain! You’ll be wishing it would stop soon! A good start to the whale season: I wonder whether the mother-and-calf pairs will also start early this year. Your vehicle sharing sounds interesting: maybe your OH will prefer to be at home with Peanut to being seen around town in the hay wagon! Thanks for posting your photos – lovely to see the blossom, but they are all lovely!
Linda – pleased you are getting proper weather now, but sorry to read about your Friend’s arm – no beach volley-ball for him, then! Enjoyed the poem for Clare’s Fiesta!
Lynette – I am sure you do have a good voice, and your enthusiasm comes through too! Thanks for news of Beatrice – usually an early starter!
Brenda – and all – I see E-E has made one of his rare posts to tell you his birthday isn’t until 17th – he is exactly 2 weeks older than I!
Starling – oh! So, so cute! Baxter sounds an ideal name, I would say!
Heather – I read that Inverness had a lot of snow today, but it may turn to rain tonight, and then a bit warmer into the end of the week. Pleased your OH got on alright, but sorry he needs to go through more investigation; I do hope for a good outcome. I hope he will soon get appointments, so that he doesn’t have the anxiety of further waiting.
J got his new timetable today – much less time in the dreaded nursery – hurray!
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
Starling, Baxter looks even more gorgeous than your previous photographs.
Aww thank you Brenda :) It's all going well so far, will see how he gets on tonight - might be no sleep for me.
© Scottish Wildlife Trust - Loch of the Lowes
Hallo again;
Eagle-Eye: I mailed a b/day card to my sister and her OH, thinking his was on the 6th - a week after hers, but then got an e-mail from him saying he wouldn't open it until his b/day on the 26th! Still, perhaps a case of better early than late?
OG: Well, you and EE won't have any problems being welcomed at the new dentist's what with smashing down the bathroom door in an almost-dramatic rescue! What a hoot. You got it re OH and hay wagon; of course, he could always pop Peanut in the trunk to run around in the hay while he is out and about. Good that J will avoid the less attractive parts of his job.
Lindybird: I can see you penning verses by the ocean. :-)
Heather: Fingers also crossed here for your OH.
I have been preoccupied for the last few weeks. Our daughter in law has been promoted and has been asked to move to Singapore for two years. They have been in Singapore, looking at where they could live and where they would be working. Our son has also been offered a medical psychologist's job there. After doing their homework and having all the i's dotted and t's crossed, they have decided to go. We have done a lot of talking. I am so happy for them, but I will miss them so much. As they say they will be home a couple of times a year and I had to promise that we will go to them for a holiday.