Hi all: Getting a late start here today. Been busy in the garden all day and now working on getting some of the glue out of the corners of the panes in the French door, so have back to computer.
Previous Weekly Chat's last page included long chatty posts from Lindybird and OG, a link from Djoan to the BOT Barn Owls, which have their first egg, and a colorful greeting from Diane to AQ who's having a birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY AQ! :-)
DjoanS - Thank you for birthday greetings. Alan - Lovely clematis. OG - Great bird pics, and you are educating me. BTW did your Eiffel Tower of ironing topple and land in my pile? Alicat - Hope you are feeling much better now.
I won't be able to watch dawn over LG today as I have an important date with Dau#1. I have been invited to a viewing of the at-long-last-selected wedding frock. Dau#2 is so well organised hers is already hanging in the wardrobe!
Hallo all: Very late checking in tonight - another busy day and have now spent ages reorganizing my computer plugs, surge protector, work table, remotes, etc., etc.
Margobird: Venice! Wonderful I was there when I was 14 - with a bunch of convent school friends and two nuns - not exactly romantic! May should be a good time to go, and OH is already planning at gondola ride? What a sweetie!
OG. Did I miss something? You were at a hospital? Hopefully visiting someone who's getting better. AQ: Good luck with the wedding dress - I know you'll say all the right things. Tiger: Well, evening sightings of ISS better than crack-of-dawn viewings.
Happy Full Moon, everyone!
Tiger/OG: Such a shame to see fishing nets and plastic in osprey nests. Terrible! Margobird: Hope you have a wonderful trip to Venice! AQ: I'm sure the wedding dress will be lovely, and I'm sure that you will say it is -- even if it isn't. LOL Lindybird: I liked the eagle and kitty picture, and my Dad did, too. Thanks.
Annette: I think OG went for a bone density test this afternoon at hospital. I think she said that it was a routine test required so she could continue her medications.
Sounds like you had another industrious day. I need to borrow some of your energy tomorrow. We're having unusually cool weather now -- before the really humid, sticky hot weather of summer sets in. So I'm getting up early to do a bit of yard work -- picking up brush (including tree limbs!) and pulling a bazillion weeds. And I'm going to cuss and whinge a lot because the weeds in my flower beds are those prickly kind, and I'll get those tiny sharp spines in my hands and arms even if I wear double gloves. So if you see the air turn blue, you can blame me. LOL
Speaking of foul language, like you, I watched a bit of the Goldman Sachs hearings today. I wonder what the folks at CSPAN (TV Network) thought when Senator Carl Levin and the others read from the internal email that included the profanity. I think that one profane word -- which I can't print here -- was repeated about a hundred times. LOL! The Goldman Sachs guys certainly did suffer from sudden debilitating failures of memory and comprehension.
Glad you had a nice book club meeting. I hope Big Rig Steve finally gets his trip to Utah and his new truck.
Don't work too hard, Annette. Have a good Wednesday,everyone.
Hey Diane: Full moon, eh? We have "May gray" already - "late night and early morning low cloud" as the daily weather forecast goes at this time of year. They're telling us that for the next few days it's going to feel more like February. Ooooh. Those ARE prickly weeds - do you have leather gloves? I wear those long gauntlet type things when I'm at the rose garden and they do reduce close encounters with thorns.
Re Goldman Sachs - I had to laugh at the "profane" word (a four-letter word beginning with s and ending in t). I did notice the network and PBS newscasts "beeped" it out, but it was very tame compared to what you can hear on many cable channel....
I'm watching National Geo's "America Before Columbus" which is currently talking about the arrival of the horse - "a blessing for the native tribes whose lives it transformed....and then became an icon [associated with Native Americans]." Didn't realize the arrival of pigs was such a negative.
Now light at LG so am keeping an eye out for Odin. Have carpenter arriving early to build shelves for OH's garage gadgets....
Hi Everyone:
Everything went well and I am to start my new job May 10th or sooner if the firm can get things put together sooner. Thanks much for all your good wishes and comments. Tis late here so I'll sign off now but first wanted to tell you all the great news.
Happy Wednesday!
Caerann: Congratulations on your new job. My postal voting papers arrived yesterday, for our General Election on the 6th May. It will be the first time by post, which I thought was the 'green' thing to do!
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LG 7 days; RW & SWT nil; LDOP varies
So happy for you, Caerann!!!
Great story here. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8648054.stm
Caerann CONGRATULATIONS.
Diane Your graphics are wonderful.
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Caerann Many congratulations on getting your job! Really delighted for you. My OH had a lengthy spell of unemployment before his disability meant he couldn't work and I know how much he hated it. Good luck when the job starts.
I'm just watching breakfast time with the Chichester Peregrines - you can now see 3 chicks, 1 egg:
http://www.carnyx.tv/CarnyxWild/WildlifeCameras/Chichester.aspx
Caerann - congratulations on the job!