Evening all; now popping back to catch up on all your news.
MaryGK: Alaska ferries are definitely for folks who are happy to rough it, sort of. I wouldn't mind it if I knew I had a comfy hotel near the dock.
BrendaH: Good luck looking for the jacket to go with that dress. Thanks for news of Margo and OH's doings - great to know they're enjoying themselves.
Heather: Don't think my OH would worry about my disposing of kitchen stuff; on the other hand the garage (which he also doesn't frequent) might be harder to clean out. Chocolate teapot? :-)) Cornish pasties - yum yum.
Rosy: Daughter has always had a menagerie (pigs, goats, peacock, horses, dogs, etc.) now it's horses, ducks, dog and floppy-eared bunny. I just have her ancient cat which caught one bird yesterday and two today! Pesky puss. :-(
Hi to everyone else.
Morning all:
Diane: I would not like to see that shelf cloud coming my way at all - what a monster - and a reminder that we are all so puny in the face of nature. What effect I wonder would a tornado have on one of those high-rise buildings? Blow out the windows - or worse? Can't imagine sheltering behind a mattress or in a bathtub with that looming overhead.
PatO: Was looking at the Croft Castle website (a very brief history) and see that Herbert Croft's son was created a Baronet (in 1671) and "the title lives on to this day in Australia"??? Interesting tidbit that... A lovely place from the photos I Googled. Was also reading about Lancelot "Capability" Brown (including how he got his nickname) on Wikipedia and he was really raking it in back in the 1760s - making the equivalent of almost 1 million dollars p.a. in 2015 dollars! Didn't realize he was the master gardener at Hampton Court. But if I had to choose, I'd live at Brockhampton Estate - what a gorgeous place! You must've been wiped out after that day out.
Heather: Oh dear, so sorry about unpleasant phone call with brother, but it does seem like they're determined to keep digging that hole. :-( It must be so distressing for you.
Lindybird: Do hope cuts to NHS can be derailed - the last thing you want is a for-profit health system (as Diane and her brother can attest to!).
Temps here are a good 10 degrees below normal. Gray overcast mornings and sunny but still cool afternoons. A bit like May... Off to buy a new birdfeeder today. Got the ancient and grotty one down yesterday to clean and managed to break three of the little perches (plastic, they dried out I'm assuming - at least that's my story and I'm sticking to it) and another piece that I can't figure out how to secure once more. Birds are all having a fit in the meantime.
Take care everyone. Happy to start the thread later if Diane is dodging tornadoes...
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