Hi all: First off, con't miss the last page of last week's chat for lovely photo of Alan's hibiscus and OG's very informative shots of the nest at LG, showing the perch under the nest where chick #1 likes to sit.
OG. Assume plumber on the list for next week. So Boat of Garten actually has something to do with a real boat! I thought it was some obscure Scottish vernacular-ish term that had nothing to do with a boat. There was a nature program here last week about "preparing" an environment for some species that are living in an area that is expected to be threatened by higher ocean levels in the coming years. As with the Lapwings, the change has to be made gradually.
Cirrus. A 12-mile hike! I probably burned a couple of hundred calories just thinking about it.
Was in the garden all day - as I type have the soaker hose going on the camellias, which I fed and which need deep watering about twice in the summer; they're putting out buds now. Also fed the roses and plumeria. Found a volunteer duranta repens growing in one of the plumeria pots - I thought it was familiar but only recognized it today. Sun came out around 11 and lovely cool evening now.
Thanks to all for all the interesting and humerous posts. Roll-ons, i can remembr those too and corsets which my Mum use to wear. Not good for pushing all the overweight bits somewhere else and making things look worse.
Diane enjoy your new clothes when you get them. OH is always telling me to go and buy myself things but I have clothes that I only wear for best as the rest of the time it is trousers or shorts. Different when I was working and to be honest I find it quite difficult to buy clothes now. Shops don't see to cater for the silver hair brigade. Don't want to look frumpy but then again I don't want to look stupid in clothes that are meant for younger people. OH things I am strange as most women like to clothes shop. I will go now and then and have a bit of s splurge but doesn 'thappen very often.
original goldfinch pleased they managed to get some blood for you. You must dread going with the difficulties you encounter.
Lindybird i don't think there are many men who write cards of any sort. I do all postcards, birhtday cards and Christmas cards. The only ones he does are for his Mum.
Diane sorry you are still having such hot and humid weather I am sure I just could not cope with it, we have had some hot and humid weather, although not as hot as you, and I felt half dead. Fortunately it has freshened up a bit now so I feel a lot better.
Margobird
Morning Everyone and thanks to you all for the always entertaining reading you provide!
I hope you are feeling better,Dibnlib, such a pity that you couldn't get away - maybe soon?
Nice to see you, Auntie -
Annette - before you know it, OH will be home and it will be as if he was never away!
Thanks Lindybird for the flower pics. brightens up the day especially up here where we have had cloudy showery weather it seems, for days-- Congrats on your weightloss!!
Diane and OG and all else who remember roll-ons - in the years when I wore them I didn't have any squishy bits and now that I have squishy bits - you are dead right OG, any kind of shapewear just pushes the offending blubber somewhere else it seems. Yes, I have experimented! Even if I lose weight I seem to hold on (literally and metaphorically) to my spare tyre. I used to say that I had 5 very good reasons for it but then I met someone who had also had five pregnancies and she didn't have an ounce of spare flesh on her. So bang went that excuse---
DjoanS - Very envious of you getting a new kitchen! I will say no more but I live in hope!
All is well here, SiL arrived home yesterday, rapturous reception as you can imagine. Stepdaughter now home from hospital (can't remember if I've already said that) and is on the mend from both conditions which caused admission. I tried to get on the site yesterday eveningish and had no luck so gave up and went to bed early.
I know that I have missed some names here, AQ, Cirrus and Brenda among them but I read and enjoy everybody's posts and links etc. Poor Alan, all this talk about underwear and flab! But I do remember him saying once that he supposes that some of us females must feel the same when the men get talking about sport--- Thank you Alan for your forbearance!
Sorry for the blethering, must now go and replenish the larder. Or what passes for it these days!
Good morning Heather B and can imagine how overjoyed the family were to have Dad home. Pleased to read that your stepdaughter is home and recovering. Laughed about the squishy bits, what we go through to get a figure we approve of. I am lucky having been the same weight for many years now but there is a bit of blubber round the middle part of me. I put it down to something that happens as you get older.
Auntie remiss of me but good to see your post and it seems you are having some uncomfortable weather at the moment. We are having a very long hot summer for the UK anyway, no proper rain for about two months now and even with all the watering of the garden and lawns everything is looking very parched and brown.
DjoanS hope your kitchen is finished and what a pain you now have to put everything back but glad you are pleased with it.
A story with a happy ending about a bear cub and a fishing net.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10798508
Talking bears Hope and Lily are still together and there are some wonderful photographs posted on the site.
Thanks for all your good wishes. We will give up trying for this year and wait till the long evenings again next year. we actually did put Dillon into kennels anyway and unfortunately when he came out he was limping a bit and wasn't himself at all. The vet thought he had possibly slipped badly on the kennel floor. When dilly is ill as with others we usually say "Yes and what rubbish have you found to eat this time" Goldies are known to be the rubbish bins of the dog world.
Great pics of the flower show LINDY
AQ just love all your office sayings, all so true and so funny!
Good afternon dibnlib and sorry you won't get away until next year now. Hopefully you will both be in better health and able to have a holiday. Sorry to hear Dillon is not well, hope he gets over his limp and returns to his normal self soon.
Afternoon all . Cloudy with rain showers here, but not cold.
Yesssssss ... the kitchen is finished .... well ... almost. The hob still has to be fitted, because it arrived damaged, and won't be here until the middle of next week. Everything else is done and I am thrilled with it!!!! All we have to do is put the stuff back :-(( I can honestly say, I have never seen such pleasant, quiet and tidy workmen ... and they took such pride in their work .... such a nice change.
dibnlib - so sorry that you have been poorly and had to cancel your holiday, and that Dillon came home lame.
auntie - nice to hear from you , I hate the kind of weather that I am not accustomed to!
HeatherB - glad SiL got home safely and that stepdaughter is at home too.
Diane - great that you are treating yourself to new clothes! I saw the two owlets flying round the barn ... I love watching them in the evenings ... better than the tv any day!
Alan - lovely fishing shot ... glad Hamish has recovered.
OG - glad your plumber turned up this time! Beautiful clematis photograph ... another of my favourites!
margobird - glad the washing came through unscathed second time around.
Annette - hope you have a great time with your friends
Lindybird - another delightful pic from the flower show
Right, I have wittered for long enough ... off to fill some cupboards now :-))
Take care
Joan - avid bird and nature watcher in Northumberland!
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MARGOBIRD thanks, Dill is already back to his normal boisterous self and after a few days of restricted walks and the wonderdrug metacalm we will be walking him as normal tomorrow
Margobird - meant to say that I sympathise re washing, we had to remove our whirly line as my washing always seemed to be target practice for seagulls! Our house is a dormer and has several upstairs windows with flat roofs, if you know what I mean. Junior seagulls just love to use them as flight decks as no other house round here has dormer windows. I do try to feel charitable towards these young birds but there are times-------
Morning all: Glorious sunshine first thing here today! This is more like California. Lightning and I were sitting here wondering what that strange noise in the garden was and by the time I figured it out and got the camera, the oriole that was at my new feeder had flown away. Right now, we have hummingbird turf wars going on at their feeder.
OG: Just read back that you've misplaced your blood supply. Were you cold when you went to the phlebotomists the first time? I had a terrible time giving blood for one of those every-hour-for-8-hours blood sugar tests years back because the lab's a/c was going full blast. Went out to sit in the sun to warm up and when I came back, lo and behold, my blood was flowing again. Are you creating these quizzes or completing them? Good the plumber came; but now can you send him to my house. My shower seems to have developed a slow drip. Don't laugh, but when I was working and trying to stay away from the jars of chocolate in other people's cubicles, I found that I could just hold the container under my nose and inhale the delicious fumes and then not need to actually eat the stuff. (Note to self: Must try that at home.)
Lindybird: We have a dark-burgundy colored geranium in our backyard - very dramatic. The landscape lady suggested we move it but no! It loves it where it us. Good luck with the next stage of your diet; it's easier to diet in warm weather. Hee-hee - just had mental picture of Diane in a bustle and a powdered wig out in her garden talking to the snakes and rabbits!
Auntie: T-shirt and knickers to work sounds very Scandinavian and progressive! Let us know how it goes. :-)
Cirrus: My OH sitll uses handkerchiefs, but I remember many, many times going to school with a handkerchief and a very bad cold and by lunchtime the handkerchief wasn't pretty and probably a wonderful source of infection. Now at every supermarket entrance we have those wipes so you can clean off the handles of the carts (a piggy flu innovation). Of course, money must be the biggest contaminent... Can they not leave the bird seed at the front door?
Diane: Good to see you. Was afraid you might have melted. Where are you ordering clothes from? You said you'd been on a diet - are the new clothes a reward? Roll-on girdles were disgusting - like a giant rubber band that used to leave patterns on tummies and other places. (Hope we're not grossing out the guys with all this talk about medieval underwear.) :-) My preferred fabric these days is cotton with no stretch stuff in it and flat comfy shoes with rubber soles so I can whiz hither and yon with minimal delay.
Alan: What a treat to find an osprey at the fishing pond. Lucky you.
Margobird: I hate to clothes shop too; I don't think our OH's appreciate how lucky they are to have wives who hate to shop. So kind of you to keep us posted on Lily and Hope!
Heather: Do hope son in law won't be posted in Afghanistan too long once he returns and great that stepdaughter now back home too. With dear OH gone, I'm having a wonderful time doing what I want when I want or not doing anything at all (though that's rare.) I've only got two things on my "Must Do" list, although will probably now have to add plumber to that if shower drip speeds up. Bravo for experimenting with "shape wear." I run a mile if I see anything that promises to constrict an part of me!. I've quote this before, but sometime ago I heard about a French saying: "There comes a time when a woman must choose between her face and her hips." I think I've been there for about 10-15 years now.
dibnlib: Poor Dillon. I did notice when Oro was at the local spa when daughter was having surgery back in January that those kennel floors are extremely slippery when hosed down. If you can't go away, give yourself a nice treat at home! Metacalm? Sounds like something I could use. :-)
Djoan:Wonderful that kitchen is almost up and running and truly wonderful that crew was so efficient and pleasant.
OK. Off to sweep and hose off patio and wipe off the patio table and clear cat hair off the chairs. Take care of yourselves everyone.