HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I hope 2024 is the best year possible for all of you. I wish you peace and send you love, my friends.
Hi, all. I am in the big city of Indianapolis until Monday night. My friends have gone off for a brief holiday, and I am dog sitting for their 5 dogs! Three pit bulls, one English setter, and one mix breed that has some German Shepherd blood, but has thick multi-colored fur, tall pointy ears and a lovely wild. long pointy face rather like a wolf or coyote. They are all rescue dogs. Three were adopted from the local shelter, and two were rescued from the street. They have all bonded with me and crave my attention. LOL I have cared for Daisy (the English setter) , Sylvie (a pit bull), and Tuna (a pit bull) before. This is my first time with Pancho (the wild looking mix with the pretty fur) and Lefty (a beautiful black and white pittie mix who also has a long nose and tall ears). When I met Pancho, he knocked my hat off and sweetly kissed my ear. Lefty has to be cuddled next to me constantly. I'll post again when I get home. HEATHER: I'm so sorry you are again in hospital. Sending you healing. ANNETTE: I hope you aren't experiencing the bad storms.
Also, ANNETTE and BJANE or anyone: My friends are subscribed to several streaming services, and I finally got to watch the movie "Don't Look Up" on Netflix. It is now my favorite movie ever. I highly recommend it. I also enjoyed the new movie "Rustin," the documentary/drama about Bayard Rustin. the advisor to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who organized the March on Washington.
DIANE – Enjoy your “working” holiday! Sounds like a great relaxing time with furries and streaming.
PAT – Baby Grand pianos are easy to move. They take off the legs, the pedal thingie, the lid, the keyboard cover. What is left tips on its side and they wheel it on a trolley. OH had one ages ago and it was a quite impressive procedure. Fast. Spiral staircase would be somewhat slower!
HAPPY NEW YEAR to ALL
Sydney Harbour vantage points were filled by noon today. Spectators-to-be had bags of food, drinks, music, umbrellas (yes it was raining). Some keen people queued from Dec 29. To me fireworks are money going up in smoke that could have assisted health, education, etc. Silly me, Gotta feed the masses with bread and circuses.
I wish you the same Diane. And I hope your current weather is better than ours. High winds with awesome gusts and rain rain rain.. Of one thing I am certain 2024 will be much better than 2023, if for no other reason than what is shown on the short video below
Christmas message from Times Square
Best wishes to all for a fun or peaceful New Years Eve, whichever you desire and may 2024 be good to us all.
Stay healthy friends and those with ailments - I wish you a speedy recovery.
Blimey, there's so much I want in the New Year. I want Trump to be struck down by a bolt of lightning of such biblical proportions that even his brain-dead supporters will get the message. I want the current UK government to be completely OBLITERATED in the General Election. I want all the pointless wars to stop, completely. I want Limpy to find a painkiller that works and for him to come off the bloody morphine. I want Helen to get a life and be much happier.
I don't want too much, do I?
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
2013 photos & vids here
eff37 on Flickr
Hello. I've been away to St Albans, where we stayed with our Eldest and family. Had a rather "hairy" journey down there on Thursday, when it began to produce torrential rain in the Midlands. My OH, who has been driving for over 60 years, including a stint as a heavy goods vehicle driver once, said he had never seen anything like it. We couldn't see the road markings at all, it was like driving in snow, and the rain bounced off the tarmac. Thankfully, as it was so bad, everyone, even the speedy drivers, had to slow down. After about ten minutes of our being very worried indeed, it ceased and became ordinary rain. What a relief. A few miles furher on it began again & if anything, it was worse!! Very frightening. I was glad that my OH was driving. Such relief to have it clear up. By the time we reached Toddington Services, you wouldn't know that there had been such drama The roads were completely dry for the rest of the journey & we reached our destination without any problems.