Weekly Chat (Non-Osprey), 21 July 2024

HAPPY NEW WEEK and HAPPY FULL MOON!

The full moon is Sunday morning in the UK and the US. 

Three of the raccoons are growing huge like their mother. The little one is only half the size of his siblings. I wonder if he's healthy.

I'm leaving on Tuesday to spend a few days dog-sitting for my friends in Indianapolis. This has been a bad summer for several personal reasons, and I'm looking forward to a change of scenery. My friends have all the streaming channels. I'm going to watch TV, treat myself to pizza and key lime pie, and cuddle the 5 dogs. 

Everyone have a good week. Love and hugs to all!

  • Thank you DIANE. Enjoy your time with the dogs and TV - I hope that you will feel refreshed when you return home. Sending hugs !

  • Love and hugs to you too Diana. I've just discovered that male racoons are bigger than the females so my theory goes right out of the window. I do  hope the little on isn't poorly . Anyway  , I'm not in to  pizza but the key lime pie is right up my street so be glad I can't sneak a visit and whisk your pie right off the table in front of your eyes        Laughing

    Enjoy your break and cuddle the dogs for me too.

  • Clare:  :-)   

    Granddaughter and Ms. D due back in town early afternoon.  Meanwhile, yoga class participant invited some of us up to her recently inherited house (from her Mom) high in the hills overlooking Santa Barbara for snacks etc last evening.  It's a work in progress but they've upgraded one of the bathrooms. So here I was, faced with this space-age toilet, looking for the 'flush' option but inadvertently triggered the 'bidet' option and got a strong jet of water delivered to my t-shirt!  Big surprise for me, consternation from the hostess but mostly huge laughs all round.  (Flush mechanism was in the wall, but so discreet I missed it!.  :-))

    Have a good Sunday all.

  • Annette - Sorry, but I had to smile at your 'flushing' experience.  Some new gizmos are just too clever for mere humans to understand!

    Watching to golf.  Very exciting - no idea who will win.  A friend is due soon, and we are then due to go across the road to the local cricket match to meet up with other people over there.  Oh dear ... am I wrong to want to stay here in front of the golf?  I don't know the people over at the cricket ... but she wanted some support, so of course I'll have to go with her.

  • PatO  No chance you can delay the cricket match visit for an hour or so....

  • Well, Annette, Diane and all in the US, what next? Thinking of you all at this time. Sending hugs. 

  • Rusty:  Who knows.  Harris now has to convince all the Democratic delegates who'd previously supported Biden that she should be the nominee.   Assuming she'll get them, she now has to pick a running mate.   Lots of potential wannabees in the wings.....   

  • Well done – CLARE – loved it!

    ANNETTE – toilet mishap reminds me of a bathroom showroom whose customer loo was fitted with all the latest gizmos – jet of water and heated seat and all. 

    So, I see Biden’s been and gone and done it!  As has been said – what will happen next?

    OH got quite a lot of tidying done re the compost bins this afternoon – reducing three to two – and got the trellis near them out at last.  I stayed indoors with my magazine copying.

  • Well, that's what I get for watching the golf!  I had no idea Biden had stepped down.  I will be interested to hear what our American friends think about it.  Because of golf I haven't been in touch with any news channels.  And Microsoft still haven't caught up with it!

    The golf was really good, although I would have liked to see Justin Rose win - yesterday I was rooting for Shane Lowry.  I did go over to the cricket with my friend.  We arrived just as the game came to an end ... which was fine.  She didn't necessarily want to be seen, but just wanted to have been there so she could tell the parents of the person whose benefit it was that she had been.  A 'work' thing.  We didn't stay very long, and I had pressed 'record' on the golf.  Once she had gone I watched the rest - not knowing the result, of course.