How is your day Today? Chat about your plans and achievements 2026....

An interesting day. Out for brunch in a fave local cafe! Every ingredients just how I like it! Well done! Sausage, egg, bacon, mushrooms, hash brown, beans and black pudding! YUMMY!

This evening we went to our local Grand Theatre for a Chinese cultural theatre event as an intro to the Chinese New Year celebrations in a few weeks time. Some good entertaining stuff and some bonkers stuff and some erm... not great stuff. But a different experience and on the whole - worth seeing :)

Home now with a nice strong (57% ABV) Navy Rum aaaaand relax :love:
 
Morning all, for the 1st time since Thurs, I decided to go outside for my early walk at usual time 6:50 I got tired of walking the hallway for exercise. The temp was 9 with no breeze,felt wonderful,refreshing to breathe fresh air as I walked around the building before breakfast.
When I got back, I called to make reservations for brunch at noon{ has to be in by 9:30) I've invited Marcia& hubby Dave as my guests,neighbor Bill will joined us.They are picking us up at 10am to go to our 10:30 church service,last week's was cancelled due to snow storm. M&D have been here numerous times either for brunch/lunch
The rest of my day read local paper, talk with my brother,read my book,may go out for another walk
Tonight at 8pm on PBS watch 'Miss Scarlet',9pm All Creatures Great&Small'
Everybody have a good day
 

I slept well again, last night. That's 2 nights in a row, I hope that means that this virus that I have is finally getting tired and worn out. It certainly has been wearing me out for the last 4-6 weeks!!! Of course, this weather hasn't been helping any....I woke up to 10°F/-12°C again this morning!!! (sigh)

Well, starting today, our highs are going above freezing. Let "The Big Melt" begin!!!! If the warmer temps and the sun do their jobs, we might even be able to get out by next Saturday and go skating!!!! But I'm not going to get too excited yet. I'll wait until later in the week and see how it's going.

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Happy Groundhog's Day!
 
hollydolly said:
LOL... do I dare ask.... why do you call your cupboard Argentina ? :ROFLMAO:

..and don't tell me you've not taken a photo in the years between the 80's and 2025.....:ROFLMAO:
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I used to watch a TV show that ran for 8(?) seasons, and took place in Australia. After 2-3 seasons, the main character decided to leave the show, so they killed off her character.

After that, the writers seemed to lose direction. Eventually, other people wanted to leave the show, also. So one by one, the writers sent them on a business trip to Argentina. Some went and came back, then went again. Eventually, anyone who went to Argentina was never seen again.

My big corner cabinet is like that. I put stuff in there for long term storage. Most things that go in there are never seen again!
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1769957832035.png As for my pictures....
I take tons and tons of pictures!! But I never had a way to back them up until about a year ago. So now, I basically have 2 ongoing projects. One, is to keep up with current pictures and back them up on my removable hard drive. Ideally, I try to never be more than a few months behind, but sometimes I just don't get around to doing them.

The other part of this project is much more complicated. I've been removing all of my old hard copy pictures from the albums and taking them to the Library to scan them onto a flashdrive. Then each one needs to be renamed with the date (etc) and rotated if necessary and saved again. Next, I transfer them from the flashdrive to the hard drive. And finally, put the hard copy pictures back into the albums. This process is further complicated because I've been going through my Mom's albums and keeping pictures that I want. So they need to be added to the albums in the correct order.

Right before the Holidays, I completely finished up to (and including) 1979, plus I've scanned (most) all of the 80's. I still have a long way to go! I don't kill myself on this project, just do a little bit as I feel like it.
 
Trila said:
I used to watch a TV show that ran for 8(?) seasons, and took place in Australia. After 2-3 seasons, the main character decided to leave the show, so they killed off her character.

After that, the writers seemed to lose direction. Eventually, other people wanted to leave the show, also. So one by one, the writers sent them on a business trip to Argentina. Some went and came back, then went again. Eventually, anyone who went to Argentina was never seen again.

My big corner cabinet is like that. I put stuff in there for long term storage. Most things that go in there are never seen again!
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Love that your cabinet came to be known as "Argentina!"
 
IrishEyes said:
@hollydolly I ran across a news story saying the trains over there have had a rise in
violence and attacks. It also said there are less police working the trains also.
Just wondering as I have a couple friends who use/used the trains all the time.
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Yes it's not terrible.. but in certain areas which are already bad areas, violence has risen on the trains.. The police have never ridden the trains, unlike a lot of other countries, so it's about time they did... they do very little else now with regard to crime..
 
Trila said:
I used to watch a TV show that ran for 8(?) seasons, and took place in Australia. After 2-3 seasons, the main character decided to leave the show, so they killed off her character.

After that, the writers seemed to lose direction. Eventually, other people wanted to leave the show, also. So one by one, the writers sent them on a business trip to Argentina. Some went and came back, then went again. Eventually, anyone who went to Argentina was never seen again.

My big corner cabinet is like that. I put stuff in there for long term storage. Most things that go in there are never seen again!
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That's funny the reason you call the cabinet Argentina.. because I have a name for something horrible... particularly a place or an area.

We'd be out driving for example.. and we live in nice area, with many miles of beautiful surroundings. MY X husband unlike me has no sense of direction so if I left him to it his whole world would revolve around this area only... and London for work..so we'd often go out on weekends to somewhere different with me driving because I know everywhere within the next 100 miles radius .. and that would necessitate driving through or past an area that he'd heard of but had never been to which were not nice ... so I called these places...the Mackerel Moment....

..As we would drive out of a beautiful rural area or pretty town and approach a particularly horrible town, I would always say, get ready for the Mackerel Moment...
 
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Trila said:
If you don't mind typos, it's a great tool! But then again, I have typos either way! LOL
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exactly , I use it a lot since my predominant hand was injured in the car crash... and it's a horror for misspelling words...

....but @hawkdon ..it's so useful when you can't use your hands as you would like... and we all the get the gyst of any mispelled words..

I've been trying recently to use both hands to type again as best as I can... but because my hand isn't entirely fully functional I'm still making mistakes... and it doesn't help that my spellcorrect is not working on this MAC..so I don't get an instant notification to correct them
 
I wish I could send you these flowers to plant in your garden and cheer you up. (Seen on my walk this morning.)

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Sorry for having a "mean" collar on my 16 months old Rex. But at 90 y/o, I wouldn't be able to handle a wild 76 pound puppy otherwise.
I did so only after he had pulled me down several times; that's dangerous at my age. I am getting Prolia shots for strengthening my bones.
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I love nature and I love going hiking with my dogs. Do you mind my sharing a poem that I could have written, but it's by Goethe?
The English translation with the original German below it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Gefunden (English translation #3)

Found​

I was walking in the woods
Just on a whim of mine,
And seeking nothing,
That was my intention.

In the shade I saw
A little flower standing
Like stars glittering
Like beautiful little eyes.

I wanted to pick it
When it said delicately:
Should I just to wilt
Be picked?

I dug it out with all
Its little roots.
To the garden I carried it
By the lovely house.

And replanted it
In this quiet spot;
Now it keeps branching out
And blossoms ever forth.

Gefunden​

Ich ging im Walde
So für mich hin,
Und nichts zu suchen,
Das war mein Sinn.

Im Schatten sah ich
Ein Blümchen stehn,
Wie Sterne leuchtend
Wie Äuglein schön.

Ich wollt es brechen,
Da sagt' es fein:
Soll ich zum Welken,
Gebrochen sein?

Ich grubs mit allen
Den Würzlein aus,
Zum Garten trug ichs
Am hübschen Haus.

Und pflanzt es wieder
Am stillen Ort;
Nun zweigt es immer
Und blüht so fort.
 
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hollydolly said:
exactly , I use it a lot since my predominant hand was injured in the car crash... and it's a horror for misspelling words...

....but @hawkdon ..it's so useful when you can't use your hands as you would like... and we all the get the gyst of any mispelled words..

I've been trying recently to use both hands to type again as best as I can... but because my hand isn't entirely fully functional I'm still making mistakes... and it doesn't help that my spellcorrect is not working on this MAC..so I don't get an instant notification to correct them
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As a kid, I was usually the first one out in a spelling bee. 🙄. Misspelled words are a way of live for me, and as long as it's readable, I'm OK with that. Actually, there are times when misspelled words or autocorrect can be funny. (🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕)

I know of people (my other forum) who have had a stroke and regardless of how they spell things, I'm just happy that we can still communicate! So @hawkdon , regardless of punctuation or spelling, etc.....I'm just glad that you're here!

The trick is to have fun with it. As an example, Dio used to grade my shopping lists!!! 😂😆🙃😅
 

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