How are you today?

I'm mixing it up. Instead of making a sourdough loaf this morning, I'm making dinner rolls! They are proofing.
Don't say hearlady doesn't know how to bring the excitement!
I'm also sitting here pondering what to make for family dinner. Maybe a big pan of enchiladas.
 

Good morning, Invisipeeps.

I'm gonna throw cinnamon rolls in the oven as soon as this post is done.

It's nice and cool again this morning and gonna be another pleasant day. Yippee.

@Ruthanne I hope today is better than yesterday. Just keep putting one foot in front of the other, okay?

Don't anybody ask @Olivia how she is so that she'll stay fine today;).

Maybe DD can be talked into a trip to the garden center. It's almost time for mums if we can find some with really tight buds so they won't bloom for a couple of weeks yet.

Hallowe'en is two months from today. And Christmas is three months and 25 days away, just in case y'all need a heads up. (as if!)

@hearlady I'm right there with you in the Excitement Department:ROFLMAO: Time for cinnamon rolls.
 
Morning folks!! Just now starting to sprinkle rain, will prob
be off n on rain today, we need it...67deg now I think....
Slept fairly well and awoke at 4am, thats about normal for
now I guess....no plans on the table yet...am chomping on
a warmed with butter apple fritter this morning...yummy...
Take care y'all @@@:):cool::coffee::devilish:
 

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If you ever see the movie …..Last cab to Darwin watch that ~ it shows allot of the inland dryer parts of Australia
and allot of is filmed where I grew up in New South Wales,…..isolated desert area .
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Just checked - it's available on YouTube! Hope to watch it soon.

Thanks for the Wikipedia link. A Place to Call Home didn't explain why Darwin was bombed because (duh) Aussies would have known why, just as Americans know why Pearl Harbor was bombed.

But to someone like me, who didn't know anything about the bombing, it seemed oddly arbitrary for the Japanese to do a one-off bombing of what appeared to be a random Australian town/small city.

Now I get it — Darwin was a rough equivalent to Pearl Harbor. A poorly defended, strategically placed harbor with aircraft carriers, airfields, training bases, etc., and a small civilian population (though I don't know if the Japanese cared about the size of the civilian populations).

I learned something today and it's not even 6 AM!
 
@Lewkat Have your inner voices spoken yet?:)

We went to the garden center. There were red guara that spoke to me and jumped into my cart. They've already been planted.

There were mums for $4 in 7" pots! One burgundy one jumped into my cart, too.

There was a poor, sad yellow mum in a 7" pot that was gasping for water and begging me to rescue her. I did. It was $2. She was in the Clarence section.

The mums have been planted, too. They both have small, tight buds so won't bloom for a while yet. The yellow one? Well, yanno how we're supposed to talk to our plants? I told her that I was going to save her from certain death, and she talked back: "Thank you. How can I ever repay you?" I told her that all she has to do is bloom in a few weeks.

I looked at the recipe for cheeseburger soup again. It calls for carrots and bell pepper. Whaaaat? Who has ever had a cheeseburger with carrots and bell pepper? When I make it, those will get left out for sure.
 
Georgiagranny said:
Hallowe'en is two months from today. And Christmas is three months and 25 days away, just in case y'all need a heads up. (as if!)
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I'm on it, GG. Already amassing some of my annual family gifts. With cookies, this year I intend to ramp up what I started last year, meaning come early November I'll start making and freezing some of the cookie doughs. Of the 8-9 different cookie types I make, about half need the dough made up just before baking, but the rest are fine (or better) if I chill/freeze the dough in advance.

Halloween is another story altogether. Not that Halloween prep is a big task, but DH always talks me into buying more than double the amount of candy we need, then it calls us until it's gone. I'm going to stay strong this year.
 
Off out today so, just having a quick browse while I drink my coffee.

It started off sunny but I think the weather is changeable. I am going to pick up some things from the shop and then go and make lunch to share with a friend who is not feeling too great atm.

Whatever you are doing today, have fun :)
 
I'm fine so far and don't expect that to change :).

According to the radar map, it's raining on us right now. Nope. It's not raining. We are going to plant some azaleas today so that they'll have time to establish roots before the weather turns cold. Wish it would turn wet!

DD found a small fridge on Marketplace that she's going to pick up today. It's for DGD's room so that after her surgeries, she won't have to try to navigate the stairs when she wants a cold drink or whatever.

That's going to be my big Labor Day holiday. Government services are closed today so there won't be a million-dollar check in the mail. That's fine. I wasn't expecting one :ROFLMAO:.

Time to get dressed and head to the garden to Optimize and Maximize and stuff.
 
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Been Optimizing and Maximizing and helping DD dig out grass in the front of the house where azaleas will be planted. What a chore! I had to come in for a short break. It's not hot out today, only about 75 and sort of overcast right now so that helps.

DGD's BF is here so we're hoping to get done and get the ground wet enough that we can sweet talk him into using the post hole digger to dig holes deep enough and wide enough to plant all four that DD has.

Just remembered that all I've eaten today is some chocolate. Oops. But I've had at least two 30 oz. mugs of iced tea. Does that count for nourishment?
 
Trish said:
@Ruthanne Sorry to read that you are so down, I hope life brings you some good things very soon x

It's a fairly bright morning although, a little cloudy and, I think, there might be rain later. I am still not sure if I have a cold or hayfever! 🤧

I cannot believe that August is nearly over! Today we will be going for a walk, will probably have a browse around the flea market (unless it pours down!). Later on, I plan to do a little ironing and finish off something I have been making. All in all, quite a relaxing Sunday :)

Hope you all have a peaceful Sunday x
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Tx. I just said Rabbit Rabbit and am waiting for something good to happen this month! I am making plans to start doing some positive things.
 
Yanno how I said doing nothing much today? I lied.

DD and I dug up the grass where the azaleas got planted. She dug the holes with the post hole digger all by her own self! The whole exercise was a giant chore, but we got 'er done. It took four hours. Yay us.

Those darned azaleas had best by God grow and flourish after all the work we put into digging and placing and fertilizing and all the rest of it.

I gotta quit saying I'm not gonna do much because every time I do, I end up doing way too much. Whatever on earth made me think for an instant that I could get a job? Nope. No way. Old peeps are entitled to do "nothing" every day! And "nothing" is exactly what I'm gonna do from now on ;) :ROFLMAO:. And I'm gonna do "nothing" at home. It's not as if I'll go hungry or homeless without a paycheck, KWIM?
 
We are out today for lunch at a friends home ~ it was her birthday while we was away in Queensland during winter and I promised if make her a sponge when we got back ~ and it was suitable timing for her , we wanted her to come here for lunch but she has someone coming from aged care now she is alone ~ so she has to stay home

She lost her husband very suddenly at home~ on my Hubs birthday in April ~ so she’s been very busy trying to fit in a day when she’s not either in the city with her son or busy either way some other things

Shes cooking veggies and I’m getting a hot chook from WW , we are having the sponge for desert
everyone loves my sponge cakes 🍰 I make a FRESH lemon juice filling ( no artificial flavourings for me ) for the middle and put some under the cream topping as well
 
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Good morning! I'm not as sore as I thought I'd be after yesterday's Adventure in Gardening Landscaping. Whew! Maybe the two dead azaleas in the back yard will get dug up today as part of the "nothing much" agenda that I'm adopting.
 
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@hawkdon I'd give you two (gentle) hugs today if the system would let me.

I looked at our long-range forecast. There's no rain in sight for at least the next two weeks:(. That's not good.

Everybody that needed water, got water. The two dead azaleas look like more work than I want to do. Jussayin.

It's cool again this morning. Soon the mosquitoes will die :ROFLMAO:. But not soon enough.
 

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