How is your day Today? Chat about your plans and achievements 2025....

[MACKTEXAS]

I told myself I was going to dedicate a day of going through my old photographs and separate them into categories.
Daunting task to say the least. So many photos of my family generations back that I know no one in the family will feel the
least bit inclined to keep. Which is in itself sad, but I understand, no emotional connection there.
Have any of you done this? Do you have a system that seems to work other than .. this is you so keep this in you pile. This is son #1, this in #1 pile etc etc. Then we have the ex-DIL pile I may have just talked myself out of it.

Sounds like a big project. No, I don't have any loose photos of importance to go through, except there is a box of bloops and meaningless snapshots in no order. Some prints that were duplicates, or insignificant were discarded back when the film was first processed.

But, as the years went by, the photos I (we) cared about were mounted in albums in order of occurence, and a "year from - to" label was added to the front of each album, then stacked inside a large wooden cabinet with doors.

Sometime ago, I scanned the photos that were most important to me and saved them on a USB drive in the safe deposit box. If my cousins don't want any of the photos, they can do with them whatever they like. I think they may at least go through them first, because there are photos of their own family in some of the albums. If not, what I don't know won't matter once I'm gone.

 

[Georgiagranny]

@IrishEyes If you figure out a system for the pix, let us know! I've got a big box of old snapshots that I really need to label so that DD and DS will know who/what/when/where. There are a lot of them that are known to me but not to them. I keep saying it's "winter work," but somehow when winter rolls around, I still don't get it done.

 

[hawkdon]

After my Bea passed, I went thru all the photo's we had,
and after sending some to her Son threw almost everything
else away....reason for that is that I have no one to leave anything to, so it is just more clutter to me.

 

[timoc]

I don't know if where you are you can buy nice plums, but here it's usually imported plums from all over the world that are not very nice.
I always keep my eyes open for British grown 'Victoria plums, but as soon as they appear in the stores they are gone very quickly.
However, going past a greengrocers this afternoon, there before me were a row of the delicious 'Vickies'.... I grabbed 6 punnets, and as soon as I got in the house I tucked in...... Mmmmmm heaven in my mouth.

 

[jet]

had a quiet day,been 24.5C here today phew,,much needed rain forecast for tonight,bet its not much,,
back to normal tomorrow,hospital appointmants grrrrr

 

[Sliverfox]

Appears off & on rain,,"may " have settled in for the day.

Hope to burn all the thrash that piled up in the garage.

Going to check on Hubby, he got an order of 2 loads of wood for today.

 

[hollydolly]

Evening all..it's 8.45pm on the hot last day of the last bank holiday of the year.

My friends and I went to the river to their boat for the afternoon..it made a great change for me since being home almsot continuously for the last 7 weeks...

 

[IrishEyes]

@IrishEyes If you figure out a system for the pix, let us know! I've got a big box of old snapshots that I really need to label so that DD and DS will know who/what/when/where. There are a lot of them that are known to me but not to them. I keep saying it's "winter work," but somehow when winter rolls around, I still don't get it done.

I will sure do that. I think I will begin first with which are passed and which are alive, then divide the alive according to who is the head of that family. Then go from there to begin with. One step at a time, too overwhelming to do it all at once

 

[IrishEyes]

Appears off & on rain,,"may " have settled in for the day.

Hope to burn all the thrash that piled up in the garage.

Going to check on Hubby, he got an order of 2 loads of wood for today.

You can actually burn trash? We can't even burn leaves in a metal drum anymore here.

 

[hearlady]

Morning all, my early walk at 6:45 temp was 61,as the sun was peaking through the clouds, I walked halfway up the street came back walked around the building to change the route
I mentioned a couple weeks ago a walking club had started here at Gates. Alex our cultural events co ordinator asked me if I would be willing to lead it,I said yes Tues at 10am. Unfortunately last Tues as we were almost back home, one of the residents,Andy tripped& fell.He was bleeding a bit on his right face,asked if we should call ambulance' No',getting him up was a struggle. Rubina, myself asked the other resident,Barb who just stood there saying 'we need your help'. We got him back home, he was taken by wheelchair up to the wellness clinic on the 2nd floor Andy is 88 doesn't go out walking every day like I do
This incident really rattled me, I talked with Alex afterwards she told me' its not your fault'. We briefly discussed what to do in the future I've thought about this all weekend, I 'm going to talk with her this morning to say I'm not going to continue with this, her idea needs to be revamped some how.
The rest of my day, do some laundry, paper work, read NYT hope to take mid morning& afternoon walk
After dinner tackle NYT crossword puzzle then watch U.S.Open tennis on ESPN

That's too bad. I hope that isn't the end of your walking club and your participation.

 

[Jules]

I grabbed 6 punnets, and as soon as I got in the house I tucked in...... Mmmmmm heaven in my mouth.

Good that you found some Vickies. Don’t you dare come here tomorrow telling us you have a tummy ache because you ate too many.

 

[Babs2u]

I don't know if where you are you can buy nice plums, but here it's usually imported plums from all over the world that are not very nice.
I always keep my eyes open for British grown 'Victoria plums, but as soon as they appear in the stores they are gone very quickly.
However, going past a greengrocers this afternoon, there before me were a row of the delicious 'Vickies'.... I grabbed 6 punnets, and as soon as I got in the house I tucked in...... Mmmmmm heaven in my mouth.

By punnets do you mean baskets? We once had a talk radio guy in Atlanta named Ian Punnet. He said punnet meant strawberry basket.

 

[Muskrat]

I am currently indulging myself with pecans and a movie. Also listening to my son doing laundry. This is of interest because the dryer is being very selective about running these days….and I want to know if it is going to run..or not. I have had a bad flareup of my arthritis these last several days…assumably because of my diet. Almost better…I can bend my thumb sort of again. Carry on folks and keep the sunny side up.

 

[Sliverfox]

@ holly,, that looks peaceful.
Is there a 'speed limit ' for boats?

In our area folks owning boats usually went to one of the man made lakes.
Water craft was speed boats, canoes, some house boats,, which didn't look those in your picture.

 

[Babs2u]

This morning I got a call saying I can discontinue Xarelto. They had said 90 days after the Watchman was installed. It has only been 65 but I will take it. The blood thinner landed me in the hospital 3 times with excessive bleeding. Just today someone commented that the purple patches on my arms look like tattoos. This should help and save me a bundle as well.

 

[horseless carriage]

Oh wow @horseless carriage , that shirt is fabulous !

Enjoy your day.. it's a beautiful sunny day for the last Bak holiday of the year....

Thank you Holly, it has been quite a day. The last band played until about fifteen minutes or so before ten. They were supposed to be on until nine thirty at the latest. The crowd just kept yelling "More!" The weather and mood all came together, and I guess a few glasses of French red, English beer and Scotch whisky helped it along. Not me though, I have been tea-total for quite some time now.


The MG shirt was photographed time and again, that or the hat and the spectator shoes. Talking of shoes, I probably mentioned my new ones that I will collect tomorrow, I say that because the lady said: "You are like a kid in December for whom Christmas never arrives." Oh dear!

 

[hollydolly]

@ holly,, that looks peaceful.
Is there a 'speed limit ' for boats?

In our area folks owning boats usually went to one of the man made lakes.
Water craft was speed boats, canoes, some house boats,, which didn't look those in your picture

Yes there are SF.... On the Tidal rivers like the Thames above... the speed limit is beteen 8 and 12 Knots.. about 9 or 10 mph...

On the canals below pic..where the narrowboats go, and it's non tidal... it's about 3mph.. to stop any erosion of the river banks