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

[StarSong]

@StarSong, that’s beautiful and incredibly thoughtful. Best of all, you can fold it up and keep it forever.

Good heavens! Certainly not!!! What in the world would I do with them and where could I possibly store them? These signs are each 6.5 feet high by 15 feet long.

I can look back on previous MD sign photographs, but I'm not the type to save every memento.

The sign will stay on the garage door throughout the month of May and come down around June 1. By then, time and sun will have weathered the paint some.

 

[OneEyedDiva]

I spent part of the morning texting Mothers Day GiFs to family and friends and reading what I received. I called my sister and briefly spoke with our niece, who lives with her. My conversation with my sister was brief too, because her children were picking her up to take her to breakfast. I was glad that our conversation was short because due to her dementia, our conversations can drag on and she'll ask the same questions over and over within just minutes. It's heartbreaking. Her long term memory is better than short term however, so we do have fun reminiscing.

It came to me to let my son know after he got to the mosque (but before the kutbah (sermon), that for Mothers Day and birthdays, I don't want flowers and candy. I want him to spend quality time with me. So he brought home dinners that the Sisters at the mosque had cooked and dessert that one of the Brothers made. He calls it Apple Jack, which is an apple crumb pie. It was very good, but it could have been a little sweeter.

He asked what I was watching so he could watch it with me. I had started watching Invasion (Apple TV) but felt he would enjoy Monarch: Legacy of Monsters better. I had already gotten to mid Ep 4 of season 2, but belt he'd enjoy watching that better. So I went back and rewatched S2 Ep1, which had a recap. We ate our dinners (well I ate about 1/3 of mine) while watching and had dessert over conversation. Sure enough, after that, he wanted to see the next episode of Monarch. Later, I loaded and ran the dishwasher, washed Deja's bowls and cleaned her fountain.

 

[hollydolly]

... we finally have rain... not heavy but steady enough to water the lawns ... yeaahhh!

I got my new Free bus pass in the post this morning without having to renew it myself, it just came automatically, which I was delighted with. It's valid for 5 years... and even tho' I only use a bus once in a blue moon, it's still handy to have it available... I can use it all over England .. not just my county... and it's totally free... It certainly came in handy last week when my car was in the garage for 2 days



have the best start to the week you can, Folks....

 

[squatting dog]

Put out some free plants this morning. Always please's us to give away.
Canna lily , blue sage, purple hearts and spider plants.

 

[Rae]

Good morning to everyone. It is cloudy and will be 90 degrees this afternoon. We had two days of rain and that helped green up the grass. We will get more rain in the next 10 days.

@squatting dog those plants look so pretty and what a nice gesture you make offering them free.

We will be going out for lunch again. It seems easier for us than me making something. It is usually just sandwiches.

Have a good day and stay well, everyone.

 

[Pepper]

Exhausted today. Don’t have much energy. Went out for a walk and sat in my park. Little kids fascinate me. Saw a little toddler girl walking around with her dolly carriage. Realized I haven’t seen little girls with this toy in a long while.

Waiting for nurse to change my left foot/calf bandages. She comes three times a week. She helped me to put on earrings. She had to break through some skin which grew over the piercings as it’s been years since I wore them. She thought I would look so cute with my new short haircut. I do.

 

[hollydolly]

Rain has stopped, sun is out.... just been chasing up the refund for my MOT that I didn't receive from the first garage... the first time they told me the refund would take 3-5 days, it didn't come, this time they said 10 days... so I've raised a dispute with my Credit card company...leave it in their hands now !

 

[HoneyNut]

I got back from the 5 day bus trip to Cape Cod Friday night and I'm still feeling all worn out even after a couple nights of 8 hrs of sleep. I'm a little regretting that I have the Viking River Cruise from Basel to Amsterdam coming up in less than 4 weeks.

Some of the Cape Cod trip was awesome and some of it reminded me that I don't like people very much, there are so many thoughtless selfish ones. When the group leader would ask if anyone needed to have a bathroom stop, people who didn't need one would shout loudly 'No, keep going!', so you couldn't hear the people who did. The paperwork before the trip promised they would stop every two or two and a half hours for breaks and they didn't follow that. I don't think I want to go on any more bus trips now!

Martha's Vineyard was not at all fun, virtually nothing was open because the season hadn't started, and the bus they told us would go around the island only went up and back between 3 villages on one side of the island, plus the driver refused to stop at the middle village (because the bus was so full of people and he didn't want any more trying to get on), so basically we just saw one tourist shop and the ferry.

But the rest of the tour was good, I loved the paths around the dunes in the Cape Cod National Seashore park -- not that I had time or fellow hikers to do them with (except one quarter-mile trail), but they were so tantalizing! I just love exploring trails and I hadn't hiked on sand since I was younger and went on a day-long hike in the Sinai desert.

Plymouth Rock (what's left of it after a few centuries of tourists chipping off pieces and museums hauling away chunks) was so small it was cute.

There is no shortage of candy shops and ice cream shops in the Cape Cod area (gained four pounds )