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john19485 said:
Got up late had a hard time sleeping this last week , I don't get the reem sleep, just have to get in the groove again, went to the coffee shop, young lady and her son , talked to me about my book, got home fixed breakfast for my wife, cleaned kitchen, went in my room , turned on laptop, checked email's , checked news, now on this form, finished my audio file of my book , just woundering what to do with it, my book sales are in the toilet now, I still sell a book on Amazon every mouth about , but not many, my life has always been kinda complicated, ive met Presdents , and have been friends with some, met actors , worked with some, have friends rich and poor that I adore, I fall in the middle, just trying to work out if there is any future for me, hard to say .
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It sounds like you have filled your life with many amazing adventures!
 

Knight said:
Planning next major project. Water line replacement from water meter to connection to our home. Want to bring system up to code so will need about 30 feet of Pex 3/4" water line, a vacuum pressure break a pressure control valve, various copper fittings & copper tubing. I'll need at least 3 ball shut off valves because I'm going to separate the irrigation system feeding the back of our home from the front. Reason if there is ever a leak front or back I reroute water.

Labor to dig will be hired. That part is more work than I want to do. I plan on taking pics just so I have a record of what is done.

Once complete my wife wants a 12' long 2' wide planter. Something easy for a change.

But for fun today out to eat & gambol.
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Good luck....for both project and gambling! 😁
 
Pepper said:
Cooking the corned beef I bought on sale. Deliberately did not have it on St. Pat's Day, if I could still drink maybe I would have! Looking forward to a week of leftovers!
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Our St Pat's Day celebration consisted of our annual tradition of watching The Quiet Man. Since both of my freezers are over stocked, I didn't even buy any corned beef this year. With that in mind, did you save any left overs for me? 😋
 
HoneyNut said:
I finished my taxes last night then agonized over finances until the wee hours, I think I should try to find a free online course in retirement money investment management since I keep being surprised at how poorly I've invested (apparently I never looked at fund expense ratios). I probably should have used a financial planner but they seem to be very expensive. Also figured out that half of what I thought were dividends were capital gains, so I suppose I can't count on those re-occurring like dividends?

Consequently I got to bed super late and slept until noon. Went outside to do my first springtime trimming/weeding and wound up with my pinky finger impaled by the longest splinter of my life. I plan to call the doctor's office in the morning to ask what their records show for what year I had a tetanus shot.
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I hope you're ok!!!!
 
My son's BD is early April and my grandson's is end of May. Today I bought my son for his BD a Paw Patrol Game, 'Adventure City Lookout.' I can't wait till grandson's BD to play with it! Good thing my son loves toys and has a great sense of humor!
 
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Cutting and fitting more trim in the shop, working with the dog trying to get her house broke, and packing for my trip to Denver tomorrow to see my son and grand daughter. Will be good to have a little change of pace, and hopefully give my back a little break. Tweaked it the other day unloading 4x8x3/4 sheets of particle board (heavy, and awkward stuff to move alone). Not as bullet proof as I once was. Made an appointment with my Rolfing lady to to fix me up, but can't get in until next Tuesday.
 
Today was a lovely sunny day... so I went to London on the train from here not to see the Queen who sadly we've been told today is now wheelchair bound... but I digress... I went to the Ideal Home Exhibition at Olympia.. and unfortunately it was fairly tedious, not as it once was in the past with beautiful things for the home, just a bunch of sales people trying to sell everything from weight loss stuff, to time-shares..., so I didn't stay, and I;m happy I;d got the tickets for free

Instead I took a tube across London and went to the Mall... actually to be a little bit pedantic, I had to take a tube and an overground train to get to the mall, but all within the city, and it's quite complicated .. but anyhoo that's where I went...

Bought a few things in one of biggest department stores in the mall but not much else , the place was packed, my photos don't show that but believe me, I was totally surprised that it could be so busy on a Monday .. .I didn't stay long, just a couple of hours, I don't like when it's packed like that, it's no fun tbh.. About 1/2 of the stores are high end designer stores..so I didn't go in those..

Couple of pics from the day I'll post more tomorrow..on the photo thread..

My local little market town station to get the overground train into the city.. took about 20 minutes.. then I had to change at Shepherds' Bush and get a tube to Kensington Olympia..

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Inside the train before everyone go on as we reached the first London stations...thought you might like to see..


..then from there.. more tubes and trains as I said...




..and a pic from the Mall...

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here's photos you don't see very often.. but I thought I;d show you anyway... :LOL:

Ladies toilets in the mall...

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there's loads of facilities .. and about 40 toilets and sink units in each .. if not more
 
I played "fire fighter" today. About noon, one of the neighbors stopped by and asked me to call 911. He spotted some smoke on the property across the road....nobody home there, as they both work. I called 911, then put my boots on, grabbed my leaf blower, and rushed over there. The dead leaves in the forest were burning, and the neighbor was hosing down the yard near the house so it wouldn't spread to the house. I started blowing the leaves that were burning and by the time the fire dept. arrived, about 15 minutes after I called, we had the fire under control close to the house. The rest of the forest was a mass of smoke and fire, and the firemen could only let it burn while trying to keep it from spreading further. My wife called the neighbor lady at work....she's a teacher...and by the time she rushed home, we all had things pretty much under control. There's some deadwood and stumps that are still smoking, but the rain is coming soon, so that should get rid of the remaining hot spots.

So, it was an interesting afternoon....but, I wonder how it started, with no one over there since they went to work this morning.
 
Thank goodness you and the other neighbour were there, Don.

Laundry, walked to a grocery store and brought a few things home in my backpack, made lunch and now have a turkey in cooking. SS, his wife and daughter are arriving for a few days. Taking a break before I finish peeling potatoes, etc. Hate to do things at the last minute.

Yesterday I bought a homemade (by someone else) pie for dessert tonight.
 
I have one of the worst headaches today. My cousin called and he is obsessed with our ancestry. He spends a lot of time doing research. He found out we were related to Jimmy Kimmel a while ago. Today he said we were related to Matthew Fox. I have to be honest until we hung up I didn't even know who Matthew Fox was. After an hour conversation about that subject, he told me he got locked out of Facebook and he didn't know why. I know he is always posting rude things about Politics so maybe that's why. Well after all that time on the phone my husbands nephew stopped in for a visit. I love my husband's nephew but I really wanted to take a nap.
 
I played in the dirt this morning and did some weeding and took a nap and ate some cheesecake for supper with a piece of chocolate for dessert. Hey...a productive day followed by nourishment. Cheesecake has dairy and chocolate has antioxidants. And there's yet another new flower bed in the garden.

Today is the first time since mid-January that I haven't been depressed about going to work after my two days off. No kidding! Why did I get depressed about going to work at a job I really like? That woman! And she won't be there tomorrow or any other day. Yippee.

@hollydolly Did you get to spend as much time browsing and shopping as you spent getting there? The mall looks much the same as our malls with the exception that the malls around us have more empty shops than open ones and the anchor stores...the big department stores that were part of the American scene for years...are still open but mostly ghost towns.
 
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hollydolly said:
Today was a lovely sunny day... so I went to London on the train from here not to see the Queen who sadly we've been told today is now wheelchair bound... but I digress... I went to the Ideal Home Exhibition at Olympia.. and unfortunately it was fairly tedious, not as it once was in the past with beautiful things for the home, just a bunch of sales people trying to sell everything from weight loss stuff, to time-shares..., so I didn't stay, and I;m happy I;d got the tickets for free

Instead I took a tube across London and went to the Mall... actually to be a little bit pedantic, I had to take a tube and an overground train to get to the mall, but all within the city, and it's quite complicated .. but anyhoo that's where I went...

Bought a few things in one of biggest department stores in the mall but not much else , the place was packed, my photos don't show that but believe me, I was totally surprised that it could be so busy on a Monday .. .I didn't stay long, just a couple of hours, I don't like when it's packed like that, it's no fun tbh.. About 1/2 of the stores are high end designer stores..so I didn't go in those..

Couple of pics from the day I'll post more tomorrow..on the photo thread..

My local little market town station to get the overground train into the city.. took about 20 minutes.. then I had to change at Shepherds' Bush and get a tube to Kensington Olympia..

train-station-2-large.jpg


train-large.jpg

train-interior-cloth-seats-2.jpg


Inside the train before everyone go on as we reached the first London stations...thought you might like to see..


..then from there.. more tubes and trains as I said...




..and a pic from the Mall...

westfield-large.jpg


here's photos you don't see very often.. but I thought I;d show you anyway... :LOL:

Ladies toilets in the mall...

toilet-sinks-westfield.jpg


westfields-ladies-toilets.jpg
there's loads of facilities .. and about 40 toilets and sink units in each .. if not more
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Interesting to see most people wearing either gray or black jackets. 😮
 
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