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Georgiagranny said:
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 that 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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No.. there's just too much to see and do, its not possible to do it all in one afternoon.,albeit that it's open until 10pm, but I don't want to be in the city in the dark trying to get home on my own..

In reality you'd need a good couple of days to see and do everything including the casino. and the cinemas .. etc.. and the eateries are just amazing, they've got food from just about every country you;ve heard of , and a lot you haven't...

Our stores are not only all very open, they're thriving, despite online shopping....but that's only in the HUGE malls and retail parks , the local small town malls with a dozen or a couple dozen stores, or the small town high street stores are suffering badly..
 

hollydolly said:
Our stores are not only all very open, they're thriving, despite online shopping....but that's only in the HUGE malls and retail parks , the local small town malls with a dozen or a couple dozen stores, or the small town high street stores are suffering badly..
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Hm. The malls here don't seem to have recovered from the lockdown in the early days of the pandemic. I figured it was because people discovered that what with WFH, remote learning for school kids, it was just easier to continue to buy online and not be bothered with driving to and from, hunting parking spots, crowds...

Even the movie theaters are mostly empty, maybe because streaming TV costs a whole lot less than movie tickets and popcorn!

I don't know what it's like in other parts of the country, though.
 
I did something wild today. My son showed me his fairly new Cadillac CT4-V Blackwing and said I should test drive it. So we took it to an abandoned parking lot nearby and I kind of let it rip for a bit. Never driven anything this powerful for a long while. Son probably thought I would jump a curb or something, judging by his facial expression. :p It handled so well with traction and stability off and felt light. Really took me back to the old days. A police cruiser came by and I heard my son say "uh oh". They probably thought we were kids joyriding. Anyway, we all had a nice chat and they were just curious. A pretty good day so far. Nice weather too.

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My day was fairly typical. A morning appointment with the doctor (routine visit) followed by a few errands then back home. Later, an afternoon walk with the dog (gorgeous day, sunny with a gentle breeze). Did some housework then prepared dinner. In between I did some of my part-time contract work (which will be ending in May) and had a few phone conversations with family members and a friend. All in all, a pleasant day.
 
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..

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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
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I can now say that I've seen pictures of restrooms in London! LOL. Actually, I enjoyed your pictures very much...glad you shared!
 
Don M. said:
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.
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Wow....that was quite a day! I'm glad that no one was hurt.
 
RFW said:
I did something wild today. My son showed me his fairly new Cadillac CT4-V Blackwing and said I should test drive it. So we took it to an abandoned parking lot nearby and I kind of let it rip for a bit. Never driven anything this powerful for a long while. Son probably thought I would jump a curb or something, judging by his facial expression. :p It handled so well with traction and stability off and felt light. Really took me back to the old days. A police cruiser came by and I heard my son say "uh oh". They probably thought we were kids joyriding. Anyway, we all had a nice chat and they were just curious. A pretty good day so far. Nice weather too.

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I'm beginning to think that you may still be a kid at heart! LOL
 
Trila said:
I had an awesome 3 days at the roller rink...a total of 6 parties. Boy was it busy, and so much fun. I even got to try a hover board! (I've been dying to try one!!!!!!!) 😁 It was great!!!!
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I try to be with what I can but you certainly have me beat! A hoverboard? I would have fallen flat on my butt!
 
We had severe weather in the area last night... my cat Gigi who I call "doppler cat" went into hiding...we did get some good rain that was needed. Thinking it will
be a good day to "weed" now that the storm has passed. Hope the others in the path going east will make out fine, too.

Time for coffee, guys. Make it a super good day, you hear?!
 
I went on my early morning walk around 6:40,it was 35 out,birds beginning to chirp,saw a baby 'thumper/'thumperina' scatter across our back lawn
My friend, Mary&I are going on our weekly 'road trip'{we didn't do it last wk},the bank,Kohl's.I'm looking for a new pair of New Balance walking shoes, she's looking sports clothes are on sale
The rest of my day hope to get another walk in before the rain arrives this afternoon,read NYT/local paper, my book
Tonight after dinner, tackle NYT crossword puzzle. At 10pm on History Channel there will be a special program 'Shackelton's Endurance' :The Lost Ice Ship Found. The ship which sank in 1915 was recently found a couple weeks ago at the bottom of Wendell Sea,east of Antartartic Peninsula.They used very expensive undersea drones to find it
 
Georgiagranny said:
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.
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So glad the coworker who was making your life miserable finally got the axe. You can enjoy your job again!
 
Today, I am reflecting on my half-brothers life .. mainly regrets that I wasn't able to know him for most of our lives. He was estranged from us, due to my father, his step-father.

He passed away, yesterday .. after being bed-ridden due to cancer, which he had for a number of years. He was to turn 90 this year. He had a long life full of adventure (he joined the Canadian Navy at age 16 .. he told them he was 18).

For the first time, he met our youngest brother a few years ago, at my daughter's wedding. Also, for the first time, he filled in a few blanks concerning family history.

So .. goodbye Gary. Have a good journey to wherever souls go after life on this plane.
 
Pinky said:
Today, I am reflecting on my half-brothers life .. mainly regrets that I wasn't able to know him for most of our lives. He was estranged from us, due to my father, his step-father.

He passed away, yesterday .. after being bed-ridden due to cancer, which he had for a number of years. He was to turn 90 this year. He had a long life full of adventure (he joined the Canadian Navy at age 16 .. he told them he was 18).

For the first time, he met our youngest brother a few years ago, at my daughter's wedding. Also, for the first time, he filled in a few blanks concerning family history.

So .. goodbye Gary. Have a good journey to wherever souls go after life on this plane.
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My sympathies on the passing of your brother, the pain of family rifts, and your lost opportunities to connect with Gary. May he rest in peace.
 
I've scheduled myself to update business paperwork between today and tomorrow.

My eyes start rolling to the back of my head after a few hours of intensive concentration on Excel spreadsheets for customer purchase orders, my own purchase orders to fulfill them, backorders, delivery receipts and invoices, so I spread the chore over a couple of days. Brain calisthenics.
 
Today I've done nothing.. . It's very typical of me if I've had a day where a fair bit of travelling was involved the previous day. ..and yesterday in total, I drove to the station, travelled on 3 trains and 3 tubes... and walked around a 60 acre shopping mall as well as a Huge Exhibition centre.. .thankfully I had the foresight to wear trainers and not heels, but despite that my lower back was still very painful , which prompted me to come home earlier than I might have otherwise.

Today is sunny, and 58 degrees but I've only stepped into the garden once today....

Tomorrow I hope to be reinvigorated to go out again...
 
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