What's on your agenda for today?

It's a glorious sunny Sunday morning here. Need to finish the housework this morning while it gets warmer outside - doubt it will get out of the 50's but it's not windy. Might go out for a bike ride this afternoon.



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Looks like we'll have a perfect day today for the Earth Day celebrations. The predicted high is 71 and sunny. I hope all of you have a wonderful day! :)
 
Still raining here and we have a tornado watch. Ugh. The gloomy weather does nothing for my disposition.
 

Hope everyone has a great day regardless of the weather. Its sunny and cool here, may go up to 10 C -- made a bet that we'd have green buds on our trees by Tuesday.... still waiting. :)
 
It is a beautiful sunny spring morning here in Mediterranean north. Spring is on full swing, and the birds are singing up a storm. My favourite squirrels, Rasputin, and Robespierre, visited me today. I love the little rodents. Don't know why squirrels and wasps like me, but they do. Must be my sunny personality? Lol. Today involves food preparation. I am making pasta noodles with my machine, and preparing fettuccine for an army. My two bread machines are on, raisin buns rising on top of the stove.....
 
Shali, that sounds like a delicious feast in the making at the chez Shalimar. West coast always is ahead in spring..... our squirrels are still looking for lost buried food, birdies are just assembling their nests and the other day it was just warm enough to sit out on the restaurant patio. I really should dust off my bread machine and get some loaves happening too, maybe tomorrow. LOL
 
AS - Thanks for sharing the pictures of your beautiful surroundings! I immediately pictured hiking the hills there - does Scotland have lots of hiking trails? I would think so because the scenery sure invites hikers.

I certainly admire all the bread machine users on here! I'm probably the only person around who never had a bread machine. When my kids were really little, I would occasionally make bread but back then I don't think the bread machine was in stores. Once I made pasta by following a friend's Italian grandmother's recipe. I made the dough, rolled it out, cut it into strips, and hung the pasta strips over a line of string that I erected in the laundry room where it would be left alone to dry. Not long after, somebody opened the door suddenly, creating a rush of air that blew down the line with the pasta on it. After picking up the pasta off the floor, I dusted it off and decided to prepare it for the dinner guests who were coming imminently. I had seriously considered throwing out the pasta, but the person who opened the door and caused the pasta debacle insisted that I cook it because "the guests will never know." Then we got divorced. That was the first and last homemade pasta adventure I ever participated in.

Today is cloudy but pleasant here. Everyone's bulbs are now up and some actually are blooming, mostly the daffodils. My purple-leaf plum tree is now in bloom and I'm waiting for my alliums and cherry trees to pop soon. So the blooming is happening, just a bit later than before. Everyone have a lovely Spring day!
 
Kath, I had a bread machine once. Thought maybe I read the directions wrong...turned out to be a defective machine. Exchanged it for another. Would you believe that one was defective, too? Ticked me off in a really big way. I'd been making bread since about age 8 or 10 and just continued to make "real" bread. I even won a blue ribbon at the country fair. Must be good bread because nobody has ever complained about it, and it doesn't last long enough to get stale. Three loaves at time...gone in less than three days.

Never tried making my own pasta.

Hope everybody will come on over and bring lumber and stuff. The rain just won't stop, and a little while ago, there was "rotation" about a mile away from us. Scary stuff. It's supposed to let up later this afternoon, then return with a vengeance early tomorrow morning. This is Day 8 of rain. Oh, well, at least we don't have to shovel it, and we can count our blessings that it's not a drought like out West. We did suffer our own three-year drought here just a few years ago, and it wasn't pleasant. Couldn't buy a raindrop. Now we can't pay to make it go away.
 
My mom would make her own pasta without a machine. She would roll out a big flat circle of dough onto the table, then roll it into a tightish tube, and slice thru the tube with a sharp knife to make thin strips. Fluff it out with a bit of flour and voila! - pasta noodles for her delicious chicken noodle soup. We never had leftovers, but I imagine one could spread it out on a table to dry out.
 
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AS - Thanks for sharing the pictures of your beautiful surroundings! I immediately pictured hiking the hills there - does Scotland have lots of hiking trails? I would think so because the scenery sure invites hikers.

I certainly admire all the bread machine users on here! I'm probably the only person around who never had a bread machine. When my kids were really little, I would occasionally make bread but back then I don't think the bread machine was in stores. Once I made pasta by following a friend's Italian grandmother's recipe. I made the dough, rolled it out, cut it into strips, and hung the pasta strips over a line of string that I erected in the laundry room where it would be left alone to dry. Not long after, somebody opened the door suddenly, creating a rush of air that blew down the line with the pasta on it. After picking up the pasta off the floor, I dusted it off and decided to prepare it for the dinner guests who were coming imminently. I had seriously considered throwing out the pasta, but the person who opened the door and caused the pasta debacle insisted that I cook it because "the guests will never know." Then we got divorced. That was the first and last homemade pasta adventure I ever participated in.

Today is cloudy but pleasant here. Everyone's bulbs are now up and some actually are blooming, mostly the daffodils. My purple-leaf plum tree is now in bloom and I'm waiting for my alliums and cherry trees to pop soon. So the blooming is happening, just a bit later than before. Everyone have a lovely Spring day!
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Tons and tons of hiking trails here, Kath. Lots of mountains to climb as well, some a bit dangerous as people die hiking certain ones every year.

Love my bread machine. I think I bought the first one in 2001 or 02. Broke after a while and stupidly bought another of the same, same problem We bought our Panasonic about 2003/04 I think and love it. No problems.

A hike on the Isle of Skye way back in 2002:

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Have woke up to sunny dawn, and having a coffee in bed, life feels blissful, I am looking forward to going out later this morning with my two daughters to a pensioners showing (complete with tea and biscuits) :) of "Still Alice" the film about Alzheimers starring Julianne Moore, we then go on to a surprise restaurant/pub for lunch.

Its the last of three Christmas treats we agreed to give each other in turn, instead of giving just more stuff that we don't really need.

It works by one of us organising and paying for a cinema visit with a lunch or dinner, for the other two. Its usually all a surprise but the film was revealed this time.
 
Cold and rainy here, but my e-reader is well stocked and so is my liquor cabinet so life will be good...:cool:
 
I'm staying inside today where it's warm as I'm getting over a cold and sore throat. :(
Spring is officially here with cool nights but warmer during the day.
Good weather for maple syrup producers.
 
I'm up. Today was scheduled to be a day off, but the rain will be over today and we'll have sunshine tomorrow...so tomorrow's client will get her house cleaned today just in time for company later this afternoon, and I'll get tomorrow off to play in the garden. Win/Win.

Hope y'all have a great day.
 
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Have woke up to sunny dawn, and having a coffee in bed, life feels blissful, I am looking forward to going out later this morning with my two daughters to a pensioners showing (complete with tea and biscuits) :) of "Still Alice" the film about Alzheimers starring Julianne Moore, we then go on to a surprise restaurant/pub for lunch.

Its the last of three Christmas treats we agreed to give each other in turn, instead of giving just more stuff that we don't really need.

It works by one of us organising and paying for a cinema visit with a lunch or dinner, for the other two. Its usually all a surprise but the film was revealed this time.
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Think I'll wait for Still Alice on Netflix. Even the trailer I saw of it at the cinema made me cry. Great idea for xmas gifts that you all do!

There's only a small cinema in our town, so when we feel like watching some movies we go to the massive Cineworld complex in Glasgow. If there are two movies we'd like to see we often spend the night at an Ibis hotel. On one trip we saw 2 films one day and another one the next morning.
 
Raven, hope you get over your cold soon. For some reason I've had 3 this winter, although one or two might have been flu - with the cough that wouldn't go away.

Ralphy, sounds like a great plan for the day! Drunken book reading. :D

Went to the gym this morning, picked up a few things at supermarket. Ugandan daughter and my hubby will be home mid-afternoon.
 

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