NYCat Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 Daffodils are blooming in Washington Square on a beautiful sunny day. Paulette 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted March 26, 2020 Author Share Posted March 26, 2020 The sun is shining here and I can see a blooming tree from where I sit. Bad news, I’ll have to start paying to get my lawn cut because it is getting tall. Good news for the lawn guy, though! Best news...my daughter is no worse. But it’s early days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marianne Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 I have a new great niece, born in Spain, mother and baby are doing well. My husband has been sick all week with a fever and cough, had to postpone his surgery ....but the good news, he finally got a visit via Zoom with our GP and she thinks he has bronchitis and not the dreaded virus. We have enough food for the next couple of weeks, and I got creative tonight with quinoa, vegan cheese, spinach and a bunch of spices. Which I made along with chicken sausage. We also have an entire shelf in our freezer full of blueberries. I'm thinking about making some sort of cobbler this weekend. The sun was shining and I took a nice walk around my neighborhood. I like this thread Betty! Thanks! I'll find the nature one too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 18 hours ago, Betty LaRue said: The sun is shining here and I can see a blooming tree from where I sit. Bad news, I’ll have to start paying to get my lawn cut because it is getting tall. Good news for the lawn guy, though! Best news...my daughter is no worse. But it’s early days. Hi Betty, Hope your daughter gets better soon. All the best to you all. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted March 27, 2020 Author Share Posted March 27, 2020 (edited) Good thing for me. For lunch, I was naughty. Cream cheese covered in jalapeño jelly and scooped up with buttery crackers. Iced tea. I did housework with Echo, my African Gray, on my shoulder. She was so thrilled she kept giving me kisses (smack sounds) on my cheek. She had a small bite of a cracker along with her steamed vegetables. Edited March 27, 2020 by Betty LaRue 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Morrison Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 38 minutes ago, Betty LaRue said: She had a small bite of a cracker along with her steamed vegetables. Betty, this is the news we all need to hear in these difficult times... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted March 27, 2020 Author Share Posted March 27, 2020 1 hour ago, John Morrison said: Betty, this is the news we all need to hear in these difficult times... Snapshots of life...the best kind of pictures. The ones you form in your mind through the written word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 I was enormously cheered this morning by discovering that Larry Kramer is still alive. I was looking for information about the virus in New York City and I found this... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/nyregion/coronavirus-larry-kramer-aids.html I don't know if many of you know who Larry Kramer is. He was a huge figure during the AIDS crises. He was raging at everybody and everything -- yelling that if they found a cure he'd have to sprinkle it on the graves of his friends, yelling at Mayor Koch when they lived in the same building down the street from me. It was a horrible time in Greenwich Village with stores closing because the owners were dying. I lost the guys who were my New York family and I was health care proxy and executrix. Such a terrible illness. And, remembering all that, finding that Larry Kramer who was diagnosed with HIV in 1988 is still alive gives me great joy. May he rage on. Paulette 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted March 28, 2020 Author Share Posted March 28, 2020 (edited) My forest of a lawn is being mowed! Yippee! I'm going to Skype with 3 families of my family at 4 pm. 😁 Edited March 28, 2020 by Betty LaRue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvallee Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 I won the two games of Yams, eh eh eh 😃 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted March 29, 2020 Author Share Posted March 29, 2020 2 hours ago, gvallee said: I won the two games of Yams, eh eh eh 😃 And you didn’t get shunned? 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvallee Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 2 hours ago, Betty LaRue said: And you didn’t get shunned? 😁 Nah... He'll have his revenge at Scrabble or Boggle today. And he always beats me at ping-pong anyway, although I'm pretty good at it, says she modestly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvallee Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 The happy news for today is that since I can't go anywhere, I've started looking around trees and bushes around my motorhome. I found a treasure trove of fascinating insects and am back full tilt into macro photography, which gives me a lot of pleasure. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Morrison Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 6 minutes ago, David Pimborough said: I found some toilet roll today 🤣 Good for you. Let's hope you can salvage one or two usable sheets... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted March 29, 2020 Author Share Posted March 29, 2020 (edited) My single-lady-across-the-back-fence neighbor called me. She had placed bids on toilet paper, and won the bids. 2 of them. Quite a few rolls will be delivered to her home mid-April. She told me she would put some on my porch. What I have should last until then. She got the websites from friends, watched the bidding for awhile, then scored. People helping people. Edited March 29, 2020 by Betty LaRue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 (edited) We had some nice scones. Some with jam and some savoury cheesy ones. The friendly robin in the garden I promised you a photograph of hasn't been around for a day or two. Perhaps he ate so many greeblies the other day that he's exceeded his take-off weight. Edited March 29, 2020 by spacecadet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 1 hour ago, spacecadet said: We had some nice scones. Some with jam and some savoury cheesy ones. The friendly robin in the garden I promised you a photograph of hasn't been around for a day or two. Perhaps he ate so many greeblies the other day that he's exceeded his take-off weight. I think your robin flew over to cheer me up. He's pretty fat and I guess that is your fault. I also saw a female cardinal. I get inordinately excited when wildlife shows up for me here in the Big City. Paulette 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted March 29, 2020 Author Share Posted March 29, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, spacecadet said: We had some nice scones. Some with jam and some savoury cheesy ones. The friendly robin in the garden I promised you a photograph of hasn't been around for a day or two. Perhaps he ate so many greeblies the other day that he's exceeded his take-off weight. You are a hoot, Mark! Your robins are little round things as it is compared to the robins we have over here. You put a funny picture in my mind of your fat bird running and trying to lift off, but instead bumping his bottom back to the ground. Here is an American robin taking offense at a European starling encroaching on its bath. The starling stood frozen for a minute, then decided there was no teeth in that open beak and jumped in. Edited March 29, 2020 by Betty LaRue 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 11 hours ago, David Pimborough said: Oh not to worry I have a washing machine 🤣 💩 No washing powder though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dustydingo Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 16 hours ago, David Pimborough said: Oh not to worry I have a washing machine 🤣 💩 4 hours ago, spacecadet said: No washing powder though? Washing toilet paper is a breeze . , , it's hanging the sheets out to dry that's the fun bit . . DD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 As the lockdown has been extended I have set up my office computer again today so I can work on a backlog of images for Alamy and maybe some new ones too. Had work emptying the car and unpacking it all but worth it I hope to take my mind off the current situation for a while. Just a thought:- I am paying monthly payments to the utility companies and the local council for my Lincoln home and I can't even be there. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve F Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 Still Covid 19 free and haven't run out of toilet paper (yet).... (It's a Monday, slim pickings! 😆) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted March 30, 2020 Author Share Posted March 30, 2020 Me, too, Steve! And a neighbor is going to share a large order of toilet paper with me mid-April. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted March 31, 2020 Author Share Posted March 31, 2020 Whether this is a good thing or not. I just watched the weekly series of “The Good Doctor” and saw some of the best acting ever. But I bawled my eyes out. Maybe I needed the release. 😢😭 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve F Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 5 hours ago, Betty LaRue said: Whether this is a good thing or not. I just watched the weekly series of “The Good Doctor” and saw some of the best acting ever. But I bawled my eyes out. Maybe I needed the release. 😢😭 I always cry when I don't get releases too 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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