Buenos Dias!!

It is raining here in Alabama and I am heading to Florida today.

Bill, hope Karen is doing well.

Bill & Chip hope things are better.

Continue to work twice a week so that is something.

Hugs and kisses

Only one thing makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure (quote from "The Alchemist"

A very good morning to you SSG and to BT.

Hi Vira! Miss you - hugs!!!! It looks like it might rain here again, but who knows! Morning Jerry!

Morning everyone else. Hope everything turns out well in your work and/or personal lives.

Good morning BT. It's rainy and windy here today. Great for the ducks and for washing the oak pollen down.

SSG, Jerry, Jeanine and all to follow - have a good Friday

I had a very interesting Wednesday and Thursday with jury duty. I tried my best to be the wall flower that I am in crowds, but I was selected to an armed robbery case with surprises. Glad it is over and the bad guy is in prison for many, many years.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong. ~ Mahatma Gandhi



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Good dreary Friday morning...
I feel like carp and have virtually lost my voice...
My body aches...
I have tons of stuff to do, but at least I don't have to work...

Hugs (germless ones) to everyone!).


Wow, Linda...glad it's over for you.
I like your quote, too.

Happy Friday!

Good FRIDAY Morning, Elvira, Jerry, Jeanine, Linda, Donna, and all those arriving throughout the day!!

Coffee's on



Karen - aka "Hobble Along Cassidy" is doing well!!
All the colours of the rainbow are now found on her foot and ankle!! Wonderful!!!

Raining here as well - but sideways! Sure is windy out there!!!

Have a great, grand and glorious day, no matter what trouble you are trying to get into!!!

Bill

Thanks Donna. Hope you feel better soon.

Hi Bill. I like your coffee dude.

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I need a mug with that coffee dude on it! LOL Linda, glad the trial is over. Donna, feel better soon. Hobble along, glad to hear you are doing well.

Morning BT
Im already up and accounting - on account of I need to get things wrapped up for the accountant
That and Ms. Rasta somehow managed to get stuck under the bed... I'm not sure how she's doing it but the last two nights she's scooted herself completely underneath the bed and then can't get out. That's where she used to sleep all the time but she hasn't in a long time.

It's another beeeeautigorgeous day here today with the promise of Uber nice weather starting on Sunday.

Florida is bursting at the seems with BTrs! Jim hope you can check in from time to time. Roger and Karen are having a great time. Elvira safe travels today and please pass the hugs all around!

Good morning all. Wet, wet, wet here in Florida, but we are in for a sunny and warm weekend

Hugs and love to all x

Nice bird! Rasta is reliving her youth.

Love the pelicans especially when they surf the waves.

Tribs it's a blessing that we just removed the carpeting from the bedroom --- I can just slide her out like no body's bizniz!!!


Where is everyone this FRIDAY??

It's FRIDAY!!!!!!

I'm here, Boom. We just had a big event in the lobby with tv cameras and all.
A bone marrow recipient and donor met for the first time. The recipient was a 1 year old when she needed a bone marrow transplant.She is now 4. The donor is a young woman from the Tampa area who, at the time, had a one year old daughter.

Very heart warming. Tissues were needed all around.

I'm here too. I realize that I'm not one of the normal CC people anymore, but I am here.

Linda that sounds wonderful. I love happy endings.

Okay, how about this.

It's strawberry season. Do you know how to properly clean your strawberries?
http://www.star-k.org/cons-appr-vegetables-videos10.htm

Jeanine, I think it's slow this time of the day. Wait till the west coast folks wake up.

Yes, it was a very nice event with balloons, cake and happy little girls. The donors little girl is here, too.

Sarah, Nice Pelican.
Did you know that.....

The most wonderful bird is a Pelican.
Their beak can hold more than their belly-can.

Don't blame me. Terry's dad used to sing that to his kids.

Sarah, Welcome to the RAIN!!!! It's soooo depressing and too dark in my studio to paint. YES, I have lights in there just for painting, but something about gray skys and feeling artistic...It just doesn't work. SOOOOOOOOO, I'm sitting here with the furkids, Rita has actually gone out in the rain and pottied. It's gonna be a good day......for sitting around wishing I had boxes and could start packing

Good Morning to ALL!!!!!

I just read my first paragraph and it's just all over the place!!!LOL Oh well, yall get my point!! I hope!

Wonderful story, Linda. Has that been on TV? It sounds sooo familiar. Whatever, it makes me happy!!!!

We are still waiting on the realtor in GA to get in contact w/ the homeowner about the house we want to rent. Very small, but just what we need to get all of our stuff straightened out.

I had to take Mom to the Hosp. yesterday. Her blood pressure was really high. They increased her bp meds (not bi-polar...LOL) and she is doing fine today.

OK, so that's me for today....

Timmmy, I want to see what you are working on!!!!!

I just received this from our sports update:

Aurora vs Webster University in Florida (Leesburg) has been cancelled due to the rain.

Sorry Floridians.

PS, It's raining like crazy here too. And no on the event being on tv yet. It just finished up. Maybe it will me on at noon or the evening new.
?
Good luck with the realtor.

Linda, you can't ask the question, "clean your strawberries?"

That will make Tom want to put his pants on.

Please put your pants on Tom!!!

Jerry, I've been eating those critters all along. No soap on my strawberries.

Good morning!!!! I am smiling from ear to ear. Good day here! I just got the most fabulous surprise delivered, OMG decadent but I am gonna be enjoying every last crumb. I have THE most wonderful friends on the planet...and many are from right here on BT!!!! They have impeccable taste I might add!

Have a super fantabulous day!!!

Okay, now I'm hungry. I want decadent.

Linda, I'll be looking for you!!!

Decadent???? I haven't had decadent since....Have I ever had decadent???????LOL

As for the Realtor.....I just want to know where I'm going!! I need to liquidate A LOT if we get this house. It's very small, but close to the water and has a gihugic yard for the pups!!!! I just really like this house and we can get a lot done in the year that we live there. THEN, maybe we will get married!!!!OMG!!!!!

Sounds like it will be a great house to make wedding plans in.

Nap time, later kids.

It's too little for a wedding, but plans may fit in there!!!LOL

Well, here I am in sunny Florida. Yeah right. It is actually clearing right now. The flight down was quite harrowing. It gave a whole new meaning to shake rattle and roll. My son's house is very nice. I am very proud of him.
Tomorrow, I shall be driving down to Ft. Myers area to meet up with some fellow BTers. On Sunday, back to Orlando, then Phillies Spring Training on Monday and Tuesday in Brandenton and Clearwater. Back home on Wednesday for his most blessed day. (March 17th) Time for a nap, as we are going out tonight.

Ding Dong!!! Wedding bells, not Jerry

Jim sounds like Ryan is showing off his old man!! Have fun and safe traipsing around SW Florida. Give Venice a quick wave for me - my old stomping grounds when I visited my grandmother - pre 1980

tired..icky feeling...ugggllleee weather...nap next!

Donna I am worried about you.. Please go see a doctor, You have been sick for quite some time..

Hello everyone cold damp day here on LI, but we make the best of it Everyday my feet hit the floor I am thankful

Actually, I was fine in between...hit me like a ton of bricks now, though...I will def ask the doc on Monday if I'm not better. I have cough med and I never do well at season change...not to mention it's a job hazard....

nap now!

Ha, Freddie....I am having trouble remembering(!) the name of an author who wrote books about retired women who drink a lot of beer and have strange adventures....one of them had a motto: "as long as my pooper points down, I'm ok."......

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CB, you're a riot!

You too, Linda...youre always a bright spot here...

hi gang
out of it again. haven't been on for several days. fur child got into garbage can in bath room. and she swallowed (1guess!!!!). so i brought her to vet yesterday and she needed x-ray. needless to say everything came out fine but i had to make sure it all came out and had to examine the female item. went out and bought 2 new garbage cans/with lids for bathrooms.
to all my floridian friends be safe

bill hope everything is ok.

donna hope u feel better soon

ps safe move

jim mc have fun

hugs to all

es

Elaine, I came home last night to find my living room strewn with dirt and my cat lying next to an uprooted house plant like it was hin new best friend....

CB, you'll see what a bright spot I am if my coworker ever forwards the photos she just took of me.

SPILL, coworker!

It's been driving me crazy that I couldn't remember that author. Here she is, from Wikipedia...

"Her first book, Suds in Your Eye (1942) published by Houghton Mifflin, was described as "a crazy, funny story" about three impoverished but high-spirited and beer-loving elderly women. "The book was unlike most of the novels coming out of Southern California at the time", wrote Beatrice Sherman in The New York Times Book Review on December 13, 1942. This book was adapted into a Broadway Play by Jack Kirkland in 1944.

Suds in Your Eye was followed by five other books about the same three women: Mrs. Feeley, Mrs. Rasmussen, and Miss Tinkham, plus their handyman, only known as "Old-Timer". These included High Time (1944), One on the House (1949), Wait for the Wagon (1951), Tooner Schooner (1953), and Let's Go for Broke (1962), all with illustrations by famed The New Yorker artist George Price. Their home base for most of the series was called "Noah's Ark", and was a junkyard in San Diego, but the third and fourth books were set during travels. These books consistently featured certain themes: the main characters faced financial disaster, usually were forced to take innovative measures to ensure a homeplace, rescued other people with problems, and acted as matchmakers.

Among Lasswell's other books were Mrs. Rasmussen's Book of One-Arm Cookery (1946), I'll Take Texas (1958), and Tio Pepe (1968). Lasswell was also an editorial writer for the Houston Chronicle in the 1960's.

Lasswell was born in Glasgow, Scotland of American parents on February 8, 1905, and grew up in Brownsville, Texas. She was married to Dr. Dudley Winn Smith, a surgeon.

She died at the Solvang Lutheran Home in Solvang, California of Alzheimer's disease."

More than you want to know, I'm sure. A friend of mine did her Phd thesis on her, and interviewed her at her home in Solvang, back in the day....

Ok, well, I've absolutely stomped this thing to death.

I've bullied some folks into getting their pianos tuned, so I'm gone.

I'm gonna go by the bookstore and look into some Mary Lasswell books on the way home...

Those sound like fun books CB --- I'll keep an eye out for them.


UPS just delivered and I just assembled my new office chair YIPPEEE!!!! a new chair, a new calculator and I'm all ready to roar!
Guy will be so jealous if he ever shows up down here

I'm going to go out for another run! Hopefully it's still purty out there ~ heaven knows I can't tell from here!

"the main characters faced financial disaster, usually were forced to take innovative measures to ensure a homeplace, rescued other people with problems, and acted as matchmakers. "



Sounds like our kinda people!!!

That's it kids.

Wine time for me.

Click!

G'nite Jerry - enjoy!

I just finished a run using the Nike +iPod sensor that keeps track of my pace, ect... when I finished TIGER WOODS came on and congratulated me on running my fastest mile HA HA HA I'm calling Gloria Allred!!!

Hello BT...been lurking today, but had the twins and it just doesn't work to be on the computer and keep an eye on them at the same time...they are GREAT at tag-teaming now! No rest for the weary, and boy was I weary today! I managed a 20 minute catnap before I came into work. I put Snow White in for them and they both curled up with me while I snoozed. Now I have a large cup of high-test java and I'm good to go till the end of work at 11:15pm tonight.

Boom...lol on the TW congratulations!

I killed it...

No ya didn't. I'm here lurking.

Congrats Tara!

Hi Tribs

Howdy Bones!

Does anyone have a gas mask? My dog is making the house rather, um, fragrant right now.

I should be working but I'm enjoying my new desk set up: new desk area, new plant, new chair, new calculator, new clippy thingy

now I just have to get the computer dude in to fix my computer and move it up here with me ~ I want my big screen and the bells and whistles that I have on that system.

Thanks Tribs -- it was really a perfect day for being outside. I'm glad I took the 1/2 hour and enjoyed it!

LOL - you know I know that situation far too well Just keep telling yourself, at least he's here, at least he's here

I just LOVE the new desk area. Very nice! Hutch was at least giving me warning earlier today, now they are silent. Kind of like those little wisp air fresheners that go off every half hour or so. LOL

Nice Boom

Tribs...I'm with Boom...be glad he's there! (Have any febreeze or a dryer sheet you can rub on your clothes to give you something pleasant to smell?)

It's not Thursday but...

Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly. They lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once and for all that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.

Ha! That was cute. I'm becoming immune to the smell but the cats are not liking this at all. LOL

I've got Fabreeze in my car and stashed all around the house

We have the Rabbit air filters and he keeps setting them off. Peeeewwwwww!

Tara, just don't call Elan (sp) that Tiger called. She may come back out and beat his a$$ with a 3 iron again.

Tara, you have more post it notes than what is left for me every morning by Kathi.

I have no voice!

Jim - I'm a very busy executive - but only in temporary bursts LOL!!

Me thinks you still do Ms. Donna - I see it clear as print.

You will always have a voice with BT, Donna! You are our voice of reason!!!

Ruth -

Here is Edith

Here is a cake -



- it's only one or the other - again proving you cant have cake and Edith too....

snoort!!!!!

15 mins to TIME for me

I'm signing off now --- I'll see ya'll tomorrow
Sleep well
xox

I like cake

Who want's to play doctor?

I had to use a stethoscope at work today
It even has earphones! We use it to listen to motors for baring noise. I did not, however, stay at a Holiday Inn Express!

KIV, want to see some of my instruments?

Sorry, can't show you on BT.

LOL......my job is ever so interesting
Bearing pullers, bearing heaters, rotors, vibration analyzers, laser alignment tools......
I could write a book or make a movie!

Ok, time for me to go over to ArubaTakk, I might be able st sell a few ski lift tickets up MT. Aruba to the boat people?

Click, and wish me luck

Who? What? Where? When? Why? WHATEVER! LOL

Handcuffs!!

Goodnight!
(I miss Bill!)

Carl...lmao!!!

It got busy here at work for a bit and I wasn't even in lurk mode...

911..... I'm trapped in my car, I just hit a tree!

"Your call is very important to us, please stay on the line and enjoy our music."

Donna, what?

Jerry, that was YOU? I'm so sorry we had to give you the elevator music! We were tied up with a raccoon on a roof