New great niece. Born in London, Eng. this morning. Eden Rose. Of course she's beautiful. My baby sister is now a grandmother!!!
She's already booked a flight for a month from now, I think! (lives in DC.)
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New great niece. Born in London, Eng. this morning. Eden Rose. Of course she's beautiful. My baby sister is now a grandmother!!!
She's already booked a flight for a month from now, I think! (lives in DC.)
what great news! It is lovely to have a new baby human to celebrate.Quote:
Originally Posted by nswef
Wonderful! Congrats to all, nswef.
Awww, congrats on the new kidlet in the family!
Thanks everyone. We are all so excited. I remember when my sister was born, I was 10 and to see her 3 children all grown up and one a parent now!!! Just amazing!
Congrats, nswef! I love the name! May you have many years of joy with her!
It is a really pretty name and very London--Carnaby Street and Twiggy cool.
we're hoping Eden Rose has an English accent of some kind....mother is from Georgia and dad Washington DC...
If she goes to preschool/daycare there, there's a good chance she'll at least have some kind of hybrid accent! In my DH's Scottish immigrant family, he never went to preschool, but his brother did. My husband has a Scottish accent--acquired through only having interacted with other Scots in his formative years--but my BIL does not. The accent for my husband has been a blessing and a curse--people love the accent, but then they think he's faking it when they learn that he has lived here pretty much all his life. I can vouch that he is not faking it, although he does have a propensity to lay it on a little thick at times. And as he gets older, he seems to channel his mother's broad Glaswegian speech patterns a lot more.Quote:
Originally Posted by nswef
How interesting Catherine. I know my husband's Maryland (southern) accent increases when we go to North Carolina to visit his Mom's side of his family. She had a pretty strong southern accents and lived in MD for 50 of 75 years.
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Originally Posted by catherine
i think I would love your husband!
Haha! You wouldn't be the first... but I have a feeling he'd love you, too!Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Went to 2 local farmers’ markets here in the RGV and totally surprised at the wonderful organic produce. Was able to sample local fruits I have never had and see the local mushrooms in the area. I bought local honey and kombucha. There are 2 more markets I can check out! DH said he enjoyed going too! Supposedly more vegetables will be available in a few weeks.
I love it here! There is so much to do and people are friendly. I feel I have found finally my forever home!
That is so wonderful--you worked hard to get there, congratulations!
That is such a great feeling!! I'm so happy for you!Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
That's wonder, frugal-one!!
That’s lovely to hear!Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
I’m happy to report I’m about halfway through my Christmas cards. I keep them low effort. They’re diving photo cards so I don’t have to write anything on the card. I use a return address stamp. I do handwrite recipients’ addresses. I tried labels last year and it was more of a hassle than hand writing them. I have maybe 20 international cards. Those take about a month at most, so they will go out 11/15. The rest will go out right after Thanksgiving.
Kudos for being so pro-active!! I was just thinking about whether I was going to send any holiday cards out this year or not. Jury is still out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tradd
My annual extravaganza of writing notes and processing 300 to 500 Christmas cards for Bulldog Rescue may be at at an end.
I told our organizer I was ready to start on Christmas cards and she said she’s been working on them since May and may not need my help this year, so yay!
I order my cards from Walmart in early October after I have good diving photos. They appear at my door in about a week.
This effort has turned into a nice little partnership:
There is a cat colony, near my house, a colony of feral cats. Someone has made a nice cat house for them out of plywood and tarps. The other day I saw a woman servicing the cat house with food and water, so I stopped and talk to her. I told her I was going to drop off some money for her for cat food.
as it turns out, she has low income being recently on disability for an injured back. She lives with her mother, who’s on Social Security. They have a nice brick house that probably doesn’t cost a whole lot to maintain and Hermann but money is tight. So I dropped off some cash to her, and we talked further, and she needed more plywood.
So DH worked with her to get plywood.
I told her I’m really glad she’s taken care of this cat colony of about six or seven cats, that originally started out to be 15. She took over caring for them when their original caretaker went into a nursing home. I told her I do not want the responsibility of a cat colony, so I’m very, very happy that she’s doing that and we can contribute monetarily towards that effort.
How nice! Sounds like a perfect partnership!Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Sounds like that is going to work out. You have cash (and plywood) and she does the work.
I get a ridiculous amount of pleasure by watching Instagram videos of cats carrying things in their mouths, usually dragging the things.
Yes, the cat videos are quite amusing.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Our cats have a big toy basket and one spends a lot of time digging to find just the right toy. Right now there are at least 5 on the stairs and 3 in the middle of the living room.
Only one of our cats plays with toys, the girl cat. We keep her toys under the breakfast table, behind chairs, so that our brat of a dog doesn’t steal her toys and chew them up. He is afraid of the chair legs and won’t go into a space like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetana3
His giant bulldog jaws destroys her toys in 2 seconds if he ever gets to them.
Lately she has been bringing her mouse toy, which she completely IGNORED for months, upstairs each night. I look for it and bring it down, putting it safely away, each morning.
When we first got our now elderly Siamese cat, he would drag a piece of string around the house and howl. Then he would try to hump it even though he had been neutered. A string?
Went to the final farmers market of the season here in my town and actually got there early enough to buy some produce! The farmer, knowing it was the last market day, pulled and cleaned ALL his carrots to bring to market and they were gorgeous! I bought two bunches and two of the cutest little baby cabbages! They looked like giant Brussels sprouts. One for each of us, DH and I.
It's been such a gorgeous day with the cold air, blue sky, and the golden leaves falling.
Finally getting to the point where can start working outside. Have deadheaded a number of rose bushes and they are blooming profusely now in a variety of colors. There is also Texas or Mexican petunias that bloom continuously with no care and attract hummingbirds. I watered them only 2 times this summer even with the parade of 100 degree days! I know little about roses and how to care for them here in the south. Since the are well established, I will research and try to keep them going.
that sounds beautiful, frugal-one. Something you might want to plant is rosemary; ours in South Carolina has huge, like a hedge, just regular old rosemary.
You are so lucky to have established plantings! I'm sure they will give you joy for years to come!
A rave for camping! Just got back from a weekend camping with a group of friends and some family. No tents - we actually stayed in simple cabins (no electric or water - just a wooded cabin-like little building.) Very grateful it was no-tents as it started to rain in the early morning hours. LOL. Anyway, it was fun and relaxing and just what I needed. Yay for getting away and enjoying nature!
Thanks for the suggestion. I will check it out!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
happystuff … sounds like a wonderful time!
Frugal - If you really get into gardening, I can send you all sorts of plants that did well for me in TX. Yellow bells for one.
Thanks pinkytoe. I am not much into gardening these days except for plants that do well with neglect. The Texan petunias meet that definition. The only other plants in that bed are roses. So it should not take too much care (I hope). I will look up yellow bells.
I find feeding my roses is helpful. I use Espoma Rose-tone.
I’ll give it a try. I see it an organic fertilizer and available locally. Thank you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
This is sorta stupid, but made me happy. I had to fill out a volunteer form for the WI Historical Society for the volunteer work I do as an editor/proof reader. It will get me free entry into all their sites, which is neat. I had to sign it and there were a few boxes that had to be checked that did not allow me to X the box. I was going to print it out, but then I remembered I now have a Logitech Crayon, less expensive version of Apple Pencil, and so I was able to sign the form and check the boxes without printing it out. Danged handy!