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@CrabbyPattiI am so sorry for you and your family in the loss of your dear Father. Sending prayers for you. I am sure he was so grateful for your care of him in his own home.

Good morning everyone. I am thinking of you Jacqui @kazu as you prepare for Hurricane Lee, I hope it is a false alarm but your preparations look good so far. @mamaofami Prayers for Sam this morning. I have to run this morning. I have a hair appointment at 10 and have to drop off our no longer needed AT&T wifi modem first. Then nails, then Walmart. I am really glad I did not sign up for the YouTube NFL season. Last night we couldn't watch John's favorite team, the Vikings, because the Amazon Prime signal was so poor. I am afraid so many people are using the mini Starlink dishes that there isn't enough bandwith for a decent signal. I guess we will go to the casino to watch the Ravens on Sunday. Did anyone else try to watch that game on Prime and have any steaming issues? Have a great Friday! Nancy

Bon Voyage @Cruising-along

Thanks for the daily and fleet reports @richwmn. I wish I could still eat a CF Donut but the sugar really doesn't agree with me. We had a mini crab fest 2 days ago and probably will have crab cakes again on Sunday. I appreciate quiet so it should have its' own day. A great quote by Walt Whitman, Pass on the eggplant dish, pass on the sweet drink but the Elk Cove Pinot Gris looks like a winner. Thanks to @summer slope, @dfish and @cat shepard. We have never been to Tortola and look forward to photos of today's port. Prayers for Lou, Murphy, Sam and everyone else needing them. Prayers for all the people of Ukraine, Maui, Morocco and Libya. Prayers that Lee does not cause any destruction. I have a Zoom call this morning. First time in probably 18 months. It is about our state garden council's scholarships. I have volunteered to deal with NMU and Lake Superior State speaking with their registrars about the parameters for the scholarships. The person in charge of this process is a true procrastinator and I had hoped to have this project done in May. Here we are backed up so I am doing it at a very busy time trying to get our property back in shape after being gone for 3.5 months. Have a great Thursday! Nancy

Good morning everyone! Bon voyage to @Heartgrove, @Mr. Boston and @Lady Hudson! 🍾

Good morning everyone. Thanks for the daily and fleet report @richwmn. We love peanuts here but to enjoy decent Chinese is a good 10 miles away so not many fortune cookies to enjoy. Sometimes I am superstitious usually when at the casino. Strange quote by Disreali. Shrimp tacos are wonderful, pass on the Zombie and would try the sparkling wine but usually South African wines are not my favorites. Thanks for the photos of Invergordon. Prayers for Terrie and Lou and the rest of their family. Prayers for baby Murphy and her family. Continued prayers for Maui and Ukraine, now with the addition of catastrophes in Morocco and Libya. Prayers for everyone needing them, I have a day of weeding. One member of my garden club is coming to pot the bareroot irises and daylilies. there are about 5 other plants that critically need to be moved to bigger pots too, I can handle the rest on the weekend. Have a lovely day. Nancy

@dobiemom All I can say is Wow! We have had fishing mishaps but mostly the finger variety though John had one impaled deeply in his shin a few years ago.

@cruzn single thanks for sharing your family's 9/11 story. I am so sorry your DH lost his life by helping the first responders and the other personnel working on the pile. I agree it needs to be taught as a long course for our school students as is the story of the Holocaust. Every 9/11 anniversary marks a really dark day for your family as it is for all of us. Thanks again for sharing your personal story.

Good morning everyone. I will try to stay caught up later today. Thanks for the lovely photos of Marrakesh today. I have to unload all the plants out of the truck, then get cleaned up after that and then dentist, Post Office, pharmacy, Tractor Supply and Walmart for some curly parsley for the crab cakes I am making for dinner. A big surprise was two cans of Costco pasteurized crab meat when I opened the garage refrigerator. A perfect change of pace for dinner. Have a lovely day! Nancy

@smitty34877 prayers for everything to get set up soon for Lou. Prayers for you, Lou, Tana and the rest of your family at this time.

We had laundry available on the Volendam in February. We had extremely high river conditions so it probably was not too muddy to treat or very plentiful to purchase ashore. We would have definitely remembered if the casino was closed on the Amazon, it wasn't except in port. You will enjoy that wonderful destination.

We are home finally. All our cold and frozen food stayed fine after the 24 delay. Thanks for all the beautiful photos today from not only the Falklands but other beautiful places. The penguin photos make us really sad we missed Stanley so we will have to try to make it again. Thanks for all the reminisces of 9/11.

Thanks for that video Debbie, it was beautiful.

Good morning, late for me. Sad day of remembrance for all of us. We still aren't home. Something electronic caused our brakes to fail in a huge traffic jam waiting to get onto the Mackinaw bridge. We limped over thankfully for lower speeds and it opened to 2 lanes on the bridge. No rest stop open so we went slow in the right lane until we hoped to get to a rest area. One closed rest area then the next was close to a city so John got us to a hotel by the highway by crawling, downshifting and the tiny bit of brake. We had it towed and spent the night. We just heard it was repaired and we are waiting for a courtesy pickup. Good news no charge. Back to normal, fingers crossed, for tomorrow.

@sailingdutchy, @bennybear, @Sharon in AZ thank you for the lovely photos of Livorno and beyond.

Thanks @Quartzsite Cruiser, @StLouisCruisers, @Nickelpennyand @Overhead Fred thank you for the lovely photos of Livorno and environs. @smitty34877 Terrie prayers for Lou, you and your family. A difficult time, you are going through so much. @rafinmd Roy I hope you get over your COVID soon and it doesn't linger. We are shutting down the Starlink in a couple of hours. I got a lot done and actually had time to mix a #5 brand rum from Grenada and diet Pepsi and relaxing watching Colorado beat Nebraska. We will roll around 8am tomorrow. My sister gave us bad news Direct TV is not carrying our local NBC affiliate so no Sunday Night Football for us when we get home. I don't know what we will do about that. I definitely don't want to go to a tavern at that hour to watch football. First world problem for sure. Have a lovely Sunday. Nancy

@marshhawk and Chuck, Happy Anniversary! 🍾 @grapau27 goodness it is hot in England too!

Good morning. I like Teddy bears, prefer my brain teasers with words so it's Scrabble. Plenty of weirdos are around. A good quote. I look forward to photos of Liverno. Pass on the meal, the cocktail sounds sweet, I usually don't care for Prosecco instead prefer a dry Spanish Cava. Prayers for all on our Care list. I will wait for Vanessa's compilation. Too tired last evening to look at the Daily. Prayers for Lou, baby Murphy, the earthquake victims in Morocco and the people of Ukraine. We got a lot accomplished yesterday, we finally got sunlight at 11am. Wrapping up raking and loading plants this afternoon. Have a wonderful Saturday. Nancy

@smitty34877 prayers for Lou and for strength for you. 🙏

Good morning. An interesting group of days and a thought provoking quote. Time has quickly passed since Queen Elizabeth II a year ago. Thanks for our Daily Reports @richwmn. I will pass on the salmon and the hot toddy but an Oregon Pinot noir sounds like a good one. I have not been to Norway. Prayers for Baby Murphy and her parents who are going through so much. Prayers that Lou gets out of the hospital soon. Prayers for all on our Care list, the citizens of Maui and the people of Ukraine. Yesterday I got nothing done outside other than cooking a nice beef roast on the grill. I got a lot more organizing and storing done inside. Two very busy days ahead. Have a nice Friday. Nancy Not the last Daylily yesterday but a beautiful one.

Good morning everyone. An interesting group of days again. I am afraid we will have more rain today. I like Grandma Moses' paintings , we usually have a lot of salami but we are out because we are leaving soon. A good quote and happy independence day to Brazil. We have been to St. Maarten one time on the Nieuw Statendam in February 2022. We didn't do a tour because of laying low due to just coming out of the COVID catastrophe. I think we return in the winter on the Eurodam. Pass on the salad, the cocktail looks really tasty and I like the Stump Jump a lot, a good value wine. Prayers for all on our Care list especially Baby Murphy and her family and @smitty34877 and her DH Lou. Prayers for Maui and Ukraine. I had planned for a day of raking but it is cool, wet and windy. I guess it will be more inside work. At least stuff is cut back so it will be easier to just rake it rather than cutting back and raking in the spring. Right now it is 49. I am cooking a medium sized rib roast on the Big Green Egg today. At least with the weather I will have time to pull a nice dinner tonight. My sister is coming over. Have a nice Thursday. We are excited because the NFL season kicks off tonight. Have a lovely day. Nancy

@marshhawk saddened to hear of your DBILs stroke. I pray he can recover from it. 🙏

@RMLincoln Bon Voyage! 🍾🛳️ @Crazy For Cats thanks for the update on your DM. I hope she continues to improve. Enjoy your cruise. Good morning everyone. Thanks for the Daily reports @richwmn. I give to charity yearly at the end of the year as needed for other appeals. The only thing I can be late for is finishing cooking dinner today. I hope our boat guy is not late today. We are pulling it out of the lake and he is shrink wrapping it. We are also getting our rolling dock out of the lake for season. In lieu of the pizza we will have a salad of tomatoes with Mozzarella. A very good quote by Gandhi. No pizza for us pass on the bitter cocktail and the wine. Looking forward to photos of Trieste. Thanks @JazzyVfor keeping our cares list updated. Continued prayers for Baby Murphy and her family that are going through very tough times, @marshhawk prayers for your husband as he battles cancer, @smitty34877 prayers for your DH. Prayers for everyone needing them and the people of Ukraine and Maui. Vanessa you mentioned yesterday about my workload. It is this way at the end of our season here every year. I could start all the cleanup earlier but we are cutting blooming plants right now and I hate to take them down so early. I leave a lot, more so this year because there is so much insect activity on them. The Monarchs remained here as of yesterday. As I was hand cutting back Daylilies yesterday in the 90 degree heat it made it easier to think about our upcoming long voyage on the Eurodam next January. It will be here before we know it. Have a nice day everyone. Nancy

Thanks everyone for the photos of Sitka, a place to stop when we take an Alaska cruise. I try to use good manners all the time. I used to have a newspaper carrier but he quit and the replacements never delivered my paper. I went to digital but their billing practices are nuts so now it is the NYT for me. Pass on chicken patties, the cocktail but today's chardonnay looks good. Thanks to @dfish, @summer slope and @cat shepard for researching these for us. Prayers for all on our Care list. Prayers for the citizens of Maui and the people of Ukraine. @Lady Hudson I pray Jalen Alexander will do just fine and be released tomorrow. We went fishing for the final time yesterday. I caught a walleye and a small perch. My family didn't have much luck either but they fish into the evening and were treated to the Northern lights. More cut back of my plants today and I'll rake some cut last week. I stowed all my potting mix and pots. I am bringing a load of plant sale 2024 plants and my DS will bring a load too. I am going to divide a bunch of iris and Daylilies, label them and take them home bare root to save space. Happy Labor Day! Nancy

The ones that are here in my garden will catch a wind and head south over Wisconsin. When we drive home next Sunday we may see a lot of them that all gather on the Garden Peninsula on Lake Michigan to wait for a favorable southerly wind to push them across the lake. They are still busily feeding here this afternoon.