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I visit a certain website to make photo books and it doesn't work properly on Chrome. When using Edge it works fine. Also happens when I price cruises on Princess's website. Edge will tell me the prices and Chrome says they are not available. Using my Dell laptop.

Big thanks to everyone who commented on little Elliott Rose. You are all so kind! Hugs to everyone.❤️

Project complete. No mail until tomorrow though due to the holiday.

Good morning friends! It was 48F when we left home for a neighborhood walk at 6:20. We returned a little after 7 am and it was still dark. As we approached our house we saw two deer crossing our street and disappearing into the back yard and down the slope to the golf course. You could tell the second one was a fawn by its exuberance in just crossing a street. Where do the youngest of all species get their energy? Thank you Rich @richwmnfor posting the Daily and Fleet Report especially while on a cruise. Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to all of you. A salute to Indigenous people, Columbus, and metrics. I'm not great at metrics but I get by. The menu suggestion of Tahdig looks unusual. Thanks to Tina @0106for doing that research for us. Sharon @Sharon in AZthank you for the nice photos taken while leaving port yesterday. Good luck Graham @grapau27at your doctor visit. Yes, we can pretty much agree that arthritis is rampant among us. Jacqui @kazunice to hear everyone had a good time at the holiday dinner yesterday. I hope the car can be driven to the dealer for repairs tomorrow. Is the noise on the same side? If the opposite perhaps they should have replaced the ball joints there as well last time. I know it's inconvenient for you to be without a car so fingers crossed they will get right on it. Thanks Roy @rafinmdfor updating the lists for today and mentioning our newest angel Elliott Rose.😇 Prayers said for all on the Care list, my neighbor Linda, various friends and family in need, and to the people of Ukraine who are the target of shelling in their neighborhoods and playgrounds. God bless them all. 🙏 Hoping power is back soon for all in SW Florida and the work is progressing there to clear spaces to rebuild. Cheers to everyone cruising or getting ready to, as well as any other celebrations.🥂 Here is a link to Rich's post on Sept. 30, 2021 when we last had Hilo, Hawaii as port of the day. I was busy having neighbor Brenda over for coffee (and peach tea) that day so I really didn't post much that morning. Everyone else had nice photos of their time spent in Hilo though. I might have some photos of the walk to the market we made there once. We've been to Volcanoes National Park like most everyone else. Great pictures Lenda of Hilo. Hope you all have a great Monday. Will post a final photo of my mailbox rejuvenation later when we bolt it back on the post.

Thanks Vanessa! Annie, thanks for your good wishes towards Elliott Rose. She has no idea she has a lot of admirers already. Thanks Terry! Happy to share a baby picture with everyone. We all love our Daily baby Camilla's photos, don't we? Thanks for the backstory on the name Elliott in your family. Very interesting! That's a lot of Elliotts! Also maybe you can get those shutters treated this fall since you're staying in Texas longer than usual. Cooler, dry weather will be perfect. Thanks a lot, Graham! She really is, isn't she? Grandma Lisa says she's a very good baby. Not biased or anything you know? Love your emoji! Is that the name of moving memes? Anyway, thank you for your kind words. Thanks Joy! Good luck to your niece! It's hard to be patient isn't it? Sorry to hear your part time work entails so many hours! Lordy! By the way that is an adorable meme. If that's not the name of a moving meme please someone let me know what they are called. I'm not too old to learn something new! If you use it on your Subi let us know how it works. I saw a review where someone had a plastic kayak that was all faded and used it to make it look like new. Thanks Sharon! I know everyone here loves a baby picture (right Camilla??)

Thanks Ann @cat shepardand Gerry @ger_77 I have a picture! Just precious!

I'm happy to announce my niece Lisa is now a Grandma! Her DS and DDIL lost their twin sons last year on June 4 due to premature birth. The baby was born yesterday and her name is Elliott Rose, and from what Grandma said absolutely beautiful. She will be called Ellie and her middle name is in honor of her two brothers who died in the month of June. The flower for June is Rose so voila! A beautiful middle name.🌹 Prayers answered!🙏

Vanessa, the cheapest place to purchase it is on Amazon. They have various price ranges but I just went with the cheapest, $14.99. Six wipes in a package individually wrapped. You need to use it in a well ventilated place. I only used two today so can use it elsewhere if needed. I have another bistro set on the deck, plus I guess I could do the grill. It's 11 years old. See if this link works. It's the green package. In 2018 I purchased it and instead of 6 wipes they had a 2 oz. bottle of it and one wipe. But the liquid will eventually dry up, so I'm not sure which way is better. Maybe the six wipes. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=rustoleum+recolor+wipes&crid=33JRA7ZG7IQ2D&sprefix=rustoleum+recolor+wipes%2Caps%2C101&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

I clicked on the box to read your comments and wanted to let you know I hope things will improve more and more everyday. Unfortunately it will take a long time to rebuild all the destroyed buildings. We will keep you all in our prayers.🙏

So what word did you use there? BUSY? I noticed in the reviews that many people use them on their shutters and they say it makes a huge difference. Anything metal, plastic, vinyl can be updated quickly. After I used two infused wipes on the post, bird box and mailbox I used up all the moisture on the two used wipes by freshening up the plastic hose storage box sitting next to the outdoor spigot. That was harder to do because the lid has a pebble finish in the vinyl. But it definitely looks refreshed. It's amazing stuff! Sorry you don't have any digital photos of your time spent in St. Kitts! Continue to enjoy your stay in Barbados, and have a good nap! And that sentiment goes for me, too! Prayers for him and the surgeon.🙏 Thanks Graham! I can't wait to see the box reinstalled tomorrow with the fresh numbers applied. Here's a sneak peak at the finished post and birdbox. Before: The numbers on the opposite side are completely faded. These actually look decent. After: I'll take photos tomorrow once the mailbox is installed on top of the birdbox. I just noticed the bermuda grass is fading to tan already. It will be completely dormant and tan in color all winter long here.

Thank you @Overhead Fredand @ottahand7for your photos of your visits to St. Kitts and Nevis. 😎🌴

How cool! And of course we had no idea we'd "know" each other many years later, my friend. Well, darn my next two posts are shoved up together and I can't get them to separate! So let me just say it's so great seeing everyone together on the Nieuw Statendam. Have a fun trip, and thanks for the photo. Please send more along the way. Gerry, I love pumpkin pie! I wish you and I could get together and split a whole pumpkin pie. I know it wouldn't be too difficult for me to eat half a pumpkin pie - maybe a day and a half! Anyway have a fun day with family!❤️ UPDATE. I've finished wiping the new finish on the mail box post, newspaper box (which they call a bird box here because often birds try to build nests in them), and the mailbox itself. This evening I will put new numbers on it when it's good and dry. It's looking great so far!!

Good morning friends! It's pretty cold here this morning 42F but it will be a mild 72 and sunny today. I have a task to do today and need to get at it. Since we have no mail delivery tomorrow for Columbus Day, we removed our mailbox last night and put it in the garage. This morning I'm going to "rejuvenate" it, and also the metal post and newspaper box on the post. Instead of paint I'm using Rustoleum ReColor wipes which bring back the shine without all the work of painting. I used it once on my metal bistro table and 2 chairs which reside on my front porch. Worked wonderfully! In addition to refinishing the mailbox I need to replace the house numbers on it so have those ready too. I'll need to keep the garage door open for fresh air, and it requires 24 hours without rain or dampness to cure. The box will be replaced on the post tomorrow all fresh and new (I hope). I took before pictures and I hope the after photos look nice when finished. Thank you Rich @richwmnfor the Daily and thanks Roy @rafinmdfor the Care and Celebration lists. A salute to fire prevention, Leif Erikson, and curious events. Hope nothing curious happens here today! Not sure I'd like the Manti, drink or chianti. Hope everyone is having a wonderful time on their cruises. We want photos! Prayers for all on the Care list, the people of Ukraine especially those grieving the 17 people killed last night when their apartment buildings were shelled. Despicable! Jacqui @kazuhaving a group of woman get together to celebrate Thanksgiving together is a wonderful idea! I hope you all have a great get together and enjoy each other's company at your celebration. Dixie @summer slopeI hope you begin to feel better soon. Those shots affect everyone differently. Graham @grapau27thanks for posting Father David's sermon and the photo of your lovely church. Enjoy your Sunday! Today's port is Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis. Here is a link to the first (and only other) time we had Basseterre as port of the day. We have been to St. Kitts only once in 2006 on Crown Princess. We took our adult daughter with us as a way for her to get away from it all. LOL! We did some shopping and bought her a Tanzanite ring for her Christmas gift. It looked to be a beautiful island with mountains. We had a blast on that cruise with our daughter. Lovely memories.💕

What a wonderful story about the Texas linemen! I loved reading about them. Thanks so much for sharing that with us.❤️ Thanks for all the great photos and commentary on your Vladivostok visit. Your description of the security guard woman in the store brings to mind our Alla tour guide in St. Petersburg. The scowl, the heavy tie shoes and wool hose describe Marina to a T! We thought she might be KGB! On the other hand while in Vladivostok we saw a very good looking woman or two making their ways to work in the downpour. The men in our group sure enjoyed the view!😠 That is a very sad story about your nephew and his buddy finding those poor deceased people. It's so nice that there were thousands of volunteer linemen there to help out with the huge volume of work after the hurricane. I thank them all from the bottom of my heart! Can't imagine any tourist would feel safe in Russia these days. Hope you enjoy Busan.🚢 How nice the weather cleared up for you. I'm glad to hear the jets in the plunge pool have been helping your pain. Hope things continue in this direction!

Bon Voyage!! Have a wonderful time!🙂

Bon Voyage!! Have a wonderful time.🙂

Good morning friends! It's 10 degrees warmer than yesterday morning, 58F. Our expected high will be lower than yesterday, however at only 76 but sunny. Not a lot on my agenda today although I would like to finish making the 2023 wall calendar I started a day or two ago. I was having problems with one section of embellishments not showing up on my computer. So I called Shutterfly and the representative could see that section on his computer when he signed into my account. He said he would send a report to engineering (?). After the phone call I decided to try Edge instead of my usual Chrome and there were the missing embellishments, right there! So some setting is off for Chrome and next time I'll know better and use Edge. I may even make the long delayed photo book now from our Island Princess cruise this past summer. Thanks to both Rich @richwmn and Roy @rafinmdfor your contributions today. You are both doing an outstanding job even though traveling (Rich), and a late night out (Roy). We appreciate you both! I saulte American touch tag and music today. Also motorcycles. DH has had two, an off road one and a nice street bike. In addition to that my first boyfriend had a Harley and that was a lot of fun. We are long past those days though. Thank you Tina @0106for the wonderful looking caprese chicken dishes. I would definitely eat that! Today's quote is a deep thinking one. Have no idea what that wine is so I'll say no to that and the drink. Happy Thanksgiving weekend to our Canadian people! 🦃 Prayers were said before I even got on the treadmill today. I hope all our Dailyites will be doing better soon, as well as the family and friends listed. Add to that Ukraine, wildfire sufferers, and especially hurricane victims. Today's port is Vladivostok, Russia which was shown here on Aug. 9, 2021. I was there one time. Here's the link to that day's Daily for your convenience in retrieving photos. Vladivostok was a stop on our Diamond Princess 2010 Bangkok to Alaska cruise. I have had ports from that cruise come up several times this week. Let me start by saying it was a completely miserable day in Vladivostok on May 5, 2010. The rain was coming down heavily and the winds were whipping it sideways at times. Nevertheless we decided we HAD to get off here since it would be a totally different experience from St. Petersburg over on the opposite side of the country. We would come back drenched but had plenty of days before we had to pack up our wet shoes and disembark the ship. We planned on heading towards the railway station and then up that main road to see what the downtown area looked like. No tours were planned here - we wanted to stick close to the ship. On this cruise we had several couples we were traveling with so we all stayed together. This was parked nearby. Inside the train station. Our photos were horrible back then. IPhones have improved my photo taking ability a lot. A sunny day would have made a big difference in our visit there. Everything was so bleak! The ancient looking public transportation. The weather was so wild, you couldn't even use an umbrella. We decided we'd all better get indoors to do some shopping. At least it would be dry. So we found a mall. A view out the window at the mall, looking back towards our ship. At the entrance to the famou GUM department store we saw lots of souvenirs. Two of our friends shopping for something to take home with them. Most of this department store consisted of stalls, selling things like dusty electronics on the same shelves as the beauty supplies. It was rather dismal except for this souvenir section. It was very surprising. Back to the ship! This guy pointed the way. That evening we had some local entertainment come on board. The theater was jammed with people, even lining the walls, standing room only. A scary thought nowadays! I very much doubt I'll ever get back to Vladivostok again but if we do it had better be sunny or at least not raining cats and dogs!😉

Jim, I know you are sick of camping out, and I am feeling sympathy at your plight. I do hope it's very soon that the power will come back on. All I can compare to your troubles is the time we had no power for 5 days after huge thunderstorms. The house was fine except we had no air conditioning and the refrigerator had to be emptied of all the spoiled food. We slept in the basement where it was cooler, but had a hard time finding restaurants with power to eat at. It really felt like camping out! Ann, go up to the top of the page and click on your little notification bell. Then at the top right click on notification settings. From there you can set your account to not send emails to you anymore. They quit after I did that. Glad to hear Pat finally got a negative test result. He sounds like my DH who was positive for 10 days. However, Pat seemed to be longer than that. Was he? Also sad news about your cousin with breathing troubles and ALS. I hope she is kept comfortable to the very end. Prayers for her and the family. Good to hear you are feeling a little better now. I agree with you about Patrick!

Relax and enjoy!!

Beautiful photo of your summer cabin! Cool photos of Dawson, Lenda. And interesting photos from your time in and around Dawson, Roy. How ironic your colleagues and their wives were in town with you that day. It's a small world. I've been busy this morning and for that reason forgot it was Friday and needed to get my knee exercises done. I do them twice a day M-W-F, so now I will have to go through it twice in one afternoon. I'll try to put as much time as possible between sessions though. It takes about 30 minutes to do them correctly, and I've been trying to exercise the left leg as well as the achy right leg. Didn't want to get lopsided by only exercising the right knee.😂 What I'm working on is a 2023 wall calendar which we like to write down our appointments, etc. on as well as a visual reminder of birthdays and anniversaries of our family and friends. I make them on Shutterfly and the process isn't as difficult as making a book. The calendar process is much the same as it was last year. However making a photo book has me so frustrated that I haven't gone back to work on it. I'll get around to it someday. I was also working on cleaning the shower drain. Remove the cover, make sure there's not any hair clogging it (it was clear!), then scrub the cover and the top part of the drain pipe. After that I put baking soda and vinegar in there several times to freshen the remainder of the drain pipe. That's enough time spent on house work. Too bad it's too early for happy hour! That would be a nice reward for that nasty job.🥂

I'm sorry you woke up early but glad you got some more sleep afterwards. We're just glad to see a Daily each day. Hope the rain doesn't last and you have a good visit with friends. Thank you once again for all you do!

Good morning friends! Happy Friday! It's about 48F and sunny, with an expected high of 83 later. The weather has been outstanding for weeks which means soon we'll be in a drought. After all that rain we had. It's crazy! Thanks Rich @richwmnfor posting our Daily so early today. Hope you're having a good time. Well, I have a day off from posting photos since I've never been to Dawson, Yukon. It is also a first time port of the day so it will be interesting to see any photos you might have. Thanks in advance! Baldness is fine on men but please no, not for me! Many of us walked to school back in the day but it doesn't happen often anymore unless you live down the street from one. Love smiles on people -- frowns not so much. I like that quote. I had no idea what daing was but when I saw marinated or salted sun dried fish I was out. No thank you! Thanks to Roy @rafinmdfor keeping up with the lists which are extensive, or at least the Celebration list is. Prayers for our Care list plus the citizens of Ukraine and all suffering after Ian and Fiona. I hope the looters I hear about on the news get what's coming to them. Haven't people suffered enough? Cheers and bon voyage to all the cruisers. The numbers are getting low here! The rest of us will have to step up and carry on till they return. Jacqui @kazuthanks for the great memes. Good luck getting all the work done and thank goodness you have help coming in. Terri @Cruzin Terrienjoy this somewhat sunny day after all that rain. Insurance companies aways try to delay and avoid paying out unfortunately. When our neighbor down the street had a house fire (total loss) it took months to get the insurance straightened out and permits obtained. Then the contractor worked as quickly as possible. But I think it took a year or maybe 15 months to complete. I'm sure you will enjoy the final results at your home. By the way, the homeowner was a retired insurance executive/agent! I'm sue he was fully insured. Well, have to go see what DH is up to. Enjoy your day all!

What a terrible shame! Shutting down the chocolate factory??? The world needs MORE chocolate! Devastating news...😉

I'm back from my afternoon hair appointment. I prefer mornings but she had to reschedule me due to her son's new school scheduling fall break next week, unbeknownst to her. Vanessa, I hope you can figure out what's causing your stomach upset. And whoa! Timing belt and tires at the same time. That's a real bummer! Hope tomorrow is a better day.🤞 I realized I gave the wrong date for our engagement. It was in 1969 not 1968. And we did marry in September 1969 so 8 months later as I said. I started getting emails yesterday too, and that had stopped a long time ago. I'll probably go back and check what I have selected and change that. Interesting how we were cruising together on the same cruise. I'm sure I've probably been on cruises with quite a few of you. I know Lenda and I were on the same Ruby Princess South America cruise in 2015. Good times! Terri, I'm so sorry about all the rain! I hope the forecast just sounds worse than it will really be and you get some sunshine once in a while. I hope the muscle pain eases up too so you can get some sleep tonight. Take care!

Thank you Graham. I appreciate my friends taking that photo and sending it to us. Happy engagement anniversary today to you and Pauline! I know our anniversary of our engagement was on Jan. 10, 1968, 8 months before our wedding. Unfortunately my DM passed away on that same date in 2012. That's all I can think about on that date now. 😢 Thanks for your comments Terry. I hope everyone there is feeling tip top now, and Tana starting to have more of an appetite. Take care!! Thank you so much Lenda. I'm praying all will go well at the birth, and my goddaughter niece will finally be a grandma! I can't imagine how awful a wildfire in my area would be. I hope you're right about that fire being extinguished by a surprise snow. Enjoy your cruise! Lenda @Quartzsite Cruiser thanks for posting some photos of Shanghai. I'm very glad the air quality has improved over the years.