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DH was raised for several months after his mother died, by his cousins in Maine, The first time we went up to meet them, they took us for lobster rolls and grapenut pudding. My mom used to make grapenut pudding and i always loved it, so after the lobster I dug into the pudding. The wife said, yup, she's a yankee. They owned a beautiful hotel in Kennebunkport, the Nonamtum, not sure if the family still owns it, as the mom and dad both passed away. Trust me, if it wasn't for being family, we would not have been able to afford the stay. Maine Lobster is best. Lobster is a sea bug. It is best eaten fresh. It is even better when you can smell the salt of the sea, the ocean is cold and a breeze blows through your hair. But during "hard" times, you can spend your days on Isla Mujeres MX and at night the lobsters come out of the water, and walk on the beach. Nobody puts them between the sides of a bun. That said, I like crab legs better.🙀 @sailingdutchy Sorry about the race today. @NickelpennyGot it. I loved all the cartoons and memes today. Donna enjoyed her day, she found the balloons at 6 am, took them inside and let the dog bark at them. We got her several birthday cards, one from her dog, one from us, and one from our cats, that had a cute kitten on the front, and when you opened it, there was the sound of a chorus of kittens meowing Happy Birthday to you. I thought she was going to cry. After lunch, I ran in to Macys to pay a bill, and she ran in to check out the prices for clothes from a designer who designs for short petite people. She didnt like the prices, and after that DH and i took her to the farmers market bakery, and let her order whatever she wanted for dessert. She got German chocolate cake, I got almond marble cake, and DH got a large brownie with walnuts.When we got home, he warmed the brownie up and put a large scoop of coffee choc chip ice cream on it. Donna ate all her cake, DH didnt leave a drop of anything, and I have half a piece of cake in the fridge. No sign of rain, and I really dont want that hurricane anywhere near me. Prayers for all in its path.

Good Sunday Morning Dailyites! Its very toasty and humid outside. I stepped out to feed the "outdoorians" and the blast of heat, very still air, made me feel ill. The sky is clear, but it just doesnt feel right outside. Computer says its 78 degrees. And sunny. Well, it will be sunny once the sun rises above the hill top. @grapau27Thanks you for the Father David message this morning. We ended up tying balloons on to Donna's mail box around 10 last night. DH was sure she would see them when she came out to move her car, but I think she fell asleep and stayed asleep, since the car was still at the end of the drive this morning. I did get a text from her at 6, that thanked us for the surprise. But they are not on the mailbox anymore. Making womp biscuits and sausage for breakfast. If you dont know what womp biscuits are, its the biscuits in a tube, and when you want to bake them, you unwrap the baking instructions and pop the tube open by womping it on the corner of the kitchen counter. (Yankee version of biscuits). I read that in an article in the Atlanta Newspaper years ago, when in the early 80's the city was more Yankee than southern. Well, after 40 plus years, there are 6 different varieties in the store, so I'm thinking it was another Yankee win. @sailingdutchyHard to pinpoint my favorite F1 driver. I own a Perez hat. He had some incredible drives in the past. The last several years, I think the spirit has been broken so that he can still keep the drive, but try not too hard to win. I like Norris, I had a crazy dream about him during Covid, where he drove past me while I was walking a wooded trail, and asked if it was a good track to race....it was a dream, of course I said yes. LOL. I'm actually looking forward to the Ollie Bearman move to F1. We have followed him through F3 and F2, and even named the kitten Ollie after him. It will be nice to see some new faces. I am not a fan of Riccardo, never have been. I've been enjoying the Hulkenburg/Magnesun battles. I like Fernando, hence naming the cat Furnando, but most of all I like a diverse race, close finishes, exciting moments and a good story. Enjoy the race today! another F1 moment ....sorry dailyites! LOL

@sailingdutchy Every time Max wins, I think, sailingdutchy will be happy. He is a fantastic driver, I just dont like him. Let me rephrase that. When Schumacher was winning all the time, the races got boring, when Hamilton was winning all the time, the races got boring, and now year 3 of Max. Last year was boring. Now this year, there is some hope, that other drivers can and will win, so I am hoping that the previous 4 races might be a new beginning. To all other dailyites, I apologize for this brief moment of F1 discussion. The kittens. They bite. I have bites on my hands, my legs, my neck! I am renaming Quiff, 'm thinking Vampiress.

Good Saturday Morning Dailyites! We did not get to any museum yesterday, but I did get DH up so that we could have lunch at my favorite Thai restaurant (his too) we went to Walmart, and bought the 40 can catfood cases, and some inexpensive big cans of no name cat food. We watched some Formula 1, 2 and 3 and last night after dinner, we went out for ice cream. And then I tried to download some of the kitten pictures from their first weigh in, and they would not load, but I did take some yesterday, and they did, so here we go.... Nap time for Jersey (black and white one) and Quiffy. Grumpy Bob on the left, and Ollie and Jersey looking at the birds on the feeder. Temptations feeding time...aka late night snack time- Bob aka currently Grumpy having to share with the kittens, Momma Munchin the black and white, Tigger. Bob eats and growls at the same time. Tazi who will only leave her room to either sleep with us at night, or if she hears Temptations being served, came down and ate her share off the counter, and then saw the butter... We are stumped on why the weigh ins are unloadable, but todays chore for DH is to see if he can post them. My chores are work, go pay a bill, make a sign for neighbor Donnas birthday, and early tomorrow , I will pick up some balloons and tie them to the sign, and put them outside her door. We are taking her out for a birthday lunch. Her choice. Old HIckory house, she loves to order the veggie platter. I would like it if they added BBQ ribs to it. Have a wonderful day!

Good Friday Morning Dailyites! Its cloudy, 74 and very humid. My computer says it's partly sunny, but I think that part must be on the other side of the clouds. The rain yesterday was so needed, And appreciated. But the weather person says it's only a 20-30 % chance of rain for the next several days, just pop ups with lots of water in them, so not so sure how it will affect our reservoirs, which are now running low. I got a notice from my boss -well everyone did, that since the debate was about to start last night, expect lower amount of people answering. Yup, got that text right in the middle of a sale. What was the problem yesterday was that our house started having brown outs every time the air came on. At one point in the middle of a sale, our internet went out , the computer crashed, and I lost phone connection with the patron. Luckily on the computers 5th attempt to reconnect, it worked but I still had no phone connection. So I rescheduled the call for 15 minutes, signed out, went back on, and grabbed the call again. I just looked out the window and fog is beginning to build up at the bottom of the hill. Neat. I was told never to use the caps lock because it was the equivalent of yelling at someone. So unless I REALLY want to have something noticed, I dont use it. I was actually hung up on the International Lightning Safety Day. I didnt think that the lightning should worry about being safe, I was thinking more along the line that we needed an awareness day of the dangers of lightning. My grandfathers job (construction management)moved the family around the US.They were living in Florida, and after a huge hurricane hit in the early 1930s he packed up the family and moved to the Boston area. They lived on Revere Beach. When it stormed when I was growing up, my mom would get very nervous and create a chore in the basement, or clean out a closet. I finally asked her about it, and it turns out that when she was in high school, she and her girlfriend were on the beach, and out of the blue, a storm blew in as they were walking home, and her friend was hit and killed by lightning, right next to her. And after that her Dad moved them inland to Auburndale on Commonwealth. In the early 1940s she was invited to spend a weekend with another family at their house on Rhode Island,, but her mom (Nanna was nuts, but she had the vision) told mom she couldnt go. Mom was very upset. That weekend a hurricane came into Rhode Island, and the entire family was killed by the storm. Mom hated the beach ever since. We belonged to a swim club when we were kids, which was Noe Pond, and once my brother and I were old enough to stay on our own, she never went back. I like the quote, I wish my friend who passed away had read it years ago, might have changed his way of living. I have always tried to remember Nietzsche, what doesn't kill me, makes me stronger. Have a wonderful day!

@Vict0riann I am so glad that all went well today! I hope tonight's sleep is comfortable, the pizza made your tummy happy, and that tomorrow is a wonderful day!

Who ever just sent that rain our way, thank you! A real gully washer for a whole half an hour! it scared the outdoor Collard Greens, and he is now hiding behind a bicycle that is so old and unused that he knows no one will ever go near him. It is thundering in the distance and I am on break! Until 7 tonight. Which is good, as I wont be watching anyone debate, and when I get off, there is plenty to watch on the F1 channel Thing is with the rain, I need apple cider vinegar for my very fancy Spam dinner, and I don't want to go out to get it. So it may be baked salmon again. oooh! more rain, thanks!

Good Thursday Morning Dailyites! Its 78 and cloudy. However the weatherman said that the clouds will not help dissipate any of the heat, we are going back up to 100 today. Slim chance of rain. Last night after we left dinner at the cafeteria, VERY dark clouds were coming in from the west, but any chance of rain evaporated on the west side of Atlanta. The last thing I heard before falling asleep was the sound of 16 little feet running down the hall, and then a crash. DH gigled. Today is a split shift day, working until 10 tonight. DH has a zoom meeting this morning with one of his doctors.This is his time to vent, and I steer clear. But I am off tomorrow, and plan to spend the day investigating one of the museums that we have joined this year. There was a Dutch art exhibit at the High, not sure if it is still there, but I think, since there is seating in the galleries, we will try there for tomorrow. However, DH had a lot of coughing and nose blowing yesterday and if he is sick, we will not go any where. It is a Formula 1 weekend after all. LOL. Off to walk the dog..... The quote, yes and no. Sometimes technology erases spirituality, and I want more spirituality than technology in my life. Several years ago I changed political affiliations, and politics are not spoken in this house. Keeping the peace, so I wont be watching tonight.

I have found out something about my sales. I make the sale on the first call, I will jump through hoops etc. for a patron, because if the patron is happy, they will come back. When someone tells me to call them back after I have gone through the whole sales pitch, the benefits of subscribing, the future of theatre and the arts in general these days, I will never make that sale. No matter how many times I call, so now I only try back 3 times, on the third attempt I will leave my phone number, and put in a call back mode, but if I dont hear from them after call 4 I dump the call "release" as in Release the Krackin, and someone else can talk to them. Sometimes they come back to me and I get them again, but if it's not a yes the second time we talk, it never will be. You have to want the product to buy the product, and life is too short for maybes. @JazzyV Yup.

Another day in paradise....I made the largest sale today, that I have ever made in the 7 years I have worked for this telemarketing firm. I was calling people who had auto renewal, but the client didnt know what card they wanted to be charged on. How about the one in the records? Any way, it was over 8500 dollars, add that to two 1k + and in 5 hours I sold over 11 thousand dollars worth of tickets. Even at 2 percent commission I should be getting over 120 bucks extra. And what happens? My boss called, and i thought he was going to congratulate me, instead he started yelling that I had left notes on the first page of the order, and why was I doing that? Maybe because that order took more than an hour to do? And I forgot? And did I tell the woman we were going to charge her 5 dollars to print these tickets, yes, and she said it was worth every penny not to have to deal with 5 groups of people when we send out e tickets.And the blankety blank hung up on me. That'll teach me. @Nickelpenny There is a nice long book called And Ladies of the club, it got me through my post appendix, when they put in staples and my dog was so happy to see me, she pounced on my belly and took out three of the staples....It should keep you somewhat stationary for a week or two. Its about a group of women who form a sort of book club, it starts at the end of the civil war, and ends when the last of the original members pass on. I loved this book! And I mean loved this book. In fact, I think I will read it after I finish Treasure Island. A classic I never read,until now, but im into N. C Wyeth Illustrations so I got Treasure Island. It's amazing how much "language" in our lives come from that book. @Cruzin TerriI'm hoping for the shot to work! Glad you made it home, and while I know it's hard when its just you, and you always taking care of someone else, but-Get some rest girl!

Good Wednesday Morning Dailyites! Another busy morning, walk the dog, and go out and get what we couldnt get yesterday. But after working 7 hours yesterday, I'm down for 5 today. And off at 5, thats the good news, the bad news is that DH has a zoom training this afternoon that begins at 4, which means he wont be off at 5. It would have been nice to get out this evening, OH well, tomorrow is another long split shift day, and then I am off on Friday! Yay! Its 74 and sunny. I'm sick of sunny, send rain! The front yard is now crispy. Years ago the Hudson river was highly polluted. Someone suggested that for one day a week, that businesses not release anything into the river. The river got clean. One day a week. What would happen to our air quality if the worlds drivers stayed home, one day a week? I try to not drive at least two days a week, it was easier when I knew what was going on, like DH needs his meds immediately, or we've run out of an item that we use every day and we must get more. But what if we all did it? No planes, no cars, no businesses sending fumes up into the air? I wonder what would happen. I just needed to put that out, I doubt if it will ever happen, due the immediate gratification thing. When the Harry Potter books first came out, i paid no attention, and then the county next to ours started banning the books. Now that got my interest. When I was teaching, I could have cared less what the kids were reading, as long as they were reading. So I picked up the first book and read it. In a day, and the next day, I went and bought the second and third book, but had to wait a year for the 4th. I loved them. I loved that through the books, we could in our own minds create the physical characters in our heads. I think Rowland ruined that when after the series was done, she went back and wanted to tell us more about her characters. Even she could not let the story go. I would love the pork chops, and the Arugula can stay in the ground in the garden. Cant stand it. My first canoe trip was down the Delaware River. I was vacationing with a family with 5 kids, and they wanted to do something that the whole family would enjoy, so we got up before dawn one warm late summer morning, all got into the station wagon, and drove to the place where the canoes were. We were headed downstream, as the sun was rising. And I was in the first canoe with the oldest son. The water was glittering with the first light, and straight in front of us, a blue heron rose up from the water, and took flight over us heading upstream. This one moment, was what made me interested in birds. Canoeing? Well I ended up making that trip several more times when I lived in NJ, and have canoed on the Suwanee River in north Florida. That was with the park service, and it was free! But that was before I fell and screwed up both shoulders. So no more paddling for me.

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Ok, I finally saw one of those moments in life, that I will remember forever. It was 97 degrees and hotter than Hades in the sun, I decided I was not going to turn on the oven, so I went to chick fil a to get dinner. I wasn't running the air, a breeze was blowing, I was in the drive thru and was waiting 3 cars back to get to the window for pick up. I hear a tuba. I looked around to see if any one in line had a kid playing a tuba in the car (which would be odd) and then I thought it was a musical weed wacker, who would be playing a tuba outside in this heat? Then I heard two tubas, and then 3, and across the street, coming down the hill were the 3 most disheveled looking teenagers slowly marching down the hill, playing their tubas that shown brightly in the sun. Took on a whole new meaning of take your toys and play outside.

Thank you for all your condolences. It made me rethink a lot about my time with him over the years. When we were young and I mean little we were together most of the time with the neighbor who lived next to him, but across from me. When we moved to France, his mother had them move out of the township and into Mendham NJ, a "classier" place. So we lost touch, but I always heard about him because his mother and my mother thought the two of us should grow up and get married. We were not interested in each other at all. We met back up after college in a young adults group, and the only thing we actually had in common was the love of car racing. And the group would often go up to Lime Rock on memorial days or go to the state fair and watch the Trenton 250 . But that was it. When his wife walked out on him 4 years ago, he called, and we reconnected due to his love of racing and my clear addiction to Formula 1. One weekend, shortly after we both graduated from college his dad gave us tickets to Pocono to watch Nascar. I have fond memories of it, he didnt remember it all. Three days ago Dan told me that he had become less agitated, and the last three days, he was sleeping. And he passed away this morning at 1. On the flip side, how do you buy a sympathy card for a wife, who had taken all the money (it was hers but they lived in a community property state) got in her car, and drove off one day. Without saying one word to him that she was leaving. She had already purchased another house. I know it shouldn't matter, but, I did go out and buy one, and will mail it off tomorrow. In hindsight, I think she deserved an award for staying more than 30 years. I wouldn't have lasted more than 24 hours with someone who never wanted to leave the house, because they were afraid to. Never took a vacation, never went anywhere and was afraid of everyone. I will miss our F1 talks however. @ger_77Why do the stars go on shining? Why do the birds fly above? (or is it the moon shines above?) Dont they know it's the end of the world?..... I'm with you on the music! I loved the Animals, dave Clark 5, Hermans' hermits, and Moody Blues. Adn beach boys. @Cruzin TerriGood luck on the arm tomorrow, glad they got you in. I love my split shift...I went to the Dollar Tree, I paid a couple of bills, and I got to visit with you all here. And shared, thank you. @rafinmdregardless of where you were, that bench is neat! Steel drum! You could sit and bang on the drum all day... I digress.

Good Tuesday Morning Dailyites. I am off dog walking duty today, as Donna is home, and I have a zillion things to do before noon, and at the rate I am going, it may just be the perfect time to go back to sleep. And do all those things later in the day. I wish it was easier to wake Chuck up. I made a rather delicious dinner last night with a beef stir fry with snow peas, onions, orange pepper, and chopped green onions on rice. I took all the leftovers, threw them in a bowl, mixed them up and that will be lunch. I do love French Onion Soup, but mostly for the cheese. During the typing the phone rang, BFF called to let me know that our mutual friend passed away this morning. He said that the passing of our friend, made him remember, you dont live forever, so live! while you can. In the past month before our friend had gone back into the hospital, he had been given the opportunity to do 3 things that he really wanted to do, none of them stressful, and he did not do any of them, for fear that he might not feel good. The phone woke DH up, so now to get those errands done before it gets too hot to do anything. @StLouisCruisersMid morning yesterday it finally Poured! on 75 south, and the storm headed down 75 for quite a while, flooding the highway for a while, so hopefully some of it went to your house.