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[tic chick]

hey everyone !

well, i haven't been able to post with bt's probs yesterday and today.

pati, i'm so sorry about your mom , but i think you kind of knew that she's been having memory probs for years. i know it doesn't make it any easier, though.

i'll be posting some pics of my lilac bush, prolly tomorrow. the lilac that i moved from under the tree has so many blooms. i am so happy it survived and is thriving! the blooms smell so lovely, i just stand there with my nose in them and inhale...lilac high .

sly, don't feel bad about your tooth. molars in the back are the grinding teeth and the hardest to get to while brushing. i used to grind my teeth before i got a biteguard. my molar had a root canal in it and it broke last month. i had it pulled also. yes, infections do affect your whole body! certain people with heart probs have to take antibiotics even when they get their teeth cleaned, so they don't get any bacteria in their system that could affect their heart. take care of yourself!

dawn, i'm glad you went back to your lady's group! good for you ! i know how hard it is having to make yourself do stuff when you don't feel like it. i think doing stuff that makes us happy helps us get through the rough times. we can't change what is happening to us, but we can change our attitude about it .

well, we had 2 nights of freeze warnings on monday and tuesday. yesterday it jumped up to 83 degrees and the same today. it's been a great spring...good rains and then lots of sun! i guess it's all relative joy, if it's dry in your area, the rain is good. if rivers are overflowing, then it's not so good.

glad to see all of you!

thank you for sharing and caring ,
jeannie

[sly4626]

Pati - lol to "have I mentioned my new memory foam mattress? I love it..." Does it really remember? I mean does it stay the same way as you left it or return back to where you were laying when you first started sleeping? Just wondering... Always wondered what that meant lol!

Hope the mattress DOES work for you - back issues suck!! So sorry about your mom. :(

Jeannie - It feels so weird not having a tooth there... I mean it's like my cheek caved in on it anyway and doesn't even miss the tooth? Know what I mean? I didn't realize just how much a bad tooth can do to your body. Once I started talking about it all these people are like "oh yeah that can really not be a good thing"

Just stopping in for a minute to see what's up. There are what, 7 teenagers at my house? They are in the basement shooting Nerf darts at each other haha. I LOVE it when they come here and are LOUD! My boy only has two more years of high school left. I cherish these days when he chooses to let me in on some of his fun. The girls keep coming upstairs and telling on the boys to me hahaha! Goodnight all.

Love,
Sly

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[tic chick]

hey everyone !

well, some pics and a mystery bush.

these are my big, regular lilacs. i think they are overgrown. if you look closely, you can see nick under them .
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this is my french lilac. the blooms are more pinkish-purple and have a heavy lilac fragrance. i am not going to trim this bush much for a while because it has been in the shade too long and i want to see how much it will grow.there is a close up pic of the blooms, too.
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this is a bird i saw in my yard saturday morning. i always open the shade in the morning and nora and i look outside and talk about what kind of day it's going to be and if we can play fetch that day. i saw this lime-green bird with black and white feathers. i have never seen a bird like this in my yard! i found out it was a black-throated green warbler. they hang around in ohio mostly, so i don't think michigan was too far for it to fly as we are right above ohio.
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and this is my mystery bush, its about 5 ft. tall and 5 ft. wide. it gets light pink buds in the spring. the buds are together in 2's all over the bush. they open and turn white. the flowers are tiny, kind of star shaped. i think the bush might get red berries in the late summer/fall. i have a close up pic of the flowers on the bush.
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thanks for any help with the mystery bush.

thank you for sharing and caring ,
jeannie

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They got legal pot here i think

[Buttons2]

oh boy! finally got my new glasses yesterday & am amazed how much better I can see. bifocal part isn't working well yest so hard for me to read now. Sly, I first got some memory foam throw rugs & loved them. I sleep on a twin bed & don't think I move much.

I can now see the little horns my favorite deer has!so baby is actually a small studely-is that a word?

also went to foot doc yesterday & liked her. kinda pricey to get nails trimmed but I now have happy feet! she made a comment about getting old is not for sissies! told her my arthritic fingers just cannot use clippers anymore, she uses clippers & was amazed I don't have neuropathy. I'd never had that kind of nerve test before.

sure hope this comes out ok since I cannot see what I'm typing.

Jeannie, will try to guess on your mystery bush later. thanks for sharing the pics with us. bird is pretty. far as I know birds go where they want.

Grandcat moved here over the weekend. so far everyone gets along. Sissy isn't very pleased of course. Missy is also a killer cat bigger & younger than Sissy. Now Freckles is outnumbered!

rainy & cold here this week. got petunias planted in all 4 hangars. different purples. housemate planted some veggies & we put the fences back up. had a 'possum in the yard first I've seen of a live one!

sun is finally out so going outside to soak up some!

[dawnmn]

Yay for Pati!!!! Getting all fixed up.

We had our first wedding disaster. The place that we were going to have the reception was sold and the new owners are closing the place down for remodelling. Pretty much told us too bad. So we are scrambling to find a new place. Only 61 days to go.

I have been running around looking at places. Have three to which to decide from. Lucky for us they had that Saturday opened.

The dress that I ordered is too small and because I didn't return it in 10 days I'm stuck with the dress. But I found a new dress yesterday. I'll just take the dress to a consignment place to try and sell it. At least I might get something for it.

We've been having rain for about a week now. Today and Friday are supposed to be sunny. Then it's going to rain for the long weekend.

[tic chick]

hey all !

gee dawn! i think they should have told you their facility was for sale! i hope one of the other places works out.

pati! it's great how well you see with your new glasses! you've written more than you have in a while and i'm sorry you were having such problems seeing . i think studly is a good word ...but then that's just me.

my daughter who lives a 30 minute drive from me (the youngest) adopted a cat today from a shelter in the city she lives. so i guess i have a grandcat, too . i know she is light grey and a year old.

i have some more pics. my irises are once again outdoing themselves! they are tall and have up to 5 flowers on each stalk. my rose is getting some buds. my peony is going to bloom soon also.

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those 2 bluish purple little flowers are salvia and i put some pink carnations my daughter got me for mother's day in front of them. the dark purple leaves in front of the rosebush are coralbells and the green stalks in front of that are orange day lilies that my neighbor gave me. i just put them there temporarily. if you look closely, you can see the alliums coming up in front of the irises on the right side of the pic.

i am going to get bids for my patio soon because i have to plan the rest of the garden around that. i want to be able to get flowers at the end of the season when they are cheap and put them in a good place.

well, i vacuumed some rugs today and i cleaned my fabric chair seats in my dining room. i will wash the walls tomorrow. i am going through each room and giving it a cleaning.

so i am tired and nick wants to go out...again.

julia, i hope you are on the mend!

thank you for sharing and caring ,
jeannie

[joy]

your flowers are so pretty jeannie and thanks for sharing pictures with us. seems like a lot of folks took a vaation cause numbers posting seen low. our annivesary is this Sunday. It was not a holiday way back when we married but things changed so people could have a long holiday weekend. so if you do travel, be very careful and return back here to us. pati i am glad your glases are helpiong. I hate it when I can't see very well so know it makes a b ig difference for you as well.

[Buttons2]

Bridge collaspe has us all over the news! Wow we go on that bridge all the time. Scary fer sure!hard to beolieve nobody got hurt. traffic around here will be awful. something must change with my glasses cause right now I've taken thm off. can't read the newspaper even. not about to pay nearly $500 for something I can only half see with.


went to vet yesterday & first thing she said was Missy is a mister! son is upset of course,I'm Ok cause my cat if a female & this explains why they don't fight which is good.I call him Mister.

[tic chick]

hey everyone !

where are ya'll?

just asking...it's been so quiet here. don't tell me everyone got on julia and pati's bus and went on vacation without me ?

i am digging up the edges of my lawn so that i can have clear soil to put the staples in that will hold down the black plastic that will hopefully kill my crap-grass. i woke up this morning with a pain running up the front of my right leg...gee, the same leg i used to dig the shovel into the dirt! mystery solved .

it is warm and humid here yesterday and today! we had good thunderstorms for 2 days before that and more are coming tonght and tomorrow. then a cold front on saturday night will knock down temps to about 68 in the day. right now its about 85 with 70% humidity. even my normally well-behaved hair is frizzing out. time for a coconut oil deep condition treatment!

pati, i hope you're adjusting to the reading part of your glasses or seeing if something is wrong with them! julia, i hope you are feeling fit as a fiddle! everyone else...keep cool if it's hot and humid where you are. come to the computer and post here !

thank you for sharing and caring,
jeannie

[dawnmn]

Sure is quiet. Did everyone drop off the face of the earth.....

We found a new place for the reception. YAY! The event person is really nice and she seems like she will help us through the process. We finally got our deposit from the last place. We called them everyday for two weeks. Hopefully, the check won't bounce.

Pati, reminded me of our bridge that fell. We lost several people during that.

Jeannie, your landscaping looks wonderful. Nice job!!!

[Jo6]

Dawn, I'm. Just. Clinging by my toe. Nails. Glad you found another place for reception.

Jeannie, I thought a simple gall bladder removal would be a whiz and goo home the same day. Well,not so for this old woman. Complication s and then some.had to be transported to bigger hospital, more surgery , and will have to go. Back Jon two weeks to get things patched back up

I will be back soon unless I kill nurse Ratchet first. Love you all bunches and hope you are all as well as can be.

s. Julia

[joy]

been so busy doing whatever. some of time has been taken up with grandkids, yay - I love when that happens (if they are not sick is the reason). not that this time. so glad that they both are out of school. grandson did pass so now he is a big 3rd grader.

grandaughter tried out for a dance team and made it and has had to go to learning and practice time for dance and now also for basketball camp. She is keeping everyone busy with her rodeo and other acticities. aw to be young and have some energy, lol. no bird stories to tell since he wrens hatched out in garage and the bluebirds left the gourd where they had their home. I left the gourd up to see if there would be another family hatch out. I have never seen a red bird's nest and would love to as we have several beauties that hang around. and so far i have not put up hummingbird feeders. maybe i will get that done soon.

hope everyone is doing okay.

[dawnmn]

Joy and Julia, soooo good to hear from you both. Now if we could hear from Pati ,Chris and sly that would be great. I worry when people don't check in at least once a week. :(

My fern peony are starting to bloom. They are so pretty but like the other peonies they fall apart when it rains which is going to happen today and the rest of the week.

It just doesn't feel like summer here yet. It's been cold and rainy so far this year. Not many nice days. Hopefully, this changes pretty soon.

We hired a DJ for the wedding. We weren't going to because of how late the wedding and dinner is. The wedding doesn't start until 7:00 p.m. I just hope people don't leave before the dancing starts. I'll be in trouble if they do because I was the one who pushed to have one.