DAILY THREAD # 202🐾🤘🐕🐢🦎🐞🦋🌺

Buena, your very talented to crochet a shawl. I just adore them, my grandmother has made many fancy things for me.She crocheted bedspreads, baby blankets for my boys and shawls and blankets. It’s a art to know all the stitches and yarns that make so many different and lovely masterpieces.
I leave my Xmas tree up all year too! It’s to hard to take down its a 9 ft tree. My shoulders are toast. The lights at night is always a nice surprise some lights are dancing others are blinking. LED lights are so much safer and cheaper.

Trina your hybrid tea rose sounds lovely. I would love to grow them. Here in my climate they get black spot all sorts of diseases from too much rain. I grow shrub roses so much easier and tons of bloomin roses. And I am so jealous you have hostas. I just luv them, yet the deer have eaten all of mine and I can’t afford to replace them every year. So plants that are deer resistant have replaced them. But I sure miss all those gorgeous hostas.

The snow has melted today from the rains. The ground is so soggy that the water puddles everywhere it so saturated water just floats above the grasses. Soon I’ll have a pond in the hollow areas and the dogs mud up to their cute lil elbows. Grass is so squishy and splashes when walked on. Very strange.... never experienced the water ponding everywhere like this before.

The tree peonies are budding as well as the witch hazels yellow blooms are flowering , and pink flowers on some early blooming winter shrubs. I covered the pond so the fish are doing ok. The pond plants not so great. I have lost a few plants in this cold weather. Very unusual for our climate.

I’m just happy we didn’t have any power outages knock on wood... there were so many trees down in Portland and Salem so many areas with no power.

Stay warm healthy and happy...hugs...🤗

Oh... Trina did you get the mail from me? Sent you something a few days ago...

Joyce...she is so missed!

We got another 8.5 inches of snow dumped on us when they were forecasting 4-6. Reminds me of the old joke...What do a snowstorm and a new boyfriend have in common? Don't know how many inches you'll get or how long it will last! Hope that's not too 'off color'...edit it out if it is, please.

My white amaryllis is about to bloom! My bright pink cyclamen is blooming, too! I have 2 canna in pots inside (the rest are in their storage closet) and there are new spikes coming up out of the soil. I haven't been able to bring in the other pots to start the stored plants...they're full of snow! Hoping I can get them done soon!

Buena, I've tried growing succulents in my house but only manage to get about one year and then they just shrivel up on me.

Buena, owie!! Hope you're feeling better quickly! I got knocked down by my daughter's dog (he's mine now) at the dog park and ended up with a grade 5 separation of the shoulder! Good thing we were there together...I'd not have been able to get us home or to the hospital otherwise.

I know how you feel about the visual appeal of a fire without the hassle of the smoke or mess. I got an electric fireplace but I mostly run it just for the look, not the heat. So glad they give the option!

Great news as the hospitals here have reported no patients in intensive care. That’s a really good sign no new infections. Soon I will be eligible for covid vaccine injections held at a drive in football stadium.

Yikes I finally broke down and colored my hair. I am really getting grey. It was amazing to see the difference it really does help with self image and feel better. Now if I could peal off 25 pounds. Setting my sights on change the foods I eat and planting lettuce seeds soon. Fresh lettuce has more flavor and crunch than store bought. It will be planted in a raised bed because it’s to hard to bend down or get on the ground almost need a crane to get me up again. Joints are a pain and I have had some replaced it’s better movement but some things are always difficult if not impossible.

My husband needs the second covid vaccine rescheduled. The snow/ice storm has slowed down distribution. The weather is back to normal temps but many are still without power from the storm.

The in side amaryllis is blooming and so beautiful. A bright red with a thin line of white outlining all the frilly flower petals. This is the fourth stem it’s grown since November. Highly unusual for them to be sending up 4 stalks that hold blooms. It has another small bulb forming on the side with small green leaves. Once it’s done blooming I will continue to water until next fall then pull it out of the soil to dry and rest . Then next November plant in pots it should bloom again. I hope. I have never had any luck getting amaryllis to bloom a second season. The only amaryllis that blooms season after season is the Belladonna amaryllis and they are planted out in the garden.

Took a quick look/see at the garden and did not see any damage to the plants from the ice and snow yet.

My Border collie “ Roxie” still pushing on her buttons on the floor to get recordings ...one says ‘cookie ball’... the other says ‘run, run, run’. Now I have to hide them from her or she will push cookie ball button over and over to get cookies in her cookie ball. And day time want to go out and run over and over... 😉
Going to record another button for her soon.
That’s it for now... stay positive....miss my son very much...
Take care stay happy , healthy and out of trouble!😊😷

Eh, I have HGD dysplasia (did I spell that right?) in my esophagus and was supposed to have an ablation today (spots burned off), but COVID pushed that back for me 3 weeks. I'm worried I'm going to die. At the same time, maybe it's best that way? I imagine it won't be sudden as I'd like.

Where does the time go? I work and go home. Before I know it, it's time to come back. I don't even have any kids. How does anyone with kids have any time for themselves? 24 hours isn't enough time in the day.

Thanks for the post. Beats starting my own, I think.

Strength 2 all. HT.

1039smooth

Covid has us all on edge.
I cant tell how many times a week I have to sit and tell myself what reality is.

It will be ok!

Hello all. Well, we got the car, daughter and friend put in the power steering pump. Discovered it has no heat! She drove it home anyway. Took it to the shop yesterday and they said it would be under $200 to fix. I hope she got it done last night. The stabilizer bar is 'missing', so that will get done quickly, too. At least I have 'roadside assistance' on my insurance, which she will be on till she gets a few paychecks and can get her own coverage.

In this whole mess, she got pulled over while driving MY truck and was told by the officer that MY registration expired...last year! Just one more reason to hate the chaos of covid. They had shut down just about everything here and gave extensions on renewals...and I simply forgot! Had to make an appointment to transfer the title and register the 'new' car AND renew my registration (double, it exp in Feb). I had to travel to a MVC office an hour away because they've split everything up now and only certain things can be done at certain offices. What a mess!!

Lisa's Mom is on second round of chemo and still tolerating it well, so that's a good sign. We still only get to see each other for a few hours on Saturdays when one of her sisters comes to be with Mom and she can get out for a few hours. Travel is an hour each way, so that leaves us about 4 hours a week. Still no light at the end of the tunnel, but we're making the best of it. She cries about half of the time and complains about her sisters the other half...and I'm grateful she feels safe here in order to decompress a bit without worrying about upsetting Mom. I reassure her that she's not letting me down. We're both glad I'm not 'high maintenance'!

Rain this weekend. The Autumn Joy sedums are putting out new 'little cabbages' of new growth, I've spotted some new growth from the crocuses, too! Plenty of buds on the dwarf peach tree. My white amaryllis has bloomed and I'm looking forward to the other buds opening on the other plants. My cyclamen has some new blossoms, too!

Hope everyone has a peaceful 24 hours.

Chapter 1,000,000 in the never ending saga: on Thursday when I got home my kitten was missing. He must have slipped out the door when my son was coming or going. I finally found him outside under the porch. He was limping a little but I couldn't find any blood or stickers in his paw. Friday morning his paw had swollen to twice it's size and he wouldn't bear weight on it. I had to work, so I took him to the animal ER in the evening. I was afraid it was infected and I had just lost one pet to sepsis and I didn't want to lose another. Turns out he broke all 5 metacarpals in his little front paw!! No idea how that happened. Now he has a splint that looks like a club and is starting to slip off already. He needs to see the orthopedist and will probably have to have the fractures pinned. Although how you do that will such tiny little bones, I don't know. I am going to spend the afternoon looking for pet insurance for Della, my new dog. If I don't have it, who knows what might happen to her!

Otherwise, just typical mountain winter weather. A dusting of snow this morning, sunny now and no wind (yay!). I love hearing about everyone's flowers. Maybe I'll get something that blooms indoors and see if I can keep it alive. It would be a nice spot of color.

Trina, I had actually told Lisa I could shop on my own on Sunday, so we could just stay home and 'veg'. She got upset! Said she needs to do 'normal' things...which includes our weekly shopping trip...so that's what we do! I do make sure I've already taken out the trash and recycling (a chore she normally does here) and the litter boxes are already scooped before she gets here. She didn't cry this time. Not sure if that's good or bad. She's losing weight, which isn't 'all bad', but I'm concerned that if it keeps going, it will be a problem. When we first started dating, she was 'skin and bones' from the grief of losing her fiance to a blood infection. She wouldn't even let me fix her a bagel this week.

Here is a 21 warm fuzzies for everyone.
The saying is "something about babies and puppies, make everybody smile"
So here you go!
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Hello all. My daughter has not given me details but, still no heat in the car.

Did a little more clean up out in the garden, till my hands got too cold again. Cut the New England False Grape off the azalea so it will hopefully bloom nicely in May. Cut old vines off of one of my trellises and moved it to a new location. Cut down some old growth to make room for new shoots on another plant (pretty sure it's the bee balm, hard to tell this time of year). I figure, if I do a little each morning, by the time it's warm out I'll be done while everyone else is just getting started!

Indoors, the blooming continues! I've spotted new buds on the white cyclamen. My 'mystery' amaryllis is blooming...it's not Naranja...I think it's Apple Blossom! Waiting for the petals to be fully opened, so I can ask my fb amaryllis group for confirmed identification. My Rex begonia has also offered up a few more little pink blooms!

Not a lot. Actually, I went for a mammogram Monday and got a call today that I need to go back for more tests. I guess something wasn't right. Just hoping it isn't the big C. It does run in my family.

Baking a chicken today. Temps warming up outside which is great.

Have a wonderful day Smooth. I hope the gum passes okay.

Hugs, Karen...