Come one, come all, share your daily thoughts, conversational chit-chat, maybe a joke or two and all the little things that really don't need its own thread.

There are plenty of seats available, so don't be shy and come chat!

View the previous thread Herehere and we can start where we left off!

Good morning, I hope today smiles on you all despite storms and covid-19 surges.

I still relish in particular one of soot's posts on the previous thread, lending itself to misinterpretation (in my warped mind) to create a new GB personality



... and I wonder how Drac (aka the human dynamo) even has time to post, let alone so interestingly!

Probably too wet and windy here today for the garden, so I may even get repair and redecoration of our conservatory a step closer to completion (after several years of water ingress and other damp problems), but strong coffee, porridge and a hot buttered crumpet first.

Good morning, Danish, Donuts, and Bagels in the Break Room. Dinner and karaoke tonight with friends.

Lex ... well played!!

Sumatra coffee, Scottish Breakfast Tea and bottled Fiji water ... enjoy

Anyone see Mike this morning?

Mike..Mike...MIKE! Guess what day it is??

Good morning everyone! It's been a real crazy ride the last few months. I'm hoping things settle down after the holidays and I will be posting more regularly here. I do read everything and chat with you all in my head.

Have a great day all!

Great. A new Break Room.

A good day to you all.

Lex, you started my day out laughing! I don't know... I rather like the "Mad Hagatha" name!

Going to a memorial service for a very good friend today. He was a local veterinarian and in addition to hunting moose, morel mushrooms, turkeys, was a real conservationist. He was into quail habitat restoration and his farm was recognized as a Quail Habitat Management Area. His fish fries and rabbit cooks were famous! His wife was the food editor at the St. Louis newspaper and she writes many articles. She was good enough friends with Julia Child to have her call one Sunday morning. Her husband will be greatly missed.

Mad Hagatha is probably one of my alter-egos anyway.

It's a positively beautiful day today, with sun pouring in the windows for the first time in ages. We're firmly settled into our winter pace, which is glacially slow. First thing in the morning, which for us is around 8 am, I open the bedroom door to two hungry little faces looking up at me, followed by two hours of madly frisky cats racing around the house while we drink coffee, then brunch, then an afternoon of gaming or soccer, or both (the cats, obviously, do not partake of the latter activities although Willow is a dab hand with a felt ball). It's all very boring and nice.

Boring is good! I always call that the "kitty psycho hour!"

same thing.

We call it the "Nutty Kitty" hour. They are definitely having fun together, no question about it. The SPCA called a couple of days ago to see how he was doing. I'm glad they follow up like that. When we got our Rachel 23 years ago, a woman from the SPCA even showed up at our door, about six months after we got her, to see how she was doing.

Yes, boring is good. We've had quite enough excitement these last couple of years. John is on a three break from chemo just to give hima chance to breathe a bit. Only 5 more sessions and then he gets three months off. The blood clot in his leg seems to have dissolved quickly as the edema is completely gone, so that's some good news.

Very good news on that blood clot!

Good morning, Danish, Donuts and Bagels in the Break Room.

Good morning everyone

I brought a pot of Koffee Kult Dark Roast coffee this morning with Scottish Breakfast tea and bottled Fiji water for the Break Room.

Happy Thump Day

I think I'll join that Koffee Kult this morning.

Cookie baking shopping trip today! Even though my granddaughter is 15, she STILL wants to bake cookies with Grandma this Saturday. Then bowling tonight.

same thing.

Good morning, Danish, Donuts, and Bagels in the Break Room. Karaoke tonight with friends at Hacienda.

Good morning Sumatra coffee ☕ Scottish Breakfast Loose Leaf 🍃 tea and bottled Fiji water 💧 for the Break Room.

Have a wonderful T.G.I.F. day

Whoa! Nasty storm out there today, with driving winds and sideways rain. I had to cut my shopping day in half because at one point I couldn't open my car door against the wind.

college football and chores.

Okay, now the wind sounds as though it's going to tear the roof off. The upstairs bedroom has outside walls on three sides, and it's quite wild-sounding in there. Most of the main coastal ferries were cancelled, too. It's a good nght for Netflix by the fireplace.

Good morning, Danish, Donuts, and Bagels in the Break Room. Dinner and an ugly sweater karaoke tonight. Hagatha be safe, and enjoy the fire and Netflix..

when I put out my dogs at 5 this a.m. it was 47 degrees on my thermometer and 45 minutes later it was 37. Now we have snow and it is cold! but, after looking at the devastation in Kentucky, I guess I will put up with this unpredictable weather. I pray for the people devastated by these terrible tornadoes.

mbday, don't you live in the south somewhere!! It was just awful here last night. We were on the edge of it, but there was at least one tornado on the ground just a few miles from here. An Amazon warehouse was hit just about 50 miles east of here. The pictures of the damage are just unbelievable. So far at least 2 deaths there... there were many people trapped in the debris and search and rescue is still ongoing this morning.

The temps dropped from nearly 70 yesterday to 36 last night. When it is that warm in December, you can count on bad storms.

Today is cookie baking with my 15 year old granddaughter!