Time for a shiny new thread just in time for the holidays! I'm starting this one out with congratulations to oldbroad and Connie for becoming Graduate Boomers! Woohoo! We are all very thankful you are here!

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 HERE, and we can continue where we left off!

Happy chatting!

Well, contratulations to oldbroad and Connie!

Oh wow. Congratulations on reaching the next level!

We're expecting another storm front tonight. I gave out some heated hummingbird feeders to neighbours today because the hard freeze continues and the poor little things are having an awful time. I'm sire we've lost some.

We're all snugged up around the fire watching Mad Men and eating Christmas cookies in lieu of dinner. The cats still don't quite sit together, but they're closer and closer all the time. The fireplace is a huge draw for them. It's awfully sweet.

Congrats Connie! I'm catching up to you quickly!

Our winter storm is supposed to start tomorrow morning and go to Saturday morning. We will see what it brings. I turned my heat up one more degree today.

Goodmorning Everyone

Congrats to oldbroad and connie

Kaki's Sister thanking you kingly Crossing fingers your power doesn't go out.....take care

connie will do, thanks very much...appreciated


Happy Gaming & Merry Christmas Boomers

Good Morning and Welcome to the refurbished Break Room thanks to Ana!

Looks like lots of stormy weather for most of us in the US today thru Saturday! Hope everyone stays safe. More very hefty, dark, brew coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready.

Congrats to you Connie and Oldbroad for reaching Graduate Boomer status! Taintedfury thinking of you...I know how hard it is at the holidays when memories of loved ones are in our thoughts.

A good day for gaming here. Enjoy your day!

Gerry

Good morning, Danish, Donuts and Bagels in the Break Room. Thanks everyone for the Congratulations. Congratulations oldbroad, you will catch up in no time. Our cold front moves in tomorrow. Plants pulled in to the greenhouse, and plastic put up on it. We don't have heat in the greenhouse because we rarely get a freeze.

Connie, depending on the size of your greenhouse, a 5-gallon bucket of very hot water with help immensely.

It's starting here - temps have dropped 11 degrees in 2 hours and the wind is picking up!

Well, I'm ready for whatever is coming! Cancelled my sleep test for tonight. Told the scheduler that I've lived in Chicagoland area long enough to know to not take any chances. She told me a lot of people rescheduling due to weather and travel plans. Funny thing is, that test has been moved to 2 days before my colonoscopy. When it rains it pours! Laughed about it with the scheduler who said her mother said these were supposed to be our 'golden' years.

Congrats to old broad and Connie on their achievement! Be a while before I get there

BTW, recent saw a movie (name?) where a character was texting using only emoticons. It looked really weird.

Most definitely Gerry, I'll have a very hefty, dark, brew coffee with a cinnamon crunch bagel from Connie.

I hope you don't lose power either Gerry.

Congratulations OldBroad and Connie as Graduate Boomers!

Hey Ho TaintedFury and G'Day ... it's great to see you!

Oh my yes Marian, I am going to enjoy this time off.

Stay warm Drac!

You are one special person Hagatha to keep the little ones fed using heated feeders.

Hello ButterFlyBabe, I think you made a wise decision...stay warm.

Thanks for Break Room #8 Ana, my nephew would say 8 is a composite number, with divisors of 1, 2, and 4, and, it's twice 4 or four times 2. And, as a power of two, being 2 to the 3rd power (or two cubed) it's the first number of the form p to the 3rd power, p being an integer greater than 1...oh, he's a math major.

Have a wonderful Thursday everyone!

Big Congrats. connie and oldbroad !!

Graduation Day is something to be savoured 🤓🤓🤓

Good, late morning everybody. Thanks for all the congrats!

Our weather is running late but I do see a few scattered flurries starting to fall. Like Kaki's sister, I worry more about losing electricity (heat is gas but won't work without the electricity).

Have a great day all!

Congratulations to oldbroad and to Connie!

Last February we had to have our overhead garage door fixed, something with the cables. Last week it broke again due to something my brother did and they fixed it two days ago. Just now, the kid across the alley hit the door with his car and my brother says it will not open and will need to be replaced. All I can say is, thankfully he came over and owned up to it so hopefully he or his insurance will be paying for it. Meanwhile though, the car is stuck in the garage and this is not the time of year for my brother to have to be out walking everyday. Waiting to find out how long this will take and what all will be involved.

Love the new break room. Stay warm and safe everyone.

Not good news about your garage door, oldbroad. Your Brother will have to be super careful ….

So I hope it’s swiftly seen to 🤞🤞

Oh, no! DEFINITELY not a good time to be on foot! I just walked out to the barn and it was just painful to be out there. -2°F with winds in the 30 - 50 mph range yet. If the wind would just die down, it would be more tolerable. Hope this gets fixed quickly, oldbroad. Not a good weekend for it to happen either.

Somehow my brother seems to have fallen under some bad karma or something. Last month he was rear-ended while sitting at a stop light, he said pretty hard, but thankfully no damage. Around that same time, a light bulb in his lamp burned out and while he was waiting for it to cool down or while he was trying to change it (I'm not sure exactly because his story telling sometimes confuses me) it started on fire. Fortunately, he was able to unplug the lamp and carry it to the sink. Weird!

Good Morning everyone! Hope you all are weathering the storm and keeping warm and safe. So far we have power, but the lights keep flickering...wind has increased and howling constantly. Another day for a double dark brew...tea and hot chocolate too.

Gaming and puzzling on for today...staying home.

Have a cozy Friday!

Gerry

Good morning, Danish, Donuts and Bagels in the Break Room. Some last minute shopping this morning, mostly grocery items. So not good about your garage door oldbroad. Drac the greenhouse is about 12x20 feet. The wind chill will be in the 20's here, .

Oh my yes, it is time for lots of Double Down Dark Roast coffee today with danish and bagels to boot! Thank you Gerry and Connie. Gerry, I hope your power holds out. The wind chill here in Alabama was a minus 4 this morning Connie. I didn't think the thermometers went that low
Have a great day everyone

Very cold here, too. My heat pump is having trouble keeping up, so I have the in-floor heating going and the fireplace on.

The weather here isn't fit for man or beast but I have to head out to the grocery store for last minute things. baking is all done, only made three things this year: empire cookies & thumb print cookies & lemon squares. Merry Christmas to everyone here & Happy New Year. Be careful out there, what I hear on the news the road are terrible here in Canada as well as the US.

Drinking coffee now but later I move to the hot chocolate.

Happy Friday everyone!

judith, we're having a major winter here on the East Coast of Vancouver Island. Nobody here knows how to drive in snow. I stocked up on everything and plan to stay at home.