Just cold and sunny today. Could do my floors or dust... nah. I order garden seeds for hubby the other day, so maybe I'll start perusing my tomato seeds for this spring. I grow my own and will start them about the 2nd week in March. I start my pepper seeds in February because some of those take at least 2 or 3 weeks to just germinate.

The Farmer's Almanac says we are supposed to have a long cold spring.

Just hot black coffee for me this morning. Hagatha, I really think you need to get one of these Ember cups! As useless as I thought it was, I really like it!

Okay. You talked me into it! I got a rose-gold coloured 14 ounce cup.

Something tells me you will love it, hagatha! As ridiculous as the whole concept is - I can just get up off my lazy butt and put my cup in the microwave for 30 seconds! - I have grown to love my coffee being the perfect temp all morning!

I can see it being perfect for my Chai. The cappuccinos go down far too fast for this to be helpful, but a nice, big cup of spicy Chai; now that can be savoured.

Exactly. My first cup of coffee goes down fast, but I like to linger and savour my second cup. The app suggested different temps for different teas... don't know if it's correct, but I'm following it!!

Good Morning Draclvr, Hagatha, Taintedfury, Connie, soot and everyone. My first cup of coffee is cold by the time I finish...that cup warmer sounds interesting Draclvr. Brought some fresh bagels and danish just in case Connie isn't back from her trip. Coffee, tea, and hot chocolate are ready.

Hope you all have a great weekend and stay warm!

Gerry

Good morning Gerry, Drac, Hagatha, TaintedFury, Connie on the road and anyone else who gets the chance to pop in today.

Gerry, I'll have double dark coffee and danish as Connie won't be back till tomorrow. You definitely have to get a coffee warmer, works great with either coffee or tea if you like to take your time finishing the cup. We have the old fashioned kind you plug in and set your cup on...a little cup 'hot plate.' That Ember Cup looks really neat!

Happy Saturday y'all.

I will have to check it out soot.

Good morning everyone. I've got a box of assorted Panera Bread bagels 🥯, dark roast Sumatra coffee, Scottish Breakfast Tea and bottled Fiji water in the Break Room. Safe travels home Connie.

Have a wonderful Sunday!

sorry i was in the er and they find blood in stool, been going to many doctor appts. even have a blood doctor. feeling and doing a little better, put me on ensure plus and vitamns and add new meds.

So glad to see you back family and that you are starting to feel better! Glad we didn't have to send the posse out to find you! We were all very worried about you!

Ana

family is back! We have been starting to get worried about you when we didn't hear from you for such a long time. Yes, I'm glad we didn't have send out a search party!

So glad you are starting to feel a little better.

Hi family! I'm glad you're feeling better. We were worried.

It's very cold here this morning. Willow and I are sitting in front of the fire. Dude is outside on the balcony braving the cold. I woke up very early so I think I'll just have a pottering around sort of day.

Hey Ho Family, so good to see you back, we missed you ... happy to hear you are feeling better!

I am very glad to see you here, family. We were really getting worried about you. I hope you will continue to feel better.

We've got a mother and a young Humpback out front. I wonder why they're here right now? They should be down south.

family …. Good to see you here and hope all goes well for you

hagatha …. Could bad weather further South have sent the humpbacks your way

Good morning everyone!

Good to see you back family! I hope you continue to feel better!

I guess we got a couple of inches of snow here. Hard to tell from my window.

I'm not sure. Something kept them here overwinter -- perhaps the young one wasn't strong enough to travel? Who knows? Anyway, there's bound to be lots of food for them here, so I'm sure they're okay.

"Bad weather" further South would be a good estimate for the whales as the Pacific has been rolling in waves of storms to our West coast these past weeks ... and I imagine warmer waters has had an effect too.

My Ember mug has arrived. I'll be giving it a test tomorrow morning.

I will be curious to hear what you think of it! Just don't forget that it will always be hot! I've gotten up to wrangle cats or something and come back 10 minutes later and forgotten!

Good Morning everyone. Welcome back family...glad to hear you are feeling better. Coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready to go with Connie's goodies.

Have a Happy Monday!

Gerry

Good morning, Danish, Donuts and Bagels in the Break Room. Family, I'm happy to see you back, and that you are feeling better. We had a Wonderful time at Mid-Winter. We learned a lot, and made many new friends from all over. Joint meeting at the Eagles tonight, we will share what we learned at the conference.

Ice, ice, baby! We got lots of freezing rain and sleet yesterday and last night and the roads are treacherous. Cars in the ditch everywhere - everyone I know is safe. My son and his wife both work from home and my DIL finally made it in to her job with UPS about 1 am. She said she's not leaving until the roads are better!

Me? I'm not going anywhere except out to the barn to chisel the ice off the barn door latch! It's a battle to keep unfrozen water for my 17 year old barn cat in the hayloft. We have a bucket with a heater in it downstairs, but it's getting harder for her to get up and down. I go out twice a day and swap out the frozen water for fresh water.