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So very sorry to hear of your loss. Thoughts and prayers are with you and your family during this difficult time.
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So very sorry to hear about your loss as well. Hugs and prayers your way.
Oh Janice, so sorry for your loss
i'm so sorry for your loss, Janice. My thoughts are with you.
I have a new grandson as of yesterday morning. His name is Hudson.
Wonderful news! Congrats, Cherie!!
Congratulations Cherie. Love his name!
Janice, such sad news. So sorry to read of your mother's passing.
How wonderful for you, Cherie! How many grandchildren now? Great name!
Congrats, Cherie! Loved the name of the little one! :)
Someone shared this in another group and I found it interesting: http://imgur.com/gallery/ldW7B
A couple found $50,000 dollars (in old notes) in a safe when restoring their kitchen floor.
Saran, imagine founding a safe when restoring the floor of your boat!
Roz wrote: "How wonderful for you, Cherie! How many grandchildren now? Great name!"He is boy #4 for my daughter (first child for his father), the 9th grandson and the 13th grandchild. :0)
Congratulations, Cherie, that's wonderful!
Congratulations, Cherie, on the newest addition to your family! I agree with everyone else, love the name Hudson!
Congratulations, Cherie! Welcome to the world, Hudson!
I have to give a lecture next week and it's one I haven't done before. I always feel like I need to practice at least once, so that's what I'll do now, but it takes so loooong. Tomorrow the weather is going to be nice and I hope we can go to a 'blote-voeten-pad', which is a 4-km walking track that you walk on bare feet. It has all kinds of different natural surfaces (sand, grass, mud, clay etc.) to walk on. I've been wanting to do something like that for ages!
Congratz Cherie .. Such a wonderful news .. Love babies <3Its been long weeks for me ! I barely managed to have free time !
My braces just got tightened two days ago, and the pain won't go :(
I never thought I'll say this one day, but I'm tired of eating ice-cream and pudding. I need real food ..
Had a lovely road trip to another country and I found the loveliest Sherlock Holmes book, leather band and golden pages, with all Sherlock's adventures, it was amazing, instead of buying it, I did the stupidest thing ever .. Putting it back !
I want it so badly .. And I doubt that I'll find the same copy down here !!
I need to buy a book soon ..
Woow peggy that place sounds so cool .. I like walking with no shoes so much ..Good luck in your lecture ..
Good luck with your lecture Peggy! The 'blote-voeten-pad' sounds really interesting!
Congrats, Cherie! Peggy, that place sounds amazing. I would love to do that. Have fun!
That walking track sounds like a great idea, Peggy. I hope the weather is good and you enjoy it.
This thread makes me want to sing circle of life from the lion king but I won't
Periwinklegurlforever wrote: "Hello :/"Hello Periwinklegurlforever, and welcome!
Thanks I'm currently at school. I'm trying to calm down cause I'm having a breakdown
Sort about your mom, Janice.Congratulations Cherie! I love the name.
We are going to a high school football game tonight. My 6 year old daughter went to a day camp last weekend where she learned a dance routine from the high school band flagline. Tonight she gets to do it with the band during the game. She is so excited! It should be fun. Have a great weekend everyone.
Peggy, that walking track sounds really nice, I would like to try that sometime. Cherie, congrats on the new grandson.
Welcome Periwinklegurlforever. Hope you're doing okay, and that if you ever need some space from stuff going on, we're always happy to chat about books and what you're reading.Grats on the new grandbaby Cherie!
You'll be fine with the lecture Peggy! Remember that over the nerves ;)
Hope you're teeth calm down soon CFDeeDee. You a fan of soup? Or mashed potatoes or Scrambled eggs? I used to baby food when I had braces for years. Just something non diary (Yoghurt was my main thing, but custard, milk, icecream were also consumed). I liked the apple and blackcurrant gel jars, pretty tasteless but the flavour it had was different, and the texture was different enough it made a huge difference. You could make jelly as well, but I find that too sweet.
Oh yes, I remember getting your braces tightened is no fun! Although I don't think it bothered me for two days. Hope it goes better soon!
Peggy that walking track sounds amazing! Good luck on your lecture. Amanda, my daughter is a high school cheerleader, and they do the same thing have a workshop with the little girls and they get the cheer at the game, it's a lot of fun :-) hope you all enjoy!
Amanda, that sounds so sweet. Have fun watching her tonight! I'm sure she will have a blast. My daughter (9yo) does a cheerleading clinic and they get to cheer with the high school girls for a football and a basketball game. She loves it.
Congrats Cherie. As with the others, i love the name.@Sandra - yes finding stashed cash or gold under our floor would be amazing. I could pay someone else to finish the floor.
@Peggy - that track sounds amazing. Another thing to add to my list to check out when we visit the Netherlands! Are there many of them there? I've never heard of one before.
I went blackberry picking earlier along the towpath and I've just put an apple and blackberry crumble in the oven. Also contemplating collecting some elderberries to make a cordial and sloes to make sloe gin. Not made either before but sound fun and it's free food!
That must be the best crumble ever! How awesome to make them with the fruit you picked yourself! I'm not sure. I think there are 2 or 3 within a 45 minute drive from where I live, but I'm not sure if they exist all throughout the country. I'm sure there are more than just the few here though :)
It never even occurred to me you could make slow gin, but of course you can make anything! I'll be anxious to hear how that comes out.
You got a still Sarah? Or just going to soak sloeberries in gin? Lexx has been doing that with chilli and vodka lately, and it's working out okay.When we went to the UK in 2013, on our second day there we were heading to my brother's hospice in Oxfordshire, and had a 30 min stopover between trains. So we went wandering through a graveyard next to the station. There was a huge blackberry thicket, and being Sept, lots of berries. Lexx went off to eat some, and I said "hang on, there's the gardener/groundskeeper we better check they aren't sprayed". So we toddle off over to this old man, 3 weird Aussies, and ask.
He could not understand it for the life of him. I explained that in Australia, blackberries are weeds, and we spray every one we find. If you eat wild blackberries in Australia, you are likely to get poisoned, and we were checking it wasn't the same here. He just laughed and laughed and went on about us wasting food. I asked if it was likely that anyone sprayed them, and he assured us that no one does in the UK.
For the next 3.5 weeks, Lexx was forever disappearing, often in mid-sentence, into bushes and reappearing with handfuls of berries. My family thought he was a little mad.
No still. Just going to dump a load of sloes in a nice bottle of gin along with some sugar and see what happens.That's funny about Lexx and the blackberries. I asked my partner who works for the council in the section that deals with grounds, verges, trees, hedges, parks etc. No spraying is done on them because it would probably cost a lot. Brambles are prolific. They may however flail a hedge along the road which has blackberries in. When my partner has done this in the past, many locals have moaned because there wouldn't be any blackberries. Blackberry picking in September was something we did every year as a kid.
Sarah wrote: "No still. Just going to dump a load of sloes in a nice bottle of gin along with some sugar and see what happens."Sounds like a plan. Be very interested to hear how it goes.
We used to have a still in our group house. Totally illegal but made the best rum I've ever drunk.
Sarah wrote: "Congrats Cherie. As with the others, i love the name.@Sandra - yes finding stashed cash or gold under our floor would be amazing. I could pay someone else to finish the floor.
@Peggy - that trac..."
Enjoy your crumble Sarah! Homemade crumble with cream is just the best pudding ever! Well, maybe not quite as good as sticky toffee pudding but it's close! I used to love going blackberry picking as a kid too.
I'll let you know how the sloe gin goes.
@Rusalka I don't feel the food is real unless It contains protein XP the pain became much more less, and yet I have to be careful, they're a little sensitive .. Not a big fan of mash potato but love the jello .. I should make some .. Specially with this hot weather it'll be a good cold snack to have :D Woow blackberries ? As weed ? And poisoning ?
Well, the only thing we could grow here are palm trees so i would never tell if that is true or not !!
@Peggy me too .. But thank god its not as awful as the first day the braces were applied .. That pain was something I hope I never experience again
@Sarah that is one interesting activity to do .. Cooking your harvest and going picking fruit out of the street ! I always think that never happen in real life, and only in a book, but here is another silly thought ;P I wish to pick such fruit someday .. Somewhere ..
I've "infused" vodka with chili peppers or blueberries before. It has to sit in there a looooong time, though.My mom makes homemade Kahlua as Christmas gifts every year. You can smell it coming up her drive for weeks. I hated it as a kid, but now it smells homey to me.
Thank you for the thoughts and comments. The first "wave" has left for their homes last night and today. More go tomorrow. I'll be returning home on Sunday.Congratulations on the new grandbaby, Cherie. How exciting.
Yes, Travis, The Circle of Life is very appropriate for the comments in this thread.
My mom has made horseradish vodka. Hot stuff! My grandmother made lemon vodka medicine.
Thanks for checking in Janice. I know we are all thinking about you.
I can't imagine horseradish vodka. I don't like horseradish as it is. :)
I like horseradish, but only the purple stuff Jews have with Passover Seder. I don't like the white kind at all.I think purple horseradish vodka would be good!
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