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You won't believe this, Cwillie - but just after I posted that, my brother showed up, asking to borrow some kitchen stuff...and like you, I was about 90% done with the shoveling, but he finished it up for me as thanks for the loan of the kitchen stuff.

Brightened my day considerably - I was about to start waving the fifty dollar bill myself, except I didn't have one to wave! Gotta love living on a shoestring, but somehow it all works out, most of the time. Received a payment from a client today that arrived just in time to pay my cell phone bill, which was an urgent matter, since that's the only way Mom and the NH can reach me. Trying to keep my chin up - little blessings like that sure help!
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Great, Susan!
Do the gardeners in your area do snow?
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Send, with the advent of warmer weather next week, it's my hope that no one will have to deal with the snow until next winter! The forecasters are predicting that this is the last snow we'll see until then - it's supposed to get up into the 50s and 60s next week, and I can't wait. We've had almost 20" of snow in the last 10 days - which is normal for our winters, but we usually have it spread out a little more than that. Prior to that, we'd only had 6" all winter which is rather low for us.
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My favorite thing is that after all the pain and upset of yesterday, today is a new day. I will keep trying, and help myself more instead of seeking for help that never comes.
Today, planting is on the schedule/non-schedule because I am taking it easy, having coffee first.
It's Saturday, and whatever you all do on Saturday is okay!
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One of my favorite things. When hubby goes away for a few days and I can cry, stay in my pajamas all day if I want to, watch whatever I want to, eat cereal for dinner if I want to, wash all my make up off and look as ugly as I want to. etc. etc. etc..........
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Sunday-anyone having trouble logging into their favorite threads today?
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Not really having any issues here, Send....maybe reboot your PC if you're using one?
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Kindle here. Restarting kindle. Thanks Susan! I was afraid I had said something and admin was shutting down my favorite thread!
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Hope that helped, Send! :-)
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Thank you Susan, it seems to have helped, so far, cause here I am!
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Just stopping by to check in-been so busy! Hello to all! Especially you, if you are reading this. Have a better weekend!
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Sorry, just cannot take the caregiver poll, because it is of political content.
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My favorite thing of the day:

SPRING.

It seems to have arrived as quickly as winter did this time. We had a weird, warm winter, thanks to El Nino, with only about 6" of snow until about 3 weeks ago, when we had 20" in the space of 10 days! Then the temps quickly rose into the 50's and 60's, and it all melted in a matter of 2 days.

So I've been getting out in the yard to clean up the winter debris off and on throughout the day - when I take a break from my work, I go out and pick up branches and shingles (darn it), then clear the dog poo from a section of the yard. Then I go back in to work for a while and then go out and do it again. :-)

The warmer temps and lack of snow is inspiring me to do some deep cleaning in the house too. Have been using 1 or 2 of my "breaks" during the day to venture into the basement to try and clean that up too.
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Proud to report the yard is now free of doggie landmines. I swear, the trash bag weighed about 50 lbs. That's what happens when the snow covers it up and you can't find it for a while....ugh.
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Susan, my fellow oh-so-hard-working (do you ever get a rest?) Michigander....you captured it perfectly, and yes, so funny that my routine, too, has followed yours....I certainly have no complaints about the mild winter but I do kinda hate that everything is so dead and brown and scraggly-looking right now. I know that will change quickly now but think I should be considering some hardy grasses or similar that provide some great color/texture thru Michigan winters.....of course, now, I'm focused on Spring and flowers and flowering bushes and flowering trees....
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I know, Mina - I can't wait! Our lilacs *tried* to bloom a few weeks ago during the brief warm spell, only to be shocked back into submission by 10 days of heavy snow and cold. Now they're cautiously trying again. I got a seed and plant catalog in the mail the other day. I was like a kid in a candy store! LOL

I can't wait to work on the yard some more - it really needs help after 30+ years of simply being mowed every week. No rolling, de-thatching, patching of dead spots...it's a lumpy, bumpy, muddy mess. Needs weed n' feed, rolling and some TLC.

Rest? Rest?!? What's that? No rest for the wicked, right? I must be pretty darn wicked.
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Ha! No rest for the "wicked" or the "weary".....you rock, girl!!!
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Favorite dilemma is to wake up on Sunday morning too early to find out what time it is after daylight savings time. Did hubby reset the clocks forward?? Just don't know, maybe don't really care-going back to sleep at 5 a.m.
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What is the time on your Kindle? It should have changed on its own, Send. Do the clocks match?

Woke up about 7, unheard of, time change helped. Hopefully I will wake up at my usual 5 yesterday, 6 today, to get to work on time.
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omg, I will have to look for the time, so embarrassed! So funny!
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Oh, there it is! 6:43 a.m. It's right there Glad! No, the clocks don't match. I think being so dumb is so very funny that laughing will increase the blood flow to my brain and I will be more functional after what was 4:00 p.m. lol.

It is getting so its not that funny anymore, but yesterday was stressful.
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What is even funnier, is that when hubs gets up, he will change the clocks because its his job, so if I do it, that would lose two hours on the clock instead of two! Ok, now I am joking and exaggerating, but was not finding the time before you reminded me Glad, so thanks! Dumb blonde here?
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lose two hours instead of one, meant to say.
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I put my clocks ahead yesterday afternoon (I find it's easier to misplace an hour in the middle of the day) but my phones are all still showing old time, WTF?
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Cwillie - if it's cell phones, turn them off and back on. If it's landline, unplug and then plug back in. It should reset them.
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Set the only 3 clocks in the house last night that don't set themselves - the microwave, stove and bathroom clock. Fixed the van clock this morning. Gotta love technology - everything else sets itself. Poor mom was so confused this morning when I went in, she knew the time was supposed to change today, but no one bothered to change the clocks in the residents' rooms. I fixed hers.

Favorite thing today: Allergy medicine and Aleve. 'nuff said.
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Clocks reset here, except for my car. Awe, allergy medicine, I too have been living it since Friday. Sinus headache in my forehead without it.

It is a lazy, rainy day again, hubs wants to bbq. (California style) hamburgers today. Easy dinner, no work for me while I cuddle with a blanket.
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Taking the dog for a walk. I had become very lazy with that about a year and a half ago. Had a very nice sunny afternoon after some much needed rain last night and this morning. We both enjoyed it. But there is a very mean german shepherd a street over. He was in a very small dog pen, outside, for him. I would be mean too!
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Oo, Glad, that must have made your heart sink. It amazes and depresses me that people can get large dogs, confine them in too small a space, and then blame them for having a poor temperament and confine them all the more tightly. Do these owners think that German 'shepherd' is just a marketing brand or something? This animal was bred to roam pasture and protect flocks from predators. I could cry.
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I used to know a guy who went dirt biking on this property. I went with him once and they had a dog there chained up. I immediately went over to this dog and started petting him. My friend said "what are you doing, no one pets that dog" but I continued anyhow. I've never in my life seen an animal so starved for attention. When we left I petted him one more time and as we drove away the dog kept looking back at me. I bawled all the way home.

Sorry, I know this is supposed to be favorite things thread but glad's story just reminded me of that.
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