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Happiness is You

What made you happy this week?

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  2. Today is my birthday! Deborah Blake — an almost co-birthday woman whose big day is tomorrow — remains several years younger and always will. For my 70th today, my husband and daughter are here and my very close friends are coming later — including a couple I met when we all arrived at college 50+ years ago. And I have just returned from Poland where we celebrated our granddaughter’s 1st birthday. I’m joyful!

    10. Your birthday happiness sounds guaranteed! Congratulations on your birthday and on having such good people in your life.

  3. I’m happy because my latest ct scan has come back with very positive news, the pesky tumour has shrunk a little, that’s twice now, first in November, and now this month. Let’s hope it carries on shrinking, how good would that be…the meds are clearly working. So happy right now….

  4. I suppose the thing that made me happy this week was fooling around.

    I fooled around with some story files to turn them into a sort of anthology. That involved fooling around with Calibre to turn the originals into a more malleable format, then swapping some horrid graphics for more pleasing ones. Fun.

    I fooled around with my avatar with Gravatar. “Panic” Button, “Don’t Panic” button, Alfred E. Neuman’s face, a big yellow smiley, my face, my older lo-res face, soup mugs, coins, and a hydroponic avatar.

    I fooled around with chicken salads. Sandwiches, cracker, straight from the bowl, five different meals. I still have half pound left to fool around with.

    I fooled around with the garden. Prepping seed pods to have most of the units go live May 1. Harvested and ate one of the micro yellow peppers (yellow micro peppers?) in Ranch Five, the click and grow unit.

    I fooled around. 🙂

      1. The fun part of Gravitar.com is that I can switch avatars in under thirty seconds, or if I have a picture at hand, make a whole new one. Not as much fun is that it changes everywhere and everywhen that uses that avatar. All my posts since joining Argh.ink now use the same avatar you see here.

  5. I’m not happy that I’ve developed secondary cataracts after 5 years but I am happy that I found a new eye doctor after the my last one retired and we’re getting the ball rolling on getting them fixed. I’m told it’s a simple laser procedure but the place that does them needed a referral since it had been 5 years.

    Almost finished with book #2 on this contract and I’m happy that my editor agreed to let me write book I proposed as #4 next. Those characters are speaking to me while the characters from what was supposed to be book #3 won’t have anything to do with me.

    1. I think that’s one of the things that happened to my eyes (or one of them, anyhow) 10 or so years after the operation. If so, it wasn’t a big deal, just a few laser zaps. (They cautioned that there could have been complications, but they’re rare.)

      1. Patrick, I remember the doctor who did the cataracts said if I developed a secondary one it was just a matter of a quick laser zap to fix it. It’s just annoying that I had to get another referral to go back to the original place.

    2. Yuck. I wondered if it was possible to re-grow cataracts, but kinda’ didn’t want to know. Sorry you had to be the one to tell me, from personal experience!

      1. As I understand it, you’re not really regrowing the cataract, since your eye’s lens has been replaced with an artificial one, but cells can grow so that they block light from getting to the lens. That’s why it’s much easier to zap the growth away with a laser than it was to treat the original cataract.

      2. Gin, what Patrick said! It feels like cataracts because the effect on my eyesight is the same but a simple laser zap takes care of it. I’d been worried about macular degeneration because my father went blind from it but she said the macular nerve looked healthy.

        1. I have macular degeneration in my left eye, Carrie, and I’m dreading it happening to the other one. What’s the point of living if you can’t read????

      3. I’d not heard this called ‘secondary cataract’ – makes it sound much more alarming than it is. It’s quite common to need this laser treatment, I believe, and it’s usually a minor, straightforward procedure (certainly was for both my mother and me) – so really no need to be worried.

    3. My eye doctor diagnosed cataracts this spring. She says they’re just starting and it will be several years before they’re “ripe,” but I can already tell a difference in how I’m seeing that doesn’t show up on the eye test.

      How bad is it going to get?

      1. Jeanne, I feel my doctor waited too long to suggest surgery, and my quality of life suffered because of it. I paint, and I like to wear bright colors, and nothing looked right, and it was very hard to tell colors apart. So my suggestion would be not to wait too long. Age also figures in, and healing takes longer the older you get. Just my thoughts, after going through it. I could not tell olive green from grey or brown, eventually, even in strong light.

        1. This is helpful and timely advice for me. I saw my eye doc recently and she said I’ll need cataract surgery within the next 5 years. She’s recommending sooner rather than later. I haven’t really thought about when yet but your point about healing and an older body is a good one.

          1. If you’re not on Medicare, you can have the surgery much sooner.
            For Medicare coverage, the cataract must be much further progressed than required by conventional insurance.

            Yes, I learned this detail After having to go on Medicare.

      2. Vision CAN get bad — mine was, but it was my own fault for being a chicken about the surgery. I waited years, and then covid happened, and then when I got over being chicken, I developed a thyroid thing that they thought included eye symptoms, so I couldn’t have the surgery until we realized it had been a misdiagnosis (sigh), and then I FINALLY got the surgery, and it was easy and painless, and I really kicked myself for waiting so long! It’s not a matter of the surgery being more difficult or anything, so there’s no harm in waiting (as I understand it — my eye doctor left it up to me, once the cataracts were bad enough for him to first recommend the surgery), just a matter of your tolerance for not being able to see at night and having the whole world get kinda gray and shadowy. My biggest challenge pre-surgery was not being able to see my computer monitor, even with glasses, when the fonts weren’t dark enough, so there was too little contrast and even enlarging things didn’t help. That was when I knew I had to do it.

      3. It can progress unpredictably. My optician was great, and had me come in for frequent check-ups, and then she told the consultant I needed it done as soon as that point arrived, because she knew I’d have to wait several months (NHS). By the time (four months later) I had the first eye done, I couldn’t even read the top letter of the chart with it.

  6. Music is making me happy this week. I have 3 songs stuck in my head. All 3 can be sung loudly in the car; It Ain’t Me by Selena Gomez, 7 Nation Army by the White stripes, and Bad Blood by Taylor Swift.

    And I found another song to add to my Everything’s Gonna Be Alright playlist; Unstoppable by Sia.

    I just got off of work and today is New Moon so later today there will be a ritual. Happy!

  7. I’m happy that DH and I have found our travel groove. First couple of days in Italy were stressful. Three hour drive on an Italian highway after an overnight flight to discover I had messed up our room reservation in Bari. After some panic, we found a new place and had an amazing pizza dinner nearby. Yesterday we accidentally drove in a pedestrian only zone – thanks Google maps. However, our accommodation in Monopoli is charming with stunning views of the ocean from the roof top patio. Today we took the train to another little coastal town. Sun is shinning and we’re enjoying drinks and snacks on an outdoor patio. Great food and lovely people.

    1. What an incredible trip, Susan —

      I figure you had all the bad luck up front and only have good times ahead. It’s so important not to let the tough moments overshadow the trip.

  8. My happy this week is that the Spring bird migration is in full swing! Warblers are starting to travel through the area on their way up north and our “locals” are back for the summer! This means lots of birding and bird photography and it is all making me very very happy!
    And hockey playoffs too of course.

  9. My business partner and I are in Phoenix for our favourite annual conference. Love the weather, the scenery and the hotel. We went for an early morning hike yesterday and are planning another one today.

  10. I am extremely happy that a certain dictator wannabe’s ratings are falling underwater, and that needing to be “popular” has him backing off on some policies, and making changes in others. Finally, people seem to be noticing how bad things are going, because of him and his cabinet of idiots.

    My yard looks like a jungle, in spots, because of all the rain we’ve been getting. The grass and bushes and trees are green and thriving. It’s chilly, again, and windy, always, so that has been an adjustment, since I already traded my Winter wardrobe out for Spring/Summer. This too, shall pass.

    1. Wasn’t his reception at the Pope’s funeral fantastic? Especially when compared to Zelinsky.

        1. There was clapping when Zelensky entered, right after orangey. And orangey thought it was for him, at first.

  11. Well, this blog and community make me happy, too!

    Also happy to be in Santa Barbara celebrating a sweet friend’s 60th. It’s been a beautiful weekend in every sense—gorgeous house, great company, a beautiful sky this morning.

  12. I had a massage Saturday morning with my favourite torture masseuse.

    We have only a tiny bit of snow left, and bulb plants are poking their heads up all over.

    The days are actually warm enough to open windows.

  13. I’m happy because my middle sister came to visit for an overnight “girl’s night” with wine, local BBQ, and a picture puzzle. She’s leaving her husband soon after 37 years, and also in recovery from cancer, and she’s changing up lots of things in her life. Including, apparently, her mostly non-relationship with me. She brought me dark chocolate and a stuffed dragon. Apparently she’s met me. https://www.instagram.com/p/DI870WqOV8t/

    Also happy that the witchy gang is coming over this afternoon for Beltane (May Day, a couple of days early, because Life) and to celebrate my birthday. I normally don’t bother, but 65 seems somehow momentous. It’s not until tomorrow, but the sugar high from the two cakes–one chocolate and one strawberry shortcake–will probably last until then. I’d be happier if it was nice enough to be outside, but April showers and all that. So we’ll do our messy magical pot decorating and seed planting project inside.

    The new novella seemed to be doing well, compared to my rereleases, anyway, so that makes me happy too. Thanks to all who bought it. Smooches.

    1. I’m glad your sister is reuniting with you. That dragon is really cute. Happy Beltane!

  14. I noticed that my license plates were getting near renewal time, yet I hadn’t gotten a notice in the mail. The two major possibilities are that the notice was lost in the mail or that it accidentally got mixed in with junk mail, particularly since, as I observed from another notice, my state is now using plain white envelopes, not the former colored ones. (I always open and recycle junk mail, so I wouldn’t have thrown it out, but it might be in an unprocessed stash somewhere. ) Anyway, no problem, I thought, since I can renew online. Except that they have changed the procedure, so that first they had to snailmail me a pin to confirm my address, and then made me open an online account. With all of that goat rope done, I successfully renewed yesterday (assuming that my renewal sticker indeed arrives in the snailmail). Anyway I’m happy to have one more encounter with the bureaucracy done.

  15. Oh, and on another front, I discovered that my variable-width toaster, set on nearly the lowest setting, does a pretty good job of reheating a biscuit (in the American sense), even from frozen. I ran it through one toaster cycle and then part of another to get it properly heated. I include a link in case non-Americans (or just non-North Americans?) have no idea what kind of biscuit I’m talking about. Note that in reality that when baked, the biscuit did not raise nearly as high as shown on the can or it never would have fit in the toaster slot. An alternative reheating method is good to know since here we’re past the season when I will run the oven unless absolutely necessary.

    https://www.pillsbury.com/products/biscuits/grands-refrigerated-biscuits/flaky-layers-original

    1. I worked with Pillsburry for a while and usually the biscuits don’t rise properly if they are over the best before date. “They are still pretty good for store bought ” channeling Ina Garten lol

      1. These were well within use-by date but not stored ideally. I’ll see if the next batch fits in the toaster. If not, I’ll try splitting them in half, like a toaster muffin.

  16. I am happy that the posts last week taught me to put up my own avatar. I couldn’t find the ladybug picture I use for FB, so you now see me at 2 1/2, bribed to hold still by being allowed to hold my sister’s stufffed dog. One of my few favorite photos of self.

    I got my living room furniture back after 4 weeks at the upholsterer! It is all now a solid, rich dark blue and beautiful. They replaced the seat cushion foam with commercial grade, which is firmer than the old ones so will take some getting used to, but should last the rest of my life.

    Warmer weather and sunshine. DH saw a hummingbird last week, so the feeder has gone up to join the all year round ones.

  17. I was having a rough morning, but I got breakfast with a friend, a local church was having a small book sale and then I went to a nearby park and picked a basket full of dandelions for salve, which I am planning on making for Christmas gifts. I feel better now.

    It’s windy here today, but I am still hoping to get some work in the garden done later, since it rained heavily Friday into Saturday and everything was squishy yesterday.

      1. It’s supposed to be good for mild aches and pains, I think. I may do a couple of other herbs in there too to bump up the benefits

      1. This will be my first time making it. I found a recipe online. I dry the flower heads until I have enough, then I infuse them in oil for a couple of weeks in the sun. Then I blend it with bee’s wax and coconut oil and pour it into some little jars.

  18. It has been a tough week – my husband went to visit my mother in Brussels and discovered she had had a bad fall on Thursday, but in any case had been very weak before that. I was able to get out of work and we went to collect her, so that first, if she could be helped by us, we were on hand, and second that if she needed hospitalisation, it would be near us in Luxembourg. Yesterday morning, it was clear she needed to be under full medical supervision. First ambulance guys we called thought she was OK despite looking like a corpse and mostly unconscious when they were there, but after we got a doctor to make a house call, he confirmed that hospital was definite yes. We won’t know full prognosis until the medics are all back full time tomorrow, but she is getting treatment and is definitely showing signs of her feisty self – many tubes and nil-by-mouth at the moment, but sufficiently awake and on the ball to complain about the lady in the next door bed getting a full meal when she wasn’t allowed anything.

    So, my mother being a grumpy old lady made me happy – her time does not seem to be up yet. And of course, there is the dog.

    1. The “ambulance guys” don’t come out of this looking very good. If they were municipal EMTs, I suppose it could be simultaneously true that your mother wasn’t an emergency case (did not need to go to the hospital this instant) but did need to go to this hospital to get better. But that’s making assumptions about how things work in Brussels. Certainly it doesn’t sound like any ambulance crew that I’ve heard of before.

    1. Love him!! I met him and his brother a few years ago when I attended Writer’s Police Academy. Love his Fox & O’Hare series with Evanovich too. May have to reread those.

  20. I’m happy that even though there’s so much horrific stuff happening in Washington, public pressure is making a difference occasionally, although the walk-backs tend to get less media coverage (and less social media coverage) than the original announcements.

    Two things within my area of focus (health care) were reversed. First, and foremost they cancelled defunding the women’s health study (note the double negative there; this is good news!) https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/24/nx-s1-5376473/hhs-restores-funding-for-womens-health-initiative The defunding seemed to get more news coverage than the re-fundin

    And they’ve walked back the plan for their absolutely terrifying autism registry. Even proposing it did some damage, since there are legitimate, ethically run registries that are absolutely critical for rare diseases in particular (to study more patients than any one clinician is likely to see in a lifetime), and I’m afraid now (and saw some evidence that it’s a legit worry) that patients will resist joining the good registries, thinking that they’re like the truly horrific, potentially eugenics-focused one proposed for autism. But I’m trying to be happy that at least they’ve cancelled that plan (for now), so perhaps the damage is reparable.

    1. Thank you for the good news! I was so worried and upset by both of those ridiculous decisions.

    2. Thank you for the good news! Are they still proposing to track women’s menstrual cycles and have a registry for pregnant women?

      1. I think that’s at the state level. Haven’t seen anything about it on the federal level. Not that it’s good if it happens in the states, just that I haven’t been following the state horrors as much.

    3. Thank you for sharing. I am trying to do another social media cleanse and have been avoiding news since last week, so I missed this.

  21. My husband and our twins have birthdates only a few days apart, and this year, for the first time in ages, we were all able to celebrate The Birthdays together.

  22. FYI, I promised to let y’all know when this e-book dropped in price and now Showmance by Chad Beguelin is $1.99 on B&N.

    2. I don’t think I’d ever come across the coinage “showmance” before, but there are 22 titles either named that or including that word in Kindle (1 of them in German) . The 4 that I checked all involve showbiz romances. Prima facie, I would have thought it could mean other things, such as a romance only for show.

  23. Happy for this group and Crusie books.
    This week my DH and I went to fix our home in Puerto Rico after 10 years of renting it. It was so much work. Good work. We will be sleeping for three days when we are back in Cincinnati. Next trip I plan on planting blue / purple plumbago flowers and yellow Canary flowers. Both are low maintenance and flower all year long.

    https://succulentavenue.com/plantas-canario-allamanda-usos-y-cuidados/

  24. Some productivity happiness this week (will save that for Working Wednesday, by which time there may be more to report) and some non-productivity happiness: we had hours of rain yesterday.

    Rain meant I had a good excuse to stay indoors, stay clean, and stay at the computer being a writer. It also meant I don’t have to worry about watering anything for up to a week, depending on morning fog etc. Once rain stopped, I fed all the birds. Did not take the cat out on safari, so she was annoyed, but shortly after rain stopped, the wind came up; it was chilly and unpleasant outside.

    This morning I had a fun conversation with Mom about the “new house” attitude we are both using for the upcoming move. She and Dad are relocating to the freshly-built apartment in the walk-out basement, so DH and I will have the upstairs. Mom is a serial improver and is never happier than when she has redecorating to do … a trait I share. The only big thing we need to spend money on before paying for POD and truck is a rug to go under the dining table in its new location. Thus, nine open tabs with rug options.

    Also had a conversation with my uncle in Alaska, who is very excited about our upcoming visit (DH & I are going in June). Haven’t seen him for decades, and DH has never been to Alaska, so this is a big one.

    Today it is sunny but chillier and I am not tempted by the garden tools. Will return to the novella-in-progress, once I get breakfast out of the way.

    Happy birthday to the birthday peoples, and happy spring to everyone!

  25. Finding out my wife’s all time favorite book is Crazy for You. Is there any way to get an autographed copy? Please contact me.

    1. I’m sorry, Michael, I don’t even have any copies of it. We keep meaning to do a think with book plates that we could mail to people, but as of yet, that’s not going on. Please tell your wife how flattered I am that she liked Quinn and the crowd.

  27. Went to a sketching day with the artists’ network I belong to, and enjoyed losing myself photographing wild flowers – it was a former quarrying/lime burning site that’s now streams, woods, meadows and old stonework. We’ve just begun another heatwave, so I expect to be in my gardens most of the week. The bright colours of the tulips and all the new shoots – plus the first of the roses – make me happy every day. And all the chats I have with my allotment friends – the good weather’s bringing everyone out.

  28. Sven and I are in Sweden at my mum’s for the first time in 2.5 years. I’ve got to snuggle with baby Freja twice already and met my new SIL for the first time. They are both absolutely lovely. My big brother and youngest nephew arrived tonight, and I saw my sib and their son both yesterday and the day before yesterday. If things go as planned, all siblings will be here tomorrow, as my sister will return from her half year working at a ski-resort in norway. My grandma was here today and my grandpa too for a few minutes. I’ve got to pet my horse and even though I keep running myself out of energy, I at least get a lot of hugs for it. Tomorrow we’ll celebrate my birthday, and my little brother’s too I think, but we’re keeping it small and only close family, so I think that except us “kids” and kids of kids plus mum and stepdad, only my aunt from dad’s side will swing by, and my little brother’s aunt from his dad’s side. There might be cake. Now we will try to get some sleep.
    Sending you all lots and lots of love.

    3. I’m so glad you got to go, Shass, and have held little Freja, as you wished. Have a fantastic birthday!

    5. Happy Birthday!
      I feel that this is going to be a good year for you. You have really made some big strides in the past year and I hope that will give you some momentum for the coming year. And maybe with more practice you will see the wonderful person that everyone on this blog sees. You are so loving, generous and kind to all of us here that I wish you could turn some more of that on yourself.
      In the meantime, enjoy spring.

  29. It has been a rough week, but I was able to find some happiness in some work productivity, and in meeting the sisters and mother of a dear friend who passed away on Palm Sunday. Her funeral was yesterday and it was very well attended, and I learned so many lovely things about her. I just wish I had known her longer.

    I have been happy today to hear about some of the things that are being rolled back by the feds. May more of that continue.

    It is also a fabulously gorgeous day outside with sunshine and warmth, and that is making me quite happy. Although, I’m about to go into my sewing room and work on a quilt block, but that ought to be nice as well.

  30. Happy birthday to all the ones with birthdays.

    Happy Beltane & New Moon to all the witchy ones.

    Good luck to all the ones with health events.

    Happy & safe travels to all the trippy ones.

    And gratitude & affection to Jenny who brings all of us together!

    And gratitude to her collaborator Bob. We appreciate all the great books to read & reread.

  31. I’m happy I get to vote in free and fair elections and have a couple of decent local candidates.

    Plus election nerdery makes me happy – Donkeyvotie, Something for Cate, Blatantly Partisan Political Reviews and b-auspol all make it so much easier to do micro party research and the cartoon explainer at https://www.chickennation.com/voting/ made me laugh out loud.

    2. I wish we had that system in the USA. Of course, right now there’s a lot of things I wish were different about the government of the USA.

    4. Really wish we had a system like this in the UK. I resisted tactical voting for years, but have caved. I also think there’s a lot to be said for your compulsory voting system.

      1. As I understand it there was a failed attempt to introduce it to the UK about 15 years ago? Except they called in Alternative Voting – I get why USians call it Ranked Choice voting, but calling it AV doesn’t make much sense to me.

        Compulsory voting, or rather compulsory turning up to the polling booth, is good. It means that governments need to making voting as easy as possible. An independent electoral commission is good too. Elections (the process if not the outcome) is something Aus does pretty well imho.

        1. I dunno. The Chief Felon (and his obedient Congressworms) seem to have been elected thanks to mobilizing people who rarely vote, such as the poorly educated. Better to leave them the option of not voting? And while Australia has not to date produced successful trumpoids, it’s not really noted for particularly enlightened policy regarding the environment, civil rights, treatment of the Native Australians and other issues. Better to let the unenlightened not vote if they so choose? On the other hand, I gather that in Oz the penalty for not voting is only a small fine anyhow, so perhaps that’s not really what incentivizes Australian voters.

          1. Clarification: I mean thanks at the margins to infrequent voters. Most of the Felon’s voters did not fall into that category, but the infrequents put him and his cronies over the top.

          2. Aussies turn up to vote for the sausage sizzle 😉

            The outcomes reflect the electorate – there’s nothing inherently likely to favor progressive or conservative politics about either compulsory or preferential voting. It just means that the outcomes generally reflect what the majority of people want, whether or not I personally agree with them.

            The biggest advantage of compulsory voting is that it means there’s no voter suppression – and governments are incentivized to make voting as easy as possible, because otherwise voters will penalize them for making our lives difficult. We vote on a Saturday, no voter id, you can vote early or by post, or out of area, our electoral commission goes to remote areas, hospitals and nursing homes, queues are usually much less than an hour, and if you are in the queue at the close of voting then they will keep the booth open until you get to vote. Of course a government can do those things without compulsory voting – if they want to.

            Each election somewhere between 5-10% of Australians don’t vote – people turn up on election day and return a completely legal blank ballot, or unless they have a valid reason for being unable to vote, just pay the fine of $20 (for context Aus minimum wage is $24.10 ph).

            There are still issues of course – e.g. the lack of real time disclosure of political donations, and misleading political advertising, but all in all pretty good.

        2. You’re right, Yuri – but the politicians chose a poor option, and made no attempt to sell it to the electorate – because, of course, the two main parties benefit from the current system so have no interest in changing it. But I think voters feeling powerless is dangerous: we all need to be involved.

          1. Agree, voters feeling like their voices are being heard is incredibly important in a democracy. Aus got our current political system because at various times the politicians thought it was in their best interest – it wasn’t a magically altruistic process, so maybe there is hope of the UK changing systems yet.

            It can be very frustrating when the major parties agree on something – they have the skills and resources to convince the public, even when its something initially popular. Much easier to convince people to keep the status quo than to make a change.

    5. On Ranked Choice Voting, some of us non-Oz here have been long been aware of it from its use in voting for the sf Hugo Awards. That at least used to be explained as the “Australian ballot” system, although I gather that there are some nuanced differences. When a few years back the Economist ran an article on the adoption of ranked choice in some political elections in some US states, it even pointed to the the Hugo system as a more familiar example.

      1. Well one major difference of course is the No Award option. Sometimes I wish we had that.

        I love E Pluribus Hugo – not sure it would work in an electoral context!

  32. Very happy about thd last three weeks: we had a great time in Canada, kiddo #2 had some wonderful time alone, too. I’m happy to have met her host family – she’s struck the jackpot with them, just overall great people, host parents, brothers, the dogs (two lovely goofballs who liked to cuddle with us, too). We’re blessed to have our kid stay with them.
    Now I’m back, sigh. Back to work in about 5 hours.

  33. Correction: kiddo and I had some great just the two of us. Mum and rather grown up daughter. What a delightful young adult she’s become!!

      1. Thanks, Jane 🙂 Took me long enough to create one. This one I created with kiddo no. 2 a couple of years ago for Snapchat which I never got to feel comfortable with. But the avatar I still like though the hair has more grey in it by now LOL.

  34. Had a lovely lunch out with my cousin and friend today.

    I dragged my lawnmower out of the basement and reconnected my rain barrel the other day. And it rained yesterday, so it’s filled!

    I ditched the yard work for a couple of day due to the rain and wind. It seems to be windier than usual this past winter and spring. I’m not fond of heavy wind gusts.

    Still enjoying the daffodils…

    Happy birthday to all those celebrating. And congratulations to all those with good medical news. And a pox on the USA’s administration.

  35. Post-birthday weekend: had some lovely meals, hung out with family, hung out with friends, and saw “Six: The Musical,” which I had a great time at.

  37. April 28. It is now the dotter’s birthday. I have wished her a happy. The grandkinder have been blasted because they do not sweep, vacuum, fill nor empty the dishwasher, load laundry nor retrieve clothes from the drier. They all act like teenagers.

    I just took a basket of clean dry clothes upstairs. I am too old to pass for a teenager.

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