Heading Back Home Friday @ the MSC

[SMLCHNG]

Good morning all!

Picking up my sister and BIL around 3:00 this afternoon, dropping them off, and heading home. Cameron will be waiting for me to help unload my car.

Not looking forward to the mess, but it'll be good to be back in my bed. Although this one has been quite comfy.

Have a good Friday!!

[Saltx3]

HELLO PENNY and everyone else....how odd no one else has stopped by

It rained overnight and is still going strong -- we need rain but since we got the curbscaping and not the rock one of the flower beds is filled with water and overflowing into the yard. On well, we'll need to figure out something but not today.

I had an early appt with the Ortho doc. I have surgery scheduled for March 12. They will cut 2 spots, one under my left elbow to release and/or move the nerve and then on my left inner wrist as mild Carpal Tunnel syndrome showed in the nerve study. Dr. said might as well take care of that so it doesn't get worse. I'm very happy to get on the schedule so fast. AND -- there's no PT, no cast, wraps, braces or ANYTHING !!! Just a return visit to 2 wks later to have stitches removed.

Enjoy the remainder of your last Friday of February.

[SMLCHNG]

Hi Linda! Glad you're getting that taken care of so quickly!!

[big john]

Just stopping by to say hello.
One of my younger brothers, Chris, has a birthday today. He will spend most of it
babysitting some grand kids.

[bodypainter]

HELLO PENNY and everyone else....how odd no one else has stopped by

It rained overnight and is still going strong -- we need rain but since we got the curbscaping and not the rock one of the flower beds is filled with water and overflowing into the yard. On well, we'll need to figure out something but not today.

I had an early appt with the Ortho doc. I have surgery scheduled for March 12. They will cut 2 spots, one under my left elbow to release and/or move the nerve and then on my left inner wrist as mild Carpal Tunnel syndrome showed in the nerve study. Dr. said might as well take care of that so it doesn't get worse. I'm very happy to get on the schedule so fast. AND -- there's no PT, no cast, wraps, braces or ANYTHING !!! Just a return visit to 2 wks later to have stitches removed.

Enjoy the remainder of your last Friday of February.

Wonderful, Linda!

[Saltx3]

Hi Linda! Glad you're getting that taken care of so quickly!!

ME 3

[Saltx3]

Just stopping by to say hello.
One of my younger brothers, Chris, has a birthday today. He will spend most of it
babysitting some grand kids.

Funny how that turns out to be the best thing ever. Tell brother Chris hello from the Ringers .

[parrotinparadise]

Hello all! It's finally Friday! Hopefully there won't be another snowstorm this weekend.

Linda - Sending phin power and good thoughts! Have a great evening, everyone

[Rabbitz]

Well, we're expecting a whole bunch of rain and storms. So much so we are currently under a flood watch.

We don't get a lot of rain, historically, which has led to the very poor management of storm water and run off. The local State Emergency Service is currently handing out sand bags. Just the bags, mind you. I have zero idea where the sand is supposed to come from!

In January we had our roof gutters replaced - apparently the first test will be the biggest down pour in 75 years...

I am off to test the generator, batten down some hatches and put a reef in the topsails!

[Caribbean Soul]

Evening BNers... Happy Fri-YAY all!

Greetings from schizophrenic MA!
It was 15° this morning, then mid 40s during the afternoon, and we are headed back into the teens overnight, with temps in the 50s forecast for tomorrow! So all the snow melt freezes into black ice and the cycle just keeps repeating!

Penny - Safe travels back home. No matter how comfy and "away" bed is, nothing beats the feeling of your own!

Linda - Count me in the "glad your surgery is soon" club! And you must be relieved that no cast or rehab will be needed!

Rabbitz - fingers crossed those new gutters do their job!

[SMLCHNG]

Penny - Safe travels back home. No matter how comfy and "away" bed is, nothing beats the feeling of your own!

Uh huh!! Got home about 2 hours ago, completely unpacked so I can get some sleep tonight.

Rabz, You go from no rain, to too much rain! Hope all goes well!!

My sister sent me a video (upon my request) of the happiness their puppies were when they got home. Made me smile BIG.

[Rabbitz]

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Rabz, You go from no rain, to too much rain! Hope all goes well!!

This is a poem that most Australian related to:

My Country - Dorothea Mackellar

The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes.
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins,
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft dim skies
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror –
The wide brown land for me!

A stark white ring-barked forest
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes,
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the warm dark soil.

Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart, around us,
We see the cattle die –
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.

Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold –
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.

An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land –
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand –
Though earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.