Hey folks, welcome to the new whine/general topic thread. Feel free to use this thread to discuss anything that is on your mind. Caregiving- related stuff, life after a loved one's death, your own emotional wellbeing. Whatever..........anything on your mind.
Thanks so much!!
Yep! I miss my cat. She had an independent spirit, for sure!
Cats don’t live with us. We live with them!
At first, I could not go to DMV to renew my driver's license.
The DMV automatically renewed it until 2021, adding a year!
So, I dreaded the driving test coming up. And worried over the eye test. And totally stressed over going to the DMV during Covid if it should allow appointments by my birthday. They said I must come in.
So, I went online early and found that I could renew and pay all online, no eye test, no driver's test, no waiting in Covid lines.
This window of opportunity exists now. Time changes everything! (Maybe since Dec. 31st since the surge is now.)
Another happy thing for 2021.
Counting my blessings!
There is a special on tonight about her life in England.
It’s on PBS. Agatha Christie’s England.
I haven’t but it sounds like I should read it! I will. She was a fascinating woman.
She grew up in a very interesting era. She had a privileged life, didn’t she?
I plan to watch the next episode of this series that they are doing on her.
I find it fascinating that she wrote and sold so many books in her day.
The only books that sold more in that time frame were the Bible and Shakespeare!
Her books are still selling today. Not to mention the movies made from her books. Theatre as well. She was quite successful!
Apparently Amazon sellers are shipping out packages to random addresses in order to accumulate reviews.
These sellers are doing this to get higher ratings, so they are saying that only 60 percent of reviews are legitimate.
They pay people to write fake reviews. They send out less expensive, inferior products to the random addresses.
Nothing surprises me. I don’t take anything at face value anymore.
It’s interesting to learn the behind the scene facts. Agatha was a very private person. Reading her autobiography would be fun.
Her literature was well known and she certainly sold tons of books!
She only gave one rare interview to a student at a university. He simply knocked on her front door and she spoke to him.
Very true! So many fake reviews. Imagine getting a random package delivered because it is protocol to ship out a package for a review to be legitimate.
Crazy, huh?
Do you have a favorite moon?
Mine is a harvest moon.
Our city is lovingly referred to as ‘Crescent City’ after the crescent moon.
That sounds like a beautiful memory to me. That golden color of a harvest moon is spectacular!
I have always loved the moon. I have gazed at the moon more than the stars.
I remember looking out of the window in our car as a small child while driving to my aunt’s house and telling my mom that the moon was following me. Hahaha!
I loved that no matter where I was, the beautiful moon was there with me.
"snake hiding in pyjama drawer gives Adelaide Hills woman fright of her life"
Yesterday my daughter spied a largish grey huntsman spider in the car boot seal when we popped the boot to put the groceries in. We brought it home to deal with. DH flicked it out with a broom. It ran across the car roof (these can jump & ran fast!) then hid in the back door handle - daughter's door 🤣. She was not impressed.
My problem with Canada would be shoveling snow – much more difficult to avoid than snakes!
We had a golden orb spider (plus her tiny male mate) a couple of years ago. They drift down on a gauze float at high altitude from the northern jungle areas if the conditions are right. We couldn’t use our blind all summer, while she made 3 consecutive egg webs in the blind's winding works. Lots of interest to watch. Unfortunately the babies didn’t survive, we're a bit short on jungle conditions here.
The other day I picked two moths copulating on the outside of our double glazed bathroom window, with tentacles (?) at both ends of the union, and called DH to check if I’d guessed it right. Tony said ‘I wonder how they work out what to put where’, and I pointed out that we can do the same in the dark without looking!
Should we all start numbering our dH ???? 🤣🤣