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[LisaG1967]

Good Morning/Afternoon Beakers....Happy Caturday!!


Phyl - Glad to hear that Maggie's appointment went well.  Beautiful good night pic.  Thanks for the 365.

tsk - Ooooo, shopping for your birthday present. You will have to take some pics of your yard art.  Good luck to Tim on his upcoming procedure.  I know you will keep us posted.  Prayers!

kb - Love the tulip house.   

paulie - How funny, the bear ran when it heard the recording. 

oldguy - Thanks for the videos...love the Q-Kids song.  Bellamy is coming out of her shell.

Lani - Oh, a short visit for Aly?  Hmm, I must have missed you say that she got a new job.  Where will she be for that?  Hope all is going good at the convention. 

((Puff))

clynn - I don't plant flowers.  I buy them already planted in big pots.  We re-mulch the front flower bed, then set the big pots on top of the mulch.  I'm waiting for Jeff to do the mulch before I get my pots of flowers. Betty Lou is looking good.

karen - I hope you enjoy your time with Mickey while she is there.  Sorry to hear about the help's daughter getting into the accident.  Yikes!

I think Jeff and I are going to Outback for a late lunch/early dinner for Mother's Day today. 
Catch up later 

[Puff]

BTW   Karen  Look closely ---It's not a highway but river or creek.  That means it might have been doctored either way .

P

[karengramke]

SIdhighway 34.   River, hmmm

[karengramke]

SIdhighway 34.   River, hmmm

I remember the twin anchors I think I went in there several times and cannot remember the address where I lived and it may have been and Sedgwick. I just can’t remember I know it was south of Diversy and just two blocks north or a block north of Saint Michael’s. I was also on the east side of the street. Oh well, I’ll never go back there again, but it was a fun place to live.

Lisa, you and Jeff have a nice late lunch early dinner and enjoy it so will you get steak or salmon or what is that? The place was a blooming onion that’s enough calories for a year lol OL.

(((Tim)))!  Good news on the appointment Tsk.  Good that they move the time up. I hope it does what it is supposed to do and that Tim is much better following this treatment

Maggie is doing remarkably well and glad you’re giving her shots. That’s a good deal.  Hope you and Jim are doing well

Old guy thanks for the videos and links. Will check them later.

[tsk34]

KAREN   I did the google lens search of that road and I did not find it either...    My only question - When you say you will pick up Mickey on Tues - the help drives the car right?  Sorry about her dtr.'s accident.   Hope cardiology goes well Monday.    I think some hydrangeas thrive on neglect  LOLOL

LISA   Love your sweet kitty this AM.  Oh boy a trip to Outback 

Off this afternoon to see great niece - the Broadway bound one LOL - in Sweeney Todd  - her high school musical this year.  She's a sophomore so is still in chorus, I'm told.  Had to look up the plot as other than gruesome, I didn't know much about it.

[kbshcb]

Ugg. nellie just stalled in the Whole Foods parking lot as we were leaving. Sat in reverse for quite awhile waiting for peeps, Chris was driving, and then pulled forward. Stalled. Took 5 plus ignition turn overs to start her. Good all the way home.

So.....it's only been 2 1/2 weeks with no problem and running good. I wasn't driving, so I don't know the "feel' of the incident. She had an old part installed from another state. Drove home fine. My inclination is to suspect "older" replacement parts, or a different problem?

Have her scheduled for the 27th, same place......

Course Chris is looking for any opportunity to buy a different/newer car instead of or in addition to.....
Hmm, I'm the Mom, Chris.

Luckily, have food in the house and no where to go till the 22nd other than very short trips

Just had a detailer come over and look at her.....he was so impressed but can add to her look of course in a week.
I'm still going for it and will cross my fingers nonetheless.

Andrew is "supposed" to come sometime today to finish the gate and add soil to top tier....22 feet. We shall see as they say.

Happy Saturday all....our heat wave starts big time tomorrow into Wednesday...so, will be watering watering, esp. my new plantings.

[karengramke]

The help drives to the airport!  Lol
Enjoy the musical!🎶

[clynndunn]

karen, tsk, yes, that was surely an AI image of that road in Estes Park. I guess I will have to check every picture going forward, I so wish there was a requirement to mark AI somehow, like a little AI in the corner... Please accept my profound apologies.

tsk, no, Ed never lived in Kinsman, he lived in Springfield most of his life and a few years in Newman, IL. Hope you have a wonderful time at Sweeny Todd!

tsk, Puff, my sister finished her second degree at Michael Reese in Chicago, in the early to mid 80s. One of the brownstones she and Jennifer lived in was on Cornelia, very close to Wrigley Field. She said people in that area were able to watch games at Wrigley from the rooftops! Cathy and I took the Amtrack a couple of times to visit her. The store I most remember was Nuts on Clark! We also went to a Drag Show at the Baton!

Lisa, Ed and I always go to Outback for our anniversary! Love their menu!  We went to Cracker Barrel today, with Erin & Family, for my birthday and Mother's Day. I am working on my front flower bed, adding some fresh top soil and planting some impatiens. I think I will plant hostas down the center with the Impatiens on borh sides. and eventually switch it to all hostas. Then I won't have to do anything!

Another corpse plant is set to bloom in central Iowa. And yes, it will smell bad.
You've heard of Pink Floyd, but what about "Stink Floyd"? Well, the unique and smelly corpse plant is set to bloom at Reiman Gardens in Ames in mid-May.
"Stink Floyd," is a nickname for the Amorphophallus titanum, also known as a corpse plant, at Reiman Gardens on the Iowa State University campus in Ames. When the large plant flowers and blooms, a powerful odor that resembles rotting flesh (yes, you read that right) is emitted. This is an evolutionary strategy to attract pollinators, Reiman Gardens said in a news release. Corpse flowers don’t have an annual blooming cycle, and their blooms can often be unpredictable, blooming roughly every five to ten years. When a corpse flower blooms it only lasts for about 24 to 36 hours.

On July 25, 2017, a corpse flower at the Des Moines Botanical Garden bloomed. Over 12,000 people visited the botanical garden to see the corpse flower from July 13-31, with over 4,600 visiting on the day the plant finally bloomed.

You can find updated photos of the corpse plant on Reiman Gardens' Facebook, where a recent post shows "Stink Floyd," measuring to nearly 5 feet tall, growing a quick 4 inches per day The stinky bloom is expected sometime between May 10 and May 14, but the plant has an unpredictable nature.
 

[Puff]

OK all are you ready for the saga of the water.  And Puff said "Let there be water. . . .

Had three guys that tried, #4 got it figured out.  And I had the right idea, but didn't follow through.  You have to care, you have to watch, you have to ask "WHY".  The two guys here today seem to think the fly in the ointment was the sprinkler system guy.  He hasn't been here this year yet to put in his two cents.  He turned off an unnecessary line/pipe.  #4 traced things and found it.  Sprinkler guy hasn't shown up yet this season; today's guys told me to mention it and tell him the kink in the procedure.  I had that system put in about 25 years ago, same guy who needs to open it back up every year.  "Stuff happens."

If you end up having low water pressure - I'll be watering the entire environs of the estate, you can blame me and Jose.

P     

[LisaG1967]

karen - LOL, on the blooming onion.  You cannot go there without getting one.  I had my favorite, Alice Springs Chicken with steamed broccoli and a side salad.  Jeff had a ribeye with grilled shrimp, a sweet potato and a side salad.  We are stuffed. 

tsk - Enjoy the musical.

kb - Oh no, on Nellie stalling! 

clynn - Got my big pots of flowers and mulch after Outback.  There was a Home Depot right by, so we headed over to see if they had my Vinca's, and they did!   

[karengramke]

Clynn, I I’ve heard of that stinky flower before they are unremarkable working and I don’t think I’d stand in line to see it or smell it buy it’s interesting that people continue to grow that just because They can!
 But I’m glad your water situation is straightened out I had my system checked, and they had to come twice
 Get it going correctly I could not water the entire estate by hand I suppose I could but I’m not going to!

 My mind just kicked into second gear and I remember I lived on Hudson. I wonder what it looks like now! I enjoyed living there fun people nice neighborhood kind of interesting.
Lisa, I have been to outback and I have never in my life had a blooming onion!  Lol oh lol

[baziunc]

And now you can get the "petals" instead of the whole blooming onion. I got them as a choice of side the last time I went to Outback - long time ago - don't know if they still have it on the menu. Blooming onions are so good, and it's hard to stop eating it before the entree comes!


Happy Caturday, Beakers!


The major heat wave hitting KB, and others in the midwest, will get to my area next weekend. Ugh. And this too shall pass. Right now, I'm getting the cooler than average temps and the big time rain is about to start - got to me after going by Karen's and by Lisa's family in the NOLA/Mobile area. Though I won't get sa much rain as those areas did! They got a major deluge!

KB, hopefully it will be something simple - like maybe just needs an adjustment to the idle rpm setting. Fingers crossed.

TSK, prayers for Tim's preocedure Monday morning. Your flowers are pretty!

Karen, sorry about your help's daughter's accident. Glad the help will still be able to drive you to pick  up Mickey at the airport.

Paulie, enjoy the family visit and time at the cabin!

Lani, enjoy the convention. Stay in the cool! Like others, I'm wondering about Aly's new job . I must've forgotten about that.

Clynn, I am now distrustful of photos that are "too good." LOL.

Phyl, glad Maggie got a mostly good vet report, and hope she will enjoy some relief after getting those arthrisitis injections.

Puff, glad your water issue is resolved.

Lisa, yum on the Outback eats! Glad the flea situation is under control now. Glad to hear Bradley's surgery went well, and I hope the pain subsides quickly.

BL, I had seen that awful news about that gorgeous tree. A real shame.

OG, thanks for the info and the links. Be nice to yourself with all the garden center doings, and other work tasks.

It seems Swampy may have absconded. Haven't seen him for a couple of weeks now. Probably went looking for love. The retention pond won't remain gatorless for long, I don't imagine. There has only been one summer, over the 19 summers I've lived here, that the pond was without a gator-in-residence.

Later, Gators.


Turn up the sound!

https://www.tiktok.com/@funnyfunding/video/7216750659192802561

[camperstig]

some bounce
Home safe

((Tim))
( Nellie)

I've decided to cancel our fishing trip to the usual place... just too many stairs and I am still in a lot of pain at times from my fall. I'll do some research into places we have visited that are flat, but there are other considerations. TBD

Time to catch up on recordings before the game

SED