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[Phyl]

8 Defining Moments in the History of the Chocolate Chip Cookie

Born at New England's Toll House Restaurant, chocolate chip cookies quickly rivaled apple pie as America's favorite sweet treat.

https://www.history.com/news/history-chocolate-chip-cookie-toll-house?cmpid=email-hist-inside-history-onequestion-2025-0307-03072025&om_rid=

[clynndunn]

Good Morning Beakers!



oldguy, thanks for the interesting biography of the new Pope!

Lani, did you and Aly go anywhere yesterday? I would bet you will be going to Pine and Strawberry, I remember you have favorite places to shop there! Is Mike home this week? I know you will have a wonderful time with Aly and Dewey!

Puff, Ed's mother would have loved having the Pope being from Chicago, she was born and raised in Kinsman, just SW of Chicago. She was a very devout Catholic.

baz, love your good night picture!

karen, you cleaned Piper's favorite perch! Glad to hear that she's not mad at you still!

Phyl, I am sending kitty prayers for Maggie, hope her appointment goes well! So it will take a while for your knees to feel the full effect of the treatment, I bet you are so looking forward to that time! Is Jim's cough better? We need all of you to get over this funk!! Just saw your post as I was previewing, are we back to normal? LOLOL! Love the mallard butts in the 365! Thanks for the Chocolate Chip cookie article, will read later... We are both in blues today!

tig, have a safe trip!

tsk, great to hear that Tim can get in early and have the procedure done!

Lisa, good news on Bradley's surgery, how long will recovery take? I wish him well! I wonder where one gets fleas on their shoes? Walking through grass maybe? Do they live in grass or do they have to find a furry creature to live on. I know, many questions, and I don't expect you to answer!    Have you noticed any of the B&B kitties scratching?

This Will Knock Your Socks Off - This horse suffered a leg injury after falling during a race. Unable to compete anymore, his owner chose to sell him to a slaughterhouse. Luckily, he was rescued in time by an animal welfare organization, who provided him with a prosthetic leg. Thanks to them, he now lives out his days in a peaceful place, where he’s valued not for profit, but simply for being alive.  Credit to the original Author ❤


Yellowstone Tour Guides  · May 7 at 7:51 AM  · Bison guarding the Golden Gate.  A great day in the Northern Range today with 7 grizzly bears, 1 black bear, wolves, a coyote, and a fox.  We also saw bighorn sheep, pronghorn, mule deer, bison, elk, sandhill cranes, 3 GBH, a mountain bluebirds, eagles and a few YBM's as well.

[Puff]

I find it interesting that Pope Leo XIV spent most of his priesthood outside of the US.  He was hand picked by Pope Francis for his positions in Peru and Rome.  His most recent work was to create a list of candidates for new Bishops world wide.  He never served as a parish priest.

Biography of Pope Leo XIV   -   https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-05/biography-of-robert-francis-prevost-pope-leo-xiv.html

Thanks for the link for Pope Leo's bio OG.  I was one of those watching and waiting yesterday morning.   When announced and given the Chgo connection I started looking for more details.  I'm sure there'll be a plethora of info in the near future here in Chgo area.  Not even the new pope - but never in America seems  hard to believe.  And, as you noted, never had position in his own parish.

Did both Spanish and Italian!  And proficient in other languages too.  Impressive.  I'll be real busy outside all day today.  Relaxing and reading more later, and drugs.

P   

[tsk34]

Always one of my favorites. 

TIG    Enjoy the graduation.  Safe drive.

PHYL   The Pope is the only thing on our news.  Interviews of anyone who ever spoke to him  LOL  He's a Sox fan, of course.
Maybe you will be lucky and see some improvement sooner than that     365 - like rain off a duck's back  LOL

KAREN   As it turned out the Pope is officially a SOX fan    Cubs are doing much better this year setting all kinds of records.  LOL

LANI   Don't think our ACE has the popcorn deal  LOL  I'd be first in line.      Does Dewey come along on the early AM walks?

CLYNN  Was ED raised in Kinsman?   That would be a fascinating field to get into - prosthetics for wildlife  " new beaks for birds" too.

[BrokenLug]

I sure hope these 2 absolute criminal morons get the most absolute maximum jail time and fines available to the judge.       

Why, I mean really just why ?

They should find the nearest standing Sycamore Tree and hang them from it like back in the day of Hadrian's Wall. IMHO.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c175780278ro

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/uk/sycamore-gap-trees-convictions-scli-intl

[camperstig]

The convocation is this morning. We drive home tomorrow. 🙏

[LisaG1967]

Good Morning Beakers....TGIF!!


Thank you everyone for the posts on Bradley's surgery.  He texted me and said, he was in some discomfort yesterday, but tolerable.

Phyl - Sorry to hear your knees are still giving your trouble.  I hope the injections help.  ((Maggie))  Pretty morning greeting.  Thanks for the 365. 

karen - I hope Bradley follows the docs orders too.     I hope you and Piper had a restful night. 

Lani - Thank you.  I hope you and Aly have been having a good visit so far.  How long is she staying?

clynn - Aww, the horse with the prosthetic leg.  To answer your question about, where does one get fleas on your shoes.  Vet said, you can carry fleas, their eggs or larvae on your shoes or pant legs from your yard.  Since, we have the skunks and raccoons along with the B&B kitties out back, he said the fleas are most likely coming from out there when we go out and come back in.  We have sprayed outside, but will have to do it several more times.  Good news is, Misty and Bandit have both stopped itching and scratching since I put the Frontline and Revolution liquid flea meds on them.

tsk - Your morning greeting 

Puff, oldguy, baz and BL - Morning 

[Lani]

TGiF Beakers!
Good morning Tsk, Karen, Clynn, Lisa, Paulie, Eagles4, Baz, Phyl, Lori, Kb, Tig, Oldguy, Puff, BL, Ezee, Eburg, Weasel, Jilltosa, Eaglesrock, Emyrauld, Blschue, Peep, Jaspurr, Lindy, Bggolden, T40, ssrl, Nrstooge, jicaji, LB, and All!

I wish I was as relaxed as the pup! LOL!
We're leaving for Phoenix for my convention,
I'll be back tonight. Have a great Friday!! 

[tsk34]

BL   What a shame.  Couldn't agree more about their penalty.

LISA   Love the peonies 

LANI   That pup is the vision I have of myself later today  LOLOL  Got to the nursery for the first run this AM.  Plus ACE actually had a great price on the hanging ferns I like for the shady part of the back yard.  Have a good convention with all the good company 

My front porch with my azalea and calibrachoa

[kbshcb]

Wellie my honeysuckle is doing well while others not so much....Also, my crimson king is finally starting to open. Just starting.

Scott and I had the honeysuckle cut to the actual ground a few years back....look at her now!

Andrew was a no show yesterday. Says today and tomorrow. We shall see. He's over committed. Unfortunately, and he knows this, I cancelled another person after Andrew called me right away and said he could do both. The new gate and soil.....now he says he's busy.....Not happy. I hired him when he first got started in business 6 years ago. He says he's just trying to help me out. As a prior business owner, me thinks he forgot how to treat his early clients who got him started and have continued to use and pay him all along. This will be the last time for me for major projects. Only annual quick items going forward.

[LisaG1967]

Lani - Enjoy the convention.

tsk - Very pretty flowers on your porch.

kb - Pretty trees.

[BrokenLug]

Hip right next to one heck of a pisser of a photographer.

[Phyl]

Good AFternoon...

Maggie's vet appointment went very well.  Dr. Steele gave her a good once over. Esp her peepers. She has some deterioration of her retinas that comes with advance age. She still sees...just not as well. I so relieved as she's doing better at 22 yrs. than I thought.  Her heart murmur and little kidneys are a bit worse...again that deterations comes with her advance years.

My baby eats well and maintains her 5.53 lbs weight. Her being 'bone thin is from loss of muscle mass resulting from lack of exercise as opposed to when she was younger. This we all know f rom experience with our own 'fur babies'.

Dr. Steele did talk to us about Solenza injections for her arthritis in her hind limbs and lower spine.
I thought why not try this and see if it works for her.  $85.00 a month. Should this work it will greatly
improve her comfort and happiness.


Lani -  Hope you have a good time the convention.  I too wish I were that pup in the hammock. Awww.

KB - pretty trees; love  honeysuckle  beware of snakey snakes.

TSK -  pretty  potted flowers on your porch.  I can't keep a Boston Fern   :'(
Psalm 23

Lisa Love peonies ...use to have them at my old house in MO.

CLynn   tks for 'kitty prayers' they worked.  Bless you.  prosthetics for wildlife  new beaks for birds ,  too.  That would be awesome add on  field to Zoology and Animal Husbandry. How about that ...we did 'blue' themes today. 
"This Will Knock Your Socks Off"  fantastic photo of race horse  with prosthetic lower foreleg.  Awesome photo of bison on the mountain highway.

BL Such  a shame about the beautiful  tree.   Like Tsk, couldn't agree more about their penalty.





Wishing all my fellow Beakers a Good Evening and a Good Night...SEDs !

[tsk34]

KB    I kind of experienced the same thing this week.. I've used this same window cleaner and got him started in his business 15 yrs ago.  I call him once a year - usually in May and he is out the next day.  NOW you have to text him - not call -and two days later I got a text back.  "Memorial weekend will be best" - WHAT???  I plan to call him again Tues.

LISA   Tim and I will shop tomorrow for my b-day present - some yard art in front of the calibrachoa.  There is also a planter you can't see on the landing to the left - a ledge - and I will put zinnias in that.  Then we will lay some mulch and it will look done.

PHYL   You certainly are a good mama to Maggie.  Hope the shots help and not stress her out more.    Beautiful swan shot.

[kbshcb]

tsk - I did get the posts set in concrete at least today....showed up around 530pm.....

but I also reminded him I had another contractor ready to go with it and he himself called me to say no he could do it earlier this afternoon.

Supposedly, soil and the gate will be installed tomorrow....he did put up chicken wire so at least it's safe for Ollie man if he doesn't show..

I have a very long list for him. I can wait on the mulch, rocks, sod, boulders etc. but not the soil...the garden is to grown up to wait much longer without destroying it.

Interestingly, my climbing roses will get more late afternoon sun now..they've done fine without it so will have to see what happens now.

At the end of the day it's just a second way to access my back yard and wider than the other side.