Daily Ooo's: Monday, April 22

[faerywings]

Happy Earth Day!

This is my kind of holiday, I just wish that the Earth was in better spirits.
I can't remember how the conversation started yesterday at breakfast but my dad asked the kids how they felt about Climate Change and overpopulation. It started a pretty long discussion of everything from water shortages causing conflicts, drought, carbon, acidification of the oceans, volcanos under Antarctica, biofuels and so on. (I raised *really* smart kids). Scott told us about a saying that comes from Indigenous peoples in the Amazon- paraphrasing- that when the last Mahogany tree dies, the earth ceases to exist.
He said that some compare it to Nostradamus but that it is actually rooted in science. It recognizes that once the Amazonian ecosystem is destroyed, life cannot exist in other areas of the world. He went into a lot more detail explaining how the ecosystems work and all of that is pretty frightening when you think about how fragile the atmosphere is because of human activity.

Anyway, that is my soapbox philosopher moment for today.

How was everyone's weekend and Easter? It was quiet here after everyone left. My parents had to go to my brother's, Scott went out with Brendan and Scott was down with Leah. Gary and I binged the last 4 episodes of Season One of Outlander. That was pretty intense. I have to admit I was surprised that they included so much graphic stuff with Jack Randall. Gary had to go get some ice cream in the middle of it. Can't say that I blame him. It was so brutal.
The good news is that the drain pump was delivered and Gary was able to fix the dishwasher. He is my hero!

Gary and I are going food shopping together today, my first time there in a month. Cool cool.
That is my day. Pretty boring but I think it will feel good to get out and about.

Hugs to everyone!

 

[faerywings]

Sat:

Jean- that sure did cover just about all of the weather bases, didn't it? Bet that was a huge relief that the Surface made it through the meeting. I have one daffodil blooming so far and it is in the woods...SMH..so I loved your very happy daffy LO!

Nancy- good for you to be feeling like yourself- you rock!!! I can imagine how lost you got in old photos. Cait was a chubby baby too and no one believes that she had big cheeks and ringlet curls. Lavender is a pretty color for toes, just not on me since my toes tend to be purple and grey from Raynaud's haha!!
Yikes!! That is scary about DH's eye. I hope that the surgery/recovery is an easy one.

Kay- it might not have been physically exhausting working on the EHDs but that is the kind of thing that exhausted my brain. I can't say that I blame you for taking that nap.

Sunday:
Trudy- yuck about the wood- it is sticky like pine is? How is your Gary's finger? Hope that your time with the Ils was very nice too. Oh, if you google Italian Easter Pie recipes you will get a million different varieties. It is one of those things that doesn't really have a recipe and different areas make it differently. My mom's is made with ricotta and the deli meats. Other people make it with prosciutto and it is very dense. Then there are the wheat pies and rice pies...
Yes, you should be a proud Mamma!!

Nancy- how nice to get out for a walk with Luther and to enjoy everything in bloom. My dad usually brings me a plant for Easter but this time he said it was too cold so he brought me something better-- a bottle of my favorite wine! LOL
I haven't seen that video but I can relate to the time that Caitlyn was 5 or 6 and cut her bangs- from the back of her head. And the time when she was 4 and got sap in her hair a few days before she was in a wedding.:gaah:

Jean-Aww, cute to see a bunny yesterday! I haven't seen any yet, only squirrels and I can hear the chipmunks so far. what movie did you watch?

Rae- hope that you had a wonderful weekend with the family

Kay- very smart choice to do the service and the lunch. Feel better today!

 

[taxed4ever]

Morning O-zies!! It is a rainy day here today, but that is ok because the only thing we need to do today is go shopping for my new wall oven. Ugh I hate that we have to spend more money on more appliances!! I wonder what will be the next thing to go on us?? Oh well such is life! Happy Earth Day to you all!! I wish we could all learn how to treat our beautiful planet better! It's not like we can just go move to another one right?

Chris - You do have two very smart kids!! You must be so proud of them! I have heard that saying before about the last mahogany tree, it is a frightening thought! Our poor planet!! :sad: We had a very quiet Easter Sunday also and both crashed on the couch early right after we watched Game of Thrones. I slept right through the night after getting off the couch and woke at 7:30. Guess we were totally worn out from the day before LOL.
Yes the pitch on the wood is very, very sticky sure glad I had good gloves on. The really bad ones were put in a separate pile to be burned in fire pit, surprisingly it really doesn't create much smoke though. I am sure the surrounding neighbourhood will appreciate that. I think I know which episodes you found so graphic!! I wondered also if they would show as much as they did, but they have been pretty good about sticking to books. Hope you continue to enjoy the Outlander Series!

Today after we go oven shopping :mmph: DH's sister is stopping by on her way back to Victoria to check out some of my paintings, she saw one online that she really liked. That will fun and glad that we will get in another little visit with her! Ok better get another pot of coffee going and get some breakfast for DH! Have a wonderful day everyone!! :wave:

 

[scrap-genie]

Have to be quick so I can leave soon for a meeting. DH has the car for Hum & Strum but when he gets home (in minutes) I'll be getting ready to go. Last night we watched First Man. It was very interesting but I wonder how much was drama added to reality. Anyway I like seeing the progression of space exploration technology over time but not so much the fatalities along the way. We well remember staying overnight at my parents' to watch the moon landing in 1969.

Chris, hope you and Gary do well with the groceries today. What a discussion you all had yesterday and great stuff from Scott.

Everyone, hope you have a good day.

 

[scrap-genie]

Trudy, we cross posted. Good luck with shopping for a wall oven!

 

[nancyr]

good morning - had a great time with family. My son's FIL has a genealogy passion. He was telling me all these new relatives that his family that was never talked about but he has found through ancestry and having his DNA analyzed. He said he knew about 300 relatives and when through he now has over 1100 hints and 8000 documents. He says it seems like one of his brothers does not have the same father. It makes me now want to see what I could find in my family. Last night came home to find that one of my pages was selected for a GSO. It is one where I learned to slow down water. It made me so happy! Makes me so happy to be scrapping my Alaska trip. Today I have a mammogram - one of the things that must be done. Other than that not much else.

Chris I wish more people talked about climate change. I am glad your dad was will to listen. The Amazon is so important. To have a president that does not listen and does not care is so scary! Glad you have such smart kids! Have fun at the store! Glad you ankle is doing so well!

Trudy sorry about the rain and the wall oven! Appliances failing is the worst. And yes we should treat our earth better.

Jean have fun at your meeting. It is interesting to watch movies when you actually lived through those times. I remember when those astronauts lost their lives - it was so sad!

A quick update on why the late post. I was at the imaging center for mammogram and all of a sudden 5 min before my appt. the place lost power. Around 9K people in my town and 2 neighboring towns all lost power. I waited for about 30 min and then came home. I will have to reschedule. Oh well. And then as I was going to walk Luther it started to rain. We started out with such blue skies too!

Have a great Earth day!

 

[felis]

Hello girls,
I never comes here yesterday, because first stopped at the stOre for new Easter kit and spend all my time there. This year Easter kits are so gorgeous, was so difficult to choose only one, but unfortunately I don't have chance for more now. Today the sun is shining here, but is very windy, and probably this keeps the rain away. No, Chris, this we don't have similar saying about the "April showers", because it does not have rhyme in translation, but I should scrap this next month . Probably with lilac, because the most of my flowers will be gone till now.


Chris, I was think about similar subjects too. Concretely, how today's 'vegan' are group of arrogant idiots who pressure others with their ridiculous demonstrations, but if you follow the logic will found that they are evil for the animals they pretend they fight for. I miss that girl who was volunteer at few organisation, and burned with passion in planet and animal advocate. We are strangers now! I Saw so many violence and destruction, that makes me so tired and cynical, that now I think we was the biggest mistake of one cruel creator. Who is too tired from this game, so will allow us to end it. The hope for the other animals is that the AI will come faster and they will be able to save them from us. Did you watch this movie I was mentioned before "Automata" with Antonio Banderas? For me it's the best resume of the human nature.
After the happening in Sri Lanka the mood is mournful ray: and we usually don't celebrate the Earth Day here. But agronomists was choose this day for protesting against unloyal competition.

Trudy, good luck with finding new oven which to like! How great that you will be able to meet your husband's sister! Which painting she is liked? The dark one is soo gorgeous! My sister told me she is were needs four months only adding products before to make first sale on Etsy. Honestly, I don't remember, but it was slow too! So don't be disappointed from slowly start!

Jean, the story about the Easter bunny is so cute! And about the space explorers I definitely want to watch this movie! Even I don't want them to continue with the colonization, because they will destroy other planets as we doing with the Earth! Before few days was 40 years since the space flight of Bulgaria's first astronaut, and they was made nice documentary show. they says that the machines are save many astronauts as replace them on missions, and this is why we don't run this program anymore.

Rae, nice to hear you had fun celebrating! So yo'll be able to meet with your children that live on distance?! How old is Ella now?! Did she get fun with egg hunts?

Nancy, aww, I'm like your husband, I plant things and never remember their names :shame: . Oh, good that his detached retina caught early, indeed! I bet you had awesome celebration having dinner at your son's house, you are such a cheerful family! Aww these secrets found through genealogy tests sounds dangerous. Who wants to found such a secret as brothers from different father? Are this bring some consequences such as loss of heritage? I just adore your Alaska trip album, everybody will love to own copy of it, you should make it gift for your friends and family!

Kay, I hope you feels fine and had nice celebration too!