Happy Tuesday! Belated happy, joyous birthday wishes to Patti! It's sure strange here - all of us facing tough battles. I'm sending positive energy to everyone in need, including your friends and family who are toughing it through some tremendous hardships. May God bless them all, and you too. It's been crazy busy for me. Lots of planting up my plants into bigger pots, still starting seeds on my wire greenhouse stand that I have inside my craft room against a patio door. Been potting up tomato plants that are now blooming and have started forming tomatoes. They are indoor plants - I'm stealing big window space in the hall to grow them on. I'm starting new tomato seedlings over the next month for the outdoor garden - 3rd week in May for me - zone 5a Ontario. Sunday had one hell of a scare. Had to call 911 for DH. I can't recall if I spoke of this or not last Sunday - he had severe dizziness, nausea, vision blacking out and had to lie down. They ruled everything out at the hospital and concluded it must have been a severe bout of vertigo. The only thing they could not explain was the fact that for the first 1 1/2 hours his blood pressure was all over the map into dangerously high levels. A few hours later it calmed right back down to his normal range of 117/65. His family doctor has experienced him having bouts of very weird blood pressure to the point of having dangerous levels and then back down to his normal low. No one can explain that. They did find from the cat scan the beginning of plaque in his neck arteries. Family doc has had his legs scanned at the heart clinic - again the nurse was baffled because of his low blood pressure and he did not seem to be a high risk - but we are waiting for that assessment from last week to get to his doc. Abnormal seems to be our normal - not fitting the textbook standards is the same for both of us. So I have to admit to a few days of horrid eating - carbs, cookies and just plain ol' hungry. Not looking back I started damage control yesterday and have dropped 2 of the 4 pounds I put on. It will come off as it was just my tummy showing those few pounds - plus that stuff I ate probably had salt in it (don't normally use much salt). Spring is here - it's a cool one as forecasted. Fine for me because I have lots of garden beds to put in. I prefer the cool weather when flipped, busting up and raking new beds. I don't over heat that way. I'm still here, just really busy right now. Hang in there everyone. My heart is with you. Don't forget your needs while supporting family and friends. If you can think ahead and prepare some grab'n'go foods/snacks and water you won't be stuck at vending machines or canteen stops. LOL to everyone, Peggy

Glenda's post from yesterday reminded me of a few years ago when my wife and I went to the island of Madeira for a conference. We arrived a day early without a problem, but a huge storm blew through the Northeast that day and my wife's family were sending pictures of the snow like my picture above to the family e-mail list, comparing who got hit the worst. So my wife posted the following picture to the thread that we had taken on a walk from the hotel to downtown Funchel, Madeira just that morning. A friend of hers was supposed to be the keynote speaker at the conference, but since his flight was to have been a day later, it was canceled and he missed the conference entirely.

Prairie Rose, I have one other antler, so I guess I am starting a collection? LOL I'm not very artistic, so I will just be keeping them in their natural state. :) Marcia, here is a weird looking bird I saw at the San Diego Zoo a few years ago. I have forgotten the poor bird's name. It looks like something out of the Flintstones!!

The latest puzzle.... how to get it all back in the carousel it came out of. There is 3 such carousels in my kitchen. DH is deep cleaning everything.