MORNING ROLL CALL March 2025

[DaveMcK]

MORNING ROLL CALL MARCH 2025

Top of the morning to everyone on this First day of

MARCH 2025 

Happy Birthday to all of our MARCH Birthday members.

[Spring2025]

Well Lisa @LisaS961881 my Dollar Tree had adult books for years, at least they were there when I moved to this location in 2018. I was nearer to Washington DC and Arlington before my daughtet returned to Florida. We had both moved from Florida in 2015. She hated Virginia. I luv it!!! Anyway, the books went bye bye in 2020.

ENJOY - you DESERVE it!!!  👍

Take care,

Nicole  👵

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[*** @LisaS961881 wrote 3/29/25:

Nicole,

   Maybe your Dollar Tree will have books soon too.  Mine only began offering adult books last November.  While they seem to only appear every three weeks or so, I’ve nabbed hardcover titles from J.D.Robb, Catherine Coulter, Lisa Gardner, Victoria Gilbert, and several cozy mystery authors !

When I see the books in stock, I buy a bunch. While they are not free, like the ones in the library are, I save them for a rainy day when I don’t feel like making a trip to the library.

(Or, on a sunny day like today, as my reward for putting down 8 bags of mulch this morning!). ….going to read outdoors for a bit! ☀️

Lisa ***]

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[Spring2025]

[Thursday 3/27/25]

(1) Papaw @papawofboo ,

any luck with finding BULBS at Dollar Tree?  🤔  I did find some more at another Dollar Tree and planted them in a container on my porch with the CORRECT end up  THIS TIME.  😉

(2) Lisa @LisaS961881 , I wonder WHEN your seeds will be popping up?  🤔  Thanks for letting me know that Dollar Tree carries the red pepper flakes. I need to stop by to see IF my stores here in Virginia has them. Hope so!

(3) @LaDolceVita , hmmm - I am looking forward to that garden picture you promised me.  🙃

(4) @catwoman500 , please keep me in mind for any news about your 2025 flowers. I bet it is a pretty sight indeed. Any FAVORITES?  🤔

(5) Luv to the kids @MsStretch  🐈💛🐈💛

Take care,

Nicole  👵

[papawofboo]

I found them. Got 4 pkgs. As much as I have paid for them in the past, just bet these cheap ones do the trick.

Those high price tulips are starting to pop up. Hope to finish all my planting tomorrow. I had mulch and rock delivered today. After that all that's left is watering, feeding the birds, fixing the drink of the day and fireing up the grill.

[Spring2025]

Papaw @papawofboo , keep me in mind for updates and pictures. NO pressure as usual.  😉

Take care,

Nicole  👵

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[*** @papawofboo wrote 3/27/25:

I found them. Got 4 pkgs. As much as I have paid for them in the past, just bet these cheap ones do the trick.

Those high price tulips are starting to pop up. Hope to finish all my planting tomorrow. I had mulch and rock delivered today. After that all that's left is watering, feeding the birds, fixing the drink of the day and fireing up the grill. ***]

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[papawofboo]

Here is those 5 year bulbs I was talking about, these photos' are from past years but they are all coming up again this year.

[Spring2025]

Oh my goodness Papaw @papawofboo , luv the colors. Hmmm, you going to tell me WHAT they are as you know I am NEW to bulbs. Now you may have already done this and my OLD eyes is missing this. Gosh, I hope at least ONE of my bulbs do something.

Take care,

Nicole  👵

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[*** @papawofboo wrote 3/30/25:

Here is those 5 year bulbs I was talking about, these photos' are from past years but they are all coming up again this year.***]

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[papawofboo]

the orange is a lily and the blue is called a ballon plant. They are planted in pots and in the fall of the year I take leaves and fill up the pot so that snow or sleet will not be directly on top of them. 

[Spring2025]

Got it Papaw @papawofboo , I will do the SAME for mine. Have some in ground (WRONG end ones  🙄) and the rest in pots (correct end ones  👍).

Take care,

Nicole  👵

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[*** @papawofboo wrote 3/30/25:

the orange is a lily and the blue is called a ballon plant. They are planted in pots and in the fall of the year I take leaves and fill up the pot so that snow or sleet will not be directly on top of them. ***]

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[LisaS961881]

Last Summer - looking out my back door!

[Spring2025]

Lisa @LisaS961881 totally AWESOME!!!

Take care,

Nicole  👵

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[*** @LisaS961881 wrote 3/27/25: 📸 Picture Attached.

Last Summer - looking out my back door!

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[LisaS961881]

while it is still quite cold up here in NW New Jersey, this photo shows how well red pepper and peppermint worked to deter the deer.…..

I swear, when the deer see my hosta, they think, “Yippie!  Free buffet!”,but I’ve finally found the solution! 🙂

[LaDolceVita]

@catwoman500   I did not watch Marie Antoinette but with your recommendation I will watch on Passport.  I watched the first season of Sissy and it was on the trashy side, did not follow the book much and tried to fill it with salacious details and I  sort of gave up on historical dramas, fearing more of the same.  @MsStretch  very cute cats.   @Spring2025 I am still reading The Magic Mountain by Thomas. Mann.  It is not a quick read, but worth the time!   It was a recommendation. on one of your threads so kudos on that 😀.  

[Spring2025]

@MsStretch , WE are so lucky to be picked by these furbabies to be their human.  💛🐈💛🐈💛🐈

Three picture(s) Attached hopefully./lol

[MsStretch]

@Spring2025 , Mister is bringing you a gift!  Most sources I have read agree that the predatory instinct in cats, even domesticated and well-fed cats, is strong.  Since Mister views you as part of his social group, he is bringing you a live critter to teach you to hunt, since in their minds, humans suck at it.  A dead critter is providing for you, bringing you food.  Cats will often bring their prey to a place they are comfortable at.

Stellar (Giorgio's brother) was the hunter of the family.  But he didn't like to share.  He would parade around proudly with his prey in his mouth and then, he would hog it all to himself, although I did once observe him drop a live mouse in front of his mother (Willie Mae) and the chase was on, including me who was actually trying to give the mouse a second chance.  Willie Mae and Giorgio don't seem to be that much into stalking and hunting.  They will go after a critter they see, but I think it's mostly for the chase.   

[Spring2025]

@MsStretch , Mister HIDES in the bushes out front to catch critters.  😭

[MsStretch]

@Spring2025 , I get the kids' food from Chewy.  Used to get it from Walmart or Petsmart, but when they got picky and during Covid and there was a shortage of certain cat foods, went to Chewy.  Kids love Friskies shreds, but can take or mostly leave the poultry or beef varieties.  I am on auto-ship.  I don't get it as often since it's only Willie Mae and Giorgio now.  My own sweet Delilah (indoor) and Stellar and Armani and BUC are now only precious memories.  They eat a variety of dry food and love the crunchy treats, not so much the chewy ones like Temptations.  And to think when I first discovered a feral mama and her two babies living under my deck, they were ecstatic over the stinky cheapie DG-brand food I got them.  Their tastes have definitely refined over the years. 😼🙄

Yes, I did go on an adventure in Shenandoah NP yesterday.  We returned to an old cemetery that we visited over twenty years ago!  The reason for the return was I had an old picture of an inscribed fieldstone that we found then, and no one else had seen or found it nor was it documented in the updated cemetery files of the NPS archives (although I was informed that my picture was added to the file with the year found -- 2005).  So we were determined to find it again.  Sadly, we did not.  Probably covered over, trees might have fallen on it, greenbriar might have made it inaccessible (not that we didn't try, got plenty of scratches to confirm and a couple of new tears in my pants).  We did discover a few new fieldstones in a corner that we hadn't seen before, none of them inscribed.  So not a total loss and it was a good day for a walk in the Park.

[Spring2025]

So we have a celebrity in the house!!! Can I have your autograph @MsStretch /lol. I will check out Chewy - thanks. I am his OPTION when Roz does NOT have any LEFTOVERS from her cat Sweetie. By the way, been meaning to ask and keep forgetting. Have any of your furbabies bought you dead/alive critters? I nearly evicted Mister LAST year May when I inherited him. Ms. G had warned me. Anyway, 1st gift was an alive Chipmunk in his mouth.  😭  I was leaving my door ajar, if you remember. IN comes my boy with it in his mouth. But it escaped as he was coming in and ran to my utility closet by door. It was a DAY AND NIGHT trying to get it OUTSIDE and Mister away from it. Poor thing. 2nd and LAST gift was a DEAD one on my porch step. After fussing with him AGAIN, swept it off my step.  🤮  Lol, NO more gifts = got my message.

[Spring2025]

📚  BOOK DISCUSION!!!

@LaDolceVita , what are you reading?  🤔

Attaching NEW book from library I picked up just now. 2 weeks to read.  😱

[LaDolceVita]

@Spring2025   Most perennials will go dormant in the winter.  Will post pictures when in bloom, I hope!

[Spring2025]

YES please @LaDolceVita !!!  👍

@MsStretch , did your hiking/trip happen?  🤔

@papawofboo and @catwoman500 , hope you are well.

Luv to the kids 🐈💛🐈

[Spring2025]

📺  PBS DISCUSSION!!!

@catwoman500 , can you let me know (when you know) when Season 2 of The Marlow Murder Club happens.

Hmmm, my fav Grantchester was SIDNEY with his handsome self. But will check out Grantchester when it returns.

NO thank you for Call The Midwife. Lol, my labor & delivery of my one child is all I want to deal with.  😱

But glad it is back for you!!!  👍

[catwoman500]

@Spring2025  Will let you all know about Marlow Murder Club when I find out.

@Spring2025, @LaDolceVita Not sure if either of you watched Season One of Marie Antionette, but season 2 starts Sunday. I really enjoyed the first season.

Marie Antoinette, season two

Sunday, March 23 | 10 p.m. on WHYY-TV 

In season two of this acclaimed series, Marie Antoinette and Louis prove to be compassionate and capable rulers, embracing modern ideas that prioritize rewarding talent over inherited privilege. However, enemies lurk in every corner, even within the halls of Versailles and disastrous consequences loom as the revolt rumbles on. Binge the entire new season the night of the premiere or catch up on the first one on-demand with WHYY Passport.

[Spring2025]

Thanks @catwoman500 and NO to Marie Antionette.

[Spring2025]

[Wednesday 3/19/25]

👋  @LaDolceVita @papawofboo @MsStretch @catwoman500 !!!

📸  Picture Attached.

It is about 4pm ET and 79 degrees for me in Virginia. Just dumped my 2 bags of Dollar Tree potting soil and seeds & bulbs. Now to see what happens.  🙃

[Spring2025]

WRONG END.  ☹

Papaw @papawofboo , I should have READ the bulb "instructions" BEFORE planting them today. Lol, I just threw them into holes. NO telling IF correct end is pointing UP.  🤔  I should dig them up to check. Maybe tomorrow... Lesson learn't. Hope you find bulbs are your local Dollar Tree(s). Oh, got a Hummingbird Feeder at Dollar Tree. 1st timer. Will MIX the nectar pouch in April. Now I DID read that.  👍

[papawofboo]

Don't fool with digging them up, Mother Nature will correct the problem just may take a little longer. Good luck on feeder. I never saw a hummingbird, so I did away with mine. Later in the summer a hummingbird showed up at one of my flowers, scared the p out of me. Them things move fast.

[Spring2025]

Thanks Papaw @papawofboo , and YES they do!!!

[LaDolceVita]

@catwoman500  Thanks for "Ms Austen", will keep an eye out, none of my emails from PBS have mentioned it.  @Spring2025  Sounds like you are having fun with your gardening.  My hubby does all the gardening and I just listen to his troubles.   We grow mostly veggies.  BTW the trumpet vine from last year are still alive.

[Spring2025]

Interesting @LaDolceVita - did it do well in your winter in Georgia? Or died away and NOW growing back for spring.

Lol, I am SO GLAD @catwoman500 posted about PBS as I NO longer get their emails.  ☹

@MsStretch , where do you buy the kids' food? Just came from my regular Dollar Tree for my weekly get Mister food. Asked manager what is going on? Seems like this store with nice HUGE packs of cat food are NOW like the OTHER Dollar Trees = either NO cat food or ONLY the small packs of Temptations. Now like with Walmart's Friskies, he ALSO luvs Temptations. But the Pounce and 9lives packs are HUGE. Lol, he eats the Temptations in 1 sitting.  😱  Tiny packs!!! Now he really NEEDS a job IF I have to return to Walmart Friskies. He is eating better than me when I do./lol  🤣😂

[Spring2025]

🌷  Papa @papawofboo , I did find 2 packs of BULBS at Dollar Tree today. Each $1.25 pack had 3 seeds (or whatever they are called). 📸  Picture Attached. *** Have YOU grown these?  🤔  Hmmm, wonder IF they will return like your bulbs have for 5 years. Lol, now to hope Mister  🐈  does NOT dig them up.  🤔