...the wisteria is coming into bloom and the camelias already are in bloom so it's very lovely in the back yard and the bees are happy to visit.

Pictures?

In my neighborhood the maples have been blooming, which gives me a little hay fever, and the Bradford pears have just started to pop. Nothing from the redbuds yet.

But it is a nice day, and I think I am going to try to get out and about and look for photo ops.

I want to say upfront that I never try to meara one because my memory is terrible and two because it’s often hundreds of posts that I read before posting, and a meara would be 17 paragraphs! So please accept my recency bias.

Jesse, I’m looking forward to living close enough to you to become part of your movie-going rotation! And shrift, I miss being part of your movie-going rotation!

David and JZ I’m so excited about your new adventure as homeowners (or as I like to call myself, “historic home steward”!) and it’s wonderful you’re seeing so much of E & K now.

Pictures?

Jacqueline just posted this on FB: [link]

David and JZ I’m so excited about your new adventure as homeowners (or as I like to call myself, “historic home steward”!)

Thank you! And that was actually an important shift in mind-set we had to make as we prepared to buy a 110 year old house. It comes with necessary stewardship. (Curiously, the thing that helped the most was watching clips from It's A Wonderful Life and Mary converting the old abandoned mansion into their home.)

and it’s wonderful you’re seeing so much of E & K now.

It is! I mean, parents are usually happy to see their grown kids anyway, but Emmett is really just fun company. His sense of humor is highly compatible with my own because I INSTALLED IT.

Or trained it up at least. Plus when he and Matilda get together they're very laughy.

Aw that all sounds very nice, Hec. And hi Javachik!!

I am hanging with my sister and baking and watching Bridgerton and I wish they lived closer. Booo. Because I love visiting but I miss my puppy!!

and a meara would be 17 paragraphs!

I want to note for the record that I remember meara doing mearas that had at least 30+ quotes and responses. Back in WX days when we would read every post.

That sounds so great, Hec! I’m so glad for you all.

I experimented with a weekend trip to the gym this morning and it was nice so hopefully that will help me motivate to get up and go on future Saturdays. Have not done any yard work yet but that is still the plan, just after some resting and killing about. The front yard is shady in the afternoon anyway.

I am looking forward to selling my home exercise equipment (I really only use the treadmill), and joining a gym after I move, -t. I miss the ritual and the buzz of people around me.

I can’t cut and paste easily (from multiple posts) on my phone or iPad, which I primarily read the board on, so a meara is tricky. I’ll say tho that unlike the WX days, we have an overwhelming amount of social media, and so just keeping up, much less, interacting, on all platforms is just something I can’t do.

Timelies all!

Ugh. Mr. S woke me up at 6:20 for no reason, and would not let me get any rest-asking for this , that and the other thing. We eventually got his meds in him. He has spent most of the day asleep on the computer room couch. Of course I worry that he won't go to sleep tonight.

Meanwhile, I've been to the supermarket, gotten lunch for all of us and am doing laundry. I'm sooo tired, and I need a break.

{{{Sheryl}}}

It’s nice to see your pixels here, Nanita! I’ve started the same couch to 5k training I did, um, 8 years ago, again. I’m finding it easier to make myself go to the gym and use the treadmill than just run around the neighborhood which is counterintuitive but I’m rolling with it. And if I go 25 times a quarter I can get reimbursed for nearly all my fees by my company, so that’s some good motivation.