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March 31, 2023

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Bruce

Glad to hear John is back from his adventure. Sounds to me like you're eating well, even if for some odd reason you seem not to like peppers. Better watch out for that pizza and those tamales. They may have peppers a-hiding! :D Oh, and Mari, of course, is beautiful, as always.

Pam Donaldson

Have a lovely weekend!

AC

i have a cat on me . . . Oh no, she’s off. The ten minute cat is off. Sometimes, I don’t know why she comes. She was just here. We both got up. I came back; she came back.

Those boys are cute together. Enjoy the springing, We win’s there yet. It’s miserable today — sleety. Yuck.

Susan

Your tree lined street is very beautiful. After a cold Winter, flowering trees are so welcomed. Shopping for the new baby with A and your mother should be good fun. I suspect there is lots of preparation in the works including a lovely nursery in A's new home. John and his brother did well to drive the newly purchased car home without incident. The repairs they made worked well. I'm impressed. That is a very sweet photo of N and O. Mari looks very regal in the photo you posted. She definitely poses for a photo.

Karen Sullivan

So happy John is home safely and you get to see him this weekend. Have a great time with your daughters and grandsons. Spring looks lovely where you live!

Anne@HeadFullofBooks

The boys!!! Such love. That photo makes me want to clutch my chest. Aww...

Ed

I have seen those just add egg things in the store but have never tried one. I have been disappointed with just about every breakfast type of convenience food I have ever tried. If it were me, I would just spend 10 minutes and dice up veggies to store in a plastic Tupperware container in the fridge and then use it as I scramble eggs in the morning. Let me know if those are any different.

There is a neon pink house that I drive by most days. I'm not sure why people do such things. For me, it isn't so much the color as the knowledge that the next coat of paint, especially a lighter neutral shade, will be a bear to put on. Not only will it require multiple coats to cover up that blue, but any overages where the blue paint actually got on the trim, will then really stand out leaving you with no option but to paint the trim as well.

Maureen

I'll throw most any odds and ends from the fridge in my eggs - as long as a little cheese makes it in there too. My builder tried to get me to use that blue on the bathroom vanity. Oh no, my eyes can't take that brightness in the morning!

kayak woman

I actually like brightly colored houses and wish mine was something other than olive green although I admit I probably wouldn't go bright. Let us know how those breakfast thingies are. They might be handy for my husband in his camper.

Deborah Weber

That photo of the boys is so precious. And how lovely your flowering trees are. Still too early here, but I'm so ready to bask in their fabulosity when they do show up.

Ally Bean

I don't like that color of blue at all and am saying a quiet blessing about living in a subdivision with a reasonable HOA. Hope you get to spend some time with John, he who is inexplicably upbeat.

Wendy

I bought a couple of the Jimmy Dean breakfast meals and they were so so. Won't buy them again, but I will have to look for these Crack an egg ones. I too love breakfast anytime of the day. Mmm!
Your flowering trees along the roads are gorgeous. We are finally warming up and its melting and we can see bare ground again. Hallelujah! Will be awhile before we have anything poking up and flowering.
your little grandsons are so precious. Happy to hear John is back and you can catch up again Wendy

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