Home again.

I'm so pleased you're home and feeling a little better Olwyn Mary. Please don't try to rush things as that can set your recovery back. You need to conserve your energy until you are really well again.

Bernadette

Sorry to hear that and hope that she recovers with care.

All good thoughts and wishes,

ellice

Dennis I'm sorry to hear that and I thought she was doing so well. I'm still praying for health for Gail and strength for you.

LOL! Well, Bruce, the answer you give is "It's just because it's Tuesday (or whatever day it happens to be) and you're the most wonderful person in my world." Works great for my DH. lol

Although, be careful. I called him at the office once to ask him to stop at the grocery for a couple things once. He came in with a dozen roses that had "just jumped right in the cart too!" ;) Now, I leave a few things off my grocery trips on purpose. lol

Sharon

Olwyn Mary wrote in news:46706a8f$0$10194$88260bb3 @free.teranews.com:

Take care of yourself and get well... the sewing will be there when you're feeling better.

Dear Teri: I'm sorry you are having it too, it is not nice. Actually, an R.N. in the hospital gave me a long lecture about being a "functioning invalid" and not getting help a lot sooner. About the books, that is very kind of you, but I think the postage would be outrageous. I have one friend who "haunts" the second-hand paperback stores, and keeps me supplied. (I do her mending for her in return.) You might want to try this with your books, around here they generally pay you one-quarter of the new price for books you turn in, and you pay them one-half of the retail price when you buy one, so you end up getting lots of books for one-quarter the price. Sorry if this is incoherent, I am downstairs for the first time, and still pretty shaky.

Olwyn Mary.

Take it easy Olwyn Mary - go for the marathon not the sprint!

Well this teaches you to bring flowers all the time ,,,,, let`s say every sunday !!!! mirjam

Nice idea but our local shop rarely has cut flowers for sale. I suppose I could buy a small pot plant instead but it isn't really the same is it?

A nice bouquet of wild flowers are nice too... and they don't cost anything. I have seen some really nice wild flowers in gorgeous colours on walks on the path where the train tracks used to be just outside of town here. :o)

This is true, but many "wild" flowers have scents that make them a very poor choice for bouquets. I remember picking a big bunch of beautiful, big, wild daises, and after I brought them in the house and put them in a vase, the whole room began to stink like very strong cat urine; and it was the daises.

me

In some places, it is illegal to pick wildflowers. Don't get caught picking California poppies, for instance. The fines are a lot higher than buying a bouquet at the supermarket.

And it's far nicer to leave the wild flowers where they are so others can enjoy them

I agree with you, some like our lady slippers never grow again if picked. It's also a good thing not to cross post, this was posted to quilts and to yarn.

Isn't that truly sad.. I can remember picking wild "black-eyed susans" for my mother when I was a child in California.. They grew everywhere in vast fields before southern California became so built-up.

(Now having visions of little children being locked up for picking flowers... *SHUDDER* )

me

It is sad, but understandable in urban areas where community parks and natural spaces must be protected. In our city, if picking flowers in provincial and municipal parks were allowed the parks would be stripped and the average person (or child) would never see one. Besides, not to be too cynical, but you just know someone's going to be out there picking the flowers from the park and selling them at a kiosk at the park gate.

The world has changed since we were children ... I guess we have to take the bad with the good.

Murielle

Very true! Plus, if we don't leave them to go to seed, next year there will be fewer, and the following year, even less, until there are no more at all!