Happy Cool Monday! :) Sunny nature, simple joys, browsing collectibles, and health updates :)
Happy Cool Monday! :) We're enjoying a nice day, blossoming into the new week with some of our favorite simple joys :) nature, sports radio, and browsing collectibles :) We're very happy and excited to share in the new week with everyone, with continued blossoming spring season nature :) It's been a nice stretch of days :) We enjoyed the weekend, and are very excited to enjoy some super fun, upcoming gardening adventures in the month of May, our biggest planting month of the year :) We're going to plant vegetable seeds, and lots and lots of flowers, especially sunflowers, that will create a summer of blossoming all around our yard, and garden :)We look forward to sharing our adventures and our garden with everyone :) Holly and i are enjoying the sports radio, with all of the post-nfl draft football talk, and basketball talk :) The Celtics have a big game tonight, game 4 of their series :) We look forward to cheering for the Celtics :) i'm browsing some gifts, and collectibles online :) i love to browse, and gonna add some more coins into my collection soon :) i'm continuing to take very good care, i've had some poison ivy/oak that i've been trying to get rid of, and to heal from. my arm is improving, but i have it on my right side, i'm using calamine lotion, and also have itch-gel. i'm determined to fully heal :) it's been a challenge, but am gonna get better :) Thank you angel friends for your continued well wishes, prayers, and for always being there for us :) We'll always be here for you all too :) Enjoying a nice day, with family, friends, nature, sports, collectibles, and the wonderful spirit of the spring season :) Tomorrow's sweet treats tuesday! :)We look forward to enjoying some nice treats :)
Happy new week! :) Hi angel friends! :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a nice day :) We think of you all often :) We're very happy and excited to enjoy blossoming into the new week with everyone, and sharing in continued joys of the spring season :) We're hearing lots of happy birds singing outside our windows, including robins and more :) There's lots of sunshine ,and we have warm air :) it feels like classic spring :) it's such an exciting time of the year, and lots of great joyful nature that brings lots of spirit soaring sights :) We're very excited to get more and more into the gardening season, and all of our super fun adventures in the upcoming month :) May is our biggest gardening month of the year :) We look forward to sharing all of our adventures, and lots more great things to look forward too, as the new month of May arrives soon :) birthday's, special occasions, nature, gardening, sports, and so much more! :)Thank you angel friends, for sharing in the season with us, and for making each day very special, and memorable :) We love you all bunches and bunches! :) Wishing everyone continued joys of the season :) Happy sunny smiles :)
Health update/news :) Hi angel friends, i want to share some health updates. i recently shared about how during one of our yard, and garden work days, i got poison ivy/oak. i've been continuing to get rid of it, and to heal. it's been a challenge at times. it first began on my right arm, and spread to my right hip/side. i've been using calamine lotion, each day, about twice a day (in the morning and night). it's been frustrating, trying to get rid of it. i'm determined to heal. my mom and dad picked up some itch-x for me, which helps with the itch, and Jenn gave me some benedryl gel, which Mikey recently used, as he had poison sumac on his feet. my right arm seems to be getting better, it's been burning a bit from using the itch-x gel, and using lots of calamine lotion. my right arm looks like a mess, and is red, but the burning does ease. i haven't put anything on my right arm today, but have some bandaids on it. it's been frustrating me a lot, and i've been being very careful so that the poison ivy doesn't spread more. my right arm skin is very dry, from using the calamine lotion, and the itch-x.
i used the benedryl gel on my side/hip this morning, and gonna continue to use that, in homes of getting back to fully healed. it's been hard going around with lots of calamine lotion on my arm, and washing my hands very often. i'm determined to heal, and you all have been helping me keep in good spirits, and focused on my writings, sharings about our days, and nature :) i'll keep everyone updated. i know poison ivy/oak/sumac, can last up to 3 weeks or so, i'm still in that time range. if it gets worse, i i will definitely go to the medical center, but am hoping this is the week i really get on top of things. i've been keeping in good spirits, this year hasn't been the most easiest when it comes to health, with what i went through in January, and now with poison ivy/oak. i'm hoping, and praying for the best of good health for us all, and peacefulness :) Thank you angel friends, for your comforting prayers, and support :) keeping up with my daily writings and routines is helping me :) i've had my right arm wrapped in a cold wet towel today, while typing, it helps bring soothing feeling :)
This morning, we had a great new day, rising and shining :) i was up early this morning, enjoying some nice time here on DS, writing to friends, and getting ready for my early morning nature walk :) Lots of great spring time nature blossoming all around, it's very exciting to see all of the spring nature sights, and lots of our happy nature friends visiting our yard :) The golden bright spring sunshine is a pure joy too :) our windows and curtains glow nicely bright, from the sunshine :) i gathered a nice bowl of goodies ,and went outside for my nature walk :) our nature friends, and the sunshine greeted me :) it's so nice, these sunny spring mornings :) i saw lots of happy birds flying around, and the nature glowing from the sunshine :) i put los of goodies in our backyard, bird sanctuary area for our nature friends :) they love gathering the goodies ,they're enjoying lots of sunflower seeds, and peanuts :) i love looking around at all of the nature :) our lilacs have began to blossom, and also our winesap apple tree has began to blossom :) We love our fruit trees :)
We have a winesap apple tree, a golden delicious apple tree, 2 Asian pear trees, and a granny smith apple tree, macintosh apple tree, and a peach tree :) we'll always remember the season we had a bumper crop (huge crop) of apples, and we had so many apples, we put the apples on our picnic table in our backyard, and anytime we needed apples, we just went out back into our yard to get some apples off the table :) i think there were over 200 apples that season, we baked all kinds of apple goodies : )it was incredible :) we always hope for a season like that :) our plants, flower bushes ,and trees are doing well :) it's very nice, seeing the wildflowers blossoming, and our dogwood tree blossoming :) Holly and i love our nature walks, and looking forward to getting out into our garden more :) it's been a bit of a challenge, with coping with poison ivy/oak, and also with the recent colder weather, but we'll get out there more very soon to get our gardens fully ready :) i've been focusing on getting my full health back, overcoming this poison ivy/oak, and looking forward to a great new gardening season to share in :) Happy sunny nature smiles :)
It was a nice early morning :)We enjoyed our breakfast, and having some chamomile tea with water :) Holly and i put the sports radio on :) We love tuning into our favorite sports radio during the week days :) there's lots of great post-nfl draft football talk, and basketball talk with the nba playoffs in full swing :) We're very excited to cheer on the Celtics tonight :) We hope they have a big win in game 4, and get closer to advancing to the 2nd round of the playoffs :) we love our sports :) i'm browsing some cool gifts, and collectibles online :) i look forward to buying some more of the homerun challenge cards, those are fun and neat to try to win :) our local walmart has lots of sports trading cards, i have a $20 walmart gift card to enjoy, i'm gonna buy a box of the baseball cards, and may get a homerun challenge card :) i love sports cards, and looking forward to buying some new ,2024 football cards, hoping to pick out some rookie cards, of the new nfl players :) i'll keep everyone updated on my collectibles purchases :)
We're enjoying a nice day ,blossoming into the new week with some of our favorite simple joys :) my family, Holly, and i are doing well, healthy, and in good spirits :) We enjoyed a nice lunch, and having some snacks, and drinks :) i had some nice carrots with ranch sour cream dip, it's one of my favorite snacks :) Tiger girl has been enjoying playing with her toys, she has so much fun with the plastic eggs, and chasing them around our downstairs apartment :) We're enjoying the sports radio, and looking forward to checking in on the Celtics game tonight, lets go Celtics! :) Holly and i are going to watch 2 episodes of 21 jump street show :) tomorrow's sweet treats tuesday! :) we look forward to enjoying some treats, and also going to enjoy some writing time :)
There's so much more to look forward too, as the spring season continues on :) Flowers sprouting, and blossoming, and that classic spring time spirit :) Spring is filled with lots of awesome seasonal festivities, traditions, and birthday celebrations to share in :) We love the special times, and celebrations from month to month as the year goes on :)We're so happy to celebrate all of the excitement of the season with everyone :) the nba playoffs beginning :) Lets Go Celtics! :) We cherish and treasure, the many special memories being made :) We're very happy, thankful, and blessed, to have you all in our lives, and to be able to share in these very special times of the season with you all :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for all that you do for us, for comforting us, uplifting our spirits, brightening our days, and for the very special joy you all bring our hearts :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) Big group happy sunny warm caring friendship hug :) We wish everyone a nice peaceful evening and night :)
-never lose hope :)
To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, we're enjoying a nice day, blossoming into the new week :)We're enjoying some nature walks ,sports radio, and also browsing for some collectibles :) We're looking forward to enjoying our shows, and all of the upcoming times as the spring season continues to blossom and shine :) Thinking of you, our dear friend :)
my mom ,Holly ,and family says hi :) We hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a nice day :) awww! :)We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We think of you all often, and are very happy and excited to share in many more great times, as spring season continues to shine :)
Happy spring nature smiles :) hi angel friends! :) We had some great sunshine earlier, it did get a bit cloudy, but has remained nicely warm outside :) Holly and i enjoyed a nice nature walk :) We love checking in on our plants, fruit trees, and garden :) The nature is spirit soaring, as spring blossoms :) We're very happy and excited, for all of our upcoming nature walks, and gardening adventures s we get ready to blossom ino the month of May :)
Our Lilacs are blossoming :)


Winesap apple tree blossoms :)

fruit trees :)

we have lots of raspberry bushes in this area of our yard :)

Forsithia flower bush :)

we look forward to getting lots of plants growing in our greenhouse :)


grapevines truellis :)

We're going to plant flowers, in this garden area :)


Pear tree :)


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Hi Chris Glad you Holly and your family are doing well enjoying your Monday. Hope your poison ivy/oak gets better soon and you get rid of the plants in your yard as well. I know you're looking forward to lots of nice garden work coming up. The flowers and trees blooming in your yard are beautiful there in your photos Thanks for all my nice hugs today. Have a good evening. Hugs to everyone-Stephanie
Sorry to hear you"re still dealing with Poison Ivy. Have you removed the plants? My dad was so allergic he would catch it in the air/wind. Didn"t even have to touch it.
My late son was another severe case. He had to get steroid meds at the ER. I think it might be time to visit a Doctor??
Go Celtics & Leafs, game 4 tonight. Thanks for sharing your day & pics. Hugs! Brooke & Henri
Oh no!! Poison ivy is awful! I got a severe case from neighbors burning branches when I was a child. Please see a doctor if you feel like it’s getting worse. I remember the pink lotion that dried it up. Sending healing prayers to you.
Poison ivy is very hard to treat on your own, you might want to go to a doctor. I remember my friend's daughter got it and they took her to urgent care and they prescribed some meds for her. Did you get rid of the poison ivy in your yard? I love the garden shots you took. Feel better. Hugs
I’m sorry that you’re still dealing with the poison ivy, please be very careful when you’re outside and contact the doctor if it seems to be getting worse
Glad that you and Holly are enjoying the beautiful weather and looking forward to starting your garden. For sharing. So many amazing meet you pics, your lilacs are beautiful.!
I hope you and Holly enjoy your sweet treats Tuesday, hugs