*good morning hugs and waves* Hope you are all doing fine!


*extra big cheer up hug*

Good morning, Moonshine!

It's a very nice and sunny day today, and I am doing very well.

How is your day? I hope you had a good nights sleep?

Sorry to hear that. *another big cheer up hug*

*big hug* Glad to hear this.
I think I need to check with Hyper if my sending sun worked. Since today there is no sun here. Luckily no rain, but all grey sky. So hopefully the sun went over to Hypers place ;-)
I am doing ok, and I got tons of sleep. In general I need a lot of sleep but can't manage to get that on normal days. So most of the time once a week an evening is happening where I feel tired, hang out on the sofa after I come home and fall asleep.
And that was how it was yesterday. I started watching a crime series and fell asleep after 15-20mins :D Woke up around midnight and changed location from sofa to bed to get more sleep :P

So what are your plans today?

I am glad to hear you are doing okay and that you managed to get a good nights sleep. Hopefully that has helped to catch up on the sleep you miss on normal days.

I am just finishing up with some work with the animals at the moment, then helping with the harvest of some of the winter crops and getting ready for the summer crops. Then onto the greenhouse and then the animals again this afternoon. Tonight I am going to a charity thing at a local pub. It's a kind of talent show, just for fun, and with all the profit and donations going to charity. My partner is playing the violin there, so I'm looking forward to that (I'm so exited to see her play). She is a little nervous about playing in public, as it has been a few years since she last did, but she is really good and I know she will do great. Then the evening will probably end in all of the people who had too much to drink singing karaoke. It's a fun night where we get to enjoy some fun with friends and see some good performances.

How about you, what are your plans for today?

That sounds like a fun evening :-)

My plans for today are nothing special. At work doing some simulations and writing a report about them. And this evening I'll probably play the waiting game (anvil of dawn) a bit more ;-)

Hi dd,Moon..
Let's all go to the pub...

Hey D! :) *Hugs*

The first Holmes stories I read were the half-dozen collected in one of my grandparents' Reader's Digest sets; they were condensed (edited for length), but I never did figure out any noticeable difference. I think they were The Speckled Band, A Scandal in Bohemia, The Dancing Men, Silver Blaze... I'm not sure of the last two. It's been years since I even looked at those books, since one of my great-aunt's Christmas gifts to me one year was a huge compilation of all the Holmes stories, arranged in chronological order (according to one expert, anyway), with extensive notes, vocabularies, cross-references, and essays. It's an amazing book. (I mean physically huge: it's something like 18x12x4" and weighs 8.5 pounds - the first thing I did after unwrapping it was to run to the bathroom and weight it on the bathroom scale.)

I have yet to find a Sherlock that I just can't stand. Jeremy Brett is THE Holmes, to me, although I really like Sherlock and RDJ's versions. I think the earliest Holmes I saw on tv was actually Basil Rathbone, though. I need to hunt down a set of his movies, as I only have a few on VHS. I also have the Russian Holmes show somewhere on an external drive that I need to find again and watch, since I've heard so many marvelous things about it.

Thank you. I've read that tea tree oil can be toxic to cats, as they're much more sensitive to toxins than dogs, so I'd be hesitant about using that even in small doses, since they can build up. That's also part of why I'm so reluctant to use flea collars - although getting one to cut up and put in the vacuum while we clean seems like it might be a good idea.

My husband planted a combination of cat grass, catnip, mint, and lemon basil as something for the cats to have to munch on once it sprouts, and hopefully that will help, too. I suspect that once he's back from his trip, we'll be doing baths* again, followed by flea combs and more house cleaning/flea traps. If they're still around after that, I'll try the one-a-day pills for at least a few days, since they're supposed to work very quickly. (We have three cats, so $25 for 6 pills isn't terrible for medicine, but not exactly cheap, either.)

On the up side, it's not really humid here. Definitely moreso than Montana was, but not enough to present an actual issue as far as the fleas go.

* They all three had their very first baths ever two nights ago. Two of them are 15 and one is almost 5... it was interesting. The girl, who's the ones allergic to fleas, was the one I was most worried about because she's very lovey but very easily frightened/freaked out. I shouldn't have worried. She cried, but once I got in with her, she calmed down enough to cry but not panic and allow us to bathe her. The youngest boy was quiet and patient the entire time, even though he's long-haired and it took forever to even get him wet enough to shampoo. The one I wasn't worried about, the girl's brother, ended up being the one who turned into an acrobatic terror while shrieking - he nearly climbed the side of the shower door using only his front claws! It was pure luck that I managed to hold on to him without getting seriously injured, but I managed to get away without even a scratch.

My older cat, who passed away a few years ago, didn't like baths but didn't mind them if I was in with her and lifted her in to join me, rather than kneeling on the outside and scrubbing her. This seems to have extended to these three, even though we had to use the shower in our (bathtub-less) bathroom - a plug over the drain to have some water for pouring/rinsing and the shower head on low worked very well.

Thank you! I'm sorry I keep whining about things in here. We're not in the living situation we'd like to be in, but we're not in a terrible one, either. I could definitely do without the fleas(!)... but the rest of it really comes down to a matter of timing. My father-in-law will be home tomorrow night, so at least I'll be spared any possibility of having to deal with any of the maddeningly stupid housemates. I have no idea how he puts up with them. >.<

For now, I'm back to 'dealling' with my insomnia by playing random bits of games and semi-watching stupidly funny movies (Airplane! and Naked Gun are on my list - that says it all. Kentucky Fried Movie would be, too, but it's one of my husband's favorite comedies and we haven't seen it in forever, so that one waits until he gets home).

Hello there! *return hug*

How are you today? How's the weather in Germany?

I am glad that you liked Loom *hug* I really hope they'll get Day of the Tentacle here, I am sure you would enjoy it!

And no I have not been infected by Crow. But the game is nice besides the waiting and I really like such games and they make me nostalgic, thinking about Lands of Lore :-)

hey *wave* how was your day?

Fine thanks,I can do a great Arnie impersonation...Wan't to see it,ok here goes:

I'll be back...Good wasn't it?
Edit: It's ok,if you want to call me an idiot:-)

I'm fine :) how are you? The weather turned cold again...

Found why my PC coudn't run many games. It was configured not for performance but to save energy. Just changed the energy plan and voila,RoTT 2013 and Borderlands 2 now run really well.
Also,good morning to everyone that's awake here.

*good morning hug*
That is good new that you can run the games now!