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Good Monday morning. Welcome back Jacqui and thanks to you, Roy and Rich for our Daily reports and maps each day. Thanks for the information on Joseph Brackett today Graham. Unfortunately every day is a diet day for me, it is just a way of life though I guess I blow it once in a while. A great quote by Plato. I will pass on the Kale and the Melon but the German Pinot Noir would be great. It is very hard to find but we had a couple of lovely ones when we visited Germany wine country. Thanks for researching these for us Debbie, Dixie and Anne. I have been to Bar Harbor twice and one time we camped and the other was a day trip drive up from southern Maine. Camping the weather was perfect but it was extremely foggy when we drove up. There still is a restaurant in Seal Harbor I want to go back and visit. Thanks for the Cares and Celebrations Jacqui. I pray you continue to heal and move around better. Jacqui I hope that they can get to the bottom of your poot pain issue and so happy you made it all the say through your cruise without too much pain. My sister broke her foot moving a safe and her doctors kept saying her pain was from bone spurs and poo pooed it. Finally after a year after crying to her doctor they did a MRI and her foot was broken. The year of damage put holes in a large bone in her foot and she had to wear a cast for a long time. I am glad that your nurse took it seriously. Prayers for Richard, Chuck, Tana, Terry and Maurice and everyone on our group that is ailing of grieving. Safe travels home today Sandi. Prayer for Ukraine, the hostages and the innocents in Gaza. A lot of plant sale work to do today. Making tags and going to get the price tags and beginning to price the massive amount of plants I have on my back patio. Sale is on Saturday with a 30% chance of rain. Have a nice Monday, Nancy

@Seasick Sailor thanks for the photo of you and dear hubby. Your partly looked like a lot of fun! Few people around here enjoy horse racing.

Good Sunday morning and Happy Cinco de Mayo, we will use this day as a day to celebrate. Thanks for the Daily and maps Sandi, Roy and Rich. Cartoonists bring us so much joy especially with the fun ones that are shard here every day. Will pass on Chanel #5, my favorite is YSL Paris which I can happily find in duty free shops in our ports. We don't think of children having strokes but it is the same serious problem as with adults, thankfully their brains are more malleable than adults and they can recover more completely. Another quote that makes me think of philosophy class. I look forward to photos of today's Aussie port. Thanks for the care and celebrations report Vanessa. I hope that your sleep in your bed is improving each day. Prayers for Tana, Chuck, Maurice, @Cruzin Terri DH, and healing for @RMLincolns DH. Prayers for all in our group needing them and for those in war zones through no fault of their own, Ukraine, the hostages, and the innocents in Gaza. Well I won with my Derby bet, John lost $3. We both looked at the odds for the near favorites and they were high enough to have profitable win, place show bets. I bet $5 across the board in Sierra Leone and John bet $5 ATB on Forever Young. It made it exciting and I am always happy to see the race won by the "little guy" owners and for the trainer Kenny McPeek who has never in my memory been tainted by drug positives in his horses. He trained the KY Oaks winner too and the jockey had a big payday this weekend, 10% of the winner's share of the $1.5 million Oaks and 10% of the winner's share of the $5 million KY Derby purse. We are celebrating Cinco de Mayo by going to our favorite good food tavern 20 miles away who has great Mexican food. No way are we going to a Mexican restaurant today. Have a lovely day!

@StLouisCruisers Happy Grad Day to DGD Morgan. Have fun today!

Bon Voyage @Heartgrove! 🍾

Bon Voyage @YourWorldWithBill! 🍾

Good morning everyone. I have been to the grocery store first thing this morning. The first race for Oaks day is at 10:30. Thanks for the Daily and the maps Sandi, Rich and Roy. I have some lumpy rugs, I bought some Ruggables which are a great concept, two part rug, the top part is machine washable but the corners like to turn up. A great quote by Rowling. I love carrot cake, I have a recipe with pineapple and coconut that is a sheet cake. It is a hit at parties and pot lucks. I would happily enjoy a rum runner and would love the wine if someone gave me a bottle. Thanks for the lovely photos of Marseille, what a beautiful city. Thanks for the cares and celebrations reports Vanessa. So nice to see several of us are boarding ships in the next couple of days. @Haljo1935 happy birthday wishes for your family! Prayers for Chuck, Tana, Terrie and Maurice. Prayers for all in war zones through no fault of their own Ukraine, the hostages and the innocents in Gaza. Another day of working on housekeeping and preparing for cabin trip throughout the day between watching the races. Have a lovely Friday! Nancy

Montevideo, we did a Holland America wine tour to the beautiful Bouza winery with a fabulous dinner and a tango show. We were there February 13 on the Volendam. Uruguay was beautiful and we were lucky to visit both Montevideo and Punta del Este.

Good morning everyone. Thanks for the Daily and maps Sandi, Roy and Rich! Today the cocktail should be Cuba Libre in honor of Scurvy Day. Switzer's quote sounds a lot like something Mark Twain would have said. I will pass on the sorrel and pumpkin but the Spanish wine sounds wonderful. We were in Montivideo in February 2023 and would love to go back. Hopefully another GSA will be offered in 2026. Thanks for the cares and celebrations reports Vanessa. Prayers for Chuck, Maurice, Jim and Tana and everyone else in our group who needs prayers. Thanks for letting us know that another of the lost souls on the Key Bridge has been located. Prayers for all in war zones through no fault of their own, Ukraine, the hostages and the innocents in Gaza. I am staying home and cleaning house and then moving outside to do yard work. Last night I printed off the Daily Racing Form for tomorrow for the Kentucky Oaks day of horse racing. I will try to start on the Kentucky Derby slate of races this evening if I can stay awake. It is not a good project when sleepy. Have a lovely Thursday! Nancy

@ger_77 Happy to read that Maurice's surgery is on the horizon. @kazu thinking of you today. @StLouisCruisers beautiful progress on the stocking. @marshhawk prayers for Chuck and it was interesting we were both struck by that beautiful black dahlia. All went well with the computer returns at the tribe's government offices. It was supposed to open at 11 but we were through at 10:15. They probably were happy to see a tub of computers versus all around us were the giant tube TVs being recycled.

We, my sis and I, visited Juneau in September 2016 and we were on the Noordam. I went with friends who introduced me to HA. We did a HA tour to the Fish Hatchery, Glacial Gardens and to the Mendenhall Glacier.

Good morning everyone! Thanks for the Daily and maps, Sandi, Roy and Rich! Thanks for apprising us with the meanings of today's days Graham. Not an inspiring quote. I will pass on the pesto meal but would love the bordeaux wine and a Cuba Libre with dark rum like Pusser's. I have been to Juneau once on my first HA cruise. Thanks for the cares and celebrations reports Vanessa, I hope you feel better each day. Prayers for your DHs @marshhawk, @ger_77 and @RMLincoln. @smitty34877prayers for you with all you go through each day and of course for Tana. Prayers for everyone needing them and those in war zones, Ukraine, the hostages and the innocents in Gaza. We are heading out soon to go to our local tribe's E-Waste recycling event. It will allow us to get rid of a stack of old laptops and my late DHs desktop computer. Then we will have a late lunch to celebrate Couples Appreciation Day. I have attached a mini video of the baby swans which all left the nest yesterday. So cute and the light was perfect. Two cream and three gray. They all end up white in the end. Nancy P1250734.MP4

Good morning from sunny SW Michigan. Thanks for the Daily and maps, Sandi, Roy and Rich! Animal advocacy is extremely important, most of the time humans are their only advocates and they fail them. Hurray for Bugs Bunny. Thanks for enlightening me about Beltane @grapau27, I will pass. Good quote from Andersen. I have not been to Kahului, I will look forward to photos as we are going three times in 2025. Coming soon.. I will pass on Cauliflower, but would love a Paloma and today's value, highly related Grenache. I would like to find some, Thanks for the Cares and Celebrations reports Vanessa. I pray that you continue to heal and improve, Prayers for Chuck, Tana and Terrie, I hope your shoulder feels better today. Prayers for all in war zones through no fault of their own, the people of Ukraine, the hostages and the innocents in Gaza. Prayers for all of the police officers and their families who were killed or wounded in Charlotte. Prayers for all cleaning up from the deadly tornadoes. I am heading to my sister's house shortly to dig a bunch of plants that she will be donating to the plant sale, I have two ladies from GC meeting met and then two more coming to the house at noon to pot them up. Have a lovely Tuesday! Nancy

Sounds like we are on the same back to backs to create our get out of Michigan winter. Usually we drive to Fort Lauderdale for our getaways but we had to break down and book flights to San Diego. Nancy and John

@marshhawk Annie, prayers for Chuck. I am so glad that they could get him in tomorrow although he sounds to have a terrible situation. ❤️‍🩹 Prayers for all the families involved in the tornadoes in the midwest. I was watching all the scary videos coming through on Facebook all evening. All went well with my doctor appointment. My Enbrel refills sent to Walgreen's in Iron Mountain for summer. My sharp back pain on turning is sacro-ilieac and not sciatica. I can get a shot in the area if it continues. I know from past injections that the cortisone injections can last a long time with good pain relief. Blood chemistry all normal, CBC continues to be wacky but one number is low, RBC, but CV and one other are high which I think compensates for low red blood cells. Never seems to bother him. We really didn't get any rain to speak of which is fine with me, we have had quite a bit already. Nancy