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@durangoscots I am sorry to read about the loss of your DF. 😿

@Heartgrove beautiful home, I am sure they went through a bit of paint to complete your house.

Good morning. Thanks for the Daily and Fleet Reports. I will pass on milk chocolate, no water parks either. The Buffalo Soldiers should have a day and more to recognize them. Great quote by George Harrison. Looking forward to today's port. Baked ziti recipes look wonderful, pass on the cocktail but the Crianza looks like a winner. Thanks for the Cares and Celebrations reports. @Cruzin Terri I hope you have gotten your AC issues fixed. Prayers for everyone on our Care list and the people of Ukraine. We chose a good day to go to town to watch a 3 hour movie. When we walked out of the theater it was 92 degrees and 20 mph winds, it felt like a car heater. Oppenheimer was a great movie and held our interest the whole time, much better than Indiana Jones we saw a couple of weeks ago. We hustled home without our usual stop for dinner because a huge storm was coming. We got all the groceries in before the rain started and lasted for 3 hours. A day of gardening for me and probably fishing for John. We went out 2 days ago and the fish were biting but it started getting darker and raining. We fished for a while more but John decided it was time to head back. We had caught on keeper walleye so we had a fish fry Wednesday night. We are not short of rain. Have a nice Friday! Nancy

@mamaofami good news on Sam!

Good morning everyone. A strange group of days, my houseplants are too big to take on walks, bagpipes are ok for special occasions but never have been on stilts, closest is a Pogo Stick. Thanks for starting us off each day @richwmn. Quote is a good one. Pass on the chicken, the cocktail and probably the wine from Lodi. THanks fit the photos of today's port @StLouisCruisers. We have been there many times all on BHBs. I probably have all my good photos on my laptop. We are returning next winter and I think we will be three times on our multi back to back trip. Prayers for everyone on our Care list and the people of Ukraine. Prayers for @Scrapnanawho we haven't heard much about since she returned from her Grand Africa. We are heading into town today to get a break from the heat. Tonight we will have a cold front come in sparking predicted severe thunderstorms well after we have returned home. Have a great Thursday! Nancy

Good morning. All or nothing may fit today, we have some light rain due. Due to the heat we planned on fishing. If the boat is all wet it may be nothing. Hopefully the clouds will keep us cooler. No aunts or uncles to celebrate, I think my Dad who passed at age 96 in 2013 outlived them all and that was a gift. Wow what a quote a lot of context to boil it down to the last line. Tacos sound great, the non blue Blue Curacao would be great minus the bitters. Elderton makes great wines. Looking forward to photos of today's port. Prayers for Baby Murphy I hope she is able to get off the ECMO soon. Prayers for all on our Care list and the people of Ukraine. I hope everyone at sea are having a grand time. I guess if it is a nuisance rain I will run the sprinklers to get things wet. I have so many thirsty species like bee balm and Astilbes that they need regular water to look their best. To beat the heat tomorrow we are going to get groceries and see Oppenheimer, if the 3 hour movie isn't too crowded. I doubt with it in three theaters in the building and it will be the matinee. Have a lovely day! Nancy

Good morning everyone. Thanks for the Fleet Reports @richwmn. Nice that culinarians have their day. We could have chili dogs because we had all the ingredients. No sewing today and I hope I have no other needle threading today. A very famous quote from Twain. Garlic shrimp sounds great, will take my espresso neat but the Stump Jump is another good D'Arenburg wine. Cheaper and easier to find than the Laughing Magpie. Haven't been to Singapore. Prayers for @mamaofami DH Sam. Prayers for baby Murphy. Prayers for all on our Care list and the people of Ukraine. @Crazy For Cats beautiful view from near Halifax. Sitting in a really cold house this morning. It went down into the high 40s but going to 90 today. We have three hot days coming up and with no AC we get the logs as cool as we can, shut the cabin up and trap the cool air inside. Another smoke warning today, it really affects my stamina. Have a wonderful day! Nancy My tomato plants are doing well.

Prayers for your DH Sam. I hope that he doesn't need surgery. 🙏 Thanks for starting us off each day Rich. My cousins are in good health but the one that I had interaction with sadly passed away last year due to lupus and vasculitis, his kidneys finally gave out. Amelia Earhart was a trailblazer and a pioneer. Interesting that pioneer day is about the movement across the US of the people of the LDS church. Pass on the quote and the Pasta but Cuba Libre is a favorite of mine but with Pussers dark rum. The Laughing Magpie is a tasty wine, I wish it was in stores more around where we live. Thanks for keeping us updated on events, illnesses and Celebrations @JazzyV. Prayers for baby Murphy I hope she can get off ECMO soon. Prayers for everyone on our Care list and the people of Ukraine. I hope everyone at sea are having a wonderful time. @StLouisCruisers thanks for the pictures of today's port in Tasmania in both gloom and sunlight, it looked like a nice walking city. The brisket turned out great, I will probably always cook it at 275 degrees. It was on at 5:45 am and done at 3 so I could bring it in and wrap it in foil to let it settle before carving. It was fun to watch Harman win the rainy Open yesterday while getting ready for company. I think John will fish today and I will weed in hope of finally getting my mulch down. Beautiful weather here for the next two days then two really hot then back to cool weather. John swears the reason the fish aren't biting is because the lake is so cool with it being below 70 degrees for most of the summer. Have a nice Monday. Nancy Brisket at 205 degrees and some arrangements I made yesterday.

My late DH was a life long MD native. He always used finely chopped curly parsley in his crab cakes. I will return to Baltimore for a Ravens game and we always return home to MI with 2 pounds of MD jumbo lump and 5 pound box of gulf shrimp from Gibby's. We are going in September so fingers crossed if the season will still be open.

This year, Grand South America on the Volendam. Never had been on a Grand voyage before this so I never could compare it to another. Our Spanish chef, the wonderful South American ports and to experience the remoteness and grandeur of Antarctica. We loved the Volendam too. We missed the Falklands and we didn't go to Igauzu Falls and I didn't sign up soon enough to go to Torres del Paine. First time they offer it in January we are repeating.

@summer slope Dixie have a wonderful birthday. Today's cocktail would be a good substitute for birthday cake. 🍾🎂 Good morning everyone. My mother enrolled us in swimming lessons pre school. Another drowning preventer is to heed the posted signs at the beach. Cowboys are a needed occupation and vanilla ice cream is wonderful. Pass on the vegetarian wings, the sweet cocktail but today's wine reads like a winner. Great quote today! Thanks for the photos of today's port @StLouisCruisers. Prayers for baby Murphy and the medications can treat her sepsis, prayers for her parents who must be distraught. Prayers for everyone on our Care list and the people of Ukraine. Today we are having lake neighbors over for a brisket. I got the smoker going at 5:15 and it was ready for the brisket at 5:45. I am smoking it at 275 today, a little bit hotter than normal so we might be able to enjoy it before 6pm. Kosher salt, pepper, garlic powder and some Montreal Steak Seasoning. Have a nice Sunday! Nancy

Good morning. I joined the poor sleep club last night. What I call "false sleep". Waking up frequently thinking I hadn't been sleeping. Maybe too much of my very low caffeine home made ice tea or my new box of tea bags was mislabeled. Bon Voyage to @dfish @Crazy For Catsand @NextOne. Have wonderful trips. 🛳️🍾 That for the Daily and Fleet Reports @richwmn. No hammock here, thanks Graham for explaining Spoonerisms, never knew they had a name. No summer leisure here, string trimming and preparing for a smoked brisket dinner tomorrow. The quote is true. I love joohjeh kabobs. We don't have any of the ingredients and an hour from the nearest store to buy them. Pass on the cocktail but the wine sounds like a good one. @kazu thank you for the wonderful photos of Ceuta. A place I would love to see. @JazzyVthanks for the care and celebrations lists. So happy the Bon Voyage list is firing up big time today. Prayers for all on our Care list and the people of Ukraine. The hummingbirds are looking in the window, that means their feeders are empty. I am regretting only buying one bag of sugar in town, I will just have to make their liquid weaker to stretch it. A few blooms from yesterday, it is time for the Japanese Iris to strut their stuff. Have a nice day. Nancy

I recall seeing it on the Volendam Grand South America, I can't remember what station it was located. If available either the server in Lido or your Lido waiter can find some for you. That being said we always bring our Frank's Hot sauce onboard.

Thankfully the dining is much better than the Denali lodging. It's been a while but we were totally underwhelmed by lodging but the dining in the Lodge was great.

We always carried on a bottle per day and paid the corkage. We drive to FL so we never had a problem getting the wine there. One time we were departing San Diego so I shipped 16 bottles to a friend in Fallbrook and we drove up and retrieved them and rolled them aboard in heavy carry ons. That activity is behind us now. We are 4 Star and get 50% wine packages. We just bring a few special bottles aboard now for specialty restaurant dinners. Getting wine by the glass is a problem if you want a second glass with your main course due to delivery issues from busy wait staff.

@Sharon in AZHappy birthday to your DH Craig! We were in Skagway in September 2016 on the Oosterdam. As usual when it is available I do one of my favorite shore excursions, horse back riding. My sister was with me and dear friends from MD.

Good morning everyone. I am somebody as we all are. No dogs to celebrate in this house, my last one passed NYD 2001. Last year we would have celebrated National Junk Food day but we gained so much weight on the Volendam we are still sticking to diets. A nice quote and I have been to today's port in September 2016. I love meat meatballs. I will wait to find what a Horchata is. I'll come up with another wine today. Thanks for the Daily Reports Rich. @Norseh2o Bon Voyage! Thanks for the Cares and Celebrations Report! Prayers for Baby Murphy, everyone needing them and the people of Ukraine. Today's wine is Beringer Knight's Valley enjoyed on the Zuiderdam December 2019 before the world started falling apart. It is usually around $30 a bottle but can be found in sales sometimes in the mid-$20 range. We are enjoying it with Yankee Pot Roast. We agreed that the food that year on the Zuiderdam was nowhere near as good as on the old Rotterdam.

My favorites. Soup PG lobster bisque. Meal fried lobster in Tamarind. Starter tempura shrimp Tamarind. All time favorite osso bucco Canalletto.

Good morning. I haven't had an ice cream soda since I was a kid. I like hot dogs and if a Tootsie Roll Pop was sitting around the house, especially cherry, I might enjoy it. Today's quote is a great one. I love ribs in fact we are doing a trial run today on something called pork wings for our get together. Pass on the melon drink and I will conjure up my own wine of the day later. I haven't been to today's port. Thanks for the Daily and Fleet Reports @richwmn! Thanks Vanessa for today's cares and celebrations reports. I am happy to see some upcoming cruising for our group. Prayers for all on our care list and the people of Ukraine. We had a long day yesterday as we left earlier than I would choose so we did a lot of sitting around waiting for my nail appointment time to arrive and then we got to the Fun Bar in Dunbar (Wisconsin) for our chef's dinner. It was really tasty except for the first course which included the the dreaded goat cheese. It was a stuffed pork loin with bread stuffing, bacon and cranberries, then pan fried potatoes and beans, finished with a pecan tart that we brought home. The caramel sauce on the plate itself was fantastic. Then we had a long 2 hour drive back into the woods, thank goodness the herds of deer we saw all through WI were far away on not in the road. We made it to our turnoff road off the highway at dusk. Another cool and windy day here so I will be cleaning the cabin. We are finally going to get a warm up here beginning tomorrow. @StLouisCruisers just like your DH John was at basic training for the National Guard near Seattle, they had no communication with the outside world and didn't know the momentous event had happened. I was riding my horse when a friend came out of her house and told me they had landed on the Moon. I turned around and headed home to watch the "first step". My wine of the day is Beaux Freres Pinot Noir from the Ribbon Ridge apellation in Oregon. Enjoyed on our balcony of the Old Rotterdam, February 2019.

Good morning everyone. Thanks for the Daily reports Rich. I would love Raspberry Cake and don't recall ever having it. We may meet some new friends tonight. We are going out to a chef's table at a distant barbeque restaurant. One night a week he does something else from his previous cooking life. I would love to pay Scrabble with someone. I played a Facebook version of the game with a friend and her words were the most uncommon she was either absolutely brilliant or using the Google machine to come up with her words. Life events ended it which was a good way to end it. Pass on the chicken, Sloe gin fizzes were one of the first cocktails I drank. Pass on the rare Pinot Noir. We have been to Devil's Island but we didn't get Yellow Fever vaccinations that were mandatory so we stayed onboard. Prayers for all on our Care list and the people of Ukraine. Have a wonderful day. Nancy

Good morning. Thanks for the Daily reports @richwmn. I would hug my cat kids is they were still with me. No other kids. I used to use Sour Patch Kids gummy candies to stay awake in boring meetings. If I felt I was going to nod off that burst of sour was a help. Thanks for the reason behind listening day @grapau27. Another one I would have missed the meaning. I try to listen to nature around me while working in my garden. We are so far away from civilization the only night unnatural sound is the propane refrigerator. One has to get used to hearing one's heartbeat. The birds and bees sound wonderful. MM quote is stupid. Shrimp skewers sound wonderful, will take my Laphroaig neat but the Pinot noir should be great. Never have been to today's port. Thanks for the Cares and Celebrations reports @JazzyV. Prayers for everyone on the care list and the people of Ukraine. We have decent weather today, just into the 50s. Hard to believe when so many are suffering in the heat. Have a lovely day. Nancy

CC is acting strange. I tried to do a quote and it tacked it onto my OP. 😳🤔🤯 For emoji day.

Good morning everyone. Thanks for today's Daily Sandi and Rich. Pass on tattoos, I really don't care for them. I like using emojis from time to time and they are great in my phone because I don't copy and paste off Google images on my phone to emojis are a good substitute. @grapau27 thanks again for enlightening us on another obscure day. I have not been to Molde but look forward to seeing photos from the port. Pass on the pasta but the cocktail would be good with sugar free Sprite. I have heard of Nalle wines but I don't think they are a huge producer. Prayers for all on our Care list, the people of Ukraine and those impacted by the severe flooding in the NE and those suffering with the intense heat out west and in the south. We will have cool weather today and possible rain. We had beautiful weather yesterday so we went fishing. None of that fun today. I have a hard time getting motivated when the weather is cool and cloudy. Happy 19th anniversary @Crazy For Cats. 🍾 🎂 @Quartzsite Cruiser I love those squirrels. They are little rascals here drinking the hummingbird nectar. Thanks for asking about my toe. Most of the pain is gone and the wound is almost completely closed. I can see the toenail is beginning to grow back. I may be able to wear loose shoes when we go to town on Wednesday.

Good morning everyone. Thanks for today's Daily Sandi and Rich. Pass on tattoos, I really don't care for them. I like using emojis from time to time and they are great in my phone because I don't copy and paste off Google images on my phone to emojis are a good substitute. @grapau27 thanks again for enlightening us on another obscure day. I have not been to Molde but look forward to seeing photos from the port. Pass on the pasta but the cocktail would be good with sugar free Sprite. I have heard of Nalle wines but I don't think they are a huge producer. Prayers for all on our Care list, the people of Ukraine and those impacted by the severe flooding in the NE and those suffering with the intense heat out west and in the south. We will have cool weather today and possible rain. We had beautiful weather yesterday so we went fishing. None of that fun today. I have a hard time getting motivated when the weather is cool and cloudy. Happy 19th anniversary @Crazy For Cats. 🍾 🎂 @Quartzsite Cruiser thanks for the photos of Molde. Looks like a wonderful place.

Good morning. Thanks for the Daily Sandi and Rich! I rarely eat spinach but with a hot bacon dressing it is yummy. Never had a woody station wagon and snakes are frequent visitors in my garden. They love to eat crickets, grasshoppers and toads. I like the Einstein quote. I hated it when I took piano lessons and had to memorize, ditto for Bible verses. Pass on the high carb meal and cocktail and the obscure wine. Thanks for the photos of Busan @StLouisCruisers. Thanks for the Cares and Celebrations lists @JazzyV. Prayers for the shooting victims in Georgia and Fargo where a police officer was killed. Prayers for all needing them and the people of Ukraine. Snakes, one dead after being eaten by a chipmunk note the sunflower seeds nearby. Another with a toad in his belly and a Gaillardia flower. Have a nice Sunday! Nancy