On The Cusp
By Juliaacv
@Juliaacv (49088)
Canada
May 16, 2024 5:47pm CST
Today is Thursday. Just one more day left of the work week.
We are just on the cusp of a nice long holiday weekend here in Canada. Yes, on Monday we will celebrate Victoria Day. This is the unofficial kick off to summer.
Many will gather with friends and family for barbeques, picnics and fun outside. Many will get their gardening started.
We are expecting nice weather in our neck of the woods, and I am looking forward to a nice long 3-day weekend. What are you looking forward to?
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@Juliaacv (49088)
• Canada
18 May
@LadyDuck It is just gorgeous outside now.
The sun is shining and it is 22C.
We made our trip out to the next little town to get our garden plants.
We planted 4 beefsteak and 4 cherry tomato plants as well as 4 sweet red pepper plants.
In the large planter I did only flowers. I had some autumn splendor sedum to separate, and put some of those across the back of the large planter, with some nice dusty Miller plants in front of them. The dusties usually come back the next year, that will be nice to see.
We put a row of pink and white velvet begonias in front of that and across the very front we planted potato vines so that they can cascade down in front of the planter.
It really takes alot of water.
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@celticeagle (160797)
• Boise, Idaho
17 May
We have a nice park only two blocks away. Maybe if it's not too warm I will get the kids to take me over there. I want an Icee. Do you remember those?
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@celticeagle (160797)
• Boise, Idaho
19 May
@Juliaacv .......They are crushed ice in a cone-shaped cup with different flavorings pouring over them.
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@Juliaacv (49088)
• Canada
19 May
@celticeagle We call those snow cones. I do remember them.
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@snowy22315 (171971)
• United States
16 May
Getting my new internet tomorrow. Praying everything goes without a hitch.That will help as it is probably going to rain the majority of the weekend.
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@snowy22315 (171971)
• United States
17 May
@Juliaacv Mine now is only 49.00 per month. I was paying almost twice that with my former provider.
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@Juliaacv (49088)
• Canada
17 May
@snowy22315 When we lived in the country, which I assume that you do, we did not have cable lines outside of town.
We had dsl internet, which ran over a dedicated second line from Bell-a phone line.
Here we are in a newer area and there are fibreoptics, which are like lines made of glass and can send the speeds quicker, apparently. It is also over $100 per month, so not cheap. But based on the fact that we only stream on free apps, it does save us.
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@Juliaacv (49088)
• Canada
19 May
Thank you.
Yesterday my husband and I took a nice drive over to the next town and went to the garden nursery there.
We returned with lots of bedding flowers and vegetables which we happily planted.
We are monitoring them today to make sure that the ground isn't over/under watered as it is quite warm already and it isn't even noon yet.
Enjoy your weekend.
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@Juliaacv (49088)
• Canada
23 May
@thelme55 I'm glad that you enjoyed your weekend.
We planted dusty millers, begonias, potato vines and split up some autumn splendour sedum and replanted those.
We also planted 4 sweet red pepper plants 4 cherry tomato plants and 4 beefsteak tomato plants.
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@LindaOHio (160234)
• United States
17 May
I hope you enjoy your long weekend. I am looking forward to seeing my husband again. I'm not sure when that will be. Have a good day.
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@Juliaacv (49088)
• Canada
18 May
@LindaOHio Thanks, it was a bit stressful.
They are launching a new version of the software for the database that we use and that limited the bandwidth we had to work with. Things were a bit slow, copy and paste didn't work, little annoyances, but nothing huge.
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@LindaOHio (160234)
• United States
18 May
@Juliaacv I hope your work day wasn't too stressful. Have a great weekend.
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@GardenGerty (158131)
• United States
17 May
I am looking forward to lots of free time. I do not know how I will use it yet.
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@kaylachan (59718)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
16 May
I hope you enjoy it. Memorial day is coming up. It's our uniffical start to summer.
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@kaylachan (59718)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
17 May
@Juliaacv I know it's coming up, I just forget when. You might be right though. It's usually around the end of May.
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@RasmaSandra (74599)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
17 May
Then your Victoria Day is like our Memorial Day, Even though this day is to remember war veterans it is still the weekend that kicks off the summer season, I hope you have a great Victoria Day weekend, No holiday yet, so I will be just working on my PC,
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@Marilynda1225 (80440)
• United States
17 May
It's hard to believe that your Victoria Day is here already. We're a week away with our long Memorial Day weekend next weekend. Our weather hasn't been very nice lately so it's hard to imagine summer celebrating. Glad your weather looks nice and hope you enjoy your LONG weekend.
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@Beestring (13552)
• Hong Kong
17 May
Enjoy your long weekend. Will you visit the girls?
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@Juliaacv (49088)
• Canada
17 May
Thank you, just today left to work.
They usually go out to visit our daughter-in-law's mother on the long weekend to do her yardwork, as she cannot do it alone. I'm not sure if we will see them or not. My hubby tells me that the girls have asked for me every morning this week when he walks in.
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@HaruLoid (1260)
• Philippines
16 May
Sounds a pretty relaxing weekend ahead.
Today is Friday at our country. Summer already kicked in when we entered May.
I pretty much look forward to get accepted at one of the Government Offices that I applied for. Hopefully I get a call, text or email telling me that they accepted me as one of their employees.
@AmbiePam (86266)
• United States
17 May
That will be lovely for you all! This weekend I’m expecting my friend Naomi to come get some stuff she wants, my dad to get the stuff I have for the church garage sale, and I will finally be able to put things in order. People keep telling me not to throw certain things away, but then take forever to come by and get the items. I need some order in my life.
I hope your weekend is just wonderful.
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@wolfgirl569 (97280)
• Marion, Ohio
16 May
We won't do the garden for a couple of more weeks.
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@Scarred4Lyfe (287)
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17 May
Sometimes I cannot tell if teh Hoomin is on teh cusp of something or just in his cups.
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