CHECK-IN: Testy TUESDAY 4/9/2019 - All are WELCOME!

Morning all! Hide MJ, don't let them find you today!! Also who are all those handsome gents in the picture with you? You always have the best photos 😊

linda72 this weather has been absolutely perfect!

Have a great day everyone. 😊☕️☕️☕️

This is our North Jersey Young Marines unit executive staff. Pic was taken at the Division 1 Unit Management Conference last Saturday.

L to R:
Detective Erik Ransom, Executive Officer, North Jersey Young Marines
John Eberhardt, Commanding Officer, NJ-YM
Bill Davis, YM National Executive Director / Chief Executive Officer
(short person, of course, is me - incoming Adjutant for NJ-YM
Rodney Watson, Public Relations Officer, NJ-YM (former player for the Cincinnati Bengals)

So far, feeling better this morning than I have for a couple weeks. Die Sonne scheint und der Himmel ist blau. [One of the few sentences in German I can still remember since studying it in college for a semester. Don't know why that popped in my head.]

Yesterday I received my first meal kit shipment from Sun Basket, the third meal kit service I've trialed. I was really wowed! Especially after Hello Fresh. Most ingredients are organic and they are higher end ingredients than Hello Fresh or even Blue Apron. Hello Fresh vegetables were usually just regular carrots to be roasted, grape tomatoes, or similar, and a fairly simply prepared meat and too many potatoes! Two regular carrots cost them very little. Sun Basket, on the other hand, included a salad with a Thai style salmon (large jalapeno pepper, whole lime, fresh mint, fish sauce) that had organic cucumber, watercress, a yellow carrot and a purple carrot with vinaigrette. Big difference. Sun Basket is a bit more expensive, but honestly, given the difference in ingredients, it's a better deal.

Good Morning
I feel like I should salute MJ when I see her posts Actually my neighbor's son-in-laws are both Marines. Another one's son graduated from UCLA with a full ROTC scholarship and plans to be a Marine fighter pilot flying F35s. Even DH was attached to a Marine unit his last year in the Navy as a gunfire spotter. So I salute you MJ as the best grandmother ever.
It was a very windy night and I need to clean leaves out of the pool before I go to my manicure and pedicure this morning. I will also walk the dog. I volunteer in the kindergarten classroom 12:30-2 p.m. working with math groups. They are such adorable kids. Most are extremely poor as it is downtown near the regional hospital but it is a science magnet for
gifted students so half the kids like my grandson are there voluntarily. I was so proud of the lowest performing group yesterday because with my guidance they nailed the assignment. "I put 7 empty jugs in the recycle bin. To fill it up I need 10. How many more do I need?" They had to draw and color the jugs, right the math equation and then the sentence, "I need
three more." I showed them how to find the right words from their prompt and they were so proud and happy when I said they would get As. Dinner tonight is Skinnytaste turkey meatloaf with roasted Brussels sprouts and carrots. It is going to be at least 10 degrees cooler than it was yesterday.

I'm in.  Installers are here changing 2 doors in the basement.  We changed one to a fire-rated door & another one that needed better insulation.
Heading to the dr later to check my ear. It's clogged & hearing is limited.  Ugh!    On the plus side, the weather is beautiful. I opened all my windows to let in some fresh air.  Hope everyone has a nice day.