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Post by conniej on Feb 14, 2024 5:07:04 GMT
♥♥♫ February ♪♪♥♥
♥♥ Take Heart ♥♥
Hanging In There, Linda, AZ
Heart In The Right Place, Kathie, CA
Jenny, CA
February Blessings Shragae, FL
Welcome Robins, Nancy, IL
Loving Heart, Sandy, IL
Hoping for Healing , Betty, MN
U R Loved, Mollyann, MO
Onward & Upward, Diane, OK
Spreading the Love, Connie, WPA
Anxious For Spring, Lucy, TX
Without Valentine’s day, February would be…..well January.
Hope you had a good day today. I slept it away. Guess I needed it and hardly ever do that,
I found some neat things about Valentine’s Day, so thought I would share.
At the end of the 5th century, Roman Pope Gelasius officially declared the date of February 14 "St. Valentine's Day." It wasn't until until the Middle Ages, though, that the holiday became associated with love and romance, a tradition that first started from the common belief in France and England that birds started their mating season on February 14.
how did Cupid become a common symbol of Valentine's Day? According toTime, the figure can actually be traced all the way back to 700 B.C., to the Greek god of love named Eros, who was actually a handsome, immortal man with the intimidating power to make people fall in love. It wasn't until the 4th century BCE that the Romans adopted Eros into the image of a cute little boy with a bow and arrow, naming him "Cupid." By the turn of the 19th century, Cupid had become linked to Valentine's Day due to his love-matching powers.
Today is also Ash Wednesday. Our Churches are now all open , some with two services and some with just drop in to get your ashes. Remember back in the day Only Catholic Church here did the ashes. Now days every one can get ashes used to be just a service. Even times do change with Churches.
We have some snow on ground just a dusting but cold enough to keep ground cold and more snow on way on Thursday night. It is 27° and holding.
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Post by conniej on Feb 14, 2024 5:14:38 GMT
For all of you !!!
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Post by grandmasandy2 on Feb 14, 2024 10:48:07 GMT
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!
We are going to 7 am Mass and not much else going on. At our age we don’t have to observe the fasting rule of only three meals with two of them not equaling our main meal but we will anyway as we always do. I would only break it if I get lightheaded and have never had that happen so don’t foresee it being a problem today. We will also observe the no meat day today and all the Fridays of Lent. I don’t plan on giving anything up but will try to be more patient and kind instead.
Tonight is another Bradley home game so will be going to that. I got an e-mail saying we can put down a deposit for next year’s season tickets so called the ticket office and asked if I could just go ahead and pay the whole amount and they said no only the deposit as it would be too difficult for the accounting office to handle whereas they were okay with handling a $50 deposit for each seat and in the summer they will let me know my balance and I can pay it then.
Other than that nothing planned.
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Post by shragae on Feb 14, 2024 13:56:47 GMT
I'm looking forward to the flowers going on sale tomorrow LOL.
I was at Publix yesterday and boy they have a ton of them!
It's cold here this morning. After some lovely days we drop back down to 49. So it's sweater weather today...
Have you tried adding sugar-free syrup into your coffee? I know that Starbucks and other places have flavorings that they add to coffee. For some reason my coffee just didn't taste is good to me is in the days when I used to use the coffee creamers. Weight Watchers got me off of using those because they were just too high in points.
I used a protein shake for a creamer that I find they just don't add really a lot of flavor even if I buy the flavored versions. However a little dash of sugar-free syrup which is maybe 5 calories a tablespoon gives it a wonderful flavor.
You can also use it with a little Dijon mustard and some spices to make your own version of a honey mustard dressing which is a lot lower in calories than any of the bottle dressings you can buy.
Just some suggestions. If anyone has some interesting little tricks that they've discovered along the way I would love to hear them.
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Post by nancyyen on Feb 14, 2024 15:36:39 GMT
Happy Valentines Day! My laundry is in the dryer. I might do a load of towels later today. I am going to Ash Wednesday service tonight. I don't plan to get ashes. It's sunny outside, but cold (33 degrees). The predicted high is 46 degrees.
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Post by conniej on Feb 14, 2024 15:58:46 GMT
I used to use Coffee Mate in my coffee but it seemed to lose it's flavor. Not sure why.
I now have a Keurig and since it is just me and only have one cup a day, I like the Gevalia flavored coffee. I use a bit of cinnamon with all of them and sometimes use Reddi Whip on top. Can't get the ones I like in grocery store so do order it online. My very favorite is Vanilla Latte. My parents always had coffee brewing and they drank it black but always used egg shells in the grounds, not sure why, and added cinnamon to their cup of coffee.
I am not a fan of regular coffee and now that it is just me this is what I like. My Dh liked strong coffee and drank a lot of it. both at home and work. He did do milk and sugar in his. and carried a thermos instead of drinking what was brewed at work.
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Post by flucielucy on Feb 14, 2024 16:11:39 GMT
Happy Valentine's Day.
Connie, egg shells were to keep the coffee grounds on the bottom. I drink a lot of coffee. I make a pot on the burner. I have 3 1/2 mugs sometimes 4. Depends. My last cup is a dessert cup. French vanilla creamer. No sugar.
Rough night last night so barely moving. I am dressed but only because Bill will be here for rumicub and lunch.
Have a good day.
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Post by diane on Feb 14, 2024 17:01:03 GMT
Happy Valentine's Day!
I am a coffee drinker. I use French Vanilla Coffeemate creamer. I had 3 cups this morning.
Today we meet our granddaughter for lunch. We are so happy she still wants to meet! She is very special. Don't you feel that each of your grandchildren is special? Each one is different, but I love all of them.
Lucy, are you enjoyin g our nice weather. It i s supposed to cool down again this weekend, but today the sun is shining!
Connie, I love the Valentine card! Thank you for leading the thread through February!
Hugs!
Diane
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Post by kathie3s on Feb 14, 2024 17:07:28 GMT
I don't ever buy coffee. Jim and I drink decaffeinated tea. I put milk in mine and Jim puts fake sugar in his but no milk. You can see that we do have quite a bit in common and that was our attraction on day one. I've mentioned we are both artistic and smart too. We both have a background in biology...He was a biologist and I was an embalmer.
Shana is out walking with Vanessa and I have to get online and make my shopping list for Nicole to shop for me today.
See you all later for tuck in!
Heart in the Right Place Kathie
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Post by retiredinaz on Feb 14, 2024 22:41:03 GMT
We always have some Ind of flower on kitchen table, if only a great vase of little artificial tulips from Petals.com.most of , yard flowers are not the cutting kind except roses which go fast in our weather.
one of my things is nice dishes..buy only two, maybe three so I can change up the table with different looks. Also get pretty German paper napkins when I can. I do not think DH even notices, but I like it.
Back in upstate NY…Gloversville…snow banks were five to six feet and our poor little schnauzers must have thought the world disappeared into a white tunnel.
I almost feel guilty saying what a nice sunny day it is here. However, you all know what summer was like here from Memorial Day to almost Halloween. I paid for nice winter. Weeds are loving it with lots of rain. So I sat on my wicker footstool and dig things out of the lawn and then plucked new grass coming up in the. Little chunks of landscape granite. Finally brushed away the top rock and dug in to pull up the next two to three inches of rock that has been buried over the years. I am use it to cover places that need it. People just put more rock and rock down until you have almost concrete and bare spots. I have a wastebasket full with original dry top rock back! My back is going to tell me about this later from bending on the stool but not like standing and bending.
We went to a nearby very colorful Mexican restaurant for big lunch for Valentines Day before the supper holiday people filled up all the places to eat!
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Post by flucielucy on Feb 15, 2024 3:05:03 GMT
Yes, Diane, I am enjoying the warm weather. Too windy to walk Bearly on the road but that is the way it is here until hot weather gets here.
Kathie, I have tried decaffeinated coffee. I don't think I have ever had decaffeinated tea and I don't drink hot tea.
Nite nite 💤💤🥱💤
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Post by kathie3s on Feb 15, 2024 4:27:32 GMT
Lucy: Try making your iced tea with decaffeinated, unless of course you like the high the caffeine gives you. If you send me your address I'll mail you a few tea bags to try it. (Kathie3s@aol.com). I like to drink tea even at night so the caffeine would cause problems for me. I had only 5 hrs. sleep last night.
Jim gave the lady from Comfort Keepers such a hard time today. I am the one that had to get him onto the tub chair and out again. His brain was missing so it was a very hard day.
Tucking you all in now in our new blanket: A soft white blanket this time with large red hearts on it but each one has one of our names on it.....and if Jenny doesn't send a name it will just have Jenny on her heart. Sweet dreams to you all!
Heart in the Right Place Kathie
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