Happy St. Patrick's Day to you! Do you wear green or get pinched? Some of my ancestors came from Ireland. Also from Germany, England and Scotland. The most famous of my ancestors was the first king of Scotland, also known as Robert the Bruce. According to my late aunt who researched our genealogy, he was my great...count great 27 times...grandfather.
I want to thank everyone for the sweet birthday wishes. I had a lovely birthday over the weekend. We enjoyed beautiful, warm weather. We were invited to KC again by my son, who wished to eat dinner with me for my birthday. I didn't take one photo this trip, just enjoyed the day. We did stop by the newest shopping center at Blue Springs because they have a TJMaxx. I could have filled a shopping cart, but didn't buy one thing. Talk about restraint!
~watercolor edit of photo above~
Our weather continues to be very nice. It was 80 degrees yesterday, but today is a more normal 56 with sunshine. It won't be much longer now...those beautiful redbud trees will be blooming. I can see the yard getting a little more green each day.
I have just changed my email address that I use for blogging to gmail from yahoo. Maybe that will help those who have said they don't get my comments sent to their email. Please let me know if this has helped.
Before I hit the publish sign I want to mention that the ol' dizzy stuff has struck again when I'm reading and scrolling at the computer. Sometimes it doesn't bother me too much, other times it's quite dreadful. This is one of those times and so I will be at the computer much less until this passes, hopefully soon! If you don't see me for awhile, this is why.
Happy Tuesday to you!
xo Cheryl
Hi Cheryl, so lovely to hear that you enjoyed your birthday. Your photos are beautiful and bursting with spring hues! I think I've mentioned to you before that your emails never reach my inbox, either. They show up in my Blogger Dashboard comments though, but if I forget to check it, since I return visits straight from my inbox, then it goes unseen. I hope this change from yahoo to gmail will help.
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Sounds like you had a lovely birthday. I'm glad. WOW! What a fascinating ancestor you have. Geneology is so interesting. Happy St. Patrick's Day. Please take care of yourself. Those dizzy spells are nothing to fool with.
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ReplyDeleteThat purple is beautiful.
We are still in our low thirties although not freezing.
oh, hoping i'll see a comment from you, then! :) sorry about the vertigo. love your blooms!
ReplyDeleteRobert the Bruce...wonderful he was a great warrior in Scotland! I hope your dizziness passes, I have that from time to time but it never lasts long:)
ReplyDeleteCoincidentally, my husband's family is also related to Robert the Bruce. My sister-in-law is quite a genealogist and found that tidbit awhile back. I am not sure of the exact connection. Another interesting thing she discovered is that my husband's also related to author Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin). I don't know of the famous folks in my ancestry; we are Dutch, and I need to wear orange on St. Paddy's Day!
ReplyDeleteCheryl, I am so sorry that you are suffering from dizziness. That is an awful feeling. It is cold here again and may snow this weekend- ugh. Have a good night- xo Diana
ReplyDeletei sure hope it works because i really love visiting you & you visiting me .. so fun. i just can not figure out why or how blogger decides who it will pick on and not send you a note saying they just commenting on your blog. so weird??! love your spring shots. ( :
ReplyDeleteHappy Green day. & yes i am wearing green. all good here. that is leftover from my kidhood days. always wear green ... no pinching here.
Hope that the dizziness leaves real soon. Do enjoy the warmer weather and the greening grass.
ReplyDeleteSo glad that you had a wonderful birthday :)
ReplyDeleteMy goodness.. you do have great restraint! Not buying one thing at the store!
Love Redbuds! Such a cheerful herald of spring.
Best of luck with your vertigo. Hope it clears up very soon!
~K.
Oh My Goodness... You are not going to believe this but Robert the Bruce is one of my relatives also.... My Bruce line begins with my Grandmother (Mom's mother)... We have traced the line WAY back to Scotland and to Robert the Bruce... You'll have to tell me where your Bruce line begins --so that we can see where we might cross. We may be Distant Cousins.... How 'bout that????
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I'm glad you had a happy birthday weekend...and I am impressed that you came out of TJMaxx with nary a purchase!! :) I will be really impressed if you figure out all of this blogger/google/gmail/comment stuff!
ReplyDeleteTake care until you're all better!
HI Cheryl Some to hear about your dizzy/computer issues. and impressed that going back 27 generations you are descended from a king!! WOW!
ReplyDeletelove the redbud photos...happy to hear you had a great bday...hoping you are feeling better!
ReplyDeleteSo glad you got to spend your birthday with your son. I too am loving our warmer temperatures. Rain for today, but that's O.K. We need the rain to bring the flowers and green grass. Blessings to you!!
ReplyDeletei understood the problem was because people used gmail and yahoo it doesn't come into our email that don't use it. we shall see if when you comment on mine it comes, it always has, i will try to remember to check.
ReplyDeletehope the rosebuds bloom soon. and glad you got to go to KC. OH NO on the dizzy.. when i get dizzy spells it doesn't effect the computer, only if i stand up or walk or rollover in bed
Oh no, not vertigo again. I am so sorry and hope it is short lived.
ReplyDeleteI am half Irish and half English. The only famous people in my lineage are Lady Cathcart who was deported from the US for moral turpitude and Dr. Mudd who set John Wilkes Booth's leg.
Robert the Bruce must have been quite prolific and it seems you have lots of kin in your followers. You ought to have a "Bruce" reunion.
Ughh... That stuff is NO FUN! Hope you are feeling much better SOON! I'm so sorry. You'll need to collect on that BD dinner in KC. ;) Beautiful redbuds... yes, spring in starting to pop up. Yea!! blessings ~ tanna
ReplyDeleteOh no, sorry about the dizzy business. I have it too, and I am at my wit's end how to make it stop. I know I need to get off the computer for a few days, and I may just try that soon to see if it will work. Feel better!
ReplyDeleteGlad to read you had a happy birthday celebration, Cheryl, and what nice weather as well. Sorry to read about the discomfort and hope you are feeling better soon. Take it easy and rest and return when you feel better :-)
ReplyDeleteGood Morning Cheryl! Glad you had a nice birthday. Sorry about the dizziness. I am behind on my Feedly Reader blogs. I can't believe it is friday! I have to go food shopping today.. ick. Hoping for a bit of sun today!
ReplyDeleteGlad that it is like spring! It sure looks like it. Vertigo is miserable. Have you tried the Epley manuever? There are some good short videos on it at uuuu-toob (purposely misspelled) =D.
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