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Hey everyone,

Well I was only able to get a couple of hours of sleep and than I was out of the house before 8:30am. I am so tired. I'm going to go get some sleep while I can. My family and I our planning on going to a water park this evening to celebrate my niece's 10th birthday! Will check back in later.

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I'm home. No sleep on the plane. Crashed at 6. Kids up at 4! Probably another early night. Have avoided caffeine all day so hopefully no hot flashes tonight.

Laundry washed but not folded. Empty cases everywhere. Just don't care. Opened 6 weeks of mail that should be enough.

Whomever was going to Ireland. May already be there? Hope you packed a jacket. I wore mine every day.

Zills - welcome back to the USA. Hope it was a wonderful trip. Discuss tea with us aficionados when you get a chance but 1st sleep. Love the 6 weeks of mail, hope it's all junk - or fun stuff to read - and DH took care of the important stuff.

Z, maybe not so much in Ireland?

going to have to check those coloring books and app out. At our support group they have brought in mandalas to color. Good therapy.

Spookie that sounds more Scottish than Irish. I know pandora didn't work over there. Kids and I like Irish music so found Gaelic station and jammed. I thought it was cool they would ring church bells at noon everyday on the radio. Had a word for it but never got the hang of it.

Smaarty . Who you flying with? My son who's six! was giving out for not flying Aer Lingus this time. He really liked his own tv. Had an older plane going over. Fab service on the way back. Individual tvs and even ice cream. It was American/USAir. My only complaint was they can't make tea like Aer Lingus. Even the food was good and lots of hydration opportunities.

Yes you will need a jacket. Mine was waterproof. I had a sweater too. Sometimes I wished I had brought a fleece. Don't take cotton socks. Your feet will freeze. I packed slippers for wearing in the house.

Have a wonderful time. It's very relaxing. Food is great. People welcoming.

Kids and I crashed again about 6 ish. Woke up at 9. Cold and queasy. Where is a cabana boy when you need him? A cup of sleepy time is what my stomach needs.

Smaarty -- I usually nap on the plane and organize something to do the first day after we get off the plane so that I don't get into the hotel right away at check-in time and pass out. Then I have an early dinner and hope I can make it past 8 PM so I don't wake up too early. Are you flying into Dublin or Shannon?

I have flown US Air/American internationally several times. US Air, before the merger, had mostly newer planes with the in-flight wifi and individual tv screens. For my last trip to Germany and eastern Europe in October 2014, we flew United and also paid for the upgraded seats with an extra 5 inches of leg room and it was sooooo worth it.

guess I am the lone dissenter. I get in and get something to eat, then lay down. I awake in a few hours. It stays daylight until 10 and the pubs are always open. Usually close to schedule the next day.

I've never flown on a plane but if I could go to Ireland I would. I think my family is more Scottish though, but my husband's side is Irish. Funny thing my husband was putting together his family tree when he realized that we share a grandparent like 5 or 6 generations back. Lol She is a generation closer to me though, which she is on the Scottish side. Her last name is that of my mother's maden. Kinda strange but neat I guess. He sure loves to bring it up when we are at cookouts and around other people. Family events/reunions are his favorite place to let everyone know. Sorry just thought about that. My poor husband is having a hard time right now we received a call yesterday evening that his cousin who's 36 or so died in a car accident, leaving behind a wife and children. Please keep him in your thoughts. Okay well back to bed for me the water park was exhausting but got my exercise, the three flights of stairs I'd have to go up every time I wanted to go down the slides at least 7 times. I crashed immediately when we got home and slept incredibly well. Okay sorry so long. Goodnite all!

Ok Sas, see you around 2 ish. Bring some rain gear, it's not sounding dry.

Loverly tomorrow!!!!!!

Good morning ladies- I had an amazing two days in Santa Fe with a jazz concert on Thursday night, and then an all day yoga festival yesterday. This is peak seasons for Santa Fe tourism so it was hopping downtown on Thursday evening. I stayed a bit out of town at a hotel I have been to before just for a conference, and it was very do-able (and affordable too). I went to have a cocktail before the concert and had the most amazing watermelon margarita. I think the folks on the drinking thread would like that cocktail!

I spent 10 hours at the yoga festival yesterday and of that time, I did 6 hours of yoga between four classes. That is probably a record for me. Although I have done yoga retreats before where you do a couple practices per day, and do 2-3 hours in total each day for a week. I have never done that much yoga in a day in my life! My only real issue was feeling warm a lot of the time. I think the place where we did the yoga did not have AC and it was hotter than usual for August. And I think I was hot flashy too. I think between all the sweating, I should have lost 10 pounds, but alas, the scales say no......

Anyways, this is sort of a break through experience to be able to do that much exercise with anything since before my surgeries and all the rest that followed. I spent a number of months doing personal training the past year, and see another pay off from it. I came home exhausted but also feeling personally very happy about what happened yesterday.

Boyd- I am so sorry about the unexpected loss in your family. So hard for the family left behind. Hugs sister.

I am glad you are going to the water park to have fun with the family this weekend. Water slides are a blast. And btw, you hair is amazing.

Sassy- my get away was only for two days. My next trip is to upstate NY in October for a family wedding. I am so looking forward to seeing some northeast fall foliage for the first time in about 10 years.

Wishing everyone a good weekend. I know for some, the kiddos will be going back to school soon.

Debiann- sorry about that, LOL! No one wants the summer to end!

Careful Jazzy, I think Mema, TangaRoonie and I would like to see a lovely cool fall this afternoon if possible. Losing so many leaves already looks like fall.

Debiann - My goats would be horned but to show it's not required but highly frowned upon if they keep their horns. My vet has done all of my current goats. I have the equipment but DH and I never got good at it. I had one naturally hornless goat "polled" but the gene did not carry thru to her offspring. I bred my last babies in 2013, wasn't a good year. Had a baby runt I bottle raised. She lives with herd, knows she's a goat, does all goatie things, has quite an attitude. Told my DH that was it, couldn't go thru that anymore. Took back in 2 wethers last year I'd given to a friend. Oldest out there now was born in 2007, Mr. Bucky. I would prob. need a new buck anyway if I started breeding again. He is dad/grandad to all but one goat out there. She's fathered by a buck I had only for a short while. Mr. Bucky is pretty nice. On his trip to me via a goat club auction he stopped in GA from Wisconsin and bred a few very nice showy does. They've done well in the herd there and his offspring in other herds, but again the does are much better than mine.

Boyd - sending my sympathy to your DH.

Sleep well sloshy Jac. Now if have a ear worm of My Sharona.