Saskia

Budd, happy to hear you have the weekend off!

I’m happy I don’t need to do the whole yard thing. We do have garden beds if I feel like digging in the dirt

trachemys

Weedeater/whacker/strummer/medieval torture device...all the same.

Gilmer

I’m really glad that your company is giving more time off, Budd.

I wonder if someone somewhere was a whistleblower?

Saskia

Babs, I am so proud of you! 2 years is totally awesome.

Babs1234

Thanks Sass---I appreciate you more than you know.
Babs

PhoenixJ

Absorbing very dark news from he past. Saw my mum's older sis the other day. It puts a great deal of stuff into perspective as to how my family of origin behaved my whole life....in the light of this info..I makes sense now...
I started the talk with my aunt (I

Dee74

Even with the dark news, I hope its a good week ahead for you PJ.

D

PhoenixJ

I think my keyboard is possessed
I went to my aunt to find out more of my mum and dad's early years...
I go to ACA meetings, and figured if I understood the olds better- then I can accept and let go.
I am not ruminating, far from it. All the players of this news are dead...but I am not and tho wise arm chair experts say the past is just that...it is not...the legacy of memories alters thinking and emotions and behaviour.....so I look back, with a clear adult perspective now and then I will perhaps find some sort of closure.

Saskia

(((PJ)))! This is a journey and a process. It has very painful moments but gradually there will be joyful moments too as we realize we truly can start setting our own course. Our past shapes us but we can grow in a much healthier way to become much more of who we want to be.

Babs1234

((((PJ))))
Babs

trachemys

We just got passed by a tornado system.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch...

trachemys

The World Space Powers have decreed that the first mission to Mars will be all female.

Wouldn't want the place to be all dusty when the men get there.

Gilmer

They ought to send you to Pluto.

tootsl1

Is that not because they expect to find a few of you still there?? After all it’s says Men come from Mars, Women come from Venus!!!

PhoenixJ

So if differing gendered persons do the nasty in outer space- what would the name of THAT club be?

Saskia

trachemys

Go on, throw me to the dog.

trachemys

There have been a couple stranded there according to the documentaries.

trachemys

Spacex? No, that's taken.

Gilmer

You know how to brighten people’s day, Trach!