It's Hump Day, plus National Pig in a Blanket Day and The International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace. The swapmeet is still open! Birthdays: Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Goudge, Willem de Kooning, Robert Penn Warren, Gabriel Figueroa, Barbra Streisand, Jean Paul Gaultier. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in Imaginary Authors The Soft Lawn for the very old tennis courts at my local park.
Reminder: 4/26 is Frederick Law Olmsted's birthday. Wear a fragrance that connects to a public park you love, or wear something green (Olmstead liked greenery over showy flowers), or that evokes a Frederic Law Olmsted quote, or ?? More reading: When Parks Were Radical: More than 150 years ago, Frederick Law Olmsted changed how Americans think about public space at The Atlantic, 8 Famous Parks Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Plus a Tiny One You May Not Know About at How Stuff Works, or find lots of information at Olmsted Network. The Frederic Law Olmsted home in Brookline, Massachusetts is administered by the National Park Service.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2024, where I'll try (but usually fail) to have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: top image is Path in Arnold Arboretum [cropped] by Boston Public Library at flickr; some rights reserved. [The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, founded in 1872 and designed by Charles Sprague Sargent and Frederick Law Olmsted, is the oldest public arboretum in North America. Read more in Happy Birthday Frederick Law Olmsted! at Arnold Arboretum.]
I am testing Memo Irish Leather – it sounded very green and outdoorsy, and it sure is. It goes well with the CP but also with this cold rainy weather today, since it has a mix of fresh green notes and warm ambery ones. One thing that bothers me is a “chemical” note often found in many perfumes. Based on the reviews, this might be iso e super. I still have not made up my mind whether I like Irish Leather or not.
(Completely off-topic: I am very excited about the haiku challenge next month and already wrote three haiku.)
Probably iso e super, or the other chemical note that bothers some people is ambroxan.
And yay, so glad someone loves the haiku challenge!!
There should be an Ambroxan emoji with “Ambroxan” written in the middle of a red circle with a diagonal red line across it😡
Hello.
Sotd is Gucci A Reason to Love. Rose and oud done right and I love it.
I read “International Day of Materialism” and thought, niceee. Lol.
Here is a little mid-week serotonin boost!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjPIvvxIQME&ab_channel=BBCEarth
International Day of Materialism, ha! That is most days, probably.
Major cuteness! Never heard of them.
I pulled a mini of Un Jardin Apres la Mousson today, so I am taking points. I rarely wear this, but today I’m enjoying it.
This seems to be quite long-lasting on my skin. After six hours of wear, it is still noticeably fragrant.
I do think that one lasts longer than the other Jardins.
I meant to reply yesterday to say this is one of my favorite perfumes for summer. It really is very long lasting and smells wonderful.
Yesterday’s scent was Assam of India (courtesy of a very kind and generous NSTer), for the many wildlife parks in Assam — at least two of them are World Heritage sites. And today I’m in a double dose of roses — Diptyque Eau Rose with a little Lubin Grisette added for brightness — for the rose test gardens here in Portland. We’re having an epoxy coating put down on our garage floor today while it’s empty after our burst-pipe event. Next up is installing new storage shelves, and after that we FINALLY get to start repatriating stuff back to the garage. This has been a LONG process, y’all — the flooding was clear back in January. I realize that I’m very spoiled and lots of folks don’t have a garage, or even a house, but still, it will be nice to have my house back to normal!
I’m glad you’re close to being done! Yay!
Me too — yay indeed! 😁
I do not have a garage, but I totally get how you are feeling. Having all this extra stuff in your house is really uncomfortable.
Exactly … and it makes cleaning the floors impossible. I will have my work cut out for me once those floors are cleared. 🥹
Seeing a light at the end of the tunnel for your repairs!
Mr. allo and I love the Rose Garden in Portland. What a treasure🌹🌹🌹
The Soft Lawn sounds like a beautiful scent and omg re the tennis in the park!
I’m using my sample of Heaven Can Wait, and it’s really nice. I can’t place any of the notes, and can’t even tell you what category I’d place this scent in. I know it’s not a fougere, not an oriental, not a cologne-but what is it lol. Doesn’t matter-it smells good.
“It smells good” is really all that matters!
Mugler day 3: A*Men Pure Malt. Doesn’t smell particularly whiskey-ish to me, but I was never a connoisseur. It does smell very sophisticated, though — the most polished and dressed-up of the A*Men flankers.
I don’t know Pure Malt, but you’ve inspired me to make A*Men Pure Leather my scent of the day. Really good, dirty stuff.😎
Totally agree with your assessment, you smell great.
I may yet try one of the A*Men line.
Glannys’ choice reminded me I’ve been meaning to try Merchant of Venice so Sultan Leather is today’s scent. It’s a soft floral leather on me. Perhaps more seraglio than sultan. I’ve not tried other Merchant of Venice scents but I love their gorgeous sculptural bottles. Sultan Leather, however, comes in a squared off bottle. Reading up on the brand, it appears that it’s connected with the Italian firm that brought us the cheerfully cheap pinesol scent Pino Silvestre in the conifer-shaped bottles. I used to own one of those years ago. Guess they, like so many others, are now going for the upscale niche market.
I agree with you on those bottles, but I haven’t tried any of the range. I’d need to try them blind, I’m not sure I could honestly assess the perfume if I knew which bottle it was in 🙂 .
Wearing Zoologist Panda for the CP.
Coffee and a toast with roasted garlic hummus and feta cheese.
Feeling very tired today. I will need extra coffee and a long walk at lunchtime. We are having a cloudy morning, but temps will be in the lower 70’s. Hopefully we will see the sun later today.
Happy Wednesday! 🌞
What is Panda like? That is one I have not tried.
Kris, I have the original Panda released in 2014, IIRC. It is a very green, grassy scent, with bamboo, sichuan pepper, tea and osmanthus notes. Beautiful! I have not tried the current formulation, which I understand is sweeter and fruity.
Thanks. I am not a big green fan so I am guessing I would probably not like it.
Sounds lovely, I still need to try T-Rex..really wanted to sniff that one
T-Rex didn’t work for me. It was very animalic. A scrubber. However, I think it is an interesting scent and worth trying it. There are many people who love it.
I agree with perfumelover67 that it is very much worth trying. It’s kind of shocking when you first spray it on but I’m among those who love it. It is VERY long-lasting and has a beautiful dry down. Among the Zoologist green scents, my favorite is Elephant, although I never bought it. I kept meaning to. I tried the sample and seemed to use it up fast so I bought another sample and used that one up too. It’s neither sweet nor fruity. It’s very juicy. Hard to describe.
I had a sample of the 2014 version of Panda. It was probably one of the greenest fragrances I have come across.
Agree! It is very green! Have you tried the current one?
No, I haven’t. Zoologist perfumes tend to go on very loud for me, and then drop off to a skin scent a couple of hours later. Drives me crazy.
I figure Zoologist doesn’t work for me. That’s OK; plenty of other perfumes for me to chase!
Hello!
Flora Nymphea 🙂
Looks like we will be getting a cool off with a chance of rain this weekend, so that will be nice:)
Coincidentally, being Earth Day this week, I was also reading about galaxolide. It is pretty bad for the environment, highly toxic to aquatic life. It has been used as a white /”clean” musk note in some perfumes, it is also used in Windex, Glade products and other items:/.
Going to be tuning in to the Golden Knights game later on, got a new jersey coming in today which I am happy about, so I will be wearing it:) Lol, I do like perfume but also NHL and NFL, my jerseys smell great! Haha
Hope everyone has a lovely day 🌹
Yes, I think it’s galaxolide that makes white musk last FOREVER…I really hate the smell of clothing washed in some laundry detergents. It doesn’t even come out on the next wash load, in fact, it “infects” all the other clothes in the machine.
That is the perfect way to describe galaxolide, “infects”. There are other musk notes that can be used that are more environmentally friendly and less infecty at the same time:)
Wearing the newly formulated Estee Lauder Legacy Private Collection, which smells very green to me.
I think I can say I liked that one the best of my Legacy samples. You smell great!
I’m greeny green in No. 19 today. Yesterday was sort of a mess — so tired and unfocused, so unproductive at work and grad school, so generally slothful and wasteful feeling. So today I’m hoping No. 19 will work its bracing magic to get me back on track. Speaking of parks, I did manage to walk to the park a block from my house twice over the past weekend, and got to enjoy all the new leaves unfurling on the big oaks there, and Boyfriend drove me up to the State Park closest to my house so that I could walk a short distance along a meadow trail and take in the poppies and lupines. What a relief these outings were! And next week I should be able to drive again, so the caged-animal portion of my recovery seems to be coming to a grateful end.
Isabella, I’m glad your recovery is going well.
Also in No 19! Always good for straightening one’s posture, I find…
I’ve been wondering how your recovery is going, Isabella. Glad you can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Driving makes such a big difference.
Isabella, glad that you are able to start walking again! Your scent is a perfect match for the parks.
Your mention of poppies reminds me of the first time I saw a bunch of them in a meadow. They were not blooming yet, but still in the frond stage. I had never seen them like that, and I thought, “😮 they look like an alien species!”
It’s great to hear that you are getting out and about again. Spring is a lovely time for that.
It’s wonderful that you can get out for walks! I find them healing in so many ways.
Yay for healing up, getting out, and being able to drive again!
I’m also glad you are able to get out walking again. Be kind to yourself. You need recovery time and a lot of rest.
Wearing Wazamba for the pine note, I thought. Turns out it’s cypress, and there’s also a fern note so I am taking points.
It’s chilly, gray and windy and two very good friends are coming over to help me clean my porch windows, which I didn’t get done last fall. I tried to talk them out of it but they are adamant. Brrr!
Wazamba is great stuff, and nice and warm for your window project.
It was 19C here yesterday, today it is snowing, LOL. That’s spring for you in Québec. I’m wearing Angélique Noire.
What in the world? I then saw the comment about Quebec.
You smell wonderful!
The ❄️ icon showed up on my dashboard this morning because it was chilly! Thankfully no snow though.
It was so cold this morning that I brought back out my winter coat!
Quebec weather sounds an awful lot like Colorado weather sometimes. 😉
Ohhh up way too early for the workman to come replace my courtyard door. Heavily warped from all the rain we had this and last year.
Coffee and toast with jam to start the day.
So why is he not here yet?
Post shower, I think I will douse myself in Benjoin Boheme.
Hope he got there eventually apsara!
We overnighted at a nice park/fairground in the small town of Duchesne, UT last night. Free overnighting, bathrooms, trash, and water plus a nice welcome from the fairground staff. There is a very nice boardwalk along the Strawberry River which is a split off Duchesne River upstream a bit, eventually emptying into Starvation Reservoir. We also got to see some horse action as there are a bunch of essspensive horse trailers and very esssspensive trucks hauling them. Must be a show coming up.
Heading east today, probably to Dinosaur National Monument because there are some trails I can take doggo on there. Quite warm in the upper 70’s, feels about 90 if you’re in direct sunlight but rain is supposed to roll through this area over the next couple of days along with a cool front.
Wearing SSS Yin & Ylang. My travel size has about 0.5 applications left so I may wear this over again tomorrow or reapply later today so I can thunk my bottle. Happy Hump Day!
Deva al your wonderful stories make me wonder if you’ve read Brave the Wild River by Melissa Sevigny, about two women botanists in 1938 who were the first to “botanize’ the Colorado River while riding the rapids with four men who did not want to take them along because women did not belong on the river, and they’d fuss and put the men in danger. Instead, they proved the bravest of all, did everything the men did, plus all the cooking and mending. Excellent compelling book. Author (who I was on a panel with this past weekend at L.A. Times Festival of Books) is an NPR reporter in Arizona. What does this have to do with fragrance? Well, the book has wonderful descriptions of flora and scent, and for this week’s theme, it made me realize that not all national parks are forest/mountain/green, many are deserts, so that I can wear the last of my Tauer L’Air du Desert Marocain this week and still comply.
Denise, I’ll be reading this – thank you for the descripton!
It just went on my list. That was an excellent CP tie-in!🌟
p.s. did u get my last email?
Thx Carole and AnnE & yes, I think we’re up to date.
Thanks for that recommendation, I will order it to read this summer along with several others I have. I am a big fan of women doing things women aren’t “supposed” to do. One of my favorites, who has sadly passed now is, “Woodswoman” written Anne La Bastille who was an ecologist studying the effects of acid rain in the Adirondacks. There is a series of 3-4 books. She built her own log cabin there with the help of one friend, and lived there for many years with her German Shepards. The only way to get to her cabin was via boat in the summer and skiing over the frozen lake in winter. During breakup, she was unreachable. This was back in The 70’s and 80’s so definitely a time when “wilderness studies” were dominated by men.
Fascinating. I’ll look for Woodswoman. Another good one I just read (and paneled with) is Letters From Yellowstone, a novel by Diane Smith, set in the late 1890s, a woman botanist who uses initials for her first and middle names (as most scientists did then when publishing) gets invited on a Yellowstone expedition because the leader assumes she is a man. Horror ensues as the all-male expedition realize what they’ve landed – eek a woman. Told in letters. Interestingly, botany was the one science field open to women back then, who could stroll around gardens and meadows and pick flowers and plants to press into pretty books. But they shouldn’t stray far from home — too dangerous and taxing for their natures.
Added to my list! 😀
Deva, when you wrote women doing things women aren’t supposed to be do, I immediately thought of this fun article I read a couple months ago.
https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/hortense-lanphere-protected-california-dunes-18592365.php
Great article! Thank you for posting. I have to admit I have a soft spot for pistol packing women who never leave home without their revolver, although I prefer a Ruger to a S&W 🙃 There is a similar story about a couple of amateur spelunkers who found an undiscovered cave system in Arizona back in the 60’s. They told NO ONE about it for years, because so many of these places are defiled (strong word, that!) by ignorant people. Anyway, they finally told the people who owned the land and through a concerted effort of the land owner and the spelunkers, they were able to protect it so today it’s still in pristine condition. It’s called Kartchner Caverns and they do cave tours that are quite serious in that if you touch ANYTHING that isn’t the railing, they immediately tag it and disinfect it when the tour is over. Serious folks! 😁
I may have missed it, but how was meeting your new boss you will have this summer?
Good, they’re zipped over to my site Sunday. She’s a talker, him not so much, so I guess a match made in heaven?! Both seem quite nice. ☺️
You deserve quite nice.
Oh, good.
Howdy, neighbor!
It’s been many years since I’ve been to Dinosaur National Monument. At least, my parents said we had been there on vacation. I was too young to remember any of it.
👋🏼👋🏼 Howdy!
Good morning!
Spring allergies got me good this morning so I’ve been sniffling this whole time. But! SOTD is Hermes Violette Volynka. Violets and soft leather, sweet and comforting.
Glad y’all enjoyed the lace yesterday 🙂 Will share more back in the near future.
Our weatherman said spring allergies are going to be brutal this year. Great.😏
It was pretty bad last year and I can already tell this year is no different 🙁
That’s a good one. I have contemplated purchasing this.
I always like that we have similar tastes 🙂 I have the 15ml travel spray and it is the right size for me.
I need to smell that one. So many on the list that I never get to…sigh.
I had a bit of a runny nose earlier this week thanks to allergies, so I hear ya.
I’m in Hermes Un Jardin sur le Nil. Another cool, cloudy spring day here, and I needed a change from the floral-heavy fragrances I’ve been wearing. Going to apply some Philosykos, too, I think.
Tea: Mighty Leaf Green Tea Tropical
Recent TV Viewing: Palm Royale on Apple TV+. Comedy/drama that centers around Palm Beach high society. Really enjoying it, and the clothes and scenery are a delight
Reading: Mr. and Mrs. American Pie by Juliet McDaniel, which is the book that inspired Palm Royale.
House twins!
Someone just told me about Palm Royale this week…glad to hear it is worth watching.
I am continuing my week with “whatever I grab”. I think I have done this one before so please bear with me. Today I went with Hermes Eau des Merveilles.
Come to think of it, we haven’t had a Roulette Week.
Love that name.
Me too!
Challenging!
But now we will!
Wearing Lyric today. This has been a strange spring. We get two days of sun with temps in the 70’s followed by a couple weeks that are grey and in the 40’s.
Yep, sounds about right- here too. We’ll see what the summer is like!
Same here, and I think we’re in very different parts of the country!
I am in the moist spring florally green of Soivohle Vine Street.
Since I’m on break this week, my husband and I are going to overnight in Idaho Springs (our closest hot spring) and soak and get massages. I am nervous about driving there–I did it once with my instructor when I was taking lessons but I haven’t done mountain driving since
I think mountain driving, or in my case riding, in Colorado was what instilled the fear of heights in me 24 years ago. You will have earned that soak and massage! Enjoy!!
Now I am mush
Have a safe drive!
Good luck thegoddessrena! It will be worth it when you get there I’m sure.
Guerlain Tonka
It’s blooming on my skin in this warmer weather
Wait, you have warm weather there?! Please send some to the Midwest, it was chilly here this morning!🥶
You smell great.
Twins with cazaubon today in Angélique Noire. Green that turns into vanilla.
I remember being so confused the first time I tried Angelique Noire. I didn’t know vanilla could be green.
Green and leather notes I’m wearing today, in the form of Bandit parfum. Just a dab, of course.
It’s still in the 50’s here, but it’s sunny and not too windy, so maybe I’ll take a stroll down by the Emerald Necklace. This was a big project of Olmsted’s which is very close to where I live. I feel so lucky to have it practically in my neighborhood! 💚 The part nearest me had been neglected for decades and hasn’t been exactly beautiful for a very long time. But…a huge renovation has been ongoing for a couple of years, and it’s looking much better. It’s been a consortium of agencies backing it, including the Army Corps of Engineers. They’ve been dredging and shoring up the banks of a little river near here, and what a process it’s been. Here’s to keeping the invasive vegetation from taking over again. 🤞🏻
I looked it up and what a beautiful place. Enjoy your walk.
Thank you, Kanuka.
I hope you don’t mind me asking, but does your username have a special meaning to you?
It’s a native tree, similar to Manuka, that grows in the hill where I walked. The leaves have a nice lemon/ tea tree scent when crushed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunzea_ericoides
What a beautiful tree! It must be a sight when it’s in bloom. Thanks for the link.
Glad to hear they’re cleaning it up!
Yes! It would be incredibly sad to see such a wonderful series of spaces decay into wasteland.
I have done a fair bit of reading about the Emerald Necklace this week. So glad they are keeping it up.
One of the things I discovered about Omsted is how hard it is to find any photographic evidence of his original designs, but I think that’s a good thing. If parks endure, they change, and that’s as it should be.
Yes, I agree with your philosophy on public parks. Society changes, the built landscape changes with it. (Often not for the better, unfortunately.)
This week’s CP has given me a push to finally join the Emerald Necklace Conservancy. I should put my money where my mouth is. 😉
https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/edward-hopper-central-park-shakespeare-at-dusk
I’m wearing La Pluie which is a slightly introspective perfume, matching with Edward Hopper’s Central Park art works. There’s an interesting story in this article about how starlings ( birds) were introduced to America in 1890, in Central Park and the influence of Shakespeare’s work in bringing that about.
It’s Anzac Day here, a commemoration of the Australian and NZ troops who fought in Gallipoli in WW1, a public holiday.
I remember coming across a recipe for Anzac cookies! Is that a real thing?
https://nadialim.com/anzac-biscuits/
Sure is and so easy to make. Basically they are just oat biscuits with a bit of coconut and golden syrup ( might be light treacle in USA if you don’t have it) . They are crunchy and chewy.
Historically they were made by family members in NZ/ Australia and sent to soldiers fighting in Europe as they did not spoil / go stale.
Thanks, Kanuka! I will try these.
Yum! Just printed the recipe. 😉
I have a can of Lyle’s Syrup, since I came across an authentic-sounding recipe for treacle tart. Haven’t made that, yet, though.
Gallipoli. The name breaks my heart.
Someone on the NPR radio station I listen to mentioned Anzac Day in passing.
Sorry I neglected to mention Anzac Day, again…I am not good at getting all the holidays.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old…
Guerlain Champs Elysees and a cup of English Breakfast tea
Hope it was a good day Barqs!
I’m testing my latest set of samples from STC. I love the the feeling of discovery and don’t mind at all if I don’t like a perfume.
This time I included a sample of Emanuel Ungaro’s Diva – how have I not tried this before?? It is lovely, it reminds me a little of SL’s Rose de Nuit and is as cheap as chips, so a FB is on its way already.
Right now, I’m wearing a dab of Lankaran Forest from Maria Candida Gentile. It’s green and woody, but also light. I like it, but it’s not up there with Diva.
I’m so glad you found Diva. I love it too and the beautiful+cheap combo is always a winner😊
Another fave of mine is the original Ungaro by Ungaro, in the cobalt blue bottle. (Later Avon did a version). It’s quite an 80s showstopper. Woods. Florals. Sexy musks.
Ungaro Diva is one of my Holy Grail rose perfumes. So beautiful!
In a very green rose today, Ombre Dans L’Eau.
Thumbs up for the perfume roulette cp idea!
Oh, I might have to wear that tomorrow!
Purple Fantasy today, I rarely wear it and tonight Habanita, just one spray as it is so potent, it’s the modern one, I also have the vintage.
What’s purple fantasy? Britney Spears?
Guerlain😀
Lol!
It shows how sophisticated I am! 🤣
I’m in another recently unearthed decant, Mona di Orio Amyitis. This was part of the initial release of her brand and has been discontinued for a long time. It’s a green and woody iris and hits the spot nicely today. I could see this bring an aroma in a park if you were near some iris and some green, aquatic vegetation near a pond.
Speaking of irises, some are blooming near my home just beside the sidewalk against someone’s wood fence. I stop every time I pass to bend over and stick my nose deep in one them. This kind smells kinda like sweet tarts candy. 💕 I tried looking them up, but there are so many varieties that I’ve given up for now. They’re a pale blue with some yellow and white.
Love the smell of iris blooms!
I was very disappointed the first time I smelled an iris perfume, and it did not smell like the flowers at all. 😞😞
The smell of Bearded Irises (the big ones) drives me wild!
I’m in Jardin Un Cythere for a chilly but sunny day.🌞 We have a freeze warning for tonight. Brr!
Freeze warning twins!
It definitely froze here last night!
En Passant again for me today, since it reminds me of the lilacs at the Arnold Arboretum. We used to go there every spring when we lived in Boston. It’s also cozy for a day like today, when the weather has changed from warm-ish sun to drizzle and rain that’s supposed to persist for a week.
You smell wonderful!
I didn’t know you used to live in Boston! Did you love it or hate it? 😄
Robert Penn Warren! All the King’s Men is a great favorite with me. You’ve reminded me to read it again soon. For some CP points: Angel Innocent, as Pyramus turned my attention to Mugler over the weekend. AI because of Flowers Park in Doraville, GA. As a child, a pool, fifty cents for snacks, and a Carnegie Library next door after a dry-off constituted the perfect Summer day. In those distant times, my mother would just drop us off and run errands (and get us kids out of her hair!) 😀
I remember those days but with us it was the “All Night Skate.” My mom would drop myself and some friends off around 7pm and someone else’s mom would pick us up around 7am. Those were the days! 🛼 Our little town library was another place my mom would drop me off for HOURS! Simpler times for sure.
You can say that again.
Your story rings some bells, too!
SOTD = Frederic Malle Synthetic Jungle
I’m on a green trend so I will keep going! Love it! 💚
https://www.instagram.com/p/C6KYjb0REfC/?igsh=MXExcjFlN3QxenV3ZQ==
In other news, I had no clue that dogs can be in the courtroom!
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/dogs-courthouses-courts-lawyers-9c882f0b?st=45u09tcbg6agik0&reflink=article_copyURL_share
It’s nice you have the original bottle. They changed the name, didn’t they?
Heh! I had to look it up and yes they did to Synthetic Nature.
Green is one of your favorite colors IIRC.
Green is my favorite color!
Mine too. 🙂
My daughter got in trouble at school today. I have to have a meeting about it tomorrow. Ugh.
I’m tired and have 2 tons of laundry to do. Whine Whine.. lol
I smell awesome in Dune today.
Oh.. I let the dog out without looking in the backyard and had to chase him away from the rabbits. Poor bunnies.
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Oy vey. Good luck with that school meeting.
Thanks. It’s not how I want to be spending my day off.
Hope it’s just the usual school age shenanigans and not something serious. I’m tired, too, and I didn’t do anything except drive a little bit. 🥱
It’s mostly her just being stubborn and refusing to do her work.
Good luck tomorrow lillyjo!!
You do smell wonderful. I hope the conversation tomorrow will be helpful.
Almost up to 80 degrees F today. I will be sending some of this weather off later on in the week, if anyone is interested. I’ve been watching the clouds boil up over the course of the afternoon. Might have some thunderstorms later on. Might not.
Under the weather this morning. Something I ate yesterday disagreed with me, it seems. Feeling better now, but not quite right.
SOTD = back in Eris Delta of Venus again. Also enjoying British Rose body butter from TBS. A little goes a long way with that stuff.
83F here and I’d like to do serious harm to the weather gods! We (as in eastern Utah) are supposed to be getting some rain tonight and tomorrow with cooler temps following, so they are definitely headed your way. I’ll gladly send 83F to anyone who wants it..! 🌡️
Typical weather here *should* be around 63 degrees F. I’ve been keeping a wary eye on the drought map, just in case… Summer could be ugly.
I’m glad you are starting to feel better.
It seems like everyone is liking Delta of Venus. I haven’t heard a negative yet.
Thanks. Had to eat a bland diet today, and I don’t like it one bit.
Delta of Venus is a lot of fun, but I find it really close to the Vera Wang Lovestruck that I have. Did you like AS Saturday? If so, then you’d probably like Delta of Venus.
I did like Saturday. It just wasn’t my style.
I did not like it … too grapefruity or something like that.
That’s too hot too soon! Maybe it’s the shingles vaccine?
There’s been a lot of temps in the upper 70’s here recently. It’s much warmer than I remember northern Colorado being this time of year. Of course, that was 30 years ago, give or take.
As for my GI upset: I think it was either too much spicy food or too much fiber. 😐 The only side effects I saw with the shingles vax was a very sore arm for 3 or 4 days, and a bit of fatigue.
I probably wasn’t on the CP today since I reached for Ravissante by MDCI because I love it so much. But hey, there are pomegranates in many beautiful gardens, especially in the warmer climates, in Spain and Turkey for example, so maybe I can count it! I had two extended Zoom meetings today and they left me exhausted, especially one this afternoon with an attorney I might retain to help with my mother’s estate and care. It is all quite complicated because some things my brother was in charge of were left undone when he died so quickly. I fear I’m in for an extended period of legal filings as well as, not surprisingly, some major fees. (These are reimbursable eventually but you have to pay up front….)
Oh dear, so sorry for all the legal and money hassle Calypso, that is a lot of stress while you’ve already got so much to deal with.