Never heard about those Murphy's before! Careful now, you folks. I AM IRISH! My Great-Grandmother came from County Cork......Now what was that?!? LOL! The best Irish celebration I have ever seen was back a few years. I was at the Irish Day Parade in Boston. You talk about a bunch of "drunks" having fun drinking green beer. That was the best I've ever seen. There are more Irish Fireman's Units out there than even in Ireland and I believe most of them might have had trouble fighting a fire that particular day! Lots of green stuff out there. St. Paul, Minnesota has another great parade and a couple great Irish taverns, in case anyone wants to visit.

Thank you all so much! I've been away from the computer for awhile tending to a cellulitis attack that's now diminishing nicely. No fun, though - don't try it! Andrea, wouldn't it be fun to clog? 'specially if I was lighter on my feet, I'd volunteer in a second. Thank you so much for the beautiful Senateur Amic. I've not seen it before and it's lovely . Melva, yup, I got your email. Just can't do any digging for awhile, so tell that Texas heat to hold off a bit, okay? Olga, thank you so much for the birthday wishes. Marji's mom in Rockville had hoped to join you all at the Maryland gathering but we were sidetracked with my illness and didn't get her the information in time. But since there were great photos of your garden, I'll encourage her to look at them. If you see a lady being chauffered through your neighborhood by her handsome son and peering into gardens, it's probably Marilyn searching for your roses! Susan, thank you so much for the birthday wishes. It's wonderful to hear from you. I'm so enjoying the saga of your garden and the results of your pruning and moving. More photos, because they're stunning! Melissa, what a splendid pressure to exert, that I MUST come to Italy. Oh break my heart! Yours is the first rose garden I'll visit and I so look forward to meeting you. Thank you for thinking of me on my birthday. Krista, can you email me again, please? Either because of spam-fear or a very high fever, I deleted it without reading. Forgive me! Sue Sue

Thank you so much everyone! Luvs is such a special friend, and one of the reasons I love her is that no matter what she ALWAYS thinks of others. Creek..."Maybe I'll see you on the road between the 55 and 65 speed limit!!LOL"...I had to laugh at this one. Its great. On the serious side, I appreciate your caring and humor so much when I know you've just lost your Daddy. It meant a lot to hear from you. Jim, you nut! That kitty card cracked me up. Thank you! Yep, Janie, I did get Part B on the Medicare. Very important to have that, I know. From my other post tonight, you guys know my BFF and I went to lunch and shopping for "our" birthdays last week. Yesterday she came over and spent the afternoon with me. We decorated the pink tree, tho I had packed all the Easter stuff I didn't use so had to get the ornaments back out. LOL. And she brought her laptop, so we ate a lunch I fixed and played on the computer together. She just got it for Xmas and is trying to learn stuff. Doing great I think, but needs help at times with doing albums on Photobucket and some other things. Its fun to have a buddy to sit down with in real life and do computer things. We both are already HUGE fans of Pinterest. She made me a German Choc cake, my favorite. Mr O was going to take me out to dinner, but I didn't want to go on a Sat night. So we were going tonight, but then I had a bad Fibro day and couldn't. Maybe tomorrow night! I loved all my birthday wishes, but just wonder how the heck I could already be 65!!! HOW did this happen? hugs, Karen

There were 8 adults and 3 kids here for a bbq. I made homemade pizza, shrimp and crab on crackers, a cheese platter and grilled brats, kielbassa, etc. cut up. Then we had baby back ribs, homemade cole slaw and potato salad, spinach salad with grilled chicken, baked beans, hamb and hot dogs. Homemade strawberry shortcake and banana cake with whipped cream. I am exhausted! DS son and family arrived Fri night, I didn't think they were coming till Sun morn. So needless to say it was very active here. I didn't get a chance to fuss with the table, we ate outside and it was very warm here today. I used a blue and yellow floral table cloth, stems with blue and yellow, blue naps, a yellow watering can with fresh daisies, and 2 yellowish shell candles. The kids went donwn to the bay for a while. Tomorrow everything will have to get cleaned again, and all the towels and linens to wash! But, it was nice...tiring but nice.