tina, I need to check on that. The one Walgreen's I use it's the same as their old 35mm film policy. You sit at the little machine, pick & choose, hit submit for your order and a receipt is printed. Then you can do 1 hour express or return next day for your prints. At least the last time I used it was like that, maybe 2 years ago? Maybe it's changed in that time? As an aside, there is a certain irony to this discussion for me. I love to take photos, family, trips, nature, whatever. Often have a camera in hand. I was diligent about keeping them in albums, neatly organized. When things started to go digital, I remember being so disappointed, thinking some day that's all it would be. The days of sitting alone or with someone, touching & holding real pictures and reminiscing would be going the way of oh..8 track players? :) Sitting around a PC just somehow isn't the same. Now today, here I am, with all my pics on PC, backed up on an external drive. (Which is not enough to prevent loss, need to do something extra.) I rarely print out photos anymore, unless I want to frame them. Share, no problem, zip them off in email, or to Facebook, or my private Pbucket album that family has the password to. Whodathunkit? ;)

Oh, what a shame about your perfect bicycle! Hopefully another will come along, or something even better. Vacation was nice, thank you. I should post an update on the other side. Finally got my pics to post. I think I prefer the brighter orange-red to the darker reds with the turquoise/aqua. Also, I love Schoolhouse Electric's striped shades with brass fixtures, and they'd be perfect! Their Chesapeake chandelier in brass is so nice, but I can't get the link to post. Here's a few others- You can get this one with RED cords :-)

Oh for God's sake! This is ridiculous!!! ALL of this! I can assure you that the calling card with a ink slash through it has been the traditional way someone used a calling card as a gift enclosure card if one was a close friend or relative. The slash was for this purpose - to show a relationship where the recipient did NOT call them "Mr and Mrs Smith". It has a very short one-line comment was below ("We're so thrilled for you both! Much love, Aunt Sue and Uncle John") I have seen this in St Louis, Louisville, and NYC so it's not just something in one part of the country. Since very few brides under the age of 40 even have calling cards, it's no doubt now only seen with gifts from middle-age and older people. BTW - a man's calling card with just his own name on it was always a different shape than a "Mr & Mrs" card or a single woman's - it was longer and narrower. But there are still a few of us alive that like to use them, and that does include my DD, DS and their friends. Why? Probably because their mothers/grandmothers did and bought calling cards for them. So, none of you EVER gossips nor do your children? Really? I find that hard to believe. And when one gossips with a close friend, sometime comments ARE "shallow and catty" - that's what gossip is! "My gawd, did you see that hat?" People not only love to gossip, they do so online as well. All the talk about Meghan vs Kate is nothing but gossip and I'll bet at least some of you actually read it. It's human nature. Young girls and young women tend to have a pretty tight set of standards, whether it's what tattoo they have, how many piercings and where, do they get a brazilian, or what they name their children and what their wedding invitations look like. Anyone who deviates will be talked about - it goes across all socio-economic lines. What did the prom dress look like. Who did she take - it's all fair game. BTW. "reply cards" are a fairly new thing. When I was first married in 1966, there was no such thing. Same in 1978 when I remarried. People grabbed their best stationary and wrote a reply in the same formal format as the invitation. Or they called or wrote a note. Somehow, they replied. There were also no menu choices. Actually, at that time, only the very wealthy had a formal seated dinner, but when they did, it was no different than entertaining in ones home - there is no choice of what one is served. They were being used when DD got married in the late 1990's but then as now, they are consider to be "optional". They're expensive and if one is doing a wedding on a budget (both of my own and my daughter's), an extra $300 is a BIG hit to a budget. They started as more and more people didn't know how to write a formal reply and even those who did, were a bit remiss in doing so. Thus the "reply card". Unfortunately, those who are remiss still are, and it doesn't matter if one includes an email address for replies - many of the young today like to keep their options open and tend to reply quite late (better offer didn't come through?) or just don't reply at all. Ask any Mother of the Bride who has given a wedding recently! Getting the count to a restaurant/event space/caterer is not easy in these more casual days. Since I'm now feeling down right ornery, what do you all think a birth announcement should look like? Photo of baby? Photo with parents or siblings? What I used (as did DD - she just loved the look of these!) is the most traditional kind of birth announcement - to quote Crane's web site (yes, they DO still make these!), "...a small card attached to a larger card with a pink or blue ribbon". I think they're adorable, but I guess today, they might not pass muster with the "gender neutral" crowd. Pink or blue ribbon? The horror! How sexist! Do you think I actually gasp and grab/clutch my pearls? I do have pearls but only wear them to church or other dressy occasions and I don't "clutch" them. It's an expression of speech and it is used rather commonly today. It is always with tongue planted firmly in ones cheek. Do what you like but how about allowing me to do the same and not be raked over the coals and insulted for what is traditional among my friends and family.

One of my staff members is having a hard time, she’s about ready to retire, lives alone, children across the country, and we are really, really busy right now, so she’s stressed on all levels. Speaking personally, I love all aspects of WFH, but I will miss live music this summer. On an existential level, I'm terrified for and worried about how individuals - not corporations - are going to fare now, during the worst of the pandemic and after its over. I fear our way of life will be fundamentally altered, and not in the ways I want (my preferred altering would be women having full control of their bodies, ERA passed, stricter pollution/air/water laws, Medicare for all, UBI, immigration reform, all the progressive stuff), but with high unemployment, more poverty, more of a class divide, more inequality and more misery.