Happy Birthday PollyK!!!

Hope you have a wonderful .. and happy day!!!!

Happy birthday to you! Hope your day is wonderul. Eleanor

Happy Birthday Polly, hope you have a wonderful day!! ^_^

WooHoo! It's your birthday. Have a great one!

Hope you have the best Birthday ever!

Happy Birthday, Polly! Have a great one.

Happy b-day!!!

happy b-day polly!

Happy Birthday Polly~~~~:)Anita

Happy Birthday to you!!

Happy Birthday Polly! Hope it's the best!

Oh my gosh!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you all!. What a wonderful bouquet! Did you know I like irises? LOL I also like yellow daylilies, and birthday cakes, and whatever Victor posted :). Looks like a peony, but I might be wrong.

I just got home from work, can you believe my daughter made me work on my birthday? And then found all these wonderful birthday wishes.

I am so appreciative of all my friends on the NE forum. Thank you so much.

No - Stewartia pseudocamellia. ^_^

Oh, of course, LOL. I thought at first it was a camellia, maybe one of the new hardy ones, but I said no, but that would have at least been close.

Oh, and my granddaughter found out today she is getting her black belt, so it was a really good day for me. The dojo makes up a t shirt with the names of all the people who are getting their black belts on it, and they have a mock up on a piece of cardboard. It had all the names, but instead of Jenna, they put Big Bird. She went in for her meeting to see if she would get her belt and looked at the mock up, and looked like she was going to cry, and said I don't think I'm getting my black belt Mommy. Hammy is, and Jinguin, and Big, WHAT?????? Then she caught on. The youngest adult black belt in their 35 year history. So that really made my day.

that's great news!!!

Thank you, Allison. I am just so proud of her.

And also of my grandson, Jamie. They called right after I posted, and Jamie got the Presidential Award of Excellence. He is ten, and just is an absolute sweetheart.

nice presents!!!!

The best!

Congrats!

Thank you.

Happy belated B-Day pollyk. Hope you had a luvly day!

Thank you D'nut. What a beautiful D'

Oh, Polly, I'm so sorry I'm so late in wishing you a Happy Happy Birthday! I just plain missed this thread and hope you had a very special day!
Wishing you a great year ahead as well!
Louise

Thank you Louise. I wish you a geat year, also.

Thanks, Polly! Let's hope that 2010 is a good year for us all!

I have faith it will be.

Let's hope!

Honestly, I believe it will be a good year. I can kinda smell spring in the air some days. I just have the feeling.

Well gardening makes every spring good! Not convinced about the economy yet, though.

The economy has to get better, doesn't it, I hope. My economy, being retired is pretty much always the same, anyway, so I guess I don't see it so much. I tend to stick my head in the sand at times.

I feel so badly for all the people losing their jobs.

One would think, but the signs are uneven at best.

That's very sad.

I know what you mean, Polly, about being retired, but I have noticed that everything has gone up and the income stays pretty much the same. I think they use a faulty method of determining that "cost of living" has not increased. When every bill has increased, from utilities to groceries to gas to media...it seems to be relevant to the actual cost of our living, no matter how the "experts" calculate it.

I'm lucky that I worked for the state and we get a cost of living. I don't yet, as you have to be retired I think 5 years. I know the cost of living for SS isn't much, my husband gets SS. I don't yet. I was lucky enough to have enough years in with the state that my paycheck continued, actually went up 5.00 a week when I retired. So when I get SS it will be additional monies. Until the cost of living catches up with everything, of course.

I noticed my electric bill was about 50.00 more than last year at the same time, and we had used quite a bit less power. We put in a pellet stove, and it cut way down on the electricity.