<p>LOL paying3!</p>
<p>Aw, jmmom, I think given your wanderings you need a shot of tequila with habanero. Who knows if it cures you but it would be hard for any virus to survive the massive onslaught of eye watering and heavy breathing and hand waving that would ensue:).</p>
<p>The coughing crud has visited our house, too. DS2 started, I followed, DH got it Friday and DS1 now seems to be getting it. I pulled a muscle tonight from all the coughing. Darned Interwebs virus. 
Tea, Earl Grey, hot.</p>
<p>jmmom, oscillococcinum works like gangbusters but you have to take it IMMEDIATELY when you begin to feel bad, like the first moment you realize… “oh, no, wait-- it’s not cold in here, I’m getting sick…”</p>
<p>pulling my people up from page 2.</p>
<p>it is cold like a brick in NYC today. Perhaps a couple of hot toddies will help to alleviate some of these cold symptoms (or yet, we may get such a buzz that we won’t care that there is sniffling, sneezing and hacking coughs around us).</p>
<p>Caught up on LTS’s thread and her potential date. We have to come up with a really great drink for her to serve when she gives that come hither look and invites him to her garden oasis (courtesy of slugg & mootie- beautiful job!).</p>
<p>We can put a blender or other drink dispenser somewhere in the garden, and it can dispense any ol’ drink we want! Just say the group word and we will make it so.</p>
<p>(Step 1: inventing the drink.)</p>
<p>I think it should be a Goodnight Moon drink.</p>
<p>Whatever that would be.</p>
<p>Hot milk and rum?</p>
<p>Carrot juice (for the bunny) and, well, I can’t think of anything to mix with carrot juice that I might want to drink - any help?</p>
<p>Slugg and Mootmom, great work.</p>
<p>Hot milk and rum could be the beginning of something…</p>
<p>Ethereal, which is what I think it should be.</p>
<p>Carrot juice… well, maybe there can be a dish of that over in the corner.</p>
<p>Carrot juice is for the bunny. It’s much too healthy for the likes of us.</p>
<p>Is there a drink called the Cherry Blossom? There should be.</p>
<p>Edit: found lots of drinks with “cherry” in the name. All seemed pretty disgusting.</p>
<p>I’m thinking something light & frothy.</p>
<p>I’m thinking that a blender and ice cream need to be involved…</p>
<p>Exactly. Sounds like a summer drink–have to remember this when it’s not 15 degrees and SNOWING outside.</p>
<p>Cherry ice cream and a shot of something. Amaretto? :)</p>
<p>I remember something called a creamsicle…vanilla ice cream, oj and amaretto…it does taste like the ice cream bar</p>
<p>My front yard looks like a creamsicle.</p>
<p>mommusic, I’m almost afraid to ask - but I have to! Why does your front yard look like a creamsicle?</p>
<p>carrot juice plus other veggie juices plus vodka & horseradish, a multi veggie bloody mary, no?</p>
<p>I know what to send jmmom, the erstwhile Northern Californian. An early spring day in the Bay Area. Today is supposed to get up to 70+ degrees. The daffodils and the forsythia are blooming, daffodils on the ground among the grasses and forsythia in sprays out over the still full mudpuddles on the roads. The fruit trees have started to sprout pink blossoms, you can smell them when you walk through the Orchard Supply Hardware parking lot, seduced by the thought of wet dirt, on the way to purchase something, anything, growing.</p>
<p>The air is very gentle. The sun is just warm enough. The birds start to make a lot of noise the minute sunrise is even within reach of an idea. </p>
<p>This should trick that cold right into leaving you for greener pastures jmmom, good luck.</p>
<p>As you can tell, our yards do not remotely resemble creamsicles at this point. Once the poppies start, we will kind of have an orange popsicle aesthetic going on…</p>
<p>boy Alu, you sure did whiplash me back to spring in Northern California. The smell, yes!</p>
<p>I’m about to send a postcard to my son in SoCal. It says “Buffalo” and shows a boy licking a metal pole with his tongue freezing to it, and the caption, “At forty degrees below zero, why even bother?” I just want him to remember about life back in the old country while he jumps around in his hoodie and flipflops.</p>
<p>paying3tuitions,
The weather today is amazing. It’s actually on the too-warm side. I’m afraid your son may never want to come home… just kidding, of course, but he is bound to be outside today enjoying the wonderful February summer. You might want to email him not to forget the sunscreen. :D</p>
<p>Yeah, even up here in the north of Ca today we are talking mojitos and gin and tonics and white wine spritzers (remember those) instead of hot toddies and peaty single malts…</p>
<p>SBmom - welcome home:).</p>