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Zooms Today, Lilacs and Tree Peonies

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We had a great time at the Balloon Juice zoom last night – okay, I had a great time.  I’ll let everyone else speak for themselves!

There are two zooms today.  One started at 10 am (only 2 takers so far) and goes until 4 pm Eastern.  Another one starts when that one ends, and it goes from 4-10pm Eastern.

The afternoon-evening zoom has started.

If you don’t have the zoom links, send me an email message.  If you signed up for the mailing list, you already have the zoom links, but be sure to click on the link for the correct zoom.  There’s one that works until 4 pm and there’s a different one that works for the zoom from 4-10 pm.

It’s cool and rainy here today, which is still better than HOT and HUMID.

Commenter Nancy sent a lovely photo from a Lilac Festival, and even though it’s cold and raining, I snapped a couple of happy flower photos to share this week, too.

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  1. 1.

    debbie

    Lovely flowers! I think spring is about finished here. Feels like it just began, too.

  2. 2.

    AJ

    Hey WaterGirl I thought I signed up for the email list but I didn’t see an email nor in my spam. Will check again tho.

  3. 3.

    AJ

    I might have failed the “confirm you are a human” step when I tried to sign up. Beep boop.

  4. 4.

    WaterGirl

    ‘@Aj

    Do you use gmail? If so, check in “Promotions” – things like this tend to be put in there.

    okay, I just checked the list of people who have signed up. I see you now as the person who has most recently signed up. so I don’t know if you were in there before (I didn’t find you in a search) but you are definitely there now.

    Any idea of when you signed up the first time?

  5. 5.

    WaterGirl

    ‘@AJ

    Just saw your second message. It seems like you are in there now, so you should get the next one.

    I will try to post each message that is sent in the comments of this site, too.

  6. 6.

    Lapassionara

    Hi, WaterGirl. I tried to sign up for emails too, but evidently was unsuccessful. I have checked my junk folder. I’m not good at those robot tests. The photos are too fuzzy.

    Should I try again?

  7. 7.

    WaterGirl

    ‘@Lapassionara

    I am pretty sure I saw your name fly by this week, but I will check right now.

  8. 8.

    WaterGirl

    ‘@Lapassionara

    I did a search on your nym and on the email you use for Balloon Juice, and it didn’t come up. ‍♀️

    Sign up again?

  9. 9.

    WaterGirl

    ‘@debbie

    I know, it feels like we had 45 minutes of Spring, and then it went straight to 90+ degrees.

  12. 12.

    WaterGirl

    ‘@Lapassionara

    I see you in there now.

    @Torrey

    You put a ^ in your email address instead of a 6, so all of yours bounced. I just made a new entry for you with the 6 in there instead.

    @Yutsano

    It says you have unsubscribed. If that’s what you intended, great, if not let me know.

  13. 13.

    Yutsano

    Oh hey the e-mails were in my junk folder. I got the heads-up from TaMara on Twitter yesterday actually and here I am!

  14. 14.

    Yutsano

    ‘@WaterGirl
    I didn’t unsubscribe. Hell I just found the e-mails like ten minutes ago! I didn’t delete or anything! I just moved them out of my junk folder. So yes please re-subscribe me please and thank you.

  15. 15.

    WaterGirl

    ‘@RedDirtGirl

    It says you unsubscribed, if that was your intention, no problem.

    @wvng

    You entered your email address wrong. I fixed it.

  16. 16.

    WaterGirl

    ‘@Yutsano

    I will see if it lets me re-subscribe you. I’ll be right back.

  18. 18.

    WaterGirl

    ‘@Yutsano

    It says this:

    “Unsubscribed via Ukraine Update From Adam with the reason: Spammy content”

    So either you clicked unsubscribe by mistake in John’s Ukraine update

    OR

    maybe your mail program decided it was spam?

    It won’t let me add someone who has unsubscribed, so I can’t fix it.

    Go back to the message from adam and click to update your preferences OR you can go to the “sign up for the list” link on the BJ splash page and sign up again.

    Let me know how it goes, and which one you did.

  21. 21.

    NotMax

    Heh.

    Rewatched 1969’s film “The Battle of Britain” recently.

    According to the blurb on Prime video, original release date is … 2161.

  22. 22.

    Mousebumples

    How/Where/When would one sign up for these emails from John? I don’t think I ever signed up, but I did see an update from him on Twitter.

  25. 25.

    AJ

    Is it possible to see / read any update emails from Adam re Ukraine?!

    Or could they be put up as posts, along with other posts that went out via email?

    I know that is asking for your time when you already give us so much time so no problem if it’s too much! Ty

  26. 26.

    JAFD

    For the Mahler stans in Jackaldom … The New York Philharmonic, tonight, 8 PM Eastern Daylight, or 0000 GMT, broadcast on WQXR and WQXR.org
    “Gustav Mahler intended his eighth symphony as an expression of faith in the human spirit. Eight soloists and three choirs join conductor Lorin Maazel and the New York Philharmonic for a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8.”

    There’s also available ‘on demand’ at that website, for the very near future, teh recorded broadcast of John Williams conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra. in a concert of his music.

    Enjoy

  29. 29.

    zhena gogolia

    Sorry I’ve missed the zooms. We’re having commencement/reunion weekend in 93 degree heat and I am exhausted.

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