It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
So this week I started planning (for real this time) a road trip for next month. Each summer we look forward to packing up the summer car and heading Up North — more a state MORE
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Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 21
Happy Friday News Viewers, already mid-June, and hot hot hot — and in this neck of the woods, humid, sticky.. . .Back in the day, we would have gone swimming in weather like this, but MORE
Talk o Tuesday
Talko Tuesday: Two destructive monsters
Having pets bring so much more to our lives. They’re our companions, members of our families, fun to play with…then there some things they do that just make you want to scoop them up and MORE
Free Range Free Chat
Free Range Free Chat
Good morning, News Viewers and Happy Monday; this is Free Range Free Chat, our open thread with the free-wide-open ranging themes of animals (including people and bugs), the environment (including the physical and political) and MORE
Last Call
Last Call: Saturday Night at the News Views Lounge
Happy Saturday evening, News Viewers. Hope your weekend is going well and everyone is staying safe. Just have some fun tonight. Pour yourself a beverage of choice and turn on some of your favorite tunes. MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
It’s hot, and I have (vaccinated) out-of-state family coming. Now I don’t have the heat wave the west coast is having, but we are looking at 90’s and humid right through the weekend. So I MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 22
Happy Friday News Viewers — this is Free Chat where the chatting is free and the topics are yours; I’m glad to be here with the community because some all-important questions need answering right here, MORE
Talk o Tuesday
Talko Tuesday: Happy June!
Back to the grind. It feels so much like a Monday but, it’s not. After a very long weekend, (I took a few extra days), it’s back to the daily grind. I just cannot believe MORE
Free Range Free Chat
Free Range Free Chat
Hiya from Free Range Free Chat, our open thread about all things living on this planet, and all things planet related as it supports that life.. Today is Memorial Day of 2021, a day set MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
Summer officially kicks off this weekend, and while it hasn’t climbed above 50 degrees yet today, I’m willing to overlook today’s temps to a sunnier and warmer tomorrow, and I’m beginning to think about summer MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 21
happy Friday peeps — that last cartoon about Eric Carle–he wrote “The very hungry caterpillar”, a kids book with the best art — it’s a loved book because of the pictures. Here’s the caterpillar– RIP MORE
Talk o Tuesday
Talko Tuesday: Recipe swap!
Most people who know me and my News Views Family know I love to cook and cook a lot. So, for this Tuesday, I thought we could share some recipes and no, they don’t have MORE
Free Range Free Chat
Free Range Free Chat, May 24
Ranging freely lately, the cicada, a creature that is outside of range of fuzzy, fluffy, cute or even slightly attractive. They emerge from the bowels of hell every 17 number of years and carpet the MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
Cheers and welcome to the 5:00 Somewhere Lounge where I’m hanging out in my flip-flops with a cool summer cocktail in hand! Woot-woot! We’ve been unseasonably warm in the mid- and upper-80s for a few MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, week 20
Happy Friday News Viewers, and what a Friday it is. Why? You may ask. . . .Because as I continued last night to unpack my Dad’s stuff sent from his place in Colorado, I found MORE
Talk o Tuesday
Talko Tuesday: Happy Tuesday
If I can get through a Monday, I can get through the rest of the week. Just knowing that today is not Monday, makes me in a better mood. So, talk among yourselves and Happy MORE
Free Range Free Chat
Free Range Free Chat
Last spring, people opened their windows to a symphony. Swallows burbled, doves cooed, and sparrows chirped—and to many listeners, these passerine performers had never seemed so loud. For nature lovers, wearied by the tragedy of coronavirus and lockdown MORE
Last Call
Last Call: It’s mental health awareness month
Since 1949, the United States has recognized May as Mental Health Awareness Month. Throughout the pandemic, everyone has suffered both slightly while others have suffered greatly. Our country lost 585K Americans to this horrible virus MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its class of 2021 inductees this week, to join a list of those who shaped the history of music. In order to be inducted into the Cleveland MORE
Talk o Tuesday
Talko Tuesday: What’s on you mind?
Good morning, News Viewers. Just have some fun and talk amongst yourselves. Enjoy the day and be safe. That’s all I have. What’s on your mind that you would like to share?
Last Call
Last Call: Free Chat for the Night Owls
I’m late, way late but we just celebrated my oldest son’s birthday and my mom popped down for an early Mother’s Day dinner; we had fun. It’s my son’s birthday but he wanted to grill. MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 18
This one’s for you, Rick Santorum. . . . Happy Friday, News Viewers — WHAT a soother to have this place to come to especially now when life is not so much calm as it MORE
Talk o Tuesday
Talko Tuesday: Stop with the calls for violence
Seriously! Stop with the calls for violence or acts of violence against MAGAts or any wing nuts. I get it. No one likes them, including myself. But, we’re not at war; we don’t make suggestions MORE
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Free Chat: Monday Moanin’
Good morning, NewsViewers! Rise and shine– wakey-wakey, eggs ‘n’ bakey! It’s time for another week of news, and another week to share your views of the news. Hopefully you are fully re-charged after the weekend. MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
There is a 147th run for the roses on Saturday in Kentucky, the first Jewel of the Triple Crown and the “most exciting two minutes in sports.” A day for wild and crazy hats (no MORE