The Good News Thread

[dk168]

I am very excited to hear about a new watering hole opening in my town soon.

It will be run by a friend and much needed for a number of reasons.

Can't wait.

DK

 

[GemHunter369]

Thank you! She has grown so fast! When we brought her home she was just 2lbs at 3 months. She is now 5lbs (in 2 months!). My hands are striped by kitten play. Her eyes are so dark blue they usually show up black in photos. She is Gigi and he is Archie. I can’t help but add a picture or two of her little brother who comes home Jan 7. He is a redpoint Balinese. My husband was especially excited for another redhead in the family.

They're all gorgeous! I want them all.

 

[missy]

My niece was just accepted to Vassar College. She’s overjoyed and we are all thrilled for her.

May her future be bright and may her life filled with joy and love and happiness and peace

 

[Begonia]

Finally some good news!

Mammogram all clear today. Those AA bad girls are dense but all clear for another year!

Whew.

 

[uwodahikamama]

My new coffee grinder arrived sooner than I expected. Very good news indeed.
I decided to upgrade to a Niche duo and it’s excellent. I love everything about it.
Only thing is you need to make sure you use a WDT tool when making espresso because it does clump. But the solution is pretty simple. Very good machine imo.

 

[YadaYadaYada]

Found out this morning that our older son has been selected for the National Honor Society

 

[ItsMainelyYou]

Found out this morning that our older son has been selected for the National Honor Society

Tell him good job, little bub!

 

[YadaYadaYada]

Tell him good job, little bub!

Thank you, it was during parent teacher conferences this morning that he got the email and I probably embarrassed him by being a very excited mom lol!

 

[pearlsngems]

Hurray-- we finally succeeded in killing the last of the Norway rats that had made a burrow in the gravel bed under our shed, which is at the end of our driveway, next to our house (too close for comfort!) We got the mother rat and 5 of her 6 pups in May and June but one pup, a female, was cagey and avoided the snap traps. We finally got her using "mild" Slim Jim from the dollar store as bait. She'd had a taste of it when I put a piece out for her, and wanted more! Apparently it was more compelling than the peanut butter we'd used previously for bait.

I love small wild animals-- we like seeing the chipmunks, squirrels, groundhogs, opossums, raccoons and even skunks that sometimes come around. Chipmunks come right up to us to get peanuts. One winter we had an adorable little shrew that would come to get peanuts.
But we never saw any rats until this year. I think they must be colonizing in the woods behind our house. Twice in the past few months I've seen a fox trotting along in our yard with a rat in its mouth. My DH found a drowned rat in a bucket he'd left out that had partially filled with rain water.

Rats are intelligent and take care of each other, bringing food to sick members of their colony. They are not bad animals-- but they multiply at a truly scary rate. A female rat goes into heat again 18 hours after delivering pups! They have large litters. Rats mate with their siblings. They reproduce year round and form large colonies. Under ideal conditions, 2 rats can become 15,000 rats in one year. Fifteen thousand! Mind boggling.
Rats can cause expensive damage to cars. And at any point they could try to enter our house.
They were cute, and I hated killing them, but they had to go.

I told my DH that we won't be able to put out our usual bird feeders in winter. The seeds that fall to the ground will just attract rats.

 

[pearlsngems]

CT has early voting for the first time, beginning today. DH and I voted.

 

[Garnetgirl]

Paying for every meal in packed Canadian restaurant, U.S. couple apologizes for Trump politics

Co-owner of Toast in Windsor, Ont., says cheers erupted during Saturday's lunch hour
Desmond Brown · CBC News · Posted: Feb 24, 2025 8:29 PM EST | Last Updated: February 25



Applause, cheers as American couple picks up the tab for entire Windsor, Ont., restaurant

The lunch rush at local restaurant Toast took an unexpected turn after a couple of visiting diners from nearby Ann Arbor, Mich., paid for the meals of every table in the packed restaurant. Behind the gesture of kindness? Their love for Canada, supporting local and sadness about the current state of the U.S.-Canada relationship.

Diners in a Windsor, Ont., restaurant were stunned and elated over the weekend when an American couple picked up the bill for the packed establishment .

May Hermiz is the co-owner of Toast on Erie Street. She says the day took an unexpected turn during their lunch rush when the couple from Ann Arbor, Mich., told her they wanted to pay for everyone in the restaurant.

"I was kind of stunned because nobody has ever done that in our nine years of being in business, nobody has ever paid for the whole restaurant," Hermiz told CBC News.

Staff got the restaurant's attention and made the announcement, before the woman sitting in one of the restaurant's back tables stood to speak.

"Everyone was cheering. They were cheering them on and they were applauding."

"We were just so taken aback.-

Hermiz said the woman told patrons "she hates what the United States is doing to us and she doesn't support it. And she's so happy we won the hockey game and it's a little token of appreciation for Canadians and how much she loves us and how much she loves supporting local."

"Everyone cheered them on again," Hermiz said.

'It was just wonderful to experience it'

'It was just very generous'

Abridged from CBC News

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

Paying for every meal in packed Canadian restaurant, U.S. couple apologizes for Trump politics

Co-owner of Toast in Windsor, Ont., says cheers erupted during Saturday's lunch hour
Desmond Brown · CBC News · Posted: Feb 24, 2025 8:29 PM EST | Last Updated: February 25



Applause, cheers as American couple picks up the tab for entire Windsor, Ont., restaurant

The lunch rush at local restaurant Toast took an unexpected turn after a couple of visiting diners from nearby Ann Arbor, Mich., paid for the meals of every table in the packed restaurant. Behind the gesture of kindness? Their love for Canada, supporting local and sadness about the current state of the U.S.-Canada relationship.

Diners in a Windsor, Ont., restaurant were stunned and elated over the weekend when an American couple picked up the bill for the packed establishment .

May Hermiz is the co-owner of Toast on Erie Street. She says the day took an unexpected turn during their lunch rush when the couple from Ann Arbor, Mich., told her they wanted to pay for everyone in the restaurant.

"I was kind of stunned because nobody has ever done that in our nine years of being in business, nobody has ever paid for the whole restaurant," Hermiz told CBC News.

Staff got the restaurant's attention and made the announcement, before the woman sitting in one of the restaurant's back tables stood to speak.

"Everyone was cheering. They were cheering them on and they were applauding."

"We were just so taken aback.-

Hermiz said the woman told patrons "she hates what the United States is doing to us and she doesn't support it. And she's so happy we won the hockey game and it's a little token of appreciation for Canadians and how much she loves us and how much she loves supporting local."

"Everyone cheered them on again," Hermiz said.

'It was just wonderful to experience it'

'It was just very generous'

Abridged from CBC News