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Post by Teresa on Jul 26, 2022 14:35:22 GMT
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GINNY!!
I hope your day is wonderful and I wish you would come back and post.
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Post by judy on Jul 27, 2022 0:17:48 GMT
Happy Birthday, Ginny.
Hope you are having a wonderful day!
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Post by judy on Jul 31, 2022 0:03:50 GMT
So this is how hot it is around here.
A notice appeared on the City of Corvallis website yesterday afternoon that they would turn all the traffic lights in town to continuous green between 3pm and 6pm today, because they are afraid if they make people stop for traffic lights at the intersections the cars will sink into the hot asphalt like dinosaurs into the La Brea tar pits. I'm not sure how well that's going to work on busy intersections though, so you might want to avoid places like Circle Blvd and 9th Street. It could get pretty bad, because they will get gridlocked and then the cars will start sinking. Sooner or later gas tanks will touch the road surface and then those babies are going to start cooking off like the 4th of July. Bring your own marshmallows.
The other thing to watch out for is extra heavy traffic on the back roads through the farm fields in the Willamette Valley. The local fire departments will all have volunteers slowly cruising on the lookout for grass fires, because they're worried about insects wandering onto the hot road surface. Any bug that leaves the relative safety of the white stripes on the side of the road and moves out into the black surface in the passing lanes will burst like a popcorn kernel within seconds, and if any of the embers reach the dry grass by the side of the road, well it's all over.
I haven't heard how turning all the light green worked out. And, I had never heard that bugs could explode and start fires. HOLY COW!
Hope all of you are surviving the weather wherever you are. I will be VERY, VERY glad when it cools off a bit.
Take care, Judy
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Post by ginny on Jul 31, 2022 2:44:52 GMT
Ladies, Thank you for the birthday wishes. It was certainly not like a best birthday. I wish I had remembered to come here to get my "happy birthday" wishes. I had gotten an early gift (a big flowering plant) from Karen, but we were so busy we sort of forgot it was my birthday. (Well, I didn't, but I didn't say so...) Things are rather in a mess right now. My next door neighbor's husband (the one with the nasty dogs) was diagnosed with an early form of Altzheimers and they decided to move to Florida where they have some family. Karen had been out schmoozing with another neighbor and learned the news. She remembered that I had said at one time that I would like to buy the house myself, and told me. So I am in the process of buying the house, where Karen will move in and be my renter. She will also be closer to me to meet my needs as I continue to get older. (This birthday was #81 for me--It is better than the alternative, ladies, but I think the covid-19 lock ups have made me feel each year since, doubly.) The inspection for my new house is Monday, hope it passes. Here's some good news: I passed my driver's (eye) test. I was really worried I might not, and I had only had my new glasses one day prior. I think I'm going to have to give in and have the cataract surgery after all, I had hoped for more improvement with the new lenses. And I had a Birthday card from my niece (who is much younger than I am) and she just had cataract surgery and it didn't turn out as well as expected. I need to call her and find out what is going on. I have been putting my eye surgery off for 5-10 years. Anyone here with some experience with the surgery? My kitties are doing well, they are such a blessing to have. I've never had such a loving pair before. I'm beginning to wish I'd had children, but a bit late for that!
Judy, I chuckled at your description of the heat and the roads (and the bugs)--though it doesn't sound like anything I'd want to experience. I hope you stayed safely at home. We have had heat, but not like that--actually we've had more rain than heat. The ground is saturated and we have floods in some parts of town. I live at the top of a big hill so I don't think I will be affected. (unless my home slides down the hill into the lake.)
I really will try to be on more often, just got to get my neighbor moved out and Karen moved in. Love, Ginny
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Post by judy on Jul 31, 2022 21:47:05 GMT
Ginny, it's so good to hear from you. I think buying the house next door is an excellent solution, and I'm glad to hear you are doing it. Covid lockdown was difficult and because covid is still around, it continues to be an issue. Jim had cataract surgery which was very successful, so far I have not needed it, but my eye doctor monitors the situation at my annual appointments. Many of the people I know who have had cataract surgery have not needed glasses as they had in the past.
I'm pretty sure that what I posted was a joke. It was posted by the people who own a nursery and in the same post, they posted they were going to close early. I think that was the point of the hoax, but it certainly sounded real and there was no indication it was a joke. I kept wondering why the city hadn't posted anything about the green light solution and the exploding bugs was a little over the top. Anyway, it certainly made me smile at the absurdity of it all. It has been REALLY, REALLY hot, so the green light solution sounded plausible...but not so much exploding bugs!
Our AC has had a challenge to keep up with the heat, but it is much more reasonable inside than out. We are keeping excess lights off, and trying to think cool thoughts. Teresa's temperatures have been higher than ours, but not by much.
Looking towards cooler temps next week, take care everyone, Judy
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Post by Teresa on Aug 1, 2022 1:27:03 GMT
We have been between 105 and 107 for 5 plus days.
My dog got sick today.I have been keeping him indoors in this heat. He was about to lose his mind so I took him to play at 830 this morning before it got hot. We came home and he was fine. He got the zoomies in the house and ran from one end to the other. I went to the store and Brody texted me that Chibs had thrown up. By the time I got home he was disoriented, wobbily and cant keep his balance. I called the vet and of course they are closed. I talked to the oncall person and I am taking him in the morning. I am so scared. He is really off and he cant walk around. I dont know what could have happened. He was fine, we came home before it got hot. He has not had any treats or anything weird that I saw. He has had all of his shots, I am just so scared. It is going to be a long night.
Ginny, buying a house for your birthday and moving your friend in right next door is an absolutely wonderful idea. Congratulations!! Thank you for coming back.
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Post by ginny on Aug 1, 2022 15:12:53 GMT
Judy, I just got your card yesterday--I don't know how you always find such appropriate cards. I loved the little black cat peeking out of the truck full of potted plants! Well, hoax or not, I enjoyed the part of the post about the bugs/etc. You could probably have used some of the water we had. Nothing to joke about there, though, especially the stories of those in Kentucky.
Today the building inspectors are over at the house next door that I am buying. It will take 3 hours for the inspection. I hope all goes well. All the previous owner's worldly goods are sitting in two of those pods that people use now instead of just a van coming to your house. I guess it is cheaper, since you do the packing, but I'd hate to see how stuff that I packed was upon arrival. She had a yard sale, and then gave away a bunch of dishes, a lot of which Karen took, and I claimed most of the small salad and bread & butter plates for feeding the kitties. I would have preferred Melmac or Corning Ware, but beggars can't be choosers. The cats will just have to get used to gold rims on their dishes. BTW, Teresa, every time I see the letters POD on the containers, it reminds me of your ex husband.
Teresa, I hope Chibs has recovered by now. Like you, I would be terrfied for my animals. I can't imagine that anything you allowed him to experience could have caused it. Best of luck, and hope the vet can figure out what is wrong. I'm sending up a prayer for him via St. Francis, the patron saint for animals.
Karen has been feeding a bunch of stray/ferral cats at her old place. She can't bring them with her and has been trying to make arrangements with a neighbor to start feeding them at his house...He has I think she said 8 indoor cats, and will sometimes feed the strays. But he is not really reliable, sleeps in way past their feeding time and even though she has left him cartons of food for them, they continue to think her deck is home. She suspects he may be eating the food himself (I think that is a joke Judy, but he did say it smelled good enough to eat.) She is going to make a weekly trip to the old house to bring him a carton of cat food. I told her to only buy him dry cat food, and maybe it would be safe for the strays. She also feeds critters, which I have tried to discourage.
I guess that is it for now. Best wishes to you all. Ginny
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Post by kathy on Aug 5, 2022 1:21:45 GMT
It has cooled off here. The past week it was in the 30's and my place got hot! it was 28C inside which is hot! for the inside. I open the windows on the north side and the front door hoping for a cross draft. My house is 22C and I am wearing a sweater inside as it's cool. Sure is nice to sleep in a cool place. I have the fan going in my bed room when I'm sleeping. I think I am sleeping better since it cooled off. Of course it cools off just as the alarm goes off to get up. My sister and her husband are coming to town next weekend. The lady whom they got their kitties from died and they are coming to her memorial service and visiting a few friends. They will stay at my place. So I need to reorganize and get things tidied up. I BBQ a box of burgers and some boneless chicken breast. Then I washed my lower deck, the walls on the side of the house (the birds had done a number and it was looking tacky, the deck chairs and the metal table. Swept the deck and then washed it. Got rid of the yellow powder from the plants. I haven't been back on the deck to see what it looks like nor have I driven pass it. I have 3 windows that when I looked at them I guess they should be on my maintenance list as they don't lock or close completely and they are the original windows that slide ( or try with much effort) and to take them out to wash is a days work. So I guess I should get some pricing. Other then going to work, sleeping and eating, I really haven't done anything interesting. I have Saturday and Sunday off but have no definite plans. Ginny I'm glad you bought yourself something good for your Birthday!
Teresa I hope everything is going good at your place!
I would love to send you all this cooler weather, we are suppose to have thunder and rain this evening.
Hugs Kathy
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Post by judy on Aug 20, 2022 18:24:39 GMT
It's been a while since I posted. Nothing truly exciting has happened in my life, but somehow I have kept busy. One week I had two history "events", I led a bus tour of the now very tiny community of Bellfountain in the southern part of our county. There are many family ties to that area because Bellfountain is part of the Belknap Settlement which included members of my family my three great grandparents and two great grandparents lived there and my great grandmother grew up there and married my great grandfather and then they settled in another tiny community, Alsea, in the Coast Range. Squire Rycraft, my great grandfather had a lumber mill with his brother, George and George's father-in-law near the Belknap Settlement and provided lumber as well as helping with construction for a church built in the early 1860s. They were also known as barn builders. The church was torn down years ago, but the barn might still be there, but probably falling down. I haven't checked on it recently. Both he and George met their wives there.
Bellfountain, as small as it is, has two well-maintained buildings a church and a school with a gymnasium. The church was build in 1899, the school in 1904, and the gymnasium was added in 1913. I arranged for the group to see the inside of the church which has beautiful stained glass windows. They are not original to the church, but whenever they were added they are very beautiful. A mile away from the church and school is Bellfountain Park. Benton County's first park. It has what is possibly the longest picnic table in the United States made from one piece of wood. It is 85 feet long and can seat 120 people. It is from a nearby lumber mill that is known for it's big (and long) timbers. In nearby Monroe, another small community, there is a recently opened restaurant called Big Timber that has used these timbers in its construction. It is a beautiful restaurant and not surprisingly features all things to do with lumber mills and logging.
Bellfountain School will always remain in the Oregon Sports History Book. In 1937 their basketball team won the state championship. They beat two Portland (Oregon's largest city) schools. In those days there were no divisions and Bellfountain's Bells made the quarter finals. There were eight players on the team and the school had 27 students. After they beat Roosevelt High School's team, they beat Lincoln High School's team. Both schools had well over 1,000 students, and they beat Lincoln by 14 points, the closest an opponent had gotten to them all all season. They are jokingly called the Giant Killers. The next year the state established divisions.
My other history event that week was taking one of the museum's history trunks - The Kalapuya to an open house at a new museum in the community of Adair Village. This museum focuses on the World War II Army cantonment known as Camp Adair and the later Adair Air Force Station (where Jim was stationed when we met.) However, they are also concerned that they present the whole story of the land, so that's how I ended up taking the Native American Kalapuya history trunk which has replicas of the tools used by the native people. I always enjoy doing this because I don't have to give a talk, I just answer questions and tell people about the artifacts and the museum.
Then...I started working on a block for one of the quilters in my Round Robin Quilt Group. The people who worked on her quilt are picking patterns for their blocks from a book about the quilt called Quilted Garden. We are on the last round, so all the blocks that I thought I would like to do had already been taken. I finally decided to do the Garden House. It looked pretty straight forward. It was...except for the roof. I don't know how many times I read the directions and finally gave up and have invented my own roof. Of course, it is labor intensive and probably the one in the book would have been much, much easier, but I just couldn't figure it out. Either the directions are crumby (of course, that's my excuse) or my learning style just doesn't match the directions (probably the truth). I'll take a photo when I finish it and share.
So, I think that's enough for this post. I'm going to make sure I don't let 20 days pass before I post again. When I do that I end up posting a book.
Hope you are all doing well, even though I haven't been posting very often, I have been thinking of you. Take care, Judy
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Post by kathy on Aug 27, 2022 16:12:35 GMT
A couple Saturdays I had my cousins over for dinner. We BBQ steaks and were enjoying our selves outside drinking red wine. After pouring myself a glass of wine(don't which one I wasn't counting) I don't remember anything til I was in the kitchen with blood in my hand. My cousin says I leaned over to get something and I fell flat on my face. My nose was bleeding which is all I remember. I had a headache for 2 days and finally got into see my doctor on Wednesday. She took my blood pressure and said it was pretty low. I went for an Carotid Droppler (ultrasound) of the artery in one's neck. Haven't heard anything back yet. I also go for a CT Scan on Sept 10 My nose was bruised on the left side and slightly swollen, my left forearm has a bruise but it hasn't surfaced yet. Just sore if I lean on it the wrong way. My left ankle (the one I broke in 2007) is sore and I have taken to wearing an ankle brace when I walk with out my work boots. I am being very careful and not doing very much and when I go out I make sure the people I'm with are aware of me. Even have some people at working looking out. One never knows what's going on. I'm going to have my 4th Boost Shot for COVID this morning. They are finally allowing my age group to go. I have Sunday off so should be okay and don't have any plans other then to pick something I ordered on line at the mall. Last weekend I went to Cross Iron Mills, a huge mall and bought a swim suit and a pair of PJ's. They are still in the bag. Groceries I bought are put a way in the pantry nd my house is almost tidied up. Just need to take the garbage out and then I can have a relaxing Sunday. It has cooled off at night which Calgary is noted for. The temperature isn't getting as hot but still in the high 20's. Have to get my holiday in order. I think I'm going to rent a car to get around on the island. My niece works for Enterprise and supposedly I can get a good deal through her. Need to get her email address.
Had better get ready to get my shot. Hopefully nothing happens. Really don't need that kind of excitement in my life. Talking to my son in Pemberton, he said him and Miles were cutting the grass and Miles had over 30 Mosquito bites and they had to give him Benadryl because he was buffing up.
Other then that there's nothing interesting going on at my place.
Hugs Kathy
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Post by Teresa on Sept 1, 2022 15:31:29 GMT
Omgoodness, Kathy, that is a scary thing to happen. I am hoping they find what caused it. Good to make sure people are around. Please keep us updated on what the docs say.
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Post by judy on Sept 3, 2022 21:45:54 GMT
I'm with Teresa, Kathy, I hope you find out what's going on? Stuff such as this is so scary, please let us know.
It's been pretty busy around here. It seems as if I can find plenty to keep me busy and my list is never done. I did my monthly WW weigh-in today and I'm happy with result. It was within the parameters for my goal, only .4 above and a loss from last month. My daily 15 minute hill climb seems to be increasing my stamina, but it doesn't seem to make much difference in my balance. Still, I can tell that something good has come of my hill climbs, so I plan to keep doing them.
Went to my grandson's football game which was not a pretty sight besides it got quite cold. (It was the first time I'd worn a sweatshirt in many weeks, and I was still cold.) Toby's team lost 13 to 40. Bryn said it wasn't a surprise since the school they played was a 6A division school that was moved down this school year into the division Toby's school is in, 5A. Toby did well. He made at least one of the touchdowns. Toby is my youngest grandchild and he is a Senior, so this is probably my last season for high school football.
Bridget's wedding is the 17th and by chance Toby has a football game on the 16th against their high school's town rival, Crescent Valley. Two of my grandsons went to C.V., so I'm not sure what side of the field they will be sitting on. The families from Wisconsin are arriving on the 15th, and some plan to arrive sooner. I anticipate a zoo!!! Last night at the game, Bridget and Bryn decided they were going to make t-shirts with Toby's picture on it and we'd have a cheering section at the game. They're going to order all XL so we can wear them over our jackets if its' cold. Like I said, a zoo!
Time to close. I hope all is going well for everyone. Take care, Judy
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Post by ginny on Sept 5, 2022 3:08:44 GMT
Good Grief, will I never learn?? I just lost my post which I was almost finished with. So I’m starting over, but it never turns out the same. Judy it is good to see you are as busy as usual. I was thinking about your problem with your roof quilt block. I think I would have tried to do it the way a real roof is done, in layers starting at the bottom and working up. Although that may have not worked—too bulky. How did you solve it? Kathy, how frightening your wine glass/fall accident must have been. I hope, since that was almost a month ago you are healed, or at least well on the way to recovery. Since I had my stupid accident falling off my deck while trying to take pictures of my spring flowering trees, I have lost much of my confidence, I don’t even feel really comfortable going up on the upper level. Hopefully though, as you are younger than me, you have bounced back. My older friend, Mary, is finally being released from Rehab to come home this Monday. She must have been there over 100 days, because her daughter said her insurance had kicked in and now she will have to wait another 100 days for it it kick in, back at her home. I hope she is still her usual self —She is, if I am remembering right, 95. So you can see what a tough old bird she must be. Her family put in one of those stair lift things while she was recovering—she wouldn’t lt them do it before her accident. Judy I am so proud of your continued maintenance. You really are going a wonderful job—really got the hang of the losing weight thing, and even more importantly, the knack of keeping it off. I found an old notebook with a weight loss graph in it from YEARS ago and realized that although I never did get to my original (real) goal, the graph shows I did better than I remember with about a 30 lb loss, and since then have lost another 20 pounds. However, I am sure I would feel better if I started trying again and lost some more. Although, at least my doctor didn’t holler at me last time I was in. I have been riding my exercise bike some (with Boo’s encouragement—you may remember he loves to ride on the handlebars while I’m on it. ) By the way, I met a new hairdresserr at my beauty shop who is even more of a cat lover than I am. At my largest number, I think I have only had 5 indoor cats—and this lady has—believe it or not 22. That is not a typo —22. OK, that is it for now. Let’s see if I can get this posted without losing it. Love to you all, Ginny
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Post by Teresa on Sept 5, 2022 6:30:05 GMT
Hi all, not much going on with me. Just home life and the church dog field. I have made some wonderful friends going to the field with chibs. We now all try to meet at the same time. When we go Chibs always wants to play with everyone but me but today I walked a few feet away to talk to someone and he didnt see me and he freaked and had a panic moment. He went nuts looking for me. I was calling his name but he was so far into his panic mode he didnt hear me. When he did finally see me he about knocked me over running to me. He didnt leave my side after that. it was really kind of sad to see him panic like that.
I might go to my friends house on my birthday for a bbq. Chibs can go too. I think its the plan but you never really know until it happens.
I dont know if I told you but Chibs mama Sadie, a few weeks ago was killed and partially eaten by a cougar. I felt sick learning that. everyon felt so bad.
As of today I have lost a total of 77.2 pounds. It has only taken me 3 years to get that far. I still have 44.8 pounds to go. Lets hope I can keep the momentum going and not regain anything.
Kathy, any word from the doctor on what caused your spell?
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Post by Teresa on Sept 5, 2022 6:31:52 GMT
I was being sarcastic when I said it only" taken me three years
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