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Barbie: thoughts are with you! I have macular degenation and must have regular eye shots. Scary but extremely effective. Really not painful, just nerve, wracking. Good luck! There is good medicine these days, as you know. I feel confident you will be fine. Let us know how you are doing. Patsy☘️

Another hot one today! It is rumored to be cooling off on sunday…slightly. Maybe a cooling trend heading for a glorious fall. You see what a romantic I am. I am determined to get better insulating drapery for the living room. So far nothing that meets my fancy. So the research and hunt continues. All of the floods and heat…

Wowzy! Another hit humid day here. We are to start cooling off on Sunday. What a year of extreme weather. I guess you could say that things aren’t boring! I am going around in the worst unattractive outfit imaginable. But it is cool and no amount of.lipstick will help. Maybe later I will put on another top. I have many…

That is totally my kind of teapot! Oh I love it! Makes me want to drink more tea. John is a bit stiff and sore and cranky. He resists aspirin or any painkillers. However I think he is rethinking that idea. He can move everything and no excruciating pain. I don’t think he has any broken bones or twisted muscles. But I will…

Morning all! A hot muggy day here already. The worst thing is that John fell when he was taking a bathroom break early this morning. Bruised elbow and knee but other than that, I think all is well. He went back to bed because he was sleepy and very groggy. Scared me to death. As far as our adventures, we went to college…

🇨🇦 Anne: what a day that must have been! Leaving your beloved England and coming to the wild and bitter cold Canada. You survived and thrived! Where ever you nest, I am so happy to know you. I sincerely hope the next 49 yrs in Canada will bring as much joy and adventure. Patsy☘️John and sweet Katie

We are now getting the heat. It does get miserable in the late afternoon. We have fans and our little portable room a/c. It helps…barely! As I have mentioned many times, we need to get drapery that will help block heat and sun. That should help in winter by holding in the heat. First I need to find the drapes, rods and the…

Zowie! It is hot outside…and not actually comfortable inside. I understand we have a full week of very hot weather. This will require ice chips in Katie’s water bowl and a big glass of iced lemon water for me to sip on as I go about my little chores. John is off to Walmart this afternoon. I am making chicken salad for our…

Hello! A very hot day and a week or more is predicted. I am not going to enjoy this at all. Shades down, lights off, fans blowing and the little room a/c working its little heart out. With all the fans it will be impossible to hear music or tv or the radio. Reading quietly and slogging around doing exercise and house work…

Ooooooops, forgot to sign off. That’s me above. Do you remember jumping rope and one of our jump rope poems was …”ice cream soda, Delaware punch, how many doubles can you jump?” Weren’t those jump rope ditties the best ever? Patsy☘️🍦🍧

Today we have a cloud cover before our heat returns tomorrow. I am taking this opportunity to trim Katie’s nails. I didn’t get it done on our last grooming session. This will be a busy lo g day. Vacuuming, and it is cauliflower pizza night. It is such a tradition (habit) that it really begins the weekend for us. Now for…

Good afternoon. Our muggy day is under high thin clouds. We have a couple more days of this and then we are in for it! Clouds will disappear and ol Mr. Sol will come. And bring his scary killing heat. I really dread that. We have not prepared for intense heat. I guess I will keep the dinner salad bowl out for regular use…

Good day to you all. We currently have a marine layer that is keeping us cool but it is humid of course. As this marine layer burns off, we have a very warm afternoon ahead of us. Oh well! Hummmm! Our lunatics in Washington still fight the notion of doing something active about climate change. California is taking the lead…

Another summer day here. Cloudless and warm! I can see I will be inside do whatever I can to stay cool. Tonight will be a dinner salad. I have a ripe avocado to slice in the salad and I am sure John will start demanding some chicken or salmon in among all that lettuce. Talked to Damon about his weekend sail. This is why…

Partly cloudy and blessedly cool. Our ugly heat is to come later this week I understand. Bleck. Jackie: Katie gets very hot and also sick with the heat. I put an ice cube in her water dish but I must chip it up or she will try to eat it and I fear she might accidentally swallow a big ice cube. I confess to being totally…

Birthday bouquet from dear John. It almost made me forget my advanced age. Patsy☘️

Hello dear sweet sneakers. We have high thin clouds that will disappear quite soon. I think it might get a bit muggy and warm today. But as it happens, my diabetic ulcer on my heel is showing me a thing or two. John and I have a procedure learned by the podiatrist to get things going in the right direction until I can get…

Well! A cheery sunny day, a Goldilocks kind of day. Not too hot-not to cold! Just right! Thank you dearest sweet sneakers for those birthday wishes. I got my dearest wish when out of the blue…I hooked up with you. You do feel like a cross between family and friends. We have been together for a few years now. This forum is…

Dry warm sunny day but muggy! The fans are blowing air around here inside. I think John will still want his regular Friday night cauliflower pizza. One of his many favorites. I also saw the James Webb documentary. I feel we are very significant considering we seem to be the main planet with diverse species and our neighbor…

A sunny day again today. As predicted, we Oregonians are already wringing our hands about wildfires. Rain or sun, we never seem to be satisfied! As far as stick piling supplies, my thought is the supply chain. Will we get a crink in the supply chain? Maybe, but it also helps when weather is awful to be able to skip to your…

Jackie: looked up mange tout and I guess it is what I would call snow peas. Delicious! Patsy☘️

A warm sunny day here. Not too bad on temp, thank goodness. I got a slow start today. Not sure why but I am now somewhat operational. Since we are facing a few months of financial downturn, I would urge everyone to start a small stock pile of some sort of shelf ready food. Dried beans, rice, things like that to use when we…

Hello dearest ones! We are in the midst of our strange weather. Our deck makes its own weather…regardless of weather predictions. On days that is to be around 65-70 degrees, our deck shows 85-90 degrees. The same is true in winter. We have an Extreme weather deck. It will be cy cold and frozen on our deck in winter.…

A very warm day today! We are watching the temp go higher by the minute. I can see Katie will enjoy an ice cube in her water dish. She loves ice but I have to make sure it is small pieces in case she decides to swallow the whole cube. Yeah! She is a total piggy. A quick note here concerning the high price of everything. I…

Another warm sunny day here. We are to get about two weeks of dry warm weather. That is just enough to scare us here in the coast. Sunshine? What’s that? What on earth do we do when it is warm outside with no flying water? I really need to dust again. Pollen, doggie dander and hair, pine needles and just plain dirt is…

Hello from a sunny very warm Oregon coast! Good grief! I am not sure we know how to deal with this! Katie isn’t too thrilled with a hot sun on her deck. She doesn’t want to play ball or go out in that hot sun. I don’t blame her. Yesterday was Costco day. I am still almost in a faint about the cost of everything. It has…

Another warm sunny summer day. I got up early and while my coffee was being made I trimmed my hair! A bit too aggressively I fear. I look like one of those POW prisoners. I will try to fluff it up and put on earrings and a dash of make up to distract my eye from the short short hair. Not sure how that happened. Suddenly I…

A sunny mild day so far. Yea! Today is Costco day and pasta for dinner. I will sneak in a couple of links of chicken sausage for protein loving John. It is good to think about deeper subjects from time to time. Like life’s purpose etc. for me, the key is to look at things from different angles and ponder the circumstances.…

I don’t believe civilization is breaking down. I believe that we are showing strain from the pandemic and the understandable effects of a global economy destabilized by it. I believe the Ukrainian war is in some odd way the result of a dictator’s reaction to illness and fear. It has been a reoccurring happenstance…

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