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Post by Phalon on Jul 20, 2022 4:38:14 GMT -6
The humidity has crept up again; the temperatures though, aren't so bad. Not nearly as high as in other parts of the country, and nothing like what Britain is experiencing. Hope Moonglum and Vox are doing well - I may be wrong, but I seem to remember them not having air-conditioning (I don't think air-conditioning is a common thing in U.K. homes?). I hope they aren't experiencing the smoke from the fires also.
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Post by Mini Mia on Jul 20, 2022 21:05:48 GMT -6
I was hot to the touch, but it didn't seem anything to worry about. I need to get a thermometer. It was just the one night.
I have scratches all over my hands and arms. I can't wait until I'm rid of her this weekend.
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Post by Mini Mia on Jul 20, 2022 21:09:46 GMT -6
I saw a report that claimed very few homes have a/c in England. They don't usually have high enough heat to warrant getting one. It must be nice. And makes their heatwave much more unbearable than if they did use an a/c some parts of the summer.
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Post by stepper on Jul 23, 2022 7:25:10 GMT -6
Keep your head low today Phalon - I hear your area of the world is looking at a large hail storm.
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Post by stepper on Jul 23, 2022 7:39:19 GMT -6
It's pretty much a requirement here - 2022 is now ranked 3rd in the list of years with days having temperatures reaching 100 and with August and September to go, it could easily move higher up the list. On top of the heat, we're experiencing an extreme drought. Not a good combination, and it makes working on the rose bed darn near impossible.
The doctors froze more than 8 skin cancer spots a couple weeks ago, but two were too big for that. One was electronically fried off my back and the second one was cut out. That one was on my arm and it was interesting to watch. They cauterized that one - and I can tell you even the ghoul wouldn't want to eat me. I smell pretty bad when I'm being cooked! They didn't quite get it all the first time and I had to go back and they cut it out - wider and deeper. Now I've a gnarly scar healing up - I removed the stitches myself but missed a small piece of one. It took me a couple days to realize it was embedded under the skin but it was very near the top so I just made a small hole and pried it out.
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Post by Mini Mia on Jul 23, 2022 22:05:04 GMT -6
I hope they got all of the cancer, Stepper.
The nights here are still in the 60s and 70s. Next week the days are to drop into the 80s. We shall see how that goes.
I'm still kitten sitting the hellion. She was supposed to go home in a few hours, but my niece texted to say they were going to stop for the night, so I have her until tomorrow. I canNOT wait to be rid of her. I have scratches everywhere. Disciplining her just makes her angry and even more vicious.
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Post by Mini Mia on Jul 24, 2022 18:04:25 GMT -6
The hellion has left the building! Now I can heal and recover in peace.
Been getting warnings of severe weather. I think it’s mostly scattered and isolated, so not sure how bad it will get here. Predictions of storms for the coming week and weekend are foretold. We shall see what we actually get.
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Post by Phalon on Jul 31, 2022 5:31:13 GMT -6
Hope you're doing well, Step. And ick - you sound just like Hubs, 'watching interesting procedures', 'removing stitches yourself', and 'making small holes to pry out embedded stitches'. WTF, and bluck!
We actually had hail the night before the storm was predicted. No damage except for the large holes on the leaves of my sunflowers, and a couple of already dead limbs in the maple fell - Hubs has been trying to pull them down for ages with a rope, but they were too high. We just got rain here the day the storm was predicted.
It's been pretty hectic at work - although July and August are typically our slowest months (beach weather, you know). The customer load has slowed down to a manageable level, but we're short-staffed, and took another blow when my co-worker got Covid. He's been out for 10 days, doing a little better he says, but now his wife tested positive 2 days ago. Don't know how long he'll be out.
Glad you survived!!!
This is exactly what I have to deal with almost every night with Little Beastie (although, Little Beastie is much more persistent and obnoxious, and unlike the woman in the video, I cannot continue to sleep through it - I usually end up laughing, asking Beastie 'WTF is wrong with you, you weirdo' and then pushing her off the bed).
Welp, gotta run. Working today, filling in for my co-worker.
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Post by Mini Mia on Aug 1, 2022 17:16:39 GMT -6
It’s 88F, but feels like 103F. Humidity is 74%. And I waited until now to go walk to the mailbox and feed the cats. Might need to wait until 8:00pm.
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Post by Phalon on Aug 3, 2022 5:04:26 GMT -6
Pretty much the same here - hot and humid. It was near 90F yesterday, and very sticky - even the breeze was hot air. It's supposed to be the same today, but with a chance of severe thunderstorms this afternoon. The storm isn't going to bring down the humidity, but raise it to 93%. All a prediction, of course, but it sounds like we might be in for some hot, wet, and sticky weather.
Had my once-every-six-month visit to the Dental Dominatrix and her chair of torture. Know what? I want one of those chairs. First time in about a week my back didn't hurt. If she wasn't torturing me, I could have actually fallen asleep in that chair, so comfy.
Was weird being off work yesterday, on a Tuesday (since I worked Sunday, I was off yesterday). Felt almost like I was playing hookie. I bought a few bags groceries for an elderly lady down the street, who unfortunately seems to be getting more and more forgetful. I had seen her outside the day before working in her garden, and we got to talking. I don't know if it was the heat or what, but she seemed a bit out of it, forgetting words and such. It was alarming actually. Found out her car needed repairs, she was waiting for her tenant's rent (huge old Victorian house, and she rents out the top floor) to get it fixed, so she hadn't been to the grocery in a while. She seemed a lot better and more alert when I dropped off the groceries - I think she may have had heat exhaustion, or close to it. One of her daughters lives fairly close to town, and checks in on her a couple of times a week. I hope the food I brought will tide her over until her daughter comes this week.
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Post by moonglum on Aug 7, 2022 23:45:46 GMT -6
The heat here has been unbearable. Temperatures have been in the high 30's for months now with not a drop of rain.
Air-conditioners are virtually unheard of in UK homes, we don't usually get temps high enough, or for sustained periods, to warrant them.
No wildfires, so far, in this part of the country. There have been a couple of small fires in the woods behind us but the fire brigade sorted them out very quickly. Vox and my daughter bought a large pool and the pair of them have been lounging in that to keep cool. I haven't done any writing for a while now. I keep thinking about it but this heat makes one feel so lethargic. Before the house fire I got my ham radio licence renewed (I let it lapse in the 90's) and have been getting back into the hobby.
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Post by Mini Mia on Aug 8, 2022 21:41:58 GMT -6
Sorry to hear ya'll are suffering the heat with out a/c units. Get a spray bottle, fill it with water, sit in front of a fan, and spritz yourselves all over every time you dry out. Soak towels and other cloths in water and wring out as much as you need to, depending on water damage to the flooring, and drape over you, and tie around you, then get in front of a fan. This worked for me when I worked in a metal building with no a/c, and very few windows. Only I didn't wring out any of the water, since the floors were concrete.
BTW: If you haven't checked out the new Dean Wesley Smith author board I created, you might will want to do so. I have links to blog posts with good information for writers. Well, those links are also on the "What are you reading" thread as well.
whooshorg.proboards.com/board/429/dean-wesley-smith
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Post by Mini Mia on Aug 15, 2022 14:07:03 GMT -6
It’s 82F, feels like 86F. Supposed to be a bit cooler than normal for a few days. I can’t believe that August is half over. The days are already getting shorter, and it saddens me. I read online that the time change will end next year. Why not this year? Maybe fall back 30 minutes and leave it at that? I think they plan on jumping forward in March, and leaving it there. I don’t mind the sun setting an hour later, but when I’m up in the morning I hate that the sunrise is later. Which is why I think just cut the time in half so both sunrise and sunset have a part in it. Hope everyone is doing well. Keeping cool, or warm, in whatever part of the world you’re in.
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Post by Mini Mia on Aug 22, 2022 20:11:25 GMT -6
Before the house fire I got my ham radio licence renewed (I let it lapse in the 90's) and have been getting back into the hobby.
Would this be of interest to you?
www.freebanding.co.uk/
You are already have an account at Runboard, so if their board is of interest to you, you might want to check it out.
bfreebandingtalktheplanet.runboard.com/
[Edit]
. . . hmm . . . I Googled and discovered that freebanding is illegal. So, you might not want to join that board. I'll leave it here and let you decide, since I know nothing about any of this.
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Post by Phalon on Aug 24, 2022 5:12:12 GMT -6
"Lethargic" - yes! That's a much better word than I've been calling how I've felt in the heat and humidity - "lazy". It's a little bit of both, I suppose - I get home from work, wiped out from the humidity, and basically do little after dinner. My gardens have suffered and I've done just the bare minimal of housework. I coulda used one of those lounging pools Vox and your daughter have - sounds refreshing!
It's cooled down some though in the last week - 70s and and low 80s during the day; 60s at night. The humidity is still at 80-some percent most days though...so that lethargy and laziness has still stuck around!
I never much minded the time change myself - once my sleep patterns adjust (it takes me a while). And bonus!!! The clock in my car will finally be right once again - I never bothered to change it in spring!!!
Dark mornings mean more critters are active outside when I sit out on the porch, drinking coffee at 5:30ish. In the past week, I've seen a deer in the ravine (unusual in town), a mamma fox and her two cubs, and OH-HELL-NO, a skunk, not 15 feet from where I was sitting...and from where the both the dog and cat were laying! Not just any old skunk, but a Ghost Skunk! It was pure white - which judging from my 2-minute drill, is either very rare, or not uncommon (I'm guessing from the large number of sites talking about how many people have seen white skunks and their rarity, they are not uncommon.) The dog started barking and took after it, but stopped when I yelled, "Quetta, NO!!!!" Hellfire B!tch then took up the chase (she ignored my command, of course.), but did so at a trot instead of a run. Neither got sprayed, thank goodness!!! Hellfire B!tch, btw, ran after the deer like what? she was going to take it down or something, and came back all proud of herself for chasing it from the yard. I looked at her, preening, and asked "What the heck kind of cat are you, anyway?" She ignored me. Of course.
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Post by Mini Mia on Aug 24, 2022 22:09:17 GMT -6
That humidity can be a major pill to deal with. It just drains all the energy right out of you.
Whoa! One more week of August. Why did I never realize that before? That my birthday is one week away from September? Especially since Mom's birth day is September 3rd?
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Post by Mini Mia on Aug 25, 2022 12:18:40 GMT -6
I am without lights yet again. No storm. It has happened several times in the last few months. It’s very unusual that storms haven’t been the cause for losing lights these last few times. But then, I don’t recall Spring ever being so hot before either, so maybe there’s a connection there.
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Post by Mini Mia on Aug 26, 2022 21:30:57 GMT -6
I got lights not long after I posted. It was just my road.
The temps are rising for the next few days, and then dropping again. Still in the 80s though. The cornfield is half green and half brown, so Autumn isn't far off now.
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Post by Mini Mia on Aug 27, 2022 16:19:02 GMT -6
When I said, “still in the 80s,” I meant the drop is still in the 80s. There are a few days in the 90s during the week, but most of the temps will be in the high 80s. Then the temps drop into the mid 80s, and then the low 80s. I’m sure the temps will go up and down in September, but continuing to drop as they do so. The corn is more brown it seems. I’ve had fans going in the house since Spring, it will be nice when I can turn them all off. When these fans bite the dust, I hope their replacements are quieter. I’ve had these fans twenty or more years.
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Post by Mini Mia on Aug 29, 2022 11:05:15 GMT -6
The mid to low 80s are now the high 80s. So September may still be hot. It’s weird that the nights have stayed in mostly the 60s, with some 70s, all Summer long. Usually, the nights are just as unbearable as the days during the hottest part of the Summer. Especially in July and August. I tried to enjoy the nights a couple of times, but the mosquitoes always ran me back inside. I wish I had a screened in porch. It might have been fun to sleep out on the porch once in a while.
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Post by Mini Mia on Aug 30, 2022 2:31:14 GMT -6
Tuesday and Wednesday nights are supposed to drop down to 59F. Of course, that doesn’t mean it will. We shall see.
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Post by Mini Mia on Sept 1, 2022 15:54:15 GMT -6
Tomorrow’s high is supposed to be 89F. And from then on, the daily highs are supposed to be in the mid-80s. We shall see how that goes. It’s 85F, but feels like 86F at the moment. Guess I’ll go out and feed the feral cats and get the mail.
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Post by Mini Mia on Sept 3, 2022 6:18:23 GMT -6
The daytime temps are predicted to be in the mid and low 80s all week. The nighttime temps are in the mid 60s, but dropping into the low 60s next weekend. The corn is more brown, and less green. When the grass stops needing to be mowed, I’ll know Autumn is here.
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Post by Mini Mia on Sept 5, 2022 10:24:37 GMT -6
The daytime temperature predictions are now in the low to mid 80s, and starting next weekend there are a couple of days in the high 70s. The nighttime temperature predictions are in the low to mid 60s, and next week there are a few nights are in the high 50s.
Lights went out, but only for a few minutes. Hopefully they’ll stay on. I think I’d rather lose lights when it’s cold outside. It’s easier to bundle up to keep warm. Not much you can do to stay cool.
Stay cool, or warm, depending on where you are. Laters.
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Post by Phalon on Sept 6, 2022 5:11:25 GMT -6
Temperatures here, haven't been that high - 70s and 80s during the day, and 60s at night. But the humidity! OMG, even at night outside, it's been wet and sticky. At work? Pfft! Feel sluggish walking around in it, like wading through swamp air.
Work has been busy...and tough for the past couple of weeks. Had a problem with one of our new employees this year, and things just escalated over the past four months when she first started working there. I should have never let it go as far as it did, but finally had enough last week, and called a sit-down with her and the boss. Hopefully, things will improve; it seems so, in the few days we've worked together.
Other issue making me miserable at work, I can't do anything about - it's ragweed season, and we've got an entire field of it. I've never seen so much ragweed! My sinuses are screaming at me.
Otherwise, things have been good - just been really busy with stuff. My Etsy shop did very well in August, and I was kept busy trying to keep it stocked, and make fall and Halloween items - which I should have started doing in June. And been trying to get things ready for house guests - next week we'll have a full house. My niece, nephew, and my brother's ex-wife are coming for a long weekend; we haven't seen them since LX was in high-school, shortly after my youngest brother died. Along with the girls and their BFs, it'll be a houseful of pleasant chaos. Don't know if my other brother (the one that was married to the ex-wife) will make it - his long-time girlfriend, and the ex-wife do not co-exist peacefully.
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Post by Mini Mia on Sept 6, 2022 16:14:24 GMT -6
Even though the temperatures have dropped here, the humidity makes it impossible to enjoy. There are more 70s predicted, so I’d say Autumn is coming. I don’t know when exactly. Sometimes September starts out Summer and ends in Autumn. Sometimes Autumn hits as soon as September arrives. And sometimes Autumn hits a few weeks into October. I suppose Spring and Autumn would be considered female, always changing her mind.
Phalon: I hope all goes well with you and your company. BTW: I wished you happy birthday on Facebook, because I got a notification that it was your birthday. Q set me straight though. I probably got it wrong before on FB, and probably will again when I get next year’s notification. I made it so that my birthday is only seen by me, so one one gets notified.
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Post by Phalon on Sept 9, 2022 4:59:01 GMT -6
Ah, yes, the random FB birthday - when I made the account, I think I got tired of scrolling dates, and just stopped at some random place, not realizing it'd show up to other people. But thanks for the birthday wishes anyway! Which means, of course, I've forgotten your birthday!!! (Please don't feel bad - LX had a birthday recently, and I had her being a year older than she actually is, along with earlier this year, me being a year younger than I am! It was the girls that set me straight on both counts. I've always been horrible with dates.) Hope you had a good one!
We're in the "inbetween" here - half summer/half fall. Still summer temperatures, but fall colors are starting to show up here and there. On my drive to work, a few of the maples are already bright red, but I'm guessing it's because they're stressed - it's been so dry lately; all the rain that surrounding areas have gotten, either passed us by completely, or amounted to nothing but a 5-minute shower. One dark morning, I heard rain falling while drinking my coffee out on the porch, but didn't hear it hitting the roof of the house. I walked out in the yard, and nothing - not a single drop. It was though, raining across the street!
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Post by Mini Mia on Sept 11, 2022 18:38:39 GMT -6
My birthday was just another ordinary day. Although, I did start getting texts in the early evening to wish me a happy birthday. No birthday dinner yet. I guess I should remember to buy me a roast to make my favorite meal for myself. No plans on making myself a cake, as I don't want to have to eat the whole thing, and no room in the freezer for it. I love Snoballs, and I just happen to have some, so guess that will do.
It's supposed to get down to 50F tonight, and into the low 50s for the next couple of nights, then into the high 50s and then the low 60s, and then the mid 60s, and then the low 60s after that. The daytime temperatures are in the low 80s for a few days, then they climb into the mid-80s, and by next weekend they will be in the high 80s. So, Summer is fighting to stick around. There is still green in the cornfield, at the moment. Not sure just when I will be able to turn off the a/c for good.
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Post by Mini Mia on Sept 12, 2022 18:48:30 GMT -6
The temperatures are supposed to get back up into the 90s starting on the 19th. On my walk to the mailbox, I noticed that the soybeans across the road are still green, with no hint of brown. But, then, they are planted much later than the corn. They have a few more weeks before they start turning. I’ll be glad when the corn is combined. I do miss being able to see traffic on the road. I seem to be fine when the field is green, but start to feel closed in when it’s brown. Plus, a dry cornfield is a fire hazard, so that may have something to do with it making me uneasy this time of year. I thrill upon hearing the combines at work, clearing the fields, and dumping the corn into huge containers and watching them leave for the market. That is one sign of Autumn for me. That, and the crickets moving out of the fields and closer to the house. And even into the house. Love listening to them out in the fields, but not out in the yard nearby, nor inside the house.
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Post by Phalon on Sept 13, 2022 5:12:31 GMT -6
Snoballs?? Aren't they those things that have that thick layer of stiff pink marshmallow stuff covered in coconut? Eeeew. I have a thing against coconut - love the flavor, hate the texture. Not fond of marshmallows either. It was always fun in some weird kid way to peel off that icky layer and discard it, just to get to the chocolatey inside.
Cooler today - 52F now, but it's supposed to get up to 70F, with a chance of showers. OMG, we need it! Thinking I'll wear jeans instead of shorts. Better start getting ready.
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