Showery Sunday

[Colliemom]

Good Morning all,

Just a quickie this mornng. Going into work an hour earlier than I have been this spring, 7 a.m. as that's what I am scheduled for. Fine by me as it will give me a head start on the campers before they all head to the bathrooms and showers. The forecast is calling for showers and thunderstorms today (80%) for the most part, mostly this morning. Hope so, We need it badly here and more so in the U.P. where they are battling that large wildfire which has consumed over 21,000 acres and is now even making the National News. It looks like there's no stopping it unless they get some cooperation from Mother Nature or else it will burn to the lake. Some structures have already been lost including some popular state forest campgrounds. The area is remote with few roads and hard to access.

It has been a quiet Memorial Day weekend at the park so far. Everybody's just out enjoying the weekend, some people were at the beach yesterday. A lot of boats put in at the access point. Today is supposed to go into the upper 70' sto 90 in some places. Here it might get to lower 80's.

Soos, sorry you had such a mess when you get home, but sounds like things are looking good now. Enjoy your summer in the mts.
Sounds like everybody else are having a nice weekend so far. So at home, some camping and of course the AK adventure group are on the roard. Stay safe.

And I'm off to get dressed here, head up to the gas station for a Sunday paper and then off to work. One nice thing, I will be home at 3:30 today, so that's a nice bonus to going in a bit earlier.

[dayspring39]

Good Morning... coffee is good this morning... it is already humid the temps will be in the mid 90s today no relief until Tuesday... so glad the guys and gals got the roof on Tim's house...
I am up early this morning as my body must have caught up on rest after sleeping yesterday afternoon and going to bed at 8 then reading a while before sleeping...
Sue sounds like a busy day ahead for you... love the campers when I go to the parks... almost everyone is so nice... and love to visit just like I do... but if you chose to be alone they honor that also... a win win situation...
I really like my hot spot that is when it works! I have had a few problems with it but it will be worked out I am sure...
Oh Soos I would not have been a happy camper if I came home and things were in such disarray as you found them and they knew you were coming... but you got things back in shape in a day... it would have taken me weeks to do what you did... you are a worker...
Today will be church this morning then not sure what this afternoon... one thing I will do is go over and look at the lovely roof on Tim's house... there is a lot to be done before he can move in but he is young and full of energy so he will get it done... I think he has more energy than $$$ right now...
I will be going to Michigan to my granddaughter Joy's graduation in June... I hope to leave here on the 7th after my dr appointment... she will be going to Nursing school so she has her work ahead...
Ava take care of that eye... did you get an extension on your sick leave? I sure hope so... at least an open date so you can relax and heal...
Not much else happening here in the mid American heat wave...
Take care everyone and drive careful especially those in the snow on the Alaskan trek...
Kathleen

[avalen]

good morning ladies
little cold this morning at 78 degrees, won't have to turn the cooler on until later afternoon.
Great news is I can close my eye all the way, I'm so happy, now to work on the smile, hope
it comes back as well. Getting a little rise in the cheek so its getting there.
I have absolutely nothing planned today, not even laundry! Wait, I do need to go to the
store for dog food though so I guess my day won't be totally boring, and there there is
another OLD bug eaten moldy file folder staring me in the face. Guess the sooner I get
those done the better.
Time for another cup of coffee and perhaps some toast. Have a great day everyone.

[Sandersmr]

Going to a Greek festival today. My boss is Greek and so this is my chance to go harass him and get away with it Plus through him, I've come to enjoy Greek food. So we will go partake and I will laugh at him when he gets up to dance - although he and his wife are actually quite good dancers.

A little family drama so I may have to take some time off this week to do some things with my niece.

[Redetotry]

It's already 87 here at 10:30 I think this is going to be the hottest day yet, sigh...started to go to church but decided it was just to hot to be out and about even though it's only about a half mile from the house, your 78 sounds good Ava. Glad you are able to close your eye now. Kathleen glad that roof is finished, I can't imagine being on a roof in temps like we've been having it's a wonder they were able to last that long. Guess they are young but I couldn't handle the heat even back when. One of my earliest memories is crying on a hot summer night that the oscillating fan stayed on my brothers side of the room longer than on my side. My biggest delight was not when we got indoor plumbing but when we got the WIndow fan that would bring in that wonderful cool night air. Thinking of that made me remember so many other things from the 'olden days' anyone else remember frost on the outhouse seat brrrr ack!!! Oh and the feel of that galvanized washing tub on your back in the winter time. My folks put it beside the coal stove in the kitchen and I fully understand the words in the song that goes "shivering and shaking and burning and baking it's a price I had to pay, taking a bath on Saturday night in a galvanized washing tub. Now I'm a girl of clean habits and I believe in a bath a week, but if I had my druthers, I'd druther eat a bug than to take a bath on Saturday night in a galvanized washing tub" I think that is why I now I always take a shower and not a bath. Has anyone else heard that song ?
Guess I should do something productive other than ramble in the past. Oh, one other thing, does anyone know where I can buy a knit (like tee shirt material) dress or knit pants that aren't a dark color? I've looked for two days online and found nothing. Would also like a nice cotton dress that doesn't have a plunging neckline or an above the knee hemline? Do they even make a dress like that anymore!

[Acadianmom]

BJ, if Walmart doesn't have knit clothes I'm not sure who else would. Maybe try LL Bean or Lands End on line. Shopping won out yesterday. My friend and I shopped all afternoon. I think I got my walking in at the Mall. I told her if we went anywhere else we had to drive. I don't know who they are making clothes for now days. A lot of blouses are cut so low my bra shows.

I'm glad to say I can't remember out door plumbing except at my Grandmothers. I hated to go in the winter and I was afraid of snakes in the out house in the summer. I can remember once being so hot that a fan was blowing on me and my mother was wiping me with a wet washcloth. I don't know how we lived in Louisiana without air conditioning. My first year at college I was in a dorm without air conditioning. There was a fan as big as the hall at the end of the building blowing out but it didn't help much. I would go to class and come back and take a shower. I can't remember the winter at all but I sure remember the summer.

Martha

[dayspring39]

Oh my I lived the life galvanized wash tub behind the wood stove... my little brother and sister got clean water... not so for me... and the outhouse... boy I would never want to go back... we didn't even have a fan... and absolutely no heat in the tar paper shack I slept in in the winter and all year long... now I live in the lap of luxury!

The guys lasted until 8:30 last night that is 13 1/2 hours in the blazing heat... it looks so nice I went over after church and took pictures...
Kathleen

[Sandersmr]

Our first house in Houston did not have A/C, but we had a big huge ceiling fan in the bedroom hallway and big windows that opened. Mom and Daddy had a window unit in their bedroom and there was one in the living room. I was glad when we moved to the house with central A/C. Then we would go down to my grandmother's house in the Rio Grande Valley - one window unit in the kitchen and one in her bedroom - and those 2 units did a decent job of keeping the house cool.

[Bethers]

We got one window unit ac at some point during my grammar school years. My mom got to elect where to put it and she decided on the kitchen rather than her bedroom. I'm sure we must have had floor fans before that, but I don't remember them. In high school - I'm the youngest, so my sis was already married with one child, my brother in college - my dad died and my Mom and I moved to an apt with an ac unit in the living room, and I think a 2nd in either the kitchen or her bedroom - and that's all I had all the way through college. Moved out after college to an apartment on the 2nd story of a house - no ac at all. Maybe that's why I still don't have the problems with the heat many do. I live much easier without ac than without heat.

That said, I have come to like sleeping with it really cold - give me enough blankets/comforters, and I'm so comfie - and do have trouble sleeping now with it too hot. Have my little heaters going now up here in Valdez, and turn them way, way down - so that it gets down to about 60 (sometimes less) overnight in here - and I sleep so well. Get up and turn them up and dive back under the covers until the temp rises. Course, when I was boondocking, it sometimes was into the low 40's in here at night. Hit that gas heater in the morning, and hit the bathroom about 10-15 minutes later and it would be so nice in there. Gotta love small spaces that heat so quickly (rv bathrooms).

[bluepinecones]

Oh yes, BJ I remember the wash tub, outhouse, and only a fireplace for heat in winter. I grew up in the south without air conditioning and can no longer even imagine having to do with out it now. I need cool to sleep. It is nearing midnight here and temp is 83* outside (nice and cool in the house tho).

I've gotten really soft in my old age. Was grumping while skinning and boning a rotisserie earlier today (one of my less favorite chores) trying to remind myself at least I didn't have to catch it, kill it or pluck the thing - actually didn't even have to cook it thanks to Publix.