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crazy4carrots

Anne -- So glad to hear you're okay.  We're all very concerned about the wildfires and hope that Mother Nature -- with an assist from the Feds -- will quell the fires very soon.

Some of us are also concerned about another BCO friend in Colorado -- we haven't heard from her for a few days.....

Thanks for checking in!  And hang in there. 

208sandy

Scoot, HL and Athena - are you all o.k.?  If you can, please check in - worried about you.

1Athena1

Nice and cool indoors here! So sorry about CO..

Bren-2007

Hi Everyone,

We had an unreal wind storm last night.  75 mph winds blowing like crazy.  My oak tree lost a ton of branches and the yard is covered in debri.  Thank goodness my truck wasn't parked under the trees last night.

It's hot here today.  A friend in Richmond is without power due to the same wind storm. It's too freakin' hot to walk Tank and he's very sad about it.

Glad to see Anne check in ... she's been on my mind.

I wonder if Scoot and Libby lost power too.

Jancie .. I am so sorry to hear about your DH's nephew.  Such a sad tragedy for everyone.

Lost Creek .. Welcome.  Please stay and post often!

Hope everyone can stay cool today.

hugs,

Bren

rosemary-b

What a cute baby susie.

It is hot hot hot here too. 99 on Thursday. 90 yesterday, who knows today. I'm expecting grandkids out to go in th lake. I am surprised they are not here yet. I will be sewing some while they are here. I didn't get up until almost 10 and sent DH to the Farmer's Market instead of going myself. 

My new med makes me sleepy and heightens the effects of alcohol. I had a glass of wine last night and wow. The flyer I got at the pharmacy said no more than 3 drinks a day with it. I think with three drinks I would have been puking. I always was a cheap drunk but  I think I am down to half a drink on special occasions.

Of course if the fatigue doesn't get better me and the doctor are gonna have a talk about my taking  something else.

RetiredLibby

Hi, all. Hot Libby here today -- no power in Northern Virginia. About half a million customers dark in NoVa ... 1.5 mil throughout the entire region. We lost power just as the storm hit last night, although we had been having dim-outs and surges for about 30 minutes beforehand as the storm blasted through to the west of us and started taking down power lines. I had just turned the AC off (to avoid damaging the compressor) when a boom and a flash out front heralded the loss of our power. About half the tree across the streed fell onto the next door neighbor's porch. It only took out a railing, though -- our street was lucky. We saw a lot of trees plopped on cars or roofs (rooves?) (;-D) or cars and roofs. Dunno when our power will come back ... About 60% of my tiny municipality is dark. Hope Ang 7, who lives not too far away, is OK. Haven't yet heard from Scoot, but I am out of phone service, too. All the hotels are booked, too. They are talking about new t'storms tonight. Such is DC metro in summer ... We do get some wild storms.



Jancie, I am so sorry about your husband's nephew.



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suzieq60

Stay safe girls.

Back already from the markets - fish, fudge, bananas and French apricot danish - in and out in less than 20 minutes DH still asleep due to the melatonin I'm making him take

Wabbit

June has not been a good weather month ... glad to see it go.  We have been at 100+ temps and no rain.  Doing a rain dance here ... it is horribly dry.  Brown grass everywhere you look.  I think most places are cancelling their fireworks plans for the 4th.

Came here to check on those of you around the wildfires and hit by the storms last night.  Glad to see most of you have checked in.  Scary stuff!

We are headed up to the Indiana Dunes area next week.  Will visit with kids/grandkids who live up that way and other kids/grandkids who have rented a lakefront house for the week.  Hope it cools down a little bit but will be fun anyway.

I'm happy to announce that my foundling kitten went to his new indoor home Tuesday night.  Good adoptive parents, he has a kitty sister to play with, and since they are friends I will be able to keep in touch with the little stinker.  It's all good!  Well ... except that I miss him.  But my old lady cat does not miss him ... she is celebrating. 

Wishing everybody a nice 4th of July ... and safety and relief from wildfires, storm damage, heat, med side effects and all other crappy stuff. 

      

Dilly

Scootaloo pm'ed me a welcome about 12 hrs ago - I didn't realize she lived in the east-storm area. She may be out of power.

1Athena1

And apologies for rudeness - welcome to you, lost creek!

Also hoping scoot is ok....

bluedahlia

So sorry to hear so many dealing with Mother Nature's temper.  Guess she's in fighting mode and we better start listening before its too late.  I hate to see so many suffering.

Welcome Lost Creek.  Interesting handle!

((((((((((Jancie)))))))))

Well today we cleaned out the garage (it was an obstacle course) as well as started clearing out our basement (another obstacle course and an ongoing endeavour).  Boy are we gonna have a garage sale when we're done!

Then we started to recover a settee and armchair which would have been finished but as per our usual, we didn't have the right tools and with Ray's three thumbs and my interesting limitations, all I can say is, we'll finish that tomorrow or maybe next week!  Or maybe never!!!  hahahahaha   I think we need a better power stapler but that could be dangerous in my hands.  

Over and out!  For tonight.  Me tired.                                                         

Momine

Susie, that is one way to keep your husband from being annoying, keep him sedated

suzieq60

LOL Momine - He keeps waking at 4am, so I keep saying "Melatonin". He tried it before but only took it for a few days and complained he was groggy the next day. I did explain that it takes a week or so to get used to it but he wouldn't listen. While we were away we met a pharmacist who told him it's quite safe to take, so now he's trying it again - so far 2 nights in a row he's slept properly. I've found I don't need it anymore after taking it for quite a while. Funny - this morning he didn't even hear me have a shower and leave for the markets or hear me come home

artsee

I am ready to purchase a ten day rain forecast from anyone willing to sell! I'm tired of sweating...it's just never been in my vocabulary. The heat has made the caterpillars grow rampid and are eating everything. The air conditioning is going to be

nixed pretty soon if we over due I think. Then I'll really sweat.:(

Susie..you're right. You can never have enough wine. Would I love 7 cases right now in my grubby little hands. Doesn't that just give you the sense of 'power'. Haha.

Anonymous

Hi, all, thanks again for checking in - HL, you were SO lucky to avoid the tree limbs.  The pics from the WashPost really stun!  Those HUGE HUGE trees near American University in DC - root balls bigger than trucks - just uprooted from sidewalks, and looks like more storms coming.  Dear friend in Bethesda had tree limb go thru roof, thank goodness no one I know injured, but can't imagine living in the dark, humid, heat, for the rest of the week.

In the past, we had neighborhood "BBQ's" with what was melting in freezers, fridges, but the HEAT now just sounds too much even for that.  Wonder when we will all finally have power lines underground.  Seems the only way to survive these conditions.

Almost embarrassed to say how beautiful it is in the hills of Western MA.  Sunny, bur breezy - supposed to be humid, but we really don't feel it much with the woods all around.

Hope all are staying safe, and as cool as possible.

jancie

I couldn't believe the pictures either of the trees that were uprooted.  Takes some hell of a wind to get trees that huge to uproot like that.

Hope the heat calms down for those suffering from it.  It is hot and dry here but not too bad.  The worst is the smoke that is blowing in from the south from all of the fires.  How people in Colorado are breathing right now - I have no clue - it can't be good for you.

DH landed in DC last night along with his oldest brother.  He called me this morning (I was sleeping) and said he would call later on tonight.  The three boys are going into DC this morning to walk around.

YramAL

I'd rather have my 60 degrees and drizzly here in Seattle than windstorms and fires. I feel guilty complaining. But......could I just have a little, just a little, blue sky????

Melatonin-I'm planning on asking my oncologist about it at my visit this Tuesday. I go to sleep just fine, but I wake up every night at 1:30 AM and have a hard time getting back to sleep. Of course, the hot flashes don't help....I just want to make sure melatonin doesn't interfere with Tamoxifen. I don't think it does, but I want to make sure.

Mary 

Ang7

Thanks HappyLibby~

We just got our power back.  It was 84 degrees in the house last night and I made the dogs come downstairs, dragging our 13 year old Newfie as he does not like stairs but I was afraid to leave him up there all night.

Now throwing stuff out of the fridge.

My mom ( who is a bit nutty ) watched the whole storm from her attic in Arlington!

"Thought the whole roof might blow off" 

Why was she not in the basement?  She said it was the "best show she has ever seen."

They still do not have power.

They had those boys practice ball from 12 - 2 and then play the game from 2-4 on Saturday.

My son is not doing All-Stars next year.

They are just lucky that nothing happened to those kids.

1Athena1

Yey for your power ang!

S c o o t  !!! Concerned about you.

One sister in Potomac MD has no power, and one cousin in Fairfax Co a has no power. We had a few trees fall in my DC 'hood - but no power loss. I think it's because everything is underground here.  I feel really lucky. I have another sister staying here with me.

Enjoyful

Scoot here! We never lost power but my mom did. Operation Hot Mom went into affect yesterday so mom is happily with us and our a/c.



Our area rarely loses electricity since our lines are buried. I feel for those like HL, Athena and Ang who are suffering in this heat. Nasty sruff.



Thanks, everyone, for your concern!

Dilly

Thanks for the welcome.

Glad all are relatively safe - but fires, storms, heat waves, bad air, no power are all no fun -  

Lost Creek - Blue, I've been meaning to for another thread, but will add here when I can learn again about posting pix. DH says he'll re-learn photobucket with me this evening. If you like woods & water & no people & no power, it's nice. It's my heart's home. I will try to post a photo, sooner or later. 

Jancie, here is a good website that maps fires throughout the US - it's pretty user-friendly & you can play around within your own parameters.  www.geomac.gov/index.shtml

I am unable to enable the link icon on my BCO screen.

1Athena1

I never lost power Scoot. HL did.

CherrylH

Wishing a Happy Canada Day to my friends to the North.

suzieq60

Artsee - I asked my onc about melatonin and he didn't know about it. I took it based on what the Aussie ladies on here were saying. It's not approved here except by prescription, but I ordered it from Biovea after doing my own research. Your natural melatonin levels drop in the early hours of the morning and as we get older we don't make as much. I'm thinking maybe it was the change to Aromasin from Arimidex that has put my sleep back to normal or a build up of melatonin from taking the supplement.

Don't evny you girls the wild weather - sounds like Australia in Summer - fires, storms - hope you don't get floods next.

ananda8

Ang7,

I completely understand your mom watching the storm.  In 2009 we had an ice storm and the temperature dropped so suddenly that the branches of the trees exploded taking down power lines and crashing through roofs and cars.  The storm started at twilight and lasted all night.  As the branches exploded, they emitted light and made a terrific noise.  While it was going on it was spectacular. Going without power and no heat was a bit less so. 

Now we have a generator.

Anonymous

Susie

the only non-prescription that's ever helped me sleep is Valerian Root. Most health food stores have it in liguid, a few drops under the tongue, or in water.  It's the only thing I can take whe I wake up in the middle of the night, and go back to sleep, without feeling drugged in the am.

Of course, there's also good ole antihistamines!  But they can really dry out your throat, nasal passages.  With the sun rising at about 5 am, I seem to be getting up earlier now.

Scoot - glad you've got electricity.  I'm with Ang, I can imagine wanting to watch. We had a horrendous ice storm a few winters back, and the sound of the trees, limbs, cracking - for an ex-city girl, sounded just like gunfire! Sun out the next morning, and it was like being in a crystal wonderland - thanks for generators here too!

gardengumby

Glad to hear y'all are OK.  We've just got very mild, cloudy and humid weather here in Seattle area right now. 

Having no electricity sucks.  We lost power in the Seattle area last winter during an ice storm.  DH decided we shouldn't tough it out, so made reservations at a hotel not that far away - they lost power, too, so instead we spent a couple nights downtown Seattle - very convenient for me, as that's where I work.  There were close to 300,000 without power during the storm, we didn't have power for 3 days, but some of my co-workers were without for over a week.  We've lived in this place for about 13 years - lose power about every other year and still don't own a generator.  DH says no way is he going to buy one now that we're just about to move.... .

AnneW

Mercy, we're all sufering at the hands of the weather! I get too irritable. At least my Pilates epuipment and the guest bedroom are in the basement where it's a bit cooler. We've been working all day in my hot wal-in closet. The old wire shelving (which apparently was never installed correctly) gave up the ghost and crashed down. Overburdened, my DH said. I think the cats did it...Anyway, replacing shelves means painting, a new closet shelving unit, a new light, a mini-swamp cooler, and a broken toe. Mine. I stubbed it on a dresser. Damn that hurts, but it's a good excuse to use an ice pack in this heat!

At least we have no humidity. I feel for my East Coast sisters with no power and A/C!!

Thinking a visit to the west coast sounds good, but can't do it this month. I'm just gonna melt...

suzieq60

Sun - melatonin is a natural supplement, just the government here haven't approved it.

RetiredLibby

Thanks, all. Still no power. 81 in my house, 95 on the deck right now this minute. Ugh. Spent 4 hours at the post office charging up phones and iPad - it was air conditioned and had electricity and outlets. We took food, reading materials and chairs. We are so odd.



It was quite a show. Today DH sawed the limb off the tree across the street that was hanging up the power lines. Too long to describe here, but suffice it to say it violated about 15 OSHA standards and left me shaking. However, it makes it easier for them to turn our street's power back on.



We just got back from dinner (Olive Garden Fair Lakes) and there were 5 power trucks lined up on the shoulder of the highway one exit from our exit. DH hollered, "Flash them -- maybe they'll follow us home!" We're still laughing...



Glad that Scoot and Athena kept power and Ang has power back. I vote we use Ang's son's little league coach as a fuse on the next main transmission line they repair. Then he might like to see how it feels to be fried out there .... Those poor little boys!



Hot Libby