INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours

luvmygoats

They are great fun when they fledge from the nest. I saw one live in the spring. Sat glued to my screen and suddenly bird too off straight up.

http://naturedocumentaries.org/493/hummingbird-cam-phoebe-allens-nesting-california/

luvmygoats

Can't get a live link on an edit. Sorry.

http://naturedocumentaries.org/493/hummingbird-cam...

Di2012

Happy New Year! . May 2014 be more   than

Pawprint

Luvmygoats, beautiful video of hummingbirds. That's amazing how they put the orphan hummingbird in another nest and the other mother fed it. Thanks for sharing ths. 

Pawprint

Beautiful Quilt Chevy. 

Di2012

My new years eve was spent in the hospital, getting my niplets and lipo for my fat transfer to my divots & dented foob....came home around 6 went bed.....I think around 8:30 hubby brought me some chicken noodle soup in bed on bed tray table......we have 2 adjustable  twin xl beds that are pushed together to make a KING.....so I can sleep/eat sitting up and hubby sleeps flat.

hugs 

Di

luvmygoats

Pawprint - do try the livestreaming. It appears to be offline now but showing still shots of previous nestings. It says it is lighted so I will tune in later to see if it is. I've not seen the camera so close in. Beautiful.

Jazzygirl

Pawprint

Hi Di, I hope you are resting up today since you went through a lot yesterday.

Thank luvmygoats, I will look at livestreaming. Happy New Year back at you Jazzy.

IllinoisLady

Too far behind AGAIN....my song always.  Well, hmmm, I was in the Northridge quake.  Funny, I was not really afraid.  We had a double-wide mobile home, a new one, and something made me feel that we needed earthquake struts.....something we hadn't ever had.  We sold a Volkswagen we were not using and about 9 days after the struts were on here came the quake.   It lasted a really long time, that one. 

I really don't want to sound like it wasn't a big deal, but I was in enough of them  that I just sort of took them as they came but Northridge did surprise me a bit.  Major damages around us but we were not too bad. 

Pot should be legal.  Always felt that way though I wouldn't smoke it. 

Lilli

Spookiesmom

There are petitions going around here to get pot on the Nov ballot. I did sign one. I think it should be legal. I never tried it, even when I was so sick from chemo. I'm a bit afraid of it, I'm on so many meds now. There will be BIG $$$$ backing it if it does get on and pass in Nov

Holeinone

Smaarty, love your quilt, the deep green & striped fabric gives it a tropical look

Chevy, wow, your quilt is really cool, looks very personal & full of family memories...

Any of you Calif. Gals remember ( I should google this ) a big rolling earthquake, say 1968 ? We had a pool in the back yard, water sloshing over the sides, I will never forget looking out the kitchen window watching that huge concrete pool rocking & rolling...I was young, scared out of my mind

Anonymous

Wasn't there a major quake in the San Fran/Oakland area in 1989? Maybe that one was already mentioned here.

Paula

Anonymous

GG, don't remember, will have to google it. That was my first year in Cali, I was just a baby. Lol!

Paula, are you thinking of Loma Prieta, when the freeway buckled?

For those signing petitions, please be aware: I have signed only a couple of them. Imagine my surprise when my political party affiliation was suddenly changed without my knowledge! Went to voter registration office to correct, they said while it's illegal it does happen. 

Holeinone

Maddy, I did google it, still not 100% sure, but I am thinking maybe 1966...I lived in West Covina then..

grammaB

From our friend Mr Google, the 1968 quake was in SoCA, San Diego County.  I lived in NoCA, SF Bay Area, so didn't feel it and don't remember it.  The Loma Prieta quake in '89 is the one I mentioned earlier. Scary stuff.  It was a miracle more people weren't killed in that one, especially as the freeway heading to SF collapsed upon itself and a section of the Bay Bridge collapsed.  It was the night of game 3 of the World Series Oakland A's against SF Giants.  A major rivalry.  The quake was at 5:05 PM, the game was to start at 5:35 PM.  It was said because of that people had left work early to go to the game or stayed late at work to party & watch with friends.  Had it been a "normal" day those roads would have been bumper to bumper traffic at that time of day.  God only knows how many people would have lost their lives.  It certainly was the worst earthquake I lived through.

Anonymous

GG, if it was 1968, was it Ocotillo Wells (desert near Salton Sea?). I lived in Santa Ana then

Gramma, Loma Prieta was scary! I remember now about the baseball game and it's timing in relationship to earthquake. Very scary. 

grammaB

Yes, according to Mr Google it was Ocitillo Wells.  It was called the Borrego Mountain Earthquake.

Enerva

Hi ladies, i went to bed around 10:30 woke up at 1am its now 3:15am and cant sleep. I wonder when does the insomnia ends. I am so tired of all the SE this disease brings. I am still taking pain killers every 6 hours now. I feel as if the year did not end. I was hoping to feel different and i guess nothing really changed. 

  

  

Pawprint

Ok, so all this earthquake talk is kinda freaking me out since here in California we are told we are overdue for the big quake. Now I will have to make sure I have my emergency supplies all in order at home, work, and in my car. I haven't updated supplies in awhile. Another thing on my January to do list.

grammaB

Pawprint, yes it is a good idea to have a basic emergency/earthquake kit set and ready to go (water/food/flashlight/radio/etc).  Also have all your important documents in one place easy to grab too.  Besides living in earthquake country, later I lived in the forest in the Sierras and every summer had forest fires to deal with.  I can't tell you how many times I grabbed the important stuff and left it in the car for a couple of weeks. Like a turtle in its shell I drove around with everything that was important to me in my car. 

mostlymom

Anonymous

OH Mostlymom - now the bird thing is truly funny.  Thanks for making me laugh when my troubles R keeping me up!

Flowers

Anonymous

So, anybody else out there?

Chevyboy

Yes!  I'm here...!  Ha, ha!  GRAMMA B......  My folks lived in the Bay Area, and I remember we were watching that Baseball Game, and the lights went out!  Mom called, and was so scared, she could hardly talk...   When I visited, they took me on that elevated highway, that they were working on.  It was just..... STOPPED....  I mean you had to get off, because there was no more road!  And the SFOBB top part fell down on the lower bridge!  I remember seeing pictures of those cars perched on the end of that bridge...

MostlyMom...  That picture just nails it! 

Chevyboy

Gramma, the Owls I was talking about have long gone, but it was mesmerizing....  I've been watching the Washington DC Panda Cam, watching this little "girl" growing up, and her Mom, dragging her around the place...  teaching her how to walk, and MOVE more...  There are 2 cameras, you can click on...  But those Panda's are the sweetest things...

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/webcams/giant-panda.cfm

Wouldn't it be funny if I hooked up a Chicken-Cam so Cammi could watch them to her hearts delight? 

camillegal

Good Morning---

Enerva it does take a while, these SE's cn really be brutal, I think that why there are so many here cuz we understand it's not a disease that comes and an operation later it leaves.

Well, Well well-- we meet again Chevy at an ungodly hr. as usual.---Go ahead hook up a chicken cam and see how many  people really want to watch all kinds of things coming out of a chickens ass. we'll see how really popular that is.

Oh I think everyone remembers the 89 quake cuz of the world series, it just completely went off the air on TV.

Chevyboy

Come ON Enerva!  Can't let nothin' get our Biker Girl down!     Is it too cold to go out and polish that bike? 

Can you call one of your Doc's and TELL him how you feel?  Give me that number..... I'LL call.... dangit!   It's just too much to expect those of you gals in pain, to put up with it!   

Sassy, can you talk to her?   We need to make a house call.

Chevyboy

oooooooh ...... the cam is up!  And she is fit to be tied.  Did you hear what she SAID?  Like she KNOWS what those chickens are doing!

Chevyboy

And another thing!  Miss smarty pants!  What do you MEAN, me up?  YOU are up too!  Or didn't you notice.