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  • Enjoyful
    Enjoyful Member Posts: 3,591
    edited July 2011

    Good morning, everyone! 

    I go away for a few days and all drama breaks loose.  I can't help but think that's a good thing!

    Things are supposed to cool off here in the East with temps only in the 90s.  Woohoo!  Breaking out the sweaters and long johns as I type.  ;-)

    Hope everyone has a good, clam, stress-free day.  (hahaha...I typed "clam" instead of "calm").  Chemo/Arimidex-brain can be fun!

    E

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited July 2011

    Morning all.

    Today looks positively "cool." High of "only" 91 forecast here with thunderstorms expected. Oh, to be in late September!

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited July 2011

    Bed time - 7 degrees celcius over night - today was lovely but a bit chilly this morning.

    Welcome back enjoyful

    Sue

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  • IronJawedBCAngel
    IronJawedBCAngel Member Posts: 470
    edited July 2011

    It will only be about a cool and brisk 100 degree heat ratio today.  Heading outside to attack the weeds that are taking over my flowers.  Be back for a glass of wine with lunch!

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited July 2011

    The usual...92 and 90% humidity.

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  • Alpal
    Alpal Member Posts: 1,785
    edited July 2011

    Just saw the forecast. 89 today and low 90s the rest of the week. We still haven't had rain, although everyone around us has - it keeps skipping over us. E - if you have any extra clams, please send.

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  • 208sandy
    208sandy Member Posts: 2,610
    edited July 2011

    It's positively freezing here today 20C (70-something elsewhere) and it RAINED last night - don't worry it's going up to 30C this afternoon.

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  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 6,241
    edited July 2011

    Morning Peeps!

    It's going to be hot and muggy here too.  What else is new?!?  Expecting thunderstorms later today, which is good, we can sure use the rain.

    Enjoyful .. so glad to see you!

    hugs all round,

    Bren 

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  • River_Rat
    River_Rat Member Posts: 1,724
    edited July 2011

    Hi Enjoyful!  I'll take my clams fried please.  I used to get those about once a year but it's been more than a decade since I had any.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2011

    Hi, Enjoyful,

    good to see you, hope you're doing well.  RR- oooohh, friend clams, we used to get those at the beach in CT. Yummy...just thinking, now without a wonky gallbladder, maybe I can eat them again? Nice thought.

    Hope all are getting cooler. We're in the 70's in wetern MA - with boomers on the way this afternoon, never thought I'd ay this after May, but we could use the rain.  

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  • Alpal
    Alpal Member Posts: 1,785
    edited July 2011

    We used to get our fried clams at Howard Johnsons! Regular clams came out of a can that looked like a tuna fish can. Mix em with cream cheese and we had clam dip. They were rubbery, to say the least. LOL

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  • AnnNYC
    AnnNYC Member Posts: 4,484
    edited July 2011
    Alpal, I loved Howard Johnson's fried clams!  So did Jacques Pepin, who worked in the Manhattan Howard Johnson's, with Pierre Franey -- Howard Johnson himself (there really was a Howard Johnson) hired them as chefs after eating at a French restaurant (Le Pavillon) where they worked!
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/28/opinion/28pepin.html
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2011

    AH, alpal, we got ousr at Jimmies in Savin Rock, Woodmont, CT.  Yummy.  Also lobster rolls with lotsa  butter - up here folks make them with mayonaisse (sp?) - bleah ;(   Something about being barefoot, sandy, in bathing suits may have made all the food taste better too.  And, of course, very, very young...

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  • Alpal
    Alpal Member Posts: 1,785
    edited July 2011

    CS - those of us who grew up in the "middle" didn't have any sand. I didn't even have a sand box because my mom heard they caused worms! Ugh. HoJo's had really good ice cream and the first sugar cones I ever tasted. Ann - wasn't everything turquoise in there? That's my memory. Jacques Pepin sure didn't work at our HoJos!

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  • Enjoyful
    Enjoyful Member Posts: 3,591
    edited July 2011

    Thanks for the welcome-backs, everyone!  I'm okay, just haven't been myself lately.  Maybe that's a good thing?  ;-)

    In spite of popular belief and practice, clams are NOT edible!   Ugh.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2011

    Alpal  What I remember most from HoJo's was GREEEEEEN pistachio ice cream and sugar cones.

    Yup, turquoise & orange!!! Seem t remember Lily Tomlin laughing about he "decor" in The Search for Signs of Intelligent LIfe in the Universe.  That "she" first came up with the color combination ;-)

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited July 2011

    (((E)))

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  • YramAL
    YramAL Member Posts: 1,651
    edited July 2011

    Thunder and lightning and about 55 here in Seattle.Foot in mouth

    Mary 

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  • Enjoyful
    Enjoyful Member Posts: 3,591
    edited July 2011

    Thank you, Athena!  :-)

    Mary, I'm moving in with you.  PM me your address.  ;-)

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  • YramAL
    YramAL Member Posts: 1,651
    edited July 2011

    Yes, we had summer on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Now it's over.Undecided I was born and raised here, and most of my family is here, including my elderly parents. I've said to my husband many times-when my parents are gone, I'm outta here. I need sun!!!!!

    Enjoyful-I do have 2 empty bedrooms....

    Mary 

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  • Wabbit
    Wabbit Member Posts: 1,592
    edited July 2011

    E ... glad 'yourself' is back.  (((hugs))) for whatever was ailing you ... hope it's all better now.

    My town was so small we didn't even have a HoJos.  I honestly don't think I've ever been in one.  We had to drive around in our cars and maybe meet up in the school parking lot to chat.  That was the days of cheap gas ... I'm sure the kids can't afford to do that anymore.

    It is just a tad bit cooler here.  Love it when the weather folks talk about a 'cool down' on the way and then it turns out to be forecasting 90 instead of 95 degrees.  Tongue out   

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2011
    Enjoyful - not even if they're in Boston Clam Chowder, served in a lovely Bread bowl, with the inside hollowed out, so you can EAT the "bowl" crust when the soup is gone - not even then????Tongue out
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  • crazy4carrots
    crazy4carrots Member Posts: 5,324
    edited July 2011

    We had to drive around in our cars and maybe meet up in the school parking lot to chat.

    Rabbit -- define "chat" please:) 

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  • 3monstmama
    3monstmama Member Posts: 1,447
    edited July 2011

    Good Morning!!!

    Belated Happy Birthday to Athena!

     YramAl  I am further south than you---no thunder and lightening--just gray.

    It was a very sunny weekend, so very sunny I got myself my usual state of sun-sick.  Spent the middle part of Saturday on a boat watching monsters sailing.  Big monster came in 1st for his group, Middle monster did pretty good and had fun.  Little monster did not have much fun, could not remember what to do and was quite mad at self.  A trip to a favorite Chinese restaurant to celebrate and console seems to have ironed things out. 

    Re Sun Sick, by the end of 3-4 hours on the water in the sun (wearing my big old Tilly hat the entire time) I was quite dizzy even though I was drinking lots of water.  Came home and collapsed for a nap.  This is not unusual for me--seems like ever since I got heat sick on the Acropolis (and that was a LONG LONG LONG time ago), I have not done well hanging in the sun.  And the hot flashes that come with the tamoxifen are NOT helping me like hot weather any more than I did before. . . .

    Which is a long way of saying that today's less than sunny weather is a nice break for me........

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  • otter
    otter Member Posts: 6,099
    edited July 2011

    [Had to delete my post because it appeared I was laughing at the wrong person!  I had heat sickness once, and it wasn't funny at all.  I nearly passed out at work when interviewing a client.  Had to go home early that day...]

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  • 3monstmama
    3monstmama Member Posts: 1,447
    edited July 2011

    hey there susieq58!!!!!!!!

    France?  did someone say France?  Where in France?  When in France?  whats the itinerary? 

    We were in Paris this past Feb to celebrate the end of my active treatment.  It was also supposed to be a celebration of our 10th wedding anniversary and a birthday celebration because I have a birthday coming up of the sort that people are supposed to celebrate. We are cheap, we combine celebrations so we can celebrate BIG!!!!!

    It was lots of fun though the credit card did a bit of moaning and groaning. . . .sounds like you will be away for quite a while.  I always remember that the Australians I have met traveling seem to travel for HUGE (from a US-barely-any-vacation-sort-of perspective) hunks of time due to the cost of leaving the country.

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  • Alpal
    Alpal Member Posts: 1,785
    edited July 2011

    Oh - the Hojos wasn't in my town! Close, though. We had Jerry's and Sue's Dairy Dip. Our mantra was "Once around Jerrys and dip through the Dip". We "chatted" at the drive in movie.

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  • Enjoyful
    Enjoyful Member Posts: 3,591
    edited July 2011

    Not even then, C-S.  I grew up on the water but just can't abide oysters, clams, abalone, mussels, anything with a hinged shell.  *shudder*

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited July 2011

    Howdy, 3monst - sorry about the sun sickness. Just awful.

    Mary, one more peep out of you re: Seattle weather and we will all crash in with you for the rest of the summer. :-)

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  • 3monstmama
    3monstmama Member Posts: 1,447
    edited July 2011

    I remember one HoJos down by the Potomac headed towards alexandria--no where near home. 
    Can't quite recall any particular restaurant where kids hung out--maybe some pizza places?

    I do remember scraping together seat change to buy gas for wandering around.....doubt one could do that now.

    Oh enjoyful  please feel free to send your bivales (sp) to my house.  Its hard to keep two growing boys stocked with shellfish!

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