My (perhaps controversial) thoughts as a "newbie" to CA.
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Lori-- After I posted my latest to you regarding your new boobs, a funny and imaginary scenario occurred to me:
Your neighbors peeking out their windows, seeing you headed to your mailbox.
He to she:
"Who IS that new gal getting their mail?"
She to he:
"It can't be a nanny--their kids are grown--"
He to she:
"A baby-sitter, maybe?"
She to he:
"But for WHO? THEY don't need baby-sitting....do they?"
He to she:
"Well, whoever she is, she better watch out--Lori's not gonna go for THIS gal in her house..."'
She to he:
"Unless this is--one of their grandkids? Visiting?"
He to she:
"In that case, let's get away from the window. It could be embarrassing if she sees us...."
She to he:
"It still doesn't make sense....they aren't young enough to need a baby-sitter, but they aren't old enough to have a granddaughter this mature, either..."
He to she:
"Guess we'll never know...."
She to he:
"I'll ask Lori next time I see her....."
He to she:
"Better not."
She to he:
"Right. Better not."
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Hi Trill, I am doing surprisingly well. Some pain but not taking the pain meds only Tylenol. Thanks for asking.
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Molly-- So glad to hear this! Hope you're keeping cool wherever you are--I think this heat is happening in pretty much the entire US of A.
No strong pain meds--super!
Keep up the good work!
love, t
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Oh do take care and good luck Lori and Molly.
Trill - love the running commentary about "who's THAT girl?" Lori with the high school boobs.
xo to all!
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Lori and Molly-- Hope the healing goes well! And that you're keeping cool...
JBeans, glad you liked the latest....how fare the bees? is it cool up where you are? I keep thinking Canada must be blissfully cool...When it gets too unbearable and I'm here on the laptop I flick back to that shot of Diamond in the snow and get an instant hit of luscious wintry weather...
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Trill, I love your stories! I know I can count on you for a good chuckle!
We've got rain coming in, with any luck it might cool down some. On our way back from Walmart last night, my hubby got all excited when the bank display showed it dropped 6 degrees!!
DID YOU HEAR WHAT HAPPENED TO SNOOPY IN THIS HEAT?!?!?!?!
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Aw, poor Snoopy! That is how I have felt in this heat the past few days. Stay cool and hydrated, everyone!
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oh poor Snoopy.
Trill, it has been hot here too. 30•C + (I convert that (hopefully correctly) to 86•F + ) for weeks. Ug. I fee like a frizzy haired flat chestedsweaty stinky grunge ball most of the time. The bees have some of their workers out bum in the air fanning the hive almost constantly.
How hot is it where you are? Is your place air conditioned? Poor Miss P. How does she even cool off with her coat and being a cat I would gues she doesn't like to take a dip in the kiddie pool or even get misted with the plant spray bottle like my two dogs do.
Diamond, Zak, and my two boys and I were out painting bee hives, bird houses, a garden seat for our community garden, and a 3-legged chair my 6year old built today in the shade under a maple tree. Next coat to follow tomorrow followed by a trip to a local beach at a lake so small I could swim across to splash in the water and then ice cream. Too much ice cream makes a chubby mom but happy kids these days. :-)
Take care, stay cool. I hug my lunch bag freezer packs wrapped in a pillow case at night to stay cool.
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O Lori, I hate to laugh at poor melted Snoopy but that's so funny.....!! I can understand your husband's glee--it must be wonderful to see temps drop that much! So glad you are out and about....
DisneyGirl--I actually think Snoopy looks a bit BETTER than I do at this point! My hair is three greasy strings--too lazy to wash it and then I'd just wrench it into a ponytail and clip to my head so it doesn't add another layer to heat the body further... and I'm wearing my cutaway t-shirt which every now and then I just grab ahold of and stretch to its furthest limits just before it rips.... every time I do this I'm reminded of my nephew Chris, who when he was a toddler whenever his (unhappily married) parents argued in frustration the poor babe would go up to their rubber tree plant and reach up and grab it by its trunk and shake the hell out of it....
Speaking of looking yucky versus looking super wonderful, yesterday my great niece sent some photos of she and her honey celebrating their engagement in the Napa Valley earlier this month. Here to make myself feel worse but to gaze at their cute coupledom again I'm attaching Carly and Manuel, giddy and in love..... As I look at it I think of the line of poetry-- "And shall not loveliness be loved forever..."
JBeans, your day with your boys and your bees and painting and all sounds wonderful--and I hope tomorrow's just as much fun.
Yesterday here it was 109 including humidity...today 96 with humidity...so it's dropping.....far too slowly...Miss P sleeps on the tile bathroom floor behind the toilet....or in its little doorway...or on the tiled kitchen floor...or more often in the foyer where the absolutely frigid hall air leaks through the gap under the door and makes that a little cool spot...I turn on the a/c every now and then but mainly have three fans going 24/7... it's actually so much cooler in the living room and down on the floor, so she gets the best of it when she's in there.
As for mommy, I swelter in this hell hole of a bedroom...but I keep the fans aimed on me and pull that cool pad (it's 22" wide or so--nice and big!) out of the fridge when I turn in. I love my big new TV. Don't want to sleep on the rocking/rolling air mattress in the living room this year....and I love my newish bed....And I don't have to worry with the lights heating things up like last year because I love to read and found reading with a light on added so much to the degrees...now with my Kindle and a downloaded book I bought on Amazon I just pull the cool pad out, flop it onto my pillows (it's that wide!), and turn on the Kindle and turn off the light and the TV and get a big schooner of something cold to drink.......
Miss P loved the Dem Convention tonight.
SHE WANTS TO CRACK THE CATNIP CEILING AND BE THE FIRST PUSSYCAT PRESIDENT!! Are you on board?
love t
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Beautiful couple! Miss P for president!
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Trill, what a great picture of your great niece and her fiance. She is a beauty! And I think Miss P would be a great president!
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Hi!
Your great neice is so pretty and she looks happy. When are they to be married?
Sorry Miss P. I see that Hilary Clinton got the official nod at the Democratic convention. Perhaps in 4 years you can break the species gap and be the first Kitty President. Best of luck to you. I don't know you but from what your mom says and from what the media reports I feel that you may be more qualified and better prepared to make clear and just decisions than perhaps one running for the BIG job this time around.
109 with humidity! Ug. That is HAWT!
I never factor in the humidity as I don't really get it. I should get it but I just don't. I suppose now I've confirmed this to myself and you I should really learn what it is all about.
Where I grew up (I live fairly far south of there now(12 hr drive) we never had humid days and our summer daytime high averaged 21C (or 69F thought there would always be a couple of days that might hit 30 (86 F) I remember wearing mitts to work at my summer jobs on some summer mornings and my mom yelling at me to take them off because it was summer. Some of the early mornings were cold and frosty - I wore them anyway. Take that summer - still loved it and went swimming in the lake nearly every day.
I'm loving this summer. My FU to cancer hobby has become so fulfilling. My slightly new attitude similar to "don't sweat the small stuff and it's nearly all small stuff" has made me feel great;even with frizzy hair and sweaty back.
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Hi JBeans-- Wow,up there you really haven't had a full-on summer, have you?? In the humid sense! I know up north in central NY where my brother lives and where we had a cottage it seldom gets really humid as it does down here. The humidity factor just means your sweat--that cools your body as it dries--when it's humid can't evaporate,just sits on your skin and parboils you. So the factor means it "feels like" it's so much hotter cause you don't cool down. It just intensifies it and thwarts the cooling power of sweat.
Now that the science lecture is over, I love the idea of gloves on a summer day!!
I'm so glad you're not sweating the small stuff--down here I feel like I'm sweating the small, medium, and large stuff simultaneously. But I get your drift.
I bought three dozen steamed hard crabs today and had about a dozen and now my fingernails are black and I've tried to figure out how to transport the shells etc to the trash room because the bag I have them in doesn't want to sink into the plastic trash bag as the claw tips keep hooking onto it and so stuff can't descend. I just wrapped it all up in frustration and am gonna send it down the shoot as is. If it explodes on the way down, well, the whiff will linger well into the bitterest winter days and remind us all of balmy July. Just kidding---I think the bag's strong enough to not explode.
Carly and Manual haven't announced the wedding date. I'm gonna attach another of the photos...this one shows off the ring on her finger..... a pretty one... sigh...o to be twenty-one!
Back to reality.....
Off I go to the trash room with my load of odiferous crab shells....!!
(Yes, DisneyGirl and JBeans,
Panty would make a far finer president than at least one (ugh) candidate... I'm embarrassed by DT...DT gives me dt's.)
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chuckle chuckle. The speeches from the Democratic convention are uplifting - I am enjoying listening to them or at least the clips from them I find online.
Thanks for the science lesson - that makes perfect sense and why people say things like "at least it's a dry heat". I have a friend who lives 6 months of the year in Vegas and he says stuff like that sometimes.
I sure feel like it's a hot one here now - 30+ but they have said 38 or 40 with the humidity quite a few times over the past few weeks so that's got to be 100F +. I'm sitting here sweating now and doing nothing but drinking a cup of coffee. Of course it could be partly caused by a tamoxifen hot flash. I do like the weather where I live now, especially the warm summers but sometimes I miss those really cold sunny winter days where everything is so crisp. We get a few sometimes but they always seem to fall on a week day and I can't take advantage of a bundled up and beautifully long walk.
Oh - yes to be young and freshly in love. :-) Carly's ring is so pretty and I laugh though that my eye is drawn to Manuel's vey large watch face. It fits him nicely but next to your great neice's delicate hand and wrist it looks positively huge. :-
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JBeans, I liked the Dem speeches too....I thought Michael Bloomberg was very funny....nothing like one billionaire calling out another...
Like you I love those sunny cold winter days. We had a long driveway going up to the road and walked it to get the school bus...I recall those early mornings when the gravels were frozen together....must have been a heavy mist that a.m. that coated them...today is cooler but o the humidity is about 89% because we just had some heavy rains. Coming in from the frigid hall was like walking into a wet blanket....now that a half hour has passed am used to it and hardly feel it....
Yes, I noticed Manuel's huge watch also....it almost looks like a compass.....the photo makes me want to run to the bathroom and grab my tweezers and maybe a shovel and trim my unruly brows!
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I also loved the walks to the bus, mailbox and especially riding my horse on the cold crisp winter days. My mare loved to jump in the belly high snow and buck me off! I'd get back on and we'd do it again! We played this game in water too. If I were to do something like that now, I'd have to grab a stirrup and hope she's drag me to a safe warm place! Memories are wonderful things!
My port placement went well this morning, without a hitch even. While I was laying in my bed waiting to get the show on the road 5 or 6 doctors, techs, nurses and surgeons walk in the room. As they entered they all pumped hand sanitizer in their palms. As they were rubbing their hands together, I sat up higher in my bed to get away from them. As I did, I told them they looked like a flock of volturs that couldn't wait to get their hands on me! We all laughed so loud all the people in the hall wanted to know why they weren't invited to the party! As they say, the rest is history!! My hubby missed a great camera opportunity and he's still chuckling about it and will be telling all family and friends the story for years to come. Silly people 😂😂😂
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Hi Lori-
I opened my laptop and came here JUST to ask you how your port placement went and here you ARE!! I love your mare story! And the exchange with docs, etc this a.m. I have the sneaking feeling that you are always the joke-teller at the party--and The Fun One! You may be getting some stitches, but your husband is IN stitches thanks to you.
I sometimes think that the hardest thing to deal with as far as personalities are concerned isn't stingy people, or permanently angry people, or cruel people--
Wait. That sounds like a certain candidate. These conventions have affected all phases of life for me, it seems.
No, what I meant to say was, it isn't those not-nice qualities that bug me the most, it's
PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO SENSE OF HUMOR!!
They don't GET jokes--
they don't (effectively) TELL jokes--
and they certainly can't laugh at themselves.
So four stars to you,Lori! You've got all three down to a science!
Love you!
(And so glad the pp this a.m. went smoothly).
Hi Molly--how are YOU?? Have you thrown the Tylenol bottle away yet?
T
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Lori, great story! I agree with Trill that you are definitely the fun one in a crowd. Trill, thank you for asking. Yes pretty much off the Tylenol as well. Just dealing with the twinges and discomfort. I will be thrilled to get my drain out on Wednesday. How's Miss P?
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I can just imagine them all rubbing their hands as if anticipation of a feast - you are funny.
That sounds so fun to be bucked off into deep snow or caught by water. :-) Do take care and you too Molly. Enjoy getting those darned things out.
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I loved my surgeon who did my ovarian cancer surgery. He was irreverant and very funny. My tumor was huge (20 pounds) plus they had to do an omentectomy, so my incision was 13 inches long. He came in to check on me and said "Darlin', I tried to minimize that, but I just kept having to inch that sucker up."
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Molly-- Glad to hear your drain will soon (hopefully) be history. Miss P is fine, enjoying the cooler temps.
Last night she and I took our daily walk down to the trash room with recycle stuff and the last bag of crab shells (I just couldn't feature those shells oozing odors in my teeny tiny galley-sized kitchen...) For the first time I just wore my cutaway t-shirt...it really shows off the flat chest and even a little of the stitches under my left arm where the node was taken....I kept thinking that this time, of all the times we've gone down the hall late at night and not encountered a living soul--not sure about the deceased ones-- someone was sure to emerge from their apartment and see me and go, wait a minute--didn't she once have pretty substantial breasts??? But luckily we got away with it.
It was cooler after the rains we had but about 90% humidity...just too high to drag on a blouse...
My therapist Karen--as tall as I am at 6 ft, and a doll if there ever was one--on Monday gave me some blouses she was planning to take to Goodwill, all nicely just-dry-cleaned. She wants me to go bra-less and to this end handed over these really nice blouses, four of which fit perfectly. I love L L Bean and Coldwater Creek but just to ogle their catalogs. I can't afford $45 blouses! Walmart "does it" for me--and Michael's when they have those 5 for $10 t-shirts....)
MelissaDallas--Twenty pounds. Wow! Did you walk with a springier step afterwards? How lucky you were to have a jokester for a surgeon!
JBeans-- "caught by water..." Can I borrow that descriptor? Love it!
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I weighed almost 50 pounds less a month after surgery once I got rid of the blob, 6 liters of ascites and fluid overload
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MelissaDallas-- Lucky you!
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Melissa - oh wow. That had to feel so different. I liked my surgeon a lot too. He is just so nice. God you had a nice and funny one :-)
Trill- you can do it! I used to have DDs and I have to say I love going braless. I haven't had a falseie in (including my awesome knitted knocker - though now I have to order another one) since I had the second one removed over a month ago. I still have swelling and fluid build- up so I'm not pancake flat yet but I love the feeling of walking around braless in just about anything. Comfy t-shirt material directly on my back with nothing in the way - glorious
Oh, and "caught by water" is all yours :-) Can you imagine? That would be a little scary and a lot fun I think.
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Hi JBeans---Well, I'm sure I'll get used to it, especially having the fuller blouse on over the cutaway T-shirt....the snug T's are just too much too soon for me! And it has been so damned hot that I hate wrenching on a bra of any kind....ordinarily in private I wear no bra, but it's different when I open the door and venture outside...
How are your bees? Are they still fanning the hive? Or am I hallucinating that? I keep seeing them batting their wings furiously in the direction of the queen..... Did you have to order the queen when you got the others? Did she come with? Or how does that work? I feel so ignorant about this! I still don't know how the tiny world operates...how they communicate with one another and recognize one another as they do...how can they tell HER from each other? Are there female bees and male bees in the general grouping or is there just one female--the queen?
Full of questions! Full of questions!
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Hi Trill,
Maybe you will always want the falsie knockers on to go out. That's okay I think, isn't it? I spent all last year wearing my one knitted knocker, particularly at work because I didn't want to be known as "Ms. Uniboob" or something else behind my back by my students. I've still not decided if I'm going to wear two when I go back to work in September. Nobody seems to notice anything is different this summer when I go out flat and I even ran into one of my favourite students this past week (of course publically I don't have favourites) and I don't believe she noticed anything was up except for the streak of pink I put in my hair.
(And let me say she is just a lovely girl who has been accepted into a nursing program for the fall, she does so much in the community (organizing a youth environmental initiative and in the Guiding movement) and even received an award two years ago where she got to fly to the US; an award whereby she got to travel to meet Hilary Clinton. I think she is going to be a nurse who changes how things are done and who changes the world.)
I'm so glad you want to know about the bees: Oh, the bees are great. No fanning to cool the hive today as it was cool and overcast. They were just coming and going and were bring back what seemed to me to be vast amounts of bright yellow pollen.
There is one queen(I call her Lizzy), she mated with 20-50 drones earlier this spring during her mating flight. (Kinda like my 20's I think ;-)) I bought her along with a few thousand bees and a frame of brood and a frame of honey from a bee breeder near me in early June. She was already mated when I got her. She will likely never leave the hive (unless the hive swarms) as all she does is lay eggs - up to 2000 a day.
Right now in the hive there are likely about 30 000 to 40 000 workers (all female) and maybe a hundred or two hundred drones (male with no stingers). The workers are all busy taking care of larvae, processing nectar, caring for the queen, guarding the hive or foraging for pollen and nectar. What they do is dependent on how many days old they are. The youngest are nurse bees who look after the brood. The oldest are the foragers. The workers die after about 6 weeks and the drones after about 8 weeks (their only job is to fly out and mate with a queen from another hive). The queen lives about 2 or 3 years.
The other bees recognize the queen and their own hive by the pheromones she releases. The bees "smell" the same because of her and this is how guard bees can recognize bees from another colony that may be trying to rob honey from the hive - they smell wrong.
If the queen dies (and therefore no more pheromone) the workers can take an egg that is less than 3 days old and make it into a queen by moving it to a larger cell and feeding it Royal jelly for longer.
All the workers in a hive are sisters though the sisters may have 20 to 50 different fathers. The drones come from unfertilized eggs so technically only have a mother. The queen can decide to lay fertilized or unfertilized eggs and this is decided by he cell she is about to lay into that was prepared by the workers. If it is a regular cell she lays a fertilized egg and creates a worker. If it is slightly bigger she lays an unfertilized egg and it becomes a drone.
The bees communicate mostly by pheromones and smell. Their alarm Pheremone smells like bananas and if they feel under threat this smell rally's the troops to defend the hive. The foragers also communicate where a good source of nectar is by a waggle dance that indicates how far from the hive and in which direction relative to the position of the sun a great nectar source is.
I love learning about them and watching them go about their business.
That's it.
Here is a picture of my two boys on my hive - they are so interested and love to stick their fingers in for a quick taste of honey when I check the hive.
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Hi JBeans-- I'm so happy and appreciative of your crash course here on all things bees! Wow. This is so fascinating and to think this and other wonders go on all around us 24/7 and have been doing so for millions of years. I do hope we learn how to take care of our great and beautiful and tough and fragile planet Earth before we lose species and the weather goes totally whacko and it becomes a little too late and a little too little to reverse gear... We need things like bees so badly....
Speaking of nature, I watched this Smithsonian video last week called Titanoboa about the largest --so far--snake remains found in South America. They call it Titanoboa cause it ran about 50 feet long....a constrictor that could squeeze the life out of a crocodile in minutes and then eat it! This whole process took a long time and the one meal could last the snake a year...but if something threatens these constrictors while they are in the middle of eating/swallowing/digesting they just regurgitate it... One very large boa did manage to swallow a crocodile that was bigger than it was and did get it down but then proceeded to explode...
I'm beginning to feel a little short-of-breath myself just writing this...
Your sons are so sweet! Look at their mops of beautiful hair! Did they paint your hive? It looks like a "homemade" decor....
What do you teach? I can't believe school starts in less than four weeks! Finally that scorching heat has dropped to normal levels...heavy rains came and cleared the air a bit. I recall as a kid so loathing the end of summer that August first meant the beginning of countdown, as in intoning to myself every day,f "Fifteen days to school....fourteen days till school, etc."
Thanks again o bee-keeper for filling me in!
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Oh wow - Titaniboa sounds like such an interesting video. I do love watching and reading about all kinds of creatures and natural events and I worry about the fate of our species and the other species we share this earth with. I try to teach my boys that kindness and care with what you do and the decisions you make is so important. I try to model environmentally sound practises and hope that they and others, my students (grades 9-12 but mostly grades 9 &12) included, act responsibly and think to eventually elect people and parties that think about the global future and have compassion for people and the natural world (I would prefer a near bulletproof environmental and social platform but as of yet that party, at least in Canada, has managed only one seat in the House of Commons. )
I'm going to see if I can find the one you watched, I've been spending my sleepless time at night watching a program called Australia's 72 most dangerous animals. It's a bit trite but okay.
Have you been to the Smithseonian? Some day I know I would love to go there and to explore much more of the U.S. I've driven around northern Minnisota, through Michigan, and to both Indiana and Tennessee. I've also been to Washington state and driven through North Dakota and Montanna. I've even been to California but I was 6 and don't remember much of that trip.
Have you been to any of our provinces or travelled the world? I still need to travel to 3 more provinces and all 3 territories before I've made it to all parts of Canada.
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Hi JBeans--- Yes, do look up Titanoboa--Netflix has it. I was transfixed by the part where they go to the Everglades looking for pythons and Anacondas and go into that watery stuff in their BARE FEET so they can feel the slither of the snake! Ughhhhhh.....gave me a nightmare!! One bit the guy in the shin and turned out later that a couple of teeth were in the wound....aye aye.....
I've seen the ad for Australia's top 72 video series but have yet to check it out. There are so many excellent videos! Netflix just sent an email saying they've added a new batch where guys go seeking rare WWII artifacts in Eastern Europe. I'm in the midst of WWII reading. The other day---rather, weekend--I indulged in lots of streaming video bingeing of all sorts...just lay here on the bed like a lady Titanoboa and watched away! It was great!
Do you watch the Olympics? I love my new TV and am all set for the Olympics to start. My therapy sessions with Karen are on hiatus while the O's are going--we laugh about it--she is so nice to understand my passion. I love our local boy Michael Phelps and hope he does well. See there are some very tough Australian swimmers as usual that will be super competition for MP and our other swimmers...Maryland has also produced this Katie Ledecky who is a great little mermaid....unfortunately the Maryland waters don't guarantee that ALL citizens, such as myself, can swim like these tadpoles....
I agree with everything you say about the environment...I honestly can't believe the politicians who still don't believe in global warming!
I don't have the travel gene--have not been to Europe or Canada--though I did get to Niagara Falls! You're quite the traveler compared to me. I've flown just once in my lifetime!
Right now my friend Karen has me working on finishing the book I started in the last century. She has a reading club and am shooting for a Sept 1st deadline to have the whole thing emailed to her and then she's gonna get it to her ladies. So am working on that. Also, she liked the larger 6" blocks I painted--8 done so far--so much that she ordered me 16 more! I'm gonna have my apartment filled with blocks before I know it. I do like working on the larger blocks--it's more like doing an actual little painting.....it's nice to intersperse work on the book with painting the blocks...a nice balance of WORD and IMAGE.
OK, off to the recycle bin with Miss Panty....
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Hi ladies! Just checking in, I have so so so many dr appointments that I can hardly keep up with them all! I'm hoping once chemo and radiation starts things will settle down. Yeah right! LOL
I start my chemo on Friday and I'm very nervous about how the whole process works. I was told that every treatment lasts about 5 hours. What in the world am I going to do with myself, stuck in a recliner for 5 hours?! I know! I'll chat with all of you! 😜
I need to figure out my anti-nauseous medication schedule. So many pills to take in one day but I'm good at taking my meds on time.
I've been watching my redneck tv but I haven't taken any pictures lately. My hubby is still feeding everyone for me. There's only been a few baby raccoons to visit. It makes me wonder where they've all gone? As I settle into the next phase of my BC journey I'll find more "awake time" to watch my critters :-)
I've been trying to fall back asleep for awhile now so I gave up and came here to try to catch up with everyone.
Trill, love the video of the huge boa! What a beast! I've been to the Smithsonian and stood next to the huge snake skeleton they have there. It's amazing how big some of our reptile friends can get!
JBeans, I loved your Bee Kerpers tale of your beehive. What amazing creatures bees are and they can decide who becomes what within their hive. Very intelligent creatures indeed! I love watching the bees at work. Your boys are super cute! I agree with Trill, they have such beautiful hair!
Melissa, what a characature your surgeon must have been. It's so nice to get a dr that has a sense of humor! I bet you felt so much better after having the blob removed. What an ordeal!
Molly, I hope you are recovering well after your TE replacement surgery. My thoughts and prayers are with you. I've been very blessed so far with no TE problems, but we all know how that can change is a hurry. Keeping my fingers crossed all goes well for you from now on!
I'll be baaaack later! Hugs to all!!
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