Ok, in from mowing. My dad is sleeping. Husband and two children off to help and ride in a local parade. Son in law left after with his two. They may be going to the same. House is quiet, windows are closed to keep the heat out.
Good morning, everyone!
It’s warm and muggy outside. Cyrus is mowing and waging war on a very active and aggressive ground nest of tiny bees. I’ve never seen anything quite like them. They are smaller than the little bees that peacefully sip nectar from the clover. But they are very aggressive and pack a wallop of a sting. Cyrus has ben stung 5 times this morning. I got out the pitchfork — ready to do a hit and run on the hole they’re going in and out of. But I was overruled and sent to the store for vinegar, soda, bee traps and other more subtle and nefarious means of attack. Anybody out there have suggestions?
It is cold and windy outside. But the temps are supposed to begin rising tomorrow and all next week…summer is arriving after all!
Oh Debra that stinging is not ok! Do you have any local beekeepers close to you that you could call? I hate the thought of killing pollinators but if they are posing a threat …. I would be concerned for your sweet puppy going out to take care of his business!! 🥴 🐝
Sounds like it from what I have read. Cyrus might take an antihistamine and watch him for symptoms like shortness of breath, dizziness, swelling, vomiting. Probably need a professional to deal with the hive.
After the haircut, I will aim to get Abby into the car (stop laughing) and off to the dog park. If I can just get her there often enough — so she’ll associate the car with DOG PARK! — I think we can overcome the car phobia.
She’s such a sweet dog, but has these strange quirks that have been hard to overcome.
We went to see Sound of Freedom this morning at 10 and got out around 1. It is a great film. If there is any chance to see it, please do. It out sold Indiana Jones on the 4th. Yes!
When we got home we found Miss Bosley had brought her ‘toy’ to the mat where I stand to wash dishes at the kitchen sink. She usually leaves it at the door when she misses me. So funny to find it at the mat. She is still full of funny surprises.
I find watering the yard(s) very peaceful, it takes about an hour for both the front and back. Yes, I could use sprinklers (the hose kind, I don’t have any built-in), but I find a enjoy just hanging out, watering, saying hi to passers by with their kids and dogs, the occasional homeless person carting a bag of stuff …
OK, I’m acting silly now with Abby, spontaneously calling out DOG PARK! YAY! OH ABBY!
She just stares.
I’m going to say “dog park” like a gazillion times today on the ride and while we’re there and on the ride back, just try to get the words to connect in her head.
Dj, if a Dog Park friend let their friendly dog get in your vehicle would that maybe encourage Abby to jump in afterward, forgetting herself and happy to have the other dog as company for a ride?
Janice, it might (4:22) and that’s why I wish I’d had a resident dog already here when I got Abby. Fosters told me she seemed to be a “follower” with things like the doggie door.
This is a new dog park so I don’t have regular contacts there yet, but plan to make some once we can establish a bit of a routine.
The other option will be calling the one trainer again to ask her if she could bring her dog over, maybe they can play a bit first (I don’t think Abby would be territorial about her backyard) and see if she’d follow her into my car.
For now, I’m focusing on establishing just an association (car = DOG PARK). So far, though, we’ve only been there once and she doesn’t yet recognize the words “dog park.” I am hoping taking her to the dog park maybe just a few times will get us over the hurdle.
I missed my favorite Fox program today, The Journal at noon (here) on Saturdays. Totally forgot about it and had a couple errands to run.
I think we all love Miss Bosley. Janice, I remember your reticence about taking her initially, so glad you did. 🙂
Yes, very thankful to have her, but at times she causes unanticipated surprises. Last night, as always, she sat in Art’s chair just before he went yo sit down. He tried to sit on the edge of the seat but then I heard a big thump because he had missed and landed on the floor. That seat-stealing cat! She never takes his seat all day until he gets home.
Janice – I now know three women who took in cats “temporarily”, tried to find homes for them, and ended up keeping them after all.
You were first, then a Facebook friend had an injured cat show up on her property. She took the usual measures to see if someone was missing a cat, and then kept her to take care of her while she healed. She kept the cat isolated from her two dogs, thinking that the dogs would not welcome this interloper.
But as time went by, and no owner came forward, and no friend wanted a cat, she fell in love with her and decided to keep her. (I knew she would!) And the dogs were fine with her.
Recently, my friend Nadine was fostering two cats after the death of her beloved cat Sterling. Only fostering. Uh huh. As I read her Facebook posts about how sweet the two cats were, and saw all the cute photos, I knew what was gonna happen.
Nadine eventually announced that she had decided to keep the two sweeties herself. 🙂
I picked several 5 gallon pails of weeds just from the row of peas and half a row of beans. Then I relaxed in my pool chair and read my book. Now Kootenay is napping in his crate, Duke is snoring on the floor and I’m about to have a nap.
You deserve it, Kare. Snore with the best of them😃
Kizzie, it all too easy to become A Cat Lady! I am watching a lady photographer take and post FB photos of feral kittens in her neighborhood. I am smitten!
Of the seven cats that I have had in my life, six of them were kitties who were from people needing to find homes (or new homes) for them. Only one of them did we buy on purpose. 🙂
People buy cats? Currently have five and have had…a lot especially if you count all the kittens from those who arrived pregnant. But none have left with the ability to have kittens. And I have never purchased one.
Our SPCA “Barn Buddy” cat always wants to be close to us. When we’re all sitting in the living room in the evening, reading or watching TV, he is just outside the front door lying on the table, pretending he’s part of our family (he is, but he needs to stay outside).
I could easily bring in another cat as Abby is so cat-friendly.
A little worrisome with coyotes near by this season, but I’d keep the cat confined at first, of course, as I did with Annie Oakley. But on the up side, a cat may wind up “teaching” Abby to finally use the doggie door …
Dog park trip was fun, but Abby is still resisting the car. I met a nice couple at the dog park and the husband said he’d be able to get her into the car for me when it was time to leave, so rather than disturb my real estate friend who would have to put on his shoes and drive to the park, I took them up on the offer.
But Abby still looks freaked out at the “getting put in.” I hope this isn’t just making her trauma worse. But I think my next step needs to be calling the trainer to see if I can set up a home visit. We have to get over this hurdle somehow. Very strange.
Good morning, all. A beautiful day here but I oopsed last night. It was warmer outside than in last night when I thought about it, forgot to open the windows when it cooled down. Seventy four in the living room this morning. It was seventy nine last night and we are expecting nineties outside. I may need to inflict the ac on my dad for his own well being!
The weather was beautiful as we exited the church building. Sunny blue skies with puffy white clouds and a nice breeze, perfect! One of the ministry interns got to preach today, his first sermon before a congregation. He did an excellent job. We are continuing onward through the book of Acts.
Miss Bosley did another thing this week we’d never seen before. Often she waits on the top step of the stairs going from the bedrooms and bathroom to the mid-level of our home. She is an obstacle on that step and likes to bat at our feet and legs from that vantage point. Art saw her roll over and then continue rolling unintentionally, all the way down the stairs. I wish we had a video. Glad she was not hurt in the tumble.
Ex boyfriend once said cats appear to be made out of cartilage, not bones.
I got up late and wound up live-streaming today, my elder preached — he’s really so good in the pulpit. Soft-spoken, and thoughtful, preaches (and prays) with such depth.
Only going up to 71 today, I’m wearing a sweatshirt in the house — supposed to warm up this week, however, and looks like even the coast will hit 79-80 next weekend.
We’ve had an incredibly mild summer so far, though I’m sure we’ll get a heat dome at some point; August-September are our hotter months typically.
Hmm, some (more) land movement on our peninsula this weekend.
~ A massive landslide in Rolling Hills Estates this weekend forced 12 houses next to a canyon to be evacuated, officials said on Sunday, July 9, further underscoring the lurking danger of continually shifting earth on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
The “land shift,” as officials are calling it, occurred in a gated community on Peartree Lane. The shift became noticeable around 4 p.m. Saturday, residents and authorities in the area said. … ~
Much of where we live used to be under the Pacific Ocean a long, long time ago.
~ Existential humility acknowledges the limits of our own wisdom. It renders liberty a necessity, not merely to safeguard our own beliefs but also to safeguard our access to other ideas and arguments that might help expose our own mistakes and shortcomings. ~
I heard from my friend who said she’d found those horrid large yellow spiders at her place and has been kill8ng them. I thought the Arctic blast at the end of Dec. had put an end to them. I have yet to see them back in our yard. Now I will be more diligent in my looking out for them.
~ For those who dream of witnessing the northern lights, an opportunity could present itself next week. The aurora borealis is expected to be visible over 17 U.S. states on Thursday, July 13.
The states that could potentially get a glimpse of this rare spectacle include Alaska, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Maine, Maryland, New York, New Hampshire, Washington, Vermont, Idaho, Massachusetts, Wyoming, and Indiana. ~
Michelle, apparently there is a report of the possibility of a water leak? We’ll know more this week, but friend said he looked the area up and saw some of the photos and it looked like there was certainly some damage done to structures.
Ah, yes, much more damage through today in the updates, houses actually collapsing:
~ A massive landslide in Rolling Hills Estates this weekend destroyed 12 houses, officials said on Sunday, July 9, further underscoring the lurking danger of continually shifting earth on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
All the homes were evacuated by Saturday night. At least three of the houses, said Rolling Hills Estates Councilmember Frank Zerunyan, won’t make it through Sunday night — and will fall into the canyon below.
“It’s devastating,” Zerunyan said in a Sunday afternoon interview. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”
The “land shift,” as officials are calling it, occurred in a gated community on Peartree Lane.
Residents initially called the Los Angeles County Fire Department to report a water leak around 4 p.m. Saturday, Zerunyan said. When the firefighters arrived, they noticed cracks in the ground — and quickly realized the potential danger.
The county Fire Department ordered evacuations shortly after, multiple officials said.
… It’s unclear what caused the landslide. But city officials will look at several possible causes, including the winter deluge and a sinkhole that recently developed less than a mile away, though a building official said the latter explanation is “probably not” the reason.
Either way, land movement on the coast has gone unabated for centuries.
That danger is particularly acute on the Peninsula, a picturesque and relatively rural area of Los Angeles County — as least compared to the rest of the region — that is known for its hiking trails, ocean-view lookouts and lush hillslides. …
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Good morning, all. I have been out enjoying the morning. A beautiful day here.
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Good morning. Happy Saturday to all!
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Ok, back from the elliptical and bike, breakfast prepared for my dad, the rest of the day is pure relaxation. Sort of.
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Morning! The boys are off on their adventure and the house is quiet… ☕️ 😊
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Enjoying the cool here and letting the fan bring it inside
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Ok, in from mowing. My dad is sleeping. Husband and two children off to help and ride in a local parade. Son in law left after with his two. They may be going to the same. House is quiet, windows are closed to keep the heat out.
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Good morning, everyone!
It’s warm and muggy outside. Cyrus is mowing and waging war on a very active and aggressive ground nest of tiny bees. I’ve never seen anything quite like them. They are smaller than the little bees that peacefully sip nectar from the clover. But they are very aggressive and pack a wallop of a sting. Cyrus has ben stung 5 times this morning. I got out the pitchfork — ready to do a hit and run on the hole they’re going in and out of. But I was overruled and sent to the store for vinegar, soda, bee traps and other more subtle and nefarious means of attack. Anybody out there have suggestions?
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Eeek, Debra. You need those bulky protective outfits! And some serious weaponry.
Mumsee, mowing isn’t relaxing. Just saying.
I have a long-overdue haircut appointment this afternoon but have to visit the Credit Union ATM first to boost my checking account. Pay day next week!
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It is cold and windy outside. But the temps are supposed to begin rising tomorrow and all next week…summer is arriving after all!
Oh Debra that stinging is not ok! Do you have any local beekeepers close to you that you could call? I hate the thought of killing pollinators but if they are posing a threat …. I would be concerned for your sweet puppy going out to take care of his business!! 🥴 🐝
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Africanized bees?I see they showed up in your state about four years ago.
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Sounds like it from what I have read. Cyrus might take an antihistamine and watch him for symptoms like shortness of breath, dizziness, swelling, vomiting. Probably need a professional to deal with the hive.
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Or you might spray inside the hive tunnel at night. Don’t use a flashlight.
But your local folk might want to know they have arrived.
A bee keeper may want them but I don’t think they can capture an underground hive.
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OK, now that does sound serious.
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After the haircut, I will aim to get Abby into the car (stop laughing) and off to the dog park. If I can just get her there often enough — so she’ll associate the car with DOG PARK! — I think we can overcome the car phobia.
She’s such a sweet dog, but has these strange quirks that have been hard to overcome.
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Sounds like a good plan! Go, dog, go!
Mowing is very relaxing. I could do it all day if other things did not call me. All sorts of interesting things to see while out there.
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Mumsee – Do you use a riding mower or the kind you have to walk behind and push?
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Both. But mostly the walk behind has been relegated to the children for the challenging sections. I ride over about four acres.
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I have only used the weed eater a couple of times this year, the children enjoy that.
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We went to see Sound of Freedom this morning at 10 and got out around 1. It is a great film. If there is any chance to see it, please do. It out sold Indiana Jones on the 4th. Yes!
When we got home we found Miss Bosley had brought her ‘toy’ to the mat where I stand to wash dishes at the kitchen sink. She usually leaves it at the door when she misses me. So funny to find it at the mat. She is still full of funny surprises.
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I’ve never met her, but I love Miss Bosley!
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I miss Annie Oakley. 😦
I find watering the yard(s) very peaceful, it takes about an hour for both the front and back. Yes, I could use sprinklers (the hose kind, I don’t have any built-in), but I find a enjoy just hanging out, watering, saying hi to passers by with their kids and dogs, the occasional homeless person carting a bag of stuff …
OK, I’m acting silly now with Abby, spontaneously calling out DOG PARK! YAY! OH ABBY!
She just stares.
I’m going to say “dog park” like a gazillion times today on the ride and while we’re there and on the ride back, just try to get the words to connect in her head.
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Dj, if a Dog Park friend let their friendly dog get in your vehicle would that maybe encourage Abby to jump in afterward, forgetting herself and happy to have the other dog as company for a ride?
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It is sunny for a few hours, then overcast, and now I hear thunder with brightening skies. Sending mixed signals.
Our favorite Fox weather guy has been absent for a few weeks now. Miss him and wonder where he is these days.
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Janice, it might (4:22) and that’s why I wish I’d had a resident dog already here when I got Abby. Fosters told me she seemed to be a “follower” with things like the doggie door.
This is a new dog park so I don’t have regular contacts there yet, but plan to make some once we can establish a bit of a routine.
The other option will be calling the one trainer again to ask her if she could bring her dog over, maybe they can play a bit first (I don’t think Abby would be territorial about her backyard) and see if she’d follow her into my car.
For now, I’m focusing on establishing just an association (car = DOG PARK). So far, though, we’ve only been there once and she doesn’t yet recognize the words “dog park.” I am hoping taking her to the dog park maybe just a few times will get us over the hurdle.
I missed my favorite Fox program today, The Journal at noon (here) on Saturdays. Totally forgot about it and had a couple errands to run.
I think we all love Miss Bosley. Janice, I remember your reticence about taking her initially, so glad you did. 🙂
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Yes, very thankful to have her, but at times she causes unanticipated surprises. Last night, as always, she sat in Art’s chair just before he went yo sit down. He tried to sit on the edge of the seat but then I heard a big thump because he had missed and landed on the floor. That seat-stealing cat! She never takes his seat all day until he gets home.
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Husband stopped at the local fly in so the children got to get small plane rides for twenty minutes each, touring the area. Fun!
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Janice – I now know three women who took in cats “temporarily”, tried to find homes for them, and ended up keeping them after all.
You were first, then a Facebook friend had an injured cat show up on her property. She took the usual measures to see if someone was missing a cat, and then kept her to take care of her while she healed. She kept the cat isolated from her two dogs, thinking that the dogs would not welcome this interloper.
But as time went by, and no owner came forward, and no friend wanted a cat, she fell in love with her and decided to keep her. (I knew she would!) And the dogs were fine with her.
Recently, my friend Nadine was fostering two cats after the death of her beloved cat Sterling. Only fostering. Uh huh. As I read her Facebook posts about how sweet the two cats were, and saw all the cute photos, I knew what was gonna happen.
Nadine eventually announced that she had decided to keep the two sweeties herself. 🙂
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I picked several 5 gallon pails of weeds just from the row of peas and half a row of beans. Then I relaxed in my pool chair and read my book. Now Kootenay is napping in his crate, Duke is snoring on the floor and I’m about to have a nap.
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You deserve it, Kare. Snore with the best of them😃
Kizzie, it all too easy to become A Cat Lady! I am watching a lady photographer take and post FB photos of feral kittens in her neighborhood. I am smitten!
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Of the seven cats that I have had in my life, six of them were kitties who were from people needing to find homes (or new homes) for them. Only one of them did we buy on purpose. 🙂
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People buy cats? Currently have five and have had…a lot especially if you count all the kittens from those who arrived pregnant. But none have left with the ability to have kittens. And I have never purchased one.
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Our SPCA “Barn Buddy” cat always wants to be close to us. When we’re all sitting in the living room in the evening, reading or watching TV, he is just outside the front door lying on the table, pretending he’s part of our family (he is, but he needs to stay outside).
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I could easily bring in another cat as Abby is so cat-friendly.
A little worrisome with coyotes near by this season, but I’d keep the cat confined at first, of course, as I did with Annie Oakley. But on the up side, a cat may wind up “teaching” Abby to finally use the doggie door …
Dog park trip was fun, but Abby is still resisting the car. I met a nice couple at the dog park and the husband said he’d be able to get her into the car for me when it was time to leave, so rather than disturb my real estate friend who would have to put on his shoes and drive to the park, I took them up on the offer.
But Abby still looks freaked out at the “getting put in.” I hope this isn’t just making her trauma worse. But I think my next step needs to be calling the trainer to see if I can set up a home visit. We have to get over this hurdle somehow. Very strange.
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Good morning, all. A beautiful day here but I oopsed last night. It was warmer outside than in last night when I thought about it, forgot to open the windows when it cooled down. Seventy four in the living room this morning. It was seventy nine last night and we are expecting nineties outside. I may need to inflict the ac on my dad for his own well being!
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The weather was beautiful as we exited the church building. Sunny blue skies with puffy white clouds and a nice breeze, perfect! One of the ministry interns got to preach today, his first sermon before a congregation. He did an excellent job. We are continuing onward through the book of Acts.
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Miss Bosley did another thing this week we’d never seen before. Often she waits on the top step of the stairs going from the bedrooms and bathroom to the mid-level of our home. She is an obstacle on that step and likes to bat at our feet and legs from that vantage point. Art saw her roll over and then continue rolling unintentionally, all the way down the stairs. I wish we had a video. Glad she was not hurt in the tumble.
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Ex boyfriend once said cats appear to be made out of cartilage, not bones.
I got up late and wound up live-streaming today, my elder preached — he’s really so good in the pulpit. Soft-spoken, and thoughtful, preaches (and prays) with such depth.
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Only going up to 71 today, I’m wearing a sweatshirt in the house — supposed to warm up this week, however, and looks like even the coast will hit 79-80 next weekend.
We’ve had an incredibly mild summer so far, though I’m sure we’ll get a heat dome at some point; August-September are our hotter months typically.
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Hmm, some (more) land movement on our peninsula this weekend.
~ A massive landslide in Rolling Hills Estates this weekend forced 12 houses next to a canyon to be evacuated, officials said on Sunday, July 9, further underscoring the lurking danger of continually shifting earth on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
The “land shift,” as officials are calling it, occurred in a gated community on Peartree Lane. The shift became noticeable around 4 p.m. Saturday, residents and authorities in the area said. … ~
Much of where we live used to be under the Pacific Ocean a long, long time ago.
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Seen on Twitter:
~ Existential humility acknowledges the limits of our own wisdom. It renders liberty a necessity, not merely to safeguard our own beliefs but also to safeguard our access to other ideas and arguments that might help expose our own mistakes and shortcomings. ~
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One of the many reasons I like my view. I am not near the edge!
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I heard from my friend who said she’d found those horrid large yellow spiders at her place and has been kill8ng them. I thought the Arctic blast at the end of Dec. had put an end to them. I have yet to see them back in our yard. Now I will be more diligent in my looking out for them.
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It sounds like the Northern Lights will be seen in quite a few states.
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Kathaleena, yep:
~ For those who dream of witnessing the northern lights, an opportunity could present itself next week. The aurora borealis is expected to be visible over 17 U.S. states on Thursday, July 13.
The states that could potentially get a glimpse of this rare spectacle include Alaska, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Maine, Maryland, New York, New Hampshire, Washington, Vermont, Idaho, Massachusetts, Wyoming, and Indiana. ~
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Idaho . . . Mumsee’s house?
Peartree Lane is at the top of Crest–not near the ocean at all. Curious.
Resting. The Finns are at a pool party for another hour.
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Be there or be square.
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Michelle, apparently there is a report of the possibility of a water leak? We’ll know more this week, but friend said he looked the area up and saw some of the photos and it looked like there was certainly some damage done to structures.
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We may have more photos now, but initial one showed a garage that was leaning to one side precariously.
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That dolphin is a show off. Maybe it’s auditioning for Sea World.
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dolphins are such show-offs, happy creatures.
Ah, yes, much more damage through today in the updates, houses actually collapsing:
~ A massive landslide in Rolling Hills Estates this weekend destroyed 12 houses, officials said on Sunday, July 9, further underscoring the lurking danger of continually shifting earth on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
All the homes were evacuated by Saturday night. At least three of the houses, said Rolling Hills Estates Councilmember Frank Zerunyan, won’t make it through Sunday night — and will fall into the canyon below.
“It’s devastating,” Zerunyan said in a Sunday afternoon interview. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”
The “land shift,” as officials are calling it, occurred in a gated community on Peartree Lane.
Residents initially called the Los Angeles County Fire Department to report a water leak around 4 p.m. Saturday, Zerunyan said. When the firefighters arrived, they noticed cracks in the ground — and quickly realized the potential danger.
The county Fire Department ordered evacuations shortly after, multiple officials said.
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… It’s unclear what caused the landslide. But city officials will look at several possible causes, including the winter deluge and a sinkhole that recently developed less than a mile away, though a building official said the latter explanation is “probably not” the reason.
Either way, land movement on the coast has gone unabated for centuries.
That danger is particularly acute on the Peninsula, a picturesque and relatively rural area of Los Angeles County — as least compared to the rest of the region — that is known for its hiking trails, ocean-view lookouts and lush hillslides. …
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