What a fun photo for a Saturday. Great shot!
Prayers for CA before the rains do their thing.
We have been pretty slammed this summer with the wind and rains, trees down, and power outages.
Yesterday a Bible study friend had to take down a tremendous old split tree. It involved three tree companies, one with a crane. She got a great photo of a man dangling from the crane wire up in the sky.
Yikes! That must have been quite the sight, Janice. I imagine all that was to avoid buildings etc.
What an interesting creation are the animals on this earth! I have a picture of a loon on one calendar and the design on it just amazes me. That design is so beautiful on so many birds all over the world. Fun to see.
We will be thankful to get a portion of the rain from Dj storm. The fire danger is high here. I worked this week on preparing a to go bag for evacuation.
Morning! Aw…an embarrassed duck…all flushed in the face!
Warm here until mid week next week then we are to get cooler temps with rain!
I am heading to the HOA meeting….who knows what will happen there? I am in hopes they will be truthful and more transparent than has been their norm…I’m there to ask uncomfortable questions and they do not like that so much. However, if they are extracting thousands of dollars from homeowners I will be there to ask “those” questions so their answers will be on record….
Good morning all. A beautiful cooler day here. Sixty five headed to eighty five and then seventies with rain and thunderstorms for a few before heading back to eighties.
Son in law took the small ones camping. Should be back today.
I had a pleasant breakfast at Chick-fil-A with the lady I will work with on this new missions outreach at church. So nice to again be more involved hands-on at church. Great to make new friends, too.
With everyone currently gone, I’m wandering the house from room to room, carrying books to read.
This is the first time in nearly 44 years I’ve been left totally alone for a period of time longer than an overnight.
ALL the leftovers are MINE! The WHOLE bed is MINE! I can watch anything I want, go anywhere I want, eat anything I want and no one will care (or at least know).
My Precious, this is AMAZING.
Except, I’m taking cookies to a funeral in a bit, muffins for a goodbye tomorrow, entertaining house cleaners, and trying to empty my email.
Well, I suppose I should do *something* around here today to prepare for the potential heavy rains and winds.
I spent all day yesterday writing up a storm (haha) about all of this, how to prepare, what to expect, what the 1939 storm was like, that I woke up this morning thinking, Oh, I suppose I should start to think about what I need to do around here.
Friend suggested I probably should secure the front porch furniture and get loose things wrangled from the backyard. Good points.
Home Depot will be pretty busy today.
Tomorrow morning I’ll get the windows all closed up, hoping no glass breaks.
I’m not in an area prone to flooding (though some of those areas aren’t far from me). The beach and direct coastal areas will likely take some hard hits, I’d expect some very high surf with all of this.
I called my cousin a little while ago and she and a friend were headed over to Paramount Studios today — seems her “financial people” (wouldn’t it be nice to have financial people?) treat their clients to ‘fun days’ and pay for special outings.
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Well, it’s Saturday and that’s always good.
NJ, I see, is heading into battle with the HOA. And Jo is preparing to be ready to flee potential disasters up where she is (hope you get some of this moisture!).
I told a friend at church last night that I was planning to be there tomorrow as this storm isn’t expected to arrive until afternoon, but we’ll see how things look in the morning. Could be a crazy day.
And then the power outage possibilities along with everything else, of course.
But my little Jeep should get nice and clean! And the yard with the Charlie Browns nicely watered. But there will also be mud …
Fill a couple pitchers of water and put them in the refrigerator, DJ.
Fill every container you have room for and put them in the freezer to make ice (it will cool you food for a few days, possibly saving your frozen food, and then you can drink it if it melts).
Cook items in your refrigerator you can eat.
Fill the bathtub with water.
Make sure you have gas–though given where you live, you probably don’t have to go anywhere. If you’re evacuated, life as we know it over and we should for Noah to flat by with a life boat.
Charge everything, including any auxiliary batteries. If worried about your roof, put your photos/photo albums in your dryer. Rain won’t get in there.
Been here, done this, too many times. I could go on . . .
~ Direct hits by hurricanes to California are rare for a variety of reasons, including tropical systems that form in the Northern Hemisphere generally travel west or northwest because of the Earth’s rotation, according to the NWS.
Eastern Pacific hurricanes are born in the waters off the coast of southern Mexico and Central America, so to reach California, they’d have to veer north to an unusual extent.
Also, storms need warm water to give them the energy to transition into hurricanes, and the Pacific Ocean off California is about 10 degrees colder than the waters in Mexico, according to the NWS. ~
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It’s some consolation, but yes, there are always nature’s exceptions to the rule.
I know my trash bins will be tossed onto the driveway, that’s a given and something that happens with all winds around here.
I now know why dad gave me a daughter and son fifty and forty eight years younger than me. Without their help, I could never keep up with my dad. Three straight hours of corn hole today.
HOA meeting only lasted 45 minutes and only 3 homeowners attended with 4 board members. The secretary was on vacation which was good!
I didn’t need to ask those uncomfortable questions because the other two homeowners asked them first! Beforehand I had asked the Lord to keep a close watch on my lips and for me to have a listening ear to His leading!
Wow I could go to Michelle’s house that would be great
I was feeling frustrated as I haven’t hung the pictures that I had framed, but now I will just put them in a box ready for an evacuation. Problem solved
I don’t generally spend a great deal of time in court rooms other than the eleven adoptions, but I plan to be there four days in the next few weeks. Three days in support of the grandchildren and son in law. One day to watch twenty two in her effort to end the guardianship. May God be glorified.
I am so thankful for the timely and large amounts of rain we have had this year. We haven’t really had any fire danger at all this summer – unlike the far north of the province and the southern half.
Praying for all those in the paths of fire and hurricanes. We have family in Kelowna, BC that have been notified to be ready to leave with an hour’s notice.
Today is the last week of camp!!! I am so looking forward to an easy week and then a bit of a break with working from home next week (and less than half the hours!). Please pray for the Senior Teens (14 – 17 year olds)
Prayers, mumsee, a lot going on for you right now.
The update here is … well, rain. But we knew that would be what today looked like.
We hardly ever get rain in the summertime so this is very rare! We’re getting frequent electronic “flash flood” alerts, but the worst of the rain isn’t arriving for us until mid- to late-afternoon. It’s been raining all day, however, light to medium rainfall
Originally I planned to go to church this morning but decided the fewer people on the road the better since rain already had begun when I got up.
I spent a couple hours yesterday afternoon at our park across the street from the south-facing ocean, a favorite spot for all of us in town, Catalina in center view, but it was quite foggy yesterday. I was heading for Home Depot but made a spontaneous stop there as I was driving by to check out what is a new off-leash park for dogs, ran into the British woman, a retired fundraiser, who started it during the pandemic (we’d talked by phone back then but I was so busy with port coverage — and she also was reticent about the park getting too much attention as it was so new and done through the city on the down-low — that I never did get around to doing anything on it.
And walking Abby later in the day, at around 7 p.m., I heard one neighbor talking to another who said it felt like the “calm before the storm.”
Not much wind with this system for us, thankfully, so those worries aren’t there.
I need to check in with my friend out in the desert, the were supposed to get more of the brunt of this there, along with the mountains.
The rain is coming down harder now, with some wind also now. Quite a water flow in the street in front of my house, and the canyon next to my neighbors’ (where the coyotes are seen) probably is running with water now, too (it’s normally dry)
We’ve also had an earthquake now. But they insist no tsunami is coming.
More rain expected in the next several hours, I’d gone out to pull neighbor’s recycling bin up from the street where it had fallen (and was a hazard for passing cars) — only took a few minutes but I was soaked by the time I came back in. Some evacuations going on in the mountains and other areas east of here.
Folks from elsewhere don’t realize what a strange post that was for Dj. We do not get rain this time of the year. We are lucky to even see clouds.
We had wind bursts here last night. No rain yet. Hoping to lessen the fire danger
It’s 88° at 7 p.m. I walked in the driveway in the shade. Humidity is not too bad so I walked for longer than I thought I would while listening to Amazing Grace. I have two more hours left in the book.
I had sought advice on one of my home projects, but did not get a response (mom friend asked her out of town contractor son who did not respond). I had hoped for knowlegeable advice, but will have to put more thought into it. I also did not hear back from a referral on another project.
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Good morning and G’day!
What a fun photo for a Saturday. Great shot!
Prayers for CA before the rains do their thing.
We have been pretty slammed this summer with the wind and rains, trees down, and power outages.
Yesterday a Bible study friend had to take down a tremendous old split tree. It involved three tree companies, one with a crane. She got a great photo of a man dangling from the crane wire up in the sky.
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Yikes! That must have been quite the sight, Janice. I imagine all that was to avoid buildings etc.
What an interesting creation are the animals on this earth! I have a picture of a loon on one calendar and the design on it just amazes me. That design is so beautiful on so many birds all over the world. Fun to see.
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Although, this one seems to be saying, “What are you looking at!”
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Duck, goose, or some other fowl? The beak looks like a dog’s snout, including an eye.
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We will be thankful to get a portion of the rain from Dj storm. The fire danger is high here. I worked this week on preparing a to go bag for evacuation.
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Morning! Aw…an embarrassed duck…all flushed in the face!
Warm here until mid week next week then we are to get cooler temps with rain!
I am heading to the HOA meeting….who knows what will happen there? I am in hopes they will be truthful and more transparent than has been their norm…I’m there to ask uncomfortable questions and they do not like that so much. However, if they are extracting thousands of dollars from homeowners I will be there to ask “those” questions so their answers will be on record….
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Good morning all. A beautiful cooler day here. Sixty five headed to eighty five and then seventies with rain and thunderstorms for a few before heading back to eighties.
Son in law took the small ones camping. Should be back today.
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You can always come here, Jo. We have room. 🙂
Assuming we’re not fleeing either, of course. Sigh.
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I had a pleasant breakfast at Chick-fil-A with the lady I will work with on this new missions outreach at church. So nice to again be more involved hands-on at church. Great to make new friends, too.
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With everyone currently gone, I’m wandering the house from room to room, carrying books to read.
This is the first time in nearly 44 years I’ve been left totally alone for a period of time longer than an overnight.
ALL the leftovers are MINE! The WHOLE bed is MINE! I can watch anything I want, go anywhere I want, eat anything I want and no one will care (or at least know).
My Precious, this is AMAZING.
Except, I’m taking cookies to a funeral in a bit, muffins for a goodbye tomorrow, entertaining house cleaners, and trying to empty my email.
Still . . .
what movie should I watch tonight???????
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Well, I suppose I should do *something* around here today to prepare for the potential heavy rains and winds.
I spent all day yesterday writing up a storm (haha) about all of this, how to prepare, what to expect, what the 1939 storm was like, that I woke up this morning thinking, Oh, I suppose I should start to think about what I need to do around here.
Friend suggested I probably should secure the front porch furniture and get loose things wrangled from the backyard. Good points.
Home Depot will be pretty busy today.
Tomorrow morning I’ll get the windows all closed up, hoping no glass breaks.
I’m not in an area prone to flooding (though some of those areas aren’t far from me). The beach and direct coastal areas will likely take some hard hits, I’d expect some very high surf with all of this.
I called my cousin a little while ago and she and a friend were headed over to Paramount Studios today — seems her “financial people” (wouldn’t it be nice to have financial people?) treat their clients to ‘fun days’ and pay for special outings.
_________
Well, it’s Saturday and that’s always good.
NJ, I see, is heading into battle with the HOA. And Jo is preparing to be ready to flee potential disasters up where she is (hope you get some of this moisture!).
I told a friend at church last night that I was planning to be there tomorrow as this storm isn’t expected to arrive until afternoon, but we’ll see how things look in the morning. Could be a crazy day.
And then the power outage possibilities along with everything else, of course.
But my little Jeep should get nice and clean! And the yard with the Charlie Browns nicely watered. But there will also be mud …
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OK, I need coffee. First things first.
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Fill a couple pitchers of water and put them in the refrigerator, DJ.
Fill every container you have room for and put them in the freezer to make ice (it will cool you food for a few days, possibly saving your frozen food, and then you can drink it if it melts).
Cook items in your refrigerator you can eat.
Fill the bathtub with water.
Make sure you have gas–though given where you live, you probably don’t have to go anywhere. If you’re evacuated, life as we know it over and we should for Noah to flat by with a life boat.
Charge everything, including any auxiliary batteries. If worried about your roof, put your photos/photo albums in your dryer. Rain won’t get in there.
Been here, done this, too many times. I could go on . . .
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What?
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Going to need some more coffee.
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~ Direct hits by hurricanes to California are rare for a variety of reasons, including tropical systems that form in the Northern Hemisphere generally travel west or northwest because of the Earth’s rotation, according to the NWS.
Eastern Pacific hurricanes are born in the waters off the coast of southern Mexico and Central America, so to reach California, they’d have to veer north to an unusual extent.
Also, storms need warm water to give them the energy to transition into hurricanes, and the Pacific Ocean off California is about 10 degrees colder than the waters in Mexico, according to the NWS. ~
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It’s some consolation, but yes, there are always nature’s exceptions to the rule.
I know my trash bins will be tossed onto the driveway, that’s a given and something that happens with all winds around here.
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For those who don’t read the news thread, I just put this humorous quote there, and thought you might get a laugh out of it, too.
LOL!
“We’ve been protecting South Dakota from Canada for 134 years, and we never get any credit for that, ever.” ~ North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum
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I now know why dad gave me a daughter and son fifty and forty eight years younger than me. Without their help, I could never keep up with my dad. Three straight hours of corn hole today.
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Wow! That is a large span of years between siblings!
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Leave the trash cans lying down and then they won’t blow/roll away.
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Just cleaned the garage–and now I have three boxes of papers to review/scan, then . . . is it possible . . . toss?
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Ah, SOL, I’d already thought of that earlier today! (lying the trash cans down on their sides)
And I topped off the gas tank.
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It has been a warm one around here today!
HOA meeting only lasted 45 minutes and only 3 homeowners attended with 4 board members. The secretary was on vacation which was good!
I didn’t need to ask those uncomfortable questions because the other two homeowners asked them first! Beforehand I had asked the Lord to keep a close watch on my lips and for me to have a listening ear to His leading!
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Sometimes I make no sense when I speak. God gave me my children, not my dad. My dad plays corn hole. It has greatly improved his balance.
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Thanks for clearing up my confusion, Mumsee
Wow I could go to Michelle’s house that would be great
I was feeling frustrated as I haven’t hung the pictures that I had framed, but now I will just put them in a box ready for an evacuation. Problem solved
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We are starting the day at 70° but gearing up for the heat dome today.
The Parenting seminar was at my church this weekend. The speaker from that will be doing the sermon today. Should be vrry good.
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Mumsee, I thought you had forgotten to capitalize Dad as another way of saying Father in Heaven😀
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Morning! 53 degrees and humid! Not so accustomed to thick moist air!
Mr big black bear visited us this morning…he is a beauty and oh so fat!
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Good morning, all. Rough night.
I don’t generally spend a great deal of time in court rooms other than the eleven adoptions, but I plan to be there four days in the next few weeks. Three days in support of the grandchildren and son in law. One day to watch twenty two in her effort to end the guardianship. May God be glorified.
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Covering you in prayer Mumsee…may He be glorified indeed!!❣️
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I am so thankful for the timely and large amounts of rain we have had this year. We haven’t really had any fire danger at all this summer – unlike the far north of the province and the southern half.
Praying for all those in the paths of fire and hurricanes. We have family in Kelowna, BC that have been notified to be ready to leave with an hour’s notice.
Today is the last week of camp!!! I am so looking forward to an easy week and then a bit of a break with working from home next week (and less than half the hours!). Please pray for the Senior Teens (14 – 17 year olds)
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Praying, Mumsee🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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Prayers, mumsee, a lot going on for you right now.
The update here is … well, rain. But we knew that would be what today looked like.
We hardly ever get rain in the summertime so this is very rare! We’re getting frequent electronic “flash flood” alerts, but the worst of the rain isn’t arriving for us until mid- to late-afternoon. It’s been raining all day, however, light to medium rainfall
Originally I planned to go to church this morning but decided the fewer people on the road the better since rain already had begun when I got up.
I spent a couple hours yesterday afternoon at our park across the street from the south-facing ocean, a favorite spot for all of us in town, Catalina in center view, but it was quite foggy yesterday. I was heading for Home Depot but made a spontaneous stop there as I was driving by to check out what is a new off-leash park for dogs, ran into the British woman, a retired fundraiser, who started it during the pandemic (we’d talked by phone back then but I was so busy with port coverage — and she also was reticent about the park getting too much attention as it was so new and done through the city on the down-low — that I never did get around to doing anything on it.
And walking Abby later in the day, at around 7 p.m., I heard one neighbor talking to another who said it felt like the “calm before the storm.”
Not much wind with this system for us, thankfully, so those worries aren’t there.
I need to check in with my friend out in the desert, the were supposed to get more of the brunt of this there, along with the mountains.
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It looks very uncertain up here, 400 miles from DJ, and I’d like to hunker down and do nothing . . . but, well, I could use a walk . . . LOL
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The rain is coming down harder now, with some wind also now. Quite a water flow in the street in front of my house, and the canyon next to my neighbors’ (where the coyotes are seen) probably is running with water now, too (it’s normally dry)
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We’ve also had an earthquake now. But they insist no tsunami is coming.
More rain expected in the next several hours, I’d gone out to pull neighbor’s recycling bin up from the street where it had fallen (and was a hazard for passing cars) — only took a few minutes but I was soaked by the time I came back in. Some evacuations going on in the mountains and other areas east of here.
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Folks from elsewhere don’t realize what a strange post that was for Dj. We do not get rain this time of the year. We are lucky to even see clouds.
We had wind bursts here last night. No rain yet. Hoping to lessen the fire danger
I went out and did some leaf blowing
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It’s 88° at 7 p.m. I walked in the driveway in the shade. Humidity is not too bad so I walked for longer than I thought I would while listening to Amazing Grace. I have two more hours left in the book.
I had sought advice on one of my home projects, but did not get a response (mom friend asked her out of town contractor son who did not respond). I had hoped for knowlegeable advice, but will have to put more thought into it. I also did not hear back from a referral on another project.
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