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hollydolly said:
Just got back from town... it's much warmer than I thought it was.. a really glorious sunny day. I was going to just go and take photos of the local farmland on my way home , but I decided that maybe I'll wait for another day, and just came straight home instead


I will go in a little while and cut back the IVY over the shed.... it grows like crazy, so it's important to keep it cut back....and my gardener doesn't touch the IVY... he would if I asked him, but he'd charge me more money, so I do it myself...:D


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Wow, that's really beautiful, @hollydolly!
 

Left the house just after 5am, all was quiet in the neighborhood, didn’t hear or see any elk. Just less than 2 hours later I’m in the tree.

NW wind blowing a steady 12 mph gusting to ~20 mph. The temp dropped to 41F, as the wind carries the cold air down off the nearby mountain ridge tops. It’s the first hunt I can actually say that I’m cold.

All was quiet on my arrival at the parking spot. Hiked in to the river crossing and as I was putting on my rubber boots in the dark , an elk bugled about 50yds west of me. It’s pretty impressive to hear them that close!

There were a couple elk moving around in the vicinity of my tree, so after re changing boots I covered my face and hands and hunted my way to the tree.

The season closes a week from yesterday so I have a few more hunts left. The last 2 days might be rainy so that’ll hopefully be a stimulus for elk activity.
 

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This morning, moved the fold-away couch back from my carport back into my living room that now has a mild lemongrass oil smell, though much less than yesterday while drying. An uncommon tropical system has moved up our coast to the south in Central California, creating thunderstorms with much lightning in the Santa Lucia Range and Monterey. Forecast shows we are just likely to receive a few light showers. After the coming weekend, a much more serious cold front is forecast to move through the region. For some photography, I may drive over to the east side of the Sierra Nevada where quaking aspen groves are now in fall leaf color as snow is forecast above 8000 feet.
 
After a couple weeks of short nights (not being able to fall asleep soon enough), I finally got a great night's sleep. I felt so good I put the bedding in to wash and started the dishwasher. Then I was wiping down the kitchen and found that there is (apparently) no way to wipe lightly enough to not confuse the dishwasher, so now it has had to be started over from the beginning.

And the comforter flopped itself over the center water spray thingy in the washing machine and I couldn't tell if it got washed everywhere, so it is running thru another wash load (this time on the 15 minute 'quick' cycle instead of the hour long 'bulky' cycle). I'm pretty sure the washer is going to get 'off balance' so I'm sitting and listening, waiting to hear bang bang sounds.

Kind makes me wish I hadn't gotten enough sleep and didn't try to clean! :D
 
My younger daughter and I went to see The Conjuring: Last Rites last night and had a great time. We got there early and chatted for awhile.

We got a huge laugh out of an unwitting mistake I made. When we were ordering our snacks (which had the usual outrageous prices, but I always indulge because I so rarely go to movies), I ordered popcorn. The girl asked me if I wanted "salt in the middle."

Umm. I said "OK," not entirely sure what she meant. All the concession vendors were racing around, or I would have asked.

So she plunked the half-full popcorn container down on the counter in front of me and scooted off to get the soda and my daughter's Icee. My daughter and I exchanged glances as if to say "Is that it?" The container was a tub, and I'd been expecting a much smaller container, so I thought maybe they'd just run out of the smaller containers.

The concession girl came back, grabbed it and filled it to the top, and said "OK—you can put the rest of the salt on top now." Apparently I was supposed to salt the middle part myself! It was just then that we noticed the salt cellar, nearly hidden behind the napkin dispenser and straw dispenser. So I hurriedly shook some salt on, not wanting completely un-salted popcorn.

We laughed about it all night. Apparently this is the procedure now at theaters? I had no idea. :ROFLMAO: And my younger daughter doesn't care for popcorn, so she never orders it.

It may sound dumb as I've described it here, but at the time we found it quite funny, although I did feel a little foolish.
 
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The saga continues... Test drove my new (to me) car this morning and it's everything I hope it'd be. Now I have have to wait a week for to to be put through the mill to get 'Approved Used Honda" status which means I get 12 months warranty. I stuck my lip out so they've given me a brand new Honda Jazz Hybrid to play with while I wait. It's a very nice little car!

Tomorrow we drive down to the old home town to have Mum's ashes intered at the family church and meet up with relatives that couldn't travel up here for the funeral. Another step to closure. Just need Probate to come through so we can sell her appartment and share her estate according to her Will. Then we can move on - I hope.
 
hollydolly said:
@horseless carriage ..last year when I was in Dorset, I drove through Lyndhurst, it is very beautiful, but very tiny... and being July the roads were very busy with traffic, so I didn't stop, but I wish I had been able to.
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What an evening, just wonderful. The birthday boy and all his guests had a table set up for just over twenty of us, the tables were joined in one long continual form, allowing all twenty-two of us to sit facing one another.
Entertaining us was veteran singer Simon Lane. He sang a range of hits of the era from the end of WW2 up to the Sixties popular music explosion. Crooning songs like: "Blue Moon," to heartpounding Rock & Roll: "Great Balls of Fire!"
He even kindly sang a special slowish song that allowed my lady onto the makeshift dance floor for a more genteel Rumba. What a great evening, I do hope that we can do it again, soon.
 
There used to be an Office Depot nearby. I could run up there and grab what I needed. yesterday I had to go to a Staples in another town for printer ink. They were out of a lot of it. The guy gave me some with a different number. He said it should work. Well it didn't.
Today a different guy said we will have to order it. Just then a miricle occured and they found one more. It took me about 7 days to get one page printed because when I ordered online they sent the wrong thing. I preferred it when stores were handy and well stocked.
 
Babs2u said:
There used to be an Office Depot nearby. I could run up there and grab what I needed. yesterday I had to go to a Staples in another town for printer ink. They were out of a lot of it. The guy gave me some with a different number. He said it should work. Well it didn't.
Today a different guy said we will have to order it. Just then a miricle occured and they found one more. It took me about 7 days to get one page printed because when I ordered online they sent the wrong thing. I preferred it when stores were handy and well stocked.
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we don't even have staples any more they all closed down a few years ago. I used to love wandering around among all the stationery .. now that my printer has broken down if I want to get something printed I have to drive to the library in the next town
 
Hollydolly, buy a new printer with cartridges installed - it's cheaper than buying printer ink :eek:. I could do with a new printer too. My current one works fine as a printer, but the copy and scan functions have stopped working.

We're off for a couple of days in the camper. The weather is changing and soon it will be the end of the season for many of the campsites here.
 
Morning all folks!! Up at 6am, bed at 10;pm so thats pretty
good.....didn't do a heck of a lot yesterday....seems hard to
get motivated and energetic these days, oh well...neighbor
is blasting his radio again, begins early was on when I woke,,
it is some sort of talk radio, sounds pretty angry and militant to
me....I could do without it....got to call for doc app't to find
about my brain & MY copd cause breathing is tuff these
days.....I chickened out and turned the heat on for a bit this
morning....a friend called yest and told me she would not
be avail for rides to doc's for awhile, it seems she took a
fall and landed directly on her face, thereby breaking her
Nose !!!! So she's all black/blue/swollen....poor lady, sez
she will have surgery to repair her nose next week...dang...
So you all behave and don't fall LOL......;):cool::coffee::love::devilish:
 
@hawkdon...don't you fall, either! Gosh, you had your heat on? I can only dream of the day when mine goes back on. By next week, though, our daytime temps will be only in the low 80s and nighttime temps will be down into the 50s. There's hope!

The weathernerds are promising rain all day. Yippee. They said rain last night and it really did rain so maybe they aren't lying about rain today.

It's laundry day, and I've already started it. With a little luck, it'll be washed, dried, folded and put away before I leave to go to the city later this morning.

Today is DS1's 64th birthday. Imagine. Next year he'll be eligible for Medicare:oops:

DS's birthday, and he's making lunch for me:): green enchiladas, rice, beans, guacamole.
 
Good morning, everyone. It is sunny but hot later today with showers predicted again but it hasn't happened yet, this week. Atlantic storms are getting more organized so have to keep a watch out on them.

Lucky me, I have 4 free tickets this week for the Florida lottery. I just can't get a win for money, it seems. My husband wants to play with hopes of winning a big one. I am not as keen on it but play a low amount of money each week.

@hawkdon, please take care of yourself and I hope you can get the doctor's visits soon and a ride to the offices.

Enjoy your day, everyone. :)
 
Capt Lightning said:
Hollydolly, buy a new printer with cartridges installed - it's cheaper than buying printer ink :eek:. I could do with a new printer too. My current one works fine as a printer, but the copy and scan functions have stopped working.

We're off for a couple of days in the camper. The weather is changing and soon it will be the end of the season for many of the campsites here.
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I would and I have searched for a new cheapie one.. like the Canon I have and other makes , but all the reviews say what a Pain they are to set up.. and I'm not techi, so I don't want to buy something and have it sit there like a white elephants because I can't get it set up....my X who was/is very technically minded was the one who set the last one up...
 
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hawkdon said:
Morning all folks!! Up at 6am, bed at 10;pm so thats pretty
good.....didn't do a heck of a lot yesterday....seems hard to
get motivated and energetic these days, oh well...neighbor
is blasting his radio again, begins early was on when I woke,,
it is some sort of talk radio, sounds pretty angry and militant to
me....I could do without it....got to call for doc app't to find
about my brain & MY copd cause breathing is tuff these
days.....I chickened out and turned the heat on for a bit this
morning....a friend called yest and told me she would not
be avail for rides to doc's for awhile, it seems she took a
fall and landed directly on her face, thereby breaking her
Nose !!!! So she's all black/blue/swollen....poor lady, sez
she will have surgery to repair her nose next week...dang...
So you all behave and don't fall LOL......;):cool::coffee::love::devilish:
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Question @hawkdon, how you getting to doc then? Inquiring minds want to know, cause we care 💜
 
Morning all, as I went on my early walk at 6:45,wore my yellow reflector vest as it was cloudy temp was 65 as I went around the complex 2 times before breakfast
My friend Mary picking me up at 10 for our weekly 'road trip' today need to go to the bank,then ck out another $ store. She told me the one we usually go to the prices are now $1.50
The rest of my day read NYT, my book. I've made dinner reservations for 5:30 tonight invited 3 church friends for dinner, they all have been here for lunch never dinner. I told Connie the other day I wouldn't; be joining her& the guys,who knows we may be sitting next to them LOL!
Enjoy your day every one
 
It's a glorious sunny,🌞🌞🌞 and warm day./ altho' quite breezy. In the garden it's really warm, I should have waited until today to cut back the Ivy instead of yesterday...

I thought of going out and getting some local late summer photos as those of you who've been here a long time know I do every season.. but I was out yesterday and the day before... and I'm out again tomorrow.. so I'm gonna give myself a minute to just gather myself. My hand hurts more curretly due to the driving....

Tomorrow at long last I have the physotherapy, which is paid for by the Insurance company....

Have the best day you can Peeps of SF... 🌸🌸🌸
 
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