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@hollydolly Publix is a big grocery store in the South in America. Instacart is a program you sign up with to have deliveries from many stores. We pay $9.99 a month. Of course, you wouldn't know. Thanks for the hugs.

I figured out how to get back on the store I was locked out, so I guess it is good now.
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Thanks for the explanation Rae..... (y) You pay $9.99 a month for supermarket grocery deliveries ?....wow !... ours costs as little as £4.99 per month... as long as we have deliveries after 3pm....

...and if we want a superfast delivery in less than an hour... it costs £1.99 as long as we spend £15..or more...
 
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Left: With two 4-wheel-drive SUV's, my daughter and friends were camping in the boondocks of the Death Valley National Park
that is surrounded by high mountain ranges. When the weather forecast called for new snow in the mountains, they decided to
come home while the mountain passes were still open. This picture was taken by a drone, copied from an iPhone and cropped.
They made it out in the last minute and drove home in 6 hours. Right: The first of 3 storms gave our house 1.2" of rain, bringing
the total for this rain season to 7.1" which guarantees a drought free year. I am living where the white arrow tip is pointing.

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Just another picture of our garden. BTW, yesterday I had my regular dental check-up, and today I'll have a skin cancer check-up.

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Left: At sunrise, I let the pups out to do their morning business. Of course, they also play. Then breakfast, and afterwards
we'll go on our daily one-hour morning hike. Right: Our hawk-in-residence. I just saw another hawk. Will they build a nest?

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Your plants and pups look happy, the hawk too. Glad the young ones made it out okay. We got a lot of rain in the Bay Area yesterday too - all day. Oddly it was bitterly cold (by our standards) as well as wet. In what I expected to be a lull (but it never came) I walked Ember around the block, through the park and back home. We even passed one dog off leash but when I took her off lead she just looked miserablely cold and wet. With her short fur it wasn't any fun. So I brought her home, toweled her off and let her upstairs onto my bed. Didn't complain about being house bound after that.
 
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We had 2 nights of snow after a ~45 day drought, the first night was 10" and last night 8" so there were 2 powder days. Only got to ski today though, yesterday I trained and we brought the camper to storage finally. It's been at the shop to add batteries and a diesel heater so we'll be further testing my wife's tolerance of spring and mid-late fall camping.

Today I get in the line up 20 mins before t time and it turns out the lift that goes to the top was out of service for an undetermined amount of time so we all pile into the gondola line. I don't like riding the gondola for a number of reasons. Anyway that costs about 10-12 extra minutes, but I was able to turn lemons into lemonade.

The ski area typically has a staggered with the avalanche prone areas being last to open on powder days to allow for avalanche mitigation. The rope was just about to drop into The Bowls so I buckled up and got in there and had 2 great runs. It's so nice when the powder absorbs all the energy, smearing it around like butter. Made a 3rd run in some gentler terrain and then the light went away and the President's Day week crowd hit hard. There were many out of control 14-17 yo boys and they scare the crap out me so I beat it out of there.

Glad to hear of the SoCal rains, flowers are blooming like crazy and it should be an outstanding bloom this spring, but sad to hear of the Tahoe avalanche victims.........Shiffrin wins Gold in the Slalom!!!
 
Per earlier posts this week, had expected today to either be photographing in Yosemite Valley or skiing fresh snow at Dodge Ridge. A huge load of carefully assembled cold weather gear has been sitting in front of my front door ready to be moved into the Trailblazer. But pulled the plug on those ideas after assessing last minute weather updates that has turned out to be wise as there was so much snow, any skiing would have been very limited, not worth the long drive in foul weather and Yosemite Valley has been in turmoil over the holiday weekend given the El Capitan Firefall phenomenon that is huge on social media causing grid lock.

https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/yosemite-national-park-holiday-mess-21360563.php

Will wait till next midweek for any Tahoe skiing as another forecast but not as large post weekend storm wanes. Thus, may drive up to YV for Friday morning when the first at least partially sunny day is forecast.

In the mean time, unexpectedly now at home, see there is a great local hard rock band playing for free at 6pm this evening just a short 6 miles away! Yes, mr dave after several quiet days recovering at home, will be out having 2 much fun once again, solo freestyle rock dancing in about 3+ hours. A band called Kid Dynamite that includes 2 members that used to back The Steve Miller Band when I often saw them in the 1970s. Wish some of you SF gals could join me.

Am going to make a point to ask them directly if they ever played the below instrumental that was released in 1968 before they backed Miller. They actually played it at Fillmore West in concert. Somehow managed to mic for the intro, the now long dismantled Golden Gate Bridge foghorn. Amazing recording for anyone using large hi fi bass speakers:

The Steve Miller Band
Song For Our Ancestors
 
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It's coming up to 10.30pm... it's been raining again..sleeting... basically non stop since about 5pm.. and apparently more to come tomorrow.. what with the dark, high winds and the heavy rain...I'm glad I didn't have to go anywhere this evening...

It's been really cold as well which is not usual when it's raining.. but the temps dropped down to 13c in the house and I just couldn't get warm so I put the heating on... and it took about 2 hours for it to actually warm a little bit to now which is 19..deg c...but it felt really horribly cold for a while even tho; I have 3 layers on... The michelin Man would be proud ! :ROFLMAO:

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Morning all,when I woke up at 6:25, temp was 32, decided not to go on usual early walk due to black ice on driveway/ sidewalk.I'll go on walk later when its warmer
My plans today, friend Mary picking me up at 9:30 this week's 'road trip' to local grocery store 'Wegman's need couple items
The rest of my day read today's NYT, my book. I'm having dinner in dining room at 5:30 with the guys, our weekly get together
Everybody have a good day
 
I've been away from this thread for awhile (been feeling very down lately), and now I see I have 7 pages of posts to catch up on. 🙂

We are back to 40-mph (64-km/h) winds and –20 (–29 C) wind chills. By this time of year, it gets depressing. I don't mind winter weather, but by mid-February I am over it. And yet spring never comes to this state until about late April.

I signed up for a local series of foreign/avant garde movies, the kind that come to most normal cities but not to the vast wasteland that is North Dakota. I'm not sure I want to brave the wind and temperatures to go out today, though.

Gosh, I sound like a grouch. I'm trying to think of something positive to say.😄 I do have a lot of work, so I guess I'd better get to it!
 
KSav said:
I've been away from this thread for awhile (been feeling very down lately), and now I see I have 7 pages of posts to catch up on. 🙂

We are back to 40-mph (64-km/h) winds and –20 (–29 C) wind chills. By this time of year, it gets depressing. I don't mind winter weather, but by mid-February I am over it. And yet spring never comes to this state until about late April.

I signed up for a local series of foreign/avant garde movies, the kind that come to most normal cities but not to the vast wasteland that is North Dakota. I'm not sure I want to brave the wind and temperatures to go out today, though.

Gosh, I sound like a grouch. I'm trying to think of something positive to say.😄 I do have a lot of work, so I guess I'd better get to it!
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the beauty of this thread or any thread on the forum is we can visit when we wish.. and we'll still be here... with no judgements... ((( feel better soon)))..and don't worry if you want to grouch, feel free to do so.. we all.. do it.. we can't be up 100% of the time.. that's not real life... 🤗
 
G'afternoon peeps of SF... 🙋‍♀️


if I tell you it's raining will you believe me ?...*sigh*...yes it's raining again for the millionth time.. just unbelievable.. someone needs to tell Mother Nature that we live in the south not the dreary wet north, lol

I have to tell you I had the weirdest dream last night... I dreamt the X shot himself... in our place in Spain, only it wasn;t our Casa, that we own ... but an apartment block..somewhere in Spain but in my dream it's where we lived ... .... and I had been asleep and not heard the shot, even tho' it would have reverberated very loudly in the stairwell of the block where he killed himself... and so I couldn't work out why he did it.. it didn't make any sense.. ..and throughout the dream I couldn't work out why he did it..and I couldn't ask him because in Spain they cremate the dead within 24 hours...

Then some time later I met with a guy I knew..an old aquaintance, and I told him that X had died and that I understood he knew him..because that's what X had told me... and to my surprise he said he barely knew him... but him and his wife thought that my X was a bit of a strange person.. and that they had read about his death in the papers...

However the weird thing about the dream is... that this friend of mine Sam...in real life so to speak has been dead for about 15 years !! :unsure:

I just don't know why I get these weird , and unsettling dreams of late !
 
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Rae said:
@hollydolly I have such weird dreams about the past and people that have died and the strangest experiences in my dreams with them. Some I remember and others I don't.

I suppose you dream about your X as he comes into your mind at times when awake. I hope it ends with more pleasant dreams, soon. 🤗
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thanks Rae...the problem is my X is not dead... he's not shot himself in the head or anywhere ..... we have a 4 storey Casa... in Spain..not an apartment....

..and why Sam would have come into my dreams at all..I have no idea.. he was just barely a friend.. really just an aquaintance in the pub... who lived in my road...:unsure:

However all that said.. jusst to sound very maudlin' which I'm not...a lot of my dream are predictive, so who knows what might happen...

..but it would be nice for a change to have pleasant dreams lol
 
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@MarkD Your beloved Freesia flowers (left picture) are indeed wonderful; but have you ever smelled Orange Tree blossoms (right picture,) Star Jasmine, or Magnolia Tree flowers? Their scent also knocks you over. The Orange Tree picture shows tiny oranges growing at the base of the flowers.

At age 90, I shouldn’t try to kill myself anymore but leave more difficult jobs to my son-in-law. Cutting a fallen tree with an 18” battery operated chain saw, I slipped and hurt myself. The shiny reflection in the last picture is Neosporin antibiotic I just placed on the wound. Also the lose skin makes the wound looking worse. I was lucky that I didn'thurt my eye.

My older daughter was sick in bed, my wife was shopping; and by the time my younger daughter arrived, I was already on my way to the Kaiser Hospital Urgent Care facility.

In hindsight, I was plain silly; but all the blood next to my eye had scared me. If you take away the lose skin, then it’s really no big deal.

The emergency physician checked thoroughly whether I am still fully by my senses, and then sent me for a CT-Scan to check for bone fractures. I had a $200 co-pay and had to wait for over one hour for the results that were negative.

An LVN cleaned my wound and placed a huge bandage over the wound, while the MD prescribed Keflex antibiotic. Because this medication will damage my gut biome, and because the wound is only superficial skin damage, I won’t take the medication.

My reaction to the accident was only an initial panic, while my family is still much more worried than I am. May God bless them.

God loves you, and so do I.

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Oh, now my puppy climbs up on me and wants to clean my wound with his tongue. Permission not granted.
And yesterday I also got stung by a bee; my arm is still swollen and itchy.
Hallelujah! With all of the excitement yesterday, I lost 7,000 of my Christmas calories (2 pounds)
 
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