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The rain stopped, and I went out for a bit to tie up some climbing roses and clean up the area around DD's fenced-in patio (it used to be space for her dog). The weeds there had just about taken over. They're gone the way of their relatives in the flower garden☠️

It's been gloomy and overcast for days and days, sometimes with rain but most times not. I'm about done with gloomy and overcast, dammit. I want sunshine. Anybody have the email address for Mother Nature?

DH would have turned 84 today. He's been gone since 2009, and I still miss him😢
 

I've done very little today..you'll all be glad to hear... :LOL:..it rained until about 2pm then that was the end of that after 9 weeks of drought :rolleyes:.. but anyway it kept me indoors.. and I just did some washing.. ( well the washing machine did it )... I mean I wasn't down at the river bashing linens on rocks.. if you know what I'm sayin'...
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...anyway I digress... other than the laundry, I washed down the doorstep and the front door because the rain tends to make it dirty after a bit of a downpour... :rolleyes:🌧️...chatted to my DD about a future date for an outing to Ely Cathedral.. then I made dinner of Mutton Pie and Beans.. watched Court TV for an hour.. and that's been my fascinatingly .. boring quiet day
 
Here it is Thursday already and I don't know how this week went by so quickly. Still waiting for some soaking rain and moderating temps in these parts but the long-term forecast shows neither. Hard to believe it will be September in a week. I wish we could get those two years we lost to COVID back.

Usual housework today, also did some gardening this morning. The dog and I will go for our sunset walk tonight. Made a spanakopita for lunch/dinner and have plenty leftover so I will be freezing much of it for future meals. S/O doesn't like cooked spinach.

I started a small craft project although I'm not the creative type. I wish I was but my skills are limited, almost non-existent. Just something fun to do for now.
 
Leann said:
Here it is Thursday already and I don't know how this week went by so quickly. Still waiting for some soaking rain and moderating temps in these parts but the long-term forecast shows neither. Hard to believe it will be September in a week. I wish we could get those two years we lost to COVID back.

Usual housework today, also did some gardening this morning. The dog and I will go for our sunset walk tonight. Made a spanakopita for lunch/dinner and have plenty leftover so I will be freezing much of it for future meals. S/O doesn't like cooked spinach.

I started a small craft project although I'm not the creative type. I wish I was but my skills are limited, almost non-existent. Just something fun to do for now.
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Another similarity between the 2 of us Sista... :LOL: good luck with whatever you;re attempting

..we got rain today.. after 9 weeks.. of near drought conditions, and it was barely enough to wet the ground... and more hot weather forecast for the rest of the week.. I'm fed up with it.. I want more rain, and cool weather..
 
@Leann and @hollydolly I hear you both. I'm fed up with maybe-it's-summer-and-maybe-it's not. Too much rain. Too little rain. Too hot. Too humid. Just too.

Whatever this season is supposed to be or supposed to have been, I'm done and ready for fall. It would be nice to have just sunny, dry and cool-ish days. Cool-ish here would be between 75-80F. Nights about 60-ish would be heavenly.

There's mold everydamnwhere. There's moss everywhere else. Mosquitos, fleas. Enough!
 
Georgiagranny said:
@Leann and @hollydolly I hear you both. I'm fed up with maybe-it's-summer-and-maybe-it's not. Too much rain. Too little rain. Too hot. Too humid. Just too.

Whatever this season is supposed to be or supposed to have been, I'm done and ready for fall. It would be nice to have just sunny, dry and cool-ish days. Cool-ish here would be between 75-80F. Nights about 60-ish would be heavenly.

There's mold everydamnwhere. There's moss everywhere else. Mosquitos, fleas. Enough!
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Oh no, we don't have Mould anywhere.. and NO Mozzies or Fleas ( why do you have fleas ) ? :oops:...and the moss only comes when we get lots of rain...
 
StarSong said:
I pay little to no attention to sell by or best by dates because they're set pretty much arbitrarily by food companies. No government oversight or guidelines. If I found 2015 Jell-O in the back of my cabinet, I'd open the packet and taste a bit on my finger. If it tasted fine, which it almost certainly will, I'd use it.

https://www.thekitchn.com/how-long-does-jello-last-243926
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Fun Jello fact...it was "born" the next town over from me. So, there is that. LOL

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@hollydolly When it rains, it rains buckets, and the mosquitos find standing water to breed in. Even when it's sunny, it's way too humid. And a relatively warm winter last year contributed to a dandy flea season. Heck...we don't even have a dog anymore. I get more flea bites when working in the garden than I do from mosquitos.

Anyway, I'm tired of it. Tired of trying to keep up with the weeding/deadheading, tired of mowing, tired of lawn fungus.

Pfffft.

When January rolls around remind me of my August whining!
 
I'm in the Boston area (Westborough) now (since last night). I miss the drivers in Buffalo, within just a couple minutes of getting on the Massachusetts Turnpike I found that the drivers here are awful (weaving in and out of traffic at high speed, so I suppose in one way that is highly skilled but I hate it, so to me they are awful drivers).

I love the kitchen in my hotel suite, this is the first one that has kitchen cupboards that I can reach into without standing on tiptoe and stretching. Also it seems really clean, but I still plan to wipe everything down with sanitizing wipes/sprays, as soon as my energy level recovers from the drive.

I had no idea that New York and Massachusetts had a lot of giant hills, there were a few times coming down steep grades around long curves with beautiful (but kind of scary to me) drops and views that I felt like I must have accidentally gone to Colorado (Rocky Mountains).

Infuriatingly the hotel chain has increased their pet fee from $175 to $435 for a one month stay. So now I need to adjust my budget plan to try to fit in three to four thousand more dollars for this upcoming year of travel. Either that or I need to try other hotels and/or airbnb, but that would require a bunch more flexibility than I feel I can spare. Just moving every month and learning to navigate around new areas uses up all my emotional resources (I felt on the verge of tears today just trying to find my way to the grocery stores -- Google Maps decided to save me sixty seconds of traffic time by routing me through a lot of back streets with left turns at intersections that didn't have traffic lights, ugh It was the first time on the feedback step that I chose the frowny face and selected 'bad route'). Though perhaps a different hotel chain would turn out to be awesome.

Tomorrow I have only very tiny goals, I will go find a gas station, and then figure out how to get to the local commuter train station and see if they have any parking spots -- some reports on the internet say the lot is totally filled up by 7:30 AM, but those are pre-Covid posts, so maybe fewer people are commuting and/or maybe they will have added more parking spots. Anyway I want to scope it out before I commit money to a ticket for the Boston Hop On Hop Off bus. Hope to do that tour as soon as I figure out how to get downtown.
 
Georgiagranny said:
The rain stopped, and I went out for a bit to tie up some climbing roses and clean up the area around DD's fenced-in patio (it used to be space for her dog). The weeds there had just about taken over. They're gone the way of their relatives in the flower garden☠️

It's been gloomy and overcast for days and days, sometimes with rain but most times not. I'm about done with gloomy and overcast, dammit. I want sunshine. Anybody have the email address for Mother Nature?

DH would have turned 84 today. He's been gone since 2009, and I still miss him😢
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I understand how you feel. I lost my Dad in '09....and I still miss him. Hugs to you! 💗
 
Today it's sunny.. It's the start of the last Bank holiday weekend of the year and the one where most people try to get away for a few days before the school start back again. It usually means local places are quiet while the motorways and the beaches are packed out...

I'm probably staying home today with my continued rest of my Ribs... but tomorrow I will have to go out, I've run out of eggs, and almost run out of milk... something that rarely ever happens..

I will have to Vac today..I haven't done it for 3 days.. so I must do it.. ..
 

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