What are you doing today?

Status
Not open for further replies.
Commiserating with my nephew in south london uk. Gather its hot and humid and his two young boys cranky as heck. Same weather here with the sun coming and going in the haze so watching the solar power monitor and running the dehumidifier to make it dry, so long as the sun stays out ! Very loath to run the generator but may have to in the afternoon as thunderstorms roll in. Rain needed for sure. Will see if i can finish my novel on Richard 1 of england (and anjou, normandy and southern france) . hard to believe I will be wishing for this weather in 6 months
 
Well we never did get any rain.Thunderstorm for about an hour but not a single drop of the wet stuff.... :(

ETA 10 minutes after posting this.. the rains came.... yeaaaah.(y)🌧️🌧️⛈️.poured heavily for about an hour and wet everything through, not really cooled the air much tho' sadly... ..
 

Last edited:
03152b8b19a05390243b7618c0725e26.jpg
 
I had an eye doctor appointment this morning. I need to have cataract surgery soon but he wants me to keep my appointment with my retinal specialist in October before making a final decision. My distance sight had deteriorated so much from the last visit that I told them I didn't feel really safe to drive so they gave me a new eyeglasses prescription but said don't spend too much on new glasses since the prescription will likely change once the cataracts are removed.
 
While out trekking today, I stopped by our favorite farm stand to see if they had any sweet corn yet and, voila, they had four bushels of butter and suger corn that was going fast. After buying some, but not being a pig by getting a lot, the drone came out and I got some pictures of their farm, one of which is the farm stand below.

jul20_2021_newbraintree_farmstand1.jpg


This is a family, not corporate, farm and they've been hurt bad so I am giving them some coverage and kudos on the rider site I inhabit. Their sweet corn is about as good as you can get. Half of what I bought was eaten tonight to the exclusion of all else except a salad. Being only a 30 mile, 50 minute drive, we'll be heading back very soon.
 
Last edited:
grahamg said:
Does "roll in the hay" mean the same over there as it used to mean in the UK I wonder(?). :)
Click to expand...
Around here and at my age, Roll In The Hay refers to an IPA served up cold at the Stone Cow farm and brewery, which was a family farm that transformed itself into a brewery and beer farm, complete with a beer hall.

jun23_2019_stonecow3.jpg


Not my cup of tea but the place seems to be thriving on weekends. They stripped down the old family home and turned it into a pavilion, shown below when it was a work-in-progress.

aug20_2019_stonecow1.jpg


As for the other meaning, that's what hayrack rides and hay mows were for back in the day.
 
Last edited:
Doctor’s appointment followed by a walk in the park and then met friends for his birthday lunch. We returned here for the Rum Cake, his favourite. I sent them home with huge slices.

Pulling bits and pieces out of the rooms with carpets that are being cleaned tomorrow. In the morning we’ll empty the things that can’t be done today.

Dinner will be something we’d normally have at lunch. We’ve surpassed our quota for calories for the day.
 
JonDouglas said:
Around here and at my age, Roll In The Hay refers to an IPA served up cold at the Stone Cow farm and brewery, which was a family farm that transformed itself into a brewery and beer farm, complete with a beer hall.

jun23_2019_stonecow3.jpg


Not my cup of tea but the place seems to be thriving on weekends. They stripped down the old family home and turned it into a pavilion, shown below when it was a work-in-progress.

aug20_2019_stonecow1.jpg


As for the other meaning, that's what hayrack rides and hay mows were for back in the day.
Click to expand...
A "roll in the hay" used to be commonly used as a euphemism for a couple having sexual intercourse in the UK, though you don't here it said so often nowadays for whatever reason, (I liked your explanation of the terms use over there, and the innocent use of the term though). :)
 
This morning took my early walk at 6:30,it was cloudy temp was 64,didn't water the plants in the garden since it rained over night
This afternoon going with other Canopy of Neighbors members/volunteers on our 1st summer event get together. We'll be on the'Miss Buffalo' cruise boat taking a 1hr 1/2 tour,seeing the city from a different perspective. We did this 2 yrs ago,great time.I'll get to meet a couple of the members who I talk to every week
Later this afternoon from 5-8pm,is our annual summer cocktail party for the residents in the apt complex where I live. We bring a dish to share,everything else is provided.Its nice way to get together,meet few new people who have recently moved in along with those of us who have lived here a long time e.g .me-33yrs
 
It's another day like yesterday and the day before..high 80's f.. high humidity...

I had the industrial fan on full blast while I was on the treadmill, or I might have had a heart attack in this horrible heat...

I love the heat normally.. but not this draining humidity..

My recycle bins were emptied today as they are every fortnight.. and the street cleaners truck has been and cleaned all the gutters and kerbs as they do on a regular basis..

I've got all the laundry done and put away... ..swept down all the spiders webs that appear overnight every day all over the shed and barn doors.. the plant posts, the security lights .. the wheelie bins etc.. I have simply no idea why we get so many spiders...

.. and I called the surgery for the results of my hospital tests, no doctor available to talk to me about them until next Monday and only a telephone appointment.. *sigh*
 
I was just about to take my garbage out to the dumpster on Jazzy and saw it was raining. Darn! I missed it again. So having a third cup of coffee and then have some work to do. First off will be cleaning off the stove top area and cleaning it really good. This apartment gets a lot of dust and I have to stay on top of it.

After that I hope to get my afghans in the washing machines downstairs today. I keep putting it off. Hopefully if the rain isn't too bad, I can go out with my walker to the dumpster. I just don't want to get Jazzy wet.
 
Did computer work this morning, unclogged some gutters and procrastinated at length on washing the motorcycle's stand-in. Had a nice lunch of chicken salad, pasta salad and cottage cheese with thoughts of more corn on the cob for tonight. The weather cleared, the sun came out and I took off to an old mill ruins that was on the drone's dance card. Shown below in an earlier photo, it's been on my photography wish list for some time now but is posted, fenced, private property.

apr_millruins.jpg


When I got there, the place was jammed with cars, trucks, vans and hundreds of people both in the space above and more milling around outside the fence. When I tried to get a photograph of the melee, a very polite policeman asked me to not take any pictures and move ASAP. Another man wearing some ID badge around his neck told me I should come back later as they were about to film and I was in a space that needed to be empty. They were filming a movie and the production looked more like mass confusion with people running around everywhere. With no other parking spaces, anywhere near this place, I left.
 
Murrmurr said:
I'm feeling very overwhelmed today, dealing with two major PITA issues at once; one to do with a relative's irresponsibility and greed, the other to do with a 3yr-old child's welfare.

Oh well. Nothing a mental pause over some yerba mate' won't cure, I guess. Well, spiritual rejuvenation, at least.
Click to expand...
well Join the club.. I've just had an enormous fight about a major issue , which is one of those straws and camel scenarios... :mad:there's a full moon tonight, very big an bright now at 11.30pm... .. that's probably not helping things.. good luck with yours anyway Frank.. hope it gets resolved.
 

Status
Not open for further replies.

Back
Top