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It got down to 18F/-8C overnight. My pepper plants are now officially dead. Right now (2:35PM) it is 36F/2C.

CD
 
We have 28F/-2C with a windchill of 20F/-7C right now. I finally got around to covering my herb garden, since cold weather's probably here for a while.
 
rascal said:
26 c here again. Work halted when kommandant started barking orders on how I should attach gate to the fence. I walked off and left her to it. She apparently knows more then me. Someone who spent 15 years running a structural engineering crew.
Balls in her court.
I expect a quiet day today. :)

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C'mon, Russ - she doesn't want to do it, she just wants to tell you how to do it. :wink:
 
rascal said:
Second month of summer here 26 deg c today.

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31.4°C yesterday..... stunning thunderstorms last night with a magnificent 0.2mm of rain! The 3 separate storm cells went on for hours and hours.... dry lightning.
 
It was 20°C by 8am today so we decided to continue with our planned walk. It was 28°C by midday when we finished. (Didn't start until later, still had to drive to location).

Longest walk to date for a long time... an entire 7.5km (just under 5 miles) and 272m climbing (900 feet). I'm knackered.... no records were set except I made it back to the car ... I didn't complete the entire route because we kept leaving the route to go to view points (4 of them) and 1 cave.

The view from the top.
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Grocery shopping this morning ready for tomorrow, back to the routine. Wonder how many will call in 'sick with possible covid' :rolleyes:
 
Boyfriend and I went to pick up a 2nd hand bought ladder, for his home. A 90 min car ride in total, there and back. He is such a good driver. I feel good when he drives. It was a nice opportunity to chat over the day.

In the morning i bought diapers for Mom. Her pain lessened a bit, while back and knees pain still intense. The doc gave new pills, and suggested a gel for the knees.

Mom is ok with the pills, for now, but she was revolted by the gel idea. Energetically she said several times Gel will not help. I asked her to consider to still give it try, it may not or it may, even a tiny bit. She agreed.

So I went to the pharmacy to pick all up for her, the papers had not arrived from the doc office, so went back to the crowded doc office, back to pharmacy, got all, delivered to Mom.

And she goes again, Gel will not help.
Mom, did you not just agree 30 min ago that you will try?

I placed my both hands in a prayer position and asked her. Ok, ok, reluctantly she says with a sigh.

Mom says she has 10 other gels from years ago, and they never help... I say maybe they are expired, maybe it was different ache back then, who knows...

I really wanted to release her Of the pain. Later on she texted the pill was good.ok.

I went over there to my parents 5 x yesterday. Two other tasks errands plus, ok. I brought cooked food.

At one point, I saw she was a bit more energetic,thus she was a bit better, she went agitated over Dad's talk of insects.

I keep telling her for years, let him talk whatever, he is old and ill, not fresh or clear in his mind on some points. But, to no avail. I get it, it is irritating when 24/24.

Anways, at one point she was shouting at me over him, He lost his mind. While, as they are deaf, she was not hearing Dad was talking at the same time, excited about bugs attack, I was trying to listen to them both, and pacify.

He still thinks his prostate cancer is a bite of a frog. So, you know, we are in central southern Europe, the frogs here are tame, and they have no frogs in their flat, it is an urban standard flat. Anyways, he probably feels an itching or similar, and explains it to himself by insects or frogs or...his skin is very dry.

So, it took me a while to release the impressions of the day.

I never went for advice to my parents, it simply never worked, it was the other way around, even when they were younger.

My Grandma was the 'parent for all and everything.

Nevertheless, my parents are real good,heartwarm,Generous,loving people. Am doing my absolute maximum to help them day in day out.

I just need to avoid long stretches of errand chase, without water or food.

Let me fix A NIcE morNIng tea for me.
 
Lullabelle said:
Grocery shopping this morning ready for tomorrow, back to the routine. Wonder how many will call in 'sick with possible covid' :rolleyes:
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SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Nice positive start to the new year there, Lu.
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While I'm sure it was said in jest, you can count me among them. I've been experiencing possible symptoms (low severity) since Saturday, and if not for the ability to work from home, I would be using "sick days" now to protect my work colleagues as I await my testing appointment (today).
 
When they announced the typical symptoms with omicron, both my wife and I simultaneously said, "But I always have those symptoms!" - sort of a cross between a head cold and allergies.
 
TastyReuben said:
When they announced the typical symptoms with omicron, both my wife and I simultaneously said, "But I always have those symptoms!" - sort of a cross between a head cold and allergies.
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So true. I suffer from seasonal allergies too, but those usually kick into high gear around end of March (Oak Pollen is my Kryptonite).
 
FowlersFreeTime said:
So true. I suffer from seasonal allergies too, but those usually kick into high gear around end of March (Oak Pollen is my Kryptonite).
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Ragweed is my killer.

We are in Juniper pollen season hear (AKA: Mountain Cedar). It is nicknamed "Cedar Fever" season. I'm sure a lot of the long lines of people waiting for drive-thru covid tests are people with Cedar Fever. The symptoms are similar.

CD
 
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