The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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Yorky said:
...I do tend to send my reading glasses flying across the stoep sometimes by attacking mosquitoes. I have also poked myself in the eye a few times.
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I wear contact lenses at times, mostly when out of the house. I've been known to pop a lens out of my eye when finger-combing a strand of hair off of my face. Thankfully, I've found them every time...sometimes stuck to the white of my eye (ouch!), but at least it's found.
 
Today is one of those winter days where all you want to do is to stoke up the fire, put on an old film, wrap up warm and stay put.

Instead, I am about to wrap up very warm (it hasn't made it to double figures and is dull and grey - cloudy. the forecast mentioned nothing about that!) and then I am going to take 9 chicks outside and watch them complain about it being cold instead of listening to them complain that they are not outside! Oh well. I am certainly not going to win today... I can only hope that they decide they want to come in quickly (aka 2 hrs instead of 3hrs). On Wednesday, they kindly told me they wanted to come inside (despite the lovely sunshine) by jumping up onto the laptop which was on my knee whilst I was busy writing help files... needless to say it is very difficult to type anything constructive with a 6 week old chick on the keyboard, never mind 2 of them!
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Today is one of those winter days where all you want to do is to stoke up the fire, put on an old film, wrap up warm and stay put.

Instead, I am about to wrap up very warm (it hasn't made it to double figures and is dull and grey - cloudy. the forecast mentioned nothing about that!) and then I am going to take 9 chicks outside and watch them complain about it being cold instead of listening to them complain that they are not outside! Oh well. I am certainly not going to win today... I can only hope that they decide they want to come in quickly (aka 2 hrs instead of 3hrs). On Wednesday, they kindly told me they wanted to come inside (despite the lovely sunshine) by jumping up onto the laptop which was on my knee whilst I was busy writing help files... needless to say it is very difficult to type anything constructive with a 6 week old chick on the keyboard, never mind 2 of them!
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I will gladly send you 5 or 10 degrees. Your choice of F or C.
 
A few weeks ago I planted some bulbs in the front garden, 3 have grown, 2 are doing fine even though they have been a but chewed, 1 was being stripped so I cut up an empty cola bottle and put it over the plant. Checked on it this morning and it is thriving :happy:.
 
We were in M&S this afternoon and they were selling cognac truffles for £3.00, we picked up a box, lady on the till commented on how nice they are especially at half price. Half price at £3.00????? :ohmy: won't be buying them at full price, they aren't that good :headshake:
 
You're area is above 100 degrees F, Cin? :ohmy: Just reading that, I've melted a little. I pretty much cease to function if the temperature is above 70, although if the humidity is very low and there is a slight breeze I'm still OK until 75 (~24 C). We started at 70 (~ 21 C) today, then the rain moved in. We're down to 61 right now, but it's going up again to the upper 70s (and humid) for the next week.

Lullabelle said:
Patio door is wide open and the birds are singing :D
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We are night owls, staying up until we need to wake the birds up, then we head to bed. My favorite thing to do on mild summer nights is to sit in our sun room, which is basically a glass box, and open a window. The morning chorus is astounding! First you hear the "early bird" - literally, one lonely bird tweeting. Within 10 minutes, the sound in the woods behind our house is almost deafening. I love it!
 
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You're area is above 100 degrees F, Cin? :ohmy: Just reading that, I've melted a little. I pretty much cease to function if the temperature is above 70, although if the humidity is very low and there is a slight breeze I'm still OK until 75 (~24 C). We started at 70 (~ 21 C) today, then the rain moved in. We're down to 61 right now, but it's going up again to the upper 70s (and humid) for the next week.


We are night owls, staying up until we need to wake the birds up, then we head to bed. My favorite thing to do on mild summer nights is to sit in our sun room, which is basically a glass box, and open a window. The morning chorus is astounding! First you hear the "early bird" - literally, one lonely bird tweeting. Within 10 minutes, the sound in the woods behind our house is almost deafening. I love it!
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Google Odessa Texas weather. No, on second thought don't. We had hailstorms two days in a row.
Half the town looks like a disaster area. Nearly every house and many businesses have boarded up windows. Every house on our block suffered damage. On one side of the street there are no back windows. The other side of the street there are very few front windows. Some got side windows knocked out too. Not to mention all the car windshields that got shattered.
Actually it is a several block radius. One church had one window knocked out in the first hailstorm. The second hailstorm got the rest on that side of the building. And the hail went through the board they had put over the first window.

We have had heat plus humidity. My house is 83 right now. I just looked and it is still 105 out but at least the humidity has finally dropped.
 
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