The sun has yet to come out, but it's warmed ten degrees; last night, greening occurred ( a time when everything for miles around spontaneously bursts into bloom within sixty minutes or less); and warming more after twice setting records for a cold delayed spring. It's presently 47 at 11:48. I posted an 11:06 Pm sunset in photos, and we're on our way to summer's 24/7 daylight.

https://www.seniorsandfriends.org/index.php?msg=217987

Congrats, Darlene, on G'daughter's graduation...and scholarships.

Patricia...ah...the land of the midnight sun...and long sunny days.

My  landscapers appeared and the flower beds look so good....they[a mother and son duo] did the weeding and trimming and putting down mulch.  Ah...it looks so nice, now.

I walked a short bit this morning but nothing exciting and I got to the store for a bag of my salad I like for lunches.  I'm holding off on too much since I'll be away Thurs.-Sunday. 

Take care and stay safe,

jane

Hi Gals, been busy the past week, but nothing interesting. Did get the car into the body shop and now driving a sporty bright red Dodge Charger! We've had 70's last week, 80's now and 90's this weekend. Lots of showers too.  Lori got a new job as a Senior VP of the cyber dept. in a big Logistics company.  On top of that, she finally married her significant other of 4 yrs. His younger daughter graduates from HS in a week or so and then will go live with her sister who has an apt in Chicago while she is in college. So Lori & Doug will be selling his house and trying to find a condo in Chicago. We like Doug and hope and think that this marriage will work out for her.

No other news here. Patricia, there is no way I could live where you do between climate and lockdown. We've been open for about a year now, although we still use precautions.

Jane, hurray for your landscaper coming and everything beautiful.

Hi to Mary Page in her pretty Annapolis, watching the boats.

Mary, isn't it great to have a spa day. I got all mine done before Mother's Day.

Hi Darlene. Enjoy your granddaughter's graduation celebrations. Sounds hot though for a BarBQ

Have a good Week everyone.  Sharon

Sharon, I have to admit NC's weather would terrify me, especially the tornados!

My daughter was here on Mother's Day, and was able to make an appointment for me, with her facial expert for Friday afternoon, 13th.  I was treated to an eyebrow waxing, chin and upper lip. I no longer have Andy Rooney eyebrows! A real pleasure to have this done as I don't see well enough to pluck all the "face foliage".

alpiner, what a nice gift from your daughter. Spa days are always good!

jane, where are you off to this weekend?

patricia, glad you and jane are getting some mitigation in your weather.

Darlene, wish there was was the same for you. But I'm afraid you're in for your usual Texas scorcher summer.

Marilyn, other than being a bit rainy, I guess you're the only one of us with moderate temperatures most of the time.

Well, I guess MaryPage has that water-influenced weather, too. Nice!

Sharon, what a treat to have a fancy loaner car to drive.

Nothing exciting happening around here. The building a/c is still not completely fixed. The dining room is so hot by suppertime (big west-facing windows) that I've been getting queasy. I decided to have my supper brought to my room last night. Still didn't eat much, but at least it was cooler. We're supposed to be in the 90s the rest of the week. Yuck! But I guess things aren't too bad if that's all I have to complain about.

That is truly awesome news about your granddaughter earning a scholarship for college. Such bulletins deserve to be headlines, and you must be hoping for great achievements there.  Congratulations!

That was meant for Cotton Candy.  I did not expect this site to jump ahead so far as this when I hit Post!

Thank you Mary Page and others who have commented...we are all very proud of her

Sharon....Congrats to Lori...new job and new marriage.   
AND you're out in a new red car for a few days. 

Mary...I understand about being queasy with the heat in the dining room.  I couldn't take that either. 

Tomereader...Congrats on the face expert! 

Patricia...59 here today and maybe rain to come.  I sure hope so.

MaryPage...always happy to see your posts.

CottonCandy...Hope things are a bit cooler there, but I know your TX area can be very steamy.

Maryz...I'm going up to N. Wisc for the postponed weekend with Don and Patricia and the boys and their families.  Patricia is coming down tomorrow and we'll drive back up on Thurs. and she'll bring me home on Sunday. 

Take care and stay safe,

jane

Good morning from a primarily sunny Interior; we're expected to reach mid-sixties today and perhaps seventies. That's the good news. The continuing bad news is that many of my friends are still stranded. While the main roads are paved, many of the little roads people live on in the foothills were damaged by the sheer unexpected amounts of snow and the snowmelt activities. There have been two sinkholes discovered that are rapidly expanding. A development that has never been seen here before. There is also the issue that multiple road service areas have run out of money due to increased, unforeseen spending.

While they are dealing with this in the hills, the lower levels and plains are seeing faster snowmelt in a time when the earlier cold weather and later snows left more snow to deal with. This area is a watershed with the five local rivers and numerous others draining into those five. The now warming temperatures and the sheets of river ice becoming unmoored and drifting have backed up and jammed at times, causing some village and small-town flooding. All of those issues and some refugees are on their way here.

We received yet another weather message in our continuing saga. "Middle Tanana Valley Alerts"

Increasing snowmelt and rising river levels...

Temperatures rising into the sixties and lower seventies will increase higher elevation snowmelt across the eastern and center Interior over the next few days. Some elevations in the Tanana-Yukon Uplands and the Alaska Range have a record amount of snow on the ground for mid-May. Runoff from snowmelt will bring significant rises to rivers and streams, especially along the Alaska Range and those draining the Tanana-Yukon Uplands. River levels will likely rise to bankfull and possibly higher over the weekend and into next week. This includes the Chena River, Salcha River, Tanana River, and Chatanika River,  as well as drainages along the Taylor Highway. Residents are encouraged to watch river levels and to move items along riverbanks to higher ground."

Guess where all those rivers and drainages will end up and all refugees. Don't you love climate change?

I cannot Believe (and yes, I do believe you) your Alaska has been having higher temps than we!  Mind you, we have not had freezing temps for over a month now, but we are just to head into the seventies and zip up to eighty and a bit above at the end of this week and into the next.  You know me, Patricia, I am a fervid believer in the Sciences, and one of my granddaughters teaches Science.  And yes, I not only know that the Science regarding Climate Change/Global Warming is real, but I understand the articles and books I've read about what is to happen.  I've been reading those for years, about sixty, and everything the early ones explained would happen have been right on thus far!  As I recall, and mind you, my recall is not all that great anymore, but as I recall the ocean waters are warming up, and they will reach some bad place with that and start releasing methane gases.  Well, I'll not go any further with that, and the blessing for me is that I'll fer sure be gone by then.  Anyway, to repeat my beginning with this: you've actually had some higher temps there in Alaska, our "coldest" state, than we have had here in Maryland.  The really big problem we all have is that we are exactly like the frog in the pot of water about this and many other subjects featuring bad news in our daily lives these days.  We tend to turn our backs and not take in what is happening to us, with the excuse that we've heard things we'd rather just not think about, but forget, thank you very much.  Eventually, the water comes to a boil, figuratively speaking. For the frogs. Amphibians are disappearing like crazy already).

You may or may not be aware that we are very near Washington, D.C. and Baltimore.  Both of those have been much warmer than we have had it here thus far.  Did you know that when they finally picked the place to build our nation's capital, Maryland and Virginia each gave a large tract of land to the project.  One was on one side of the Potomac River (which empties into my Chesapeake Bay) and the other on the other. They started building on the property donated by Maryland.  When they pretty well had it laid out as they thought it ought to be, they decided they did not need the Virginia donation of land, so they gave it back to Virginia.  So our nation's capitol is all on land once belonging to Maryland!  If you cross one of our many bridges, you are in Virginia.  Say you want to visit a grave in our National Cemetery. You would slip around Mr. Lincoln in his memorial (my favorite all of my life) and take Memorial Bridge across the Potomac to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.  I mean, it is Right There!  When I was a child, my cousins and I used to visit The Mall in D.C. and spend hours in the museums and galleries.  We got to know all of the memorials in that area as though they were in our back yards.  My mother swears that when I was VERY young, I called the Washington Monument the Washington Moneyment.

All you say is very true, MaryPage, except for a couple of items. Minnesota is our coldest state, and Alaska's S.E. containing Anchorage, Kenai, and other leading cities, are all part of the Raincountry climatic zone of Washington and Oregon. In fact, Ketchican Alaska holds the record for the most rainfall in the U.S.

The Interior, or at least the northern portion, is colder due to extreme dryness. It takes humidity and moisture to create snow, and usually, that's something we don't have. The last two years have set records for snow and warmer weather, causing our current issues.

We have also set unexpected records for the past two winters, causing the unforeseen issues we're now seeing. Typically, we're seeing sixties and early seventies at Easter or just after. Our nominal summer temperature range in the summer is 66 to 104, something we haven't seen since 2017.

 The entire lower forty-eight states are in a period of great flux, causing the western fires, midwest worsening storms over the flatlands, and more violent and continuous storms from off the eastern shoreline. The upper atmospheric rivers and airflow are at the center because of the more moisture carried.

Well, you've taught me a lesson on the far Northwest, Patricia!

I spoke of my mother as though she were still alive.  She is not.  She died in 1970, and I did not notice my error until rereading that post this morning.

MaryPage, my mother died in 2000 but I hear her words in my head often.

[Srry about being AWOL for a few days. . I saw y Chiropractor Monday. Got the Monitor put on my chest on Wednesday. Then today I had an ultra sound on the Aorta.  I am taking care of Gilbert's dog  today. She has been hving seizures and is vey close to  Crossing over the Rainbow bridge. The took off work for two days to take care of her but went back to work today. I think Gilbert is keeping her alive for himslef. I really thing she should be put to s;leep but Gilbert isn't ready to let go.

Please excuse any typos you may see they are hard for me to find.

Keith is doing ad well as can be expected at this pont. There are time when he will look  around confused not know where he is and telling me he just wants to see where he is. He still can't find the way to his bathroom and it 's not that hard,

I didn't catch u on the posts, I id kind of skip through them though

Patricia I wouldn't call the weather moderate. It is still kind of cool high 50;s days and low 40's nights. Ot's been windy too. so it feels colder than it is.l

Friday greetings from N. Wisc. It's cool here and lots of rain yesterday.high 50s now.  I went to Rice Lake this morning with my niece, for some errands, etc.  now back to the house to await arrive, of the "kids."

Stay safe,

Jane

Hi Gals. It's been hot here, up to 95, but is to cool off to the 70's next week.

Where do you live in AK, Patricia. I'm sure you've said, but I don't remember. We've had tornado watches, but no actual tornados here.

Jane, have a great visit in WI.

Mary, sorry about the AC, but at least you have it in the apt.

Hi Mary Page and Alpiner and Marilyn. Marilyn, it is so hard to put down a beloved pet. but I agree with you, it's time.

Not much going on here. I lost a crown last week, or at least it came loose, so I went to the dentist and she was able to glue it back. Yea.

I went to the cardiologist and really liked him. Have to take an echo June 8 and he changed my Beta Blocker to one that was also good for decreasing tremors. I still have a terrible time with my left hand, especially when typing. This was on the suggestion of my neurologist. I start it tomorrow, so we will see if it helps.

After church and lunch, I went to the clubhouse and worked on the newsletter for a couple hours. Now, I need to fold clothes and start dinner.

Have a good week, everyone. STay safe.  Sharon

Why hasn't this made the news?

"INDIANAPOLIS — A military plane carrying enough specialty infant formula for more than half a million baby bottles arrived Sunday in Indianapolis, the first of several flights expected from Europe aimed at relieving a shortage that has sent parents scrambling to find enough to feed their children.

President Joe Biden authorized the use of Air Force planes for the effort, dubbed "Operation Fly Formula," because no commercial flights were available."

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/22/baby-formula-arrives-indianapolis-00034279

I still fail to understand why doctors and the very front page of newspapers are not giving out the recipe for homemade formula that we thrived on as babies.  I mean, I know the allergic babies will die without their very special formulas, but the rest of us, those whose mothers for one reason or another could not breast feed, THRIVED!  Seriously.  In our local paper, some doctor warned today's mothers not to try to make formula at home.  These doctors do not know what they are talking about.  And yes, those allergic to cow's milk cannot buy and install goats in apartment buildings or in the heart of cities.  But they can leave the cities and buy in the countryside, or have delivered, milk from goats.  Still, the parents of other delicate babies have heartbreak ahead of them.  I think of those constantly.  I think we all do.

I can still see those two rows of sterilized glass baby bottles lined up on the kitchen counter and me pouring formula in them.  Formula I had just made.  A time consuming job, but one that was as necessary as all of those non-disposable cloth diapers that had to be washed.  Amazing that generations forget factory-made formula did not always exist.  And yes, many more babies died in those days, but those who could tolerate home made formula thrived.By me.

Whoops.  That by me jumped down to the bottom of the post without my help.  I swear.

I agree, MaryPage and patricia. My four girls thrived on the evaporated milk/Karo formula - although I do understand about milk allergies.  I think there are more allergies now than there used to be, too.

We've sweltering with our humid 90s around here, even if it was some cooler today, with more to come this week. Back into the 90s next weekend, though. I'm going to pass on going to Henry's 2nd birthday party - outdoors. I don't think he'll miss me. 

It's interesting to me that Fox and other conservative media had no mention of Biden's milk run. Instead, they focused on controversial formula hoarding, scams, price gouging, and empty shelves

Doctors are not giving out recipes for homemade formulas because they can be charged for the inevitable deaths.

Also, I learned in 2013 that food allergies had jumped some forty percent since 2010, and they thought it was largely due to the increasing use of preservatives and chemicals. I know it has to have increased a lot since then!

But Patricia, I am pretty sure it was the pediatricians we got the instructions for makine the formula from in the first place.  Wasn't it?  My memory is not That detailed any longer, but where else would we have gotten it except in writing from them?

MaryPage, I'm not talking about then, but about now. People that listen and think about drinking bleach or taking a horse dewormer are not the type you want making a baby's formula.

Abbott Industries had sanitary issues with some of the formulas they made and sold that sickened babies, and the FDA closed their factories until they could fix the problems. Abbott said it would take time to be back in total production.

Biden asked European nations for help. They came through with the first of many flights landing in Indianapolis with enough formula of 1.5 million 8-ounce bottles of the three hypoallergenic formulas for children.

Domestic airlines had no spare planes available, so Biden asked the Air Force to use military aircraft, which they have.

Good Morning, Buddies.

I, too, don't understand what's wrong with using evaporated milk and Karo for healthy infants.  It's that or let the baby go hungry.  I also don't understand the Rep. blaming Biden for not being prepared...as if he knew that the factory would put out contaminated baby formula.  Come on, folks.
 I'll stop now or you'll hear a long rant from me.

I had a wonderful visit in n. Wisc where it was chilly...40s and lots of rain, but it was great to see the "kids" and the toddler.  Patricia and I drove back here yesterday, and she left about an hour ago for the 5 hour trip back home. 

Off for a haircut at 11:00 and then to the grocery store to restock my fridge. 

Stay safe and cool...or warm...as your temps require.      

jane

Well, my great granddaughter Bella (Annabelle) called me this morning, and we talked for well over an hour.  Bella is the one whose adventures I described to y'all back when she was 11 and spent over a month on board a ship carrying University of Virginia students around the world,  They got out and visited 17 countries, and the reason she was able to tag along was written into the contract her paternal grandparents had as faculty members at UVA and chaperones for the college kids attending that Semester at Sea: they could take a young member of their own family along.  Bella has just finished her Sophomore year at UMD, which is the university her daddy works at.  She plans to go to law school and set the world to rights.

So Bella says the medical world is trying to discourage parents from following recipes for home made formula that are appearing in Social Media and are all wrong and could seriously harm babies!

What a world we inhabit these days!  I am always thinking I could not be more horrified or outraged.

And then I am!

Quote from: patricia19 on May 22, 2022, 08:04:16 PMIt's interesting to me that Fox and other conservative media had no mention of Biden's milk run. Instead, they focused on controversial formula hoarding, scams, price gouging, and empty shelves

I didn't see it on any of the Liberal/Democrat Networks either. Not even CNN or NBC.

There may just have been a reason. THINK 

And do try to be socially acceptable.

Strange, I first saw it on CNN yesterday and then on USA Today and Reuters. I saw it on MSN and finally on Twitter.

I don't own a TV, personal preference, so my news is on the computer but then all the networks and programs have a web division.

I'm not sure what are Liberal/Democratic Networks?

MaryPage, thank Bella for me, she said more clearly what I was trying to say.

MarPage I can't read the font you are using.I am so sorry that I can;t read your interesting Posts.

I am taking crae of Gilbert's dog again today, she  has been resting since I fed her and gave her the heart meds Gilbert brought over

 blew out two tires both on the passenger side of my car. I called AAA and waited  and hour and  half until my DIL showed up nd called them a gain, she gave them a piece of her m ind after she found out the dispatcher never dispvhed a tow truck and sid the truck would be there in 9 minutes.
I hit s curb thing  in the middle of the street. So my car is at the tire shop waiting for them to open By the way the tow truck sriver Eli was a gem and so mice and hepful. ..