Soda Shoppe July 1 , 2025

Amy · July 11, 2025, 07:23:39 AM

Good morning..

Going to be another uncomfortable day outside.A/C is our best friend in this heat! Work inside today and gather up "stuff" to take to Habitat for Humanity.

Patricia, any cool weather you can share?

Rick, yes we did complain and want warmer weather I said warmer......not hot! Guess we should be thankful for what we do get and not what others have had to deal with.

Phyllis, salads work for meals and your baked custard for dessert.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

OnLonelyMountain · July 11, 2025, 09:34:19 AM

Good morning Amy and all,Yesterday was perfect, 76°F breezy, partly cloudy. Today is expected to be + 6°. The widow maker did not come down. Ron suggested throwing a rope around it and pulling it out. I could do that, if I could throw a rope worth beans. He thought he may come today. Most likely later. Its cool enough now I'm going out to do filthy, grubby things like cleaning the forest and cutting up more blow downs, or pushed overs. Have a great day everybody! Love yourself and love others. 🥰

patricia19 · July 11, 2025, 12:27:19 PM

Quote from: RAMMEL on July 10, 2025, 10:21:32 PMDoes anyone remember Marty From Miami from SeniorNet? I have a copy of a series of his posts called "Marty's Radio Days". I just read it again, and if anyone remembers him and wants a copy, let me know.

I can't believe you still have that and yes, it's something I'd love to have!

RAMMEL · July 11, 2025, 12:36:18 PM

Quote from: patricia19 on July 11, 2025, 12:27:19 PMI can't believe you still have that and yes, it's something I'd love to have!

Would you send me your email addy - PM or my email. I'll send it as an attachment.

patricia19 · July 11, 2025, 01:27:36 PM

Good morning, meet and greets, morning routine, feeding Farrah and making coffee was all done to the sound of drills. Yesterday, they finished my apartment but today, no water usage until five PM, as they're working across the hall and on the apartment below me. After that, they'll be too far from my pipes to affect any of my water usage.

Last night, I set the coffee pot for today, made up a few ready to heat meals and besides my water bottles and Britta, I tried to anticipate and clean anything I could, so there would be less for today. It's surprising how we're used to always having water at hand. Farrah spent yesterday confined to the bedroom, but just in case, she remained between the bed and the wall until the men left. While she tolerates women with a wary eye, she still remembers that it was a man who abused her. Today, she's on her perch, watching the pigeons canoodling on my balcony.

I repotted my new cactus group last night in the special cacti soil, I bought on Tuesday, and this morning they're already spread out and look a few inches taller. They'd been sold in one of those six inch pots, and I transferred them all to an 11-inch pot.

After the construction crew leaves for today, I'll do the same to the heart shaped philodendron I bought with the cactus, in my regular soil. I have a large plant, a couple of feet tall, that looks like a heart shaped philodendron, on speed. No one seems to know what it is, and I can't find it in my plant books or online.

Amy, we left that steady rain behind for a few days and heading back up until the 21st, when we'll have another week of rain. The skies are blue and cleared of smoke, so the rain must have helped with the fires surrounding us, or sent the smoke in another direction. I looked at the Forestry information page just now, not much has changed, evidently, there are six still burning within twenty miles, and we are still at a Preparedness Level 5.

I know we live in a huge boreal or taiga forest that covers over 175,000 miles, so fires aren't exactly unknown during summer, but climate change and heat lightening have made it worse.

Amy, have you talked to Jane to see how she's doing, or any progress on a new computer?

OLM, when I read your post, it brings me back to my childhood days at our cabin up the Salcha river. Our cabin was built on stilts on a treed foothill as the rivers flows through and around several of them. The Interior is a plain surrounded by forested foothills and three mountain ranges. The only mountain taller than those ranges is Everest, and only because it sits at a higher elevation.

While looking that up, Everest isn't even the tallest. That honor belongs to Ecuador's Chimborazo.

"Basically, since Earth isn't flat, it bulges outward at the equator and flattens near the poles.

This means that mountains near the equator are technically higher than those in other areas, and it just so happens that Chimborazo is almost smack-dab on our planet's waistline, while Everest is 28 degrees north."

OnLonelyMountain · July 11, 2025, 02:01:11 PM

I just love your informative posts Patricia! I'm impressed with your green thumb! Mines "black" if its in a pot. I over or under water. $:-\$ I did great with my garden and landscaping back in the day. I have a Snake plant I've kept alive for 7 years, but I've lost everything else. I have to admire its tenacity.

Glad you're almost through with the upheaval!

Amy · July 12, 2025, 06:50:00 AM

Good morning..

Starting out at 57° and heading to oh my gosh! Will get most of what needs doing and then head to the basement to sew. Will put the laundry out on the solar dryer and it won't be long till it will be dry.

Tomato plants are loaded with flowers and hope to see fresh tomatoes on the table soon. Thinking toasted bacon and tomato sandwiches!

Patricia, I was talking with Jane the other day but will call her later today. Sounds like her computer just needed some tweaking.

Better get the day started..

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

OnLonelyMountain · July 12, 2025, 10:53:03 AM

Good morning everyone,
It started out at 52°F and is heading for 90°. I've had my coffee, picked up two loads of sticks and transported them to the slash pile. I just had breakfast. There was a fire 8 miles NE of me yesterday. It's contained this morning at just .25 ac. Our teams are good! Heading out to take the dogs on Poo Patrol. Ron arrived in the night and isn't up yet.

Have a great day!

so_P_bubble · July 12, 2025, 12:41:22 PM

Quote from: RAMMEL on July 10, 2025, 10:21:32 PMDoes anyone remember Marty From Miami from SeniorNet? I have a copy of a series of his posts called "Marty's Radio Days". I just read it again, and if anyone remembers him and wants a copy, let me know.

I enjoyed re-reading these. Thanks. I wonder if he also posted in the WREX discussion, do you know? We had some great writers there... Pity that it is all gone and forgotten.

Amy · July 12, 2025, 12:44:14 PM

Patricia, I talked with Jane. She did try to post yesterday, wrote a long post and yup....the gremlins got it! She misses everyone and hopes to be back soon.

RAMMEL · July 12, 2025, 12:54:25 PM

Quote from: Amy on July 12, 2025, 12:44:14 PMPatricia, I talked with Jane. She did try to post yesterday, wrote a long post and yup....the gremlins got it! She misses everyone and hopes to be back soon.

Just a thought, and maybe it doesn't matter, but if you talk to her, or email her, tell her to be sure she is LOGGED IN>

Amy · July 12, 2025, 01:10:25 PM

Rick, thank you, I will tell her that..

patricia19 · July 12, 2025, 06:31:59 PM

What I have done as a safeguard, as it has only happened to me in Seniors and Friends, is to open two pages.

For example, if I am posting in Soda Shop, the one on the left is the working post and the one on the right is a copy. Thus, if I lose a post, normally, the left page post; I still have the information on the right.

Amy · Reply #73 - Re: Soda Shoppe July 1 , 2025

Good morning

Another warm one to deal with today. A day of rest here, will try and get some sewing done

Talked with Jane plus sent your suggestion to her Rick and will send yours too Patricia.Thank you both.

Jesse wants to play Frisbee and I don't..not in this heat..I will throw it a couple of times and that is it. Even crow does't like this heat,Charlie came for snacks yesterday and had his beak open as if he was trying to pant or cool off. Had to google that and this is what I found.

Birds sit with their mouth open simply to cool down.
Unlike humans, birds cannot sweat, so like dogs, they'll pant with their mouths open to promote heat loss. The technical term for this is 'gular fluttering' - which is the avian version of panting.Dec 18, 2023.

OK time to meet the day.

Enjoy your day and stay cool.

OnLonelyMountain · Reply #74 - Re: Soda Shoppe July 1 , 2025

good morning everyone,
Amy, please tell Jane that I commiserate with her. It happens to me a lot with my internet dropping. I tap an open space and "select all" then "copy" periodically while composing my posts, now. If it seems like getting back to the page is going to be awhile I paste it to a note page.

Yesterday Ron completed installing the collar ties. After lunch and a rest he tackled the widow maker. Standing under it his first comment was, "That's a long ways up there." Yep. I told him I'd thought about his suggestion to "throw a rope over it," only I was thinking baling twine attached to something heavy. Then I said I decided to wait for him because I could just see me busting out the back window of the RV with a poor throw. He looked at me, then the rear window of the RV, grunted and went off to get a rope. They know how I throw. It wasn't as easy as he expected. It took him (a very good thrower) more than 2 dozen tries to get the weight over the snag. He eventually decided the rope was too heavy; it made too much drag. He cut a long baling twine leader and attached it between the weight and the rope. That was much better and with just a few more tosses he was able to get it over. It took another 10-15 minutes to caustiously pull it down. Yay! I'll be cleaning it up today, and probably tomorrow as well. After all that effort Ron went in for a nap, then a meal. We ran the electrical wire for the great room fan light.

Its 62°F already, heading to 88°. Sunny. Calm with a 6 m.p.h. Breeze this afternoon.

patricia19 · Reply #75 - Re: Soda Shoppe July 1 , 2025

Good morning, we're back to smoky skies, 61 presently and heading back into the 80s this afternoon. Morning routines, meet and greets and feeding everyone went well.

Claire is in the hospital for anxiety and depression. They were hoping the therapy dog would help, but she evidently wasn't interested, and her son is deciding if it's worth another try or to return the dog to help another. I don't have a good feeling about this.

Per fire news, "Priority Wildfire Roundup, Alaska DOF July 13, 2025 🔥

Alaska remains at a Preparedness Level (PL) 4. Initial attack was light on Saturday. There are more than 1,900 personnel assigned to 17 staffed fires across the state. Over 750,000 acres have burned in Alaska this year – with more than 300,000 of those acres burned in the last week. High temperatures are expected to peak on Sunday before turning cooler.

Until weather conditions become cooler and wetter, fuels will be available and ready to burn and increased fire activity is expected to continue today. With increased fire activity, additional smoke production will decrease air quality."

My Amazon orders came in on the 9th, 11th, and 12th as they had different suppliers for my one order. I had my preferred Chosen Foods brand of 100% pure avocado oil and my Pompeian organic cold pressed extra virgin olive oil. Both brands I'm not always able to get here and my two new 16 ounce dispenser oil sprayers, with labels. I may get two more of those for other oils.

My last order came yesterday, and a very anticipated full spectrum plant light with adjustable heights, three setting timers and six brightness levels. No more running the ceiling light and high intensity desk lamp for twelve daily hours.

My plants definitely noticed the difference and my three new cacti, that came crammed into a six-inch pot, have visibly grown overnight, an inch or two in their own larger pots.

Since Farrah would love some fresh greens in her diet, my three shelves of plants are barricaded six feet up on three shelves. She'll have to make do with both her dry and canned food and treats. As a senior, her jumping capacity has also diminished. When you count her age in cat years, she's only ten years younger than I am.

I'm not even close to my friend Vivian, who has an entire room made into a plant nursery, with grow lights on a schedule and windows all across one wall. Her dachshund, Wally, like Farrah, doesn't approve of being barred from the plant nursery.

so_P_bubble · Reply #76 - Re: Soda Shoppe July 1 , 2025

Why not have a pot of catnip just for Farrah?

Amy · Reply #77 - Re: Soda Shoppe July 1 , 2025

Good morning..

Oh boy another fry day, one can't help but feel sorry for those without a/c.

Returning an item to the hardware store this morning then home to dive into a cupboard and toss outdated items.

Managed to get a little sewing done before phone calls and away went the urge.

Will give Janie a call later on and say hello from you.Let her know we are thinking of her.

OLM, happy to read the WM is down. We lost friend due to one of those .

Patricia, my friend used to go to the feedstore and buy untreated oats and plant them for Peter and Penny. The cats would nibble on them once he let the oats grow to an inch and when they grew 4 inches or so the cats would rub their face through them.

Rick, hope your staying cool.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

RAMMEL · Reply #78 - Re: Soda Shoppe July 1 , 2025

Quote from: Amy on Today at 07:42:12 AMRick, hope your staying cool.

The Power Co. is getting their profit out of me at this point. But it's nice (and somewhat necessary) to be cooler and LESS HUMIDITY.
Keep cool everyone, and remember this next winter.

OnLonelyMountain · Reply #79 - Re: Soda Shoppe July 1 , 2025

Good morning!How is everybody? Its 60°F, and sunny. Heading for 2° cooler than yesterday, but strong winds. It didn't cool down until after midnight last night. Consequently, I'm a little groggy yet. Having coffee. That sounds wonderful Patricia.🙂 I have one of those programable, full spectrum grow lights. I use it for greening up my broccoli sprouts. 😁 Have you seen those cat grass/greens kits? They're a specific varieties safe for cats to munch on. Maybe Farrah and Wally would like them? I glimpsed them on Amazon once or twice while looking for something else.Ron helped me clean up the tree top. He hauled it to the slash pile with the Kubota. Then he helped with the littered branches. I moved Kato back. He was happy to get his spot back but he also wanted the other🙄. Then we went in to work on more light boxes and wiring. The loft light has a 2-way switch and while Ron worked on drilling holes for the hall light and the loft light I took my ipad to a better reception spot and downloaded a diagram for wiring in 2 - way lights. He couldn't remember a couple of details. We discussed the remaining light locations. Then he moved to trimming the truss plackets for the interior wall application. Since the packets are engineered wood, I had to vacate. Ron also had to vacuum up all the sawdust when he finished... ALL, meaning, the whole interior, every vertical, inclined and horizontal surface. They (engineered wood products) outgas the insecticide and glue chemicals for 10+ years. Its in the dust, too. And it was hot in there! I helped him wash off between and after the two chores. He did it with out one complaint! I would have complained a lot! 😫 High on my list today is re-sealing the freshly cut edges. I also need to start the process of renewing my driver's license. I'm hoping they made changes during covid for remote renewal. It was quite the process last time. Have a great day!

patricia19 · Reply #80 - Re: Soda Shoppe July 1 , 2025

Good morning, last night we had a rip-roaring rain with rolling thunder and some lightening, but the forestry service said the fires weren't too affected. It seems to have washed the smoke out but other than that, no real effect on the fires yet.

Yesterday, they did drop the evacuation alert from a level five to a four.

Morning routines finished, coffee's on and Farrah's fed while in the midst of meet and greets.

Good morning Rick and a good morning to Phyllis, who ever else might pop in or browse thorough.

Bubble, Farrah's among the few cats who're not affected by catnip. She has never been into toys either. She'd rather go directly to the meal portion of a plant, that and cheese, both dangerous to cats.

Amy, does Jane have any idea of when she may be back online?

I've never thought about giving Farrah her own plant. I've tried cat grass occasionally which she has liked, but it doesn't seem to be around lately, it's been a while since she's had some.

OLM, I might try looking on Amazon for some cat grasses.

You and Ron were definitely busy yesterday. I generally clean in equal bursts with a period of rest. Since preparing for this year's inspection, I've been trying more clean as you go rather than designating certain areas via set schedules.

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