Angelface, those clouds are awesome and so are the sunsets.  With such skies, I would be with my nose in the air the whole time!

Jack, the flowers in the baskets look like trailing petunias to me.  They are a lovely color and so pretty in the baskets.  Thanks for posting them.

Sue

Good morning!
Vanilla-Jackie, so_P_bubble, Joy, Jack, FlaJean, angelface555,
Thank you very much for your gentle comments.
I'll get vigor from you and post my pictures.

I read all the posts & went back to make sure I didn't miss anything and forgot to take notes.... this has been one of those days! 

The Cox service guy came this afternoon & put in a new modem.... said the old one was "toast"....Hopefully that will end my dropped phone calls and internet going off in the middle of e-mail or posting here. 

I've had 3 or 4 of those stinking calls "from the IRS" the last couple days... 2 days the answering machine caught the messages & I'd love to turn them over to the Attorney General (as someone told me to send to), but hear they don't do anything anyway.  Guess they can just file that law suit the way they promise!      

Sachiko, great photos, you do look like you could climb a mountain yet, so get better fast!  Nice to see you back.

Patricia, such different types of clouds in the photos.... from over head to that horizon.  Looks like they belong in different photos. Neat capture.  I used to love getting up early for the sunrises and out on the hill for sunsets... think I am getting lazy.  Pretty view you have. 

Jack, I didn't think Oglebay could do better than other years, but you caught so many different colors & textures in that one photo especially (the one showing the blue flowers in the foreground).  The hanging baskets make me drool.... we just don't see them with our wind. 

I did grab the camera & took photos of Tom (cat) on his back, he looks like such a baby, almost always sleeps on his back.  But the photos are still in the camera.  Baked a cake today.... cleaned up before the Cox tech guy came.... nothing much to show for my day.

Thanks, Bubble & Shirley!

I am convinced that living near the foothills causes that type of cloud formation and fast movement. They need to move up and over the ridges and foothills to enter this valley.

Some have repeatedly asked me about my converter microwave and toaster slash convection oven that I purchased because my oven was basically nonfunctioning. They asked about size, brand, and styles. I also donated or gave away everything in my kitchen except my cast iron skillet, my coffee maker, and these three items. They do everything, including baking bread that nine other appliances did.




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Patricia that is all I would need.   Now have a microwave and a Jenn Aire range.  I seldom use the oven, but have the ability on the top to grill, a rotisserie  and even a wok.   I only use the burners.   Will keep that combo you have in mind if and when I ever move or the Jenn Aire  gives out.

Jack, I was once so bad that I had 16 coffee cups! When I moved anywhere it was just boxing stuff up only to be stuffed into another closet, drawer or shelf! Now I only keep what I actually use on a regular basis.

Your Jenn Aire sounds like the one I had in Anchorage when we managed those apartments while the owners lived in Germany. They're nice if you do a lot of cooking.

You look to be as big a collector of kitchen gadgets. I have so many sitting on the cabinets. Not use my regular oven in years. Now I still would like one of those Instant Pots I think. Maybe I can get rid of a couple of the other things.

JeanneP. I have the toaster oven slash convection oven and the converter microwave because my oven doesn't work and my landlord says it does because it reaches a certain temperature for five minutes. I also have an iron skillet and the Instapot. I do have seven silicone utensils and that is my entire collection, my entire kitchen right there. I am not collecting as I am rapidly downsizing.

   Enjoy your special day Patricia ( Angelface )

Happy Birthday, Patricia.  Hope you have a great day and enjoy many more special days like today.

Joy

Thank you so much for the card, Jackie! How did you know I like cats?   

Joy, thank you for the sentiment. I have a quiet day planned other than lunch with some pals.

Happy Birthday, Angel.  What a cute card!

Jackie, great card, and Patricia Happy Birthday.

" Jackie! How did you know I like cats?  "

Angelface, call it intuition...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PATRICIA.  MAY YOU CELEBRATE MANY MORE!

Wyhen I saw this Jack, I immediately thought of you!

http://www.euronews.com/2017/07/31/worlds-longest-pedestrian-suspension-bridge-opens-in-switzerland?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=en&utm_content=worlds-longest-pedestrian-suspension-bridge-opens-in-switzerland&_ope=eyJndWlkIjoiZjQ0ZGZmMGExM2NhODFiMzgyMTQyYjA2MDFlYjNmZDgifQ==

Thank you, Jean, Jack, and Jane!

Jackie, you are very intuitive!     

Patricia, Happy Birthday from me, too.

I wonder why that bridge made you think of Jack. 

Jack, I'll bet the sight of that hanging bridge gave you the shivers!  I'm not so sure I'd like to cross it and I'm usually not bothered by heights.

Mary Ann

Patricia, get the shakes just looking at that bridge.   This one in Virginia is more my style.

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I LOVE that suspension bridge.  If I were anywhere in the vicinity of it, I'd go out of my way to cross it!

Jack, when I saw the bridge, I had a quick image of someone trying to persuade you across!    

Thanks, MaryAnn!

There is a hanging Bridge over at one of the big parks in Indiana where we went camping and hiking for years. it is a long one and a moving bridge. I never would go across it. Same with the ones I have seen in other countries. I never did like the tunnels either. Some are so long they seem to go on for ever. Never have taken the one that goes now from UK to France. Doubt I will. Other than in Airlines I don't go up into the air either at Carnivals Etc.  Really a Chicken......

Well that is one bridge you will never see me attempting to walk on...looks a longer version of our London's Millenium Bridge, now that one actually sways - moves as you walk over it, and no, I have never attempted to walk over than one either...

Jack...
...think I could still manage your type of bridge, well, maybe on a good day...now your bridge is more to my liking, closer to the ground...the way I prefer it...

Jeanne P...
...I took that tunnel once from UK to France, I was inside a coach, that was inside a moving tube, that was inside a bridge, which was under the water...I even got out of the coach with the rest of the party, it was ok as long as you dont think of where you actually are...

Good morning! Now, Jackie, you are going to have to explain your last statement where you mentioned a moving tube amidst the coach and bridge. Speak slowly....      I know what is called a subway here is called a tube in England. I think? But the context didn't make sense to me.

Here is an interesting blurb from the Swiss swaying bridge's site. There is another even bigger!

"Zermatt Tourist Board says it is the longest in the world, hanging at a heady 85m above the Grabengufer ravine, although a 405m bridge in Reutte, Austria hangs 110m higher."

Angelface...
...this is the closest to what I am describing...the tube I am referring to, of course is the train..the Euro-tunnel Shuttle...which goes through the tunnel, which goes through the sea...Link...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3aLbenaXho

Jackie, and Patricia, you can add tunnels to my list of things to avoid.    I do drive a short one almost daily on the interstate.   Now to fear of heights, here is a photo I took of the New River Gorge Bridge in Southern West Virginia.  I have traveled over it a number of times but fortunately they have concrete abutments and I look straight ahead.  This photo was taken from a nearby rest area.   The bridge is 900 feet above the New River.  The river flows north and is said to be one of the oldest in the world, even predating the Atlantic Ocean.  Will post two links in the next post and not risk losing this one.

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They have an annual bridge day for jumpers, and also tours along the understructure.   I will pass on both.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogtex_m68vg

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