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Amy · August 05, 2023, 06:47:09 AM

Good morning...
I see Miss Jane is here!!! Great way to start the day to see you!

Working in the kitchen making mustard pickles then prepare another batch and cut up cucmbers for a 11 day pickle.......I hope.

Weather is lovely with a starting temp of 50°

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

patricia19 · August 05, 2023, 12:31:59 PM

Good morning from a very smoky Interior. We're at 60 presently and headed back to yesterday's 90 degrees with fires to the north and west of us. This is the first time I remember having fires this close and in the ridges above the city. We're full of fire refugees.

FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING FOR MIDDLE TANANA VALLEY
Affected Area
Middle Tanana Valley.
Timing
From Sunday afternoon through Sunday evening.
Winds
Southeast 10 to 15 mph. Gusts 20 to 25 mph.
Humidity
As low as 25 percent.
Temperatures
Highs 80 to 90.
Impacts
Rapid ignition, growth and spread of fires will be possible.
Tips
A Fire Weather Watch means that weather conditions could lead to the potential for a Red Flag event in the near future. This watch will remain in effect until it is upgraded to a Red Flag Warning or that it is determined that the Red Flag event will not develop. Please advise the appropriate officials or fire crews in the field of this Fire Weather Watch.
Issued By
NWS Fairbanks

RAMMEL · August 05, 2023, 09:56:46 PM

Knock, knock.

Amy · August 06, 2023, 06:36:32 AM

Good morning..

Crows are making themselves known!! Two at the feed and two in the trees that are cawing at the top of their lungs!

Yesterday was productive, managed to get 24 jars of bread and butters done and 32 cups of cucumbers cut for icicle pickle. The icicle pickles take 11 days so no hurry on that. I would like to say a day of rest but still have more cucumbers to cut up.

Town is inundated with tourist ,a place to stay away from till the holiday is over .

Temp has cooled somewhat but will soon race to higher numbers. We have wanted summer but now that it is here with its heat, we want cooler weather.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

JaneS · August 06, 2023, 08:20:17 AM

Good Morning Everyfriend! I'm not sure how this will turn out. I'm doing it with one eye closed. When I went back on Friday, I thought to have the eye insert taken out for good, the Dr. said that it did a good job but not as much as he had hoped and that he was putting another one in until Wednesday of this coming week. I could actually tell that it had done some good because a picture on the door of his office that I usually saw two of, was only one that day!

I'm still sitting around with one eye closed and covered until Wednesday! And if I move my eyes, I'm supposed to move my whole head so both eyes go at once. I told AMY that the object that he inserted in my eye "is full of little sticks" (not really but that's what it feels like in my eye and I can't wait to get it out on Wednesday). I'm managing pretty well. Christy had to go home and will be back in time to take me to the dr. on Wed. My kids have been so good to me and when I try to say "Thank you", they just tell me they're not doing anything special. Just giving back! Isn't that great! I must have been an OK mother!

Now I'm quitting this. I wish you all a good day...better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow! (Forgive any typing errors. I can't see them)

Amy · August 06, 2023, 08:38:02 AM

Good to "see" you Jane!!!

Amy · August 06, 2023, 08:41:03 AM

Jane, another day of listening to your music of pop pop pop as the jars seal. Noticed the store had cabbages on and will get some to make your cole slaw...we really enjoy that.

Better get going..

Vanilla-Jackie · August 06, 2023, 08:44:29 AM

Jane S...
...good seeing a posting from you...

patricia19 · August 06, 2023, 12:02:06 PM

Good morning; we're under a red flag fire warning; it's a dense fog of smoke out there today; I can barely see anything that isn't close to me. We have southeasterly winds and will be in the nineties again later today. The entire world is on fire, Europe, Asia, North America...

I've just finished my morning meet and greets and was so pleased to see Jane checking in with us this morning and letting us know she's doing well, even if her eye insert feels like sticks.

Amy, you sound busy already although my morning is your afternoon. I always have a small grin when I check in and read that you, Jane and Rick have been up and at it at 2 and three o'clock in the morning.

I hope to see a post from Lloyd today and perhaps a few others, soI'll leave with a hope that everyone's morning is going well and only gets better as the day goes on.

CallieOK · August 06, 2023, 01:20:04 PM

Good Morning,

Jane, so happy to see you back! Sorry about the "sticks in your eye" and hoping for good news on Wednesday.

Patricia, I think I've said before that the smoke was heavy all during our tour of Alaska - particularly between Fairbanks and Anchorage. I have a picture of the midnight sun behind a cloud of smoke.

Amy, I used to make pickles in much the same way as your icebox (eleven day) pickles. Mine were flavored with cinnamon "red hot" candies and we called them Christmas pickles because of the red color. They taste like watermelon pickles.

The sermon on tv church service this morning was on being content with your situation. Very appropriate for me because I have a small hairline fracture in my left ankle bone and have to wear a big heavy klunky boot for a month. Have no idea how/when the fracture happened; pain started last weekend.
I've worn braces on both feet for years because of a congenital foot problem (Auxilliary Navicular Syndrome) and switch the boot for that brace at bedtime. I can also take the boot off to shower - thank goodness!

Granddaughter's wedding is in three weeks and family had already made arrangements for a wheel chair so I plan on switching to brace for that occasion, too.

Find something to enjoy about your day, Everyfriend.

Amy · August 06, 2023, 05:34:24 PM

Patricia, my get up and at'tem is now gone. There are 33 jars of mustard bread and butters done and I am now done too! It was a case of use the cucumbers or lose them and they are expensive enough to buy. I do have some in the garden but only in the flower stage. When I do canning etc I like to get a quantity and get it all done at once, with the garden you can only get some much at a time.

Callie, your pickles sound interesting an d now I am going to look for watermelon pickle recipes. Hope your foot heals fast for you.

CallieOK · August 06, 2023, 05:45:55 PM

Amy, the pickels are made from a big amount of cucumbers.. They just taste like ones made with watermelons

patricia19 · August 06, 2023, 06:55:05 PM

Years ago, when I lived in western Kentucky, I used to pickle watermelon rind following a recipe from my then-mother-in-law. I wonder if that's the same pickle?

Callie, this isn't as bad as it was when you were here, and we're supposed to have thundershowers starting late tomorrow afternoon and Tuesday. It smells like a big barbeque outside but no drifting smoke in the houses. We're encircled on three sides.

CallieOK · August 06, 2023, 07:20:22 PM

I gave all my canning supplies and recipes to my dil years ago. I found this recipe on-line for what we called Christmas Pickles.

Amy · August 07, 2023, 07:04:10 AM

Good morning

Strong possibility of rain today! Putting away the spoils from yesterday and washing floors . I don't know of anyone that can pickle/can without making a mess on the floors. Will have company later on today then I am going to do zip,nada, put my feet up and no nothing.

Callie, the pickles sound interesting.Would be rather festive along side green gerkins at Christmas.

Patricia, hope the fires are soon out.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

JaneS · August 07, 2023, 07:08:36 AM

Good Morning Everyfriend!

CALLIE, you gave me that recipe and there are a couple jars of those pickles in my cupboard. In fact, I just put one in the fridge a couple days ago. I'm waiting for Christy to come back to open it. I could probably find the recipe if I could see better! We love them!

It's nice to "see" all of you again! But I can't stick around this morning. I have to get dressed and take Cooper for a walk. We've been having nights in the high 50s and days that reach the low 80s sometime after lunch time. Not our usual summer days but I like it!

I wish you all a good day...better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow!

P.S. This is the first day of my eye work that I've felt like hitting the computer first thing in the morning!

phyllis · August 07, 2023, 10:50:13 AM

We just finished the last batch of pickles. My version only takes a few hours and then they are ready to eat. I don't can anything and never did. I remember my mother slaving over boiling water in brutally hot Kansas weather and chopping and slicing one kind of fruit and veg. after another. My first thought was that's too much work. I am going to find an easier way to do it or buy it from the local grocery store....or get it from a kind neighbor in exchange for something I gave her. That has worked for me for all of my life. Don't plan to change now.

Are you just announcing that you are with us, Rammel, or did we miss a "knock,knock" joke?

so_P_bubble · August 07, 2023, 10:51:45 AM

For Don

https://www.seniorsandfriends.org/photos-and-more/photos-old-and-new/msg240086/#msg240086

RAMMEL · August 07, 2023, 11:12:31 AM

Quote from: phyllis on August 07, 2023, 10:50:13 AMAre you just announcing that you are with us, Rammel, or did we miss a "knock,knock" joke?

Just wondering if anyone was home.

Heavy, well needed rain here for today. I love pickled watermellon rind, but at this point it is too sweet for my "diet". Would drive my BS up.

patricia19 · August 07, 2023, 01:22:40 PM

Good morning; glad to see Jane and so many here. Things aren't so good here; dense smoke and one of the encircling fires have crept to only 46 miles away. We are under a fire watch, coming down from two weeks in the nineties, and the forecast for today is for thundershowers with lightning. How do you move a city of over 100,000 bursting with fire refugees when the fires cover the highways? We're used to being the fallback point, not the one needing to fall back.

RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO MIDNIGHT AKDT TONIGHT FOR LIGHTNING FOR MIDDLE TANANA VALLEY
Affected Area
Middle Tanana Valley.
Timing
From 2 PM this afternoon to midnight AKDT tonight.
Lightning Activity Level
4.
Winds
Southwest 5 to 10 mph.
Humidity
As low as 39 percent.
Temperatures
Highs in the upper 70s.
Impacts
Frequent lightning could cause new fire starts. Thunderstorms will cause gusty and erratic winds in the late afternoon and evening.
Tips
A Red Flag Warning means that conditions are occurring or will occur, which could lead to the development of large and dangerous fires. It is directed toward fire agencies, and through them, to the public. Please advise the appropriate officials or fire crews in the field of this Red Flag Warning.
Issued By
NWS Fairbanks

Amy · August 07, 2023, 01:47:04 PM

Traffic is bumper to bumper out there!! We had an appointment to get Babes nails cut and I am so glad to be back home. THe young lady was so good with Babe and we will be going back again. Rain has also put a push on the tourists to go back home and it lets me out of a job

Patricia, stay safe!!!

Rick , what if the pickles were done with Splenda instead of sugar?

RAMMEL · August 07, 2023, 04:27:47 PM

Quote from: Amy on August 07, 2023, 01:47:04 PMRick , what if the pickles were done with Splenda instead of sugar?

That would be good. Does anyone do that?

patricia19 · August 07, 2023, 06:45:37 PM

I posted Callie's recipe in What's For Dinner

https://www.seniorsandfriends.org/index.php?msg=240112

JaneS · August 07, 2023, 08:07:27 PM

I think it's time for me to get off this blasted computer! I don't know if my eyes are the way they are from the Dr. messing around or all the time I spent on the computer today!

We had a really hard thunderstorm for a few hours this late afternoon and evening. There was also a threat of tornadoes in this area. I don't have a basement so I closed all the doors and kind of hid out in the hall. But nothing hit around here but a lot of thunder and a lot of rain. I'm curious as to where and even if the tornadoes hit nearby! The last time they warned about tornadoes, a building about a mile from my house was hit! Kind of scary! Now I'm going to go rest my eyes.

I wish you all happy nights and days!

RAMMEL · August 07, 2023, 08:09:26 PM

I think that storm is headed this way.

CallieOK · August 07, 2023, 08:45:36 PM

Thank you, Patricia.

Janie, if we don't have a basement or a storm shelter, it's suggested that we get in the bathtub and cover ourselves with pillows or quilts if a tornado is approaching. I don't have a basement or a storm shelter, either so I sit in the closet that's right behind my shower.

A long ago friend said she was going to get in the toilet because she'd noticed that was the only thing left standing when a house was destroyed. She was a...ummm..."traditionally built" woman and the mental picture was .

patricia19 · August 07, 2023, 09:18:18 PM

1% ers - Hard to believe but this includes many of us.

99% of those born between 1930 and 1946 (worldwide) are now dead.

If you were born in this time span, you are one of the rare surviving one percenters of this special group.
Their ages range is between 77 and 93 years old, a 16-year age span.
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE 1% ERS:

§ You are the smallest group of children born since the early 1900's.

You are the last generation, climbing out of the depression, who can remember the winds of war and the impact of a world at war that rattled the structure of our daily lives for years.
You are the last to remember ration books for everything from gas to sugar to shoes to stoves.
You saved tin foil and poured fried meat fat into tin cans.
You can remember milk being delivered to your house early in the morning and placed in the "milk box" on the porch.
Discipline was enforced by parents and teachers.
You are the last generation who spent childhood without television; instead, you "imagined" what you heard on the radio.
With no TV, you spent your childhood "playing outside".
There was no Little League.
There was no city playground for kids.
The lack of television in your early years meant that you had little real understanding of what the world was like.
We got "black-and-white" TV in the late 40s that had 3 stations and no remote.
Telephones were one to a house, often shared (party lines), and hung on the wall in the kitchen (no cares about privacy)
Computers were called calculators; they were hand-cranked.
Typewriters were driven by pounding fingers, throwing the carriage, and changing the ribbon.
'INTERNET' and 'GOOGLE' were words that did not exist.
Newspapers and magazines were written for adults and the news was broadcast on your radio in the evening (your dad would give you the comic pages when he read the news).
New highways would bring jobs and mobility. Most highways were 2 lanes (no interstates).
You went downtown to shop. You walked to school.
The radio network expanded from 3 stations to thousands.
Your parents were suddenly free from the confines of the depression and the war, and they threw themselves into working hard to make a living for their families.
You weren't neglected, but you weren't today's all-consuming family focus.
They were glad you played by yourselves.
They were busy discovering the postwar world.
You entered a world of overflowing plenty and opportunity; a world where you were welcomed, enjoyed yourselves.
You felt secure in your future, although the depression and poverty were deeply remembered.
Polio was still a crippler. Everyone knew someone who had it.
You came of age in the '50s and '60s.
You are the last generation to experience an interlude when there were no threats to our homeland.
World War 2 was over, and the cold war, terrorism, global warming, and perpetual economic insecurity had yet to haunt life.
Only your generation can remember a time after WW2 when our world was secure and full of bright promise and plenty.
You grew up at the best possible time, a time when the world was getting better.
More than 99% of you are retired now, and you should feel privileged to have "lived in the best of times!"
If you have already reached the age of 77 years old, you have outlived 99% of all the other people in the world who were born in this special 16 year time span. You are a 1% 'er"!

so_P_bubble · August 08, 2023, 02:49:11 AM

Patricia, that is all of me! It sums it all.

JaneS · August 08, 2023, 06:27:33 AM

Good Morning! That's me, too. And out of me and two sister born in that era, two of us are still going strong! My sister is 89. She's 16 months older tha me! And she still lives alone and takes care of herself. I guess we had a good start!

Amy · August 08, 2023, 06:48:55 AM

Good morning..
cloudy morning and will be that way most of the day with periods of rain. We lost our power last night, not for long but now the clocks need attention. There was no storm in the area so maybe a traffic acciden that took out a pole??
Finally have no fear of the floors gettin up and going to the lake to get clean. Today ,I will coast and hope to sew..have my birds in the cabin to finish,then move on to another quilt.

Patricia, thank you for posting the recipe...makes me want to try them ,will see as I still have beets and Janies cole slaw and some peaches to can.

Rick,I would assume you can get them in the stores....will check for you.

Better get a move on.

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