Lights have been replaced in my sewing room, noticed one
 in the basement that is blinking so might as well get that one done tomorrow. Need to replace one/two in the garage for Kyle .all in a days work , maybe tomorrow. Planted more parsnip seeds,new pkg so I hope they grow! Also planted more multiplier onions. Watered most of the trugs  just to empty the rain barrel and we did get a light rain....not much but some is better than none.

The swollows have babies, everytime I go into th garden you can hear them peeping. Mom and Dad are on the fly bringing them food, full time job!

I'm heading for the haystack pretty soon!  Breakfast is ready and the coffee only takes a minute in my new pot so it'll be a quickie in the morning.  I had meatloaf, sweet taters and choppped brussel sprouts for supper.  Gooooood Supper!

I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow and may God bless us, every one!

Good Morning Everyfriend!  Have a good day!

Good morning...

We did have some rain,not a lot though. Hope it was enough to fill the rain barrel.

Another day of playing catch up, along with laundry.

Shirley we are also having heat this way, not as hot as Bubbles area though.

Patricia, to you and 

Better get going, enjoy your day and stay safe.

Good morning everyone!

89F today

 Greetings from London Ontario.  Amy your comment about the rain barrel brings back memories of my youth when we had two rain  barrels which usually meant there was sufficient water on laundry day. Of course that meant that we had to haul the water to a fire pit where there was a huge cauldron where we boiled the water. I can tell you that laundry day was the most labour intensive day of the week, but we always had clean clothes.   The cauldron was part of our slaughter house operation; we used to do all of the domestic slaughtering in the county.  Quite often a farmer would pay for our services with large piece of meat, or roast instead of money which was a very good arrangmemt which meant we hardly ever bought meat. Those were part of what we call  the good old days.

Bubble, we have 75 presently, but a promise of lightning and thundershowers tonight. Hopefully, they'll pass right over to somewhere else!
We've had cloudy skies but highs of 80 and 81. Today is our first sunny day.

Don, how nice to see you!

We had one large water barrel to the left of our backdoor and another to the right of our acre of garden.

I grew up in the fifties, and my mom progressed from a wringer washer to different automatics. Still, we had a long wire stretched between two poles, another in the basement, and, later, circular outdoor clothes hanging system. The basement was better in the winter.

To the south of us they had torrential rains and t storms. We just got a drop in the bucket (rainbarrel) I am glad that the storm didn't happen though..

Managed to replace the lights in the garage,will pick up more to replace the ones in the basement another day. ( I know procrastination.
Don,ladies will also tell you that the rain water was also good for washing their hair!  I am not sure the young ones would understand what our parents and their for that matter did to put food on the table.

Patricia, I loved my wringer washer...wish they would bring them back. I also enjoy using the solar dryer .

This area, the interior, is not only a farming mecca due to the rich black glacial soil but also with the rivers and forests, prime hunting and fishing grounds the Athabaskans claimed.

It's still that today if more regulated.

Patience paid off....it rained buckets, bouncing off the driveway and filling the water barrel   This did come with sound effects  so Babe had a doctored up treat to settle her down..

Hello Everyfriend!  I grew up with all that stuff, too.  On washday, there was a wringer washer and two rinse tubs in our kitchen.  The wringer moved to wring clothes going through both rinse tubs.  I loved leading clothes into those wringers but I remember my mother was only inches away.  And off the back porch was a clothes line that my mother called a "pully line".  She could stand on the high back porch and clothespin the clothes on the bottom part of the line and move them out into the yard to dry.  The other end was attached to a tree down at the end of the yard!  Everyone up and down the street had them.

It got up into the mid 80s around here today!  And we had some soft rain showers to go with it.  And we're supposed to get more showers over night.  I trusted them this time and I didn't drag out the hose.

I have one of Jim's Egg Thingys in dish ready to be heated up for breakfast tomorrow.  Also, tomorrow afternoon we have a reunion of staff at the former Girl Scout Camp.  We've been having them for about 25 years now but for the two COVID years we didn't have them.  Tomorrow will be special.  Everyone brings memories in pictures and in their minds and we have a fun couple of hours.  I think I might be the oldest one returning this year.  I did my two years as a Senior Scout Program Aide in 1951 and 52 and my one year as a Counselor in 1953 and the memories stick around!  They were good years!

Nice to see you and your memories, DON!  My dad grew up on a farm and it was still there when I was growing up.  Whenever they slaughtered, my dad went to help and we always had meat to bring home.  We were probably one of the few families in our area during WWII that had fresh meat on the table pretty regularly!

Guess I better head for the haystack.  Tomorrow will be a busy day!  I wish Everyfriend a  peaceful nights sleep and a happy tomorrow and may God bless us, every one!

Thank you, Jane, for the name of the clothesline. Although, it wasn't by the porch but in a small area in our backyard.

They've had some music festival in a park by the river, just a block away, that started at nine am. The thunder showers have chased away the sunshine and built up fearsomely, but no drops as yet, so the festival continues. At this point, I'm hoping it opens up and drenches them! They need more time limits for those inside the city limits and next to homes.

And yes, I'm being grouchy!

Good morning..

Birds are singing loudly this morning, likley thankful for the rain also!
A day of rest here, will just laze the day in .

In some places one is not allowed to hang laundry outside. I hang ours our at long as I can in winter but when the snow gets too deep  it is dried in the dryer.

Jane, enjoy your reunion with your friends.

Patricia, I am with you on the noise a curfew should be set. Some people do have to get up and go to work the next morning and need their sleep. I think the curfew here is 11 pm.

Shirley, after I planted the second planting of parsnips the first one is peeking. Makes me happy that we will have a good crop of parsnips

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

Well, that didn't go well. On the way into town we encountered smoke  and as we got closer to town it also got thicker. Stopped at the grocery store for a few items. waited in line then a staff member told us all to vacate the store, fire trucks could be heard screaming to the store. Out we all went dropping our groceries on the floor or leaving a buggy full of groceries.  Still smoke from the northern fires here, not as thick as town was though..

I just did my church service on line and I'm ready to be picked up for the GS Reunion.  I have on green pants and my GS Shirt and tie with pins all over it.  My dress uniform is ready to take with me and it's also loaded with pins!  I didn't realize I had so many pins.

I did my morning walk, came back and took a shower and dressed before the church service came on. 

It's supposed to begin raining around 1 p.m. here and rain for most of the afternoon.  No hose dragging today if that happens.

I think Frankie (and Cooper) will be coming over this afternoon.  She says he needs a bath and she always does that here because all she has is a shower and he keeps jumping out.  She also said she might visit for the evening and spend the night.  That means I'll have a bedfellow tonight.  The bed she sleeps in is a single and he prefers the room I have in my bed.

AMY, that must have been scary getting chased out of the store!  Also, wondering if you know where Combemere Resort is!  Daughter Christy and husband spent some time there and also around the Thousand Islands.  I told her she probably could have delivered a hug from me to you! And maybe one to David from me also.

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

Jane, yes I do!! In fact we helped with clean up when the tornado went through a few years back.  Not sure which direction she came through but could have come right by us!!  Both of us would have loved your hugs .

Forgot to say I posted a photo of the smoke in the area..

Good morning, well the alert, last night, was wasted on us, those thick bulbous purple clouds sailed on by with nary a drop spilt. It was a music festival and car show down by the river, Amy where they had extremely good mics as I felt like they were directly below rather than two blocks to the west.

At ten, the hard rockers took over and that is when more cars showed up and I couldn't believe there were still families with strollers showing up. Evidently, those rocking were well-known and popular. I don't believe there is a curfew, but I finally fell asleep amidst the noise and people.

I looked it up online, The city decided that it was in their best commercial interests to hold the midnight sun festival on the Saturday following so most folks would be off work. Never mind that the solstice is on the 21st.

I wouldn't have minded if the mics hadn't magnified it so much!

"The Midnight Sun Festival is Alaska's largest single-day event! We look forward to the 41st anniversary of the festival on June 24, 2023 from Noon-Midnight. Featuring 12 hours of local live music, vendors, and food trucks. 1st and 2nd Avenues will be closed to vehicular traffic. "

Good morning...

Woke to the sound of rain, much needed rain for the ground. Just hope those that are experencing the forest fires are also getting rain.

We are off to the city this morning, leaving the furkids at home and will definitely  get "the look" when we get home.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

Good Morning Everyfriend!  I'm now off for the rest of the day.  My dr. gave me good news!  He said there are no cells returning to the area of my surgery on my jaw and if that continues for the rest of this year, I'm home free!  I knew that the drs. I had were good but this morning I saw this one without a mask for the first time.  Boy is he ever a cutie!  And he's so NICE, too!

AMY, I wish I'd known in advance how close they were going to be!  I'd have definitely packed a couple of hugs in their luggage!

PATRICIA, I went to bed last night while the fireworks were going off!  After I took out my hearing aids, the fireworks moved farther away and I didn't have any trouble getting to sleep!

I think Cooper is ready for his second walk.  We were out REALLY EARLY this morning because of my having to get ready for my early DR. appt!  I'm hoping he can wait until after lunch.

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

We had a good day! Rained on the way into the city,not a lot but enough .  Dogs were happy to see us and enjoyed the treats.
Then later on,  hokey teddy bear did it rain! Over flowed the eve trough and thunder gave voice.

Noticed on the way to the city that the staghorn sumacs were loaded with flowers. This fall the colours will be vibrant and the birds will have them to eat.

Good evening everone. well girls I do not reamber if I have told you all aout this before, but I will tell you again either way. my mother was uasing our old Matag wringer wassher. she had it set up like you all said with two reince wash tubs. the way you all did.she was putting clothes in one side of the wringer and leaning over to the other other side catching them. she leansd over too far, and the wringer cought her right bousem and pulled on to it. and was spinning on it. she could not get to where she could relace it. she yell at me to come help her. i hit the realice thing to spred it but it was still spinning on her bussum. so she ylledd revurse it. so i did and then shut it off. she shure had a black and bluew bussem for a while. so grils if you still use a old wringer washer, do not lean over them, they will will grabe a hold and pull, take it easy and stay safe.

Lloyd

Guess many of us grew up with the old Maytag wringer washer. Lloyd, terrible about your poor mother but can remember how that could happen so easy. Mom's was so old she tried to prove it was the oldest model still working. She knew exactly how much blueing to add to have "the whitest-whites" in the neighborhood. I am wondering if hers had to be hand cranked for the wringer. I know sox had to be flat going in and each basket full carried from basement to outside where Dad had a long clothesline that was low enough for Mom to reach, and then a long board she would prop the line up with after hanging everything. It seemed to me one load was dry by the time the next load went up. The whites were sprinkled and rolled up tight in a basket to be ironed next day. Being the last of 5 kids I followed Mom around & "helped" a lot. Most everything got ironed & I learned to iron young & still appreciate fresh ironed things.

Sweet dreams and God Bless, we can live all over the world and still find we have a lot in common, right? 

Lloyd...
...reminds me of my first job after leaving school age 15, when i worked in a printing factory on one of those large - long floor electric roller conveyer belt machines that magazines-newspapers roll off that i had to pack on wooden pallet...well i had long hair and as i bent down when a paper dropped on the floor, as my hair caught in the roller, if it hadn't of been for the man sitting at the other end of that machine noticing and pressing that button that turned those rollers off just in time of that roller reaching the scalp...As you can guess and after hair being freed i was shaking and sent to the office and made to tie my hair back with an elastic band before  being sent back on that conveyer belt....

Gosh, Jackie, you worked in the printing industry too? Different times, though, I am sure. I worked in pre-press. I was there for the change from making film images for the "strippers" to mount on big sheets of what I think was oak-tag paper in preparation to making the plates, to going all digital. By the time I left, clients were beginning to send files electronically directly to press without needing my help at all. The computer did it all. I was there 19 and a half years before I got laid-off, just six months shy of being eligible for severance pay and two years shy of eligible for full Social Security benefits.

I've been keeping half an eye on the marine traffic on the Great Lakes. It looks like the tourist cruises are back in full swing. I counted at least five ocean going cruise ships. There are at least that many of the smaller laker cruise/passenger ships and the passenger ferries are being kept busy. Since the Titanic tragedy, I've been wondering about Viking's submersibles. https://www.vmcdn.ca/f/files/tbnewswatch/images/local-news/2022/may/viking-octantis-submersible.JPG;w=960;h=640;bgcolor=000000 What is even more interesting is that there are personal submersibles for sale now that hold only one or two people. I had no idea. If you have super big bucks, you too can own your own submersible and park it in the garage. Take a look at the many different models one company offers. https://tritonsubs.com/subs/ I had no idea that tourist submersibles have been around for so long.

MarsGal...
...that was the place to work after leaving school if we had members of family in the printing industry, you could guarantee that we would be taken on....I was only in that factory for a short while then it moved into London, i was not one who went with it...

Good morning..

Another day of t storms the weather folks say. Sure hope they are wrong!
Rain is welcomed especially to the north for the fires that are not under control yet.

Work around home today ,better get somethin or warm upg easy to cook as tomorrow we are to get another booster shot for covid and I am not sure how it will effect us.

Shirley, Mom used a pop bottle with a sprinkler head in it  and did what your Mom did roll the item up untill she ironed it. Ironing is one job I really enjoy and do a lot of it in quilting.

Better get the day going..

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

Huh, more underwater things. I just now ran across a crime/mystery/thriller series by Andrew Mayne called Underwater Investigations Unit. So far he has written four books in this series. Now I am off to investigate this new to me series.

Jackie, for the most part I enjoyed my work. It was a good fit since I love books, etc. Prior to that, I was three years at Rodale Institute, the not-for profit set up by Bob Rodale. I got to rub elbows with the editors of The New Farm magazine and often writers and editors of the various magazines at Rodale, Inc., the commercial publisher. While I rarely saw Bob, I did occasionally talk to his secretary, and his younger son who did photography work for the Institute was in and out when he wasn't in Africa or on some other assignment. I also got to go out to the research farm several times.

MarsGal...
...memories and our work experiences will forever stay with us, i have been told by several i should write a book on my past job experiences and the odd famous persons i have met...

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Now shall we tell Lloyd that us women have had our breasts squeezed and trapped in mammogram machines....

  Good morning Amy and Joanne. We're seeing a cooler day today and tomorrow with temps in the low seventies with rain on Thursday before going up over the weekend.

Shirley, my mom was basically working through much of my childhood and then working around the house and yard otherwise as most folks were when we were still a territory and not yet a state. I remember her always busy and other than cooking, I think she saw the house and grounds as something that reflected on her. In the fifties, I think that was a common thread.

Amy, I've had four covid boosters, and the way both flu, covid, and RSV are presently mutating, it looks like there will be plenty of boosters in seniors' futures.

Joanne, I spent my entire employment in the retail and hospitality industries, mainly in middle management, which I do not recommend. You are accountable to both the public and senior management. You are often given 200 working hours per pay period to be split between twelve to fourteen employees with preference to those senior or in good standing, so you're generally not too favorited by employees either.