Good Morning Everyfriend!  LLOYD, I hope you're feeling OK today and that you managed to keep the monitor in place! 

Christy took off for WM to get some more mulch so she can finish up the yard work.  She's also waiting for a call from her life-long friend, Julie.  They always try to get together for something when she comes up here.  They've been friends since they were 6 and met in first grade!  That's awesome!

She just came back with the mulch and she's outside working on that.  I told her to holler if she needs me.

The chicken is all cooked and there are about two gallons of broths in the fridge and about two quarts of chicken and same of veggies to be dealt with.  AMY, the baking soda did the trick!  The chicken is tender and delicious.  I think I'll do a couple jars with the veggies and meat already in them so I just have to add noodles or rice for soup and then some of the broth plain for use in "other stuff".  That's next on the agenda!  It sounds like at least two canners full of quart jars!  Busy! Busy!

I hope you all have a great day...better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow!

Good morning everyone. We had thunderstorms in the forecast for last night but if we had any I did not hear it but it did rain overnight again, I can see the walks drying this morning. Shock!! we are in for 90+° today and tomorrow. Yesterday morning I could have used some heat in here and today hitting  the 90's.
That's New  England for you. Like the year along the south shore one year in mid June there was an 8 inch snowfall and this area had none. When I go to sleep at night others are amazed that I can sleep through a loud thunderstorm.   

PHYLLIS  I am like you in the summer months and when the humidity climbs with the heat I really just want to sit near the AC or sleep.

Better get a move on, after 10 and my son will be here soon.
Have a good day  and  stay safe.

Woke up to "not quite mid-50s" this morning but felt like 49. I've got on sweats & warm sox & shoes instead of barefooted. Fed the birds, fed the cat & fed me, so ready for a nap!

One of the young robins decided to fly off the nest to see what Mom & Dad are eating over on those brick posts.... landed on the hood of the motorhome & slid right off to the driveway. Blackbird flitted down to check on it & Mom & Dad nose-dived that blackbird so it ran over to hide in the flowers. Don't know where the baby went after that but the food I put out is already gone.

Phyllis, my daughter is in FL for her husband's 50th Class Reunion. They live in St.Louis & are used to humidity & heat BUT she is struggling with the humidity in FL & had to go back to their room after a short while of the party taking place outside.

Going to drink some more water, my kids keep pestering me to drink more water (they think it will puff out some of the wrinkles...      )

Bad storms going through the area. We have lost our power and working on generator at the moment. Son sent photo of trees down, pounding rain in his area. Some areas also have high winds which thankfully we don't have them.
Janie to the Rescue and now Babe is quieting down...

Not much going on here.
 It is too bloody hot to enjoy outside.  I did do something that I hadn't done in years.  My yard is simply awash with weeds.  I had used Scotts weed and feed last year, but obviously that didn't last.  So I had bought a container of Spectracide Weed Stop for Lawns. Really handy, as you just attach the garden hose to the sprayer nozzle, and go to it.  I have a corner lot, so a lot of walking, dragging hose is involved.  Did the front, went to the side and then back yard.  I think I got it covered well.
I was fighting the approach of rain, (just sprinkles)but that stopped in good time! Then I had to roll up the backyard hose, which is a heavy-duty, black rubber one, which seems like it weighs 20 pounds.  At one point out front, I disconnected the expandable hose, which takes an inordinate amount of time to drain itself out, at which point the hose did a "sea serpent"on me flopping back and forth across the walkway, and spraying me from head to toe!It was good exercise, an unusual amount of "fun" to be doing something so different, but wow was I tired from all the walking/dragging and my arm moving in a back and forth sweeping motion[/font ]Bet I will sleep good tonight, but probably won't be able to get out of bed in the morning!

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 14 people across 12 states have reported becoming sick after eating certain Jif peanut butter products, sending two people to the hospital.

The FDA states that Jif product lot code numbers 1274425 through 2140425 are affected by the recall and advises people in possession of those products to throw it away.

Lot code numbers can be found alongside the best-if-used-by date on Jif peanut butter products.

The J.M. Smucker Company says that the recall affects different types of its products including creamy peanut butter, crunchy peanut butter, to-go packs of peanut butter, and more.

Data from the FDA states that the first person affected by the Salmonella outbreak became sick on February 20, and noted that the actual number of people sick is likely "much higher" than the 14 people currently being reported.


According to the FDA, four out of five people who became sick reported eating "different types of Jif brand peanut butter" before becoming ill.

Salmonella, when it infects healthy people, causes symptoms such as fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain.

The infection can cause more serious symptoms in young children, as well as frail or elderly individuals.

Hello Everyfriend!  We've had another busy day but the yard work is all done and the chicken broth is ready to can.  Tomorrow is another day!

PATRICIA, if it's not one thing, it's another!  Now it's the Peanut Butter!  I wrote down the numbers so I can look at my two jars the next time I'm in the kitchen.  That won't be until tomorrow because I'm on my way to the haystack right now.

AMY, I'm so glad your doggies are suffering through the storms any more.  It sure did relax Annie and Mickie when I started using it...Bonnie, too! 

I'm off to the haystack.  I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow and may God bless us, every one!  And may He also watch over the Ukrainians!

Good Morning everyone. looks like i am first in here this Morning, so I wish you all a great day. it is over cast, and the wether guesser here is saying 54º and sunney so mabey it will come out. see you all later.

Lloyd

Good morning everyone. lt time I checked the temperature yesterday it was 88° and today is supposed to get to 92.

PATRICIA  I have not bought any Jif in a long time, have not had peanut butter in the house in a long time but will sure let my family know. Have heard nothing on the news here about that recall.

Nothing going on around here, just the same old thing every day.  Just letting you know I am still alive and complaining.

Have a good day and stay safe.

Good morning...

That was one heck of a storm!!Power was restored around 10 pm  and we got off lucky here. Other areas had trees down, and some had a dance with a tornado!

I have been to town to pick up the fixin's of Janes rhubarb juice. A day of rest after I wash the dog bed..Babe's stomach was upset, thunder and fire works didn't help .

I did manage to get my pots and urns planted with just a few more to go yesterday before company came.

Better get at it.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

Quote from: RAMMEL on May 22, 2022, 09:27:38 AM

Quote from: Gloria on May 22, 2022, 09:12:27 AMGood morning everyone. lt time I checked the temperature yesterday it was 88° and today is supposed to get to 92.............................................

Just about the same here.  It was 78 when I got up today so we're well on our way to a hot day. A/Cs are ready to go (I hope), with new batteries in their remotes.

A/Cs are ready to go (I hope), with new batteries in their remotes.

Rick do you remember a time when we didn't have a/c? I don't ever want to be without it now!

I do remember those days. Open windows and leave doors open and hope for a cross draft.  If you were lucky you had a fan. 
I think WW2  brought about A/Cs, antibiotics, and Microwaves.  Somehow people made do.
Then, there was "swamp coolers".

I remember when we thought those window fans were great & then the water wheels (what were they called?) My father hated AC until his last days, he'd go sit outside on the patio instead of AC but loved the big old floor fans. We are having a few days of cool down, it was HOT summer before that. The time of year when summer & winter clothes are out & sometimes wear them both the same day! 

Sun shining today, temp is 55° & feels pretty good to me. Looks like another robin just out of the nest, Mom was trying to show it how to come eat at the post but it just sat on a big lava rock by the front porch & waited for Mom to deliver. Don't know if it's the same one that landed on the motorhome yesterday & slid right down to the driveway, but they don't have any control over where they are going for a while. Mom or Dad just tries to keep up with them. This one looks especially small & young, it's speckled front looks so tiny.

Ah, that's the name I was looking for, Rick, "swamp cooler"...

Son called to say they are still without power in their area. Garage is limiting gas to 25 liters and cash only.
Rick ,I was going to ask what a "swamp cooler" was but with Shirley's post it has something to do with a water wheel???

Amy - A swamp cooler is basically air moving over something wet - causing it to evaporate and be/feel cooler.  There's probably a million descriptions of a swamp cooler - from the original to some made today. Google might help.

My son said this morning that he spent over $100 for the 35 gallons of gas he bought WITH HIS DOLLAR OFF FOR THOSE 35 GALLONS!  I'm still mulling over the math on that.    Think what it will cost to fill my motorhome that holds 55 gallons! Scary!

Does it feel like we are finishing each other's sentences? 

Rick, thank you. Makes sense to me. Will google though just to see the differant ways of doing so.

Shirley I got roughly a half a tank of reg gas for $84.51 and that was for 41.234 litres. OUCH!!

Took a peek and this is what they say.
https://home.howstuffworks.com/home-improvement/heating-and-cooling/swamp-cooler.htm

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

Patricia, I saw on last night's news that the baby formula shipment was to arrive in the USA today.  Haven't had the news on today to get an update.

Not very busy in here today!  Christy is safely back home in Maryland (I missed her before she made it to the highway) and Frankie is home in bed preparing for work tomorrow!  She will drop Cooper by around 6:45 tomorrow morning!  I have gallons of chicken broth in the fridge to can tomorrow and is it ever going to taste good in soups, stews and other recipes next winter!  Another busy day tomorrow!

I'm off to the haystack for an early night tonight.  Everything is out to start the canning in the morning and I'm going to have things heating when Cooper gets here.  I hope your days past were as good as mine were and I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow.  And may God bless us, every one!  And may he watch over the Ukrainians!

Good morning
Having a giggle here,loons and the rooster are competing for morning song.
My friend called last night,they are still without power  and may get it back on Tues. She said line up at gas stations was unreal. Makes one think to have extras on hand for times like this.
Taking garbage away then home to work   maybe garden, maybe make Jane's rhubarb juice ,not sure yet.
I managed to get another cancer quilt done and start on a log  cabin quilt.May work on that.
Jane,the lady that told me about the baking soda could cook up a storm.  I worked for them in the summer during school holidays. We milked cows and sold the cream,milk went
to calves,chickens and pigs. If a calf was sick with the scours .I was sent to the hen house to get a couple of eggs and then he would put the raw egg,shell to in the side of the calfs mouth break it ,the calf would swallow the egg and crunch on the shell.Made my stomach queasy as I don't like runny yolks never mind raw!

Better  get  a move on

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

 

Good Morning Everyfriend!  My first batch of chicken broth in quart jars is in the canner, the timer is set and the second set of jars is waiting it's turn. 

AMY, I don't mind the yolks a bit runny but I like my egg whites cooked!  I've never tried eating a shell but I rather think I won't ever try that!   Thanks again for the tip of using the baking soda.  I think that one will be moving to Maryland with Christy, too.  She said they always just grind up the meat for dog food!  But she ate some of it here when we were stripping the bones and said it was good!

I have to go fill my bird feeder.  There are sometimes a dozen birds around it and yesterday we even had a couple squirrels come in and  clean up the ground around it!  They sort of took turns. 

I guess I better get back in the kitchen.  That's my space for today.  And Cooper is in the yard so I better look out on him too.  I wish you all a good day...better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow!

Good morning everyone,60° now at 7:15 and a high of 75, I sure can take that. No AC will need to be running so will be quiet. It is overcast now. Just saw the forecast and looks OK for the next 4 days heat going up for next weekend. The guesser was talking about the dewpoint, hate that word-means humidity getting high. I noticed yesterday only 3 people were sitting on the porch and they did not stay long, too hot.

PATRICIA  with they let us know when they will inspect our apartments, they just show up and if you are not home they come in anyway. I never liked anyone being in my home when no one is home. This place is as clean as I can keep it and do not have things hanging round. My rollator wheels have taken most of the wax on the floor in the bathroom and I cannot use one of the machines thy have to strip the floor and then use their wax. Same with this cheap imitation wood floor in here. You can see the tracks where I walk and where I sit in front of my desk. First time she noticed a spot in the bathroom she asked if I was using Clorox on the floor. I am I  not that stupid.

AMY  I have left messages on Yvette's phone several times but she has not answered any yet. I am beginning to think the surgeon she had at that hospital is like the one who did the first carpal tunnel surgery on my right hand. When I called his off to have it done on my left wrist and said the right one will need doing again whoever it was I talked with said they cannot do surgery a second time on the same wrist. OK so much for the doctor I was going to that sent me to that old know it all. I started asking around and one name kept coming up so called and got an appointment, When I kept an appointment with the doctor I had I told him about it. All he said is "I hope he knows what he is doing. I asked him if he saw that months Rhode Islander magazine and he said he reads that magazine every month. I asked if he noticed the doctor on the cover. The top one of the top 50 in the state, he said he saw it and I just looked him in the eyes and said that is the one who is going to do the surgery and do a secomd one on the first one that was not done right. He just walked out of the room saying he would see me in 3 months.

LLOYD  we could use some more rain here but none in the forecast this week.

AMY AND JANE  just what is this baking soda with chicken? Only when boiling or simmering chicken or what?
I am sure it isn't for baking or frying chicken.

RICK  much easier using a remote for the AC instead of standing in front of the AC with the air blowing in face and eyes.  I never heard of swamp coolers until my daughter and SIL  took me to Arizona one year when I went to San Diego to visit them. Hw had a cousin who lived in Az. and we stoppd to visit her and she had a swamp cooler going. To me is seemed to just add humidity into her house. I remember my Mom canning on hot summer days and do not know how she did it. The stove we had was a big old cast iron one with chrome trim. We had a lot of windows, no fan and even as a kid of 7 or 8 I knew it was hot and it bothered me at that age so I do not know how my Mom had that stove heating up the house and her canning was the water bath adding more heat and steam to the kitchen. Not even a fan till after WW2 and one brother home from the Pacific bought her a fan.

PATRICIA  I heard about the baby formula coming in from Europe on the 6 pm news yesterday

Finished my coffee so now it is time to eat and take pills. Not that I like taking pills of any kind, I remember when I only took an aspirin when I had a really bad headache and that one only 1 aspirin.

Have a good day and stay safe.

well I will try again. the grimlens keep eating my post,s it is very bright sun shine here today 49º. I hope to get this heart moniter off today, It fell down in the night, I put it back up I hope where it belongs. Have a good day.

Lloyd


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Good morning; we're still at our evening low of 50 degrees at 9:25 AM. Today's high will be 73 and sunny. The trees are now budded out, and people are finally out and about other than those trapped in the foothills.

The morning news talked about the ice jam flooding causing slower internet and data speeds as a flood knocked out a repeater station that helps distribute the internet. "GCI communications director Heather Handyside said that flooding at Manley Hot Springs in Interior Alaska on Saturday knocked out power to a repeater station that helps distribute internet to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. The repeater has been running on backup battery power for over 48 hours, and that power is about to run out. GCI has been unable to install a generator at the site due to the flooding."

Hello You All out there!  We had a gorgeous day today.  The high was olnly 71 and the sun was shining!  Cooper arrived at 6:45 and he had breakfast with me and then we took a nice walk while my first set of jars sterilized.  When we got back he asked to go out in the yard and he spent most of the rest of the day out there.  He came up on the porch and barked at the door 3 different times but when I went to let him in he just looked at me as if to say, "I was just making sure you were still here.  I don't want to come in."  Even the birds have got used to him but  not the squirrels.

I have 14 quarts of GOOD chicken stock canned and added to my stock.  It sure looks like the start of some good soup or casseroles of a nice crock pot stew!  I love looking at the finished product as it cools on the table.  Makes me feel good.

GLORIA, the baking soda is only for taking the toughness out of old birds that have passed their prime for laying eggs.  If you don't use a little baking soda in the cooking water, the meat is almost too tough to eat! 

I remember the old days when my mother and grandmother did the canning thing.  There were no fans or A/Cs around back in those days and we had a gas stove that had a flame and it was HOT to begin with.  Then if you added a canner, a large post of whatever you were canning and a pan to sterilize the lids, 3 out of 4 burners were on the whole time you were working.  Sweat was a big part of it.  I remember my Dad coming into the kitchen with a newspaper and fanning my mother as she stood at the stove!  And we all helped with the prep.  I get tired now until I remember back.....when!  Then I know how easy I have it!

I'm off to the haystack to get some sleep before Cooper hits in the morning.  I'm ready for him!  I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow.  And may God bless us, every one!  And may He watch over the Ukrainians!

Good morning..

Going to be a busy day here, Kyle wants his hair cut and the village he gets it done has no power. Storm hit them hard with trees down, lots of barns down in the area and they don't know when power will be restored. Friend is suppose to get her power back today.  I haven't been able to get my sister as the storm hit their village knocking out power, car wash is gone and a hardware store lost heir roof I am told.

May have to look after the critters next door   

Will get the rest of the garden planted today, I hope.

Jane a lot of hard work but you will reap the benefit come winter.

Patricia, ice jam made me shiver! I would like to think ice is out of all ours.

Gloria, hope you do hear from Yvette soon. I used to enjoy the heat but not anymore.You had no choice but to accept it when farming and I would also get the heat from the tractor

Better get a wiggle on...

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

Good Morning Everyfriend!  I was going to wish myself a good morning but Cooper's arrival interrupted me and when I had fed him and returned, AMY was here!  So....Good Morning AMY and anyone else who arrives later.

AMY, it sounds like Kyle might have to live with his long hair for a while...unless he trusts you with his head and a pair of scissors!  Lots of damage around your area.  I'm glad it didn't get to you!

Now I'm going to go get dressed and take Cooper for his walk.  I wish you all a good day...better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow!

well I am haveing a hard time getting a post to Go this morning. so this is the third time this morning trying.
well I said good morning AMY and JaneS , whome is all i sean at that time. It is light rain here this morning and over cast. Not shure what I am going to do for shure. the heart moneter time was up yesterday. so i have to either pack and mail or take equipment back to V A in perison. I think it would be safest to take back in perison. Have a good day.

Lloyd