Good morning!!!!

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all, 71 going to 84 with a 60% chance of showers. Got groceries yesterday and spent time with my wife. In house things and that was about it. No plans for today, will see.

Bird, I agree with you, I assume that a cruse and the beach would be the same type of thing and hate the beach. Would rather work than go to the beach, unless I am fishing.

Buppies, prayers sent.

Have a great day, prayers sent for all in need. Ed

 

[daugen]

good morning all. Sunny morning changing to showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight. Fine, we could use some rain.

Toppop, as long as you get a room with a nice big balcony, cruises are wonderful. That way if you love the water you get to watch it, and you don't feel penned in. If you don't want to get dressed up for formal night, you don't have to. I'd avoid the kid's lines, like Carnival or Disney. I've gone to Bermuda three times out of Baltimore, one of my favorite cruises, short and fun. You will likely stay at Nelson's Dockyard, on the Western end of Bermuda, and there are really cool high class shops nearby, where you can bring home Bermuda rum cake, little glass figurines (two tiny little guys on my kitchen windowsill for many years from that shop) and then you can rent mopeds and tour the island. It's all pretty flowers and totally civilized. I'd go back tomorrow.

Most folks who take cruises and were worried about them come back glowing with praise and stories of good times, shore adventures, etc. Bad weather? I personally love it, never got sick but them I'm a boater and the worse it was the better I liked it.
Getting sick? take Clorox disinfecting wipes and first thing you do is wipe down your room and door handles, trust no one. Then use the cruise ship "bump" instead of shaking hands. It's all about having a lot of people in a confined area, just like your kids in day care. If you are extra careful, unlikely you will get sick. And my will you eat well. Everyone should do it once, just get a balcony room. I've done about 15 cruises, starting off with awful interior rooms won as a sales prize in some insurance contest way back when. Quickly learned it was worth paying more for nicer balcony room higher up in ship.

When my wife was very sick, and we knew she didn't have a lot longer, we had time for one more cruise. I told her to pick the room this time. She picked the ship's penthouse suite, complete with a grand piano and a jacuzzi tub out on the double balcony. It was all she wanted and I was glad to enable it for her. I could have bought a car for the same money, but the smile on her face during dark times was all worth it.

I have one more cruise I'd like to make, and I'd better find a wealthy woman to take me. Have always wanted to take the Queen Elizabeth liner to England. Then maybe a cruise from there through the Mediterranean. This is what I think of when someday I sell this farm and can afford trips like this again. Haven't met anyone who took a river cruise in Europe that didn't have a ball, if one is worried about getting seasick. Not many waves in a canal.

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 59° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 81° with mostly sunny skies. Got .6" of rain yesterday. May have to cut lawn later this week. Have a bunch of small projects to complete. Now that it going to be a little cooler out.

We did one Cruise. Hawaii around the the islands for 7 days. Was very relaxing and gained a few pounds. It was our 25th wedding anniversary. Never had the desire to do another one. That was 31 years ago.

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Buppies, sorry to hear about your biopsy report. Prayers sent.

Good Morning All.

 

[Buppies]

Our cruise was to Nassau and Freeport in 1977 very cold snow flurries and very rough seas first and only time sea sick. Miserable feeling

 

[Thomas]

72F cloudy upper 70's for high,t-storms w/showers early afternoon in mid evening than humidity leaves.

1 of 4 game cam gone looks like young bear had something to do w/it...hmmm.
Fingers cross for this much needed rain arriving,just wish it would be soaking rain for 24 hours tho.
E muffin feed little critters than slow roll to work.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Thomas]

Buppies;
Biopsy back more skin cancer removal on 30th of July
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Dang it...sorry about this,know were pulling for you,pulling extra hard!!!!!

 

[daugen]

One skin cancer usually gets you another. All those Saturdays as a kid on the beach at Seaside Heights NJ, Island Beach State Park. Frying away with coconut oil.
I used to get so red and burned and uncomfortable and now I'm paying for it too. Two melanomas already and half a dozen of the lesser ones.
Have six month appt intervals with dermatologist, next one is next week, he will probably do something on the end of my nose that I'm not looking forward to.
My problem living alone is I have no one to check my back, so that's what the dermatologist spends a lot of time on.
Every itch makes you wonder...
I hate to see Buppies going through this, they just keep snipping away at you. Hope it's a real small one Randy.
spf 70, reminds me to order some more, maybe on Prime Day it's cheaper.

So far I haven't seen anything on Prime Day that interested me. They are sure pushing their own stuff, the Echos and Dots.

 

[jbrumberg]

Buppies- I am sorry to read about your biopsy results. Prayers and + thoughts.

A murky, 60ºF start to the morning today. It feels like "bad" weather is coming. I may see some decent Tstorms later this AM/early PM with the approaching cold front. Maybe a haircut today; maybe not. It's a 46 mile round trip to cut ~46 hairs. Right now I am enjoying the coffee and considering more home based activities.

All kinds of activity here yesterday with today's weather in mind. I trimmed/pruned cleared out some ornamentals around the house for wifey. I mowed the upper "lawn" 2X: First to cut it and the second to gather the clippings after they dried to mulch around the garden. ~3 hours seat time on the mower.

I hope that every one has a manageable day today.

My + thoughts, wishes and prayers.

 

[toppop52]

Me too. Neither of us care much for the huge cruise ships.

We did spend an excellent 10 days on one of the European river cruises two years ago. We toured Holland and Belgium on the AMASonata boat. Only 160 passengers. That痴 about right for us.

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I致e thought about that, even doing a Mississippi/Missouri River Cruise just to see how it is, before going to Europe. Travel outside the continent doesn稚 really appeal to me anymore.

 

[toppop52]

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See. 1st I've ever seen in the wild here in Texas.

We have them in winter here, large flocks in the fields feeding with snow geese. Not pretty individual swimmers like that.

 

[toppop52]

Never thought I壇 enjoy a cruise, actively resisted even. But a few years ago, wife was able to convince me to do the Panama Canal Cruise. Big boat, Holland America and I was convinced it would be just too crowded and not enjoyable. I was wrong. We went with another couple, good friends. Didn稚 find it crowed at all and definitely not bored. Had a great time.
During that time period, my BIL decided to get a small group together for a Danube River Cruise. Again I was less than excited. Having lived 6 years in Germany I didn稚 see a draw of cruise down the river, but I reluctantantly agreed and signed up for the next year. Again, I was wrong. The smaller ship, AMASerena was great and the river cruise was a very different perspective.
Next Jun we are taking our son and family on the 7 night Alaska cruise.

Ellen has been on the Alaska cruise, so have several friends of mine, they claimed to have loved it.

 

[toppop52]

I watched a program on that sink hole only last week, when it was too hot to feel like doing anything useful.

Did you see the "fix" ? Once the cars were recovered, they threw a few tin sheets over the soft spots at the bottom of the hole, topped up with gravel and built back on top . Tread lightly Randy

Maybe I will just peep through the window!

Another hot and humid day, storms later, then a bit cooler.

Buppies, doggon it! Good luck
my friend, prayers for you, and all the rest.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! mid 70's in the morning and we started hitting the string of 100s days a day early yesterday. Hot the rest of the week and the air is blurry from the African dust. In other words except for the time before sunrise and after sunset it's miserable.

I agree with Drew, when cruising a balcony room makes it very enjoyable. Some people say they will just get an inside cabin and stay outside all the time except for when they sleep, but it very relaxing to watch the blue water and an occasional flying fish while sitting on the balcony. The other option is to drive for many hours spending most of the time behind a wheel fighting traffic and being glad to get home to relax. When your food and lodging and transportation and entertainment are within walking distance and excursions on different islands during the day (except the sea travel days).

Here at "Sun City" we now have a 4 hour bus ride that will take our group to the dock so no driving at all, and the bus fee is the same as the parking fee. No more fighting the traffic driving through Houston. - It just get's better and better.

I have gotten sea sick once when on a small boat traveling from an Island to the mainland for a shore excursion. I can remember looking over the side of the small boat and seeing nothing but water and the next moment nothing but sky. It lasted a day but after loading up with ginger tea on the ship it went away in a day.

We go about once a year from either Galveston or Florida and have visited most of the islands in the Eastern and Western Caribbean. We are about ready for an Alaskan Cruise in the middle of the summer to escape the 100's. We go on the mega cruises and have learned a few tricks to minimize the crowding issues at the beginning of the cruise. For a fee you can buy express checking-in on some ships, well worth it. Once the Cruise starts you sometimes wonder where all the people are. Drew has good advise about Disney and Carnival and I would add try to take the cruise in the Winter when there are no hurricanes. Once you get South it's 80s and 90s, a nice break from the cold for a week.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Had another 1/2" of rain yesterday (lured the clouds with the welder this time ). Magic rain, already the fields are turning from golden brown back to green.


Good luck with matters-of-the-heart balance sheets. I try hard (sometimes), yet always seem to end up in deficit :confused3:




Kyle, I've heard that roasting marshmellows over a fire is something of a tradition on camps.
If swans are so rare where you live, is there another camp fire tradition that's not talked about so much ? :laughing:

LOL, no campfires as of yet. I can't believe the area is not under burn ban conditions. There are hundreds of kids here. Dining hall is quite a noisy spectacle. The counselors are college students, and are very motivated.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Buppies, prayers coming your way.

Ron, we are still holding out for the 8 qt model. There's 5 of us, and I love leftovers that aren't too old. My wife says I'm a human disposal....I just don't like running the oven in the summer. So I warm up leftovers in the microwave.

 

[txdon]

Good luck with matters-of-the-heart balance sheets. I try hard (sometimes), yet always seem to end up in deficit :confused3:

Truer words were never spoken.

 

[wngsprd]

I致e thought about that, even doing a Mississippi/Missouri River Cruise just to see how it is, before going to Europe. Travel outside the continent doesn稚 really appeal to me anymore.

If you are serious about an American cruise, check out the one on the Columbia River...saw a brochure and looks beautiful. I didn't take the cruise there, but drove and hiked along part of it and loved it. Good coffee in Portland, too.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low of 58, up to 90 today. Rain chances are only 20% today, then a "dry spell" for the next 5 days.... We didn't get any more than 0.1 over the last 4 days. Surrounding areas got 1 1/2 to 2 1/2". They also had flash flooding though.

Buppies, sorry to hear about the biopsy results, my thoughts and extra prayers out to you, take care.

Never went on a cruise... Probably won't ever get the chance to do one. Don't really know if I want to, wifey definitely does not.

We have an area here in NM called "Bosque del Apache" which is a national wildlife refuge for many migratory birds. Each year there are thousands and thousands of geese, swans, and storks, that stop along there migratory route to rest and refuel. The ground is covered with birds as far as you can see. An amazing sight when hundreds start to take flight at a time. They fly around the area, breaking up into smaller groups, then leave.

Everyone have a great day, prayers sent.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Gotta hide this cruise talk from the wife. She has been wanting to do one for a long time. Me, not that interested, except alaska.

 

[PJSprog]

72°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 90° today. Back into the upper 80s after today.

Got my new electronic drum monitor system set up last night. I've had that kit for about seven or eight years now, and have never enjoyed playing it as much I did last night. Sounds great, and the stereo separation makes it a more natural experience. Turned it up to about half, and it was already almost too loud. Nice. :thumbsup:

Now that was funny Bird. I've never been, but have friends that love it. They haven't been on one of the vomit comet cruises yet, where everybody gets sick, or the boat breaks and lulls about in the middle of the ocean...

That's kind of my take on the whole cruise thing. Really not interested in spending a week in a floating petri dish. Seems like 90% or better of the cases of Legionaire's Disease that I hear about on the news are associated with cruise ships. No thanks.