Good morning!!!!

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Good evening everyone. Big news today - the provincial government went into “Stage 1” of opening up, meaning that we can now have short term renters coming to our rental property. That is just great, because the whole summer was booked solid, and we didn’t want to lose any customers. Have a few chores to do, like mowing the lawn, and installing a few boards here in there. Then, I will have the whole summer off from taking care of this place, except for Saturdays, which are checkout days.

Really hot here the last few days, and we had a short rainstorm here, which made it very, very muggy for the rest of the day. Had to paint the new generator shed later on in the day, it was no fun with the muggy hot temperature.

Just sitting out on the screened in porch with a glass of wine right now, listening to the loons, and the Canada geese, and the squirrels chattering away, while the dog barks every once in a while when he sees or hears something. Very relaxing.

Have a good evening, guys!

 

[RoyJackson]

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77 right now...high in the mid-80's and possibility of T-Storms...

Made it through the day OK yesterday...was glad to get home though. But, at least I'm improving!

 

[Thomas]

72F might reach 90F again 50/50 chance t-storm later today.

E muffin soon outside chores.
Plans for today...little puttering most of stay low and cool.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning all.

That new drug for Alzheimer's seems to be controversial in terms of it's effectiveness in trials, but it has got to be great news in that it at least gives hope to many.

Yet another gate post rotted off, this time one at the entrance to the yard. Not much space to dig it out with concrete on 3 sides and a full compost heap on the other, so I thought it would be fun to see if I could burn it out. I passed a few happy hours trying different ways to get enough oxygen to keep burning several feet below ground level, finally settling on a tiny fan housed in a piece of waste pipe which is coupled to a steel pipe going to the bottom of the hole.

Phil, working upside down is never fun, at least working under the floor will keep you out of the sun

 

[Bird]

"The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug to treat people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. The drug, which goes by the name aducanumab and was made by Biogen, is the first drug approved to slow the cognitive decline caused by the disease."

Since I'm taking Donepezil and Memantine, as recommended by my doctor, I read everything I can find about such medicines and what I've read in the news about this aducanumab is not very encouraging at all.

 

[ronjhall]

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Poured first cup of coffee. 66° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 84° with rain in afternoon. Got .57" rain yesterday afternoon. I did conserve energy yesterday. May do the same today. Internet has been giving problems today. After being on phone with Comcast for almost a hour they determined it was my equipment. Need to call manufacture. Got off the phone. Made my coffee. TV was on. All of sudden Comcast TV box turns off. Few minutes later it is back on and internet is working. What a waste of my time. Internet is now 480 mbps. Hawks are using my barn for a roost. Everyone stay healthy and safe. Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
going to be another hot and sticky day, with storms coming in later, over an inch of rain predicted.
I slept better last night, maybe finally over the hump on this shoulder. Still hurts this morning but more manageable.

Roy, glad you are feeling better.
Toppop, hope you are doing fine also.
All of us hope for good news from Sophie.

about 72 out now, never got any cooler overnight, glad the a/c is keeping up. Friend brought his JD mower over yesterday but lawn service
had just mowed so it's sitting in my garage. Between it and my car, better I lock up his mower at night.

I need to be careful about what I eat today, PET scan tomorrow morning is very sensitive to sugar. Am not looking forward to squeezing into that machine
with my bum shoulder but no choice. I'll be doing this for the rest of my life likely every six months, as most cancer survivors do. Dermatologist next week taking basal cell
cancer off my right ear, hoping that will be only freezing and not a piece of my ear missing. It doesn't look too bad but who knows. Different dermatologists in my experience
have very different ideas about what a "good margin" is. Buppies and I have the same problems with ears and the sun; sure wish I had worn hats more often way back when.

 

[Frankenkubota]

Morning all, sunny and hopefully cooler today, was 96 yesterday, luckily under a massive tent for kids band event yesterday.

Eric, any poplar I take down is due to rotting etc. I have made benches from the Ash trees.

Turtle nest marked off and got some pool time yesterday.
Neighbor lost their dog, went looking with my hound, who can;t find anything but food and stinky things to roll in, luckily neighbor found his pup, but not until close to midnight.

TXDon - seems like whoever put in your plumbing had a bad sense of humor.

One of the foxes was wandering down the driveway, saw us and ran. Thought they were more aware of their surroundings, was maybe 20 feet from us and dog.

Hope Sophie's surgery goes flawlessly today

Stay safe and be well, flail arrives today. Built rolling dolly for it, will see how it works.

My boy on Guitar.

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Turtle Mom after I moved her from road day after laying eggs.
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i bet i've moved 10-15 turtles in the last month. i went to pinehurst sunday to see an old old guy who is a friend. i saw at least 3 home made turtle crossing signs.

my best story is...i was zooming to AT&T defense systems for an important meeting. Luckily I knew the local guys pretty well but there were a couple Bell Labs types there I didn't know.

i Saw a big snapper on the road. Down here they become targets! I jumped out, got around the back side so as-not to get bit, picked it up and......it pissed all down the front of my nice clean white shirt.

This was long before cell phones etc. I went to the meeting of course, straight commission!

They told that story for years at trade shows etc etc. It was funny, in retrospect!

 

[wngsprd]

Was up and out early this morning and almost bumped into a deer. Better than the bear that was down the hill yesterday mid-morning. Glad you are improving, Roy. Got some more gardening done yesterday and some mowing. Looking for 89 and maybe some rain later.

 

[ronjhall]

Maybe my internet problem was something other than a simple outage.
Major Websites Experiencing Outages.