Good morning!!!!

[Thomas]

73 this morning high of 96 eight days in a row of 90 plus temperatures four more to go before going below 90. Very dry too. Not as much house cleaning yesterday tired from Saturday inside house got to 92 with windows open clothes completely wet when we left last evening hers and mine

Neighbors to north needed to give that jet stream BIG push down to us.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all. 70 this am going to 95 with a heat index of 102. Heat advisory just over the Blue Ridge Mountains east of us, glad I live no this side of the mountain. Often 5 degrees cooler and less humid. 40% chance of thunderstorms. I hate to say this but my guess is it will take a hurricane to break this weather pattern. Have an appointment in Harrisonburg this afternoon and then need to do the Costco thing. Glad I don't need to wait for a ferry to get home. Wife and I were going to go swimming yesterday but it was o hot.

Eric You better be careful, you might end up with the whole Good Morning crew as house guests until this heat breaks.

Drew last time I rode that ferry a sea gull decorated my sister.

Have a great day and be careful in the heat. Ed

 

[rswyan]

69.4F with some clouds @ 06:30 ... headed up to a high of 89F supposedly. Could get some more rain.

Had a thunderstorm come through yesterday, looks like we got around 1/3 of an inch.

Picked up new kitchen faucet and hand-held shower massage at Lowes yesterday, couldn't get motivated enough to do anything about installing either of them ... :laughing:

Carpet removal then some jackhammer work for today.

 

[wngsprd]

74 going to 98. The NWS icon for "Hot" and "heat Advisory" on their forecast page look pretty gloomy and accurate.

Saw a nice thunderstorm on the radar over in Harrisonburg yesterday afternoon, and wished for it to blow easterly over us, but it went north, based on the lightning I saw last night. At least the Shenandoah and Rappahannock got some rain.

Drew, I've done that long drive, and although parts are absolutely beautiful, it's not what you want on a busy beach Sunday if you hadn't planned it. I got my first speeding ticket from a National Park ranger on that road near Rodanthe...65 in a 55...no radar...they seemed to target cars with surfboards back then...it was around midnight..."turn around and follow me back to Manteo" where we had to wake up the magistrate. Since I was from out of state..."pay the ticket or go to jail." Great way to start a camping trip.

Eric, nice to hear somebody is getting long sleeve weather...I've tied a few flies over the years, never with eyebrow material.

Thomas, congrats to your wife on those nice fish. Baking or grilling or frying or released?

 

[farmer2009]

77 this morning and headed to 91 today. Another humid day. Dew points still hanging in the mid 70's. Rain chances next 10 days. Great.

Take care of birds and take son to therapy this morning. Wife's double booked with a dentist visit. So maybe back on bathroom this afternoon.

 

[daugen]

heat index of 108 today. Hard to get excited about going out in that.
Going to wash ten pounds of bugs off my car and probably will just chill today.
Billy, I will admit I had a few passing opportunities on that road, on those long straight stretches getting around the sightseers.
I'm still averaging 22.6mpg so I suppose I could get it to 23 if I took my foot out of it. Unlikely...
400hp in a 3900 pound car makes for safe passing times. And I don't get to hear that whine very often...

Toppop, yes St. Michaels near you is way upscale vs Ocracoke, I was mostly referring to the layout of the harbor and all the houses and businesses on the water.
The end of the face dock in St. Michaels across from the Crab Shack was our favorite weekend trip. Ocracoke is much more remote; an island with no bridges after all.
But on a summer Sunday with "downtown" crammed with tourists and golf carts, I'll pass. Now in Spring and Fall, that's when I'll visit again and stay for a few days.
One can leave the harbor and be on a deserted sandbar beach in ten minutes. Just you and the pelicans. That sure isn't going to happen in St. Michaels.

 

[daugen]

I was thinking of Farmer tending to his 80,000 chickens in the heat of the Heartland
while he dreamed of being on that remote island sandbar, with gentle breezes, small lapping waves, his kids playing in the shallow warm water,
a cooler of iced tea and pina coladas and a big umbrella. Farmer, hold that thought.
And may your wife do also at the dentist.

as I'm sitting in the ferry line yesterday looking at my car temp hit 118, my a/c stops. I'm already thinking things are not going so well, but here it is in a serious heat wave in an all black car in the bright sun and no a/c. I turned it off, waited a few minutes while dripping, and then turned it back on with the temps turned down.
Came back fine, but I think it iced up while idling in that high heat so long. Only time it's ever happened.
And I admit to thinking about the nice ventilated seats in my truck and an a/c unit that could flash freeze meat.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning! 73F @ 5:15AM. Good Morning! 73F @ 5:15AM. Sunny. High 101F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.

Finished painting the undercarriage parts yesterday morning, and between coats the bodyman/neighbor/friend calls and says he wants to stop by for a look see. Just as I finished cleaning up from the paint job, Brian arrives with a bucket full of tools to have a go at straightening out the flattened fender flair on the van. I'd already dug out all the old bondo and undercoating (what a mess that was!). Brian's a wirey ball of energy when he gets a slide hammer or dolly in his hands, and in just a few minutes he had the mangled metal just about perfectly reshaped. I guess that's what years and years of practice does for ya, but it looked more like magic from my perspective. Had to laugh when I got a look at the slide weight of his hammer: It was shaped like a headless/legless woman's body, clearly something from the oh so politically incorrect '50s! You know, I was sitting there looking at it thinking it would make a great photo, but running inside would have spoiled the moment. Won't be the last time Brian'll be over, and I'll make sure I've got my phone in my pocket when he is.



Just got notification that an "old" (2007) digital camera I put up on Amazon yesterday afternoon had sold last night, something of a surprise it went so fast. The price was set to about twenty cents on the dollar that was originally paid for it, so that might have something to do with the quick sale. That and the fact that it sat on the shelf most of the time because a much smaller pocket camera was easier to keep handy. Makes me wonder how long it'll be before the new camera that replaced it will itself be replaced, probably by the computer controlled camera in the 2025 iPhone.

Hope everyone's week gets off to a great start!

 

[toppop52]

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55 right now...heading to a high of 89 and maybe a thunderstorm...hope it's not a repeat of Saturday!


I've been to St Michael's a couple times...took my nieces an nephews there sometime in the late 1980's. First time I was there, the light ship was anchored or tied up and you could tour the ship. The ship was moved later, but the bay lighthouse, an octagon two story building, was still there. Nice place for a family outing.

Late 80's, early 90's was about the last of the family picnic on the river beach, before the wine and cheese crowd took over. We use to go to Oxford, just across from there, and swim in the 70's and 80's, but it's Like St. Michaels now as well.
Use to be a prop shop there run by brothers, they use to build my custom props for my Donzi Z boat.

 

[toppop52]

heat index of 108 today. Hard to get excited about going out in that.
Going to wash ten pounds of bugs off my car and probably will just chill today.
Billy, I will admit I had a few passing opportunities on that road, on those long straight stretches getting around the sightseers.
I'm still averaging 22.6mpg so I suppose I could get it to 23 if I took my foot out of it. Unlikely...
400hp in a 3900 pound car makes for safe passing times. And I don't get to hear that whine very often...

Toppop, yes St. Michaels near you is way upscale vs Ocracoke, I was mostly referring to the layout of the harbor and all the houses and businesses on the water.
The end of the face dock in St. Michaels across from the Crab Shack was our favorite weekend trip. Ocracoke is much more remote; an island with no bridges after all.
But on a summer Sunday with "downtown" crammed with tourists and golf carts, I'll pass. Now in Spring and Fall, that's when I'll visit again and stay for a few days.
One can leave the harbor and be on a deserted sandbar beach in ten minutes. Just you and the pelicans. That sure isn't going to happen in St. Michaels.

I wasn't being a snob about, it looked that way, but really I'm just disappointed that we lost a really nice family outing place, to the wine and cheese crowd, a lot of which we use to call 10 cent millionaires.
Yes, we use to go to Ocracoke the week of Labor day, half the crowd, everything still open.

99° today they say, feels like a sauna now!