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Post by Sharon on Jun 25, 2022 18:13:54 GMT -5
DD and the kids came over for an impromptu swim. It felt good to get cooled off after working in the yard. It was also good to see the kids gain confidence in the water. DGD would jump off the deck into Mommy's arms and then Mommy would push her over to ladder while she kicked her feet. We even showed her how her life jacket would keep her head above water, that was still kind of scary DGS1 even jumped a few times. The little wading pool was out on the back deck where I had left it out to dry out after yesterday. DGS1 crawled underneath it and would stick his head out saying I'm a turtle.
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Jun 25, 2022 18:18:29 GMT -5
Well, of course I watered the garden and then we get a thunderstorm. Duh.
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Jun 26, 2022 10:02:12 GMT -5
On the light side, but it's a bazillion degrees out there.
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Jun 26, 2022 10:03:15 GMT -5
I ran early, then we went to the farmer's market. Got fresh bread, pasta and mushrooms. Made bacon and egg sandwiches with the bread and will make the pasta and mushrooms tonight.
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Post by toomuchreality on Jun 26, 2022 11:55:24 GMT -5
Thanks for breakfast! It looks delicious.
I have hiccups... Again. I've had them so many times, in the last week! They don't usually last long, but I never know and they are annoying. Oh, well. I guess it's time to get up and get going.
Enjoy your day! I can't believe we're almost in July already!
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Post by busymom on Jun 26, 2022 12:14:37 GMT -5
Well, of course I watered the garden and then we get a thunderstorm. Duh. LOL! You must be related to DH's grandpa. He was a farmer, and whenever the crops needed rain, he'd wash his car, and the rain always arrived a short time later. The man was brilliant!
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Post by toomuchreality on Jun 26, 2022 12:23:10 GMT -5
I need to go get gas and wash my car today. I have a ton of laundry to do, as well as other chores. I hope I get some of it done. If only I had some motivation. 😥
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Post by Sharon on Jun 26, 2022 12:23:56 GMT -5
Thanks NancysSummerSip. We are going to be very warm the next two days so the fresh fruit looks particularly good. Right now I'm actually having some cantaloupe and cooling off for a bit before heading back outside for a little longer. Once it becomes too hot to putter in the yard I will hunker down in the house for the afternoon and sew
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Jun 26, 2022 13:16:46 GMT -5
The last of the laundry is in the dryer. Fresh sheets tonight, woo-hoo! Cookies are baked and in the fridge. On my tenth big glass of refreshment of the afternoon.
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Post by busymom on Jun 26, 2022 15:14:40 GMT -5
It has cooled off quite a bit, as the temp is hovering around 70 degrees. But, since that won't last, I'm baking today. DS has been wanting a confetti cake, so that's what's in the oven right now.
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Post by busymom on Jun 27, 2022 10:20:28 GMT -5
Good Morning Kids! No sleeping in today, as one of my neighbors has begun to put in a deck. It's going to be a noisy week (or two).
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Post by toomuchreality on Jun 27, 2022 15:27:19 GMT -5
Good Morning Kids! No sleeping in today, as one of my neighbors has begun to put in a deck. It's going to be a noisy week (or two). I hope they finish quickly!
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Post by TheOtherMe on Jun 27, 2022 18:56:09 GMT -5
The noise and having someone in my house is what I am dreading about the tub to shower renovation. Demo day will drive me out of my mind.
The tile guy said he works alone and there will be noise when he is making cuts. He said once the tile is put up, he will come by for 30 minutes to an hour to do whatever to the tile and that isn't noisy.
If your neighbors are using a professional, at least the time won't be so spread out. The people behind me replaced their deck themselves 3 years ago. It took the entire summer. They were working all weekends and most evenings--often past 10 pm. It looks beautiful but I think the entire neighborhood was thrilled when it was done
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Post by toomuchreality on Jun 27, 2022 19:35:06 GMT -5
Ugh. When I got home today, I found out that my cable TV is not working. I've spent the last hour on the phone with Comcast troubleshooting it, to no avail. Now I have to wait for a technician to come out, on Wednesday afternoon. I am not happy. Not with the rates they charge. At least my internet and phone are working.
They worked on the cable in my area today, to upgrade the service. Yeah, I don't think it was an upgrade, they did. 😒
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Post by NoNamePerson on Jun 27, 2022 20:50:55 GMT -5
Ugh. When I got home today, I found out that my cable TV is not working. I've spent the last hour on the phone with Comcast troubleshooting it, to no avail. Now I have to wait for a technician to come out, on Wednesday afternoon. I am not happy. Not with the rates they charge. At least my internet and phone are working. They worked on the cable in my area today, to upgrade the service. Yeah, I don't think it was an upgrade, they did. 😒 I rarely have trouble with Comcast/Xfinity but the one time I did they gave me a credit for down time. Not a lot but money is money. Doesn’t hurt to ask. I found a place on their website to check for credit. Just a thought
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Post by toomuchreality on Jun 28, 2022 15:50:51 GMT -5
Ugh. When I got home today, I found out that my cable TV is not working. I've spent the last hour on the phone with Comcast troubleshooting it, to no avail. Now I have to wait for a technician to come out, on Wednesday afternoon. I am not happy. Not with the rates they charge. At least my internet and phone are working. They worked on the cable in my area today, to upgrade the service. Yeah, I don't think it was an upgrade, they did. 😒 I rarely have trouble with Comcast/Xfinity but the one time I did they gave me a credit for down time. Not a lot but money is money. Doesn’t hurt to ask. I found a place on their website to check for credit. Just a thought I used to have trouble with my Comcast all the time. Finally they ran a separate line from the street to my apartment and I haven't had much trouble since. I did (almost always) ask for a credit and was told I'd get $9.61, which is more than I expected. Thanks for the suggestion! I got an automated call this morning, saying they'd found and repaired a problem, that may have corrected my issue. Sadly, I was not so lucky. I'll be cleaning today, in preparation of their service call. Where's my motivation hiding? I need it today!
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Post by TheOtherMe on Jun 28, 2022 16:20:50 GMT -5
The first company I had to use when I moved here had very unreliable internet. I always called and made them credit my account.
I was so happy when my rural electric cooperative put in fiber optic lines.
I've only had on brief outage that wasn't related to weather.
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Post by toomuchreality on Jun 28, 2022 17:10:20 GMT -5
The first company I had to use when I moved here had very unreliable internet. I always called and made them credit my account. I was so happy when my rural electric cooperative put in fiber optic lines. I've only had on brief outage that wasn't related to weather. At least my internet is working. It's just my cable TV, in my bedroom that isn't. Of course, that's the only TV I watch. Last night, I slept on my couch, in the front room, so I could have the TV on, to sleep. It was kind of miserable. And the TV is a much smaller, old school type. So the captions were hard to read. I guess that's what I'll do again, tonight. Ugh. I'm not looking forward to it.
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Post by busymom on Jun 28, 2022 17:28:27 GMT -5
Good Morning Kids! No sleeping in today, as one of my neighbors has begun to put in a deck. It's going to be a noisy week (or two). I hope they finish quickly! Well, based on what I overheard when I had one of the dogs outside, that's not likely. I heard their foreman yell out that they were getting Friday off for a long holiday weekend (just in time for all of the illegal fireworks my neighbors like to play with), then they'll be back next Tuesday, and they should expect to be on this project for at least next week, and into the following week. Yea me!
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Post by NoNamePerson on Jun 28, 2022 19:25:34 GMT -5
The first company I had to use when I moved here had very unreliable internet. I always called and made them credit my account. I was so happy when my rural electric cooperative put in fiber optic lines. I've only had on brief outage that wasn't related to weather. At least my internet is working. It's just my cable TV, in my bedroom that isn't. Of course, that's the only TV I watch. Last night, I slept on my couch, in the front room, so I could have the TV on, to sleep. It was kind of miserable. And the TV is a much smaller, old school type. So the captions were hard to read. I guess that's what I'll do again, tonight. Ugh. I'm not looking forward to it. Are we kin? I sleep with TV on. My box in bedroom was bad and they came out and replaced it. I slept on sofa for two nights so I could have other tv on. But my sofa sleeps almost as good as my bed. I did worry about rolling off and hitting floor since used to queen size bed!
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Post by toomuchreality on Jun 28, 2022 19:46:49 GMT -5
At least my internet is working. It's just my cable TV, in my bedroom that isn't. Of course, that's the only TV I watch. Last night, I slept on my couch, in the front room, so I could have the TV on, to sleep. It was kind of miserable. And the TV is a much smaller, old school type. So the captions were hard to read. I guess that's what I'll do again, tonight. Ugh. I'm not looking forward to it. Are we kin? I sleep with TV on. My box in bedroom was bad and they came out and replaced it. I slept on sofa for two nights so I could have other tv on. But my sofa sleeps almost as good as my bed. I did worry about rolling off and hitting floor since used to queen size bed! My couch barely has room to lay on it. You are clearly the much richer, sister! 😉 But very loved, just the same! 🥰 And liked too! 😁
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Post by toomuchreality on Jun 29, 2022 1:37:07 GMT -5
WOO-HOO! I REALLY didn't want to have to deal with a service technician coming to fix my cable. It felt overwhelming to me, to get ready for that. So throughout the day I kept testing it and trying to get it to work. No dice. But a few minutes ago, I got an idea. I tried it and BINGO! It worked! I canceled my service order and I get to sleep in my bed tonight, after all.
Color me happy! 😁
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Post by Sharon on Jun 29, 2022 6:54:26 GMT -5
toomuchreality glad your cable box is working. I hate scheduling service technicians also. I was really sound asleep when the alarm went off so now I'm having a hard time waking up. At least this is a short week. I took Friday off.
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Post by busymom on Jun 29, 2022 9:38:02 GMT -5
Good Morning Kids! It was absolutely perfect, around 70 degrees when I took the puppy out this morning. Sadly, it won't last as we're supposed to hit at least 90 degrees. We're watering the garden, and parts of the yard as best we can, but with these roller coaster temps nothing is growing well right now.
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Post by toomuchreality on Jun 29, 2022 15:02:11 GMT -5
We've been having these brief microburst storms. The weather goes from sunny, to an instant downpour, that rains so hard that we get flash floods. There are instant gushing rivers, where it was previously a street, or a canyon, etc. Today it was running off DD2s roof in such a torrent, it didn't even come close to going into the rain gutters. It shot right over them and hit the wall, going to their garage. I thought it might tear the frame to their garage door right off the wall. Seriously. DSIL went out and took video of it. It was insane! Only lasted about half an hour- 45 minutes. But those few minutes were intense! I've never seen such a thing before. And lots of really big, loud thunder and lightning with it. Then it stopped, as quick as it started It was crazy!
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Post by TheOtherMe on Jun 29, 2022 21:23:59 GMT -5
One thing I liked about moving back to Iowa is that people don't water their lawns. My parents never watered their lawn. It goes dormant when it gets really hot but it always comes back in the spring.
I moved in to a neighborhood where nobody waters their lawn. I am so glad. I hated chasing sprinklers in Colorado.
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Post by busymom on Jun 30, 2022 12:16:06 GMT -5
Good Afternoon Kids! It's gonna be a hot weekend, but the 4th might get rained out. Wouldn't be the first time I used the broiler in my oven to prepare food for the holiday. It's supposed to hit 90 degrees again today. People here DO water their lawn. In fact, I've got at least a few neighbors who have installed sprinkler systems to water their front lawns. Not me.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Jun 30, 2022 15:48:19 GMT -5
Water is really high priced here in this little town. I couldn't believe the water bills when I was trying to get my sod established.
I don't think anyone here has a sprinkler system. But we still have farms in town. Like behind the building across the street from me and two more between my house and the highway.
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Post by toomuchreality on Jun 30, 2022 18:44:40 GMT -5
Most everyone here still waters their lawn and has sprinkler systems. Or they have switched to zeroscapes, or whatever they are called. No one wants to be THAT neighbor. I live in an apt and the apts definitely still water.
@theotherme - I didn't realize you live in such a rural area. I'm not saying that it's bad. I just didn't know there were still places that existed like that, anymore. I need to get out more.
I just6 realized that Monday is the 4th! I really need to get out more!
Stay cool, everyone! Have a great weekend!
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