OMG... that is so horrible. Was there any loss of life? I had to look up the conversion and those are temps usually only found in the desert.

Not everyone is accounted for, but people scattered off in all directions when they were told to evacuate. Hopefully everyone is okay.

Lytton is normally fairly warm in the summer anyway, though those temperatures are of course wildly abnormal. We drove through Lytton many times in the 1980's on our way to one of our favourite fishing lakes in the Cariboo region, Bonaparte Lake. The Rainbow trout grow up to 25 lb. in there, feeding on little landlocked salmon called Kokanee. We stopped going there when my appetite for sleeping on creaky, saggy old cots and showering in cold water faded. There was a point where "rustic" no longer appealed.

What, no more rustic camping with cold showers for hagatha?

I still treasure this image of you from the music thread:

And of course you have now revealed another side of yourself as the tyrantess of the exercise room...!

Good morning, Danish, Donuts, and Bagels in the Break Room.

Good morning everybody Dark roast Sumatra is in the pot this morn oi ng and i am loving it! I get ro slow down the work pace which will be very nice!

T.G.I.F have a wonderful Friday

Lex, that disco job paid enormously well, and I wasn't even a very good waitress! I also had a habit of tipping jugs of beer over obnoxious customers "by mistake". It wasn't really the life for me.

The cat is in the dog house for waking me up at three a.m. Normally John feeds her in the middle of the night, but now that he's wheel-chair bound and doesn't get up in the night if he can help it, she seems to think I should take over the duty. As I've said before, it's a good thing she's cute.

Today I have to lug all our laundry across the road to a friend's house because our dryer stopped working right before John had his fall. When that's done I'm spending the afternoon on the couch with a cup of tea and a good book.

It is of course a well known fact that while dogs may have owners, cats have staff!

Phew !!

Guess that must be why I stuck with dogs

sports and chores.

Yes, well, this one does, anyway. My other two cats were absolute paragons of good behaviour. The first one was more like a dog and would never have woken us up because it just wasn't done, and the second one wanted nothing do do with boring sleeping humans, but this one learned early on that her male monkey would feed her in the night if she made cute kitten eyes at him, and it's been like that ever since.

Good morning, Danish, Donuts, and Bagels in the Break Room. Shopping in the rain is on the agenda today. Dinner and karaoke with friends at the Eagles tonight.

Good morning everyone ... the weekend is here! More than enough chores and projects to keep me busy. Grapefruit juice, a light roast breakfast coffee and English breakfast tea in the Break Room. Lex you are spot on with your characterization of dogs and cats

Have a great day everyone

A beautiful, sunny and windy day, nice and cool. We're back down to our normal temperatures here, which is a relief.

Thank heavens! I read about all the wildfires up there...

That's good to hear, hagatha

Yes, there are some awful fires in the interior. It's going to be a bad year for it, I'm afraid.

same thing.

I know I sound un-American but I Hate this Holiday!!! I think my house actually shook during one of these booms and it's still early.

You're not alone, oldbroad. People with pets terrified of all the explosions hate it too.

Good morning, Danish, Donuts, and Bagels in the Break Room. Breakfast out this morning. Going to a July 4th Celebration with friends later today. We will be bringing umbrellas.

Good morning everyone

Great news about the temperatures dropping hagatha

No you don't oldbroad ... folks just don't think of the impact their fireworks have on animals and othets wearing hearing aids

Ice tea and home made lemonade in the break room

Have a good 4th everyone

Happy 4th everyone. Not looking f6orward to tonight, there is a church not far from us that is celebrating with fireworks.... none of our animals are going to like this. Wouldn't mind just celebrating with some good music and food.

I'm with you on the fireworks thing. Around here it's illegal without a permit, so we don't get any random yahoos disturbing us all the time, and right now it would be folly anyway, given that it's fire season around here, but when we do have public fireworks displays it's horribly disruptive and it terrifies most pets.

We sure did have a weather swing. It's so cool in here today I had to close all the windows and doors, and turn my cat's heating pad back on (she nipped me on the ankle to get my attention and led me over there to indicate that Things Aren't Right).

I often wonder what the wild animals think of the noise from fireworks, I live near Hope B.C. and the noise of fireworks echo around our mountains for a long time, it must scare a lot of animals, wild as well as pets.

Still rather hot here, with 170 wild fires burning in B.C.

Never thought I'd wish for winter weather!

P.S. Happy 4th July to our neighbours to the south (and north)...

Yes !! Happy 4th of July to all of you on that side of the pond !! Nearly forgot !!