Good morning Boomers. Have a great day!

Good morning everyone.

I'm still feeling under the weather, and now with an annoying cough. I had to miss my dance class yesterday, We were going to practise a very complicated dance and I really wanted to be there for it.

Looks like another cloudy day with cooler weather.

Hope you soon feel better, hagatha 🤞

Get well hagatha.

Good Morning everyone! Wide Awake Double Dark Brew is ready.

Another extremely hot humid day ahead. Hope you all stay cool!

Happy Fourth of July to all GB Americans! Enjoy your day everyone!

Gerry

Good morning everyone!

20 Celsius with sunshine and WADDB

Happy Independece Day!
to those who celebrate

Good morning, Danish, Donuts and Bagels in the Break Room. Feel better quickly hagatha. Happy 250th Birthda America. We will be celebrating with a BBQ today. Enjoy the day and hug someone.

Good 4th of July morning. Lots of celebrations and BBQs going on in the US neighborhoods.

I have put the seasoning rub on my pork steak and we will put them on the grill later this afternoon. I'm having baked beans, mac and cheese and a sour cream cucumber salad to go with them. A no-bakek strawberry cake will finish it off. No fireworks out here in the country unless the neighbors set some off.

Happy 4th of july Boomers.

Good evening everyone and happy 4th of July Boomers

Good night Boomers.

Good Morning everyone! Wide Awake Double Dark Brew is ready.

Hope you all enjoyed a peaceful Sunday!

Gerry

Good morning, Danish, Donuts and Bagels in the Break Room. Fellowship meeting at the Eagles this morning. Enjoy the day and hug someone.

Good morning everyone. Time for a cup or three of WADDB and Bagels...without fireworks...Max does not like the whooshing, hissing, buzzing, screeching, booming, BANG, KAPOW, KABOOM.

Have a wonderful Sunday everyone.

Happy Sunday Boomers!

Good Sunday morning. Severe thunderstorms yesterday. We lost power about 3:30 and it didn't come back until midnight. We had our pork steaks by candle light! I have a gas range, so I was able to light my burners and finish off the sides like the mac and cheese. So we have power this morning, but no internet. My tower is only about 1/4 mile away. Don't know if it was lightning or what, but they are working on it.

Good morning everyone.

Draclvr, in response to several lengthy power outages here and the lack of a gas stove, i bought two Bluetti "generators" and a single- burner portable induction cooktop. Last time we had an outage I was able to heat up soup and make tea as well as power my phone and laptop. Handy in a pinch. If we ever have another overnight outage I'll be able to make coffee in the morning; I can live on sandwiches but cold-brew coffee on a cold morning just doesn't cut it. In the meantime. I can sit outside on my patio with my Steam Deck powered for several hours.

It's a lovely day. I'm feeling up to mowing the lawn, but that will be the extent of my ambition today.

Max is not alone, soot!

I agree !! My two Great Danes (many years ago) absolutely hated fireworks

The shelters here always get a lot on frightened dogs around firecracker season.

We didn't have any fireworks here for Canada Day this year, at least not anywhere I could hear them, but normally my cats freak out and hide under the bed until long after it's over.

Hubby did get out a big battery he has. It connects to the terminals on his truck battery and then you can plug things in to it. We plugged in the big freezer for a few hours because it is full of a new quarter of beef! Usually these outages are just a tree across a line, but this time it was very widespread with over 60,000 people without power. Some are still not back on - they said it might take a few days.

My little power bank to keep my items charged and my gas stove were life savers!

We too often forget how people USED to live !!

My Gran’s little stone cottage in very rural Staffordshire had no gas and no electricity.
One cold water tap - in a room attached to the outside of the house, which only had outside access. And a “toilet” in a “shed” a long way down the land past her orchard.
The toilet itself was just a heavyweight plank (with a hole cut into it) upon which you sat - and “everything” dropped through the hole into “something”.
(The “something” getting emptied periodically by some mysterious people I never actually saw 🤭)

The only light was from oil lamps and the only cooking facility was the huge open fire range in the ONE living room.
(The only other rooms being two small bedrooms.)

But I loved going to stay with her and went two or three times a year 👍

I love the memories you share, Mad! I'd probably have to sleep in that orchard though to be closer to the "toilet".

Mad, my father's family had a cottage in Go Home Bay, off Georgian Bay, that had no electricity. We slept on camp cots in one of the boathouses and read by the light of oil lanterns. No running water. It was hand pumped in from the lake and boiled. My Grandmother eventually had a propane tank added for a stove and when she got much older had a pump toilet that only she was allowed to use.

Like you, we thought it was the best time ever, an adventure.