Time for a shiny new thread!

Come one, come all, share your daily thoughts, conversational chit-chat, maybe a joke or two and all the little things that really don't need its own thread.

There are plenty of seats available, so don't be shy and come chat!

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Thank you, Ana.

Judith, I just read about your friend and I am so very sorry to hear that she has passed. My heart goes out to you and to her family and friends.

Judith, I am so sorry about your friend. My thoughts are with you.

My sincere condolences Judith. Losing a friend is so hard

Sorry for your loss Judith, prayers and positive thoughts sent your way.

Good Morning everyone. Wide awake Double Dark Brew is ready.

Judith I am so sorry for your loss. As we get old losing someone we love and care about happens too often. Hagatha are you feeling better today? It looks like we all are getting some awful hot weather this week.

Hope you all can stay cool in doors...

Gerry

Good morning, Danish, Donuts and Bagels in the Break Room. Judith, hugs and prayers for you and your friend's family. Hagatha, I hope you are feeling better. We had a monsoon go through here yesterday afternoon. The thunder and lightning were horrific. Enjoy the day and hug someone.

Oh, Judith, I am so sorry to hear this. Peace to you and her family.

Just hot here... nothing more to say. The young man with the young back is one his way over to spread some mulch for me.

Good morning everyone.

It's going to be another hot one here, too, although our hot is pretty tame compared with some of the temperatures I've been reading about elsewhere. The worst of it is the asthma flare-up I get when it's hot. I had to use my emergency puffer a few times yesterday.

I'm off to yoga later in the morning then and pick up something for dinner, and then home for the afternoon to sit outside with a cat or two and watch the birds. The crocosmia around the water feature has bloomed and there are hummingbirds darting around. The garden's full of butterflies, too. I still need to get a large plant to anchor the pond landscaping, though. I might have to make a trip up to the large nursery outside of Courtenay/Comox for that.

Thank you everyone for your kind words about the death of my best friend.

Try to stay cool everyone.

Love the new room. Enjoy your evening everyone.

Prayers heading up for your bestie judith.

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

We are under a severe heat warning today and it is expected to last thru Saturday evening...it is going to feel like well over a 100 degrees for the next few days...horribly hot and humid. It is already 75 degrees outdoors and the sun won't rise for another couple hours!

Hope you all can stay cool today!

Gerry

Good morning, Danish, Donuts and Bagels in the Break Room. We're having a BBQ on the 4th, about 20 friends. Enjoy the day and hug someone.

Good morning everyone,

It's raining! Apparently we may be in for a couple of days of it.

I'm still feeling a bit off and might have to miss my dance class today. I will have to venture into to town to pick up my asthma inhalers, though. My asthma has been very bad for the last couple of weeks. What with that and the arthritis pain I'm feeling just a bit old.

Judith, my thoughts are still with you.

Good morning Boomers. BBQ sounds great connie.

Good Thursday afternoon. Did some work in the garden this morning before it gets so stinking hot!

Laundry today. Not sure what we're doing this weekend. My preference is to stay home and BBQ here with the Germans!

95 Degrees here. Even the squirrels are hiding in the shade.

Space Quest, my brother was telling me last night how a couple of the outdoor cats were laying under the bush outside his window, and that at one time, a squirrel was also stretched out under there keeping cool. The cats are not unusual because my brother feeds them through that window, but he doesn't feed the squirrels.

Have a nice Thursday everyone!

good afternoon everyone. I was wondering if any of you have fruit trees and have a problem with squirrels eating your fruit - and if so, what do you do? I have a very small cherry tree that I have been guarding to the best of my ability but those sneaky squirrels can climb it and every limb that is strong enough for them to climb on, they eat my cherries! My yelling at them doesn't seem to faze them. I was wondering if anyone has a suggestion on how to keep them from climbing my tree! oh, and I have a big PVC pipe around the pole that goes up to my bird feeder, and those stinkers figured out how to climb that and eat the bird food. I think squirrels might be smarter than we ever thought.

I bet those squirrels feel very smart while they watch you yelling up at them, mbday

Love the squirrel story old broad.

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

It is going to be another extremely hot day today...it is already 80 degrees and it's only 2:30am! We have another severe heat warning for today. I am thankful I have air conditioning.

Hope you all have a cool start to your day and enjoy the July 4th holiday weekend those of you celebrating!

Gerry

Good morning, Danish, Donuts and Bagels in the Break Room. A manicure and grocery shopping are on the agenda today. Enjoy the day and hug someone.

Good morning everyone!

16 Celsius and cloudy. Yesterday rain.

The waddb & ddb is great for starting the day.

Happy weekend Gameboomers. Must be a super-weekend for the Americans

Good Friday morning. Extremely toasty again today. After picking a bunch of cucumbers yesterday, I did jump in the pool - the water is finally warm enough for me! We have been sitting out on the pool deck having a beer with the Germans in the evenings and it's actually been pretty nice out there after the heat of the day.

mbday, the only time I didn't have problems with squirrels was when we had a dog! They always kept the yard free from squirrels. You could always try one of those sprinkler scarecrows that will spray the critters with water if they come near the tree. You just hook it to a hose and it is motion activated. It runs on a 9 volt battery. Yard Enforcer

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.

Good morning everyone, or goodnight perhaps.

Either way there's emergency use instant coffee available.

No electricity but you know what to do.

Happy Monday Gameboomers!

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

We still have people in part of the state without power from the storms on Friday night. In a couple communities so many trees fell on homes and power lines it is going to be a while before all the power is restored. One home in one of the rural towns had 6 trees fall on it! No one was hurt, but the house was badly damaged.

It is raining here today and expected to continue all day. We have flood watches in effect.

Hope you all have a good Monday!

Gerry

Good morning, Danish, Donuts and Bagels in the Break Room. Meeting at the Eagles tonight. Enjoy the day and hug someone.

Good Monday morning. I loved going to my Great Aunt Berniece's house. No electricity or running water. She had a giant - to me! - wood stove in the kitchen where she did all her cooking. I remember helping her use a wooden churn to make butter and loved to play with her old crank-up Victrola to play records. There was also an outhouse down a path which always seemed to have wasps buzzing around it. Her father, my Irish great grandpa, lived with her. He once told me to remember "It's Orange Irish ya are, lassie." I loved going there.

Good Monday morning everyone. What neat memories from everyone. I loved visiting my grand parents home in New York. They had electricity, running water and a coal furnace for heating. I remember their house being "huge" as a youngster especially the basement (for the coal and furnace) and attic with all sorts of neat items which I explored whenever I got loose. And then I returned some 50+ years later for a family funeral only to discover their home was actually very small! But I still firmly hold on to my childhood memories! Time for a cup of WADDB and bagel.

Have a great day everyone

Good morning all.

Yet another lovely day, though it's going to get hot later on. I think I'll drive up the coast road to Comox and do some Costco shopping.

John and I did rustic for the first few years of our life together and in our travels ended up staying in many a nasty and dirty old cabin with no plumbing or electricity. The last straw was the one that had a huge hole in the floor. After that I put my foot down and we graduated to dicey-looking motels.

Yet another hot one here today. Looking forward to playing euchre tonight with friends.

Good Morning everyone! Wide Awake Double Dark Brew is ready along with Birthday cup cakes to celebrate Lex's birthday!

Happy Birthday to you Lex!

Almost 3 inches of rain yesterday and more coming today!

Hope you all have better weather!

Gerry