Let’s have a good news thread.
I’ll start. My Covid test came back negative.
What else is good?
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Let’s have a good news thread.
I’ll start. My Covid test came back negative.
What else is good?
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Joe Falco
I may have found an apartment closer to my workplace in Atlanta! I just have to call their office on Monday to make sure.
Auntie Anne
Yay! ?? I have been keeping my fingers crossed and hoping you’d get a negative test!
Dorothy A. Winsor
Yay, Water Girl!
mrmoshpotato
Hooray for negative COVID tests!
My Tyrannosaurus neighbors upstairs have moved out.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: Literal or figurative?
Wolvesvalley
Yay for the negative test!
WaterGirl
@Joe Falco: Fingers crossed!
Suzanne
That’s great news!
Cameron
That is wonderful news. Let’s take every single win we can.
guachi
I’m watching Beastmaster starring Marc Singer in 4k. He’s just rescued everyone and killed the evil priest
So that’s pretty good.
Baud
Awesome blossom.
WaterGirl
@guachi: Rescuing everyone and killing an evil priest, I’d say that’s a good day’s work. Pretty good, indeed.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I don’t know what awesome blossom means, but my mom’s name was Blossom, so I’ll assume it’s something good.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
I totally intended that.
zhena gogolia
Oh, great news, WaterGirl!
MazeDancer
Yay! Yay! Yay! for no COVID.
Hope whatever it is that is not COVID that you got goes away soon,
Another Scott
Excellent news, WG! Here’s hoping you’re over whatever it was, or will be soon.
Other good news (repost):
(via RepDonBeyer)
Cheers,
Scott.
artem1s
Yea for negative tests!
I am changing positions and departments at my company – pay bump and promotion. Even better news, I only have to spend one more week at my current position. It’s been years of completely unnecessary stress due to a few petty, power hoarding martinets who live to make life more difficult for everyone. One MUST follow the RULZ of Calvinball or else ALL is LOST! Counting the minutes!
OzarkHillbilly
Leon Bridges.
JoyceH
Dunno if this is good news, but it’s interesting. A couple days ago, my local board had a thread about ‘what was that commotion this morning over in the vicinity of X?’ Nobody knew, but they reported a large number of police cars at 6:30 am, lights and sirens and a bullhorn announcing, “This is the FBI!”
I figured surely drugs or guns or something like that. But turns out a guy in my development was arrested for participating in the invasion of the Capitol!
So I guess that is good news – that they’re still arresting people, and that they’re making the arrests overwhelming and terrifying.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Joe Falco: That would be excellent! I hope the apartment pans out. Long commutes are a pain
H.E.Wolf
Hooray for the negative test! I’m glad the wait time to get the result was a short one.
RobertDSC-Mac Mini
I finished throwing out the books in my shed that had fallen victim to termites.
I lost hundreds of books to the critters, but what I have saved is now in plastic storage bins with lids.
It was a multiple-weekend endeavor to find what was still viable and what was destroyed. Years of patient combing through many bookstores was gone, tunneled away by critters.
But today, what remains is safe, for now. And that’s a good thing.
Another Scott
@JoyceH: Excellent.
Ὀψὲ θεῶν ἀλέουσι μύλοι, ἀλέουσι δὲ λεπτά.
(“The millstones of the gods grind late, but they grind fine.”)
Cheers,
Scott.
OzarkHillbilly
This made me laugh:
H.E.Wolf
@artem1s:
Congrats on your departure from the toxic work situation!
raven
@Joe Falco: Mid-town?
Tony Jay
@guachi:
I hope you’re enjoying the glories of Mark ‘You’ll never guess who my Dad is’ Singer as part of a triple bill with ‘Hawk the Slayer’ and ‘Ladyhawke’?
Make an evening of it.
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: Literal hooray “Hooray!” for negative COVID tests.
Figurative on Tyrannosaurus neighbors
(oh what that building construction would look like!)
Literal on them moving out.
I think I covered all of the bases there (figuratively).
FelonyGovt
Hooray for negative Covid tests, new jobs, shorter commutes!
No specific good news here, but I’m getting out a little more and seeing some friends I hadn’t seen since before March 2020, and I can feel my stress and anxiety lessening.
WaterGirl
@artem1s: That is great news! Did you have to apply for an open position, and that prompted them to see something in you that they hadn’t recognized before? Or did they just offer you the promotion, out of the blue?
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
?BillinGlendaleCA
Good to hear of the negative test results, WG.
No good news here, my Milky Way shoot for today was cancelled due to cloud cover. I’m not driving 150+ miles for “it might work”. Maybe next week.
mrmoshpotato
@JoyceH:
Hooray!
(And “invasion” is definitely the correct word.)
Orange is the New Red
We’re going house hunting in western VA, preparing for retirement. Huzzah!
WaterGirl
@JoyceH: That really is encouraging!
Another Scott
(via IamHappyToast)
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@H.E.Wolf: Because I used to work for the University, I was able to get the test there. 6-hour turnaround. If you get it through the local hospital, it’s 2 days. Plus, all I had to do was conjure up enough spit to fill a vial halfway (harder than it sounds) and nothing stuck up my nose. Double win.
Tony Jay
@RobertDSC-Mac Mini:
That. Is. Awful. My mellow would be comprehensively harshed by that.
PaulB
I’ve lost 80 lbs this year so far, dropping from 320 lbs to 240 lbs and still going, through a mix of exercising and eating better.
Tony Jay
Watergirl:
That, however, is great news. Feel that weight come right off.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: I see that my question wasn’t at all specific. Given the choice between trying to read my mind and answering all three, I think you made the wiser choice. :-)
Betty
@RobertDSC-Mac Mini: I had the same thing happen. I hated throwing away my books. Hope yours are safe now!
Baud
@PaulB:
That’s a lot. I’m not trying to lose weight, but I am trying to readjust some fat/muscle ratios. It’s proving to be a challenge.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
Great news! And a good time for chocolate cake!
dww44
Good news here is its only 94 degrees when it was predicted to be 100. However, the humidity is so high that peeking one’s head out the storm door feels like putting one’s head under a wet blanket. Absolutely stultifying.
WaterGirl
@Tony Jay: It’s still hitting me. In retrospect, I can say it was a good wake-up call – with the Delta variant, even being outside unmasked is not safe with with people who are not vaccinated.
Plus… learning, the day after my symptoms started, that vaccinated people can carry the same viral loads as unvaccinated people means I will be going back to being super careful again.
We are not where we were a couple of months ago when it was more reasonable to be out and about more.
RobertDSC-Mac Mini
@Tony Jay:
It was. No doubt at all. But there was a side benefit: when I open a plastic storage bin’s lid, the old bookstore smell comes wafting out. It is a smell unlike any other and that makes me *extremely* happy.
OzarkHillbilly
WaterGirl
@Baud:
So say we all.
WaterGirl
@dww44: Yeah, i either refer to that weather as RFH or as unfit for living things.
sab
Pitbull was spayed Wednesday, kitty neutered Thursday, and today everyone is lying around acting very relaxed and happy.
MagdaInBlack
@mrmoshpotato: Congratulations. I had those downstairs. I think they were throwing bodies or something. Shook my floors, and they’re concrete, ffs
Eta: and she was a wee tiny thing, never figured out how she stomped around so hard.
West of the Rockies
Just got back from kayaking some stunning sea caves at Russian Gulch State Park Park in CA.
WaterGirl
@PaulB: That is quite a feat. Go you!
WaterGirl
@MagdaInBlack: My next-door neighbors never met a car door that they didn’t slam! Poor Tucker.
Citizen Alan
@Tony Jay: Do you perhaps have Marc Singer and Matt Salinger confused? It’s mildly amusing that Marc (Beastmaster, V) Singer is the son conductor Jaques Singer. Matt (Revenge of the Nerds, Captain America 1990) Salinger is the son of J.D. Salinger, and that’s hilarious.
indycat32
My cat, Ollie, who ate thread in April and needed surgery to remove it ($3500), recently spent 3 days in the hospital ($2100) due to urinary blockage. The good news is this time I have insurance!!!
wmd
Congrats.
I looked in refrigerator and garden and decided a CSA box was in order. Produce on hand or to harvest will be giving me nutritional support for my immune response to my breakthrough infection. While friends offered to drop off food this is easier and it’s nice to support the CSA in the summer – normally I only use them when the local farmer’s market season is over.
At one week after infection and 5 days after test my symptoms are those of a fairly mild cold. I’ve been checking my temp and blood oxygen a few times day. 98.1° – 99.2°, 94%-98%.
Thanks Moderna!
Major Major Major Major
Oh yay! That’s great news!
I just finished a fantastic draft of my WIP short story… should be nearing the finish line on that soonish…
Time to play some Fallout 76
Citizen Alan
Topic: I’ve sold another chunk of my furniture and put all my collected art work into storage at my mom’s house. More importantly, I’ve learned that I can ship most of what I’m taking to NYC to the university and pick it up at arrival, which means I’m taking a 4-hour flight as opposed to a 19-hour Uhaul truck drive. YAY!
WaterGirl
@wmd: You got the test result that I feared, but it sounds like you and vaccine are putting up a good fight. Very glad about that. The whole breakthrough infection thing is a real reminder that the vaccine doesn’t make you safe, but rather a whole lot safer than you are without it.
Ruckus
@artem1s:
Didn’t someone do a song about petty people?
I wonder if the number of people who have left/changed jobs because of petty people is larger than any other reason.
I’d say welcome to the club, PACW (Petty Asshole Co Workers), but it’s not one you asked to belong to nor is it fun to belong to.
Anyway congrats on the move up and away from a crappy work situation
And WG, congrats on the negative test!
Pete Downunder
Mrs Downunder became a granny at 0 dark hundred this morning. 7lb 9 oz boy born to her daughter. No official name yet but nicknamed The Koala. Sadly the bub and new mum are in the UK and we’re stuck in the land downunder and Mrs Downunder really wants to get there. Other than that it’s great news.
MagdaInBlack
@WaterGirl: Now I have stoner vampires. Stoner, because I recognize the morning wake n bake cough, vampire because they never open their blinds. They seem harmless ? if a wee bit loud some Saturday nights when their stoner vampire friends come by.
Congratulations on being negative ?
Betsy
@PaulB: YAY!! Tell me what you did as far as eating??
WaterGirl
@Pete Downunder: I am reminded of getting the news that my sister had her first child. I was in college living in the dorms and I got the call at 2 or 3 in the afternoon. I was so excited that I told the painters who were painting our dorm floor that day.
This is a huge day for you guys, congratulations.
Tony Jay
@WaterGirl:
Insert gif of salty Duty Sergeant from Hill Street Blues telling his officers.
“And remember, people. Be careful out there.”
eclare
After hitting 97 degrees today, tomorrow is only supposed to reach 85.
Congratulations on the negative test, WG!
Ken
@OzarkHillbilly: Oh, sure, they look cute, but this is encouraging the evolution of giant land-going manatees that will ravage our fields of root crops.
MagdaInBlack
My good news is that the rumors of my boss, whom I love, being transferred, were confirmed as false. ?
Sure Lurkalot
Most excellent news, WaterGirl. I think most everyone is/will be on pins and needles whenever they come down with symptoms that could be Covid. Hope the relief overwhelms whatever is making you feel less than great.
Kristine
Great news WG!
Gaby is on antibiotics and wearing an inflatable cone for another 5 days because of an infection in a sensitive area. She seems to be responding well and the inflata-cone doesn’t appear to bother her—she can eat, drink, and sleep just fine. She’s 14, so taking treatable things as a win.
WaterGirl
@Tony Jay: Loved that show! I wonder if it’s streaming somewhere good.
Tony Jay
@RobertDSC-Mac Mini:
Misty eyed moment.
I spent many of the happiest hours of my youth clambering around in second hand book shops. That is the good smell.
Dan B
And it’s cloudy in Seattle!! It’s been dry and sunny, plus heat, for almost 50 days. Yesterday was 89 and it felt hotter. It was 85 last night at 10PM. We’re going to dinner, on the deck, at friends and were afraid it would be awful heat. So hooray!!
plus they have friends who like to one up each other on wine. Oh my!
Betsy
@wmd: yikes! A bit unsettling, to say the least. Glad you are doing so well. Do you know (or mind saying) how you acquired the breakthrough infection?
James E Powell
@Citizen Alan:
Marc Singer, brother of Lori Singer of Footloose & the TV version of Fame.
WaterGirl
@Sure Lurkalot: I had someone doing work for me at my house who tested for covid test the day after we had been in contact, and her test came back positive for covid.
So for me, when my symptoms started, this was different from the oh, I coughed and sneezed, maybe I have covid that we all wondered about this past winter.
Betsy
I tried making Pad Thai this evening for supper. It came out horrible, compared to the real thing that I was hoping for, but it’s edible and full of colorful veggies. So there’s that!
Cheryl from Maryland
My spouse had knee replacement surgery (first of two) but is home now. We are relaxing to a lovely, non humid day in MoCo.
Steeplejack (phone)
@sab:
Terror cat was named Dobey? Or Dobbie? And what’s the pit bull’s name?
Kropacetic
Coworker was playing Marsha Blackburn interview on her phone at work but, good news, it was time for me to leave.
ETA: Have to share this. Blackburn was going on about how spending for electric vehicles doesn’t belong in an infrastructure bill. It isn’t infrastructure. Besides, we don’t have the systems in place; the charging stations, the power generation capacity, etc.
Me: “You mean the infrastructure?”
MisterForkbeard
@Major Major Major Major: I wonder if anyone else here plays it?
I’ve gone off and on since launch, and it’s pretty enjoyable these days. Been about 6 months since I last touched it – might be time to jump in again.
raven
It’s hot ‘n mofo in Georgia. We had a mini-split installed in the upstairs so the creative one can work in comfort. It’s still warm up there!
JPL
@JoyceH: Cool! I count that as good news.
JPL
@PaulB: Congrats.
Yutsano
I get out of the hospital Tuesday! Then a bunch of PT and healing for a couple months.
wmd
@Betsy: I slowly changed my behavior after getting vaccinated. Kept an eye on local statistics, and when the transmission rate dropped below 0.8 felt comfortable going out to have a beer and enjoy live music. Last Saturday there were people infected in a venue that I was at – including me.
My employer has made free at home testing available to employees for over a year, so I sent in my weekly sample on Monday. I’d had a runny nose, but that’s not unusual when I wake up. I read an announcement that the tavern was closing for a week on Tuesday, which made me anxious for my test result.
WaterGirl
@Kropacetic:
Ha ha ha! But you left out the response to your question.
JPL
@raven: it’s Finch’s favorite time of the year, since he can hunt fried worms. He brought one in hanging out of his mouth the other day. Since I wouldn’t let him go out again, he marched himself down the hall, and went to bed. It was six o’clock.
Sure Lurkalot
@WaterGirl: True, however now that most people are everywhere unmasked, anyone can be contagious. My phone croaked so I had to go buy a new one which required me to be in a store with about 15 people, including unvaxxed kids, for about 45 minutes. Other than me, two people had masks on. No employees did.
Knowing you were actually exposed…do you think that was better or worse? I don’t know so I’m just asking…
WaterGirl
@Yutsano: Free at last!
Kropacetic
@WaterGirl: Unfortunately she did not hear me and her friendly interviewer did not make this simple observation.
WaterGirl
@wmd: Well, shit. I’m sorry.
WhatsMyNym
@Dan B: Seattle – haven’t you been rained on yet?? It’s been passing on both sides of us on the Quimper Peninsula, but there’s a blob forming on the radar just south of us now.
Another Scott
@Kristine: Obligatory…
(via nycsouthpaw)
Cheers,
Scott.
Kropacetic
@WaterGirl: We definitely jumped the gun on reopening…again. How many false starts does one get?
I had just started considering unmasking about a week ago, now it could be a year or more til I’m comfortable.
Albatrossity
Your news is better than any news I got, WaterGirl. That is most excellent news.
Betsy
@wmd: Thanks for sharing that. I’m sorry to miss a fun performance of my favorite old group on Monday but your sharing that makes me feel like it’s the right move.
Tony Jay
@Citizen Alan:
I…. think I’m going mad.
I’ve spent the last few decades convinced (convinced, I tell you) that Marc and Lori Singer owed their careers to the fact that their Dad was one of the top US TV producers of the 1970s and 1980s. A man whose name was up there with Aaron Spelling when you were thinking of ‘guys whose names are up near the top of the credits of every frigging American show on British TV back when I was a teenager’.
But now that I check, I can’t find anyone fitting that profile with the surname Singer.
Did… did I… did I imagine that?
What else did I imagine? Murder She Wrote was real? Right?
WaterGirl
@Kropacetic: I have always had friends who are pretty smart, so when I got a job as a grocery cashier to put myself through college, I had to downgrade my assessment on how smart the average people are. A major downgrade.
Now I am having to do that again, decades later. So sad.
raven
@JPL: Who’s a good doggie!!!
Kropacetic
@Betsy: The drive-in movie theatre has been a godsend for socially distanced fun.
wmd
@WaterGirl: I’ve got a cold. It’s one that could hurt unvaccinated people so I have some mild inconvenience of not leaving my house for a couple of weeks. It’s ironic – I commented to the bartender the day I was likely infected that I was going to stop social activity for a few weeks because the transmission rate was heading up. Isolating means I’m not part of that increase.
I’m old enough that self monitoring my health is habit. And thanks to Moderna I have quite a bit of confidence that I’ll be asymptomatic in few days, so the quarantine can end on the 9th and I can get back to summer swimming.
Kropacetic
@WaterGirl: Hope not too many of your friends themselves got downgraded with the others.
OzarkHillbilly
@Ken: That sounds like an improvement over humans.
Ken
Sure, it ran eleven seasons on NBC. I loved Estelle Getty as Jessica Fletcher.
Doug R
@guachi: The late Tanya Roberts in glorious 4k?
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Yeah, they have problems at the extremes. Get her a window unit.
Joe Falco
@raven: The apartment is in Smyrna. I work in Midtown, but I only go into the office twice a month due to COVID-19 protocols. It’ll eventually go back to a regular work schedule so I need to get a tad closer, but I have a budget I got to work with.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: That’s what we had/have. It didn’t cut it but I guess we could run both when the heat index is 105.. It’s actually ok in the half of the room in front of the unit. The other half has the stairway and the windows have direct sun except where the window fit is.
raven
@Joe Falco: Great!
WaterGirl
@Sure Lurkalot: Actually, for me it was both. I was exposed on Sunday morning (did not find out until Tuesday) and then Sunday afternoon I went to my first gathering – a friend’s birthday party. Outdoor party.
But my friend is not vaccinated, her husband is not vaccinated, her sister and sister’s husband and their 4 over 12-years-old children are not vaccinated. Neither was her other sister’s family. God only know about the rest of them.
I spent most of my time with two others who were vaccinated and Carol, whose party it was. I kept inching my chair back away from Carol, and she kept leaning in to talk to me. I would inch back, she would lean forward.
I kept my distance from everyone as best as I could without being rude, but next time I think I would stop by to be polite but would not stay at a party.
I won’t make that mistake again. Knowing that vaccinated people can still have a big viral load means that I am going to be staying away from groups of people for quite some time.
When my symptoms started, I replayed the week. Haircut, me masked but hair person vaccinated but not masked. Body work, both masked. Outside party. Dinner with a friend at a restaurant, outside, but with tons of people milling around and old friend of his, unmasked, stood at our table and talked to us for 15 minutes.
Then learning more about Delta. I had let myself slide back into more normal, but it’s becoming clear that it’s not safe to do that yet. That’s my take, anyway. ?♀️
J R in WV
@Yutsano:
Hurray! Hospitals are life savers when necessary, but when you can escape, that’s also a life saver. So many odd infectious events in a big hospital.
@Cheryl from Maryland:
That’s great news also. I’ve had both shoulders replaced, Wife’s both knees have been done, so we’ve been there and done that.
Do do what the PT folks tell you to do, no matter how much it hurts at first. When they push you towards a flex that hurts, let them do that until you can’t help but squeal, they won’t laugh, they’ll have sympathy, if they know what’s good for them.
Our good news, I got the new tail wheel tire for the bush hog, so that after we install the new part, and hook up the bush hog, I’ll be able to mow the bottoms and shoulders of the farm road.
No one was wearing a mask at the equipment dealer yesterday when I went to pick up the new part. Four hours on the road!
No one I saw all day on the road wore a mask. I wasn’t close to anyone, and WV isn’t a hot bed like some places, and I’m fully vaccinated, but still NO ONE was protected! Do these people not watch the news? No, of course they don’t!
Maybe that’s actually good news? Because I don’t care if the TFG RWNJs die like flies at all !!!
frosty
Negative? That’s positive!!
Tony Jay
@Ken:
You bastard, next you’ll be telling me all about Harry Hamlin’s breakout role in Scarecrow and Mrs King and I’ll go to bed all testy.
Rob
Yay indeed for negative tests.
My good news is that the District of Columbia is hosting its first Roseate Spoonbill, a southern wading bird that breeds no closer than Florida. I was fortunate to see it this afternoon, perched on a tree with two Great Egrets on an island in the Anacostia River. It’s the fourth spoonbill I’ve seen around DC this year! This bird, like all the others (as far as I know) this far north, is a juvenile. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Roseate_Spoonbill/id
Rob
@Cheryl from Maryland:
Yay! The weather is really nice today in Montgomery County.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Our 2nd floor is lacking in insulation. I improved it as best I could when we bought the place but some areas there was nothing I could do. The little window unit we have does the job. Well, that and the light gray roofing and the thick cover of trees surrounding our house.
I suspect the minisplit and a window unit should be able to keep madame comfortable.
J R in WV
@raven:
Perhaps you could tape foil on those windows for the rest of the hot times? Less heat uptake has to help…
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: Are the small personal units a waste of money? When company comes, my neice and her husband like the room really cold, while the rest of us are comfortable with the thermostat at 74 . I gave them a fan for their room
With the current heat wave, I’m lucky to have the thermostat at 76.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Yea, at almost 4k we’re hoping!
raven
@JPL: Mini split or window?
J R in WV
@Rob:
While seeing a Roseate Spoonbill is always great for a birbwatcher, in this case it means birbs from the deep south are now spending summers in the Maryland/Virginia area.
Scary stuff, climatologically (sic) speaking!
JPL
@raven: Just the personal size.. they cost around fifty. They are evaporation systems. The problem is they only come maybe four times a year and only twice in the summer.
MobiusKlein
My co-workers in Guatemala are starting to get COVID vax, and their parents too.
Other co-worker got a cold, and it just a cold!
J R in WV
Also, totally happy for WaterGurl’s great negative test results. A terrible cold is so much better than a viral plague result!
So happy for you Watergirl~!!~ I’m still not having any symptoms of the Trumpian Plague, so all good here, so far!
Ken
Isn’t there a risk of a torch-bearing mob screaming “vampire” smashing down your door?
raven
@JPL: Hmm, don’t know about them.
JPL
@J R in WIV: ha trumpian plague caused a restless night for me, so I got up at 2:30 am and read Karin Slaughter’s latest book, False Witness.
eclare
@JPL: I don’t know how small you mean, but I don’t have central air, just window units. I love them because I can control the temp in each room. Second bedroom? Hardly ever turn it on. My bedroom? 65, summer or winter. I think you can get a decent unit for $200, $300 bucks.
frosty
@Rob: That’s not fair!! I’ve been in Florida on several snowbird trips and the only glimpse I had of a Roseate Spoonbill was flying overhead in Great Cypress. Ding Darling? No. Everglades? No. 10,000 Islands? No.OTOH I see egrets regularly and a Bald Eagle once along the rail trail next to the Codorus Creek, so that’s kind of cool.
Kropacetic
@JPL: Uggh, how could you bear it?
JPL
@raven: Amazon link.. Cooling system
Ohio Mom
Ohio Family just got back from a lovely day trip to Columbus. Highlights included:
A visit to the very quirky Early Television Museum,
A surprise of a 9/11 memorial complete with a mangled steel beam (really, town of Hilliard, Why? What did the World Trade Center have to do with you?),
A huge fish store full of very expensive fish (a $400 small stingray!) that was as good as a trip to an aquarium,
A short hike in a wooded park in search of a sculpture installation,
And a stop at our favorite hot dog restaurant.
Over the years we’d already done all the usual sights so as you can see, we are deep into the Off-the-Beaten-Track list of places.
JPL
@Kropacetic: Barnes and Noble loves my restless nights. btw The latest Karin Slaughter is a good read, although quite suspenseful.
Kropacetic
@JPL: Sorry I actually hid a joke in there.
Baud
@Kropacetic:
Ha! I didn’t get it either.
JPL
@eclare: That’s what they are used to, and they have window units, but they also live in NYC. I have central air.
eclare
@JPL: It’s gotten good reviews for small spaces. I don’t know how effective it would be in cooling two people in a bed.
Jess
My good news: my new rescue dog, an angsty, antisocial street dog from Russia, who tried to eat a Chihuahua at his last visit to the dog park, finally settled down and made some doggy friends. I told a colleague about him chomping on a Chihuahua (fortunately not hurt, and not even freaked out for more than a few moments), and she said, “Well, doesn’t everybody?” She may have a point…
Another Scott
Deadlines often focus the mind, but this is cutting it really, really close…
(via LOLGOP)
Cheers,
Scott.
JPL
@Kropacetic: dummy the book wasn’t Bear Witness It was False Witness.
I actually missed it, but since I’ve been up since 2:30, I should be forgiven
OzarkHillbilly
@JPL: i think you are talking of the personal swamp coolers. I don’t have much faith in them in high humidity environments. i am talking about small window AC units.
Kristine
@Another Scott: Riley knows a good thing!
Gaby has been using her donut as a pillow, too.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Ohio Mom:
They have the same thing here at the Glendale Fire Dept HQ, I guess it is solidarity with the firefighters that were lost at the WTC.
Baud
@Another Scott:
It has no shot in the Senate. Glad they’re doing it, but it’s not a real deadline.
Jess
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Same here in Fitchburg, MA.
sab
@Steeplejack (phone): Dobby and Ponyo.
WaterGirl
@Kropacetic: I have two friends who refuse to get vaccinated. But there were so many people at that party who weren’t vaccinated. It gives me the willies just thinking about it now! :-)
One friend I can understand – she had a family member who was born to a mom who had taken thalidomide and had to live with the consequences so she wants it to be on the market longer before she takes it. But the other one has a doctor who is an anti-vaxxer, so she won’t take it at all. That’s the one who had the party. Shaking my head at her choice, I have to admit.
Jess
@WaterGirl: Her doctor is an anti-vaxxer? OMG.
Edit: Wonder if he could be reported to the medical board for malpractice?
Gin & Tonic
Haven’t been on the bike in a while, for various reasons, so just went out for a spin. Low 70’s, low humidity, blue sky, can’t beat it. Nice thing about an hour and half on a bike is it easily justifies a cold beer, which is on the agenda right about now.
JPL
@WaterGirl: I’m just glad that you are okay. Although it is unlikely that vaccinated people will get covid, they can.
Jess
@JPL: Well, they can “get” COVID, but are unlikely to get very sick from it. I’m masking up again here in MA even though I’m vaxxed b/c I don’t want to get and pass on the Delta variant.
raven
@JPL: Hmmm
WaterGirl
@Jess: Yep. He’s the one who got her debilitating Lyme disease under control after 10 years of antibiotics that didn’t work, etc. and she totally trusts him because of that.
Everybody gets to make their own choices, but this one means I won’t see her a whole lot for awhile.
JPL
@Jess: I started masking up a few weeks ago, when Delta started spreading in GA.
Wag
Just had an excellent conversation with an old friend, reconnecting after too many years over a couple of really good beers at a small brewery.
WaterGirl
@JPL: Thank you! I think there are a lot more breakthrough infections than I ever would have expected. Now they are saying the with Delta, the vaccines are only 70 or 80% effective, at least that’s what I read earlier today. And a higher % than I would have expected are in the ER and dying. Even Joe Biden talked about the breakthrough infections last week. To me, the difference between 95% effective and 70 or 80% is HUGE. And more new information seems to be coming out every day.
Delta is not your father’s
Oldsmobilevariant.JPL
@raven: I think Ozark is correct that it won’t cool a room, but might be the perfect choice for a craft area.
Sure Lurkalot
@WaterGirl: I’m iffy again on activities too as my county has moved into “significant” spread category.
Other than grocery shopping, quick and masked, I have a couple of outdoor get togethers (less than 10 people, all vaxxed), a dentist appointment and some work people coming by, mainly outdoors but HVAC/plumbing work indoors, in the basement. I’m about 5 on the nervous scale for these activities.
Moving to 8 to 10 on the nervous scale is a mid-September trip to St. Louis for my sister’s memorial. I’m hoping it will get canceled but it’s not likely. The plan was to stay 5 days but unless things improve, also not likely, I’m going for as short as possible.
raven
@JPL: Well, like I said we just dropped a bunch of dough on the mini-split. I think it will be fine aside from these really extreme conditions. The previous heat pump with ducting struggled when it was super hot. It’s an old old house and the upstairs is gonna be hot. The ceiling and walls are pretty well insulated but I may have to search for little leaks.
CaseyL
Yay, WaterGirl (*throws confetti*)!
Today I was motoring happily along a main drag, heading for a local Farmer’s Market, and thinking to myself how much I have/have not been getting out lately, Recounting the places I have gone, the friends I have seen.
The mental list got as far as “go with Gail to see the Pilchuck Glass exhibit at Matske Gallery on Camano Island,” whereupon my brain went ~~record scratch~~whendidwedothat~~record scratch~~!!
…and I remembered that TODAY was the day Gail and I were going to Matske Gallery on Camano Island. This very day! While I’m sailing off to a Farmer’s Market!
So I yell “SHIT!” and look for the next place I can pull a U-turn, to hightail it back home, hopefully before Gail comes by to pick me up. I also break my rule about phoning while driving to leave her a message saying I will be there.
No worries: I had her expected arrival time half an hour before her actual arrival time, and I was home and ready to go in plenty of time.
The art in the gallery was… nice. Nothing I would sell my soul, or at least a relative, to own. But fun to look at. Spending time with a friend in-person is always good, though.
WaterGirl
@Sure Lurkalot: I was supposed to leave tomorrow for 8 days with family – sister from Colorado, sister from Michigan, niece from CO, another great-niece from CO.
I cancelled a couple of weeks ago when Delta stats started coming out – CO sister and CO great-niece refuse to get vaccinated.
I wasn’t about to spend 8 days in close quarters with two unvaccinated people, who have just taken multiple plane trips, no less. It just seemed foolish to go, and after my exposure to Covid a week ago, I’m even more certain of my decision.
It sucks, but for me it’s the right thing.
WaterGirl
@CaseyL:
Yes! On Tuesday I spent the evening with a good friend on my screened-in porch, probably 10-12 feet apart, but it was so good to just have a normal time doing normal stuff – eating pizza and home-made strawberry margaritas.
And then i had to worry that because I had been exposed, that I had exposed her. So happy to know that I did not!
raven
@WaterGirl: I hear ya. My sis wanted to come from LA and, when I asked her how she felt about the travel, she said “terrible”. I said, “well that should do it”.
Dan B
@Yutsano: Good to hear you’ll be out of hospital. Richland had the high temp in the US yesterday, 111. I hope the AC is good.
JPL
@raven: This is what I put in their bedroom I bought it when I first moved in a decade ago and was doing a major refurbish. Maybe not major, but tearing down paneling , and putting in some new cabinets in the kitchen. It cost ten dollars back then. Home Depot Fan
Jackie
Here in low vaccination rate Red County southeastern WA, I never stopped wearing a mask at the grocery store. WA re-opened fully at the end of June and mask wearing went to almost zero. I live with two grandkiddos under 12, so no way am I going to inadvertently bring Covid home.
Another Scott
@WaterGirl:
STATNews has a good summary of what’s known at this time:
Lots more at the link. A good read.
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
Speaking of good things (sorry to talk so much about Covid)…
When trying to rest up yesterday, I started watching Bosch. You guys have been saying for so long that I should watch it, I finally did! I am on episode 9 of season 1. I just checked, hoping that there would be at least 3 seasons to watch.
But no! You guys have been saying to watch Bosch for 7 freaking years! How is that possible?
eclare
@WaterGirl: I’m so sorry everyone is having to cancel things. I reported in a morning thread that I’m having second thoughts about going to my cousin’s wedding in Mississippi. My relatives are all vaxxed, but what about his friends, who live in Jackson? Delta is tearing through Mississippi now, and I would be nervous the whole time.
Sure Lurkalot
@WaterGirl: My whole family is vaccinated so there is no unvaxxed concern but still a “what have they been doing and who have they been in contact with?” concern. Some of them indoor dine and do similar activities and some will be flying to St. Louis, things which I would not do right now. And there will be other attendees, most of whom are sane, but still, whose vax status I will not know. And unvaxxed kiddos who I’m anxious to see.
The stubborn asshats have ruined a lot of things for a lot of people.
Baud
@Another Scott:
I feel like we missed an opportunity to get more people vaccinated by not releasing a deadlier virus early on.
eclare
@WaterGirl: The Bosch series of books is excellent too. I don’t have whatever service it’s on.
JPL
Last time, family visited they drove. One from TX and the others from NY. Since they are coming again in September, it would not surprise me, if they did again.
Dan B
@WhatsMyNym: No rain here for nearly two months. Our massive water storage tanks are nearly dry. We’ve been watering the mostly zeric garden to keep from losing plants. Birds love our many water features. We’re probably the only accessible water in a mile or more.
The Willis Wall, a 4,000 near vertical face on the north of Mt. Rainier looks ice free. The ice cover on all the Cascades, which was more than all the rest of the lower 48 combined, is rapidly disappearing. Ice tends to favor cloud formation so bare rock reduces rain and snow. It’s ominous
Also ice, as permafrost, binds together loose rock so we could have increased rockslides. I believe it may cause another awakening.
JPL
@WaterGirl: You won’t be sorry, and you will fall in love with the characters. I’m so glad that there will be a spin off.
Kropacetic
@WaterGirl: Yeah, makes sense for your first friend. Once bitten…
The fact that the other friend is being influenced by a doctor to not vax is especially confounding.
eclare
@Sure Lurkalot: I’m so sorry the asshats have ruined your plans too, for what is going to be an emotional event.
Jackie
@Dan B: YAY for us in the Tri-Cities ?? It’s not as hot today, but it feels worse what with the smoky stagnant air…
raven
@WaterGirl: It’s so good but I don’t want it to end so I’m nursing the last season.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Dan B: Three weeks ago, when I was up in the Little Lakes Valley, one of the other photographers who’d hiked up there before looked at the mountains and said “fuck, where’s the snow”. We still should have seen snow along the trail, there was none.
raven
@JPL: I didn’t know about that! My friend loves the books.
WereBear
Double yay! Negative test, and no six foot swab!
Sister Golden Bear
My bathroom remodel is back on track, after an inspection delay and having to redo some of the tile work. Tub surround tile and niche tile are installed, and the floor tile should be grouted by the end of end.
Most importantly, I’ll have a working toilet again! A big deal since it’s a one-bathroom house — thankfully my contractor minimized the days without toilet down to just last night (when the floor tile cement needed to set).
With luck they’ll finish up in about two weeks, and I’ll have a working shower again before that.
JPL
@raven: I’m not going to say more, but I did see a clip where they are already filming.
Johnnybuck
Joe Biden is still President.
Joy in FL
@WaterGirl: Your experience and some comments from others and my own gut feelings gave me the courage to cancel dining outside at a restaurant this coming Monday.
I was the one who suggested it, and I feel bad canceling, but not as bad as I would feel if I or my friend (both of us are vaccinated) got Covid or even had symptoms that might be Covid.
Until March 2020, we had a tradition of dining out on the first Monday of the month. We finally were able to have dinner at Red Lobster this July. A lot has changed since July’s first Monday, and I will wait to eat out until I feel safe again.
Watergirl, I’m so glad your Covid test was negative : )
WaterGirl
@eclare: Yeah, I read about your trip this morning. I know what I would do, but that’s only because I struggled though my decision about my family trip, and came out the other side.
This whole thing reminds me of the old saying that when you are having sex with someone, you are in a sense having sex with everyone they have ever had sex with. (talking about STDs, of course, not literal orgies with a zillion people)
I have been super careful, so my friend had no worries about getting together for pizza and drinks for a lovely evening on the porch. But I didn’t know the person I had been around on Sunday had Covid, so even a “safe” bet like me was potentially not safe after all. It was a teachable moment for me, and I am going to seriously limit my exposure going forward so I can still have lovely evenings on the porch with people I am closest to.
Does that make sense? Maybe not to someone else, but it does to me.
JMG
@WaterGirl: FWIW, the P-Town cluster of almost 900, most of whom were vaccinated, had had 7 hospitalizations and no deaths. That’s a less than one percent hospitalization rate. The patients (surprise!) were mostly male (85 percent) and mostly under 40.
MomSense
So much happy news. Kid brought some sushi grade bluefin here and we made poke bowls.
Yutsano
@Johnnybuck: YOU JUST WAIT UNTIL PRESIDENT TRUMP* GETS RESTORED NEXT AUGUST 10TH BY THE SUPREME COURT LIBTARD!!!
*eww that felt gross typing…
Rob
@J R in WV: Maybe, maybe not. Young of the year spoonbills (and herons and ibises) disperse north after they leave the nest. The four spoonbills I’ve seen near DC this summer were all hatched this year, so they came from Florida (or Louisiana or Texas). Yes, they are spending the summer here, but they will return south later in the year. In 2018 a fair number of spoonbills were also in the mid-Atlantic. My understanding is that the species had really good nesting seasons this year and in 2018.
By the way, there were 5(!) spoonbills in one location in Grant County, West Virginia, in late June for a few days.
WaterGirl
@Baud: If only that were short enough for a rotating tag. The sentiment is perfect.
WaterGirl
@eclare: Bosch is on Amazon Prime. So glad to know there are 6 more seasons!
Kropacetic
@Johnnybuck: And Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
eclare
@WaterGirl: That makes sense. I’m sure your scare was very stressful and left a mark.
StringOnAStick
Good news: another bit of rain here in the tinder dry central Oregon woods. on Thursday, lightning started a fire close to town and a fire retardant tanker was passing by on its way to another fire so it got put out immediately. That ‘s on the side of town with lots of pines and multimillion dollar houses so it would have gotten a lot of attention quickly.I
We went to the coast on Friday and at a gravel beach with a step drop to the water there were juvenile sea lions playing and popping their heads out to get a good look at us.
WaterGirl
@JPL: Spinoff? Does that mean Bosch is ending after the 7 seasons? But I just found it!
edit:
@raven: Sounds like Bosch really is ending. Bummer.
WaterGirl
@Sure Lurkalot: It’s so tricky. I wish none of us had to go through this.
JPL
Has anyone made the tiktok/washington post recipe for blueberry muffins usings ice cream? Not serving with ice cream, but using ice cream as one of the ingredients? The Post has 1 cup of self rising flout, 1 1/3cups softened ice cream and 3/4 cups of blueberries. The two year old grand imp loves to help me and I’m thinking this is something we could do.
mrmoshpotato
@PaulB:
Two little, not-weird and not-tricks! Congrats!
WaterGirl
@Joy in FL: Thank you!
And thank you to everyone for their good wishes and happiness for my negative test!
JPL
@WaterGirl: Yes and no.. Bosch lives. .
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: Hehe
Lymie
Daughter returning to Minneapolis after a short but lovely visit. I have booked to go visit her for her white coat ceremony for pharmD start in 3 weeks. Might get to the Minnesota state fair.
hug your loved ones.
WaterGirl
@JPL: I say go for it! With ice cream and blueberries, how bad could it be?
WaterGirl
@JPL: You are being so coy, I am not sure what that means.
Will Bosch be a guest star on the spinoff?
Nutmeg again
My doggo gal pal with the horrible diagnosis (degenerative myelopathy) is doing quite well! Her disease is progressing really slowly (knock on wood), and while there are wobbles when she tries to speed up, if she goes slowly, she remains pretty steady. In May, the vet & I both thought she wouldn’t make it to the end of summer. It looks like we were wrong! ~ Hurrah. Who’s a good dog? Murphy’s a good dog.
Chief Oshkosh
@OzarkHillbilly: Me too! Thanks for the chuckle.
JPL
@WaterGirl: I’ll let you know how it turns out. The new guidance is no blueberries unless they are cooked, so I’ll probably stir those in last. It’s a crazy recipe though.
WaterGirl
@Nutmeg again: I had a very special Murphy myself. Glad you are getting way more time than expected together.
WereBear
Bosch is ending? This means I will put it on my list!
I’ve been burned so many times by shows with a stellar first season and then a second season with serious troubles and ends in a mess.
My good news is I have too many cat projects to do. I need to pace myself, but it’s exciting that there’s room for improvement.
And the Heart Cat I picked out for Mr WayofCats really is his heart cat. They adore each other. I did my best, but the rest is sheer chemistry.
JPL
@WaterGirl: Bosch will be a regular, but RAVEN don’t read, maybe with a different job. I hope Maddy will come back also. It’s a great series and you will love it.
Jeffro
Good news! Me, Mrs Fro, Froette, and Fro Jr pulled off a 10-day, Phoenix->Salt Lake City road trip that took us through Sedona, the north rim of the Grand Canyon, all of the ‘Mighty 5’ Utah national parks, tons of side stops, probably something like 40+ miles of serious hiking, and didn’t kill each other! ?
WaterGirl
@WereBear: Chemistry and good instincts on your part, I would imagine.
wmd
@Joy in FL:
I was likely to meet a former colleague for lunch outdoors sometime in August. We’re both vaccinated – guidance for me to stop isolation will done for a couple of weeks.
A lot depends on how infection rates are trending then. Her husband does database admin for the county hospital; she has two young children… I’ll let her contact me to schedule and not be upset by moving it to October.
Rob
@frosty: That’s too bad! They’re normally not hard to find in Florida.
There were two Roseate Spoonbills in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, with one lingering until yesterday, according to the rolling 7-day list of rare birds for Pennsylvania https://ebird.org/alert/summary?sid=SN35546&sortBy=obsDt&o=desc (no account needed to see the alerts). There have been spoonbills in at least half a dozen more spots in Pennsylvania this summer (according to eBird but you need an account to see a maps of sightings). Maybe one will show up at Codorus?
mrmoshpotato
@MagdaInBlack:
Woah!
JPL
@Jeffro: Not making the headlines is goodnews indeed. ??
Drdavechemist
@WaterGirl: Ha! My son recently told us that his mom and I gave him a false sense of how smart most adults were, and he was disappointed when he learned otherwise. I guess I should be flattered since he’s a pretty smart kid.
WaterGirl
I made bread this afternoon. For dinner I am making scrambled eggs with cheddar cheese, 2 strips of bacon, and toast made from the warm bread.
I don’t know why, but right now that sounds like the perfect dinner.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Jeffro: I’d love to shoot the Milky Way from the north rim, but probably never will…sigh.
WaterGirl
@Drdavechemist: You should definitely be flattered and proud.
WaterGirl
@Jeffro: You know, to some people not killing each other might seem like a pretty low bar.
But if you’ve ever done a bathroom remodel in a really small bathroom with someone you love, it doesn’t seem like a low bar at all!
dexwood
@WaterGirl: There are evenings when breakfast for dinner is a perfect choice. Last night for example.
Geoduck
The bus service in my area is expanding again, after being mostly shut down due to COVID.
James E Powell
Saw a CNN report which took both FOX & Ron Johnson to task for spreading disinformation regarding vaccines. The language was pretty mild, but it was good to see them reporting that “some in the media” are responsible for people not getting vaccines.
Re: Vaccines. More people are getting them all over the place, though for some, it is too late. Don’t know what impact the “didn’t get the vaccine, now he’s dead” stories have on the Republican mind. Does FOX run any of those stories?
Dan B
@raven: We’ve got mini-splits for the house, only two indoor units. They’re great! The big revelation about this 1953 cheaply built house was the amount of leaks. After the door test showed where the leaks were it was time consuming but easy to seal them. It made a bigger difference than the insulation.
Joy in FL
@wmd: It will help to be able to know the infection rates. I live in Florida, so I have no confidence that people at a restaurant will have been vaccinated. I realized that was the thing that would make me feel unsafe for the whole time. Hence, I decided to cancel.
James E Powell
@WaterGirl:
The only way I could hold myself to two strips of bacon would be if there were only two strips of bacon in the house.
PaulB
Just what we all know we’re supposed to do. In no particular order:
I’ve never been a fan of strict, rigid diets. Almost all of the well-known name-brand diets will allow you to take weight off but they’re usually not based on sound science, they are not all that healthy, and they are not sustainable over the long haul.
A counselor I chatted with in a prior weight-loss program also cautioned me not to do the “You can’t have that!” and “You must eat that!” which we all have a tendency to do and/or which the diet we’re following requires us to do. Every time you find yourself doing that, you’re setting up a counter-force inside you just waiting to break you.
Instead, his suggestions were to 1) occasionally say “Yes, I’m fine with having that today,” 2) try to find a better alternative, even if it’s only a little better (e.g., cake without the ice cream or vice versa or even just a smaller portion size like half a donut), and 3) compare the temptation with your ultimate goal: “I can eat fast food for lunch every day this week or I can look good and feel good when I return to the office.”
frosty
A good COVID thing! On the advice of commenters, I checked Home Depot again and this afternoon I acquired two boxes of 3M Aura N96 respirators, what I consider the gold standard. I’m saving them for later in August when I expect my area to be in terrible shape.
UncleEbeneezer
Very late to this but tomorrow I’m jamming with some new players (instrumental jazz) for the first time in a long time. Everyone’s vaccinated. Big space. Excited.
frosty
@Jeffro: That’s a heck of a trip for 10 days. We just hit all those sites over 22 days this May. I thought Sedona was a letdown but the state park we stayed in (Dead Horse Ranch) was great.
ETA: It was just the two of us in the trailer (200 sq ft) for five months and yes, I celebrate the lack of homicides too!
CaseyL
@Jeffro: After all that hiking, you were probably too tired to kill one another :)
Knowing someone who is a good travel companion is invaluable! I’ve found over the years there are astonishing few people I can spend days around without wanting to resort to violence. And here I always thought I was the easy-going type…
Quiltingfool
I posted 2 quilts yesterday on Etsy and one sold today! A colorful quilt that combine two different blocks – 54-40 or Fight (President Polk’s campaign slogan) and Bow Tie Cat. And a custom quilt is finished and sold, too! Now I can Buy More Fabric!
https://pin.it/19fjUpW
Richard Guhl
@PaulB: That must have been hard work. And a huge accomplishment! Good for you!
Wanderer
Congratulations on negative test Water Girl.
I hope wmd has a quick recovery.
Congrats to Yutsano on upcoming discharge.
frosty
@Dan B:
Our 1923 house was cold in the winter, especially with the wind hitting the living room. One windy day I started to foam the crack between the floor and the trim. You could feel the room warming up as I worked. After that I foamed and caulked every remotely possible place that a draft could come in.
WereBear
@WaterGirl: He narrowed it down for me: he wanted a girl panther. Well, she is a PANTHER. Little Tasmanian Devil from Looney Tunes.
WaterGirl
@UncleEbeneezer: Excited for you, UncleEbeneezer!
Richard Guhl
My good news?
Getting my 6,000 steps in in the beautiful setting of Lehigh Parkway here in Allentown, PA.
Also, making Actblue donations to the campaigns of Maggie Hassan (NH) and Catherine Cortez-Mastro (NV).
WaterGirl
@WereBear: She’s not just a girl panther. She’s the right girl panther. :-)
Major Major Major Major
@MisterForkbeard: was thinking about asking, not that it’ll let us play together or anything. I picked it up on sale a month ago (like $8 on steam?) after googling to make sure it was playable, and I’m enjoying it a lot so far
Geminid
@Jeffro: I envy the Fro family. That sounds like a great trip!
The good news back here in central Virginia is that the hot weather has left. It’s 78° and cloudy now. Highs in the 80’s the rest of the week; it’s not supposed to hit 90 again ’til next Sunday. We might even get some rain tonight and tomorrow. We sure need it.
eclare
@Quiltingfool: Beautiful!
Bluegirlfromwyo
@Johnnybuck: And Rush Limbaugh is still dead.
Geminid
@frosty: Air infiltration is the biggest factor in heat loss. For cooling in the summertime, sometimes an attic exhaust fan can make a real difference, especially in older houses without good ceiling insulation.
Quiltingfool
@WereBear: I have cat projects, too, but they are quilts featuring cats, lol! I’ve got a bunch of Halloween fabric panels I will use to make quilts, and they all have cats!
Quiltingfool
@PaulB: I think you will find your approach to losing weight will be very beneficial to maintaining your weight loss. Very sensible! Thank you for sharing this.
Betsy
@PaulB: That’s really cool. Thanks for the tips and experience.
Soprano2
The yellow kitty who adopted us will let us pet him even when he’s not eating. I picked him up the other day; he was so shocked he just let me do it for a minute, then he struggled so I let him down. Progress! Also, my mom is a little better today, but she’s still gripy. I hope she’s in rehab by Tuesday.
Jeffro
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
It was just unbelievable there BUT cloudy for the nights that we stayed at the NRGC cabins. Can’t argue with the cooler temps this whole trip, though – really threaded the needle on that one!
Jeffro
@WaterGirl: I don’t have the guts to try something like that! =)
Still, keeping four prone-to-being-hangry people focused, moving, and happy for 10 days and 1000+ miles is pretty good, I think.
The Pale Scot
@raven:
What I’ve done is get auto windshield reflectors and use velcro tape to attach them to sides of the window. And then pull them off when needed.
Definitely makes a difference
Jeffro
@frosty: we thought Sedona was a good warm-up for the rest of it, but we kinda knew that going in, so no harm no foul there. =)
That Widforss Trail at the north rim was pretty awesome, I have to say. We really, really liked Canyonlands too.
I think some of the side stops added to the fun. I forget the name of it, but there were some semi-ancient lava fields we stopped at and it was like being on another planet.
Here’s how you know it was a success: everyone agreed that they have no real desire to visit a theme park again, provided that a national park is available. =)
The Pale Scot
@OzarkHillbilly:
Humidity is the killer. If my sweat evaporates I’m fine
Tenar Arha
I gave up my apartment, gave away or trashed more than half my stuff, & put most of the rest in storage except for files & clothes. I even sorted & sold some of my books. And I have officially moved into to my parents’ old house to clean it out.
Truly this is frickin’ amazing considering where I was a year & 1/2 ago. I am overwhelmed & exhausted. I think I may be happy?
Jeffro
@CaseyL: no joke, Froette just corrected me and noted that by her Fitbit’s count, we did something like 78 miles of hiking in the past week and a half(!)
My legs are totally gassed and I can’t wait to getting back to swimming laps on Monday! =)
Jeffro
@Geminid: wow, that’s great news! Very happy about the timing/bringing cooler temps back east with us/skipping the ‘heat dome’ last week.
Richard
@?BillinGlendaleCA: hopefully you can go and try next week. Sorry, but we are so happy that the summer rains came back after not showing up for 3 years. We missed them a lot.
rikyrah
Yeah for the negative test???
WaterGirl
@Jeffro: I call it amazing.
frosty
@Jeffro:
We decided our favorite was Bryce. We eBiked the main road in Zion, since it was a last minute decision to visit while we were stuck in St. George getting trailer repairs. Kolob Canyon at Zion was free of crowds and almost as stunning as the main canyon. I preferred Capitol Reef to Canyonlands, but really, they’re all different and they’re all amazing.
Kudos for their choice of National Parks over theme parks! If your next trip is in Colorado you have to see Black Canyon of the Gunnison, an unexpected favorite of ours.
ETA: My favorite side trip was a short hike through a slot canyon in Escalante: Lick Wash. Very close to Kanab.
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@sab: dale
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@Johnnybuck: big if true
SFBayAreaGal
A little late to the conversation.
For me being able to see the fog playing peek-a-boo on the hills. Being able to enjoy the cool days and evenings where I live.
Just saw about 5 large flocks of geese fly by.
Watergirl I am so glad to read you are doing well.
dfh
The overpass didn’t fall while I drove under.
Kayla Rudbek
Trying out the inflatable kayak that Mr. Rudbek found on Craigslist! On the water for over 2 hours and no leaks that we detected (so far).