Islandgal Loc: Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Canada

It was 95F here today but there was a lovely breeze. The Country music festival is happening this weekend, still can't understand why people would risk being this close together with the newest variant picking up.

Islandgal Loc: Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Canada

Hope you enjoyed that steak pie!.. ummm. xox

Islandgal Loc: Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Canada

Love you June. xoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Miss Pam Loc: Arizona

Yuck! Glad you have had a breeze. Where we are it's at 84°F. Not too uncomfortable. Most areas around us are in the low to mid 90sF. Glad we're not that warm. Stay as cool as you can. I'm with you on trying to understand why people would attend events like that. Not me!!! xxxooo

jollypolly

Thank you. I’m glad you all are still here. The vet wants to do more tests and I know they are necessary but sorry to put her through them. I need to catch up on what’s happening here. Hope all is well with you.

jollypolly

I was thinking I’d put them in plastic bags to stay dry. Don’t know if cold winter would be bad for them. Also it’s a long walk to the shed and I’ve bad knee pain so try to limit my steps. They tell me to exercise to help the knees but when it hurts I avoid steps.
We had a nice group for dinner. Not the 12 only 8 but very good conversation. I had baked haddock with aeoli sauce over rice with mixed veg and Manhattan chowder. Wanted steamed clams but they ran out. Only fun I’ve had in a long time.

Barndweller

Good morning all from a sunny-ish Norfolk although it's clouding over a bit, high of 23C today so nice and pleasant. Fence man is back but seems to be without his sidekick today though he might be back at the yard loading our fencing onto the lorry, says she hopefully. Nothing else planned for the day so knitting here I come. Have a good and safe day. xx

Nitz8catz Loc: Canada

Good morning from Port Hope Ontario Canada. It is 6:44 am EDT and 19'C (66'F) going up to 33'C (91'F). Humidity is 98% and there is a haze in the sky. Thunderstorms are forecast and I can believe that as it is super still outside.
The National Backyard Blitz is on. For 5 days the Nature Conservancy of Canada is asking people to go into their backyard and take pictures of plants, birds, animals, insects and fungi and upload it to their site. This program has helped with wildlife counts and has helped determine where more fencing is needed to protect wildlife from highways. Last year someone found a herd of Asian Wild Boars roaming in Pickering just east of Toronto. Birds normally in the Caribbean have also been found, blown off course by storms.
We barbequed chicken last night. DD must have put too much oil on the chicken because we had a huge fire in the bottom pan of the barbeque. We just turned everything off and let it burn.
I finally finished the rib cuff on my speckled socks. And put them on. The foot fits lovely. The ankle area is TOO TOO tight, making it hard to get the sock on. I have a high instep and flat wide feet. I usually add stitches to the instep of socks that I knit and decrease them out after I have finished the heel, but I couldn't with this set because of the patterning. So now I'm hoping that they will stretch a bit with blocking (not likely) or I need to figure out some way to take out the cuff and leg and add some stitches in there. I DID go up a needle size when I was doing the leg. I think without that I wouldn't be able to get them on at all.

Nitz8catz Loc: Canada

It sounds like this will be drawn out without his sidekick. Unless he can lift all the fencing by himself?
Enjoy your day knitting.

Nitz8catz Loc: Canada

We have some garden tools in our shed and some hanging on the walls of our garage. It depends on whether they are mouse proof or not. The shed has mice. Our shed and garage is not heated. Our lawn mowers get fuel stabilizers put into them before they are put in the shed for the winter. Our lawnmowers are metal decked. So far the mice have not chewed the single wire on the lawnnmowers. They did chew one of the pull cords. The whippersnipper/weed whacker hangs in the garage because it has plastic parts that the mice have chewed in the past. My row cover and screening for the garden are put into tubs that are stored in the shed (don't have room for them in the garage) The plastic rakes hang in the garage as do our snow shovels (all plastic). The metal hoes and shovels and hand tools are in the shed.
That's too bad that they ran out of steamed clams. I'm glad that you had a good time.

Nitz8catz Loc: Canada

I hope the tests tell you something that will help.
All the tests that were run on Smokey-mama cat told me that I have a very healthy cat for an old girl. (She has behavioural issues, not physical ones.)

Nitz8catz Loc: Canada

Breezes off the coast help. We are just far enough from Lake Ontario not to get the breezes/winds. I miss the winds.
I hope you stay cool.

Nitz8catz Loc: Canada

The pandemic is over, don't you know.
And now they are saying that the monkeypox may be spreading by something other than touch.
The Canadian National Exhibition is on in Toronto in 2 weeks after a 2 year hiatus. The TV people are saying that they expect it to be packed wall to wall. (I won't be there!) I still wait outside yarn stores if there are too many people inside.
I hope that breeze continues for you.

Nitz8catz Loc: Canada

I agree with you. Although I like to turn my Earl Grey into a London Fog with lots of froth on top. It goes down so quickly!!!
Mum drinks Red Rose tea, but she dunks the tea bag in and pulls it out so quickly (after squishing it into submission) that I'm sure that doesn't help with the taste. You have to just let the tea swim.

Barndweller

It is hard work on his own but it would help if he didn't keep disappearing, we're a bit too near his home when it comes to just slipping back there. Apparently his sidekick called in sick this morning, perhaps because there were two post holes to dig manually. xx