[Dianne Danielson]

in reply to: Quacker Chat for August 2021 #132645

Hi Ladies,
Adele, what are those plants you were talking about in your email? Hosta? I’ve never heard of it.
Also, can you crop your pics so they’re smaller. It isn’t hard to do. I get that alot when I try putting a pic of Snowball or any pic I take with my phone. Once I crop it I have no trouble sending it.
I don’t know about the rest of you but I’m soooooooo ready for fall!!! I’m just about ready to take down the summer decor & start putting up some of the fall stuff I have. Not Halloween tho. Waaaay too soon for that. End of Sept. first of Oct.
Can you believe how fast this yr has flooooown by?? The holidays will be here before we know it!!
Well, that’s all for tonight.
dd

[Dianne Danielson]

in reply to: Quacker Chat for August 2021 #132581

HI Ladies,
I hope everyone is doing fine. We’ve got some smoke from the fires. Not like last fall tho. It’s a hazy layer but not down here. I can’t see some of the mountains like I normally do every day. We’re supposed to get some rain Friday night into Sat. morn. I noticed some moisture on the windows night before last before going to bed. Not alot, just enough to stir up the dust on the windows.
I see all of you saw a notice about Sue’s birthday. I got a reminder with a pic of her & Angel saying today is her birthday. FB has a memory section & every night at midnight they show your memories of that day. That’s where I get alot of my pics.
I see they’re having a ‘hello fall” day today. I can almost smell it in the air, esp at night. It really cools off at night, even if it’s hot during the day. I’m ready for fall. Ready to start decorating for fall.
Eastern Oregon gets alot hotter than here, since they’re over 3,000 ft. (closer to the sun). LOL
Adele, I saw some Boo Fetti wine glasses on David’s special tonight. I imagine it’ll be showing up in the coming days on ITKWD. And would you PLEASE send some of that rain out here!!! Those fires would be put out by now if we could get some of it. (I know I sound like a broken record)!!
Don’t get me started on these SELFISH IDIOTS that refuse to get the shots. I guess their bucket list includes ending up on life support!! Or for their family members to end up on life support. I see clips of interviews of people dying telling their families to get the shot!!
It’s all about ME, ME , ME & to he– with the rest of you. Karma has a way of coming back around & biting you in the a$$$$ eventually. Frankly I won’t shed any tears for any of them if they get it & end up in the hospital or end up dead. (I’m so wicked)!!
Well, I better get off before I lose it.
take care, stay safe, stay well!
dd

[Dianne Danielson]

in reply to: Quacker Chat for July 2021 #132320

Hi Ladies,
Did any of you watch the final weekend of CIJ? I did since there wasn’t anything else on TV. I’d turn over to the Olympics & they’d have volleyball on.
Our weather took a sudden turn when the winds turned a different direction. It caused clouds to come in & cool it down. It was mostly cloudy today mixed with smoke from the fires. It’s not like it was last year. It just made the clouds have a pinkish cast to them. NO rain yet. At least it’s cooler than it’s been. We’ll still hit the low 90s, but hopefully NO more triple digits. I thought I felt a touch of fall in the air a few nights ago. I can almost smell it in the air.
Colleen & Adele, I had to sign in again too. It’s frustrating!!
I read a piece on the internet that those of us who got our shots are angry at those who refuse to get the shots. Maybe if they caught the variant they’d change their minds. If they had a mind left to change.
I’m hearing the variant is far more dangerous than the original virus. YIKES. I guess all we can do is wear a mask & pray we stay safe.
Well, that’s all for tonight.
Stay safe, stay well, stay cool.
dd

[Dianne Danielson]

in reply to: Quacker Chat for July 2021 #132211

HI Ladies,
Well, here we go again. We’re under another heat advisory for the next few days. Temps in the upper 90s, maybe hitting 100, in some areas of the state, mostly Eastern Oregon. The smoke from the fires isn’t up here, yet. they’re 300 miles away in the south eastern part of the state, down by the Ca. border.
The smoke is blowing east. I’m sorry to say the East coast is getting it. NYC was looking like Ca. in the 70s!! And how we looked last fall.
And as if that isn’t enough, we’re back to mandatory mask wearing! The variant has exploded again out here, so now they’re saying everyone vaccinated or not have to wear masks indoors. I wear one anyway whenever I go into stores. Altho it felt good to go without one outside tho.
I’m sorry about your bunny. It’s always heartbreaking to lose a beloved pet. I’m on Insta Gram & every day I see an obit of someone’s fur baby passing away. It’s so terribly sad.
Gail, I hope you’re feeling much better now. Take care.
Well, that’s all I have for now.
Take care everyone!
dd

[Dianne Danielson]

in reply to: Quacker Chat for July 2021 #132162

Hi Ladies,
Sorry I haven’t been on here for so long. I started a post before the weekend, but it vanished before I could send it. That makes me sooooo mad I could chew nails!!
Colleen, you’re not the only one this happens to. I’ve lost count how many times this has happened to me. I think it’s the site, more than the computers. I’ll try to remember what I talked about in the other post.
Ok, it sounds like we’re in for some more hot weather. We had a spell of cloudy mornings/sunny afternoons, just purrfect!! But now we’re in for another mini heatwave. No triple digit temps here. Probable Eastern Oregon will get the triple digit temps. Nothing like we had last month.
I also heard you guys are going to be under one of those heat bubbles soon. Word of warning if it does get that unbearable hot, get to a cooling center ASAP! Thankfully we have the community room to go to. We lost over 100 folks to that heat. Most of them elderly. We weren’t ready for that kind of heat. I don’t think a household AC can keep up with it. I’d head for a cooling center that has industrial AC. Please, take care & stay as cool as possible. This is no joke! It’s deadly. Those we lost we’re city wide, not here at the bldg. I heard we did, but they were already in the hospital.
Did anyone watch the CIJ marathon on the Q? I gotta win a big lottery so I can buy a mansion to decorate with all my stuff. QF is sure getting more & more expensive. I missed today’s show, but I did check out some things & I couldn’t afford it.
Anybody watching the Olympics? I want to see the gymnastics, & maybe the racing. It’s so broken up this time it’s hard to get interested in it.
I don’t know how it is back there, but we’re back to wearing masks again to try to keep the variant in check. It’s really exploding out here again.
Did I tell ya Hallie was in the hospital last week? She went in with shortness of breath, having trouble breathing. A couple days later they told her she has congestive heart failure. Well, I got to thinking about it & something didn’t make sense. NO cardiologist told her that. In fact no cardiologist was called in. No meds were prescribed for it, none for b/p, none for cholesterol, nothing. Turned out she had an upper respiratory infection, & something else. They kept her on oxygen the whole time she was in the hospital & sent her home with it. She saw her regular Dr. las Thurs. & she brought up CHF to him & he didn’t respond. I figured she didn’t have it, since I Do have it & know the symptoms.
That’s all for tonight.
Take care, stay safe, & stay cool!!! And HYDRATED!!!
dd

[Dianne Danielson]

in reply to: Quacker Chat for July 2021 #131809

Hi Ladies,
Just a quick note to let ya all know I’m fine. No more triple digit temps. Back to more normal temps. We could use some of that rain that seems to be everywhere else but here!!
I tried the poke cake & it’s delish!! I used strawberry jello in a white cake. I guess you could use other flavors. I’m wondering how chocolate pudding would work.
Not much going on here. The wildfires are down in the southern part of Oregon, so we’re not getting the smoke from them, yet!! It seems like every day another fire breaks out somewhere. I guess there’s another one of those heat bubbles is gonna hit somewhere in the west, but not here, yet!!! There’s alot of summer left.
That’s all for now. Have a wonderful weekend.
stay safe, stay well, stay cool.
dd

[Dianne Danielson]

in reply to: Quacker Chat for July 2021 #131695

HI Ladies,
Gail, it sounds like the wedding was lovely. Sounds like everyone had a good time, esp with the home made vodka!!
What is it the cattle people do to the males if they don’t want them to become aggressive? Castrate??
So how’s the weather out there? We could use alot of that rain out here to put out the fires, & fill up the rivers & streams, lakes, etc.!! Why is it one side of the country is soggy & the other side bone dry. Make it tinder dry. It doesn’t take much for a fire to start. Look sideways & one starts. Of course there’s lightning that’s started em. Our biggest fire is down in the southern part of the state 300+ miles from me. Idaho, Eastern Oregon, & N. Ca. are getting the smoke right now. But nothing like we got last fall.
Our temps are back to what they should be now. Low 80s so far. No 90s or triple digits!! There was another “bubble” over Ca. over the weekend but we didn’t get any of it. We had alot of deaths due to the heat, & now they’re trying to figure out what went wrong besides EVERYTHING!! Most of the deaths were elderly & handicapped & couldn’t get out to the cooling centers. When they did the construction on this bldg back in 2015, they retrofitted the bldg for earthquakes, but didn’t do central air. Thank God for the community room! Now they’re rethinking the lack of AC in these older bldgs. If it ever does that again, they may have all residents move to other places. That’s just one option. Who knows.
Snowball is getting used to her new “do”. She’s so tiny once you remove all that fur!! Just like Jewell. Of course it hasn’t been as hot as a couple weeks ago.
Have any of you made a poke cake? I made a white cake yesterday, & am thinking of making it a poke cake with strawberry jello. I looked it up & it looks delish. Yes, it cooled down enough I was able to bake a cake & a few cookies. With the AC it didn’t take long to cool off. I hardly noticed it till I got close to the stove.
Well, that’s about all for now.
Take care, stay cool, & dry, & stay safe.
dd

[Dianne Danielson]

in reply to: Quacker Chat for July 2021 #131448

Hi Ladies,
It’s been lovely this week, cloudy mornings, sunny afternoons. We’re gonna warm up to the 80s, & maybe low 90s. I heard there’s gonna be a warm up, but not like the bubble we had last week. I haven’t seen Critt today. I’m hoping to see him later today.
Snowball got her haircut today. She’s been uneasy all afternoon. I think she’s calming down now. Jewell did the same thing. It took her a couple days to get used to it. But when it gets hot she’ll be glad.
I hope.
Thanks for the info, Gail. I’ll check it out when I get on the Q website. I’ve never blogged” so this will be interesting.
Not much going on today.
take care, stay safe, stay cool.
dd
I’ll try to send pics of Snowball.
dd

[Dianne Danielson]

in reply to: Quacker Chat for July 2021 #131391

Hi Ladies,
You wouldn’t believe the weather here today. Heavy cloud cover & not in the 70s!! I actually had to get an extra blanket last night. It sure feels good & refreshing. They were calling for upper 80s/low 90s all week, but Mother Nature had other ideas for today at least. YaaaaaaaaaY!!!
I learned yesterday Critt went to the hospital Monday with diverticulitis (?). I was leaving when a nurse was leaving his apt. We struck up a conversation & that’s when I found out. He’s on a STRICT diet for the next 2 weeks. No solid foods just clear liquids, jello, juices, etc. Next week he can add fruit to the jello. So I get a vacation of sorts.
I can still catch the Q on my Amazon Fire TV, I forgot that. But I have to shut down my regular channels in order to tune into it. Oh well.
I have an appointment I need to get to so I’m signing off for now.
dd

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