[Dianne Danielson]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-July 2020 #113900

Hi Ladies,
I started a post last night & poof it disappeared! I was so mad I shut down my computer.
So anyway, Sue, I’m so sorry to hear about your brother. Were you close with him? Do they know the cause of his death? Just know that we’re all here for you.
I hope everyone is doing okay. We’re back to mandatory lock down. We’ve had 20 days of spiking cases of the virus. We’re nearing 9,000 cases in the state now. All those spikes were triple digits. Today I believe it was 375 new cases. And it just keeps going. We still have protesters out there, no doubt spreading it. And now we’re into the 4th of July holiday. Luckily it won’t be hot so the rivers, beaches, shouldn’t be packed with people. It’s gonna be nice, 80 but that’s not hot enough to hit the waters. Besides the rivers are still Cold!! Temps are in the 50s in the rivers. They won’t be warm, upper 60s-low 70s by the end of August, & that’s if we have a spell of really hot weather.
I heard about the god awful temps coming your way.
Did you hear about the college in Alabama that’s having Covid-19 parties to see how many get the virus? Talk about STUPIDITY!!! That’s the height of stupidity.
OH I gotta tell ya about Snowball. I was getting ready to go to the store yesterday. I got into the coat closet for something, not paying attention. Well, to get into the closet, I have to shut the bathroom door. So I walk off & head to the store. I get home & she’s nowhere to be found. She usually greets me at the door when I get home. I looked in her usual spots, no Snowball. Then I notice the bathroom door, it wasn’t latched shut just ajar. I open the door & there she was laying by the door. She could’ve
opened the door since it was ajar, but she didn’t, She gets in my clothes closet while I”m putting my laundry away. Silly cat!!
I finally got my walls plastered with my tropical pics. Now I can sit here & visit my private island all day long. lol
Well, that’s all for now.
Have a safe 4th of July weekend!!
Stay safe & well!!
dd & Snowball

[Dianne Danielson]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-June 2020 #113661

Hi Ladies,
I deeply apologize for not writing sooner. I think I’m overwhelmed with all this Covid stuff that my depression is getting worse than better. Now it sounds like we’ll be on mandatory shutdown again.
It just came across my phone that we had another 181 cases today, for the 20th straight days of triple digit cases. I’m not even sure how many we have now. Our governor has extended our state of emergency thru Sept. 4th. We now have 8,656 reported or confirmed cases of it & 207 deaths. Like I said before it’s exploding & it’s gonna continue as long as people ignore the advice of the people who know!!! We have protesters who go out with no masks, no social distancing, & they think they’re invincible. IDIOTS!!!
Adele, please don’t turn Gary away!! You need each other now more than ever. You need to get all that emotion out of your system, for your mental health. don’t bottle it up inside. I can’t imagine anything worse than losing a child, but Gary also lost her. He needs you just as much.
Gail, I deeply apologize for not getting back to you. That was verrrrry rude & unkind of me.
I haven’t read the posts so if I leave something out, I’ll get back to it later on.
I gotta take Snowball in for her shot next week. I haven’t been able to get ahold of a groomer, & she needs a hair cut badly.
Oh Hallie was in the hospital last week. Her oxygen levels were very low, because she hadn’t been using her Cpap!!!!! Well, you-know-who read her the riot act.
I finally got my walls plastered with tropical pics. If I can’t get there, I can sit here & imagine I’m on my private island. LOL
My eczema is spreading like a wild fire. I have a prescription for it but it doesn’t seem to be working any more. I’m glad for the masks right now.
Speaking of wildfires, we had one last week but it’s out now. It was a small one compared to the big one we had a couple yrs or so ago. It’s gonna be a bad yr cuz we had a dry spring. June was our wettest month in awhile tho. It sounds like we’ll have a nice 4th. Not too hot, just about right.
Have a wonderful holiday weekend, everybody. I’m not going anywhere. Sigh!!!
Again, I’m sorry for being so rude & unkind, please forgive me. Stay safe & stay well!!
dd & snowball

[Dianne Danielson]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-June 2020 #113047

Hi Ladies,
I got Adele’s email last night. I was, & still am in shock. I answered her back immediately. I had no words, except to say how sorry I was. It’s such a shock. I can;t imagine what she’s going through right now. this can’t be good for her health either. We need to keep her & the family in our prayers daily.
Take care everyone.
dd

[Dianne Danielson]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-June 2020 #112912

Hi Ladies,
I’m alive, & my shoulder is much better. I haven’t read all the posts so forgive me. We’re still having protests here. They’ve even come up here. They come up here at midnight or so, chanting BLM. They’re marching up a one way street the wrong way. they came up the same street earlier this week this time they had cars behind them & I don’t mean police cars. I recorded some of it, but got the cars driving up the street the wrong way. again it was midnight.
They want to do away with the police so they can do whatever they want without any consequences. None of this has to do with George Floyd. It’s more about them getting away with breaking windows in businesses, stealing everything in sight, destroy peoples property & get away with it. And alot of them are out there without a mask on. Dare I say it…I think you know what I’m thinking.
We’re having a couple nice days here, then the showers return for the weekend. But next week summer really hits. We could see 90 or more next week. that’s usually in late July or so. Our running joke is summer doesn’t start till after the 4th holiday. Anyone doing anything special since they’ve opened up across the country. The county I live in just opened up today. It’s the last one to open up.
But the # of cases has been spiking upwards since the governor opened up the rest of the state. I just got a notification they’ve recorded another 200 cases of it this week.
I’m still staying put indoors unless I need to go to the store.
Well, that’s all I have for now. I’m gonna put up my tropical pics now that my shoulder is better.
Take care & stay safe!!!
dd

[Dianne Danielson]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-June 2020 #112461

Hi Ladies,
Just a quick note to let ya know I’m still alive out here. Here it is mid June, & I’m still turning on the heat!!! It’s been down right cold here. I;m not sure but I think we were in the low 60s this weekend.
Well, we’re still having protests here. It’s getting pretty old now, I won’t even listen to the news anymore
And with all this going on you can expect the virus to explode like a bomb. We’re already showing an big increase in the # of cases, & deaths in the past few days. More cases now than at the peak of it here. I’m not sure of the # of deaths, but they are spiking. The county I live in hasn’t even gotten to open up on phase 1 at this point. Which means there’s too many cases of the virus, & too many new cases. The governor put a hold on it till next week.
Not much else going on here.
I’m okay so far. The shoulder is still sore, but better. it might be the tech neck thing they talk about on tv. Snowball is laying across the TV cart in front of the TV.
Take care everyone!! This ain’t over by a looooooooong shot!!!
dd

[Dianne Danielson]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-June 2020 #112162

Hi Ladies,
Well, we had a soggy weekend here. How about you guys? Is anyone in the path of the storm? I hope not. Stay safe everyone.
The protesters are out in force again tonight. This makes night 11 or 12.
We’ve had a spike in cases of the virus. It went up to almost 150 overnight. That’s the most since the virus struck. The death toll hasn’t gone up by that much. Some days there’s only one or two. The death toll is standing at 164 I think they reported on the news. I’m pretty sure there will be a bigger outbreak once the protesters get tested later on. Most likely all over the country with all that’s going on.
I hurt my right shoulder again. Not sure what I did, probably lifted something too heavy. It’s a tad bit better today, but still in pain. Snowball is getting to where she gets closer to me when I;m in bed. I have a table mate next to the bed & she gets up on it & curls up when I’m in bed. Earlier today she actually got on the bed next to me.
I see Shawn Killinger returned to the Q this last week.
I guess that’s all for now.
take care & stay safe.
dd

[Dianne Danielson]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-June 2020 #111988

Hi Ladies,
I just posted on the May thread. Ooooops. I hope you can find it. I dont know if I can forward it to June or not.
I’m okay. The protests were downtown, away from where I am.
take care.
dd

[Dianne Danielson]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-May 2020 #111980

Hi Ladies,
Sorry I haven’t been on here the past few days. Portland has been in chaos for the last week or so. I don’t know if we made the national news, but we were just one of the MANY cities that had riots. I think it was Friday night when a peaceful demonstration turned into a full fledged riot downtown. It happened in a flash!! They destroyed downtown Portland, & the cops did little or nothing to stop it!! But then again if they had who knows what would’ve happened. I say just shoot the bastards!!KILL EM!!! But that’s just me. Luckily I’m in the opposite direction from where it was all happening. Of course the local media was filming all of it. I wish they wouldn’t do that. All it does is give the criminals the limelight. Then the mayor set an 8 pm curfew but as soon as it hit 8, all he– broke lose. I see they’re still protesting but nothing like over the weekend. No curfew in affect tonight.
On Friday night they broke into the justice center, & started fires, but the sprinkler system put it out. It’s been awful. I’m not minimizing what went on in other cities, we’re just not prepared for what happened. But is anybody?
And DON’T get me started on #45!!! What piece of crap!!!!
I hope you’re all doing fine otherwise. I said weeks ago the virus would explode over the summer months. And I still think so. Now all of this will really excellerate it big time!!! (Pardon my poor spelling.)
I’m gonna have to go back & read the posts I missed.
I posted my pic of Snowball with her tongue out & have gotten some responses from it.
She’s lucky she’s alive today. She kept me awake till 4 am this morning!! So you can imagine how I’ve been today.
Our weather’s been nice the past few days. We had some showers overnight a couple of nights, but that’s fine. We had a mini heat wave last week the heat came up from Ca., but it only lasted a couple of days.
I can’t think of anything else.
I’ll close for tonight & will get back later.
dd

[Dianne Danielson]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-May 2020 #111746

Hi Ladies,
Well, we’ve reached that dreaded 100,000 lives lost to the virus. And I haven’t heard a word from 45 yet. And with all this partying, etc. going on I think we’re in for another round of it, only worse. What’s with the blowup about Joe Biden wearing a mask out in public?? All I’ve heard for weeks is we should wear one out in public. How does 45 know what goes on in the Biden household? I don’t wear a mask around the house. I’m lucky if I remember to wear it to go downstairs to get the mail. But I always wear one when I go to the store. I have one in my bag all the time.
I hope all of you are doing well. I’m fine. Allergies are driving me nuts!! We’re having a mini heatwave the next couple days, up into 80s, then Sat. a soaker comes in for the weekend.
Adele, I don’t watch AGT anymore. But I did see the host on the View the other day & he said they taped it back before the virus hit, & the shutdown put in place. So you’ll see the audience go from filling up the studio to gradual shrinking down to an empty studio.
So far our meat supply seems to be okay. We just had rib eye steaks for $6.99/lb for the holiday weekend. Altho that could be coming to a screeching halt!! The meat packing plants are all but shut down cuz the employees are testing positive for the virus. One has almost 90 tested positive so far.
My freezer is full right now. Bread & other essentials are fine, eggs, milk, candy, the only thing that’s hard to find is paper products; paper towels, etc. Cleaning wipes, are hard to find too.
When did chicken go off the charts? It’s still readily available here.
Want to get out of the heat & humidity? Come west. Any place west of the Rockies is fine. It’s a dry heat. When the rain comes in the temp will drop almost 20 degrees. We’ll be in the 60s over the weekend. Weather whiplash.
I went thru my summer decor today. My tropical pics, etc.,so many pics of the tropics, and my private islands. LOL.
well, I better get off here before i lose this post.
Stay safe & well!!
dd

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