Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Todays Weather 8/1/06 & Yesterdays small accomplishments
Here is our weather report for today and tomorrow.
411 PM EDT TUE AUG 1 2006...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDTWEDNESDAY...TEMPERATURES RANGING FROM THE UPPER 90S TO LOW 100STOMORROW...COMBINED WITH DEW POINTS IN THE MID 70S WILL PUSH HEATINDEX VALUES INTO THE 105 TO 115 RANGE...WITH THE HIGHEST VALUESFOUND IN THE MID HUDSON VALLEY TO THE CAPITAL DISTRICT. ALTHOUGHHEAT INDEX VALUES WILL BE BELOW THE WARNING CRITERIATONIGHT...THE COMBINATION OF WARM NIGHT TEMPERATURES ANDOPPRESSIVE HUMIDITY WILL STILL CREATE STRESSFUL CONDITIONS. THUSTHE EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING WILL BE IN EFFECT TONIGHT THROUGHWEDNESDAY.AN EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING MEANS THAT A PROLONGED PERIOD OF HOTTEMPERATURES AND OPPRESSIVE HUMIDITY WILL CREATE LIFE THREATENINGCONDITIONS. THE HOT TEMPERATURES AND EXTREME HUMIDITY WILL CREATEA DANGEROUS SITUATION IN WHICH HEAT ILLNESSES ARE LIKELY. DRINKPLENTY OF FLUIDS...STAY IN AN AIR CONDITIONED ROOM...STAY OUT OFTHE SUN...AND CHECK UP ON RELATIVES...NEIGHBORS AND PETS.
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So. I am being a bit on the lazy side today. I did get up early to check on the garden and watered it, plus I have the cutest little lawn sprinkler to connect to my long hose and I watered the front yard and the flowers with it. It is a small helicopter that spins around while the top also spins and sprays water everywhere. I have had it for years, but for some reason it had stopped working a few years ago. This past week I got it down from the attic and finally got it back working. One of my daughters asked me where I got it, she hadn`t seen in so long she had forgotten I even had it. The little kids in her day care love watching it from the window next door.
Next was to feed Sassy, my Border Collie. I have one of those huge watering fountains that I filled with a lot of crushed ice before adding the water to help keep the water cooler longer. I just tried again to convince Sassy to come inside out of the heat, but she still prefers laying on the side porch out of the sun-- but I still worry that it is much to hot outside for her. I will keep checking on her and asking her every so often. Maybe eventually she will give in.
Yesterday I went to the wood place for more boards and screws and then spent a few hours cutting the boards in my shop. Much too hot to get any more done today or tomorrow. I want to get at least 6 more of those small close-up tables made for Christmas presents. I also did some canning yesterday- more string beans ( now have 17 pints canned for winter use), plus made some sweet pickle/ onion relish. I gave one pint to my daughter next door and canned another 5 pints, which left just one pint in my frig to eat now. It was either make some relish or give cucumbers away as they were getting too large faster than I could eat them. I hate to see anything spoil.I like to slit open hotdogs and fill the center with the relish. Now I have enough relish to do that all next winter. Yummy, I like that idea. I also managed to pull all the grass and weeds out of most of the flower beds. Figured I better get a lot done yesterday before the heat got worse as I was sure I wouldn`t accomplish much today.
I even caught up the washing so I wouldn`t need to run the dryer on these awful hot days.
I can remember when I used to feel sorry for my daughter-in-law and her family in N. Carolina as they were always much hotter than we were up here. Not so this year as some days we have even been hotter than it was there. Funny, how I live further North than N. Carolina is located and still we are getting some hotter days here. The weather sure is changing. OH Well ! , Guess we have to feel lucky that we are still alive enough to feel the weather. At least we know when it is best to stay inside whenever possible. I should be thankful that I am retired and don`t have to work outside in this heat like so many others do. One of my sons works for the Town and is now riding around in one of those large open tractors- cutting all the grass along all the roads. No windows or doors to close out the heat, so the sun just billows down on him. I know there are many others like him- working out in this heat .
Well, it is now supper time, so guess I will check around and see what looks good to eat. I usually eat anytime between 5 and 7pm, depending on when I feel hungry. With no one else to cook for, I don`t have any set eating time now. Not sure I want to get up from the computer. I have one of those small computer fans that plugs into the front port on the comp and blows the air at me, plus the overhead fan - connected to the ceiling light just behind me is running. Plus the air conditioner in the laundry room window is running along with the furnace fan on my cellar furnace. So the blower on the furnace draws in the cooled off air from the Laundry room and then the furnace blows it back up thru all the heat registers in all the rooms. This doesn`t cool like an air-conditioned house , but it sure is lots cooler than outside air. That was one thing I insisted on a few years ago when we bought the new heating furnace. I insisted that they run an extra electrical line with the on/off switch in the cellar way so I could turn on the furnace blower without the furnace running. I have three switches just inside the cellar door. The closest one to the door has a regular house switch cover and turns on my cellar light, the next switch is over and a bit up higher and red colored and this one is the emergency switch for shutting off the furnace in emergency. The last and further located one is silver colored and turns on and off the furnace blower.
Well, I`m off to check the frig.. As my Mother would say= there is nothing in there now that wasn`t there the last time you looked,- so decide what you want before opening the frig door and don`t just hold the door open while looking. Haven`t lived with parents since 1951 when I got married and still I remembered Mother saying that like it was yesterday. Been 11 years since I lost my Mom. Mind is funny in how it decides what things to keep remembering, isn`t it?.
411 PM EDT TUE AUG 1 2006...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDTWEDNESDAY...TEMPERATURES RANGING FROM THE UPPER 90S TO LOW 100STOMORROW...COMBINED WITH DEW POINTS IN THE MID 70S WILL PUSH HEATINDEX VALUES INTO THE 105 TO 115 RANGE...WITH THE HIGHEST VALUESFOUND IN THE MID HUDSON VALLEY TO THE CAPITAL DISTRICT. ALTHOUGHHEAT INDEX VALUES WILL BE BELOW THE WARNING CRITERIATONIGHT...THE COMBINATION OF WARM NIGHT TEMPERATURES ANDOPPRESSIVE HUMIDITY WILL STILL CREATE STRESSFUL CONDITIONS. THUSTHE EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING WILL BE IN EFFECT TONIGHT THROUGHWEDNESDAY.AN EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING MEANS THAT A PROLONGED PERIOD OF HOTTEMPERATURES AND OPPRESSIVE HUMIDITY WILL CREATE LIFE THREATENINGCONDITIONS. THE HOT TEMPERATURES AND EXTREME HUMIDITY WILL CREATEA DANGEROUS SITUATION IN WHICH HEAT ILLNESSES ARE LIKELY. DRINKPLENTY OF FLUIDS...STAY IN AN AIR CONDITIONED ROOM...STAY OUT OFTHE SUN...AND CHECK UP ON RELATIVES...NEIGHBORS AND PETS.
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So. I am being a bit on the lazy side today. I did get up early to check on the garden and watered it, plus I have the cutest little lawn sprinkler to connect to my long hose and I watered the front yard and the flowers with it. It is a small helicopter that spins around while the top also spins and sprays water everywhere. I have had it for years, but for some reason it had stopped working a few years ago. This past week I got it down from the attic and finally got it back working. One of my daughters asked me where I got it, she hadn`t seen in so long she had forgotten I even had it. The little kids in her day care love watching it from the window next door.
Next was to feed Sassy, my Border Collie. I have one of those huge watering fountains that I filled with a lot of crushed ice before adding the water to help keep the water cooler longer. I just tried again to convince Sassy to come inside out of the heat, but she still prefers laying on the side porch out of the sun-- but I still worry that it is much to hot outside for her. I will keep checking on her and asking her every so often. Maybe eventually she will give in.
Yesterday I went to the wood place for more boards and screws and then spent a few hours cutting the boards in my shop. Much too hot to get any more done today or tomorrow. I want to get at least 6 more of those small close-up tables made for Christmas presents. I also did some canning yesterday- more string beans ( now have 17 pints canned for winter use), plus made some sweet pickle/ onion relish. I gave one pint to my daughter next door and canned another 5 pints, which left just one pint in my frig to eat now. It was either make some relish or give cucumbers away as they were getting too large faster than I could eat them. I hate to see anything spoil.I like to slit open hotdogs and fill the center with the relish. Now I have enough relish to do that all next winter. Yummy, I like that idea. I also managed to pull all the grass and weeds out of most of the flower beds. Figured I better get a lot done yesterday before the heat got worse as I was sure I wouldn`t accomplish much today.
I even caught up the washing so I wouldn`t need to run the dryer on these awful hot days.
I can remember when I used to feel sorry for my daughter-in-law and her family in N. Carolina as they were always much hotter than we were up here. Not so this year as some days we have even been hotter than it was there. Funny, how I live further North than N. Carolina is located and still we are getting some hotter days here. The weather sure is changing. OH Well ! , Guess we have to feel lucky that we are still alive enough to feel the weather. At least we know when it is best to stay inside whenever possible. I should be thankful that I am retired and don`t have to work outside in this heat like so many others do. One of my sons works for the Town and is now riding around in one of those large open tractors- cutting all the grass along all the roads. No windows or doors to close out the heat, so the sun just billows down on him. I know there are many others like him- working out in this heat .
Well, it is now supper time, so guess I will check around and see what looks good to eat. I usually eat anytime between 5 and 7pm, depending on when I feel hungry. With no one else to cook for, I don`t have any set eating time now. Not sure I want to get up from the computer. I have one of those small computer fans that plugs into the front port on the comp and blows the air at me, plus the overhead fan - connected to the ceiling light just behind me is running. Plus the air conditioner in the laundry room window is running along with the furnace fan on my cellar furnace. So the blower on the furnace draws in the cooled off air from the Laundry room and then the furnace blows it back up thru all the heat registers in all the rooms. This doesn`t cool like an air-conditioned house , but it sure is lots cooler than outside air. That was one thing I insisted on a few years ago when we bought the new heating furnace. I insisted that they run an extra electrical line with the on/off switch in the cellar way so I could turn on the furnace blower without the furnace running. I have three switches just inside the cellar door. The closest one to the door has a regular house switch cover and turns on my cellar light, the next switch is over and a bit up higher and red colored and this one is the emergency switch for shutting off the furnace in emergency. The last and further located one is silver colored and turns on and off the furnace blower.
Well, I`m off to check the frig.. As my Mother would say= there is nothing in there now that wasn`t there the last time you looked,- so decide what you want before opening the frig door and don`t just hold the door open while looking. Haven`t lived with parents since 1951 when I got married and still I remembered Mother saying that like it was yesterday. Been 11 years since I lost my Mom. Mind is funny in how it decides what things to keep remembering, isn`t it?.
# posted by Dotm @ 8/01/2006 05:33:00 PM 
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Wow it's hot down there. We are hot here to but not as bad.
It's been 11 years since you lost your mom but she is always with you.
It's been 11 years since you lost your mom but she is always with you.
very good podt dot. i am glad to see that you are back posting again. you stay very busy though. we must be related some where down the line. i love to have cucumbers and fresh tomatoes. i wish i had your green thumb. when i lived in ma. there were all kinds of farms around and they had their stands at the end of the field. they use to have the best corn. well have a good one and i will talk with you soon.
Suemama, I`m doing my best to stay cool, but even with the windoe air conditioner, the overhead fan running, the small fan connected to the comp and blowing on me, it is still reading 90 where i sit at the computer. They say the heat wave should end by 10 pm tonight and it is almost 7:30 here now, so should start cooling down later.
Thanks for stopping by.
Thanks for stopping by.
Hi Nan, The past two days have been terrible, but they say tomorrow will be cooler- back in the 70`s. A week ago in the 80`s would have felt too hot, but after the past two days it will seem cooler. The thermometer on my side porch only goes up to 120F and it read all the way over the 120 mark this afternoon. I can`t remember when it ever went that high here. Tomorrow will be a relief so i can head off to the bank, then to pick up my prescription and hopefully get to the wood place for some more wood to work with.
Yes, memories do keep my Mom, Dad and younger bro all close to me.
Thanks for dropping by.
Yes, memories do keep my Mom, Dad and younger bro all close to me.
Thanks for dropping by.
Mr Haney, you give yourself too little credit. Buy a couple of the earth boxes and in no time you will do good growing a few of your veggies- like cukes and tomatoes. i started with 3 boxes, added a new one each year for the next three years and now have 5 earth boxes to grow in.
I loved the old large ground gardens we used to have, but had to give them up when it got too hard to get back up after weeding. I grew up with parents who had a garden every year till they got older. Good teachers to learn from.
I could be related to almost anyone and never know it since my grandfather on my Dad`s side was adopted and so we ended up with the adopted last name. my Dad tried to find who his Dad`s birth parents were, but the town houses in the two towns where he thought it might have taken place had both burnt years ago and all records they say were lost in the fire.
Today I had a tossed salad and the cukes, lettuce and peppers in it were from my garden. With good luck I should have my own tomatoes to add by next week. I have canned 17 pints of string beans and 5 jars of sweet relish ( using the large cukes), gave away one jar, have one jar in my frig and have eaten lots of the string beans. so far-so good.
Thanks for stopping by.
I loved the old large ground gardens we used to have, but had to give them up when it got too hard to get back up after weeding. I grew up with parents who had a garden every year till they got older. Good teachers to learn from.
I could be related to almost anyone and never know it since my grandfather on my Dad`s side was adopted and so we ended up with the adopted last name. my Dad tried to find who his Dad`s birth parents were, but the town houses in the two towns where he thought it might have taken place had both burnt years ago and all records they say were lost in the fire.
Today I had a tossed salad and the cukes, lettuce and peppers in it were from my garden. With good luck I should have my own tomatoes to add by next week. I have canned 17 pints of string beans and 5 jars of sweet relish ( using the large cukes), gave away one jar, have one jar in my frig and have eaten lots of the string beans. so far-so good.
Thanks for stopping by.
Oh, I'm so glad we haven't had that kind of heat over here, even though my mom have an air conditioner now, I don't know if that one - or she - would have made it through that kind of heat! Phew!
She sends her regards to you and says that your comments is among her favorite ones. (No wonder, you always say such nice things!) We all wish you could have met each other in real life. That would have been something! Well, this is the second best.
The unsteady weather has come here with some rain, but not as much as the lawns and plants need. even some branches on the trees has turned red as it were autumn already. Normally that doesn't happen until October over here. We'll see if there will be more rain or not. The farmers are worried for the harvest, it will not be enough food for the animals during the winter. It's a pity.
I hope the weather is nice to your health - and Sassys, take care.
She sends her regards to you and says that your comments is among her favorite ones. (No wonder, you always say such nice things!) We all wish you could have met each other in real life. That would have been something! Well, this is the second best.
The unsteady weather has come here with some rain, but not as much as the lawns and plants need. even some branches on the trees has turned red as it were autumn already. Normally that doesn't happen until October over here. We'll see if there will be more rain or not. The farmers are worried for the harvest, it will not be enough food for the animals during the winter. It's a pity.
I hope the weather is nice to your health - and Sassys, take care.
Lifecruiser, I will say a prayer for more rain for your area. Farmers cannot manage without enough rain. I was outside sitting on the porch for a little while and it has started sprinkling, but doesn`t act like it will rain much. Got too dark to see to do the puzzle book, so i came back inside, but it still is a bit warm out. Much better than the last 2 hot days.
Thanks for stopping by and give my love to your Mom.
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