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Morning Lucille, Such lovely pictures are good for the soul. Thank you! Hope you have a day as lovely as those pictures! 😉
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Good afternoon, G&C! Thanks! I’m in a contemplative mood today and listening to my boys, 2CELLOS. I posted this at CTH and just love it…
The comments are worth the read, too.
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Good evening Lucille 🙂 !
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Good evening, lovely!
“Shock-O-Lat” Sunflower
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Stunning!!
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Good morning all!
Another few hot days ahead, and I’m trying to cope with no air conditioning. Leaving the windows open at night when it is cool (64 last night) and blowing air through the house cooled it down about 10 degrees as of this morning. I’ll close the house up soon and rely on fans for the rest of the day.
The basement cleanup is underway, and I have a furnace repair guy scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. I’m calling a plumber today to assess my situation and see what we can do to improve things for the future.
Keep praying. I’m hoping the furnace and water heater can be repaired rather than replaced. There is water in the dryer, but both the washer and dryer are working.
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I’m so sorry about your disaster. I don’t have any advice since I have only lived in one house with a basement and it was a rental. Hope things look up soon.
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Mornin’ USMom, hope you are doing well today! Have a great day 🙂
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Morning Stella,
Growing up we had no a/c until I was in college. We lived on the top of a hill with an open, no shade, west side (HOT!). We did the same as you – opening windows at night, but then we closed the heavy roll-up shades over the open windows unless it was breezy, windy, or raining. My parents thought the glass was a heat multiplier, and of course, the opaque shade kept the heat out. Just a thought. Take care, and take your vitamin C 🙂
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I have been keeping my blinds and blackout curtains closed during the day too. That helps. Like you, I didn’t have air conditioning in my childhood. In fact, I don’t think we had any A/C until I was 22 and living in an apartment, and that was a window unit.
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My friends in low places, never able to afford a/c, run dehumidifiers during the summer, plus all the things you mentioned.
Plus, never forget, we have wind chill coming off the lakes lolol
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It will be 86 today and 90 tomorrow. I’ll keep that “wind chill” in mind!
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Do you have a couple of fans to put on the dryer to help get the residual humidity out? Is the dryer gas or electric? I remember the problems with floods in NOLA, we had more than a few, a big part of the reason we built on top of the highest hill on our property.
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Hoping you live in an area where it’s safe to leave the windows open at night.
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Yes, I do!
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Good for you, makes life easier.
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Would be nice to have an attic fan, but I don’t. I do have an old-fashioned exhaust fan in the kitchen, so I turn that on, then use a fan at the opposite end of the building (in the living room) blowing cool air in.
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Investigated the benefits of one of those whirligig wind turbines on the roof? We put one in years ago in our NOLA house and it worked wonders in keeping the attic temps down and the house cooler. If you’re worried about their resilience ours withstood Katrina’s western eyewall as it passed directly over our house.
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I have small vents like that on the roof. I was talking about the big fan that you install in the ceiling (usually in a hallway) and that draws air from the house into the attic (windows open, of course.)
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Know the one of which you speak, we have the too as we air the house out in summer when we get those brief spells of nice weather. In the meantime how about those window fans like they sell at Home Depot? They should move the air from one side of the house out thru the other.
I’m in awe of people who can open their windows before mld-October.
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I did use a window fan to bring the air in at night, and drew it through the main part of the house with the kitchen exhaust fan (old fashioned kind mounted in the outside wall.)
Anyway, got the air conditioning back up and running today. Also hot water. Wonderful local contractor who did the work and didn’t charge me an arm and a leg.
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We have American Home Shield and they have problems getting/keeping repair contractors in out area. We had one of their guys (finally) show up and he ‘fixed’ our A/C. About 3 weeks later it went south again so we called a repairman on our own. He came out, looked at it and said the previous guy had forgotten to put a door back on the unit, it was sucking damp attic air into the machine and flooding the attic, fixed it and only charged us a small fee.
When you find a good one you keep him, even if you have to pay yourself.
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So sorry Stella ! Praying fro the best case scenario for you! Ugh! I remember the flood of ’76 (?) in Chicago. My sister graduated from high school that day/evening. There were people out in kayaks and canoes.
My dad and his good friend used to flip houses back in the day before it was a trend, they did the rehab in their spare time, weekends and after work some days and learned a lot.
Anyhow after the big flood and the clean up aftermath my dad’s friend put cement or concrete in his basement floor drain to seal it. He never had a back up again even when the neighbors did. I don’t know if that is a crazy idea or not I just remember them joking about it for years and that it worked to stop flooding in his basement.
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Problem when the sewer mains fill up with storm water and can’t keep up. Then they back up into the house. In my case, the water was coming in via a toilet installed in the basement, and at such a rate that the sump pump couldn’t keep up. You can’t seal off your home sewer output from the sewer mains.
That’s why I’m calling in a plumber to assess the situation. Remove the old toilet? Would the sewer then back up to the first floor? I thought I had a backflow system, but it didn’t keep out the water incursion. Will have them check the drains etc. and make recommendations.
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Understood.
He didn’t have a toilet it was basically a giant play room for us kids, then a gathering place for teenagers. I just remember everyone warning him i was going to be a disaster and it not being the case. In fact his wife still lives in the house I’m going to all her son who I am still friends with and see if it ever flooded after that year.
Also this same friend owns some properties in Chicago so I’ll ask him if he has any tips.
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That’s good. I had a similar situation in 2014, and no problems since then. I also had no problems from 2001 to 2014. One of those things that can be unpredictable.
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I only remember our basement in Chicago flooding twice, once was the big storm and the other time was after that and not as bad. Chicago as you know recently had a lot of flooding, my best friends basement flooded.
I wonder how my childhood home did.
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Morning All 🙂
It’s really thundering here and storms are expected. We have a generator but it takes a few seconds of no power b4 it clicks on, so If my comment is messed up – you know why!
These unusual brick sculptures are by Brad Spencer Brick Sculptures Reidsville, North Carolina Brad Spencer works with bricks to create unique figurative sculptures. Brick sculpture can be dated back to ancient Babylon. Brick sculpture adds intrigue and interest to a commonly understood material as viewers try to figure out the techniques by which it was created. ~ from https://artpeople.net/2016/09/brad-spencer-brick-sculptures/
The 1st 2 are of children opening a large book, and the 3rd is a large sculpture with seated areas.
http://bradspencersculptor.com/Site/Home.html has a gallery of works and video of how a sculpture is done.
Enjoy, and have a great day 🙂
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Never saw anything like it!
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Awesome GaC 🙂 ! I hope you’re having a great day. Warm here, but still a really nice day for me. I still have some leftover blackberries from the farmer’s market.
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I know I put enough spaces between them – oh well, I’ll try again!
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My entire 1st comment is gone now! I’ll try to post later. This is crazy, maybe it’s the storm???
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Your comment went to moderation (number of links.)
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Oh OK.
Do the pictures count as links – I guess so thinking about it.
How many links are allowed?
Thanks
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Four are allowed, so it couldn’t have been the number of links. Maybe because they ran together without empty lines?
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Actually, I don’t know!
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If the pictures are links there were 3 pics, then I had 2 other links in the text, so that would have been 5.
Are the pictures considered links?
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Yes, I believe so.
ADD: The photos are definitely counted as links because they have complete URL’s.
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OK Thanks. I must have known that b4 but forgot. Now I know 🙂
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FTA:
ORLANDO, Fla. – The Florida Department of Health released its daily coronavirus testing report showing a statewide positivity rate of 11 percent, but FOX 35 News quickly noticed some shocking positivity rates.
Countless labs report 100 percent positivity, which means every single person tested was positive.
FOX 35 sifted through the report to find local testing sites with high numbers, like Centra Care, where the report showed 83 people were tested and all tested positive. The report also showed that the Orlando Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center had a positivity rate of 76 percent. A spokesperson for the VA said officials are looking into the numbers…
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Are the errors due to New Math teaching? Or overall poor education? Even I, who have difficulty doing numbers, can see when the answer is obviously wrong….
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Don’t know, but it sure is fishy.
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Fishy as those 140% election turnouts for in a democratic cities.
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Oh come on, you were a civil servant too. You know how some petite bureaucrats fudge the numbers to make it look as if something’s going well, and the higher up the chain those numbers go the more they’re polished. Once the enumerators realize that their diddlings are accepted it’s clear sailing unless there’s a major problem and then it’s coverup time.
I expect the Florida folks will issue some statements about issues in the count due to blah-blah-blah and measures are being taken to correct the errors in the tabulation and future stastistics will be more blah-blah-blah. This was SOP at my shop until the agency used it one time too many and lost a multi-billion $$$ contract.
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If it was Chicago I would say they just confuse shooting deaths with Chinese virus deaths but that might be considered insensitive 🙂 .
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Chicago seems to have continually had a death rate directly related to a Democrat government.
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Chiraq and so it goes.
Or while the ballerina was King we called it “Little Lebanon on the Lake”.
So cute 🙄
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Yet despite its ugliness, it is an amazing City that I love, I love to see its skyline come into my view and I’m happy to see it in my rearview mirror.
Sort of sad because it wasn’t all that long ago it made me sad to see it in my rearview mirror.
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Same with NOLA except as quickly as the new Rat pols are destroying it there’s less and less to love. After decades of being a Quarter fixture Paul Prudhomme’s restaurant is permanently closing, yert another casualty of thre stupidity of the city pols who turned their heads while a certain segment of local residents continued their long record of irresponsible, socially corrosive and uncivilized behavior in spreading the virus.
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After decades of being a Quarter fixture Paul Prudhomme’s restaurant is permanently closing
that is sad. Paul’s restaurant in NC is the first place I had a lot of “new” food to me….that first warm beignet, blackened chicken, fried green tomatoes…
Ok I’m making myself way too hungry !!!!
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His place used to be a lunch fixture and folks in the know knew what to get. My fondest memory of him was a contest at the city zoo in the early 80s where a dozen or so of the city’s best chefs competed to see who could make the pesky nutria edible. Paul, to me, did best, he had so much hot pepper in it that you couldn’t taste the nasty rodent underneath it.
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Sounds like fun and that would be an awesome name for a dish “Hidden Rodent”.
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Ratatouille?
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I think I meant to type “kids book” but my fingers seem to have a mind of their own theses days 😜.
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Worked for me.
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Well, well, well…
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Wasn’t very long ago, Dr Colonel Scarf Ambassador Birx said Florida had the best testing and results presentation in the country, iirc.
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Depends on your criteria for ‘best’.
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A spokesman for the VA? They couldn’t even figure out how many vets were waiting for treatment and how over 250,000 could die waiting or from bad care. Numbers?NUMBERS? We dun need no steenken numbers!
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Czar, I watched Dr. Strangelove and The mouse that Roared. Both really fun.
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Peter Sellers was a gem
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I visited with a new neighbor who bought the house across the street a couple of months ago. She spent most of her adult life in New York state, in the Syracuse area. We were indirectly talking about the mess across the country and I asked her take on the New York situation. Her response was immediate and clear: she said that New York City is its own world. She had been there once in her lifetime, and that upstate New York is very much like rural Oregon (or lovely agricultural farms and small towns anywhere).
I think I sort of understood that but I appreciated getting to talk with someone who has lived it.
Those blue metropolitan pits are destroying this nation – it seems deliberately.
She’s a very nice lady – has a great big dog (yellow lab, I think?). His name is Ziggy. Ziggy is a wonderful creature and I am enjoying getting acquainted with him.
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That’s like Michigan. Everyone who hasn’t been here thinks immediately of Detroit and Flint. Most of the state is like Wisconsin – either farmland or lovely wood and lakes.
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If I’ve not recommended this before…so worth the viewing…
“Spellbound” (1945)
Starring Ingrid Bergman…and you’ll be treated to a 29-year-old, thin-looking Gregory Peck and Rhonda Fleming in a smallish role (her first) near the beginning. Fleming is still with us at 96!
The following is a fun interview with Rhonda Fleming posted July 14, 2008… https://filmsofthegoldenage.com/current_issue/rhonda-fleming-that-natural-gift/article_3dc25c99-045d-5110-85fc-d029c97788ad.html
Peck was the only actor I ever saw who stopped the room when he walked in…tall, handsome and full of presence. But you got the feeling he didn’t take mega-fame too seriously because he was gracious to everyone. The phrase we used as kids was “not stuck on himself.”
Final movie factoid: Ingrid Bergman died too young on August 29, 1982–her 67th birthday.
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More indication of phony data.
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I speculate that COVID-recovered will get preferential treatment and those of us who haven’t had it will be confined or ostracized until we get it, or the vaccine.
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RBG is back in the hospital.
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