wow half the year is over already.Here we are in our new spot. breakfast is ready.Matt is going to the zoo with his cousins today.I told him not to swim with the polar bear cubs or stay too long with the monkeys.need to get going .
stay safe
Joe
Peace be with you. I have been having computer problems for the last month or so and finally gave up. A friend in the business gave a loaner while he wipes the hard drive and reinstalls windows, Hopefully, I have it all backed up!
We have had rain every day for a week often very heavy. A ham friend about 90 miles to the south had over 5 inches in the past 24 hours. Coupled with high temps, the humidity is high enough to swim in! Of course, the heat is nowhere close to what the southwest has been experiencing and for that we are most thankful.
Everyone take care and try to stay cool.
Good Morning
Everything is all dull here…kind of. Supposed to get to 72F this afternoon…right now it is 64F.
Going out later this evening to get the firework display up and going…we have a couple of empty parking lots we can use for this…hopefully it won’t rain until after the thing.
No workie on the lair of doom today…but will have to come thursday…
Have a good one!!!
It’s good to hear from you again, Tom; I have missed seeing posts from you. I trust your new computer will last into the next quarter century.
I have not been keeping up with the number of 100+ days we are having in a row; I’ll say that it is to hot to trot as the day wears on. Living on the lower level of a split entry house is comfortable–and when I am invited upstairs for supper I get warmer, even with the air conditioner going (my vents are closed, but a little air still comes in).
Good Morning.
I would like to wish BOC and the other Canadians on the forum a Happy Canada Day!![^][D][B][pi][8][swg]
Things are starting to return to normal around here, after the flooding. I was talking to my brother, who is a Civil Engineer, yesterday and he tells me at one of his job sites nine of those construction site trailers just washed away. If Calgary was on the Mississippi watershed I would ask my fellow forum members to be on the lookout as they floated downstream, but I guess bits and pieces of the trailers will probably end up in Hudson Bay.
This bottled water thing has really got me going. I really like the way frozen concentrated juice tastes when it is made with it. It is like I found a whole new, better brand, of juice. I will try one more pitcher of juice made with tap water but I may have unleashed a monster. Tap water for drinking and making coffee seems to have returned to normal.
The flooding has forced the relocation of the normal civic celebration of Canada Day. but I think I will go down to the new location, to join the festivities, later on this afternoon.
It is already 75° and sunny at 10:20 and it is supposed to be 82° this evening. Everyone have a good day.
Bruce
My daughter posted on Facebook this past weekend that it had never occurred to her that her high school was (and still is) just a mile from Canada. Yes, I live that close. Folks around here head for Toronto instead of NYC…
When she attended college in Virginia she amazed her friends because she knew the words to “O, Canada” due to singing it in choir.
Many Canadians celebrate by visiting the resort villages on the US side of the St Lawrence River.
So, Happy Canada Day from here, too!
AK - sounds like there’s a bottled water dispenser in your future.
The fire service is mourning the loss of 19 wildland firefighters in AZ at the Yarnell Hill fire. It sounds like they got caught by a sudden wind shift and were overrun. Estimates now have the fire at 8500 acres, or 13 square miles, and over 250 buildings destroyed, mostly in the little town of Yarnell.
tree68 wrote: The fire service is mourning the loss of 19 wildland firefighters in AZ at the Yarnell Hill fire. It sounds like they got caught by a sudden wind shift and were overrun. Estimates now have the fire at 8500 acres, or 13 square miles, and over 250 buildings destroyed, mostly in the little town of Yarnell.
Our prayers go to their families…[angel]
We are now waiting for the grounds to dry before we let off fireworks here…hopefully we get them off …otherwise maybe next weekend…weather permitting of course.
Happy Canada Day and Happy Independence Day combined!![^]
Been considering the purchase of one of those drones (helicopter) for a while now - you may have seen the video of the chase over Tehachapi done with a drone. Cleaned out the bill box and had some money left over, so I splurged.
This promises to be fun. It’ll record video, flies with my tablet computer instead of a joystick controller, and is amazingly high tech. It will hold its position (or try very hard) even when buffetted by breezes. Push the “take off” button and it lifts up off the ground to about 3 feet, then hovers there. Tell it to land, and it does. The display indicates how far off the ground it is, and how fast it’s going.
Range from the controller is about 150 feet - more than enough for the goofing around I’ll be doing.
Actually got two new “toys” today. The drone was one, the other was a new cable box, as the old one died. They traded it in on a higher tech version that actually processes HD channels - which my TV will do, but the old cable box wouldn’t. I’m impressed.
good morning
not a good day for flying.More rain and maybe a thunderboomer.Larry there is a youtube video somewhere where they used a helicopter in Deshler.Pretty impressive.A guy in Marion used a RC helicopter and it got stuck on top of the courthouse statue.he tried to get the police and fire dept to get his"toy" down.Breakfast is all set.Need to get the trash to the curb.Nap time and more chores later.
stay safe
Joe
Awesome. I’ve been tempted, but so far have stayed away. I don’t need another hobby, no matter how cool it is.
So… what kind did you get?
Parrot AR 2.0.
Need to get more batteries, though. They only last about 10 minutes. Pretty standard, but still a pain.
We ended up getting the same one…great thing to get the cats all excited!! lol!
Morning
Another dull one for our viewing pleasure as well…mmmmmmm
Today is another batch of interviews to get through up here then wrap the whole thing up tomorrow.
Rest of the day will be in the lair of doom, getting all THAT straightened out…not so yay…
Have a good one!!
^~^ I missed the interview? But, I am sure I would have been a good interview! Commute a little long, however. Were chocolate chip cookies involved? [dinner]
We have weather, I think. Sun, mid 80’s to 90 temps, normal humidity - enjoy, repeat all week.
We tore out of here @ 7 am only to find out that the fish aren’t biting. (like I care - I got the paper read and a short nap)
Maybe I should get a drone…scare the bejeebers out of the barking dog next door. Wouldn’t take 10 min either. [:-,] What a nice thought!
Good afternoon.
We are actually having a HHH day. Out on the prairie here, this is very uncommon. Having been fortunate enough to have read the forums here for a number of years I knew what was about to happen, but last night the weather lady was explaining it to us like we were all a bunch of beginners. And a lot of us are. Now to the numbers, 93° feeling like 102°.
We usually don’t post links to photos here, but I thought I would link you to a beautiful shot of Canada Day fireworks exploding over the CPR Calgary-Edmonton line bridge crossing the recently flooded Bow River. The picture is looking west toward downtown and from the same location Trainboy H16-44 posted one of his photos a year or so ago. After the bridge that collapsed here last week was determined to be only a 101 years old, the bridge in this photo is clearly the oldest railway bridge in Calgary. It was built in 1892.
Enjoy;
Bruce
NICE Picture Bruce!! Around here and this time of the year, Triple H is the “Norm” for our days, (and sometimes evenings) this time of the year.
Mutt - From what I’m reading, the biggest culprit was the wind, which was signficant even before the shift, and the sudden 180 degree change. I read today that they may not have had an adequate “safe area” staked out. That might be because they had just arrived at that spot and were still reconnoitering, or far more unlikely, due to inadequate planning. These guys were good, so it’s hard to imagine that they were taking shortcuts.
Also read today that they may have been working in front of the fireline, instead of on a flank thereof.
That some of them apparently didn’t have time to fully deploy their shelters speaks volumes as to the suddeness of the situation change.
A terrible loss no matter the reason.
Peace be with you. Bruce, that was an astounding picture.
We have another day of storms and rain. The wife has the house in condition 4 and water rations lest the whole thing backs up. When water stands in the ditch, she gets spastic!
Johnny, thanks for the welcome back. I should get my computer back fairly soon and be seen more often. This one is OK but is lacking in a few things.
Everyone take care and keep cool.
AMEN!
I may have been away from the fire grounds for about 20+ years now, but they are ALL still brothers to me…
morning
foggy outside.going to be muggy today.thunderboomers for the holiday.breakfast is all set.off to bed.
stay safe
joe
Good Morning
I’m all prepared to finish of the interviewing…next stop choosing the right candidates…do do do do do do do do… 
Then…it is off to ‘finish off’ the Lair of Doom. BTW…it is a three car garage that I am hoping I can convert into a recording studio thingee…note I said hopefully… 