BYC Café

[Ladies-Eight]

Cafe good morning one and all!

Tea is ready.

Temperature is in the 70s sunny humidity is 92%.

Have a great day!

 

[aart]

Yesterday peaked at 87.

Was about 90 here.....now cool cool rain.

 

[bobbi-j]

I can't do it. They can't get blood out fast enough using a butterfly needle and I can't stand the regular ones when I need a draw.

I hate this feeling. I could never live in a flood zone again after the two catastrophic floods I went through.

Wow. I'm so glad that Ruger was okay! I'd have been beside myself.

We actually don’t live in a flood zone. It’s just so wet this spring/summer that the water has nowhere else to go. In the almost 40 years I’ve lived here, we’ve had water problems 4 times. The first time was in the old house after 120 inches of snow that winter, then heavy rain for two days straight, causing rapid melting. I was on ambulance duty when it started. There was so much road flooding that I was stuck in town for 3 days. The town has a river running through it, so I spent that time helping evacuate people from flooding homes and filling sandbags. Our old house had a roof cellar with a trap door. When we opened the trap door, the water was almost to the top step.

Because of that situation, when we built our new house, we built the basement 4’ out of the ground and installed a drain system and sump hole. It’s great - when the pump is working.

 

[sourland]

Good morning, and thanks for the coffee. Sadly, I believe that we will see/deal with increasing weather extremes.

 

[Offshoreorca]

Good morning Cafe! Thanks for the coffee DL! It's a beautiful sunny morning again here. I am gearing up to do some planting!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning Cafe Did bring another pot to share.
Sun is out here big time.
I get to put some marigold in the ground deter the pest population.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Hello

 

[Sally PB]

I cannot give blood as I have had hepatitist.

I'm O negative a universal donor.

Aw darn. I'm O positive. I once had a false positive hep B test, and the donation place told me (nicely) not to come back. This was in my 30s. A friend who made some money on the side selling plasma told me I wouldn't be able to do that either.

I talked to my doctor, he said if I test negative for hep, he'd "write me a note" so that I could donate.

I haven't yet...

Sadly, I believe that we will see/deal with increasing weather extremes.

Yeah. Get used to the new normal.

I keep telling hubby that we are SO DANG!!! LUCKY with our weather. Lake Michigan protects us from a lot of the extremes.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Because of my heart med and the Otezla I cannot donate either.

 

[bobbi-j]

So, to give you an idea how wet is is out here on the prairie, I took a couple of pictures today. I know they’re hard to see, but the white spots in the pictures below are pelicans. In a cornfield.

While pelicans are commonly seen here in the summer, they’re not commonly seen in cornfields.