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N F C said:
YAY! :ya


Poor DH has been through it alright with 2 surgeries within 2 months. But his frankenfoot is getting better all the time and the hernia repair should be easy after that. I don't know if he appreciated me laughing this morning though...he was walking through the house and it sounded like this:
klomp, step
klomp, step
cough, ouch
cough, ouch
klomp, step

Now really, who wouldn't have laughed? :lau  
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As a person who has klomped, and coughed through the house after many surgeries, I resent your laughing.
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Teila said:
Thanks heaps everyone, your support means a lot to me
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It is hard to explain but I am sure you have all been in a situation where there is a weather event or something similar threatening a loved one from whom you are separated? They are where they are, going about their day, may be prepping for it etc while you are many, many miles away, no idea what is happening and seeing the reports of imminent danger. They are telling you it is fine and you are thinking OMG! ?? That is me! lol It is nice to have friends to talk it out with.

So, she [not being sexist but naming convention dictates that if a cyclone does form, this one is going to have a girls name] is still a tropical low, not classified a tropical cyclone [yet?].

Our most prominent Storm Chaser’s latest update was “Convection exploding around the Tropical Low in the Coral Sea tonight! Things are about to get serious for NQLD in the coming days... Stay tuned!”

The more stoic and less excitable Bureau of Meteorology is saying “A tropical low pressure system is located southeast of the Papua New Guinea mainland. It is forecast to drift southward for the next 24 to 36 hours, before turning more westward towards the tropical Queensland coast late Friday or on Saturday.
Conditions are favourable for this system to develop, and the probability of it forming into a tropical cyclone will steadily increase into the weekend. With a Moderate chance [20-50%] of the system being a tropical cyclone on Saturday but High chance on Sunday [Over 50%].
This system is likely to make landfall on the north tropical Queensland coast early next week.”
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(I had to double check the difference between a cyclone and a hurricane...turns out they're the same, what they're called just depends on where they happen.)

Your news reports remind me of how the weather was once reported when I lived in Key West. According to predictions, we were "in for it" with a hurricane so windows were boarded up, flights at the airport cancelled, supplies stockpiled, people were evacuating the island, etc. So what really happened? Nothing. There was only enough wind that plastic lawn furniture was tipped over. That tipped over furniture made it in the national weather reports with a weather girl reporting what an awful storm had happened but luckily no serious loss of property or life.
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Try not to let over-active reporters scare you with their dramatics. Of course it's worth watching and of course you have concern about your family, just try to stay calm and trust they'll be ok. And of course, we'll keep you in our thoughts
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sunflour said:
:frow   How are you doing?
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I am getting along okay. It would help if it would finally warm up around here, the cold is bad on my joints and muscles, plus I'm tired of complaining about it being cold, time to switch to complaining about the heat instead for a change of pace.
 
N F C said:
YAY!
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Poor DH has been through it alright with 2 surgeries within 2 months. But his frankenfoot is getting better all the time and the hernia repair should be easy after that. I don't know if he appreciated me laughing this morning though...he was walking through the house and it sounded like this:
klomp, step
klomp, step
cough, ouch
cough, ouch
klomp, step

Now really, who wouldn't have laughed?
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Having been there myself, I can relate.

Teila said:
Thanks heaps everyone, your support means a lot to me
hugs.gif


It is hard to explain but I am sure you have all been in a situation where there is a weather event or something similar threatening a loved one from whom you are separated? They are where they are, going about their day, may be prepping for it etc while you are many, many miles away, no idea what is happening and seeing the reports of imminent danger. They are telling you it is fine and you are thinking OMG! ?? That is me! lol It is nice to have friends to talk it out with.

So, she [not being sexist but naming convention dictates that if a cyclone does form, this one is going to have a girls name] is still a tropical low, not classified a tropical cyclone [yet?].

Our most prominent Storm Chaser’s latest update was “Convection exploding around the Tropical Low in the Coral Sea tonight! Things are about to get serious for NQLD in the coming days... Stay tuned!”

The more stoic and less excitable Bureau of Meteorology is saying “A tropical low pressure system is located southeast of the Papua New Guinea mainland. It is forecast to drift southward for the next 24 to 36 hours, before turning more westward towards the tropical Queensland coast late Friday or on Saturday.
Conditions are favourable for this system to develop, and the probability of it forming into a tropical cyclone will steadily increase into the weekend. With a Moderate chance [20-50%] of the system being a tropical cyclone on Saturday but High chance on Sunday [Over 50%].
This system is likely to make landfall on the north tropical Queensland coast early next week.”
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Hoping it turns, or fizzles, or whatever cyclones do. Good thoughts going out to your DH and everyone near the coast in NQLD!

N F C said:
(I had to double check the difference between a cyclone and a hurricane...turns out they're the same, what they're called just depends on where they happen.)

Your news reports remind me of how the weather was once reported when I lived in Key West. According to predictions, we were "in for it" with a hurricane so windows were boarded up, flights at the airport cancelled, supplies stockpiled, people were evacuating the island, etc. So what really happened? Nothing. There was only enough wind that plastic lawn furniture was tipped over. That tipped over furniture made it in the national weather reports with a weather girl reporting what an awful storm had happened but luckily no serious loss of property or life.
roll.png


Try not to let over-active reporters scare you with their dramatics. Of course it's worth watching and of course you have concern about your family, just try to stay calm and trust they'll be ok. And of course, we'll keep you in our thoughts
hugs.gif
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I'm sure that in FL you had plenty of maybe's and might's during hurricane season!
 
Here are the adult Java finches. (Please excuse the foam filler we used to fill the gaps left by the corrugated iron - it's a second hand aviary). Some of them look to have pied genes but the one with the white bottom half of his tummy wasn't the father of my three babies so they should be the pretty standard fawn colouring.




And here are my three little yellers with grubby faces and full crops. They are so cute and really look at me now (once they've had enough to eat of course).

My Society finches are laying again - I suspect the two females are nesting together this time around, and Pinkie Pie has two babies and one egg pipping so she'll be busy!
 
J, those little puffy-cheeked Javas are so fun to see! And wow, look at the feathers on the babies now...they're sure growing!
 

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