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[Nomadicus]

All but one changed by themselves. Isn't technology great.

Most of the time until your CC's get hacked.

 

[Nana K]

Where is everyone from that the weather is so dry? I'm in western Washington, Cascade foothills and it is very wet. My tarp failed on my chicken run and it is a soggy mess! We set up a pop up tent in there temporarily until we can fix this situation. My old girls don't like to get their feet wet in the run, lol.

 

[Nomadicus]

Southern Alabama is bone dry.

 

[Nana K]

Wow. Seems like with all the weather activity over yonder you would at least have some drizzle. Hope rain comes for you soon. You are welcome to have my rain and 38 degrees mornings.

 

[Bawkbok]

Central FL is dangerously dry where we are - not a drop since hurricane Milton. Everything is so dry and crispy I had to put the sprinkler on the other day to try and get the grass / weeds to grow so the girls would have something to nibble on.
We are entering the dry season which means no real rain until next spring. Two years ago we went for 8 months without a spit of rain. It stresses me out when we go for so long without rain. The weather here is so drastic and to extremes, I honestly don't know why people move here. I for one, cannot wait until we can move back - once the family obligation to be here is no longer a need. Until then, it's stress through hurricanes, it's stress through the drought season, it's stress through triple digit temps and high humidity for at least seven months of the year ---- too much stress here. Can't get a garden to grow well despite best efforts with a lot of augmentation. Living on a peninsula is over rated.

 

[Nana K]

Sounds rough. We get beautiful summer weather ( our humidity is good), great for gardening and fall is our monsoon season. Literally one week before Halloween until May. Just drizzly between outright downpours. We get landslides and river flooding. However, We have no poisonous snakes or spiders. We don't get hurricanes, or horrific tornados. We barely get thunderstorms. Costs a lot to live here though. We get snow at times but it's the temps dipping down to 14F that stay for a week or two that is the killer. We average in the 30's during winter.

 

[Bawkbok]

Sounds rough. We get beautiful summer weather ( our humidity is good), great for gardening and fall is our monsoon season. Literally one week before Halloween until May. Just drizzly between outright downpours. We get landslides and river flooding. However, We have no poisonous snakes or spiders. We don't get hurricanes, or horrific tornados. We barely get thunderstorms. Costs a lot to live here though. We get snow at times but it's the temps dipping down to 14F that stay for a week or two that is the killer. We average in the 30's during winter.

Where is "here" if I may ask. It sounds like a wonderful place to be.

 

[Nana K]

Here is western Washington. Foot hills of the Cascades mountain range. I live in East Skagit county. Seattle is about 100 miles s w of me. Bellingham is 50 miles n w of me. Eastern Washington has drier weather and higher temps and black widow spiders and rattlesnakes. But we have oceans, rivers, lakes, ponds, creeks etc... they talk about droughts out here but I really don't see it in my neck of the woods.

 

[Bawkbok]

Wow, it's crazy how one state can have such variable weather. Someday if I ever go for a long drive, we will visit Washington. I've always wanted to drive the western and eastern coast lines. That would be a heck of road trip.

 

[Debbie292d]

Congratulations!

A friend of mine has lost 29 on the keto diet. She said it is, hands down, the easiest diet she's ever been on.

I lost a ton of weight many years ago after I had my two kids. I kept it off too as it's a way of life you have to maintain. About five years I was fine until I started a new job in the city where the girls were ordering in all kinds of scrumptious foods. I couldn't take smelling lasagna and smothered burritos any longer. I thought I'd go back on after I splurged, but never did.

Fast forward about 20 years and I found myself gaining even more weight after retirement so had to do something. Back in March, my sister got me on the IF (intermittent fasting) diet. I choose 8 hours I can eat whatever I want (within reason), then for 16 hours I eat nothing, but can have water, black coffee, etc., anything with zero calories.

Other than a week in Cancun, I've been religiously doing this since March and lost 25, with about 20 to go. This, too, is a lifetime way of living to keep it off, but I found that 90% of the time, it's easy and doable. You can set your 8 hours to whenever you want.

Some I know that once they reach their goal, they switch from 8/16 to 10/14 or even 12/12. If the weight starts creeping back, go back to 8/16 for a week or two.

It is said this helps with many medical issues, like Type 2 diabetes, cholesterol, heart health, etc., but I just do it for the weight loss.