HAPPY NEW WEEK and HAPPY FULL MOON!
Last week's chat thread is HERE.
I'm going to carry over Annette's links for the California Condor webcams (because I'm enjoying watching the funny looking fellas): Ventana Wildlife Society nest and feeding cams and Sespe Condor Sanctuary nest cam .
Also, Explore.org has a lot of interesting cams right now: underwater whales; sharks; the Grand Cayman reef; various underwater cams at Long Beach, California; grizzly, panda, and polar bears; puffins; a hummingbird nest; penguins; auroras; and various Africa cams. I like to watch some of them while meditating. Explore's Hawaii cams might be interesting over the next 2-3 days as Category 4 Hurricane Ignacio approaches from the east and tracks just north of the Hawaiian Islands, causing very high surf.
Everyone have a great week!
Will try again
Wendy Remember driving down the A9 at 5 am and the scenery was at its spectacular best.. enjoy Bath, it is a lovely city. OH was stationed there during the firefighters strike in the late 70s and of course they were made most welcome. They were there over Christmas and New Year and wanted for nothing.
DIANE What a lovely pic of a panther.
Bumped into our Husky friend at Tesco today. Haven't seen her in a while so we headed for Tiso for a 2 hour catch up.
OH dropped his hours to 12 two months ago but as they were short of staff for the first time in 4 years he said he would continue to do 16 until this week. You have guessed I am sure that he had a phone call an hour or so ago to ask him to help out as one of the service users was in Raigmore with a possible broken leg after an accident playing football. If he is allowed home OH will need to take him home and give him his meds. Is he destined never to do his 12 hours. He is off tomorrow !!!!! works a full day on Wed then starts his hols midweek on Thurs.
Laying out stuff ready to pack. Benson gets his haircut tomorrow and I get mine cropped and coloured on Wed, then Thurs Benson is off to kennels and we head down the road. Plans have changed and we now will see Mum for a few hours but stay overnight in a hotel. Mum does get confused when she finds strangers in her spare room overnight and we should get a better nights sleep.
Refused my abrieviated post again, I give up.
dibnlib: I hope you have a safe journey. Good travels to you.
Ditto from me, DIBNLIB
thank you
Wendyb: Have a great time in Bath!
dibnlib: I'll be thinking of you. I know that seeing your mum is distressing for you. Take care.
DIANE thank you. There is no easy way. As you say visiting Mum is distressing and I get distressed that I find visiting her so very difficult.
dibnlib: When I was caring for my parents, my anxiety would sometimes threaten to overwhelm me. I would find myself holding my breath for long periods, trying to keep down the stress, grief, and terror. I coped better when I reminded myself to breathe deeply.
Sending you strength and good energy, dear.
Wendy – enjoy Englandshire – good that you and your two daughters are well coordinated so you can visit both. Bath is a lovely place, and countryside within reach too. The two young men killed on the M74 at Gretna were from Oldham, ages 21 and 22.
Annette – the wartime cookery demo was done as a challenge to the chef – produce a 3 course meal from First World War rations. Making good use of the fresh fruit and veg, he did one starter (a lentil and veg soup using no rationed items), two mains (sausage and apple casserole – with the mysterious addition of cider and cream, which I suppose could have been available in England’s west country – and a bacon roly-poly made with suet crust, with a tomato sauce) and a pud of mixed fruit crumble using oats in the topping to reduce the amount of “use sparingly” flour. He had also premade some tartlets (leftover from yesterday’s wartime tea demo) and a vegetable pie. We couldn’t stay for tasters because we had to have an early meal at home for J who was going out.
Heather – I would say the food this afternoon was really basic country food, much as I grew up on in the 1950s, and his sausage casserole was very similar to mine! What a nuisance about your mobile phone – I assume she transferred your sim card to the temp one so that you still have your own number and stored numbers. Was surprised to see your OH won’t even eat carrot and coriander soup; but all the more for you as you can freeze portions for yourself! Was a lovely day here too – until we came out to drive home, when we had another really heavy shower.
Dibnlib – is this just a brief trip south, or the beginning of your holiday to Europe? Have you had any second thoughts about the journey from Budapest to Vienna – seems to be right in the thick of migrant activity right now! (Sorry if that offends anyone, I’ve lost track of the political correctness or otherwise of the various alternative words!)
We are meeting missionary friends for coffee tomorrow – an Anglo-Canadian family on their way from one continent to another – four children – could be “interesting”!
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
OG - no we've had rain most of the day. We are now getting what you up there have been putting up with for quite a while. Glad the weather is a lot better. The Pack Up Your Troubles Festival sounded really interesting - hope you enjoyed your visit.
Annette - Yes, watched the pictures they were bringing of the sharks close to the shore, but they said that the swimmers were not in danger - not quite sure how true that is, but hopefully so.
Wendyb,enjoy your time with family
HeatherB - Oh dear, hope the phone hospital will be able to do something about your phone. At least its still under warranty.
The soup sounds gorgeous. Made some leek and potato soup on Saturday for yesterday and today, turned out not too bad.
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RSPB Giving Nature a Home