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Weekly Chat (Non-Osprey), 12 June 2022

Diane in Indiana
12/06/2022 00:12

HAPPY NEW WEEK and HAPPY FULL MOON! 

Please check back to last week's thread to view another installment of Lindy's descriptions and mesmerizing photos of her recent cruise. I've enjoyed them so much.

This week, the moon turns full on Tuesday, 14 June. It's the second of four consecutive supermoons, when the full moon of the month occurs as the moon is at or near perigee (its closest point to the Earth in its monthly orbit). If your skies are cloudy, you can watch the full moon rise online. Info is HERE at Space.com, a safe site.

I expect to have a lazy week myself, because Indiana will be part of the massive, record-breaking heat wave that's predicted to hit much of the U.S. My temperatures will be around 100F or 38C for several days, with high humidity. 

Take care, everyone. 

  • 15/06/2022 23:04
    Oh! -- It's gone! Never understand the glitches on this Site.
  • 16/06/2022 01:57

    If you are interested in Aussie birds, here are some Tasmanian birds photo-ed by an extremely patient photographer.

  • 16/06/2022 06:19

    Headline:- “There’s no end in sight to high lettuce prices. Could the solution be to grow your own?” Shock! Horror! What is the world coming to! Fancy expecting the modern Young’uns actually growing their own food! Aussies have been told to expect to pay up to $12 (£7) for a single lettuce after floods in eastern states. Hotels suggesting replacing lettuce salad with cole slaw, have not been popular. Definitely a first world problem.

    Just a thought
    Grandfather had a farm, his son has a garden, and his grandson has a can-opener. {Prochnow)

  • 16/06/2022 07:26
    It's been said here, AQ - chopped cabbage, anyone, with their burger?

    Good Morning. Dull & cloudy here, but expected to clear later: where we're off to in Wales is supposed to be less hot than most of UK so we're hoping for it to be just pleasant. I'm throwing stuff together to take with us, including funnily enough, a lettuce growing in a pot which I remove a leaf from now and then.

    Today's quotes:

    Old age is when your wants turn into wents.

    I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it by not dying. Woody Allen.
  • 16/06/2022 09:19
    Nice and sunny here. Got to get to grips with the garden today. I cut my first bunch of sweet peas the evening I returned from holiday. I do love them and make the effort to grow them every year. I also had the first home grown strawberries of the season for dessert yesterday. Very nice and sweet I am pleased to say.
    Lindy - enjoy your trip to the caravan. On the Welsh weather forecast just now they said it would be cooler at the coast.
    Dibnlib- thanks for the information about the coos. They did have a notice at the front about the charity. I guessed the chain link one wasn’t part of it but it amused me!!!
  • 16/06/2022 15:38
    RUSTY

    Envy your the sweet peas. I do love them and the smell is so nice. We had reasonable sweet peas a few years ago, but with no success since.

    There are a few chain coos around and they look almost life like.
  • 16/06/2022 16:19
    Dibnlib - I observed the birds eating the buds on my sweet peas several years ago so I now make steamers out of tin foil!!! It seems to do the trick as very few bids are eaten now, Its all very time consuming but, for me, it is worth it as I so love sweet peas. I have been out tying them in just now and must go back and water and feed them soon. It’s warm out there. I see from the Loch Garten nest that is is pouring down up there.
  • 16/06/2022 20:20
    I grow sweet peas, too. Although last year's were disappointing.

    We are back in Wales, and it felt as if it had been a long time since we were here, as so much has happened lately. Warm but not hot - we noticed that it became even more overcast as we came into the mountain area. Not too much traffic today, but I expect it will be very busy on the roads tomorrow because of the hot weather.
  • 16/06/2022 23:00
    Just a quickie on the health front. Had a letter from Oxford yesterday saying they are putting me on the waiting list for a procedure. Also one from my doctor's saying they are referring me to the sleep apnea clinic, so its the waiting game now.

    Rusty - pleased to hear your birding trip went well and that you were able to visit LG. Great news that there are 2 chicks. Love the pictures of the best dressed Highland cattle.

    Diane- again keep ,cool during your excessive heatwave. I think we would welcome some rain here but it isn't going to happen for a day or so yet.

    Lindybird - another literary piece about the Strawberry Moon - love it.

    Hopefully my gardener will be along tomorrow to plant the cypress trees and bamboo which arrived the other day. Also he is doing some planting of other items so once its done the garden should look a whole lot better than it does at present.

    http://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/things-to-do/wildlife-webcams/loch-of-lowes/

    RSPB Giving Nature a Home

     

     

  • 17/06/2022 07:55

    LINDA – If your lettuce in a pot was DownUnder, it could be a pot of gold!

    LYNETTE – Some progress (of sorts) with your health at last.