Good Morning Fogfighter, connie, Draclvr, oldbroad, soot, hagatha and everyone! Wide Awake Double Dark Brew is ready! I'm already ready on my 2nd cup.

It is raining here this morning and windy. I'm hoping it lets up so I can walk late morning.

Enjoy your day everyone!

Gerry

Good morning, Danish, Donuts and Bagels in the Break Room. Going to a BBQ at a friend's house tonight. Enjoy the day and hug someone.

Good Friday morning! Thanks for the emergency kits this morning, Fogfighter!

We DID have drama yesterday! On Wednesday we had another near record low barometric pressure go through here. All it brought with it for us was extreme wind. It was gusting to over 60 mph and I'm sure it was more than that out here on our hill. Yesterday afternoon we looked outside and noticed all the patio furniture on the pool deck was gone! The only thing we leave out there is the glass top table and the 4 chairs. I have a circular cover than hangs down to the deck to cover everything up. It was all in the pool! Now this is very heavy metal furniture! Dave was able to hook the 4 chairs with a hoe and get them over to the side and lift them out. The table was another story. I suggested he get the tractor, so we hooked the bottom supports of the table to a rope and he raised it up out of the water with the tractor bucket. Of course, the cover was tied to it and full of water, so we had to untie that so it could drain and he could lift it the rest of the way out. Nothing was damaged including the pool – at least as far as we could see. That had to be an epic gust of wind to move all that heavy furniture 10 feet and push it into the pool! Holy moly!

That's wild Draclvr, but good that was the extent of it! Nobody hurt!

Happy Friday everyone!

Good afternoon everyone. The WADDB, emergency kit and bagels have kept me going these past days.

Glad nothing was damaged Draclvr...wind gusts and fast moving water can wreak havoc. Keeping you in my thoughts and prayers OldBroad to settle your brother's affairs.

Have a wonderful afternoon and evening everyone

Wow! That's some wind! Glad everything's okay, including you.

I decided to do some actual cooking today, so I'm making a vegetable biryani, tandoori-style chicken, and roasted spicy cauliflower. Now I remember why I stopped cooking. I don't actually enjoy it any more!

LOL, hagatha! What I enjoy is eating my own cooking!

It's more the cleaning up that I hate. And of course an Indian meal uses a lot of different knives and cutting boards and bowls and pans. Anyway the biryani turned out well, even though I made it with brown rice. Now I have enough for about a week's worth of rice.

The big fat cat that's been plaguing my guys was outside today, rolling around on my patio in the sun. I went out to have a word with it and shoo it away and it responded by rubbing my legs enthusiastically and purring, plopping down onto my feet. It's a real sweetie, the sort of cat that you want to steal. Dude doesn't seem too perturbed by it, but Willow goes nuts when she sees it. Somehow it has decided that my house is part of its orbit. I think it might have been the cat I saw sitting with Dude a while back, so hopefully there won't be any fights. I think it's a female, anyway.

Good Morning and Welcome to the weekend connie, Foffighter, soot, Draclvr, hagatha, oldbroad and everyone! Wide Awake Double Dark Brew is ready.

Draclvr I'm so glad you are safe and all went well recovering your patio furniture! That is amazing how mother nature can literally turn things upside down!

Home you all have better weather today.

Gerry

Good Morning everyone.

Weather is decent and here comes the emergency use knäckebröd.

No cat drama here though I did see a black cat sneak around the other day.

Happy Saturday GameBoomers

Good morning, Danish, Donuts and Bagels in the Break Room. Shopping is on the agenda today. Karaoke at the Eagles tonight. Drac, I'm you glad are safe. Enjoy the day and hug someone.

Good Saturday morning! Finally the winds has died down. My son borrowed my big garden tiller so he could tear up his front yard and reseed it last week. He brought it back last night and said that wind on Wednesday blew all his straw and grass seed to the next county!

Sun it out and supposed to get up into the 60's today, so we are going to put a couple of steaks on the grill tonight. We split a side of beef with my son and picked it up last week. When he tried to pick his up, it was the morning after the tornados and that area in our county had so much destruction, there was no power anywhere. He finally got theirs this week. We get this beef from a small family farmer with 5 little kids! It is so far superior to anything you can get at a grocery store, I hope I never have to go back to it.

Totally agree about the cooking clean-up, hagatha! I would like for everything to magically get cleaned up and put away while I eat!

Good morning Draclvr, Connie, Fogfighter, Gerry, Hagatha and all who get the chance to pop in for WADDB, knäckebröd, Connie's treats and a chat. Woo hoo Drac, enjoy the warmer temps and grilling. I'll be grilling BBQ ribs this afternoon. Finished Saturday morning house chores this morning and then once I get the ribs cooking I'll finish the rest of Saturday chores this afternoon. I am thinking spring has finally sprung here with our last frost/freeze warning yesterday.

Take care everyone and have a wonderful day.

Good morning all. My groceries have arrived (via my brother). I have two easy meals in mind to make. We'll see how easy they feel when I'm doing them. My cooking stretches out through the day sometimes. If there is chopping of something let's say, I'll do that then sit for awhile and then go do the next step. I try to clean up while I'm cooking so there is not a sink full of dishes to do afterwards. Part of the stretching of it has to do with the fact that my back will start hurting if I'm standing there too long.

Drac, does the beef come cut into steaks, roasts, whatever, or do you do that part?

I hope you each enjoy your day!

Good morning, everyone.

It's a lovely morning, but apparently we're getting more rain this afternoon and through the weekend. I was hoping to gear up for a walk but obviously that's out. I think I'll spend some time organizing the linen closet, pull out all the towels that Willow shredded and decide what to do with them. Somehow I ended up with far more towels and sheets than I could ever use.

Oldbroad, I do cooking in stages, too, especially with the chopping of onions. It makes the cooking less onerous.

Oldbroad, the beef is taken to a processor where it is cut into steaks, roasts etc. and then frozen. We specify how we want it cut and packaged.

I'm making a hash brown casserole to go with the steaks tonight and I did just that! I chopped my onions ahead of time so I could go fold laundry!

Hagatha, we have several animal rescue facilities which LOVE to accept shredded towels. Don't know if you have a place like that near you.

Draclvr, that's a great idea. There's a cat rescue here in Nanoose. I should ask them if they want the towels.

Good Morning Fogfighter, connie, soot, Draclvr, hagatha, oldbroad and everyone! Wide Awake Double Dark Brew is ready to start your day!

Hope everyone has a peaceful restful Sunday!

Gerry

Yet a sunny and chilly day. Frost on the ground in the morning. But Mr Frost lacks staying power now.

Emergency use knäckebröd is available in the break room.

Happy Sunday GameBoomers!

Good morning, Danish, Donuts and Bagels in the Break Room. BBQ/ meet the new puppy at a friend's house today. Enjoy the day and hug someone.

Good Sunday morning! We had normal, pleasant thunderstorms last night! Got up at 1:30 to let Bella the Bloodhound inside... she is terrified of thunder. Maybe got an inch of much-needed rain. None of that tornadic weather provided any rain to speak of.

Hubby is feeling good enough to get Bella in to the vet for her annual exam/vaccinations this week. She is so huge she only fits in his big truck! Then I can get her in to the groomer for a much needed bath. All dogs must be UTD on vaccinations before going there. You haven't lived until you've smelled a Bloodhound! Stinky!

Happy Sunday all! We are expecting rain a little later and then after that another high wind advisory. I hope to cook today, and play. That's it.

Good morning Draclvr, Connie, Fogfighter, Gerry, Hagatha, OldBroad and everyone. Enjoying WADDB, knäckebröd and bagels this morning. Hagatha, please forward that rain down this way...we can use it. OldBroad, that's the best way to tackle cooking so you don't over do it. Did you get a walk in today Gerry? Meet the puppy event will be fun Connie!

Have a great day everyone

Good morning everyone.

Soot, I wish we could send you some of our rain. It's pretty gloomy and wet here today. My lawn is mostly moss.

Who doesn't love a new puppy or kitten?

Yay! Finally Monday again. Sunshine, retreating frost on the ground. Movements of the ground so the bird bath fell over. No earthquake. Just normal soil movement when the soil thaws. Fixable without help of tractor.

Emergency kits with instant coffee and knäckebröd are available in the break room.

Happy new week Gameboomers!