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Whoops

Sorry I've been neglectful -- just realized that a week had passed since my last post. Really don't have much to say -- no news is good news, right?

A couple pictures -- the sunset at high tide is from Friday night.

If ya click on the picture above (makes it bigger) you can see the two birds (one at center above the spit and one further away near the top left). Had lots of eagle sightings this week.


The birds are from today as are the clouds trying to sneak in from Cape Lookout. Temps are back to summer norms -- high 60's and low 70's during the day and in the mid 50's at night. The clouds try to play hide and seek with the sun -- some days the sun wins but the clouds are persistant. Portland has only received 0.62" of rain in the last 4 weeks -- we could use some rain since it is fire season. No lightning tho, please.

95

95 forking degrees outside this afternoon. Not a whisper of a breeze until around 3pm and it didn't stay around long.

The good news is a finger of fog is creeping northward -- you can see the low clouds gathering on the other side of the spit. I don't think I've been happy to see fog clouds gather before...

88

Netarts Bay was 88 degrees today. Hottest it has been since I've been here and tomorrow and Thursday are forecast to be even hotter. Drove into town to run some errands today and it was stinking hot. The weather doodette said on the 4pm news that it got up into the 90's in Tillamook this afternoon and I can believe it.

I discovered that the a/c in the car needs to be recharged -- am adding that to the list of things to be checked out at the mechanics. Did some grocery shopping and stopped and made an appointment for a haircut on Friday -- am way overdue and quite shaggy looking and hightailed it back home before I melted.

Picture up top is of low tide this afternoon. As always, check on the picture to biggafy it.

Hella Week

Its been one hella week. I came home Monday from spending the day with Jen The Birthday Girl to all sorta electrical fuckery. Of course, I didn't know that when I walked in the door.

I had stopped and picked up Burger King on the way home because I didn't feel like cooking after being pampered all afternoon. So I plopped the bag down at the desk, turn on the tv and start to munch while catching up on email. My internet connection was wonky and I had to reset the modem several times. Was starting to wonder WFT when the tv popped off. Aha -- the cable is out and they will fix it soon.

Wrong.

A little bit later, I noticed the lights were either very bright or very dim. The microwave didn't work nor did the stovetop. Shit, the ghost in the wiring was back. The only appliance not affected was my coffee maker plugged into a GFI plug -- thank goodness -- I hate making coffee by heating water on the wood stove and then using the french press.

My internet connection came back up around 11pm, I sent off an email to my landlord describing the problem. The tv would not turn back on but I had tubes so it was ok. I went to bed hoping that since the wifi was now working, whatever had woke up the ghost in the wires was settling down and I would wake up in the morning all would be back to normal.

Wrong.

Tuesday I had neither tv nor internet -- the modem and wifi router, which had been working when I went to bed had no lights -- but the landlord was on his way so I waited patiently. He got here mid-afternoon and figured out that it wasn't an internal to the house error -- there were wild voltage swings from 156 to 33 on the 110 circuits -- he shut down all power to the house and called the electric company (PUD).

The PUD guy showed up and discovered a broken neutral ground wire where the PUD cable connects to the roof jack. He made a temporary fix, got the power restored and said that PUD would send out a crew in the morning (it was almost 6pm when he left). I checked and everything was working again except for the one year old 32" flat screen tv and the cable modem and wifi router -- all of which had been plugged into power strip surge protectors and all of which were fried.

Oy.

Wednesday morning the landlord picked up a new cable modem from the cable company, a new wifi router from the store, and got me connected again. He also had stopped by PUD and picked up a claim form for me to fill out for the now only good to use as a doorstop flatscreen tv. PUD sent a crew and a couple trucks around 1pm and they completely replaced the electrical cable from the street to the house. Of course, they had to turn off the power while they restrung new cable and redid the connection to the house but had everything reconnected by mid-afternoon. Luckily, I ended up only missing work Tues night.

I have hauled out the little tv from the bedroom (it had survived) and have been slowly catching up on all that I missed online. I have learned that if given a choice between no tv and no internet, I would choose to have internet *if* I was given a choice. Monday night was less stressful with no tv and having the internet than Tuesday night with no internet and a working tv.

Picture up top is of the result of Monday's fun getting spa manicures and pedicures.

Happy Birthday Jen

33 years ago today, my daughter Jennifer was born. She has grown into a loving, kind, and smart woman who I am very proud of. We are gonna go hang out this afternoon, sipping lattes while getting spa manicures and pedicures at her favorite place and being all girlie-girl.

This is one of my favorite pictures of Jen flanked by Mike's girls (Kayla and Karina) right before her wedding to Mike two years ago.

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..... and mini s'mores.....

Summer?

Summer on the Oregon Coast is just around the corner according to the weather doods. I would give ya the temps but my weather station has completely died after many years of service -- a few months ago it quit recording the rainfall totals but still showed indoor and outdoor temps and now nothing. I put in new batteries but still zip, zero, zilch on the screen.

My peony thinks it is spring and is blooming again. This plant has never done an additional bloom after the regular early spring bloom.

The weather doodette on my local news says high clouds are moving in ahead of a week front coming in tomorrow but that this weekend will be sunny, mainly dry, and warmer.

I Still Can't Say Goodbye

Chet Atkins -- I Still Can't Say Goodbye.

I miss you every single day, Dad.

Happy Father's Day.

What Rachel Said

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Rachel Maddow segment from her Wednesday evening The Rachel Maddow Show. She says what should have been said by President Obama -- I agree and wanted to share it with those who may have missed it.

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Jon Stewart -- The Daily Show.

Ah Monday

Sorry for the lack of posts -- I've been busier than a one armed piccolo player, as an old friend used to say. The good news is that there is light at the end of the tunnel and it is really a light and not the usual on-coming train.

This was Saturday here at the peaceful retreat on the bay:


This is today -- bands of clouds rolling in ahead of a weak storm that is going to bring in bands of showers for the next couple of days but the rest of the week is supposed to be warm and dry:


Token spent the afternoon at the doggie beauty shop while I was sitting in the lobby of the tire place, getting a new front tire and an appointment for an alignment next week. I hope to get the car down to K&M maybe tomorrow to have the mechanic check out the engine -- its been sucking gas and I need to have her check it out before I start planning road trips. The car did drive a lot better with good rubber -- I had cord showing on the bad tire. The spare on the right front (from last month's flat) was declared a fine tire and when I come in next Monday, they will have looked for a used tire to use as a spare.

Token looks and smells wonderful and is quite dapper looking wearing the black bandanna with bright red heart shaped strawberries, cherries and ladybugs that his groomer put on him. He usually tolerates bandannas for only a short period of time before he tries scratching them off. He seems to like this one and is snoozing away in his bed below the computer table. Bailey cat is her indiferent self, snoozing away in the chair below the window she has proclaimed hers.

Now that I'm home from running errands today, I'm going to enjoy what's left of my day off watching the birds on the bay scurrying to eat what is on the freshly revealed buffet table as the tide goes out -- including this eagle:

Don't Bungee Jump Naked

Don't Bungee Jump Naked by Jeanne Robertson.

Family Affair

Happy birthday to my little sister, Sherry.

Starting 52 years ago this week, I was trying to convince Mom and Dad to take her back to the hospital and leave her there. Glad they chose not to -- in spite of my tears, foot stomping, and the occasional turning over of her crib - preferably when Sherry was in it.

Uh, sorry about that sis.



Mary J Blige -- Family Affair.

Sunshine

Sunshine!!! No rain!!!

*snoopy happy dance*

No further words needed.

Forget it

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Forget it. The last time you said we were wrestling I ended up having 8 kittens.