I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
Speaking of horrible, unforgettable shocks - an as yet unidentified stowaway on a Kenyan Airlines flight died and fell (I sort of hope in that order) from the landing gear compartment of the plane, thus:
'The body fell a metre away from a resident who had been sunbathing in the garden in south London's Clapham suburb, a neighbour said.
The neighbour, who did not want to be named, said he heard a "whomp" so he looked out of an upstairs window and saw the body and "blood all over the walls of the garden".
"So I went outside, and it was just then the neighbour came out and he was very shaken," he said.'
I bet he was.
My late mother-in-law, who lived in France during World War II, she was a teenager during the war, never could get use to the very loud fireworks we have here once she moved to the States. It just brought up fear of gun fire and bombs for her.
And people with pets, I don't know anyone who has a pet that loves that noise. My old guy "Charlie" [19] who is on palliative care, I don't know if he will survive the noise.... [sigh]. I got to figure out how to mask the sound. Think a cat would like cotton in his ears? Probably not.
Some times those rockets will vibrate the house they are so deafening.
Makes me wonder how Assisted Living and Nursing Homes deal with residents who revert back to the sound of war time. Or are just plain confused by the noise.
A lot of people where I live don’t give a rats behind about others. They don’t care about people who’ve survived wars, they don’t care about pets or people with PTSD. They shoot their illegal fireworks off and when neighbors take to the local neighborhood watch Facebook groups to complain, they are told to get over it! We can have “safe and sane” fireworks here, they are not aerial fireworks, they are pretty.....unimpressive LOL! They put out a lot of smoke and not a lot of “firework”. But the laws don’t stop people from using the illegal aerial fire works. I blame the city for the problem. They stopped putting on a fireworks show years ago citing money as usual. And then they graciously allowed us to have safe and sane fireworks. But on new year’s eve and the 4th of July, parts of the city light up like Baghdad and it legit sounds like a war zone!
the illegal fireworks usually start a few weeks before the 4th. I’ve only heard a few so far. I’m an old curmudgeon and I don’t like it one bit. Because they set them off at random. So you’re just sitting at home enjoying the quiet and all of a sudden you’re startled by a loud explosion! I always want to run to the window to make sure a neighbors house hasn’t exploded! Goes back to when I was a kid and a house on the next block exploded one Saturday afternoon! Guy was in his garage working on his car and something got too close to the hot water heater and the house exploded. And not long after that, another house near by was firebombed by rival gang members. That house got hit twice actually. So anytime I hear a loud explosive firework, my first thought is that a neighbors house has exploded!
also.....at least one house per year gets hit by an illegal aerial firework and catches fire. Because again these idiots don’t care about anyone else!
And on the subject of nursing home and AL residents......the biggest, loudest, most violent neighborhood 4th of July block party takes place just a few blocks from several long term care facilities! They have lots of illegal fireworks. One year there was a shooting. There is zero regard for the residents of the LTC facilities nearby. Absolutely none.
I was thinking about the stowaway last night. Food and water were found in the plane compartment, he'd evidently planned his escape, but without realising how cold it was going to be up there and for how long. I oscillate between thinking "you stupid sod!" and feeling terrible pity for what he must have gone through - though I believe there are worse ways to go than hypothermia, I think you eventually just fall asleep, don't you? - and of course he must have family somewhere.
This is not suitable material for Fourth of July! Wishing all of you lovely American people a very happy holiday, lively or peaceful according to taste :)
Have a touch of something, cold, sinus, I think I started the emergenC early enough.
Or as my late Dad would say "it's booming banging, spittin, sparking".
I so clearly remember the morning in October 1987
in the shower convinced the house would collapse
should I stay put or run outside naked ?
two weeks without gas
gas company wouldn’t go under house to check if it was safe to turn it back on as long as there were aftershocks
I feel so bad for all the animals everywhere tonight.
in fact we were out hiking in the valley and had no idea SoCal had been hit by an earthquake until I randomly checked my email while we were having a snack break & read an email from a friend in Maryland asking if we were OK!
i was 9 when the big quake of 89 hit the San Francisco Bay Area. Remember that vividly. As a kid, it was fun times, I remember the power was out for a few days and we got our news via a battery operated radio. It was like camping. Us kids didn’t understand the destruction it caused. Now that I am an adult with kids and a husband who’s job requires him to have to leave us in the event of a major earthquake, I don’t think it would be fun at all!
its only 8:43 here and not yet dark enough for fire works. I’d like to put on my jammies, send the kids to their rooms and watch a little TV but....there are “safe and sane” fireworks to be lit. Haven’t heard too many illegal fireworks this year. I think it’s because some police departments here are using drones to catch offenders so people are afraid to set off their illegal fireworks. 2 houses in a neighboring city caught fire yesterday after being hit with illegal aerial fireworks :(
Lu- Poor Precious. I know she is not a happy camper. She will be ok.
we're still like a war zone here
I nearly yelled out the bathroom window
Stop it
My bad.
I could see some of the fireworks from there. Wanting to share the experience with dH, I called him in, said to turn out the lights.
Uhhhh, nooooo. I left.
Ever hear of a thundershirt for dogs? Good for thunder and fireworks, it calms them.
You could make your own by cutting a stretchy sleeve off, pulling it on Precious (Not too tight over her chest, back, and tummy). Legs, all 4 go free. One can look it up online.
He may be getting it off tomorrow. I sure hope so. He is so depressed about it. I'm hoping he'll get back to his old self soon. We still haven't received the biopsy results back to see if they got all the cancer. We may find out tomorrow.
And the 2 cats and 2 dogs seem non-plussed by the entire evening.... probably because we watch lots of TV (loudly) and especially all the NCIS, Law and Order, Chicago PD and such. And if not, we have over the counter calming drops that really help.
For all the care givers in CA, please stay safe. I just saw there was another quake at 7.1 in the same area as before....
Some say it feels like that x-ray apron that the dentist puts on you. That has never relaxed me :P
One said it felt like sleeping under a pile of rubble.
One said the pellets inside the blanket can be a bit noisy [that would trigger my OCD especially with the cat walking back and forth on the blanket].
Would have to look it up again to get any facts. They are used for sensory integration, and a calming effect.
Search: Autism weighted blankets.