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Just got my booster shot. I'll get the strong flu shot when it comes in.

The weather is moderate now for this time of year - a few days above freezing are forecast. It's not really bad till it gets around minus 30s though the other day was a shock. I don't think I could handle the very hot weather too well. I mostly stay inside these days when it is really cold. Don't know how I managed working into my 70s and having to deal with snow and ice and the car during the winter. Guess you do what you have to do.
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But.... it's not even cold yet 🤣
(and I live in a warm part of Canada, I'm grateful my ancestors didn't settle on the prairies!)

As for the heat I don't mind a brief heat wave but yeah, anything over 90°F for more than a day or two is too much for me.
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Cwillie, I can not even imagine living in such cold.

We are wearing winter clothes when it is 70°.

Today is 77°, overcast and feels cold.

I suppose our 110° summer days and 98° summer nights would be hard on folks from your neck of the Arctic.
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Wind, power outage alerts.
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It's cloudy today, temps hovering around freezing with drizzle and light rain a possibility and I really don't want to go outside for my walk so I'm bribing myself with the reward of a coffee from Tim's (large dark roast regular please), which will at least keep my right hand warm while I walk home.
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Dinner was hobbled together by dH and I tonight.
Ground Beef with penne pasta, tomato sauce.
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Gershun,
You could get some fly fishing boots...
Glad you are okay!
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Hey Willie, we're okay where we are but we live in a medium rise condo. But in the outlying areas.....man oh man! Horrible damage, flooding, mud slides. The rain has been continuous. Most of October and all of November so far..............RAIN!!!! No human damage that I have heard of. I guess having your home flood out causes mental damage though. Nothing has had the chance to ever get dry. I was saying to hubs that I need to get some heavy duty rain gear if I want to continue my outside walks. The treadmill just doesn't cut it.

Thx for asking Willie!
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Hey Gershun, hope all the people in your life are safe and dry (you too of course). I've been looking at pics and videos and the amount of infrastructure damage is jaw dropping.
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Our U.S. post office had a collection at the curb. (awhile ago).
They failed to pick our bag up.
Nothing was expired, so we took it inside and ate it.
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Today is our local food drive - pack a bag with non perishables, leave it at the curb and the firefighters (with sirens!) and scouts will come along and pick it up. Every year I seem to hear about this after the fact but this year I actually have my bag prepped and ready on time!
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This thread is not over-used, and I would like to continue the topic of itching.
The forum has many threads and comments on itching.

In January 2020, Lealonnie wrote:

"My mother had violent geriatric pruritis (which is what itching in the elderly is referred to). We tried everything to get rid of it; it started under her breasts then moved to her upper thighs, then her back, and wound up all over the place. After trying 10 or so different lotions, potions and pills *Benadryl lotion included* I bought her some Dermoplast which is a spray that has benzocaine in it. Also Lanacaine works well in the same way. Those sprays were the ONLY thing that worked for my mother's itching. One day, the itching magically disappeared, believe it or not."
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Hey, Cwillie!
Here's a neat trick.
Dress up, put on your mask, and go door-to-door to your neighbors handing out candy to them.

The whole world is backwards and upside down now anyway.
(At least in the USA, Lol.)

🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃😈🤣

I hope someone answers the door....
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No one ever came to the door on Halloween, ever!
The community is for over 55 seniors.
Not even their grandchildren went here on Halloween.

Even after a small percentage of non-senior families moved into the neighborhood, and there are now small children, no one comes for candy.
We always turn out the lights anyway, to make sure no one comes.

I just finished making the 'Original Fantasy Fudge' recipe, it's cooling now.
Maybe if y'all ask for the recipe or google it, I won't have to send you some.

I gave out Easter candy Pez this year. Take one turned into taking 3, and asking for more to take to sister...uh, no. I understand, cute spoiled little kids, but no.
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Are you doing Halloween this year?
I get so few kids (a dozen or so) that I was planning to skip it this year, but now I'm feeling like I don't want to disappoint the kids who do make it to my neighbourhood. What do you think, open or closed?
One other consideration - I already ate the candy and would have to buy more...
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Good morning Cwillie!
Every day has been a bad hair day lately.
It grew and grew, and cannot cut it yet because last time I had the scissors in my hand I really messed up dh's haircut. His gray made him look bald in some places.

Once the gray starts to come in, the hair does it's own thing. Even my bangs grew out, and won't be trained to be on the side.

Not used to longer hair. Shoulder length was okay all these years.

Isn't it time for designer masks? For winter?
Very funny about having a hat for your face. You woke up funny?
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Bad hair day Send? I think I've mentioned before - that's what hats are for.
If it's too much hair in all the wrong places wearing masks in public places is kinda like having a hat for your face🤣
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Let's have a redo on hair.
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I wish I had some profound words of wisdom for you. I do know what it feels like to lose someone you love and to feel alone. I get my strength from my faith and good people like the ones on here

Keep posting Mary!
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Feeling sad. My 96 year old wwii vet father died a few weeks ago when I was holding his hand. He was a cantankerous guy but he could be sweet abs funny too. Both him and my didn’t want to leave their house for 60 years but we had to live them to assisted living because it was too hard on them. My issue is my Mom is 84 and has dementia. Not sure what stage but she usually remembers me, but not the grandchildren. I live in another state and am just worried about her. She’s all alone. We had a dysfunctional family and basically the kids took care of the moms emotional needs and my father took care of everything else. No question just feeling sad tonight and feel even though my mom is here that I’ve lost them both. Thanks for just being here.
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I had my covid booster shot yesterday. Pfizer . Wow was my arm sore this morning, and I had a terrible headache for a few hours. A bit tired but that could be because I got it in the arm I sleep on,, ( don;t do this). Ran into a friend who got hers the same time,, same symptoms. At least its done ( for now) and I was much sicker with the 2 original shots
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I just read that Robert Munsch has dementia :(
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CWillie,
These days, just getting out of the house for any reason, I give people kudos!

You are not alone in not finding a connection at church. I have been online for church, and can watch some of my favorite pastors who teach from the bible. The attendees when a church does meet often seem very white-haired.
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I went to real, in person church this morning, the church down the road in the community where I grew up. Oh my, there are so many white haired heads😟.
I always felt more of a connection to the people of my parent's generation (those folks who still sometimes mentioned my childhood with a twinkle in their eye) and now there are very, very few. And those under 40 probably don't even know who I am - if they notice me at all.
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In the U.S., looking back on the events on 9/11, we can reflect on how we have coped with the traumatic losses. September 11, 2021 will be twenty years, a very sad and emotional anniversary date.

Add that to the pandemic years, and recent earthquake and storm losses, I know there are some very stressed out people across the U.S. and the World.

So, I wanted to lift my head up momentarily from my own cares, and give acknowledgement to the heroes of 9/11.

Some of those heroes are the daily caregivers who not only survived these times, but gave their time to make the lives of others better. Thank you caregivers!
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I just want to say how much the site has meant to me while Tony has been away. Alice Springs is not ‘home’, though I have tried to do the right thing about making contacts with people here, and some locals have been kind enough to be in contact with me too. But all of us on the site have been people to ‘talk’ to about real things, important things, and things where I would hope to think I can help a bit. And I can do it even when my difficult back is making things awkward for me to choose other things to do. Now that I have Tony to talk to in the flesh, I realise how much the site contacts have helped.

I am so grateful to all our ‘friends’, and to the moderators who make this all work. I hope that it fills a real need for other people too, as well as just useful advice. Thank you, friends!
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Tony is here! He’s unpacking the truck, and I’m trying to cope with 3 months of mail, including overdue tax stuff (grovel grovel). This morning we went into the hospital for Tony’s overdue eye injection for his wet macula, followed by a walk around the corner for both of us to get our second vaccine jabs (astra zeneca, 3 months between jabs). I went on the wagon for the whole time he was gone, so I’m enjoying both red wine and a husband! I’m so glad he’s here, and so sorry for carers whose spouses aren’t really with them now. Tomorrow Tony faces getting the backhoe (digger) out of the truck without a loading ramp. I will just look away...
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Oh Gershun I hope you both feel better soon! I am home alone ( with 2 small nervous dogs and 21 feral cats,, LOL ) and hubs had to go the the river house for the night as they are calling for the potomac to rise 25 feet !! He got the boats out and will get the dock out tomorrow am, then help the neighbors get thier stuff out. It is always great they all work together. It should not reach the river house but will surely be in the yards.. I called out of work for tomorrow as I can;t leave the dogs home alone in case he is stuck another night, and if the power goes out I have to deal with things here. And Irony,, the whole house generator is due to be finished,,, Thursday... LOL So I guess I can sit in the house and imagine I have power and water... We lose power a good bit and this rain and flooding even here look to be bad, Tornado watches in effect.
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Well, hubby and I both got our second shots yesterday. We are both really ill today. It figures. No way I could be one of the lucky few. Yep.....🤒
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I think it’s hard to know exactly what things are like in other places. The media report extreme ‘newsworthy’ things, and the moderators are not alone in thinking that Covid is political and against the rules for comment. Things have varied a lot across Australia. Since January 2020, I’ve been in South Australia (2 one week lockdowns), and the Northern Territory (1 one week lockdown). Melbournes has had months of it, very very different. Australia did so well in the beginning that the vaccine roll-out was complacent, unlike the brilliant rollout in the USA. Then the Oz eastern states were badly hit with Delta. If we believed the US media, there are millions of lunatics there ignoring the whole thing.

My DH Tony has been in SA for 3 months. He was close to return to me in Alice Springs NT when those truckies went through, so I was hyper-vigilant. And Pt Augusta is an ‘unimportant’ SA town that I’ve just realised could stop virtually all road and rail transport country wide, and that’s a bit unusual. 3000kms Darwin to Adelaide, 4000kms Sydney to Perth, both through Pt Augusta. Tony will be going through it today!!!! Yeah!!!
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