PeaceRiverBP's Chronicles 

From last month's blog:

Sandi; White Rabbit! White Rabbit! White Rabbit!

Thanks for stopping in and I hope you enjoy a lovely August!

Janet; Hello and Happy August! Yes, we are overcast, too- rather foggy, in fact!

I'm wishing for a calm month, as well and I hope it's a lovely one for you and your family. :-)

Have a wonderful day!

Bug; Hello! You're welcome to mess up my blog all you want! (You've always been a wonderfully neat guest!)

Is Bookworm a game? I've never heard of it before but that's no surprise; I'm terribly behind in all the new trends these days. Too busy working- and that's a GOOD thing!

Thanks for stopping in! :-)

Janet; Good morning! Hope you've had a good night's sleep after a busy day, yesterday- it makes perfect sense that even a lot of little stuff can wear you down.

Hope you have a great day! :-)

Bug; Thanks for the link to the game; it looks like an interesting spin on Scrabble. About ten years ago, I used to play a word game where you had to make up as many words as you could from a series of letters but I don't remember what it was called and haven't seen it since I ditched the computer I had back then. (It's funny to think how limited that old computer was- I think that today's Smart Phones have more capacity!)

Hope you're having a wonderful weekend!

Bug; I love word games like Jumble and Cryptogram; they're great brain-teasers! I did my laundry yesterday, as we were threatened with rain today and I need sun to dry my wet wash, but it turns out that it's late and still hasn't arrived, yet.

Sandi; It's been so hot and humid here that I'm actually jealous of your hail! I hope that you get warmer and we get cooler, soon!

Janet; We're waiting for a cool-down, here, too. Although we are not as hot as many places, we have hit low to mid-80's and one day, even reached 88 degrees, but it's been beastly humid- gosh, I can't wait for this humidity to go away. Not only is it uncomfortable, but those of us with curly hair are dealing with what amounts to a tangled tumble-weed on our heads and my hair is near impossible to brush. Oh, well- I guess if that's the worst complaint I have in life, I'm not doing too badly. :-)

I hope your daughter made the journey safe & sound.

We enjoyed a beautiful sunset this evening and as I stepped out onto the deck to take some photos, my fuzzy buddy came out with me. :-)

Karen; The humidity usually comes and goes throughout the summer, but this year has been hotter and more humid than usual. It hasn't been too bad the last few days but I hear it's going to make a return..... nooooo!

I can't wait for fall!

Thanks for stopping in and I hope all is well with you!

Sandi; Hello! Thanks for the cooler/dryer wishes! We're currently getting rain, but that's okay; I've recently heard that our water levels are eleven inches down, so we need these lovely showers. But, I will gladly take the cooler/dryer weather after the rain moves out. This has been an unusually hot, humid, almost rainless summer, and combined with our typical strong winds, it has wrecked havoc on my vegetable garden. My squashes and cucumbers did very poorly. I usually do second plantings of lettuce, beans and other fast growing crops, but this year, I'm trying for a second crop of tomatoes and squash, too.

You've certainly had your share of crazy weather this summer, too! It would have been nice to have some happy-medium between your weather and mine!

Thanks for stopping in! :-)

Bug; Even in the winter, I'll take that season over summer, any day, because summer here is also tourist season and we Cape Codders hide all summer long until it's over!

I woke up to a lovely rainfall this morning- three days of gentle showers in a row! But, that means that I am using the dryer this morning to dry some things... mainly because I accidentally left windows open during a downpour and needed to use some old towels to clean up the puddles and they'd never dry without moldering in this humidity! However, I am drying some lighter things on my indoor clothes drying rack. :-)

Patti; It's nice to see another member of our air-drying sisterhood! Thanks for popping in! :-)

Janet; I'm glad to hear that you had a nice visit with your family- there's nothing like grandkids, is there?

I air-dry year round, too, either on a clothes line or indoors on drying racks.

Bug; Yes, indeed! tourists everywhere! At least I live at the end of a quiet road with a farm next door and conservation area behind me, so I don't have to deal with the crowds unless I go out!

Ooh! Word trivia! Sounds like fun! :-)

Sandi; Good morning! I hope you have no floods in store today.... good grief, you've certainly had all the rain that we've been missing this summer- too much of a good thing for you!

Enjoy your time with your friend & have a great day! :-)

Janet; Yes, grand-dogs are fun, too! Both of my daughters have dogs as well as children and since I live abutting conservation land with hiking/biking/horse trails, they sometimes come over, dogs and all, to hike the trails with me.

I'm hoping that we stay storm-free, too. As it is, our normally strong winds have blown over my tomato cages and plants several times and now I have to keep them wired to the fence to try to keep them upright. Last year's TS Irene managed to trash my vegetable garden, even though I had my cages wired up then, too. I'd sure like to avoid a repeat of that experience!

Hope you're having a great day!

Janet; I had to take my laundry down off the clothesline and hang it on an indoor drying rack while it rained, but the showers soon moved off and within an hour, I had my laundry hanging back outdoors, again!
I do love living in this area; it's perfect for an avid hiker/walker like me. My dog Sammy and I hit the trails almost every day.

Sandi; My pegged laundry has occasionally received a second rinse courtesy of Mother Nature, too! Sometimes those showers pop up before you know it!
I was talking on the phone to my sister who lives in Northern Vermont and she says that a combination of late frosts and too much rain has spoiled their apple harvest, too. They have a small grove of apple trees and there are almost no apples on the trees. Usually, at this point the apples trees are so loaded with fruit that they have to prop up the branches to keep them from snapping off. She's disappointed to think that she'll have to buy bushel's of apples to make her usual fall batches of apple butter, pies, etc. This must be a really tough year for the commercial orchards and farmers.
I hope that Gordon behave himself while he visits!

Just a quick pop in to say hello- will reply to posts soon! :-) Hope you're all having a great day!

Hoo-boy! So busy lately! Good busy, but busy! I'm finally getting back here to post!

Linda; Waving back! I regret to say that we see a HUGE crop of nuts show up here on Cape Cod every summer. Oh- you mean pecans....

Do let me know if you remember the title of the book. :-)

Sandi; What a pretty photo- is that thistle? Hope you had a very happy weekend, too!

Janet; Our squirrels will be hungry, as well. This is the second year in a row that the oak trees have produced a paltry crop of acorns. We have lots of wild grapes, here, too, but so far they are all green. I have seen huge numbers of wild black berries, though and was surprised to see so many ripened on the vine. Normally, the deer and other critters get them before people get a chance to. If I'd been prepared and had a container with me, I would have picked a bunch!

How nice that you were able to enjoy the sunrise. I saw part of the sunrise, but didn't stick around to watch it climb up the morning sky. Hope you had a good Sunday, too!

Sandi; How interesting! I see thistle-like plants here, but now I wonder if they're thistles or teasels (or both?)? With all those bristles, I can see how they would effectively card wool.

Thanks for the information and I hope you're having a great day! :-)

Bug; Since air-drying laundry is one of the easiest ways to save money and energy, I can't believe that more people don't do it; and besides, I love the smell of laundry fresh off the line!

Sandi; I air-dry even in the winter- indoors - and I so miss the scent that laundry acquires after hours in the fresh air and sun!

The latest photos aren't zoomed; the first photos were cropped because my very pleasant neighbors are a bit messy and I was cropping out the odds and ends they had laying on the ground under the feeders. After they cleaned it up, I stopped cropping the pictures. It'll be another month or more before the leaves fall off. Most of the trees are oaks and they take a long time to shed their leaves- some hang on even through our harsh winds until next spring's new greenery pushes them off.

Hope you're having a lovely day!

Sandi; I've scarcely had time to even get my daily view photo up.... but if not for that I would probably have dropped off the end of the (WUBA) earth altogether!

I hope you can look forward to a long, warm, sunny fall after the dreary summer you've had!

Everything is okay here... working, enjoying family and friends.... hiking and walking with Sammy whenever I can.... what more can one ask? :-)

Bug; I've been watching Isaac, too; what a storm! Talk about a cliff-hanger!

Clotheslines are "tacky"? Well, I guess that it will become less tacky as the prices of energy continue to go up. I personally love the scent of air/sun dried clothing; it's much nicer (and more subtle) than smelling the overwhelming aroma of those baked-on perfumy fabric softeners. Some of them make my eyes water.

Yesterday was so windy that my clothesline blew over and luckily, I was able to rescue it as it was leaning, before it hit the ground!