How is summer going so far for everyone?....

Will it be memorable to you or not...I remeber one year my next door neighbor gal and I decided to get an really good tan, we went out an laid in the sun using spray bottles to keep us cooled off, came in looking like "Lobsters" ..it all blistered and peeled, such is being an teenager I guess.  One year I decided to try some of the tannning stuff and turned out "orange"...kind of like I was from another planet or something.....these days it would go good with streaks of purple hair maybe, but that went out also. No, I"m just sitting home now...taking care of my garden an lot though...waiting for it to burst in robust color or some such thing.  Kind of watching everyone else come and go to say it mildly this summer. Wouldn't mind going somewhere though..getting to be to house-bound for me. If I even look at hubby he says "Don't spend money!" right now... but he's always been that way. My fellow gal the lobster lady up above one Christmas came over and I could hear them in the bedroom tassling, I went in there and she has her hands in his pocket, and I said..What do you think your doing?...she said "raping him" I said  well go ahead..but tell me the TRUTH in the process will ya?,,she said..I'm collecting for an charity gift..I said, "figures". She got her money though. Brave girl she is! Not much though for all the effort. She always was an rather  gutsey type. Don't see her now though, don't know where she's even at any more. Our kids growing up kind of separated us by the time they got to high school. But anyway..how's  summer going so far? Doing anything memorable?

year of the rain heh..I think everyone would agree that this year and several years prior, our weather has been weird. First time in 35 years my huge Rhododenron didn't bloom..it's like the ground itself is dry. We are losing an lot of huge trees to dryness..old trees,,, that's saying the water tables in the ground are low. Yet when we do get rain an lot of flooding taking place and that's what I'd say in general for everywhere..to much "extreme" and not much balancing out as it should be. We have another three day stint comin up of 90/95/97..then it drops down again. In the past Oregon use to have thudnerstorms nightly when it got past 90 degrees..but this year..No...at least so far. I was reading an article here awhile back that they have taken out so many minerals in earth that the iron/metals use to draw thunderstorms into forming just isn't there to do it. Well, I hope you still have some good times this summer.

lol,

Very, Very Hot and humid but its been nice anyway,, That brings back memories Shirley of tanning until you cant hardly put on any clothes been there we use to tan ontop of our shingled black roof and use baby oil so just imagine how burnt i got being blonde and very faiR skined i could not wear normal clothes for weeks;-)) Hope your doing well;-)))

I care not about the rain, the dark skies nor anything else. This summer has been the best I've had in years! Six weeks off one job, the other one's a doddle and I finish this one for 2 weeks on friday. Sunday is my own special day then the following friday I'm off to NYC!!!!!!

Of course, the baggage handlers at Manchester airport are threatening a strike!!!!  

Why now of all times?

They dont want you to go Babs

Babs you get on that jet and have an good time, ya hear!  I remember the year my girlfriend with her two daughters and my son took off in her motorhome...we were gone from the day after school got out in June that year through the second week of July going from the west coast to Boston, Mass. down to Florida and back to the west coast, came home rested up one week and my son went to an week of Scout camp, He came back and we went to British Columbia, Canada for the World's exposition, in Vancouver..came back and went to the Oregon coast..the beach, my son started school the next week. The entire summer. I had logged enough miles and enough countries by cultural understanding from all these places to have travelled the world...not to mention the history. I'm glad I did it Babs, with my heart ordeal recently, I don't know if I could do it now.  If you can do it..do it and my blessings go to you every inch of the way..Go for it! Your only young once!

Peter tell me about Wales around the year of 1650 to 1700..what were the major cities and Industries..and why would iron workers want to go there? I have them as Quakers also over here, but that may of been for passage to Pennsylvania.I always thought of wales to be more farming type indiustry. Any religous significance they would be there you can think of perhaps?