Good Day "36"

Zzzzz, swat, ouch, get off me you little b.......s. Fly off, or I'll fetch in that bloke Brind from the UK. He knows about Pest Control and if you don't believe me take a look at the following site:

http://www.PestControl-Supermarket.com

I've had qutie the day so far...thanks to neighbor...Carol  whom called the city... they came out an helped me with the leaves...it was like an creek running down the street today...because the people with the homes on the acreage have their property tiled to drain into our street.. which was shooting straight out the tile piping today like an fire hydrant...we had some 2 inches of rain from 12 mid-night through today...and with leaves, it was all I could do to keep those drains open, as I fought winds also... but the city did come out...and it was an help...my coat is soaking wet, and I've been through two pairs of socks..and my shoes are soaked...and I was going out to do more battle and who comes in but my three grandkids...no power out there...they callled Grandpa to come an save them..I have the boys here overnight. Checking on my sister also, as they said on the news that an tree went over an car..on an major road through Oregon City and knocked out 7 power poles with it...and those people will be without power for two days before they can repair everything..I just called my sister's apartment house to see if it had power...they said "yes"....Ok..winds clocked at the 2,000 foot level on some ridge over near the coast at 114 MPH...over 6 inches of rain on the coast in the last 24 hours. We had an 3.6 earthquake in Portland this morning and my guess would be that it's most likely because this storm had such low pressure associated with it...but it's clearing out now pretty much...and will be gone by tomarrow. Storms like this are rare ones for the most part...and damage is still coming in from reports....they do an pretty good job these days tracking them.  Will be an sunny and dry day Thanksgiving Day of all things. Waves are real high on the coast also...22 foot swells...Lincoln city had 4.17 inches of rain..Saddle Mt. 6 inches..Forest Grove 3.66 inches and Portland stands at 1.99 inches...Newport Lighthouse (Yiquana Bay)sp? there had winds of 98 mph. These storms are always short lived ones.  Most the rest is street floodings pretty much..small creeks.. It amazes me how many people wouldn't pick up an rake... and go out and save thier neighborhood if they could these days. Anyway..I hope I don't fall alseep tonight watching dancing with the stars. Hope the boys head into bed early also. Talk later on. Have an good evening...and Ron if you had "fish" in your water sources you'd never have mosquitos as they would eat them for food....but so will the birds if you had birdhouses out and around there also.  Even though hubby has his pesitcide liscense we still prefer an "Natural" way to deal with things of this nature if possible. Whcih is why I personally go out every Spring an pick off the leaves on my peach tree that have peach curl on them and then fertilize them heavy...the more healither the tree, the less this stuff takes hold of it. You can also tuck in bird feeders on plates made off old tea cups and saucers in your rose beds to encourage the little birds to eat the aphids off your roses also...you can use the cups for water or for bird food. Just glue them to the saucers and the suacers on an small pole to stick down into the ground and forget about it all..let mother nature balance it all. ..who knows come early Spring you might be seeing wee little birds peeping out of an near by nest by Easter time. Take my word for it..they are cute little dudes. Esp those little bluebirds fluttering around like an bunch of little kids. Off they go before the garden ever gets planted most the time...or the cherries even ripen good. No problem what so ever.

Ok,,,,Now i get to say a good evening to you all,,and a brilliant day tomorrow,,

Tonight's weather calls for increasing darkness,,,followed by scattered light early in the morning,,,

Glad to be of service to my fellow Poe'sters...!

Wish you were here to help out Ron me old mate. Does you special potion reach this far?

At last we had decent weather and had a good game of bowls today.'Hope you all had a good day. Time for a kip now, its been a busy day and another busy one tomorrow. I have to up early to take my Border Collie to the vet for snip. I have got my tennants to agree to keep him here at his home as long he is snipped so its worth it.

Good night

Hi there everyone!  Phew it was nearly 40 degrees C today and I am just about melted, and have big fat swollen feet!  The skin feels so stretched I think it might pop!!

Hope you are all having or have had a fantastic day! 

Wow what a sudden change. It was jolly hot here too. Still hot in fact and I can't sleep because of the heat and the bugs.

Tomorrow will be damp and cool again.

I am not sure which I prefer now.