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[flowerbug]

I always thought when I woke up at 3 am, it was to pee. Seems to work sleeping again after so I’m pretty sure I wasn’t sposed to stY up. Besides, it’s about the same time Boone climbs in with us after terrorizing small predators for eyeing the rabids all night.

some people naturally sleep in more than one shift with a wakeup in between. if you avoid bright lights and keep calm and go back to sleep is probably the best thing. pee break sometimes if i drink too much liquids in the evening. otherwise i can usually sleep 5-6hrs before waking up.

this time of the year with the shorter days and lack of sunlight doesn't help either.

the moon was really bright last night. i could have been reading by the reflected light off the snow.

 

[Phaedra]

Woke up at 5, made DH lunch and got back to sleep until 9

 

[peteyfoozer]

 

[Marie2020]

I swear I'm gonna start a thread called, "I am up in the middle of the night! HELLO?!?!? Anybody else?!?!?"

️ Here.

Many nights I have been woken up by people or little miss Nancy Rose for the first couple of weeks.

Then my neighbour came our of hospital on Saturday. He was up and down all night. I was exhausted with being woken up
He's now drinking lots of water and is visiting the bathroom continuously every hour causing my ceiling to creak waking up Nancy and me

The good news is he is so much better, we and he thought he was leaving us. He was so desperately ill.
He has also given up that disgusting smoke habit that stunk out three flats which are all connected.
So to be honest I'll put up with his bathroom disturbances because he's a better man in every way

 

[Marie2020]

I'm worried that my son could be working over a sink hole. He badly twisted his ankle last week because the fresh concrete has cracked again after it had been fleshing laid again.

Coal mining started in UK in 1575 and a lot of land sold over the past hundred plus years seems to have lost the records of where these coal mines actually were.
Health and safety has been called in. I'm awaiting the results but very concerned for the lives of the people working there and especially my family member

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

@Marie2020 I hope you’re not living over a sink hole …there are a lot of them in the State of Florida . The whole state is built over sandstone and sometimes not even known or expected houses are totally devoured by a sink hole. Keep us posted on the results. Coal mining was a huge problem in the UK.
There are videos on you tube of houses falling in huge sink holes.

Sorry about your son’s ankle problems, that type of injury can really set a guy back a few weeks.
Last year I stepped down one step wrong and the first step my ankle went one direction and then I landed on the other foot wrong. Would you believe I broke one ankle and tore the ligaments in the other. Who does that? Yikes . What a clutz.
Sending healing blessings to your son…

 

[Marie2020]

@Marie2020 I hope you’re not living over a sink hole …there are a lot of them in the State of Florida . The whole state is built over sandstone and sometimes not even known or expected houses are totally devoured by a sink hole. Keep us posted on the results. Coal mining was a huge problem in the UK.
There are videos on you tube of houses falling in huge sink holes.

Sorry about your son’s ankle problems, that type of injury can really set a guy back a few weeks.
Last year I stepped down one step wrong and the first step my ankle went one direction and then I landed on the other foot wrong. Would you believe I broke one ankle and tore the ligaments in the other. Who does that? Yikes . What a clutz.
Sending healing blessings to your son…

I seriously hope that your ankles are recovered. The ankle I tore my ligaments in has always remained swollen and a lot weaker than it was before.

This is in my sons work place.
I have come across many places with sinkholes. I once lived in a area where a lot of the road sank.
Thankfully no one was hurt. It was a road just outside a grave yard and near a row if houses. From what I recall a car was taken but no one was inside.

 

[Marie2020]

Maybe there could be a thread for just video about anything.
My prayers go out to all who are in the areas of the horrible California wildfires. The destruction and devastation shown in the images on the news is truly heartbreaking. Hurricanes and Tornadoes are scary but the thought of wildfires is especially terrifying with 60 to 100 mph winds . I pray that everyone in the affected communities and families find peace, love and comfort .

I have added this video into the thread I opened last week. Please ignore the first clip and it will not be seen in most countries.

Documentary and Short Clips Thread

Ex Couple excused of Murder Peterborough UK By online stalker 😏

www.theeasygarden.com

@Shades-of-Oregon @ducks4you @baymule

 

[digitS']

Zucchini bread and Bosc pear. The final cup of of DD's special oolong — you will have to have the Everyday oolong or go for her Black tea which I still haven't tried. I'm not quite holding it off at arm's length but feel the need to pay close attention to steeping time and that is a task that is a little more challenging for a first breakfast.

Perusing the Richter's catalog this morning for tea ingredients. I have bought plenty of plants from the outfit but nothing beyond that. Will need to compare prices. May break down and buy Stevia plants. I notice that they list the Stevia seed as difficult to start. That was certainly my experience.

I bought a couple of Stevia plants from a local garden center once and they barely grew. Suspect that they might have been happier living in the greenhouse but they would be competing for the limited in-ground space with the peppers and I can't crowd all of those in there that I would like to grow. If they could tolerate a more shady, under the bench location, that could easily be made available. One limit of a sunshed – the sun is so high during the Summer that it shades half the greenhouse.

Stevia

PS, Back with the herbal tea and there's more in the kettle . Sky is overcast but it's mostly sky glow from the neighborhood and moon light behind the neighbor's huge garage obscuring every other dang light from the sky.

I saw into our corner of the Universe through a clear, night sky early last night. Full Moon, Venus just incredibly bright. Orion, Taurus, Jupiter ...

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Luv pears this time of year… baked with cinnamon. Easy snack . Usually this time of year would be a break from the constant demands of gardening. Yet I have taken on the chores of cleaning out the under brush and long over hanging large branches of 100’ Doug fir trees that are encroaching onto the pastures from the neighboring forested property.

Using my battery op chain saw I have been out every day cutting down those alder trees that pop up everywhere like weeds and wild blackberries and fir tree seedlings. Oh and those holly trees planted by squirrels everywhere.,
It’s important to keep the forest next door from becoming a fire hazard for my home next summer. Oregon has set new boundaries for my area for fire risk. I don’t get how they have concluded that my property has been labeled moderate to high risk on the newly designed map for summer fire risk ….when a Forrest surrounds the entire property. No one ever clear cuts it, maintains or cleans out the property of wild growth of that property next to us ever. So it becomes those who live next to a high risk forest area to maintain it and in order to protect our property from wildfires in a high risk area. Oh so now it’s also been suggested to clear homes 25’ from any foliage or trees is another order coming down the pike to keep homeowners insurance.

The fires in recent California has resulted in extreme awareness along with climate change and heightened property risk for wildfires. The truth is California has had the high winds thru the mountains for years and this recent wildfire is no surprise or exception. The exact same thing happened in 1962. That wildfires wiped out entire towns and communities . I remember that very well, I was in LA in school when that happened. See ‘Design for Disaster’ , a documentary made about the 1962 wildfire in Ca. On YouTube Tube. A documented ‘Warning’ of the exact same fatal conditions in the same region for decades.

Of course all those drones flying over my property lately has brought about awareness of how Home Owners insurance companies could send out notices of cancelled coverage due to these new maps outlining increased fire risks and due to pics of properties by drones sent to HOME owners . This is the same thing that happened to California . Many insurance companies cancelled and left the state. This has been a growing concern for home owners that have protested the results of this second fire risk map by the state of Oregon. So here we go again now we have to protest the second fire risk map by Oregon. Oh and it’s against the law for insurance companies to raise our premiums using these maps. Mmmm. Yeap let’s start all the paper work all over again which takes away from family time , property maintenance and the joys of life.