OT: Grand Design & Escape to the Country on Netflix. Yay!
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OT: Burn Bans & Fireworks: Can you? Should you?
Comments (23)Last night while I was out working in the garden before sunset, two or three departments a few miles west of us were dispatched to a grassfire that was caused by fireworks. I didn't hear the call when they dispatched it...I might have been over at the chicken coop locking it up for the night....but I could tell from the stress in their voices that they were racing to get to the fire before it could reach the house. They did it. They did make a special point of telling the dispatcher to write down on the call log that the fire was started by fireworks. I notice they've been doing that all week. I think they want "the powers that be" to understand just how many fires are being started by fireworks even though we do have a burn ban. Yesterday our county commissioners extended our burn ban for another 30 days. Hallelujah! And, in a move I'm not sure they've ever made before, they denied a local charitable/research foundation (one that is greatly admired and respected worldwide) a permit to conduct a prescribed burn. Under Oklahoma law, county commissioners can grant such prescribed burn permits even during burn bans, provided certain conditions are met, and that includes paying firefighers (via a donation to their department) to be on the property during the burn and also they have to agree that if the fire escapes the property and additional firefighters are called to fight it, those departments will be reimbursed for their expenses at FEMA hourly rates. Usually our county commissioners approve the prescribed burn permits for this foundation because it always follows all the rules and rarely if ever has a fire escape from their control. The fact that our commissioners said 'no' to them is a humongous big deal and caught the attention of all the fire departments. I just take it as a sign that our commissioners are as concerned as the rest of us about how dry it is here, and we are not nearly as dry as pretty much everyone else west of I-35. I've linked the upated burn ban page. Yesterday afternoon, when I checked it, there were quite a few more counties that either have enacted a burn ban this week or who have extended an existing ban. I think that currently 46 of our 77 counties have burn bans. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: Burn Ban Page from OFS Website...See MoreBritish TV series "Grands Designs" is now on Netflix
Comments (17)Powermuffin, I did try watching some on youtube. I started with one I found that would have been the first episode, I believe. But the voices were all dubbed with a male voice and it was just weird, lol. I wondered if the host on that early episode was the host on there now, but he looked so young and he had hair! totally different look....See MoreRandom post about HGTV-esque offering from across the pond
Comments (95)I've been watching this show again on DABL, but it is now called "Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb." I also sometimes watch it on YouTube. They are still doing feature walls with bad wallpaper, and often the clients/sellers will refuse to use the paper that Amanda picks out (she has particularly bad taste) and pick a better wallpaper themselves or just paint. I do not like Amanda at all because she can be overbearing and arrogant, but I do like the sellers and buyers. The buyers still often pick none of the three options they are given - much like "Escape to the Country" (which has much better realtors), but there is a prize (I think) for the seller that the buyer likes best, even if they do not buy. Amanda Lamb is 5'-11½" (1.81 meters) tall and often towers over others in the show, especially if she wears heels, but she often wears flats. A show I like better is The Unsellables, with Sofie Allsopp, who is much better put together than Amanda Lamb. I believe it started in Toronto and then moved to England. Sofie is 5'-8", and so she is rather tall also, and she almost always wears extremely high heel - which I like. I always notice her shoes in the shoes, and they are always very nice. Sofie gets a lot of criticism on YouTube, but I mostly disagree with it....See MoreNew Episodes! Grand Design
Comments (26)Grand Design Australia Well, as a first go without Kevin McCloud, it was okay, the home was very cool, like a tent fly over the domicile. Or as DH said, like a stealth bomber. Interesting that one spouse wanted to go totally naturel for climate control, while the other wanted some control over the climate. So, they compromised by planning for it without installing it. They build a large-scale model. How cool is that! Of the most essence, this line: architect, builder, and client share a vision. Of education concern to me, though surely not others: sine curve, notary olio curve. It was lovely, but we didn't see a lot of "them" in it. Nothing personal, decor, etc. but the ceiling was to-die-for. I wonder how it has held up over the past 7 years? Immediately after we watched GD- Britain. The Cave edition. The owner used to live in Australia by coincidence. It reminded us of Santa Fe. edited to say that I don't know what I typed in the line "Of education concern to me" sine curve I meant, but can't remember what I meant by notary olio curve. Autocorrect strikes again, as does too many years since I took geometry. Can anybody tell me what I meant? Maybe I meant parabolic curve?...See Moresheloveslayouts
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