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Comments (10)Goodness this can't come soon enough. I'm so sick of the 95+ degree heat and super high humidity with dewpoints in the 70s and 80s. This week has not been as bad, at least lower humidity, but still getting up to 95-97. Also at least we had a few days too with very tropical downpours and picked up enough rain to put us back on track for being normal in stead of in the D0 'abnormally dry' conditions as well. They were very tropical in nature too. The kind of downpours with enormous fat half dollar sized drops, and the kind that moved slow. It reminded me of florida because you could hear it coming a block away. It would start at the end of the street and slowly move up. Or start in the back yard and you could watch it. Literally it would be pouring 50 feet away and you would be bone dry and watch the wall of water move slowly towards you. So cool! Hopefully yesterday was the last day for that for a WHILE. The next 5-7 days should be between 82-85 with nights in the mid to upper 60s, and not as oppressive humidity. That would be a pretty incredible stroke of luck for D.C. in August! Last summer and this summer have been two of the hottest on record here, and the humidity has been off the charts. dewpoints in the 80s and nighttime lows in the mid 80s is a bit ridiculous. What is the use in having a nice summer and nice weather if you can't get/ be outside and enjoy it? As some know I was considering a move to Florida, but honestly I think that has now changed. True it is HOTTER here where I live during summer (not by much), and just as humid, but down there its 95-99F every day, with extreme humidity for 6 months on end. I would essentially be trading off what time of year you can't much be outside and honestly, being outside in winter is alot more pleasant. Its easier to warm up than cool off, and if there is snow at least there is something to look at. I dunno, maybe the older I get the harder it is to take the wild temp extremes, but I find it easier to handle 30F and snow, than I do 104F with a heat index of 120 like we had a couple weeks ago. The more I think about it, the more I think I would love a climate like Seattle. That way I can have the best of both world in terms of gardening. I can grow my palms, and my conifers and mostly, BOTH will be happy! Besides the fact it is just simply stunningly beautiful out there. And, yes, palms grow there quite easily. In fact my first ever trip to Vancouver, BC, Canada back in 1998 or so is what got me started in growing palms in the first place. I was simply blown away by seeing palm trees all over the place in a city that far north, and in Canada. The temperate rainforests (Coniferous) out there in the PACNW are incredible too. If you've never been to HOH Rainforest, it is mind blowing how stunning it is!...See MoreHelp! I'm feel like I'm going crazy...long
Comments (55)Ladies may I join you in this discussion? I am a young healthy looking 62. And today is my first visit here after looking up adrenaline I sure understand better now That's what I have going on MY NATURE'S PACE MAKER.working. Adrenaline After a stay in icu heart recently everyone finally agreed i am mot crazy.it was.my heart. The docs installed is a device catch my heart acting badly is a heart tracker like halter monitor. Under my chest muscles on top of my heart. I can cause it record what just happened.. iam write with excitment because your stories are all so familiar. These stories for me begin after mitral valve repair. 7 years ago. Basic problem ..unless the doc sees the heart behaving badly they deny the problem. All this time we never could catch it Last doc said bluntly if we dont see it didnt happen. You must to er Well recent at 230 am it woke me up, just as you have described. I went directly to the er They caught the serious thing! Arrithemia and more then two days in icu. Now meds have slowed my heart from 70 to 52 while docs decide what to do. Last night I realized I was having an adreilin rush. The same rush I went to a neurologist for help. Over a year and half. Often it also affect my skin. Goose bumps crawling feeling all day long! Well have I got news for him.I was not crazy about that either. my gp I visited last month just to say. I know you don't know what is wrong but I still got it. Knows too I sat in neros office two months ago ,,,same thing. I said dr i just want you know ME when I end up in er..and i need you. well it was er straight to icu. Home now with electrical issues. Last last night meds have my average at 52 bpm.it woke me. 2 3 am. I use my tricks to get back to sleep.as soon as felt sleep coming on the stomach feeling spread. It woke me up heart pounding.sweat .out of breath!!! Happened several times . then checked average heart rate on my Garmin. 48. Average 48 so i was probably lower. Maybe 45! My natural pace maker kicked in every time sleep lowered bpm and I was short on air. Natural pace maker? Adrenaline can't wait to see what was recorded on my device Thank you body! Now I think i know what as going on for long time hidden from doc view. Electric shock adrenaline style...See MoreI feel like I'm Moni........!
Comments (7)My daughter thought it was amusing that I guessed Norfolk, since I've never been there and neither has she. The location turned out to be the Intrepid museum at Pier 86, New York Harbor. She was surprised that NYC turned out to be so bicycle-friendly. They did 40 miles in the city. I love her bike adventures!...See MoreDo you feel like your life is better than your parents?
Comments (38)In a way, yes, in other ways, about the same. Financially, about the same. I have a happy marriage with a great DH and we've had quite a few fun adventures together. My parents had a very happy marriage, albeit with less adventure, just way too short. They never had a mortgage on their home and always bough cars with cash. Dad was what I would call a "gentleman farmer" in the sense that he ran the farm and other ancillary operations from an office and Mom, with a fine college education, was a stay at home Mom until Dad died far too young, at 52, leaving Mom a widow at 44. While Mom would have preferred graduate school, instead she stepped in and ran the farm and excelled. She was the first woman on a number of agriculturally related boards and not just local small time ones either. While she enjoyed the challenge, especially in a male dominated world, and loved our small farming town, I also think she was trapped by the circumstances. Her plan was for my brother to take over the farm completely after 8-10 years at which time she planned on going back to graduate school, but my brother never got around to taking over the operations (I don't know any other way to put it, he's smart and knows the land well and will work hard on something that interests him, but he never developed the stick-to-it day to day work ethic). While this was going on, I went to law school and then got my LLM. Mom ran the farm until her seventies, but by that time we rented out all our land. Unfortunately about 8 years ago the farm started going down hill financially, most income was going to debt service, and at the same time Mom was developing AMD. Our banker and accountant realized that that something needed to be done to save the farm and came to me and suggested that we move to professional management. Mom saw that this was the right move, but my brother was resistant although eventually went along with it without a family fallout. That was a tense time, but he liked the bank management/manager and was not cut out of some control especially with marketing the crops, which is his forte,and now agrees that it was a good decision, actually I think it was a relief. We also sold off about 30% of the land, which was enough to retire all debt and pay the capital gains (basis was from the 1930s, so ridiculously low), with a bit to spare. The farm, though smaller, is doing very well, throwing off nice income to the three of us, while retaining a contingency fund, so all is well, and it's still a nice legacy even after selling a bit of the land, it is now a bit over 5000 acres total, cropland and timber. DH and I are both professionals and have had fairly successful careers. I am a lawyer, a partner in a great law firm, and DH is a dentist, who sold his practice when we recently moved. We are both scaling back. I am staying with my firm, working remotely, with regular trips back to the office for a couple of weeks every few months as the need arises. DH lucked into a two day a week job as an independent contractor with a good dental practice in our new location. We will probably continue to work along these lines for another 2-4 years. We have a wonderful, responsible daughter and son-in-law and a precious grandson. I think we will be better off than Mom in our later years, not so much financially because she is in great shape (she also had some money of her own and was a good investor), but because we planned ahead. She had planned to stay in her large house in the small town for the rest of her life. However that became impossible for her to manage. She moved to independent living in the city where I worked last year and now she moved to Colorado with us, living at a wonderful independent living center less than 5 minutes from us and I can go see her everyday. She seems content and loves having me so nearby, but it is hard to move to a new state and town at 86. We built our retirement house, actually a duplex, at 62 with (for) our DD and SIL, near all essential services and making it easy to maintain. As we age it will be easy for our DD to check on us as necessary, just pop over for five minutes and then go back to her regularly scheduled life. But, for now, DD also has a built in babysitter much of the time. If at anytime as we age we need more help than I am willing to ask from our DD, we can easily hire a caregiver for far less than Mom's place costs on a monthly basis and still stay at home (at least if our health is as good as Mom's is right now)....See More
6 years ago
Humidity is only 67% so I think part of the "Real Feel" is due to UV and lack of a breeze.
Kathsgrdn thanked Richard (Vero Beach, Florida)- 6 years ago
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