Category Archives: weather

Apr20

Monday update

Posted on Monday, April 20, 2009 by Dianne

I may be adding to this post later.
Sean feels better-his temp is down to 99. Says he has a slight cough and an ulcer in his mouth-so to me it sounded like he had a virus.
I’m definitely whacked out today from the temp going from 76 to 49 degrees. My sinuses are in a frenzy. I got up and had an immediate sinus drainage induced coughing attack. Ugh. I’m trying to do chores, but I’m definitely feeling funny from the drop in temp. It’s a cool, rainy stitchy kind of day-think that’s what is in store for me.

Apr17

Show & Tell

Posted on Friday, April 17, 2009 by Dianne

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I’m a bit late today-or should I say tonight as I was busy looking at my son’s paper and then I went over to Longwood Gardens for an hour.
So here’s what I’m sharing-these magical Fairyopolis books!

These are gorgeous ‘interactive’ journals based on the Flower Fairies created by Cicely Mary Barker. They span from about 1923 to the 1930s. The first book is Cicely sharing her fairy findings. There are petals of daisies to lift where the fairies have left a barely visible message.

I found this book at B*Js Wholesale, but I found the next book at Bor*ders for only $5.99-I just purchased this one on Tuesday night. It’s just as sweet as the first and the journal of Dulcie,a little girl who wants so badly to see the wee fairies. It also has a special musical pop-up section in the back.

I guess I can lend these to my niece and hope she gives them back. : )
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I went to Longwood Gardens as it was a lovely day for a long walk. I am sore from yard work and just happened upon a path where I had to do a lot of climbing. I saw a part of Longwood I haven’t seen for years-the eye of the water!

After seeing this, I thought I’d have a terrible walk to the entrance, I didn’t! The path wound around and I was so happy. I went in the gift shop and bought these for 50% off:
The sales lady said I could let them wilt and then plant them.

I went down the length of our road and spotted the camel (see the two humps) and she had a baby that was right next to her! I took this shot from the van, in the middle of the road, hence not a good shot:

I have lots of photos to upload!
I may go to a book sale tomorrow in my hometown, if I can get out of bed!
Have a great weekend!

Apr7

Clean as a whistle

Posted on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 by Dianne

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Yippee! Brian’s tummy and colon are good! He had a small polyp removed from his esophagus, but the doctor feels it won’t be a problem. I think if Brian faces his sleep issues, he’ll be like a new person. We got there at 1:30 and the nurse called me in the recovery at 2:45 or so and we left a bit after 3. We even stopped at Wendy’s and he had a grilled chicken sandwich, fries and two frosties!
I guess it’s my turn next…I think he did darn good with the prep-ate lots of broth and had apple juice and lemon ice.
Thanks for all who commented on his well being.
It’s a cold, blustery, almost March like day here-ugh. It’s funny how you notice other forsythia when you have some of your own.

Apr1

No foolin’ day

Posted on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 by Dianne

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Today did not start out very typical and when Brian woke up and came in the family room at 12:45 am and said he was in pain, we decided to take him to the ER. There are a few different hospitals near by, but we went to the one affiliated with the doctor he is seeing tomorrow-good thinking (he can see the results of the tests from the computer right away-in system ). I’m not use to driving at that time in the morning and was scared about deer and wildlife-a few bunnies hip-hopped out of the way. We got there and it was pretty deserted except for the young guy with the dry heaves. They asked Bri the same questions I have asked him for days and then they took blood and a few x-rays. It took forever (it seems) for them to look at the x-rays and he is rather ‘bloated’ so they sent him home with a mix to clean him out. He’s waiting for it to work. So we got to bed about 4:30 am. I think he’ll be scheduled for a certain test every 50 year old is suppose to have.

It’s a typical spring day here with spotty rain and is overcast. A good day for a nap.

Thanks for all your comments of concern, we appreciate them.

Mar2

Window views Nor’Easter March 2, 2009

Posted on Monday, March 2, 2009 by Dianne

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Window views Nor’Easter March 2, 2009, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.

Yes, from the windows. I believe I opened the front door to take this shot. We got about 10″ of the white stuff. Bri got to work fine-it’s only 3 miles away. The only place I worried about was our road leading to the one lane bridge-very downhill.
I do a lot of sorting and a bit of cleaning yesterday. My mom would say I was cleaning out my nest if you understand what I mean. I must have slept in the same weird position for 4 hours as my neck is complaining.
I plan to keep quiet and warm today.

Mar1

A little excursion before the storm

Posted on Sunday, March 1, 2009 by Dianne

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On Friday night, right after I ordered our pizza dinner, Bri called to say his car wouldn’t start and he was still at work. He can come home for lunch and it was fine then. We are lucky he works in the next town, so I ran up there with the van and we tried to jump it-nothing. We later went to a book sale at a local high school, which was junky (they let book buyers come in first and they had box after box of ‘the good stuff’). I just had a few books and one I thought was 85 cents was in fact $5!-the dollar sign looked like an 8! I bought it anyway. We dropped by the parking lot again and the car still wouldn’t start. Bri left a note and we came home. Saturday morning he went up again to wait for the tow truck and didn’t his car turn over! He still had it towed as he didn’t want it to break down on him along our country back road. So now it sits at a service station about 5 miles from here. He just had it serviced a few months ago. I think it’s turning into a ‘nickel and dimer’, and he has the newest car-2000 and mine is a 1996!
A local church had a book sale too and we went to that. It was just before noon and people were just browsing because after the noon hour-it was $1 for a bag! It wasn’t really crowded, but man did the people there grab the bags and go to town. I bought mostly books I could cut up. I grabbed a few novels for my mom and ‘The Secret Garden’ for my niece. I was pleased when Bri found a book on the Vikings as Sean is doing a research paper on them and needs a little more info-what luck was that? So we gave them a little extra money as they were raising money for fire victims. I’m sure the high school book sale made 90% more than them and it’s a wealthy area.
After we hit Burger King, Bri wanted to get his license renewed, so we had to drive 18 miles to the license place in the town where he use to work. There was no wait and the man said Bri hadn’t changed in 4 years, a nice compliment. We drove through the town (some of which was used in the opening credits of the movie ‘Signs’) and ended up near the Herr’s Potato Chip Factory in Nottingham. I believe there is a little zoo there too. We were looking for a Goodwill drop off place. What we found was a big old horse barn-now a Flea Market. We decided to go in, but it wasn’t heated and about 35 degrees in there like it was outside. If it was warmer, I would have dug around more. I did get some pink glass cordials:

an aqua colored small glass rooster (Bri almost insisted I get it-ah)

and some old photos-all for $10. That was fun and I think I’ll go out again. It’s a straight trip on Route one, so hardly any stopping.
We did go to a Goodwill ‘shed’ in Hockessin, DE to drop of several bags of stuff-yeah! I then ran in Tuesday Morning to look around again and didn’t get that much-some papers and a little resin bird. I think I spent about $21 in the places I visited. I feel so frugal!
We are expecting 4-6″ of snow tonight and blizzard conditions. Bri is worried about driving around in our only good car. I said maybe he should wait an hour or so until they clean the roads off good. The road to town is curvy and downhill.
He is still having sleeping issues and tried to get the doctor to give him something and we aren’t sure if he did or not, we missed a private caller call one morning.
I hope all of you are keeping warm this weekend!
By the way, for my stitcher friends, I’m trying to finish up another UFO-will hopefully share it soon.

Feb2

Happy Candlemas Day

Posted on Monday, February 2, 2009 by Dianne

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I love my Old Farmer’s Almanac calendar as it reminded me today it is Candlemas! This is a old Celtic festival celebrating the fact that the days were getting longer and spring was not far off. The little groundhog Phil disagrees as he saw his shadow up in Puxsuatawney, PA.
I’m just rejoining that it is 50 out and sunny. My sinuses are very confused as it was half that temperature a few days ago.
Thanks for all those leaving comments for the One World-One Heart event!
My mom is ill with a bad cold along with the mouth thrush. She has two kinds of medicine and is getting little relief. I feel so bad for her and helpless. I heard plain yogurt is good for swooshing around her mouth.

Now for Manic Monday #153

What’s the most embarrassing song on your iPod (or music collection)?
I love Brick House by the Commodores! It stirs those disco vibes in my bones. : )

How much time do you spend each day in your commute? (Or if you don’t work outside the house, how much time do you spend in your car or other preferred mode of transportation?)
I hardly spend any time in my van. It’s 13 yrs old and only has 91K miles on it. However, my mom lives 23 miles away, so when I go to see her and we go shopping or whatever, I am spending a good 2 hours or more in the car in one day.
What’s your favorite wardrobe item and why?
I love my brown corduroy Bill Blass car coat and even bought another car coat-a pretty lavender one with a chartreuse lining.

Jan28

Hump Day Humor

Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 by Dianne

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I’m trying to be find something funny while it snows and sleets outside. It may make for a lousy commute for Bri. It is suppose to warm up to 40 in the afternoon, so that will help.
Here’s a
Housewife’s National Anthem

My kitchen tis of thee,
Sweet land of misery,
Of thee I sing.
Place where the biscuits died,
That once were mama’s pride!
From every country side,
Let freedom ring!

My kitchen tis of thee,
That took my liberty,
Of thee I sing.
I hate thy heat and steam!
I hate to mop and clean!
I think I’m gonna scream!
Let freedom ring!

Fling aprons to the breeze;
Throw dishtowels in the trees;
Let women sing!
Let frozen food awake;
Let all that eat partake;
Let it their dinner make,
My life prolong.

Our kitchen tis of thee,
Which took our liberty,
At thee we scream!
Long may our pots be bright;
We scrubbed them half a night!
The microwave has saved our life,
It is our King!

Jan20

Music Age Gauge

Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 by Dianne

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Gee, this meme stuff is not that easy. I found this and since it relates to music, I played along here
You said your birthday is 11 / 19 / 1959
which means you are 49 years old and about:

26 years 9 months younger than Yoko Ono, age 75
18 years 6 months younger than Bob Dylan, age 67
16 years 4 months younger than Mick Jagger, age 65
14 years 8 months younger than Eric Clapton, age 63
11 years 8 months younger than James Taylor, age 60 (I added this one)
11 years 6 months younger than Stevie Nicks, age 60
4 years 1 month younger than David Lee Roth, age 53
1 year 3 months younger than Madonna, age 50
2 years 3 months older than Jon Bon Jovi, age 46
7 years 4 months older than Billy Corgan, age 41
10 years 4 months older than Mariah Carey, age 38
14 years 6 months older than Alanis Morissette, age 34
22 years 0 months older than Britney Spears, age 27

and when these songs were topping the charts
and these events occurred your age was:

Big Bad John, Jimmy Dean: 1
Sherry, The 4 Seasons: 2
The Beatles first appear live on The Ed Sullivan Show: 4
Downtown, Petula Clark: 5
The 8 track tape player first offered in 1966 Fords: 5
To Sir with Love, Lulu: 7
Hey Jude, The Beatles: 8
Woodstock Music Festival: 9
Me and Bobby McGee, Janis Joplin: 11
ABC TV premieres In Concert: 13
Time in a Bottle, Jim Croce: 14
I Shot the Sheriff, Eric Clapton: 14
Silly Love Songs, Wings: 16
Elvis Presley Dies: 17
Do Ya Think I’m Sexy, Rod Stewart: 19
Another Brick in the Wall, Pink Floyd: 20
John Lennon is shot to death: 21
MTV makes its debut: 21
Who Can it be Now, Men at Work: 22
The recording of We Are The World: 25
Walk Like an Egyptian, Bangles: 27
Didn’t We Almost have it all, Whitney Houston: 27
Back In The U.S.S.R. is released exclusively in Russia: 29
Nothing Compares 2 U, Sinead O’Connor: 30
Emotions, Mariah Carey: 31
Fleetwood Mac perform at Bill Clinton’s inauguration: 33
The Sign, Ace Of Base: 34
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opens: 35
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We had a few inches of powdery snow yesterday. I went out and got some fresh air and took the little camera around for snaps. As I was uploading my first patch, we had a gorgeous peachy sunset:

I did more basement organizing-the dust is so bad I was coughing with a dust mask on!
I’ll be doing a post on this special day-sure of it!

Dec16

A change in the weather

Posted on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 by Dianne

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Seems like almost everyone in blogland is getting some kind of rain, sleet or snow today. It held off for a while, but the temps are dropping to the 30s. Yesterday it got to 66 degrees! It seems to be bothering my sinuses. Bri says he feels like he has a cold too. I heard general stuffiness all around me in Walgreen’s yesterday. Speaking of Walgreen’s-they have some neat holiday decor-from purple, pink and red/green lights on the string-two for $5 to fun Frosty the Snowman and Peanut comics stand ups. I bought the red and green lights and a set of three light up large Christmas balls then promptly decorated the front edges in anticipation of Sean’s arrival. He got home right when I was wrestling with an outdoor extension cord that was buried under stuff piled in the shed. Bri isn’t one to stack nicely.
Of course I was so happy to see him. He made good time-3 hours, but said the traffic was rough.
Mom has a follow up eye appt today, so I hope she’ll just get rain. We plan to take her to a wholesale club tomorrow or the next day and help her put up her tree. She wasn’t feeling well at all yesterday.
Today I plan to do some gift wrapping. I have almost everything I wanted to get-not a lot this year, but enough. One of Bri’s gifts is on back order, so I may try and find if locally.
Stay warm and dry!
~~Thanks to all who stopped by and looked at my slideshow yesterday~~ I plan to check more out too and leave comments.
~Update-Bri came home and showed me an obituary in the local paper, it was of a teacher from Sean’s elementary school that he had briefly in first grade. She was only 52. I left this condolence-
When we think back on Sean’s time at New Garden, Vicky is definitely a stand-out in our memories. She was so sweet and her niceness was contagious. Sean had her briefly for a teacher, so we always chatted when we saw each other over the years he attended the school and if we ran into her at the store,etc. She touched many lives in a positive way, I’m glad we knew her.