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The problem with being extinct is that some idiot will dig us up in a million years or so. I don't fancy being dug up by a giant intelligent cockroach. You often hear of archeologists looking for a missing link all their lives. Perhaps the missing links believed in cremation. We have a steamy evening with light showers. It is supposed to rain tomorrow. They had pictures on the news of dry floods where the rain has fallen a hundred kilometres away and suddenly water flows down the dry river bed, spooky to watch. Ron.
 
@Ron and Mandy, would be just my luck if I was dug up and they cloned me. Omg, the whole thought! They had better know how to eradicate Crohn's by then.

Bucketing down. Neighbour has snowdrops and I've got crocus and daffs almost out. Still got the one fuchsia hanging on in there.
 
8c rain and wind all night,and this morning.A little gap gave us enough time to walk down to the market ,and back through the park over the road.Raining again now.
Bought a Bill Bryson book I haven't read.He's so funny.Also some Chai tea chocolate and loose leaf tea.
 
Spooky1 said:
Welcome, Bufford,
minus 20. Mind your description sounds great. I wonder why your crohns goes into remission during winter. Maybe it is salad stuffs in summer. I'm intrigued. Do let us know as we'd all want to go into remission. We'll have to follow winter around the world, methinks.
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This forum is a busy place! I go away for a few days and I see there are a lot of us here. The reason for my remissions during the winter months has me thinking that it could be due to a reduction of allergens in the air. Other factors might be insect bites as biting flies of all kinds are plenty here in summer. Perhaps it is the moderate exercise from cross country skiing, feeding my wood furnace as I use wood as my primary heat source. Or it could be the nice long evenings we have during winter months that reduce stress. I don't like the long daylight hours of summer.

On another note I started Remicade and had my second infusion a week and a half ago and the side effects are miserable at best. My blood pressure has gone way up, abdominal pain, and the right side fistula inside the rectum has been soar. Going to start a thread about it in the Remicade support forum.
Aside from that it looks like another good winter day to be outside.
 
mandyk said:
Haha i feel old enough to be extinct most days.. 53 n feel 153 😨
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Spooky1 said:
Same as me then. Maybe it's just not good to be 53 lol.
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No wonder my health has been failing me! I'm 54, 55 in just a few days.:eek2: Feel like I'm already dead and buried for how much I am able to get done. :confused2:
It might actually get up to freezing today, but the sun is out.
 
Cloudy with some drizzle this morning. Temps in the high twenties. rain in south West Qld. For some three year olds it is the first time in their lives that they have seen real rain. Death by irony, a Victorian man is believed drowned when his car was swept off a flooded causeway I didn't know they had heavy rain and the fire is still burning on the sw coast.
New research into blood pressure suggests that I am in more danger of a stroke from fluctuating blood pressure than straight high blood pressure. Good to know. I wonder how much high blood pressure is related to reading research about blood pressure. 130/105 this morning , even when it's low it's high. Back to work today, rats. Ron.
 
When it rains out west it rains. They got over four inches in a day and with that combining with the runoff from further north there are quite a few towns out near Quilpie cut off. They can be cut off for weeks at a time , as long as the pub has beer there is not many complaints. If anyone ever wants to see the desert transform the next couple of months is the time to visit the south west of Qld particularly if lake eyre fills. Humid day here . Some showers but no rain to speak of. They say we might get 40mm tomorrow but I will believe that when I see it. First day back at work was dull colourless and boring. Ron.
 
We were supposed to have some rain today but there was no sign of it. It is still very dry here; fortunately the temperatures are only in the mid-twenties but we need rain to put out the fires that are still burning.
 
ron50 said:
When it rains out west it rains. They got over four inches in a day and with that combining with the runoff from further north there are quite a few towns out near Quilpie cut off. They can be cut off for weeks at a time , as long as the pub has beer there is not many complaints. If anyone ever wants to see the desert transform the next couple of months is the time to visit the south west of Qld particularly if lake eyre fills. Humid day here . Some showers but no rain to speak of. They say we might get 40mm tomorrow but I will believe that when I see it. First day back at work was dull colourless and boring. Ron.
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We regularly watch Outback Truckers Ron,and see all the extremes of Aussie weather.Just now I'm watching Ice Road truckers,but you know what weather to expect with that one. Having said that they're worrying about rising temps and melting ice today.:eek2:
 
Wrong again ,steady soaking rain all night. All of the folk relying on tanks will be happy. Sorry you are missing out on the rain Susan you need at lest 50 mm of good steady rain to put out the fires in the remote ares, I hope you get it before the heat returns. I finally had my Christmas turducken roast last night, at Christmas I opted for roast duck instead. I love duck but it is very rich. The turducken is probably the nicest roast fowl that I have tried ,definitely on my menu next Christmas , assuming I make next Christmas . Ron.
 
Now Ron u better make it to next xmas, as the party is at yours next year by the way. 😃 glad u enjoyed the turducken mate. 💕
45f n damp
 
Yippy Skippy! Tomorrow we should make it above the freezing mark. And Carol, we used to watch Ice Road Truckers, but got bored with it, as we watched it too much. I don't think Doug will ever get bored with NCIS though.~~~Sigh~~~
 
well we have had around 30mmand it is still raining. Bad day at work . had painful palpitations then this afternoon hot flushes. Not feeling good at all. Tomorrow is another day. Ron.
 
7c but very,very wet.I don't think it's stopped raining for 24hrs,and then for only a short time.......But I'm NOT complaining,honest.
 
Well it has here Carol. I woke to a clear sunny morning. The low that caused ou r rain has slipped out to the south east and is drowning northern NSW now . We are expecting 31c today and high humidity . I hope my ectopic heart beats settle down today . It is a very unpleasant feeling when your heart is firing from ventricles and atrium. I saw the heart specialist late last year. He does not want to see me again . He said if it hasn't killed me yet it probably won't. I don't know why I bother with specialists. I can get the same dumb answers from GP's at far less cost. Ron.
 
You would probably get more sense n compassion from the out house wall than from doctors these days Ron. They dont give a flying shite for us n how we feel. My gi is very good but still i feel our care should be monitored far more often. Even when we report no major symptoms they should check for active inflamation any how as we can be asymptomatic. Anyhow whine over.. 😃 as this is the weather site ... oh sod it what the heck, we can moan anywhere cant we 😕
 
I wish all doctors could experience what we go through for half a day, thinking they would have to live with the life long ailments we have forever, but then take it away. Perhaps more empathy then. . . (And I don't care if I am griping.)
As for the weather, it is overcast and expecting scattered rain and/or snow tomorrow. Some areas very close to us had freezing rain today, but we managed to escape that (so far).
 
23c this morning will be going to 37c today heat wave expected to last till friday. Ron i cant believe that a doctor told you that, does not work like that. Hugs to all
 
Anything over 35 is way unpleasant Christi I think Melbourne is expecting 37 today as well. We only reached 31 but with the wet ground it is like living in a sauna. My docs can't help me my neph thinks the chemo I had eroded my internal electrics and that I have neurological problems that just can't be fixed. My problem is I don't follow the plot , I was only given around three years when I had cancer. I'm out to seventeen now and things have begun to stop working . That's life but nothing says I have to go quietly. 28c tomorrow and a pleasant day forecast... Ron.
 
Yes ron just horrible this heat the cold water tap is so hot you can take a bath in it , Ron thats just so horrible that no one can help you , no you have to keep fighting and show them wrong. Ron prayers and support your way. They say 38c for tomorrow
 
When I said the low was drowning NSW I didn't mean it literally but some areas have had over 300mm in 24 hrs and there have been mass evacuations and rescues. there are believed to be people missing but so far none confirmed. What a screwed up country , last week half of it was on fire now four states are flooded, who would be a forecaster. We got to 32c today but steamy with it. I have a little weather station on my puter table. My flat gets the afternoon sun, at 10pm I still have 33c and 63% humidity. I would go to bed but it would be a waste of time. I am taking the next four days off to try and get my system back in order, faint hope. Ron.
 
Still raining and temps are gradually dropping but still a tad higher than they ought to be.
RON
Had some photos from our son this morning.They are presently in Albany and tomorrow they're going to Frenchmen Bay whaling station.I'm assuming it's now a museum.I will google it later.He didn't mention the weather so it must be OK,and the pics look normal
 
Don't quite know what normal is anymore carol. Wa weather seems good at the moment. They found everyone in the hunter region . The flood peak has passed but it was still raining last night and they were warning people to stay safe and evacuate sooner than later. there are quite a few people cut off and isolated (around 300) but they are ok and have food and clean water. 29c here today . Still steamy but not a bad as yesterday.

There are a lot of old whaling stations in Australia. Happily the last was closed in around 1960. That was at Tangalooma on Moreton Island. Since they have closed we see thousands of humpbacks swimming up west and east coasts every year. They are worth far more as a tourist attraction than they ever were as a resource. People can be so stupid at times. When you see wild whales you just cannot imagine the arrogance of anyone who thinks it is their right to kill something so magnificent. Ron.
 
Carol I checked the wa conditions because I did not really know what was happening. It is feral. The temp is 39c and there is a massive fire to the south of Perth. The road to Bunbury is cut and they do not know for how long as one of the bridges has been damaged. It was started by lightning . Thousands of power poles have been destroyed so there is not a lot of power getting thru. There are fears for some of the dairy farms in the area. They know farms sheds are lost but because of evacs they cannot confirm the loss of farms. It is a huge fire and combined with the heat and high winds it is causing a lot of concern. Ron.
 
Am out of hospital and have my peg back in so nutritionally I should be better off again.

The sun is trying to come out at the moment. I'm still putting bulbs in tubs that I didn't yet put in and I have two rose buds that are tiny but growing. The daffs are coming out too. Hoggies still eating though its supposed to get colder next week. Has been good weather so far here in Northamptonshire.

Good luck to all in Aus. Hope your son is safe Carol.
 
ron50 said:
Carol I checked the wa conditions because I did not really know what was happening. It is feral. The temp is 39c and there is a massive fire to the south of Perth. The road to Bunbury is cut and they do not know for how long as one of the bridges has been damaged. It was started by lightning . Thousands of power poles have been destroyed so there is not a lot of power getting thru. There are fears for some of the dairy farms in the area. They know farms sheds are lost but because of evacs they cannot confirm the loss of farms. It is a huge fire and combined with the heat and high winds it is causing a lot of concern. Ron.
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Thanks Ron.Like I said Scott is in Albany ,which ,looking at the map IS south of Perth.He is heading back to Kalgoorlie in a day or two.We can only hope he is sensible and checks his route before he leaves.
I agree totally with your opinions re; whaling.We went whale watching when there and I was so emotional I couldn't speak.Same with dolphins. Wow !!!
 
34°f here, in the heat of the day. Diane, this is our version of gardening... (and glad you are out of the hospital too.:hug:)
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Quite a cool day here in Melbourne. 23C

95 properties lost in West Australia around Yarloop. The fires closer to Perth than Albany.
 
Conditions have worsened in WA ,the number of properties lost has risen to 121. Two bodies have been found in one of the burned out houses in Yarloop. Both were thought to be males in their seventies. The fires are out of control and more houses and lives are at risk. Conditions are better on the east coast with temps in the high 20'sc. I have been trying to get some rest but the steamy weather makes sleeping difficult....Ron.
 
Scott is back in Perth,thank goodness.There were only 2 roads he could have taken from Albany,one closed before he reached it,and the other closed just as he left it. He could of had a 7ooo mile detour.He's going back to Kalgoorlie tomorrow.Once he gets through the suburbs ,he hits the desert with no trees,so will be OK.He says that although it's hotter in KALG. it's a dry heat,but the humidity in Perth is unbearable.

Here it's day 8 of rain. I read in todays paper that a village in Wales has had 75 days of continuous rain.Luckily they're up a mountain,so no floods,but both the pubs have shut,so the 700 residents are wet and dry.
 
House loss in wa up to128 now the town of Yarloop has virtually been wiped out. They are not sure if it will be rebuilt. The cleanup will be enormous as most of the homes contained asbestos cement panels and is very dangerous to deal with. Around sixty NSW fire fighters are heading to the west to give the local guys and girls a much needed rest. I'm glad your son is ok Carol. Welsh pubs shut!!!! Living death for 700 Welshmen. Well that is what the headline would have said in Australia. We continue to melt with hot steamy conditions. On the coast it is not so bad because of the sea breeze every day but it does not reach the hinterland and some days you feel like you are drowning just breathing. Ron.
 
Still cold, but dealing with our typical Utah winter inversion (where even colder upper air holds warmer air and pollution in, even if still too cold). Definitely not muggy air here, just thick for those of us with asthma.
 
Hugs Sandy I grew up with my mother and brother as chronic asthmatics. I was dxed as acute a few years ago. The worst thing for me is really cold air. We used to have a bait and tackle shop with a walk in freezer. Everytime I went in there I would get asthma. Now I use symbicort turbohaler every morning and ventolin every night before bed. I don't have much trouble with extreme cold any more (wish I did) but I suffer with the damp weather when the house gets mouldy. It is good weather for mould here now , high 20's every day and high humidity. I guess it is the same for you Christi , what falls as rain today rises from the ground as humidity tomorrow. Hugs to all Ron.
 
Son back safe to Kalgoorlie. 6c here and chill breeze.Had a walk along the river and back through the local park.Lots of walkers and cyclists out,I expect they've been going stir crazy after a week+ of rain
 
Not so cold today, but showery with the sun occasionally coming through. The sky was looking like it would make a good water colour painting.

So sad for those losing their homes in WA.
 
4C and cloudy. About 25mm (1 in) of rain and high winds (75 km/h) winds on the way tonight. We are lucky it isn't snow or we would be in for quite a storm. After the rain, the temperatures are forecast to drop below freezing.
 
Bad night , had the upstairs moggy sitting under the front of the unit playing air raid sirens half the night. Don't know what the problem was , she was still at it after first light. I went outside to see what she was on about. Nothing in sight . Expected to see another cat but it may have been a snake as we often get them . warm humid night again and expecting a clear humid day. At least the school kids have had perfect holiday weather this year. I suspect that there would have been quite a few cases of sunburn. Ron.
 
Well air raid sirens is different Ron. The moggies round here sound like a load of babies crying for England 😿 oh n when they do the one like screaming.. i think someones being murdered on my street,scares the shite outa me!!
36f dry at mo..☺
 
30°F and still smoggy. Ron, my first big asthma attack was while outside in extreme cold shoveling snow. (Didn't have asthma as a kid, although had extreme exzema, also in allergy family.) Thought I was going to die. Took several trips to the ER that year until they wouldn't let me go home without my own nebulizer. Fortunately, my asthma has been fairly well under control for the last year with a preventative inhaler and only use the emergency one occasionally. Ironically it got a lot better after pulmonary emboli last year and several months of being on oxygen. But this air has had me use it a couple times this week. Ok, I'm complaining again (been a bad week all the way around).
Small chance of snow tomorrow. Might have sunshine in a couple days. Yay!
Here's to good weather and health for all this year.:beerchug: (mine is rootbeer as I don't drink)
 
Well gecko (the cat) and I had words this morning about her unruly behaviour and the fact that I could find no antagonist. She looked properly shame faced after the dressing down I gave her, Stupid cat! Sandy I would rather have nothing to do with asthma particularly the acute variety. I had a bad attack at home alone one night years ago I was nearly out for the count. I finished up bleeding oxygen from my oxcy aceteline kit into a plastic bag and breathing that. It sorted me out but after that I always carried ventolin. When I was in hospital a couple of years back one of the doctors kept putting the spirometer on me. He asked about asthma and I said I don't get it very often anymore. He just said you've got it now and it is severe. We are sending you home with a preventer as well as a spacer for the ventolin. So now I use preventer and ventolin every day. Very hot and humid today, 32c ,it is knocking me about . I have an anniversary on the 22nd Jan. In 1998 22nd jan I had a lump of my colon and 13 lymph nodes removed for stage 3 c colon cancer into six nodes, That will end year eighteen of survival , start year nineteen. Will I make year 20. Who knows? Ron.I wish summer would end!
 
Of course you'll reach 20th Ron.I believe you're tougher than you think.Anyone who can live with the weather conditions and the health problems you have,and have had,has got to be one hard nosed dude.

Hard frost early on,then fog and 2c now the sun's shining.
 
Weather not too bad here, wet but again not too cold.

I'm glad I don't have snakes to antagonize my moggies. There is apparently a 'killer cat' around. He has caused people to fork out so much at the vets and some have died. If ever I see him I glare at him and chased him off. Perhaps I should get a guard snake, not sure my moggs would like it though.
 
Its 38f here cold n damp. Id like to hibernate over winter. If i can come back after i die id like to be an animal that hibernates.🐁 nearest i could find to a doremouse i think they cute just like me 😆
 
I love moggies Di , at one stage we had three different varieties of Siamese a small mottled brown terror who I loved the most and a banged up tabby who was run over as a kitten and affectionately known as Billy bumhole. He thought he was the worlds greatest fighter but had to be rescued more often than a two year old in the surf. Wonderful memories. Very hot and steamy overnight , getting tired of saying that, but the days are getting shorter again so perhaps it won't be too long before it is slightly cooler again. The way it is going over in Britain this could well be the winter you never had, Ron.
 
@Ron, you really make me laugh with your humour. I love the descriptions of Billy bumhole. How kind people are to rescue him from his apparent heroics.

Today I am awaiting my first bought hedgehog hibernation house. Bit late I think, but I shall put bedding and a pet fleece (it's a squared blanket sort, not the type you put on. Hedgies be thankful for that) in there and see what happens.

Gave 'Little (big) David' his first live mealworms last night. He bit me accidently too when getting them out my fingers. Loved them I think. I must say I was squirming when I first got them off the shelf in the pet store and saw how the worms squirmed in their dust, but I got over that. David will have to look for livestock when he's released.

Windy here, still not overly cold and the sun is trying to come through.

I've noticed the days getting lighter myself, Ron. I always start in January to mark on my calendar every Sunday exactly what time it becomes dark. I see the days getting longer also by the time I have to drawer the curtains.
 
It was hot as today. Nothing like 32c and hot flushes. I never know what to blame , temp, humidity or hormones. I see my doc in the morning , almost to halfway in my journey off oxycodone. I am so over it but even now if I am late with a dose I feel it so I will hang in a while longer. 33c tomorrow , blech. Ron.
 
It's been brave of you, Ron. Well done on the half way point. That's a brilliant achievement. Must actually be hard work what with ill feelings fro the weather. Not sure I could cope with weather extremes affecting me and the withdrawals. Good luck with the latter half. Hope it gets easier for you.
 
-26C this morning. I had to get up to add more wood to the furnace in the middle of the night. Being a colostomy patient I use an outhouse to better manage sanitation, and I'll say there is nothing nicer than standing at the outhouse in this polar air with the warmth of the sun on my back. It almost guarantees a good BM.

This afternoon I will go for my cross country ski up the frozen bogs. I am not going to go so far today as I have dull aching pain in my right leg riddled with arthritis.
I enjoy winter as my Crohn's is usually in remission with fewer allergies.
 
Wow !!! -26 ? We in the UK whinge when it's -1c. But it's got to be far healthier than the current heat in other parts of the world.
 
Its a dry cold and it feels wonderful. I can step out for short periods with only a housecoat as I do for firewood and outhouse visits. On the other hand we do get a lot of damp cold and at the freezing point it feels much colder and a life sucking kind of cold.
 
Air still thick with smoggy haze from inversion, but expect that to change in a couple days. So glad you got some some rain Christi! Nothing like living in a desert. Now if we could average the prepcip out with Ron (minus the fires, which you are correct Ron, we get our share of wild fires but have good emergency responders that are generally able to stop things before much personal property or lives threatened.) We are blessed here, but I still complain.
 
Some of the southern states are on high fire alert again today with temps in the high thirtys. You would wonder how it gets so hot in the south but when the winds come from the north you get the heat from all of the red centre of Australia and they are hot and dry. Most of the vegetation in Australia is very high in flammable oils like the eucalypts and tee trees. In the heat they pour the oils into the atmosphere and the soil. When the fires come they just about turn the air flammable. In the shots of Australian fires the flames seem to go way above the tree tops. The good side to the oils is when it rains the oil in the soil goes into the rivers and is the stimulant for the native fish species to spawn. Very hot this morning , going to be a stinker of a day. Thanks Diane I will be glad to be of oxy, the drug hit the local news yesterday , some fool was arrested for giving his two month old baby a tablet of oxycontin to stop her crying, they were able to save her but hell what was he thinking.:(:(:( Ron.
 
41/42º predicted down our way today. Fortunately, the winds are predicted to be 'fresh' rather than 'strong' as the fires in the Otway Ranges, along the Great Ocean Road, are still burning. Inevitably there will be new fires starting up - some man-made, either through carelessness or deliberately - as the vegetation is very dry.

Some of the worst problems occur when the cool change comes, often with a strong wind change, and the fire heads off in a different direction.
 
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