Mama Carol

One plus to the rainy days is the break in the heat. We were having heat indices of 101-108 with actual temperatures around 97 or 98, so the upper 70s we have had since Wednesday is a nice break.

We saw a brief bit of sunshine earlier. And a shower. Now it's just cloudy and humid. Hope the forecast down the coast is a little better.

I normally don't mind the rain, as I too have fresh memories of a drought and trying to grow that garden that we depended on. But this rain is interfering with my going to the river to swim! I've not had the opportunity to go swimming whenever I wanted since I was a kid so we make use of that opportunity every day or two. But this rain has raised the level of the river and I'm not comfortable with the new depth of the water. I can generally get out to my shoulders without a problem and be pretty far out in the river. Now the river is up to my knees next to the bank and up to my sho

We have had few thunderstorms but a massive amount of rain. Along the coast--Pensacola Beach, Navarre Beach, Ft. Walton, Destin--has had about 9 inches since Wednesday. We're around 6. To our east--Destin and that area--has actually had more than we have but again, few thunderstorms in it. I'm with you, I love thunderstorms as long as the lightning doesn't get too close. Hey, when you coming to see me, Barbed Wire??

Hopefully the weather along the Gulf Coast will be better this week than it was last week. It has not been pretty here, anywhere along the coast.

We're hoping that once the fog burns off that we will have sunshine, too. Haven't seen much of it this week.

Yep, there are reasons to do it. One should not tolerate a toxic person regardless of the relationship. Our lives have been much less stressful since my mother in law and sister in law (and brother in law when he was still alive) were invited by my husband to take a flying leap off a tall building. In fact, once my husband went through a period of feeling guilty about it, his anxiety improved to the point he no longer needed medication, which he had been on pretty much off and on since we married in 1978. And yes, people judge you. Until they have walked a mile in your shoes, they

How sweet of him!! I am soooooooo ready for the rain to stop. We need it about once a week but not for a week at a time! Now the weather service is saying we may get a tropical storm forming in the next few days. Please, please, please go somewhere else!!! We don't need more rain right now.

We had been in a severe drought until about three weeks ago, having rained once in April and once in May. Middle of June hit and so did the rain. And just the past two days we have gotten close to 7 inches of rain, with some areas of the panhandle getting MORE. The weather forecasters say it's not over yet. There's a system out in the Gulf that is not finished with us just yet. One plus: the high for yesterday was a record low high.

It took me almost two years to get to a normal mental state after I became too "caring" about a friend's mental illness. His mental illness almost drove me insane and I am not talking figuratively, I am talking literally. So, can we care too much? Not really care too much but get too involved in another person's situation that we have no power over.

Could have something to do with the rain.

Don't know if this will work but you might dip them in lemon juice. And are they slightly ripe and not totally green? Once they start ripening, they lose a lot of the tartness.

I know all of you are as sick of this as I am. For crying out loud, this is supposed to be the SUNSHINE state, not the waterlogged state! I have no idea how much rain we have had this week, but places that rarely flood are flooding.

I would leave wherever I was and take my daughter(s) home. I did not stand for any of them misbehaving in public. I think I only had to do it three times, once for each daughter.

The needle sticks have never bothered me. In fact, having my finger stuck bothers me a whole lot more than that 16 gauge needle in my arm. Go figure.

Yeah, for real. Once every 56 days is one thing but try doing that once a week!! FYI, there is a numbing cream available if the needle stick bothers you. I can't remember the name of it right now but members of an online support group I'm on use it (they have to have weekly phlebotomies).

Needles used in blood donations are very large gauge needles. 16 or 17 gauge usually. Needles used in infusions are much smaller gauge, generally 19 or 20. A lot of the marks are due to scar tissue formation. Quite common in blood donors who have dozens of donations. They are more noticeable on some people than on others.

Your post reminds me that I need to get back to my Business and Legal Studies course. We were covering employee relations and human resources when I last was online. Much of what you said in your post is EXACTLY what is said in the course, particularly the part about labor and management needing to work together. Excellent post!! You sound like you've been on both sides of the employer/employee equation.

The ones who are ENTITLED to things are the ones who work for them.

Yep. I've got around 60 of those marks myself.

Me, too. As where my ancestors who met my Irish, German, Scotch and Dutch ancestors when they arrived here.

My thoughts exactly. Well, that and what knockers! And I have seen far worse here at the river. I was not aware that they made bikinis in plus sizes until I moved to Florida. I'm not talking two piece suits, I'm talking itsy bitsy teeny weeny bikinis.

My middle daughter worked at Home Depot for a good while. One of her co-workers tested positive due to having eaten poppy seed dressing the night before. It can and does cause false positives.

Like I said, my husband probably did not say it in a nice way. But the customer likely would not have cared how it was said as he was used to getting things for free. After a couple of years of getting taken, he'd had enough of working for free. It was very out of character for my husband to fly off the handle with anyone like that but the customer just pushed one time too many. And this particular customer, like I said in another post, played a sympathy card every time in order to get work, merchandise and if I remember correctly even food, for free. They were quite capable of paying for

The customer felt my husband was being a jerk because he was used to getting the work for free. Not just from us but from everyone he dealt with. He pulled a sympathy card every time and got tons of work (and merchandise) for free. Nobody had the heart to tell him no until my husband got fed up with him.