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1. about 11 hours ago on Arlo and Janis

   I’m hoping their nighttime temperatures are a little cooler than where I am. It’s 3 am and still 82 F here.

2. about 21 hours ago on Arlo and Janis

   We had a stretch where it seemed like our transformer blew every other month when it rained. Just us, and our neighbor on both sides. But you didn’t have to wonder what happened when it happened, sounded like a bomb went off.

3. about 21 hours ago on Arlo and Janis

   If the cell phone is still working, and it appears theirs is, they should check the size of the outage online. And yeah, everyone needs a car adapter for a charger and a battery bank or two. Also, doesn’t their WiFi come with an uninterrupted power supply? Ours is good for about five hours after the power goes out, assuming the outage doesn’t get the local tower which it sometimes does and then we have no cell phone service either.

4. about 21 hours ago on Breaking Cat News

   If you can catch your hawk on another occasion making noise, Merlin should distinguish between those! I didn’t even know red-shouldered hawks were a thing before Merlin identified the call, but that’s what our family are. Those bad old birdies had about a week when they perched right on my songbird feeder and I had to stop feeding so it didn’t turn into the Hawk Buffet!

5. 1 day ago on Breaking Cat News

   Add Tylenol and Metformin to the list. As a runner who has done the July 4th 5k in 106 degree heat, I’m very aware of this! Y’all take care, it’s terrible outside right now.

6. 2 days ago on Luann

   Bain Marie plus paying attention, hollandaise isn’t that hard

7. 2 days ago on Luann

   Honestly I think the sink party looks fun.

8. 3 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   As a diabetic with frequent anemia I notice that many of the meat substitutes have nothing like the nutritional profile of real meat. Plants are not de facto healthier if what you need is complete proteins and heme iron and no carbs.

9. 3 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Memphis has such good water that I was once in a fancy hotel that offered our municipal water in bottles. But my mom’s farm in the country has a well and our water there is hard and unpleasant. The fridge has a filter theoretically but it seems like no one ever manages to change it in a timely fashion so it’s just easier to have bottled water. I do bring a water bottle from home when I can.

10. 4 days ago on Breaking Cat News

    Wonder if there’s a UTI. Those cause confusion in elderly people, and in my mom’s case, also increased falls. A good nurse should be alert to that possibility but for some reason they almost never seem to think of it.

    At least he let you get him up! The problem with my dad in his last days was that he had a slightly tilted sense of balance and thought up was a slightly different direction from reality. So he would try to help you stand him up and be pushing in the wrong direction, which made it much harder!