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Here. Buried at my desk. BBL.

Being a weather station and a weather.com geek, that storm that went thru the northeast... YIKES do they think they're in TX? With the tornadoes, straight line winds, tennis ball sized hail!
Hope JT is OK b/c CT was apparently hit by this "Derecho".

CONNIE I had avocado toast too but I put a poached egg on top of mine. It will hold me until dinner w/o being hungry at all.

ANGIE now that you're both retired, do you have any intention of moving closer to DS and DDIL?

I did my Walmart run. So it's clean and airy and nice and not crowded. But boy do they "encourage" you to check out your own groceries. They had about a dozen self checks but ONE full service check out line. And when you have all this weird stuff like a box of refrigerator wine (I never bought it... it says CHILLABLE RED) but since I don't drink wine, it's for BOB so if it's awful I'm off the hook for drinking it. But of course the checker person has to OK alcohol purchases. It says "is the customer less than 40" and she immediately checked no. WHAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTT you don't think I look less than 40? OK maybe if it said "LESS THAN 70?"

But while there I thought I was going to faint. I got clammy and dizzy. I sat in their easy chairs (they have like a living room set up that you can sit in and have someone shop for you) until I felt better. But it was so hot out there I had to sit in the car w/ the A/C blasting. I think I got overheated but I DEFINITELY got dehydrated. Got home and threw back a Snapple and a glass of Hibiscus tea. I was going to sit out by the pool but I don't think I'll leave this house and the A/C until tonight when I'll try to get in my 8.5K steps.

But it's really hot and awful out there and NO BREEZE. So from CT to TX to WV to IOWA, please be careful out there. Mother Nature's evidently PMSing.
Also GA if LOUISE is out there!!

Hey all. Hope everyone is well. I can't believe the pictures I'm seeing of areas here in CT after the storm yesterday. Just about a 1/4 of a mile south of my house, there are trees down blocking roads. When I went to bed last night, I heard chain saws and couldn't figure out why. We only had a few branches down, so I was shocked to see roads completely blocked. Take a look at some of the pictures if your interested.
www.nbcconnecticut.com/

It will be months for the cleanup for some of these areas. Fortunately, we only had 2 deaths, but 2 deaths too many. Schools were closed today and again tomorrow. They said a macroburst came through in one area and they are still looking at other areas. They also said there was a meteo tsunami in Long Island Sound. Very unusual weather.

So Celeste, what got you so overheated and dehydrated today? Hope you are feeling better.

Angie, hope you had a safe trip home today.

Connie, don't work too hard tonight.

Waving to everyone else. Happy Thursday.

JT

BECKY do you do walk away the pounds or something? No way I can walk around my 1700 SF house that much. I get DIZZY LOL
I think I'll buy frosty paws for myself, and take a bath in it.

When I was at WM I was inside when I started to feel yuck, but I'd spent a lot of time walking around the garden center there looking for potting soil and vegetable garden food. Found plenty of the 1st and none of the 2nd. And it was HOT out there w/ no A/C and no breeze. I drank like crazy when I got home and felt so much better. I tend to have coffee in the AM (which has a bit of a diuretic effect AND I take my diuretic in the AM) so I have to work harder at avoiding dehydration when it's this hot.

WOW JT we were thinking of you. That Brookfield Farm is like a PANCAKE. Looks like it collapsed in on itself. Sounds like mostly you dodged a bullet.
I think on my dehydration I just don't pay enough attention to keeping my fluid levels up in this heat. I sweat like crazy when it's this hot and humid, my diuretic really WORKS too.

SO I submitted my purchase agreement on my little house as per the Rapid Review and got what seemed to me like a very snippy reply this evening (though maybe I'm reading something in to it so I'd welcome feedback). This is what she said (copy and paste the ENTIRE communication from her):

"I would like to know how you were able to get a price lower then multiple other home the same square footage as yours.
Kacie Stogdill, RPA"

I said, I believed there was some mistake somewhere, b/c I did NOT pay any less than anyone else per square foot. I paid what Del Webb says I had to pay. And as I said, this same little house right now is $253,999 BRAND NEWLY BUILT, NOT $289,000 like the appraiser seems to think. I am guessing that perhaps the tax records have the wrong square footage for my house??? UGGHHH why can't life be easy? But if I don't get it straightened out this year, each year I'll be paying for more square footage than I actually have.
I sent her a link and screen shot for the CURRENT price for the model I bought. I also sent her my closing statement from the escrow company. Snippy bitch. I wonder if she's related to Mr. WhataBOOGER @ the SS administration.

Still here. Still tired. Going to bed. Good night.