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[Margo]

You're both right, this is something I could without. Luckily for me it just an inconsistency, or a series of inconveniences lol

[Margo]

Rus, you are right about the dark web too but from all the spam I get I'm pretty sure I've been on there for a while ;-)

[Sarah]

I hadn't heard of the security breach Margo. We've had some mention here in the UK of the NHS actually selling off our data to third parties. No idea what for. Pretty crazy!

[Saar The Book owl]

Aw, Margo, that's something you can really miss!

[Margo]

Sarah wrote: "I hadn't heard of the security breach Margo. We've had some mention here in the UK of the NHS actually selling off our data to third parties. No idea what for. Pretty crazy!"

Aw Sarah, that's terribly and surely against the data protection laws?

[Cherie]

Several years ago, we took walkie talkies and two cars on our road trip to California and back. It was great until I failed to put one of them on the charger correctly. My girls just stuck their arms out the window and used sign language when communication was needed that day. They really are fun, when they work. Today, we would have a charger with a transformer in the car for them. ;o)

Our car trips are determined by the distance/driving time and how many drivers are in the car. We can do a 8 or 9 hour drive, there and back, in one day, if two of us are driving, but the same trip requires an overnight stop if there is only one driver. I plan on a day driving down to my sister's house and a day to drive back, but it is really only a 4.5 to 5 hr drive. I typically stop at the rest areas once or twice and one stop for gas. In my youth, I drove 16 hrs straight from Los Angles, CA to Grants Pass, OR. but I could not do it today. It would be a two day trip. On my last sabbatical, my sister and I were in the car driving for at least 8 hrs a day. We stopped over night every day. It took 5 days to get to Tennessee from Oregon. The last day was a much longer drive, but we also made lots of stop along the way.

[Margo]

W9w, I can't imagine driving for 16 hours solid! If I did that, in any direction, I'd be mostly in the sea 😅

[Peggy]

Hahahaha!

I'm only the passenger but I'm fed up with it after 2 hours. After 6 hours I get really annoyed, especially when it's just driving on highways to get from A to B. It's different when we're in a car for 4 hours but it's split up in 4 1-hour parts with hikes or sights in between,

[Marnie]

My son just drove 35 hours from Spokane Washington to Nashville Tennessee. Took him 3 days. That is a long drive. I have driven across the U.S. a couple times when I was younger but now that kind of drive would wipe me out.

When he has to drive home in July, my husband will drive it with him. I volunteered him :)

[Peggy]

Now that is a long drive! At least it's worth it when he can stay for at least a month. I think it's good that you volunteered your husband for the way back ;-)

[Marnie]

Well he flew back to Spokane the day after he arrived. He was driving my DIL down. She has a summer fellowship there and needed her car. She is pregnant and in two months will be far enough along that that drive back would be too uncomfortable. So my husband is doing his first official Grandpa duty. Side note: I will be a grandma this Fall!!

[Roz]

All this talk about road trips makes me want to go on one soon. When the kids were little we would take a couple each year. One was always to Toronto to visit my family. 11 hours, 2 little boys and my husband driving. My kids would probably say the best part was getting up at 4 am, being carried to the car in their pajamas, with blankets, pillows and stuffed animals. They'd sleep for a few hours then change in the car before stopping for breakfast. During trips there were always games and gifts to unpack (I'd wrap up little gifts like baseball cards, travel games, new games for their Gameboys, activity/coloring books, Mad Libs). It made the trips fun. I don't think I could do a long trip like that in one day anymore. Next trip will mean 6 hrs / day.

Early congratulations on becoming a grandma, Marnie.

[Peggy]

Congrats Marnie!!

[Kristie, Moderator]

Wow, Marnie, that is a lot. I'll be flying up to pick up G in a couple of weeks. Craig will drive up to meet us on Saturday and drive us home on Sunday. Overall, it will be about a 26 hour trip for him in two days. I can't imagine adding another day to that. Congrats on becoming a grandma! That's so exciting!

[Esther]

In my previous life, I worked in Thunder bay for a few years, And in the multiple time I did the 17 (or was it 19) hours drive I found out that the more I stopped the more tired I got. And I also discovered audiobook (on tape back then). thanks god for them.

Then, I took a job in Arizona, close to the Californian border. That was a 55 hours trip. I did it alone in 31/2 days.

Sometime I miss moving around so much, but I sure do not miss the long drives.

[Sandra, Moderator]

Marnie wrote: "Side note: I will be a grandma this Fall!! "

Congrats, Marnie!

[Esther]

Marnie wrote: " I will be a grandma this Fall!!."

Congrats!

[Margo]

Marnie wrote: "Well he flew back to Spokane the day after he arrived. He was driving my DIL down. She has a summer fellowship there and needed her car. She is pregnant and in two months will be far enough along t..."

Congrats Marnie!

I'd far sooner fly than drive the kind of miles you are all talking. Of course if you're moving you kinda need to bring your car.

[Janice, Moderator]

Congratulations, Marnie. That's exciting!

[Marnie]

Thank you everyone. We are very excited. I bought the little nugget a stack of books as soon as I heard. This child will be a reader from the start. Lol

[Cherie]

Esther wrote: "In my previous life, I worked in Thunder bay for a few years, And in the multiple time I did the 17 (or was it 19) hours drive I found out that the more I stopped the more tired I got. And I also d..."

LOL "in your previous life". I agree though, stopping frequently does make you feel more tired. It sounds like you had some exciting times in your youth. ;o)

[Cherie]

Congratulations on your Grandma news, Marnie.

I texted, on Messenger, with my oldest grandson (22yo) today. He drove from Louisiana to Marysville, Washington last week. He has a job there, after his job in Louisiana didn't pan out. He moved from Helena, Montana to get the job in Louisiana. He was working for a power company installing underground cables, but it fell through over the winter and his truck broke down. His father went to Louisiana to help him get his truck working so that he could move again. He told me that he is now a "tree groomer" on a Christmas tree farm.

[Esther]

Cherie wrote: "LOL "in your previous life". "

well... It does feel this way. I did a temporary change 20 yeas ago and never returned.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Grats Marnie!!

[Jayme, Moderator]

Congrats Marnie!

[Renee]

I love a good road trip. Flying is okay but i like seeing the country float by. I live in a very built up area. I love driving through places with lost of exposed land. I love when we drive through Kansas. I have been known it make trips longer to drive through farm land.

[Peggy]

I just went for my daily walk along the same path just behind our house that I've walked countless times and almost daily since March last year, AND WE SAW A BEAVER!!!

Excuse my excitement but I've never seen one in the wild and I live in a city and he was in a stream right next to the road. Last year we saw a stump of a tree that looked like a beaver's work, but we were never sure there actually was one around. All I normally see are geese, geese, geese, geese, more geese and a few ducks, so this was quite spectacular.

[Esther]

Peggy wrote: "I just went for my daily walk along the same path just behind our house that I've walked countless times and almost daily since March last year, AND WE SAW A BEAVER!!!

Excuse my excitement but I'v..."

Well, they are not that many of them in Europe. When I worked in Europe, even wildlife biologists were excited to see one. One even went out of is way to show one to me as a surprise treat. (Then he realized that I am from beaver country.)

So I say be excited..,

[Peggy]

When was that Esther? Apparently the last beaver in the Netherlands was killed in 1826, and only in 1988 beavers were introduced in the country again. Now there are 3500. I can imagine it might be a similar story in other European countries.

[Esther]

Peggy wrote: "When was that Esther? Apparently the last beaver in the Netherlands was killed in 1826, and only in 1988 beavers were introduced in the country again. Now there are 3500. I can imagine it might be ..."

In the 90's.

[Kristie, Moderator]

That is exciting, Peggy!

[Janice, Moderator]

That is exciting, Peggy. Beavers are really interesting animals.

[Margo]

I've only ever seen on TV Peggy. Don't blame you for being excited 😄

[Rusalka, Moderator]

I had no idea beavers were found in Europe. There you go.

[Sarah]

Congrats Marnie!

What a privilege to see a Beaver in the wild! Theey have just started to be reintroduced here in the UK. They too were wiped out here. They are very cute.

[Saar The Book owl]

That's exciting, Peggy! The beaver was also extinct in Belgium, but recently we've got them back. On their return to Belgium are also otters, wolves, lynxes and crows or ravens.

[Peggy]

We saw him again the next day. Same time, same place.

It's great that those animals that are supposed to live here are slowly returning. We've got wolves now too (just a few), but they also cause issues for farmers, killing sheep.

[Abby]

I took this picture of the storm yesterday. I think it turned out well.

[Peggy]

I only see a number Abby.

[Sandra, Moderator]

Wow. Purple sky.

Peggy, sometimes the photos do not show in the app. Are you using your phone?

[Abby]

I think I fixed it? It's being finicky.

[Peggy]

I see it now! That's awesome!!

@Sandra: usually it stays white, like there should be something but there isn't. Now there was a mumber of 6 or so digits, but that was all.

[Abby]

The light is a flash of lightning that I managed to catch. It was super cool!

[Kristie, Moderator]

That's a great photo, Abby.

[Abby]

Thanks!

[Margo]

Excellent pic Abby!

[Janice, Moderator]

That's a great photo! I like how you caught the lightning.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Great photo, Abby!

In other news, tonight when trying to work out how to use my new spiraliser, I've just spiralised the top of my right thumb. I'm right handed. Thumb instinctively moved down to stablise the zucchini and ... slice.

Big chunk out of the middle of the top of my thumb, a lot bigger than I would like, but can't see anything important. Nothing to stitch, think I'm going to have to ride this one out and have a mutilated finger to tell the tale. /Sigh

[Kristie, Moderator]

Oh yuck, Rus. Yikes!

[Peggy]

Ouch Rus!