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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    How are you, your family and friends doing today, 1Thought? 
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    edited August 2023
    Hi oftenreading, Thanks for reaching out in a pm. After reading your inquiry to TK1 I felt left out!

    I returned home because so many communities sent firemen and equipment to help stave off the fire and keep travel corridors open thus far, even though the fires are still out of control. I'm glad I have air purifiers to cleanse our air in the home and that we have a home, too! 
    Post edited by Spunkie on
    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle
  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    tish said:
    Hi oftenreading, Thanks for reaching out in a pm. After reading your inquiry to TK1 I felt left out!

    I returned home because so many communities sent firemen and equipment to help stave off the fire and keep travel corridors open thus far, even though the fires are still out of control. I'm glad I have air purifiers to cleanse our air in the home and that we have a home, too! 

    No intention to leave you out, Tish! In my brain it made sense to ask after 1T here, since it's his thread, and pm you directly in case you weren't checking this thread, but I readily admit my thought process may be opaque to some ;). Good to hear your home is safe - I hope it remains so.
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    edited October 2023
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    Post edited by Spunkie on
    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle
  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    tish said:
    ^ Damn my fickle clairvoyancy powers. And my inability to comprehend translucent, transparent, and opaque definitions without my hippocampus revisting synaptic neural networks from grade six science with the freaky teacher (and my first employer) who had a red spot in his eye, Mr. Paine.

    I had booked (but cancelled) some Juan de Fuca (is that spanish ffs) camping this summer in case our air quality petered out sooner... I'll get Pipsqueak on a ferry and into a surfing hat and booties, yet! Enjoy the island summer! 

     🤗 to u



    Wonder what the locals called it?

    Ahhh... I guess I should say I was going to visit the Coast Salish.
    I can’t clairvoy worth shit either, Tish :lol: 

    Sorry to cause an unnecessary reminder of Paine ;) 

    I have done some camping in various areas of the Island, both back country and front country (family-friendly). PM me if you have any questions that I might be able to answer. 
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    ^Thanks! Maybe down the road...

    Currently, back to thread integrity, I'm discussing with my daughter how her first overnight summer camp, where she found summer love (true love forever) a few weeks back just burned 90% down (based on images taken from boats, since it's evacuated still) while wondering about the school district email about evolving learning environments if some schools don't start up after labour day.

    Is that a run-on sentence?
    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle
  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    edited August 2023
    Nothing has changed here often. Weather is somewhat cooperating (cooler, no wind) but the full extent of the damage has yet to be determined. The smoke is still incredibly thick. The folks up around the Shuswap area have dealt with a pair of fires that combined to form an estimated 410 km2 in size. The fire about 10km from me is still out of control, estimated to be about 1100 hectares. We remain just outside the evacuation alert zone. 

    Stories of some West Kelowna firefighters who continue to work even though they are completely aware they have lost their own homes. The Fire Chief mentioned some of the burned trees were ripped out of the ground by the force of the fire and winds. 

    To top it off, the first tropical storm to hit California in 8 decades gets pushed north by a mid-west US high pressure system, unfortunately very little rain will reach these fires.  To everyone in California affected by the flooding and earthquake, my thoughts are with you, it is a shame Mother Earth didn’t save some of that precipitation for the BC interior. 



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  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    ^ I hope you can get outside for some fresh air soon!!! I'm starting today in the yard listening to the group of people with no shelter chat in the bordering park.  Puppy will get an outing soon!
    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle
  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    1ThoughtKnown said:
    Nothing has changed here often. Weather is somewhat cooperating (cooler, no wind) but the full extent of the damage has yet to be determined. The smoke is still incredibly thick. The folks up around the Shuswap area have dealt with a pair of fires that combined to form an estimated 410 km2 in size. The fire about 10km from me is still out of control, estimated to be about 1100 hectares. We remain just outside the evacuation alert zone. 

    Stories of some West Kelowna firefighters who continue to work even though they are completely aware they have lost their own homes. The Fire Chief mentioned some of the burned trees were ripped out of the ground by the force of the fire and winds. 

    To top it off, the first tropical storm to hit California in 8 decades gets pushed north by a mid-west US high pressure system, unfortunately very little rain will reach these fires.  To everyone in California affected by the flooding and earthquake, my thoughts are with you, it is a shame Mother Earth didn’t save some of that precipitation for the BC interior. 



    I hope that change for the better comes soon for you. 
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    edited August 2023
    ^^^^^love the oxymoron.

    I'm reading fiction. Fiction, sweet fiction. Nothing like a novel after a decade of textbooks. It's a romance that flashes between young love and intense sexual tension years later: "...like I could fall into his eyes and never get out".
    Post edited by Spunkie on
    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle
  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 19,945
    Watching Yellowjackets, S2 E9..
    Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
    Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    Heading into West Kelowna to visit a friend, imbibe and maybe see some of the aftermath. 
  • JOEJOEJOE
    JOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,821
    Doing corporate tax returns, and gathering facts for our PJ trip to St. Paul!
  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    Relaxing in the absolutely spectacular Cloud Forest hostel in Chugchilan, Ecuador after hiking to the glacier of the Cotopaxi volcano this morning.  
  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,065
    Taking the subway home after seeing the Arctic Monkeys. 
  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    Hanging at the Mariscal Sucre Airport in Quito, pounding Moscow Mules in anticipation of a 2am flight to San Salvador 
  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    edited October 2023
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    Post edited by Spunkie on
    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,876
    tish said:

    Beautiful. It's why we live


    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,876
    It's been 4 years I think since I had courage to go to a swimming pool..i took my 6 year old on my own and we had so much fun. I made a difference 


    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    ^ Fantastic, Rob!
    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle

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