BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (48912)

St. Catharines, Ontario • Age 73

Joined myLot 18 years ago

"If not I, then who?"

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It was a dark and stormy... noon?

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (48912) • St. Catharines, Ontario 15 Mar

We're getting rain here in St Catharines... and it's a bit dark out there... and oh my! we just got some thunder, too. It's 15°C/59°F but supposed to reach 21°C/70°F. It was windy earlier but now it's quite still out there. I...

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Is it true

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (48912) • St. Catharines, Ontario 11 Mar

I saw my doctor yesterday, and she wanted to put me on metaformin, to decrease my cravings for sweets, among other things (polycystic ovary syndrome, metabolic syndrome). When I mentioned it to a friend who thinks she knows...

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Have you cleaned your mouse lately

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (48912) • St. Catharines, Ontario 10 Mar

The internet boys have been mucking about with the lines all last week, looking for the break, so my connection has been coming and going sporadically. Just a while ago, it went out again, so I decided to clean my mouse. It gets a...

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Alberta Clipper

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (48912) • St. Catharines, Ontario 8 Mar

Alberta Clippers are caused by low-pressure systems that form when warm winds from the Pacific Ocean collide with the colder air over the Rocky Mountains. The system moves east before getting swept up into the jet stream, which...

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New countries?

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (48912) • St. Catharines, Ontario 6 Mar

I came across these terms in an email from Open Media: "the federated states of Musk ... Bezostan or Zuckerville..." I just thought I'd share this with you. I may even start using them myself.

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Stop it!

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (48912) • St. Catharines, Ontario 6 Mar

Stop it, I say. Stop it, stop it, STOP IT! It's snowing again. And the temperature keeps dropping a degree everytime I check. (Guess I should stop checking it, then .) The snow doesn't seem to be...

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A bit of weirdness

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (48912) • St. Catharines, Ontario 5 Mar

It got really dark around 4:30 this afternoon. It rained quite heavily, then the sun came out. Now at 5:11 it's bright and sunny and not raining anymore, but there's quite a few little ponds out there now. The temperature is...

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Happy and sad

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (48912) • St. Catharines, Ontario 28 Feb

But mostly sad. Happy that my local NDP candidate won re-election last night but sad, so sad, that PCs won the province. Jennie Stevens, my local MPP, was elected for the third time to represent the riding of St Catharines....

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Water water everywhere

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (48912) • St. Catharines, Ontario 24 Feb

Dripping off roofs, pooling on the ground where it can't run off anywhere. It's 8°C/48°F out there! Winds at 51km/hr, about 32 mph, strong enough to push me around, and I weigh 130 lbs/59 kg.

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No flame throwers were used

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (48912) • St. Catharines, Ontario 23 Feb

I spent a couple hours tunnelling out from my back door to the city sidewalk. It was heavy work, but if it doesn't snow tonight, I'll try to make it out to the road tomorrow and catch a bus to the mall. I still have to return that...

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That's enough exercise for now

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (48912) • St. Catharines, Ontario 22 Feb

The sun is out, nice and bright, only -2°C/28°F, so not really cold at all After lunch I went out and cleared away some of the snow from my back door, and made a path to under my patio cover. I had to sit on my...

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More of the same

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (48912) • St. Catharines, Ontario 20 Feb

The weather forecast says sleet, but that's not sleet. That's snow. MORE snow, on top of the snow that's on top of the snow that's on top of the ice that covered the snow... You get the idea, and you probably have the same at your...

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In case you were wondering

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (48912) • St. Catharines, Ontario 19 Feb

I got my test result from Ontario Health in today's mail... Once again, my poop passed the test and the result is normal. But the thing with this test is, it wouldn't have predicted my diverticulosis, or any polyps for that...

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At least the sun is shining

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (48912) • St. Catharines, Ontario 18 Feb

More times than not in the past 73 years, it's been a sunny day on the 18th of February. My mother told me that it was so warm on this day back in '52, that my father took his coat off walking from the bus stop after visiting us...

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All right, this isn't natural

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (48912) • St. Catharines, Ontario 16 Feb

It's like the beginning of A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas... "I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I...

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Three things

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (48912) • St. Catharines, Ontario 11 Feb

Three things didn't go as planned today. 1) The bank machine wouldn't let me deposit my "pay" from Survey Savvy. It even crumpled up the cheque and spit it out. The only thing we could figure out was that it was from an American...

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Congratulate me

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (48912) • St. Catharines, Ontario 10 Feb

I finally made it to Quest Health to have my last filling. It didn't rain. It didn't snow. I didn't slide off the sidewalk and take a header over my walker. The sun was even shining. I have to go back March 18 to have a temporary...

finally made it

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Getting better

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (48912) • St. Catharines, Ontario 6 Feb

I spent all of yesterday in bed, but at 10pm I finally had a bowel movement... (TMI?) It felt as if my innards were being ripped out. I actually cried out the pain was so intense. But afterwards, I felt so much better. I went back...

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My further adventures...

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (48912) • St. Catharines, Ontario 4 Feb

I tried to go to my dental appointment today but my gate was frozen shut, the walkway was all ice, and by the time I turned onto the city sidewalk, I got a blast of snowflakes in my face. It didn't look like it was going to stop,...

curses foiled again

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Should I or shouldn't I?

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (48912) • St. Catharines, Ontario 4 Feb

Currently it's -1°C or 30°F with a 40% chance of something (rain?sleet?snow?) coming down. I have a dental appt at 1pm... the last for 6 months... but am debating whether to reschedule it due to this bout of diverticulitis. I'm...

last dental appt

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