Fun For The Summer!!!

What are you doing for fun this summer. We have so much bad news going around I think it is time for FUN!!!!

I plan on doing some swimming, gardening, taking a course on how to break down and clean my AR-15 and a course on how to reload ammo, setting up my reloading area.

I am in my 60's and to keep my mind going I am taking these courses to keep my brain in good shape. Learn something new and you will keep sharp!

So what are you guys doing this summer for fun!

Amongst other things, Boy Scout summer camp up in the mountains for a week, and I'm sure we'll fit in a few more family camping trips when we can. We're only a few miles from the beach, so I'm sure we'll be heading there at some point - overnight camping in the RV if there's space down there would be fun.

Planning my youngest daughters wedding. I am in a real quandary here and need advise ladies and gents. I have told her about the virus going around, but have not shown the true extent to which I am concerned because I do react to these things more then most people and I am aware of that. I know that the numbers are that in a pandemic about 30% of the population contract the illness the other 70% do not, the 60% that pass away is from the thirty percent that catch it.

Debbie, I don't think you should say anything to your daughter at the moment but that you should act quickly with some precautions:

Thank you all so very much. My heart was so heavy you have all helped me so much by lifting a huge burden. You are all correct I feel peace in my heart, I will go ahead as flumom says and not freak her out. I agree if it gets bad no one will come. I agree to have the food served, picked up the way that was suggested buffet style but served by the caterer and bartenders using clean fresh glasses I will indeed have hand sanitizer, may have even come up with a real cute idea for a favor a small bottle of sanitizer in a cute little bag with a drawstring. I never thought of this Kiwi but insurance is the key, I will get insurance then we can plan to our hearts content and do so worry free. I agree with how to present it to her if the worst happens.

KiwiMum, it is sooooo strange to think of snow in July!!!

Is it strange to think of snow at Christmas for the Northern Hemisphere?

I agree with the above posts - we'll have warning of any significant changes in MERS (or H7N9 for that matter) and it'll be on one of our sites in a heartbeat. Enjoy the wedding safe in the knowledge that you're ready for anything (unlike the vast majority of the population) and take comfort in the fact that we're all scanning the horizon and looking out for each other. On the bright side, there are no guarantees that any of the viruses we're watching now will make it to pandemic form, so hope for the best but prepare for the worst.
Preppers prep - sheeple panic

Flumom, even though Christmas is hot and sunny here, people still put fake snow on their windows and shop windows have snowy scenes in them. The Christmas cards all have snow on them. It's very odd. I live in North Canterbury and we have extremely variable weather being right next to the mountains. We never know until Christmas Eve what the weather will be like for Christmas day, it could be the gale force Nor'wester that blow through here so strongly and hotly that you can't go out side and the temperature gets up into the high 30's, or it could be cold and raining, or just a scorching hot summers day.

Fun For The Summer.. Reminds me of the Ant and The Grasshopper!


Once there lived an ant and a grasshopper in a grassy meadow.

All day long the ant would work hard, collecting grains of wheat from the farmer's field far away. She would hurry to the field every morning, as soon as it was light enough to see by, and toil back with a heavy grain of wheat balanced on her head. She would put the grain of wheat carefully away in her larder, and then hurry back to the field for another one. All day long she would work, without stop or rest, scurrying back and forth from the field, collecting the grains of wheat and storing them carefully in her larder.

The grasshopper would look at her and laugh. 'Why do you work so hard, dear ant?' he would say. 'Come, rest awhile, listen to my song. Summer is here, the days are long and bright. Why waste the sunshine in labour and toil?'

The ant would ignore him, and head bent, would just hurry to the field a little faster. This would make the grasshopper laugh even louder. 'What a silly little ant you are!' he would call after her. 'Come, come and dance with me! Forget about work! Enjoy the summer! Live a little!' And the grasshopper would hop away across the meadow, singing and dancing merrily.

Summer faded into autumn, and autumn turned into winter. The sun was hardly seen, and the days were short and grey, the nights long and dark. It became freezing cold, and snow began to fall.

The grasshopper didn't feel like singing any more. He was cold and hungry. He had nowhere to shelter from the snow, and nothing to eat. The meadow and the farmer's field were covered in snow, and there was no food to be had. 'Oh what shall I do? Where shall I go?' wailed the grasshopper. Suddenly he remembered the ant. 'Ah - I shall go to the ant and ask her for food and shelter!' declared the grasshopper, perking up. So off he went to the ant's house and knocked at her door. 'Hello ant!' he cried cheerfully. 'Here I am, to sing for you, as I warm myself by your fire, while you get me some food from that larder of yours!'

The ant looked at the grasshopper and said, 'All summer long I worked hard while you made fun of me, and sang and danced. You should have thought of winter then! Find somewhere else to sing, grasshopper! There is no warmth or food for you here!' And the ant shut the door in the grasshopper's face.

It is wise to worry about tomorrow today.

Thanks again dear friends, I am taking all your advise, will get the insurance, my husband especially thanks you for easing my over active mind. LOL

Coyote