help....it's 100+ degrees...and i have just caught a cold!

Gosh, thank you thea09, I am sorry the heat is at your existence, too...our area is just not set up for it...we do not own fans, or AC and when the heat wave hit, the whole province sold out. LOL! Thank, you precious, for all you suggestions, and I hope with your herbal knowlege, that you will approve,....I harvested my garlic about five days ago..so I made a garlic laden pesto over pasta , and had garlic/honey/ginger tea. Stink, I might, but hopefully feel better.....Thank you, and would you consider a friends request? Cheers!

GOOD MORNING THEA, I f uneed a reccomendation for PERGAMMO i'd sure give her a great one.

Hi pergammano, garlic in teaI'd draw the line there. Garlic is meant to stop you catching germs in the first place not to be an antidote for them. Has it cooled down there yet? I think I have heat exhaustion over here, it's been so long with this humidity and the last few days no sun with it which somehow seems to make it even hotter. Now I don't normally do this so quickly but I'm going to press accept, even though I had a big cull last night and still have a load pending before you which I haven't had a chance to check out. The reason you're in is because it was so sweet calling Gerty the epitome of beauty.

Thank you, thank you....dearest Jen & Jo! But I am warning you two girls, I would have you all over the State of Tennessee faster than you could imagine! Tennessee is the state that has been on the top of my "bucket list" long before I knew they ever had a "bucket list!" As a very young girl, I worked on a Dude Ranch, and they had the most beautiful Tennesse Walker stallion, and then the owners showed fabulous pictures.....and I hold those dearly in my memory! Both my son & I are Country Music fans (sorry, Jo) and the "lucky buttinski" got bumped off a flight from Nashville to Houston.....so he got to spend the nite Nashville style...didn't get one wink of sleep! He was working in Bowling Green (sp) which I think is in Kentucky! Jo...I will get to TN, soon! Great impetus...YOU & JEN! Cheers!

GOOD MORNING JEN,I think she should just come to TENNESSEE & LET US LOOK AFTER HER, wHATCHA' THINK?

I'm thinking that is exactly what she needs. You ,me, her, and annifannie would have everyone on their toes. I'm in.

I feel better already...just hearing from you! You are my silly Mother Hen, my Silly Goose...and all the beloved terms I can muster up for you...dearest, it was NOT sleeping outside....oops...and I am going to again tonite...the heat is incomprehensible, and trust me, dear girl, I think that if I had moved outside b4 I would not have suffered sleep deprivation, cuz truly, my dear, I sleep so good with the coolness. Last nite I hauled my relincer outside & slept sittin up! Iam getting tired my dearest...Faraway hugs...no bug spreading, luv ya! Cheers!

HAULDED YOUR RECLINER OUTSIDE, NOW U ARE MUSCLE WOMAM,I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M GOING TO DO W/YOU#%^$%$.Does t.j. know what a time u are having?? I do worry about u. Hope your cold is better today?I pray that you will get rain & a break in the weather. Please take care of yourself.

Well you wouln't want to lug your recliner out here in the night unless you wanted to wake up with mossie bites all over and a gecho in your ear. You'd wake up in a nightmare state with a donkey licking your nose and a scorpion feasting on amy blood leftover from the mossies. That's why I sleep, or rather don't sleep, inside, despite the temps!

HEY.....sweetie1026...it is sooooooo FABULOUS to hear from you...and if it takes me being down with a cold, just to hear from you...I'll take it! I sure do HOPE, that your silence is caused by the fact, that you are so happy, having so much fun, so fulfilled.....tht you just don't have time to be here! But sure do miss you! Yup....it's day three for this obnoxious cold, I find usually about day 5, they break....but it's been so long since I have had a summer cold, I can't remember! Just an uncomfortable time to be offish! Please, please take care...stay in touch and have a rainbow of a weekend! Cheers, dear!

Thank you, my friend i missed you a lot. The truth is i was silent because i have had some difficult times (financially). But i had worked things out and now is slowly recovering from it. It is so good to see you too, though you have that awful cold. I hope you feel well soon, to enjoy the weekend. Take care always!

Sorry for this, i thought i have deleted it. So, i wrote a new one, just to see that is got posted too. Sorry again.

Thank you, dear Ambie, I am just having a retro day..and feeling sorry for myself, I think. It is all of the above, including the stomach & bowels...so what goes in, immediately goes out! The most miserable is the sore throat in this heat, as I have stated above, it may not be high for some people...but we are running upwards of 30 degrees above our normal heat, and have broken all records! Yup...sleeping is a challenge, last night I moved a recliner onto my deck, just to catch a bit of "noddy" and a few coolish breezes! (I know in 3 months I will be complaining how cold it is!) Thanks for responding, my dear friend, and hope all is fantastic in your world! Hugs (oops--not now)...and Cheers!

Both sound wonderful & comforting! Wouldn't I know that you would have a superb Chicken Soup on standby! What a girl...and especially with all that you have been going thru....and here I am complaining! Isn't it the truth tho' ~~~ a seemingly small thing like a cold can just pull the rug out from underneath you! I thank you so kindly...for all the soul food $ the hugs feel great,too! Please take care, and know I am so glad to be hearing from you on a regular basis...as I truly missed you, and Cheers!

Hatley....Thank you, sooo kindly for some MORE great advice, and you are so RIGHT...it's the yucky that's getting to me...I can find comfort in the winter, with hot drinks, soup, fire & comforters! Summer, dang it...the comfort eludes you! Fevers...and it's 100+! I am just feeling sorry for myself, as it has been a long time, since a summer cold...and I think it was given to me, as a come-uppance to remind me of how lucky I have been! This heat is SOOOO unusual here, off the Coast of British Columbia....and we are paying dearly with all our Forests going up in Wildfires! Our situation is so serious, we got the wonderful assistance of Firefighters from Australia and New Zealand! What wonderful people, ..and when you see that kind of goodness, you gotta stop feeling sorry for yourself...and think about the more than 10,00o people evacuated from their homes and living in shelters! I shouldn't be pondering a cold....should I? Thank you, Hatley...and a rainbow weekend to you & yours!

Hey, thanks for chiming in..tdemex...I have read many of your great discussions, with respect! Lucky you, Monterrey, Mexico....I LOVE MEXICO, but dear friend..our usual some temps are between 75 & 85 Fahrenheit...anything over 95 is shock factor, so we just went thru 11 days of above 105, and it seems to have brought with it an onslaught of bugs & germs! We broke all records! The country (province of B.C. Canada~~West Coast,etc) is burning up with Forest Fires...dear souls as far away as Australia and New Zealand have come to help fight! You're right, I will bite the bullet, and have some Chicken soup tonite, but I sure wish this heat would fry this bug! LOL! Once again, thank you & Cheers!

I spent a lot of time on Vancouver Island! Your living in a beautiful place! Hope our pollution doesn't cause you to much discomfort! I read the Salmon in Alaska are becoming a rare event, the smokehouses are empty? A pity! tdemex

Hey....dear tdemex..we have just had our entire fishery shut down..due to NO returns of the spawning salmon...this heat wave, they will not enter waters above 18 degrees Celcius. A very trauma time...80,000 were predicted, as a Fraser River run, and there was less than 3,000. Next year is the Adam"s River run..and it NO better, we are in serious trouble! Would you consider a friend request, as I really enjoy your input! Thanks & Cheers!

Thank you, so kindly for all your wonderful suggestions, and will take them all seriously. As we all have, I have had many colds...but it is the unusually hot weather, along with the cold that is making it more difficult! We have broken all heat records here in B.C., Canada...and along with it has come a lot of bugs & germs! You have a great day, and welcome to myLot! Cheers!

Thanks for your comment. Here in India also this time is used to be rainy season but we have no rains at all. Here the conditions are miserable with highly reduced production of rice, pulses etc. Plus here also germs are in excess. Happy MyLotting.

I truly hope that you...and India get some much needed rain, soon, as well as us..as we are a very forested province and we have hundreds of Wild Fires burning,as well as thousands of people evacuated from their homes....living in shelters! Have a truly wonderful weekend....and Cheers!

Thank you, so kindly....ginger is one of my favourites, but what a wise idea, turmeric....it has a lot of immune boost, doesn't it! Yes, I am taking good old aspirins every 4 hours, to try and keep the fever down in this heat! I truly do appreciate your input, and hope that you have an extra-specially wonderful weekend, filled with love and laughter! Cheers!