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COFFEE BREAK 8B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2019 Mom-to-be tires of cleaning solo in a house full of slobs DEAR ABBY: I am 7-1/2 months preg- nant, living with my fi ance, his cousin, his cousin’s girlfriend and her little brother, who she has custody of. (He will be 18 in a few months.) I do all the house cleaning and have for the last year and a half. I constantly pick up after them after work. The cousin’s girlfriend (“Queen Slob”) is the worst of the bunch. She doesn’t clean up after herself at all. She leaves a trail — drops her purse on the table, doesn’t throw away her trash and leaves dirty dishes everywhere. I have tried not picking up after Queen Slob and everyone else, but they are either so dumb or inconsiderate that they don’t put two and two together and realize it’s not magic and someone is cleaning up after them. How do I nicely express that I’m fed up with being the only one who keeps the house clean without coming off like a crazy pregnant lady? I’m running out of energy. I have been trying to clean for my baby shower, but I’m getting nowhere because every time I clean something, I have to do it again the next day. I also can’t get the house ready for the arrival of the baby. It’s not going to be fair to my baby if Mommy has to clean up someone’s mess before I feed him. — MAID IN NEVADA DEAR MAID: You are right that once the baby arrives you won’t be able to keep up what you have been doing. If you haven’t ex- pressed to your fi ance what you have shared with me, it is long overdue. The two of you should convene a meeting of everyone who lives under that roof and set some house rules. If the cousin and his girlfriend won’t cooperate, they should move. As to your baby shower, if you have a close friend or relative nearby, it might be more practical to hold it in one of their homes. bullying gets him in trouble. Unfortunately, they don’t see what she’s doing that causes it. My son gets put into isolation at school, but seldom does she have any consequences for the bullying because she’s discreet. I have talked with his teacher, his coun- selor, special education coordinator, vice principal and the principal. Their only focus is my son’s behavior/reaction. They don’t address the issue of the girl bullying him. I tell him to DEAR ignore her, tell his teacher, ABBY tell the vice principal, but my advice has changed nothing. I don’t know what to do. Please help me. — STOP THE BULLYING DEAR STOP THE BULLYING: If I were in your situation, fi rst, I’d keep a record of these instances. Then I would try to talk to the girl’s parents. If they were uncoopera- tive, I’d then address my concerns to the school board in my community. And, if noth- ing changed, I would contact an attorney who specializes in cases of discrimination. Dean Guernsey/EO Media Group fi le photo Workers with Gelco Construction install a water pipe in Warm Springs on Tuesday, June 18, 2019. Warm Springs residents able to drink clean water ■ Some residents concerned that clean water problems will continue, however DEAR ABBY: I have been divorced for 26 years. I have been engaged a couple of times since, but never made it back to the altar. My ex-wife has now permanently separated from her second husband. I have helped her fi nan- cially and emotionally through a couple of stressful situations in the interim due to her second husband. I became available again myself about 18 months ago, so I have been considering inviting her to dinner to help her relax and give her someone to talk to other than family. The problem is, she still seems to regard me as “the enemy.” She will speak to me, but it’s just bare bones conversation. I have never stopped loving her. Should I ask her to din- ner or just let things be? — STILL LOVIN’ MY EX DEAR STILL LOVIN’: I wish you had mentioned what destroyed your marriage 26 years ago. Whatever it was, because your ex still seems to regard you as “the enemy,” in spite of the fact that you have helped her fi nancially and emotionally, I don’t think what you have in mind is feasible. Sometimes it’s safer to love someone from a distance, and this may be one of them. DEAR ABBY: My 10-year-old son is behaviorally challenged and receives special education services at school. He is in the fourth grade. Since the beginning of the school year he has been bullied by a girl in his class. She intentionally embarrasses him and makes fun of him in front of his classmates or when the teacher isn’t looking. His reaction to her weather By Michael Kohn EO Media Group BEND — Residents of Warm Springs Indian Reser- vation are able to drink tap water again without having to boil it fi rst, following a one-week prohibition from drinking water that may have been contaminated because of pressure losses caused by planned repairs. The restriction was lifted midday Thursday, accord- ing to a letter from the Warm Springs public utility obtained by The Bulletin. Authorities completed two rounds of testing for bacte- rial contamination with all results returning negative. AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION Astoria Longview 38/54 Kennewick 37/54 St. Helens 37/62 37/56 33/59 39/56 37/56 Condon TUE WED THU FRI Clear Mostly sunny Partly sunny Times of clouds and sun Mild with clouds and sun 58 22 57 25 58 28 Eugene 8 7 8 36/55 55 26 55 37 60 40 9 6 8 La Grande 31 60 30 Comfort Index™ Enterprise 9 10 30 57 28 Comfort Index™ 9 54 35 59 37 9 9 10 TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin NATION (for the 48 contiguous states) High Saturday Low Saturday High: 93° Low: -14° Wettest: 1.93” 55° 15° 55° 18° 58° 18° PRECIPITATION (inches) 0.00 0.00 0.05 7.14 8.30 0.00 0.00 0.13 13.10 12.96 0.00 0.00 0.16 25.85 17.71 HAY INFORMATION TUESDAY 35% SSE at 4 to 8 mph 8.0 0.07 RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Sunday) Phillips Reservoir Unity Reservoir Owyhee Reservoir McKay Reservoir Wallowa Lake Thief Valley Reservoir 22% of capacity 30% of capacity 62% of capacity 28% of capacity 26% of capacity 30% of capacity STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Saturday) Grande Ronde at Troy Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder Burnt River near Unity Umatilla River near Gibbon Minam River at Minam Powder River near Richland OREGON High: 72° Low: 14° Wettest: none Medford Rome 44/68 Until a cold wave on Nov. 4, 1991, sent temperatures down to 3 below zero, Minneapolis had never had subzero cold so early. However, this city has endured January mornings with temperatures of 40 below zero. SUN & MOON Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset MON. TUE. 6:35 a.m. 4:36 p.m. 1:40 p.m. 11:24 p.m. 6:36 a.m. 4:35 p.m. 2:09 p.m. none MOON PHASES 744 cfs 1 cfs 13 cfs 56 cfs 131 cfs 33 cfs First Nov 4 Full Nov 12 Last Nov 19 New Nov 26 Jordan Valley 30/63 Frenchglen Paisley 33/65 31/66 30/64 46/71 Klamath Falls 27/65 City Astoria Bend Boise Brookings Burns Coos Bay Corvallis Council Elgin Eugene Hermiston Hood River Imnaha John Day Joseph Kennewick Klamath Falls Lakeview Hi/Lo/W 54/37/pc 68/31/pc 59/33/s 65/49/pc 64/22/s 58/40/pc 57/33/pc 56/31/s 60/31/s 55/34/pc 55/28/s 62/36/pc 62/32/s 64/33/s 57/29/s 54/30/s 65/27/s 66/28/s Hi/Lo/W 58/41/pc 57/27/s 58/33/pc 71/48/pc 63/21/pc 60/42/pc 57/34/pc 57/28/pc 55/27/pc 57/34/pc 54/27/pc 57/35/pc 57/31/pc 57/31/s 53/27/pc 54/29/pc 64/26/pc 65/24/pc 27/59 Lakeview 25/66 McDermitt 28/63 Shown is Tuesday’s weather. Temperatures are Monday night’s lows and Tuesday’s highs. WED. Grand View Arock 26/63 Fields 39/68 TUE. Diamond 32/64 31/67 Medford Brookings Boise 33/59 Silver Lake Chiloquin 51/65 28/61 29/67 40/62 Grants Pass Juntura 22/64 30/65 Beaver Marsh Ontario 26/58 Burns Brothers 29/63 Roseburg Powers 33/68 Oakridge RECREATION FORECAST TUESDAY REGIONAL CITIES WEATHER HISTORY AGRICULTURAL INFO. Lowest relative humidity Afternoon wind Hours of sunshine Evapotranspiration Immokalee, Fla. Antero Reservoir, Colo. Stuart, Fla. Huntington 31/63 43/66 Coos Bay SATURDAY EXTREMES ALMANAC Saturday Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Normal year to date Elkton 28/56 27/57 Seneca Bend 42/58 Comfort Index takes into account how the weather will feel based on a combination of factors. A rating of 10 feels very comfortable while a rating of 0 feels very uncomfortable. 34/64 31/68 Florence Council 24/60 John Day 28/71 Sisters 39/59 53 27 8 Baker City Redmond 41/55 44/56 29/58 27/59 36/57 Newport Halfway Granite 30/63 37/68 37/55 Corvallis Enterprise 30/57 31/60 Monument 31/61 Idanha Salem TONIGHT 10 Elgin 30/60 La Grande 35/57 Maupin Comfort Index™ 10 37/55 Pendleton The Dalles Portland Newberg Lewiston 34/56 Hood River 33/57 TIllamook 24 60 24 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2019 Walla Walla 27/54 Vancouver 37/55 37/56 Baker City exhausting.” Martinez said while repairs will allow clean tap water to fl ow again, more work is needed for a lasting repair. Cold weather and freezing pipes has slowed progress on overhauling the system. “The situation is not resolved. There are still a lot of repairs needed. Once the weather improves, we’ll start the repairs again,” he said. Residents were relieved that the notice was lifted, but many have expressed frustration that more boil water notices are likely. “We know that federal funding probably won’t hap- pen, so it’s going to be a problem for a long time,” said Carina Miller, a re- search analyst for the Warm Springs Community Action Team, a nonprofi t that helps in local business growth. An aging water distribu- tion network — with some pipes more than 40 years old — is taking its toll on the reservation. Warm Springs residents have endured fi ve boil water notices this year, the longest one lasting more than two months, from mid- June to mid-August. Emergency responders spent the week distribut- ing water to residents, with 800 to 900 gallons going out per day from a community center. Because of freezing temperatures, the respond- ers were simultaneously operating a warming shelter nearby. “The challenges were fi nding volunteers to man the center and get water delivered to elders,” said Danny Martinez, emergency manager for the reserva- tion. “Between the warm- ing shelter and the water distribution center, it was City Lewiston Longview Meacham Medford Newport Olympia Ontario Pasco Pendleton Portland Powers Redmond Roseburg Salem Spokane The Dalles Ukiah Walla Walla TUE. WED. Hi/Lo/W 56/34/pc 54/40/pc 58/28/s 68/37/pc 55/40/pc 54/36/pc 58/26/s 55/28/s 57/32/s 56/39/c 68/42/pc 71/28/s 62/38/pc 55/35/c 51/30/s 59/33/s 61/28/s 55/34/s Hi/Lo/W 54/32/pc 56/38/pc 53/25/pc 67/37/pc 57/44/pc 54/35/c 58/27/pc 55/30/pc 52/28/pc 59/42/pc 69/44/pc 60/24/s 63/38/pc 57/36/pc 47/30/pc 57/31/pc 51/24/pc 52/31/pc Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice ANTHONY LAKES PHILLIPS LAKE Mostly sunny Mostly sunny; mild 45 23 59 27 MT. EMILY REC. BROWNLEE RES. Mostly sunny Mostly sunny 52 30 61 31 EAGLE CAP WILD. EMIGRANT ST. PARK Mostly sunny Mostly sunny 46 22 57 27 WALLOWA LAKE MCKAY RESERVOIR Mostly sunny Mostly sunny 57 29 59 33 THIEF VALLEY RES. RED BRIDGE ST. 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