COFFEE BREAK
8B — THE OBSERVER
THuRSday, JunE 17, 2021
Bride wants to dictate attendants’ underwear
Dear Abby: I am getting mar-
ried, and my fiance’s daugh-
ters, 19 and 21, are in the wed-
ding party. I have purchased the
dresses they are wearing, which
are light and flowing. I have
told the girls that on the day of
the wedding I do not want them
wearing thong underwear. The
older one then went to her dad and
said she didn’t want to wear reg-
ular underwear. He told her she
could wear whatever she wants.
I have tried telling them that as
young ladies there are times you
don’t wear thongs, and under a
flowing dress is one of them. It’s
one day of their lives. How can
I get my point across? — Wise
Bride in Phoenix
Dear Wise Bride: Explain to
your fiance exactly why you are
concerned about his daughters
wearing thong underwear under
their bridesmaid dresses and,
when you do, be graphic.
After that, if he still feels the
same, accept it. Then pray no
slip-ups occur while they are
dancing, and no strong gusts of
wind come along when the wed-
ding photos are taken.
Dear Abby: I’m dating a lady
and committed to our relation-
ship, but every time I visit her at
her apartment, she expects me to
take her dog out. The building has
a policy that if the dog poops, you
have to pick it up and dispose of
it, so they have bags at different
locations.
I don’t like doing it. I grew up
on a farm where we had dogs, but
never would I think about picking
up their poop. It grosses me out.
OK, so I have been doing it for a
couple of years, but I don’t want
to do it anymore. But if I say that
or don’t do it, she’ll think I’m not
committed to her. What should I
commonly experience “conver-
sations” with robo-calls, virtual
assistants (Alexa and Echo) and
phone routing software. All this
technology is powered by artifi-
cial intelligence.
So given that we are talking to
machines, do we need to follow
the rules of etiquette with these
robots? My wife insists we should
say “Thank you” and “Please” to
these software creations, while I
say no manners are needed. Your
thoughts? — Mulling It Over in
Montana
Dear Mulling It: Although it
isn’t mandatory, I know of at least
one AI “assistant” that would
acknowledge the courtesy.
do? — Dog Walking in Texas
Dear Dog Walking: Stand up
for yourself. Because you feel so
strongly, tell her that from now
on you will walk her dog together
or she’ll have to do it herself. You
may have been raised on a farm,
but you are now part of a com-
munity with ordinances against
leaving excrement on the streets.
Your devotion to this person
should not be predicated upon
your willingness to perform a
task she should have been doing
herself.
Dear Abby: My wife and I are
having a minor argument, and we
are seeking your help in resolving
it. We live in an age when we
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Dog ejected from vehicle crash found herding sheep
Luckily for the town, Read
was willing to give it back.
County records show he trans-
ferred the water tower back to
Brooksville through a warranty
deed last month. The town of
8,500 residents is located 50
miles north of Tampa.
“I don’t know where the
blame falls here,” said Blake
Bell, a city council member.
“We’re council members and
we rely on the city manager. We
assume that he has done his due
diligence.”
City Manager Mark Kutney
blamed the use of a bad legal
description for what happened.
The city’s redevelopment agency
director resigned after the acci-
dental sale.
“We’re human,” Kutney
said. “Sometimes we make a
mistake.”
The Associated Press
SPOKANE — A pet dog who
vanished for two days after being
ejected from a vehicle during an
accident has been found appar-
ently doing the job it was bred to
do — herding sheep.
Linda Oswald’s family and
their dog, Tilly, were driving
along Idaho State Highway
41 on Sunday, June 6, when
they crashed into another car,
launching the dog through the
rear window, The Spokesman-Re-
view reported.
The unharmed but stunned
dog then ran away, prompting an
immediate search with at least six
complete strangers who witnessed
the crash and pulled over along
the highway to help, Oswald said.
“People just kept going out,”
Oswald said, noting that the
search lasted about 10 hours
before the family went home. “We
were sore and exhausted.”
Oswald said the family
then wrote a Facebook post
that included a picture of the
2-year-old border collie and red
heeler mix and more than 3,000
people shared the post. That’s
when Tyler, Travis and Zane
Potter recognized the dog in the
photo as the same dog they saw
on their family farm south of
Rathdrum on June 8.
Both the Potters and Oswald
think Tilly was drawn to the farm
and their sheep.
“I think that dog was trying to
herd,” Travis Potter said.
Oswald said if it weren’t for the
post, he would still be out there.
Endangered corpse flower
blooms in Warsaw, drawing
crowds
WARSAW, Poland — The
endangered Sumatran Titan arum,
a giant foul-smelling blossom
also known as the corpse flower,
Customer finds 7-foot gator
inside Florida post office
went into a rare, short bloom at
a botanical garden in Warsaw,
drawing crowds who waited for
hours to see it.
The extraordinary flower,
which emits a dead-body odor
to attract pollinating insects that
feed on flesh, bloomed Sunday,
June 13. It was already withering
early June 14. Those wishing to
avoid the smell and crowds could
watch it on live video from the
Warsaw University Botanical
Gardens.
Hundreds, if not thousands,
lined up long into the night June
13 and the morning of June 14 at
the conservatory just to be able
to pass by the flower and take a
picture.
Known also as the Amorph-
weather
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ophallus titanum, the flowering
plant has the largest unbranched
inflorescence in the world, which
can be up to 10 feet high. Its com-
pound flower is composed of a
hollow, tall spadix with small
flowers and a spathe, with one big,
furrowed petal that is green on the
outside and deep burgundy red on
the inside. It’s blooming is rare
and unpredictable.
The plant only grows in the
wild in the rainforests of Sumatra,
but it is endangered there due
to deforestation. Cultivation at
botanical gardens, where they
are a great visitor attraction, has
helped its preservation. It’s first
known blooming outside Sumatra
was in 1889 at London’s Royal
Botanical Gardens at Kew.
Florida town accidentally
sells municipal water tower
BROOKSVILLE, Florida —
A small town in Florida acci-
dentally sold its water tower
in a blundered real estate
transaction.
A businessman purchased a
municipal building underneath
the city of Brooksville’s water
tower last April for $55,000 with
the goal of converting it into a
gym.
However, when Bobby Read
went to the county to get an
address for his new business
location, he was told the parcel
he bought included the entire
water tower site, according to
the Tampa Bay Times.
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
53/64
Kennewick
51/78
St. Helens
55/81
58/87
Condon
59/92
56/82
Clear
Baker City
La Grande
6
53 86 54
Comfort Index™
6
85 53
89 55
Eugene
6
6
4
51/84
84 58
87 58
90 60
6
6
4
4
82 57
89 59
6
6
4
4
ALMANAC
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High: 124°
Low: 32°
Wettest: 3.18”
74°
44°
70°
48°
73°
48°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
0.02
0.12
0.67
2.35
5.20
Trace
Trace
0.88
5.90
8.68
0.24
0.41
1.00
14.62
12.92
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION FRIDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
25%
NNW at 7 to 14 mph
14.7
0.31
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Wednesday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
50/75
17% of capacity
79% of capacity
45% of capacity
87% of capacity
46% of capacity
84% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Tuesday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
4320 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
64 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
92 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
98 cfs
Minam River at Minam
1570 cfs
Powder River near Richland
21 cfs
Death Valley, Calif.
Walden, Colo.
Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
OREGON
High: 89°
Low: 39°
Wettest: 0.45”
Ontario
Crater Lake
Meacham
A strong Santa Ana wind loaded with fi ne
dust and pulverized clay roasted Santa
Barbara, Calif., on June 17, 1859. Unof-
fi cial temperatures reached 133 degrees.
SUN & MOON
THU.
5:04 a.m.
8:43 p.m.
12:15 p.m.
1:08 a.m.
FRI.
5:04 a.m.
8:43 p.m.
1:28 p.m.
1:30 a.m.
MOON PHASES
First
Jun 17
Full
Jun 24
Last
Jul 1
Beaver Marsh
54/86
New
Jul 9
Burns
Jordan Valley
Paisley
Frenchglen
53/96
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
64/51/pc
87/56/s
98/64/s
75/57/s
95/55/pc
66/51/s
82/48/s
94/55/pc
88/53/s
84/50/s
96/63/s
87/58/s
92/54/s
92/57/s
86/57/s
95/63/s
93/52/s
94/52/s
Hi/Lo/W
65/55/s
87/56/s
95/62/s
77/58/s
92/51/s
67/55/s
83/55/s
92/54/s
84/54/pc
84/58/s
95/63/pc
85/63/s
87/54/pc
85/54/s
82/56/pc
95/65/pc
94/53/s
93/51/t
Grand View
Arock
63/100
55/97
55/99
Klamath Falls
51/93
Lakeview
50/94
McDermitt
Shown is Friday’s weather. Temperatures are Thursday night’s lows and Friday’s highs.
SAT.
Diamond
54/94
Fields
58/90
FRI.
Boise
56/93
52/94
54/91
Medford
Brookings
54/99
62/98
53/89
56/75
Juntura
50/95
Silver Lake
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Ontario
61/99
47/93
58/99
RECREATION FORECAST FRIDAY
REGIONAL CITIES
WEATHER HISTORY
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
47/86
50/90
Roseburg
Powers
Brothers
51/81
Coos Bay
Huntington
51/91
55/87
Oakridge
53/94
63/96
Seneca
Bend
Elkton
TUESDAY EXTREMES
High Tuesday
Low Tuesday
Tuesday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
Florence
Council
47/90
52/92
54/88
52/66
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.
50/85
John Day
49/89
Sisters
51/80
82 56
53/93
Baker City
Redmond
50/61
52/64
Halfway
Granite
51/82
Newport
85 53
4
51 89 57
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
6
Mostly sunny;
very warm
56/92
49/80
53/84
Corvallis
Enterprise
53/86
51/89
Monument
58/92
Idanha
Salem
MON
Sunny and very Partly sunny and Sunny and very
warm
warm
warm
47 90 52
Comfort Index™
SUN
Elgin
49/88
La Grande
54/85
Maupin
SAT
59/91
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
51/83
Lewiston
58/94
Hood River
55/91
50/66
FRI
Forecasts and graphics provided
by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021
Walla Walla
57/95
Vancouver
55/80
TIllamook
TONIGHT
SPRING HILL, Florida —
They say neither rain nor snow
nor gloom of night will stop the
U.S. Postal Service, but an alli-
gator could get in the way.That’s
what happened at the Spring
Hill Post Office in Florida’s Her-
nando County, according to a
sheriff’s office Facebook post.
Sheriff’s officials say someone
stopped by the post office
recently to drop off a package
and saw the 7-foot gator
roaming around the lobby.
The building has automatic
double doors that allows off-
hours entry, officials said.The
Florida Fish and Wildlife Con-
servation Commission considers
an alligator a “nuisance” animal
if it is 4 feet or longer and
deemed a threat to people, pets
or property.
Florida has an alligator
hotline for just these types of
situations: 866-392-4286.
Kathy Plonka/The Spokesman-Review via AP
Linda Oswald hugs 2-year-old dog, Tilly, at their home in Hayden, Idaho, on Tuesday, June 8, 2021. The dog vanished for two
days after being ejected from a vehicle during a car accident and has been found apparently doing the job it was bred to do —
herding sheep.
City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
FRI.
SAT.
ANTHONY LAKES
PHILLIPS LAKE
Hi/Lo/W
94/60/s
78/50/s
89/53/s
90/57/s
61/49/pc
76/47/s
99/65/pc
96/58/s
91/59/s
82/55/s
75/50/s
89/51/s
86/54/s
84/51/s
87/58/s
92/61/s
83/48/s
91/62/s
Hi/Lo/W
92/63/pc
78/54/s
84/55/pc
90/62/s
62/52/s
74/53/pc
98/65/s
95/62/pc
89/62/pc
82/60/s
80/56/s
88/52/s
87/60/s
84/58/s
85/59/pc
89/64/pc
82/51/s
89/63/pc
Mostly sunny; mild
Mostly sunny; warm
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice
63
50
88
52
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Sunny and pleasant
Mostly sunny; hot
74
53
92
58
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Mostly sunny; warm
Sunny and warm
74
47
80
45
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Sunny and warm
Plenty of sunshine
86
57
89
58
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Mostly sunny; warm
Sunny and warm
90
52
89
57