Today we get to take Gibbs to a new vet in The Dalles and visit Home Depot while we’re there.
The other new vet in The Dalles could prescribe the meds he needs, but we found out they didn’t stock them, or at least the one opioid, which we couldn’t get from any of the pharmacies around here. Wifey called the other vet and they said “Of course we stock that, why wouldn’t we?” That’s what we thought too, so we’re changing vets.
Always something.
We have to go to Home Depot to find an exhaust hose for our roll-around portable A/C unit, which was given to us. It’s an expensive unit, so having to replace a ~$20 hose is a bargain.
Also we’re going to look at a refrigerator. The one we have here peed all over the floor, so we had to shut off the water to the ice maker, and we wanted to replace it anyway. But it’s old and lives in a built-in cubby which is smaller than the newer fridges. We were looking at tearing out the cubby and re-building it bigger for a new fridge, but HD has a Samsung unit that will fit and has a filtered water dispenser in the door. The only problem is, it’s too deep and wide to fit through any of the doors in our old house. (I’m not sure how they even got the old fridge in here.) So anyway, we may put in a bigger exterior door on the side of the house first. I wanted to replace that door anyway.
Like I said: Always something.
It’s gonna be below 60f and rainy here all day, so I’ll be getting my long pants out again.
And wearing shoes.
Not to worry. My brain filled in the word. I didn’t even notice it was gone until you mentioned it. Brains be weird.
@nelliebly I’m sorry folks made you feel unwelcome. I’m glad you’re here. We missed you while you were gone.
Speaking of which @purplehorseshoe How are you doing? Did the new job work out? Have you been eating? How are cats and rats and snek?
Yesterday’s activity: watching husband install an insulated window covering - think reflective blanket type layer, inner layer of insulation stuff, then the backside has another reflective blanket. In the summer, our bedroom gets full sun all day. When the temps are in the 100s, our room bakes. So he put this stylish window covering up, and the room is noticeably cooler. I’m sure the neighbors aren’t thrilled with our extremely reflective sliding glass door, and IDGAF. They play loud music and host pool parties every day. Their kids hang over the fence and taunt my dogs. They can live with a bright window.
Today I will probably do nothing more than cook dinner with my daughter and watch tv.
It was after nine of the clock, and it was getting hungry around here. Wifey asked what I was making for breakfast. I didn’t know, but I did say I was hungry. She asked if we have any biscuits & gravy left. Of course we do. She said, ‘We could have that… Or we can go out.’ So we ended up going down the beach for brekky. She paid.
Solid MEH. Been in a depression spiral. Thank all ye gods that Michigan weather is so comfortingly cool.
Am trying to yank myself out of this mental crap.
Kayaking was good. Wifey said, ‘This is fun.’ She saw a bald eagle dive into the bay, and we both saw it take off and fly up the beach toward us. She’s feeling the workout in her arms and chest, but not too much.
No plans today, other than she’s taking me out to dinner tonight. It’s a bit pricy, so we only go on birthdays and maybe one more time per year. I’ll either have the 6 ounce or 8 ounce filet mignon, and we’ll start with escargots (even though my escargots are better, he points out every time).
Take note of the doneness descriptions on the menu. (I always order rare. Bloody, but not cold.)
Yeah, we’re an hour from the Branch Ave end of the Green Line which is how we go into DC if we have to. A few years back, I’d have loved to see the Nats play, but all the players I knew and loved have pretty much gone, plus the station that carries their games isn’t on our streaming app, so we kinda quit following them a couple of years ago. Alas…
I saw the Orioles play in the '60s in Memorial Stadium, which no longer exists. Never been to Camden Yard.
We came home to find our mailbox door open and the box full of debris and this:
Some kids, no doubt. I sent a message to the Sheriff, but I’m not expecting anything to come of it. If it happens again, tho…
No clue who it might be - we have virtually no interactions with anyone in this neighborhood. The houses are so widely spaced, unless someone is taking a walk or mowing their lawn near the road, we don’t even see them. But that’s our excitement for the day.
We figured out 4 more circuit breakers on the boat, plus discovered that the port side engine room blower literally melted down. FCD removed it and he’s researching a replacement. I don’t know how the inspector missed it - apart from the fact that it didn’t turn on, the case is warped and discolored from heat damage, and the power and ground wires were melted together. So fun there.
I’ll have Tobias a few hours tomorrow. Daughter and SIL are borrowing our truck to pick up the last of her stuff from her classroom, including a fairly large desk chair. That’ll keep me here as I await UPS.
The rest of today will be chillage. I have no motivation. Plus it’s stoopit humid (71% inside before I closed the house and turned on the air.) I hear my recliner calling!!
My big plans today include walking to the grocery store and a phone call from my firstborn. My daughter is still in NJ. In fact, the wedding is today, which is why no call. So my son is de facto Star of the Week. (In primary grades, each kid in turn got to be Star of the Week, a very big deal. So I set up a joking “competition”: whoever calls first gets to be SOTW.)
Flyboy, a Very Happy Birthday to you! Your gift from me is I won’t sing it, as mirrors would crack and dogs howl all over the PNW. Sounds like your day started off great and is bound to get even better!
Boo, Happy Cake Day! It really should involve cake, too. I’m so happy you joined us.
shoe, thanks for checking in. I’m sorry you’ve got the jim-jams. Do you suppose your utter physical and mental exhaustion has anything to do with it? Wish I lived closer. I’d bring comfort food and help out any way I could, including cleaning cages but not, sorry to say, feeding critters to snakes. Please keep checking in. We worries about you, we does.
Oopsie, so glad you got the compliments you deserve on the weight loss AND that you had a great time!
FCM, I missed something. Where is your daughter’s new job?
Cleaning is done. I went outside to saw a board for some home improvement, and I think I night have swallowed a bug. Now I have to eat Gordie, so Fred can get the fly.
She’s going to be working for the local Mitsubishi dealership, primarily following up on-line inquiries and setting appointments with salesfolk. It’s not a major career move, but it pays substantially more than her teaching gig did, and it will give her business and administrative experience for her resume. With luck in a year, she can find something better.
I may be the closest Mumper to shoe. Google mark tells me it is 10 hours drive time, 700 miles (course for me that would be 13 hours, I padiddle). I’d go clean cages and cook comfort food. Just say the word!
And for a bonus, it’d be slightly north for me, so cooler and less humid. Sounds good.
Plus my youngest kidlet is in Ann Arbor, so I could jump back in the Civic and go grab some hugs from him. He finally popped the question and will probably be getting married in the fall so Boo and Michigan may actually happen. Be afraid, shoe, be very afraid. I can sweeten the pot with kolaches, lots of kolaches. Poppy seed or cottage cheese kolaches even.
So the dishwasher decided to develop a bad leak. It’s one of those roll around the kitchen and attach a hose to the sink ones. It had been dropping about a tablespoon of water each run–somewhere right in the middle of the bottom. Today it was more like half a cup. I’ll need to roll it outside and tip it over to figure out what happened.
I learned the hard way to not tip one of these over indoors years ago. Even when not hooked up they keep a supply of water. I think I’ll wait till tomorrow and bring the hand truck back from the shop.
Howdy Y’all! We deheathenated and then came back to da cave to make sammiches rather than havin’ a McN.O,L. as it is both cheaper and better for us to do so, I reckon. We have accomplished nappage and major sloth. It is hawt outside so am happy to be inside in the a/c. In a while I shall haul the biiiiiiiiiiiig trash can all the way down to the road for pickup tomorrow and that will be the extent of my bein’ outdoors.
Happy birthday flyboy! You done flung a cravin’ on me with your post about the tunamelt quesadilla, so that’s what I made for supper.
bumba, was your house a kit house? Sis’ Sears kit house form 1962 had to have a wall removed to take out the original water heater and the laundry nook is only big enough for a sixties Kenmore W/D set (she had to make room on the same end of the kitchen for the dryer and add another 220 outlet).
Heathenated, listened to an old acquaintance speak (I first met her through the Democratic party, but got to know her as part of various secular and freethinker groups. She teaches history, gender and women’s studies at Vandy). She’s interesting and engaging as a speaker and I look forward to a shift of staffing our Pride booth in my county (we do it in September).
Nelson got to play off leash with most of the neighbor dogs when I got home and now he’s a tah-red pupper taking a nap on my lap.
The only problem is, it’s too deep and wide to fit through any of the doors in our old house. (I’m not sure how they even got the old fridge in here.) So anyway, we may put in a bigger exterior door on the side of the house first. I wanted to replace that door anyway.
