A May 30 MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Afternoon all. Olive Garden had a very good waitress today and dinner was very good and right on time, so she got a 25% tip. Once I finish assimilating it, I’ll need to get the monthly gas tank fill-up (goodbye $$$) and might do some exercise to control my intake at luncheon.

{{BBBoo}}, just cause I suspect you need it.

Wet one, Westminster Abbey is pretty neat, and you need more than one visit to appreciate the British Museum (amazing how much stuff they got away with during their Empire days…). Puss and Hooves will be waiting to see you when you return.

Sari, hope knowing people who know people helps out; know what you mean about limited parking and hope the signs get emplaced–surprised there aren’t any now.

Taters, good luck with beating back the ant infestation. I’ve got a pest control service that seems to do a good job keeping the ants and termites away.

OK, need to be thinking of getting back outside, or i’ll lay down to read and…zzzzzzz.

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I think the hinge must make faces at GG behind our backs or something because GG hasn’t liked that hinge since the day we brought him home. That’s a LONG time for our happy idiot to remember anything, so the hinge must be reinforcing his distrust on a regular basis.

I know what you mean. You haven’t lost your money, but it always hurts to see that much food go into the trash.

I hope your new friend helps make the Dog Park friendlier for everyone.

Bougainvillea loves the heat and sun, you see them all over the place in the Valley of the Sun. Mom loves Bougainvillea and I grew up with it in our back yard. I used to like it a lot. Then Covid hit. Look at a picture of a covid molecule and then look at a picture of a blooming Bougainvillea with all of those red balls on spikes.

I also don’t like irises because they look so much like vaginas. I’m all like “Put some pants on!” I’ve never been inspired to put pants on table legs, but I do have some lines.

What a silly pup! What does he do when confronted with flip-flops?

We have been productive today. We’ve bottled five gallons of beer and a three gallons of mead. A fence slat fell off so I found a new slat behind the shed and put the screw driver battery on the charger. I’ll attach slat to fence in a bit.

I put the hose on low and gave our pomegranate a nice slow drink and watched the sparrows take group baths which is always fun. Tonight I’m going to mow the clover patch, the red clover is high enough that I can’t run the tractor sprinkler.

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I was up briefly this morning, due to a certain noisy orange cat fussing about efforts to close the bedroom door. Went back to bed once he seemed to have calmed down, and he joined me. Woke up a few hours later, and had both cats on the bed with me, less than a foot apart, both curled up snoozing, no fuss.

Buddy still doesn’t seem inclined to go outside for very long today (of course, it did rain last night). I suspect he’s moving in. :slight_smile:

Too bad you can’t bring the horses and their nice teenager back over. :slight_smile:

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Evening all!

I had an exceptionally silly day today. You may have heard about the terribly British stupid event known as the Gloucester cheese rolling. Well, it was today.

I took a car of people- mostly international students- down. It didn’t exactly start well, as I stopped off to pick one of them up, about 2 miles from the Uni, and… the car went dead. Wouldn’t restart. Never had an issue with it before. Luckily, another friend was coming in his van, who was only a few minutes away who jump started it… We figured he could probably do it again if it wouldn’t start on the way back, so set off on the 90 minute drive…

The car behaved perfectly the rest of the day, incidentally.

Anyway, we got there, I wheezed my way up to the mud and leaf covered hill, which is somehow far far steeper than it looks in any pictures and one of the students (hereafter known as the Uruguayan maniac, or UM for short) announced his intention- which we’d been hoping was a joke- to attempt the run, and set off to fight his way up this slidy mess of a hill to sign up at the top.

There were a few injuries- most notably, one broken leg right in front of us, and a guy who knocked himself cold.

Cheeses were won. The crowd was very silly. The hill was so slippy all the audience were gradually sliding down it. I got smothered in mud and leaves.

Unusually, they actually had to restrict competitor numbers due the number of idiots around, so the UM didn’t make it until the last run of the day, actually after all the cheese had been won.

He dislocated his shoulder, mere meters from the end. We had to take him to hospital…

So yeah. It was kind of fun, extremely silly, and I’m only glad the injury wasn’t worse.

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Question about automobile a/c - I’ve noticed lately that mine doesn’t seem to be very cold when at idle, but when I drive down the road at speed, it’s frosty. Does that suggest that I need the system charged? Or am I looking at something way more $$$?

Oh, yeah, we’re home. We didn’t get done what we’d hoped to do on the boat, but FCD did clear some abandoned wires out of the helm area and he secured a bunch of wires and cables that might have easily become entangled in the steering mechanism - very poor installation!! He hasn’t figured out the bilge pump problem. I started flushing the fresh water tanks, but something happened and the pump kept pumping, but no water was moving. So we just switched off that circuit breaker and we’ll try to figure it out another day.

We did discover that the strainer assembly in the fresh water system didn’t have the actual strainer in it, so I had to order one. I swear, the previous owner is coming across as an idiot!!! We also had to order a new raw water strainer for the forward washdown. We had a day playing electrician and plumber.

I climbed up to the flybridge to see what abandon wires were there - only to discover that it requires a skinny, agile electrician who doesn’t have claustrophobia to even see the wires! I’m not sure what we’ll do there - maybe we’ll have to make our own access panel? A job for another day.

Tomorrow, I mow, and FCD is going back to do more stuff. I’ll head down after mowage is done so I can put the mattress back into its cover, which I laundered this morning. But the rest of tonight is for chillage. We had lunch at Texas Roadhouse and neither of us wants supper. I just want a nap… but I’ll stay up till bedtime.

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Howdy Y’all! We deheathenated, et brunch, got back to da cave, and accomplished nappage. Laziness and sloth continue to ensue. Speakin’ of chikin, I have developed a gnawin’ and a cravin’ for
Death Chikin AKA Poulet de la mort. I dug some chikin thighs outta da freezer and that shall become sup tomorrow with some type of tbd vegetative matter. On a more productive note, the biiiiiiiiiiiiiig trash can has been hauled all the way down to the road for pickup tomorrow.

doggio Church’s chikin is ick! I just don’t like the taste of it at all. It is a mystery to me why it is still in existence.

sari here’s hopin’ she can make those changes come about.

WetOne have you seen any of the jubilee festivities?

nuts good to know UM was not too badly hurt. I am sorry he did not get to roll cheese. Sounds like a good time was had by all.

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doggio, I miss Church’s for their honey-butter glazed biscuits. The ones around here have left town.

sunny, the soup that I made was an approximation. I cooked some chicken thighs with onions, lemongrass, ginger, garlic and Ponzu until the chicken was done. I pulled the meat out and put some mushrooms, coconut milk and more chicken broth in before taking the meat off the bone and returning it. I also added a little more ginger and garlic and left it simmer in the crock until this afternoon. I served it up with some quail eggs (I used canned) and scallions in the bowl. I served it with Thai basil and fresh mint on the side, along with a cucumber salad. 'Twas nom!

Moooooom, is this on your Hyundai? Mine does the same thing. My old Toyota did it too.

I’m winding down in preparation for tomorrow. See you then.

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I’d take it in to be charged. Car AC systems use the Freon as a lubricant so running it low is hard on the compressor.

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Evening all. Did do nappage and no gym, which isn’t unusual as long as I work out Mon-Fri. Plumbers are due tomorrow to check on the mystery leak, so I have that to look forward to. Dinner was a Big Bowl O’Sallit with Fat-free Ranch so I have eaten sort of healthy after my pasta bowl at noon.

JtC, My A/C has been less than tops, I may go in and have them charge it back up. And listing your activities…wish I had half your energy.

FCM, sounds like that boat will keep you and FCD busy for quite awhile. Take care.

Nut, I’ve seen clips of that cheese rolling and I’d love to see it someday, glad you and the others got there, even the UM.

Everybody take care and I’ll catch you on the next MMP.

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Cleaned, took Gordie out as needed, took a long aftenoon nap. Having a Vieux Carré while the poke loin cooks. I also did a Penzy’s and a Bo Seasonings order. [Guild Navigator]The Spice must flow. [/Guild Navigator]

[Sally Field]You like me! You really like me![/Sally Field]

{{{{BBBoo}}}}

Would you like to adopt a large adult son?

Congrats on being adopted!

Ow, glad it was fun, and as Our Lord himself said, “Blessed are the cheesemakers.”

I’ve never been. I go to Bojangles when I have a chicken or biscuit gnawin’ and cravin’.

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I miss pioneer chicken… one day ill have to take my life into my own hands and trek to Boyle heights (it was a "hood "20-30 years years ago id hate to see what it is now…) to go to one of the last 2 in existence

I hope shoes ok … she hasn’t posted more than 3 sentences at a time in weeks (@purplehorseshoe )

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Slow day at the Zoo due to drizzly dreary weather. I wasn’t mad.
Some assignments got shuffled around, and there were two of us scheduled to close at a post where only one is needed. I’m never the one who goes home early, but for a change, I did today. Got to have a nice martini happy hour with Mrs W, and then a good hearty pasta dinner.

It’s a fine Sunday evening. :slightly_smiling_face:

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I want to smoke a cigarette. I have NO idea where the impulse came from AND I have smoked some weed which should have satisfied need for oral gratification. I think I’m going to ask hubs to go to the C-store and buy me some salted pumpkin seeds. They sell cigarettes there and I don’t really trust myself right now.

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Never mind, I’m just hunky-dory now. That was weird, it’s been over three years and suddenly out of the air came a whammo to my brain. Oddly enough I had zero issues yesterday and several folks were smoking like I used to do. I never even considered asking for one yesterday but here we are now. Brains and addiction are weird.

Hubs really needs a beer drinking buddy who appreciates craft beer. He also needs someone who doesn’t spend the rest of the night in the bathroom after drinking two bottles because she has a bladder the size of GG’s brain. Before the world ended, I had him signed up for Beer Appreciation extension classes at the community college. The weekly classes had the students drinking six different beers every class while discussing them before their wives came to drive them back home.

Hubs fixed the fence so Gordie can’t get out. He noticed what I was doing and took over because doing that sort of stuff is HIS job and he’s the MAN of the house and he’ll fix the fence if it kills him.

Then he took some ibuprofen and stretched out for a long nap.

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Yep. When I lived in L.A. there was one in Culver City. There was also a KFC nearby. I always went to Pioneer Chicken.

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My companion got stuck at Westminster. The Tube is basically shut down and the buses are gerkilated. I told her to take a cab back but she doesn’t to spend the money. Now is is kind by Harrod’s looking for a bus…….

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I’m kinda heartened that someone noticed. No, I’m not okay, at the moment, but I’ll survive.

Oh, swampy today is my birthday. Can I get a singing-at? It would make my day.
Please?

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I won’t sing (trust me, Allie would sound better), but will offer a vaccinated virtual hug and some virtual cupcakes for all.

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Pssssst - it’s in the current MMP!

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