A River Runs Through It: A Soggy MMP

I has a sad. I spent 3 hours underneath my old train layout disconnecting wires and stuff until I finally came to the realization that that thing is never gonna fit back down those stairs. (I built it in place.) :roll_eyes: :man_facepalming: :man_facepalming: :man_facepalming: I’m really disgusted with myself for not planning ahead.
Oh well. It needs extensive reconditioning anyway. If I ever get to build another one it’ll be modular.
Now I’ve got to figure out how to cut it up without filling the upstairs with sawdust.

Glad things went well Nellie.

Dinner!

I got yer ‘pump organ’. Right here!

:clown_face:

Snort!

The feds and President Biden deliver! My 4 free at-home rapid tests arrived today, via US Mail.

I think it was less than two weeks ago that I ordered them. It’s lovely that something worked so well and as promised.

I may use them to drive to Iowa and visit my sister. It’s been more than two years since I’ve seen her. I’ll wait til there’s next to no risk of snow, though. I’m no fool. At least not about that kinda thing. And once I get to Cedar Rapid I might as well just keep driving and nip up and visit Shoe. That would be a micromumpfest for the ages.

Anyhow, just wanted to share good news for once. All the moving parts worked slickly together. May I never need to use them.

  • shoe, what flavor kolaches do you want me to bring? I’ll be coming from the kolache capital of the Midwest.

I’ve been drinking like a fish–not alcohol, just herbal tea, ginger ale, water, and soup. The headache is still there. I think it’s a sinus thing. I’ve been using a neti bottle for weeks now. I just have bad sinuses. Other than that, I’m doing OK. I walk around the apartment for 5-10 minutes every hour, as per doc’s instructions. I use ice on the back. I haven’t really needed a pain pill all day. Thanks again for the well wishes. My siblings sent flowers. :slight_smile:

I love the pump organ story, Baker. Your dad sounds like quite a guy. Glad you donated his organ to your appreciative cousin.

How great you got your tests already, Boo! And I’m looking forward to your fun-filled account of the Boo-Shoe To-Do.

bumba, I hope that you can get your train layout sectioned off well to move.

That was the first lesson I learned when I was made grown up in charge of a library department. Deal with it NOW! If you have a list of icky tasks that must be done, do the ickiest one first.

taters I knew I was an imposter from the start. I faked it until I made it my own. Government jobs are trickier because you have to fake it until you learn their often counter intuitive way of doing things, but retirement is magic and well worth all of the bullshit.

nellie So happy to hear from you, gosh, we weren’t worried or anything, we knew everything would go well. Right guys!!!

I has a sad for you. If it helps at all, about 40 years ago, hubs’ Harley got wrecked and after much bother and expense, he rebuilt it in the living room of the home he was sharing with fellow Marine bikers. I was dating him back then (visiting a couple times a week for happy fun times) and would openly wonder if the doors were big enough to get the bike out. Everyone laughed at the silly little blond librarian who was cute but didn’t really understand the biker life.

I almost peed my pantyhose the day that soon to be hubs called me at work to tell me that I was right and they were taking the door out so dinner together probably wouldn’t happen that night. My staff heard me laughing and crying and when I told them, they all started laughing and telling the patrons why we were all laughing and finally the Library Director came to find out what the noise was and also started laughing until he had water on his face.

It was a very good day.

I delivered my first batch of cream cheese and butter to the diner today. I really like working with large amounts of milk, the science stuff is right and mass makes a big difference. Between the huge discount on my supplies and the shortages, it looks like my LLC (GG Cheese) will be all profit in about three weeks. (We had to pay for the dog kennel, start up supplies, Cottage License and LLC. Not a lot of money, but expenses I hadn’t thought about when I agreed.)

Hubs is always thinking and insisted on getting me an LLC so if someone gets sick and dies after eating my cheese the LLC will go under, not us. There’s tax stuff involved too, I dunno, I didn’t think about all that stuff, I depend on Hubs for that.

GG knows there is a another bag of cream cheese hanging behind the closed door and has been spending much time sniffing under the door.

The jerkface doesn’t remember that the last time he got close to cheese in a drain bag, he chewed a hole in the bag, gorged on the soft cream, got it all over his fur while playing in it like it was water, then smeared it all over the floors and walls AND horked it on the loveseat. That was a lovely sight to see first thing in the morning before coffee.

Or maybe he does and had so much fun he wants to do it again. Cats don’t seem to be as bothered about horking fud as people.

Bumba 50ish years ago my dad had to cut apart his layout to get it out of his basement in Wisconsin for the move out to California. To this day, he has it in the garage. It hasn’t always been put together, but he’s held on to it. We finally built him a new layout a year or so ago. It sucks you to have to break the layout down, but if you want workers to put a new one together I volunteer (and my uncle’s in your area too).

Unknown How did you guys get the business license and the LLC? We need to get something together for my husband’s consulting and I don’t know where to start (other than Google).

You won’t need a Cottage License, so we don’t need to talk about him getting a TB test (but not a COVID test).

We have a paralegal friend who loves Hub’s beer. Friend was able to file with the state for the business license, and after he showed us what he was doing, it wasn’t that complicated. Maybe start by going to your state’s website?

Friend had his boss put our LLC together so that’s all legal and stuff.

Back when hubs retired, hubs formed his own LLC because he was going to do mobile auto accident estimates. He was able to do it all online almost 8 years ago, I’m sure the process has become easier since the world ended. He just died so was able to talk while respawning, he got the info about all this on government webpages.

Hubs was very clear that doing this was very important despite me not wanting to work hard enough to make more than 500 a month.

I am selling food, not consulting. There are different requirements for me and your husband.

Evening all. Just watched some basketball and the last one-third of The Martian (still is one movie I will watch most anytime it is on). Phone has been charged, so tomorrow is the official “play around with the new phone” day. We’ll see how it goes. 24F outside, not bad compared to many of you, but plenty cold for N. Ali-bama. Will be in the 50’s tomorrow though.

Unknown, sounds like GG Cheese, LLc is a going concern. As long as it’s fun and not work, have at it (I wonder if some other restaurants will find out and approach you). And love the story about husband-unit and his Harley.

nellie, hope the headache doesn’t prevent you from getting a good night’s sleep.

BBBoo, glad you got yours, still waiting for mine to show up. Only got my water bill today…

Bumba sometimes the best laid plans…anyway, you can;t see everything in the future.

OK, getting late so need to be thinking about bed-time soon. Catch y’all on Sunday.

Me too! May need to wait for deeper spring though. Just looked up the drive time and mileage. 6 1/2 hours/420 miles. I better be relatively sure of no snow/bad weather surprises. Plus need the lake beach to be suitable for dipping my elderly toes in. I’ll have to start amassing a stack of trashy novels to read. Reading, drinking coffee and idle conversation is how my sister and I waste our days together~how sweet sisterly sloth is.

Still awaiting shoe’s kolache order. Anything but raisin and cottage cheese. I’d have to double wrap those and transport them in the trunk. I lean to apricot, cherry or poppyseed. A rhubarb one occasionally. Peach or pear in a pinch.

I did, while also wearing the cute eyelashes and rainbow earrings.

Heh, you said “butt.” (I know what you meant. I’ve prepped easily double or possibly triple my body weight in pork {snerk} butts since starting here.)

Awwww. That’s sweet.

I LOL’d. Gotta have a little raunchy with the sweetness.

Wow. I’d be honored.

{ shit, now I REALLY gotta clean up this joint … err, I mean, this place }

Do they make chocolate? Or strawberry? Or cream cheese?

Woman, I’m going to hug you. Just be prepared for that. (I’m fully vaxxed.)

This story made me giggle.

Ew. Not those. Please not those.

I plan to follow your very sage advice. I’m not going to let this turn into work. I used to do leather work and allowed that hobby to become work. I hate doing leather work now.

As to Hubs and the door, it was sooooo funny. They didn’t just take to door off the hinges, they ripped out the door frame and some of the wall. Then they did stuff to make the new door up to codes and such so the landlord wouldn’t freak when he saw it.

If it had been me, I would have taken the roll bars and handlebars off the bike and rocked it through the door, but I was just a librarian. What did I know???

OMGosh, I’m so sorry Swampy! I should have given you credit for the name!!!

Not a bit~I could send you pictures of my place to ease your mind. As long as there is room for me to toss treats to the kitties it’s all good. And a place to plug in my iPad to charge. Every thing else is gravy.

Strawberry, yes, as well as strawberry/rhubarb which is twice as good. Yes on cream cheese too although as good waste not want not Slovakians it might be made from cottage cheese, very similar to ricotta cheesecake filling. Lots of butter is involved in all.

Prepare for? Shoot, that’s my main goal! The gold at the end of the rainbow!

Brr! You’re more intrepid than I! Lake Michigan is too cold for my tootsies until July. I think in June, the surface temp is usually in the low 50’s. Yes, I’m a wuss.

But a kolache and a nice cuppa sound like just the ticket! (In my neighborhood, we pronounced it Koh-LACH-kee and spelled it kolachke, but I’m sure not claiming that’s correct.) I’ve never had raisin kolache but have had prune kolache, which were OK. Whoever got to breakfast last got the prune one, but that was because we thought prune=laxative. The cheese kolache in my neighborhood were filled with a farmer’s cheese instead of cottage cheese and were pretty good. My childhood favorites were “the red kind”–I think cherry. Yum, now I want one. I bet you make some killer kolache, Boo!

Cherry kolache were a big favorite of mine too. I think a prune kolache is better than no kolache at all, and yes, it is usually the last one remaining on the platter.

Here are the flavors my favorite bakery in my childhood now makes. Some of these are new, signs of the time. Pretty sure I never saw a chocolate one my entire childhood, nor Bavarian creme.

Koláče - (Kolaches)
Apple, Apricot, Bavarian Cream, Blueberry, Cheese/Raisin, Cherry, Chocolate, Cream Cheese, Fig, Lemon, Peach, Pear, Pineapple, Poppy Seed,
Prune, Red Raspberry, Rhubarb, Strawberry, Vanilla Cream, Walnut (Sykora Bakery, Cedar Rapids Iowa est. 1903)

Hattie, my grand daughter, loves kolaches. Her grandparents made sure to introduce them to her at local farmers markets here in Nebraska. Her favorite flavor is poppyseed, which was an acquired taste in my childhood. Kind of looking like a sticky anthill in the center of your pastry but Hattie got right down to it. Her grandpa, my ex, had a Czech speaking grandma so Hattie gets kolaches pushed at her from all sides. Next I’ll need to teach her how to make egg noodles from scratch.

I want one now…

very beautiful cat and his owner looks great with red hair lol ,

I’m gonna make this a separate thread but I wanted to ask the crocheters about this

Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN 'Tis 37 Amurrkin out and cloudy with a predicted high of 57 and mostly cloudy for the day. The big item on today’s agenda is deheathenization (I have Verge duty), followed by a return to da cave and a N.O,L. of leftovers from Firday. Beyond that, the usual sloth and uselessness shall ensue.

Nellie hope the headache is better today and that you were able to get a good night’s sleep.

MOOOOOOM glad you enjoyed your bday dinner. That recipe looks like it could be a keeper.

Oopsie sorry for the food woes. I gather it’s a thing that gets better over time, but still, no fun havin’ to deal in the meantime.

Bumba sorry for the train layout woes. Hope you get it all figured out.

Boo the potential Boo-Shoe Mumperfest will be a ton of fun! I have had and really liked kolaches. My irklikfe would occasionally take me to the midwest. I’ve even stayed at a Sheraton in Cedar Rapid durin’ the weekend of the Iowa-Iowa State football game. That year it was played in Ames. There was a weddin’ reception goin’ on at the Sheraton. I went into the bar to get a burger and a beer for sup and got caught up in watchin’ the game. Folks from the weddin’ reception kept wonderin’ in and out to check on the game. I ended up hangin’ with a group of ‘em until the end of the game. Fun night! Also had a pretty good champagne breakfast there the next mornin’. Howzzat for rambly?

Unknown the motorcycle story gave me the giggles! Also glad to know GG Cheese is off to a good start!

Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, purtification for deheathenization must commence.

Happy Sunday Y’all!

Yeah, I’m only a beginner at crochet, but that’s been blowing up a lot of crochet groups- there’s no such thing as a crochet machine, so yup, those are being made at exploitatively low wages for sure. It would take me about 20-30 minutes to make one of the squares in that, at a rough estimate.

I’ve never heard of kolaches before, incidentally. I just had to search for them to Czech it wasn’t an elaborate joke…