bee-lurf!
Blurf. The cats, who work as our alarm clocks, decided to take an unscheduled day off. Consequently, Airman and the sprog were running late.
The Peapod order has been placed and groceries will be delivered this evening, between the hours of 8 and 10. This weekend, we will be making beef stew, possibly with dumplings. It’s fall; there should be stew. There will also be delicious London broil, chickie boobs, and various turkey products to prepare for The Big Day.
It’s another beautiful day in the neighborhood…
Happy Firday!
It’s a sunny 41 degrees outside. Going to be a pretty day.
Will you adopt me?
9:30 am, 60 degrees, and a beautiful day in my neighborhood. Of late, Littlest Miss has decided that soup and tea is a perfect breakfast. So we’re just now finishing our mushroom and barley soup. (Honestly, with cooler weather lately, I like this menu. I have coffee with my soup, and she has herbal tea. My husband just looks at us funny and eats cereal.)
School is out next week for the previously-scheduled fall break. Since power outages and such have caused such a financial strain on a lot of area households, and a lot of kids who need them will miss weekday breakfast and lunch at a time when finances are stretched thin, we’re working hard this weekend. We’re sorting and bagging 40,000 pounds of food to give away tomorrow, and prepping 1600 hot meals. Distribution at 4 sites around the county. Girl 2.0 and I are bagging tonight. The whole family will be serving tomorrow. Emergency food stamps are being processed, and maybe we can keep hunger at bay until folks get access.
Meanwhile, The Boy and his roommates are loading up the pickup with yard tools, and plan to find some places where folks need a little help clearing storm debris.
I think supper tonight is gonna involve a crock pot…
I ain’t quite THAT old you wisenheimer you! 
Agnes in 1972; we ended up with water almost to the second floor. And we didn’t get anything cool from our neighbors in Forty Fort at all. 
(The dike burst behind the cemetery and bits and pieces turned up in a lot of odd places.)
Last year about this time I was scanning on the one lane at work. Our hand scanners look something like early Star Trek phasers and emit a red beam. Someone, some punk ass kid in their mid-20s, came to the same pallet and was scanning the box next to the one I was using. I said “Don’t cross the streams - it would be very bad if we crossed the steams”. His reply was huh? I said “You know – like in Ghostbusters”. His reply was that he never watched those old movies. :smack:
Second one from work – when the scanners start acting up the first “cure” is to crash is out and reboot; you hit 1, 9, and power all at the same time. If you do it with one hand it has an iconic look most people my age recognize. Anyone over 50 pretty much figures it out when I say “give it the Vulcan nerve pinch” but some of the younger people ask me “what’s a Vulcan”. :smack: C’mon – the newer movies get some box-office!!!
Weather is cold and gloomy. Brought in the last AC unit and need to move it to the garage. The bank is finally working on the abandoned house next door trying to winterize it; may just have to neb and see what I can find out about the old LeBaron in the garage — will they scrap it or try to claim the title and sell it. With the exception of a couple bullet holes (this is a tough neighborhood) its in damn near mint shape – I believe its like an 84.
Afternoon all!
So hath finished my first week at new irkplace. It’s a lot nicer’n the old one! The customers are almost all regulars, ans are lovely. In the first week, I had no nasty customers, only one slightly grumpy one.
Main drama of the week: calling an ambulance for a customer (elderly guy, started feeling funny, went outside then collapsed… He’s OK, his daughter, who he was with at the time, showed up later to let us know, with a bunch of flowers for us, said this place was nice 
).
I was supposed to be on a two week trial, but the owner said yesterday that he can’t be bothered to call next week a trial, I’m good enough, I can stay
Anyway, hope everyone’s OK with the dramatic Weather. It’s been weirdly dry here, for the season. Got a little rain this morning, and it’s supposed to be soggy next week. Oh well.
{{Rosie}}
I’ve had to deal with several flavors of weird in the software this morning - I swear, this machine is possessed! So I decided to quit and work on a different project, just because.
With just about 3 anna half hours to go, I’m ready for the weekend to begin. My mom is back in the states, but I don’t know when her flight from Miami was to depart, so she might still be in FL. I’ll call her later this afternoon. Or tomorrow - she may get home exhausted.
Lunch time is just about over - time to dive back into that circuit breaker panel modification!
Change of plans. The previously mentioned 40,000 pounds of food just became 80,000, thanks to a donation from a local food distribution center. My friends and I have been unofficially referring to our little efforts as #operationfishesandloaves, and the hash tag is becoming more apt every day. (Literally, it started at 6am Monday, with an informal plan to collect what we each could spare, and share with those in need. Five days later, we’ve served 10,000+ boxed meals and distributed about 8 tons of bagged groceries and about a thousand cases of water.)
By day’s end tomorrow, we hope to have distributed half to three-fourths of what’s on hand, and to have restocked the main food pantry and the church pantry. It’s gonna be a long and rewarding couple of days.
And now back to your previously scheduled grumpy and blurfs!
Howdy Y’all! Twuck got serviced, I went to the post office, the liberry and the IGA sto’. I bought a small rotissed chikin which has been shredded for chikin nachos. This evenin’ I shall betake myself to the church house to assist in preppin’ foodstuffs for tomorrow’s Oktoberfest/Stewardship Campaign Kickoff. In a bit I shall assume nappage just cause I can.
Peaches wow! Good on y’all for that effort. Karma shall be your friend for some time to come. Also, how cool of the boy and roomies to do what they plan to do. I’m sure they’ll find all kinds of ways to stay busy with that project.
I don’t know about adopt; society (and the courts) tend to frown on such things. How many cats do you have and can you manage stairs?
BLURF Yay Peaches that is so good of you and the kids to help out. Makes me almost cry.
Mom what is the magic date for the cruise?
We got through the Fall Fest. Best guess is between 500-600 people. It is tons of hard work but it is done. I didn’t get done until a little after 8PM and with the hour commute I had a 12+ hour day. Next up Fantasy Fest Shuttle.
1, no. 
rosie, I’d adopt you and Smokey. The groceries aren’t as fancy as rockin’s, but I haven’t wasted away to nothing yet. 
swampy, y’all still have IGA sto’s? The last one I saw was about five years ago.
Happy cruising, Moooom!
metal mouse, you were out of your rack before I was and I have to go to work. Someone needs to teach you how to sleep in in your retirement.
peaches, it’s wonderful that you and your family are giving a hand to those who got hit the worst by the storm. The cleanup that your son and his buddies are doing is hard work (speaking from clean up from Nashville’s flood and tornadoes and a tornado down in metal mouse’s neck of the woods a few years ago).
Finally seeing fruition on a couple of projects that have been on the back burner. Iffen I get outta here early this afternoon, I’ll hit the grocery sto’ and the Thai takeout place (with the end goal of trying everything on the menu).
We embark Grandeur of the Seas on 22 Oct in Baltimore. That’s a week from tomorrow. Which means I have a week of work before a looooooooong overdue vacation. 
**Peaches **- I am muchly impressed!
Peaches There is nothing wrong with soup for breakfast. It is hot and filling. Something infinitely worse could have been selected. I decline to speculate what. Good for you and the friends and family for helping out like that. It’s nice to remember that there’s good in people (and see it)! There’s been so much hate and anger in the news lately. Thank you.
Yay! confetti Congratulations!
I have checked. We are wet. Lots of leaves and bits down, but the fences are standing, always a good thing. Getting ready for round 2 to start shortly.
DH comes back from CA today. Daughter is deciding whether waking before noon is really all that it’s cracked up to be, and son is playing video games. The excitement is palpable.
I achieved nappage and have preoared all but the gravy to go on the chikin nachos. Yes gravy. It’s from a package. Don’t Judge! It’s an interestin’ combo of chikin, gravy, pepper jack cheese, bell peppers, onions, jalapeños (if desired and we so desire) and tortilla chips. Sauté the peppers and onions, add the chikin ‘n gravy, mix it all up, pour on top of chips, cover all that with grated pepper jack cheese and slide in the oven to get the cheese all melty. I find 350 degrees to be a good oven temp for this. Oh and unless you are usin’ those little cans of chunk chikin or sump’n like a rotissed or other wise cooked chikin, you must cook the chikin’. I assume y’all know that. Chikin tartare is not recommended.
Nuts forgot to say earlier, YAY for the new gig workin’ out so well!
Home. I got an email that I had a check at the little store - one of my older monsters sold last month! A whopping $8.55 for me! When you deduct for materials and the electricity to run the kiln, we’re looking at something like half a buck an hour for my time. At this rate, I’ll be a gazillionaire, um, never!
**FCD **wants soup and salad from Olive Garden for supper, so that’s where we’ll dine tonight. Not my favorite place, but no dishes to wash, so that’s a win.
red, do you live near the metro-NYC area? 'cause I might take you up on that offer 