You people are evil! All this ice cream talk and there’s none in the house! We’re going out to dinner. I’m going to see if I can talk the hubby into stopping for some ice cream. Maybe at Stone Cold Creamery…
It’s too hot to cook and too hot to grill. We’re going out to eat someplace where there is some AC!
I forgot to mention - speaking of roadside barnyard animals . . .
gt,no flooding yet, but still a day and a half of rain left. We have a flood watch till 11am tommorow, and Crabtree valley Mall has sandbags ready, just in case. Alas, I have no ice cream, so I have to satisfy my self with beer and tater(N.O.T.) chips. 
[Noah] Ark is now boarding deck 5. Civet through dingo…[/Noah]
:: staggers out of the thread, hair mussed, eyes wide ::
… d-d-d … duh d - duh …
DUCK!!
AAAHHHHH runs
3 pages? Do any of you work for a living?
I am back-and I have at least 2 nick names…
Dotster --good to see you back. You are not fat. <sigh>
I am beat from work–this was a strange day and a stressful one. I came home and ate lemon meringue pie-a nice way to end a bad day.
I loooves me some Tin Roof Sundae. I gained 20 pounds eating TRS while I worked noc shift waaaay back in the day. I now only indulge about once a year.
Have a meeting at work in the am. You all may know this, but work sucks. I sooo want to be independently wealthy-don’t you?
Hello to newbies-jump right in.
Exgineer I’ll never understand why people get all angsty about posting to the MMP thread.
Because it’s like being the new kid in school. You all are members of an established group, and it’s a little intimidating to edge in, hoping to be accepted, trying to learn the nicknames and inside jokes. Sorta like being in the cafeteria and looking wistfully at the big table full of boisterous kids all having fun, and wishing for the balls to edge in on the end of the bench. Having recently participated in the MMP I am able to vouch for it being the friendliest place on the SDMB if not the entire internet, and last week I even used one nickname and the fabulously inspired N.O.T. I enjoy so much reading, and now posting, in the MMP, I find myself thinking “Wow, I should go post this” during my everyday life.
I am in shape. Round is a shape!
Annamika You have sold me on reading The Garden of Good and Evil. It’s one of my favorite movies, and the whole Southern atmosphere gives me the warm fuzzies. The more geneaology I do, the Deeper South my ancestors go. Ever since I stumbled upon the video game Disc World I knew that I was going to have to read the Terry Prachett books.
Stumps are nothing to play with. My grandfather survived a stump pulling accident when the tractor he was using to pull stumps with flipped upside down on top of him. He made the front page of the newspaper, and the doctor told him it was a miracle he lived, I was young and don’t remember all the details, but he was thrown in such a manner that the steering wheel didn’t crush his chest.
taxi78cab major props to KeithT!
Embeegee and Geetee is what my mind sees when I read the initials MBG and GT, for whatever it’s worth.
Kadie and the Calfette are kinda scary, there is no way the Calfette could be hers, the poor thing would need it’s own special milking stool in order to reach it’s meals! I am surprised that no one has mentioned the giant dinosaurs in that podunk town in South Dakota. It’s been like a jillion years since I drove past there, but I remember the dinos. In another little town I lived in as a teen there was a tiny drive through with a huge chicken on the roof, and the traditional Senior Class Prank was to take the chicken and relocate him around town. RUOFS is a kinda mutant representation of a polled Hereford, which is what we had at my gramma’s farm. Yeah, the same farm with the homicidal geese. I like cows though. 'specially rare, with freshly harvested veggies on the side!
Spatial Rift I so very much enjoy your puns, I just had to tell you. The punnier the better!
FCM I have failed to offer you chocolate. I make a very yummy black bottom banana cream pie, will that do? (Covering both the chocolate and “When come back…” requirements in one fell swoop, in a manner of speaking!)
Rain. It has rained every single day this month. the temperature has not risen past 53 degrees during the daytime. Right now it is a grand 51 degrees and damp, with more cold and damp in the forecast. Blech.
Jahdra beautiful knitted/felted bag!
Spinach, because we have the weird day length thing going up here my spinach always bolts, so I just keep planting new seed as I pull the old plants. It grows in quite quickly, and we just eat as many of the baby leaves as we can.
Here on the island we have one Safeway, and one other very small grocery store. We have Lucerne, Bryers, and Dryers available in half gallon cartons, and a very small selection of Haggen Daz and Ben & Jerry’s. All of a sudden we have begun to have Blue Bell ice cream commercials on the television. So not fair! Plus Ben & Jerry’s retired Wavy Gravy, double not fair. Plus at least a quarter of the time the ice cream has partially melted and been re-frozen while en route, so then no matter how premium the ice cream, it’s all yukky. A trivia fact for y’all: Alaskans eat more ice cream per capita than any other state. Yup! I’m not talkin’ about Eskimo ice cream either…ewww!
More later on the weekend, I have to throw some food at the kidlets.
And, as I preview, skiffman walked through the doorway. Apparently he’ll be home long enough to shower and eat. The fish run is so slow this Summer, I don’t generally see him at all from June 1st until maybe a quick visit on the 4th of July.
Well, we’ve returned from our out to dinner trek. We drove clear to downtown Tacoma to eat at The Old Spaghetti Factory. My dinner was pretty “meh”. I did take home a freebie glass from my iced cappacino though. We had spumoni for dessert.
So, we avoided the heat here at the house mostly. The sun is starting to go down so it’s cooling off slightly. Thank goodness!
Here’s a link to a picture I took on Saturday while we were boating.
I think I’m gonna veg in front of the idiot box for awhile.
That is a great pic, Taters!
Hello to everybody, especially Dot because she hasn’t been around in a while, and kisses all round. I’m going to bed.
Oh, I read Kushiel’s Scion yesterday, and it was quite good. Driving Husband’s mother’s special ordered copy of Laurell K. Hamilton’s latest bit of trash just came in today, and I kidnapped it. It’s hysterical, as always. The plot is- Scary Vampire Killer who Accidentally Has Sex with Thousands of Men Might Be…
Pregnant! Oh, noes! How could that ever happen?
It’s really stupid.
Night.
No basement flooding overnight - that’s the good news. More rain in the forecast today - that’s the not so great news. We’re going to Baltimore, so if the basement floods, we won’t know till we get home. Here’s hoping the drain doesn’t clog again.
We definitely made the right choice in going to DC on Sunday - parts of the Smithsonian are still closed today. But Metro is back up and running. We are thinking of going to the National Zoo on Thurs - all weather dependent.
I’ve persuaded **FCD ** to take Monday off - it didn’t require a lot of arm-twisting. That’ll give us a little more family time together, plus I don’t have to drive the kids to the airport alone.
Oh yeah, and we didn’t have any ice cream last night. How weird is that? I’ve got 2 new cartons in the freezer (Tin Roof and Peanut Butter Cup) but we ate so late (for us) that we never really got around to dessert. Very weird. It must be all this rain affecting my brain.
If you ever find yourself in Marietta (pronounced May-retta) Jawja, do make an effort to see The Big Chicken. It is worthy of awe and admiration.
FCM it has been my experience that mobs rarely do a good job of getting water out of a basement. They are generally unruly and prone to violence. 
Yay KeithT on the thesis defence!!!
Breaking news from the swamphood!!
My next door neighbors are getting a divorce. I received this tidbit of news from the people who live on the other side of 'em. Next door neighbor lady told 'em so they had a direct source. He’s leaving and she’s staying. I hope she kekeps her yard mowed, cause that was what he always did. That is all.
What, pray tell, is in tin roof sundae?
I can’t think of any big farm animals around here… we have a giant farmer, though.
People who mock other people’s inadvertent typos are big ol’ poopyheads! 
I’m showered and dressed. Robert is up watching SpongeBob. We’ll be heading north as soon as we finish our PopTarts. Hush - they’re strawberry. It’s fruit. It’s healthy. So hush!
Dotster, Tin Roof Sundae is vanilla ice cream with fudge swirled in it, and chocolate covered peanuts mixed liberally throughout. Yummerrific! Trust me.
drags self out of bed I really hate getting up this early.
FCM, I actually like that Big Chicken. Very art deco.
Pun? Pun. (Glad you like them, kaiwik. I am to - well, not please, exactly, but you get the idea.)
Glad you like the chicken, but I had nothing to do with it… You are so not a morning person… 
I live near a Blue Bell factory- nyah nyah nyah. They are big on seasonal and limited edition flavors. Last year’s canteloupe was very, very good. I know it doesn’t sound good, but it really was tasty. I saw them mixing it and was impressed with the color of the canteloupe. They bought up some very fine melons from down in the valley- they were nearky day-glo orange.
We took the kids (8 and 10) on a cave crawl last weekend. It was a rugged hike and an impressive cave. Those kids are real troopers!
Am I to late for the Mr. Bus Guy nickname nominations? If I’m not, I’d like to suggest that we call him “Spanky”. Every group needs a Spanky. No, there’s no reason and no, it doesn’t make any sense. I just like the name Spanky. If I am too late just forget I said anything.
Everybody online calls me “ex”, which I suppose was unavoidable. Everybody offline calls me “shithead” for obvious reasons. Except for my wife - she calls me “asshole” or “dimwit” depending on her mood and whatever dumbassed thing I just did to set her off. Don’t take that the wrong way; it’s all said with love. I even get the occasional “sweetie”.
Don’t go thinking I got all soft and sentimental or anything, but I sort of missed you guys.
May I present, the GIANT ARMADILLO! It’s at the Armadillo Palace, next to Goode Company BBQ, where I had the pleasure to dine with FCM, Lieu and his 'Lil Princess, and Ringo. It was pouring down raining then, too!
Today is beautiful! We had a tiny little front push through, and the humidity is at tolerable levels, and we should only be in the low 90’s today.
I had Blue Bell vanilla last night, with fresh cut up strawberries, and homemade banana bread. Mmm…
This morning I’m eating leftover enchiladas for breakfast. <burp> Oh, excuse me! 
spanky?
:dubious:
I never got my ice cream either. The Wife met up with a neighbor and her 30 minute power walk turned into a 90 minute stroll with the baby, so when she got home it was too late for to feel ok about eating a pizza at 10 pm.
So it was kind of a disapointing day on the food front. But at least I got swampy coveting my loins and stuff now, so there’s a bright side, eh?
mmmmm, Strawberry Pop Tarts…mmmmmmmm. I had to settle for IHOP this morning because none of the local mom/pop places open for breakfast before 7. Now tell me, how do you expect to do breakfast business if don’t open til 7??
Alrighty, to regress a couple MMP’s…I had the funniest dream last night. I remember only snippets, but I woke up laughing uncontrollably. It started, oddly enough, with an MMP reference.
I was standing talking to someone named Kevin, who I “knew” to be an MMP’er. We got any Kevins in the house? Anyways…we were talking about the news in general and he said it sure has been a crazy day for the Jesus Feelers.
(Jesus Feelers, for you who weren’t in my dream, are those people that run around saying “Jesus is HERE!!! I can FEEEEEELLLL HIM, right here!!!” )
I said, yes I heard that the Jesus Feelers were at three diffrerent soccer games yesterday causing a ruckus. Kevin the MMP’er said, that in fact it can be pretty damn disruptive to be Jesus Feeler, and that he had de-activated his Jesus Feeler capability and that he’s glad he did, because now the MMP is a lot calmer.
So, if there’s a general calming mood over the MMP, thank Kevin and that he turned off his Jesus Feeling-ness, because that’s all this place needs is someone feeling Jesus all over the place.
Then, and this is the spotty part, there was some kind of weirdness with Kevin the de-activated Jesus Feeler and I and a couple chicks (MY dream, MY rules), and I was in a beach cabana with one, and she kept trying to hang her clothes on a hook, but they kept falling off, and somehow that was just hilarious to the point where we were both convulsed in giggly, uncontrollable laughter. Also, she was wearing only a black string bikini and I was naked.
That last part I kept out of the explanation to the Wife when I woke her up laughing.
Well, this is the closest I can come to giant animal statues round these parts.
Did someone say chickens? The one’s mentioned here like to hang out in front of the KFC. I am not making this up.
I did NOT have any ice cream last night. I did have some poke chops and some roasted taters (N.O.T.).
I just realized that I have Monday and Tuesday off next week. Then I work two days and have Friday and the Following week off! Whoot!! With any luck I’ll be going to the beach.
Tupug
Everyone else says to, though. I’m just taking a contrary view to make sure things stay even here.
swampy Like you never have a typo? Do we need to talk about beer and cockies?
