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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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The park was HOT!

Echo is on THE LIST again.
Someone came to the park that I haven’t seen in a long time. She stopped coming because of some issues with her dog. I wanted to stay and talk with her, but Echo went all Tasmanian Devil on her dog, so we left. I hope she comes in the morning. I think if we hadn’t met at the gate and Echo wasn’t leashed, the meeting of the dogs would have gone better. Ripple and her dog used to be great friends, so no worries there.

Then after we got home, they each got a treat. She gobbled hers down and went for Ripple’s. Big fight. Most of the time he will let her take it, but tonight they really got into it.

I think I may have to talk to a trainer to deal with Echo’s attitude.

Kotlety sounds good, and keto if I find a substitute for the crackers.

Getting cloudy outside, I think we are supposed to get a thunderboomers.

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I’ve known enough altar boys to not be surprised. :wink:

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All this talk about nuns, priests, &c reminds me of a story Lady Scadian tells. A friend of hers – big, burly, ponytail, bushy beard, looked like a biker – was out in the driveway working on his bike one day when a pair of JWs showed up and asked if he’d like to talk about the Bible. “Sure!” he said, “Just let me go wash my hands.” His disappeared into the house, and came back a couple minutes later holding a stack of eight or ten books. Bibles. “Which version do you want to talk about?” They left. Oh, did I mention he was a Jesuit priest?

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I love that story.

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Oh, that is sweet!

I hope he added, “And in what language or alphabet, 'cause I know Latin, Hebrew, and Greek, too.” And he probably did.

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Yay for small victories. I had a video chat with my electrophysiologist and he said I can stop taking one of the meds I’d been on since the heart surgery. So no more Eliquis!

The other med will almost certainly be a lifelong one to keep my unusual heart rhythm from going too badly unusual. At least that one is a dirt-cheap generic.

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How about we all make a deal that you drop by here at least once a day?

Just have to figure out how to get a contact number to one of us to call if you aren’t heard from.

AIUI if he was a Jesuit he also knew Latin as a minimum.

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Finally waded thru today’s posts!! You people wore me out! :tired_face:

It was a nice day at Mom’s, and if you are my FB friend, you can see my granddaughter going off the diving board! (PM me if you want to be added.) She had a ball, and crashed in the car on the way home. I made sure to wear a t-shirt over my swimsuit so no sunburn (I think…) I’m hearing rumblings outside - rain may well be on the way.

Sleeping with Mel tonight - I’m beat and I want to make sure I’m not sitting up at midnight again. Plus I’ll need to get up early and finish my walk before 7:15-ish. Daughter and FCD are meeting with the inspector at 8, so I’ll be wrangling Roxy. And I fear if I don’t walk early, I won’t walk at all. So I need to set my alarm.

I’m another lapsed Catholic - the beginning of the end was marrying a Southern Baptist, who’s also lapsed. We tried a couple of different denominations over the years, but nothing really fit well. And the more I hear from and about religions, the less inclined I am to get involved again. I won’t push my lack of religion on anyone and prefer that others do the same for me. Even when I was going to Mass regularly, I considered it to be very personal and not up for discussion or debate.

And on that note, I need to log off and mosey back to bed - I’s tahred!

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Sending a prayer that you meant she had so much fun she fell asleep in the car on the way home and not that she rear-ended a truck on driving herself home.

Waiting to hear..

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Yeah, she was asleep within 15 minutes of leaving. Tho if she had been driving herself, she probably would have rear-ended many things, since her legs are too short to reach the brake pedal! :smiley:

OK, enuff for now - off to snooze! MWAH!!

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FCM, love the video! How old is she?

Thel, I think she did say that one of the Bibles was in Latin or Greek. :slight_smile:

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Moooooom, I envy your ability to raise basil. I plant some every year, but the birds seem to love the stuff and I never get any to make pesto.

Sorry about your neighbor nut.

metal mouse, your ballroom jeans make me picture you two stepping in Texas. :slight_smile:

shoe , my grandmother and mom used to make kotlety. Most of the time, us kids referred to them as stretch burgers.

I came home to see a moving van two doors down. My neighbors (the maintenance guy and his dad) with the two dogs are moving. The complex let maintenance guys go at their two local properties and hired two guys for half the pay. The one at our complex quit two days in. Nelson will miss them and their two dogs. I also found out that a neighbor in the next building had passed. He always gave Nelson skritches under the chin when we saw him out walking and once in a while, we’d run into one another picking up takeout. He was three years younger than me. RIP Will. :cry:

Busted my butt for the first two hours at irk today inspecting FUBAR pallets out in the warehouse. Once the reports for them were written, I still had an hour’s online training to do. Fortunately, I’m in pretty good shape for EoM now and I should be able to bug out early tomorrow.

My mom was the Catholic in our household, thus, us kids were educated by nuns through eighth grade. She herself was from a mixed household (RC and Brethren), as was my dad (agnostic and Lutheran). My dad is agnostic. Three of six of us kids are atheist/agnostic, one wandered around from atheist to Buddhist to progressive Protestant and, now, as an empty nester, taking a hard right turn back to RC and conservative politics. :eek: Big Bro was a pretty generic lapsed Christian and little Bro left the church after his divorce when he wanted to remarry. He’s now a practicing Lutheran. I helped a lapsed Pentecostal raise two agnostic kids. It runs in the family. :stuck_out_tongue:

Stay safe and healthy y’all!

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Evening all. Dinner (cheeseburgers with a banana for dessert) has been consumed and I am now having a bout of sneezing, which sometimes happens after eating (why, I don’t know). Nappage occurred this afternoon, so will probably stay up late tonight. Still no rain despite all the promises, so we’ll see what tomorrow brings.

FCM, great video. I love that she doesn’t even hesitate, just gets on the board and goes.

gotti, good news on the meds.

herald, don’t mess with Jesuits!

Sari, sounds like a trainer may be a good idea. And I’m surprised the dogs didn’t go after the pig thinking “walking bacon!!”

OW, great story.

nellie, didn’t have to try them on, I did that about 3 months ago when I bought a couple of pair, so all I had to do was make sure they were the same type and size. Made it a lot easier. And you may be right on the bike.

Nettie, best wishes to you and DH. Hope this one works out as well as the heart surgery for Mr. Butters did and fixes what was wrong.

talky, let me get this straight…a pie was heavily infested with ants, but his solution was to pop it in the microwave and eat it anyway? <That boy ain’t right…>

purp, how does one clean a snake? Towel and fresh water? Oil and microfiber? Not something I’ve ever thought of.

Swampy, remember there’s 3-4 different flavors of Lutheran, I think my brother belong to the Wisconsin synod (I could be wrong, it’s their most conservative).

Boo, we have a nice lake at the park here, with a couple of machines where for 0.25 cents you can get a handful of bird chow for the ducks and geese. And BOO!! on that bishop.

OK, if I missed anyone, hugs, grins and smiles all around. Take care now.

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A couple of JWs showed up at my maternal grandpa’s house one day wanting to discuss religion. He invited them in and had an hour-long discussion about the various branches of Christianity. They never came back.

Maternal grandpa was a Lutheran pastor.

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Pretty sure spray Lysol and steel wool would be a bad idea, right?

Sounds delightful :blissed out smile: My nearest lake in town is plagued by flocks of way too many geese who have horned in and their poop has fouled the water enough to cause nasty algae blooms so the city has begged people to not feed them. That is one place where I toss (gently) small pebbles into the water instead, never anywhere near any geese. As long as they don’t poop on my head or my car and then all bets are off!

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My late DFIL, a faithful Latter-day Saint and BYU graduate, used to do that. By the time I met him, he was pretty sure his house was permanently blacklisted by the JWs. :slight_smile:

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I just took the ‘boys’ outside and the thermometer on the porch said 108F.
In the shade.
It was 5:30 pm.

Tad warm out there.

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Nothing personal, but better thee than me!

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I hope that was the back porch with a privacy fence. :d&r:

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My parochial school was about evenly split between Italian, Irish, and Polish kids. We suffered and suffered alike. Plenty of guilt and horror stories to go around.