You’ll have my brisket when you take it from my cold, dead hand!
::stalks flytrap, gun in hand:: 
I’m not really eating red meat anymore. You can keep it! 
Well, I’ve been looking at tents for the last hour or so and all I can say is BLURF! I guess I’ll have to visit some local sporting goods stores and see if I have any better luck. All I really wanted was tent sides to go with my backup tent, but buying four of them would be about half the cost of buying a new big tent. Not sure which way to go at this point.
blurf. naptime.
Start a thread. This is the 'Dope, after all.
The knowledge of the entire world, at least the important stuff.
(Looks in - aw crap they’re talkin religion. Heads back to finish Civ 4 marathon game)
Wait, I thought those were the Lubavichers…? 
Vinegar? Heathen!!! (Heathens are also here for the good natured ribs… err, ribbing… right?!)
I’m not even going to pretend I have the energy to respond to everyone over the past few weeks, although I have mostly been trying to follow – I’ll just say, extremely belately, how sorry I am for your loss, Sticks 
Today I have deheathenated, had N.O.L. and, finally, believe it or not, mowed da yahd. I mowed durin’ the afternoon in August which is unheard of except that it’s a very pleasant only 85 Amurrkin out with a nice breeze and for around these parts, not too humid. Heck, I loaded up the push mower, blower and gas can on the back of twuck cause I envision goin’ over to OYKW’s place to mow his yahd which is really easy to do cause it’s small. Right now the weather PTB say we’ll get a ton o’ rain from Isaac beginnin’ sometime tomorrow and lastin’ through at least Thursday. We shall see. Of course, with mowage havin’ happened I may have warded that off. 
BBQ means poke. Brisket is ok but for da bear brisket means corned beef and cabbage and reuben sammiches.
Also, one sauces the meat after it’s cooked not while it’s cookin’.
I know, I know. Shut up bear and go mow.
While I haven’t accomplished much chore-wise, my husband and I did decide to go running today. I am embarrassingly out of shape. I used to run several miles a day with no problem.
Today, we made it maybe a mile all told, and part of that was walking at a very fast pace.
It’s going to be a long haul into getting back into shape. :o
Poooooooped. In the tired sense, not in the reporting bathroom activities sense.
Spent almost 5 hours in the great outdoors doing fun detail painting on the side of the house so that brother can come home tonight and add one more coat of paint to the shingles. Yay!
If it ever cools off, I’ll be washing the other 3 sides of the house and maybe digging up some plants, pulling weeds and generally preparing the other side of the house for paint. Hopefully, this will allow us to only do one round of TSP and rinsing. Yay.
Would also like to organize the painting-related stuff that’s in the living room and also get some of the supplies in the basement organized.
Would also like to clean out the fridge and do some laundry, but that may be too much for a Sunday afternoon.
Read, but didn’t retain. Although I think I saw SO pop into the thread. (Hi!!!)
Hugs all.
GT
Lubuvitchers, Jews For Jesus.
The Internet is a wondrous thing.
Um, yeah, I know the differnce
See, **that **was an example of “good natured ribbing”
And “Hi!” right back attcha, GT
Only a day or two but I have a lot to catch up on!
In case no one knows, I am a bit of a gamer, in the online MMO sense. Also in the ‘Slowest leveller in the whole gaming world’. I am a Dawdler. Anyhoo, had my head buried in Guild Wars 2 this weekend, and it’s been fun.
Today we went to nana’s and brought Mouse the puppy so he could see his mom and siblings, from whom we’ve taken him for a week. He was excited, they all sniffed him and told him he smelled like CAT, and they played.
Then the earthquakes started. And, they haven’t stopped, lol. Biggest ones so far were a 5.1, followed immediately by a 4.9. Not enough to do damage, but nana lost some purty dishes out of the hutch. Luckily, the hutch didn’t fall, because THAT would be some REAL damage.
And of course all 6 of their dogs are freaking the hell out, including two dogs that qualify as horses among most folks; they are now locked in the laundry room, as they were previously seen trying their hand at scaling the 6’2 inch fence. Thing is, they were about to do it, they were just THAT scared. Poor pups.
Our cats are under the bed, and that is a good place for them. Our Mouse puppy is pretty much napping through it all; he seem not worried it all, just stretches and rolls over when the ground starts shaking. Which is good, cause we’re getting rolling temblors every few minutes. I’ve got the cupboards secured, and AC off, since in this house it’s on the roof and I’d rather not exacerbate damage if it decides to shake off. Or something. I dunno, I’m not from around here! 
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqscanv/FaultMaps/116-33.html
See all that red? Lol, that’s just the last HOUR. It’s crazy.
It was mostly for me (because you got me thinking I’d gotten them mixed up) and a tiny bit for flytrap, just because. 
eta - and then for anyone else who might have been interested
Oye.
We were discussing what to do with the ground beef I bought yesterday.
I joked, “We could make sloppy Joes.”
“Yes!” Mrs. Plant v3.0 said.
I went to the hardware store, she to Kroger.
I am fearful…
Joes of Slop are not to be underestimated.
On the flip side, do not give to the dog. At least, not of said dog sleeps in the same house. You will regret the gas fumes later. 
More quakes, yay.
Yikes Tao! Be safe!
Sloppy Joes are ick! What a mean thing to do to perfectly good ground beast. ICK! ICK! ICK!
Yahd mowage has been accomplished. I have showered, had a beerverage and am now in chill mode.
So, who’s crankin’ this up in the mornin’?
Maybe, in light of the quakes on the west coast, hurricanes to the east, west nile in the south, and who knows WHAT coming from the north, I’m thinking perhaps a Natural Disaster thread’s in order. Only problem with that is that too many of them have such very dire consequences, that could be depressing. I’ve been lucky, so what I’ve gone through has ended being just a lot of work with stories to tell, nothing serious.
Ok maybe a bad idea. Who wants to be even MORE depressed on a Monday? Blah!!
Happy Sunday evening all!
Sitting at my local havin a Texan beerverage. Tis pleasant and warm. Good end to a weird weekend.
That’s all I got
See yall Monday
JIM
Swampy can’t always be right. I love sloppy joes. Well, my sloppy joes because they don’t have any icky vegetables in them.
Not me, really. Thanks for asking, though.
First day of school tomorrow. Rah. Normally a week or so before school starts I would have began stressing out. This time it hasn’t fazed me. I just plan on showing up and hanging on this semester. Funny how things change.