1859 Otis Tufts patents the first passenger elevator in the US
Nothing more need be said, right? Tho I’m sure we’ll all think of things to say. 
Happy Moanday!!!
First! Good it is to be juvenile!
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 73 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 94 and partly N.O.S. for the day with maybe a chance of rain. Or not. Cleanin’ lady comes today and I shall go over to the church house to check for any drips. Fun times! Sup shall be salmon patties, peas, smashed N.O.T. and bizkits cause of a gnawin’ and a cravin’ for comfort food.
MOOOOOOM have fun at the zoo with Roxstar!
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, alas, alack, and bother, I suppose I shall purtify and be presentable to be seen in public. Life is just so difficult sometimes!
Happy Moanday Y’all!
night all im off to bed
Greetings from Knoxville. Mrs Magill and I moved Fang into his dorm yesterday. This morning, we’re taking him to the bank to get a checking account, then off to home.
Apparently, according to the Facebook groups, she’s supposed to be crying here eyes out. Mostly, we’re just feeling a sense of accomplishment. We always thought that making him into an independent adult was the end goal.
That’s how I felt when we took our daughter to Orlando and UCF. Of course, we had no idea her freshman year would include 4 hurricanes in rapid succession. When they lost power, she and her roomie retreated to Ocala to stay with her grandparents till Orlando got the juice flowing again. Good times, good times…
But, yeah, I felt like our job was to mold a more or less responsible citizen and turn her loose on the world!
Kitchen is tidy, lunch is more or less packed - once Daughter and Roxy get here, I’ll load it all into the cooler. I remembered a hat - it’s gonna be brutal in Baltimore today - heat indices in the upper 90s!! We’ll see how long we last there. Maybe I’ll be able to post some pics on FB while we’re there.
See ya laterz!!!
Mornin’ everyone.
I was awake at 3:30 and out of bed at four. I’m showered and sheveled and ready to take Polar to the vet for a chest x-ray. We’ll leave just before seven, but I’m not sure when he’ll be done. While I’m there, I’ll pick up more Rymadil for him since I have him his last tablet this morning.
I hope you all have fun at the zoo, FCM.
I managed to hold back the tears when we dropped our son off at college, but I did sniffle a little once we were well on the road to home. I think I cried a little mainly because it was the beginning of a new chapter in life and I was proud of my son. My daughter attended college while living at home, but when she moved in with her now-husband, it was the same thing, my husband and I both sniffled a little once she and K were gone. End of an era, etc. I still really miss having them at home, even all these years later, but I know we turned out great kids and they are doing well. That’s all one can ask for as a parent, right?
What I do today will depend on how long Polar is at the vet. I hope he’s only there for a little bit so I can get on with my day. I’d like to take a short drive somewhere, but I don’t want to be too far away when Polar is done. Maybe I’ll wash windows until I can pick him up.
The day began with 95% humidity. Our windows are al fogged up. As a bonus, the heat index is forecast as 105f (40.5c) My task for today is to not die of heat stroke…
Mornin’ all. I’m hoping to deliver the last two pieces of furniture to the client this week, but the contractor is taking longer than expected to get the place ready. Also got some new little CNC things to do. Still having trouble getting motivated to do shit, but we’ll power through.
Now, onward while I still have some motivation. Or maybe that’s a hangover. Who knows?
Stay safe everyone!
I hope the vet visit goes well, Taters.
I’ll probably shed a couple of tears when the kids go off to college, but if prior milestones are any indication they’ll be from pride.
I just dropped overlyboy off for his first cross country practice. It was a much, much better experience than trying to get him involved in baseball, which unbeknownst to me (but now knownst), is extremely exclusionary at his high school.
High school sports is a ton more intense than it was when I was a kid. Then again, I went to a small, rural high school with fewer than 100 people in the whole school, and there are more than 1,500 in my son’s public high school. Just the sheer number of events, sports, clubs, class options and freaking paperwork is completely overwhelming.
Morning all. Need to do the Moanday shop-n-sammich run here in about an hour (just added bananas to the list) and I swear today I will remember my Publix shopping bag for once. Then a couple here and there things and make up the weekly planning schedule. Also need to check if the library is open so I can go somewhere quiet to make up the soccer teams.
FCM, have a good (and not to sweaty) trip.
talky, yeah, some sports start getting compartmentalized early on, with travel teams and such, at least cross county just means you have to run with a bunch of other people.
hippy, I remember stepping out my residence in Abu Dhabi when the humidity was high and the temps in the 90’s and my glasses fogging up in 1-2 seconds. Hang in there.
Don’t remember my parents being all emotional, of course I was staying at a college 15 miles away and made it home each weekend to work, so it wasn’t a long-distance parting. Still, they wanted me to stay on-campus to get the full college experience, and that was good of them.
OK, need to be about things. All y’all take care.
Afternoon, mumpers! It’s 20C/67F and the computer says “rain coming”. It doesn’t say whether rain will be staying or going, and it’s currently sunny out there so also got no idea “when” rain might be coming.
Taters hope the vet visit goes well and you don’t have to wait too long. I got a text telling me Shadow is due for his booster shots and healthcheck next month so I will have to make an appointment for him soon.
Mooooom enjoy the zoo!
hippie hope you find somewhere cool and you miss out on the heat stroke!
We quite often have parents getting quite emotional when they bring their offspring to campus open days, it finally hits them that Junior is actually going to university and won’t have them around to do everything 
I have five more days at irk before my week off. Can’t wait!
Home from heaving. When I turned 18, my parents moved out of state. It’s only supposed be 90 today, but it will be in the mid 90s by Saturday.
Enjoy the zoo, Mooooommmm!
{{ sends Hippie virtual popsicles }}
Gotta call the local library system to get my card renewed (no branches are open on Mondays). Why even have the silly thing expire?
The deed is done. I miss him a bit already, but I take solace in the fact the number of wise asses in the Magill hou6has been reduced by 33%.
Friday we went out for a very expensive Italian dinner ($150+, including tip) in Ferndale. They were really proud of their affettati. There were four little slices of local salumi, four thin slices of local cheese, a small pile of local goat cheese, a small pile of local blue cheese, some pine nuts (?), some candied pecans, tomato chutney, a tiny bowl of pickled red onions, a small bowl of artichoke hearts, and four slices of crostini. For $23. 
I had Braciola: Pork Loin, mushroom marsala cream pan sauce, roasted rainbow potatoes (tiny), market vegetables sautéed red and yellow bell pepper, and three thick grilled asparagus spears). It was very good, though I only had a few bites of potato. Mrs. L.A. had the lasagna, which came with asparagus, but she likes her asparagus soft. The lasagna sauce was very good, but she was disappointed at the skimpy amount of ricotta in it. There was a bottle of chianti on the table, so we bought it and had wine with our dinners. We had ‘surprise’ cocktails before dinner. (Now that I mention the cocktails, I remember I posted about dinner before. But I’m not deleting everything I just typed!)
As I said in the last MMP, I spent three hours digging and levelling some ground and building a frame for a foundation for the woodshed I’m going to build. The gravel guy didn’t come yesterday.
Mrs. L.A. made lasagna for dinner last night, because she wanted better lasagna. She put cinnamon in the ricotta, which I thought was weird. (I use nutmeg.) But it was delicious. I stuck a candle in the chianti bottle we brought home from Friday’s dinner, and it was nice.
As we sat in the catio, we had a visitor. There’s a young couple two door down, and they have the sweetest dog named Clover. (I think she’s a German Shepherd mix.) I took her home, where the gate to their deck was open. Nobody was home, so I left a note: ‘Thank you for visiting, Clover! But let me take you home and shut the gate. [Johnny & Mrs. L.A.]’
Oh, speaking of pets. We put up a couple of ‘cat shelves’ on the wall behind the couch. We bought shelves and brackets at the hardware store, and Mrs. L.A. put carpet on them. Goo seems to have a new favourite spot.
My buddy is theoretically bringing his riding mower to my house later today, it’s roughly 30 years newer than the one I currently have so it will be a welcome upgrade. Now I need to figure out what to do with my old one.
The county dump will take it if I get all fluids out of it, and take off the tires. Not sure how one is expected to get a lawn tractor on and off a trailer with no gas or tires. Plus one tire is dry rotted, and I tried to get it off and the lugs are completely seized.
Incidentally, you know what happens if you put Fix-a-flat into a dry rotted tire? White foamy boogers come out through the side and it still deflates. The last few weeks I’ve been mowing with a bicycle pump along for the ride.
Waiting for Roxy and her mom to return on the train ride. It’s hot. I wanna go home!!! 
Got the royal litterbox scooped (it was subjected to dump-scrub-refill over the weekend) and the garbage taken out, and library card is now renewed (I still don’t see a need for it to expire in the first place). Even requested a DVD. We’re opened up for ventilation (AQI is good at this point) and laundry is underway (never-ending task, that).
Still need to InstantPot a pork roast into shredded pork, maybe do some other domestic stuff, and start looking over job listings.