Good afternoon! Nice OP gt, I think you ought to do a couple of your chore projects and then spend the rest of your vacation doing what you like to do. I have no suggestions with regard to what might be fun to do, I was in Ohio once, stayed in Mentor-on-the-Lake in the dead of winter. The most fun I had was just cruising the countryside. I hope that you come up with some things that are fun.
So it’s Monday again, it seems that I make a post on Monday and while I try to read, I am never able to stay caught up. However, today is the first day of school, and I am seriously doing the Happy Dance! Hopefully I will be able to resume my routine and have time to post more frequently.
Hey smartie, are you still being forced to listen to goat roper tunes? I think of you everytime I hear G with an O, O with a D, T with an I, M with an E… 
yeah, I like country music! Not only country, but I do like it. On a more serious note, I am sorry for your loss of Space Dawg, she was beautiful, and from what you have said, she loved much, and was much loved in return.
Nava all my best with everything going on in your life. You always seem to have your hands full with your family, I can empathize with you there.
pie I understand a lot of what you have been going through, empathy from me regarding the mental health stuff. After a lifetime of beeing a wingnut I have finally found the right combination of meds which help keep me off the roller coaster. My hope for you is that you find the same relief, in the meantime please accept this virtual bouquet of irises.
I am so pleased that I am not the only person experiencing autumn. li li your son is beautiful, and I have relived my children’s reluctance to adapt to a sleeping pattern. It’s frustrating and it’s never fun to be sleep deprived on top of the body’s effort to provide food for the young 'un. This will pass, and once he’s a teenager your problem will then be to wake him up!
Never a dull moment in your life, huh BBBobio? Glad that you didn’t have to find a corpse, but the filthiness of some people is astounding. Also yay on getting the patient off to the hospital without much trouble, and I also am dumbfounded that your encounter with Bambi caused little to no damage. Our deer are Sitka Blacktail, and are a small deer, yet when they play chicken with traffic and lose they generally leave a good dent. btw, regarding eating venison vrs your weight surgury, does it make a difference if the meat is cooked to falling apart tenderness, or how about ground into burger meat?
pugs I am so happy for you/jealous about your trip! I want to go to Europe so badly, I hope that your trip is fabulous and everything you ever hoped for.
Life here has been full of a lot of stress, some pain (I tweaked my back, and my local PA is ultra conservative when it comes to pain meds) so I have had to face a couple of hard facts, one being that I am going to be going back on the fly to Anchorage once a month to see a pain specialist, also the carpal tunnel syndrome in my right wrist has begun to truly distort my wrist, and I am gonna have to bite the bullet and have the flipping surgery done. I have put off several surgeries for too long, and age is beginning to rear it’s ugly head and show me just how badly things could become. Yippee skippee. I hate hate hate surgery. Blech!
In Kodiak news, the bears have been out in force. The fish runs have been late and sparse, and the berries are only now beginning to ripen. There was an incident close by where a young sow (2-3 years) was doing her best to chew her way through a doggy door, and it was not her first offense, and so she was shot. Very sad, but when the bears become that bold it becomes dangerous. A friend had his garbage can taken by a bear sometime Saturday night. In the morning all that was left was the lid and a chewed up bottle of rug shampoo. I went berry picking with my friend Cat, she was picking most of the berries and I was on bear watch. At one stop, just a half block from a place I lived in previously, she wasn’t 10’ off the sidewalk and saw fresh bear scat. She kept picking, but when she came back she said that there were a couple of bedding down spots back there. I could relate more stories, but the bears have been thick this summer, and this post is already getting too long.
So, here is my MMP, hopefully I will be around more frequently now that the kids are in school and summer is on the wane. Happy Monday all! Hugs, yays, boos, etc. to any who are in need.
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On preview, gentle {{{FCM}}} and I also have a nice stash of dark chocolate, shall I shove some in the cd drive for ya? Take it easy, it sounds as if you have been overdoing things a bit.
I laughed quite loudly at the Sports Gynecology remark.
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