Went into the 'Boro to do a little shopping, came home and took Nelson to the dog park. butters, we met the sweetest little terrier mix named Butterscotch, but, you guessed it, called Butters. 
She and Nelson had some fun romping around before we left.
Popeye’s fixed supper and there’s a leftover piece of chicken for breakfast tomorrow.
Evening all. Outside of nappin’ and readin’, not much accomplished today. Did pay a few bills and got my checking account for September where I wanted it, so I guess my brain stem is still functional.
Butters, I’d offer you skritches and nose-boops (considering all the pet pictures we’ve had in the past couple of days), but just remember you are the smart one in the family and while murder can be considered, it is probably a bad idea in the long run. Hope the hurricane slides on by.
herald, interesting, our stocks here (in N. Ali-bama) are still good.
flyboy, didn’t know about the knees (or forgot), and climbing a ladder with two shaky knees does not sound like fun. Be careful.
And cookie, Excelsior!
Sari, thanks for the info. Sounds like a patient guy who may have finally reached his limit. I have some of his habits and know what it’s like to have to rave now and then. Hope the fence work goes well.
Big Bowl O’sallit has been assimilated and some more internettin’ needs to be done, so all y’all take care.
What a great name for one of my favorite meal planning solutions:pancakes:
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Brunch, lupper (lunch for supper) and brinner. All the bases covered! 
It’s been a lovely day with y’all. Thank you so for the delightful company and heartwarming pet photos. Much enjoyed.
Slothful day on the comfy couch, cat visitors (on their term), the chortles and singing from my 12yo housemate’s room (she sings like an angel), Mumpers on my iPad-what’s not to love?
Tomorrow will be a no-Harriet 
Sunday but housemates have a plan afoot to go out for cheese quarter pounders 
and ice cream 
at Chez McDs and then an anti-cabin fever visit to our local Sunken Garden (city rose garden), complete with beautiful lily pad/goldfish pool.
Have a new Brad Thor ebook from the library to stay up way too late with. Life is good. If any of you know the ending, don’t tell me.
Boo
Sorted. Gordie has now decided I can only sleep a maximum of 90min in my bed. Anybody want a cute, but deranged JRT? But it is m firday, and I have gin and hockey. 
Redirecting...
Gordie
Likes: Butt skritches, chicken, towels
Dislikes: The Invisible Mole People, golf carts
Redirecting...
Alex of House Catt, First of her Name, the Unfed, Queen of Apartments, Protector of the Seven Sectional Pieces ,Mother of Hairballs.
Bumba, eeek! Hope you’re breathing better now.
{{{{Butters and [b]Hubby[//b]}}}} And stay safe with the hurricanes.
Nut, you seem to know axolotl about amphibians.
sari, all I did today was a load of laundry.
Oh, god, I can’t stop chortling at this. You lost me at “The Unfed.” 
The Gordie picture worked, the Alex picture didn’t. 
Snuggles and scritches to both anyway.
With the roommate gone, I’m starting to consider animal rearrangement or possibly adding one.
Option number one is to bring one or two of the porch ferals inside. The porch ferals are absolutely feral and I can’t touch them at all, although there’s one I can almost get close and one who is a brave little badass and stalks around hissing at me rather than hiding when I go to take care of them.
Option number two is my female’s biological mother. She’s in the feral section in the shelter, but I cared for her and her litter when my girl was a kitten and, while she was never one to approach people and would likely never have become really socialized in the shelter, she was always gentle and handleable, even in later years when I’ve had to give her vaccines.
Option three is a cat who was young when I was new at the shelter and used to follow me from pen to pen, but hasn’t done that in years. I think he could be a happy, friendly cat if he were given some more room to breathe.
Option four is a cranky senior I’ve always loved. She’s always disliked other cats, but I’m capable of keeping them separate. It would be a bit of a pain, but possibly worth it for her. She’s been at the shelter as long as I have and doesn’t have a whole lot of chance of adoption at this stage.
Option five is a young pair with whom I fell madly in love when I worked in their section. I would really prefer just one of the two, but she comes with a sister and that’s just how it is. Both are shy, but the tortie really took to me and the dilute always hangs around behind her.
And option six… is a dog. Not a specific dog. But with my roommate’s animals, my two were in constant conflict with the other cats (who, to be fair, were jerks), but loved the dog. The dog option would have to wait until the rest of life is more solid, though.
None of these have to or will happen right away, so I can give them all some thought/consideration.
At the moment, things are still in such chaos that I just got texts from three different people reminding me to eat and take my heart meds. Which, while not strictly necessary, does make me feel loved. Still, though, I think I’ll wait to add more responsibilities until I can be trusted with basic self-care.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up stoopid early and caffeinatin’. YAWN Woke up about four-thirty with the need to pee and knew I would not go back to sleep, so here I am. 'Tis 71 Amurrin out and clear (dark, actually) with a predicted high of 85 and maybe rain this afternoon. Or not. Looks like we will get a bunch of rain tomorrow from the outer bands of whichever hurricane is closest to us. Today we shall deheathenate, I have ush duty for both services again, followed by N.O.L. which shall be leftovers from yestiddy. I decided to bake the chikin laigs with bbq sauce rather than fry 'em. Side matter consisted of field peas with snaps, scalloped N.O.T., squish, and rolls. So we shall eat the leftovers today. More rolls will be baked as we et the ones made yestiddy.
dots yay for friends who remind you of stuff. Good idea to wait to add additional critters until you feel better about stuff.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then purtification for deheathenization must commence.
Happy Sunday Y’all!
Me too. 
I’m really enjoying seeing all the pictures in this thread. It really helps for keeping all the animals straight, plus adds more information about the members.
Some weeks ago I went through some boxes of receipts, brochures, etc. from earlier travels and unearthed about a dozen postcards that I bought, but never sent. I might keep a few for the next postcard exchange, but the other ones I’m mailing now. So far I wrote 3 and have designated 3 more to be written today.
Consequently I had to order more stamps. The post office will mail them to me, and not charge shipping. They will send some to me on August 27th, which I can’t actually use until September 3rd. Odd. At least they are coming out with some with chocolate on them. Seems appropriate for Switzerland.
And I’m wondering why I decided to buy a postcard of a jewel-bedecked skeleton (just the skull of this guy) Certainly not my normal thing.
Still have to do my homework for German class, but now it’s time to make lunch before hubby notices it’s already after noon.
Afternoon, mumpers! Happy Sunday…today will be a day of slothage for me, back to work tomorrow after a week off so I have to make the most of the last few idle hours.
Yesterday I got my hair cut for the first time in six months, feels much better but I might leave it another six months before I go back again. Nothing wrong with the experience but I wanted to grow it out and since it wasn’t looking that untidy, doesn’t seem much point cutting it every 6-8 weeks if it’s not really needed.
I left blokie to do whatever errands he’d got while I was being frou-frou’d, and arrange to meet him in a pub. We had a couple of drinks there, walked halfway home and stopped at another pub before we finally made it back to the house. Dinner was cold meat and cheese with warm crusty rolls just for a change. Tonight I’m making chilli as we’ve not had that for a while and I’m not planning on anything that requires much effort.
I was supposed to be off work for half of next week but I don’t need the extra days as our planned trip never happened so now I have to log into my work laptop to cancel it through our fancy HR system 'cos it won’t let me access it from my personal laptop. Much annoyance about that, largely because my team don’t bother making their leave requests through the system (which is what they’re supposed to do) and just email their requests to me instead. Ho hum…
We’re in for a hot stretch here in southern Merrylande - upper 80s/low 90s for the week. I assume humidity will be similar. rah. 
Daughter and SIL are taking Roxy to a local arts garden to run off some steam. Then when they get her down for her nap, they’re heading to Waldorf to look at bedroom furniture for her new room and maybe find a dining table and chairs for their new home.
FCD will continue working - he’s doing a project in conjunction with some Italian engineers and he’s had some colorful words for their computer models and their design approach. To be fair, any 10 engineers could very well come up with 10 equally valid designs and they’d all think the other 9 are awful, because that’s just the way it works. But the bad models are just sloppy - if 2 parts are supposed to be bolted together but the bolt holes don’t line up, that’s sloppy. He spent many many hours fixing sloppy stuff like that so he can run his stress analysis. On the other hand, it pays well…
As for me, apart from walking (which I didn’t do yesterday) I’m not sure what I’ll do. The vacuum will probably be pushed around a bit, and I need to inventory the freezer for tonight’s supper. I may even consider pulling a weed or two. Or not. Who knows?
Higgs:
Technically, Cozmo is daughter’s critter, but he lurves me.
Taz
Ziva
All taken this morning.
This is the other critter that lives here.
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off today. I think I shall clean the bathroom.
FUZZY BUPPY! 
True story: I have a friend named Laura who’s dating a guy named Marco. Marco is from N’awlins. They are having a blast (HA!) with these hurricanes.
I did absolutely nothing yesterday and am contemplating more of the same for today. However, I have a stack of reviews to be written for my blog and several Saturday Shorts to catch up on. Also a stack of family photos I need to label before I can scan the next batch in. One day I’ll get these organized and sent out to my family. One day.
In 1979 when I was in college, I took a meteorology course as an elective. That was the year we had Hurricane David and Hurricane Frederic. The instructor’s name was David and our TA was Fred.
Some years later, my coworkers thought this was amusing. I came into the office to find a headline cut out and left on my desk: Michelle Batters Cuba 
Back from my walk. I need to mow, but that’s on tomorrow’s agenda, theoretically before it gets stupid hot. I’ll try to run John Deere around the yard today, since that’s not as sweaty, plus I won’t have Roxy to deal with.
For now: hydration!!
“but cleaned
up afterwards, because she’s nice, dammit!”
Happy Sunday!
Going to be a hot one today.
It’s already 79 degrees outside, and supposed to get up to 88.
At least the mosquitoes weren’t biting this morning.
Nice day at the park, lots of good fun for the pups.
Don’t know what I’m doing today. Something, I can’t be a sloth two days in a row. Well, I can, I could be a sloth 365 days in a row. I shouldn’t though, then it starts to become a habit, a bad habit.
Isn’t it strange how bad habits are so easy to acquire and so hard to lose, while good habits are so hard to acquire and so easy to lose? A habit should be a habit, the type shouldn’t make a difference in the ease of acquisition or loss.
So many cuties in our lives, both pets and grandbabies.
Cookie, goodonya… now please some over and fix my garbage disposal, which has a similar issue.
Dots when you are up to it, I’d go with option 4.
Deheathenization was good yestiday, and after church we stuffed ourselves stupid (which seems to be a theme for me this week) at a Brazilian steak house ( shiny new Latin American food also seems to be a theme)
Irk is slow today so I’mma start on some article ideas I got rollin’ around in my noggin. Also I got a guy comin ’ to mow the grass, which should make my brother happy.
I less than three all the critter pics, but Mooooooom wins!
I still wanna see bees, dangit!
Happy Sunday!
Morning all. Got up early and went down to the Krispy Kreme place for a ##redacted## number of donuts. All of which are happily digesting right now. Nothing else planned for the day, got my 10U boys soccer team listing for the fall season and have sent out an e-mail to all, so once I get a practice field assigned, we’ll start that. 82F going to 86F today, right now the forecasters are not showing us getting rain from the twin Gulf storms, but we’ll see how the week goes.
Love the pics, Mooooomm.
Dice, you can’t just get stamps at the postal office? I get my by machine in the lobby when I need them.
Everyone have a good Sunday.
Mooooomm, your granddaughter is adorable!
