Halfway thru the year in the MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Six months of the year are done and gone, so we’re halfway to 2023. What’s up with that?

We had some booms around here last night, but distant enough that they were muffled. Tonight will be the big booms, then, I hope, silence will return to the boonies. That’s all I’ve got.

Responding to last MMP:

Apparently I missed something - why a ceiling repair? And I share your love of hosta - at one point I think I had 13 different varieties. Unfortunately, the deer around here like to nosh on them, so I think I lost a few. Stoopit deer. On the other hand, my zukes and cukes seem to be happily prolific, and there are several green 'maters. I got it all planted too late, tho. Dammit.

shoe - my youngest sis has (I think) 28 tats and my mom had a conniption over each one. She also got wound up over the green hair, and the blue hair, and the yellow hair, and the rainbow hair… Yeah, Mom is pretty conservative when it comes to appearance, while my sister just does what she wants and doesn’t take any crap from Mom. Dealing with parentals is always a challenge.

Plan for the day is to get the engine running. No clue beyond that.

Happy Moanday!!

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First! It’s good to be juvenile!

Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN 'Tis 73 Amurrkin out and mostly clear with a predicted high of 92 with some rain predicted for later in the afternoon.

It’s Independence Day in the USofA, or as BooFae would say, Happy Sod Off Colonial Traitors Day. Personally I like both names. Do any of my Amurrkin friends have any big plans for the day? JDD and Partner and The Wives will be over around elevenish for some quality cee-mint pond time (we shall munch on boiled peanuts and quaff some beerverages) followed by ribs, N.O.T. sallit, corn on the cob (I shall cut mine off the cob, deal with it), and watermelon feast. It will be a day of silliness and merriment!

Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then preparations for the ensuin’ frivolities shall commence.

Happy Moanday Y’all! Happy Independence/Sod Off Colonial Traitors Day!

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Second, which is a first, because the smoke detector started complaining about its battery at 0500 this morning. Happy 4th!

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Mooomm it’s not a repair so much as I’m having the lovely popcorn removed. What a major pain in the arse it’s been though. My Sonny boy is a bit of a perfectionist so it will be like new when finished.

Up stupid early. Well, awake stupid early. Not up yet and may decide to go back to sleepytown. The day shall be the usual sloth and gardening between breaks from the heat. I am going to put a roast beast in the crockpot for later. I must start on the floor. I considered ordering a floor scrubber but don’t foresee a need for it beyond the present mess.

Happy 4Th to all who celebrate and happy Moanday to everyone else.

Stay healthy everyone.

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OMG - how I hated popcorn ceilings!! The lazy builder’s solution to a proper job… Ours are textured, which isn’t much better, but we just ignore them. I don’t blame you for removing that mess.

OK, time to shower and get ready for more boat work…

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Today we trek across the city to my wife’s niece for 7/4 festivities. Her husband is a really good cook, so I’m looking forward to something tasty. We’re taking pecan pies and a shrimp salad as our contributions. Breakfast is fried taters with eggs and bacon.

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It’s usually like a war zone here for a couple of weeks before. Dead quiet and no city fireworks show for budgetary reasons.

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Happy fourth!

Up, caffeinating, breakfasted and fixing to do KP and a few chores that I put off until today (might take an hour). Then it’s back to the project.

I’ll walk Nelson before dark this evening since the neighbors across the fence are going the firecrackers route for a few hours after sunset.

Stay safe and healthy y’all!

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Mornin’ everyone! Walked down to the (Ohio) riverbank with my coffee a few minutes ago. Up and ingesting caffeine with eggs-n-biscuits on the agenda for later. Will button up the RV this morning to head a bit of Americana called “Sandusky” for rides, fun, goofiness, and the fun half of my kinfolk.

Hope all have a good week, will try to check as best I can with this infernal phone keyboard.:slightly_smiling_face:

Love all the nicknames here – but wlo’s “shoe”? Still puzzled by that one…

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Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off today. I guess I shall sloth, as I have done my cleaning yesterday.

Happy 4th Of July to the Americans who feel like celebrating

Happy Sod Off Bloody Colonials Day to our British Mumpers

purplehorseshoe

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OK, something’s seriously wrong… I scooped the cat box, did the dishes, scrubbed the shower, and vacuumed, and it’s not 8AM yet!!! :open_mouth:

FCD is creating a wiring diagram/troubleshooting chart for all the electrical stuff we’ve done so far - while it’s still fresh in his mind and my notes are still legible. When he’s done, we’ll head down to the marina. In the meantime, I can have some computer time - off to find a jigsaw puzzle!!

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Mornin, all, and happy 4th to all who celebrate. I shall be heading to the shop to do some loud stuff that bothers the neighbors while they’re not there. Other than that, it shall be sloth.

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Morning all. Up at 6:30am so will see how the day goes. We did get a little rain yesterday which will hopefully help the yard, but it’s back to 93F for the high today so it’ll be drying out soon enough. Gym closes at 4pm today for the holiday so I need to get my swimmin’ in before that. Otherwise not much planned.

Yank, enjoy the trip…going to Cedar Point? It was my favorite place growing up and still is home to multiple rollercoasters.

Got a popcorn ceiling, but most everyone in N. Ali-bama has one and since I seldom if ever look at it I’m not too bothered.

Seems hard to accept that half the year is past already…life seems to move faster as you get older, IMHO.

Everyone enjoy your activities on the 4th, be they special or mundane. And take good care now.

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Afternoon, mumpers and happy Sod Off Ungrateful Colonials to the US contingent…happy Moanday to everyone else :slight_smile: It’s 18c/65f outside, and partly cloudy. In fact, when I got up this morning it was very dark grey out there. Weather app says “This is the perfect day to stay inside and work on maths problems. No, I’m kidding, that’s fucking stupid”.

I’ve been away for a few days, excellent little music festival in a venue I had not visited before. It’s a great little place, has an indoor stage with plenty of seating, and an outdoor larger stage with some covered seating areas and patio heaters. They also had an outside bar and a food truck that belongs to them. Very well run, the sound quality on both stages was really good, and we had a very enjoyable time. Met some old friends, made some new ones, and met up with a couple of farcebook friends for the first time.

We stayed at a local pub a short cab ride away so we had decent accommodation as well. They are putting the festival on again next year and I think we’ll definitely be giving it our consideration.

It does seem strange to think that half the year has already gone, I still have lots of things on the calendar (a lot rearranged from last year) so plenty to look forward to!

Enjoy the festivities, those who are celebrating, hope the boomers aren’t too bad and the pets don’t get too scared.

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Good morning everyone. Happy Independence Day.

It rained most of the day yesterday, but that didn’t stop the booms. It was pretty loud and obnoxious. Tonight will be worse.

It’s supposed to top out at around 70 degrees and will remain mostly cloudy with a single-digit percent chance of rain. I should get out and do some stuff in the yard, but I need to knock out laundry too. I guess I’ll see where the day takes me.

The year is definitely flying by in many respects. I am hoping to be well and truly done with the office relocation by the 26th of this month, which will cut back on the required amount of trips and meetings. This has sucked up an enormous amount of my productivity time.

Your festival sounds like a lot of fun, boofae and I’m glad you had such a good time.

I am lucky enough to not have a popcorn ceiling in this house. I had one at the first house that I purchased, and I hated it. We didn’t remove it though, we painted it. They soak up A LOT of paint.

I hope you all enjoy your day.

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Happy Moonday!

Happy 4th!

We should be leaving for the armpit but my son is having trouble getting up and moving.

Met up with some park friends at another park friend’s house and had a good time this morning. The dogs were so happy to see each other. They seemed more relaxed there.
Once again, Ripple took one look at the pond and said NOPE!
I was waiting for Echo to fall in. Two perfectly good bowls full of water and she wanted to drink from the pond.

Lots of fireworks last night but since my brats aren’t bothered by them, no problems.

I’m in no hurry to leave, but I guess I should start packing the stuff we are taking with us.

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This cracked me up.

It’s also “fly season” here in the Mitten State, unfortunately, along with “unreasonable amounts of noise” weekend.

Bleah.

Monkey lurves him some “sky raisins” though. It’s a bit nauseating to hear him chew one.

Got the place reasonably cleaned up in advance of the parentals tomorrow. Am undecided about showing off the tat and/or bragging about having a Gentleman Caller … or hell, make 'em clutch their pearls and reveal both.

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Woke up at 6:30, said nope rolled over, and woke up at 9. SLOTH! Last night l went to a cookout. Today I will hang at the barn since the horses are in for the holiday and SOMEONE objects to staying in so I have to mollify her. Dinner will be leftover 7 layer sallit and whatever. Seven layers are shredded iceberg, peas, cheese, bacon, green onyum , HB eggs’ and seasoned Hellman’s mayo.

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Morning, gang.
I get to spend this lovely holiday irking. Fortunately, the first two days of the long weekend weren’t as busy as they could have been, and the people haven’t been as stupid as usual. Or maybe I still have a little residual good mood left from my vacation and I’m a bit more tolerant… Nah.

I now have half a year to find a remote job that I can take with me when we move out of state, so the search will begin in earnest this weekend. I love the Zoo, but management has their share of issues, and I won’t be too sad to leave. We’ll see what happens.

Shoe, “sky raisins” cracked me up! :rofl:

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Happy Independence Day to my fellow American Mumpers! As I posted on FB, trying times – even maddening, heartbreaking times – just mean that work is needed. I still love and appreciate my country. :us:

Usually I’d be feeling like July has snuck up on me, but because each month since my November weight loss surgery has been full of challenges the first half of this year seemed kind of long. I feel like I’m finally in the “downhill” part of my recovery/adjustment – even though I know there are definitely still new challenges ahead – and that the rest of this year will go by faster.

There were some local booms last night, but nothing very loud or even particularly late. *phew* It did just occur to me that I actually have no idea what the night of the 4th itself is like around here, because I’m almost always out with friends! Bailey will be on her own tonight, but I think she’ll be alright: fireworks don’t seem to bother her nearly as much as thunder.

I’m looking forward to this evening: I’ll get to my BFF’s place at around 5pm, and there will be burgers, roasted potatoes, corn on the cob, and watermelon for dinner. All foods that I love and can eat! Woo hoo! The wife even asked me what size burger she should make/the husband should grill for me. It is truly wonderful to have such good friends. :blush: They often have family over for holidays, but tonight will be just be the four of us (their 20-year-old son – my “nephew” – got back from visiting his girlfriend in Texas yesterday). That will be nice. The over-the-top personal fireworks might even be worth it!

shoe, if I can’t see a pic here can you say where (on you) it is and try to describe it?

Here are mine (not to scale!):


The G-clef was first, when I was 23. It’s on my right ankle, and smaller than it appears above. I wasn’t living at home anymore, and my parents were long divorced. My mother liked to try to play the “cool” mom, but my father – a church musician – just kind of grunted and we never spoke of it again. Heh. I got the “big” one when I was 28; I actually had it done at a tattoo convention. It’s on my left arm. Mom again played it cool, but I think she was less thrilled about that one. I don’t even rememer when I finally got around to showing it to my father, but he had a similar grunt-then-ignore reaction.

The wolf is the one I’m in the process of having removed (2 sessions down, 6-8 more to go). I will always deeply love wolves, but the style and location just aren’t “me” anymore. I don’t regret getting it, though, and it made me happy for a long time. If laser removal technology didn’t exist, I’d be fine with keeping it. While I’m getting that one removed, I’m also having the blue background on the ankle tattoo lightened – however much it can be until the big one is gone. Before the tech works on that one, they cover the parts that I don’t want faded with a white marker because the lasers can’t remove white. It’s a weird feeling to sit there and chat with someone while they draw/color on my ankle. :slight_smile:

Both! Both!! :smiley: