I bought two half-kilo bars of Trader Joe’s 72% cacao dark chocolate. I have one square (half of a serving) a couple/few times a week.
Wilco.
- Wearing sweats. Off to pick up shampoo at my church.
fun thing; if the puzzles are the same manufacturer, and the same piece count, you can swap pieces and make whole new puzzles. we tried it out in the office. completed 2 puzzles then started swapping pieces. it was so fun.
example: Puzzle Montage Art by Tim Klein - Puzzle Montage Art by Tim Klein
And a good late morning all, body and bladder let me sleep in past 8am today, so hopefully I am all caught up. Will perform mowage in an hour or so and that will be my major activity of the day. Have broken fast with an apple and a mini-apple pie so no growls from stomach. Just looked and it’s ‘only’ 79F right now, but it’ll be in the 80’s by the time I get out into the heat.
Now to catch up with everyone…scroll mode activated.
I had to google that, now there’s a concept I need to explore when I head out for several hours…
nellie, vent away, you’re hot and worried and it would take even a better human than you already are (and your in the top 10% in my book) to hold it all in. Take care.
Shoe, know what it is like when you have the munchies towards a particular food; it’s hard to resist. And thanks for the reminder I need to do my Firday shopping list today or tomorrow.
boo fae, one nice thing about being a bachelor is no one complains about my housekeepeing…such as it is and what there is of it…hope the meetings are survivable.
FCM, I get a Snickers about every month or two, and concur, the price is way more for candy of all types these days (now need to tell the local youth to stay off my lawn…).
rocky, thanks for the explanation of the chocolate cost increase, but I like being curmudgeonly now and then… 
Glad throat is doing better.
Mollie, we’re due for our share of rain tonight and then through the weekend. And 3.5 miles of walking will burn off a fair number of calories in it’s own right.
Knots, don’t argue and enjoy the nice weather for as long as you have it.
wet one, I’ve thought about getting a professional window washer but never got up the gumption to do it; may have to look into that, once things cool down here. Best wishes for Ariel, and yay! for Jake doing the substitution role.
Taters, that’s a lot of chores; I’m tired just reading them all. Take care.
And that’s all for the morning missive; check the rest of the Dope and my webcomics and then out into the summer and see how many bags of clippings I can get this time. Have a good Hump Day all.
AQI seems okay. Going to mid-80°s by later. I have a Zoom to attend and will continue on with the many tasks associated with having had houseguests. I think I’ve turned off OneDrive [shakes fist at the cloud]. Most laundry laundered I’m sure there are more odious tasks on my list.
My lovely wife and I are fortunate to mostly be okay with how the other one does stuff.
65F at 0920. Another day without AC, but this time on purpose! I’ll be spending part of the day rerouting some income streams to our new account, and part of it doing laundry, both after exercise in a few minutes.
You don’t have to justify yourself; we ain’t the po-po.
There’s a place for both.
This is also why there’s a proliferation of gummy-type candies lately - cheaper than chocolate to manufacture.
Except it’s not just candies with chocolate. All impulse snacks have gone up. I guess the CEOs at the candy companies need to make a few more yacht payments…
Hmmmm, I may have to rethink my regard for you. Then again, I tolerate a lot of grit-eaters, including my spousal unit.
You’re nicer than I am. When I clean carpets, I send FCD elsewhere, unless I need help moving furniture. He knows to stay out of my way.
When I was at my desk earlier, I was startled by a rather loud thunk. The big-ass branch that’s been hanging by a fiber or two finally let go. It hung over the spot in the yard where Daughter sometimes parks, tho lately I’ve been having her park elsewhere. Anyway, seems that last night’s storm did it in. So I went out with my itty-bitty battery-powered chainsaw and cut it into fireplace-size logs. We’ll get a few BTUs out of it this winter.
Then I cleared another smaller branch that had fallen in the back yard a couple of weeks ago. Yes, I was ignoring it, but now it’s been flang into the woods. It was too close to rotted to be worth being burned. Unfortunately, when I went out, I forgot the insect repellent, so my legs are itchy. Dammit. Stoopit bugs.
And it’s closing in on my lunch time. I didn’t have much of a breakfast, so I’m hungry!!! And I should pull something out of the freezer for supper - I think it’s a Polish sausage night. Off to dig it out of the back. In fact, I probably should defrost my little freezer. So I’ll fetch a couple of coolers and get started.
Onward!!