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Happy Toosday!

It’s a humid 73 degrees outside. Supposed to rain all day.

Nothing special to do today. We did Ripple’s toenails last night. He is getting better about it. I barely have to hold him anymore, he yawned a few times and even tilted his head back to give me a kiss.

Geez - when Higgs has her nails clipped, you’d think we were using a body grinder dipped in boiling hot acid! We pay someone else to do it, and I’ve found the noise is less if I’m in front of Higgs skritching her and telling her what a good dog she is.

Flytrap sleeps in a crib, flytrap sleeps in a crib! :stuck_out_tongue:

Don’t feel bad; that was two hours overnight here in 'Murica. Swampy does that on a semi-regular basis during waking hours.
Took L-pup to the groomers one time to clip her nails. Gave her a lampshade & three people holding her (including two that she lived with) & a fourth attempting to clip her nails. She escaped from all three people & the lampshade! :eek:
Strong she was.

Up and awake. 71F out but little chance of rain, so will have to get the sprinklers deployed this evening. Breakfast consumed and dish-packing will commence shortly.

Actually watched a couple movies yesterday: Journey 2: The Mysterious Islan with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Not bad, nothing special but competently done. Second was the Tom Cruise War of the Worlds which seemed to love showing how many people they could kill. Utterly depressing and unbelievable ending. Watch the old 1960’s version instead.

We had a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin!

Yeah, I’m rethinking the whole sleeping bag thing… It’s supposed to be a low of 58 the night we’re camping, so Juliet Jr will be fine with some warm jammies and her light sleeping bag on her foam pad. Romeo Jr will have footie jammies and we’ll make a blanket sandwich for him (take a long blanket sideways, put some underneath and some over him) on his foam pad. Romeo and I get air mattresses. Dems the perks of being a grown up.

This has been fun reading everyone’s camping stories! I didn’t expect it to take off like that!

I thought the updated War of the Worlds was beyond stupid. Apart from Dakota Fanning’s constant screaming, and that idiotic bit with the airplane crashing, and the car that never seemed to run out of gas…

I can only suspend so much disbelief…

Oh, I could tell you camping stories, except then you would probably change your mind about camping.

One time we were all coming back from the bath house. We heard my uncle, who had gone on ahead of us, SCREAM! My uncle was 6’3", ex-marine, build like a bulldog. He came up on our campsite and saw the back end of a bear sticking out of the tent.

Then there was the night I was running down the path to the restrooms, It was pouring rain and what do I see? A skunk in the middle of the path. Slippery as it was, I managed to do a 180 and run the other way.

I’ve heard of a blue moon, & a harvest moon, & a new moon, & a strawberry moon, but never a bear moon. :stuck_out_tongue:

You had a cardboard box? Bloody upper-class twit. We huddled under our coats and tried to sit as small as we could! :smiley:

Try 18th century-style camping ---- the stories just write themselves. Old Fort Niagara is always too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry and too windy and often all in the same hour. A fellow Frog was setting up a single pole marquee tent something like this
http://www.medievalfantasiesco.com/MedievalTents_files/18Marquee9ftFly01.jpg
and didn’t have the standard 14" long Niagara stakes most of us use. As he was standing inside getting his bedding together, a wind came by and lifted it off to about 40’ in the air like a giant umbrella. It floated majestically out over the wall of the fort and about 100 yards out into the lake headed for Canada. Here is this guy looking around himself at the walls and roof that are no longer there and the rest of us applauding the spectacle. We had to flag down a jet-ski to run out and drag the canvas back to shore as the Natives couldn’t stop laughing at “Whitey” long enough to grab a canoe and run down to the lake. We rewarded the jet-ski owner with a heavy string of beads (which made the Natives re-think their response) and the tent owner with some longer/stronger tent stakes.

And the nickname “Mary Poppins” ------ which has stuck to this day.

I could mention canoe races in various fountains and ongoing wars with raccoons but another time.

On an unrelated note: Knoebels was closed yesterday due to flooding and is probably reopening today. They have been flooded a time or 37 times and know how to handle it.

Lunch time!

The morning went pretty fast - here’s hoping the afternoon does the same. But I don’t have a lot of work left…

Just wanted to beat Swampy to pg 2!

Laundry has been laundered, dried, hung up or folded as needed, and all put away. Go Me! I have also decided white acre peas, squish, and cornbread shall accompany the poke tenderloin for sup. I yanked a box of brownie mix (judge away, that’s how I make brownies) out of the cabinet and shall also bake brownies, just cause.

Spidey juvenile becomes you. :stuck_out_tongue:

I love brownies from a mix. I consider the pan to be a single serving.

How juvinile

that both of you beat me to it :slight_smile:

Get an all-edge brownie pan ------ they really do taste better like that.

https://www.amazon.com/Bakers-Edge-Nonstick-Brownie-Pan/dp/B000MMK448/ref=asc_df_B000MMK448/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=167129094649&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2133654685133751072&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9005926&hvtargid=pla-308825356288&psc=1
Dropped off a couple gifts at the house of a now-former manager who turned traitorous bastard and went over the the Dark Side (AM Z L to confuse the searchers). Actually I am very happy because he will do fantastic stuff there and really like it but I will be sorry not to see him 3 days a week anymore.

Back to nail trimming.
My old Mackie had very long nails because he was so horrible to trim. It would take three or four people at the vet’s office to hold him down and trim his nails, and I had to leave the room because he behaved better when I wasn’t there.
Once he got older Sah-son and I could do it but it wasn’t easy.

One of my clients who raised huskies could tell her dogs to jump up on the grooming table and they would stand there and let her trim their nails, except for one. I’d go over and stand in front of the dog with treats and as long as I fed her she’d let her nails be trimmed.

Ripple will be getting snipped in September. The good news is that he will come home the same day.

I’ve irked and napped, now time to get busy doing stuff around here. Yesterday I cleaned out both cabinets in the bathroom and part of the linen closet. Today I am going to finish cleaning out the linen closet.

Ripple has been sleeping a lot today, and is not very interested in eating. I don’t know if he is not feeling well or if the rainy days are making him feel lazy like the rest of us.

Do you mean he’s getting ‘tutored’? If so, forget the ‘cone of shame’ and get him one of these. When Vinnie had his surgery last year they sent him home with a cone. He couldn’t reach the water dish and kept running into door frames and such. We got him a pillow and he had a much easier time navigating with it on but still couln’t get at his dressing.

No. They don’t.
If I wanted to chew on charcoal, there’s plenty of that out on the back patio.

You had coats? :eek: We had to cover ourselves with old newspapers out of the garbage.

I want an all-edge brownie thing.

I have a good recipe for brownies.

I don’t know what we’re going to do for supper. I’d like a big bowl of beef stew with some crusty bread. I have neither in the house. Woe is me!! I stopped at 2 Amish farms for corn - they couldn’t harvest because it’s too wet, so no corn. Dammit. I did get a basket of smaller 'maters for a buck, so there’s that.

Maybe I’ll take **FCD **out and let the kids fend for themselves…

**Midget **- you can’t just declare that you make good brownies. We must judge. I think a proper judging requires at least 6 brownies. :wink:
:smiley:

Subtle, huh?

And speaking of brownies - someone brought some in to work yesterday and left them in the kitchen. Naturally, I had to try them.

They were AWFUL!! Not burned or spoiled, just awful!

We have supped. The brownies got “sampled”, as in three disappeared, and pronounced good. I won’t name names but the culprit is now doin’ one of his favorite things, soakin’ in the tub. Hint: I am not the one in the tub. :smiley:

I think I want, nay, need one of those brownie pans.