brew, that is one cute lil puggy girl! My puggies own no raincoats…no doggie garments of any kind, for that matter. They go about pretty much nekkit all the time. They DON"T much like going out in the rain, though.
Swampy, I know that this isn’t as riveting as your tale of appliances, carpentry, and hernias, but I thought that I should mention that I’ve started the process of packing for our move next month. I have a whopping 3 boxes done to date, out of an estimated 45 that we’ll need.
Anyway, just so I can try to oogie out a kid or two from my church youth group, who will be doing the heavy lifting for a substantial bribe, one of those 3 boxen is labeled, ‘Books, Pictures, Dead Cat’.
It doesn’t say that the dead cat is cremated and sealed in a hardwood box…
VunderBob you could label one box “Zombie Starter Kit, Do Not Open” and put a big skull and crossbones on it. Then when the kid opens it (and you know the kid will) it could be full of all kinds of spices and lace doilies and a box marked “Powdered Brains” and such. That’d be fun.
Puggy I have to have lots of freezer space handy in case ribeye steaks and stuff go on sale. Plus, I do freeze lots of fresh veggies during the summer to have all winter. Gotta have them fresh veggies for soups and such. Plus, folks lurve it when I can fry up a mess of okra in January. And a place to store excess ice cream.
There’s no such thing as excess ice cream. However much you have is however much you need. 
Hey, around here, we’ve had two Falls and are just now starting into Winter (mostly). Last Monday, we had 20 hours straight of white-out, and even with snow melting as it hit, still got a good eight inches of accumulation. At least this should (hopefully) suppress the fire season we were all dreading, after a nearly snowless December-February (not that there’s anything left to burn, anyway). Remains to be seen whether June-August will be Spring, or a second Winter. I wouldn’t be surprised either way; a few years ago we had over a foot of snow in June.
Today, someone must have had a talk with the Management, though: It was 17 degrees when I left my house (real degrees, not those fake undersized ones stupid Yanks use). Or should I say 290 degrees? In any event, I was able to wear shorts, though it’s probably still a bit cool for that. And there’s still spots of snow on the ground, and for all anyone knows we might still have more. It had just better not snow again before I go back home this afternoon where all my other clothes are.
Hey Ex, if ya like the women’s footballers, ya should check out women’s rugby. Twice the contact without those bulky uniforms to get in the way.
swampy, your tale of furniture moving reminded me of the time I came home from work and my wife (I was still married at the time) told me I had to go pick up a pool table right now! She gave some guy she knew a check for it that afternoon, and it had to be out of his house that very day or he kept the money and she wouldn’t get the table. After an hour of calling around, I found one guy to help - and he was smaller than me, but he did have a big enough truck (the biggest vehicle I had at the time was a VW Jetta). The table, by the way, turned out to be an eight foot slate with mahogany wood. It was a real deal for $500, but I was royally pissed on the purchase without even being consulted.
OK, I gotta ask. swampy, why did you keep your freezer in your study? 
What’s wrong with this picture? Nice wood furniture, carpeted or hardwood floor, attractive artwork, bookshelves bearing leather bound texts, and a freezer. Is that some sort of weird gay thing??? 
Of course, if that’s where you kept the ice cream, then it all makes sense.
As for my weekend, we mowed the lawn, and as my sweetie was mowing the culvert out front, he managed to turn the mower over on himself. He called me, and all I saw was smoke, tho by the time I got to him, the mower had stopped and he’d extricated himself from under. We righted the mower and pushed it to the street, but it was dead. Oil was everywhere, as was gas. Turn the key and get a little click then nothing. So as soon as he gets home, we’re heading down the road a piece where a guy does mower rebuilds in his garage. He has half a dozen for sale under $500. Wonder what he’ll give us in trade???
In other news, I think I’m getting better at the pottery stuff. I made 2 cylindrical pots this weekend. I’m seriously thinking of taking another class in the fall. Not in summer, tho - my Saturdays are taken in the summer. Sailing, you know.
No snow here. Just rain. Life is good…
Well FCM, since **swampy’s ** southern, it’s lucky the freezer twarn’t out on his front porch.
Do you suppose, that if a person wanted rose flavor ice cream, and that person were unable to get any actual rose flavored ice cream, that this person could stir a little rose syrup into vanilla ice cream and get a decent substitute? A person wonders this and may go find out this evening. Or pay bills, whichever is more fun.
My new custodian is wonderful. Did you know that it isn’t against the law to mop the floor and that your head doesn’t explode if you mop more than once a year? It’s almost unnerving not to have to do it myself.
My matron of honor was a guy named Dave.
The Justice of the Peace told us, that today it was sunshine, but someday it will rain, and even though you have promised to be together until death do you part, don’t kill each other.
When we called my brother to tell him we were married (they all knew it was going to happen, but we were overseas), he asked what my husband wore. I said, “Jeans.” My brother said, “Jeans? and what else?” I said, “Just jeans.” He said, “What? No underwear?!”
My brother is cool.
Rue, zombie snow. Great. Are you going to be the one I wake up when I have weather nightmares?
Swampy, maybe the critter just likes abuse. If so, your life will be so easy!
I have one large upright freezer in the garage. Since getting it we’ve made large, bulk meat purchases from the butcher exactly four times. On the other hand, since the fridge I have in the house is now is a side by side version, I can store stuff I would normally store in the kitchen freezer in the garage freezer.
I love me a good, juicy, rib-eye steak. Those are heaven on hearth, especially when grilled rare and served with horseradish. I also occasionally like to sautee chanterelle mushrooms and onions put those on top of my rib-eye. Mmmm, mmmm gooooood!
FCM, I’m glad your sweetie wasn’t hurt in the lawn mower incident. I shudder to think what could have happened. Good luck with the mower repair and/or replacement.
It’s still cloudy out, but hasn’t rained…yet. It will rain because I’m on vacation. Them’s the rules for when you take time off in the spring.
The hubby and I ran some errands this morning and afternoon and just returned. On the way home, we stopped at a restaurant called Ma’s Place to eat some lunch. He didn’t want fast food. We were by far the youngest people in there. Every customer was 70 or older at least. This isn’t a good sign. Eating lunch while listening to these people hack was not appetizing or pleasant. I chose a reuben with a side of fries and the hubby had a hot turkey sammich with mashed taters and gravy. He wasn’t overly impressed. My reuben wasn’t awful, but well, suffice it to say we won’t be going back there.
Well, I must get on to some painting now…the magic paint fairies didn’t arrive during our absence to finish painting for us, so now we have to do it.
We didn’t have any snow, just a little rain, but it was chilly. I was at a hippie music festival most of the weekend, and we were all bundled up in blankets to keep warm. It wasn’t even that cold, we’re just wusses! I drank a lot of coffee and listened to lots of good music (the Avett Brothers, Flook, Nickel Creek, and more). I got free tickets–it’s nice to have friends! Especially friends who give you free tickets to music festivals.
So I had a great weekend, but I got up this morning and didn’t feel so good, so I skipped work today. I got up long enough to call and tell them I wasn’t coming in, and then I went back to bed for several hours. I’ve been doing a lot of nothing today. Still have a sinus headache. I hope I feel better tomorrow, because I have too much to do to take any more time off work. I want hot chocolate, but I don’t have any milk. 
merrily, your brother is funny! I think he’d fit in really well around here.
FCM, I’m glad your husband is okay! You know, you can’t drive those lawnmowers like race cars! They don’t corner very well.
Homebrew, Ginger is just too cute! Does she have any other outfits? Costumes for Halloween? We wanna see more pictures!
Harimad-Sol, good luck with the Cute Groomsman! He sounds lovely! Hope he calls back soon!
We have a newer mower on the way as I type this. It’s 18HP with a 46" deck and BIG tires. Apparently it can push a plow blade, too, should we purchase one. It’s got new belts and filters and plugs and while it isn’t pretty, it works and it was under $500, including delivery. And the guy is going to take our old mower and dink around with it to see if he can get it going. So that’s good.
Now we just need to get our push mowers running. At least one of them…
I just got back from seeing Cute Groomsman tonight. We went bowling. He is even worse than I am. He smokes a lot. Somehow I missed this at the wedding. He is pleasant, quite handsome, but no real sparks. I think my laugh made him nervous.
ok, so I’m still reading n’ stuff, but I figured I ought to post before my head goes all forgetful.
So… the Danger(grand)parentes (sic) have officially departed and headed back to parts south of the 'quator. This meant lots of tears at the airport, as #1dangerson blew wee li’l kisses at them through the glass (we get to wave to people as they go through immigration and head off into the wild blue yonder). I miss my mummy and daddy… does that make me a weak ninja?
And it’s not snowing here, and never has. Well, it might have when Krakatoa went KERBLOOEY all those years ago, but that would have been snow-like volcanic ash, not snow-like snow, or nuttin’. Actually, I wish we’d have a friggin’ cold snap or something, wet season only lasted about three and a half days and now it’s tropical summer AGAIN! (dammit!) This meant the aircon was turned on half an hour before #1dangerson went to bed last night, whcih racks up the 'lectricity bill, but makes sleeping more comfortable. If we don’t ‘on it’ (folks here don’t say ‘turn it on’) he wakes up and says things like, ‘on aircon? on? on? so hot!’.
It’d be nice if it snowed. Although the last time I was in snow was on Mt Cook in NZ doing a laser show (don’t ask) lo those many years ago. I got all snowed-on in the middle of the night. It was very, very cold and kind’ve creepy cos there were only three of us on the mountain (the show wasn’t due to start till the next night, we were doing setup) and it was VERY dark and quiet and I’m sure there were ploar bears or something, cos you know Polar Bears love to holiday in New Zealand during the off-season. Anyways, I made a little mental note in blue pen to stop liking snow then and there. I made another mental note to not make mental notes in blue pen, cos it’s hard to erase, and using white-out on mental notes is something of a faux pas, from what I understand.
Oh, and before I go and try and read the rest of the thread, you’ll recall the Indonesia Incident last year (actually, ‘incident’ is too strong a word, but it sounds better than ‘trip’. It makes me sound all John LeCarre and stuff). Well, I was one of the 2nd best men, cos the best man was a woman, and we (the two friends who officiated on cameras and photo taking) were relegated to 2nd Best Men status. Although I must admit that was my own label, and the other 2nd Best Man did admit to having some issues with the title. It didn’t snow there either, oddly enough, and I was in my usual black ninja-attire, being all ninja-ery and… um… hot. Dammit!
I should go and read the thread, shouldn’t I?
but before I do… I bought the One Armed Swordsman trilogy boxset on sunday and we all watched One Armed Swordman movies all night long. That Pei Er is one psycho swordmaster’s daughter! Beleive me! Everyone should watch these movies, they’re great, and they make that Crouching Chicken/Hidden Lizard movie look like the pale immitation it is! HAI-YAH! (Dangergene Kung-fu scream![sup]TM[/sup])
I read thread now… really!
Haramid-Sol so you think the handsome groomsman and you won’t be a good match? Too bad. At least ya gave it a shot. Heck, try another one. Ya never know. And I don’t think of it so much as spare ice cream as I do emergency ice cream. If there ain’t none in the kitchen fridge, there’s some in the big freezer. Kind of like I am with toilet paper. It just always needs to be there. And yes, if I take some out of the freezer I replace it. Ice cream that is. I don’t keep toilet paper in the freezer.
FCM see, at the time, I didn’t want to put the freezer in the garage. I didn’t want it in the laundry room cause I thought it was too big for the laundry room and besides that’s where my beerator is. I could have put it in the breakfast area but my bedroom is just off of the breakfast area and I didn’t want to hear freezer hum all night. There was this perfect spot in the study, so the freezer moving/delivery men put it in there. I forgot what hell we went through gettin’ it in there until the big move cause that was like six years ago, which is a long time to remember stuff. So, now it and mewly acquired freezer are in the garage and all is good. I’m glad FairyChatDad didn’t get hurt when the mower flipped over. I have an embankment in front of my house and I do not use the riding mower on it just for that reason. Besides, pushy mower is self-propelled and goes up and down it easy like. Congrats on the new ridey mower!
merrily maybe you’re right. Maybe the critter does like abuse. I could get all TMIy here but I won’t.
Taters did y’all finish painting yet? Everybody needs to see your spiffy living room paint job, so get those pitchers up.
dangergene ain’t no shame in missin’ your folks. That’s nice. I’m jealous that it’s hot there. I want my south Jawja heat and humidity dangit! Stoopid cool snap! It’s raining here today. Sigh
I’m torture…err testing this morning, so I’ll be kinda sporadic in posting today. Y’all try not to miss me.
I’m seeing him again tonight. He seems like a good guy so far. Everything doesn’t have to be all hot and heavy, I guess. We’ll see. We’re going to have some pizza, play video games, and possibly go bowling again. If nothing else, he should be a new friend.
Man Swampy, if ACBG put up with all that moving-your-heavy-stuff crap he must really like you. Or you cook real good. Or you’re hot in bed. Maybe as many as two of those, but I’m not thinking about all three at once. That would just be too much, all three at once.
Oh man! Chronos showed up! (And mocked the proper heat measuring system without just cause.) If I knew we’d be having guests of that caliber (or “calibre” in metric), I’da dusted and straightened up around here first.
It’s all three. Especially number three. It’s true. Just ask him.
We coulda had Taters and LifeOnWry paint the living room cause they’re both so good at it. Heck, if we’d known, maybe we could have borrowed FCM’s chandelier and really classed up the place!
fcm, so glad fcd is okay. Coulda been bad what with him already having a bad shoulder an all. Makes me glad Mr. Anachi just uses the non-ride-on variety self-propelled mower to do our lawn. Not like Mike who lives nextdoor who drinks lots o beer and then drives his ride-on mower around the yard in the dark. :rolleyes:
swampy, you might wanna give that new freezer some milk if it’s mewly. Or some lil friskies, or sommit.
gene, of course the snow was cold when you was in NZ! Otherwise it would be like…water.
I say chronos hasta takes us as we are when visiting. Afterall, we live here!
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Sorry Taters, I’ve been busy getting ready for whatever it is that us faeries get ready for near May 1st. I can send some friends over to help, if you like, but I’m not sure how much work they’d actually get done. Faeries are like that sometimes.