On Saturday they had the memorial service for the lady ma used to help in the last decade. She was cremated and her ashes were to be buried at her husband’s plot who died about a decade ago. They cemetery had dug a hole at the wrong grave plot of a person with the same name. The ashes didn’t get buried that day. She’s the same woman that was dying in the nursing home and they wouldn’t let people in to visit because of the Swine Flu hysteria. Luckily they rescinded that about 10 days before she died. I don’t want to get into a discussion on that.
On Monday in the early evening there was a noise something between a pop and a whump. There have been noises like occasional guns shots for about two weeks, but nothing that made me worry. I looked out the window to see what the latest noise was about, because of the difference in volume and tone. I saw a small column of smoke and then one shirtless teen run into view across the river. The cloud got wider and darker while this teen stood watching. At least two more shirtless teens show up into view and disappear back behind bushes where the smoke is coming from. After about three minutes of a lot of smoke the smoke disappears. It’s a good thing the grass out there wasn’t dry from hot weather yet. There is plenty of old dead grass under the new spring growth.
I’ll add in this from the Friday before Memorial Day. We’ve had two trailers come loose going down the highway in front of our house since March this year. The first one was loaded with snowmobiles and ended up way in our front yard hung up on the 6 foot snow ice pile or it would have been in our garage. Now back to the Friday before Memorial Day. I heard a lot of noise coming down the highway to stop just after passing our house. A truck and trailer with a large commercial mower were mostly on the shoulder of the road. The trailer was attached by only a length of chain to the truck. There was no trailer ball visible on the bumper or the trailer. The guy had to go away and get a ball and come back to take away the trailer. I figure the nut holding the ball came off or was forgotten, so the threaded end was just sitting like a peg in a hole. When the guy hit a bump at the bridge the trailer lifted the ball out of the hole and the whole trailer hitch hit the highway to drag from that point on.
Saw a two-axle car trailer come loose a couple days ago on highway 18. As it went by in the opposite lane, I thought the tongue looked a bit low–it must’ve already been off the ball.
As I watched in my rear-view mirror, the bottom of the tongue hit the ground (a few sparks) and then the safety chains broke and the trailer swerved across the lanes and ended up in the ditch. Fortunately, traffic was light and no-one was hurt (although a pickup which had been tailgating the trailer had to brake pretty hard).
Got out of the lake this morning after a mile swim, had a shower, opened my bag to get dressed for work and…
no trousers :smack: :smack::smack::smack::smack::smack:
I had to go in to work in my swim trunks, then head off to a supermarket after they opened to get new trousers (and a spare pair that now live in my desk for … emergencies).
I let a halibutbite my thumb because a friend dared me too. I knew what I was getting myself into but, in retrospect, it might not have been the greatest idea in the world.
I started bleeding and have four teeth marks that are still visible on my thumb.
I was weeding my neglected backyard and trying to keep my neighbor’s grape vines from taking over the lilac bush. I saw one vine and it vaguely registered in my brain that it’s leaves looked a little shiny, but I yanked it out and cut it up so it would fit in the garbage can. I now have poison ivy all over my neck and arms. It’s itching like crazy.
My Mom was insisting that she was feeling vibrations in her feet through the floor in her house, even though it’s built on a concrete slab. She couldn’t understand why no one else felt them. She’s in the hospital now because of her Parkinson’s disease.
Hey, Harmonius Discord, maybe you should plant some nice sturdy trees in front of your house and garage or get some big boulders to block stuff that heads your way from the highway?
The front yard is highway right of way. With lots of buried utilities. We leave it alone. We can’t even get grass to grow on most of it since they put in sewer lines and filled in with driveway gravel. Dad should have pursued it in court fifteen years ago and he didn’t. We had thick peaty soil on top of sand before. All summer it was lush grass. i actually have started going in back in under certain situations after I witness a couple almost fatal accidents in a half a day.
Hell, I could have picked up a new wide-screen HD TV while I was there, if I thought I could carry it back to my car.
All the major supermarkets in the UK (Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda [owned by Walmart], Marks and Spencer) have clothing lines, and this was a big 24 hour Tesco with the full monty. And they only cost me £6 a pair (~US$9), £25 for a cheap machine washable suit.
Not my moment (I don’t actually have a life) but my best friend’s moment:
After almost a year of persuading and encouraging and enduring white-knuckle driving lessons, their 17 year old finally got her driver’s license on Monday.
Tuesday, she totaled the car.
She’s a little stiff and sore, but otherwise unhurt. But she swears she’s never driving again.
ETA: On second thought, I did have an interesting moment. It was when I was putting my 10 year old daughter’s hair in a ponytail and suddenly realized that she’s now an inch taller than me. And she wasn’t two weeks ago!!
On Wednesday night ma’s car started doing some weird crap 50 miles from home. This has to do with repair that an incompetent place did and they messed up her car wiring and have made up lies about it. She knows it wasn’t what they claimed because she bought it new and only took it to the dealer for years before these clowns.
The latest event was unlocking the car with the remote unlocked the trunk. A little later the starting of the car unlocked the trunk. Using the trunk unlock remote at home failed that night. Last night using headlights unlocked the trunk. The first time months ago the company that had to try and fix the lighting problem after their repairs. They tried to tell her that someone had cut out her electrical harness and spliced wires but it wasn’t them. We know for various reasons it was them or somebody broke into her car and did the work on her car to make them look bad. I’m trying to get her to go to the dealer and have them fix this as the other place will just make stuff worse like they do every time.
Why on earth would you take that dare? Why on earth would he make a dare like that? I mean, I can see daring you to stick your head in a lion’s mouth, or something, but there is nothing cool about halibut*. Why not just dare you to slam your thumb in a door?
Well, except for the migrating eye thing they have going on; I guess that’s pretty neat. But nothing cool in a dare-worthy sense, you know?
It started off as a play on the way fisherman grab bass type fish. I kind of knew what I was getting myself into, just wanted to surprise my friend. It’s funny, they must have some sort of reflex to clamp down the second something brushes against their teeth. Other fish don’t really exhibit that. Anyway, the cuts are almost completely healed up now.
Why on earth would you take that dare? Why on earth would he make a dare like that? I mean, I can see daring you to stick your head in a lion’s mouth, or something, but there is nothing cool about halibut*. Why not just dare you to slam your thumb in a door?