If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard/said that! 
What? Like y’all thought I wouldn’t respond to that!
The pics are cool! I am also fascinated by wild storms and such. Don’t want to be in 'em mind you but fascinated nonetheless.
I’m sittin’ here lookin’ at the ton of paperirk/busy stuff I need to get goin’ on and just don’t wanna. Life is so hard!
sari take a deep breath. I hate MRIs but they must be dealt with. Look at it this way, it’s better than a colonoscopy.
I hate my car. As if the cooling hose issue hadn’t been enough of a pain, the radiator (which is for some reason some form of plastic, sayeth DH) decided to crack. Parts are getting harder to find for this car and we can’t afford to buy another one.
60 degrees right now, today’s projected high 97 (ugh). I’m working a 4-hour morning shift, but then need to hit the library, so will wind up out and around during the hot part of the day. It’ll get worse, too. Sunday’s predicted to hit 105.
All shamelessly stolen. Thank you.
Up, caffeinated, and off(work). It’s already 80 and humid.
Swallows? African or European?
I like it when she runs haboob over me, too. 
sari, it’ll be OK. MRIs aren’t too bad.
sorry about the car woes, Nettie.
Back from the gym and a $30 stop for milk. Hush - they had some steak in the used meat bin and the cukes and radishes and cabbage looked good, and there was salmon, and ice cream sammiches.
So hush!
You may have these then but just in case…
https://dumpyourphoto.com/photo/qRKAxHac7r
https://dumpyourphoto.com/photo/gx7pMHXMwr
That first link looks like one of George Washington’s contemporaries. 
Mooom, your brown birds could be almost anything, even female robins or cardinals. A WAG would be house sparrows though.
alien, congrats to the kid!
We’ve had T-storms here all morning and it’s just beginning to clear off. Too bad I wasn’t at home to nap through them.
Just finished helping my sweetie replace two of the light fixtures in the garage. The ballasts on the old ones were about shot - more often than not, they wouldn’t turn on at all. Now they do. Yay!!
Oh man, FCM, that brings back a memory when I wish I’d had a helper. My wife was gone and I was going to replace the ballast in the kitchen. I cut all breaker power (including AC), laid out my tools on the island, leaned the replacement 48" bulbs against it and climbed up on top. Not really knowing what I was doing and quickly drenched with sweat I removed the old ballast and was just finishing the new when I heard that awful sound… that of one of the bulbs starting to slide off. My hands were tied up with the wiring, I heard the old bulbs hit against the two new ones, there was a moment of silence, and then Boom Boom Boom Boom!.
No light, no air, tiny glass shards everywhere and no helper. I’ve not replaced a ballast since. Your husband needs to cook you dinner!
I used to get poison ivy all the time when I was a kid. Then one day I shimmied up a tree wearing gym shorts, not realizing until later that evening the trunk didn’t have normal non-toxic ivy but poison sumac. I never got poison ivy again after that, even when I was in a confirmed patch of it and my friends did get said PI. Weird.
Our kale and Swiss chard is growing like crazy, got a few tiny radishes, everything else not so much. Not sure what the problem is also. We had to do a second planting of cucumbers - cutworms just destroyed the first batch.
**lieu **- he didn’t replace the ballasts - he replaced the fixtures entirely. But I had the easy part - I handed him wire nuts and electrical tape and tools. We’ve done enough electrical projects together that I mostly know what comes next and what he’ll be needing. We’s a good team.
Regardless, he’s not allowed to cook. Ever. Period. NOT.
Doggio, The Simpsons have taken over the NHL
Last night’s rain was a good test for camper leakage - it passed. Yay! 
We just finished taking it down and putting it back in the garage. It’ll come out again in 2 weeks when we pack for the rally in Cumberland. So that’s this afternoon’s big excitement.
Howdy from da cave! One more day to go. YAY!!! I have skettie sauce simmerin’ for dindin. Sketties, green sallit, and garlic bread. ‘Twill be nummy! I’m also finishin’ up some online paperirk stuff. I can do that just as well here as at the orifice so why not.
Red I agree about that picture. Maybe he’s George Washington’s evil twin!
doggio from what I know I believe they are European swallows. AIU that’s the most common kind around these parts. Mostly I just think it’s so jake they nest there!
Ok, gotta finish up irkstuff and see to dindin.
I killded the MMP! :eek:
Sketties is et. Plus there’s skettie sauce left for tomorrow so more sketties 'n noodles for dindin tomorrow night. We’s fine with that. We like us some sketties!
The mention of European swallows will do that.
European is southern for urinating. Wassail is a mild southern invective. Thus…
European on mah lawn! Wassail matter’d joo!
We let Salsa’s make supper tonight, and I’s stuffded with shrimp and rice and zucchini. NOM!!
I’ve been sorting yarn scraps - I’m just over halfway thru. Maybe another hour and I’ll be done.
So on that note, I think I’ll get back to sorting. MWAH!
I’m home.
I’ll catch up with things later.
Today sucked.
My offer was declined, no surprise since I came in low. However you’d think they’d want to sell the house rather than let it sit there unoccupied with no heat or water.
My tests were not what was expected and I have to go for more tests with a different specialist.
Dinner shall be lark tongues in aspic, and lamb eyes seethed in their mother’s milk.