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Today is the last day of this unpleasant hot spell. I had the windows and doors thrown open this morning at 6:00 a.m. when temperatures started out at a fabulous 54Ferrets, but by 8:30 a.m., it had already climbed to 64F, so I closed everything up again. Tomorrow, forecast highs are at around 74F and then low 60s to low 70s for the rest of the week. I must’ve blown a weather god, but I don’t remember it. I’m grateful for whatever is bringing this upcoming stretch of temperate, uhh, temperatures. There’s even rain in our forecast!

swampy, thanks for reminding me I need to get clear gas for my mower! I think I’ll wait until tomorrow, though, when the weather turns in the right direction. And thank you for the commiseration relating to my still being active in the work force. I’m with you: UGH! It’s not bad, though, as work goes.

I hear you, I really do. Ollie’s just a year older than Otis and is equally busy and mischievous. Unfortunately, it’s not a choice in my case. We just live too far from everything, so Ollie had to deal. But here’s the thing: It’s me who is bothered by his confinement, not him. He just snoozes while I’m away. Still, I try to keep it to a minimum and he’s a big part of the reason I’m a dedicated homebody. Hope the weeding went well.

BooFae, may your heat wave gives over soon. It sounds pure miserable. No fainting!

Mollie, love the sunrise piccies! I’m glad you share them! Sorry your walk was devoid of wee woodland critters.

metal mouse, I’m a’gonna. :wink:

cookie, I don’t really see where your building’s management has a basis to dictate what you and your wife choose to express on your windows, but I get what you’re saying about picking your battles. I hope the Jersey Mike’s does the trick. And I hope the exercise doesn’t take too great a toll!

doggio, may you get sufficient rest before you must return to redheaded stepchild’s side chick’s rented mule status! You’ve certainly earned it!

Bbbbooo, yes! I’m with you all the way on this. And I see she has checked in and is managing, if not happily. Understandable with a dead thumb!

JtC, please take it easy as much as you can! I hope you’re through the worst of it and all that remains is the day-to-day getting better part. I’ll add my healing vibes to FCM’s and BBBooo’s!

It being a very hot day today, what better time to decide to bake bread? I’m an idiot. But while I was shopping yesterday, I began to crave a particular sandwich I used to make often. It’s just a combination of ingredients I like: Smoked turkey, provolone cheese, lettuce, onion, avocado and sprouts. Bacon and tomato as desired, but not required. Anyway, I made it on regular French bread yesterday. It just wasn’t right. It needs a crusty baguette or ciabatta. So… my ciabatta will shortly be out of the oven. :slight_smile: At least this recipe makes 4 loaves, so I’ll have ciabatta around for one thing and another for awhile.

I used to grow massive amounts of tomatoes. A friend up in Washington was obsessed with trying different varieties, so he’d always put starts aside for me. It was a good excuse to visit friends in that part of the world, and it was wonderful to try all his varieties! I’m a big fan of Brandywine, Cherokee Purple and San Marzano for eating fresh. La Roma were wonderful for canning. Nowadays, I just go pick up a couple of massive boxes in the fall and can those up instead. They also have many excellent eating varieties. I love our little farm stores around here.

In 21 years of rural driving, I’ve never hit a deer. I hope I never do, but it’s almost a rite of passage in the country. I’ve just been lucky. I see dozens of them every time I drive anywhere.

I’m stuck into another French television drama on PBS called The Mountain Detective. It’s subtitled in English, so I can manage it. It’s another offering by Walter Presents. I find I really enjoy a lot of those series.

Ack – bread is baked! I’d better shift. :slight_smile: Hope everyone has a fine evening, or at least a tolerable one.

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Glad you’re home and in relatively good condition, JtC.

I just did something potentially bad on a work email. Our executive director is retiring in Feb this coming year. We have a very very good person who has done the job when the director was on sabbatical this past winter that everyone loves.

The board sent out an email saying that they would be conducting a country wide search for a replacement. In much nicer words than this I said “That’s fucking stupid. Why spend lots of money on a search? But what the hell do I know, I just build the shit people actually come to see.” Yeah, I sent it to the entire museum staff.

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Our bushel is Bradley county pink tomatoes.

Very tasty..some find them a bit mealy for eating out-of-hand.

My mid-daughter has chili sauce in mind. She loves canning tomatoes.

:tomato:…whoo hoo.

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Yay, Jane! The healing has begun.

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The church dinner was drumsticks, pasta salad, watermelon and brownie.
Of course Im having dorito salad later.
Its to be 90 next week.

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Glad to read that surgery is done. On to recovery. I hope George accepts the sling, and is able to move on to cuddle duty.

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Howdy Y’all! Mowage got accomplished. It was surprisingly cool(ish) so I only stopped once for a water break. Got it all done in just over an hour. Go Me! TWPTB say rain tomorrow afternoon. We shall see. OYKW procured provisions and got us fried chikin plates. He showed up just after I had showered and dressed so perfect timin’! Nappage then was accomplished. Then day drinkin’ was accomplished. Scurvy and malaria were prevented twice.

MetalMouse I am a mulcher. I could go on about how it’s so much better for the grass and all that jazz, but TBT, I am far too much of a sloth to rake and bag.

Cookie Happy Doperversary! Yay for the fresh strawberries. YUM!

Coppertone I’m sure your feet feel so much better after the callous removal. The church dinner sounds delicious!

Mollie glad the session went well. Did you get to present?

JtC glad the surgery went well and that you are home. Take the pain meds. Do the therapy. GG will come around, I am sure.

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Yay! And cranky is acceptable for the situation.

Did you eat it leaned over the kitchen sink to catch the juice running down your arms?

I crated Nelson during my work day when he was a puppy. He was fine with it, as it was a big crate with a bed, blanket, a little food and water and his lovey. Once he was mature and showing no destructive tendencies, he could roam free. Once I retired, I figured out that he sleeps most of the day.

I spent a lot of years rural driving and never hit a deer. A rooster once and a couple of ground hogs, but never a deer.

Just finished supper and am internettin’ with a little reddish dog snuggled on my lap. I’ll go back to messing around in the studio in a bit.

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Moley and Miss Fluffy have been treated.
They came running.

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I have hit two deer, both because they were idiots and jumped out into the car, one left some hair in the passenger door gap and one dented the hood. Was a nice explanation at the car rental place. I had driven some 700 miles and was on the last 2 miles to home when it happened.

I think it was a raccoon I hit way back when as a teenager. A few squirrels here and there, but I really don’t feel bad about that, little rats with good PR.

Back in high school a friend hit a moose in her giant land yacht of a car, maybe a lincoln LTD? Moose through the windshield. Fortunately she got out before the moose really came to. That’s the thing about mooses…meese, whatever, they are a very dense thing on top of long spindly legs.

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I tripped over a rug and landed on my knee a couple weeks ago. It’s possible that I also hit my head on the way down, especially since I landed near a hand chair which has four large fingers sticking up. I sent a message to my family doctor about the being cold stuff and my strange brain today. Thank you for the thought/suggestion.

JtC glad that you are home and recuperating.
Nellie, glad things are getting better for you as well.

Part of my big oops was missing the start of the summer program at school which was supposed to start Monday. So, I started my sessions today. I was not impressed with how it went. I have 10 more sessions to go, so hopefully I can come up with something brilliant and entertaining for them.

Tomorrow will be piddling around the house and working on a resin project after I’d sworn to give up on resin. Then Saturday our school is having their graduation in our capital city. I’m going to meet my work bestie there Friday and we’re sharing a room the night before. Unfortunately I didn’t give her a price limit that I was willing to spend on the room. Our school has two graduations at different times of the year. The last one was in February and I gave her $80 for my portion of the bill. This time my portion of the bill is $200!!! I can assure you that I won’t be doing that again.
Oh, but speaking of money, I do have good news. I had spent $1900 to have two teeth removed a couple of months ago. Yesterday, I was surprised to come home to a check for $1100 from my health insurance reimbursing me for the surgery! And so I deposited the check and immediately proceeded to put that money towards the credit card that I used. Woohoo!

Well, anyone have any thoughts for how to keep Annie from rubbing her eye on the couch and most everything that she sees? I have eye drops from the last time that this happened and I’ve started using them again. But this time she seems crazed with the eye rubbing.

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This whole all of the restaurants around here closing at 8pm is crap. Also this damn fly buzzing around the room is crap. It’s all crap, I say! Somebody give me a harrumph!

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One of the things I miss most about Portland is the locally grown produce, including peaches and pears. We used to can 40 quarts of peaches every year.

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I did. I was already in girl mode below the waist; it’s easy when you wear mostly jeans. I had enough time after my last meeting to put on a bra and my padding and to fix my hair. I opened the garage door and discovered Spike had parked directly behind me, so I had to put on my big girl pants and moved his car to the street, walked back to my car, and left.

When I left her office, I walked by the Amazon guy and kept my head high.

I’m doing it!

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Evening all. Gym treadmill and cycling are completed and World Cup games watched (with more in the offing). Do need to get the garbage bin out, but have already emptied the indoor ones so that will take only a couple of minutes. Down to 79F outside so a comfortable night is expected.

Cookie, nice niece. And no, I’m not scared of heights, but am terrified of falling…

Coppertone, glad the feet are better, hope the growths get treated (and yeeted) too.

Mollie, glad things seem to be progressing. Being that you are in the Southern USA, I do worry about that, but sounds like your being well-counseled. And just read your last posting, you go girl!

JtC, glad to hear you are home, grumpy or not. Looking forward to tracking your 6 weeks of recovery.

Bright Tree, as I mentioned above, I’ll be in the 90’sF for the rest of the week, so 74F sounds pretty good to me.

VanGO, in a bureaucracy, being honest is not always the best policy, but we’ll se if it has any effect…might be a requirement written down somewhere that they have to do a search, but they hopefully the fix is already in for the person you noted.

Will you settle for 'it’s all codswallop" instead?

In the ‘what I have hit’ topic, besides one deer and a raccoon, just a couple of squirrels that were clear then decided to reverse course back in front of my car. Guess natural selection has weeded them out, all the squirrels now know to run away from my car, not back at it.

Sticky Buns, falls are not fun, especially when you reach ‘that certain age’. And yeah, could be concussion symptoms. And yay! for the refund!

And the next round of World Cup games starts in 10 minutes, so take care and I’ll try to get back for a late-night final.

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Make sure every one of those ice packs is in the freezer and your pain medication is nearby, with the caps loosened since you have only one hand/arm. Of course being careful that those loosened pain pills bottles aren’t accessible to kittehs. Tell hubs that night nurse Boo says he’s not allowed to leave your side, especially to go outside and mow (clearly the mower sound would make the pain much worse).

If the sling makes pulling pants and underwear up and down to pee by yourself annoying/painful/impossible, find a baggy nightgown and go commando for a few days. I had to ask my grand daughter to help me with that those first couple of days post op until I got home to my nightgowns and a house with just me and my cat and she goes commando all the time. Don’t cut back on hydrating to avoid the potty pants struggle, pain meds work better in the well hydrated.

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I love every bit of this.

That sounds divine.

Also, your post made me realize I haven’t had sprouts of any sort in a long, long time. I had sunflower sprouts once or twice and they had a hint of that buttery richness you get from the seeds.

Now I’m having a nostalgia flashback to childhood visits to Poland, and eating sunflower seeds directly off a freshly-cut flower.

Admittedly, salting & roasting improves things immensely, but there was something about childish innocence, gentle (not hot!) sunshine, and the smell of fields of sunflowers blooming tied in with the taste of raw, fresh seeds.

Oh, and those summers in Poland, I had THE BEST TOMATOES of my life. Just slice, fresh bread with some butter, teensy sprinkle o’salt … I’ve never found tomatoes that good since. Certainly not this side of the pond.

Spill the tea! What’s the project, why did you swear off Big Bad Resin, and how’d you get suckered back into its sweet embrace?

There’s always the Cone Of Shame (or the various softer, more comfy modern versions). The cheapie model involves one of those pool noodles and a bit of duct tape.

I thoroughly share your harrrrrrrrumphing.

That’s the spirit!

I got out early enough that Monks can go run around outside in the late afternoon sunshine. I need to keep an eye on him, though - this time of day(light) he comes in & out (and in and out & in & out …) but right around dusk/twilight is when his black ass decides to go gallivanting around.

I was responsible enough to take out the trash to the curb/kerb on Sunday night but have so far not yet been responsible enough to bring it back in, let alone take out the next batch.

Plus there’s the never-ending laundry situation to work on, plus someone keeps smoking my weed and as luck would have it there’s a few shekels in my wallet so imma make a quick side quest later, plus I’M FRIGGIN’ HUNGRY!

Oh, hey, someone decided it was Snuggle Time ™ so imma go shut the side door and figure out dinner.

Some bird is chirping its absolute fool head off out there & it sounds so cheerful! Even though I know the message is, “Please either have sex with me or get off my property!”

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Sun-warmed sunflower seeds sound divine to me.

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I have actually paid attention to you advice, I’m a GOOD patient! The ice packs are frozen and i have three elastic waist skirts. i cant wear one today, my internal thermostat isnt working right.

So new question. i am allergic to surgical tape (rips my skin off) but they still had to tape my dressing down with paper tape. i’m not supposed to to remove it for three days. Do you think Benadryl would help with the itching?

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For background, Monkey has a meow like an opera diva having a come-apart.

Monks: “Meow.”

Shoe: “Hey buddy, what’s up?”

M: “Meowwwww!”

S: “Ehrm, you have food, and water, and I let you out.”

M: “MEOWWWW! FUCKING MEOW, HUMAN!”

S: “Okay, well, I gotta go to the dispo.”

M: “Mrrrowwwr?”

S: “Because someone keeps smoking all my stuff.”

M: “Meow!”

S: “If it was you, meow twice.”

{ absolutely dead silence }