Guess I should head over to the convenience center to have it done with. woohoo. 
Happy Sunday!
It’s a beautiful morning here in the armpit. It’s a sunny 50 degrees with a projected high of 66. I slept with my window open last night and it felt nice. I don’t know who turned the heat on, when I walked out of my room it felt like walking into an oven.
FCM I hope your FIL feels better soon and things go well for your MIL.
I don’t know how to get a dog to sleep in, it just came naturally for most of my dogs. Sah-dog will wake me up in the middle of the night sometimes, because he really has to go, but it’s not an every night thing.
The bad thing with him now that he is getting older is any change in routine throws him off. Usually I hit the potty first and then put him out. If I do it in reverse he gets confused and wants to go back out. Yesterday he walked into the wall next to the back door instead of going through the doorway. I know he can see some but it’s getting worse.
Funny though how I can stand next to him and shout his name and he is totally oblivious, but if I take the top off the treat jar he can hear that from across the room.
My poor Sah-son, he almost committed a felony! We got a nice letter from the government yesterday. He didn’t know young men had to register for the Selective Service, I didn’t either. I thought that went out with the draft. You’d think the high school would mention that to graduating seniors. Now he is registered, or will be when the letter gets put in the mailbox.
Thank you 2Gig. I feel better for letting it out and better there than here in the house. I will be so happy when i get out of here. I am so anxious, and scared something will go wrong again.
I woke up at 3am and started sending paper irk to the mortgage company. I keep going over the numbers and I don’t know how the mortgage company is calculating what I can afford. I think they approved me for more than they should have.
I guess my mother is serious about selling the house, although you never know with her. She wants to go look at condos. I’ll see how much stuff I can take, even if it means taking it straight to the dump. I know part of what makes it hard for her to think about moving is looking around and seeing all the stuff that needs to be moved. if she goes from here to a condo she is going to have to purge a lot.
I know it won’t work, everybody knows junk expands to fill all available space, but I am determined my house will not be full of stuff. That’s why I want an attic and an extra bedroom. Stuff in the attic doesn’t count right? 
Happy Baptizing Swampy
and I agree Sticky - their loss.
Rosie whenever I feel like I don’t want to throw things away I watch a few episodes of* Hoarders*. If that don’t put the fear in you nothing will.
Working on pianos today. Going to a concert tonight. It’s still the high concert season, after all. 
Back from the convenience center - I’d forgotten it opens at 8 on weekends, 9:30 is during the week. No biggie - all trash and recycling is gone, so yay.
**sari **- in the last 5 years or so, my mother has started purging her stuff. It coincided with her decision to end her catering business, and she gave away all kinds of kitchen stuff, serving pieces, dinnerware, and suchlike. I took some, but not a whole lot, since I don’t need a whole lot. But inspired by her, I’ve started purging also. Haven’t touched the attic yet, but I’ve managed to get rid of some stuff, and more will go. And I think long and hard before buying “stuff”.
**FCD **found something to do this afternoon, so he’s happy. His dad’s followup with the dr is in about 3 weeks, then a week later, they’ve got another procedure, so in that intervening week, they’re coming here. I’m going to try to host my family here during their stay, altho they all seem disinclined to make the drive. Oddly, they don’t see the irony of me always having to drive to Baltimore… Anyway, we shall see.
Meanwhile, I’m thinking I’ll turn on Netflix and continue afghaning.
Don’t these two sentences cancel each other out? 
Afternoon all!
It’s a lazy soggy day here, I’ve done a bit of cleaning (the parents are making their first visit to this house on Toosdy), and a bit of giving away plants, but generally not much. Worked a very nice wedding last night, which was fine, but appear to be the only work available this week. Erk.
I’m away for a few days this week so wouldn’t be able to work anyway (going with the parentals to pick up a new critter, as they happen to be going past my area and taking a few days over it), but currently it’s not looking like I’ll have the money for the stuff I have planned next month- a camping trip I go on every year, and Dad’s birthday, which also happens every year but this years is his 65th, aka retirement age, so he’s having a proper party.
I may finally get around to starting the Etsy shop I’ve been ‘getting round to’ for the past year, but I doubt I’d make much from it, especially in the first few weeks. I don’t have any spare boats to sell, or other stuff for a yahd sale either- I got rid of most of that stuff before I moved here. Hmmm.
Oh well, hope everyone else is having a nice relaxing/fun Sunday!
Yep because I know that no matter how determined I am, stuff will accumulate.
That is what attics are for, out of sight, out of mind.
Laundry and grocery shopping done, watching hockey.
Midget ,remember: You can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish! I crack me up.
That is not even a pun, it is a vile clench.
:dubious:
Howdy Y’all! All deheathenated. ‘Twas a nice service this mornin’. The babehs didn’t even cry when they got water poured over their haids. There was a nice reception afterwards. Then, we came back to da cave and had a good N.O.L. Just enough leftovers for both of us to have N.O.L. tomorrow so yay for that. I’ve also done some laundry and ahrnin’.
flytrap you probably don’t want to look at my facebook wall. Some bad puns happened there.
Ok, off to surf around a bit and such.
FCD’s adventures continue. He had borrowed my mom’s van for this trip - a 2001 Sienna. When he was coming back from the motorcycle rally, he said the van acted like it had no power, taking forever to get up to speed on the highway. So I talked to Mom - she’s been planning to replace it soon and she told **FCD **if it can be repaired for a few hundred, to have it fixed and she’ll pay him back. If it’s a major problem, we’ll have to figure out something else. Tomorrow will tell.
I’ve been Netflixing and crocheting. I’ve got leftover lasagne in the microwave to defrost - that’ll be supper. Other than that, it’s a good, lazy day.
I reeled you in with that fish pun. My day is complete.
I have a print out of your post before me.
I am sitting in the smallest room of my house.
Shortly, it shall be behind me.
Glad it is Sunday; it’s cloudy and cool here in NM - there’s probably snow in some of the northern mtn. areas. No precipitation here. The cooler weather feels more comfortable (it’s just too early to be hot!), except for the big winds!! We’ve had 50-60 mph gusts!
My cousin is still in the hospital, although in a regular room as opposed to ICU. Her heart rate is still too high, so tomorrow they are going to do a cardioversion on her. Her hubby says that her spirits are good but she is feeling very tired. Please keep Donna in your thoughts and prayers; she is a kind and sweet person, and I love her dearly! I do hope that the treatment will help and her heart rate will come to normal levels (she was diagnosed with a-fib back in Feb.).
I was up very early this morning and turned on TCM, catching a bit of an early version of Romeo and Juliet. Leslie Howard was Romeo and Norma Shearer Juliet, both a bit long in the tooth to be playing teenagers John Barrymore was Mercutio, and he was good! And Tybalt was played by Basil Rathbone, who later played Sherlock Holmes. What I really enjoyed was that the movie pretty much followed Shakespeare’s written play. So beautiful! And Howard and Shearer were actually good as the young star-crossed lovers. Still, I think Zefferelli’s version will always be my favorite.
Hope everyone has a relaxing day today.
Spent part of the day outside working in the yard with my friends / the homeowners, trying to see how many of the various gasoline powered items I could actually get running. Did pretty well, a leaf blower and a weed whacker need professional tuning, a pushmower needs a new blade, another pushmower is running as is a weed whacker and the riding mower. A third weed whacker is seriously effed up and should probably be tossed.
While doing this work I happened to walk out to the road and saw a Mercedes driving slowly by, the two occupants staring at the houses. It seemed odd, and then I remembered itlooked almost exactly like the Mercedes we caught on tape last year breaking into my friend’s house!
I snagged the tag number on it, took two quick photos on my phone and called the police. An officer came by and we made a report.
The chances it was the same people is very small, but better vigilant than not.
Now it’s rest & cleanup time.
**Sari **glad to help. I assumed the **pit **would have some people jumping on you, so it was important to get out in front of the idiots. I too was shocked at what the bank thought I could afford in a mortgage. The tax savings are pretty big so that helps a lot.
Time to run laundry, and clean house. I hate that the weekend is near it’s end. Grr.
gigity clean drawers and a clean house are important. Not real excitatin’ but important. Remember that.
I hate weed whackers. Matter of fact I don’t even own one I hates 'em so much I does.
Admit it, that’s just because of the scene where Romeo forgot his pants.
I’m getting nothing done today and having a lovely time doing it. There were trilliums at the Botanical Gardens today so that means there will be trilliums on the hikin’ mountain in a week or two.
Dude I’m right there with you. When I get back to home ownership I will make sure my yard is laid out so as to require a riding mower and just a little bit of push mower.
Weed whacking is right out, and unnecessary in a well planned landscape. And to me a well planned landscape is ‘beautiful nature with a little spot for me.’
But this ain’t my yard, and I have as much say as a native Ukrainian in the Crimea.
**tugig **- the houseacross the street from me is still on the market. Just sayin’…
Leftover lasagne was good. So was the ice cream I had for dessert. I’m making lots of progress on the latest afghan, and Higgs is barking at invisible wookalars in the front yard. That’s life at FairyChatEstates!
I had a peanut butter 'n jelly sammich and a glass of milk for dindin. The dindin of five year olds!
gigity I mow and edge. That should keep the neighbors happy. Speakin’ of loverly ‘hoods. Tomorrow is trash day. Nuttin’ says neighborhood beautification like a buncha big brown or green trash cans lined up all along the road.
So, who starts us off tomorrow? Next person to post?