oh gods have you tried those paper straws yet ? its like sucking soda through a toilet paper roll…
lol at first I thought your GC was getting a workout lol …
Howdy Y’all! Today we accomplished mowage, laundry, and votin’ as today was runoff day in Jawja. I got my peachy I’m A Jawja Voter sticker which always makes me happy. We supped on Sunday’s leftovers and managed to get in the obligatory sloth and quality cee-mint pond time. Thus was the day in swampland.
Hi, Mumpers. I’m reading all day, every day but not doing much I can report. Or, put another way, not doing much I can clean up my language enough to report.
Lots of doctors visits, no answers, but I am finding out about a lot of other things that are wrong with me that I didn’t know. Kyphosis of the spine, spinal arthritis, hiatal hernia, pre-macular degeneration changes in the one retina I have left. Stress test is next week, pulmonary function tests godknowswhen.
Left hearing aid stopped working. Tomorrow’s job is to go to the hearing aid counter at Costco and see if anything can be done. Plus I can pick up the prescribed eye vitamins there to try to head off nasty changes in my right macula. Then in the afternoon I’ll be grandma to Sorenson while his papa takes Harriet to a birthday party. I’ll stay through getting both down to bed because Mama got home from Paris and Milan late Sunday, did laundry frantically and is leaving on a business trip Wednesday morning. I think the grownups in the equation have learned their lesson about travel planning with a 5 yo and a 1 yo~now they just have to survive the next week and never do it again.
I grew up with paper straws. They worked perfectly well for soft drinks. Malts or shakes… Better have a spare. Unless they changed the way they make them in the past 40 or 50 years, I can’t see that they would taste any different.
As it happens, I was mistaken. GG didn’t actually get the lid off the ice chest, he knocked the whole thing over on its side and was trying to dig through the bottom. He knew there was pig meat in there somewhere!!!
I always liked mini-golf too. You would have wanted to play through us though. Stoners spend much more time discussing things than drunks do.
I am so happy that you have something to look forward to. You need more happiness in your life.
Looks to me like you have already aced that one cause you are all stressed out already.
The resort in Los Vegas had those horrible things. You just reminded me to add “straw” to my list of stuff I need for the convention next month. The cheap places I usually frequent don’t mind if I dump my drink into my ever present sippy cup, the fancy places tend to want their guests to show a little more class.
Tonight was Taco and Margarita Tuesday special at the diner so I asked about the sour cream again. Nobody has noticed anything off about it, so I guess I was just being a little too picky. I ate if first so if anyone was going to get sick, it would have been me. It won’t last long enough to go bad if I did screw up the sanitation. Sometimes stuff just happens, I’m going to move on.
Of course, if the same thing happens next week I’ll do a full freak out and change every thing around. I have better sanitation practices than hospital kitchens but I can see a few things I could do if needed. Argh.
And now it sounds like a car hit the stop sign at the corner. Yup, hit it hard too. It’s not even dark yet. Off I go to point and laugh!
They have changed. These straws don’t have a wax coating, they are designed to start decomposing as soon as they get wet. I drink a lot of water. I was thirsty the time they gave me water with one of those abominations and I wasn’t able to finish half a glass of water before the straw collapsed.
I had leftover taco meat, sour cream, and TJ’s taco sauce nuked on a low-carb tortilla, rolled up with shredded cheddar. Also 45o5 Classic chicharrones, a short glass of Knob Creek, and a ginnintonic.
That’s unfortunate. I don’t remember a wax coating, but I presume you are correct.
I wouldn’t have known about the very thin wax coating if Brownie Scouts hadn’t taught me to use them as fire starters and why. Its weird the things that stick in your memory.
How was your sour cream? Not that I’m obsessing or anything.
The leaking car is still trying to get unstuck from the stop sign, so I called the non-emergency sheriff line to report the damaged stop sign and they transferred me to regular 911. That dispatcher didn’t sound very impressed, but the sign is kinda sideways and needs to be fixed.
And now hubs just called 911 to report that someone had hit the stop sign and was now throwing empty booze bottles into our yard. “You need to get someone out here right now and make them pick up their fireball bottles or I’m going to let my wife go tell them off.”
I’m dying back here, OMG!
It tasted like sour cream. Usually I put it on after heating, but I like it better heated with the meat.
I caught two daddy long-legs (spiders, not harvestmen) in the bathroom this morning. By the time I finished showering and shaving, one was sucking on the other. 
The Spousal Unit released it outside, because I forgot to.
My birthday present was waiting for me when I got home, a pair of Body Glove water shoes for kayaking. Wifey ordered them with hers.
Look out!
Lots of flashing lights now, two sheriff suv’s, an ambulance and a fire truck. And here comes the tow truck.
Folks drive too fast out here and that stop sign seems to get hit about once a year when people realize they have come to a T intersection.
It usually happens after dark, though. These idiots just started early.
“Keep the belt running, there’s a lot of work coming.” - Captain Queeg
“Shut off 1 SSLAW, there’s not enough work.” -Captain Queeg
A woman drove me to drink, and I neve even wrote to thank her - W.C. Fields
Also, in today’a Freecycle finds, 1 4’x2’ plywood board
“The cops aren’t coming? Fine. I’ll light of the Cane sign.” - Hubs
[The Book of Armaments]FiveSeven is right out.[/The Book of Armaments]
{{{{BBBoo}}}}. that’s a lot o deal with.
I don’t get that level of public transportation at peak times.(the local bus system turns a 10 minute drive into a 2 hour ordeal)
Cracking up even louder! When are you coming for a beer week, hubs wants to catch up with his bottling so he can focus on his new toy and we don’t have room to store that many bottles.
The cops very carefully used gloved hands to pick up all the shot bottles and put them in a special bag and put them in the back of their cop car. The pair of idiots have left in the back of the other cop car. The tow truck driver is doing his best to not rip the stop sign out of the ground because the front of the car is wrapped around it like warm butter around a pencil.
The cops did visit us briefly, we didn’t see the accident so we don’t know who was driving. The idiots didn’t seem to be hurt and they both had phones so we didn’t feel the need to get involved except for hub’s outrage at them throwing trash into the yard for me to pick up.
We had the opportunity to hang out with our neighbors because when you live out in the sticks, you take your entertainment where you can get it!
I’m here. I got too busy yesterday, and today I was a lady-in-waiting… I walked to the bus depot, waited, got off the bus at the train depot, waited, got to my destination and tried walking to the specialist’s appointment, but yikes! Baaad neighborhood, so Uber rescued me. Then I waited for over an hour, lather rinse, repeat in reverse.
The train back to my town was two hours late, which would’ve been frustrating if I’d had any energy left. (I woke up at 3 a.m. for some reason.) Turns out some poor soul tried to beat the train at a crossing. My seatmate on the ride home said there was a loud bang, and that the train crew was obviously shaken. Ugh. Poor people.
Then I caught a bus to my town. A woman on the bus was proselytizing VERY LOUDLY. I’m as religious as the next person, unless the next person is her, and she was driving me crazy. The driver patiently but firmly told her that proselytizing isn’t allowed, and the woman argued with her the rest of the trip. I wanted to say, “This just in from Jesus: SHUUUUT UP!” but she wouldn’t have listened. I’ll commend the driver to the bus line.Then I walked 1.5 miles home.
I’m too tired to think straight. I’ve had to retype much of this so it’d make sense.
Hugs all around!
I feel very sorry for DH right now. High temperatures are expected to hit around 100 every day for the next week and will not be below 90 for the remainder of June.
welcome to summer aka the great American bake-off!
here in the high desert, some time between now and July 4th its going to hit 110 and stay around that for a while
it’s funny tho my mom moved from here to Tuscon for about 9 mos and I t was so hot there that if you left your sun tea out for more than 15 minutes it would burn and or explode the jar …
Sounds horrible. My reason for feeling sorry for my husband is that he’s an electrician and working on a construction site.
Does your DH have neck snakes? Can you be sure he has good sun hats? I used to half fill water bottles and put them in the freezer so hubs could fill them the rest of the way up and have cold water during the day.
Is he working in an area with constant wind? If so, look at cooling vests. If that is something that DH might use, PM me because we have a few we outgrew. They work great at 70 mph, not so sure how they would be for a construction worker.
Slacker. We are already there.
AZ iced tea recipe: Fill bottle with water and the desired number of tea bags. Put out in the drive way. Go inside and don oven mitts, then bring hot bottle inside. Serve over lots of ice.
He does use cooling bandanas. He does the water-bottle thing with a quart bottle, filled about 2/3 with Sqwincher (basically, industrial Gatorade) and refills during the day as needed. It’s unusual for that bottle to arrive home at the end of the day fully thawed. 
Headgear is the mandatory hard hat. I can check on the wind question, but I’m not sure he could fit another layer in under the mandatory hi-vis reflective vest that must be the outermost layer.
Which says no. His hi-vis vest would have to go over the cooling vest which would just turn the cooling vest into a soggy weight. Darn, I was trying to be helpful.
I know :). I do appreciate the thought. OSHA PPE requirements on a construction site can get pretty picky, I hear.
It is very good that your DH is working for a company that actually respects such things. So many don’t
Hubs just shared that a friend of his had fabric covered cooling pads he would put in his unders to keep his balls cool. After I stopped laughing, I had to ask hubs how he knew this and learned that one day the work friend bent over the wrong way and everyone wanted to know about the bulge under his butt.