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There was no place to park in Blaine, so we didn’t get to go for Mexican food. The lot at the Thai food place was full to. So we went back to Birch Bay, and went to a dive called Shores. We had ground-beef taco salads. They weren’t bad, but not as good as Paso del Norte. They were also bigger. [NB: Paso’s taco salads are plenty large.] I did eat all of mine. I’m taking Mi Esposa’s leftovers (about half) to work tomorrow for lunch.

And amusing thing: Mi Esposa ordered a Grey Goos martini. I ordered a Rob Roy. Well, The Missus got her martini. The waitress brought me… a Roy Rogers. But I did get my drink in the end.

I was in the drive-up this afternoon. I saw a deer defecating. First time I’ve ever seen that (including pics, video, and IRL).

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Hoo, boy, what a day. Today started at 52Ferrets and got up to around 79F for today’s high. Tomorrow will make up for it with a forecast high of around 91F. Icky.

Thanks to all for the kind Doperversary wishes. :slight_smile: I’m still a noob, compared to many here!

FCM, I’m sorry for your BIL’s ills. I hope everything goes well for him. And I hope there is nothing of note on your EEG.

Pearl, I’m glad your unemployment insurance got sorted! Good luck with the new job search.

JtC, I’m so glad you continue to improve, even if at a pace not to your liking. Exciting and fun news about your new robot sweeper! And how funny how Hubs was inspired to get one, as well as his new interest in birds. Great stories!

Metal Mouse, Ollie is strangely preoccupied with something behind the workshop/wood shed. I can’t see him when he goes back there unless I actually follow him out. Directly to the south of the house and shop is a very large hill with an abrupt rise no more than 30 feet from the structures. The hill is thickly planted with mature Doug fir, so it’s a dark and tangled forest all the way up to the peak of the hill and beyond. Goodness knows what lives in it. But it’s a good bet that anything feral would make a home in such a spot. When Ollie went back there yesterday afternoon, he was barking at something. I wondered if it might be kitty.

Hope you get out of watering the yard. :wink:

This is hopeful news, thank you! Ollie chewed his paws to baldness and his undercarriage looks pretty sad, too. But the itchy event is over now, so hopefully he’ll get some fur back soon.

When will you find out if the heavy duty antibiotics are helping your toe infection or not? I’ve got everything crossed for you, Red!

Who wouldn’t be, swampy? :smiley: I’m glad you had a nice birthday celebration! And glad you got out of cooking tonight for an easy pizza supper. :slight_smile:

Oopsie, I’d come to your club, too. What fun that would be!

doggio, some of your typos are more fun than a lot of people’s intentional funnies. :slight_smile: I clean up lots of thread titles because, as you obviously noticed, typos/poor grammar/misspellings drive me a bit nuts. One of my many failings…

Love the bourbon box for Spot, though I know it’s not Spot in the box, and sorry you had such a trying day today.

Shoe, I plan to go have a look at the moon tonight just 'coz you mentioned how pretty it was last night. Thank you! Loved the skunk story, too. I’ve a few of my own, but for another time.

BooFae, I hope the Travel Gods were kind as you hoped they would be!

taters, I hope you got your pedicure today, and may the outcome of the eye doc appointment be No Big Deal.

Another lovely sunrise photo, Mollie, and you mooned us, too! Thank you! Good news on your GD diagnosis so you can move forward now. Nice pic. :slight_smile: So happy for Mrs. Magill, too!

Backatcha, lady. :slight_smile:

Kids these days, eh, lucky? I’m jealous of your tomatoes! We’ve had such a cool summer, everything is really late. I usually put up about 35 quarts of tomatoes a year, and it looks like I won’t be able to start until late September this year.

Me, too. Also the “zero” instead of “oh” thing, same as FCM and nettie. Luddites of the world, unite!

I encountered someone today who I think was on her first day of her six months. More on this later.

Agreed. Only…

Today started out well enough. I had a lunch date with a good friend in town and had a great time catching up with her.

Getting into town is enough of a sojourn that I try to do as many errands as possible when I’m there. One of my errands was to fix something I bolloxed up sometime in the past 9 months: When I opened a new Verizon account for my cell phone, I wrote down my password and PIN on a piece of paper. Which I promptly mislaid, and couldn’t find to save my life, despite months of looking. So a stop at the Verizon store was on my list today.

I lucked into a really kind, patient counter person who provided tremendous help. But there was an assumption that the email address they should use to send a link to fix a password problem is linked to the phone. In my case, it isn’t.

The kind, patient counter person contacted Mother Ship Verizon Customer Service, and we finally got through to a Real Person. It took awhile for us to successfully communicate to the Real Person that she needed to change the email address where she was sending the link.

And… ok… the email address I gave is crazy-long. It’s a gmail account preceded by 20 characters, so it’s abcdefghijklmnopqrst@gmail.com. Only easier, because the first 7 characters are my name. Real Person could not get it. It didn’t matter how carefully or slowly I or the kind, patient counter person repeated the email address, she couldn’t get it right. The back-and-forth went on for 30 minutes and started to feel like we were in the middle of a nightmarish Who’s On First? routine. She finally got it, and I asked – nicely, of course! – if she would please send us an email to my phone so I’d know the address was correct. She did, and it was. I was advised it would take up to 48 hours to receive the updated link so I could fix my password woes. Ok.

More fun awaited at home. I realized that all the email on the server for the email address I provided was now duplicated on my phone. I don’t want it on my phone, just on my computer. So I began deleting the emails off the phone. And without realizing it, off my computer, too! I deleted about 1,000 emails before I discovered the phone was syncing in real time and deleting those same emails off my computer. < sigh > Luddite, indeed. Fortunately, this is mostly a garbage email account so I don’t think much of importance was lost. Still. Annoying as hell. And entirely self-inflicted for losing that piece of paper with my password on it!

I’ll never be a cell phone person, really.

Time for bed. Good night, everyone! Have wonderful days tomorrow. :slight_smile:

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I believe the Oracles have stated that it’s starting to wane.

Quite gorgeous again tonight, though - occasionally shrouded by translucent whisps of clouds, the little flirt - but no skunks for entertainment.

In an uncharacteristic healthy moment, I bought a pint of raspberries on my break, and even ate one (1) of my co-workers cherries.

Narrator: Nope, still a non-fan of cherries.

Now I’m home, heating up some pot roast and a tube of mini whomp croissants to soak up the sauce, and nibbling on the last of my raspberries. Tres healthy!

I dunno what kinds of parties folks were throwing today, but we got hit with HELLA orders at the beginning.

One of the biggies - but not even the biggest IIRC - had eight (8) large pizzas, and SEVEN FRIGGIN POUNDS of onion rings. (I guess one person was on a diet?) Almost three hundred bucks.

Wanna guess who has two thumbs and cooked all seven lbs. when we only had 4 fryer baskets?

This girl.

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Very well played.

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Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave. The Senior Clerk is off today, so I’ll be doing her job. God knows who’ll do my job. It’s currently 65 degrees Ferret Height(18.333 Centipedes) outside.

YAY!

Does this mean at some ponit I’ll get a message “You have been banned for violating every rule of grammar, spelling, and sanity in existence. May The IPU have mercy on your soul.”? :wink:

You go girl!

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Morning, mumpers! It’s currently 17c/62f with a predicted high of 22c/71f and partly cloudy. Weather app says “Oh, look. The fucking sun decided to finally fucking show up.”

We have these too - anyone can have a statue, they can decorate it themselves or pay someone else to do it, and the statues can be bought at the end of the celebration. We also have a trail around town that you can do - you buy a map for a small amount and the money goes to charity, then you have the fun of walking around looking for the statues. Keeps the kids amused!

Taters I hope the eye appointment goes well, and you are treated to a good meal aftewards.

Hurrah! That’s one step closer to getting what you want and deserve. And yes, you’re still rocking it, girl! Also, yay for Mrs Magill’s results!

Mooooom sounds like the EEG was uneventful which is a good thing.

There must have been a bit less nothing than they’d anticipated. Also, we had no questions because, y’know…nothing.

Bright Tree I’m sorry about your phone woes, but happy to hear you found a helpful human to sort it out for you.

Yesterday was a fairly good day, the Travel Gods were kind to me on both my commutes although I did leave the office slightly early to avoid the 20-minute wait at the campus station for the 7-minute journey to Big City Station. I got home earlier than usual and had done my evening jobs and fed the cats before 'im indoors woke up from his nap. He provided dinner so I had a nicely slothful time on the sofa.

Today should be much of the same, there’s only three of us in the office today (Troublesome Minion has a doc’s appointment this morning so I persuaded her to work at home) and the current workload is fairly light. My turn for dinner tonight so it’ll be sausages and mash because that’s what I decided I wanted.

To echo what Taters and others have said, all of you mean a lot to me too :slight_smile:

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 73 Amurrkin out and mostly clear with a predicted high of 92 and cloudy for the day. I shall betake myself to the church house this mornin’ to deal with candle and other duties. While out and about I will make a run to :astonished_face:Wally*Jr. :astonished_face: for a few needed items. The rest of the day shall then be spent in RDOS sloth as is our wont. Sup will be what I didn’t make yestiddy.

MOOOOOOM hope Mel did its thing.

JtC glad the robot seems to be livin’ up to its hype. Are GG and Jolene freaked out by it?

Oopsie the Lego truck is cool! Also glad the new person starts on Moanday and the end is in sight for you bein’ able to hand it over to her.

Mollie happy leukemia free anniversary to Mrs. Magill! I had an uncle similar to yours. He was pretty much a recluse although he did maintain contact with my mom before she died, and to a lesser degree with me, as in I would hear from him a couple of times a year. Not long before mom died, I got a little concerned that he had not contacted either of us for a while, so I snooped around. I found out he had been in the horsepistol and had been discharged to a nursin’ home in Ye Olde Home Towne. I also found out he had a woman that had been livin’ with him who took some advantage of him financially. My next to oldest brother and I went to the nursin’ home to see him and talk with the social worker and admin. Needless to say they were happy to find out he had relatives locally. Bro took over stuff since he lives there and I don’t and my uncle spent his final days there, but had family to visit and manage his stuff. At his request he was buried without a formal service next to his parents in a cemetary in a rural church in the county he was born in.

BrightTree sorry for the phone woes. I am next to helpless whenever I have to deal with that stuff and OYKW is only marginally better at best. We become dependent on the kindness of strangers.

shoe go you with the onion rings!

Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then I suppose I should purtify and don attire acceptable for bein’ amongst the great unwashed.

Happy Firday Y’all!

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I was watching a documentary the other day about the early peoples of North and South America, and one thing in the show was about their agriculture. Apparently corn strips the soil of nutrients, but beans replenish it, and squash does something else that I don’t recall. Anyway, somewhere in South America, they planted all 3 together - literally, It kept the soil productive, plus the three family of plants provided all the nutrients the population needed. So rather than crop rotation, it was all in one shot!

As in the case of my husband’s middle brother, it’s hard for me to think kindly because the health issues are self-inflicted. The late BIL ignored everything the docs told him about his diabetes till it was too late. The current BIL continued to smoke heavily, and for all I know, he still does. OK, maybe I’d be the same way, but I like to think if my doctor said “You need to do < things > or you’ll die”, I’d be inclined to listen. Maybe not, but I do take my meds and have a check up every 6 months.

As for the EEG, I don’t understand a lot about seizures, but I’m hoping the neurologist sees something that will lead to reduction and eventual removal of my seizure meds. I hope to learn something at my next appointment.

That’s not a failing - that’s a gift to the rest of the world!!! :wink: It’s probably very unfair of me, but I’m a bit judgy of businesses with bad spelling/grammar on their sign’s, especially apostrophe’s in plural’s… :rofl: I’m less judgy about similar errors in posts since I’ve occasionally done a poor job of proofreading of my own posts, believe it or not! But I think I’ve done an admirable job of not snarking about it, most of the time.

No kidding - my sister’s 'maters are just now starting to ripen. My cherry 'maters took a while, too, and now I can’t keep up with them, especially since I’m the only one here who eats them. Even the local sweet corn was late showing up. So odd…

That works because I lurves me cherries and don’t like raspberries, so we balance the universe!!

Mel done good - I think I slept the better part of 9 hours!! And I woke to 65 Ferrets, which makes some morning weeding likely. I know it’s laundry day, but there’s still a lot of landscaping that’s weedy, so another hour or so this morning will put me closer to finishing. Tho it probably needs at least 10 more hours of serious pulling.

Daughter and her spawn are in Akron visiting her BFF for the weekend. FCD has been working on building the galley cabinet for the stovetop, the toaster oven, plus 2 storage drawers. It’s going to be an improvement over the crappy stove/oven that was in there.

Anyway, after weedage, I’ll tend to laundry. Then who knows? RDOS means no overplanning, right?

Happy Firday and Happy End of July - where has the year gone???

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68 Fairy Tights this morning and raining. Both are really welcome after the unrelenting heat this past month. I may even be able to open some windows and shut off the AC for a day. We’ll be in the low 80s the rest of the week.

Nothing happening today other than exercise and paying the rent. The hip injections seem to be doing their jobs, as I’m sleeping for longer stretches and not waking up in the same sort of pain as before.

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Good morning.

It’s 57F and sunny right now. It’ll remain sunny, with a daytime high of 85F.

Bright Tree, sorry about the phone woes. I hope it all works out in the end. I frankly don’t mind the emails showing on my phone, because I am not always in front of my desktop, and sometimes I need access to my email while out and about.

Mollie, yay for another step forward in your journey. Also, yay for Mrs. Magill’s results.

JtC, I’m glad the robo vacuum is such a help. My son got one for his downstairs, which is all hard flooring to keep up with Zeus’ hair. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work really well upstairs because the carpet up there is rather thick.

Still no pedicure, but maybe today. We won’t be going to dinner after the eye appointment because we are dogsitting Zeus overnight. He’ll be dropped off early this afternoon so my son can go to a wedding. If it were just Buster and Maisie, we wouldn’t have a problem leaving them alone to go out to dinner, but Zeus is a different story. No big deal. We love Zeus, and the pups will have fun, too.

As I was out watering all the plants yesterday, I was looking at spots that use some filling in. I also noted my Sweet Alyssum and Lobelia have been dropping seed because I now have both sprouting in cracks between the pavers and lawn and on the outside edge of the lawn next to the raised bed planter. They are just tiny plants, but it both pleases me and cracks me up. I will purposely not mow those two areas so they can grow. I could move the plants, I guess, but they’re so tiny right now that moving them would probably destroy them. Also, I’m curious to see if they’ll continue to grow.

I’m really annoyed with the paper subscription, but I’m not going to use the stupid chatbot to resolve the issue. My subscription cost has gone up significantly (I only have a digital subscription), and I’m at the point where I will cancel. I did not receive a notification that the subscription price was going up (like over 20 bucks more a month), and although I’ll miss reading news centered around my county and not points north, I’m not willing to pay that price. I’ll call them around 9:00 or so.

I guess I’d better get going. I need to load a couple of plates in the dishwasher and then run it. After that, I’ll shower so I can get out of the house early. I need to buy doggie ice cream because the dogs have been out for two or three days now (oh noes!), and Zeus loves it too. I may just hit the nursery that is going out of business because their sale is ongoing, and today, everything is 40% off.

Take care of yourselves!

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Good morning, all! It was 64ºF this morning with a dew point of 62º. I let Mrs Magill sleep in this morning again. Band has been wearing her out. She appreciated the lunch yesterday and asked if I could bring her lunch again. I think I’ll take advantage of the opportunity and get a Stromboli to split with her. Mmm… Stomboli… < begin Homer Simpson drooling >.

It was partly cloudy, which made for some nice colors.

The Moon was a little hazy, though.

Thank you to everyone for your well wishes. I just need the testicular intestinal fortitude to call Cigna to initiate things. Also, sorry about serial posting last night. The first was cathartic, the second was me riding my wife’s coattails, and the third was right after Maus texted me about Tom.

That sounds nice. I might make one of those tonight. I just happen to have a bottle of 12 year old blended scotch that Mrs Magill picked up at the Indianapolis Costco last week.

I believe you’re right. It was higher this morning.

Thank you! I decided to emulate JtC and Shoe and floozy it up a bit and have a top on that is showing off my (un)natural assets.

Mrs Magill took Chloé for ice cream and a pup-cup to celebrate five years leukemia free. I had already had my post yoga shower and was in my PJs. I’m pretty casual, but not that casual.

It’s called Three Sisters Planting. I don’t have a big enough garden to try it, but it sounds interesting.

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Morning all. Slept till 7:30am then started load one of the laundry and did my Friday grocery shopping while it was working. Second load is washing now as first is in the dryer (which is squeaking loudly when I start it, then settles down–may be on it’s last legs). Nice day again, no rain and 90F, but a good chance of rain after midnight.

JtC, thanks for the cleaner report, I’ll look into that.

Oopsie, always a pleasure to see the Lego sets. Enjoy the free lunch. And hope the newbie exceeds expectations and gets the weight off your back sooner than expected.

Mollie, that is great news for the Mrs. Not so great news for your uncle, I’m not all that close to my family but they will find out if I die (which I have no immediate intention of doing).

But was it in the woods?

Bright Tree, hope Ollie knows best to just bark. And I like the Verizon people I have dealt with, but the phone call and “Who’s on First” routine would have strained my patience, glad you could keep it friendly. And I really try to watch my picture backups so if I clear space on my phone they are not gone forever.

Shoe, that’s a lot of Onion rings. I can remember as a youth dropping breaded perch in the fryers on Friday at the restaurant I worked at, sometimes a couple hundred pounds worth over the evening.

doggio, hope the change in your role doesn’t confuse the Chiefs so bad that it turns SNAFU into FUBAR.

Boo Fae, Hopefully today was a quiet as promised, but you never know when Murphy might be lurking…

FCM, interesting on the crops; guess I need to keep learning stuff.

Taters, get that pedicure done, you’ve earned it! Dropped my local paper when it went all-digital, the system that they used was a mess and just not worth the effort. The NY Times 3 times a week and the SDMB keeps me more or less in the loop. Happy shopping!

And load number 3 is in the washer, so that will take care of my immediate laundry needs, the dryer is now operating quietly, so we’ll see how it goes. Have a good Firday (I want to say Saturday because it feels like it, but it isn’t).

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Three Sisters - right! Thanks for the memory jog!

I spent just shy of 90 minutes pulling weeds, minus a potty stop, and a frantic stop to get bug-sprayed, and another stop to change shoes. So I didn’t get quite as much done as I’d hoped, plus I’ve worked my way into a particularly overgrown area. But I’m still making progress.

The method to my madness is to do a 2-3’ wide section from top of the slope down. The width depends on which plant I choose to mark the edge. The last was a forsythia. I work my way down, taking the bucket along. Then depending on how I feel, I may just move over and start the next swath from bottom up.

Next time I go out, I need to go back to where I started so I can catch upstart sprouts before they get out of hand. The dang crab grass is prolific and it takes over pretty fast! It’s my futile attempt to stay ahead of everything. ← I made a joke!!!

Anyway, I’m clean and decently clad and the laundry has been sorted and started. I also had an early lunch because I had a very small breakfast so I was stahvink!! I think I’ve earned a little break before emptying the dishwasher and clearing the counter nearest the door of accumulated miscellany. It is, unfortunately, a convenient spot to put stuff when coming in from the garage and it’s easy to ignore the accumulation.

Cookie - I meant to mention, I got a giggle from Fairy Tights! Good one!!

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That’s called “the three sisters”. The corn stalks support the beans and then the squash while the big squash leaves shade the tender beans until they are ready to harvest.

We would regularly see gardens planted that way in AZ, successful methods often keep being used.

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They’ll take another MRI in a month to see if the bone infection is cleared. If it hasn’t, I’ll have another couple of weeks, but there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.

Nelson licked / chewed the fur on his undercarriage and hiney, poor baby. The vet prescribed a topical foam in addition to the salve. I spritz this stuff on him before I brush him every day. It helps.

Up, caffeinating, breakfasted, infused and fixing to do KP. Other than a load of towels this afternoon, it will be RDOS.

I woke up in the middle of the night with the itchies. I took a couple of benedryl and slept a little later.

Stay safe and healthy y’all!

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Can you spritz some.of the doggie Rx on yourself?

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I knew it without even looking. :wink:

Could be, could be. You’ll just have to wonder when that particular Sword is going to fall. :wink:

BooFae, sounds like it might be a fine day, what with no TM and a light workload! Enjoy it all. :smiley:

Yes, we do share this trait! Everything is a bafflement. I am grateful to the helpful Verizon counter people. I won’t tell them that the main reason I want to access my account is to switch to a less costly plan they offer. I mostly use my phone on WiFi, so their impressive network is largely lost on me.

I’m with you 100%, but in the words of my father, “Everyone has the right to go to hell in their own fashion.” I guess that’s true, too. And we don’t have to think kindly about it!

Oh man, me too. It’s a curse, really. I’ve trained myself to ignore it in posts, but thread titles I have to see over and over again, and I just can’t ignore them. I didn’t realize for quite awhile that whenever I fixed one, the author received a notice. :flushed_face: I try to use a light touch with it: E.g., if a Canadian starts a thread, I leave their spellings alone. Or if someone is being cute, I respect that. But yeah, the apostrophe thing especially… < shudder >

Glad you got a good night’s sleep! And you’re a weed-pulling machine. I really admire your get-after-it-ness.

Cookie, glad the injections are working their magic! You’ve got me thinking…

Taters, I hear you on the email thing, but I work with PHI (Private Health Information) and have nightmares about my phone getting hacked. The computer I can safeguard. Plus I work from home and no email is so dire it can’t wait till I have computer access, so for me, no need to have email on the phone. And luckily, I didn’t use my business email – that would have been a much bigger problem!

I’ll add my exhortations to others: Get that pedicure, you deserve pampering! :smiley:

Mollie, what an outstanding sunrise pic today! Thank you for it! And you’ll get to Cigna when you’re ready – but at least that’s your call now. :slight_smile: It will be ok.

I used to do Three Sisters Planting when I kept a large garden. It does work very well. I especially loved giving the beans a natural place to climb. I always ended up with too much squash and pumpkin, though.

Metal Mouse, this is my hope, too. I have unpleasant visions of watching as he tears out of some hidden place with a coyote in hot pursuit… And thanks for the pointer about backing up pictures!

Thanks for the update. And I will definitely keep everything crossed for a good outcome!

Thanks also for the tip of the spritz. Ollie has left off chewing himself, but it can’t hurt to keep some around. Hope your own itchies abate soon! Could it be a side effect of the antibiotics? Ugh.

Shoe, DMTA. (Demented Minds Think Alike.) :wink:

Another lovely cool morning, starts off with 50Ferrets and threatens to get up to 89F late this afternoon, but I will probably be home and safe in the AC by then.

Ollie and I are off soon to give him a romp with his pal, Iris, a classic Tibetan Spaniel so named because she was born with one eye only, and me to have a long-overdue visit with my poor beset friend. She is recovering from her diverticulitis and asked me to join she and her husband for lunch. I always bring wine, bread and some dessert, but I wasn’t sure what constraints she might be under. I understand that typically, people who suffer from diverticulitis should avoid small seeds and nuts. Her invitation came very late, so I had to make do with what ingredients I could scare up out of my pantry for the dessert. Brownies? No, because nuts. Berry clafoutis? No, because seeds in the berries.

She’s getting bread pudding. :wink: I did also have some bagels and smoked salmon made and put aside for her husband, so I guess they’ll manage ok.

So much for my plans to haul trash today. It’ll keep another week.

Have delightful days, all, whatever you choose to do or not do!

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Cute puppy dog antics to brighten someone’s day.

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Afternoon time. Three loads of laundry done and dried, so shirts, u’wear/socks, and Blue Jeans are back in stock. Dryer quit whining and worked just fine for the last two loads, so divided on if I need to get a professional out here or just let it go–being a slackard, I’ll probably wait until it breaks some more…have sammich’ed and hydrated so calories now need to be sweated, so off to the gym in a little bit. Also need to stop at Kroger for something (anything), I am 5 points short of an extra 0.10 cents/gallon discount on my next fillup.

red, no itchies for quite awhile here, not sure if it’s anything I’ve done/not done but will gladly do without them. Glad the benedryl helped.

Bright Tree, may both you and Ollie have a splendid day out with friends.

Mollie, puppeh either has an excellent sense of smell or great eyesight (or you hide them in the same places… :wink:)

And time to dress for sweatage and burn those calories. Excelsior!

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I felt a little guilty skiving off work at 12:30, but that was my allowed time not getting into overtime, I ain’t gonna work for free. Left the museum with zero exhibits people, I have no idea where 2 of them were, but they were supposed to be there.

Yesterday I threw away 600 lbs of ancient files that have been taking up space in the warehouse. BTW, that’s a 6’ pickup truck bed full of paper. Terribly important things from 2006 about exhibits we don’t have anymore.