# (Old) April Showers bringing May Flowers in the MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [May 6, 2024, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-april-showers-bringing-may-flowers-in-the-mmp/1001177 "2024-05-06T08:53:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2024, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-april-showers-bringing-may-flowers-in-the-mmp/1001177/221 "2024-05-11T16:09:08Z")
> [@Kitten\_Mitten](#): > > $31 mostly on liquids (24 pk of coke, LF milk for Hubs, 1% milk for me, another gallon of Milo’s Sweet Tea & Lemonade) I kinda needed to pee just reading all that. > [@Kitten\_Mitten](#): > > Then I called my friend and she is so relieved You iz good people. > [@Kitten\_Mitten](#): > > typed a bit of a risque response but didn’t want any pearl clutching to commence. Redacted. You iz no fun. You deprive us of funny replies and witty repartee? Shame. ETA: just noticed, there _has_ been a marked lack of pearl-clutching 'round these parts lately. Mumpers be slackin’. ETA II: ok, **Pilot** is making up for the rest of us. Someone, get that guy a Gatorade. > [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](#): > > Annie has a sad tummy today. I’ve even given her the meds that are the standard ‘fix’ and she’s still refusing to eat and making gurgling noises. 😞 Tell her to lay off the tequila. Sorry for the bad joke; genuinely hope she’s better soonest. Some ppl give boiled chicken and rice (in small amounts) to pups with the bubble-guts. Is that an option with your sweet Annie? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2024, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-april-showers-bringing-may-flowers-in-the-mmp/1001177/222 "2024-05-11T16:26:27Z")
Our smoke detector hadn’t had a battery in it for… a decade and a half? Mrs. L.A. bought a new smoke detector and put it up. Good home-safety thinking, Wifey! Only… I wish it would stop commenting on my cooking. I had two small burritos for breakfast. (Two 7-inch Carb Balance whole wheat tortillas, on jumbo egg scrambled with heavy cream, salt, and pepper, not-overcooked bacon, shredded Tillamook medium cheddar cheese, and Sriracha sauce.) When I took the cast-iron frying pan out of the oven, the smoke detector went off. It wasn’t even smoking! Anyway, I should have used Tabasco instead of Sriracha. It would have been hotter, and not sweetish-tasting. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2024, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-april-showers-bringing-may-flowers-in-the-mmp/1001177/223 "2024-05-11T17:05:20Z")
So they kept shutting down SSLAW #2 to send the people elsewhere, then reopening it with completely different people, and occasionally The Gangster of Love. Which says something when the head of Preload has to try to work like one of us drones. But I got hours doing the re-tape and cleanup. Bacon and aigs is et, laundry is drying, and time for me and Spot to nap. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > not my circus, etc. After this, I recommend taking a vacation to the most isolated part of Outer Mongolia, and just scream at random yaks for 3 days, or until the stress disappears. {{{{ **Sticky** and Annie}}}} > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I wish it would stop commenting on my cooking. Mine does that. But like they say “Any machine is a smoke machine if you operate it wrong enough.” ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-april-showers-bringing-may-flowers-in-the-mmp/1001177/224 "2024-05-11T17:32:37Z")
> [@Kitten\_Mitten](#): > > Isn’t there someone you can speak to about this lack of timely communication or a normality of schedule? The issue, like many places, is lack of workers. Yesterday, for example, the aide had 2 patients added to her schedule at the last minute. I’m guessing it’s the nature of hospice - people are added, people die, people go to the hospital, aides need to call out… several of the people who have come here say they find out their schedule usually the morning of, tho sometimes the night before. We can deal. It’s not like we’ve got a schedule to work around. As long as they’d notify us right away if there won’t be a visit, so we can do other errands. > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Our smoke detector hadn’t had a battery in it for… a decade and a half? MD passed a law requiring 10-year smoke detectors. Ours went in 2(?) years ago I think. I did write the date on them, so I’ll know when they need to be replaced. > [@dogbutler](#): > > After this, I recommend taking a vacation to the most isolated part of Outer Mongolia, and just scream at random yaks for 3 days, or until the stress disappears. I’m thinking a long, _looooooong_ cruise would be more to my liking! I want to go trans-Pacific - Australia and New Zealand, then island hop back to California. Now, your opinions: Is this cute, charming, creepy, or something else: You get a greeting card signed “Love, John and Mary” but John has been dead for many months/years. For me, I find it a bit disturbing, bordering on creepy. Is Mary in denial? Or was it force of habit? Either way, it kinda weirds me out. OK - kitchen floor is clean and drying. Dishwasher finished washing and it’s open and drying (I refuse to use the drying cycle when air works just fine.) MIL got up about 11:50. I drugged her and fed her, and she’s back in her room - either getting dressed or back in bed. The drugs, BTW, are her morning meds - I’m not giving her sleepy pills! Gonna sit and read a bit more while the floor is drying, then I need to ready the basement for TX SIL - open the futon, get it sheeted and blanketed, and clean the bathroom down there. Then, dunno. We shall see. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2024, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-april-showers-bringing-may-flowers-in-the-mmp/1001177/225 "2024-05-11T17:41:39Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Our smoke detector hadn’t had a battery in it for… a decade and a half? Mrs. L.A. bought a new smoke detector and put it up. Good home-safety thinking, Wifey! Only… I wish it would stop commenting on my cooking. I used to joke that my grandfather used smoke alarms as kitchen timers. 🙂 Thanks for bringing this up, though. Reminded me I needed to put in a maintenance request to have a couple of ours checked out. For some bureaucratic reason I don’t pretend to even have a guess at understanding, our 800sf apartment has FOUR smoke/CO detectors, one in each bedroom, one just outside each bedroom. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2024, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-april-showers-bringing-may-flowers-in-the-mmp/1001177/226 "2024-05-11T17:55:50Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > I used to joke that my grandfather used smoke alarms as kitchen timers. 🙂 The thing is, there was no smoke at all! I think the smoke detector is actually a good smell detector. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2024, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-april-showers-bringing-may-flowers-in-the-mmp/1001177/227 "2024-05-11T18:57:49Z")
You recall that Mrs. L.A. replaced the traditional bathroom door with a sliding barn door. Now she’d filling in the old hinge cutouts, patching a small hole by the light switch, and I think putting moulding in the tub. As for me, I did some bush-butchering. There’s a bush at the corner of the driveway, with the mailbox in one corner. When it grows, I can’t see the mailbox from the house, and I can’t see if any traffic is coming. So I trimmed it down and squared it off with the trusty ol’ Black & Decker hedge trimmer. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2024, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-april-showers-bringing-may-flowers-in-the-mmp/1001177/228 "2024-05-11T19:44:07Z")
I’m feeling so handy! I fixed 2 of my lawn mowers. They just needed carb cleaning after a winter’s rest. So mowage achieved. The other 2 are lost causes, one is an ancient rider that is probably as old as I am, so early 1970s, it has a flat tire that I can not get the lugs to loosen. The other is a piece of crap little push mower that is long dead. **flyboy** Yeah it’s about time to start the annual fight with the bushes between my house and the neighbors. Being able to see up the road to get out of the driveway is a good thing. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-april-showers-bringing-may-flowers-in-the-mmp/1001177/229 "2024-05-11T19:54:57Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > Being able to see up the road to get out of the driveway is a good thing. Definitely. There are two other bushes. First the driveway mailbox bush, then the Mongolia (magnolia 😉 ) my wife planted, then another bush, then a cedar tree, then another bush, then a big cedar tree. The driveway bush is _much_ shorter than the other two. Not symmetrical, but I want to see the mailbox and the road. (Not that we put stuff in the mailbox very much anymore.) I severely trimmed it before, after letting it go for a couple of years. It looked like I was trying to kill it. This time, the middle had grown some leaves so it doesn’t look so butchered. Mrs. L.A. is still working in the tub. I’m not exactly sure _what_ she’s doing, but I’m sure it will be good. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2024, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-april-showers-bringing-may-flowers-in-the-mmp/1001177/230 "2024-05-11T20:07:00Z")
Howdy Y’all! A slothful day it has been at da cave. We did go for a burger and a beer, so some activity was achieved. We achieved nappage and then had beerverages out beside the cee-mint pond. Retired life is good! **MetalMouse** I have always likened the sound of a bazillion cicadas to that of diesel engines idlin’. Hope the littles have a good time paintin’ your beard. **Sticky\_Buns** hope Annie is feelin’ better soonest. ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-april-showers-bringing-may-flowers-in-the-mmp/1001177/231 "2024-05-11T20:49:44Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > The thing is, there was no smoke at all! I think the smoke detector is actually a good smell detector. You just keep thinking that! 😉 I was out running around and taking MusicMan to work. Then I came home and took a nap. I was so tired I didn’t spend any time with Annie before I went upstairs. Now that I’m up, she seems much better. She hasn’t eaten yet dog food yet - yes, chicken and rice will be happening soon. She was very interested in what I was just eating and there are no more stomach noises. Soon my mom and I will be venturing out to go get Diet Coke at it’s current location where it happens to be on sale. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2024, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-april-showers-bringing-may-flowers-in-the-mmp/1001177/232 "2024-05-11T21:20:25Z")
Bean soup for supper tonight. It’s almost done, and it smells yummmmm! But if MIL tells me one more time that she puts tomatoes in hers, I may bonk her on the head with a can of tomatoes… \< _deep cleansing breath_ \> ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2024, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-april-showers-bringing-may-flowers-in-the-mmp/1001177/233 "2024-05-11T21:40:33Z")
I’m having some delived eggs I got at the grocery store. It feels like late autumn outside. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2024, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-april-showers-bringing-may-flowers-in-the-mmp/1001177/234 "2024-05-11T23:43:45Z")
Up from naptime, watching hockey and drinking a Sazarac. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Australia Or scream at the emus. 😉 > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Either way, it kinda weirds me out. Depends, does Mary own a Ouija Board? > [@SuntanLotion](#): > > delived eggs Yeah, if you ate them, they are no longer living. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2024, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-april-showers-bringing-may-flowers-in-the-mmp/1001177/235 "2024-05-12T00:09:34Z")
And a good evening to all. Soccer has been coached (both of my teams won!!), the beard painted (and washed off) and two U12 girls games have been refereed, so I consider it to have been a pretty full day. Have eaten and drank since I got home and am feeling much better now (albeit once I try to stand up I expect to find several body parts complaining…). Had beautiful weather, started in the 60’sF and got to about 76F, so just about perfect for spending the day outside. And now to rest. **Cat Glove** , I suspect we’re boring folks with our Kroger points, used all my April point for gas and am up to 863 so far for May, will try for 1000 before I have to get gas again. **Sticky Buns** , best wishes to Annie. **flyboy** , not sure when I last replaced the batteries in my Smoke and CO2 detectors, might be a Sunday project for me. Thanks for the idea. **FCM** , you have the patience of a Saint; just don’t end up like most of them did…(read sometimes how a lot of the early Saints died…curl your eyebrows, that). And if you find that Trans-Pacific cruise, y’all let me know about it, y’hear? **Van Go** , I’ve got a mower here than could use your touch. Most likely I’ll either junk it or see if some Toro dealer wants if for spare parts. **swampy** , they had a ball, there were six of them and six colors of paint so they all had a color of their own to put on. I also brought dishwashing gloves so they didn’t have to mess up their hands, Then I coached them with the technicolor beard. They also decided our team name is the Rainbow Puppies. OK, have taken care of hunger and thirst needs for the present, will do some more internetting and see how the rest of the evening goes. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2024, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-april-showers-bringing-may-flowers-in-the-mmp/1001177/236 "2024-05-12T00:26:07Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Our smoke detector hadn’t had a battery in it for… a decade and a half? Mrs. L.A. bought a new smoke detector and put it up. Good home-safety thinking, Wifey! Only… I wish it would stop commenting on my cooking. Check to see if it is and Ionization rather than a photoelectric detector. If it sounds while you are cooking and do not see visible smoke you likely have an ionization detector. This type of detector will _not_ detect the visible smoke produced by a cigarette fallen in between the couch cushions. This short video explains it very well: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/pnlkiZC0dd0/hqdefault.jpg "WTHR aquarium test") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnlkiZC0dd0) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2024, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-april-showers-bringing-may-flowers-in-the-mmp/1001177/237 "2024-05-12T00:26:08Z")
I rode the YZF-R1 today for the first time in nine years. I put the 2024 registration sticker over the 2015 one. I’ve just received the 2025 sticker. ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2024, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-april-showers-bringing-may-flowers-in-the-mmp/1001177/238 "2024-05-12T00:59:09Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > the beard painted Pictures??? ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2024, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-april-showers-bringing-may-flowers-in-the-mmp/1001177/239 "2024-05-12T01:01:31Z")
I did not notice I did that. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2024, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-april-showers-bringing-may-flowers-in-the-mmp/1001177/240 "2024-05-12T01:52:52Z")
> [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](#): > > Pictures??? Hopefully one of the parents took a few and I can get them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-april-showers-bringing-may-flowers-in-the-mmp/1001177.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-april-showers-bringing-may-flowers-in-the-mmp/1001177.md?page=13)