# (Old) Buddying With Allies in the MMP **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-buddying-with-allies-in-the-mmp/1014118 **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **Tags:** mmp **Created:** [February 10, 2025, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-buddying-with-allies-in-the-mmp/1014118 "2025-02-10T08:14:52Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 374
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> [@missred](#): > > I heard a branch fall from one of the trees I was amazed the first time I heard something like that happen here. It was so loud and distinctive despite me never have heard it before. I’m glad you didn’t get a branch on your home, that would have been a bother you didn’t need. The House That Spite Will Eat had a big branch land on the roof and slide down the side. Now there are windows broken and water is going inside. > [@rocking\_chair](#): > > As usually I did it whoopsy doodle first, Been there, bought the T-shirt, wore it out and then bought a new one! Warm cats are good company after a walk in the cold. > [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > cold with a hair dryer and a long extension cord to thaw the latch on our back gate. We use hand sanitizer or canned air on frozen locks, would those not work when it is your kind of cold? Don’t need to know fast - or ever, LOL! > [@Paintcharge](#): > > Woof, this sciatica thing is exhausting. Do you get tomorrow off? If so, take a long soak in the tub and then just sloth for the rest of the day. Your body is trying to tell you to slow down. > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Knew that if I sat down I wouldn’t be getting back out, so filled my gym bag and went right to the gym…and then back home since I still had my ‘good’ shoes on and forgot to pack my gym shoes. Oh, that really bites. I don’t know if I could have gone to the gym or just complained while properly packing my bag and then sitting down for a minute to scratch kitties. And maybe take a few stitches. And so on. > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > At least you don’t have to worry about wildfires… The forest was on fire on the mountain outside our door back in August!!! I was all freaking out, a fire like that in AZ would have involved helicopters and slurry bombers and evacuations and shelters. I think I was the only one out here who noticed it, they just let it burn out like nature intended. Of course, when the fire got close to a home, the fire department went out to keep the fire away from the home. They didn’t try to stop the fire, they just made a fire break to keep the fire away from the home and let it burn. The picture I shared was before the flood peaked, it was half way up the windows on the ground floors for a while. There are still folks on the upper floors or there were when I saw it on the evening news. Those are not high-dollar apartments, and I’m hearing that renters insurance isn’t common out here. It’s a shame about FEMA not being around to help anymore. > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Raises eyebrow like Mr. Spock Do you have any idea what that stuff is made of? Oh wait, do not look at the ingredients. You love it and eat it all the time. I do not want to be responsible for you losing a favorite food. > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Why does that sound slightly…ominous… This ain’t my first protest, I still have a scar from getting hit with a sign during a pro-choice rally. There is going to be one at your capital too, it is happening country wide. People have been protesting for almost as long as this stuff has been happening, it just hasn’t been reported. If you are close enough, you might consider going yourself. It should be non-violent, just a showing of hands to our elected officials about how distressed we are about what is happening. In case things go bad, cash is useful for bribes or bail, milk in case of tear gas and my cane in case I need to whack someone that really needs it. The snow is still falling but the river has dropped. There is a culvert under the train tracks to the gully and the lake there is almost gone. GG likes to come in and visit while I am on the toilet - yes, that is a cat thing - and he often sits on the scale during our chat. Tonight he weighted himself and he’s 21 lbs even. I plunked Jolene down on the scale and she’s just over 9 lbs and she’s the new comer. How come that lil red haired, green eyed beauty runs our house? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-buddying-with-allies-in-the-mmp/1014118)._