I am hoping Ollie provides extra blankets for the ferals.
Yikes! Earmuffs! Put on a cloth mask or balaklava to breathe out there!
I didn’t need the alert. Let the little Piper Mutt out; she was yapping to get in within a minute. Great big Piper Mutt, who usually loves the snow, started whining within two minutes. Once they were back in, I checked my phone, and there it was.
I will be using my toque and Inuit mitts today.
Well, that was a sucktastic surprise - apparently the strawberries I bought had been frozen at some point. Most of them were semi-transparent and mushy. Dammit. I just tossed the whole thing. It’s not worth going back to complain - I’d burn more in gas than the berries cost. But I know next time to look more closely. Anyway, Tobias likes blueberries and pineapple, so he’ll be good.
And I’ve built the mini-pizzas. They’re on a tray in the fridge waiting to be baked. Three are just cheese with my leftover sketty sauce (with beef and 'shrooms and onions.) The other 9 have plain sauce with italian seasonings, garlic powder and onion powder, topped with mozzerella and pepperoni. I’ll make the pigs inna blanket when the kids get here and with luck, I can time everything to be done at the same time.
I’ve been making a concerted effort to eat better, so I’ll have my lunch before they get here, and maybe have a yogurt while they eat.
Still an hour before I need to start the fire, so I have time to crochet. Onward!
Laundry is going, bacon and eggs are ingested, and Spot is watching his shows. It’s 41 degrees Ferret Height(5 Cetipedes) and cloudy out.
Purty!
Good morning.
It’s 27F and cloudy outside. Our daytime high temperature is expected to be 43F, and the afternoon will be partly cloudy.
BBBoo, I’m glad your recovery is going well. I love the stickers Harriet picked out.
Since I was a layabout yesterday, I must run out today and pick up dog food for the pups. I’m trying to remember if I need anything else since I’ll be out anyway, but I can’t think of anything.
Shoe, fingers crossed that you don’t lose power.
As to the 6:30 a.m. meeting, it wouldn’t bother me. The meeting is done, and the rest of the day is mine. That’s just how my mind works, and I’m an unusually early riser anyway. I hate appointments that fall in the middle of the day because now I have to plan everything around that and hope anything I need to do before the appointment doesn’t make me late or that the appointment itself doesn’t make me late for post-appointment to-dos.
FCM, boo for mushy strawberries. I don’t typically buy them in the winter because they’re rarely good.
We had breakfast for dinner last night (bacon, over-easy eggs, and hash browns), so today’s breakfast will be the usual Siggi’s yogurt and a banana.
I bit the hell out of the inside of my left cheek yesterday, and it’s still bothering me. I have a great big bump line running down the side of my cheek, and it seems to interfere with eating or drinking. I’m hoping the swelling dies down soon.
Alrighty, it’s time to finish my coffee and get going on those morning chores. They aren’t going to take care of themselves.
Everybody take care of themselves, especially those of you recovering from various owies and hospital visits.
A friend of mine used to live somewhere colder with frequent power issues. She says if you’ve got a gas stove to put a big pot of water on to boil and then turn off the gas. The pot of water will slowly disperse the heat and keep things warmish. Repeat as necessary.
I do hope you feel better soon because those symptoms sound absolutely miserable!
Should be a chill weekend here - we’re getting the same cold front as everyone else but the temps won’t be extreme or really that unusual for this time of year. And no chance of any measurable snow fall.
I do need to do some meal planning and prepping. Not much sounds good but I think I’ve settled on at least a meatloaf. That freezes and reheats well for leftovers.
That is so perfect!
I used to wear work shoes much like that when I was working in the warehouse. I’d tear the toes up climbing the metal shelves. They weren’t meant to be climbed so I was putting my feet in the cut-outs and rubbing the leather against sharp metal edges.
(Yes we had ladders but they were always on the other side of the very large warehouse when I needed one and I was just too lazy to go and get one.)
I can wear boots, I just didn’t like them and they weren’t required.
The Uggs currently on my feet were bought in 2017.
Do you have a spare blanket you can hang over your bedroom window? If you cover your snik tanks will that keep them warm enough? Is you job on the same power lines as you? If they still have power can you use the microwaves to heat up socks full of rice for them?
Here’s hoping you are worrying needlessly.
It sounds like you are doing as well or better than expected. I hope it continues and you are back in the water soon.
We are heading to lunch and the grocery sto in a bit. I’m sure we won’t be the only ones stocking up for next week, the snow is supposed to start tonight and continue through the day. Last week taught me that I didn’t properly prepare for a week at home, we ran out of buttermilk the fourth day.
The problem with that stuff is that they try too hard to make it taste like sausage or bacon or whatever it is supposed to be. I’ll bet folks would like it a lot more if it tasted like grain or toast.
Happy Saturday!
Up, caffeinating, breakfasted, KP done and fixing to get sheveled to go pick up a Marketplace buy. This one is only about 6 miles away, so not far. The other task is to see if I can get in to get a new battery for the car. Other than that, not much is shaking until late this afternoon when Nelson has a playdate.
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
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It’s an overcast/rainy day, but currently 35°F with an expected high of 43. I’m appreciating this last day of relative warmth before tomorrow’s 3-5" of snow, and the coming week of sub-freezing temps (including single-digit overnight lows)!
Yesterday’s second Shingrix injection was quick and mostly painless (both literally and figuratively). The pharmacist – and JtC – warned me that sometimes people develop flu-like symptoms after the second shot: they could take a day or so to appear, but so far so good (
). There wasn’t any soreness at the injection site until right before bedtime, and today the soreness is noticeable but mild. After CVS, I went to the grocery store: I now have bananas, and plenty of Yasso bars and Gatorade Zero. Yay!
Other than finishing the laundry I started earlier, I have no plans today: I’ll just be reading, watching TV, putzing around online, letting Bailey out every now and then, and building Lego. Which, happily, is pretty much my “to do” list for this entire 3-day weekend. 
Ooooo…except for the tomato slices, that sounds good!
Wow. You guys are strict.
And…?
YOU GO STAND OVER THERE AND THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU’VE DONE.
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Very cool!
HA! I love this; I need to remember to steal it. 
No judgment here, as long as you’re both consenting adults… 
Yay for being off the liquid diet!! Here’s hoping you get released soon, and quickly make a full recovery.
Ouch! 
We got to the newly-reopened Mexican restaurant, which had been closed nearly a year due to a kitchen fire, a little before 16 o’clock yesterday. It was closed. People were milling about, and said there were people milling about. One said that there was a problem in the kitchen. She said she’d called around three o’clock, and was told it would open in about an hour. SWMBO said we should have ‘dinner’ somewhere else. We went back toward home and went to CJ’s Beach House about a mile down the beach from our house. They have a new Iron Grill Dining Room that they’ve just opened, with a different menu. The Missus had filet mignon Diane, and I had the lamb shank (of course). We started with French onion soup with Emmental cheese. She had a Grey Goose martini, and I had two negronis. Very nice, very good, and we have leftover meat. But it was expensive. We chatted with the owner, who owned the Black Forest Steak House in Blaine until selling it last April. Now she doesn’t have to do the ‘triangle’: home => Blaine => Birch Bay. The Spousal Unit asked about her accent. It sounded German to me. The owner has dark skin and dark hair, and blue eyes. She said she’s half German and half Italian. She said she has one brother who is dark, and looks like an Arab; and her other brother is blond. So she’s in the middle of the spectrum.
Coming up on 09:00. Mrs. L.A. doesn’t know if she wants breakfast. That probably means she does. If she doesn’t, I’ll have a SPAM®-and-cheese omelette.
G’day for real. The kitchen is mostly cleaned, towels are in the washer, cottage cheese and blueberries (NOB? Please ask Spot) are before me. I have 26 exterior errets, so I’m adding 40 to bring the mostly cleaned living/dining/kitchen up to 66 ferrets. There was a good frost overnight. I hope the cold shock mostly keeps plants dormant and doesn’t kill them. I had my usual 2-year DEXA yesterday (normal, this tine–the osteopenia finding vanishes and re-appears depending on who’s reading the images) and the tech, who also farms, said that disturbingly they already have hay coming up. There was a chance of snow next week, but I see that’s evaporated (hah).
Today I’ll wait for a package, clean some more, continue transferring novel/la notes out of my journals, and probably visit with friends who are driving their RV northward within an hour of my house. No ill effects from last night’s Mounjaro other than an untasty mouth about half an hour after the injection. No nausea, not a lot of hunger (I regularly do a 12-1/2 to 14 hour fast on the assumption that it doesn’t hurt and might be helpful).
There must have been something in the water yesterday–my mother’s husband fell and fractured his femur. He had surgery last night. I expect an update this morning. Have I mentioned my uncle died last Friday? I had a good talk with my cousin.
Or go to the sink, and clean the prep tools with some Ajax. 
Sorry to keep you all waiting on the report from the Italian restaurant. The service was much better. I had lasagna, and I asked the waitress if I could get 3 garlic knots, and she said just go to the salad bar and grab some. I did, then she came back and told me that they had just put out a new batch and I should get some of the good fresh ones. So I’ll be going back. I think they go through servers quickly, they’re mostly high school age kids.
Today is high sloth, aside from laundry, and the machines do most of the work.
No more injuries, y’all!!
Puns are ok.
D’OH! Totally forgot.
Will baby spinach be involved?
Not a bad suggestion - thanks!
Me, too.
What a striking combo!
I had three at one time, as pets in my early 20s. Fun critters.
Aw, jeez.
I love when people take the initiative to do tiny little good deeds like this.
I’ve unfortunately encountered (and even more unfortunately, worked with) folks for whom even that tiny level of “above and beyond” is inconceivable.
I think at some point they’ve lost power and I hadn’t, and vice-versa. But the whole area also lost power all at once (that was fun!) so I guess it depends on where the damage occurs.
Thank you. I have found that the more anxious I am about trying to prep for something over which I ultimately have little control, the less likely it is to happen anyway & then I fretted myself into an upset tummy for nothing.
I love them, but my lovely wife had two in her younger days and says they were indifferent users of their litter box, so she won’t have them again. I think we’ll be looking for the next brace of cats soon, in any event.
Still recovering from being grilled at a deposition on Thursday.
My wife thought so too.
Speaking of whom… She’s having oatmeal. I’m cooking an omelette.
That is an absolutely true statement.