(Old) Happy Memorial Day or Just Happy Moanday in the MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Morning all!
It’s 85 degrees and sunny here in Southern Nevada. Supposed to hit 100 today, so yeah, I’d say summer has arrived.

No real plans for the holiday. Mrs W has hired landscapers to come in twice monthly to weed and keep our plants alive and attractive - something we’re not really inclined to do ourselves. They’re due for their first visit any minute now. After that we may go out for a late breakfast.

Saturday night we attended a Wine Walk benefiting Make-a-Wish down at the village. The weather was lovely, and we tasted some very nice fermented grape juice. We went with our single next-door neighbor, who got a bit tipsy. She bought a souvenir T-shirt, then somehow lost it on the way to the car. I felt bad for her, but she said it was still a donation to a good cause.

Sticky Buns, sorry about your aunt, even if she was estranged. Hope the drama in your life abates soon.

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Swampy, no memorial day here, but Thursday is Corpus Christi, so no work then. Friend posted a picture of cinnamon rolls she made today, so I’m thinking I might make some on Thursday. It’s raining now, will rain tomorrow, Wednedsay (you get the idea). Glad we’re up high, because those in the lower areas will get flooded.

Metal Mouse I had to read your post twice. I first thought you were going to stretch out your underwear. :laughing:

That does seem to help, right? Sorry about the band.

@Taters You’re making me jealous. I really miss PNW beaches. Scottish beaches will do in a pinch, but it’s just not the same. Hope the vet is able to send the ear mites on their merry way, away from Maisie and Buster.

I’m sorry. :people_hugging: At least your grandson gets his grandfather at his graduation. Hope the day goes well, despite the date.

Shoe, best of luck with The Behemoth and the subsequent door. I’ve got Dance Monkey stuck in my head like nobody’s business, so I have to share.

Sticky Buns, I’m sorry about your aunt. Way too much on your plate. :people_hugging:

Saturday was spent moving furniture and belongings back to their normal residences, and Saturday night we got to sleep in our bed in our bedroom.

Funny thing, though. Our bed has wood supports. We had carpet and now have cork. Bed slides, which is not good for the new flooring.

We had a bit of a think and finally decided that we could use the felt coasters underneath the bed legs. I hope @FairyChatMom approves.

Sunday we took the day off from moving furniture and went to Zurich. Got a really good burger, but the shake didn’t beat 5 guys. Bummer, since Zurich is a lot closer than Lausanne.

Speaking of which, hubby wants to do some more furniture moving. We even bought official felt squares which can be stuck to furniture legs.

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Cheese omelette-and-bacon sandwiches for breakfast.

Mrs. L.A. bought a brass, inset, oval, sliding door handle for the bathroom barn door. I don’t have a wood bit to drill out the ends of the inset, so I chiseled the hole. (I would have had to chisel the middle anyway.) So that’s done. Now she can do her thing to that side of the door.

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Morning. Ok, it’s noon thirty ish, but who’s counting?

Been a few weeks. Real estate dominated my psyche and I haven’t had the time or energy to do anything else. We closed a could of weeks ago, moved in and are now in the morass of setting up house. Of course as soon as you move into a new place you discover all the things wrong with it. Already had a plumber out to fix a bunch of things, and need some roofing work done.

And of course now I’m constantly questioning if we should have done all of this at all. The new house is nice, and it’s big, and it’s got a better kitchen, but do we need twice as much house (at twice the mortgage payment)? Is it the right layout? Right location? Everything will come together, but change is hard.

More fun times: storms blew through the middle of the country last night, starting in St. Louis where we had a “PDS” (“Particularly Dangerous Situation”) warning (at one point my phone popped up with an “EXTREME” tornado warning). We weren’t home at the time, but I watched in my weather app as a radar hook (tends to suggest rotation) passed right over our neighborhood, as the NWS warnings identified our area as directly in line. House is fine (no power), but it looks like there was definitely a touchdown a quarter mile or so away. Lots of tree damage in a narrow band heading roughly east. Waiting on confirmation that it was an actual tornado, but seems likely.

Today is calm and sunny. Maybe heading to friends for the afternoon, depending on when my wife wakes up from her nap. Then furniture shopping so we can fill our giant house with places to sit.

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I’m sure it will. I’m sure his mother scheduled it on that day deliberately, as my son was hugely proud of his boy and would have been busting his buttons. The kid has struggled with ADHD throughout his schooling, so his graduation is even more good reason to celebrate. He’s planning to go to trade school.

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And NWS has confirmed that it was a tornado. “Just” and EF-1, but that’s still a little close for comfort (about a quarter mile from our house).

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“Remembrance Day”, no?


Damp weather today (30% chance of showers, with a 90% chance of heavy rain tonight), and the knee and hip are both aching again. Modified rapture.

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Ouch. But the half-life of local bands is notoriously short. The fact these folks were together long enough to have a real following is something to celebrate.


Good to hear, but I was exhausted by the time I got to the end of your description. So much busy activity! Glad you survived, and better yet, enjoyed it all.


Cookie: good luck at graduation. Another kid takes the big jump out of the nest and into the “real world”. He surely will know how proud everyone is, even his late father. {{Hugs}} of the appropriately manly sort.


Shoe: if you take “call Mom” off that list the total emotional burden will drop by 75% even though the actual work in all those things will drop by 2% tops.


Can’t say it better than that. Karma says you’re waaay overdue for some good news for a change.


There was a Peanuts character or maybe it was Eeyore from Pooh who wandered the world with his own personal raincloud hovering overhead.

Life imitates art more than it should.


Now there is a sentence no European of 40 years ago would have predicted. The US franchise invasion of Europe is complete. Sorry.


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Since there were two sliding door handles in the package, I roughed on up with steel wool and sprayed it, and its screws, black. All I had was high-temperature paint. Now that it’s drying, it looks like it’s a semi-gloss. I think it will match the black hardware on the door better than the unpainted one, but I’m sure the paint will wear off through use.

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Hit [send] too soon & ran out of edit time. Continuing where I left off…

Every new up-sizing homeowner asks those questions; I sure did.

I once watched the wall cloud w pendants and green sky go over my big house in Lake Saint Louis. The first touchdown was 5 miles downstream in St. Charles then Hazelwood.

If you don’t mind sharing, which town in the area are you moving from and to?


Flyboy: Good on ya for a DIY door handle. Engine paint is pretty wear resistant; I know you nailed the surface prep so I bet you’ll both get a lot of mileage out of that rig.

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Having a Maruchan ramen bowl - slightly different from the usual Insant Lunch cup I like, but hey, I was feeling adventurous - doctored up with hoisin & cilantro, cuz if you’re gonna eat $1 semi-food, why not go all bougie with it?

Sometimes, cheap/salty/delicious is just what one needs in life.

Monkey has become thoroughly unimpressed with the cool breeze (it was getting damn windy there for a sec) and is now pressing my left knee & thigh down with all his furry might, lest gravity overtake me, I guess.

Who knew the human kneecap makes a comfy pillow?

As far as the Getting Done of Stuff, I went into a bit of detail over in mini-rants but the IRS payment plan setup is going … predictably frustratingly. Which is to say, I’ve lost a bunch of time & effort, and gained nuthin’ to show for it.

Ordered T.P. and Monkey kibble from Amazon, cuz fuck putting on pants & dealing with people right now.
Or ever, really.
Hopefully my 1.5 rolls will make it for the week - remind me to, uh, go at work before I leave each night!

Having successfully put away one (1) ENTIRE basket of clean laundry, thankyouverymuch, and ensuring that I have clean socks’n’undies for the week, I have now … started the next load of laundry. :roll_eyes:

It just never ends, does it?

Isn’t that how it always seems to go?

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From Overland to South County. 55 and Butler Hill.

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Would The Behemoth fit out the door without it’s door or roof? The doors and walls of most residential fridges are very thin metal with insulating foam under plastic. If you know someone with a Sawsall or a jigsaw, perhaps you could borrow it and go to town on the Behemoth.

Hubs modified the inside of a dorm fridge to allow him to put his 5 gallon brewing jugs in, it wasn’t that much of a task and not really that messy.

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We’re under a tornado watch till 11. Wind has been weird - we’ll just monitor and run to the basement if necessary.

Supper will be ham, sauteed cabbage, and twice-baked spuds.

FCD is home. He said it stormed at the marina. No progress in figuring out the wiring.

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perhaps you should consider moving to the desert.

{{{Cookie}}} {{{shoe}}} {{{sticky}}}

The Memorial Day parade always used to be on the east side of town but last year (which I was unaware of) it moved to the west side and was on west side again today. So, my friend and I walked to the starting area. There were some chairs at an outside table of a little cafe. Some other people had already appropriated 4 of them so we thought that it might be ok to use 2 of them since it seemed the parade would likely be over before the cafe opened. The Mom of the chair appropriators handed us some tissues so that we could wipe the drops of rain from overnight off of them. Their son became our new best friend; he had never been to a parade and asked us many questions.

It always used to be that since Selfridge Air Force Base isn’t too terribly far away, that there would be a flyover of several very loud jets of some type to start the parade. But I guess times and money are/is tight so there was only one helicopter.

Many of the marchers were handing out candy, small bags of chips, etc to mostly the children. The kids were ecstatic. My friend and I ended up with some small bags of peanuts, one snickers bar, an American flag, and a necklace of small silver beads.

It’s Memorial Day so I’m making potato salad that we’ll have with knockwurst (instead of hotdogs), and watermelon for dessert.

ETA: we did return the chairs to the tables outside the cafe which hadn’t opened yet and Hubs had driven to our location and saw part of the parade so we got a ride home.

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We got a couple of books yesterday.

We watch a lot of TCM, and we often find ourselves watching Noir films hosted by Eddie Muller. They’ve been advertising his ‘Kid Noir’ book Kitty Feral and the Case of the Marshmallow Monkey (video link) quite a bit. I finally gave in and bought it. It’s a cute book with fun pictures and many nods to Noir films and characters. And… Eddie Muller dedicated it to Bent, Snap, Keekat, Rumpus, Buddy, and Tizzy; whom I assume are his cats. That was a cute dedication.

I’ve mentioned Gateway 1890’s Smuggler’s Tunnel Speakeasy. It’s decorated with fake bottle of alcohol, fake money, fake gold bars, etc. One booth has a copy of Bill O’Reilly’s Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America. Mrs. L.A. always grabs it when we use that booth, but it’s way too dim to read and she only wants to use the flashlight on her phone for short periods so she won’t be blind when she shuts it off. It looked like an interesting book. Even though I did not want to give any money to Bill O’Reilly, I had to get it. I’ve read the prologue, about John Dillinger, and it was pretty good.

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I napped. Or at least as much nap as you can have when the cat kept stomping between sleeping with the soft, warm human and the hard, cold night stand. We also have a tornado watch.

Yeah, unless you had Niedermeyer as your commander in Vietnam. :wink:

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{{{{Cookie}}}

shoe maybe boot the call down the road a bit?

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Wow, big thunderboomers rolling through Minny. Pouring down like you read about. Doubly glad we didn’t drive over to WI, as we would be driving back in this mess.

I made aglio e olio for dinner, which came out very nice.

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It’s sad when a long time group shuts down. Sometimes, not as sad as the band having a complete change of musicians though.

Hugs to you cookie.

Hugs to you and your mom too sticky buns.

Irked 5 hours today before they sent us home. I kind of figured they’d do that since USPS wasn’t running. That doesn’t mean that I didn’t have anything to do had we stayed though. Came home, napped, played with Nelson and Bella, the neighbor dog. It was still a little too wet to take Nelson to the park. It’s rained every day for the last four days, including a T-boomer this morning on the way to irk.

The winner at Indy (for the second year running) has a local connection: he’s from the town about an hour north of me where SIL lives.

I considered heading over to the National Cemetery in the 'Boro today, but napped too long. Two members of the only branch of my dad’s family that have been in this country for a couple of hundred years have two 5 X great uncles buried there who perished at the Battle of Stones River during the ACW.

While Sis was here, she mentioned that my 86 year old dad has discovered watching Loony Toons on his phone. She said that she’d wake up in the morning to the theme song. I get a kick out of that. Maybe we’ll watch cartoons together when I go up next. :stuck_out_tongue:

Stay safe and healthy y’all!

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Afternoon all. Sammich was procured and assimilated, mildly proud of myself for not getting the usual potato chips (mostly because I had already snacked at home). Then did some pedaling for a couple hours and will go out sometime tonight for a Wendy’s Double with cheese no onion (we’ll see if they get it right). Otherwise readin’, internettin’, puzzle solving, and slothing will make up the balance of the day. 86F outside and the AC is working hard inside.

Darnit, Moandays are always busy in the MMP; let’s see…

swampy, don’t think poorly of me, but corn on the cob is the one way I do like my vegetables.

Pilot, glad things are coming together at your new abode. Still need to set a date to go see the local team (The Trash Pandas) play baseball. And slow but steady seems a good plan for contacting HL’s Son.

boo fae, as others have noted, local bands often have the half-life of some radioactive elements-glad this one stuck together long enough to provide some good memories. I did 700 calories today on the stationary bikes today, if I had thought more would have stopped at 666…

FCM, swim lessons are a good idea anytime. Stay dry.

Taters, glad the meetings went well, hope the stress of organizing it is one thing that is a relief for you as it is now in the past. Enjoy the pedicure. And like shoe, I want to know what happened after you met the…??

Shoe, you have a little list, you got them on your list… And only 1.5 rolls of terlet paper? swampy will be looking for his fainting couch…

Cookie, a melancholy June 1st. And you stay dry too.

Sticky Buns, hope the dramas all play out with satisfactory conclusions for you.

Coppertone, like the old joke about,well, just about everywhere, if you don’t like the weather wait 15 minutes and it’ll change.

Legend, glad you’re still with us, check in when life lets you.

Wheelie, sounds like you’re settling into your new life.

Hey, I’m losing weight here!! :grinning: problem is when I do the stationary biking at the settings I choose plus time in the sauna, I sweat…a lot…and that affects the, well, wearability of my underclothing. So even with extra pairs on-hand, it piles up fast in the laundry basket. (I know, I know, TMI).

Dicey, happy to know if I ever visit Switzerland that there will be a 5 Guys for me…

Flyboy, here’s hoping the Mrs. bathroom work is nearing completion.

verwirrt, nice to hear from you again. Glad the real-estate stuff is getting sorted out (JtC is going through something similar). Used to live N. of St. Louis (Florissant), looks like some nice places around there.

Might have been Joe Btfspik…Joe Btfsplk - Wikipedia

Cat Glove, glad you made the parade; don;t know if we had one or not, been some time since I’ve been to a parade.

red, been to the Stone’s River battlefield several times, it’s pretty well-preserved. And yea! for Dad finding Bugs and Daffy.

Whew, think I’m caught up, need to don more clothing and head over to the red-hair girls restaurant for my evening nourishment. Take care all.