My only ghost experience was back in college. There was a rumor that a student had offed herself in the theater at 9:15, many years before I was there, and the clock in the space stopped. Clocks replaced, etc, they still stopped at 9:15. (Time made up cuz I don’t remember.)
I did see ghostly figures in the theater, but that’s what theaters are for.
Around here, free meals for veterans apparently only apply to those on active duty or retirees. Those of us who served but didn’t stay till retirement don’t count. Not that I wanted to go out today anyway. It’s a Navy town, so the waits likely are stoopit long.
FCD took his mom for a ride down to the boat, giving me a chance to mop the kitchen floor and vacuum the rest. I also gathered the household trash, and enjoyed some quiet time.
MIL is really out of it today. She woke from a nap asking where we were going and when her appointment was. She didn’t seem to believe me when I said she didn’t have any appointments. The nurse said she’s really declining, but we can see that daily. She also told us most of her hospice patients are in their 70s and 80s - she’s never dealt with a 93-y/o.
I pulled out some shrimp for supper. Now it’s quiet chillage till they get back.
Yeah, this is a pretty good kid. He had a major problem in school a couple of years ago, but he’s straightened out, as far as I know. Still in school, earns his own spending money, bought and fixed up his beater pickup, etc. Hangs out with another kid he’s been friends with for years. Hopefully this near miss will make him more cautious. Driving at night on these dark rural roads is really dangerous. Deer are as thick as mice out there. For a general idea, it’s now gun hunting season and the harvest limit is over 300,000 for MN. That’s less than a third of the estimated population.
I try to fly Betsy Ross-model flag on national holidays, so I unrolled it this morning and took it out front. After starting the coffeemaker, that is; first things first.
Then I settled in for Gocomics and my morning Puzzle Page puzzles and the NYTimes games and crossword. I recently added The Atlantic’s crossword to my brain calisthenics, and some days it’s more than I can do in a day.
Afternoon all. Did finally bestir myself to get to the gym, to find the heater in the pool was down and the water just to chilly for my aged bones, so came on home and…took a nap. It’s the first one I’ve taken in weeks (months) and we’ll see if it helps some. I also am working my way through the backlog of newspapers (only a week behind now) and may go back to the gym tonight since I plan to sup at Whataburger and that will add greatly to my calorie count.
Cookie, glad nephew and friends came out of the accident without serious damage, hope there are no after-effects.
Oopsie, sometimes too much gym is not good either…IMHO (really did overdo last week). Looking forward to the post-holiday Lego’s.
VanGo, hooray for the restored mailbox. Did the cement thing 20 years or so ago and haven’t regretted it.
And now for Moanday, take 2…
When they got back from the marina, MIL went immediately to bed - didn’t even pretend to sit in her recliner. Neither of them wanted supper, so I ate some leftover pulled pork - it was quick and easy and I didn’t want to bother.
I think I’ll get a yogurt and throw some blueberries in it.
How rude. Here (at Applebee’s, anyway*) a copy of your DD214 or even just a photo of you in uniform are sufficient to get your free meal. And several times I’ve had the waiter ask for a promise to tip well, and they’ve let my wife have a freebie, too.
Never seen a ghost, but my sister claimed to have a couple times. After our Maine coon died a few years ago, though, there were several occasions when my wife or I felt a cat jump on the bed and/or walk across it, and we knew there were no cats in the bedroom.
* We’re happy with the food, and it’s the most convenient location of the free-meal places. (TANSTAAFL? I spent over 21 years paying for these meals…)
May I present, directly from the snout of Wolfpup, the ancient wisdom of the wolves: “If your house harbours one or more four-legged creatures, especially of the feline variety, then any oddity you discover will be due to one of the said creatures, and not to the supernatural”. You can take that to the bank.
(I would suspect George is the culprit. He just looks the type.) 
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and on the morning of the first Mumpday of the week!
A shout out to all of the Mumper vets today. I appreciate your service.
Irked, came home, yada, yada. Sis called last evening and told me that she won’t be coming up with me to Dad’s for Thanksgiving. She has a case of cystitis and will be on a 14 day course of antibiotics. No way she wants to do a 1200 mile road trip with those bad boys affecting her digestive system. So, now I’ll be doing the cooking solo for the week. 
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
I doubt George has enough brain cells operating at once to come up with something like that. I’m betting on Jolene, since she’s the brains of that team.
Well. I have very little idea what I did today! Um, made some rude gesture forks, cleaned a little bit of the dining room table. IDK, that must be it. lol
Howdy Y’all! As foretold, RDOS inactivities have been the rule of the day. OYKW is a lot better, so I shall return to the master bedroom tonight. I remembered that there were some cooked collards in da freezer, so they replaced baby lima beans as sup veg. The glazed poke loin was very nummy if’n I do say so myself. Plus leftovers for tomorrow. Win-Win!
Hmmmm, yanno, this all started when the place next door got bought by an old preacher man. Hmmmmm.
Thanks, but the fear of haints put wings on my feet. I was probably out of the building before the crack made it across the ceiling. I was by myself, after dark at a crime scene and the decomposing bodies of murder victims a short swim away.
The AZ Memorial is not only a national monument, it is was also designated as a national cemetery to allow the unrecoverable bodies to lay in sanctified ground. Nobody else has ever been buried there.
Well, that’s it. The internet belongs to you.
Hubs looked into the crawl space and it was sealed. I got a flashlight and looked in all of the closets and cupboards to see if I could find any entry holes. We also walked around the outside of the house and inspected the mortar between the bricks for holes so Hubs stuck his head into the attic and looked around but the insulation looked intact and there are no holes in the ceilings.
It is very odd.
I did figure out that the dirt on the side of the highway, around the outside curves matched what we were finding, that is dead dirt that people drive over all the time, but our grass grows up to and tries to grow on the highway so we don’t have dead dirt anywhere close to hand.
After having time to think about it, I’d rather random piles of easily swept up dirt than the ick folks got in the Amityville Horror.
Hubs always wants to have the porch ceilings painted haint blue. He really believes that it would confuse the wasps and stop them from making nests. I’ve always refused because I was taught that they were very racist. I might be rethinking it now.
I just got a PM telling me that we have termites. Oh joy, just what we want. I will call someone tomorrow.
Hurray for that great feeling. Having things neat and tidy just clicks a happy switch in my brain.
Maybe GOAT=God of all Trades instead?
I’m glad your phone got fixed. After I’ve tried to fix tech issues three or four times, my brain stops thinking about other solutions, so I know how you felt.
I’m so happy that was so minor, it could have been so serious.
Sadie hasn’t been there that long, she’s probably still not sure that it is home. The Best Cat in the World hid under the spare bed for three weeks and then under the love seat for a couple more weeks. Then he came out and showed us how much love he had to share. Here’s hoping Sadie becomes your BCitW as well.
Well, it got burnt down too!
I was born and raised in CA, lived in Hawaii for six years and then moved to AZ. All of those are very young states, folks raised there tend to forget how old other places are. I know I do, I still get shocked at the age of some of the government buildings here despite working in Prescott AZ for many years.
They didn’t live in your house then, they lived in your heart, of course they came with you.
I always love the stopped clock hauntings. I wonder if it happens with digital clocks nowadays?
Good job with the mailbox, dang about having to do the repair.
Well of course! Priorities are important.
I hope you start feeling better in the morning. It sounds like you just need a little time to recover.
I didn’t get to swim today either. The rec center had a Memorial Day thing happening and parking was a nightmare. I can walk a block downhill, I cannot walk a block uphill without my hip screaming.
They were in your heart.
You are invited over as well. Jolene was raised around dogs and GG likes everyone so Nelson should be safe as long as he doesn’t mess around with Jolene.
If Jolene told him she wanted it…he might be able to figure something out in a few years.
That sounds like most of my days anymore, LOL!
Hurray for both of you.
Happy Moonday!
It was a nice morning, although a bit sloppy from the overnight rain.
We went to the park and had a nice time.
When we were leaving, we saw some blood om MIsiu’s thigh. My son thought he was bleeding but it wasn’t him. Echo has a cut near her eye, so I assume her blood smeared on him at some point. Her eye isn’t bad enough to go to the vet.
I didn’t get much one today, another sleepy day with lots of weird dreams.
I found out another neighbor from my old house also died. I know which house, but I never knew the person.
The service for my old neighbor is Thorsday. I don’t want to go but I should, so I probably will. My son said he will go, which surprised the crap out of me. He wanted to know if he should wear his suit and I said he doesn’t need to. People don’t dress up for funerals anymore, he only needed a suit for my mother’s funeral because he was a pall bearer. He could wear the pants with a button down shirt though, and skip the tie and jacket at home.
The funeral home has a nice little racket going. You can order flowers directly from them. I thought how convenient, until I saw the prices. The cheapest arrangement is $129.99. I saw one there for $139.99 that 1-800-FLOWERS has for $49.99. That difference is a bit more than I am willing to pay for convenience.
Haunted houses? Where would you like me to start?
Almost every house I’ve lived in had weird stuff going on, and seen by multiple people. Lots of the houses where I pet sat had weird stuff too.
Only one scared me so bad that I didn’t want to go back.
The woman who lived there had been killed in an accident. I had to walk though one of the bedrooms to feed the cats and when I walked into the room, there was a woman there making the bed. Nobody was supposed to be there. Then I noticed that while I could see her making the bed, I could also see through her while she was making the bed.
Then she saw me, screamed at me to get out of her house, and ran at me with her arms out in front of her.
She went right through me. She looked shocked and scared, then faded away.
After that, I could go in that house, prepare the cat food, wash the blender, fill three food and water stations, and clean three litter boxes, in under five minutes.
No dawdling in that house.
So damn happy when that job ended.
I’ve seen plenty of other stuff, and I’d think I was crazy, except other people saw it too.
LOL!
BTW, can cooked barley be frozen? I really hope so, given that I’m cooking much more of it than I really need for tomorrow’s projected attempt at vegetable beef soup (got some leftover pot roast that really needs to be used).
At least my boss got a laugh today when I commented to him that I was apparently having a pretty bad brain day if I was having trouble outwitting a paper clip (it was misshapen enough to not be cooperative with me).
I called in stupid once. I couldn’t find my glasses, I couldn’t find my keys and then I walked outside wearing mismatched shoes. Ain’t nobody wanting me messing around with their files if I can’t even manage to match my shoes.
I’d freeze the barley. What’s the worse that could happen? You can throw it away later if freezing doesn’t work.
I can still remember the first time I soaked white beans. I followed the instructions and put a hand full in the pot. I looked in and thought, well that doesn’t seem like enough, so I put another hand full in. Then I remembered how much Hubs liked white beans with bacon so tossed a couple more hand fulls in, filled the pot with water, covered it (cats) and went to bed.
The next morning, there were so many beans. The lid was about an inch off the pot and beans had fallen out and piled around the outside. That’s when I learned that soaked white beans froze pretty well.
Wifey, RN was visiting a patient today, and her patient and his live-in companion invited us to dinner at Leader Block Trattoria and Bar in Ferndale for Veterans Day. (Her patient was in Vietnam in '68, and Wifey was in Iraq in 1990/1991.) We’ve only been there once before, because it’s rather expensive. The patient and his companion may as well be married, the way the interacted. They even ‘fought’ over the bill. (She won.) The restaurant owner came to the table and talked about all (well, most) of the dishes. The guy bussing tables chatted with us. Our server was nice, but she didn’t interact much. Good dinner, though a little strange eating at a reasonable hour (Mrs. L.A. likes to have dinner at 16:00 or 16:30), and on a Monday night, yet!
When I lived in North Cackilaky, I heard that the tradition down there was to paint the porch ceiling blue, but I’m not sure what “haint” blue is. Much more in the eastern side of the state, particularly in the posh areas of Wilmington. But that also seemed to be where there were more verandas.
Well I can’t talk for the whole state, I’m a yankee who lived in W-S and Wilmington for a few years before retreating to the northern climes.
Never tried freezing barley. Always got disappointed at the soup (un-frozen) the next day, since it became barley mush.
HOW did the Instant Pot even WORK when I forgot to reinstall the silicone sealing ring in the lid prior to use? (groan)