I survived the party. Weather was perfect, and there were maybe 30 kids including invitees and their sibs. Everyone seemed to have a good time.
One kid, John, apparently kissed Roxy at recess in school. Today he gave her a ring and a necklace and a note saying he wanted to watch the stars with her. Need I remind you this is kindergarten?!?!? 
Anyway, home and exhausted. Not sure what we’ll do for supper.
Howdy Y’all! Been a very slothful day here at da cave. We had one small shower, as in here and gone in five minutes. Now TWPTB say we shall have rain/tstorms/apocalypse within the hour. We shall see. In cooler news, I saw two woodpeckers this mornin’. I knew they were around somewhere cause I’ve been hearin’ 'em. Today was the first time I actually laid eyes on 'em. They’re noisy, but purty.
Kitten_Mitten throwin’ things at my 'puter has always worked in the past. Wonder why it didn’t this time. 
MOOOOOOM and now I, call it “used meat.”
MOOOOOOM can you blame John for bein’ all smitten with RoxStar?
Watching playoff hockey after a brief nap. Spot ate Fred during Intermission.
The scroll wheel has a broken edge. Evey time I put my finger on it, I get a puncture wound. 
You didn’t have a crush when you were 5?
Well, I thought Walter M. should be my boyfriend, but he wasn’t amenable. His loss…
We did supper at Salsa’s. Now it’s chillage time.
Ouch metal mouse! I hope that you don’t get too sore.
Dropped some happy mail off at the post office, hit the grocery outlet and made it home in time to take Nelson to the dog park (it dried off this afternoon). Now for chillage in the studio.
Chillin’ in the living room, thinking I should finish the plumbing hatch on the bathroom wall, when everything went dark and there was a pop. It’s been a little blustery, but not bad… I thought.
A tree fell on the power lines across the street, and there’s a wire down.
Wifey pointed out some smoke a few minutes ago. PSE just pulled up. The Fire Department has our road closed.
The Honda 3 KW generator started on the second pull. I guess turning it off by turning the fuel petcock off and letting it run out is keeping the carburettor clean.
Internet and cable should be powered from Xfiniti’s battery for a couple of hours. If the power’s not on then, we can watch DVDs.
Evening all. Back from the 4pm refereeing, it was U-12 girls so I was figuring 'how hard can it be?" Famous last words as always, both teams played at a breakneck pace and weren’t too fussy about people being in their way, so lots of fouls and coaches thinking it was a foul. Add to that I had two new referees as my sideline-refs (assistant refs we call them now) who were doing their first game ever, so I was trying to help them along while controlling the pre-pubescent mayhem on the field. But I survived, even did my Sunday shopping at Wal-Mart and am now finishing my Big Bowl O’Pasta.
Only worry is that my right wrist and hand are hurting pretty bad, still have movement and flexibility, just with pain, so will see what a night’s rest does or if I need to see a Doc.
And just looking at my mail, got 1 item for me, and three for the hose two doors up the street. Guess I’ll take it over when I finish this, a couple look sorta official.
FCM, how did Roxy react to the PDA? John is apparently a fast mover…
swampy, don’t think I’ve seen or heard and woodpeckers recently around here. Hope the rains give you a pass, we have an 80% chance tonight according to the Weather Wizards.
flyboy, glad you had the backup and that it is hopefully easily repairable.
OK, need to play mailman and get some ice on the wrist/hand. Take care all, catch you tomorrow.
ETA: Just opened a package that was crammed into my mailbox and found a Whataburger mug, a protein bar, and some Drizzilicious Mini-Rice Cakes—Birthday Cake Bites. Undoubtedly from my neighbors who are the nicest people in the world and don’t deserve having a grumpy old man as a neighbor…
Just lost cable & Internet. Trying out my ‘personal hotspot’ (iPhone).
The power’s back on, cable and Internet restored, generator starved for fuel to turn off, extension cords stowed.
Our building has earth day stuff today. It went well. I was at the plant table and all the starter plants and clay pot went. Whew!
Then some of us went to a neighbouring building for their thing. I got to ask our commonwealth rep. about how the human compost legislation was doing.
Turns out a rep. who is also big funeral is doing everything he can to keep funerals in the hands of “big funeral” and knocking back anything that will give people an alternative.
How could you not know that???
Thanks for the reminder! I meant to get mine before the eclipse, but went to WV instead. That’s when I got the call that they wanted to squish my boob again, so I needed to wait. Boob squishing is happening on Monday, so I’ll try to get my booster afterwards.
Happy Birthday Metalmouse, I hope it was a good one!
(Maybe take the trap outside and then splash the mouse with food coloring? You can usually find a set of four colors in the baking aisle of the supermarket. It’s non-toxic so mousie shouldn’t get sick trying to clean it off.
Much as I hate to ruin a very good rant, DKB is having production issues atm, so it might not actually be Kroger’s fault. (Mom likes DKB as well and has been complaining about not being able to find it at her local stores as well.)
NO! Don’t do that!!! I’m glad you were able to continue the game and hope you aren’t too sore in the morning.
Neat! Was it one with the red “hat”. We get them at our suet feeder on a regular basis. The always announce themselves with very distinctive chirps and VBC used to argue with them.
OMGosh, Alan Berry and I were so in lurve! We were going to get married and live at my house because he had to share his bedroom with his little brother.
Huh. Dad used to make us shut the lawnmower off the same way but I didn’t every really know why.
Awwww! What nice neighbors!
Who cares about the planet when there are big bribes to be taken.
Hubs is leaving WV tomorrow and will probably be home on Wednesday. GG will be very happy, he wants to get up at 0600 and I’m just not a fan.
We are going to buy one of the guest beds from the house sellers so we have something to sleep on while we are waiting for our furniture to arrive. We probably won’t keep it once we get our stuff, but it will make us happier to be in our new house instead of a motel, plus it will be less expensive and we will be able to have two doors between GG and outside until he gets moved in.
All of our scratching trees are pretty ratty looking and I’d like to just pitch them and buy new, but GG is going to need some of his furniture as well so we’ll bring the least ratty looking one and then replace it next year.
It’s finally cooled down to 78F and the sun is down so I should probably go out and pull weeds or something. I think I’m just going to stay here and stitch instead. The weeds won’t run away and I have 40 days to get the yard presentable. It won’t rain again until the monsoons come (if they even do) so I’m not going to have to deal with new growth and I’m currently working with silks. I’d much rather stroke silk than pull weeds any day, LOL!
After having to replace a couple few carburettors (at least once on the generator, and at least once on a lawnmower) I thought I’d try turning it off like an airplane/helicopter.
hippo birdies two ewe, hippo birdies to you, dearest metal mouse, hippo birdies to ewe .
Canes win, Vieux Carré was good, Spot has zoomies. Typical Saturday night.
“Do what I think, not what I say.” 
Also, Driver delivers package, calf.
I’m starting to get the idea that Vieux Carrés are the Official Cocktail of the SDMB.
Greetings from somewhere in Spain. I could figure out where in Spain pretty easily, since I’m at a place with wi-fi, but it’s more entertaining to keep the mystery alive. Eventually I will wind up in the town of Miño for the night.
Well, then. Greetings from somewhere in Ohio!
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis < snerk > 69! < snerk > Amurrkin out and cloudy which will also be the high for the day along with rain beginnin’ around nine a.m. and goin’ through late afternoon. We shall see. The big item on today’s agenda is deheathenization wherein I have verger duty. Then it will be back to da cave for sammiches, nappage, sloth and day drinkin’.
MetalMouse here’s hopin’ you are less stiff/sore this mornin’.
FlyBoy glad the power outage was short lived.
JtC yep the woodpeckers had red hats.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then purtification for deheathenization must commence.
Happy Sunday Y’all!
It’s 47° this morning, headed to the mid-50s! Like 20° cooler than yesterday!!! Not sure how it’ll affect my plans to finish the raised bed - in the sun it should be comfortable enough. We shall see. I never did clean the critter fountain yesterday, so that’s on today’s list.
Anyone here ever buy from Zenni Optical? I’m thinking I might give them a try for future specs - they seem to have better prices and options than what I’m getting even with insurance.
I’m still waking at stoopit hours in the middle of the night thinking it’s time to get up. All I can figure is I’m dreaming that it’s 6:30 when in fact it’s barely 2AM… or something. It’s disorienting to be so certain it’s one time, then discover it isn’t. At least I generally can fall back to sleep.
All righty then. Let’s get this day started.
Happy Sunday!!
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off today. I shall clean and watch the rain. Spot shall supervise and watch the fuds fly about.
Opsec is alive and well in the MMP.
Works for me, now we just got to get an official sponsor.