(Old) Late morning for the MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Good morning! < way-too-perky countenance > :smiley:

Thanks to all who wished me a good night, as I definitely slept like a hibernating bear. A good night’s sleep is such a lovely gift!

Today is another (for 52) enviable day, temperature wise. We’re starting out with 50Ferrets and eventually rising to a forecast 68F. A very comfortable range, so I am happy with that. My heat pump barely runs at this time of year.

Ohh, you’ve got some keepers then, for sure! If you want my sure-fire small batch recipe for jam, just sing out. It’s easy, if you’re not sensitive to seeds. I don’t mind 'em.

You are wise to have a healthy fear of hitting one, especially at this time of year. Statistically, the chance of hitting a deer rises dramatically in the month of September due to the rut. Deer are more on the move and very apt to take a flier at a moving car. (Not intentionally, of course.) But perhaps it will reassure you some to know that in 21 years, I’ve never hit one, and nearly all my driving is on rural roads. I’ve probably jinxed my track record now, but goodness knows, I’m due. I’ve had many near misses, but it doesn’t count unless there is contact.

The things I learn here… I don’t like to think about how unpleasant a paper cut in the assumed region would be!

Sounds like a very challenging day at work, fly boy. Glad all the amounts matched as they needed to. Good luck at the PCP visit.

Nellie, it is always a treat to see you posting! Travel safe and best of luck to your brother for his knee replacement surgery. And thank goodness for people like you looking out for their neighbors. I hope the day comes when she realizes how much you helped her. As for poor Max, she’s created lots of problems for him. Some dogs really do need a lot of training for housebreaking. Ollie was such a one. He understood that my preference was for him to go outside, but it took fully 3 years before his anatomy was mature enough to comply. He was crapping almost the instant his snout cleared the food bowl. Most of his accidents took place near the door to go outside and were easy to clean up after on a hard wood floor. As for the hand-feeding, what a disservice to the little guy. :frowning: I’m glad your daughter’s kitteh’s passing was gentle, and good news that she enjoys her new job.

Ollie snores like a buzz saw, too. It actually makes me giggle. I toss and turn, and my disquiet is regularly punctuated with loud sounds of his untroubled repose. I guess I’d sleep as well if I had someone catering to my every need, too! I do hope something good can work out for Max and G.

doggio, your library of appropriate and inappropriate gif memes is endlessly impressive! And amusing.

BooFae, ugh on the germies intruding on your holiday! I hope your quiet day helps a lot.

swampy, when we moved here, the very first thing we did was install a 250 gallon propane tank underground. I only use LP gas for my clothes dryer and the stove. At my age, I hope I never have to learn how to cook on electric. I suck at it. I know all about induction and yada yada, but I cook a lot and have a firm preference. Hope the mowing goes well and you are soon on to the RDOS segment of the day’s proceedings!

Nut, hooray for being in the home stretch of your educational goal! Hang in there!

I may have to try there. I did attempt to find a human log splitter a few weeks ago, but the only respondent was someone I didn’t feel comfortable to invite to do the work. I do have a neighbor who might be able to point me in the right direction, though. I’d much rather pay someone to just split up the rounds than go through the kerfuffle of locating an available splitter and then needing the use of a friend’s truck to tow the damn thing back and forth from wherever I can rent it.

metal mouse, congrats on accomplishing the required jabs! I am glad you don’t suffer from them as I do. It’s only the COVID one that tears me up, but it does that very reliably.

taters, it’s very nice to have been thought of for the invitation to your former colleague’s dinner, but one perk of being an RDOS is not forcing yourself to endure work-type events you’re not especially interested in attending. You can send him a card wishing him well and then revel in not going on the night of the event! :smiley:

Hail fellow well met, rocker! It’s nice to meet a fellow fan! I hear you re breakfast food. :wink: Glad the aquarium is going so well, thanks to your attentive care!

Nettie, I fear gas prices will get much worse before (if?) they get better. I’m sorry yours are already so high.

BBBooo, I hope you get to see a flying squirrel – please enjoy that sight for both of us. I’ve never seen one in the wild, either. I don’t think we have them here in the PNW.

52, enjoy your quiet day!

Lily, may I say, “Ditto.”

dicey, if I were enduring your temps, I’d feel the same. But our cool, drizzly days of late persuaded me pumpkin pie would be just fine. :slight_smile: Enjoy your ice cream!

Puzzles are mostly puzzed and I don’t have much on for today. I got a call first thing from the propane company advising the delivery is scheduled for Thursday, and that’s perfect. I need to make an appointment for Ollie to get a butt squeeze, and he’s in for a home spa day today, but that won’t take long. The only thing on my to-do list is “feed indoor plants.” I’ll fill my time with more sorting through crap to get rid of, I suppose.

Switching back to a breakfast burrito today to use up the last tortilla. Will have to decide about how much effort I want to put into dinner. Not much, I don’t think. I’m trying to feed out of the freezer until I leave to visit my folks and only purchase absolutely necessary perishables.

I’ve concluded I can never become a serial killer. At the rate I lose hair, it would take investigators just one DNA test and a lightning-quick perusal of the crime scene to find the link between the decedent and me. I spend an inordinate amount of time picking hairs off my clothes, furniture and lap throws. Vacuuming helps, but not enough. Surprisingly, I don’t seem to run out of hair to shed. I almost wish I would! (Almost.)

Time to stop waffling and get busy. Have great days, everyone!

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Moderating:

I hate having to do it, but I can’t let this pass. We have a rule on the board to not denigrate women by employing the misogynistic term, “bitch”. You can employ the word if describing a way of complaining, such as “bitching about” something. But if you use it to describe a female person, I must moderate it.

To all, I’ve let it go a time or two recently because as noted, I hate doing this in the Mump threads. But please respect the board rules and find a different, non-misogynistic way to describe women you dislike. Thanks.

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Can you tell me more?

Someone, I think @Aspenglow commented about Monkey posing so nicely with the pumpkin. First of all, there were a LOT of outtakes, and second of all, a dollop of squeezy-crack served as the photography assistant. (Yes, I do have one pic of him straight-up licking the pumpkin - you can see his tongue.)

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Late to the party today. More depressed than usual by the gubmint and the stupidity therein. At least Rhea Seehorn finally won a well-deserved Emmy last night after being unjustly snubbed for four years for her stellar work in “Saul”.

A sunnier day than yestiddy. 66 Fairy Tights at 1330, which is refreshing after all the hot weather we’ve had the past few months.

We’ll be going to a French horn gig downstairs in about a half hour. A teacher from the Macphail Center of Music is dropping by. Maybe I’ll talk to him about my grandson’s ambitions on the horn, although “Macphail” seems like a really poor name choice for a school.

Chewy says they delivered my cat food order, but it wasn’t in the mailroom. ::shakes fist::

I’ve been putting together an instruction sheet to go in the will package. Basically an “in the event of my death, contact these various places that send me money every month and cancel them” sort of thing that includes web addresses and passwords. One for each of us, but especially for my wife, who will be relying on her niece to help her out. Cheery stuff for a sunny day.

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I graduated PT!!! Whoo-hoo!

I have my full range of motion back and have met or exceeded all of my goals, now my only issue is that I’d lose an arm-wrastling contest with a wet washcloth. Strength and endurance will come over time as long as I keep up with the TC.

I stopped at the closest post office on my way home and learned that their system had been down for two days and the post office lady was not pleased with whoever it was who should have fixed the issue the last time he was there.

I went to a different post office and they were running reports and couldn’t do anything but hand PO box packages over the counter. The post office lady assured me that it would only take a couple of minutes (she lied, it was over ten minutes by the clock) so I asked if she had anyone collecting foreign stamps. I guess stamp collecting hasn’t been a thing for decades, she said most people don’t even ask for the specialty stamps anymore.

I have been participating in the post card exchange and always volunteer to send post cards over seas, so have an assortment of foreign stamps just waiting for me to find someone who wants them.

I wonder if any grade school teachers would want them, grad school teachers like all sorts of odd things.

Anytime I was overseas, Mom always wanted at least 500 of the smallest coins available. I learned to call banks ahead of time to be sure they had enough half yen coins or whatever.

There were deer in AZ, but I could see them! They didn’t have any trees to hide behind like here.

:people_hugging:

Be sure to put the dope on the list. We will want to know.

Honestly, this will be so helpful when its needed. I made Mom give me a list and plan to have her update it again next year. Hubs and I have made the same lists as well.

Grief gives people brain fog, having a solid list to work off will make a huge difference.

Clever!!!

It was a pretty sweet pic :slight_smile:

Those game tokens work in porn shop video booths. Shame on the parents for stealing their kids game tokens just to watch some porn. Don’t they know about the internet?

My friend said he was raking in the bucks without drugs or prostitution. He credited his success to “his girls” and did his best to take care of them. He bought them health insurance even though most of them were part time. He also gave the game tokens to the bank because he didn’t want the stress and drama that would come with handing out an unequal number of tokens to his employees because they would count and talk.

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Hooray!!!

Mrs Magill’s shift is about to end. We’re hitting the Buc-ee’s in Mt Crawford in about thirty minutes. The hotel is about three hours away.

I’ll wave to JtC as we pass through WV (probably wrong end of the state) and FCM as we pass through MD (definitely the wrong end of the state.

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It is never too warm for pumpkin pie!
Dollar Tree has christmas decorations up.

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We’re over a month away from Halloween!

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Howdy Y’all! Laundry and mowage got accomplished. Go Us! I finished up mowage around ten-fifteen a.m. and showered. After that I sat out on the back porch and drank a beer as I admired my handiwork. I always feel so badass when I drink a beerverage before noon! However, an aprés mowage beerverage is always appropriate no matter what time of day. Nappage and (more) day drinkin’ were also achieved. I decide to make [Those Friggin’ Good N.o.t.] (Mumper's Recipes: Those Friggin' Good Potatoes) to go along with the steak and sallit. I hadn’t made 'em in a while so it was a treat!

JtC neither of us have delicates. We are dainty but not delicate. Both of us wear the same types of clothin’ and it’s all good with just a regular wash. The preferred for most stuff is warm wash and cold rinse. I detest, but will do laundry. He doesn’t seem to mind. I will fold and put stuff away and if anything needs to be ironed I do it cause OYKW seems to have the ability to iron in even more wrinkles. Hope the physical terrorist was not to rough on you. I had no idea strippers faced such a hazard! Conga rats on grajooashun from PT!

Coppertone it’s a Dollah Tree so it could be the decorations are up all year long.

Taters an invite like that would be a hard nope for me these days. I don’t do things when major traffic is involved. I am such an old man!

Nellie I think you would do right by tellin’ the daughter. Heck, she may even know or suspect it already. Still it’s good to ensure she is aware of what you see. I stay plenty hydrated when I mow. I mow for about fifteen to twenty minutes and then drink water. Of course that means I also have to build in at least one bathroom break. It’s so hard bein’ me!

Mollie safe travels! Hopefully you are near your destination by now.

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YEAH! Limber up those cane-swingin’ muscles!

As to same-sex partnerships: My lovely wife and I share most but not all socks. We might share a sweatshirt now and then, or a watch cap. Other than that, we aren’t the same size. We generally each wash our own laundry. I have a fair number of items that I hang dry, whereas she throws most everything in the dryer. I’ll sometimes wash hers and pull out anything (like a sweater) I’m not sure of.

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So true! As dessert for leftover pizza for breakfast.

Dollar General does, too. I had to look twice. Sheesh.

The grands are in bed - apparently their evening routine includes falling asleep to vooks - video books on YouTube. This after I dealt with a major Tobias tantrum. He saved his Terrible Twos till he turned 4 so it’s twice as, um, nice?

I popped a melatonin and I’ll set Alexa so I can get up early enough to get them dressed and fed an off to school. Then I can finish the Cetol I started weeks ago. Then, dunno.

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Are we there yet?

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I told you my labs were good. This morning I went to see my PCP (or is it PCPA-C?). Still healthy. BP was 120/72, pulse was 68.

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Spot and I napped. I had a Manhattan for dinner, with chicken, rice, peppers, and peas and sauteed peppers and onions. Watching Deadliest Catch.

I slept like a baby. I woke up every two hours, wet myself, and cried.

One of the few deer strikes I’ve seen was across the street from a fire station, within sight of downtown.
But yay graduating PT!

I’ve been shipping Xmas crap since July.

At one point at Dollar Tree, we had summer, BTS, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Xmas Wreath stuff out at once. Because you want to do home work and a Christmas wreath while eating Resse’s pumpkins while floating in your pool.

That is not a happy camper.

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{ boops } from the MMP

{ weeps quietly for humanity }

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You people are the kindest on the planet, I swear.

I, however, am not. Today got so much more complicated and exhausting that I’m toast, and when my nephew called–the one with OCD who has nobody else to talk to save his mom–I pretended I wasn’t home. I just can’t deal with him now. I was supposed to walk Charlie, the world’s chillest dog, tonight, but his person found out this morning that he has a mass on his foot, and they had to excise it. He’s in a Cone of Shame and is Timothy Leary Level strung out. His person is an anxious mess. So I went over to listen. I hope Ol’ Chollie is OK.

There was more to today than that, but that’s enough griping.

I’ve never seen a deer strike, but I wouldn’t cross the picket line.

This is most depressing.

I take it back. THIS is most depressing.

I can’t stay awake, and I have more to say, dagnabbit! Catch you tomorrow.

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You need to save some mental and emotional strength for yourself, silly lady.

Please. All joking aside. Keep a few spoons in your own drawer.

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And a good late evening all. Exercised this afternoon, then coached soccer and after a short break (with a Coke Zero and bag of Bugles to tide me over), helped out with new referee training for 7 potential refs. A couple of them look pretty solid, while others…will be works in progress. Came home and nuked some Mac-n-Cheese so belly is full. Got my property tax bill in the mail, probably will go down to their local office (about 3 miles from me) and pay it in person. Arms are a little sore but that’s the only result of the shots, no other issues. And just passed 10,000 miles on my Hyundai Palisade, just about 1 year of service so should be good for many years to come.

And about 27 messages to catch up with, that’ll take me right up to bedtime I think. Onward!

52, not much cooler here, got to 96F today. And a piddling and cat-playing day is something we all could use now and then.

Mollie, safe travels. (and lovely picture).

Dicey, don’t do stretches but I do try to keep moving around and of course the treadmill and cycles at the gym keep me moving.

Bright Tree, I envy that weather too. Supposed to start cooling down next week, but we’re in the 90’s all this week; it’s mid-September for cryin’ out loud!!

Hit one deer in my life (they jumped out in front of my car in the dark, nothing I could do). So far nothing larger than a squirrel has been a casualty since then. Good luck on the log splitter (I hear young Abe Lincoln is pretty good at it…). And I’ve lost most of my hair already and it ain’t growing back in this lifetime, so not to much of a mess to clean.

Cookie, hope you enjoyed the French Horns and got some leads for grandson. And I really need to do a list for both money coming in and going out, not planning on expiring anytime soon, but I concur it is a good thing to have.

JtC, hooray from being delivered from the PT requirement. I have a bowl filled with assorted coins from my travels abroad, not very organized but they make a nice gift for soccer players at the end of the season.

Oh. My. God.

nellie, gripe all you want or need too, we’re here for you. Hope Charlie comes down from his high with a good foot again.

Shoe, definitely an AWWWWWW pic.

And just looked at the clock and it is after 11pm so off to Slumberland I go. Catch y’all tomorrow.

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“sshhhhluuurp”

I have a very garlicky chicken thigh roasting with an entire onion and a couple of tiny N.O.T., thus soon I need to feed my rumbly tumbly - possibly also nuke make some USA tea - and get some sleep.

Open → close tomorrow. But it (should!) be a decent crew.