Yes.
I need to remember how to ask, ‘¿Que tan picante es la chorizo?’
Morning all. Stayed in bed until just after 8am and promptly got a load of Blue Jeans in the washer, I messed up the last pair yesterday so until they are clean, sweatpants are my friend. Need to contact the plumbers today and set an appointment, may delay a week since my personal trainer at the gym will be out next Friday so a Thursday-Friday schedule next week would be the best. We’ll see how it goes. 47F now but heading to 75F and the Weather Wizards are promising ‘plenty of sunshine’, so a good day is in the offing.
Dicey, a Lemon-Blueberry cake? I don’t know if I have ever heard of that combination (I’m not a baker of much of anything) but it does sound intriguing…
Sounds like my days out coaching soccer with the littles…
boo fae, sounds like you have the perfect mix of work and home. Have a good one.
FCM, so the cleaning is back-breaking but ecologically good; good on ya both for doing the right thing. Hope the appointment goes well…and I see scrolling down that it did. I can’t remember having a dental hygienist scraping and cleaning my teeth either back in the ‘old days’, but have become used to it in the last 20 years or so.
Sticky Buns, hope the leg keeps improving. Chilling with Annie is always a good idea!
Knotts, I’m 6’2" and so far they have managed to get the X-rays of my teeth with undue contortions from me.
And time enough has pssed since the thyroid pill was consumed on an empty stomach to start filliing that sucker up, so will get my morning apple and some fluid in me and get down to the day. Have a good one all!
Woke up to a winter wonderland -fluffy snow (as opposed to the lovely freezing rain / wet snow yesterday), plus a heavy mist that’s produced a lovely hoar frost.
Took some time before work taking some pix at a couple of our parks. I keep promising to try to post them. Will try this weekend to figure out the mysteries of imgur.
Using your cell phone to take pics and call people out on social media is the American Way!
At least they don’t water the grass here, so they can’t turn the sprinklers on us.
Thank you for that suggestion, I will keep it in mind. I’ve moved my stitching to the dining room so I can look at that part of the forest today (and keep an eye on what he’s doing in the kitchen. I think he’s just forgetting to close the door at all because he’s always been really careful to be sure that doors and latches click.)
This morning I found my keys in the middle of the kitchen floor. Its so hard to know who to blame anymore. Jolene carries stuff around. Donna (our haint) still leaves us little reminders every so often and now Hubs is forgetting what he’s doing while he’s in the middle of doing it and stuff is getting left out all over. It just isn’t right. I’m the stoner, that’s my job!
The forest is changing daily. Now I can’t look through it like I could last week. I saw a couple of deer stepping into a neighbor’s yard and then they disappeared into the forest again. Not only are there an abundance of birds calling and chattering, there are all of the insects chirping and buzzing too. I honestly thought that forests were quiet places before moving here.
Oh, well that’s even better! I was thinking that they just took the tree down and planned to replace it sometime in the future.
Would I be bitching if it was the narcotic? But, yeah, I probably would bitch cause that would at least double the price of the drink. (OTOH, I was a huge fan of opium based liquors back when I was in Asia and I don’t remember complaining about the price of those.)
Got it. I’m not even going to bother suggesting you bring your shop vac with you, it would be way too much bother in that tight spot.
I’m glad you are at least able to move a little. Dang about the swelling and more dangs about them not telling you what to expect. I hope that chilling helps and you are able to get some good sleep tonight.
Any more news about the heat? Or is their plan to just hope the weather doesn’t get that cold again before they find new jobs.
Write it down and be sure that they can give you one word answers. Yes, No, $5.47, etc. It is often easier for people to read the words in their language than to try to figure out what you are trying so poorly to say. Of course I don’t need to tell you that smiling and saying please and thank you goes a long way, you’ve learned that lesson long ago 
That sounds lovely, I am looking forward to seeing the pics!
It was 34F when I got up and is now just under 60F. Hubs is saying he wants to get out and futz around in the yard which has reminded me that I want some cameras for inside his sheds and under the carports. I can’t see him from the windows and I worry too much to be able to count when I don’t know what he’s doing.
While moving into the dining room, I noticed that all of the table linens needed washing, so I’ve got that sloshing around now. I guess if I’m going to have to pull the iron out for the tablecloth, I might as well steam the living room curtains and be done with it.
To be fair, his “Ya do it, ya do it, or ya do it” attitude is one that served him well in his professional life. But he’s retired now…
Anyway, new development. Turns out, Brandon will not, after all, be buried in California. His parents (estranged from each other, but on the same page about this) want him to be interred in the same cemetery where his grandparents and sister are, and where they will eventually be. So it’s not a matter of going to the funeral. BUT, he still needs Mr. Rilch for moral support out west. So they’re going to drive out together, close the house and take care of all the other final obligations, including getting Dylan’s car put in Brandon’s name, and come back in two cars. Then there will be a memorial service in the old hometown.
But Mr. Rilch’s work, you say? Well, he talked with the butcher and the baker, and they agreed that he, as the candlestick maker, can be absent for a while, then catch up when it’s time to make the candlesticks.
And meanwhile, Erin still doesn’t know about any of this!!! I’m told it’s because she does know about her grandmother’s condition, and they don’t want her to have to deal with two things. To which I say, c’mon, she’s fifteen, almost sixteen; she knows there’s no Santa. But I’m not her parent. I just wonder how she’s going to react when they do tell her. And how they’re planning to approach the subject. “Good morning, babe! Do you have a black dress?..Well, put it on; we’re leaving in an hour…”
Lemon blueberry sounds delish!
Part of that problem has been water pipe failures. The plumbing in this building is 30 years old and until now has never been on a scheduled replacement/mainenance program. When a pipe springs a leak, water pressure in the boiler drops and the heat shuts down. That’s one of the issues. This system is one that I honestly don’t understand that well. There are a lot of dampers involved, etc., and I was an electrician, not an HVAC guy. Anyway, it’s been working fine of late, but we’ll see what happens when it’s AC season.
Bit of a short day. I was loading 2 package cars, which were split by another car set. But that’s better than the 2 2 I was loading two cars halfway across the building from each other. I stopped at Teeter and bought an onion.
My friend has one. It tends to migrate to one end of the pan and stay. Or maybe somebody need to level their oven.
It’s West Virginia. they’d use meth.
You walk this way?
Glad you’re sort of functional.
You ran into the rugrats on a regular basis? 
Probably a pressure surge will blow an elevator into orbit.
There would be absolute uproar if that happened! There are no trees planted on my street but there are 23 oak and elm trees planted on three streets across from us in memory of 23 students from St Jude’s School who died in WW1. They were planted on 26th October 1920 and are all still standing. They’ve done a lot of damage to the pavements, but nobody would dare suggest taking them down
That’s exactly what mine did, which is why it didn’t get used again. 'im indoors tried it and said the same thing. It did a great job of stirring that bit of the pan, but the rest of it was left to develop a healthy helping of Burnt Crunchy Bits.
No, they tended to run into each other, or otherwise fall down without any interference with me. Think I’ve only tripped and fell due to them 2-3 times in the last few years…
Rilch, glad things seem to be working out OK.
Piper, enjoy the snow (and you can have it all 
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JtC, enjoy your springtime in the wilds of West Virginia.
Cookie, I sympathize with water pipe problems…oh, I most certainly do.
Two loads of laundry done, bed stripped and new sheets installed, lunch assimilated, and some stuff has been washed and now i will dress and pack and go forth to (1) schedule the plumbers and (2) get some walking and riding done. Onward into the afternoon.
We used to shop vac to suck up the loose bits before starting the scrub operation. It’s a smaller one, so somewhat manageable, and it helped.
And back home. Boat scrubbage is pretty much done - pics in FB but I’m not going to mess with them here. If you need to see them and aren’t on my friends list, message me and we’ll get you set up.
Lunch has been ingested, grubbies are in the washer, and I’m taking a break. FCD is out in his shop - he said he needed to clean up out there. I just want to relax a bit - today was harder on my back than the last episode. Not crippling bad, just achy. It’s that old age thing.
Got off my lazy ass and washed the car this morning. A nice perk in the underground parking is the car wash station, which also has a big-assed vacuum and an air compressor. Pulled out the mud mats and scrubbed them of road salt and crud. Applied some Griot’s interior cleaner and spiffed up the interior a bit. I intend for this car to last me until either I die or until I am unable to drive any longer. It’s a 2016 and only has 18K miles on it, so unless the body rots out, it should outlast me.
I guess we’re doing lamb chops for dinner. Not my fave, but I don’t mind them. I’ll make some saffron rice with raisins and toasted almonds for a side.
There is a trio playing jazz/blues this afternoon downstairs that we’ll likely go to. It has to be better than the accordion/banjo crap they often hire to come in.
Thanks everyone for the kind wishes ref my breakup. She & I were great together just as individual people; if only our respective lives didn’t interfere / intervene. Sigh.
Not much else exciting here today. Housekeepers came and went so I’m washing sheets & towels & my normal weekly laundry. Need to inventory the consumables I travel with to ensure I’m not out of e.g. suntan goop or pills. So I can get to the store today to replenish as necessary. Leave home first thing Thu.
Somebody upthread said good luck on my cruise. This will be is an all-inclusive resort on land. Get there Thu, return Mon. Same ide as a cruise, but more space to walk around and more beach.
He ate something different which had a high dairy content and should have been stored in the fridge. All better today.
He has a sensitive stomach and I have a cast iron stomach. Except for shrimp - for me they are like garlic is to a vampire.
You might want to go for a lock instead, so he doesn’t open it in the first place. Sorry this is happening to both of you. 
@Rilchiam I have a 2 TBS ⅛ cup) measuring spoon which I use quite often. Picked it up at Goodwill.
It’s louder at my sister-in-law’s house than at home. We’re in the middle of town and she’s in the middle of 20 acres.
I think you mentioned yellow flowers, which inspired me to finally look up the yellow flowered vine near us. So I found that it’s a winter jasmine. But the forsythia’s already starting to bloom as well. Here’s an article for identifying which is which.
Went to work and then went to the gym and now hubby’s watching What we do in the Shadows. Dryer’s still drying. Excitement abounds.
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Time flies when people aren’t shoving things up your arse.
In May, it will have been ten years since my last colonoscopy. So I’ve scheduled one for May 30th, and Wifey, RN marked her calendar not to see any patients that day so that she can take me there and bring me home.
I really think the doctors should put on ‘grey’ alien masks as you’re coming out of the anaesthesia. 
Thank you but I don’t think we are there yet. I used the leveling feet to tip the fridge back more and then moved the kitchen island a couple of inches closer to the fridge. We can still stand at the island to pour a drink, but we will bump into the door if we try to leave without closing it.
I would not have really believed you this time last year. I mean, I would have believed that you were hearing something besides traffic, but never having experienced this before I’m all like Wow!
The yellow flowers are on a bush of some sort, I haven’t gotten close enough to one to really be able to tell what it is and now I’m seeing very faint bits of red lightly highlighting the top of some of the trees. All of the lawns are turning green and more of the trees are starting to show green as well.
We went to Lowe’s today to get some landscape bark and I wanted to get some daffodil bulbs. I figured that it would be late, but once planted, they would happily wait until fall. No joy, I couldn’t find any. I did get a pot of posies to hang by the hummer feeder, hopefully we will start getting visitors soon.
I wanted to go to the plant nursery but hubs was tired and I could tell that he wanted to come home so we will do that another day. Last year my favorite fruit and veggie stand also sold wonderful baskets of wildflowers and I want to get a couple of those to put by my french doors. I won’t have the lavish (water demanding) garden I had before, I can’t be digging in the dirt anymore, but I can still live in a mini-jungle thanks to container gardening.
This is such a good example as to how much more civilized you folks are than us.
That isn’t great, preventative maintenance often saves so much money down the road. Are you able to open your apartment windows to get some breeze when the AC breaks down? Can you have ceiling fans installed?
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This morning the recruiter told me that my salary request has been approved, and HR is putting together the offer package! I’m not counting any chickens before they’re in writing, but I’m feeling cautiously optimistic. I’ll share more about the new job when it’s official.
I also went to the dentist today, but not at 7am like FCM! I went at 12:30. It was a routine cleaning/checkup, but I was having a problem: the gum behind the back left upper tooth – where a wisdom tooth would have been – was painful and swollen, and had been for a few days*.The hygienist removed a tiny piece of popcorn along with a bunch of tartar. I guess my flossing technique back there is pretty useless! It should start feeling better soon, but right now it’s still pretty sore from all of the poking and cleaning. I stopped at the grocery store on the way home and bought some Orajel, which is helping. I’m also taking Tylenol. (Yep, I know all about swishing with salt water; I’ve never been able to tolerate it.) Anyway, my panoramic xrays are still good for a while but I’ll need to get new bitewings at my next visit. To borrow a shoe-ism, that’s future Misnomer’s annoyance.
*If I hadn’t already had this appointment scheduled, I would have made one in a few more days.
Between the pending-offer stress, the mid-day appointment, and the soreness, all I’ve had today is two protein shakes. I’m starting to feel hungry, and am looking forward to having the chicken tikka masala bites I picked up at the store for dinner.
Oooooo, I like the grand piano idea! 
I might play around with possible alternate avatars this weekend.
Ugh.
I’ve started noticing “retired vs not retired” things with some of my friends. I’m close with two couples: my BFFs, and another couple I’ll call S&J. All four of them are only 10-13 years older than me, but all are retired: HusbandBFF retired ~10 years ago, after a layoff (he has a military pension); WifeBFF retired 4 years ago; and S&J retired within a year of each other a couple of years ago. There are some differences in when all of them prefer to do things, their ability to connect with work stories, etc. S&J are childless, which we have in common, but them being retired is starting to balance that out. Even though none of them is that much older than me, they’re in a different stage of life.
Meh, I’m probably not putting all of this very clearly. Don’t get me wrong: I’m still close friends with all of them, we still hang out, and it’s not like them being retired is this big wall or anything. It just introduces differences in our lifestyles that weren’t there before. Enough that I couldn’t imagine dating someone who’s retired (or independently wealthy, or otherwise not working full-time).
perhaps they are forsythia bushes; heck, ninja’d by Dicey
I really would like a pink dogwood tree
I make a lemon blueberry brunch cake and it is my favorite. I make it for special occasions - Christmas, Mother’s Day.
must be a far north-above the 45th parallel thing. when daughter lived in Fargo, their underground parking also had a car wash station as well as plugs for battery warmers.
The stranded astronauts have arrived back on Earth.
We had them install two-ply insulating blinds to replace the metal slat blinds on the large living room windows. They do help. We have our own floor fans (Vornado).