Crap! Sorry.
Today I’m giving my longest poetry reading since counts on fingers probably 1985. Organizing the pieces is very different from putting together a written collection.
Another understaffed Saturday, but I was only on the Sort Table for a bit. Damages weren’t hideous, apart from the one dresser(?) that looked like it had been heaved out the back of a C-130 at altitude. I make poke tacos for lunch, and di a load of laundry. Naptime!
[dogbutler’s Mom]Don’t pick at it.[/dogbutler’s Mom]
Not even noon. Seems later.
I’ve got the chile colorado going. There’s not as much as I thought, so we won’t have any for dinner. I’ll take all of it to church tomorrow. I also got some shredded Mexican-blend cheese, and sour cream.
Mrs. L.A. hosed off the walk, and I don’t know what else. She seems pretty busy. She’s ordering something to go on the bottom of the front door to close a gap that appeared with the weather stripping came off. I was thinking of just getting a doorway threshold.
The Critter Cam detected movement in the night. Unfortunately, the night vision has never worked. Piece of crap. So I ordered a couple of solar lights that come on when it gets dark and go off when it gets light. In any case, I was able to discern that the animal digging in the mole holes is a raccoon. It was thoughtful enough to investigate the camera and I was able to see a silhouette of its head. Another shot, it walked in a slightly lit area.
And now that I’ve come back to this post, it’s after noon.
I cleaned the critter fountain, but I haven’t gone back down to the basement. We took a ride to the Leonardtown Wharf and while sitting there looking at the water, this old guy stopped and talked to us about his sailboat. He and FCD exchanged sailing stories. Then the old guy said he was 71. I’m 71 - I’m pretty sure I don’t look as old as he does. I’d have guessed he was in his 80s. But I’m not very good with ages.
Anyway, we’re back home and I’ve got a tuna steak thawing for my supper. FCD is feeling a bit ick, so he may just have a scrambled egg and toast for supper. We shall see.
Well luckily we decided not to go over there for the “sharpening”. Instead I went to pick up a few things at the grocery and the streets were a nightmare. Seems like half of MSP decided they just HAD to see this event and the streets were clogged with cars, bikes, and pedestrians, some of whom would have to hike a significant distance.
Howdy Y’all! We had quality cee-mint pond time for a couple of hours. We gave up around one p.m. The temp was not too bad but dang the humidity! We feared we might melt. Showers and Nappage were accomplished and we day drank. Sup got fixed and et as well. Netflix, chill and popcorn are on the agenda for this evenin’.
BooFae day drinkin’ is a great way to spend a Sattidy afternoon.
Sunstone we also grill two or three times a week all year long. Even Winter is not so bad to grill in southwest Jawja.
Hey everyone!
Today was spent preparing the meat for tacos. 40 lbs of chicken and 5 lbs of beef. I won’t chop stuff for the pico (heavy on the tomatoes, med. onions and garlic and light cilantro and cumin.) until Thursday and won’t mix it until Saturday morning.
I gave hubs a bowl of taco salad sans tortilla chips for lunch and was so tired of cooking by dinner time that I chopped up a grazing board for him (salami rose, pickled sausages, med cheddar, sharp cheddar with parm, bacon bread cheese, cherry tomatoes, pickle spears, avocado slices, mandarin orange slices, garlic and jalapeno stuffed green olives and mixed nuts to fill the gaps on the plate.) to eat while killing monsters.
Summer is here, reminder to flip the switch on your ceiling fans. They work better in the summer if they are pulling the heat from the floor to the ceiling instead of pushing it down to the floor like you want in the winter.
Warning: changing the fan direction will make them drop all of their dust into the air, so dust them before having your tall person do the switch flipping.
I am so jealous. Now is the perfect time of the year to be swimming and my poopyhead doctor says No!
While I’d think that would be a fun thing to do if it was one of my neighbors…I can’t imagine getting in my car and traveling any sort of distance to see it.
We bought the same cams here as we used in AZ and they don’t seem to work nearly as well. We think it is because there is so much more light here at night, I wonder if that is the issue with yours?
We probably need to get a couple more, my daffodils were in a blind spot.
I get tired of talking after about ten minutes no matter how much I love my subject, is it easier with poetry that you have raised up from a concept and are now sharing with the world?
We used to live in AZ, it was grilling season year round back there. Now we live somewhere with real winters (it was -3F one morning), we are having to adjust because we aren’t used to wanting to heat the house up ever.
So you do poultry? Tradition at our home is Hubs putting a spatchcocked turkey in the smoker for for a nice slow smoke.
Hurray for your new feline overlord.
Any idea who stole your tomatoes? Old Greeny doesn’t seem to be the sort to nosh on tomatoes and Brian has run all of the greeblies off, so it’s a mystery to me!
There are three greens there, the pics didn’t do them justice. I wasn’t really sure what colors I was picking to be honest, the containers said they were greens so I went with that. I am very happy with it and I’ll bet I’ll be happier in a couple of weeks.
Your Lego’s look so cute, no wonder you got hooked so fast!
I am so sorry. That must be so terrible, I’d suffer as well. The chocolate walk sounds delightful, thank goodness you still have that!
I might consider giving up, but my neighbors all had wonderful daffodil patches in their yards so I know that i can get my own started. Dang deer!
And cake for breakfast! That’s a win!!!
Afternoon/near evening here. We got 1/2 of the 1pm soccer game played, then the rumble of thunder and the field siren alerting us to clear the fields put an end to that activity. Finished up my calorie burn at the gym, then came home and had 3rd breakfast (big bowl of Cocoa Krispies) and may just finished the day with another breakfast meal of toast and bacon (might throw in some lettuce and tomato, but still…). The rain is gone for now but may return tonight.
FCM, looks like no rain today, but tomorrow is another day…and sometimes old folks just like to talk, even if you don’t.
lily, hope the poetry reading went well
flyboy, any plans to deal with the masked intruder?
JtC, I don’t know if my ceiling fans can change direction…will have to investigate.
And that’s all for now. Need to do some You Tubin’ and consider when to have 4th breakfast.
It gets plenty dark here in Winter. (We’re at the 49th parallel.) The alleged infrared light doesn’t work. The manufacturer suggested I clean the lenses and put in fresh batteries… only it didn’t work from Day One, and the batteries were fresh as supplied by the manufacturer.
No. As long as they leave the cats alone, we’re good. The cats have a catio, and we’ve had a lot of work done on the house over the years that excludes them from the roof.
Oh, it’s not far from here, perhaps a half mile. But the traffic was impossible, so unless we walked over there it would have been pointless to go. Walking is not an option at this point.
I have been on the Dope 8 years. I enjoy it and have learned things.
Also like my mumpers.
I’m fairly sure they do. I’ve never known of a residential ceiling fan that doesn’t change directions and I’m not that much younger than you.
Of course, I just spent most of my life in the southwest where ceiling fans are an important part of temp control all year round, which could make a difference. Honestly, I tend to leave the one in my room with the air moving up most of the time because I don’t like my thread to blow around on my desk, but we switch all of the others twice a year.
I could walk half a mile. As long as I brought my rolling seat and took plenty of breaks. It wouldn’t take longer than a couple of hours, I’m sure!
Sigh. I really do miss the days when I could just go out to stretch my legs and walk five miles without thinking about it.
Today I hung up a second humming bird feeder, the single one we had just wasn’t cutting it now that we have charms of the flying jewels. I walked back inside, turned around and looked in time to see my first customer 
The feeders are out in the open here, so I bought a “umbrella” to stop the rain from refilling it. I needed another one so we went to Lowes and the price has gone up FOUR dollars since May 5.
Are we great yet?
Harry has been walking around the unit. Not by himself, of course, but he’s up and moving which will help his recovery so much. We aren’t sure that he will need to go to a rehab home, Harry doesn’t want to and I’m fairly sure I’ve been able to help Mrs H arrange for proper home care.
She doesn’t want to rent furniture for him, so her son took her to Charleston to pick out a hospital bed and electric recliner which should be delivered on Tuesday. They already have a walk in bathtub and mobility ramps, plus all of the homes in the neighborhood were built with really wide doors so no worries about getting through with a walker.
Hubs and the guy across the gully met today and have come up with a plan to keep the gully mowed and the fences clear so Harry won’t be sitting on his porch fussing over it.
Currently I’m contemplating going out to sit on the porch and listening to the forest, but that would mean getting up and my tired ass is liking it right where it is ATM. I’ll smoke a few hits and take a shower. Maybe I’ll get some porch time before the skeeters come out. (which is just about the same time as the fireflies start flying which enchants me so much that I’ll turn the ceiling fan on and stand under it to save myself from getting et alive.)
Newbie! 
‘Dinner’ (late lunch, about 14:00) was Thai food. I had a yum beef salad (5-star spicy), two chicken satays, a spring roll, a gyoza, and a crab rangoon. Mrs. L.A. ordered lemongrass chicken (she tossed the rice, so as not to get bloated) that she only tasted. She pretty much just ate crab rangoons, gyozas, and a spring roll… and a Thai iced tea.
Carnival of Souls (1962) just started. I’m not sure if I’ve ever watched the whole movie in one sitting.
I got the books that I’m taking with me and a few pictures from the bedroom wall packed today. I have a feeling that I’ll be making regular runs to drop things at Goodwill and Smart Art in the next couple of months.
LOL.
My standard answer to “Shoe, why don’t (or “do you”) have kids?” is, “If I wanted something noisy, stinky, and expensive inside my house, I’d get a dog.”
When you’ve impressed the expert who’s seen it all, you know you done good.
My inner 7-year-old is intrigued.
Free food always tastes better.
Monks is kinda the same way - luvs his scritches, but when he’s done, he. is. done. He will gently push my hand away (no claws!) and then roll up like an armadillo, to sleep.
The silver lining was, we all had something to gossip about while starting today.
(Co-worker: “Wait. There were chickens in the lobby?”
Manager: “Oh, I forgot all about the chickens!”)
I love this.
{ huddles in walk-in fridge }
{ Hank Hill approves of this post }
May I inquire, what happens when such accidents with large furniture occur?
My first month or so here, I absolutely put my foot in my mouth, and was gently, politely, but thoroughly, put in my place.
After licking my wounds and picking my ego back up off the floor, I realized they were right, and I’d like to think I learned something back then.
(Narrator: “She hasn’t learned a damn thing since.”)
I think I’ve shared the story of moving from Tx to Mich and discovering, after a couple months of springtime open-window bliss, that air conditioning is not a thing here because I’m so accustomed to A/C that it never occurred to me to even notice that there was a suspicious lack of compressors around the house.
Me: Whaddya mean, no A/C? What are we, medieval peasants?
I got home (and got my tired ass back off my chair) just in time for 
time!
My 'hood is too dry for fireflies, but there’s a drainage ditch creek nearby that gets them sometimes.
So. Friggin’. Jealous.
Years ago I worked at a corner liquor store upscale spirits boutique, and in the same strip mall was a Thai place that made an excellent beef salad.
Occasionally I’d get curry instead.
They loved me - easiest delivery evah (I was, like, twenty feet down) and I’d still tip nicely, because, hey, yummy food.
(Sigh. I do love a lot of things about small-town life, after 30 years in DFW, but the lack of “fancy” food is … I mean, c’mon, can’t we get one decent pho place?)
I gotta do at least some useful shit around here.
And by useful, I mean go to Meijer for crackers, cuz my bougie ass decided, “It’s yo’ burfday, treat yo’self!” and I have a tiny jar of ten-dolla caviar that I will snack on for days.
So I figure, worth the money, gettin’ me to eat for days.
Ten bucks doesn’t treat you for days on end all that much now - but “ooooh, caviar!!” still seems all fancy-pantsy.
Up from naptime, having a Sazarac, and Asian BBQ stirfry.
Bubble wrap inside and tape all along the edges. Trust me on this.
Yay! And boo.
I Frankenstein the 127lbs. of broken stuff back in the box, tape and shrink wrap it, and send it back. Mirrors and broken toilets just get yeeted into the dumpster.
People suck. 
This is me, too. All year long. Only it’s all charcoal all the time, with a propane assist to start the coals. I just rehabbed my old Weber kettle grill and hope to get another 17 years out of it.
My parents used to smoke turkeys constantly. They were heavily featured every Thanksgiving, and I got so sick of smoked turkey, it’s the one thing I don’t do anymore. They are good, no question, but if I never see another, it will be too soon!
Your bowl is lovely, btw.
'S’truth. Noisy, stinky Ollie has a broken tooth. Pity my wallet next week…
lily, I am, as ever, impressed! Congrats on the poetry reading!
Someone stole my avocado plant from in front of my apartment in L.A. many years ago. I haven’t grown another one since.
I couldn’t say because I’ve never yet tired of talking.
Thanks! It was well-received.
Morning, mumpers! It’s currently 13c/55f with a predicted high of 15c/59f, and cloudy. Weather app says “It’s probably a good day to stay the fuck in bed. Today will probably fucking suck.” I disagree, I have nothing much to do apart from amuse myself, sofa and a book with plenty of tea sounds a good and non-sucky way to spend my day.
How exciting! I hope it goes well and everyone loves your work.
VanGo Brian stole tomato plants? I’m sorry you’ve got a local thief, that’s not good at all.
Oopsie sounds like a fun-filled time with lots of love to share.
We had an entertaiing day yesterday. Delicious lunch out at Jack’s, then did our respective errands in town and went home via Sainsburys so that 'im indoors could get some stuff he wanted, then he requested a side trip to Lidl for their own-brand crisps which are, apparently, much better than others he’s tried. So we had a little adventure finding the store. Went home for a cup of tea, then walked back towards town via the Combermere Arms, the Clarendon Hotel, the Lych Gate, and the Posada. Then decided to pop into the Giffard for a while, and came home via the Turkish Delight pizza and kebab shop. Thus we have leftover pizza for lunch.
I have no plans for today, I’m up and slurping tea, I’ve had a bath, and I’ll be making chicken curry for dinner tonight. Other than that, slothage will be the order of the day.