(Old) Trying To Reason with Hurricane Season - A Hockey MMP

[JaneDoe42]

@susan

Her finger is more painful than yesterday, which makes sense but is no fun.

I am sad for her, but know that it is to be expected. At least she has you and the fuzzbutts to comfort her. (Is she suffering under lifting restrictions so she can’t pick the babies up? That would suck.)

@Aspenglow

I just backed slowly out of the combat zone and hid in the house until the racket finally stopped.

I always knew you were a very smart woman!

@Aspenglow

Your spouse-free day out sounds like it was an excellent respite for you both! Sometimes flying solo is a necessary option.

We used to fly solo on a regular basis, but then he started falling and getting confused and I was worried about leaving him home alone. Then he got his stent and his brain was getting all the oxygen it needed to work properly but we got out of the habit. I hadn’t realized how much I needed a day to do what I wanted without negotiating with someone else.

He did surprise me today. I said I wanted to take his car on Wednesday so I could take my scooter to the big art museum in Huntington. I also told him that he was of course welcome to come with me but he’s never in my life ever said “Lets go to an art museum/display”. He said he didn’t need to suggest it because he knew I would take to weird places a couple of times a year and didn’t need to.

So he will be going with me on Wednesday which rules out lunch at Long John Silvers because he doesn’t like seafood.

Fazolli’s left AZ decades ago and Long John became far and few between. I was really excited to see both of them in Huntington and hope that LJS is still good stoner fud as well.

@Aspenglow

I’ve decided I prefer subtitles to dubbing.

Back when I was learning Japanese, I thought that both were really important. I needed to hear the words while I was reading them. Sadly, that didn’t help my pronunciation at all because I couldn’t see how the actors lips and tongues moved. But, it did help some.

@dogbutler

To be fair, when I was a lad we used to have acorn and dirt clog fights.

We didn’t have acorns, but knew how to hold tumbleweeds by their base before smacking our friends with them.

Yeah, I grew up in the sticks too

@missred

The rats are in plastic tunnels like they would be in a lab or something. Those tunnels are surrounded by straw bales.

Well, that makes a whole lot of sense. Are they televised, it sounds like fun to watch. I also think that Nelson would have been a contender!

Dang about the lack of empanadas, when your mouth is set for one thing, its always a little disappointing to have to change plans unexpectedly.

@purplehorseshoe

But … Check out the meticulously hand-folded wrappers:

She loves you! She really really loves you!

So do we!

Happy birthday, I hope you had a cupcake for breakfast too!

@Filbert

I’ll need another spring flowering shrub to make it up to the bees though. No-one wants sad bees.

I miss my big lavender bush. It looked terrible ugly in the winter but then bloomed and the bees were constant. I should look into getting another one here…puts on list of plants to look at.

@scareyfaerie

If that makes me a bad person, I’ll take the hit.

I’d like her to be gone and I’ve never even stepped foot in your country. Constant annoyances like her just wear on one and you have much better things to do with your time than worry about her chocolate intake.

Like the great M&M mystery…any more clues as to the culprits? (Did the M&Ms even make it into the office or get forgotten in a car trunk?)

@FairyChatMom

I might be an impeller, or it might be a dead pump.

Could it maybe be a nice, inexpensive wiring problem?

@FairyChatMom

but then I’ve been trying to watch what I eat, and most pasta dishes are just too much.

I am still feeling bloated, but it was worth it. I probably won’t do this again for many years so that’s OK.

@FairyChatMom

It’s not wise to ignore safety.

And it is always good to have another set of eyes check your stuff. Safety is important enough to not get in a huff when told you are doing something incorrectly.

@AskNott

I got a late start, and I forgot to start the coffeemaker until after I had peeled my Mandarin orange.

Oh NO! What a horrible start to the day, LOL!

@Paintcharge

I have meetings all day until thursday.

I sure do not miss that waste of time, and am sorry that things haven’t gotten better since I retired.

@Misnomer

Is it just me, or have you thinned/lightened your arm hair…?

While I also noticed and approved (after noticing the happy and content look) I think I remember her telling us about searing her arm hairs off with accidental fire.

Oh gosh, its time to go and watch the fireflies. Its not that you folks aren’t more important than watching bug sex…

[Maus_Magill]

@JaneDoe42

@Misnomer

Is it just me, or have you thinned/lightened your arm hair…?

While I also noticed and approved (after noticing the happy and content look) I think I remember her telling us about searing her arm hairs off with accidental fire.

Yeah - my kamodo pot took care of the hair on my right arm. I evened it out with a bit of Veet on my left arm.

I’m currently compiling “journal entries,” and I came across this from last week:

@swampbear

Mollie Too bad the armadillo wouldn’t be friends with Chloé. Glad you’re goin’ to join the MTTA Discord. Sounds like a good place to chat with kindred spirits and perhaps rock ‘n roll. Hope the eye is feelin’ better.

I don’t recall whether I’ve mentioned this, but there are a surprising number of death metal enthusiasts in the Discord. There are also nerds. Gurl nerds! I think I’m finding a place.

Yesterday was… affirming. I feel good and encouraged right now. Mrs Magill and I spoke briefly about places that would be safer for me than Tennessee. Right now that’s about forty-nine other states.

[JaneDoe42]

@susan

I think I need to take a break from the rest of SDMB for a while.

I do understand. I read here and look for the postcard/secret santa stuff and that is it. I don’t really have time for that anyhow, I’m really limiting my online time as it is. There is too much AI, to many bots and too much hate.

Or maybe I’m just crabby because someone (not me) got assaulted at the capital again. The security guards just look away because we are not on capital grounds and the police won’t come because protecting the general public is not in their job descriptions.

My new uniform fits very well but she left a pin in the waste-band. I was laughing/cussing about it because Mom used to sew all of our clothes and we knew to check for pins before donning our new dresses. It didn’t really matter, she would always get us at least once a garment.

@dogbutler

I would have gone anyways. Because ice cream man.

The last time I heard an ice cream truck, I ran outside waving money in the air just like I did when I was a kid (kinda, I had dimes back then instead of ten dollar bills). I was so excited, I picked a drumstick off the board and unwrapped it on my way back to the porch. Then I tried to bite it and learned that ice cream trucks deep freeze their products so they have to sit on the counter for a while before that first glorious bite.

So much for that.

@swampbear

I got pictures and suggested we use one for Christmas cards but that got vetoed.

It seems as though you are also married to a fuddy-duddy.

@Maus_Magill

Yeah - my kamodo pot took care of the hair on my right arm.

I didn’t want to say anything about it because I didn’t want to encourage you do do it again!

So the fireflies were delightful as always and I saw a few bats swooping around. Most of the possums seem to have moved on and the birds aren’t bringing nearly as many hungry babies to the feeders. It seems as though summer is full upon us. The weather guessers said we would get at least one thunderstorm today, but they were just guessing. It did cloud over but that was it.

Hubs has decided that the hoses must be unhooked from the taps after every use. Apparently the expensive anti-freeze taps he had put in can be damaged if you leave your hoses hooked up during no freeze times.

This means that now Hubs will be responsible for all of the hand watering because I am not going to unhook the hose every use. The closest bib to my posies is a really issue, it is really hard for me to reach already, taking the hose off after every use is not something I’m willing to do.

So, now that I’m looking at losing the use of my right arm in less than a month, I’m starting to cook for the duration. Today I made a chicken tamale casserole and tomorrow I will make a big pot of shrimp fettichini. I’m also going to make up a pot of scampi to freeze and maybe a lasagna.

Hubs will “cook” while I’m not able, but we have been eating so clean for so long, I don’t want to start eating processed food every meal.

Shits getting real. I’m still not convinced that I’m going to have the surgery, but if I do, its best that I’m ready for it.

[SCAdian]

@Aspenglow

Glad they cleared out

Ha! Not long after I posted here we discovered there were two kits hiding in the back room. We took the fan out of the window, opened the screen, propped a board up against the windowsill, shut the door and headed out for Lady SCAdian’s birthday dinner. Got home hoping the critters had gone out the window. Nope. Opened the back door and left it; they stayed put, and the two we’d seen on the porch came in. Grrrrrr. After another half hour or so they finally left, and we shut the window and back door.

And now Lily, the cat who normally lives in the back room (with the door shut, so the other cats can’t come in and try to beat her up), has disappeared. Hopefully she didn’t go out the back door – there are coyotes and a bobcat known to be in the neighbourhood, And she doesn’t know anything about being outdoors; we’ve had her since fall of '21, when she was just a few weeks old, and the only times she’s been out have been in a carrier for vet visits.

[Paintcharge]

@JaneDoe42

So the fireflies were delightful as always

They’re not out here yet, but I do love when they fill the entire volume of my back yard.

[missred]

@SCAdian

There was also a cardinal who built a nest in the butterfly bush,

There are a pair of nesting cardinals in the button bush on Sis’ patio that I’ve been watching in the mornings.

@JaneDoe42

Well, that makes a whole lot of sense. Are they televised, it sounds like fun to watch. I also think that Nelson would have been a contender!

Check YT. It’s hard to link on the tablet, but I know that some are there.

I got a few chores out of the way today, then made a quick Aldi run because we were running dangerously low on dog treats. Sis and BIL stayed a day longer than originally planned, so should be back late tomorrow night. I’ll likely spend the night and leave Tuesday morning. I’m ready.

[purplehorseshoe]

@swampbear

The big accomplishment this afternoon/evenin’ was to haul the biiiiiig trash can all the way down to the road for pickup tomorrow.

Got home from a closing shift, gratefully shed every sweaty thing I was wearing, plopped down in my literal birthday suit to hang with y’all … and saw this.

Now my naked ass is debating putting on clothes a bathrobe like the classy chick I can be, just to - sigh - do the needful.

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On a nicer note, S.M. gifted me a lovely pair of silver earrings featuring a tiny black cat, and I was so touched. She knows how much I lurves my Monks.

She mentioned that her mom kinda wants a cat (they have a resident dog who has put a firm veto on the idea) and I was like, “You CANNOT HAVE MY MONKEY.”

[dogbutler]

Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave.

@purplehorseshoe

Now my naked ass is debating putting on clothes a bathrobe like the classy chick I can be, just to - sigh - do the needful.

Might as well bite the bullet.

@Maus_Magill

I don’t recall whether I’ve mentioned this, but there are a surprising number of death metal enthusiasts in the Discord.

\m/–\m/

@Maus_Magill

There are also nerds. Gurl nerds! I think I’m finding a place.

@SCAdian

Hopefully she didn’t go out the back door

< crosses fingers >

[purplehorseshoe]

@JaneDoe42

Its not that you folks aren’t more important than watching bug sex…

Fireflies are

@AskNott

Yup, it’s a lot of tick talk.

We’re going to have stern words.

@liirogue

I hope you got to take some home with you.

I did! … inside my tummy! (I ate another today, the last of the strawberry. Gawds, that woman can make some amazing frosting!)

@Die_Capacitrix

Had to put on gloves to dig through the strawberry planter to find the slug (I hope there was only one)

I assume you’re familiar with the “beer in shallow pan” trick?

If not .. use cheap shitty beer.

@SCAdian

so it hung onto the shelving unit, stuffed its face into the gap (ostrich-style), and tried to pretend it wasn’t there.

D’aaaawwwwwww.

@peedin

The ice cream man is outside. I would visit the van if I could still get a toasted almond bar.

There’s a really dirty “that’s what she said” joke somewhere.

@swampbear

We had a guest preacher and musician this mornin’.

I’m glad they lived up to your gold lame high standards!

@Maus_Magill

safer for me than Tennessee. Right now that’s about forty-nine other states.

I’d stay the hell outta Texas, except for Austin area.

@JaneDoe42

she would always get us at least once a garment.

… on purpose?

(Did “we” forget to do our chores?)

@dogbutler

Might as well bite the bullet.

Thank you for the encouragement.

Bathrobe & box AND big bin have all been dealt with.

Bathrobe has been sloughed back off, but - that I’m aware - no neighbors saw me and clutched whatever the Michigan version of Southern clutchin’ pearls might be.

hand out “Sticker and lollipop, please.”

[Johnny_L.A]

Been up for almost half an hour. At 04:40, Goo decided to hork up a very wet hairball on the bed. The sheet is in the washer.