(Old) Who's thinking about summer plans in the MMP?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Why does it not surprise me that someone smarter than me has already said it better? Thank you :slight_smile:

Yelling at/with teenagers is totally different than yelling at adults, not nearly as much fun. I do think that hollering things like Bait recipes sounds much more like hollering at teenagers :slight_smile:

I still haven’t gotten my passport. It is on the list for things to do after I can see again cause a Real ID doesn’t prove citizenship. I’m hoping it won’t be too much of a bother, but at least all of those documents are in one file cabinet drawer now.

Most medical offices will call or text you if you say you want to sit in your car and get some bird watchin’ done.

Happy early birthday!!!

Thanks for the concern, MetalMouse and Pilot. When I’m on the interstate, I am driving to get somewhere and there is no lollygagging involved. My cruise control is set for five over the speed limit and flowers go unenjoyed.

That’s how I drove across the country with a cat in the car last year. Flying would have been faster, safer (this was in June last year) and cheaper but I didn’t want to risk GG in the cargo hold of a plane.

Highway and back-road driving are where I just poke around and often drive under the speed limit if nobody is behind me. Thats when I’m lucky to make 400 miles in ten hours. But those ten hours include a hotel breakfast, stopping somewhere for coffee, stopping anytime I felt like stopping - Oh, cute store, where can I turn around? - a deli lunch and sit down dinner. The trip is usually as relaxing as the destination.

Except the day I’m going home, then I’m done and get on the interstate and drive as fast as I can as long as I can and arrive hurting and cranky.

I cringed just reading that part!

Is he choosing not to eat or just not hungry? Both are causes for concern.

Dallas is lovely. People are as nice and sweet as can be. Until they get on the freeway and then they all hate you with a passion and want to run you off the road for the sin of doing 80 in the slow lane. They have exits from the left lanes and a gazillion road signs you have to read while wooshing by at the speed of sound. Other than that, it is very nice and has great museums and botanical gardens.

See how nice you are. I’ve already stolen it because it is so appropriate.

Cheese is milk’s way of trying to become immortal.

So today has been a day of high (snert) sloth. It’s beautiful, gray and drizzly, just the perfect weather to enjoy brousing my new ANG magazine…except it is a nice glossy publication and the sheen makes it hard to focus on the letters unless I close my right eye. I’ll just save it for next month, there isn’t much in a needlepoint magazine that is time sensitive.

Hubs saw his cardio guy and everyone left happy. Tomorrow we are going to head to Charleston and look at screen doors and shop Aldi’s. We are also going to stop at PetCo and get a live catnip plant because I cannot start it from seed. @#^$%

I’m also going to put it in a pot on the porch what will probably be a futile attempt at keeping it from trying to take over the yard. Last house it traveled across a very large gravel yard to take over one of my raised flower beds and the place before it turned the back of the bike barn into a kitty opium den.

Din will be turkey, mashed NOT, gravy and peas. We smoked the freezer turkey today and it is resting as I type. I made a bake-less custard pie for desert and plan to freeze most of the turkey and pie for later. It was an after Thanksgiving sale bird - 16 anna half lbs and hubs is low carb and is limiting his sweets. (I did throw some toasted coconut in the custard, he doesn’t care for coconut so it won’t draw him like an apple pie.)

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We have, broadly speaking, two travel ideas. We will almost certainly travel to Vermont to visit my family, with, perhaps, a side trip somewhere along the way. We don’t know when this would be.

We also have many tens of thousands of Southwest points, so we may fly somewhere we can stay relatively cheap, especially if we don’t need to rent a car. We know neither when or where this would be.

Anyway, I am mostly on summer break. Still have to finish grades for one university, but no more student contact. Today started lazy, then I grocery shopped, and then spent a while pulling mint from one of the front garden beds. Now to decide what to do with it (the garden bed, not the mint).

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I may have been visited by the feline distribution system. There’s been a little grey guy hanging out on my porch and back yard for a couple of days. Today he looked like he(?) wanted to come inside. No collar, kinda skinny.

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Let him in, you need fur under your fingers again. Cats are easier than dogs for working folks but still bond and love deeply.

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Just took my car to my car guy since it’s due for servicing. I told him to give it a once-over and not find anything expensive. That’ll work, right?

It was spitting rain on the way, and the weather channel shows some rain maybe overnight, but not nearly what had been predicted a few days ago. I guess we’ll see.

For now, tho, chillage.

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Add in the heat, and that is about as accurate a description of that place as I’ve ever read.

Stay off the Mix-master at rush hour.

That’s why my snek is named Pretzel. I needed a name with zero gender connotation.

Also, plz send our regards to your new feline friend. And some gooshy-fud.

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Interstates are for destination oriented trips. Try US highways for the fun trips.

Do you have any ethnic or farmers’ markets around?

Are you me?

It’s rained on and off all day. I’ve messed around in the studio and watched movies.

Some day, I’d like to drive US70 from NC to AZ with Sis or SIL (or both) once I’m an RDOS (both of them are). Have a dog or three with us, stay at small town motels (the days of keeping a tent on board are over), eat at local eateries, stop at interesting cemeteries, junk shops and dive bars. SIL and I are planning to do some shorter rambles again once we’re both physically up to it, but, dang, I sure miss those days.

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No plans here to speak of. Although, both my birthday and our anniversary are in June, so something might come up.

I don’t feel like I’ve accomplished much today, however I did get to talk to a friend who has been battling cancer for the last three years. She’s an amazingly resilient person. It was nice to catch up with her. We tentatively planned to go to a local flea market to sell my art and possibly some of her daughter’s stuff as well.

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Howdy Y’all! My yen for sushi has been satisfied. It was soooooo gooooood! That and some strawberry and chawklit ice cream was all I et. The ice cream is in those itty bitty cups, so they were small. I did go back for sushi three times. OYKW didn’t squick out too bad. He found plenty of stuff to scarf down plus he had three of the itty bitty chawklit ice creams. Needless to say nappage ensued when we got back to da cave. No further consumption of food has been needed. In other news the rain has stopped and Summer is on the way with temps in the low nineties by Thursday.

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@paintcharge, The Cat Distribution System strikes again! Kitty has a new home and you have a new feline overlord!

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My cats have made contributed to the vet’s vacation plans not mine.

Luckily I did travel quite a bit before mum then the cats had health issues.

Tonight I went to a talk at the library. Fascinating subject. https://bookshop.org/p/books/building-ghosts-past-lives-and-lost-places-in-a-changing-city-molly-lester/21150924?ean=9781439924099&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=16235479093&gbraid=0AAAAACfld43b4UaKrwXw9vXG28GasOsT8&gclid=CjwKCAjwuIbBBhBvEiwAsNypvQvy_BDjbVR7V6pLMeJDaRXAeOMh1ak0eLXylkpwpArKHfMI01_j_RoCwXYQAvD_BwE

Building ghosts. I’ve always been fascinated by the missing building, from when I was young. Especially when you could see old paint and wall paper from the missing house. This only happens with row or terrace houses. Due to building codes now they don’t happen in new attached houses.

New houses in Philly aren’t done in complete rows. I believe the last time entire blocks were done was after the move bombing.

Lager was not happy about my late arrival. He is still complaining.

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I love seeing those too. There are a couple around here. In my home town, also. Well, I suppose I should start calling this my home town, I’ve been here almost half my life.

I spoke with one of the neighbors, not their cat, I know the guy on the other side doesn’t have a cat, just a slightly neurotic dog. I’m gonna get some dry flavorless bits and put them out, along with a bowl of water. Although I fear I’ll just be feeding squirrels. There was a dead mouse left in the driveway this morning. An offering?

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Up from naptime, having an Old Fashioned, and watching hockey.[quote=“FairyChatMom, post:20, topic:1018289”]
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I get 90% of my spices from Penzy’s

This.

An offer you can’t refuse. :wink:

If these people just let their freak flag fly freely, they, and by extention everybody else on the planet would be better off.

A “runway incursion”. Somebody taxied across/onto an active runway. Which can be very bad

I read it on The Internet(source unknown).

This is the start of 50% of zombie movies.

True. Although I do miss walks(just not at 0535 on my day off when it’s 35 and sleeting, and somebody else’s dog want me to take him out)

I would have enjoyed that.

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I meant the salad dressing. :wink:

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Well, soccer practice got rained out (again, I think we have had 2 out of 7-8 Monday practices this spring) so went to Freddy’s for a Steakburger and fries, which are now happily assimilating in my belly. Might go back over to the gym for a bit this evening, didn’t get all the swimming I had planned to do in, we’ll see in a bit. Of course it is clear and blue-skied right now, but more rain expected in the next couple of hours. Springtime in N. Ali-bama…

Hmm, 25 more messages this afternoon. Initiate scrolling mode…engage.

Cookie, my plumbing looks a little better than that, now if it would just quit being leaky…

Looked at that drain-cleaning tool and it looks like something a Medieval torturer would like…

FCM, did the same drive on I-70 in Kansas you did…it didn’t look much better in the Summer. And no idea how to rid yourself of Poison Ivy…maybe ask Batman? Poison Ivy (character) - Wikipedia

Oopsie, I see my Brother at Thanksgiving and Xmas and call him monthly, with occasional texts, but like you, that’s about right for me. And travel sounds doable, enjoy getting out and about.

Aye, but does he drink…

JtC, sounds a lot like my driving, when I want to get somewhere then the interstate +10% over the limit is my rule of thumb, but once I am there I try to stay off the controlled access roads. Glad Hubs medical report was good news.

Never drove in Dallas but I survived 4 years driving in the Middle East so I should be OK.

Pavo, wherever you go, just enjoy it. Southwest these days can get you most anywhere.

VanGo, somebody drop him off, or did he wander away from somewhere?

Sticky Buns, best wishes to your friend.

And it’s after 7pm so if I’m going back to the gym I’d best be about it. Take care all.

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:rofl:

Also, you know you’re watching hockey when one of the commentators has a mullet.

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I got it and am sorry I missed replying. That’s actually one of my favorite road trip albums but certainly not suitable for the interstate. You can’t risk being peaceful there.

Pfffft. You haven’t driven until you’ve enjoyed a Manila Philippine roundabout.

But, I stand by my words. Dallas-Fortworth interstates are the most terrifying ones in the world. And that’s before rush hour.

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Pfft. Ethiopean Intersection

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No brain salad for dinner. I had 5 Trader Joe’s hot wings with Lighthouse blue cheese dressing. And wine, and ouzo for dessert.

Yeah, I wen’t to TJ’s. When I was there ai thought, ‘Oh! Only one slice of sharp cheddar left! I’ll get more.’ At home, we had plenty of cheddar. It was provolone we only had one slice of. Oh, well. Anyway, I got more cheeses, and some more plonk.

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We’re on vacation in Bodega Bay, CA.

Today we explored the Inverness Peninsula, I believe it’s called. Despite living in California our whole lives, we’ve never checked it out. It was gorgeous and green, with many flowers in bloom, and nicely uncrowded because it was early on a weekday.

However, it looks like I’ve developed a phobia. Before today, I had been becoming uneasy when driving up steep switchbacks or descending down fast-moving highways, especially with trucks on all sides. Today, we were driving along a bald ridge towards the northernmost, narrow point of the peninsula, with Tomales Bay on one side and Drakes Bay on the other. We started descending down from a steep peak, and the road ahead went around a sharp curve, looking like we were driving straight off a cliff and into the ocean. I started to feel panic well up in me and couldn’t prevent myself from saying “. . . we have to stop, right now!”

Mr. brown was shocked and puzzled and then annoyed, but he turned the car around and we drove back the way we came. I was gasping for breath and trying to calm myself down. He doesn’t grasp the nature of phobias and thinks that he can ridicule or reason me out of my fear, but it doesn’t work that way.

Then later, when we drove down to the south terminus of the peninsula, where there’s a lighthouse at the end of a narrow road on a ridge with cliffs and ocean on either side, the same thing happened, even worse. We had to turn around again, and he was pissed off. I apologized for cutting short our drives.

This sucks. Taking long drives is what our vacations are all about. Well, very few drives are on bald ridges with oceans and cliffs on either side, so I suppose it’ll hardly ever crop up.