Was bopping on my phone when I heard “POP POP POP!!” outside.
I was like, please tell me that’s not what I thought it was.
I was just thinking last night, in a moment of gratitude, how - considering I live in Da 'Hood - how peaceful this area is.
Yup. It was what I thought.
Next thing, two houses up there’s a hysterical woman yelling, followed very immediately by a couple of LEO blocking the intersection.
They didn’t stick around long, and no ambulance showed up, so I’m guessing it was just a random drive-by being an ass and other than much drama, hopefully no real harm done.
I could hear her screaming something about her child, so I dunno, kid was playing in the yard and pissed off the driver?
So that was an interesting start to Long Night.
Gotta go. Hafta drive carefully to go scoop up Sprinkles. Last time I did that, I got pulled over.
Sat there forever rehearsing what I’d say, and the cop suddenly reappeared, practically shoved my DL back at me, told me someone on a bike got hit by a car & he gotta go, reminded me to fix my expired plates (like I don’t know) and shot out like a bat outta hell, while I sat there blinking and counting my used karma blessings.
ETA Sprinkles just called out sick, so … no extra errand, but shorthanded on a Friday night. Yay.
I’m sure I’m not the first to say I’d like pics of all 3.
Back from the funeral mass; over 400 people attended; many from the young man’s days at Catholic Central. Very moving, very sad. Several of the notes I sang were a bit off as the sadness got to me.
Stopped at the fruit market on the way home. Picked up some strawberries, acorn squash, apple cider, and the main reason for stopping was raw ginger. I’ve started a new morning regimen where I drink a concoction of warm water, tumeric, black pepper, ginger, lemon juice, apple cider vinegar and honey. Supposed to help ramp up metabolism as well as support immune system and maintain healthy digestive system.
Have looked through the paper coupons and the digital coupons and made grocery list so Hubs and I will be on our way to kroger imminently. TTYL.
I read here about people who’ve bought houses. This amazes me. I could never afford to do that.
I rented a few years with my former husband. A few years recently.
Public Housing is all I can afford. I cannot collect s.s. I must work 6 more years to even qualify for the minimum amount. I will be 71 then.
I visit peoples homes and its like a mansion. My studio is quite small.
I cannot even afford my rent! I was born in poverty and it has always been, its my fate.
My only hope is a scratch off lottery ticket, or highly unlikely, a man who can afford to live marrying me.
My life has been mostly useless.
Didnt mean to be a downer, just sharing honestly.
My enjoyment comes from a new book or magazine from the library.
I’ve heard that horses like having goats hanging around. I love goats and they make milk that I can use to make delicious cheese.
I’ve just started the border on my current piece. It is kicking my butt. The white and yellow and blue are so easy to confuse and I’m missing holes in my stitches. It’s good that I’m so good at frogging, I’ve been doing a lot of that now.
Our instructor was very amused to know that Blown Away was such a big part of my glass blowing education.
How is it? Please let us (me) know how you are feeling next week.
Cruising by someone with your car door open and grabbing them on your way by to avoid stopping does save gas, but can be frowned on by the local LE.
Glad you are still working. Are we worried yet?
Relaxing and enjoying your coffee is also productive, it recharges your body and mind.
H is the eighth letter of the alphabet. 88=HH=Heil Hitler.
Well, I started by forgetting my tablet and I can’t read on my phone anymore. (Well, I can, but I have to enlarge the letters so much that I’m reading half a word a screen. Well…not quite, but close.) So, that probably jinxed everything.
While we were stopped for breakfast (Bob Evans, 5.99 breakfast sampler for me and the 7.99 double meat and eggs for hubs) the salesman Hubs was dealing with asked if he had gotten his insurance taken care of. I suggested that after breakfast, he sit on a bench outside (very nice morning) and call to get it taken care of. He didn’t listen.
We got to the dealership right around noon. The salesman called our insurance office at 8 minutes after and got a recording saying that they now closed at 12 on Fridays. I walked across the parking lot to the dispensary and did some shopping. I got back, they were still on the phone trying to talk to someone with a very strong foreign accent who was struggling with the salesman’s very strong WV accent.
I went out and took a pic of his new toy:
and then went to sit in my car and smoke for a while.
Then I got bored and went in to the Mothman Harley Dealership hoping to find some cool swag to send to my secret santa. It was all the standard swag you can find at any dealer so no money was spent.
I did see these chips, but didn’t buy them. No matter what, all bags of chips are single serving bags so the only way to deal with that is not to buy them.
So, when it was time to sign the papers, everything was printing on Ohio DMV paperwork with our street address in Logan, Ohio.
Next the safety inspection hadn’t been done.
Three hours later, we were on our way home and I noticed that a turn signal light was out.
The cats almost starrrrrved to death.
She had really cute black hair.
Now that you are a RDOS, you have time to do that sort of thing.
I hope all the money things work out so you don’t have to go back to work to pay the bills. I took to retirement like a duck to water, but I had been looking forward to it for years and only walked out a few months before full retirement, so only lost 9.57 a month. It was totally worth it.
I am so happy he wasn’t hurt! You and your mom reacted just like we do when glass shatters on the floor…lock the fuzzbutts away!
It sounds like a great weekend has been planned. I also hope there is enough of a crowd to make it worth performing.
When I go to geezer concerts, I always entertain myself by counting the lighters in the crowd. When I took mom to see the Age of Aquarius, I was the only one with a lighter and mom fussed at me because she thought I was going to get kicked out by the fire marshal. I could see the bowing performers focus on my single flame and look gratified. At least someone got it!
I’m glad that we went yesterday. Today for no reason my left foot/ankle has decided not to work properly and I’ve had to walk with a cane for the past couple hours. Bah humbug. The irony is that it was perfectly fine at PT this morning.
That really bites, I hope you didn’t overdo the walking at the Tamarack. I got there early enough to be able to drive around and find parking closer, when you go next don’t park in the front lot. Go around the right side and see what you can find. I was parked about a hundred feet outside of the gallery.
Had I known this sooner, you would have as well.
I hope you stop gimping around soon.
PS I forgot to tell you about the school bus running a red light and almost hitting me. It really did seem that the fates were against our trip. Maybe it was because they knew I would mentally objectify John. Cute face, great hands and a nice butt.
I took the YZF-R1 to Bellingham today; first to the sporting goods store to fill out some paperwork, and then to Trader Joe’s for a couple of salads – which we’re not eating tonight. Mrs. L.A. made a grilled Jesus meat-and-cheese sandwich, and I’m going to put some chicken tenderloins and broccoli into the toaster oven.
Well you beat us.Our total was $142 although that was after digital and paper coupons amounting to $68. So we earned 568 gas pts.
When we arrived home, the young fellow, (well compared to us, he’s in his mid 50’s now, was about 8 or 9 when we moved in) was mowing his Dad’s lawn. So, I called over to him and we chatted for awhile. They moved his Dad into a memory care facility a few months ago. Caught up on his 3 sons and one of his sisters and his brother. Was so strange seeing him as a 50+ yr old when my basic memory of him was of a teenager.
Time for dinner, spaghetti and meatballs for me, spaghetti and sausage for Hubs.
Howdy Y’all! We picked up the ‘script, were bears who brunch and then took a nice drive out in the country. So we had a nice mornin’ followed by nappage and day drinkin’. We went out to the cee-mint pond in our swim trunks to day drink. We decided to get in the water. BRR, However after a few minutes it wasn’t too bad. We didn’t stay in long. All in all a very pleasant day. OYKW is feelin’ a little sinusy as he does before it rains which is supposed to happen tomorrow afternoon. He’s a human barometer.
Taters we’ve watched the first two episodes of The Four Seasons. I agree the original is better. Since it’s supposed to rain tomorrow that would be a good time to binge the rest. OYKW has never seen the original. He grew up culturally deprived.
I know who Sheena Easton is but couldn’t remember any of her songs. Then when Pilot posted that video I knew why I couldn’t remember. I hate that song. It grates on my last gay nerve!
I was trying to not let too much floozy show! I got there early and spent some time watching him bend and flex and not break a sweat while standing in front of his 2000F glass melting glory hole. He never stopped moving, back and forth from work-seat, work bench and glory hole while handling long metal pipes and heavy unbalanced blobs of glass.
I’d much rather Hubs was on something easier on the knees. He’ll be taking off the brake and clutch rockers and replacing them with pedals so he can move his feet around better. If he’s still alive in November, I’ll pay for him to get some different roll bars mounted so he can hold his legs out more, if not, I am on the title and will just sell the remains for scrap.
My nephew just sent us a pic of his new granddaughter. It’s kinda shocking to realize how much time has passed.
I now have enough hummers at the feeder that I need another feeder somewhere else. Hubs will be out for a ride tomorrow so maybe I’ll take myself to Lowes and get another garden pole. I think it needs to be by the big planter so the fuzzbutts can watch it from the window. I’ll be thinking about bird baths as well, I know the river is just a block away but birds are opportunists my bird bath would be closer for many of the forest birds.
My potato bag is now full of dirt so now I’ll be letting the green parts grow and flower and die. Hopefully when I dump the bag after the plants are dead, I will have potatoes and nice dirt I can reuse. Fingers crossed!
And good evening all. It started raining here about 3pm and is still raining now and is expected to rain through tomorrow, so soccer Saturday has already been cancelled for the second week in a row. Made it out of the gym and stopped at Kroger as the rain had let up and I wanted to grab a Firday NY Times. Got in, got paper, checked out and…we’re talking Noachian-level precipitation, folks. So just got a Giant Kit-Kat bar and a bottle of Diet Pepsi sat down on a bench they have up front and read the front page. After about 15 minutes the downpour was back to sprinkles, so came on home where I intend to remain for the night. Big bowl O’Salad has been consumed and I’m working on two chocolate pudding cups for dessert, so that should take care of my metabolic needs.
Now to catch up on life, the universe, and everything MMP…
No morning can be bad if it starts that way.
shoe, just glad you (and apparently no one else) was hurt, I don’t have to worry about drive-bys since I live at the end of a cul-de-sac, so it would be a 180-drive-around-shooting.
Cat Glove, pretty impressive turnout. And your new morning drink sounds…interesting…does it make a good mix with Scotch?..(very old TV joke).
Coppertone, I’m not the marrying type but I hope things turn around for you soon.
JtC, so it was a bit of an adventure after all. Bike does look nice, hoping it stays that way.
Amen. I can allow myself an occasional box of Lay’s 1 oz packets (10 per box) in the house and (most) control myself, but never get a big bag anymore.
Cat Glove, I remember my neighbors klds as 4-6 year olds playing in my water-sprinkler; they are now in college. Time moves faster and faster these days…
And that’s all for now, pudding is settled happily in my belly, so sloth shall be the order for the evening.
I understand. Both of my knees are rubbish. My right one has a limited range of motion that isn’t quite enough for comfortable riding, and my right foot is partially paralysed (skiing injury and car wreck). But…
When we arrived, we saw SIL sitting on the driveway beside an ambulance with 2 EMTs doing their thing and 2 neighbors trying to be helpful. Apparently after he dropped Tobias off, he started feeling strange, and when he got home and out of the car, he had chest pains radiating down his left side and he felt weak and fell. He called Daughter and she told him to call an ambulance.
So they hauled him off (Daughter met him at the hospital) and we went to work in the clubhouse (as the kids call it.) FCD fed a new wire from the attic to the new double switch box we installed in place of the old single. There are now 2 switches - one for the attic light and one for the (still to be installed) ceiling lights. But before the switches were installed, I had to go to Lowes for a 9V battery for the multimeter, as well as the tiny screws that hold the plate over the switches. ($3.52 for 10 of the teeny suckers!!!)
Not going to detail the whole day, but we figured out the placement of the lights and drilled the holes. And discovered that one of the boxes we were going to use wouldn’t work, so tomorrow, I’ll make another trip to Lowes. FCD cut the floorboards up there where the wires will have to be run. I tightened some screws on the attic ladder and suddenly, it wasn’t as creaky! Go figure.
When my poor sweetie was worn out, I took him home then went back to pick up Roxy and Tobias. They were to spend the night, in case Daughter had to go back to the hospital (did I mention that kept SIL for observation?)
Kids got mac-n-cheese-n-peas for supper. They each made a bracelet and a necklace using yarn and some wooden beads I had in my studio. Tobias crashed early and I just put Roxy to bed after she read me a book and I read her one. I’m doing laundry (it is Firday, after all) and the last load is in the washer. I should get to bed before 11.
And a woman is coming around 8 or so in the morning to get the baby stuff - huzzah!! Then we’ll take the kids home and try to finish the light installation. There will be at least one trip to Lowes, but with luck, that will be it.
When I was still on two wheels, long pegs were da bomb on long rides.
Same rule as ice cream containers.
I hope that they figure out what the issue is with your SIL, Moooooooom. He seems to have a lot of health issues for someone his age.
We had thunder boomers this afternoon and that cooled things down to the mid-sixties. I got Nelson out right before the rain began, so the poor little guy didn’t melt (or float away ).
The current best guess is POTS but they’re still testing. One thing we do know, he’s diabetic but he doesn’t seem to care about his diet, which does piss me off. Especially after knowing what TX SIL dealt with when FCD’s middle brother was dying from complications of the diabetes that he refused to take seriously till it was too late. But he’s an adult and I can’t make him behave. Nor can I tell Daughter what to do… OK, I can tell her, but I risk resentment or worse.
Ah, yes. In my younger days, them pints of BR Peanut Butter and Chocolate < drool >
Last load is in the dryer. Tobias is a bed hog - I had to skooch him over because Roxy was trying to sleep on the floor since he was taking his half out of the middle of the bed. I think they’re both settled now. I hope. Once my drying is done and the t-shirts are folded, I’m for bed myself.
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