A tax on people who are bad at math.
Nowadays I think getting on a cruise ship would be like knowingly buying a ticket on the Titanic-a 2nd class ticket at that.
How about meeting on a dude ranch, where it is a two day ride to civilization? That might keep Mumpers from escaping. Course, there would be the whole rattlesnake thing. It’s always something. There are some great ranches in the US and Canada, gorgeous ones in Australia and New Zealand complete with beaches on the edges of the Continent.
Nothing’s going to happen till the plague passes anyway. At least for me - I ain’t goin’ nowhere till there’s a proven vaccine and it’s been widely distributed.
Me neither, but it sure is fun to scheme and dream…
Nice. I want to detach the library and bring it up here. Looks like I’d have to purchase and level the neighbours’ houses, though…
Agree. (Do hairballs count as barf? Those things are nasty!) Gideon usually takes the mice in to offer them to my daughter, but then eats them after she chases him away.
Lady SCAdian and I could make a good start on it.
I used to have one of those, but never used it. All my overseas travel was courtesy of Uncle Sam, either aboard ship or flying in under orders.
I forwarded the link to Mumperville to a friend and he replied that there was a Russian Boomer in a secret pen under the sea cliff.
It must be hairball season, and the beast is shedding like crazy–I brush her twice a day, getting a full brush each time quickly, yet she still has a problem. And to top it off, she is a short hair!
Considering how shallow the water is along that part of the bay, a secret pen would be a real challenge! 
There are lots of fossil sharks’ teeth in the cliffs, tho. I took my daughter and (later) my nephew there to hunt for fossils. Maybe not exactly on Clancy’s property, but in the general area.
Afternoon all. Back from being in foreign parts (aka 2.5 hours drive away) for a couple of days. It was very very nice to see people, despite being overly hot. The virus risk in both places is very low, and I think I kinda needed to do it- apart from anything else, in 3 weeks I’m supposed to be starting teaching a couple of classes of teenagers, and trying to go from not speaking to anyone in months to that would just be too much.
The old place is still a madhouse- I’d been there a few hours and one of the housemates managed to lose a camera drone in a nearby building site and got caught by security retrieving it. I was only waiting on the street for him, so I didn’t get in any trouble.
{{Dots}}! Good to … uh… read you!
And please don’t kill poor sneks that bite you- apart from anything else, that’s one of the most common ways for people to get bitten- trying to kill a snake that bit their companion, or getting a second bite which means more venom.
Also it delays everything, when you’re best off getting treatment ASAP.
Also also, hospital staff are not generally snake experts, and if they need to ID the antivenom needed, they’ll do it from swabbing the bite site, not looking at a dead snake.
Also also also, it leads to lots of people killing non-venomous snakes (they might still bite, especially if you’ve just trodden on them, which is understandable in my view- they can’t exactly yell for you to get off) and even things that just look like snakes, including endangered species, and screwing up ecosystems. There was a full on campaign a few years ago in Australia about this when I was there.
Afternoon all. Home from the eye doc, have had eyes thoroughly examined and am now waiting for the dilation to subside and try to get the lawn mowed. Eye doc is a good guy, but he likes to talk…a lot…and drops in info about your eyes in the middle of the conversation. All told, my right eye has changed a little bit and I have some risk of cataracts in the future, but all in all not bad for an old guy. Celebrated with a Mickey D’s lunch with has been assimilated and all is well.
Nut, glad you were able to get out. Have thought about taking a short trip…well, anywhere…but inertia is a strong force in this one. Plus soccer in due to start in a couple of weeks.
FCM, I can help with the bookshelf-filling, but as you say, need to hit that Powerball…
OW, haven’t used my passport for a couple of years. Do need to put some new stamps on it, but not quite yet.
Shoe, tis’ true that power outages (and other natural disasters) do bring people out in the open more. Met neighbors after the 2011 tornado (power out for 8 days) that I’ve never seen before or since.
I think a short bit of nappage is in order then, if the eyes allow it, mowage is to be done.
All y’all take care.
It was unusually cool yesterday, so Wifey and I washed both cars, and then I mowed the lawn. And then we BBQed some ribs and ate them on the patio, with salads. It was a good day.
Today I have a dentist appt. and need to run some errands/ buy stuff. If I ever get off my backside and get started.
[quote=“susan, post:173, topic:917713, full:true”]
I mostly don’t drink no stinkin soda since Old Tyme Jamaican Style Ginger Beer became unavailable.[/quote]
Have you tried Reed’s?
I personally don’t like either coke or pepsi, although I do like cherry coke zero, and to a lesser degree, vanilla coke zero. Usually I drink Barq’s root beer or ginger ale. (Vernor’s usually) I used to drink lime coke, until the bastards quit making it. That ginger lime stuff they came out with is just nasty.
Don’t like champagne either, but I do like muscato and prosecco.
[quote=“SurrenderDorothy, post:176, topic:917713, full:true”]
hello, friends. I’m sorry to disappear on you. I was in the hospital in the neighborhood of four weeks. Which I guess means I really did need to be here. I’m still having electroconvulsive therapy three times a week for… I’m not sure how long. But it means I get to be under anesthesia three times a week, so fair warning: it makes me super spacey and I will probably do a decent amount of just reading (at least until/unless anyone is interested in an “ask the person getting electroshock therapy” thread). [/quote]
They’re still doing that? 
Glad you’re back with us. If you feel like sharing, I, at least, am curious.
What the HELL is wrong with my quotes NOW? 
Both quote tags–opening and closing-- have to go on a line by themselves.
What Thel said. Your quote from susan may look like the /quote tag is on its own line, but if you look at your post in an edit window you’ll see that there’s nothing between the period and the open bracket, and the appearance of a new line is simply a function of line length.
I guess a more thorough way of putting it is that there needs to be a line break before and after each quote tag. IOW hit “enter” before and after. The preview window will let you know if you’ve done it properly.
Happy I-don’t-know-what-day-it-is-let-me-go-look-it-up Thorsday!
It was a rainy 72 degrees at the park this morning.
It’s a partly cloudy 82 degrees now.
Not crowded this morning, no surprise considering it was raining. A new dog, Stormy, joined us this morning. Dogs are so weird.
On the way to the park, some man walked past the truck while I was sitting at the light, and if Ripple could have gotten to him he would have ripped him apart. Then Echo joined in with the barking, growling, and snarling. Maybe because the man was carrying an umbrella?
Echo was fine with the new dog. However, Jax, lovable, sweet, bumbling, good-natured Jax, got into it with the new dog. Jax has never gone after anything, dog, cat, person, anything. I guess Stormy rubbed him the wrong way. Stormy is a sad case though, her people just got her last night from a home where she was kept chained up outside all the time.
I hope she comes back tomorrow.
Nice to see you back Dots
80, heat index 83, predicted high 86, and the sky is falling. I’ve been up almost five hours now, so I suppose I should visit the rain locker and then get dressed…
Found the house, BTW – it’s on the west side of Ches Bay, about halfway between Wilson and Dares Beach.
There’s a snake shortage in Australia? 
Some in my yard I’d gladly ship there, collect.
I forgot to mention
I did the math
The last time I had a dog spayed was in 1983
damn I am old
My Yasmine, who, if she had been human, would have been my pot smoking hippie flower child
I almost got bitten by a copperhead once. Fortunately for me, it was cold outside and the snake was too slow to get me.
As scary as that was, it was nowhere near as scary as the time I was running down a path through the woods and I came up on a skunk that had just turned it’s back on me and was stomping it’s little feet.
I really don’t feel like working today. And I’m not looking forward to the 2+ hour commute home.
I got an offer on a vintage Guillow’s Nieuport 28 kit I have on eBay. I’ll make a counteroffer when I get home. I’m going to make an effort to sell a bunch of stuff at the end of the month.
I haven’t dropped off the earth or anything. Whole lotta nuttin’ goin’ on here today. We’re under a heat advisory, but it sounds like some of you have it worse. I walked this morning at 6 am, but had to get out of my damp clothes as soon as I got home—not rain, just killer humidity.
Animals are behaving themselves. Tikva hasn’t brought any creatures in recently, nor has EC, who’s still wearing the clown collar. She doesn’t seem to mind it at all–of course, I’ve hidden all the mirrors in the house (j/k). I put groceries in the free pantry yesterday and I’ll do the same tomorrow. I’ve just been sitting around this afternoon watching old episodes of Father Brown. I AM keeping out of trouble (no opportunities to do otherwise), so that’s my main contribution to the good of the order.