Glad he apologized Dotty.
Well, the pool looks ok. I may have to let water out later today because it looks like Fay will stay with us through tomorrow. She’s movin’ west at the lightnin’ swift pace of seven MPH. 
In other news, I’m feelin’ sleepfied still. Pilin’ up in the bed and snoozin’ sounds like a good thing on a rainy Saturday mornin’ does it not?
Good morning, everyone!
:: takes smelly mushy falling apart wet dead trout, wraps it in newspaper, and puts in trash ::
:: takes out another to thaw ::
When’s trash day? 
Ah, Saturday. Lovely Saturday. The idjits let me sleep until 6:30, when I was unceremoniously given a big wet kiss by Lucy. “Get up, Mom! It’s time for breakfast!” So the idgits have been fed, I’m up and partially caffeinated, and they’re back asleep! Stoopit idjits.
Swampy, you stay hunkered down, ya hear? We finally might have a dry day here. It’s been raining all week, but thankfully not like Fay. Just regular rain, and spotty flash floods. That’s quite normal in Houston.
Hey bear, you’ve been busy!
We’re (read: I’m) gonna be brave and take the kids to the dog park, mud pit or not. They have such a good time, and it’s so much fun to watch all the dogs. It’s getting to be a regular thing, since hubby works almost every Saturday morning.
Tonight is our monthly dinner out that Dad likes to treat us to. We’re going to Outback Steakhouse. I’m gonna get me a filet, I think. Last night I made some awesome Chicken Tortilla Soup. I thought I read a recipe on here, or in the Mumper’s recipes, but I couldn’t find it, so I just winged it. Here it is:
Chicken Tortilla Soup
1 lb chicken breast, cubed, sprinkle with s&p
2 tbs olive oil
1 small onion, chopped
1 bell pepper, chopped
2 medium zucchini, diced
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 medium yellow squash, diced
1 can corn, or 1 cup frozen corn
1/2 can black beans, rinsed and drained
1 can diced tomatoes
1 tbs chipotle in adobo sauce, minced
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp chili powder
1/2 tsp poultry seasoning
3 or 4 cups chicken stock
salt and pepper
shredded monterey jack or cheddar cheese for garnish
chopped cilantro for garnish
sour cream for garnish
tortilla chips for garnish
In a large pot, brown the chicken in the olive oil over medium heat. Remove with a slotted spoon, then saute the onions, peppers, and garlic for a couple of minutes. Add the zucchini and squash, stir for about 5 minutes. Add the chicken, corn, beans, tomatoes, and chipotle. Stir in seasonings, then add stock. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer about 30 minutes. Salt and pepper to taste.
Serve with chips and garnishes.
Either that recipe looks like a lot of work or I need more rest. I’m up, it’s hot and humid and all August-y outside. I cannot wait for first frost.
Off to forage for food soon, then garden work.
GT–and what are you going to do with all this free time, young lady? Idle hands are the devil’s playground you know.
**Pie **and Dots–I sympathize. Nothing gets me more bent out of shape than a messed with sleep cycle or a too early rising (when not expected. Hell, when expected!)
I keep meaning to say Yay on the good mousers. Frankly, that is one of the top 3 reasons we own a cat. Sometimes it’s the only reason. Come fall, all the mouses families attempt to move into Condo Rigs. I consider Simon my personal concierge service…
Good morning. I’m up, have my coffee in hand, and well…I’m up.
I had meant to address the job situation too** rigs**. I’m sorry it’s not what you wanted, but **gt ** does make a good point.
I’m still sleepy but my back just couldn’t take another minute on that bed. I’m half tempted to lie down on my couch, but then I’ll feel like I’ve wasted the day.
Hunker down Swampy. Hopefully, you won’t get an overflowing pool, much less yard or street.
We had a lovely evening with College Friend last night. Nat behaved himself at the pub,and threw a huge fit about bedtime. Huge. But it’s okay, because he behaved earlier. Up, breakfasted, doing chores, and just threw out a couch and discovered possible water damage behind it. Hmm.
I took Nelly to Shelly Lake this morning. We sniffed things. There were geese.
Glad he apoplogized, Dotty. Think you can guilt him inot something shiny?
My right shoulder hurts. Actually it’s the muscle next to my neck. I can hardly turn my neck to the right. Rubbing it doesn’t help.
Ow ow ow ow.
Just a quick drive-through for me today - we’ve been very busy! Our friend Dave came over this morning with the large strimmer he uses at work (he’s a groundskeeper at a golf club) and between us we cut down all the brambles and nettles.
It’s amazing how it went from this to this in only a couple of hours. All we’re left with is a heap of greenery that will make a very good bonfire later.
Ophie didn’t like the noise of the strimmer so she went to hide, but Shadow was brave enough to come out and explore once we’d finished.
Doggio - sorry there weren’t any strippers, Dave did bring his girlfriend along but she was more interested in threatening the foliage!
Off to get cleaned up now, and then we’re heading to the pub tonight for some of that lovely Sarah Hughes’ Dark Ruby Mild. 6% of gorgeousness in a glass…
Her name is Bubble?! Oh, please let that be her real name… I know she’s probably not like this at all, but I love Bubbles from AbFab.
I heard on NPR today when they did one of their supporter spots, a woman’s name: Reminder.
They said it twice. :dubious:
The yard looks well and truly er, strimmed. You seriously going to pave it? :eek: Where is that world famous British green thumb? It’d be a nice garden.
Ta for the support re the job etc. I will most likely apply for it after Daughter gets off. No idea why I posted Condo Rigs–that should be Chez. I am NOT gardening today–it’s horrid outside. Not gardening, though, means cleaning bathrooms.
So I made brownies instead.
Howdy, everybody. <yawn> Last night was really fun and really tiring. Plus they’ve changed the shuttle bus schedule from the Metro to Wolf Trap – instead of leaving 10-15 minutes after the end of the performance, we sat there on the stoopid bus with its AC turned up to sub-Arctic for nearly 40 minutes before heading off to the Metro. And then we just missed a train, so ended up catching the very last train of the night out our way. So it was over an hour later when we got home than we’d expected. Driving there is a pain in the tuchus, but we’ve decided we’re going to next time just because we neither one are crazy about waiting so long for the normally convenient public transportation.
Anyway, I’ve skimmed the thread but nothing has sunk in. Except some confusion between strippers and strimmers. (Speaking of which, I’ve never heard “string trimmer” mashed into one word before – I like it!) And that Mooom’s neck thing is just a muscle thing.
You know, I thought the Olympic sport I was least fond of was beach volleyball. I have to amend that now, though: group synchronized swimming. Oy gevalt, what idiocy!
Back to continuing to try to get the ol’ brain to function again today. And laugh at the stupid women with their legs sticking up out of the pool.
Sounds similar to what I had - my Dr said the thing to do was apply heat and take ibuprofen - if you think it’s just a sore muscle.
We finally finished all of the drywall in the apartment, but we don’t have enough to finish the stairwell. Well, we do, if we want do have more seams per square foot than the rest of the house… Anyway, once SIL gets home from work with the last few pieces of corner bead, **FCD ** is quitting. I’ll get SIL to work on taping seams and daughter and I will finish the ceiling in the closet.
I want to quit. I’m so tired of working in the basement. It’s just not fun any more…
Howdy Y’all. We’ve laid around, napped and in general been slugs. It has rained about four inches again. I let more water out of the pool. Still, we’re not gettin’ near the deluge Flahrdy got/is gettin’ from Fay.
Ok, off to, heck, I don’t know… more sluggin’ I guess.
Fire last night, ambulance shift tonight. Story on Monday.
::Vroom::
We’ve just returned from our workout. It went relatively quickly today because it was only the hubby and I. He did his thing, I did mine, we both did the stairclimber thingy, and we called it good.
I usually do more cardio, but I just didn’t seem to have the energy.
It’s a beautiful day out. The sun is shining, but it’s not overly hot. It’s damn nice.
I look forward to your latest installment, Bobbio.
FCM, if I were you, I’d have been sick of working on that basement long, long, long ago.
Maybe next summer you and FCD can actually have a VACATION and do something FUN. Hopefully, with your daughter there, things will go a little more quickly now.
I’ll try that when I get home. The shoulder ache is setting up a summer home in my head right now. Thirty minutes till quit o’clock…
It’s still rainin’. We’re still slugs. That is all.
I’ve been sitting here contemplating working and watching the Olympics. I think I’ve actually done a few pages of work, but very few. I’ve mostly been drinking coffee and wondering just how many of the rhythmic gymnasts have eating disorders because those girls are waaaay thing.
We have decided that our family doctor, while extremely nice, is incapable of doing arithmetic. Papa Tigs saw her yesterday for a scrip for this new diabetes medicine she started him on. She told him she was writing him a one-month scrip for four a day, i.e. 120 pills. Then she’d do the mail-order thing for four a day for 90 days, i.e. 360 pills. He had to help her get to the 120 and 360. And then just now when he went to pick up his scrip, what did he find? She wrote the 30-day scrip for 30 pills. :smack: How did she make it through medical school if she can’t do simple arithmetic???
Oh dear, and I thought I was bad at math!
My left knee decided overnight to pull the swell-up-and-ache act with no warning whatsoever. And I’m going to be on my feet a good bit tomorrow! When I get home I’m icing the heck out of it. I’m extremely irritated. Unfortunately, so is my knee.
Otherwise, nothing happening. Especially at work. Arrrrgh! Three hours and a bit to go.
Glad Nat behaved so nicely at the pub. Getting him started a bit early, aren’t you???
Sorry about the knee, snowbunny and the neck, Spaz.
Soup sounds yummy, Rebo.
Productivity report for rigs: I’ve been a little bit of a slug this afternoon, but spent the morning at the park where I volunteer. We had a meeting, then I went for a walk through the park and took some pictures, especially of the containers, which look spectacular.
While lounging, I’ve been organizing my list of stuff I want to do this week, sorting it into types of tasks/events and trying to figure out how to rotate everything. I decided that the easiest way to manage everything was to do a mindmap and found mindomo, an online utility that’s easy to use. Using that, I can scramble things around easily and come up with an itinerary for the vacation. Also, I started added some of my proposed destinations to Google Maps to see what makes sense together geographically. I think I’m going to do a sweep through the Short North (almost downtown) and downtown Columbus next Saturday. Don’t want to do that on a weekday because I’m bound to run into people I know through work. Ugh. But I keep meaning to go a bunch of places that are close to downtown (art museum, State House - I’ve never been there as a visitor, a couple of other places) and I never have time when I’m not on vacation, so… Maybe next Saturday. I’ve been making notes and finding Web sites all week.
But…I’m about to take a break from organizing and brainstorming to run some errands at Target and then come home to paint for a while. Might get a few things done in the garden after a bit as well. It’s really hot out, so that’s a bit iffy.
Hope everyone’s having a nice day. Everyone stop getting injured, please!
Back after a bit.
GT
I am also sluging today. I did go and buy gin for my martini, but I was so exhausted, I had to lie down and take a nap. Now I must forage for food. After Nelly takes her walk.
Spaz, hope your head feels better soon.
snowbunny, hope the ice helps your knee.
BooFae, wishful thinking on my part. The yard looks more yardlike, though.
