Start of summer MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Dot, glad the carpenters made it (may they be quick and efficient). And yeah, it’s rough, but try to find something to smile at…you have the dog with you, give him a skritch behind the ears…that’ll cheer you both up at least for a moment…

doggio, won’t ask what you were wearing when the [del]weedeater[/del] cat got you, but…

Purp, we are the Immortals; we’ll be here. And I could give lessons about sitting around on my ass…

Sari, glad the pups are getting back to a regular routine…now if we ever do…

Getting hungry (usually I eat 2 meals a day, one at 10-11am and the other 5-7pm; today’s was a 7:30am), so may either snack or go out and eat an early dinner and see if that holds me. Rain seems to be gone, mowage is planned for Sunday, weather permitting.

All y’all take care.

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Red Robin is making supper. Daughter is fetching it.

I had no idea how calorie-filled their food is! So I’m having a salad. Turns out what I used to get there would pretty much be an entire day’s worth of calories, based on my current plan. Yoiks!

The rain I thought we were going to get slipped off to the east, so no precip tonight. Maybe I can mow tomorrow. I need to.

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I am more than happy to be called Wordy. Now I feel like I have arrived!

I’m so ready for Friday at 5 p.m. Just a couple of hours left. Plenty of time for things to go sideways. But it’s beautiful and sunny and my son is super excited because he gets to see 2 of his friends today. Most team sports have opened here in MO, but his coaches are trying to be extra cautious.

They haven’t signed the boys up for games yet and his baseball team is having the boys practice in 3’s. They have to be outside, a minimum 6 feet away, take and log temps before leaving home, no sharing of stuff, hand sanitizer required, masks encouraged, etc., etc. But he gets to see them with his own eyes and do something that doesn’t involve being at home and he can see people other than us once a week. The beatific look on his face when we talked about it nearly made me cry.

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I caught a wasp inside the front window of the house today. I put it in the Penalty Jar (the jar where spiders spend their penalty time for being inside, before I release them outside). Unfortunately for the wasp, all arthropods do not receive the same treatment under the law. Waspeses are sentenced to execution. Going outside, I replaced the lid of the Penalty Jar with an electric flyswatter. Execution was carried out by electrocution.

I felt bad about taking a life, but come one. It’s a wasp!

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flyboy you might want to the check the eaves and decking for nests. I had a nest in an outdoor light socket once, while there was a bulb in it.

Dot I know what you mean. Life is A LOT right now.

Wordy whereabouts in MO are you? We lived in Columbia for a while. I miss some things about it.

We got part of the settlement money for 'Beamette’s school, which is nice. Money is much better than no money.

I’m trying a new migraine medication now. I am tired but what else can I do but keep trying.

My campaign of doing something around the house every day, just a little, is slowly paying off. Gradually, the house looks less and less like we’re hoarders. (We moved in last October and almost nothing has been unpacked.)

Akiko has stopped guarding my side of the bed from Yoshi. He’s slightly bigger than her now, and I think he’s still got some growing to do. He is an amazingly sweet dog, and generally let’s Akiko set the rules. We’ll see how things progress.

Take care everyone.

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We got FCD’s first medical copayment bill today. The charge for the orthopedist was over $26K, but over $23K was written off as “Insurance Adjustment” - and our share was just over $250. If we hadn’t had insurance, we’d have been on the hook for over $26K. It’s obscene. And so very wrong.

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Are you the person who lets a rat clean her teeth? :dubious:

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Mowed the lawn at the ‘little house’ today. Then used my chainsaw-onna-stick to clean deadwood out of the pear tree out back. Then horsed to old oil furnace out into the back driveway for tomorrow’s ‘clean-up’ day. We have to load it into the kids’ truck and haul it down to the city park to get rid of it, along with the old, non-functional BBQ, and assorted other trash. But it’s a free event. Did I mention that it’s 90F here today? I’s tired.
Big storm forecast for tomorrow, though. Hope they’re wrong.

Of course you’ve arrived, unfortunately for you, you’ve arrived here. :dubious:

Have a great weekend and be safe y’all.

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Glanced out the French doors to where the deck is and saw an army of skittering ants with a trail up to the hummingbird feeder. They were drowning by the dozens in the sugar water, and holy crap were they fast! Don’t think I’ve ever seen ants move that fast before. Got out the can of Terro and blasted them, then put on gloves and took down the feeder; dumped it out and hosed it and the deck of all the sugar water. That’ll teach me to take it down before the flowers bloom next time around.

Oh yeah, got our tomatoes, beans and squash starts transferred to the garden, now that we’ve had some very warm weather.

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Just had my first Zoo Meeting. First time I’ve used the camera on my computer. It was ‘Happy Hour’ after work, and we met to recognise my boss’s last day after 37 years with the company. Unfortunately, while we could see her and she could see and hear us, we couldn’t hear her. She’s getting marijuana edibles and wine from the office. She sparked up at the end of the meeting. :stuck_out_tongue:

Mrs.L.A. made me a margarita. The president and one of the account reps had Coronas, and my boss and one other person had Blue Moons. The people in the orifice had a bottle of wine, but it remained curiously unopened.

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metal mouse, the old bat acted about how I expected her to act, like a cross between a teenager and a petulant toddler. She swore up and down she was leaving at lunch because we were allowed to. I flat out told her that that would cause current policy to change in all likelihood and anytime any of us took a half day on Friday, we would have to burn PTO to do it. She drug her feet all day and bitched and moaned to our manager, who also had his butt out there working along side of us. Not a smart move.

boofae :eek: Your boss lives in an interesting neighborhood.

I’m glad the kid got to play a little ball wordy.

My cycle count coordinator tested negative for CV19, but he does have pneumonia. :frowning: He’ll likely be out for another week or two. I went through Panera’s drive thru for a good strawberry-spinach salad, some veggie soup and a cookie for supper and they gave a dog biscuit to Nelson. :slight_smile: Now, it’s chill time.

Stay healthy y’all!

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Howdy Y’all! The weirdest thing happened. Somehow tonight’s sup of majik intartoobz pizza and sallit, turned into pancakes and ham. :smiley: OK, it was stormy and we just decided to not do the pizza. I do make good pancakes!

Tomorrow our Diocese gets a new Bishop. The big to do that had been planned has been scaled down mightily as one might well imagine. We had planned on bein’ in Savannah for the Consecration and Ordination service and hangin’ on until Sunday as our Presiding Bishop was to have been with us to celebrate Pentecost with a biiiiiiiiiiiiig outside service. So, instead, there will be sump’n around thirty people actually present tomorrow and the rest of us will watch via youtube. So, whereas we would’ve been in Savannah this weekend, includin’ right now, we are not. C’est la vie. Also, we sent in a pic of us wearin’ red shirts to the church orifice. Said pic will become part of a video thing to be shared on Sunday. In case y’all haven’t figured it out, Sunday is Pentecost. :smiley:

And that’s the news from swampland.

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So it monsooned, and there is a decent leak at the top of my sliding glass door.:smack:

[del]Toga[/del]regular clothing. But nothing will stop panicky cat claws except maybe a full suit of plate armor.

Zoo meeting? How big was that Margarita?:smiley:

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flyboy, you should consult this chart (https://i.redd.it/g508r9wtdlz21.jpg) before summary execution of wasps. Some of them aren’t so bad (yellowjackets, on the other hand, should be immediately defenestrated. And I think you meant Zoom meeting, albeit I’m been through meetings that seemed like the Zoo…

Cookie, I’ll trade you sugar water-foraging ants for our usual plague of Fire Ants.

Bumba, a long cool shower seems recommended…

FCM, yikes! Things like that make me wonder if a European single-payer plan might be fairer.

Sunny, hope the new med helps. And my youngest nephew, who has a 2-year old Bloodhound, just got himself a new baby Bloodhound…we’ll see how that dynamic works.

wordy, I’m waiting for youth soccer to get the go-ahead–probably not until September. Hard to do what your baseball folks are doing with soccer players (and I think your league is being very responsible, BTW).

Not much accomplished, the Red-Head Girl took care of my nourishment this evening, and with no nappage i expect to be abed around 10pm. Everyone take care now.

ETA: swampy, I’ve never been to Savannah, need to add it to my list.

Red, she ain’t very smart, is she?

doggio, I’ll try and remember that…I tend to get bitten by cats.

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You’d have to know my cow-orkers. :wink:

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My FiL is in the hospital with some sort of abdominal infection. My MiL is PhD of nursing. She’s taught and worked at hospitals. I believe she’ll be an effective advocate for him. We don’t have many details, but we’re worried.

Oven is warming up. TriTip for dinner, with mashed potatoes, corn, and green beans.

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SO glad it’s now the weekend. Dinner will be on the “forage when you feel like it” plan, since we are rather well-stocked with food. One weather forecast (the more reliable TV station) says “scattered thunderstorms” for tomorrow. No wonder I’m all achy and stiff.

I have zero intent to leave the house before Moanday unless it becomes more urgent than I think it’s likely to get.

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Poor Gordie, that long at the shelter.
I don’t understand why some dogs don’t get adopted sooner. Gordie is cute, Lucy is pretty and a nice dog.

I sat outside for a bit while it was storming. I am happy to say that Echo is not afraid of thunder. I was a little worried because she doesn’t like the vacuum or loud noises.

I washed my coat today, so if it gets cold again, y’all can blame me.

MetalMouse, Everything is getting back to normal, but it still doesn’t feel normal. Well, other changes too, like no more school and stuff.
Now to push him to fill out the applicaton for a job.
Too much to do lately and not enough time to do it all.

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The oracles were incorrect* and today was cool and pleasant. I was almost uncomfortably chilly at one point - if ever someone welcomed unpleasantness it was me, today.

I did not, however, accomplish much of jack shit besides the absolute requirements. Instead I spent a pleasant afternoon pottering aimlessly - my absolute favorite way to spend a little time - poking a few seeds into the ground, and putting up this, after I washed that, and doing little dibs & dabs of semi functional stuff while listening to stand up comedians and occasionally repeating their jokes to my cat in case she hadn’t heard the first time. Sat in the shade with my legs poked out into the sunshine and finished wiring a mesh panel onto the lid of a new rat tub.

  • possibly related to the little hub dots for my Teh Googlez still being set to my old home address. Whoopsies.

I hasten to inform my Mumpers that one time zone and dozens of degrees latitude make some bit of difference, and fixing that tiny error changed oh, so many things.

On a side note, holy shitfuck it’s hot back where I used to live, and if I was a believer I’d cross myself every time I thought about having moved from there to here.

crosses self anyway
looks around sheepishly in case someone saw me
ponders theological implications of ^^ a while
falls down mental rabbit hole
remembers Hunk O’Cow for dinner, decides more cerebral concerns can wait

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I need you to know how much this entire paragraph made me laugh.

I’m lazy, but I’m not THAT goddamn lazy.

Pedantic alert: you gotta be talking about a “regular” rat. They are domesticated: smart, friendly, eager to perform whatever tricks entertain you enough to make you hand over a Cheerio. Rats will do anything for a Cheerio. Pretty sure for a handful of sunflower seeds, rats can do calculus, or at least your taxes.

My ratties are a different species. African soft-furred rats. They have their pluses - don’t get me started, I’ll talk your ear off about how much I loveses them - but they’re not domesticated as a species.

My BEST lines I’ll set the lid aside and stick my hand in to pet them, and they enjoy it and I get to keep all ten fingertips. They are aptly named (sooooo soft!) and it’s gratifying to have worked on my lines long enough to have sweet, friendly little buggers.

The single shittiest line that I have eats through aluminum when they’re bored and wanna escape. That is not a joke or hyperbole.

I mean, it’s just aluminum. They don’t chew through steel for chrissake.