Here you go, shoe! 
This is just a small display on my place. Some neighbors have fields full of them, but there’s no good place to pull out without taking your life in your hands, so I’ve never gotten pics of them.
I really like them.
This. And usually not, “Aww, come cuddle some more, sweet little kitty.”
It was called “non-A, non-B” even in the 70s but there wasn’t a test for it until 1989. The US blood supply was screened beginning in 1992. They could have screened earlier, but were afraid of scaring the public.
PRETTY!!!
I napped. dinner tonight is a martini, with cheese toretellini and meatballs, with spinach.
My high school job was bagger/stocker at Kroger. One day it was 100 outside and I had to gather carts. they had me help stock ice cream, that 110 degree temperature swing felt good.
I need to put out a bowl for Onan, the chipmunk, and the rest of Spot’s zoo.
I never get to wear my tiara, heels, and sequins to events. 
I’ve never seen foxglove before moving here. What a beautiful plant! Seeing them in gardens is enough to make me turn around so I can drive by again.
So. I am officially over this shit. Done. It took me almost three hours to change the sheets and I still had to ask Hubs to put the blankets back on.
Jolene is snagging her claws on everything and Hubs has never trimmed them because I always do it as needed. George is starting to look bedraggled because I’m the one who has always brushed him and Hubs doesn’t think to grab the brush a couple of times a day.
This is all my fault. I didn’t let him do it in the past and now he doesn’t know how to do it.
And I can’t sleep on my side so my back is killing me now.
I am SO over this. FML
Howdy Y’all! We procured and stowed provisions. We decided to buy shrimpies, so sup was shrimpies’n grits, roasted spare guts and cheddar bizkits. Soooooo gooooood! The dumbasses who were diggin’ trenches for cable lines decided to cut our fiber optic cable even though it was clearly marked and not near the cable stuff. Thus we have no intartoobz until sometime between noon and four p.m. tomorrow as that is when the fiber optic cable will be repaired or replaced or whatever it is they do. I can use my tablet with my iPhone hot spot, so that’s how I am postin’ now. I am mildly inconvenienced! HARUMPH!
I have read all but postin’ replies is hard for me right now as I am slow doin’ it on my tablet. So, yays, boos, hugs, noogies, trouts, chitlins and how you doin’s all around as needed.
So THAT’S what’s been wrong with my life all these years!
(Seriously, this is the 1st I’ve heard of it.)
I could see peaches & rhubarb playing well together, for the reason mentioned above.
Try it. For science!
I know, I know, lotsa folks have it worse.
But do those folks work with 4 roaring hot ovens, 3 double-basket fryers, 3 warming boxes, and a partridge in a pear tree?
Thank gawd for popsicles.
that makes two of us!!
“Get the FUCK offa my head!” is a common one these days. Also, “no, do NOT step on my guts!”
Good thing he’s so handsome, and mostly an excellent snuggler.
Find a wedding to crash?
Hey, maybe you’ll get to make out with some drunk bridesmaid.
Well, he will just have to learn, now, won’t he?
Gave SometimesBitchyTeen a lift home, and the cash-only Chinese place right by her house was still open, and I had ezzactly enough in my coin purse, so I changed my dinner plans.
I also swung by the corner store with the built in deli, so I could get snax for tomorrow and booze for tonight, and told the guy the same dumb joke I’d been telling all day (lifted from the Jokes thread) and he rolled his eyes and agreed that yes, it is a dumb joke. But, he did chuckle.
What do you call a factory that’s just kinda okay?
A satisfactory.
Oh, I got MILES outta that one today. Just texted my dad with it, too. (And HA! almost immediately got a laughing emoji back, so hopefully that put him in a good mood. You’re welcome, mom.)
Okay, off for some drinky-drink, smoky-smoke, and dumpling … uh, dumplings.
Try to stay cool & hydrated, uninjured, and well slept.
So sorry, JtC. Would it help to make a list for him, or would it be endless? Are there task you can hire someone for? Does your catsitter know how to trim nails and brush George?
Ten PM and 83 stoopit Ferrets!! And the worst is yet to come. Dammit.
I think I’ll just go to bed and pout.
What would help the most is for us to go back in time and me to start letting him help do the things that come automatically to me. This is not his fault and if I point something out, he does it without complaints but he just doesn’t see things, probably because he doesn’t know he should be looking.
You guys did say it would be ok for me to whine and I plan to take full advantage!
Oh, whine away. No pushback from me!
Oh, jeebus. Was on the phone with my mother, who was INSULTED that the nurse asked about her sexual history. She said she told the nurse to NEVER ask that again. I explained, as gently as possible, that 1a.) some women your age DO have a sexual history, and 2b.) they are REQUIRED to ask.
My mom got so mad, at me, I had to not-so-gently hang up.
It’s your fucking medical history, woman, the Pope ain’t coming to judge.
So, dishwasher, bank, shopping, lunch, soccer, gym, soccer, dinner, gym, and soccer (with some overlap) occupied my day. Also got some rain that we needed after the last week of hot, dry weather. ‘Only’ 72F now, but tomorrow’s weather is due to duplicate today’s including the 45% chance of thundershowers.
And LOTS of catching up to do…
Mollie, you take the most relaxing pictures of the sunrise. And a late hippo-birdie to Fang. I’m sure he’ll adapt to things.
FCM, saw the Facebook pictures, looks nice and I am impressed; you don’t need a gym, between the yard and the boat you get a pretty fair daily workout. And I think your planning with FCD is smart; my financial adviser keeps coming up with ways to save and I want to spend as much of it while I can. And if your interested, I’m planning on a cruise on a sailing ship from Venice next July to the Adriatic/Montenegro…
Taters, hang in there and as for Mr. Taters, well, close your eyes and think of England… 
52, you may be right on the Park food, but I’ll get a good breakfast on the house at the hotel I’m staying at so we’ll see how it goes. Haven’t been to an amusement park in quite some time so don’t know what the costs are like. Suspect I will find out…
Cat Glove, the US Government fiscal year starts 1 October and that’s the only one I know, I try to balance my personal records and the end of the calendar year. You stay cool too. And I even wonder if I can fit into the 1-2 old suit jackets I have hanging the corner of the closet. I’ve never worn goggles to swim, but I often put on my spare glasses while keeping the ‘good’ ones dry.
Coppertone, good on the removals and the cat man keeping the felines hydrated.
VanGo, that picture of yours makes me smile each time I look at it. Thanks.
Herald, thanks for the ‘rabbit, rabbit, rabbit’ reference, I was curious too.
red, not much cooler in Nashville the past few days than it is down your way.
Bright Tree, lovely colors there!
JtC, I can hear the frustration in your words, just take it easy, all will survive and things will get back to normal. But whining is allowed and acceptable.
swampy, they usually use some type of non-grass-damaging spray paint around here to mark the lines when there is work being done. So far, no interruptions here.
And walk-in freezers…
Shoe, perfect dad joke. My go-to is "Did you hear that Bruce Willis was considered for the role of Bilbo Baggins? They were going to call it Old Hobbits Die Hard . And sorry your Mom was offended. Tell her to fib a bit and se if she can make their eyes bug out…
And it’s 10:45pm, 11:00pm before I get to bed, and been up for nearly 17 hours with no nappage, so off to Slumberland. Catch y’all tomorrow.
Having been in your Hubby’s position, there is a lot that he should have been taking care of, while you were taking care of the things you’d always taken care of. All of a sudden, while you cannot take care of the things youd always taken care of, it’s been thrust upon Hubby. It may take him a week or two to catch up, but he (should) take up the slack.
I had another G-BOMBS focused day, plus a muffin and a couple of cookies. But soon I’ll be out of cookies.
Everyone give this man a Harumph!
Coolio Sr is having trouble keeping up with the downstairs. I may not have him on enough of an angle for drainage. A task for tomorrow when it is light out. I know I have the right pieces of wood cut and sitting around to tilt it properly, just need to find them. (then label them dummy) Coolio Jr is doing a great job upstairs in the bedroom.
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave. It’s 76 degrees ferret height(24.444 Centipedes), with a heat index of 81F(27.222C)
Harumph!
“If I trusted you lot to do things the right way I would have delegated.” - my brain
Morning, mumpers! It’s currently 16c/61f with a predicted high of 21c/69f and mostly cloudy. Weather app says “Cloudy with a slight chance of a fucking clown flash mob. Because that’s not fucking scary at all.”
Yesterday was a hot and stuffy day in the office but fortunately one of my three meetings was cancelled. The other two went ahead, one was relatively useful and the other was a pointless thing that wasted an hour of my time when I could just have read the slide deck. I went home and made chicken curry for dinner, did a load of washing, and watched some telly before bed.
Today I have no meetings! Hurrah! And it’s my Friday 'cos I’ve got a weekend music festival coming up so I’m off tomorrow and Monday. I don’t know how TM will cope without having me around to whinge at.
Morning.
Tis sunny, but somewhat windy, after being very windy all night. Something woke me up being blown over in the night, though I’m not sure what.
I shall be heading into irk today, to see if I can fix something I screwed up last week (hopefully an easy fix, I think I may have just handed in the wrong samples to the lab, which would explain why they didn’t work, luckily processing is dirt cheap). This unfortunately means I have to get dressed like a grownup. Bah.
I have gazillions of foxgloves in the garden here; there was one when I moved in, but I let it set seed and they popped up everywhere. I let 'em be, unless I need the space. Makes me and the bees happy. Bumblebees love 'em.
Shoe, I hate to break it to you, but unless you’re adopted, your mum probably does have a sexual history…
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 72 Amurrkin out and mostly clear with a predicted high of 93 and sunny. Today will involve a visit from the bug man at ten a.m. and waitin’ around for whoever shows up from AT&T to get teh intartoobz up and runnin’ again. HARUMPH! Sup will be majik intartoobz pizza and sallit just cause.
MetalMouse the lines are marked with paint, but the dumbasses decided to dig in the wrong place anyway. Mediacom will get an ear full from me today. Stoopid cable company added another reason why we despise it to the list. Do not piss off a grumpy old gay man!
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then onward into a day of bein’ old, gay and grumpy! Rah.
Happy Thursday Y’all!
Just gave treats to Moley ( the other ones are not nearby apparently). Off to get groceries for the weekend. Man, I’ve been getting food stamps for 34 years. Now its 300 a month and I know how to budget.
Going early avoids the heat.
Then hairwashing, then church dinner.