doo-hickey
It sounds delicious. 
hippie good luck with the tree!
Projected high of 76 degrees today, then back down to about 70 for the rest of the week.
I am tired and will try to be more interesting later.
Happy Tuesday y’all.
ETA: Pixel (smol dog) is playing with Akiko (not smol). Play bows and chasing and everything! Much better than the face humping that used to happen. The only issue is when she tries to bap him with a paw. She sort of squishes him.
It is so beautiful outside. Almost 80F already. Sunny. It even smells good. I wish I weren’t working today. I swear it’s gotta be a full moon, at least at work. I keep having to field things that shouldn’t ever come my team’s way, and the teams that should be handling these things aren’t. I hate playing traffic cop, especially on days when I have limited meetings.
Oh, well - spending part of the day looking for dumpster services. Now that I’ve taken out some aggravation on carpet and fences, I need to find someone to help cart the remnants away.
Sorry about your tree, Hippie. Not sorry your gonna evict those carpenter ants. I hates 'em, I does. 
We’re gonna donate our stimulus check, and then some, to the IRS.
Deviant spaghetti?
Srsly, we do that occasionally, 'specially when we realized we have no spaghetti at the last minute but we do have something else. we just call it pasta. Sorry.
Got a decent nights sleep last night, for a change. Was in bed by 1145 and only had to get up once to use the facilities until about 8:30 when I was awakened by a small dog who wanted to go outside trying to sit on my head. “Dad!,dad!, that end of me has business out side. Right now!”
Prolly gonna mow the lawn today. It doesn’t really need it, bu it’s gonna rain for the rest of the week and we’re heading back ‘over the hill’ soon after, so it’ll get a shave before we go.
This trip we’ll finish painting the basement floor and get it organized down there so’s we can move some stuffs over. The last few days here have been spent going through the file cabinets and ripping out paper to be shredded or recycled. 
One of my least favorite chores.
I’ve still got a small stack to go through. #le sigh#
Y’all be careful out there.
I see no need for any intermediate steps between that and “Eat the bacon.”
Mac & sauce, of course. Or maccheroni con pomodoro, if you want to impress people.
58 and fair; high 64, low 40, slowly deteriorating through the week to Sunday’s 55 and 40 with a 30% chance of rain. Going to spend part of the afternoon trimming back the raspberries and other overly exuberant growth. As much as my back permits, anyway…
You’ve got to add the green beans, how else would it be good for you?
No cheap chocolate here. PWAISDN is trying to lose weight and I’m in no hurry to get reacquainted with the 40 pounds I lost with the colon issues. Only candy here is a giant Costco jar of Jelly Belly beans. Either of us can eat maybe five and have that be enough.
We were so excited to get it done, we didn’t think to take photos. Suffice it to say that I looked like the hippie that I never was (I was in the military during that whole thing), and my wife looked like the flower child she probably was.
It’s interesting that all of our women friends on Facebook claimed to like the ponytail look. So did my frau. That’s not enough incentive to keep it, I’m afraid.
Good news: The buyer paid for the ejection seat (and $400 shipping, and sales tax) very quickly. Bad news: eBay doesn’t use PayPal anymore, and I had to set up an account. I don’t know when I’ll get the money. I still have to make a box and get the thing shipped. I hope the COVID shot I’m getting Friday doesn’t wipe me out.
One evening I had planned for tacos. I did all of the prep work and then realized that I had forgotten to buy taco shells. WE did have some hamburger buns.
That was the night that the Sloppy José was born…
Hi, Honeys, we’re home! And exhausted!!! Many adventures in driving, including a totally unnecessary trip thru the Harbor Tunnel because I brain farted. That meant a slightly longer drive thru town, but it turned out it got me to the correct parking garage very easily, so yay for that. They let us into the Aquarium earlier than our ticket time - huzzah - and we spent about 2 hours wandering thru the place.
Roxy had an absolute ball! She was sooooooo excited about all the sea creatures, and for a just-barely-shy-of 3-y/o, she knows a lot of them by name. She also got a kick out of the escalator, the moving sidewalk, and the revolving doors - three firsts for her. I took a few pics (up on FB) but mostly, I was watching her watching everything.
Afterwards, we went to Bubba Gump’s for lunch - and that was not at all worth it. Apart from the 40 minute wait for lunch (and we were literally the first to arrive there) the food was really mediocre. I had fish-n-chips. Three long, skinny breaded fillets sitting on a pile of crinkle fries. Utterly forgettable. One of Daughter’s sides was supposedly hush puppies, but we agreed it was a deep-fried ball of flour paste, flavorless and with a weird, wet texture. FCD said his jambalaya was good and SIL seemed to like his shrimp. Roxy devoured her mini corndogs. Still, way overpriced - over $100 for that lunch, with 2 soft drinks, 2 waters, and a kid’s lemonade. Way overpriced.
Since FCD was really worn out and having a tough time walking, Daughter and I went to fetch the car and come back to pick the guys up. But it turned out the road where I thought I could make a U-turn actually took us out to I-95, and it was 2 miles down the road before I could get of and head back. So that was fun.
To make up for it, we stopped at DQ on the way home. So for the most part, it was a good day. Glad to be home. Chillage shall ensue, and gardening is on tap for tomorrow.
Yeah, same with us. rah.
OK, on to my recliner!
I had my first day of hard labor while wearing a mask today. I usually work in my shop by myself and just go to clients places to deliver. Had to do an on site installation today. I give serious props to all who have had to work wearing those all day long. My mask was soaked with sweat by the end of two hours of lifting heavy things and crawling around on the floor, as was the rest of me. Pretty sore this evening.
Time to think about some dinner.
Stay safe, all.
seanette, I, too, would call that mac and sauce. Been there, done that back in the day.
I took a couple of hours PTO this afternoon to make a couple of phone calls (yuck!) and enjoy a beautiful day. I stopped at Sonic for ice cream and even took about an hour’s nap. Go me! 
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
Howdy Y’all! We laundered, napped, futzed, made sup, et sup, and then cleanded up after sup. Wondrous day it has been!
MOOOOOOM glad RoxStar had a good time at the aquarium. Sorry for the sucky N.O.L. I have found that a lot of places make really bad hushpuppies. Fortunately we have some places in these parts that make really good hushpuppies.
Hippie sorry about the tree, but yay for gettin’ rid of the carpenter ants. Nasty things they are!
red ice cream and a nap are capital ways to spend an afternoon off.
VanGo yeah, mask and heavy labor do not go together. Glad I don’t have to experience that.
Cookie I got no problem with long hair, but like you it ain’t a good look for me. I did however have long hair in the seventies and part of the eighties. The problem with it was my hair is wavy and frizzy when long. A ponytail on me looked like a poodle butt.
Nettie say you saw the pasta dish on Food Network. People will think you got all fancy.
Now this mental image of you will never fade. 
For once I didn’t go for leftover Easter candy. The one thing I missed out on is Peeps. For whatever reason I love Peeps. I do have leftover simnel cake(look it up) that I made for the family Easter dinner, and that will last me. I do adore the marzipan that’s a significant part of it.
I hope to score some chocolate soon. Ate up my stash on Easter.
I have a medical appointment on Friday. It’s slightly out of walking distance, so I hope it’ll be ok for me to take the bus.
Evening all. Soccer has been coached (getting a dozen 10- and 11-year old boys organized and paying attention is…interesting). Glad I never was an elementary teacher. Still, we got a lot of work accomplished. Tomorrow will be dry cleaning and water-bill paying day, and possibly the first mowage of the year if I work up the ambition for it. Hit 81F today and looks about the same for tomorrow, but then rain is in the forecast through Sunday.
FCM, I visited the Baltimore Aquarium years ago when I was there on business (shipping Helicopters). It is great, as is New Orleans, Boston, and Chattanooga (I kinda like Aquariums, much as Roxy does). And yeah, sometimes you pay for the name of the place, not the food itself.
VanGo, I don’t do a lot of sweaty labor anymore, but props to you and take it easy tomorrow.
Like Herald said, Wizard, I can conceive of no reason to go past Step One. And I gave up stuff that was good for me in 1974 or so and never looked back.
OK, need to do a couple things, then off to bed. All y’all take care.
Dunno, apart from having to unload a 53 footer in July with no fan, masks haven’t really bothered me.
I think I overdid the walking. Went about 9 miles. Since I don’t drink much water beforehand–absence of bathrooms–I got very dehydrated. Came home and got dizzy and nauseous. I’m now rehydrating while lying in bed.
So it’s basically a zombie tree. Good thing it can’t pull up its roots and lurch over to your windows.
Last time I had fish and chips, including chowder and clam strips, in the states, I paid $60 for four adults, and it was good. I miss having fish and chips. Well, mainly just the fish. Many restaurants serve fish for Good Friday, but those were mostly closed. And fish and chips do not travel well.
Yesterday’s snow melted and this morning we were greeted by another 3". Supposedly the gardener will come on Thursday to pull out the laurel hedge and put in a fence. Such temperatures are not so conducive to curing cement.
Today the washer technician will be here, so I hope to be soon on our way to a functioning washer. I know the pump’s not working, but I don’t know why. My experience with the company is that they have loaners, so we should be up and running soon, even if we have to wait for a new machine to come in.
And I just figured out there’s a place that will pick up my dirty laundry and bring it back clean. Could be an idea. If we were at the office, there’s a company that has a contract to do this, and we could just drop it off at the parking garage. Never done it, though. Since most people live in buildings with shared washers, there’s not much need for laundromats.