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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Howdy Y’all! I did not accomplish mowage. The motivation just was not there. However, the laundry got done and put away and sup got fixed and et, so there’s that. Maybe I’ll be motivated tomorrow. Or not. It would be good if’n I did cause we are supposed to get rain on Thursday.

Taters glad you finally got to go to the plant nursery. I have never seen a planter disintegrate. Maybe I should add that to my bucket list. Yay for baby birdies!

Molly I cut a finger last week on the sharp edge of a box of aluminum foil while reachin’ for the wax paper. I am a walkin’ disaster in the kitchen.

MetalMouse thanks for the reminder. I need to do that on my hearin’ aids as well.

WetOne yay for functionin’ terlet!

red have fun. Also, better thee than me gettin’ the tags. I have the renewal notice for mine. They are due by my bday which is July 29th. I can do it online and they send the little sticker thingy to me in the mail. Og forbid I should ever have to make the twenty mile round trip to the tax and tag office! Cool about gettin’ the tags installed for free and that the owner of the inspection station asked about Nelson.

JtC you live in kinda sorta the south. Lots of things can kill you. Lots of things will want to kill you but can’t cause they’re too small. They still want to though. I am pretty sure gnats want to kill us but can’t.

Nellie I cannot imagine that kind of livin’ arrangements. Not even in my mispent youth days. Oh well, not my circus, not my monkeys.

lucky ick! Hope you didn’t have to wait too long for the tire repair.

dad YIKES! Glad it was nothin’ serious. What a way to spend a bday! Belated happies btw. You needed that chill day.

nuts yay also for baby birds!

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I hate it when that happens.

The 90 odd 3rd graders did their darndest to break all of our new things, but they held up pretty well. Only a couple of chunks of bark mulch in the water feature. But it was waaay cool to get to watch the kids play with the new stuff. And moms were very happy too. I had a grin on my face most of the day, until I saw what some coworkers did to my shop.

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And a good early evening to all. Did finally make it to the gym and got the requisite sweating in, along with shaving in the shower, so I don’t look quite as raffish as before. Have dined on Mac-n-Cheese and will shortly warm up an apple pie to finish dinner off. Still 85F outside but will get down to 70F for sleeping time.

And to see what the rest of you have been up to…scroll mode activate!

wet one, plumbing is never cheap, but hopefully your problems have been fixed.

nellie, may have to check out that Canadian law… And the described living arrangement sounds like it was made up for TV.

And what’s the problem with that?

FCM, the yard seems to be coming along fine.

lucky, sounds like your vacation was scre…no, I’m not going to go there. Hope it’s the last time.

Daddy-K, you’re welcome to stop in anytime. Happy B’day young’un (73 here), even if the celebration included a hospital stay. Take care and stop by again soon.

The new words I learn from all you folks is amazing and mind-extending. Thanks!

red, glad you found a vet for Nelson thanks to word of mouth, hope she’s as nice as the shop owner apparently is.

JtC, 14 possums! Of course I had to look up what you call a group of possums and it appears you have a Passel of possums… Sounds like a nice museum, my only coal museum was at Chicago’s Science and Industry Museum, which has a coal mine built below it (for all, if you’ve never been to Science and Industry museum in Chicago, put it on the ‘to do’ list, you won’t regret it).

swampy, got my license tags last week in the mail and applied them to the plate so I’m good until May 2027.

VanGo, hope the shop is recoverable and glad the kids left the exhibits (and building) standing.

And need to get the garbage out to the curb and my necessary chores for the day will be complete. Take care.

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:joy:

I’m used to things that want to kill me, venomous sniks, spiders and cannibal mice abound in AZ, its the water that constantly amazes me. I’m seeing things that none of my friends back there have ever seen in their lives.

I saw a fox in the wild.

It was bright red with a black muzzle and socks/stockings.

I know what high-tailing means now, mule deer don’t have that long white tail they stick straight up in the air. I got a pic of one running and sent it to my friends and they all agreed that now everything made sense.

None of my friends have ever poked a snapping turtle with a stick either. Those things wake up and choose violence every day! And fast!!! Who knew turtles could be so fast, all we know are the protected desert tortoises that like getting their shells scratched while being fed lettuce.

Hubs is spending a lot of time laughing at me but he’s also really enjoying showing me around his old stomping grounds.

Yeah. The man left a warm bed in a fairly well organized household to live in a closet and take care of another man’s children while the mother of his (?) child is sleeping behind a closed door. That doesn’t sound like something I’d want to have done ever.

:slight_smile:

Besides all of the casual human rights violations involved in the mine, it really is worth a visit. There was a lot of walking but it was also very gimp accessible so I was able to ride my scooter between the outdoor exhibits.

One of the docents pegged me as a west coast girl because I talk funny (I do NOT have an accent!!!) and said that he was raised in Ely NV. We ended up making fun of the locals over their idea of what a winter storm really is. There probably isn’t anyone around who knows how it feels to drop 60 degrees in five hours, winter is real but slow here.

We did go through an old mine in rattly old carts lead by someone who first started working in the mines in 1972. He made 37 dollars a day. At one point in the tour, while we were about 120 feet underground, he shut the lights off and we all learned that sudden pure dark makes babies scream. :scream:

He turned the lights back on but that was too late and then there were three wailing and screaming children for the rest of the tour. I did feel sorry for the mom, she was doing her best but she couldn’t remove the kids from the situation, we all had to tough it out.

It’s OK, though. Hubs turned his hearing aids off and I remembered the last tour so could point out things of interest as we went by.

I think so. They move around so much that I don’t try to tell the difference between them (most of them are little ones) I just count them like cows.

Its almost 2130 and 77degrees out there. It looks as though our open window nights are over for the year. We have also only had half the rain we usually get by this time of the year, its not going to be a good year for forest or wild critters :frowning:

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This guy was hanging around my back yard a couple of years ago.
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Happy next birthday, @kaylasdad99!

Especially the U-boat!

Count the legs and divide by four?

2142 and 63 degrees here, the predicted low tonight being 66. We put the fan in the bedroom window this afternoon, sucking in air from the north side of the house, and it’s now much more pleasant in here than it was when we got home this afternoon.


Had to go up to the base today (pharmacy to pick up a script, vet to make appointments for the cats’ annual visits, and commissary for a few odds and ends), so I checked gas prices along the way. The base gas station used to always be at least .01 (usually .05) cheaper than the cheapest place out in town, but today it was $4.599 at Shell, $4.559 on base, $4.539 at Henny Penny, $4.495 at Gulf, $4.479 at Bestway, and $4.459 at ExpressFuel and Citgo. We stopped at Citgo on the way home, as it was on the correct side of the road.

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Next year, I can either do it by mail or go to H.E.B. or Kroger for the sticker. It’s those of us who were changing states or had just purchased a vehicle sitting in the clerk’s office. Bonus of a couple of wedding parties coming in to get hitched.

An old BF and I toured Mammoth Cave once and when they turned out the li, we heard someone exclaim *It doesn’t get this dark in Silver Lake *. The BF then answered *It doesn’t in North Manchester either *. The other guy lived in the town where I grew up and we lived in the college town just down the road.

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The best laid plans of Mäuse und Transfrauen. I looked so much like a raccoon. Nobody said anything, but boy-howdy was it apparent.

Waterproof - yes
Sweatproof - oh HELL no.

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Up from naptime. Having a Manhattan and beef tacos for dinner. Watching Peaky Blinders.

How’d that work?

:bottle_with_popping_cork: :birthday_cake: :partying_face:HAPPY BIRTHDAY KALAYSDAD!!!:partying_face: :birthday_cake: :bottle_with_popping_cork:

After all that, I don’t blame you.

Baby Danger noodles like to hang out in front of my door.

Good to know. Sorry you had to learn the hard way.

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Watched the Cavaliers blow a sure win and probably lose the series before it gets going, and then remembered it’s Tuesday and the garbage truck doesn’t show up until Thursday, so hauled the bin off the curb and back into the garage so the neighbors don’t wonder what’s wrong with the old man. Definitely think it’s bedtime now…

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MUCH cuter than any outsized alien rat I’ve encountered (not a big possum fan).

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Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave.

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We’re actually sharing seecrit messages in code. Don’t tell anyone.

Foxes are one of the few mammals we actually get here. There’s a park opposite the house, one hangs round there occasionally. A few weeks ago I went to close the curtains and he was just the other side of the road, watching me. There were so many of them where I used to live in Bristol- even had a den of babies in the back garden once.